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Featured: Matt Rife, Andrew Schultz, Charlamagne tha God, George Lopez, Jimmy Kimmel, Greg Gutfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Dusty Slay, Bill Burr

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife purchases Warren Museum and Annabelle Doll
• Andrew Schultz criticizes Trump on IVF coverage reversal
• Charlamagne endorses John Stewart for 2028 presidential run
• George Lopez claims LA Dodgers blocked him over ICE comments
• Jimmy Kimmel Emmy billboard campaign with hidden message for Stephen Colbert
• Greg Gutfeld appearance on Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show
• Dusty Slay transitions to cleaner comedy material
• Bill Burr discusses non-partisan political commentary in stand-up

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Matt Rife has revealed he is now caretaker of the supposedly haunted Annabelle Doll. Oh no, what are you doing? Don’t take that on USA Today Airports.

Matt Rife and his friend purchased the Home Museum, an entire artifact collection of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren that includes the Annabelle Doll. Rife plans to reopen the museum, which has been closed since twenty nineteen, for tours, and he’ll let you stay overnight at the home. Rife went on TikTok as one does, to announce he has officially purchased the Home and Museum, including their entire haunted collection. In the TikTok, Matt Riife said this might be the most important and prominent piece of paranormal history the world. Ed and Lorraine Warren, or who took demonology and ghost hunting and made it mainstream.

I know a lot of you guys don’t know what any of this means whatsoever, but if you follow ghost stuff, this is as big as it gets. The museum will be open for tours so you yourself can experience and learn all the haunted history surrounding this amazing place. This is the most random hobby ever, but so cool man. I should probably collect stamps or something might be a little safer now. The Annabel Doll is a real antique raggedy ann doll supposedly possessed by an inhuman spirit.

The New England Society for Psychic Research, founded by the Warrens, previously described it as demonically possessed. The doll has been at the museum since the seventies. It has gotten a higher profile thanks to the Conjuring films Now listen to this. In May, Annabel hit the road for a tour, the Devil’s on the Run tour with Dan Rivera, who’s a senior lead investigator for any SPR the New England Society for whatever I said before. Months into the tour, Rivera died at a hotel.

However, the coroner says the doll was not with him when he died, So I don’t know why we’re bringing this up at all. Anyway, Matt Rife very excited. I’m starting to think maybe Andrew Schultz isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed Schultz went on Instagram on Sunday and reposted that day’s Washington Post article about Donald Trump backing down on a promise to require health insurers provide coverage for IVF services. Schultz added the caption you don’t break your word, your word breaks you. In a follow up post, he slammed Trump, saying Donald Trump flip flop once again on a campaign promise.

Hey, Andrew, I don’t know if you study history, munch. Donald Trump was actually a president of the United States from twenty seventeen through twenty twenty one. During that time, he built a wall in Mexico, paid for it. You should look it up. Donald Trump was a guest on Andrew Schultz’s podcast Flagrant.

Last year, podcaster Charlotte made the God thinks John Stewart would make a good presidential candidate. Charlemagne was on Lara Trump’s show and said, we’ve seen John get legislation on stuff, you know, past before, like we know where his heart is. He’d be somebody I’d really like to see get in the race and disrupt things. In twenty twenty eight, George Lopez in the News, George is there’s a few comedians that I talk about, and it’s never like Comedian X was in a good mood and had fun and got along with everybody. Lopez seems to be one of those guys that any time he comes up in the news, he’s fighting with somebody.

He’s mad at the Los Angeles Dodgers. Lopez is claiming the Dodgers have blocked Lopez on social media for Lopez’s anti ICE comments. On June twentieth, the Dodgers stated that ICE agents requested parking lot access but were denied. An ICE spokesperson clarified no agents were at Dodgers Stadium and that the officers there were California Border Patrol. Lopez says of being blocked, it’s hurtful.

If anyone doesn’t belong, it’s the Dodgers. Maybe at the next fan fest they can have ICE agents dresses the visiting team and remove fans during the seventh inning stretch, since fan loyalty means nothing. Jimmy Kimmel and team took out a billboard in Los Angeles to campaign for an Emmy, a typical Los Angelesy type thing to do. You’ll find the billboard at the corner of Santa Monica and La Sienega. It looks like a standard Emmy ad for Jimmy Kimmel, says late Nighter, except when you look at it, it reads I’m voting for Steven Nice moment of solidarity there by Jimmy Kimmel.

An interesting booking on Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight show. Tonight, it’s Greg Guttfeld. Guttfeld told Fox News is the five I’m doing Jimmy Fallon, and I’m psyched about it. Fallon comes across as a great guy, and me going on a show shows he’s not worried about upsetting his peers. He got a lot of stick for humanizing Trump when he tassled his hair, but it didn’t come from anybody but the people on the left who wanted to teach all entertainers a lesson that if you dare show the Trump as a human, then your toast.

So it’s kind of nice he’s taking this risk. Gutfeld is not the lead guest tonight. That slot goes to the Jonas Brothers. Dusty Slay said, always been on the cleaner side. But I had jokes here and there along the way that I wouldn’t do now.

I did a couple of shows where people asked me to be completely clean, and then when I would go through my set, I’d be like, oh, I’m losing some of my best jokes. He said the final straws he got a bad review. I was the cleanest person on the lineup. Ye know, I got the worst right up because of this one joke. So I said, you know what, I’ll just be completely clean, but I still want to talk about the things I want to talk about.

I’ll just find a new creative way to say that. I had to find other words. I couldn’t rely on shock always good advice, And I remember Jeff fox Worthy explaining that to me probably twenty years ago. Now, boy, time flies, Yeah, it probably is twenty years. Wow, it feels like yesterday.

Geting old folks. Dusty talked about finding the balance between being a road comic and being around for the family. I don’t like to be gone for longer than a week because I want to be home with my kids. But that’s what comedy is to me. Now, if you live in New York or LA or maybe in Chicago, you can get locked into a circuit.

We’re still going to get it to do a lot of comedy every night. But if you’re not living in those cities, touring is what you have to do. It’s the most fun thing to me. He was surprised at the reception he got when he first left the Souteast. I remember the first time I went to Phoenix.

I drove from Nashville to Phoenix and I thought, Man, this is too far out. They’re gonna be like go back to the South. That it was one of my most fun weekends. I just remember being so excited about how well it went. I thought his new special is one of the best of the year.

Picking away that fantastic interview Vulture did with Bill Burr, they were curious when Burr talks about politics in his act, what does he want to do? Burr said, if I do it, I trash it both because that’s my job. I can’t fix the political system. But when I do stand up, if I start trashing like Trump, I hear left the crowd go yeah, and I’d be like, you voted for a guy that’s staring off in a space. Your guy literally should be in a home.

He had some additional words that started with f that I’m omitting. What are you patting yourself on the back? For your party is not let you choose your candidate. Since obomb a second term, you’re liberal. That’s insane.

More f’s were skipped there. I’m not flying either one of their flags. It’s people paying them. It’s a problem. They’re always distracting this other stuff.

CNN and Fox News are a disease. Another ref skipped. But now I’ve moved on from that to the puppeteers. So my new perspectives. There’s nothing wrong with being a billion But if somebody’s working forty hours a week, hundred and sixty hours a month and they can’t make the rent, you’re not paying enough money, maybe you should just be worth nine hundred million.

That is a CEO taking eight figure bonus, and none of your employees of dental insurance. They can’t even go out and get a filling for hosted SNL the week after the election. It’s an honor to be asked to do that. I made fun of Comma, and I made fun of Trump, and I did a couple of silly jokes. I kept a light.

I don’t put that level of importance on my ac when I’m fine. As people keep trying to categorize what you’re doing like that idiot Ben Shapiro, he’s woke. No, that guy, you’re trying to bring me in his full At one point they like me, and all of a sudden, I’m like A I’m like an a hole. I’m supposed to look at that guy like he’s an adult. Plenty more check out the Good One podcast A fantastic I’ll continue to pick away at that one Tomorrow on this program, it is the debut of Comedy stock Market.

We will treat comedians like a stock market. I will recommend some buys, I’ll recommend some cells. Week one, I don’t have any holds for you. Some buys and some sells. Tomorrow it is the Comedy stock Market.

Saturday. On this program, Mike Chisholm from The Letterman podcast and I recorded it oh about ninety minutes or so before the edit last week, and I will share that conversation with you on Saturday Tonight in Jamestown, New York, it’s the annual National Comedy Center Festival. John Stewart is the headliner. He’ll perform on Saturday. There’s also a concert with Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers, which is a live blues and classic rock performance that one’s Sunday.

Jerny Gunderson, the National Comedy Center Executive director and former guest on this program that John Stewart is one of the most influential comedic voices of our time, providing his signature social commentary at a pace responsive to the news cycle, while deeply thoughtful about our shared humanity. The Comedy Center is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of SNL. They have some new exhibits, including the script from episode one, season one on display in the museum. You can actually interact it with it through a touch screen. Pete Davidson has praised his friend Machine Gun Kelly as quote the best dad ever.

So if anybody asks you who is the best day that ever, the answer is Machine Gun Kelly. Why, Pete explained, machine Gun Kelly flies back and forth to Cleveland twice a week just to see his daughter play volleyball, and he’s just always with his kids, and it’s such a beautiful thing to see. Pete says he’s looking forward to having playdates with Machine Gun Kelly and their kids. Pete says, we’re gonna have awesome playdates, and that’s gonna be a cool playdate. Kelly has two daughters.

One is sixteen. Not sure she’ll be excited about this, but the four month old probably will be. Christella Alonso is at the ice House Comedy Club in Pasadenette to night. Every ticket sold will go directly to defending immigrant families facing deportation. Christella said, I’m a first generation American born to an undocumented mother that taught me to love this country.

I believe it’s my duty to give back and fight so that everybody can get the same thing. My family got a chance. Maybe George Lopez could come by forty four The musical is a satirical comedy about the rise in presidency of Barack Obama, as well as the eccentric political characters he meant along the way. It’s coming to New York off Broadway this fall Thursday, November sixth, Written, composed, directed, and lead produced by Eli Beauman. He’s the son of John Bowser Bauman from Shanna Nah, Remember that Guy.

Forty four promises to tell you the story of Obama you won’t read about in history books because history books are now banned in most states. Because also forty four is the story of Obama as Joe Biden kind of sort of remembers it, love it, that’s hilarious. Deadline spoke to some of jfl’s New Faces from Montreal Xavier Phillips that I grew up in Tennessee and wasn’t really surrounded by many people wanting to pursue comedy, so I was kind of having to find what was online and see what other people who I was idolizing were doing. And that’s kind of the time it discovered JFL New Faces was always one of the things I put on my list of goals for the year. I’m incredibly excited being selected.

Congratulations. In Chicago, the Windy City Comedy Festival kicks off. Io Theater will be hosting multiple showcases of the festival. There’s a show tonight at ten thirty. There’s also a show on Saturday at eleven am.

Now Saturday at three pm. It is the A List Laughs, stacked with nothing but A Listers. The A Lister list includes Chicago’s Matt Brown as your host, and comedians A Listers Michelle Malazaki, Scott Eason, Hannahbeck, Eliza Butler, Joey Sarone, Avril Grenado, Paul Blomeier and Newton Gregory. Those are your A Listers. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Bill Burr, Adam Sandler, Ben Shapiro, John Stewart, Jay Leno, Greg Gutfeld, Stephen Colbert, Mark Maron

What’s in This Episode

• Happy Gilmore 2 breaks Netflix opening weekend record with 46.7 million views
• Bill Burr discusses transitional specials and new apolitical hour on The Good One podcast
• Bill Burr criticizes political division and calls for unity over partisan conflict
• Bill Burr responds to Ben Shapiro’s ‘woke’ criticism and addresses online harassment
• Bill Burr weighs in on left and right wing extremism and billionaire influence
• John Stewart criticizes Jay Leno’s calls for less partisan late night TV
• Mark Maron discusses podcast evolution and concerns about media landscape on CNN

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily comedy who said, Look, I’ve tried. I did everything I could. But if you guys are gonna watch Adam Sandler comedies on Netflix, they’re gonna keep making them. Happy Gilmore I forty six point seven million views, slightly more people consume that than consume this podcast.

Forty six point seven million views in just three days. That made Happy Gilmore Too, the biggest US opening weekend ever for a Netflix film and Adam Sandler’s best Netflix debut. So if you’re gonna watch it, and Netflix is going to pay Adam Sailor to make these, they’re gonna keep making them. He’s not gonna make uncut gems too. If you keep watching this crap.

People are starting to pay a lot of attention to Bill Burr’s the interview with Vulture from last week on The Good One podcast, Burst said specials aren’t just special. Some of them are transitionals. So someone will be like, ah, I really like Paper Tiger, but then Red Rocks wasn’t quite as good. It was more of a transitional special because I was in the middle of undoing a lot of stuff about myself. There’s specials where you’re catching somebody sort of midstry.

They haven’t plent of that foot or where they’re going to be. So I’m excited about my new hour that I’m writing because this one is more of my self examination. But my worldview is apolitical and it’s trying to bring people together. I’m trying to do the opposite of what’s going on there because I feel like we’re going to have a civil war if we’re not careful. When I was growing up, everybody hated the Russians.

Now people hate California or Florida or New York at Texas and it’s like, geist we’re on the same team. People gonna have different opinions. I don’t know. I think what this country needs now is a leader. At that point, the Good One podcast asked, are you the leader?

No, no, no, no no. I’m talking about politics and this whole leading by dividing. That’s we’re going off for the last few decades. It’s going to pull a country apart if they’re not careful. Lever of corruption with all these politicians and how much money they’re making from the people, poisonou food supply.

I mean, are they going to hook up with the pharmaceutical people. Like your job’s to go out here and eat poison and get sick by the drugs. Say live long enough, make a claim, haven’t denied after you paid insurance, then die and I’ve all that dead passed on to the people. And I can tell you right now that people doing that are not illegal aliens. Bill is not happy with Ben Shapiro saying that Burr has become woke.

He doesn’t even know what the word means. His definition awoke. As white liberals, they don’t even know what it was. They just took the word from black people. It’s the worse thing about our people.

Not only we take from other cultures. We don’t even take the time to understand the definition. You want there to be annoyed so you can have something to talk about, and then he can make money off dividing his own country. Those people treason us what they do. The fact is it worked for what his goal was, for it to become a thing online.

We’re a certain portion of the right complain about how you’re woke racist, they’re racists. Let me drop the half ass impression here, because this is the next point, is that Bill Burr says, they send pictures of monkeys to me and my wife. They’re effing horrible people and their cowards. They never say it to your face. There’s an ugliness out there right now where if you’re a racist, if you’re an anti semi, if you’re a psychoanationalist and you want a softball interview, there’s podcast out there where you can get one, and they’ll laugh at you for your bad jokes and give you the pass.

There’s a really ugly thing going on out there, and we’ve already seen what it destination. It’s not the way to go. Then, Vulture said, people on the left have been really embracing you and sharing videos of you. Burr said, no, it’s not true, dude, it’s not true. It’s common sense on both sides.

We keep doing this stuff where we’re like, oh, the right’s all f and racist, and dude, the left is some of the most Most of the left feels like if they have a black friend, they don’t have issues. I’m oud of that. I don’t want to hear any more left and right crap. They’re all e f and nuts. Me too.

Where it went from people shouldn’t sexually assault people absolutely too. I don’t like where you’re talking about in your act was nuts. It was McCarthyism on the left, and the left is so fed up that the cycle right thinks they’re in the middle, and they’re not. They’re out of their f and minds. We’re continued and I travel, dude, and I’m telling you people who lean right and left or chill and they’re just sitting in the middle.

Like, when is everyone going to calm the f down? When is this going to go back to live and let live? People from construction workers to hairy leg chicks with nose rings going, hey, I like what you’re saying out there about these billionaires, because that’s the problem. The other problem is people make it like it’s political, like if you vote for this color tie, those billionaires or somehow going to grow a heart, and it’s just not the case. It isn’t.

That’s on the Good One podcast Vultures podcast. I’ll continue to pick away at that one. Let me go forward promote Saturday. Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast and I had a long conversation. I haven’t checked with Mike.

I imagine it’ll be The Letterman Podcast on Friday, but it will be this podcast on Saturday, and we talked about all things Late Night. Very good conversation. We wrapped up. We’d gone just about an hour and a half and I couldn’t believe how long we’d been talking. I can talk to that guy forever.

John Stewart on his own podcast was giving Jay Leno some crap, and that’s one of the topics I got into with Mike Chisholm on The Letterman podcast. John Stewart got annoyed at Jay Leno’s comments about, you know, being less partisanship in Late Night. Stuart said, this is them trying to police and create rules they would never follow. That’s how Fox is popular. That’s how any of these people, you know, they all talk about Gutfeld.

By the way, Gutfeld on Fallon Tomorrow night, they’ll talk about Gutfeld. It’s the most popular. I’m struggling here because I’m trying not to slip back into Burr. I have to remember I’m doing John Stewart here, or I’m not trying to do anyone right now, but that burricades I’m kind of locked into it. Let me take a breath and just try and speak normally.

John Stewart said, that’s how any of these people, you know, they all talk about Gutfeld. It’s the most popular. He’s not popular because he’s a both sides guy. He’s relentless, and after a day of watching Fox News and being bathed in their very purposeful propaganda, it’s a great way to top off the night. If you look at the social media profile of all the people to complain about the left wing bias, they’re all right wing influencers.

They all make their money. Their entire economy is based on how willing they are to attack and to fame and to crush liberals. The whole thing is bs. Have you met the chairman of the FCC, He’s like crap poasting Colbert. He’s probably right now.

Want to search for more right wing billionaires that can buy out more of these properties, because there’s going to be an acquisition in Murger Spree for these kind of things. Mark Maren had some opinions on podcasts. Mark Maron was on CNN, and I’ll let Mark speak for himself. You know, we were there at the beginning, and it is a media that anyone can really do, that can thrill their hat in the ring. And I think as it’s evolved and into video, you know, people have been able to set up their own little show business empires.

So I mean, like any medium, it can be used. For bad or evil. So I mean, you know, what are you going to do? But it is the way the media landscape is working. I look, there’s a sort of cultural malignancy to it in some ways, but in some areas people are doing really interesting stuff.

I have been enjoying the heck out of a Dusty Sligh’s opinions about country music Rolling Stone as Dusty Sligh, what do you think makes for a good country song? Dusty said, sometimes it’s a good story, but I think voice plays a big, big role. I love a good deep voice minus shot right now because I just talked to Mike Chisholm for an hour and a half. Dusty said, I have a joke where I say, a good country song, we’ll have you reminiscing about times you never had. And I think about that Brooks and Dunn song Brand New Man, where he’s talking about how basically he’s been running around while he’s women and how he’s met a woman and changed his life.

I was probably eight years old, ready to settle down. I was like, I need to change my ways and I’ve never even done anything, but I think that’s what good country does. Dusty talked about the Brooks and Dunn song hard Working Men. Dusty said, I love the song and I’m listening and basically he’s complaining about how he can’t get ahead in life. He’s working so hard he can’t get ahead.

But he reveals to you on the song why he can’t get ahead. And this guy, this character I feel like they’re writing about a character, is a guy who’s complaining about how he never has any money. But if you look at his own personal finances, you’re like, well, you’re spending all your money, and you know how you’re doing it. Speaking about spending money, Colin Chost and Pete Davidson spent it on a ferry. The New York Post reported that Jost, Davidson and their partner, comedy club owner Paul Atalia Mayo, thirteen five hundred dollars to a downtown law firm.

That law firm filed a lawsuit something something to do with dockage and twing contracts from when the comedians and their partner A BoNT the original ferry. A source told The New York Post Jostin Davidson, we’re unaware of this as they don’t handle the day to day business operations of the Ferry. Out on Amazon Prime Video today, The Pickup, starring Pete Davidson and Eddie Murphy. The log line a routine cash pickup takes a wild turn when mismatched armored truck drivers Russell and Travis or ambush by ruthless criminals led by savvy mastermind Zoe played by Keky Palmer. As chaos erupts, the unlikely duo must navigate danger, clashing personalities, and one very bad day that keeps spiraling out of control.

The Daily be Sure didn’t think the movie was good. Their review said, it’s been decades since Eddie Murphy made an honest to goodness funny movie Wait till they find out about Adam Zandler, and The Pickup won’t break that dispiriting streak. It’s going straight to Prime video, although in a just world it would just be released on DVD and sent directly to a big box retailer’s bargain bin. This heist comedy is a half baked throwaway that’s so busy staging third rate action sequences that it forgets to concoct a single passable joke. Wow, I can’t believe Pete day Vidson got the role of not Sandler.

Most of the reviews I’ve seen are in that vein Late Night are reporting the Daily Show is off for five weeks. The Late Nighter has a take. I have a slightly different take. Late Nighter says, though the timing is shure to raise eyebrows. It sure did you know Stephen Colbert and all that.

If you’re this far into this podcast, you know what’s going on there. Dosi Leidak on last Thursday show said, just to let you guys know, we’re going on a production break for August, which was planned months and months ago. So don’t freak out, have a great summer, and we’ll see you in September when we can all freak out together. Late Nighter says it’s not the first time the show did that. When Trevor was hosting in twenty twenty one, they took three months off between the end of the Daily Social Distancing Show and the show’s return in September to a proper show.

All Right, I don’t think that’s exactly the same. In twenty fifteen, the show took a seven week break between the end of Stuart’s run and Trevor Noah’s debut. I don’t think that’s the same. Comedy Central is filling the time slot with repeats of other shows, for example of The Family guyd In’s Health Park. Now my take here and Late Night Er is much more educated in this than I am.

But my take weren’t we told during Colbert Gate that the reason for the timing that they had to make the decision right then and there was because the contracts come up in August for like the writers and stuff. So the last show of The Daily Show before the five week break was Thursday, July thirty first, and then August rolled around They’re like, oh, yeah, we’re on a five week break. So my question is everybody being paid for the five weeks because CBS paramount whatever they are, skuide ans because the parent company’s cool like that. So yeah, you guys get have five weeks off, enjoy your summer. Maybe or are people not being paid for five weeks?

And if I divide fifty two by five, that’s around ten percent. And I don’t think The Daily Show does a show every week of the year. So is this like a secret fifteen percent budget cut? Perhaps? Maybe possibly, or I might just be talking out of my hat.

I have no facts. I’m just a guy in the basement. Stephen Colbert is going to appear in the upcoming season three episode of Elsbeth, which runs on CBS. Stephen Colbert will play a talk show host. In the October twelfth episode, Stephen plays the host of a fictional late night talk show called Way Late with Scottie Bristol.

Colbert’s episode was just recently filmed, however, the idea has been floating around for months. Interesting timing. Eric Idol was asked by The Guardian, what comedian from any time do you believe would have complimented the Python’s ensemble? Great question, The answer, Dan Ackroyd, because he was a writer and a performer and can melt his ego into a crowd. On the whole, we didn’t try to upstage each other on Python, you were supportive.

The Pythons do tend to fight. The Guardian was curious if any of the Pythons get royalties from spam a lot. Eric Idol said, they get more effing money than they’ve ever been grateful for They got effing millions, and they’re miserable and horrible and bitchy about it. I spent twenty years working for Python and then two years at the two Show. They were there for two weeks.

I’m not really motivated by money, to be honest. Anyway, the producers get all the fing money and divide it up according to the contract. Someone suit us for years saying I was paying the Pythons money from my back pocket, and I said, why would I risk going to American jail to give John Clees more money. Let me tell you about some comedy specials I liked. Mark Maren’s new one is fantastic.

It feels like a comedy special, like back in the day when HBO would roll out a special every now and then and it fell big, and it shot properly, and it’s in a theater and a comedian has something to say, that’s Mark Maren’s special. Oh, I got to add it to my rankers here. Let me open up that file. I’m going to put it at number four overall, and it’s the best special of the year. So my top tier right now is the Conan Mark Twain Prize by A Mile Shane Gillis’s ESPN monologue I have a two Thomsigor’s bad Thoughts at three.

First stand up special on my list is Mark Maron’s new one, and then Shane Gillis tires at five. Number six in the stand up tier would be Justin Willman’s Magic Lover, and I’ll go over the list some other day. But Maren, I thought was just fantastic. I said this already on this podcast. He’s got something to say, and I think that makes such a huge difference.

Don’t want to spoil any of it. Absolutely watch it. Then I put on Dusty Slayh’s a new one which is on Netflix, and I like Dusty a lot. It sounds like I’m about to bash it. No, this is a good special.

My hesitation is I think he had two specials worth of material. I’m looking here at my ranker. I’m gonna slot it after Justin Willman, but ahead of Bert Kraser, so that would be my third best special of the year and the seventh funniest thing overall. Dusty’s just doing ratitat jokes. I like that style.

The problem with that style, whether it’s Steven Wright or Mitch Hedberg or Dusty Slay your brain fatigues after a while. So Maren is telling stories and there’s an art to it. Dusty’s just up there shucking jokes and as he says, we’re having a good time, and we are having a good time at an hour and change, maybe even longer. I think it would have been better served as two forty minutes specials. But very very very good.

Again, the Netflix stuff in comparison to City HBO stuff. As I said earlier, the Maren felt like a special, and Dusty’s like a lot of them on Netflix. Feel like somebody went to the mall and bought a comedy special off the shelf. It just doesn’t feel as big, but it’s definitely funny. I actually watched Dusty in two nights.

Again, I think it was better as two forty minute specials, and that’s the way I consumed it. After Dusty, I put on ver Dawes, who I like a lot, did not like this special. Three and a half minutes in, I was struggling. I tried to hang in there. I made it maybe five six minutes.

Maybe that’s an unfair review, but dude, we got a lot of things to watch out there, and I’ve only got limited time. Vier was just on somebody’s podcast. Who was I listening to? Was it good one? Yeah?

Maybe it just good one? Sorry. Whatever I was to do was a really interesting interview about the special, but just as a special, just wasn’t feeling it. Some things I am digging not Comedy Department Q on Netflix thumbs up. And I’m not a big wrestling fan.

I watched it like every week when the Rock was red hot twenty five years ago. But I put on the new thing they are promoting. That’s like how the sausage is made at wrestling events, really really good. I’m all into that one. That’s the one that if you hang out with me in real life, I don’t shut up about.

So some other things for you to watch. Lloyd Evans wrote about the Fringe and the Spectator. Now, if you follow this podcast, no conversation about the Fringe is like, the Fringe is awesome, you should go and it’s a good time and everybody’s happy. It just seems like the Fringe is making everyone miserable. Lloyd Evans writes, every day my inbox fills with stories of panic, madness and despair.

The Edinburgh fringes upon us and the publicists are firing off emails big and critics to cover their shows. Now, he comments about how comedy has changed. They’re sure is full of performers advertising their mental disorders as if they were badges of achievement. The fringe once had a sense of freedom and danger. I used to head for a crimp little basement just off the Royal Mile, where comedians performed from noon until midnight.

No tickets, A bucket was passed around. At the end of the show, comedians showed up. They delivered sixty minutes of chit chat and verbal sword play. Often this involved singing out members of the crowd for good natured abuse. Anyone with a sensitive temperament or heaven forbid, an emotional disorder stayed away.

There were no rules or special protections other than criminal law. I was there in twenty ten when a comedian lost patience with a drunken heckler and head butted him into the floor. After the bleeding victim was carried upstairs to a waiting ambulance. The next performer was called on the mic because she was an American with a delicate Southern accent. Good evening, Edinburgh, I had stepped over a pool of fresh blood in order to reach the stage.

It’s that normal in Scotland. Yes, this is the fringe we need back, not the one we’re complaining about. How much the hotel is what Evans continues in The Spectator. Back then, the Fringe specialized in monologues about mass murderers and war criminals. An actor would dress up as say Hitler Stalin or Jeffrey Dahmer deliver an hour of bad taste joked to a crowd of unshockable punters.

That genre seems to have expired yet right now the world stage is full of controversial and even monstrous characters who are ripe for mockery. The satirists seem uninterested. Another casualty is the joke of the Fringe Award, who sponsors have withdrawn their support. Last year’s winner suggested that the pool of talent had all but dried up. The winner was I was going to sail around the globe and the world’s smallest ship, but I bottled it.

Lloyd Evans right, it’s not great, but it’s better than the winner from the previous year, which was I started dating a zoo keeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah. And he goes on and on the premise the Fringe used to be more fun, I’ve never been voicemag dot uk has been profiling some of the performers. They caught up with cabaret comedian Scott Derwood, who says his new show, Apocalypse Cabaret Songs for the End of the World is about a karaoke jockey who finds themselves the sole survivor of an apocalypse and commits to singing every song on the sign up list. What are you excited about? First, the opportunity needs to do the same show twenty eight days in a row is huge because an extended run like that is so physically exhausting it knocks you out of your head, letting your art brain mak intuitive decisions rather than always deferring to one’s thinking mind.

The second is Edinburgh’s like going to camp where everyone shares your same obsession, and that obsession is live shows. Best advice he got about the Fringe assume the weather every day is going to be crappy, and if the sun ever does come out, you’ll be so excited you won’t know what to do with yourself. You can check out that show nightly at the diary room at the Underbelly. Nine to twenty pm. Troida went to see Ben Pope’s The cuts They write for reasons it’d be a spoiler to explain.

Ben Pope finds himself almost ungooglable. The topic is about circumcision. Troda writes what shines out most or the charmingly funny vocabulary he deploys and the quirky mental pictures he conjures up that exquisitely define a microphone, for example, or a CD. And I’m a day late on this, but I do want to acknowledge the passing of Lonnie Anderson. If you are of a certain age, and if you worked in radio, you sure as heck loved WKRP in Cincinnati.

Lonnie Anderson’s Jennifer was the opposite of the dumb blonde stereotype, refusing to take dictation, type letters or make coffee. Lonnie Kay Anderson was born August fifth, nineteen forty five, was naturally dark haired. She said, I love being a brunette. It was exotic. People weren’t quite sure what nationality I was.

There was a mystery when acting I could be the bad lady. Lonnie Anderson was seventy nine Natural Comedy News for today, I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Tom Segura, Garth Brooks, Dusty Slay, Post Malone, John Mulaney, Conan O’Brien, Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler, Mark Maron, Bill Burr

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s Garth Brooks parody album cover promotion for Austin Comedy Mothership show
• Dusty Slay’s debate on country music authenticity and Post Malone’s ‘F-1 Trillion’ album
• John Mulaney’s book club pick ‘Shark Heart’ by Emily Haybeck
• Conan O’Brien’s SNL memories and Adam Sandler’s influence on comedy culture
• Mark Maron documentary ‘Are We Good’ theatrical release announcement
• Bill Burr discusses personal growth and staying creatively sharp on The Good One Podcast

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac and we’re Jim Packed again today with your Daily Comedy News. I cannot get enough of this. Tom Sigora chop busting on Garth Brooks the latest. To promote his August twenty seventh show at the Comedy Mothership in Austin Joe Rogan’s place, Sagora photoshopped his face over Garth brooks face on an album cover.

Tom even got the font right and has a sticker with the day and time of the show. Tom’s been making fun of Garth Brooks for years. If you watched the recent Netflix series Bad Thoughts, so there’s a wonderful, totally not Garth Brooks at all sketch that was absolutely my favorite. This all gets back to a conversation on Tom’s podcast years ago when they started joking that Garth Brooks might be a serial killer, which of course Garth Brooks is not. He’s definitely not a serial killer.

I just want to make that clear. Despite my certainty that Garth Brooks is not a serial killer, Tom Segura had apparently suggested that the evidence was Garth Brooks very unusual videos that he had posted on social media. Fans started commenting on Garth’s social media posts with one question, which was where are the bodies Garth. Tom Sigora has been blocked on Instagram by Garth Brooks. In the past, Agora has talked about a reliable source who Segory asked does he know?

And they’re like, oh, yeah, he knows? And I was like, is he upset? And they’re like, he just doesn’t get it. He doesn’t know why you’re talking about him. Sigora said, I was like, Okay.

Dusty Slay mixing it up with the country music fans. He has some strong opinions on what’s country music or not. You’ll find Dusty on the Rolling Stone podcast Nashville Now Dusty talking about his new special that was out last week, Wet Heat. Rolling Stone asked, you cost a lot of stir on social media when you claim that Post Malone’s F one trillion was not country music. Why don’t you considered country?

It’s fair question. Dusty said, I’ll say this. I think it was two discs, and I didn’t realize that the second disc actually was a little more country. What I listened to was the stuff with the other country singers and I was like, I don’t like it. I don’t think this is a country.

Personally, I don’t think post Malone has a country voice. I don’t mean an accent. He just doesn’t sound country to me.

And then he was paired up with a lot of country singers that I really like.

I don’t like people switching genres coming over to country and being like, now the country’s super popular, I’m gonna make country. Now. I’ve heard that post Malone his next album is gonna be more traditional country. So I think he heard me. If you want to make a country album, make a country album.

So Rolling Stone was curious, all right, what goes on a country album? Dusty said, I think you need steel guitar, fiddle. If you have those, you already have a recipe for country. That’s a good place to start. If you don’t have a basy voice, you’re gonna need those two things.

If you have a real deep voice, I think you can get away with just an acoustic guitar. And they then asked him about a bunch of albums, one of them Morgan wallins I’m the problem. Dusty said, all right, I don’t think so. I don’t like it, but this is what I’ll say. I got a brother in law from Michigan.

He grew up with this. My sister’s ten years older than they got married. They started dating with her like eighteen, so I was like eight. So this guy, he’s been in my life. He moved from Michigan down to Alabama, lived in a trailer park with us.

He knows all about country music now, and I was trying to show him how not country it is, and he goes, that sounds country to me. So it’s hard to argue. But to me, it’s not country. It’s a thing they’re doing with the way they sing. Now, everything sounds so emotional, and everything’s trying to sound so deep.

I think there’s a groundedness that country music really needs. So The Rolling Stone followed up with Carrie Underwoods before he Cheats. Dusty Slay said, Yeah, country’s very well known for breakup songs, but I feel like there should be a male version of this song where you’re the other guy. You’re the guy that shi keied his car. You need that guy.

Where’s his side of this? What was going on? Why did he cheat? What happened? Did he really is she overreacting?

Did she go to jail cheating’s not illegal in a relationship. I love it. John Mulaney was on Threads pushing his book club. I think the reason John Mulaney has a book club is to make Jim Gaffigan’s Whiskey project look cool. In comparison, I think m’lane’s taking one for the team.

On Threads, John posted some crooked photos, but he explained my three year old photographer his son captured my excitement for this month’s mullany Read’s pick, which is Shark Heart by Emily Haybeck. Mullaney explains shark Heart, very hard to say, was my favorite book of twenty twenty three, and one that I don’t think got enough attention when it came out. It tells the story of Lewis and Wren, a young married couple that faces something many of us can relate to. You know what’s going through my head now. The idea that somebody said the way into a half assed Millenni impression is to do Fred Schneider from the B fifty two’s Lewis is diagnosed with a rare disease that will gradually turn his body into that of a great white shark, like for real.

Next thread from John Mulaney. I think each of you will bring your own life to the book and maybe see it and the changes and losses you have gone through. It’s the wildest premise and yet I think we’ll feel deeply personal to lots of readers. The book is fantastic and you can buy it at independent booksellers all around the world. It is John Mulaney’s book Club Cool.

Conan O’Brien had Mack packer Andy Samberg on his podcast. They started talking about Conan O’Brien’s tenure on SNL. Samberg had heard the show was a little more competitive and kind of grimy. Conan said, yeah, definitely was when I was there.

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And then I have to credit Adam Sandler.

Conan said every week he would worry, I don’t know if I have anything this week. It’s late. I don’t think I can write comedy. He would call his girlfriend Spiraling, sh’d tell him to quit. Conan, I was in a state of mind.

I think like Smigel and Odin Kirk and Greg Daniels were like, it’s life or death, and it feels like that’s kind of how everyone feels.

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And then this guy, Adam Sandler showed up one day and he’s like babba doo, an…

I love it. He was really happy, and you’re just like, how is this a possibility you can like this? Conan added, I think sometimes real silliness used to be discounted some what it was Adam Sandler who made him realize it had real value. Congratulations to Mark marin his upcoming documentary Are We Good We’ll be in theaters. Independent documentary film distributor Utopia has acquired the North American theatrical rights to Are We Good.

Are We Good shares the life story of Mark Meron. It specifically emphasizes Mark Maren’s self reflective journey through grief after unexpectedly losing his partner, filmmaker and actress Lynn Shelton. The film chronicles how Mark Maron returned to the stage while also exploring his career trajectory over the course of forty years. Are We Good includes interviews with John Mulaney, Nate Brighetzi, David Cross, and Mikhaela Watkins, as well as footage from Maren’s sixteen years hosting the podcast. On the Good One Podcast Bill Byrd, it sounded pretty feisty, especially when he gets into the political stuff.

I’ll get to that later in the week. Berr talked about working on himself and talked about some legacy advice you would hear from comedians. There’s this thing, don’t go getting happy. If you get happy, you’re not gonna be funny anymore. But no, it’s actually better because it opens up this whole new worldview.

So you’re not doing the same thing the entire time. You have to keep incrementally changing every year, so there’s some sort of Fordamentum no what you’re doing. That’s what happens. When people knows a change, you have a positive reaction to it. But if people have left behind who are still angry, misogynistic and blah blah.

I’m not saying I didn’t have a lot of issues with women. I do, but even then it’s not them, that’s to do with other stuff. I just keep going back and figuring out what it is. So I definitely had a fall off of the stay angry bro guys, and they’re not fans now. I just think, well, hey, man, I hope you’re not angry your whole life, because I was on my way to doing that, and I don’t want to be that guy the on me.

If somebody would have said that, I would have been like, well, FU didn’t what I want. But even for a person saying, you know, as funny as he used to be, I still have empathy and go, I know what he’s saying. I like, don’t go to light because I’m not ready yet. Stay here in the bar with me thinking all this negative stuff. I don’t want to be the pied piper that I don’t want my tombstone to be here lies Bill Burr.

He was angry. Were my one effing life that I had? He did that. So I’m also realizing it’s just kind of what it is. You have your stuff, you have to work out, and that’s your life sentence.

Just for Laughs has announced some of the line up at least for Just for Laughs Toronto. Glad to see the Toronto Comedy Festival coming back. It is a fantastic fest of all I’ve been thinking about going up this year. It’s from September eighteenth through the twenty seventh. The names they pulled out in the press release gave Iglesias, Sarah Milliken, Viral Sensation, drop Out, improv and fan favorites Maria Bamford, Almdical, Big Jay Ogerson, and Ron Funches kind of fly through.

This lineup includes Al Magical. I’m guessing if you listen to my podcast, you know Al best known as a correspondent on The Daily Show. I like his stand up a lot. Alistair Ogden is one of Canada’s top comedic talents and was one of the new faces just for Last Montreal. He was pretty good.

Ashwan Singh is a stand up comedian, musician and writer whose work blends incisive humor with heartfeld social commentary. And Indian immigrant turned Canadian resident, Ashwin draws on his unique perspective to explore themes of culture, identity, immigration and family, wit and relatability. Big Jay Okerson, I imagine you would know. Brittany Schmidt is an LA based, Wisconsin raised comic. She likes her comedy like she likes her cheese.

Stinky, that’s hackey, I’d be afraid of that. That’s a little hacky who wrote that? Don’t be fooled by her. Girl next Door looks her humor is insidious. And unapologetic.

She’s open for Theo Vaughan, Chris Red and others. All Right, Shaye Jarina, best known for his viral videos and oppressive social media presence, Open for Bert Kreischer, Connor O’Malley. You can check out Connor’s special stand up solutions on YouTube. Drop Out Improv from the minds behind Dropout Comes, an evening of improv minigames and off the Wall Shenanigans. Brizio Capano is one of the most well known and highly regarded comedians in Latin America.

He was the first South American comedian to shoot an original comedy special for Netflix. Gabe Iglesias, You know who that is? Gavin Mattz in twenty twenty four named one of Vulture’s comedians you should and will know Genia Sheer. You guys know Gina right. Hamoody aka the fob four, described as hilarious takes on immigrant life and cultural clashes.

His skits mixed humor with relatable insights, especially for diaspora communities. Oh my goodness, the ever so serious Harry Condobolo is going to be there. I think we need to update Hari’s crudentials a little bit. We’re told he has performed on such shows as Conan and The Late Show with David Letterman. It’s been a minute Ian finance, described by David Tell as a power act.

Jay Jorden, who has a lot of buzz, also on Vultureous Comedians You Should and Will Know list in twenty twenty, was a new face in twenty nineteen. Langston Kerman, Maria Bamford, Mark Forward will perform his third comedy special will be recorded for future release. He has two specials already. I love the titles of those. One is called Mark Ford Presents Mark Ford and the other one I love this title, Mark Ford Wins All the Awards.

Ron Funches will be up there. Sarah Milliken. She is one of the UK’s and in recent years the world’s most well love touring comedians. Todd Barry Oh, I like Todd? How are you doing on time?

All right? I could do a couple more here. Moa Mayer was announced as a headliner for twenty twenty five’s Dubai Comedy Festival. Liz Meely will release a new comedy special called space Camp that’ll be out September ninth on Punch Up Live, recorded at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn. Liz Meely hit the stage with her rapid fire storytelling style to share tales of her boyfriend’s botched vasectomy, faking marriage, being a sky Princess, cat missapps, and more.

Liz is also going to start touring on the eleventh of September in Austin, Texas, a whole bunch of dates ending up Boston November sixth. Info at Lizmeely dot com. M I E L E. And Johnny Mac’s got a ton of leftovers, which means he’s going to be able to pre tape Labor Day weekend, which is kind of nice. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Check it out? Paranormal Aliens. Where you get your shows? See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Bill Burr, Jay Leno, Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, Andrew Schulz, Brendan Schaub, Tim Dillon, Whitney Cummings, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Alex Jones, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, David Letterman, John Oliver, Bill Maher, Morty Young, Alex Bennett

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan and comedians second thoughts about moving to Austin
• The Daily Show’s seven-minute segment mocking Joe Rogan
• Jay Leno criticized for hypocrisy on balanced comedy
• Monica Lewinsky joke criticism of Jay Leno’s legacy
• Stephen Colbert’s ratings surge after CBS cancellation announcement
• South Park Trump episode viewership numbers

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac, who with another busy Daily Comedy News. There’s a lot going on. I’m not going to cover today, but I want to call your attention to a pretty feisty Bill Burr interview. You’ll find that on Vulture dot com and as a podcast in the Good One.

I’ll start picking away that tomorrow. But just other things I want to get to. The cool kids came for Jay Leno last week. They did not like the Jay Leno interview about Late Night and called out Jay for some hypocrisy. It’s really interesting to see what Jay’s legacy has become as the team Conan people just continue to pile on, and now the cool kids are coming ford Joe Rogan.

There were two things. One from The Daily Beast. The headline. A number of Joe Rogan’s comedy and podcasting buddies are having second thoughts about following him to Texas. Some of the comedians they single out, Shane Gillis, moved to Austin years after he was fired as a cast member of Saturday Night Live.

They point out in June on Andrew Schultz’s podcast, where Andrew was probably shocked to learn that Donald Trump didn’t do everything he said he was going to do. Shane said, Texas effing blows. Gillis criticized Texas, describing how his home had a blackout for three days. Gillis said, the second we ran out of power, the house was ninety degrees and just bugs. Bugs came in immediately.

The house filled with bugs, and I’m just laying in the dark. In twenty twenty four, Shane Gillis told vi Ivaughn, I just wanted to move to a place where you can do stand up during the week forever. It was just in New York, in LA. Now you can do it in Nashville. In Austin, Brendan Schaub said, I miss my community and my routine after moving from LA to Austin.

Tim Dillon, who you can never take that seriously in any sentence that Tim Dillon ever speaks. Tim described Austin as a great place to raise a family as long as they like you, are dull and never want to succeed. In September, Tim was on Whitney Cummings podcast and called Austin and the soulas city that should be burned to the ground. He described the music scene as three heroin addicts busking with guitars. Whitney made fun of the Joe Rogan experience and said he’d rather have someone that makes knives than you.

Right, they’re just hoping that people he’s flying miss their flight and they need someone at the last minute. Dylan has moved back to LA, we’re told, but says of Texas. Yeah the taxes are better, and yeah, there are benefits to not being in LA, and yes LA has a host of problems. But I moved here because first and foremost I said something new will be good. I was wrong.

The cool kids continue to go after Joe Rogan. Last week, on Wednesday’s The Daily Show, they did seven minutes on Joe Rogan. They did a mock biopic. The narrator of the biopic says, a new thinker has emerged to grapple with the mysteries of our universe. He is the world’s greatest thinker.

They then showed clips of Rogan saying things like why do black people like menthol so much? And if you’re drinking water, you’re drinking dinosaur pe. The narrator continues and talk he did because the most fundamental truth about the modern world was finally within his grasp. That a man may speak forever without knowing things as long as he has a podcast, Rogan began his true life’s project of absorbing the collected wisdom of the world’s greatest wise men and every now and then a woman. They then show guests Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and Alex Jones.

Then they highlighted the title of a YouTube video alleging to show all the times Rogan has used the N word. You know what, while I’ve gone here, let me open up one of the Leno pieces. I wasn’t gonna do it at all, but since we’re here from the Nation, the headline jay Leno’s phony case for balanced comedy, They ask, why is it that every time a great late night host loses a job, jay Leno appears. That’s just stupid. I don’t know what d Steth Meyers weigh in on Colbert the Nation rights, really Jay Leno fair and balance comedian.

A two thousand and nine George Mason University study found that of the thirty three thousand jokes Leno told about politicians during his first run as the Tonight Show host, he told forty four hundred and sixty eight Bill Clinton jokes, and nine and ninety nine about George Bush. They do add that, of course, there’s no reason Leno shouldn’t have gone after Clinton more than Bush if he wanted to. There’s just no reason why Kimmel, Colbert Fallon shouldn’t go after Trump more than anyone else. You know, part of this, guys, is just from a comedy standpoint. Clinton is funnier than George Bush.

George Bush is funny, but George Bush is a lot funnier than Obama or Biden. Again, nobody has yet really to nail an Obama impression that’s truly funny. None of the Biden impressions were funny. There are funny Trump impressions. There are funny Clinton’s, there are funny Reagan’s.

There was a funny George H. Bush, There were funny Nixons. Chevy Chase figured out a way to do Ford. So yeah, for us to go back, you know what is its twenty five years later? No, it’s thirty years later now, and be like, oh, Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, it’s not funny.

Leno’s right leaning show regularly topped Lettermans in the ratings. Oh, I missed that Jay Leno’s right leaning show. I missed that one. Okay, they did discuss the Winsky of it all. The Nation rights take, for instance, Leno’s relentless slut shaming with the expensive Monica Lewinsky.

In his own gauzy remembrance, Leno was a voice for fair play and civility. Back when Leno first began touting comedic civility in the Trump era, John Oliver threw a montage of his own Winsky jokes back at him because Leno wasn’t any more civil than he was bipartisan. Leno certainly wasn’t alone and going after Lewinsky, Bill mar David Letterman, more N Daoud, among many others, beat up on her. The difference is that Leno has a particular talent for dressing up his cruel streak and a folksy style of do you hear this water cooler banter? That’s fair?

Then the nation is mad that Leno made jokes about someone named Stella Libeck. They write that name is largely forgotten now, but she was the seventy nine year old woman at the center of the McDonald’s Hot Coffee lawsuit. They end their piece with if Leno’s first comedic reflex is to side with a multi billion dollar fast food chain over a scalded grandma. It’s no surprise that decides with our babbling dictator president when he feels Late Night comics are too mean to him. I mean, yes, we all feel bad that a woman got burned with coffee, But of course the joke is, did you not know the coffee’s high?

I mean, I just don’t get it, guys. At some point comedy is going to make fun of something and someone, Oh my goodness, I’m like, ten minutes in, I didn’t even mean to do that story. We’re going to be long today, friends, Let’s get to it. John Okay, second with Late Night for a second, Late Nighter points out. Stephen Colbert had good ratings.

He had an average weekly share of twelve point sixty three percent among total viewers. In his first full week of shows since CBS announced the cancelation, he allogged his best ratings in over two years, with an average of three point zero five million, more than the other two shows combined. Again, to be fair, Jimmy Kimmel’s in guest host mode in the eighteen to forty nine demo, Colbert’s weekly average jumped sixty four percent. Again, I’m sure a lot of that was the curiosity. On the Monday, the Letterman Podcast, Great podcast, check out the newest episode.

They have Letterman’s former producer Morty and famous radio DJ and former on this program and personal friend of mine Alex Bennett are the guests. Mike and I are planning on doing something to talk late night and late show. South Park had good ratings as well. In the three days after the premiere of the episode in which we see Donald Trump in bed with Satan, they got five point nine million cross platform viewers including on air replays. That’s a sixty eight percent improvement on the season twenty sixth premiere.

There was no episode last week. This week, the trailer suggests that we’ll see Donald Trump grabbing Satan’s leg under the table. I’m sure that will go over well in some parts of the capitol. Sam Bee was on Tom popp As podcast and weighed in on Colbert Gate. Was it money?

Was it politics? Sam said, I think both things are true and real. These legacy shows, they’re hamorrhaging money with no real end in sight. People are just not tuning in even remotely comparatively to how they used to. People are literally on their phones all the time for one thing, they don’t need a recap of the day’s events.

We’re consuming news media all the time. I do it too, but we don’t relax in the same way by watching everybody get together, lay down in your bed, type TV and watch them jokes in some interviews. It’s also true that when the President of the United States has to give a sign off on a corporate merger, the thing you can’t do is make jokes about him. He’s a thin skinned idiot, and we know he’s like a pernicious cancer, and he cares about that stuff. Papa asked if TBS asked Sam to tone down her show’s political stances.

She said, one hundred percent. When a huge corporate mergers happening, nobody wants to cause trouble. Business trumps everything. Everything you think is important is absolutely impotent. It’s not even a consideration.

Sam’s insight into ending the Late Show is it’s so much easier for them to cut the Late Show loose with this merger coming down the pike. Probably the most agonizing decisions they were having were about how do we float this, How do we not get a lot of blowback? You know what I was going to tell you about the Toronto Comedy Festival. We’ll do that tomorrow because it’s not until September eighteenth. I’m seeing nothing but great reviews for the New and Naked Gun movie, which first of all, is amazing, and congratulations to them.

Liam Neeson was asked other movies he enjoys. He said, Missus Outfire springs to mind and the outtakes were extraordinary too, and they aren’t part of the movie too. Actually in the credits that I once shared a taxi with Robin Williams and a few other actors and he started rapping on some politician. I remember thinking, this is maybe what Shakespeare would have been like, just this incredible stuff pouring out of his brain in his mouth. He was a genius comedian Country Wayne with a shocker.

On social media, he said, I got to come to Facebook because you all have been here since day one, all the reason I’m really able to sell tickets, and you all have been the reason I’ve been sustaining off stand up for the last ten years. So I had to come live and tell y’all, Hey, everybody, I love y’all. But when it comes to stand up comedy, my last show will be October fourth at the cob Energy Center in Atlanta. From my Amazon special Wow sad to hear that. I also hope this isn’t a Craig Robinson situation where he’s just trying to get attention, because that would be really, really lame.

Wayne said. Now a lot of people are like, Wayne, You’re leaving millions of dollars on the table. But the reason being, I tell everybody, when God tells you to move, you got to move some time. Sometimes you got to lose to win. Everything I got going right now, I put on the back burner for stand up for years.

If you all can remember back in the day when I went and did stand up, I had to stop doing social media content. Everybody was mad I had to leave social media. But I had to leave social media to become the person I am in stand up today. Now I’m leaving stand up because a lot of stuff in Hollywood that I got going on, and God got a lot in me and creating these ideas to put together, which is the ideas you love. Billboard put out their report of the biggest tours Beyonce led the way.

In June, Joe Coy sold forty two thousand tickets across ten shows. He grows two point six million dollars. Nicky Glazer grows three million, forty three seven hundred tickets across twenty shows. Gaba Glaciers three point two million, fifty two thousand, six hundred tickets nine shows. Nate Bergatzi three point six million, forty four nine hundred tickets six shows.

Dude, keep doing comedy, Stop with the theme park nonsense. Matt Riiche grows four point two million dollars to lead the pack fifty two thousand tickets across five shows. Some other shows making some money. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler grows two point two million, John Stewart, John Millenium, Pete Davidson together one point four million, and in Dublin the two Johnnies, Johnny Smacks McMahon and Johnny b O’Brien one point three million dollars. Bounce on a lot of stuff today, which is always a good problem to have.

In the summer. Voicemag dot UK has been catching up with comedians who were performing at the Fringe now underway. One of them is Aiden McQueen, who self describes as a stand up comedian from Ireland and a woman who’s been through just enough therapy to monetize her emotional chaos. Waiting for Texto is my one woman comedy play about heartbreak, grief and healing in the age of WhatsApp, yoga and passive aggressive self help memes. Have you done Fringe before?

Yes, I’ve done the stand up trenches, Flying in the Rain, performing the Three Men called Dave, and coming home with trench Foot in a new juke this year with a full length solo show, more Prepared. I’m pacing myself. We keep hearing about the pacing. Isn’t that interesting. I’m pacing myself and bringing a collapsible stool for when I want to cry in the street with dignity.

Boy, do I ever read an article that’s like, Hey, the Fringe was awesome. Man, I had a great time and I stayed at a great hotel. The Fringe just seems like a disaster. Everyone just seems like they’re just struggling to survive to perform at it, she says. I try to treat it like a marathon, not a breakdown in slow motion.

I do yoga badly, avoid the seven pounds smoothies currency not weight, and escape to the botanic gardens when I need to see something green that is an envy or mold.

Also naps, naps are resistance.

Any advice for first time or is it the fringe? Make the show you want to see on your worst day. Forget hype, connect with the people in the room, and bring waterproof shoes. Always. If you could change one thing about the fringe, what would it be?

And we keep hearing this theme subsidized a combination for artists. It’s the biggest barrier access and it’s exhausting to make meaningful, radical art while sharing a damp cupboard with a mime troop and a bologne smell that won’t die. Waiting for texto at the Powder House at two twenty pm out in San Francisco, it sounds like Luigi the Musical is doing well. Luigi the Musical, of course, the dark comedic musical reading for the press release quote inspired by the true fact that Luigi Mangioni, Diddy and Sam Bankman Fried, three high profile public figures, were held simultaneously at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center. The show was set in a prison cell shared by the descriped cryptomobul, infamous media executive and the viral Italian sensation, an accused assassin guarded by one confused sergeant.

They’ve been adding shows. The August sixth show is sold out. They’ve hadded another show on Monday, August eleventh. I bet you they wind up adding more. That is your comedy news for today on a very busy summer Monday.

I love it. See you tomorrow

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Featured: Sebastian Maniscalco, Leslie Jones, John Marco Saraisi, Cristo Stefano, Pete Davidson, Michael Palin

What’s in This Episode

• Sebastian Maniscalco grosses $35.5 million in first half of 2025, ranked #25 live performer globally
• Leslie Jones discusses comedy career, SNL hiring at 47, and personal struggles in the aughts
• John Marco Saraisi on social media’s role in building international comedy audience
• Cristo Stefano talks Hulu comedy special and avoiding TikTok overshadowing
• Pete Davidson cast in Amazon horror film ‘The Home’ with retirement home setting
• Michael Palin reflects on grief two years after wife Helen’s death

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Maxwell Jacob Friedman, Sonny Sandler, Chris Rock, Drew Barrymore

What’s in This Episode

• Adam Sandler visits Benny Tadino’s pizza restaurant in Hoboken
• Happy Gilmore 2 cast interviews and production details
• Rolling Stone’s ranking of Adam Sandler movies from worst to best
• Jack and Jill named worst Adam Sandler film of all time
• Discussion of Sandler’s filmography including Going Overboard, Just Go with It, Grown Ups 2, and Spaceman

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

Let’s get to the pizza menu.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Also in the film famous Hollywood actress Jackie Sandler.

Jackie married to Adam Sandler.

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Also in the film, famous Hollywood actress Sadie Sandler.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Mark Maren, Dave Chappelle, Kathleen Madigan, Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson

What’s in This Episode

• Jay Leno criticized for Late Night comments; Johnny Mac suggests he perform to prove himself
• Jimmy Fallon’s Trump golf cheating joke and Late Night monologue bits
• Seth Meyers surpasses David Letterman as Late Night’s second longest-serving host
• Mark Maren releases new HBO Max special ‘Panicked’ with $50K Taylor Swift licensing cost
• Dave Chappelle unreleased documentary screening at Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival
• Kathleen Madigan performing at the Venetian in Las Vegas
• Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson promote heist film ‘The Pick Up’

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Dusty Slay, Shane Gillis, Pete Davidson, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Mark Marin, Nate Bargatze, Steve Martin

What’s in This Episode

• Dusty Slay Netflix special and sobriety journey
• Kelly Stafford defends Shane Gillis on Instagram
• Pete Davidson Hot Ones interview and tattoo stories
• Eddie Murphy cast as Inspector Clouseau in new Pink Panther film
• Pink Panther film franchise history and sequels
• Nate Bargatze concert delayed by heavy rain in Saint Paul

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And then see here’s the hoax.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Marc Maron, Barack Obama, Jon Stewart, Pete Davidson, Eddie Murphy, Stephen Colbert, Bobby Lee, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Farley, Andrew Schultz, Bill Burr, Gabriel Iglesias, Kevin Hart, Margaret Cho, Liza Treger, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron ending his podcast and choosing Obama as final guest
• Marc Maron and Jon Stewart’s bad blood and feud
• Stephen Colbert firing and corporate censorship concerns
• Bobby Lee on And Just Like That season 3 removal and woke elements
• Pete Davidson’s favorite SNL backstage moment about Chris Farley
• Re Odd Comedy Festival lineup announcement
• Margaret Cho touring new political comedy special Chologarchy
• Adam Sandler discussing potential Grown Ups 3 sequel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Tony Hinchcliffe, David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, Jay Leno, Chris Rock, Dusty Slay, Craig Robinson, Ryan Reynolds, Rob McElhenney, George Wallace, May Martin, Fortune Feimster, Nick Muhammad, Nina Khanti, Sabrina Jaylee

What’s in This Episode

• Tony Hinchcliffe WWE Late Night event cancelled due to low ticket sales
• David Letterman on Colbert Gate and CBS handling of Stephen Colbert
• Jay Leno on political comedy and maintaining broad audiences
• Chris Rock mystery comedy set discussing Oscar slap incident
• Dusty Slay Netflix special Wet Heat release
• Just for Laughs Festival awards and performances

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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