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Featured: Chris Rock, Bobby Lee, Adam Sandler, Tim Dillon, JD Vance, John Marcos Siresi, Pete Davidson, Jimmy Fallon, Michael Costa, Christa Stefano, Byron Allen

What’s in This Episode

• Chris Rock performs unannounced set at Laugh Factory
• Bobby Lee discusses Adam Sandler on The Wrong Missy film set
• Tim Dillon podcast claims about Epstein files and JD Vance
• John Marcos Siresi interview on crowd work and international comedy
• Pete Davidson sobriety and comedy concerns on Tonight Show
• Michael Costa weighs in on Late Show cancellation and media pressure
• Christa Stefano fills in for Jimmy Kimmel with family in audience
• Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival coverage
• Byron Allen Comics Unleashed 132 new episodes at 12:30 timeslot

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Featured: Marc Maron, Kyle Mooney, Michael Palin, Taylor Tomlinson, John Goodman, Robin Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron ending WTF podcast after 16 years
• Adam Sandler sequel possibilities discussed by Happy Gilmore director Kyle Mooney
• Monty Python reunion prospects with Michael Palin
• Taylor Tomlinson changing views on marriage and success
• John Goodman on working with Roseanne Barr
• Robin Williams anecdote from 1980-1981 Comic Strip club

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you’re not on Apple podcasts, you go to Calaruga dot com slash plus link in the show notes short version five bucks a month, great way to support the show and no ads. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Jennifer Friedman, Matt Rife, Nicky Glazer, Lisa Lampanelli, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Trump and Epstein associates late night coverage
• Stephen Colbert show cancellation news
• Matt Rife sells out Madison Square Garden
• Nicky Glazer Variety Comedy Impact feature
• Happy Gilmore 2 Netflix sequel reviews
• Spinal Tap 2 trailer announcement

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

And then somebody else signed the letter exhibit A.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Also from Comic Con.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See you tomorrow, I guess.

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Featured: Max Eddie, Catherine Blandfield, Vittorio Angeloni, Sam Bero, Randy Numayer, Tom Murphy, Chloe Radcliffe, Dylan Adler, Nish Kumar

What’s in This Episode

• Just for Laughs New Faces 2 performance reviews and standout comedians
• Adam Sandler Happy Gilmore 2 Netflix release
• Nish Kumar discusses Trump’s impact on comedy and international comedy circuit
• Just for Laughs Montreal Festival schedule and performances
• Rise Comedy Festival in Denver fourth annual event

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’ll see tomorrow.

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Featured: Alistair Ogden, Maggie Crane, Devontrey Coleman, Chloe Pettis, Bruce Gray, Olivia Stadler, Dan Tiernan, Grace Johnson, Connor Agenda, Jamarco Saraisi, Andrew Schulz, Dave Portnoy, George Wallace, Hannah Berner, Rob McIlhenny, Ryan Reynolds

What’s in This Episode

• JFL Montreal New Faces 1 comedy show review
• JFL Montreal Festival 2025 awards announcements
• Andrew Schulz vs Dave Portnoy New York politics dispute
• New Faces comedy set critiques and performer analysis

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media from Montreal. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I just walked out of New Faces one and a much smaller theater than they’ve had in the past. It was filled, but I’ve been in much bigger venues for New Faces. But I’ve also been in smaller venues, like fifteen years ago.

It was in a pretty small room and then it got big. And this is the reconstituted festival. Your host for the show, John Marco Saraisi, and that had me thinking, uh, they used to have Pete Holmes. Well, Jamarco actually addressed. That and got some laughs out of the festival going bankrupt.

And now you don’t get Pete Homes, you get Jem Marco. He was really good. They made it quite clear it was a TV taping. Now. What was really really interesting to me.

They had us tape fake laughs. They had to stew a chuckle, a medium laugh, They had to stew a hoot and holler, so planning on adding laughs and they very well may have to. Did I just give away the lead here? Yeah? They also kept the lights up for the most part.

I was taking notes. I’ve got my notebook here in my left hand and could perfectly see, which kind of surprised me. I thought I was gonna have to use the red light on my Apple Watch. All right. So first up always tough spots, because you know you got to win the crowd over.

Alistair Ogden, he’s out of Toronto, came out, was kind of low energy and I was like, oh, this is gonna be tough. But you know what, he was best of the night of the ten. First up, the winner, Alistair Ogdo. I’m not supposed to say winter, sorry, Alistair Ogden, not the winner, just you know, best of the ten. Second up, out of Massachusetts, Maggie Crane.

I wrote a charismatic but she’s not ready. The materials not really there and one of two comics during the night. I hear a nikky Glazer Cadence creeping into comedy now. And Maggie’s out of Massachusetts, so it’s not a regional thing. She might be one to keep an eye on, but like I wrote, the material is not there yet.

Third, Devontrey Coleman. He might be a writer. The material is really good. The performance is a little too slow and he was reciting it, not performing it. If you know what I mean.

The crowd loved him though, and I’m an admitted comedy snob, so he had a pretty good night. Number four to the UK Chloe Pettis. I think it is I wrote Pets, but I believe it’s Pettis again. You hear the band behind me. I’m recording on the street.

Nice good set. She’s very likable. Nothing extraordinary but solid. Fifth up Bruce Gray out of California. This was to me surreal.

It was like every club comic all merged and became one person. It was like if you had a movie and you needed a guy to play the comic, you would hire Bruce Gray, and maybe that is his future. I actually looked over my shoulder to check the light. Oh, I meant to point out Alistair Ogden in the first spot he ran the light to the degree that they were flashing the spot to get him off. He was way over.

But during Bruce Gray, everybody doing supposedly six minute sets, I kept checking my shoulder, like is the light on? Yet? Is the light on? It? Not that it was bad, but it was just like okay, club comic.

It didn’t feel new facy to me. Olivia Stadler drew the sixth spot. She’s out of Toronto also had that. Nikki Glaser Kneson kept doing that, you know what I mean. So again, it’s not a regional thing.

She’s out of Toronto and Maggie Crane’s out of Massachusetts, so I don’t know what. I don’t know what’s going on that people are just doing that. She was kind of flat and the crowd was not into it. Probably the roughestraw of the night. John Marco came out after her set, and in between the others, he was just kind of going, next up out of New Jersey, here’s Johnny McK But after her set he actually did some material to kind of pull the crowd back.

In number seven out of Manchester, Dan Tiernan very stylized, and I always find the stylized comics to be shooting stars. He was up joking about his face and that got me wondering, Okay, but you’re gonna have a career making just jokes about your face. That’s a good ninety seconds. I wrote it here in my notebook, stylized can’t last, but I’ll tell you, and I’m a comedy snab. The crowd loved him.

He had a good, nice eight spot out of Queens, New York, where I’m from, Grace Johnson. I’m not in a bad mood at all, but I wrote it sounded like the idea of a comedy set. So like earlier where I said Devontre Coleman had the material but not the performance. She’s got the performance but not the material. Maybe they should team up.

Nine out of Philadelphia Connor Agenda. I wrote, he’s fine. I did check the light twice on him, and in the tense spot, Hey, Sue’s Subulvida out of Arizona. I was kind of excited when he came out, and I just had a feeling he was going to be good. My notes here a good performer, material not there.

So that’s New Face is one one out of ten. Usually it’s three or four out of ten. It is now nine to two pm, and I’m going to hit the nine thirty show, and I’m hoping that show will be better than New Faces one little subpar. Let me talk to you about the festival while we’re here. It feels normal to me walking around town.

It looks like the festival. The usual theaters have the usual shows. Personally, I have discovered neighborhoods that I hadn’t been over to in past festivals, including where I am tonight? What street are we on? Saint Dennis?

And apparently there’s a cool restaurant. Scene over here that usually in the past for the festival, We’ve been more over to the west. I think, if my geography is correct, more over towards Mount Royal, so we’re a little east. I think if I have the geography anyway, we’re more over in this direction. And it’s a cool part of town that I hadn’t been to before.

Got a bit of news here that I’m reading off my notepad again. Sorry, this first half year isn’t as polished as normally standing on a street. They are going to give the Podcast of the Year award here at the festival to the Handsome Podcast, which features Tichnitar of Fortune, Themester and May Martin. I know May is here. Fortune was hosting Kimmel, so I don’t know if the other two were here, but that will be awarded on Friday.

Ryan Reynolds will present the Generation Award to Rob Mack formerly known as Rob McIlhenny That’s so funny. Roy Would Junior will present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Amazon’s Clean Slate comedy co star George Wallace. Rising Comedy Star of the Year will go to Hannah Berner, and festival programmers have announced that Kat Cohen has joined the Awards show lineup as presenter, while Matthew Brissard, who’s been a guest on this program, will mc the prize giving event. Hey, let’s see if I can do a. Story from a web browser while standing on a corner from The Daily Mail, Comedian and podcaster Andrew Schultz as objected to Dave Portnoy’s criticism of New York mayor old candidate Zohann Donnie, not for political reasons, but because he sees Portnoy as a non New Yorker.

Andrew Schultz was on the internet show Breaking Points and said, if you’re not spending fifty one percent of your time in the city, you’re not committed. Schultz said, it’s like Portnoy. You just say you’re upset about the Israel stuff. You don’t live in New York. Stop acting like you care for a socialist communist runs New York.

You’re upset because he said globalize the infantata. Just make it about that. You’re allowed to make it about that Portnoy has apparently responded by revealing private text messages. That’s not cool that according to these texts, if they are real, show Schultz attacking the New York First candidate for his economic views. In response to Schultz calling Portnoy out saying he should stop acting, Portnoy wrote, if if anybody’s acting, it ain’t me.

The alleged chext Schultz allegedly wrote, I hate his policies. I think it wants to help, but he’s just wrong on the way he’s trying to help. All Right, we’ll take the break there here in Montreal. Today at one o’clock New Faces Writers, and then at three poin thirty New Faces Creators, five o’clock task Master of the Podcast, where Ed Gamble does a recording. Danny Boy at seven, Russell Howard at seven, brits Ish one of my faves at seven, Newface’s Characters.

That’s always a great show. That’s at seven o’clock. Celia Pacuola, I am as surprised as you. At seven o’clock, I don’t know, Celia, Jay Jorden at seven, Rees Darby at seven, Pack to Night tonight, huh Rachel Scanlon at seven I don’t know Rachel Best of the Fest seven thirty, Emil Joachim at eight thirty. Adam Ray is Doctor Phil Live at nine, with a lot of big people in town.

That could be a real winner. Nathan McIntosh at nine, Nick Mohammed at nine thirty, Brad Williams I Love is at nine thirty, New Faces Stand Ups at nine thirty, The Nasty Show at nine thirty, Joe Dombrowski at nine thirty, Best of the Fest nine to forty five, Frankie Canyonis at ten, Steph Tolev at eleven thirty. That’s fun. I’d never be able to stay awake that long midnight surprise at Night’s stamptown at Midnight’s Okay, let’s take a look at tonight’s lineup. Got the new phases at one and three point thirty, then maybe an early dinner and a couple of beverages.

Maybe brits Ish at seven. Hate to skip Brad Williams, but I think bet on Adam Ray at nine, and if you’ve got anything left in you, Steph Tolev’s not my cup of tea. I might walk you over to Steph Tolev and head off to bed. That’s a good Night of Comedy Now. The other day I gave you varieties list of the comics to watch.

B ET reacted to it. They actually reacted a full week ago. It’s been pretty busy. In case you haven’t noticed, they have the headline the Real Ones Black comedians and writers who actually shaped comedy this year, they wrote, while Variety played the diversity version of Where’s Waldough, we did what needed to be done. From Emmy winners to viral disruptors, here are the black comedic voices keeping the culture clever, cutting, and undeniably funny.

No tokenism required, bet Rights. When Variety released its Top Comics and Comedy Writers of twenty twenty five list, I’m not even gonna give them a link back, which was as diverse as a miracle whip sandwich. Accorded to them, Comedy in twenty twenty five is a white’s only party with maybe one or two brown guests who brought their own folding chairs. Not a single black comic made the cut, not one. This is just an oversight.

It’s eraser. It’s proof that black comic can sell out arenas, carry Emmy winning shows, break the internet with stand up clips, redefined satire, and still get left off the list unless they’re dead or hosting a reboot. So here’s our list. Quin To Brunson. Quent To made Abbot Elementary, a primetime juggernaut, proving that a sitcom led by a black woman about black teachers in a black Philly public school could be smart, funny, and award winning all at once.

Natasha Rothwell from Insecure to The White Lotus. Natasha doesn’t just play characters. She steals entire scenes, rewrites your expectations, and leaves you begging for more. Geord Carmichael. He’s the kind of comic who lets you laugh and rethink everything you thought you knew about what a stand up could be.

Sam Jay Her show Paused with Sam Jay bent the talk show format like a pretzel. Plus, she’s behind some of the sharpest sketches on SNL before she dip. Nicole Bayer actress, comedian, podcast host. She’s everywhere. Josh Johnson.

You know this is a very very strong list. Yes, Variety mentioned him barely. They lumped Josh in of the Daily Show’s news team trio like he didn’t have a whole successful stand up career, multiple specials and one of the most thoughtful comedic voices out Right Now. Langston Kerman a master of dry wit and absurdity. Langston balances stand up acting and two of the most underrated black comedies in recent history.

Bust Down on South Side. Janelle James forgets Scene Steeler, she ran away with Abbot Elementary. Her stand up is smart and salty, and her voice in comedy is only getting louder and more necessary. Ze Way is now canceled. Showtime series was cultural satire and a rhinestone glove.

She weaponized awkwardness, flip privilege in the punch lines and made interviewers nervous again. Chris read post SNL He’s thriving His HBO special WIME. I Like This was brutally funny and heartfelt. Dwayne Perkins, co writer and star of The Blackening, a horror spoof that was actually hilarious. Jessica Williams, once The Daily Show’s youngest correspondent, now doing layered comedy and shrink.

I You at a Berry from the famous comedy show The Bear. She’s nerdy, nervy, and a natural. Naomi ek peragid whether on Couple’s Therapy or myth the Quest, Naomi’s comedy always mixes heart and hella insight. Lacey Mosley scam Goddess, stays funny, fast and flawlessly black. Lacy brings comedy in a true crime and keeps it cute and criminal.

Jermaine Faller his underrated performance in Coming to American Voice work and BoJack Horseman show his range, his stand up slept on a sharp Amber ruffin Late Night’s Secret Weapon. They cite the Amber Ruffin show where her signature combo of bubbly energy and biting satshire proved you can be a storming and devastating in the same breath. Great list, and they write so while Variety keeps handing out gold stars in a whites only echo, Chamber will keep writing, performing, producing, and rewriting the rules. Very good list. As you know, I’ve left the country because of the release of Happy Gilmore Too.

I mean, with everything going on in the world, this was the final straw for me. If We’re going to make sequels to terrible Adam Sandler movies, I just can’t be part of it anymore. So that’s why I’ve moved here to Canada, where I’m just living in Montreal. Us Bank has teamed up with Netflix for a sponsorship deal. Quote a move designed to win over younger audiences with a blend of humor and nostalgia.

This from adweek. US Bank is the title sponsor for the fictional Tour Championship golf tournament in Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore Too, whis logo would be splashed across banners throughout the movie. It even appears on the bib of Happy’s caddy. I don’t want to tell you who will play the caddy. It’s an interesting choice, but I don’t want to spoil Happy Gilmore two for you.

Other brands in Happy Gilmore Too include Subway and Callaway. Can’t wait for that movie? Huh. Here in Canada, Steph Tolev talked to our national broadcaster, the CBC. Steph Tolev said, a lot of weird, gross things normally happen to me, especially in my sex life, Like I got choked in a basement, I fooled around with sixty five year old man.

Nothing is made up. She’s out to prove it’s okay for people, especially women, to talk about their bodies openly. Steph says, I think when women are together with themselves, they’re like this, I’m just trying to give voice to people so they can feel more comfortable. And I’m not saying anything that people don’t normally say or do, like I’m just talking out loud about bodily functions that we all do every day. Tolllev asked a woman in the audience the last time she fought in front of her husband.

The woman said it had been fifty years. Steph said, I was like, what is happening? How can you live like this? Steph says internet trolls can be cruel to female comedians. She says, personally, I’m not that confident.

I still read the comments and sometimes I cry because they’re so mean. But I think when I’m on stage, I just feel I don’t know different power, and I don’t feel self conscious when I’m up there, But the second I get off, I’m still a normal gal. When it comes to her own comedy and crowd work, I never make fun of anyone’s physical appearance because I don’t find that funny. If you’ve seen a clip of me where I’m coming at somebody kind of hard, it’s because they’ve done something, like they’ve heckled, or they’ve been rude to other comedians. I don’t want to upset anybody.

I’m tormented in a lot of ways, but I’m not mean. Roy Wood Junior told the San Francisco Chronicle that former mayor Willie Brown showed up at a show. However, would post it on Twitter. WILLI I do shut up to my sold out at San Francisco shows once and told the doorman Willy Brown on every list, he was not on my list. Still, they gave him a free ticket.

According to Wood, Brown said, you just met Willy Brown. You want a Pictureparently, mister Brown picked up a CD and took it without paying. Wood said, no date, no homeboys, no security detail, just the mayor out by himself, showing up for your show for free and stealing your stuff. He was so charming I couldn’t even be mad. A new feature documentary on the career of Joan Rivers is in production, selated for release in twenty twenty six.

Joan’s daughter Melissa, is part of the project untitled Joan Rivers. Project will draw from Joe Rivers’s personal archive, including newly unearthed home videos and hundreds of hours of previously unreleased comedy recordings and audio tapes. Melissa in a statement said now feels like the right time to look at why my mother’s voice still resonates today. Hers is not only the story of a trailblazer, but of a real woman trying to navigate the life of conflicting desires and how that shaped her hilarious view of the world. And that from Canada is your comedy news were today see tomorrow.

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Featured: Gabriel Iglesias, Nate Bargatze, Andrew Schulz, Bert Kreischer, Shane Gillis, Conan O’Brien, Mark Maron, Donald Trump, Dave Chappelle, Jamie Foxx

What’s in This Episode

• Gabriel Iglesias lands top Netflix special of 2025 with 7.8M views
• Conan O’Brien Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize underperforms with 2.4M views
• Trump condom story from 1997 Late Night with Conan O’Brien resurfaces
• Just for Laughs New Faces 2025 list announced with 20+ comedians
• Netflix comedy special viewership down overall in first half of 2025

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 this is the normal episode for Wednesday morning. In case you missed it, there was another bonus episode about Colbert dropped midday on Tuesday. In your Daily Comedy News from Deadline, Gabriel Iglesias lands the top stand up special on Netflix for the first half of twenty twenty five, and the overall performance of specials is down. Deadline says the news comes from going through Netflix’s bi annual What We Watched Report, which was unveiled about a week ago right before Colbert Gate.

Gabriel iglesias Legend of Fluffy ranked two hundred and tenth on the overall list of highest view TV programs, with seven point eight million views since its January sixth debut. Are you surprised Gabe is number one? He’s like quietly super popular. There’s a bunch of comedians like that that, you know, just aren’t in the mainstream comedy bro dude podcasting news cycle. You know, Gabe just goes about his business.

Second on the list, Nate Berghatzy came in at number two seventy five six point seven million views for Especially Your Friend Nateperghatzy. Deadline points out his ranking was affected by the fact that the special dropped December twenty fourth, so the first days of viewership were folded into the report for the back half of twenty four all right through that lens, it’s very possible that Nate actually had the top special. Third overall is Andrew Schultz with his pregnancy themed Life Andrew got six point six million views. Bert Kreischer’s Lucky fourth with four and a half million views. Shane Gillis Beautiful Dogs.

That’s the one from twenty twenty three fifth place, three point six million views. Pretty interesting that a year and a half old special is doing better than a bunch of other things they put out. Deadline points out, technically the Killed Tony special Kill or Be Killed from April is fifth with four million, but they are of the opinion and that’s not a fair one to one comarison with the other specials. Justin Willman’s Magic Lover, which I thought was fantastic two point six million views, and boy, this shocks me. Conan O’Brien’s Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor just two point four million views.

That is stunningly low for such a great special and all the buzz. Maybe I’m just drinking the kool light about Conan O’Brien in the mainstream again? Gabe seven point eight, Conan two point four Wow. Cat Williams Woke Folk from twenty twenty four racked up another two point one million views. Chelsea Handlers The Feeling also two point one million views.

Deadline points out the back half of twenty twenty four Jamie fox Is What had Happened Was got eleven point six million views. Dave Chappelle’s The Dreamer seventeen point four million, and that does not include that Chappelle’s special came out December thirty first, twenty twenty three, so the first night of data didn’t factor into that count. I watched it Near’s eve.

Speaking of Conan O’Brien, who maybe isn’t that popular?

He and Mark Maren remembered the time Donald Trump pulled out a condom. The conversation was about Maren’s frequent guest appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Maren said, I was the second guest after Trump. I remember it because I was in the hallway thirty rock in my dressing room and the producer came in and went, do you want to meet Trump? And I said, nah, I’m good.

Conan remembered the condom incident as well. It from December tenth, nineteen ninety seven. Trump was on the show to promote his book The Art of the Comeback. Conan recalls saying, say, you’re a billionaire. How much money do you carry on you had any one time?

And Trump said, I don’t know, I don’t know. Coenin staid, I reached over in his blazer pocket and felt something and he put his hand over my hand really quickly, like don’t pull that out. We had a quick tug of war, and I pulled it out and it was a condom, and he said, save sex, everybody. Was a real moment. Now, people who went back to watch the clip say Conan’s memory of the event is a little different from what actually happened.

But as Conan tells the story, then we go to commercial and he’s mad. He’s saying, I’m not haffing coming on the show again, and he told my producer you don’t reach into a guy’s pocket and stuff like that. Then cut to three months later, it’s ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump. Maren then joked, why is Donald Trump carrying his own condoms? Don’t prostitutes usually have them?

And then tack that with’ll probably end up dead in the East River. So, as I predicted on the main show on Tuesday, as soon as I finished recording, Variety was like, oh he hit published. Okay, now let’s put out the Just for Laughs New Faces list. I probably would have saved it for today anyway, as the New Faces shows are tonight. New Faces started in nineteen ninety four.

Some of the folks who have been new Faces include Kevin Hort, Amy Schumer, Ali Wong, Joe Koy, camil A Gianni, and friend of the show, John Gianmarco Soresi Nick Briseo, head of programming for Just for Laughs. At each year, we sift through thousands of names from across the world to find the most original and promising comedic voices. This is always such an exciting time of the year. We can’t wait to share this year’s class of New Faces with the world. Now, as they are new faces, you probably won’t recognize the names.

I don’t recognize many of the names, so I’ll just go through it real quick. They are Alistair Ogden, Angelica Skanora or Estila, Bruce Gray, Chloe Pat’s, Chloe Radcliffe, Connor, Janda, Don Deval, Dan Rath, Dan Tierman, who’s been on My radar? Dean Stanfield, devontre Coleman, Dylan Adler on My radar, Grace Johnson, Hayden Johnson, James Mowara, Jezus s Plveda, Joe Sunday, Catherine Blandford, Laura Recote, Maggie Crane, Max Eddie, Olivia Carter, Olivia Stadler, Randy Neumeyer, Sam Berru, Steve Fury, Tom Murphy, Vittorio Angeloone is the uh? Is that the Irish guy of Italian ancestry? He’s been on my raider?

Is that who? That is? Yes, Irish Italian comedian he’s been on my radar. Okay good. I’m excited to see him and Willie Simon.

Those shows are tonight in Montreal. I will be there as I have fled the country to avoid Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore too. Of all the things happening in the world, that was the thing broke the camel’s back. I have moved out of the United States and I am now a resident of Montreal, Worriy of Comedy Festivals and no Adam Sailor Movies. It’s wonderful up here.

Newface’s Characters, which is on Thursday. I Believe Andre’s Parada, Austin Williams, Ava Bunn, Jess l Jean Leslie, Ashula Mimbi, Von Shack, Miranda Rosas, Tom Hearn. Newfaces Creators highlights emerging digital and social media comedy voices. They include Evan Mulrooney, Kel Kripe, Jazz Emu he Has Means Sheed. New Faces has now expanded to a fourth category, New Faces Writers, that includes writers from the Grand Affair Band to Apple’s Mason County Library and The Family Jewels.

Arriddi has also put out there Comedy Impact Report subheader haw COONa O’Brien, Sarah Silverman on The Daily Show News Team set the tone for what is funny in twenty twenty five. This came out right before Colbert Gate and separately from that, you’ll hear me talk later in the week about b e t has reacted to this list. Variety is celebrating the comedy voices that made the past year a little brighter. Here’s our round up, but the funniest folks who kept us laughing. Okay, First up, Brooke Averick and Connor Wood.

Thanks to you countless viral moments already, like the now iconic I have purse, Brooke and Connor make a podcast, Brook says. We used to really be focused on fitting into the mold of other podcasts. Now we have kind of just let go and say anything that comes into our heads. I don’t know this one. I know I’m a bad host, but aside from me being stupid, I do prep the show every day, and I do look at the podcast charts regularly, and this hasn’t come up.

Is this a video podcast? I have my app out here. I’m going to sample this. I’m not entirely crazy as I record this on Tuesday morning. On the Apple Podcast charts, they are number one thirty on the Society and Cultured chart, and here in Canada they’re number one fifty five on the same chart.

Next on the listening Berget say Okay, I think we know all about him. Catherine Cohen and Pat Reagan, the duo behind the hit comedy podcast Seek Treatment. Next up the comedy Gives Back charity and the founder Zoe Friedman, Amber Lawson and Jody Lieberman. The nonprofit is devoted to creating a safety net for comedians in need. In a statement, they say, this year we jumped into action, dedicating our January fundraiser Alt Comedy All Stars to support wildfire relief.

Laughter is more than a punchline. It’s primal today. It remains a vital force for healing, empathy, and belonging in dark times. Comedy doesn’t just entertaining units. Next up The Daily Show News Team Josh Johnson, Troy Awada, and Grace Kohlanschmidt.

The Deli Boys made the list. Did you watch that one? It’s pretty good. It is a Hulu crime comedy about first generation Pakistani immigrants in Philadelphia who become drug kingpins. That is a fun show.

Next up Andrew Deyung, writer and director of Friendship, the Young broad Sketch comedian and I Think You Should Leave star Tim Robinson too the big screen, bearing his unique brand of cringe comedy alongside Paul Rudd in the year’s most uncomfortable movie, Friendship. Amelia de Moldenberg is the creator and host of Chicken Shop Date. Chicken Shop Date has been going strong for over a decade without me ever hearing of it once and again saying I know everything, but I’ve never heard of this. In the past year alone, it dropped some of its biggest episodes yet, featuring stars like Andrew Garfield, Billie Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter. Seems to be a YouTube show the best dating show in the universe.

Okay, Totally, audam My Demo and Chicken Chop Date is a British YouTube interview show. Okay Nathan Fielder for the rehearsal Aaron Foster, creator, showrunner and executive producer of Nobody Wants This the Darling of rom Com Lovers when it debuted in September. Olivia Girk is a manager. She says it’s been gratifying to see people connect with Julio Taurus and Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers. She’s also the producer of Zorni Goarg’s Practical People Win.

Shane Gillis on the list. Well discussed Nikki Glaser on the list, Well discussed Brett Goldstein. Well discussed the three creators of Hacks are on the list. Caleb Huron, the host of the podcast So True. Richard Kind made the list.

Really Why performer on Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney and an actor on Poker Face. I mean, yeah, okay, WM agent, Samantha Korn Reps, people like Amy Poehler, Nick Kroll Again, I’m skipping. I know you don’t need me to tell you who Nick Kroll is if you listen to this podcast. The creators of Adults, Ben Cronin Gold and Rebecca Shaw, the Commedyatory Agent, Ethan Kurtzman, Ethan Reps, Jimmy o’yang, Matt McCusker, Jenny Slate, Nate Jackson, Chloe Fineman, and Caleb Heron We’re told Jimmy O Yang’s North American theater tour has grossed more than six million dollars, while Nate Jackson has so far taken in more than six and a half million. Oh, also, they buried the lead on his client list, Shane Gillis.

Kurtzman said of Shane, He’s worked his ass off, He’s made a lot of really cool things happen for himself, and in the process it’s kind of been a masterclass on how to develop talent outside the traditional system. Yes, but let’s not ignore the fact that Shane being named to Saturday Night Live for forty eight hours did up his profile. Let’s not put our head in the sand about that. Separately from that, Shane can be wonderfully talented. Shane has his own podcast, Shane has shot his own things.

But also many things can be true at once. The SNL thing did get him on everyone’s radar. Variety loves their agents. Jacob luff Glass is a UTA comedy touring agent and an ironminder on his list also major international names like India’s Secure Khan who’s going to headline MSG and Carlos Bayerta. Jacob says, the beauty is these comedians already have these audiences all over the world, and audiences many times are extra motivated by those tickets because there’s either less frequent tours or just a real demand for seeing something they don’t normally see it a live show.

Mark Maren on the list. You know who that is. Julianne Nicholson from Hacks has made the list. Conan O’Brien who’s then Okay, Tracy Pacosta and Robbie prov the Netflix VP of Comedy Original Series and the VP of Stand Up in Comedy Formats. If you listen to this program.

You’re familiar with them, Amy Poehler, the cast of their Righteous Gemstones. This list is just fascinating Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg because nobody likes the studio more than people in Hollywood. As a civilian, I don’t see people really talking about that show, but the Hollywood Trades, the Hollywood industry, everybody loves the studio. I’m not sure the civilians love it as much as the industry loves it. Both guys from Las Culturistas, Matt bow and Matt Rodgers, the folks from Running Point, which include Ike Baron Holtz, Kate Hudson, Minnie Kailing, and David Stassen.

Michael schr you know his resume. He worked on the Office Brooklyn nine nine A good place. We like him. This year for A Man on the Inside, which stars Ted Danson as an amateur private eye a retirement community. Not sure that cut through variety, but okay, Sarah Silverman, they liked her a special.

Benito Skinner, the creator, writer and actor of Over Compensating, Alan Tudick, the actor, producer director for Resident Alien. I’m not sure that cut through, but okay. Bowen Yang on the lad again separately from last culture easts. Okay, oh my goodness, I just checked the clock. But I have so many things to tell you about.

This might have to be one of the shows where I have to break more than once. All right, let me get a break in here. I’ll be right back now. The reason I did that long list today is because b Et reacted to that list, so I wanted to get the original list in before we got to be ET’s reaction to the list. If that makes sense.

All their news on a busy Wednesday. Josh Johnson is now in the rotation for hosting the Daily Show. He made his debut last night. Johnson has been a writer on the show since twenty seventeen, joined the team on air as a correspondent last year. Buzz on Him is huge.

His weekly Tuesday night YouTube sets regularly get millions of views on Instagram. Johnson wrote, it’s my first time hosting anywhere on TV. Ever, I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people.

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Now for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.

Congratulations sir, in a big week, even the Colbert News. Hey, you know how like Paramount is broke and can’t afford. Stephen Colbert. The Only Times reports the creators of south Park have reached a streaming deal with Paramount worth one point five billion dollars. Now, in case you’re curious, if you were to continue the Late Show for another thirty seven and a half years and lost forty million dollars a year producing it, that would add up over the course of thirty seven and a half that would add up to one point five billion dollars.

But you know, Paramount’s broke and can’t afford. Colbert. The Only Time says the creators of south Park reached a breakthrough in their tense negotiations over the streaming rights of south Park. Paramount, which has no money to pay. Stephen Colbert agreed to buy the global streaming rights for south Park to bring to the show to Paramount Plus for the first time in the US.

Now I just looked right. Now you can get Paramount Plus for thirteen dollars a month. So if I make up a unit called viewer months, So say you were to have Paramount Plus for a year, you would rack up twelve viewer months. You following me here, So to get back their one point five billion dollar investment on the global streaming rights for south Park, if I divide one point five billion dollars by thirteen dollars a month, you will need to get one hundred and fifteen million, three hundred and eighty four one thousand, six hundred and fifteen viewer months. Let me divide that by twelve again.

So if I’m doing this right, you’ll have to get nine million, six hundred and fifteen thousand, three hundred and eighty four viewers in one year to pay for that one point five billion. But it’s a five year deal. So let’s divide that again by five. So for this deal to make sense, if I’m doing this right, and I’m leaving out things like advertising, prestige of the service, all that, But if I divide one point five billion by thirteen, by twelve by five, I’ve reached the number one million, nine hundred and twenty three thousand and seventy six people. So if you believe south Park will bring in almost two million people who will stick around for five years, this is a great deal.

Or you can have Stephen Colbert for thirty seven and a half years. Your choice. Not my money, but the LA Time says the deal values the global streaming rights a thre hundred million dollars a year, according to two of the people close to the agreement, who could not discuss the matter publicly because the deal’s not final now. One of the reasons I have left the country is because of this Adam Sandlor movie. I just I can’t be part of this.

Sandler has been saying nice things about Kansas City Chief’s tight End and Taylorshift boyfriend Travis Kelcey, who has that podcast and who also makes a cameo in the film. Adam Standler said, Travis is such a gentle, nice guy. He’s like the guys I grew up with. When I’m with Travis reminds me of my buddies in high school, just being able to laugh and say the things you want to say. He called Travis Kelcey a great actor and a great human.

Larry the Cable Guy is the grand marshal for Nebraska’s Big Rodeo. In a post on Facebook, organizers ask people attending the one hundred and fourth Nebraska Big Rodeo to welcome Larry the Cable Guy to the community. The rodeo begins today and I don’t want to do the show without acknowledging the asking of Malcolm Jamal Warner, best known for his role on The Cosby Show. Warner passed away at age fifty four Sunday and a drowning accident while on vacation with his family in Costa Rica. He was pulled into a current.

Fellow beach goers tried to rescue him, first responders were unable to revive him. A representative of Bill Cosby, Andrew Wyatt, said the eighty eight year old Bill Cosby said the news was just as devastating to Cosby as when Cosby learned of his own son’s murder in nineteen ninety seven. Wyatt said Cosby spoke of his late son and Warner playing together as children, noting they were amazing together. You may recall Bill Cosby served nearly three years in prison for twenty eight convictions of aggravated indecent assault before those convictions were overturned in twenty twenty one. Someday on this show, but not yet, probably after mister Cosby has passed away, I will tell you a story or two.

I met mister Cosby several times, and I’ve got one hell of an interesting story for you, but not today. All right, As I’ve explained the past, I’ll get to take a second break here. I know it’s annoying with all the commercial breaks, but the way the back end works, if the show’s a certain length, if I don’t take another break, one will get dropped in mid sentence. So I would rather properly stop down and then come back. So we’ll take a break here and then we’ll talk about Montreal.

Here in Montreal, I’ll tell you what I’m doing. I’m going to New Faces one and New Faces two. Now I’m a little frustrated. I saw when they finally put their list out they’re doing New Faces three on Thursday, and unless my memory is faulty, was always two shows and twenty comedians. So they’ve added a third set, and it’s a little frustrating to me because I can’t be around for the third set.

I didn’t plan my life that way. So I’ll do the two tonight. I’ve got my notebook and a pen, going to take notes, and I’m planning on Thursday and Friday for the first half of the show to be my reaction to the New Faces. Tonight at the Festival five o’clock show Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things, Nick Mhemmet Is Mister Swallow Show, Pony at seven, brits Ish at seven, Culture Show at seven, Ivan Decker at seven, Amos Gill at seven, Irene two at seven, and New Faces one at seven. I mean so much to do there, but as I said, I’ll be at New Faces Best of the Fest seven thirty, Kay Trevor Wilson, I’m a big fan of his.

He’s at eight thirty, Nish Kumar at nine, Poddle’s Pitty Party at nine, Casey Rocket at nine, Danny Boy nine thirty, Rashid Baduri The Tale of Syrian Drag at nine thirty, Cat Cohen nine thirty, New Faces two, as Where You’ll Find Me at nine thirty, Best of the Fest nine forty five, A Sifa Lee at ten, Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine, My Straight Friends at eleven fifty nine, Stand Up on the Spot at eleven fifty nine. Stamptown at eleven fifty nine. Very very busy Wednesday here in Montreal, where we are free of the tyranny of Adam Sandler movies. The Montreal Gazette focused on the Tale of the Syrian Dragon that’s at Club Soda tonight. The three performers of Something in Common.

Their comedy is somewhat ba based on the immigrant culture shock experienced by them and their families. Rashid Baduri says, I’ve been almost everywhere in Quebec and I’ve been truly blessed. But on the English side, I’m just starting. I’m the one who’s actually humble to be included with these guys. They just might be the best English comics in the city.

They blow me away. They’re so talented and I’m so thankful though that just for laughs, is celebrating local talent. You can’t have the biggest comedy festival in the world and not have a special showcase for our local comics who’s so neat and deserve the opportunity. Reecee Derby is at the festival tomorrow. He doesn’t think AI will be able to do comedy and tells the CBC there’s nothing more human, I think than stripping down our humanity in front of each other’s eyes and revealing it, revealing the pain of the human condition in a humorous way.

He doesn’t think tech will ever be able to replicate the human body. On stage talking. AI will never be able to experience what it feels to be a living human with a heart beating and a soul. Most importantly, everything that we do, especially in the arts, is my arena. Comes from the soul, comes from the heart, comes from the inner self.

We can’t explain the consciousness. By the way, Rees Darby did a good job on Star trek Strange New world this week. Did you see it? I was watching Star Trek’s Strange New Worlds when Colbert Gate broke out, and since then I have been at a free moment. His new show is called The Legend Returns Again.

It’s at the Festival tomorrow night, and Rees says it’s me doing stand up and then it turns into essentially a one man play about me conquering the robots they’re taking over the world. It’s physical. I do a lot of sound effects that jump around on stage. I play about four or five different characters having conversations with each other. It’s the kind of stand up I’ve always done, but this time as an important message.

Now it’s probably a good thing Stephen Colbert was canceled. Otherwise we might be talking about this Kevin James movie that came out. Did you see this? Guns Up stars Kevin James. Other people in it include Luis Gusman Joey Diaz, who some people find to be the worst person on the planet.

Some people have called Joey Diaz the most horrible human being I’ve ever met. Melissa Leo is also in the movie. She’s fantastic for Mama’s Hot Life on the Street. One review for Guns Up is that it’s a pleasant, innocuous, be great action flick. Kevin James action flick, be great action flick, indubitably borrowing from countless other films about families who slay together, stay together.

Variety said, for a film with a name like Guns Up, they’re surprisingly little by way of armed shootouts until the final act. For a tale of a family man moonlighting as a mob enforcer, the story and action lack the urgency suggested by its one Last Job premise. The folks at Roger Eber dot Com said, while there are several problems with the film as a whole, I’ll add in first of all, the premise, so I’ll also add that it stars Kevin James. Perhaps the essential one is that there are long stretches where viewers are expected to take the concept at least somewhat seriously, which proves impossible. Yeah, you Americans down there have to get your comedy act together.

I mean Kevin James action film, Adam Sandler comedy sequels. What are you doing? Support Canadian comedy and a serious news story. A German comedian will appear in court. He was charged with making a joke about the assassination attempt of a very very very famous politician who tends to make the news a lot.

I don’t want to get a visit from anyone with sunglasses and suits, so I’m not going to say who the politician is, but your first guess will be correct. Sebastian Hats could face up to three years in prison for comparing the attempted shooting of that famous politician to trying to catch the last bus, quoting the comedian here, okay, guys with the sunglasses in the suits, I’m doing a news show and I’m telling you what somebody said the line, what’s the comedian appearing in court? Was you sadly just missed it? Referring to the bus. It’s then tagged it with I find it fantastic when fascist die.

Absolutely no one forces you to feel sorry for fascists. You can just not do it without the slightest consequence. Haunts was fired from his job at a public broadcaster and charged with condoning and rewarding criminal offenses. Gerd Berman is a right leaning comedian and said it is not okay that a saraenist is brought to court just because he said something. Everything he said is disgusting, but he must be allowed to say it.

And that is a very, very busy Wednesday for comedy news. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, if you’re on Apple podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening. And if you’re not, I’m tired the raw clock here, it’ll get shorter when I cut this down. The raw clock here. I’ve been talking for forty straight minutes on this episode.

Yikes, that’s why my voice has gone. I’ve got a nice coffee here, if you want to go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy newes. What was I saying? If you’re not on an Apple podcast, you can go to Calaruga dot com slash Plus and there’s a link in the show notes to get the show without ads.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Donald Trump, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Weird Al Yankovic

What’s in This Episode

• The Late Show cancellation announcement and Colbert’s on-air response
• Jon Stewart’s monologue defending late-night comedy and challenging CBS
• David Letterman’s YouTube response with CBS parody videos
• Jimmy Kimmel protesting Trump while on family vacation
• Jimmy Fallon’s reaction to The Late Show cancellation
• Petitions and protests demanding The Late Show stay on air

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Yes it’s another Stephen Colbert based a bonus episode. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. On The Late Show Monday night, Stephen Colbert responded to Donald Trump. You may recall that Trump was happy that the Late Show was ending.

Colbert said, how dare you, sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical wisdom. Colbert then turned to a different camera labeled Eloquence Cam and declared, go f yourself. Oh, there were a lot of F bombs last night. We will get to that.

In his monologue, Stephen Colbert said, folks, so I’m gonna go ahead and say it. Cancer culture has gone too far. He then talked about how he can go scorched earth over the next ten months until the show ends and said, the gloves are off, I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump. Starting now. He looks into the camera and says, I don’t care for him.

Colbert thanked CBS for its support throughout the years, but then, but how could it be purely a financial decision? If the Late Show’s number one in ratings. It’s confusing. A lot of folks are asking that question, mainly my staff’s parents and spouses. He noted that CBS quote followed up their gracious press release with a gracious anonymous leak and then showed screenshots of sources telling The New York Post that the show loses between forty and fifty million dollars a year.

Colbert said, forty million’s a big number. I could see us losing twenty four million. But where would Paramount have possibly spent the other sixteen million With those numbers, I gotta say it makes sense would be canceled. I get it, guys, and thanks again, Okay, thanks to the network outcome. I guess weird.

Al Yankovic and Lin Manuel Miranda. They came out to play some cold play. Then the camera panned through the audience and caught various duos in the audience including C A NX, Anderson Cooper and Bravos, Andy Cohen, NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers, John Oliver with John Stewart, and Adam Sandler with Christopher MacDonald also in the audience. T I’m the insult comic Dog. Then any camera up and to a cartoon of Trump hugging the Paramount logo.

A producer hands Colbert a piece of paper. He says, stop playing. I’m sorry. I just got this note from corporate. Your song has been canceled.

It says here this is purely a financial decision. It says that since you started playing that song, the network has lost and I don’t know how this is possible forty to fifty million dollars. Miranda said, that’s impossible. That song was a number one song. Tell me this has nothing to do with who we just put a spotlight on.

Colbert said, there’s nothing here that mentions that Colbert told Lynn and weird Al. The note says some very nice things about you guys, performance, quality, stature, irreplaceable, signed yours truly the Paramount Family of Global Entertainment Properties and AI Weapons Systems. On The Daily Show, John Stewart said, I’m not giving in. I’m not going anywhere. I think.

Let’s listen to pieces of John’s monologue. I have absolutely trimmed this down. It does get a tad naughty at one point not too bad, and John increasingly dropped f bombs, which I trimmed of. You may or may not know. Stephen and I worked together on this very program.

Both of our shows reached an inflection point in twenty fifteen. Stephen chose to challenge himself by seeing if he could succeed the legendary David Letterman, and quite frankly, a much bigger pond than the one he and I had been swimming in. And I quit, I quit. I quit. Stephen challenged him, I passed away.

Stephen challenged his abilities in the biggest field you could, and I literally went to a farm upstate.

And now, and now Stephen has been canceled for purely financial reasons.

And by the way, not just Stephen’s show, CBS has canceled the entire of the late show franchise Gone now, I acknowledge losing money. Late night TV is a struggling financial model. We are all basically operating a blockbuster Kiosk inside of a Tower Records. But when your. Industry is faced with changes, you don’t just call it a day.

My god, when cens stopped selling, they didn’t just go, oh, well, music, it’s been a good run. The fact that CBS didn’t try to save their number one rated network late night franchise, that’s been on the air for over three decades. Is part of what’s making everybody wonder was this purely financial or maybe the path of least resistance for your eight billion dollar merger. Look, I understand the corporate fear. I understand the fear that you and your advertisers have with eight billion dollars at stake, but understand this truly, the shows that you now seek to cancel, censor in control, A not insignificant portion of that eight billion dollar value came from those shows.

That’s what made you that money. Shows that say something, shows that take a stand, shows that are unafraid and not to believe me. This is not a we speak truth to power. We don’t we speak opinions to television cameras, but we try every night. And if you believe, as corporations or as networks, you can make yourselves so innocuous that you can serve a gruel so flavorless that you will never again be on the Boy King’s radar A why will anyone watch you?

And you are wrong? David Letterman has weighed in on his own way. On Letterman’s YouTube account, he posted multiple Colbert and CBS related videos. He then put out a twenty minute super cut making fun of the network decaption you can’t spell CBS without BS. It’ll be interesting when Letterman actually speaks about this.

Jimmy Kimmel, who’s on family vacation, slamm Donald Trump. From said vacation. Kim Will shared a family photo from an anti Trump protest and referenced a two thousand and three letter that the president allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein. Kimmell’s Instagram caption read, may every day be another wonderful secret, which references a line from the letter that Trump allegedly wrote, according to The Wall Street Journal. In the photo, Kimmel and wife Molly are pictured in anti Trump shirts, each member of the families holding a sign.

Phrases include don’t bend the knee, make America good again, and I wish we had a better president. Jimmy Fallon opened up his show saying, I am your host, well at least for tonight. I don’t like what’s going on one bit crazy times. In the monologue, fell in joke to Seebeest could lose millions of viewers plus tens of hundreds watching on Paramount. Plus Stephen has done years of incredibly smart and hilarious television, and he’s won ten Emmys.

Trump heard this and was like, big deal. Last week I won a FIFA World Cup trophy. More than eighty seven thousand people have signed a petition on move on dot org demanding the Late Show stay on the air. Eighty seven Thousand’s not going to do it. Late Nighter had some other numbers.

On Tuesday morning. They say, at last count, more than two dozen different petitions had sprung up on change dot org, collectively drawing over thirty six thousand signatures. That’s not going to do it. They add that a petition on the Progressive Change Campaign Committee has passed one hundred and twenty thousand signatures. All that adds up to roughly the two hundred thousand people in the eighteen to forty nine’s that were watching the show.

Many things can be true at once. We can all support Stephen Colbert, we can all have our spidy senses up about the merger stuff. But also, if the numbers are anywhere near accurate, there’s a lot of money to lose for two hundred thousand people in the eighteen to forty nine says the guy who’s older than that. Demo outside the ed Sullivan Theater on Monday afternoon, a group of protesters assembled, chanting Colbert stays Trump must go. They were organized by a group called Refuse Fascism.

One of the organizers told WCBS News, we are trying to wake up the people. Too many people accepting this and saying, you know, Colbert will miss you. Actually, we can’t accept this. This is illegitimate. Prior to the protest, they had circulated a flyer which said this has the pungent odor of appeasement to fascism, unconscionable.

Andy Cohen, I think is speaking truth and logic. He said, so suddenly, the show’s losing forty million dollars a year and they’re going to cancel it. Typically, what would happen if a show’s losing money that is also super important to the network. What they would probably do is say, listen, Steve In, your show’s losing x amount of money a year. There’s two things we could do.

We could cut the budget in half, maybe move out of the ed Sullivan Theater, do the show in a small studio. Cut down on staff. You have two hundred people working here. We needed to be one hundred or sixty. Instead of doing your show five days a week, we’re gonna do your show four days pre take your Thursday show, so you’re actually in production three days a week.

That’s a way right there, to cut the budget at least in half. I don’t know about half. I’d have to look at the numbers, but yeah, that doesn’t sound crazy to me. Cohen continued as opposed to saying out of nowhere, as Colbert portrayed it, they called him and said, your show’s losing money. We’re canceling it a year.

Instead, they’re turning the lights out completely at eleven thirty, which says to me, CBS is just cooked. I mean it’s cooked. They’re saying we’re done. Letterman’s old producer, Robert Nett till deadline when we started the Late Show in nineteen ninety three. We have the same goals.

Everyone doing talk shows has make people laugh and never threaten a corporate merger. If Colbert ad been number one at an Emmy two days prior, none of this would have happened for Night ads. While the financial landscape of Late Night has undeniably changed, I don’t think you dismissed a talent like Stephen Colbert in this manner, it just doesn’t make sense. Steven is as good as it gets. He’ll be heard from for many years to come.

They should choose their adversaries more wisely. That is your bonus episode today. If you missed it, there was a normal episode in the feed earlier today, and I’ll be back tomorrow morning with your regular Daily Comedy News. See then.

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Featured: Theo Von, JD Vance, Marc Maron, Jon Stewart, Shane Gillis, Stephen Colbert, Mary Beth Baron, Dion Mojo Brooks, Joe Dombrowski, Robbie Hoffman, Nate Jackson, Morgan Jay, John Marco Ciresi, Jay Ying Summers, Steph Tolev, Kara Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Theo Von calls out JD Vance for changing stance on Epstein files release
• Marc Maron discusses decades-long feud with Jon Stewart
• Shane Gillis hosted SNL, Colbert Gate incident
• Variety releases 10 Comics to Watch list with Montreal showcase
• Marc Maron’s past remarks about Jon Stewart and reconciliation attempts
• Variety 10 Comics to Watch honorees and their comedy origin stories

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Incase you missed it. I dropped another Colber Bonus episode yesterday around noon. So much to catch up on.

It has been busy since Shane Gillis hosted the SPS and then Colbert Gate happened. Let’s catch up on THEO Vaughn, who called out Vice President j D. Vance for changing a stance on the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. THEO Vaughn first reposted a clip from his October podcast with Vance, in which Vance told listeners, quote, seriously, we need to release the Epstein list this is an important thing. In a separate post, Levon asked, yeah, what changed?

Mark Maron and talked about his beef with John Stewart, calling John Stewart his nemesis. Maren said, there was a jealousy to it, but it got consuming. But it went on a long time and he knew it. We’ve had confrontations about it and we are not friends. Apparently this goes back to the nineteen nineties when both Maren and John Stuart were trying to be the quote King of Politics, satsire or whatever.

A battle. Maren said, Stuart has won. When I was coming up as a comic, he had always thinks just because he had committed to a haircut and away presenting, but like he was just everywhere. John always represented to me while I was failing. So when I see him and act like he was peraxonentally destroying me.

In a two thousand and nine set, Mark Maron referred to John Stewart as quote Jewish pander monkey. Mark Maron is also Jewish, Maren said on Conan. Because of that, he doesn’t particularly like me. I don’t think it’s a daily thing, but I know it him to the point where that was a reality. Maren told NPR he invited John on WTF a few years ago to apologize on the air.

John Stewart told him, Hey, I don’t know if you remember, you know what a jerk faced d word you were to me back in the day. There’s no love here man. Maren apparently never made a second request. Maren told Rollingstone in twenty twelve he said, look, I always though you’re very creative, and I’m sure whatever you’re doing is nice, and if you want to have coffee, it might be willing to do that Maren said his behavior was resentment insecurity, jealousy, and he laughed that even Jon Stewart is a podcaster now over the act of it, the fact that he, like everybody landing with a podcast. That’s satisfying because I helped create it all right after I recorded like the entire weekend because I just wanted to go to the beach.

In between me doing that and Colbert Gate, Variety on a Thursday afternoon released ten Comics to Watch. Now, what’s weird about that is normally, like I record this podcast, you know, I do this seven days a week. Normally, anything you want that makes the trades comes out by ten am Eastern. So it was really weird that Variety released the ten Comics to Watch at twelve thirty or so Eastern time on Thursday. As I’m recording on late morning on Monday, I’m kind of frustrated that JFL hasn’t released the New Faces list yet because I want to tell you about that.

Anyway, Variety’s ten Comics to Watch. The honorees will be celebrated in Montreal a cocktail reception on the twenty fourth. I’m counting on my fingers, that’s Thursday, and they would do a showcase on Friday. The comics to watch include Mary Beth Baron. Bridy writes, for as long as Beron could remember, comedy’s always been a part of her life.

Quote, being funny was very highly valued in my family. My dad had great taste in comedy. Because my dad was older, he had vinyls of comedy albums. And he also introduced us to Monty Python and Spaceballs and Airplane and all those movies that I used to stay up late at night and watch I Love Lucy on Nick at Night. I was obsessed with I Love Lucy.

She started with a women’s open mic night at the UCB and said the jokes were so vulgar because when you first start, I think the instinct is just to be as blue as possible. Went really well. I was totally hooked. I really blew up my entire life to pursue as a job. Next up to watch Dion Mojo Brooks.

I’m not familiar, Brooks says. My first time in front of the full audience, it was an audience of four people. Two other people were my mom and dad. The other two people were my aunt and uncle. This past year he was on the We Them Ones comedy Tour hosted by Mike Epps.

Midway through my set, they started giving me a standing up. It was in that moment, in front of ten thousand people standing up, clapping and screaming, and it hit me, I’m doing this. Joe Dombrowski, he started in third grade. He said, I stole all my jokes from a magician that my parents hired from my first communion. The jokes were cheesy, but it killed and I was hooked.

He now runs an LA show at the Comedy Store called My Straight Friends and says, I’m talking about my marriage, building a family. Some my onits is now half teachers, half the gaze. I’m living my dream talking about my life. Next up, Robbie Hoffman. You know Robbie from Hacks.

Hoffman says, yeah, lots of people recognizing me now, and for good reason. I’m a silver screen sensation. What can I say? Influences include Howard Stern, Judge, Judy Simon, Campbell, her mother, brothers and sisters, Nate Jackson. I’ve seen a lot of buzz on.

Nate Brody says a master of crowd work, points out while every comic now does it for social media clips. He was doing it before that existed. I was panning for gold. I’m putting a bunch of gunk in a thing and shaking it around and weaving in what I’m thinking. When you do it right, it brings everybody in.

It makes the room smaller. He says. Many comedians use CrowdWork as filler. His crowd work has done methodically. I’m information seeking, and then from that, I’m developing a punchline, act outs and even callbacks to other stories from the night, or I’ll pair it with a story or joke I already have.

So it feels like a moment that aligns, like an epiphany. Morgan Jay on the list. Morgan started in comedy in two thousand and seven. He had studied piano and guitar and had choir experience ahead of studying theater and the classics at NYU. Before throwing himself in a comedy, Morgan said, I knew it was this or nothing Eradicating the safety net is really helpful to push you into those next steps of your evolution as a performer.

Also on the list, friend of the show John marco Ciresi. He’s been performing overseas and says, not everyone understands all the jokes and the laughter is more muted. That can mess up the timing along the way. It’s a good experience As an artist. I’ve learned to shift the musicality, like if you sing a song at a different temple for a remix, makes you more flexible, more nimble to live off the audience.

This fall, he’ll be in Rochester, West Des Moines and Richmond, Virginia. As my comedy’s going well, but going from Paris to Richmond, two equally cool cultural centers of the world as me wondering what of life I want to live and helps me create good art. Jay Ying Summers is on the list. Summers said, I struggled with trying to be likable, but I realized I’m not likable. I just have to be honest and specific about what affects me, and that made me find my voice.

Not to try to please everyone. Whenever someone books me in a club, I exhaust every resource to make sure it’s a sold out show for a good performance. I just want to make whoever books me money. I have so many tips I could give to comedians who want to see how to get their numbers up. On social media, promote a show, and have good relationship at a club, because those are business skills as artists.

Influences Joan Rivers, Don Rickles, Richard Pryor, Ricky Gervais, Steph tolev on the list, I feel like Steph has now broken through thanks to that recent Netflix special. The Variety Piece rehashes you know a lot of the recent articles the Bill Burr at All and to Kara Williams is a parent with kids ranging from age eleven to twenty four, and incorporates them into her material. One night, Choose booked to do three minutes at a comedy club in Harlem. The host stepped away and left her on stage for over twice as long. Williams said, I just talked about it.

Women break up differently than men break up, and the dynamic of breaking up. And people came up to me after and said, oh my god, girl, me too. I’m going through the same thing. And I realized it was healing and I’ve been doing it for over fifteen years. All right, we are getting along again.

Let’s see what else I could tell you about. Shane Gillish. Remember he hosted the SBS nine news cycles ago. The Ladies of the View didn’t like it. Whoopy Goldberg, who, to be fair, has hosted the Oscars four times so kind of knows what she’s talking about.

But said, you know, hosting an award show is a tough gig. So I’ll ask you you think you read that room correctly. Joy Behar, a comedian, said no, no, no, no. Basically, when you do an award show, they’re there to hear their name called. They’re not there to laugh.

Number One. Beehart said, stand up comedy is one of the hardest things people can do. I did it for thirty years. It’s so hard. It’s like a high wire act.

I always say, it’s like I’m on stage naked and everybody else has clothes. That’s how it feels. Bayhart didn’t like when Shane did that. I didn’t write that joke. Maneuver said, never do that.

Johnny Carson was on the air for I don’t know one hundred years. Never once did he say the writer wrote that bad joke that I just bombed with. That’s bad form. That’s a mistake. You have to know how to work the room.

I don’t know if he knows how to do that. Woop Goldberg wrapped it up with, I guess you have to know how to do the material. You can make a work without being offensive and terrible. But what do I know. I’m used to be yeike cause I just cut six stories.

There’s just so much going on. Gossip Corner. Rosie O’Donnell went up in Ireland and took shots at the president. Rosie was at the International Comedy Club in Dublin. She addressed Trump’s recent post in which Trump suggested he might revoke Rosie’s citizenship.

Rosie said, a really smart guy who works for the Democratic National Campaign texted me and said, are you okay? And I’m like, well, I’m kind of upset that Ireland is losing, but no, she said. The person she was talking to then sent her Trump’s post. Rosie said, so, all I saw is a post that said something absurd like Rosie o Donald’s a threat to humanity. Bye, I’m going to take away her American citizenship, which I know no one’s allowed to do in America.

If you’re born in America and your parents are American citizens, which I was, you have to renounce your citizenship in order to get rid of it. You can’t have it. Taken away from you by the government, but the Supreme Court has given him carte blanche to do whatever he wants. I read it and I kind of laughed, and I said, that’s funny, but it’s not real. Rosie then drafted her response to Trump and it went viral.

My response and people went crazy. And as my brother Eddie I said, when he pulled me up, he said that bastard. Does he know he’s going to make you more famous than you ever were? And when he finds out, he’s going to be upset. But you know, this is kind of the worst guy that I’ve ever met in my life.

I’m sixty three years old. He’s like one hundred and seven or one hundred and twenty years old. I knew about him my whole life, So I just told the truth of what I knew. And he went crazy and threatened to sue me. And it’s been twenty years that he’s been calling me fat, disgusting, gay, pervert, everything that he is.

That’s what happened. Abigail Jackson, spokeswoman for the White House, told Fox News Digital it’s sad to watch TDS, ridd and Rosie crash out like this, but at least she’s not in America while she’s having her big meltdown. God bless the Irish.

Also on Gossip Corner, Ellen DeGeneres has confirmed that Trump inspired her …

The BBC reports English broadcaster Richard Bacon asked Ellen whether reports that Trump played a role in the correct Ellen said yes. Ellen apparently said they got to the UK the day before the election and woke up to a lot of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, he got in and We’re like, we’re staying here. It’s absolutely beautiful. The villages and the towns and the architecture. Everything you see is charming, and it’s just a simpler way of life.

Everything here is just better. The way the animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here Out today on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel, Trey Kennedy’s Grow Up and Let’s take a look at What’s happening in Montreal Tonight five pm, Ross Battel, Canada, seven o’clock Danny Boy Culture Show at seven brits Ish at seven. That’s usually one of my favorite things to happen when I can make it to that. Jang Summers one of the comedians to watch at seven o’clock, Live Sessions at seven.

Those are the album recordings usually Irene two at seven, Ross Battle Canada again at eight, John Dore at a thirty, Casey Rocket at nine, Nina Kunti whose face is it anyway? At Oh I’ve seen her on social She’s very funny, Okay, Nasty Show at nine thirty, Double Threat Matt O’Brien and Julia Headquitz at ten, Another roast Battle at ten thirty, Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine. All right, if we were up there, I would say, boy, I really want to see British but we should probably check out Jayan Summers if she’s on the buzz list. So we do that at seven and Nina Conti at nine thirty. All right, back in the morning unless there’s more Colbert news, you never know.

Checkday. Actually, there probably will be a one now that i’m thinking about it, because I’m probably gonna want to comment about whatever John Stewart said on Monday night, so there probably is going to be a bonus episode either way. Keep checking the feed. Appreciate you listening, See you as soon

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Rob Schneider, Rosie O’Donnell, John Oliver, John Marco SIRESI, David Ellison

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert’s Late Show cancellation and financial losses
• CBS/Paramount merger approval and FCC negotiations
• Late night TV audience decline and fragmented media ecosystem
• Rob Schneider’s Fox News critique of Colbert’s editorial stance
• Comparison of late night hosts’ audience exclusion strategies
• Johnny Carson’s universal appeal versus modern late night polarization

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello again, I’m Johnny mag with a Stephen Colbert based bonus episode. There was a normal episode of Daily Comedy News in the feed earlier Monday. This is an episode for Monday Middle of the day. Let’s start with Friend of the Show John Marco SIRESI he was on MSNBC.

What do you make of his cancellation. I mean, give me your big takeaway pictures? Are you buying that it’s financial? Is it sad to see the end of such a kind of iconic brand in franchise? It could be financial, and you know, Epstein could have liked Trump for his drawings.

Anything’s possible. Interesting reporting from Variety, who said, I guess last week. The phrasing is earlier this week, but it’s Monday morning, so I guess. Last week, sky Dane’s chief David Ellison met with FCC chair Brendan Carr and others at the commission to lobby for the deal’s approval, and notably, Ellison promised that CBS’s editorial decision making reflects the varied ideot logical perspectives of American viewers. In a February seventh Fox News interview, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr commented on Trump’s lawsuit against CBS and said the president quote has been right on these media bias issues.

On Tuesday, January fifteenth, Ellison and his lawyer met with Carr. According to a letter posted in the FCC’s docket, Ellison and Brill Brill is Ellison’s lawyer, emphasized the public interest benefits of the sky Dance Paramount transaction end quote. We also urged the Media Bureau to promptly grant approval of the transfer of the CBS licenses to quote new Paramount. According to the filing quote. We made clear that mister Ellison will lead New Paramount with a talented team of executives focused on American storytelling.

A lot to unpack there. In Variety, Rob Schneider wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Rob Schneider writes, respectfully, Stephen Colbert has been doing nothing but wayfer thinly disguised democratic propaganda talking points for the last eight years plus. While I completely support mister Colbert’s freedom of speech, his utter disdain for half of America and every swing state greatly diminished his audience potential. I also respect Colbert’s direct criticism of his employer, CBS Paramount, and his opinion that they cave to President Trump when they settled their lawsuit against the sitting president.

That took guts. I’ll give him that. But Colbert, like ABC Late Night host Jimmy Kimmel, excluded conservatives completely from his show and limited parentheses prevented his audience from hearing opposing viewpoints. Colbert fed liberal slopped to his liberal minded Kamala supporters, and cared less about challenging them intellectually by actually appealing to their higher nature or engaging in thought provoking debate. Nah, just keep crapping on half the country that’s no longer afraid to say women don’t have penises and boys shouldn’t get to beat up girls in girls’ sports.

So, while I support mister Colbert’s First Amendment right for free speech, great point, Rob Schneider. Yeah. As for CBS Paramount, they are a private company and they have to pay the bills or used to, so they can fire anyone they want in Colbert, who under an estimated twenty million dollars salary, was reportedly losing the company forty million dollars per year. Several more paragraphs there than Rob ends with. I wish mister Colbert are much success in whatever he does next.

Show business is a tough business. Rob was on Fox and Friends. Colbert never had me on his show. Neither has Jimmy Kimmel or well, I guess I was on a couple of times early. But look, it’s here’s what happens.

Like Colbert already cut the pie. It’s a pizza. He already cut it in half. His potential audience. He cut it in half with it just by cutting out all conservatives at all, not caring about you know, the forty seven states that may have a different opinion than the Democratic Party of open borders, and women have junk between their legs.

We have to And so he had half the pie already gone, and then then he has to divide that pizza in three slices with Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon.

And then so he’s he’s he’s working for a third of a piece of pie, and that’s …

They have two hundred employees, and frankly, you know I have more more people will watch this on Twitter. Then you know, for his advertising group that everybody on TV seems to still think is important that eighteen to thirty five group, and it’s just that audience isn’t there anymore. It’s I mean, the late night show is a relic. But the thing about it which was special when I was a kid, you know, when we were you know, my family were all, you know, climbing mom and Dad’s bed and watching TV. Johnny Carson was he made the show for everybody.

He didn’t alienate anyone, and you never knew who he kind of thought that these guys all leaned left like most of the media, but you never knew one hundred percent. And that’s kind of a beautiful thing. And I hope it goes back to that. Rosie O’Donnell jumped on Instagram on Sunday and wrote, Hey, Tangerine Trump. First you said I should be stripped of my citizenship.

Now you’re publicly celebrating that Stephen Colbert lost his job. You’ve never understood the role of comedy or the role of truth. You think isolent seeing a comedian means you’ve won something you haven’t. Stephen said up to you like so many of us have. Not because it was easy, but because it was necessary.

He told the truth with wit and courage night after night. Well, you used your platform to spread fear, lies and hate. John Oliver was in Eerie, Pennsylvania. He was part of that stunt to rebrand the baseball team the Moon Mammoths. He was asked about Stephen Colbert.

John Oliver said, I love Steven, I love his staff, I love that show. It’s incredibly said. I’m partly excited to see what they’re going to do the next ten months. It’s terrible, terrible news for the world of comedy. Late night shows mean a lot to me, not just because I work in them, but because even growing up in England, I would watch Letterman Show, which of course was Stephen’s Show.

I think about what a glamorous world that was so to have got to be on Letterman Show, and Stephen’s Show has always been one of the most fun things. So it’s very very sad news. I look forward to seeing what he’s going to do next, because that man will not stop now. The Wall Street Journal jumped in again. I think many things can be true at once.

My spidy senses tingling with the timing here in the merger deal, but also the numbers and the financials. As you look at all this, it’s not crazy talk to end this show. Perhaps there’s a scenario where you could do some cost cutting or figure something out. But the Journal points out Colbert has two point four million viewers most nights, less than one percent of the country. It’s a tiny fraction of Johnny Carson’s viewership at a time when the nation was smaller.

The late show’s audience has fallen more than thirty percent in the past five years, and even more among the eighteen to forty nine s. Colbert’s operation reportedly costs north of one hundred million dollars annually and hemorrhaged forty million dollars last year, nearly half being the host salary. The Journal rights America depends on a shared sense of Wii boomers and gen X once found some of that on late night TV from millennials and gen Z. A fragmented media ecosystem that’s insufficiently popular to sustain a common culture presents real challenges. Any revolution would not be televised.

It would be streamed from one thousand angles across a million platforms. The New Yorker happens to have a piece by Stephen Colbert this week. It is titled Stephen Colbert and Kenneth Tynan’s Profile of Johnny Carson. Apparently there was a good profile of Carson in nineteen seventy eight. Colbert wrote that article is twenty thousand words.

It’s giving ahead. While I host a show in the same time slot and tradition as Carson, I am not Johnny. Neither was quote unquote Johnny, who is described as an eighth of Carson, the rest being hidden behind midwestern and professional recipitudes and protective sodality. A lot of big words here of producers, lawyers, and execs who pronounced Johnny a reformed drinker, loving son and husband, faithful to the point of celibacy. Two or false?

Do we care Johnny or Johnny? He was there every night like the tide, and we loved him. I have the Carson books, I’ve watched the Carson biles. I have a dear friendship with his old writer and pure Dick Cavitt. One disappointment.

Tynan presents no process. How did Johnny arrive at quote between sixteen and twenty two short fire jokes per monologue? What happened behind that rainbow curtain? I know the articles about the man, not the job, but were told the show is Johnny john is the show. You’ll find that in the print edition July twenty eighth, twenty twenty five issue of The New Yorker The Town podcast.

They did this asn’t aside. They were talking about the Colbert of it all. They said, Mullaney on Netflix was getting five hundred thousand viewers, five hundred thousand, five hundred thousand Formulaney. I don’t know if that thing’s coming back. Maybe just with the zeitgeist, they think people will rally behind Malani.

But like I said, when the show was airing season two, I didn’t think the show was working creatively and I didn’t think it was really capturing a buzz. And I may have been right. Friend of the show, Jason Zinneman in The New York Times right, it’s getting canceled may end up being the best thing that’s ever happened to Stephen Colbert. The same cannot be said for its impact on late night television. His quick, improv honed wit and intellectual depth could feel hamstrung by the show’s short segments, and sometimes when he got on a good riff or dug into an area of major interest.

You wondered if it would fit better on a podcast. Zinneman rights, late night television is not finished. In fact, you could say we’re reverting to the era before the early nineties, when NBC dominated and there were occasionally network alternatives. The loss of the late show is not the deathnell, but it is a deathnell. If video killed the radio star, who did in the network late night superstar.

The Internet is the primary suspect, increasing competition, shipping away at ad dollars, and transforming the time at which we watch these shows, making the term late night itself a misnomer all caps. Of course, money matters, but so does the climate which it’s allocated. Late night used to be, among other things, a prestige business. The hosts were some of the key phases of the network. On top of profits, the show’s generated press, attention, in house promotion, and buzz.

Now, media bosses seem more willing to cut a check for millions of dollars to make a political problem go away, rather than spend that money to keep their late night show. Yeah. I talked about this in one of the other bonuses. So at some point you have to ask the question, who are we Fox shows sports and animation. You know, maybe CBS is looking at that and going, all right, why don’t we just do our procedurals from E two eleven.

We’ll show some football during the fall, and why do we have a late night show? Not crazy? The Hollywood Reporter wondered what’s next for Colbert, and they pointed out while he lives in New Jersey, he’s from South Carolina and one of those states Senate seats is open next year. Colbert has joked about the idea of running for office for years. When asked directly about this in two thousand and seven, Larry King asked if Colbert would ever consider running for president, and again, that’s two thousand and seven, a lifetime ago in some ways, Colbert said, obviously, every boy’s thought of it.

And when you look at a field of candidates like this, so that’s the two thousand and eight campaign, you know, and trailed off. I thought about that a lot over the weekend. Stephen Colbert is sixty one, so he’d be sixty three sixty four when the next election rolls around. He’s nice looking, he’s telegenic, he’s good at the art of the media. He’s not eighty years old.

The people who don’t like him, Rob Schneider apparently already don’t like him, so there’s no loss there. If I’m the Democrats, I’m calling Stephen Colbert today. If you’re not alreaddy on the phone with him, you should be. I don’t know if he would want the gig, but if they rolled him out as a candidate, very interesting. The current holder of the office, among other things on his resume, hosted a show called The Apprentice and was really good at media and look at you head to you tonight Late Nighter points out, let’s pay a lot of attention to John Stewart tonight.

Colbert and Stewart are friends. John Stewart is an EP on The Late Show. They share the same manager, James baby Doll Dixon. We’ll see what John has to say. And that is a bonus episode back in the morning with a normal episode.

It was a very busy weekend. Just in case you haven’t caught everything. Going back Friday morning’s episode where I recapped Shane Gillis, I thought was strong, and then it’s just been bonus regular, bonus regular, bonus regular. I’ll be back in the morning. See then, thanks for listening,

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Featured: Nate Bargatzel, Bill Burr, Adam Sandler, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, John Mulaney, Andrew Schulz

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatzel partners with 800 Pound Gorilla for Nateland distribution
• Bill Burr performs in Abu Dhabi, tackles immigration, Trump, and Elon Musk
• Bill Burr comments on Jeff Bezos’ $38 million wedding to Lauren Sanchez
• Adam Sandler discusses working with his daughters Sadie and Sonny in Happy Gilmore 2
• Kill Tony claims of being #1 podcast and YouTube chart methodology
• John Mulaney announced for Texas Tribune Festival in November

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, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. And if you’re paying attention on Friday, you heard me drop two good stories on the fly while I’ve moved them here to the top of Monday’s episode. Congratulations to the folks at the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. They’ve done a deal with Nate Brighetzy.

They will become the official audio and video distributor for the YouTube specials of Nateland Entertainment. The partnership with the eight hundred Pound Gorilla puts the Nateland Specials second window distribution of comedy specials from Aaron Weber, Nick Fohn, and Greg Warren. The Gorilla has similar deals with Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Network and All Things Comedy, which is Bill burn Almetricle’s company. One of the Gorilla suits said, with both of us calling Nashville our home base, teaming up with Nate Brighetze and Nate Land felt like the obvious move. Nate led the global comedy touring numbers last year, and he’s mapping out even bigger plans as Nate Land’s audience grows.

We’re excited to be partners and helping propel that growth. Amen, Nate, don’t give up the comedy, because I’m telling you, in about ten years, i’m gonna be doing a story. We’re gonna sit down, it’s gonna be daily coming news. I’m gonna be like, I can’t believe they made Happy Gilmore seven, and I’m gonna be like, uh yeah, Nate. Remember when Nate Pergetsy was gonna open a theme park.

Whatever happened to that, Remember that that’s coming, that story. You just got to wait a decade, all right. Website The National caught Bill Burr and Abu Dhabi. Now this was a week ago Saturday, and I bumped this a couple of times. I don’t know if you noticed.

Last week the episodes were quite long as it was, and I figured this could wait a minute. Spoilers if you’re planning on seeing Bill Burr overseas anyway. A lot of quotes from Burst set here that i’ll do in my again. It’s a it’s not at all intended to be a Bill ber impression. It’s what I call on the show, a half ass impression.

I’m not really trying to do Burr’s voice, but I’ll try and match his Cadence the best I can Burst said. Every four years, the billionaires in my cuntry figure out how to blame immigrants. You lose your job, you farm, you can’t buy a house, and I’ll tell you it’s because some guy float in on a mattress from Cuba. We always believe it because the white guy telling us. We think, oh, white guy, I’m a white guy, the same skin, same team.

But it’s not the same team, not the same team at all. Racists white people have to say, I don’t have a problem with immigrants as long as they come here the right way. Oh yeah, did we The immigrant should leave and come back in wooden ships and bring some COVID lace blankets. A bird then started talking about Donald Trump. Burr said that Burr does not understand what’s going on with the leadership of my country right now, and then started talking about Elon Musk and that salute of sorts that mister Musk did at one point, Remember that one.

Burr said, there’s a moment in America if you did a Kaitlyn jennichoke, you were taking your career in your hands. Five years later, the sky has Nerd salutes not once, but twice once to the front, once at the back. People try to play it off with something else, and he didn’t get in trouble. What’s happening. Burr then started talking about how the achievements of ancient Egypt are questioned in Western discourse.

Burr said white people could accept that somebody could do something they couldn’t. If the Pyramids had happened in Italy, they wouldn’t be confused. They would say, today, we’re gonna try and figure out who built the Royal Colisseum? Was it mermaids. Burr also discussed Jeff bezol thirty eight million dollar wedding to Lauren Sanchez.

Burr said, this guy’s sewing over his head. He spent thirty eight million dollars to get married. Dude, you could have gone to Vegas and got that for sixty nine bucks. You’re giving a starter lift ship thirty eight million dollars. It’s because he’s a nerd, never had a girlfriend, he didn’t play sports.

It was his an apartment playing on computers. He’s not an idiot. He’s just then experienced. What’s he going to get it for a birthday? He read that a whole city, all of Venice and if she even asked for that.

He probably wanted a Harry Potter theme leisure tag thing. She’s sitting there with her emotions looking out the window, saying I was thinking maybe we could have a destination wedding, and he’s like, what do you mean, like Florida. He’s gonna be hanging out with the truck drivers. He doesn’t pay enough on the Amazon loading dock, saying I can’t make this woman happy. Burr said he would like to go back, but says I’ll come back in the winter.

That’s when my wife will come. She’ll support me on the road, just not in July. That’s pretty good material, even with me half assed channeling it. You can tell that some really good writing that is obviously performed a trillion times better by Bill Burr. I’m just trying to host a podcast here, serious case you knew.

Not a stand up comedian, not claiming to be a stand up comedian. I’ve never tried to be a stand up comedian. I don’t want to be a stand up comedian. I’m not saying I’m funny. I’m a guy in a basement reading you comedy news headlines.

That’s all this is. Adam Sailor Happy Gilmour two out on a Friday. Boy, I might have to leave the country to avoid this whole thing. Adam Sandler spoke to E Online about working alongside famous Hollywood actress Sadie Sandler, who’s nineteen, and Sonny Sandler, who is sixteen. Adam told E News about the Sandler actresses, once they do it, well, nothing feels better.

As a parent. It must be like when you’re the parents of a baseball player and you’re at the game and they get a hit. You just go thank God, just so much relief. Acting is something the two kids love. My one daughter study it in school and my other daughter studies it while doing high school, and they love it.

They talk about it a lot, and he News tells us it’s not just storing in their dad’s movies that excite Sadie and Sonny. In fact, Jude Barrymore recounted a tender moment of walking in on one of her children and one of Adam’s daughters watching their two thousand’s rom com Fifth First Dates, which, as you know as a frequent listener, is one of the few good Adam Saylor movies. Drew said, I was like, why are you guys watching this? Don’t you get enough of me and your dad? The Texas Tribune Festival is coming to austin November thirteenth through the fifteenth.

I’m mentioning this because they announced influential voices who are joining them. One of the influential voices who will be at the Texas Tribune Festival in November John Mulaney, and the presser tells us mullany is a three time Emmy Award, Critics Choice Award, and WGA Award winning writer, comedian and actor. He’s also a constitutional law NERD. So congratulations asterisk to kill Tony. I saw the news media was picking up claiming that kill Tony is now the number one podcast.

Now they are saying this because kill Tony showed up at the top of the YouTube shorts and now this is a whole thing in the podcasting industry. The easiest thing to do is subscribe to the pod News newsletter and subscribe to my substack, and you can hear us going back and forth about this. So for us people who live on Old Man Mountain, a podcast is what I’m doing right now. It’s audio. There are other things, like an example, I’ll use is Andrew Schultz interviewing President Trump sitting on a couch and there’s fake plants and a four camera set up, and it’s lit properly, and all that YouTube thinks that’s a podcast.

And then somewhere between what Schultz does and what I do is the truth. Anyway, the YouTube charts include all kinds of things that US old people might not consider podcasts. Now, do I consider kill Tony podcasts? Yes, But in terms of audio podcasts, what you listen to on say Apple podcasts or listen to on your phone might be a better way to describe it. Please understand, Joe Rogan is light years ahead of everything else.

Sometimes you’ll see something show up at the top of the charts, but the charts have a recency bias based upon it’s a regression of subscriptions and listens within the last seventy two hours. So if you, sir, start a podcast today and get I don’t know, five thousand of your friends to listen to it in the next hour, you’ll shoot up the charts. You won’t stay there, but you’ll shoot up. So every now and then you’ll see something at the top of the charts. And I always tell people, Hey, when you number one, take a screen grab and tell everybody you’re number one.

So nobody questions these things. So tap the breaks on kil Tony having the number one podcast. If you’re seeing that as a headline, tap the breaks. He just might have had a good week on YouTube and it’s a good show. Don’t get me wrong.

This just for last Montreal Comedy Festival website is going to kill me. But things are picking up here. As I look at tonight’s lineup, looks like the French shows have cleared out. I’m seeing a bunch of things in English today. They include Ross Battle Canada at five o’clock, The Culture Show at seven, there is a French show at seven, the JFL Live Sessions, probably an album taping at seven, another Rose Battle Canada at eight, The Sketch Show hosted by Lou Lawrence at eight thirty, The Nasty Show at nine to thirty, Double Threat, Mark Little and Wally Barram at Tien at Ross Battle Canada at ten thirty, Midnight Surprise eleven fifty nine.

Okay, so if we were in Montreal and I may have to leave the country because of this Adam Sandler stuff, so this might be my life very soon. I would say, all right, at five o’clock, let’s do Roast Battle Canada. So that probably takes us to six thirty or so. As we play this mental exercise, we’ve seen the Culture Show ninety five times, so we don’t need to go see that. You know what, We should grab dinner and then hit the sketch show at eight thirty.

So we’ll grab dinner and a brew or two. Can I sidebar slide bar for a second. Almost got alcohol distracted. I’ll come back to that. All right, eight thirty.

Sketch Show, will do that, and then let’s see that’s at the Theater Saint Catherine. And so is the ten o’clock show at the Theater Saint Katherine, Double Threat, Mark Little and Wally Barram. So we’ll see the sketch show and then we’ll walk across the hall to see Double Threat.

And then at that point, I’ve been seeing comedy shows since five o’clock, and…

There you can go to midnight Surprise. I’m going to bed. So, speaking of alcohol, I forgot to share the story the other day. So volleyball on Wednesday, which why I didn’t watch the SP’s live. First of all, so I’m not that good at volleyball.

I play volleyball, but I’m not that good. But I can kind of serve. But one thing I do, and I nail this. I’m so happy with myself. I’m humble bragging here.

So Wednesday night, it’s game three. It’s twenty three twenty three. First team to twenty five wins, but you have to win by two, and my serve comes up. I do this thing where I make it look like I’m a lot better at serving than I am. I’m a good server, but I’m not like a Hall of Fame server.

What I do is I go up to the line and I really slow down the game. My teammates know I do this, and I look over and I just look down the other team, and I make it look like I’m going to place the ball exactly where I want.

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And then I serve it short.

And if I pull that off, even if they return it, that’s fine. But if I pull that off, now it looks like, oh, I did that on purpose.

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And then if I get the second point, I’m in their heads now and I do it again.

So I got the first point. So it’s twenty four to twenty three. And I got the second point. And what happens is because I hit the first one short, they start to move up, expecting me to soft serve because apparently that’s what I do. I took my time at the line and I did a hard serve and I hate it right where the pin is because if you hit it where the pin is, the ball doesn’t spin as much, and then when it does start spinning, it drops immediately.

And I went bam and it dropped right between the four of them. Walk off when felt good about myself. Then we went to the bar and I didn’t know BlackBerry cider is a thing. Why didn’t anyone tell me? BlackBerry sider is a thing.

I know about various siders, Irish American ances Stream. I’ve been drinking ciders for decades. I love a nice cider over ice. And the nice waitress was like, I was like, what kind of sider do you have? She’s like, we have a BlackBerry sider.

I’m like, BlackBerry sider, Okay, boys delicious. I had two of those and I digress a new special outs today on the eight hundred pound Gorilla. Paul Foot’s Dissolve is available for early access.

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Meanwhile, The Edinburgh News had a preview of Seaton Smith, who had been ope…

Seaton is going to the Edinburgh Fringe Fees and a lot of you know that. I host the Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live One app. The app is free, the show is free. The Weekly Comedy Thing is like this. I talk less and I play comedy bits in between, much shorter versus of the story.

I was playing some Seaton Smith stuff on this week’s show. Boy He is good. Let’s keep an eye on Seaton Smith. Like good, good Good. His show Trauma Bonding will be at the Pleasant Courtyard Spoilers.

The show opens with a wide lens from plane crashes to presidential politics. Seaton Smith dissects the news with a mix of sharp observation and wide eyed disbelief. But it’s not long before the spotlight turns inward. His chaotic childhood, complicated dating life, and a recent moped crash all tikes center stage. At one point, Spoilers even ends up in a hospital after trying to be Batman.

It’s a wild ride, but Smith knows what he’s doing. He weaves high energy punchlines through stories that take strange, sometimes emotional turns. One minute, he’s reliving a mountain biking accident, the next, he’s unpacking family trauma. Somehow it all holds together. Keep an eye on Seaton Smith.

Okay, that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.