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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Conan O’Brien, Lorne Michaels, Shane Gillis, David Ellison, Sherry Redstone

What’s in This Episode

• CBS cancels The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
• Late-night TV industry decline and network viewership shifts
• Saturday Night Live’s future post-Lorne Michaels
• Paramount-Skydance merger and FCC approval
• Trump administration influence on network decisions
• Comparison of late-night talk show formats and viability

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi. There, I’m Jenny Mack with another bonus episode of Daily Comedy News, Quick house Keeping, going back to Friday, because I’ve dropped a lot of content. Friday Morning recapt Shing Gillis in the SP’s I really liked that episode, but it’s gotten buried in the Colbert of it all. There was a bonus episode about Colbert, initial reactions and some analysis for Friday afternoon in case you missed that.

Saturday there was a normal episode in the feed and a bonus episode about Colbert. And today on Sunday there was a normal episode that it went out earlier. Today this bonus episode that you’re listening to now, and then there’ll be a normal episode on Monday morning and from there we’ll see where the news is. In The Guardian, Jesse Hasinger writes CBS has ripped off a band age of the big three networks have been applying the similar wounds for years. Late night programming simply doesn’t mean as much as it used to.

With smaller network lead ins from primetime lineups and more audience choices for comedy, music or even the dopey celebrity games that Jimmy Fallon throws together. Saturday Night Live has retained some cultural cachet thanks to a combination of lower commitment twenty episodes a year and a night where many people don’t have to work the next day versus eight times as many, all airing on weeknights, legacy branding, and sketch comedy that travels well online these days is routinely one of the highest rated network shows of the week when it airs a new episode, offering an encouraging sign that old timeslot rules about viewership no longer apply. It’s also extremely expensive to produce difficult to replicate, which nonetheless looks more viable than the tired talk show format. I will jump in there. You know, all this conversation has people wondering about Saturday Night Live, post Lorne Michaels.

You know, we’re clearly getting a season fifty one, but that show is reportedly expensive to produce, and you know, maybe you don’t do twenty episodes, maybe do fewer episodes, Maybe the cast is smaller. Who knows what the future for that show is. The Guardian writes this could be a good thing for comic minds, including Colbert or Conan O’Brien. Some comedians seem unable to resist the siren call of late night talk shows, chasing the tonight show dream, even when the actual job are made out of reach. That Colbert can face cancelation anyway, should alongside Conan O’Brien losing his to night show gig years ago, the signals to newcomers that the rarefied era of the national late night talk show host is also getting pretty thin.

May be unbreathable, yet Trump has sucked up some of that oxygen too. Even with the challenges cited by CBS, it’s difficult to believe that vanquishing a long time issue of Trump mockery wasn’t at least considered a side benefit of canceling the Late Show. He’s giving ahead beyond Trump personally smuging up the balance sheets, He’s helping the hasten the demise of late night comedy simply by being himself. Seeming to provide the perfect target, a venal, dim witted perma celebrity with an army of devoted sikophants, but after two non consecutive administrations have flooded the zone with grotesquere ease, performing a lightly zinging monologu or sketches as warm up back for good natured interviews seems unlikely to entice either those craving anti Trump Catharsis or those desperate to believe in his strongman powers. Colbert took a somewhat less cutesy approach than his competitor, Fallon seemed to be all that was necessary to mark him as a troublemaker in the Atlantic David Graham Rights.

For much of the twentieth century, American broadcast television revolved around three networks, NBC, ABC, and CBS. The network was home to Edward R. Murrow, who brought World War II in Europe home to Americans on CBS Radio. After the war, Murrow’s reporting played a pivotal role in bringing down Senator Joseph McCarthy. Walter Cronkite dominated American evenings from his perch at the Evening News, and from the days of Mike Wallace to the more recent era of Leslie Stall and Scott Pelley.

Sixty minutes set the standard for long form television reporting. Yet CBS’s current ownership seems determined to demolish this legacy. The Atlantic, then Rights, Perhaps this is true but the network that once made Cronkite the most trusted man in America no longer gets the benefit of the doubt. CBS’s owners had made a series of decisions capitulating to President Donald Trump, and the surprise choice to allow Colbert, a consistent prominent Trump critic, to walk, seems like part of that pattern. In twenty twenty three, Sherry Redstone began seeking a buyer for the company, eventually striking a deal in twenty twenty four with Skydants.

The merger requires federal approval. The President now seems favorably disposed towards the merger. Last month he spoke highly of Skydant’s head David Ellison. Still, the deal has not yet been approved by the FCC. Journalism, along with Colbert’s program, makes up only a small portion of Paramount’s portfolio, and so business executives might view sacrificing them to preserve a deal as a prudent I cold blooded maneuver.

Daniel Feinberg, I’m a big fan of Daniel, he writes for The Hollywood Reporter. He says, I’m sure the Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s absolutely ending because of a financial decision against the challenging backdrop of Late Night, and it’s not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount. The official reasons for the cancelation or whatever they are, and who am I to question the co CEO of Paramount Global, the president of CBS Entertainment, and the president of CBS Studios. Nobody, that’s who. But official reasons and optics are two different things.

And if the folks in charge of CBS didn’t know what the optics were, they wouldn’t have released a statement saying that what we think we can see with our eyes and infer with our common sense definitely aren’t the truth. The optics here may not have any connection of facts, but man, the optics here suck, and they suck on a slew of levels that are all addressed in the statement as things that we’re not supposed to be thinking about but can’t help but think about. So it’s not related. It’s anything happening in Paramount. Good to know what could possibly be happening at Paramount.

A merger between CBS parent company, Paramount Gold and Skydad’s a massive deal that was seen as a major part of why CBS just settled a lawsuit. It’skid being ahead. Colbert isn’t going anywhere for ten months, and it’s hard to imagine him agreeing to stick around for a swan song in which his content is being restricted. So let’s assume that he’s going to spend a season lampooning Trump, even as a lame duck. It’s giving a head again.

They’re a less political talk show host. Jimmy Fallon plays his various games and goofs around with celebrities. You know what, this room for that, and I want nothing to do with it, but that’s okay too. And when Seth Myers isn’t taking closer looks, sometimes he’s just drinking with stars and making fun of his own errors, And you know what, there’s room for that. And if Netflix would renew Everybody’s Live with Malaney, I’d like to believe this room for doing a talk show episode blindfolded or fighting a trio of fourteen year old boys on live television.

At some point, the CBS might just air whatever procedural reality shows in the ten PM slot, kick it a local news, and then play the national anthem and go black, just like back in the good old days. The Hollor Reporter dusted off the Good One podcast. Seth Myers was on there about a month ago, and let’s revisit what Seth said. He had said, it’s helpful for us to cross pollinate the information we’re hearing from the people in charge of our networks, to make sure it’s all checking out with everybody else, and also to commiserate, because everybody who’s doing this to some degree obviously remembers a time when things are a little more flush. Seth was asked at that time, are we in the end era of late night TV?

Seth said, there’s always a chance that something turns around all of a sudden it’s on the upswing again, But I would certainly bet on there being fewer late night shows in the future now that one. Apparently Colbert’s staff didn’t find out about this much before the rest of us. Some members of the team went on social media. Writer Philippie A. Trus Medina called Stephen Colbert absolute the greatest and said, we got ten more months of this, so you better tune in because you know we’re about to go effing loco.

Producer director Jake Plunkett said was the run of a lifetime. So grateful for this job and the people I’ve met here. One thing I will say, Stephen Colbert is an insanely good man who treated us with a tremendous amount of love.

Also, he’s insanely funny.

I’ll run through a wall for him for the next ten months. You know, let’s stop there. You know Stephen Colbert, love him, good guy. Everybody loves Stephen Colbert. He’s going to be fine.

He’s made a lot of money. He’ll be able to work again if he wants to work again. Nothing else can do a podcast. But what about the two hundred people that work on the show. What’s going to happen to them?

Jake Plunkett said the fall of Late Night is so sad. I grew up loving Conan snl Ferguson Letterman. Writer Carly Moseley on Instagram said, I love the show. I love these people. I love these people in the show forever and ever.

Amen, see y’all till May. Writer Michael cruz Keene said the Late Show gig was the best job I could imagine. Producer and segment director Ballard C. Boyd said some unfortunate news from the home own office and pointed out the part of an av Club headline that said CBS executives bent over backward to deny that this was related to the trump of it all. Now, this is really interesting.

Deadline dusted this off in May of twenty twenty five. Check your calendar, not that long ago. George Cheeks, co CEO Paramount Global and President and chief executive of CBS, told Deadline that he really likes our hand. The day part is challenging from an ad sales perspective. I love our hand.

We have the number one personally for the last nine years, and we still do believe in the day part. But it is a challenge. A Late Night producer told Deadline the news was depressing and weird, and I feel like there’s more to this story. It is believed the Late Show costs slightly less than seventy five million dollars per year to produce before adding in Colbert’s salary. So let’s assume, just to keep this easy, Stephen Colbert’s salary is one dollar.

It’s probably not. Let’s just keep it easy. So if the show costs seventy five million dollars to produce, a Yesterday, I mentioned late shows a taken twenty twenty four was seventy point two million dollars. So you’re already losing five million dollars before you pay Steven Colbert. Again, my spidy sense is tingling about the conspiracy theory, but the financials?

Yeah? Now, is there goodwill to having the Late Show on? Is it a promotional vehicle? All that? Absolutely true?

There’s brand imaging. You know, there’s you know, who are we as CBS? Well we’re the home of sixty minutes and the Late Show, and you know you start picking away that, then you’re just the home of Oh yeah, I put that on sometimes to watch football. Some reports guess Colbert’s salaries between fifteen and twenty million. Let’s use the fifteen number.

So again, seventy five plus fifteen is ninety. You make seventy million in ads? Is it worth twenty million dollars? Is there a way to make that up? Could we do fewer shows?

Could we have less of a staff? Could we do fewer episodes? A place I used to work always love to ask hosts to do additional things. So you’d say, host Daily Comedy News, but also have to do a shift on the jazz station. That kind of stuff went on in a place that once worked.

So I don’t know. I think it’s terrible, But part of me is looking at this going why don’t we just air prices? Right? We run? Times have changed.

I don’t know, very mixed feelings. I am truly sad that this is ending, and it is absolutely stunning. I may have done what four bonus episodes about this single topic. Now, all right, and that is your bonus episode, like I said, and I’m back in the morning with a normal episode and then we’ll take it from there. Appreciate you listening.

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Featured: Cat Williams, Tom Segura, Bert Kreischer, Roywood Junior, Gabe Iglesias, Leanne Morgan, Weird Al Yankovic, Billy Joel

What’s in This Episode

• Cat Williams basketball jokes on Brooklyn podcast
• Tom Segura FSU championship game emotional reaction
• Roywood Junior discusses Cubs memories and Hall of Fame steroid era debate
• Gabe Iglesias receives Hollywood Walk of Fame star
• Leanne Morgan developing 90s-style sitcom for Netflix
• Weird Al Yankovic approaching Billy Joel’s MSG record with Fat parody performance

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. Cat William was on the seven pm in Brooklyn podcast and started talking a little basketball. Cat said, in basketball, I’m five to five, so there’s a whole realm of basketball I can’t experience. I don’t have any of the above rim experience.

On the other hand, I’m not Angel Reese. I’m ninety nine percent of in my layups because I can’t afford to miss a layup. My layup is my dunk. Host Cormelo Anthony cracked a smile but knew it was a joke and would not affect his family’s relationship with the star of the Chicago Sky Angel Reese. Stick to sports, okay.

Tom Sigora says FSU’s title winning touchdown was better than fatherhood. Sigora was on the Glory Days DAZ podcast hosted by former quarterback Johnny Manziel. Remember that guy, Sigora said, this is one of those things that’s gonna get me in trouble in a few years. Bert Krascher, who’s an alum, was like, do you want to go to the National Championship Game? And I go, yeah.

We ended up sitting in different sections. He’s like, my ticket’s over here, yours is over there. So I’m just sitting next to some guy. When Kelvin Benjamin caught that pass, I grabbed the guy’s shirt and I started going, Ah, it’s one of those things where you go, that’s what you can’t get at home. In a previous interview, Sigore had told ESPN, I went to the game and the emotions just to go over.

I couldn’t control myself. Winston drives down the field and throws a touchdown. I punched three guys in the face. Punching people in the face is not funny, Johnny Mac, what are you laughing at? Stick to sports, okay.

Roywood Junior talked to GQ about the Cubs and some of his favorite Cubs memories. He said, there was Toughy Roads three homers on opening Day that always stands out. Remember that. I remember that. He’s like the Barry Bonds of Japan.

He’s the man. He doesn’t pay for anything in Japan. Over here, he’s main cabin, middle seat. No one cares. But if I get just watch one baseball home run over and over and over again, it would be the Joe Carter World Series home run.

GQ asked about the steroids era, how do we handle that? Royce said, I don’t know how you can completely discredit it. It’s interesting to see both of those guys post career. The guys in question are Barry Bonds and a Rod. I think what Barry started to figure out that A Rod figured out sooner is how much your attitude plays a role, not necessarily being likable, but just being accessible.

If I a vote, I would vote for Barry Bonds and a Rod Hall of Fame. I absolutely would. Okay, well you cheated, you got caught doing something you weren’t supposed to do. Fine, but how do we wipe everything off the books? That’s the part I think is very difficult to get into the Hall of Fame.

It’s not just solely statistics. There’s intangibles of likability, just being real. You can’t tell me that Barry Bonds and his relationship with the baseball writers over the course of his career will not play a role. The Hall of Fame is like the award shows, where they have a special category basically for the ones we got wrong at the time. I think Barry maybe ends up on that met him briefly.

By briefly, I mean twenty seconds in Birmingham last year at the Willie Mays game they did with the whole Negro League’s tribute. The fact that Barry was even paraphrasing talking with Derek Jeter and Big Poppy, Huge Barry made himself accessible and spoke with people, and I thought it was really cool. I felt like Barry was feeling the love. You can tell he’s still excited about the game. He still loves this game.

He gave it his heart and soul, and he give us a hell of a show for a long time. I think if you put on a show, there’s got to be a space for you somewhere in Cooperstown. Now, if we want to call it the special Wing over here, whatever you got in trouble for steroids a couple of times, put that on the plaque. Stick to Sports. Johnny Mac okay, Li’s a trigger, says her goal every summer is to find a body of water.

But I’m not a snob. I’ll public pool, i’ll hotel, I’ll pay for day pass, I’ll hang with a friend, I’ll bring something, I’ll pay for something. But that’s always my goal. That’s not sports, Johnny Mac, let me finish the story, Lisa said.

Also, I haven’t gone to a baseball game this summer.

That’s a goal as well. See, I know what I’m doing. It’s not my first Daily Comedy News gave Iglesias is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Gabe said, I spent my life entertaining on the road, not in Hollywood. I guess someone was watching.

This was never a goal or something I thought was possible. The Hollywood Walk of Fame was established in nineteen sixty and has awarded more than twenty eight hundred stars over the last sixty five years. Leanne Morgan is excited about her sitcom. She says it’s a throwback to the nineteen nineties style comedy things like Roseanne Barr Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Drew Carey Martin, Lawrence Ray Romano. Morgan says that was my goal being my age, coming up and stand up and loving television.

That was my dream Netflix Comedy had. Tracy Pecosta says, on the stand up side, we work with best in class comedians from all over that reach very different audiences, pointing out they’ve had success with Shane Gillis’s Tires and want of Sykes of the Upshaws, and the upcoming Bert Krascher sitcom Free Bert Tracy says, and as we all know from back in the day when these type of shows were more popular and resonated, when you find somebody that is a very specific, authentic voice and makes sense to lean in and leanne is absolutely one of those talents. Weird Al play the Gordon last weekend. I love weird Al, but like MSG is just too big for me to go. Weird Al is closing in on Billy Joel’s record of one hundred and fifty shows at Madison Square Garden.

Al told the crowd just one hundred and forty nine more and I’ll be all t side up with Billy Joel. Al got a little emotional, got serious, told the crowd, Oftentimes the really big moments in your life come and go so quickly you can’t really enjoy them when you’re in them. That is very, very true, Sir Consequence says. The Bigger and Weirder Tour feels like a victory lap. The first third featured only one parody, the opener Taki, along with style parodies.

So yeah, to break down weird al. There’s these straight up parodies, you know, eat it, beat it. There are the style parodies. My favorite is dogg Eat Dog, which is in the style of talking heads.

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And then there are the weird al originals, which are also great.

So let’s say the first third featured one parody, Tacky the opener, and then style parodies the Crosby Stills, Nash and Young style mission statement that’s good, and they might be giants styled everything you know is wrong? Oh yeah, pocas paulk is a fourth category of weirdowse sorry that he did a PoCA. Then Al dressed up as Kurt Cobaine for smells like Nirvana. The band put on yellow hazmat suits and red dome hats for deer to be stupid. A medley included party the cia O to a superhero, eat it and like a surgeon, word crimes and more.

Consequence talks about Al playing fat and writes something you could never write in twenty twenty five. Why not? Can we not make fun of anything? Here are the lyrics. Who’s offended?

Your butt is wide, well mine is too. Just watch your mouth or I’ll sit on you. The word is out better treat me right, because I’m the king of cellulite. Are you offended yet? Ham On, ham On, ham On whole wheat?

All right? My zipper’s bust, my buckles break. I’m too much man for you to take the pavement cracks when I fall down. I’ve got more chins than Chinatown. Is that the lyric we’re going to get offended by?

Well, I’ve never used a phone booth and I’ve never seen my toes. When I’m going to the movies to take up seven rows because I’m fat, Don’t you call me pudgy, portle or stout. Just tell me once again who’s fat? When I walk out to get my mail, it measures on the Richter scale down at the beach. I’m a lucky man.

I’m the only one who gets a ten. If I have one more pie ala mode, I’m gonna need my own zip code. When you’re only having seconds, I’m having twenty thirds. Personally, that’s my favorite weird al line of any weird oul line. When I go to get my shoes, shine, I got to take their word because I’m fat, really really fat.

A lot of lyrics to this, and my shadow weighs forty two pounds. Let me tell you once again, who’s fat? If you see me coming your way, bet it, give me plenty of space. If I tell you that I’m hungry, then won’t you feed my face? Because I’m fat?

When I sit around the house, I really sit around the house, you know, all by myself from a crowd. I’m me tell you once again, I’m fat, and the whole world knows I’m fat, and I’m proud. Just tell me once again, who’s fat? Who’s getting offended? There are people of Chinese ancestry getting offended at the Chinatown line.

Is that why we couldn’t write that? In twenty twenty five, Consequence writes with the lack of anything from UHF felt odd. There was the extra cover of Paul Simons you can call me Al, continuing Al’s recent tradition of sticking un ironic covers in the middle of his sets. Things closed out with eBay, White and Nerdy and Almash Paradise, the encore of We All Have Cell Phones sounds like it was a great show at the Montreal Comedy Festival Today. Three French language shows at three o’clock Wow, five o’clock Sunday night.

Improv also at five, Roast Battle Canada, the Nightly Culture Show at seven, JFL Live Sessions at seven. Usually those are album tapings. There’s a lot of stuff for Sunday. Roast Battle Canada again at eight o’clock, Derek Sageen at eight thirty. Life of leisures the name of that show, The Nightly Nasty Show at nine thirty, Roast Battle Canada again at ten thirty, and Midnight Surprise at midnights.

All right, if we were there, I guess we do improv at five, Derek Sagein at eight thirty, and we go to the late Roast Battle and then you can do the midnight show by yourself. Three shows is enough for me tonight and I will be looking for bid. Cameron Diaz is back into comedy. She’s a starring role in the upcoming action comedy Bad Day. Cameron Diaz will star as a single mom fighting to keep one little promise to her daughter on the absolute worst day of her life.

And since it’s a Sunday, I like doing quirky stuff. The LA Daily News looked at the six best things they ate at the Belly Laughs Comedy and Food Festival last weekend. During that fest, which featured over twenty restaurants showcasing some of the best Asian cuisine around La. This has nothing to do with comedy other than it was the comedy and Food festival. This is just food.

The comedians included Hasan Minhaj command On, Johnny and Marcaret show. The La Daily News liked Debriana Kabab House’s Chicken Tika Masala with rice and samosa. They tell us that chicken was marinated in a bright, creamy tomato sauce that was sweet but a spicy kick. Each bite paired perfectly with the rice. People apparently were buzzing about the Kanamwan Tai Gelato and Dessert Cafes Mango Sticky Rice Sunday.

The Sticky Rice Sunday is sold out within two hours on the first day. The La Daily News says the hype was well earned. They take a traditional mango sticky rice dessert with coconut sticky rice white rice with dork ripe mangoes and elevates it. They also liked the Bopo Mofo Cafes beef Noodle sandwich, which combines elements of beef noodle soup and a French dip. It consists of a homemade Chinese breezed beef shank stacked on a toasted with melted havardi and crispy green onions.

The La Daily News says, let me tell you it was love at first dip.

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Also getting a good review of the Hermanos empanadas, the Halapano cheese and…

One bite in and my eyes turned to cartoon hearts. The cheese was perfectly melted in the holopano added just the right amount of kick. Julian modern cay popcorn chicken had a crispy texture on the outside and didn’t lose its flavor in the deep fry once it into the outer coat. The chicken inside was juicy, reveal of even more flavor and chef to a Vietnamese tierram a sou. The bass layer was made of bisc off cookies combined with a pasteurized egg batter, condensed milk, lady fingers, soaked and slip Vietnamese coffee, and dusted with cocoa powder.

A decadent dessert heaven. That festival sounds really awesome. And that is your comedy and food news on a Sunday. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Taylor Tomlinson, Adam Schiff, Anthony Carrigan, Noah Cyrus, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Greg Gutfeld, Bill Carter

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert’s Late Show canceled by CBS
• Taylor Tomlinson’s 12:30 show renewal/non-renewal and butterfly effect theory
• Late night ratings comparison across networks
• Late night advertising revenue breakdown
• Colbert’s on-air announcement and emotional audience reaction
• Future of late night TV landscape post-Colbert cancellation

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac. This is a bonus episode for Saturday afternoon. Let me just do the housekeeping and then we’ll talk about Stephen Colbert in this bonus episode. All right, So if you go through the feed, Friday Mornings regular episode recapped Shane Gillison the SPS.

I was a big fan of that podcast episode. It’s got a little loss on the weeds with the Colbert bomb dropping. So that was Friday morning, Friday afternoon, kind of late around six pm Eastern, I dropped a bonus episode about Colbert with all the initial reaction and analysis. This morning was a normal episode. Then tomorrow morning in the feed, you’ll get a normal episode and I will drop a third Colbert bonus episode at noon on Sunday.

As I’ve thought about this, now, stay with me, don’t overreact to the first thing that I’m about to say. Don’t overreact. Let me finish the complete thought before you freak out to think about this. Did Taylor Tomlinson accidentally kill off late Night? Now, stay with me, don’t freak out.

I’m not blaming Taylor at all, but something Bill Carter pointed out CBS had renewed the twelve thirty show with Taylor Tomlinson, then it got unrenewed when Taylor was like, you know what, I kind of want a tour and I can’t do all this anymore. So when she decided not to continue, that’s when they revisited twelve thirty. So I’m wondering when they revisited twelve thirty, then did they start revisiting eleven thirty and wonder, hey, could we live without any of this after all? Because, as Carter points out, if you want to reject the conspiracy theory that this is related to the Trump lawsuit, if you just want to say this is pure financials okay, maybe perhaps possibly, So what would have been the plan We’re going to renew twelve thirty Taylor Tomlinson, and then if you’re killing off the Late show at eleven thirty, what were you going to do? Show Big Bang theory reruns until twelve thirty and then run after midnight?

Or was Taylor Tomlinson before midnight? Can he get eleven thirty? Like? What would have been the plan there? In a scenario where you can’t afford the Late show franchise as CBS suspending it so I’m wondering here, So that makes no sense.

So I’m wondering if Taylor walking away made the executives go, huh, do we really need any of this? I don’t know. And again, please, I’m not blaming Taylor Tomlinson, Okay, can I make that clear. I’m just wondering if this is a butterfly effect Late Night I wrote. Before Stephen Colbert began taping Thursday’s episode of The Late Show, he took time out for his usual audience Q and A.

One fan asked Colbert how he deals with carrying the weight of the show on his shoulders. Colbert deflected the question and said he pointed out that he shares the workload with two hundred of his best friends, acknowledging the staff and crew. The audience was not aware at the time how poignant those words from Colbert were on that particular night. It wasn’t until the end of the taping that Colbert did the reveal. Claire Descent was at the taping and said, they announced we’re going to tape an alternate cold open.

Fans were expecting another piece of comedy, right, so the whole show was in the can. Colbert had done a monologue, talked with guest Adam Schiff, he interviewed Anthony Carrigan, and then they taped this alternate cold open, which is the one we saw Late Nighter writes up until that point. The biggest drama to emerge during the taping was the fact that musician Noah Cyrus didn’t appear, despite being in the opening credits and Colbert touting her as a guest. Late Nighter says Cyrus had pre taped her appearance, a regular practice for the Late Show. Colbert did several retakes of the cold open, stumbling as he performed a turn toward the camera for a cheesy faux surprise.

Oh hey, everybody. After those false starts, writes Late Nighter, Colbert finally delivered the full cold open. Colbert recorded it only once. The audience member said it was complete shocked to everybody, even not as a regular watcher. I was getting emotional because it was so sad.

He could tell this. This is probably a huge shock for everybody. After that segment, Colbert got up and walked to his wife, Evie. Colbert hugged and kissed Evie, who was seen wiping away tears, and the audience left. I’m wondering what’s going to happen to the Ed Sullivan Theater.

I mean, it’s pretty nice theater. It’s not pretty nice real estate. What are what’s going to happen there?

All right, let’s look at the numbers.

Latenighter dot Com says Colbert had been winning the time slot with two point four one seven million listeners across forty one first run episodes, and that the Late Show was the only program to increase in the first quarter, with the show up one percent in the eighteen to forty nine demo. Okay, guys, it’s like again, if you heard the end of Friday’s bonus episode. I’m team Colbert and I really like Late Night, even though I don’t actually watch it, so you know, I’m part of the problem. In the eighteen to forty nine demo, Late Nighter says Colbert had two hundred and nineteen thousand viewers, So I’m assuming people under seventeen aren’t watching it. So of the two point four million and change two point two or fifty plus, they’re old people like me and as cool and hip as I am.

That’s not where the business is. Kimmel second place, one point seven to seven two million, however, beat Colbert in the demo with whopping two hundred and twenty thousand viewers. Again, old people watching this. The youths are not watching this stuff. The Tonight Show with Jimmy fallon third place, which is just crazy to think about one point one eight eight million, and even in the demo, you know, you think maybe Jimmy plays a little younger Jimmy one hundred and fifty seven thousand people between eighteen and forty nine.

I mean, that’s not I’m laughing because I work in podcasting. It’s not that many people. It’s not that many more than stupid Johnny Mackett. His basement is reaching. Honestly, Greg Guttfeld averages three point two eight nine million viewers and two hundred and thirty eight thousand in the Cool People demo.

Late Nighter says Guttfeld was up thirty one point five percent among total viewers and twenty four percent in the demo. Other numbers seth Myers. Yeah, he has a show at twelve thirty nine hund two thousand total viewers, one hundred and eleven thousand in the demo. Nightline, that’s right, Nightlines on ABC. Somehow totally forgot that existed eight hundred and ten thousand viewers one hundred and eight in the demo, and Taylor Thomason’s show was getting five hundred and ninety one thousand viewers and eighty nine thousand in the demo.

The Daily Show averaged nine hundred and ninety four thousand viewers and one hundred and ninety thousand in the demo. Variety says NBC continues to capture the majority of late night ad dollars third place, Fallon Learning thirty three percent or seventy nine million dollars, Seth Meyers eleven percent or twenty six point two million, according to Guideline, So the NBC sales department getting it done. Jimmy Fallon being advertiser friendly smart business Late Show was seventy point two million more than Kimmel, less than Fallon. Bridy writes there’s a feeling that some of Colbier’s commentary makes Late Show something some advertisers prefer to avoid. So what could the future look like?

Well, Jimmy Kimmel signed a new deal in twenty twenty two, is com instantly threatening to walk away. He’s contracted through the end of the twenty five twenty six broadcast seasons, so that would be May of twenty six, same as Colbert. Now, Jimmy and his agent they have what we call hand because if there is no Late Show on CBS, Kimmel would then have the number one show and the CBS audience, big or small as it is, they’re going to go somewhere. So I think Kimmel’s in a good place and that show will continue, would be my guess. Deadline understands that ABC has no plans to cancel the show, and Rob Mills, who oversees Late Night, has said ABC will back Jimmy Kimmel until he decides to clear out his desk.

Both Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers are signed through twenty twenty eight. On his podcast this week, John Stewart said, I believe the timing of this was after Colbert made his commentary on Monday, but before the news of the Late Show ending. John Stewart had said, Unfortunately, I haven’t heard anything from them. I believe that it’s a reference to Skydanants, the new owners. They haven’t called me and said, like, don’t get too comfortable in that office, Stuart, but let me tell you something.

I’ve been kicked out of crappier establishments than that. We’ll land on our feet. Stuart said he honestly doesn’t know if sky Dance would kill the Daily Show, which has been on the air since nineteen ninety six. He said, I’d like to believe without the Daily Show, I don’t know. Comedy Central is kind of like Muzak at this point.

I think we’re the only sort of life that exists on a current basis other than South Park, but it’s the only thing on there. I’d like to think we bring enough value to the property if they’re looking at it purely as a real estate transaction. I think we bring a lot of value, but that may not be their consideration. They may sell the whole effing place for ports. I don’t know.

We’ll deal with it when we do. John Stewart said good things about the staff, including the showrunner and Jordan klepperd as Alantic, Ronny Chieng, Michael Costa. He said, I’m so happy. I’m proud of everybody that works over there. They want to do that and knock themselves out.

As Jay Leno would say about Dorito’s go ahead crunch all you want, we’ll make more. We’ll figure that out when the time comes. That is your bonus episode again, a Sunday morning normal episode where I won’t talk about Colbert at all because I had already recorded that. Tomorrow, at noon Eastern time, I will drop another bonus episode about Colbert because I’ve got a lot more about this, all right, enjoy your Saturday

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jordan Klepper, Jay Leno, Johnny Carson, Marc Maron, Taylor Tumlinson

What’s in This Episode

• Late Night monologue jokes from the week covering Epstein Files and Trump
• Jay Leno hosting record: 4,600+ Tonight Show episodes vs Johnny Carson’s 3,658
• Marc Maron’s HBO special filming at BAM Harvey Theater with anxiety management
• Taylor Tumlinson on safety challenges traveling alone as a female comedian
• Marc Maron discussing wardrobe concerns and medication for foundational anxiety

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. So I’ve been trying to get back in the habit on Fridays of recapping Late Night. Don’t worry you didn’t download the wrong episode. It’s Saturday Calm Down.

But I didn’t do it yesterday because we had so much Gene Gillis to get through. I really like yesterday’s episode. If you missed it, check that one out. So here are some of the better Late Night jokes from the week. One of the topics the Epstein Files.

Jimmy Fallon said, Trump said, everybody move on. It’s a minor issue. And people said, exactly, it’s a minor issue. Fallon again. A thief in Massachusetts stole more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of rare Pokemon cards.

Trust me, the last thing you want to tell your CELLMATEE is that you’re in prison for jacking a squirrel. That’s pretty edgy for Jimmy Fallon. But then I thought about it more and I could see Johnny Carson back in the day nailing that vaguely dirty punchline and mugging for the camera and getting a good life seth Meyers. A newdist group in Pittsburgh over the weekend held its annual Balls Out Bowling event where clothing is not allowed, much to the horror of Jimmy’s eighth birthday party. I like that twist there at the end, more of a straight up tag by Seth.

By the way, whose idea was this, We need an idea for the next nudist event. How about a sport we bend over in front of everyone. Fallin. They’re burning the mega hats. People in China were like, come on, we work so hard making them.

That’s very good. Is Jimmy Fallon quietly handing in great monologues because Colbert is not Oh, I did the prep and I didn’t pull any Colbert jokes. Fallin Again. The excuses are getting worse and worse. Today Trump was like a dog ate the Epstein files than people in Ohio ate the dog.

That is fantastic, Seth Myers. The dating app Bumble has announced plans to lay off about thirty percent of its staff, and it’s pretty cool how they’re doing it. No, no, yes, no Fallon. A woman in California said her home is being flooded with hundreds of unwanted Amazon packages. By the way, an unwanted Amazon package is how Lauren Sanchez described her honeymoon.

Also great Seth Myers. In honor of National hot Dog Day, the convenience store Circle K offered two roller grill hot dogs for a dollar because that’s what they used to cost back when they were first placed on the roller, but Jordan Klepper for the win. Lauren Bobert had suggested that Trump appoint Matt Gates special counsel for the whole Epstein business. Jordan Klepper slammed it with you want Matt Gates to investigate underage sex trafficking. I guess it makes sense in a game recognized game way, I caunes see Matt Gates pulling up to R.

Kelly’s house saying I’m putting together a team fantastic. Randomly, I saw a note that Jay Leno, according to NBC, hosted more than forty six hundred episodes of The Tonight Show, which was the most of any of the six hosts in the show’s history, and I was like, Leno hosted more than Johnny Carson, so I looked it up. Johnny apparently hosted quote unquote only thirty six hundred and fifty eight episodes. So I thought about it, and I think that’s probably lazy math. Leno hosted for twenty two years.

Let’s say he did forty eight weeks a year. He might have done fifty or more, but let’s call it forty eight. I don’t remember Jay taking a lot of time off. So if for twenty two years you did the show five days a week as opposed to four, you would make up one thousand and fifty six shows on Johnny Carson, who for a long while did four days and towards the end only did three days. Oh and now that I’m thinking about it more, I guess part of that would have been Jay Leno was the Monday guest host for a couple of years, you know, so that’s hosting the Tonight Show.

So okay, that math does make sense. But it was very surprising. GQ is a good interview with Mark Maron, and it was nice. Somebody asked Maren something different for a change. GQ asked Maren.

In the past, you’ve spoken about struggling to pick out a good outfit when you’re on stage filming a special. Do you feel like you dialed it in with this one Mark special’s on HBO August first. Maren said, yeah, I mean, that’s been a lifelong journey for me. I committed that shirt and those pants and those boots, and it was I’m quite a bit. Leading up the special, there was an issue with the shirt being a little snug when I sat down the gas between and the buttons would pop open, but like everything kind of fell into place.

I stretched it out when I got there. The wardrobe person, who was an employee at the theater solved that problem by putting snaps in between the buttons that you couldn’t see. So that was resolved. This part of my brain that seeks to be anxious and cost myself minor problems before I go in, because that’s just the way my brain works. That has to work against me in order for me to have a certain energy, I guess, but it wasn’t there that night, and I just didn’t have the usual habitual anxiety that I usually have heading into something like that.

I knew the stuff, I knew the work, I felt good about the outfit, felt good about the shirt, felt good about my hair. There was no weird, dumb stuff that happened that would spiral me out. I mean, it’s about time that that part of my brain stops trying to f with me. I’ve avoided medication for most of my life, but I’ve been taking something specifically for foundational anxiety and maybe it was working, I don’t know. But also that theater is a big part of the special.

Is whatever I did up there in that theater of the Bam Harvey. It’s not disrespair, but it’s frozen in a state of decay in a way. They didn’t distore it, thought it be what it is, but they maintain it. So it’s got a very interesting personality. To me.

Well looked like a rough go painting. And when I first saw the space, I’m like, there’s no way that wall is going to be as big a part of the special as I am. I can’t explain it exactly why, and the DP was like, yeah, I get it. And when he was first looking at it, he’s like, I’m thinking kinsugi. I’m like, I don’t know what that is, and then he told me and I looked it up.

That’s a Japanese order for storing broken ceramic pieces with gold. So he was able to work the lights around that. In the audience in the room and on the rug. Then it fades up during those last two heavier bits under the wall as sort of a reparative poetic implication. Mark Maren panicked August first on HBO, Taylor Tumlinson told The Times of London the hardest thing about being a woman in comedy he’s traveling alone on the road, and so you get to a certain level just more dangerous.

When I was twenty into these small towns and doing these weird gigs by myself, people would try to break into your hotel rooms because they know you’re a loon in the middle of nowhere. It’s scary. Yikes. The reporter was like, what Taylor said, Yeah, you know, we all have those stories. She says traveling for comedy can be isolating.

She’s hired her younger sibling to travel on the road with her, which has helped her a lot. Dating has fallen down the list of the stuff that she’s able to get to. Taylor says, the idea of oh it’s going to happen for you, I don’t know. We’re all on our phones. You might have to try a little bit.

I’m also on the fence about having kids. I don’t know how to feel about that. First things first, I’d like a partner, and I think if I focus the same level of caret attention on that, and it probably happened a little faster. Now that my career is in a place i’m happy with, I have to finish this tour, film the special, finish my book. Then next year I can focus on finding a partner.

I think she’s on the celebrity dating app Raya. Oh yeah, there’s a whole other world out there that you and I are not part of. She says, it stinks. I mean, my last relationship was from Raya, so it does work sometimes, but I think dating is just bad across the board. It can feel uneven because there’s so much information publicly available about me.

If I meet somebody who I don’t know anything about, it feels like they have the high ground. She talked about having more fame and money now, and she said, I’m very conscious of that. You can’t go out on stage and act like, oh, things are still really hard for me, still having a tough time at work. No, you’re not. You’re doing very well.

And I think you just have to come at it from a place of gratitude. It’s because of everybody who buys tickets. If you’re in Maui, you go see Shang Wang tonight. He’ll beat the Max Castle Theater. He told Maui News.

I’m always trying to pay attention. I’m almost trying to be present and just see what’s happening, then collecting little moments, little observations you notice that could be obviously hilarious, or it could just be something interesting that’s not obviously humorous but shared in a funny way. I love creating something that wasn’t here before, that wasn’t here yesterday. I love the process of craft. I love the idea.

It’s so open, it’s pretty free. It’s you, a microphone and an audience. It’s fine if you bomb, that’s say you get better. It’s always fun to do a good show, but having a good set isn’t that meaningful if you don’t try something new. The most rewarding thing is coming up with something new or making it better, and the process of just basically being okay with bombing.

I like the idea that people can now walk out of this show to their regular lives, see these little things and have a moment just a moment there to think where maybe they’re not an autopilot when they’re brushing their teeth. I like the idea that after this show, if people really enjoyed it, they can come across little points into lives where they’re not kind of glossed over or moving through without thinking. We can consider this moment a little bit to be present. Basically, Chang Wang Maccastle Theater tonight, seven o’clock MAUI all right, from Montclairlocal dot com. We are on gossip corner.

Montclair Local was wondering what was going on at Montclair High School the other day because there was a new sign. The school had apparently been renamed Aldrin High School. Now interesting, Buzz Aldrin is from Montclair, New Jersey, but he already has a school in town named in his honor. Susan is a Montclair resident. She was one of the first to spot the sign at around five forty five in the morning while dropping her son off at soccer practice.

She told Montclair Local, my first thought was, am I seeing things? My second thought was how did I not know about this? Have been living under a rock?

And then I thought we already have a Buzz Aldrin Middle school.

It turns out the sign was for Adam Sandler’s new movie Roommates. The film also stars famous actress Sonny Sandler. I may have to leave the country. I’m not gonna be able to take all the Sandler stuff.

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Speaking of leaving the country, it’s just for laughs.

Montreal taking a look at the English language programming tonight, the Cultural Show at seven, the JFL Live sessions at seven. Again if you heard me ran yesterday. This website is not awesome this year. In the past, the live sessions have been album taping, so I’m going to assume that that’s what that is. Eight thirty a show called and just like that, this is Me now an hour with Trana Wintur, The Nasty Show at nine thirty, and probably a good twenty French shows I didn’t tell you about, Oh ten o’clock, Dino Archie and Chris Robinson at ten, and Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine.

This will really start to pick up once we get into the week here. This is very typical Week two of the Montreal comedy festivals, always the stronger week. Don’t read anything into any of this. All right in Belleville, Ontario, a comedian today is hoping to set the world record for most garage sales in one day. Kyle Wolven said, I’d like to go to the higher ups in the city, all the well connected city council type people, and explain my idea.

And then it took one person to say that’s not a bad idea. We should try and do something like that. Well, today the community will aim to set a Guinness World Record for greatest number of yard sales. There does not appear to be an official record yet, but there’s an event in the US called the one twenty seven Yard Sale, which claims to be the world’s longest yard sale, crossing six states at six hundred and ninety miles. Well Wolven said, people can’t help but love yard sales.

If they see one, they get the surge to go and stop at it, even though most of the stuff there they don’t want or they have already at home. But when you see a yard sale, you go, oh, yeah, cool, come on, what do they have over there? You can look at their stuff and be like, oh my goodness, you bought like two of those singing bass fish that hang on the wall things. I’ll give you three fifty for those well, good luck with your record, sir, and that it’s your comedy news for today see tomorrow.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Donald Trump, Jimmy Kimmel, Greg Gutfeld, Bill Carter, Joe Scarborough, Elizabeth Warren, Adam Scott, Ben Stiller, Anderson Cooper

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert Late Show cancelation announcement
• Paramount settlement with Trump over CBS News lawsuit
• Writers Guild of America response to Colbert cancelation
• Political pressure and free speech concerns in network television
• Comparison to other late-night cost-cutting measures at NBC

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. On social media, Donald John Trump posted, I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next has even less talent than Colbert. Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the more on on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show.

Hello, I’m Johnny Mac. This is the Friday afternoon bonus edition of Daily Comedy News. This episode is entirely about Colbert quick housekeeping. The normal episodes will come out at the normal time Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and those are Colbert less, although I can tell you in the Saturday morning episode, I pointed out that Colbert didn’t have any good monologue jokes this week. I recorded that before the news dropped around that I’m going to do these Colbert specific bonus episodes.

There will be another one of these on Saturday. There will be another one of these on Sunday, and we’ll take it from there. For this episode, I’m going to capture all the reactions. Let’s start with the Writer’s Guilds of America. They put out a statement on July second, Paramount agreed to settle a baseless lawsuit brought against sixty minutes in CBS News by President Trump for sixteen million dollars.

On July fifteenth, during a regular show of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Colbert went on air and called the settlements a quote big fat bribe unquote in exchange for a favorable decision on the proposed merger between Paramount and Skydants, a charge currently under investigation in California. Less than forty eight hours later, on July seventeenth, Paramount canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a show currently performing first in its time slot, giving vague references to the program’s financial performance as the only explanation. For ten years, the show has been one of the most successful, beloved, and profitable programs on CBS, entertaining an audience of millions on late night television, on streaming services, and across social media. Given Paramount’s recent capitulation to President Trump in the CBS News lawsuit, the Writer’s Skill of America has significant concerns that the Late Show’s cancelation as a bribe, sacrificing free speech to curry favor with the Trump administration as the company looks for merger approval. The statement continues, cancelations are part of the business, but a corporation terminating a show in bad faith due to explicit or implicit political pressure is dangerous and unacceptable in a democratic society.

Skipping ahead, the Writers Guild of America calls on New York State Attorney General Letitia James, no stranger to prosecuting Trump for illegal business practices, to join California and launch an investigation into potential wrongdoing at paramount. CBS had a statement. It reads, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert will end its historic run in May twenty twenty six, at the end of the broadcast season. We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire the Late Show franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home.

He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television. Now, let me pick that statement apart. Okay, so why are you bringing up if this is about finances, why are you saying we consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable. Stephen Colbert is replaceable. David Letterman was replaceable Johnny Carson was replaceable, Jack Parr was replaceable.

Stephen Colbert is replaceable. But if you’re ending the franchise over money, why you’re bringing up that there is no franchise with which to replace him unless you’re suggesting or your words are ahead of your brain, and there’s it was a scenario where you had the Late Show without Stephen Colbert, perhaps possibly maybe who knows, for political reasons that you wanted Colbert out? Maybe so your deal gets through. Perhaps possibly maybe I don’t know. I don’t work for CBS or Paramount or Skydance.

I don’t know, but we consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and we’ll retire the Late Show franchise at that time. Why are you bringing that up? Very strange. Latenighter dot Com will be a great resource during all this. Bill Carter is the author of The Late Shift, quite possibly the world’s foremost expert in late night television.

Bill Carter rights on Late Night Er under the headline CBS sites costing Colbert cancelation. The timing tells a different story. Bill writes. Trump has a long standing animist toward Colbert. Last September, he called him a complete and total loser, not funny, and all caps very boring.

He literally called for CBS to quote terminate his contract unquote. He also has a history of threatening the licenses of broadcast networks with late night hosts who make fun of him. That didn’t face Colbert, who has shown no signs of tempering his nightly puncturing of Trump. He returned from vacation this past Monday and labeled the CBS to ole to pay Trump off instead of fighting the sixty minute suit a big fat bribe. For all those reasons, it’s hard to accept the stated reasoning behind today’s announcement at face value.

Bill points out that at the start of the twenty four to twenty five season, NBC reacted to economic pressure by dropping one night of The Tonight Show from five to four and eliminating the band on the Seth Meyers Show. Bill Carter writes, but CBS didn’t try any of those cost saving moves, or any cost saving moves at all. It’s simply cut off the franchise of the neck. It seems especially a considering that CBS earlier this year had quietly renewed its twelve thirty five AM show after midnight and only reversed course when Taylor Thomlinson quit the show. All of which is to say, as it’s just a few months ago, every indication was that CBS intended to maintain its two hour late night block into the foreseeable future.

Something happened to change that. Did the cost situation become completely untenable or was it Colbert’s Trump centric comedy that became completely unacceptable. Separately, I’ve seen Bill Carter quoted in the Washington Post as saying, if CBS thinks for people just going to swallow this, they’re really deluded. Some reactions from around the internet. Joe Scarborough said, it’s terrible because you had the settlement with Donald Trump, and then you had Colbert and John Stewart criticizing that decision.

Then a week later they’re saying, oh, unfortunately, we don’t have the money to continue this. You can make that economic argument, but that economic argument should have been made weeks before this, or should have been made a couple months down the road. This just makes it look completely connected with the sixty minute settlement. Senator Elizabeth Warren said CBS canceled Colbert’s show just three days after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its sixteen million dollars settlement with Trump, a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Severance actor Adam Scott posted, love you, Steven. This is absolute BS and I for one, I’m looking forward to the next ten months of shows. Ben Stiller tweeted sorry to hear CBS is canceling one of the best shows they have, wishing all the people who work so hard on that show all the best. Anderson Cooper on CNN said Stephen Colbert is smart, and he’s funny and has actual conversations with people on his program XCM and reporter Jim Acosta commented on the story with the image of Marsha Brady from The Brady Bunch doing the shore. Jan Judd Apatow on Instagram, My admiration and appreciation for you is bottomless excited to see what other brilliants who put into the world.

Katie Couric said, I’m so upset about this. I need more information. Rachel Ziegler said, I am extremely sad. I adore you, Steven. John Patiste, who used to lead Colbert’s band, called him the greatest to ever do it.

On Instagram, author Stephen King said Colbert canceled, Please tell me it’s a joke. Jamie Lee Curtis was on the Red carpet and was asked about it, and she said it’s bad. They’re trying to silence people. John Cusack shared a clip of Stephen Colbert on social media and wrote, he’s not groveling enough to American fascism. Larry Ellison needs his tax cuts, doesn’t need comedians reminding people they’re not cattle.

Bernie Sanders said CBS’s billionaire owners paid Trump sixteen million dollars to set all a Bobus lawsuit while trying to sell the network to sky Dance. Stephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent, the most popular late night host, slams the deal. Days later, he’s fired. Do I think this is a coincidence? No?

All caps. Andy Cohen said it’s a sad day for late night television. I think it’s a sad day for CBS. I think Stephen Colbert is a singular talent. He’s going to have an incredible next chapter.

I can’t believe CBS is turning off the lights at eleven thirty after the local news. I’m stunned he’s one of three late night shows deep worthy enough for an Emmy nomination. He produces a brilliant show. Bill Burr posted on thread sad news about Colbert, but I’m sure it’s purely a financial descis It’s not like CBS whatever, cancel a comedy show for political reasons, and he included an image of the Smothers brothers below that. Jimmy Fallon said he was just as shocked as everyone.

I really thought I’d ride this out with him for years to come. Seth Meyers said, for as great as a comedian host he is, Colbert was an even better person and joke that Colbert can no longer use the excuse that he’s too busy to hang out. Jimmy Kimmel went on Instagram and wrote, love you, Stephen, f you and all your Sheldon’s CBS. The New York Times writes executive stressed in the announcement that the cut was purely a financial decision. The Times asked, is that the truth or merely truthy?

They then talk about the settlements and write many legal experts said the deal was an unnecessary concession and a frivolous case. At minimum, it undermined one of TV journalism’s most accomplished independent voices, that being sixty minutes, talk show hosts have bit in the hand that signs the contracts. Before Lutterman needled NBC and it’s then parent, General Electric. But back then the issues didn’t involve conflicts with a press. Is it willing to pull any necessary levers to punish and influence media outlets?

Now? Paramount wants to assure us that the cancelation of one of the president’s most famous critics is totally coincidentally business, and sure it absolutely could be. The Independent wrote that they understand Colbert’s program had become costly to run over the years, and it was potentially a dream on the network’s bottom line, but many people working at CBS don’t fully believe the narrative. One senior staffer at CBS told The Independent that no one at the network is buying that it’s a financial decision, adding that the demise of the flagship left everyone stunned, including famous comedians that the source said they knew. Another staffer told The Independent how that they had been told the show had been on the chopping block for a few years because it was very expensive to produce, but at the same time didn’t think that was the reason for the sudden announcement.

A staffer said, many of us think this was part and parcel of the Trump shakedown settlement. USA today wonders if Colbert can’t survive this this landscape, it’s not clear if anyone can. According to Late Nighter dot Com, Late Show was leading the pack in ratings with an average of two point four to one to seven million viewers for the three months that in June. Kimmel and Fallon were far behind, averaging one point seventy seven and one point nine respectively. Well, tonight, youoent third place, but discuss that at a different time.

Cnn I talked about the financial picture. They quote Guideline and add data firm that estimates that the network at late night shows earned a four hundred and thirty nine million dollars in AD revenue in twenty eighteen and only two hundred and twenty million in twenty twenty four, decline a fifty percent. CBS had been worried about the dynamics for months, even the last few years, according to two people familiar with the situation, While Colbert was officially told Wednesday. Apparently, executives have been talking about the costs for several weeks, now holding off on final judgment to allow Stephen Colbert and the staff to enjoy the July fourth hiatus. Variety says.

One of the sources say executives didn’t want to force a pay cut or call for trims, and couldn’t look away from declines and ad support for the entire format. They point out CBS treated Colbert a lot like his predecessor, Letterman wasn’t always eager to take on product placement projects or produce sitcoms or game shows, and CBS respected the decision because of his standing. They felt the same way about Colbert, and yet rivals were picking up many more of these projects, like a bar sponsored by Anheuser Busch and Heineken that had a prominent place on Cordon. Kimmel has long embraced doing commercials in show. Fallon takes part in an ad deal with Ford Motor Company.

Those extras help the network and make the host more of a full time ambassador, according to one person familiar with the mechanics of late night television. Variety points out people familiar with the matter, say, the Colbert CBS relationship was never a tense one, and no Colbert eagerly took on whatever extra duties the network suggested. He helped launch a comedic sports special built around pickleball, and took a hand in producing After Midnight and promoting Taylor Tomlinson. And this is very interesting. While the decision may look like blowback for Colbert’s commentary, executives weren’t prepared to make a move in May when they could have used it to win extra ad support in the industry’s annual upfront ad sales.

More and they didn’t want to make it without speaking to Colbert directly, something they didn’t want to do while he was on vacation. But they couldn’t wait, say, till the start of next TV season. Late night writers and producers typically signed one year deals August to August. When contracts tied to the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six programming cycle went out to agents, they would only keep people employed through May. CBS executives knew the news of the decision would leak and quickly, so they had to make the move.

My take all right, loudly and clearly. I’m on Team Colbert and all this. This is terrible. It’s a shame that the Late Show franchise is ending after thirty years, really terrible. I like Colbert.

He seems to be a good guy. I’ve only heard great things about him, never met him, But I’ve never seen one bad word about Colbert. Of the timing, Yeah, it does seem suspicious. On the other hand, I’ve been a longtime media executive, and I’ll talk about this more over the weekend. There are some bonus episodes coming about this topic.

If the show’s losing like forty million dollars a year, why wouldn’t you just error prices right rerun? I mean, seriously, it’s a busy this at the end of the day that many fewer people going to watch a you know, they’re on a Seinfeld rerun, they’re on a Big Bang Theory rerun. It probably won’t do all that worse. And the other one, I’d have to ask everyone, when’s the last time you watched The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? Now, maybe for you personally listener last night might be the answer.

I think for me, and I like the guy, and I like the idea. I think, honestly, the last time I watched The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was his first night. It’s just I don’t watch. As much as I love Late Night, I don’t watch any of it live. I’m not up at eleven thirty, and if I am, I’m not watching live TV.

So you know, times change. This is very painful for all of us. But and again I am suspicious. My spidy sense is screaming like everyone else. But that aside, it’s not the craziest idea to just, like I said, just to air Price’s right reruns.

All right, that is your bonus episode for Friday afternoon. Like I said, normal episode in on Saturday morning. I won’t talk about this at all. Was already recorded before any of this news break Saturday afternoon. At some point there’ll be another bonus episode.

I’ll schedule it for noon Eastern. So at noon Eastern, you’ve got a Saturday bonus episode Sunday morning, a normal Sunday episode already in the can. I won’t talk about Colbert at all. Sunday at noon, another bonus episode about Colbert. All right, appreciate you listening.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Conan O’Brien, Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Shador Sanders, Caitlyn Clark, Shohei Ohtani, Bill Belichick, Norm MacDonald, Travis Hunter, Simone Biles, Jordan Hudson, Brittany Hicks, Joe Rogan, Juan Soto, Adam Silver

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis hosts 2025 ESPYs monologue performance
• Political jokes about Donald Trump and UFC on White House lawn
• Shador Sanders jersey retirement nepotism joke
• Caitlyn Clark WNBA jokes and audience reactions
• Shohei Ohtani betting scandal jokes
• Bill Belichick age gap relationship jokes
• Norm MacDonald tribute joke about Travis Hunter
• Mixed critical reviews and social media backlash
• Women’s sports representation critique from ESPN reporter Sarah Spain

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Shane Gillis crushed it. Hi. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I will do the late night stuff tomorrow instead of the usual Friday, because I really want to cover this Shane stuff.

I thought he was fantastic. There are some mixed reviews on the internet, which we will discuss here, but I think it’s the number two comedy thing of the year. That Mark Twain Conan O’Brien thing is number one, But Shane’s monologue here fantastic. Now understand the crowd. You’ve got a bunch of famous athletes who are you trying to act like their Hollywood And you can see the vibe is should we laugh at that?

Or are we allowed to laugh at that? Yes, laugh at it. It’s funny. Got a bunch of clips for you. Let’s start with the political material.

You’re Shane Gillis discussing the news of the week. Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC fight on the White House lawn. The last time he staged a fight in DC, Mike Pens almost died. You don’t have to do that. Who’s fine.

I didn’t write it. Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here. But. As it got deleted, must have probably deleted itself, right, probably never existed. Actually, let’s move on as a country and ignore that.

Uh all right, that’s very very funny. Come on, everybody, lighten up here. In this next clip, Shane kind of loses the crowd with a very solid Shadoor Sanders joke that’s not for nothing on point. Then in the second half, Shane it reminds me of Letterman or maybe even Carson on a night where Johnny Carson knew that the monologue wasn’t quite working, but he would win the crowd over by almost switching to the audience’s side, going yeah, I know these jokes are bad, but let’s just roll with it. Can you hear Shane shift gears here?

And I think he nailed it. And there’s two jokes about Kaitlyn Clark in this segment. I’ll play the first joke about Kaitlyn Clark, which is a home run joke. You people need to lighten up. Snorg Sanders had his jersey number retired at Colorado this year, and people are saying it’s because of nepotism, because of his father, and it’s not it’s because he went thirteen to twelve over his career and he almost won the Alamo Bowl.

Definitely not nepotism, right, all right, it’s a big year for the WNBA. I love Kaitlyn Clark. Kate Yeah, hell yeah, same man, Kaitlyn Clark. She and I have a lot in common. We’re both whites from the Midwest who have nailed a bunch of threes.

And here’s the second Caitlyn Clark joke. This one sourced from Better Audio, and this one seems to have people in a little kerfluffle. When Caitlyn Clark retires from the WNBA, she’s going to work at a waffle house so she can continue doing what she loves most, fist fighting black women. The setup for this next clip, we’re rolling out of a show. Hey Otani joke.

If you’re not into sports, there was a whole betting thing in the Otani universe a few years back. So that’s the setup into this joke. And I won’t spoil where it’s heading, but it’s solid. Picture. Hitter and Bookie.

A bookie is what Bill Belichick reads to his girlfriend before bedtime. They do. They read the very Horny Caterpillar The Little Engine that Could but needed a pill first, and of course the classic good Night Boobs. That’s my favorite one.

Also, I’m not trashing Bill Belichick.

First off, he’s seventy three years old. He’s dating a hot twenty four year old and people are criticizing him. What happened to this country? He used to be a great country. He won six super Bowls.

Yeah, he’s dating a hot twenty four year old. Maybe if you guys won six super Bowls, you wouldn’t be sitting next to a fat, ugly dog wife. They let me do it, I don’t. This is Disney. They allowed that, and a nice move by Sheen here at the end.

I don’t think the audience had any idea what he was doing here, which is why it went flat. But this is a tribute to Norm MacDonald. I shared that joke the other day Norm McDonald at the sb’s and I think this is word for word what Norm said, but here it is performs by Shane Gillis. There’s one thing I want to say before I get out of here, and this is a dumb joke. You guys aren’t even like it, buddy, it was It’s just a Norm McDonald joke that I loved Dwen Eos to the SBS.

I’m gonna do it now. Travis Hunter won the Heisman Trophy this year. He’s the first defensive player since Charles Woodson to win the Heisman. Congratulations Travis Hunter winning the Heisman. That’s something they could never take away from you.

How you kill your wife and a waiter, in which case they could take that away from you. Well, see a lot of you don’t like me, and that’s. Okay, okay. If you listen to this podcast, you’re probably some sort of comedy fan. You’ve heard the jokes.

What did you think? Pretty good? Now, well, let’s look at the reviews from People Magazine. Shane Killis struggles for laughs in twenty twenty five SP’s monologue as he mocksim Owned Biles Comma Jordan Hudson. Some crowd members booed as Gillis struggled through his sb’s monologue, telling the crowd at one point to lighten up.

I think I have that clip. We will get to it. The controversial comedian again with that? What is he controversial for? For the SNL thing?

How many years ago? Is that? Now? I got news for everybody. Shane Gillis has arrived.

Shane Gillis is super popular. You can keep writing controversial in your articles because everyone else is writing that. But Shane Gillis has arrived. The controversial comedian thirty seven, who hosted Saturday Night Live in March, took to the state blah blah blah, but largely Gillis’s performance appeared to fall flat. At one point, several crowd members booed from the mezzanine, and another point, the comedian defended a joke that didn’t land by saying, I didn’t write it.

That’s just a comedy move. Relax, Relax, it’s an award show. USA Today headline Kaitlin Clark jokes during Shane Gillis sb’s monologue met with mixed reactions, as Shane said, line up a little, it’s not serious. Awful, announcing reports that the monologue didn’t go over well with former ESPN reporter Sarah Spain. Apparently on social media, Sarah wrote, in a year of crazy growth for women’s sports, choosing an sb’s host who doesn’t even try to make clever jokes about women athletes, he at least attempted for the men he goes with Hackey, no one knows the WNBA bits.

Okay, you want to go there and say it’s hacke to say nobody knows the WNBA. Here’s Shane Gillis, four. Time WNBA All Star, Britney Hicks is here. Give it up for Brittany, everybody, I’m uh, I’m joking around. That’s my friend’s wife.

I knew none of you knew WNBA players. That’s crazy. You clap for that, uh boy? Four time All Star, four time All Star. Brittany Hicks got a big ovation there.

Too bad she doesn’t exist. The woman that was shown on camera is the wife of Matt McCusker. As for the quote drawing jeers from the balcony, I believe this is the clip. The first word here in the clip I’m gonna share is his upcut is what we call in the industry. He’s talking about Joe Rogan.

So if you’re like, what was that first word, the first word is Rogan. Brogan actually wanted me to be here to host this award show so that I could capture Adam Silver because Joe thinks he’s an alien, and Donald Trump wanted me to be here to capture Juan Soto for the same reason. It’s an alien joke. You bowed up there, dude. Shut up.

From pajeeba dot com, Shane Gillis bombed as host of the SBS, Dustin Rolls writes, I am not a fan of Shane Gillis for political reasons. His politics are garbage. I don’t like bro humor or racist jokes. And he’s an albeit somewhat still smarter than Joe Rogan. But that’s not why Shane Gillis is a bad comedian.

He’s a bad comedian because he has no idea how to tell a joke. Oh, you’re wrong. He knows how to tell a joke. He knows how to work a room. His body language tells you that we’re all just having a good time.

His body language tells you these are just jokes. Lighten up. Dustin Rolls in Pajeeba, who writes Gillis doesn’t know how to play to a crowd unless they’re already on his side. He folds in front of a neutral audience and flat out crumbles in front of a hostile one. He lacks timing, confidence and basic delivery skills, qualities that separate actual comedians from hacks yelling crappy punchlines into a void.

Dustin, I suggest you go and watch some Johnny Carson monologues. When Johnny is quote unquote bombing, those are his best performances, and I see that in sane. Yes, I just compared Shane Giles to Johnny Carson. Write it down. Dustin Rolls writes, that’s why both of his Saturday Night Live monologues bombed, and like a true hack, he blamed the audience.

I’m sure he’ll do it again after face planning as host of the SP’s because once again he bombed. It wasn’t just the material, though, yes, the material is bad. The guy can’t land a joke. He stutters, he second guesses, he telegraphs the flop before the punchline even arrives. Say what you want about Ricky Gervais and his garbage, transphobic bits.

At least he delivers them with the confidence of a garbage, transphobic white guy. Gillis.

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Meanwhile, the flex blame to his writers or throws up a red flag before the j…

No, Shane, A room full of professional athletes probably isn’t going to laugh about the President deporting one of them. That’s the one Soto choke, one grown one boo, and his confidence shatters. Michael Jay he thrives off that energy. Gill Us, he flinches. Even his rare decent line he had won about his Epstein joke being deleted was mangled in delivery.

And when a joke actually lands, like as Caitlin Clark bit the one with the punchline Bunch of threes, he scolds the audience for not laughing more. Now, look, I know he idolizes Norm MacDonald, but aping Norm’s material and rushing through it like you’re trying to get off stage doesn’t make you Norm. What are you talking about, dude? Norms deadpan, misfires, classes and comedic subversion. Gillis just bombs, shrugs, and says, well, I see a lot of people here don’t like me, and that’s okay.

I think this is best summed up by The New York Post saw somebody in social media who wrote, if you were offended by Shane Gillis’s sb’s monolog, I can assure you that no one likes to hang around you. Amen. All right, let me get out the machete because I’m already long here. I just get two good stories, all right, But I got to get to Pete Davidson on gossip Corner. TMZ reports Pete Davidson and girlfriend Elsie Hewitt are expecting their first baby together.

Back in March, People reported that Elsie and Pete were seen on a date in Palm Beach. They were seen swimming in the ocean and sharing a smooch in the water. In May, a source told People Pete and Nelsie had been living together in New York for the past few months. They’re splitting their time between Pete’s house and Upstate New York and a brownstone they recently started renting in Brooklyn. They’re so happy together and doing great well.

We will get confirmation directly from Pete Davidson. I guess he will be the guest on The Tonight Show. On Tuesday, July twenty second now, Elsie Hewitt posted on Instagram, well now everybody knows we had sex and captioned a collection of photo that included herself, Pete Davidson, and a sonogram. Pete Davidson is not on social media these days. Pete is out promoting his new horror film The Home, which is out on July twenty fifth, So we’ll be hearing a lot from Pete Davidson in upcoming days.

While we’re on Gossip Corner, Adam Sandler and famous Hollywood actress Sonny Sandler were seen in Cranford, New Jersey. Apparent lay crew from Happy Medicine Productions were set up in a parking lot in Westfield, New Jersey, where on stage theater camp is taking place, and some of the campers were excited that filming was taking place in a house near their own rehearsals. A nice thirteen year old young lady, her mom, and some friends decided to follow the signs from base camp to the set. The young lady said, we were just chilling on the sidewalk with like me and ten other people maybe, and we just kind of waited there until they called for lunch.

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And then outside one of the houses, Adam Sandler like just out and everybody …

Then he came and he took someone’s phone and he took a group picture with all of us. Famous actress Sonny Sandler, who started in you were so not invited to my bot. Mitzvagh also came out and signed the things for her fans, and we are now one week away from Happy Gilmore too. I may have to leave the country. I mean, I’m not sure I’m gonna be able to put up with a week of Adam Sandler press, especially if people are pretending that Adam Sandler comedies are good.

No word yet on Happy Gilmore two, no buzz.

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Meanwhile, the Naked Gun people are putting everybody out there letting you k…

I’ll get into that in a couple of days. But the buzz on Naked Gun is really strong. The buzz on Happy Gilmore two and Adam Sandler comedy I’m not hearing any. So Happy Gilmore Two’s out Friday the twenty fifth. Reports our Netflix is taking Happy Gilmore one off Netflix on July thirty first, So get your Happy Gilmore in while you still can.

We’re another way to look at it is the universe will be slightly better in August that it wasn’t July. I mean, yeah, I Veer does. His new special is out on Netflix today, this one called Fool Volume and on substack. W Kamala Bell has a substack, so do I. There’s a link to mine in the show notes.

Actually I started a second one. I haven’t talked about it on here. I started a second one called Daily Comedy News, and it’s basically the show notes for this show. I think if you listen to me every day, honestly, you don’t need to subscribe to that substack. I’m doing that to try and get more people in by using the substack engine and embedding the show.

But if you listen to me every day, you really don’t need to subscribe to that one. But my one called media Thoughts, you may want to subscribe to that anyway on substack. W kamal Bell this spoke to me. I even commented that it spoke to me, and I got a thumbs up from Comel Back. He wrote in New York City with my fourteen year old, teaching her the difference between a corner store, a convenience store, a drug store, and a badega.

That speaks to me. Boy, we are long again. Remember those two weeks where there was nothing to talk about? And this week is all twenty minute episode. I already recorded Sunday Sunday Strong.

Saturday is going to be strong, and I can tell you as we’re quote unquote live here. I’ve bumped up couple things that are going to go into Monday, so Monday is going to be strong as well. As you’re listening on Friday. Hopefully I’m at the beach. That was the plan because I can’t go to the beach this weekend, and the forecast was nice for today, so hopefully I’m out there somewhere not recording podcast.

No offense. Now I’m trying to tell you what’s at just for laughs tonight. New owners, you got to make it easier to sort the website by date. The only way I seem to be able to do that is to go into pretending I’m buying tickets. Okay.

As I pointed out before, they’re doing plenty of French language shows, which I think is a fantastic but as an English language podcast, I will focus on the English language ones. At seven o’clock, the Nightly Culture Show.

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Also at seven o’clock Best of the Fest, eight thirty the Montreal Show hosted…

Guessing that is local comedians. Again, because I’m on the ticket website and can’t click. You guys had this, the previous owners had this a little better. Not for nothing, I can’t even forget how to search for it. I’ll assume it’s local Montreal comedians, another Montreal show at ten o’clock in, another Nasty show at eleven fifty nine, and midnight Surprise at eleven to fifty nine.

If you were new to the festival or airline industry, you don’t schedule things at twelve zero zero because people get confused as to what that means. AMPM, Is it today? Is it tomorrow? So you either do things at eleven fifty nine or twelve oh one. So that’s why the eleven fifty nine shows, it’s just a lot more clear.

We all understand what Friday means sometimes, so I go, hey, let’s go on Friday night and meet you at midnight. That could get wonky. It’s eleven fifty nine. I have looked ahead. Believe me, this is really going to pick up.

I was prepping for next week because I may leave the country if they’re going to put out an Adam Sandler movie. So I wanted to record some shows before I abandon y’all. So I was looking at the schedule for next week, and it’s it’s strong.

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This is not a commercial, This is a news item. So if you want to check out the Daily Friday podcast, that’s the thing that exists. This weekend, the Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy is inviting fans to a weekend full of laughter and nostalgia. It is the second annual Red Skelton Comedy Convention in Vincenne’s. This year’s theme, Clem Goes to Hooterville, celebrates rural comedy.

Activities include guided bus tours of Red Skelton’s hometown, landmarks, film screenings, guest talks, and the twentieth annual Red Skelton Shrine and Clown Parade through downtown Saturday at eleven. Comedian Bob Nelson will perform Saturday night at seven point thirty, and Pratt, who’s the executive director of the Red Skelton Museum, said, not as many people got to see Bob Nelson last year as I really wish could have, because he’s so funny. A meaning tire place was literally laughing, so our stomach’s hurt. He’s that funny kind of reminds you of Read Skelton. Any Great Comedy Outdoor Festival hits Edmonton this weekend and Kinsman’s Park.

This year’s lineup includes Martin Short, kameiln on Gianni, and Fortune Fiemester No website. Edifhi Edmonton caught up with park ranger Donovan, who was offering a preview of what to expect. Ediphi was curious what does Donovan do as the park ranger. Donovan said, I personally welcome everybody at the gate. Then I go through the park before the event, make sure everybody’s happy and answer questions.

After that, I go on stage, make some jokes and do all the housekeeping before the show starts. Then at the end of the night, I pop out of the gates again and I thank every single person for coming to the show and hope to see them next year. He has a raccoon companion named Rudy. Donovan explains, I’m a really nice guy, but Rudy can say terrible, rude things. I wonder if that’s his name.

Rudy is the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival at Mascot and I’m miss Handler, so we’re like Yogi Bear and the park Ranger. However, Rudy doesn’t come out all the time because sometimes when people get a little drunk they get handsy and I could take it, but Rudy can’t. All right, park Ranger, what was your favorite moment from last year? Uh? Oh, he’s people gonna get mad at this.

His answer was Shane Gill went on stage and was like, oh my god, I don’t have a belt. My pants are gonna fall off. So I whipped out my belt, my shorts fell to the ground, and I gave Sen Gillis my belt so you could perform. At the end of the night, he rolled it up very nicely with a little note that said, thank you so much for saving the day. And that is your comedy news for today.

Lots more tomorrow see then.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Shane Gillis, John Stewart, Conan O’Brien, Sarah Silverman, Nikki Glaser

What’s in This Episode

• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert canceled by CBS in May 2026
• CBS exiting late night television due to financial reasons
• Paramount Global acquisition by Skydance Media and impact on comedy shows
• Speculation about The Daily Show with John Stewart’s future
• Variety’s Comedy Impact Report and 10 Comics to Watch list
• Nikki Glaser profile in Variety on stand-up comedy impact

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. All right, bonus episode. The headline Late Show with Stephen Colbert is coming to an end, but let’s just catch our breath and catch up here. So it’s around eight o’clock Thursday night. I’m minding my own business.

I’m watching the season premiere of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, which was really good, by the way, and it’s just been a fascinating day. Let’s do the Colbert story and then I’ll catch you up on everything else that’s been going on. Thanks to Mike, who stuck this in the Facebook group where it probably wouldn’t have seen it until tomorrow morning. The News, in a shocking move, reports CNN CBS is ending the Late Show with Stephen Colbert next year, and probably getting out of Late night altogether. The cancelation takes effect May twenty twenty six, at the end of the normal broadcast TV season.

Industry experts are raising an eyebrow because the Late Show is typically the highest lighted show in late night. CBS, in a statement said quote, this is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night is not related in any way to the show’s performance. Contents or other matters happening at Paramount. Colbert shared the news during Thursday evenings taping, So if you happen to catch this episode Thursday night, I guess watch Colbert tonight at eleven thirty. Stephens said next year will be our last season.

There were audible booze heard in the studio audience. The network will be ending our show in May. It’s the end of the late show on CBS. This is all just going away. Colbert said he found out about the decision Wednesday night and said, I do want to say the folks at CBS have been great partners.

I’m so grateful to the tifty network for giving me this chair in this beautiful theater to call home. And I’m of course grateful to you the audience who have joined us every night in here, out there and around the world. Colbert took over for Letterman in twenty fifteen and said I wish somebody else was getting it after Colbert now of note. On Monday’s show, when Colbert returned from vacation, he condemned the Paramount’s settlements. They had settled a lawsuit with the President.

Colbert likened it to a big fat bribe, I mean, very very interesting. Colbert has been a frequent critic of the current administration. People will also now have their eyes on The Daily Show with John Stewart. There had been speculation that the Daily Show could be canceled or John Stewart acts as part of this whole paramount CBS negotiation thing. A lot of money going around, So we’ll see how this develops.

All right, just to catch you up transparency, It’s the summer and on Friday, I want to go to the beach because I can’t go to the beach this weekend. So I was like, all right, I’ll tape Friday and Saturday. So my normal pattern I usually do this. I don’t do this seven days week. I try and do it forour So on Wednesday, I recorded Thursday show, and I recorded a Sunday show, and then I do Friday Saturday back to back, and sometimes Friday Saturday Monday.

Also industry wise, usually news, the kind of news that makes the trades drops by ten am Eastern, Like if you’re going to put something in the Hollywood Reporter of Variety one of those, it’s by ten am Eastern.

Also a rule of thumb, you don’t release news on a Friday.

You definitely don’t release good news on a Friday, and you don’t do that in the summer because people take beach days. You do sometimes release bad news on a summer Friday. Say you’re canceling your late night franchise. That’s something you might want to put out on a summer Friday. So I did my normal noon ish recording session today and banged out a bunch of episodes, and I was editing them.

Variety frankly annoying the heck out of me. They announced a whole bunch of stuff. I’ll tell you what the stuff is. I’m not going to do it now. I’ll probably do it on Tuesday because against transparently.

Oh, I just open up the Variety to tell you what the articles are, and I see right top story Colbert canceled. Let’s see what Variety’s doing this. I’m doing a very casual episode here, as you can tell. This article says there’s been growing speculation of both Colbert and John Stewart each could be under growing scrutiny from the executives. That’s the Finance Media, which is slated to acquire Paramount Global, the parent of both CBS and Comedy Central, and I’ll editorialize the people that have ruined Star Trek.

Although the season premiere was pretty good. It was the first good episode of Star Trek in quite some time. But that’s not why you’re here, So I won’t go on a Star Trek rant anyway. The other stories that dropped today already knocked off the front page of Variety. Wow, that was quick.

So they dropped all this. I know them all over the place. They dropped all this around one forty five. Not working with a script. I’m just free forming.

At one five, Variety released the Comedy Impact Report subheader how Conan O’Brien Sarah Silverman on the Daily Show News team set the tone for What’s funny in twenty twenty five. I will get to that on Tuesday. So here’s why. Like I said, I already taped the whole weekend, and to go in and redo it, there’s a flow like I’m setting up. I’m being very transparent.

I’m setting up some Adam Sandler jokes. There are callbacks I have date specific today at the Montreal Comedy Festival type segments and to just go in and READO all that would just be a ton of works. I figured, let me just do this very casual bonus episode and again I will get to the Comedy Impact Report on Tuesday, although I suspect this Colbert thing is gonna be huge. Oh by the way, and in the morning, listen to the Shane Gillis episode. Shane fantastic, absolutely fantastic.

I thought the material he crushed it. I thought the audience decided from the second he walked out that we’re not gonna laugh at this man. But the material was great. I digress. So if Ridy put out the Comedy Impact Report, they also put out the Variety ten Comics to Watch Now The Why that came out on a Thursday afternoon and not last Monday or maybe even next Monday.

I don’t know why. On the list Friend of the Show, Gianmarco Soresi Ciresi real Quick, also Mary Beth Baron, Mojo Brooks, Joe Dembrowski, Robbie Hoffman, Nate Jackson, Sorry right up in about Nate in the La Times about two weeks ago, Morgan, Jay, John Marco, Joe Yang Summers, Steph tolev Interesting and to Kara Williams. All Right, I’ll get into that on Tuesday as well. For reasons already discussed.

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Also also to annoy Johnny Mac, Variety put out today a big profile of Nikki G…

We all thought I was going to die. That will also go into Tuesday show, maybe even Wednesday show, because there is just a lot going on. So the upcoming episodes, they’re all long, they’re all meaty. You’ve heard me talk for several days about how much is going on, even this bonus episode. I’m looking at the clock here.

The raw recording is approaching the ten minute mark as I babble. So it’s not like I did filler all weekend. I was catching up all weekend. So you’ve got tomorrow Shane Gillis, and they’ve got Saturday, Sunday, Monday, And I don’t know if if I have to do bonus episodes about this Colbert stuff, I will do bonus episodes about this Colbert stuff. But just wow, I’m kind of shocking and well not really given the current environment.

I see Mike from the Letterman podcast just posted about this on his Facebook page. Maybe I should catch up with Mike I mean, part of this is I’m planning on heading to the Montreal Comedy Festival, so I do need to work in advance, and don’t know where I’ll find an hour to record with Mike. But let me see, because this is really just really big news. Wow. So Mike, thank you for putting that in the Facebook group, or I might not have seen it till I probably would have been sitting on the beach going, oh geez, why did they do this now?

And I’m not home. All right, that’s a very casual, babbling bonus episode of Daily Comedy News Back in the Morning with Shane Gillison. I’m not going to mention this at all. Oh and just let me say I know for a fact because I did the late night jokes in the Saturday Show and I took a shot a Colbert for not having good monologues. So when you hear me take a shot of Colbert for not having good monologues, and I don’t mention this story at all.

That’s why see you in the morning.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Shane Gillis, Patton Oswalt, Ronny Chieng, Hasan Minhaj, Sarah Sherman, Ron White, Colin Jost, Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan bourbon-focused comedy special in Louisville October 7-9
• Shane Gillis hosts ESPYs and discusses honoring Norm MacDonald
• Patton Oswalt releases ‘Black Coffee and Ice Water’ audio-only special November 20
• Ronny Chieng and Hasan Minhaj co-headlining ‘Hassan Hates Ronnie’ tour starting October 3
• Sarah Sherman recording first comedy special with multiple shows in August
• Ron White benefit shows for Texas flooding relief August 8-9
• Camille Jahnny cast as Abraham Lincoln in ‘Oh Mary’ production
• Ralph Barbosa ‘Planet Bosa’ special arriving on Hulu August 8

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. That sound you Here is all the coolness oozing out of Jim Gaffigan’s body. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Gaffigan announced he will perform and film a whiskey focused stand up set in Louisville and October. Jim, Let it Go, Let it Coach Jim.

We’re told the shows are twenty one plus and three sets are scheduled over three days October seventh through the ninth. All three shows, titled Jim Gaffigan A Bourbon Set, comprised new material for the comedian on social media, Jim Gaffigan Set. It’s a bourbon set. If you’re a whiskey fan, you’ll definitely want to check this out. Jim’s been howking the whiskey for the last year or so, and uh yeah, let me cut to John Oliver here.

I think sums it up cool. Jing Gillis hosted the SPS last night. It was volleyball night and then I went to the bar, so I will recap that for you tomorrow. Prior to the sb’s he caught up with the Athletic and they were curious how much of the sb’s would just be Notre Dame in Eagles highlights, Jane said, if I have any control over it, that’d be great. If I could pick the highlights, it will just be the Eagles, Notre Dame in some Phillies.

That would be nice. Shane, why did you want to host the SP’s, He said, The reason I wanted to take it on was Norm MacDonald. He’s the best ever, and he did it, and his monologue was one of my favorites. I can meet a famous actor or a famous comedian and I’m usually pretty relaxed about it, but then I’ll meet Michael Phelps on a plane, I’m like, oh my god. The first time I met Aaron Judge, I couldn’t talk.

I don’t know why I get starstruck by that. I didn’t think Caitlin Clark was going to get starstruck. I was, which was pretty funny. Steph Curry, that was awesome. But there’s another thing.

Once you get to know these guys, you start feeling like you’re less of a fan as far as like, I’m not going to ever sit around and be like that guy sucks. I hate that guy. Before I would say that because I didn’t know anybody. Even before the Steph Curry thing, I was like, I don’t like Steph Curry. Then you meet him, You’re like, oh, Steph Curry’s incredible.

So there’s a little bit of it. You’re going to make fun of this athlete. Probably not gonna make fun of somebody who’s dedicated to life to something. I’m not going to go up there and say you stink the athletic asked Shane Gillis, is there anybody you haven’t met that you want to? Tom Brady would be cool to meet.

I just recently met Charles Barkley. That was awesome. He was the one I always wanted to meet. And why is Shane’s the one of sports? I was just raised that way.

My dad watched sports every day, and what else is there to do? I don’t get it, we’re watching sports. Patton Oswalt has recorded what is being referred to as an audio only special that’s known as an album. Patton Oswalt, we used to have these things called comedy albums. What you do is you would record your comedy material and release them via audios, sometimes on vinyl, sometimes on cassette, sometimes on compact disc, sometimes as an MP three file, But Patten has invented the Audio Only special, this one called Black Coffee and Ice Water.

He filmed it last week into New York City. He told CBS Mornings, it’s a combination of experience my sadness and experience my confusion. The times are so rapidly insane right now that there are times as a comedian where you’re like, this insane story that I’m gonna tell in a month is not gonna seem insane anymore based on what people are going through. The Audio Only Special, which totally is not an album, also talks about raising a teenager and the inside Oh, she either got that from me or some of this is inborn. How can I change this?

How do we make this better? Sounds like Patten has a great relationship with his daughter. He said, I don’t have the teenager that doesn’t want to hang out with me. She actually digs hanging out with me and my wife. But we do have a teenager who’s always slightly disappointed in us.

We’re hanging out and we’re having fun. Then daddy realizes what a goofball he is, or I’m realizing, oh wait a minute, I would get embarrassed by my dad at this That’s what she’s doing right now now. He was asked why he wanted to release Black Coffee and Ice Water as an audio special. Patton said, I miss the times when comedians would put out an album all my specials. I’m doing a thing now where I’m going back.

I’m putting them out on vinyl. It’s about ego. There’s this less physical media being made. You could release it, you know, as an album, but nope, It’ll be out on audible as an audio only special. Black Coffee and Ice Water.

November twentieth, Ronny Chieng and Hassan Minaj are touring together. The name of the tour Hassan Hates Ronnie, Ronnie hates a so on, That’s fun the official log line. During these divided times, many people believe that open dialogue and discourse are the only tools to mend to divide a nation. Comedians Hasan Minhaj and Ronny Chieng believe the opposite, hatred is the answer. At each of the nineteen scheduled performances, the duo will face off over race, war, the economy, immigration, presidents, family, and dating, taking the stage only to rip each other apart.

That’s fun to our kicks off October third in Seattle. They’re also hitting Houston, Tampa, Atlanta, Philly, d C, Toronto, Minneapolis, Chicago, Miami, Austin, Dallas, Boston, New York City at the Beacon December second, So that’s after the festival San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco and wrapping up December twenty sixth in Vancouver. Sarah Sherman is recording her first comedy special this summer. She’s taping two shows August twenty third at the Bell House. She’ll be in North Adams and Massachusetts on the nineteenth, three shows at Helium in Indianapolis, next week, three shows at Helium in Philly and August, and the two Bellhouse shows.

Ron White has added two shows to his tour to help raise money for the flooding in Texas. Ron White, a Texas native, announced on social media all proceeds from the shows in San Antonio and Austin will go to the Guadaloupe Love Fund. The money will assist fire departments impacted by the July fourth floods. Ron said in the video, We’re going to raise money for a couple of fire departments that suffered major losses in this tragic event and cannot sustain without them. Every penny you spend on tickets, we’re gonna go buy some fire trucks or something.

We’ll find a way to spend it those shows or August eighth and August ninth, This one I saw into the weekend, and it’s been quite busy, and then I forgot to put it in the notes. So let me just point out Dusty slayh shared on Instagram like Friday Afternoon, two full albums out today. Listen while it’s hot on iTunes. Camill nan Gianni has joined the cast of Oh Mary as Mary’s husband. Now that’s interesting because Oh Mary is about Mary Todd Lincoln, an alcoholic, aspiring cabaret singer in the weeks leading up to the sixteenth President’s assassination.

So kamaille n Jeohnny is Abraham Lincoln. That’s fun. Ralph Barbosa will have a special for Hulu. It is titled Ralph Barbosa Planet Bosa. Ralph shares his adventures in dating, controlling his temper, working on cars, and his views on current events that went out Friday, August eighth.

Page six asked Colin Jost how he feels about his wife, Scarlett Johansson repeatedly kissing Jonathan Bailey on red carpets. Jost said, I guess in Jurassic Park terms, the attack always comes from the raptor you never thought was there. Of all the threats out there, wasn’t thinking it was Jonathan. Mister Jos pointed out that Bailey didn’t seem like the biggest threat to his marriage because Bailey is a quote out gay man. I think it’s going to be okay.

Jose joked about closing the loop by kissing Bailey. Bailey was asked about this and said, I believe in being able to show love in all different ways, and if you can’t kiss your friends, life’s too short. Not too On gossip Corner, Amy Schumer had to cut the listing price of her five bedroom, three and a half bathroom Brooklyn Heights dwelling. She had purchased it back in twenty twenty two for twelve point twenty five million dollars. They’ve now cut the listing to twelve point seven five million dollars.

Life is rough. Amy Schumer joke to The Wall Street Journal that their son got into a good school and we’re too lazy to commute forty five minutes to take our son to school every day. We loved what we moved into, but we’ve definitely made it our own. Some of the changes they apparently made were an overhaul of the backyard just for laughs. Day two.

Nick Briseo is the head of programming. He was asked how much talent it will be at just for laughs, and he said, how do you measure that? Is it by weight? In that case, there is one point twenty six tons of comedy. Getting a little more serious, he said, we’re doing a lot of different programming to have something for everybody.

If you have any kind of funny bone in your body, we have something for you. The galas are really the crown jewel of the festival. Someone isn’t sure what chose to check out. Your safest bet is to go to a gala. It’s like a tasting menu of the best comedy out there today.

We have classics from festal past, and our calling card is the new faces of comedy for those who want to know the stars of tomorrow. You’ve heard me talk about that for years on this podcast. It’s such a rite of passage and all the greats have done it, from Kevin Hart to Amy Schumer. We put a lot of work in a scouting those comedians, and then we even have programming with YouTubers and content creator stars. I’m surprised the new Faces list still not out.

You know, we’re under a week now, Guys, where is it? Nick pointed this out, and he’s absolutely right. He said, if you’re in a comedy club anywhere in North America and even across the world, it’s the festival is referred to as Montreal, but they mean just for laughs. I have to remind myself to say just for laps, because I’ll tend to just call it the Montreal Comedy Festival, or like Nick says, people just go Montreal. Are you going to Montreal?

If you say that to me, I know exactly what you mean. Are you going to Montreal? Yeah? I think I hit Montreal this summer. Nick says, I think any good comedy festival and any good event really embodies the DNA of the city in Montreal is a city unlike any other.

There are a few festivals in the global footprint like Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, but I think Canada being such a Comedy Home in Montreal, all being such a renowned stand up place the comedians want to go now. It’s part of the zeitgeist. Just for Lass, i’d been catching some strays in the press about I guess not being as awesome at video as some think they should be. Well, they just inked a twenty million dollar deal. I don’t know if those are Canadian or US dollars.

Either way, it’s a lot of money. Fifty hours of programming are part of the deal. It includes Roast Battle Canada season five, a bunch of French shows on some French language networks. The CBC will have Roywood Junior, Michelle Btchau, Fortune Fimester and Mikey Day Galas. That’s pretty good programming right there.

All right, let’s see what’s going on tonight on a Thursday. Plenty of French shows. I will focus on the English shows for the duration of the festival this summer. This is an English language comedy podcast. I totally supported the French comedy, but I don’t know how to pronounce the words.

Just for last Culture Show at seven o’clock, Best of the Fest also at seven o’clock, the Sketch Show at eight thirty and The Nasty Show at nine to thirty. I already forgot what I said. I want to see if we can do Best of the Fest and Sketch Show. Best of the Fests at seven and Sketch Show was what eight thirty we could do that? That would be tonight’s plan.

Where are we in Montreal? But we are not in Montreal, but I hope to get up to Montreal. I don’t have a timetable yet. I’m negotiating with the family. Apparently people were like Dad’s around, Dad will handle it, and Dad’s like Dad was planning on being in Canada.

So I have to figure out that whole thing while I’m thinking of it. If you need something to listen to, Craig Ferguson’s podcast, which is called Joy. The episode with Jim Rash, you know Jim is the dean from Community, was a lot of fun. Took them a minute to get rolling, but once it clicks in and that’s a lot of fun. If you need something to watch, a half hour stand up comedy special presented by the Are You Garbage Podcast is on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla tonight seven o’clock Central Time.

Also out today on Vive says Eddie Peppertone’s new comedy special, The Collapse to This One, produced by Patton oswall Well, Paton said, Eddie Pepatone is the Pixies of modern comedy, working class but aching for utopia, quiet and then loud, and then quiet again, willing to take the twistiest route to the most uncomfortable, hilarious truth. His audiences don’t just laugh, they are upt in cackling disbelief that Eddie sang the things he’s saying that out on beeps today It’ll be a comedy album. On August fifteenth, the Television Critics Association nominated some shows for Outstanding Achievement in Variety, Talk or Sketch. The nominees are The Daily Show, Mulaney, Hot Ones, Kimmel, Seth, Colbert, Last Week Tonight, SNL separately, SNL fifty, the Anniversary Special. The TCA Awards will be presented virtually later this summer.

In twenty thirteen, two comedians started arguing in the parking lot of the Comedy Store in LA Two comedians broke up the argument and said they should do the insults before a crowd. It was an instant hit and roast battle was born. The next week, people came back thinking was going to happen again, and then over the course of time, any two comedians who had an issue with each other or even friends would just go at each other and we kind of staid, wait, this could be something. Roast Battle was picked up by Comedy Central in twenty sixteen with Jeff Ross’s host. There’s a UK version from twenty eighteen with Jimmy Carr.

There’s one in Japan, one in Montreal, Vancouver, there’s one in London, there’s one in Australia. It’s everywhere, including tonight at the New York Comedy Club on twenty fourth Street the tenth annual Roast Battle. Two comics will take turns, dishing a total of thirteen jokes per round for total of three rounds, and if you’re in plano six to four singles dive back into the dating pool with a little help from stand up comedians. This show is called The Big d I’m gonna resist any twelve year old jokes and just tell you that’s what the show’s called. Believe me, I am tinted.

Julie Golden is a stand up comedian and a single divorced mom. She created the Big D in October and said, I was told that Dallas is known as the Big D not just for Dallas, but also for divorce. Get your mind out of the gutter, everybody, so perhaps I’m in the right city. During the show, three comedians will interview each of the contestants for five minutes, then they will be matched. After that, each couple answers a series of dig card questions during their five minute first date on stage, the audience votes who they think is the best match.

That couple with the most applause wins one hundred dollars and maybe a second date, or if that doesn’t work out, they get fifty bucks each and never have to see each other again. This is at Mike Drop Comedy seventy three oh one lone Star Drive in Plano. Thirty seven bucks to get in a great Gutfeld, Yah, we’re long again today, Greg Gutfeld. Let me quote this directly via The Daily Beast. Okay, Johnny Mac is quoting Greg Guttfeld.

These are not the words of Johnny Mac. Johnny Mac is quoting Greg Gudfeld. Are you ready? Greg Gutfeld apparently said, you know what I’ve said? This before.

We need to learn from the blacks the way they were able to remove the power from the N word by using it. So from now on, it’s what’s up my Nazi? Hey, what’s up my Nazi? Hey, what’s hanging my nazi? Co host Kennedy blurted out, nazi please.

Greg Guttfeld said, thank god you did a hard eye there. And that’s what’s happening on Fox on Gutfeld in case you want to watch that, that is your comedy news for today. How does let that Gutfeld story Stanford itself see you tomorrow

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Featured: Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Pete Holmes, Kevin Hart, Tom Segura, Pete Davidson, Russell Peters, Jim Jeffries, Whitney Cummings, Jessica Curson, Bill Burr, Sarah Silverman, Ali Wong, Adam Sandler, Nate Bargatze, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Louis C.K. returns to headline New York Comedy Festival November 14-15
• New York Comedy Festival 2025 lineup announcement
• Riyadh Comedy Festival inaugural event September-October with top comedians
• Bruce Hills departs Montreal Comedy Festival to lead Saudi Arabia festival
• 2025 Emmy nominations for Outstanding Variety Special and Comedy Series
• Festival timing competition between New York, Montreal, and Riyadh announcements

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Crazy one today and I am fascinated by the jousting Montreal Comedy Festival that kicks off tonight. But what do you know? The New York Comedy Festival dropped their lineup to steal the press spotlight. And there’s a massive riade festival which includes Bruce Hills.

Who’s that? That’s the guy that used to run the Montreal Comedy Festival. All this news out at once, plus the Emmy nominations. Plushing gillis host the SPS tonight. So much going on after two weeks of nothing.

Guys, can we spread the comedy news out? Please? And hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start with the New York Comedy Festival. As the New York Post put it.

Comedian Louis C.K. Is set to headline two nights of the New York Comedy Festival later this year, marking one of his first high profile stand up accents. Being accused of sexual misconduct by five women back in twenty seventeen, I’m pretty sure mister c K admitted to such things, a quote from Louis in the New York Post. These stories are true. So I don’t think they are allocations at that point.

At that time, I said to myself what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my thing without asking first, which is also true. The power I had over these women is that they admired me, and I will died that power irresponsibly. Let me get the lilt out of my voice. So anyway, nobody is really canceled in this world. Caroline Hirsch, who runs the festival, said, We’re thrilled to unveil this year’s incredible line up, a dynamic mix of global headliners and rising voices that reflect where comedy is right now and where it’s headed.

We’re proud to continue to bring in New York City the very best of the best in a constantly shifting landscape. We stay committed to spotlighting new voices, championing fresh perspectives, breaking form, and shaving a festival that sets it’s the standard, both creatively and commercially. Louis will perform his special Ridiculous at the Beacon Theater in November fourteenth and fifteenth, also headlining Stephen Colbert, Amy, Sidaris, Pete Holmes. Now I looked at the initial lineup I’m not blown away here. This feels smaller than it has in the past.

Again, we have so much to get to today. Let me go quickly here. Friday, November seventh, Ryan Long and Nurse John. Those are two different shows. The shows on Saturday, November eighth at seven o’clock a celebration of the twenty fifth anniversary of the cancelation of Strangers with Candy with Stephen Colbert, Paul Denello and Amy Sedaris at town Hall.

Okay, Ryan Long. Two shows Trevor Wallace and Hannah Berner. Sunday the ninth istmo at town Hall. Then nothing on the schedule that I’m seeing until Thursday to thirteenth. Johai Spaondor at town Hall, Morgan Jay and The Basement Yard which is a podcast and the Basement Yard is Madison Square Garden.

Wow. That Friday Michael blax and Pete Holmes and Louis C.K. That’s Saturday the fifteenth, Alex Edelman, Michael Blaxon, Margaret Choe, c K and Chris Fleming. Yeah, I guess. I imagine they will announce more as we get a little bit closer.

That one’s in November, So I thought the timing on this was really interesting. Deadline had an exclusive the re Odd Comedy Festival. Now why this really catches my eye. Is attached to this is Bruce Hills. Now, Bruce is the guy I worked with at Just for Laughs Montreal.

Bruce is a good guy. Bruce knows comedy, Bruce knows how to do a comedy festival. I just thought the timing was fascinating that Deadline had this on Monday, and this is also the week of the return of the Montreal Comedy Festival, which Bruce is no longer attached to. Could be a coincidence, could be some fun sjousting. I don’t know, just found it interesting.

But this Reodd Comedy Festival taking place in the Saudi capital this fall. Again, I don’t know why it had to be announced on Monday, July fourteenth, anyway, but listening to these names, Kevin Hart, Tom Sigora, Pete Davidson, Russell Peters, Jim Jeffries, Whitney Cummings, Zornagarg and Jessica Curson are all quote in talks to perform at the inaugural Reod Comedy Festival. That in talks is interesting. Again, the Deadline went with this makes me think it’s quite likely, Deadline says. While no deals have been finalized, reps for WME, which is consulting on the festival, confirmed ongoing discussions with several top tier acts.

Turkey Alashiki is the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority. In May, Turkey had posted on x the best fifty stand up comedians of the world are coming to the Riad Comedy Festival from September twenty sixth to October tenth. Deadline reports. Sources say the festival will feature multi comic showcases and solo shows. A company called Sella, the largest live events company in the Kingdom, will produce alongside Bruce Hills, described in this article as a legendary comedy producer who’s spent nearly four decades at Just for Laughs, hoping to turn it into the largest and most prestigious comedy festival in the world.

Again, I only have great things to say about Bruce and I continue to find the timing fascinating, Deadline says. A source familiar with comedy touring noted that there’s big money to be made by comics of the Middle East, up to millions or tens of millions, depending on the profile of the artist. They said, many the top stand ups are happy to be wined and dined by the Saudi government, which has come to recognize the power of comics as the cultural icons of our time. Deadline rights. Of course, there are also significant drawbacks or at least factors to consider in performing in the Middle East.

For starters, Saudi Arabia is known for limiting freedom of expression when it comes to the arts, typically dictating on the offer sheheet per multiple agents what cannot be set on topics like religion, sex, and the Saudi royal family. Deadline ads, while the kingdom is known for its discrimination against the LGBTQ plus community. Sources were particularly curious as to how many female comics will be appearing, given that they’d have to perform out of the constraints of Sharia law in a country considered even more conservative than the likes of Abu Dhabi or Dubai. Sources say organizers are currently in talk with Cummings, garg and Curson, among others. Art Davidson, Segura, gorg and Curson are all with WME.

Sources say it’s unclear how many marquee names not repped by WME will make the trek. At least one top commedian that fills Arenas has declined to attend. Very very interesting. I’ll do Montreal in the second half of the podcast because I want to talk about the schedule as well. Let’s look at the Emmy nominations.

Naperghetzy is the host of the twenty twenty five Emmys, and he also was nominated in the Outstanding Variety Special category Netflix specials. They include Your Friend, n Aperghetzi, Adam Sandler, Love You, Ali Wong, Single Lady, Sarah Silverman, Post Mortem One, I’m Gonna Skip On Purpose, Come Back To and Hulus Bill Bird Dropped Dead Years. So if the nominees are Bill Burr, Sarah, Ali Wong, Sandler, and Nate Bergatzy. Out of those, I would pick Adam Sandler. Believe it or not, I think that was the best of those specials.

However, the one I skipped and the No Way This doesn’t win unless you guys are insane also nominated Conan O’Brien the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. If that doesn’t win, I don’t know what we’re doing the nominees for Best Comedy Series, Abbott The Bear, which is not a comedy, Hacks nobody wants This is an American romantic comedy TV series created by Aaron Foster, starring Kristen Bell, Adam Brody and some others on Netflix. Hmm, you learn something new every day, only murders, Shrinking the Studio, and what we do in the shadows. If I had to pick, probably Hacks. Best Talk Series.

I talked about this before. Only three nominees because of the way it works in the Math. The nominees are The Daily Show, Kimmel and Colbert. You got to give that to The Daily Show. Best Actress in a Comedy Series, Huzzo, Aduba for The Residents, Kristen Bell, nobody wants this.

Quentin Brunson, Abbotts, I at a Berry, The Bear, Geen Smart, Hacks. I would give it to Gene. Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Adam Brody, nobody wants this. Seth Rogan The Studio, Jason Siegel Shrinking, Martin Schwert Murders, Jeremy Ellen White The Bear, which is not a comedy. I don’t have an opinion there.

I will abstain Best Supporting Actor in a comedy series. Ike Baron Holds The Studio, Coleman Domingo, The Four Seasons, Harrison Ford Shrinking, Jeff Hiller Somebody Somewhere even while Spockerrock The Bear, which is not a comedy, Michael Uri shrinking, and Bowen Yang for SNL. I don’t have an opinion SNL. You can get best Supporting Actor in a comedy series out of SNL. That doesn’t seem right.

Don’t give it a Bowen. Best Supporting Actress in a comedy series. Eliza clonezais the Bear. She’s fantastic, but that’s not a comedy. Hannah Einbinder Hacks, Katherine Hahn The Studio, Janelle James Abbott, Katherine O’Hara The Studio, Shiryl Lee, Ralph Abbott, Jessica Williams Shrinking.

I don’t have an opinion. Best guest Actor in a comedy series, John Bernhall The Bear, Brian Kranston The Studio, deve Franco the Studio, Ron Howard the Studio, Anthony Mackie the Studio, Martin Scorsese the Studio. I would give it to Ron Howard. We’ll talk more about the studio in a second. Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, Olivia Coleman The Bear, Which is not a comedy, Jamie Lee Curtis, The Bear, Which is not a comedy, Cynthia Rivo Poker Face, Robbie Hoffman, Hacks, Zoe Kravitz, The Studio, Julianne Nicholson Hacks.

I don’t have an opinion, but don’t give it to any of it from The Bear. Not that it’s not a great show, it’s just not a comedy. Best Writing for Comedy Series goes to the teams from Abbott Hacks, the rehearsal, somebody somewhere, the studio, and what we do in the chef I kind of like what we do in the Shadows. Only two nominees in Outstanding Scripted Variety. They are SNL and Last Week Tonight.

Are we giving it to SNL for the fiftieth anniversary stuff or for regular SNL? That’s my question. I guess it’s all one big thing if it’s just for the recent normal season Last Week Tonight, But if you’re going to include all the stuff from the fiftieth, they’re going to give it to SNL. SNL has thirty one nominations, and they do indeed include specials like SNL fifty, the Anniversary Special, SNL fifty, the Homecoming Concert SNL fifty Beyond Saturday Night. Lauren Michael’s already held the record for most Emmy nominations for an individual, has added six to the count, putting him at one hundred and eighteen nominations total.

I’m a one hundred and eighteen time Emmy nominee. Wow. Late Nighter points out that After Midnight, which no longer exists, got a NOD for Outstanding Technical Direction and Camera Work for a Series. They had submitted their February twenty fifth, twenty twenty five episode featuring guest Juniray, commil Anjohanni and Emily Gordon for consideration. Okay, this next one, I feel really strong about.

It’s Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. Two of the nominees are Kristin Wig and Adam Sandler. Now listen to me. We cannot give Adam Sandler an Emmy for a song that will encourage him to do more terrible songs. And we can’t have that.

You guys should have given Adam Sandler the Academy Award for Best Actor for Uncut Gems which is what he wanted, and then he would have become a dramatic actor and made great movies. Instead, you keep rewarding him for crap, and then we get things like Opera Man as Terrible, Adam Sandler songs Go. Adam Sandler’s song fifty Years from the SNL fifty Special wasn’t bad in terms of like in the Adam Sandler canon. It was probably one of the better ones. But we cannot, we cannot, absolutely cannot reward Adam Sandler for his musical comedy.

No, do not do that. Kristin Wigg has an original song from Will and Harper called Harper and Will Go West Time Team Christ. All right, the studio Now, I watched it. It’s fine, but Hollywood loves Hollywood. A lot of buzz from social media, but all seems to be industry people.

I don’t see anybody in like quote, the real world talking about the studio. But boy, it received twenty three Emmy nominations. That’s the most ever for a comedy series in its first season. The New York Times points out John Mulaney did not get any Emmy nominations. Again, You’ve heard me say many times.

Love John Mullanie that late night show did not work. Okay, Gang, I may have to double break you today. Here’s why. If I don’t take the break, the automation forces a break. There’s just behind the scenes stuff that, like the commercial break will have to happen.

So let me take one here and I’ll come back and we’ll talk about Shane Gillis. Shane Gillis hosts the sb Awards tonight. He was on Jimmy Kimmel on Monday Night.

Now for some reason, Christis Stefano is guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Why. I don’t know either, and I’m being facetious. I think I figured it out. Christa Stefano repped by w ME, Jimmy Kimmel rep Bysea with me and everybody on three one two three WME. Listen, that’s how Hollywood works.

Anytime anything doesn’t make sense, look at the agents and that will always tell you what is going on there. So somebody’s doing somebody a favor because Christis Stefano are hosting a late night talk show. Yeah, anyway, Jane Gillis was the guest, and let’s listen. I’m excited about it. Uh, we got I still got a lot of work to do.

I got to figure it out. The jokes were killing, the jokes are they I’ve never done a thing where they at somebody else’s writing right jokes and they just like they hired writers and they just they’re like, here’s the jokes we can and they’re like self deprecating for me. So like I’ll be at home, I’ll get an email and it’s like, Hey, I’m Shane. I’m hosting the thirty third sp Awards. I’m a big fat dumbass who wrote this which one of you guys wrote that one.

Yeah, I’m not saying that. The sb’s air live tonight from the Adobe Theater in Los Angeles at eight pm Eastern and Pacific stream live on ESPN plus US. If you’ve cut the court like me, you can either visit your friend who lives on the ship, if you know what I mean, or it’ll be on Hulu tomorrow. This is the thirty third annual SP’s. Some of the categories best Athlete men’s Sports.

You know how many is Josh Allen from the Bills, Saquon Barkley from the Eagles, SGA from the Thunder or Tany from the La Dodgers. Boy, that’s tough. This thing’s in LA. Right, give it to show. Hey, Best team?

How about this the Florida Panthers, or right, they’ve won two in a row. The Dodgers, the Ohio State Buckeyes, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Philadelphia Eagles, the North Carolina Tar Hills women’s lacrosse team, or the US women’s national soccer team or the University of Connecticut Husky’s women basketball team. Who are you picking there? Best NFL player Josh Allen, Saquon Barkley, Lamar Jackson from the Ravens, Patrick’s thirteen from the Broncos. Got to give that to Saquon.

Best baseball player, Freddie Freeman, Aaron Judge, Shohey, Tarik Skuball, you got to give it a show. Hey, And I’m gonna take another break here. I feel you know it’s annoying. But if I don’t, I’m telling you just the way the system works, because I’m doing a long show today. If I don’t, it’s going to drop a commercial break mid sentence.

So I’d rather properly place the break than have a drop at mid sentence, because I have that’s a major pet peeve of mine, don’t forget. If you would like the show without any commercial interruptions, you can go to Caliroga dot com, slash plus, or if you’re an Apple podcast click in the matter that says uninterrupted listening. Five bucks a month you’ll get this show and a bunch of others, including five Good News Stories, which I host three days a week. I mean, Showley comes out three days a week and I always host it. I’m making it sound like somebody else, like Krista Stefano does it on Tuesdays.

No, no, no, no, that would be insane. We don’t have the same agent. Gave you a little bind scenes here. So normally I record the show on the early afternoon. Right now it’s seven twenty six pm.

Why because I went to the beach all day and then I was like, all right, I’ll do the show when I get home, and oh my goodness, my kids will not stop texting me. But I can’t get mad. I can’t be like, first of all, you don’t want to you know, it’s nice that your kids want to check in with you. But also you can’t be like, oh I recorded my podcast. Sound like a jerk.

Anyway, I’ll click the matter, This says n editor of the listening and he got the show commercial free. One more break and then we’ll talk Montreal. Just for laughs. Montreal Comedy Festival is back, baby. I got my note yesterday.

They gave me creudentials planning on heading up there at some point. That should be a lot of fun. Deadline has that new podcast where they talk about comedy. I didn’t bring my phone down. Oh no, here’s my phone.

Let me tell you what that’s called found it. It is Deadline’s Comedy Means Business. The other day they had on Sylvan Bodard, he’s the new boss ed, the reconstituted. Just for laughs, he says they’ve sold over one hundred thousand tickets. Think about that number.

That’s a lot of tickets for the upcoming festival, and said that the festival will not lose money this year. He already knows that and says it’s the first step in his grand vision for the festival. A touring agent tell Deadline it’s more than a transition, it’s like a rebirth right. I think as an industry of reps, we all want it to be there, and I think cautious optimism right now would probably be the overwhelming sentiment. A manager told Deadline she’d heard mixed things about how people are feeling going into this year, A good amount of enthusiasm, a little skepticism.

But I don’t think anyone’s rooting against the festival. I think we all wanted to succeed because at the end of the day, it’s a great avenue for clients to get discovered. How noble of you, Yeah, we don’t want the festival to fail because we can make money off it. Here’s some quotage a manager gave to Deadline, calling it zombie JFL back from the dead. I think I’ve used those exact words in different combinations.

That manager said, breaking out of jfl’s new faces used to mean comics would be a thing forever, but that’s no longer reliably the case. They said, that is a historic lack of digital strategy on jfl’s part. Now, if you listen to the Deadline podcast, they got into the digital strategy and it sounds like they have a really good plan for it this year. I mean, I’ve been. Involved in comedy for twenty years.

I don’t I don’t know. I kind of reject what that manager’s saying. I think new phases is a good thing and still means something now interesting to me. We haven’t seen the list yet. I’m surprised that’s not out yet.

I was kind of expecting that to come out on Monday. It clearly this close that people must be solidified on the line up, but we haven’t seen a list yet. Now, that manager tells Deadline they predict companies will send quote less people to cover the festival than in the past, between slash travel budgets and uncertainty. That same person said some my greatest acts were definitely helped by just for laughs. I think the power of new faces isn’t as big as it used to be, but I still think it’s a nice notch on your belt and a credit that people still value.

I like those guys at JFL, and I think they’ve been able to showcase talent incredibly well. One manager said the success of this year’s festival will be reflected in people talking about it afterwards, new faces walking out with new representation conversation. Yeah, I think that’s fair. The manager says, you look at Netflix as a joke, and those new face introducing people are getting somewhere between ten to one hundred thousand views on their YouTube channels. I’m curious to see what jfl’s views look like.

Also fair Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mack to be a Just for Laughs, they’re going to receive the Generation Award.

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Also getting an award is George Wallace.

His award will be presented by Roywood Junior. Roy will present George Wallace with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Benito Skinner, known for his online persona Benny Drama. We’ll receive a Breakout Comedy Star of the Year prize from Mary Beth Baron. The Rising Comedy Star of the Year award will go to Hannah Burner.

Is Hannah rising. She’s got a huge podcast. But okay, all right, let’s look at the line up starting tonight. A few French shows early the evening at seven o’clock, the Just for the Laughs Culture Show that used to be the Ethnic show. That’s at Club Soda, Good Club Boy.

A whole lot of French shows tonight. I think that’s great. Nine point thirty, The Nasty Show, also at Club Soda. So you know, that’s kind of how I would roll. I would if I were up there tonight, I would just head over to club Soda and do the back to back and get home at eleven thirty and go to bed and record a podcast.

So those are the two English show tonight, but I skipped maybe twelve thirteen French language shows. Again week one, the Wednesday night, this thing will totally pick up, So don’t judge the festival by tonight’s lineup. That’s just the first night. The head of programming is Nick Brazio. He’s worked for JFL for sixteen years.

He used to report to Robbie Prau, who went on to head Netflix’s live comedy division. Nick says, I gave up stand up to get on the production side, to get a closer connection to the world class comedy scene, and that satisfies a lot of the reasoning I gotten a comedy in the first place. Nick said about fifteen months ago, there was concern that just for laughs could disappear, but the opportunity to bring everything back has been so uplifting. So many great memories have been made over the four decades the festival has been around. Now we have the opportunity to make more.

Here’s Nix’s eight picks for the festival. Number one, Chay Darrina host of The Nasty Show. Chay is a viral Canadian comedy sensation with over eight million followers on social media platforms. Number two a se If Ali, host of The Culture Show. Three Nick Muhammad You know Nick Muhammad from Ted Lasso.

Okay, not a bad pick. Nick will be doing a seventy five minute show on number four. Mary Beth Barone, one of the stars and writers of Over Compensating and a repeat guest on Jimmy Fallon. This marks her first performance in Montreal, but definitely not her last. Yes, I could see her breaking out.

That’s a good one. On number five stamp Town July twenty third through the twenty fifth. The Club Soda a full on fever show hosted by the unforgettable Zack Zucker and featuring some of the most energetic, over the top comics from around the world. It is totally bananas, raunchy, and chaotic. Nash shows have included the likes of Neil Patrick, Harris, Richard Kine, May Martin, David Cross and Sarah Sherman.

That’s awesome. Six Rhys Derby you know him A legend indeed is this comic from New Zealand who cracked up audiences, big Time in Flight of the Concords and unbelievable Italian. He’s unique. Get a Delight. Seven.

Kat cohen Us bas but known around the world for festival and TV appearances, as well as her two Netflix specials and number eight. Andrea Jin is a featured performer at the Culture Show. Originally from Shanghai, she grew up in Vancouver and is now based in la and is a former New Face of Comedy. I’ve got more. We’re not done yet, all right, so don’t get mad at that second commercial break there.

I’m jam packed today. Out today on YouTube. Luke Kegy have that comedy Exports YouTube premiere at five pm Central eight am Aest. I’m pretty sure that’s Australian time, all right, So that’s one to check out.

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And then this has come to my attention.

I don’t know anything about it, but apparently this exists. Okay, you’re ready, You’re not ready for this. Sean Hannity and Jimmy Fayla have a comedy special on Fox Nation. Now. The good news is it’s on Fox Nation, so almost nobody will see it.

Whew, a Sean Hannity comedy special. If we weren’t over a half hour to the show. I would do ten minutes on this. I can’t think of anybody and I’ve met the guy. I can’t think of anybody less funny than Sean Hannity.

I looked for clips, haven’t found clips again. Busy Show. I didn’t dig that hard. All I can tell you is the description. It was a night of liberty, laughs, and a whole lot of winning only on Fox Nation.

So if you’re like boy a Sean Hannity comedy special Fox Nation.

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And also, we cannot ignore Elmo.

On The Daily Show, John Stewart told Daily Show viewers Monday night that his original, well designed, articulate episode had to be scrapped because Elmo had lost his bleeping mind. I don’t know if you saw the Elmo Twitter account was presumably hacked. Some very very terrible things came out of that account. John Stewart said, this is what happens when you go too long without tickling Elmo. Elmo was the guest on The Daily Show.

Elmo admitted, I’m not going to do a half assed Elmo here. John Stewart did in the bit Elma wasn’t ACKed, it was Elmo, but Elmo was radicalized by the manisphere. Elmo was part of the male loneliness epidemic. You see what happened was Elmo was doing his own research on flu shots. Six hours later, because of the algorithm, Elmo was moderating the QAnon discord chat and building homemade bombs.

John Stewart told Elmo, don’t blame the algorithm. Elmo said, are you canceling Elmo? Once again the so called tolerant left policing speech that’s inconvenience of their Wolke Dogma. Who’s the real puppet now, John, Oh boy, that is a very long episode of Daily Comedy News for today. Now Tomorrow is all the stuff that I didn’t even put in today’s show.

I could record tomorrow right now and do twenty minutes, but I’m not going to because I’m tired. See you tomorrow

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Bill Burr, Rosie O’Donnell, Donald Trump, Tim Dillon, Andrew Schultz, Rob McElhenney, Ronny Chieng, Michael Ian Black

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis hosting the Emmys on Wednesday
• Shane Gillis discusses Epstein Files on Matt and Shane’s Secret podcast
• Trump threatens to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship
• Bill Burr performs with The Pretenders at Hammersmith Odeon in London
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Abbott Crossover episode
• Ronny Chieng joins King of the Hill as voice of Khan
• Have I Got News for You US version returns to CNN September 6th
• Michael Ian Black launching Have I Got News for Your Ears podcast

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with a very busy Daily Comedy News. As I mentioned yesterday, the comedy Dearth is over. It’s busy. Shane gillis making the rounds because he’s hosting the sb’s on Wednesday night.

The Emmy Award nominations will be revealed today at eleven thirty a m. Eastern time. Just for laughs. Montreal is back on Wednesday, so plenty to talk about. Ah, but let’s start with some politics.

Okay, this is the part where Johnny Mac makes people mad. I’m just telling you what’s going on. I pulled my punch yesterday. I’m trying not to chase people, but that one comedian whoo dude? Really anyway, Shane Gillis has commented on the Epstein Files Matt and Shane’s Secret podcast.

The conversation turned to Epstein. Shane said, you know, Epstein is innocent, but Cusker. Turns out the guy was just a regular guy struggling in the world, just like all of us. They joked about the situation have been and Shane Gillis shared his thoughts about the president and said, it’s like Trump duck, It’s tough not to point some fingers. He got killed when you were president.

You were there. I mean, there’s so many photos of them chilling. The cope on Trump’s innocent, the cope is pretty intense. Yeah, he did go to the island. You just hang out with the staff.

The staff said that was the staff twelve. What’s pretty funny. McCusker said they were never going to release it. Meeting the files, Shane, did you see somebody brought it up in a meeting and Trump was like, are you still talking about Epstein? That’s crazy.

There’s so much other stuff going on. I can’t believe you’re still bringing up Epstein. Are you serious? Get a life. You guys are obsessed with this.

Nobody cares. It was so long ago. The guy killed himself when he was innocent. What the hell? Big story?

Over the weekend you probably saw Trump threatened to take away Rosie o’donnald’s citizenship. Who do I root for in this fight? To catch you up on Saturday night when you were probably doing something fun, Trump went on in truth social and posted because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interest of our great country, I’m giving serious consideration to taking away her citizenship. I feel like doing this is half as triumph. She’s a threat to humanity and should remain in the wonderful country of Ireland if they want a god bless America.

All caps exclamation point. Rosie responded on her Insta saying, the presidents of the USA no caps at all. There has always hated the fact that I see him for who he is, a criminal, con man, sexual, abusing liar, out to harm our nation to serve himself. This is why I moved to Ireland. Still no caps.

He’s a dangerous, old, soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy, compassion, and basic humanity. I stand in direct opposition all he represents. So do millions of others you with you get a deport all who stand against your You are evil tendencies. You’re a bad joke who can’t form a coherent sentence. No apostrophe in the cants, no capitals at all as far as I can tell.

Rosie followed that up with a post of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and wrote, you lie, you steal, you degrade, eye nurture, I create, I persist. You are everything that’s wrong with America, and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it. You want to revoke my citizenship, go ahead and try King Jeoffrey with a tangerine spray tan. In case you’re not hip to that orfe King Joffrey is the bad guy on Game of Thrones. King Joffrey with a tangerine spray tan.

I’m not yours to silence. I never was. Rosie O’Donnell currently lives in Ireland. Under the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, birthright citizenship is protected and cannot legally be revoked by the president. Rosie is in the process of getting her citizenship in Ireland.

Tim Dillon also had some thoughts on all this, but I’m gonna let you listen to Tim Dillon’s podcast. I don’t want to encounter any men in suits wearing sunglasses, so I’m not going there. Tim said some stuff. Check it out. Andrew Schultz is getting ripped for being like I can’t believe Trump didn’t do what he said.

No way, Andrew, really, no way. Johnny Mac doesnt stuff for fools again, vote for whoever you want, But dude, really, you look stupid. Andrew the Pretenders made a surprise appearance at Bill Burr’s comedy show in London last week. Pretender is singer Chrissy Hines shared the news on Facebook, saying that Bill Burr had asked the Pretenders to join him for a few tunes at his show at the Hammersmith Odeon. One of the songs they played was of Course Wrong Motorheads Ace of Spades, because Burr had seen Motorhead play Ace of Spades at the same venue forty years ago.

The Pretenders also covered how do You Get Your Money, Honey by ACDC and Judas Priests, breaking the Law, Setless dot Femsa at the end of the night with the Pretender’s classic Don’t Get Me Wrong. Bill Burr got behind the drum kit for the performance. Chrissy Hines said, I was thinking he could tell jokes, but can jokes play drums? The answer is yes they can. Bill nailed it.

The performance was the first by the Pretender since May. They currently have no other shows on the schedule for twenty twenty five. Did you watch It’s Always Sonny? The first two episodes are really strong. Episode one, the Abbot Crossover, very very funny, and there’s a clip on social media, making the rounds that I won’t spoil for you, but if you see it, click on it.

Rob Mack told The New York Times his initial vision for the show was like Bizarro Friends. He said, if the theme of Friends is I’ll be there for you, friends that are with each other thick and thin, no matter what the circumstance are, then Always Sonny is about the idea of friends that would never be there for each other, that would sell each other out at a moment’s notice, and we’re always looking out for themselves well before they were looking out for anyone else. A group of people so detestable all they have is one another because no one else will be friends with them. I think you could be friends with Charlie. Charlie’s a little weird, but I think he could be friends with Charlie.

Ronny Chieng is joining the cast of King of the Hill. He will take over as the voice of Khan. Toby Huss voiced the character during the initial thirteen seasons from nineteen ninety seven to twenty ten. Season fourteen begins airing August fourth, or so. They say.

This could be like The Bob’s Burger’s Conspiracy by then there’s exhibition football on, so Fox might be like, yeah, it’s a brand new King of the Hill and another season of Bob’s Burger’s on tonight at eight o’clock and we’re all watching the Cowboys over on CBS or something, and how this goes. The US version of Have I Got News for You comes back to CNN on September sixth. However, Michael Ian Black is getting a podcast spin off of it. It’s called Have I Got News for Your Ears? Somebody’s been paying attention to the Daily Show Ears edition, I think, although maybe the British podcast was called this and maybe the Daily Show ripped them off.

Johnny Mac to your research, Willy who knows? This podcast features Michael Ian Black, joined by a rotating cast of guests and behind the scenes players to break down the week’s headlines and offer a peek into the inner workings of the show. Think of it as the backstage pass version of the TV show Less buttoned Up, more unfiltered. All right, that’s fun. The debut episode as michae Ian Black teaming up with the show’s executive producer for a no holds barred rip on the news of the week.

Followed by an interview with Jimmy Mulville. Who’s that. He’s the creator of the original UK version. New episodes out on Wednesday. Uh oh, it’s going to get canceled.

You know why? Oh no, don’t take this curse on. You know who? The guest is Andy Richter, Killer of shows. Andy Richter almost killed Conan O’Brien and the second time successfully did kill Conan O’Brien tonight’s show.

Don’t have it Andy Richter on anything? Look up the IMDb, folks. Should we do it? Sure, let’s do it. He’s got a zillion credits on AMDB.

I’m on his wiki. He was on Late Night with Conan O’Brien for seven years, leaving the show May twenty six, two thousand. He said, after seven years of being on the show, I got itchy, and that’s when Late Night got good. He got a show on Fox, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, canceled after two mid season runs. His next Fox sitcom, Quintopletz.

Remember that one? No, you don’t lasted one season two thousand and seven, Andy Barker, p I remember that one? Co written by Conan O’Brien. Richter played an accountant who couldn’t attract clients. Remember that show, No You don’t.

It aired on NBC. It was canceled. Entertainment Weekly called it one of the top ten shows of two thousand and seven. Then Andy Richter joined The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. We all know how that went.

In twenty ten, Andy Richter was considered to be the host of Pyramid, not picked up by the network. In twenty thirteen, Richter signed on to host a game show called Step Up, ordered by Fox. Remember that one me, neither, I don’t think it happened. In twenty seventeen, he hosted Big Fan on ABC. Remember that one me neither.

You get the idea anyway, Michael ian Black, don’t do it. This a curse. Avoid the curse. Speak of Michael ian Black. Did you see The New Superman?

It’s really good? Go see The New Superman. Whoever marketed The New Superman did a terrible job. They made the whole interview scene with Lois Lane look like something it isn’t. They made the dog annoying and the trailers the dog’s awesome.

One of the best parts of the movie The New Superman is the bomb. You should go see it. Michael ian Black has a sub stack, so do I Mine is linked in the show notes. Michael ian Black’s is not LinkedIn the show notes. Black says, here’s the thing.

I’m in the New Superman. It’s a tiny part. I play Cleavis Thornwaite, who is basically Tucker Carlson, only with the initial CT instead of TC. I think that was pretty obvious as I watched it. James Gunn, the director, offered me the part, which was extremely kind of him, considering we didn’t know each other or anything.

He just asked if I wanted to be in Superman. I said, do I play Superman? He said I did not. I accept. Nonetheless, the reason I bring this up is to acknowledge, for a moment, how strange it is to play even a small part in a summer blockbuster, writes Michael ian Black.

My whole career has been spent making obscure television shows and movies that very few people ever see. Michael was on the Wonderful Show Ed, starring Tom Kavanaugh, who is one of the founding members of the Macpack. I really hope someday Ed comes out on DVD or Blu ray or streaming or something. I would love to watch that show again. I do have MP three files on one of the laptops here, but you know, that’s like an effort.

I just want to like play, Black says. Every now and then, something I do corners a teeny bit of mainstream attention, but for the most part, it’s been thirty years of shall we say, less than mainstream. Fair after so many years in show business, it’s unusual to have a new experience. This is a new experience. I’ve already noticed a huge uptick in social media engagement.

People are messaging me text from folks I haven’t heard from in a while. It’s nice. Oh that happens, Michael Ian Black. You’re in show business. You know that.

When you’re hot, suddenly everybody’s your friend, and in between gigs nobody knows your name. You know how that goes, Black says. Contrast that with the engagement I normally get when I appear in something, which is almost total silence. Not because people don’t like the stuff I make, only they’ve never seen it. Fair Enough, I’ve long grown accustomed bring in the basic cable comedy minds.

All right. The Emmy nominations out at eleven thirty Today. Nate Berghanzy is this year’s Emmy host. Out today on the eight hundred pound Gorilla YouTube channel at seven Central. Ariel Elias, a Jewish star.

Also Ariel will be in the live chat if you want to hang out.

Speaking of Nate Bergazzy, one story ago and leave it in.

There was that big celebrity golf tournament over the weekend. Nate Bergazzi spoke with RGJ dot com. He compared playing golf to being on stage, saying, you learn to get comfortable out here. Once you get comfortable with everybody out here, then it’s a lot of fun. It’s all on you.

So when it goes bad, it’s all on you. No one’s coming to rescue you. I think that’s why comics tend to like golf, because of that, you just by yourself. He didn’t realize his sn L appearances would change everything. He said, I didn’t think it would go what it did, but it changed everything.

If he goes back, he says he will do a third Washington sketch. Colin Jost was also golfing, and he’s also in the upcoming Nate Bergazzy movie, The Breadwinner. Nate said I try to make sure it wrapped before this tournament. I think it’s gonna be a great movie. It’s funny and I look forward to doing more.

Nate was paired with Charles Barkley and Larry the Cable Guy on Friday and with Joe Buck and Justin Geeth Gee on Saturday. Charles Barkley said, me and Larry the Cable Guy like twin brothers. Now. I play with Larry every year, me and Nate. I got to spend some time with Nate.

But you think about it, I get to play with those two guys are amazing on what they do in their life. Normally I wouldn’t get to play golf. I get to play golf with some superstars for three days. Rob Riggole got in on this convo and said, they’re all laughing, go Cable Guy, We’re not afraid you can do it. And he’s like, well listen to me.

I beg him to move and they don’t. Then he puts a hotline drive right into the gallery and he always feels terrible. Larry said, I was the only celebrity that week to make the Golf Channel and Core TV on the same day. A lot of people have names for their drivers. I call mine exhibit A good joke.

Larry Brian Baumgardner from the office said, there isn’t a fair way that I’m walking down. We’re a green that I’m walking off of where somebody doesn’t mention something about chili to me. If you know you know, we’re twenty minutes saying, I can’t explain that one to you. If you know you know. Cable Guy says he always tells his laying partners to brace themselves.

You’re gonna hear get or done about seventy eight hundred times. During the course of the round. Ray Romano his goal was to break eighty. He said, if you ask around, they’ll tell you I’m the most anal with rules. Everything counts, everything goes on the whole.

No gimmes, no mulligans, no nothing. So when I break eighty, it’s for real. In twenty ten, Romano had to make a three foot putt to finish with a seventy nine. Comedian Tom Dressen gets on the loudspeaker. Ray said he got the loudspeaker till the audience.

Romano’s about to break eighty and I missed the putt. Ray said, they don’t think we take it seriously. But I can guarantee you everybody in the tornament, even though it doesn’t show, they’re taking it seriously. It’s not life and death, it’s not your living. But we want to perform.

We want to beat the next guy. We want to look at the standings at the end of the day and see we have a respectable score. And that’s your comedy news for today. And I bounce stuff too. I could already pretape the weekend.

I’ve got so much stuff, which is great. If you enjoy the show, tell the friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruptions or feed drops of that other stuff, good way to do that is go to Caliroga dot com, slash plus, or if you’re an Apple podcast click the banner short version. Five bucks a month you get this show and a bunch of others commercial free.

Have you checked out Alligator Alcatraz yet? That’s my new favorite thing. It’s my company. I didn’t make it at all. I can’t remember either Mark had the idea on his own or I texted him and said, how come you haven’t made Alligator Alcatraz yet?

I may have texted him that, or I may be Brian Williams ing this thing and imagining I texted him anyway, Alligator Alcatraz a lot of fun. Check it out, See you tomorrow