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Featured: Mark Maren, Andrew Schulz, Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalk, Judy Reyes, Bill Lawrence, Larry David, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama

What’s in This Episode

• Mark Maren’s HBO special ‘Panicked’ trailer release
• Andrew Schulz criticizes Trump for not keeping campaign promises
• Scrubs revival ordered to series on ABC with original cast returning
• The Office spinoff ‘The Paper’ release date announcement
• Larry David teams up with Obamas for sketch comedy special on American history

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. We are out of the summer loll. Things have picked back up. There was a lot of news on Friday.

We’ve got just for laughs this week, Anemy nominations later this month in Adam Sandler movie, and then a Mark Maren special on August first. So’ll there be plenty to talk about. Let’s start with Maren. That special is called Panicked, and it was shot in New York City in May. HBO has released the trailer for it.

Let’s listen. I have made a few edits for language. I know the world we’re living in. It’s difficult and it’s scary. So I said to myself, Mark, why don’t you just be entertaining?

People need entertainment. I’m not sure I got into this to be entertaining. Progressors have really got to figure out how. To deal with this buzzkill problem. You did you realize we annoyed the average American into We had these big fires in Los Angeles.

There were mandatory evacuations. So I’m like, we’re doing this now. I’ve got three cats and one carrier. That’s not a porno movie. It’s my life.

I don’t know if I know the difference between I’m happy and this is good coffee. I don’t know. If my brain rests for even three seconds, some other part of my brain goes, you want me to open the worry folder. I’m intrusive, catastrophic thinking. There’s an argument to be made that if you think the worst is gonna happen, anything shy of that is a victory.

But I don’t know if all I’m doing is mining for gold in a river of panic. I thought there was a strong material in there that was a better trailer than a lot of trailers that come up.

All right, let’s talk about Andrew Schultz.

Boy, I’m trying to pull my punches here so that I don’t lose half the audience. But Andrew, dude, come on, really, Andrew Schultz is surprised that President Trump didn’t do exactly what he promised he was going to do. On his podcast, Andrew Schultz said, there’ll be people that do me like you see what your boys do, and you voted for this, and I’m like, I voted for none of this. He’s doing the exact opposite of everything I’ve voted for. I want him to stop the wars he’s funding them.

I want them to shrink spending, reduce the budget he’s increasing it. I already expect positians to not do most of the stuff they say. I don’t want to be too cynical, but now I’m getting to the point where it’s like, can they do anything? When you feel like the status quo will do nothing and change nothing, you have way more of a longer leash for the outsider’s ideas than you do for the status quo’s ideas. And I think that was the idea with Trump, Who’s like, maybe he’ll stop these wars.

No, maybe we’ll see what’s up with the Epstein stuff. No, they again, vote for who you want. But like Andrew, come on, Scrubs is coming back. It has received a straight to series order from ABC. Donald Faison and Sarah Chalk now on board, joining Zach Braff.

All three get executive producer credits. The official description j D and Turk scrubbing together for the first time in a long time. Medicine has changed in terms of change, but their bromance has stood the test of time. Character is new, and all navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter at Heart and some surprises along the way. Now, I wonder what they’re going to do with Sacred Heart.

You may remember in the original series they switched hospitals for the final season there and they were like new Sacred Heart, which was like a teaching hospital. Or are they going to use that set? I guess, because if I remember correctly, the hospital they used for the original eight seasons was knocked down, so they can’t even use that if they want. I mean, I guess they could build sets that look like the original series and just kind of ignore season nine. Who knows, we’ll find out.

Judy Rayes, who played Carla, is a series regular on ABC’s High Potential. However, there apparently are good conversations between the two shows that they hope Judy rays can pomp into new Scrubs. They’re both on ABC. The Lawrence at a statement said, Scrubs means so very much to me, so excited for the chance to get the band back together. I’ve mentioned in the past, my wife is a physician.

She was an intern at the time at JD and Turkuer Interns, and she found it to be extremely realistic, obviously, not the campy elements or the daydream elements, but just the ins and outs of hospital life. She found out to be the most realistic show until The Pit came along. That is now the number one most realistic show according to doctor mac Laurence and Visions. Scrubs two point zero is a hybrid between a revival and a reboot, bringing back the original concept with new surgical interns. Lawrence had said in October, We’ve been talking about it a lot, and I think the only real reason to do it is as a combo.

People wanted to see what the world of medicine was like for the people they love, which is part of any successful reboot. But b I think the show always worked because we get to see young people dropped on the world of medicine, knowing young people that go there are super idealistic, and doing it because it’s a calling. There’s no cliche rich doctors playing golf. That’s not what it is anymore. So I think that no matter what it is, it’d be a giant mistake not to do it as a combo of those two things.

I think he’s right. The Office spin off, The Paper has a release date, it will debut. This to me seems like they just want to burn it off and make it go away. This is very strange. They’ll drop four episodes on September fourth.

Now, how does that factor in a Labor day weekend? When is Labor Day this year? All right, Labor Day looks like it’s Monday the first, is that right? That’s a bummer, So Thursday the fourth. Johnny Mac doesn’t like September one Labor Day because that means, you know, summer abruptly ends that it’s still only September second.

I like when Labor day’s like the sixth. Anyway, four episodes on Thursday, September fourth, followed by two new episodes every Thursday through September twenty fifth. This all on peacock. Is nobody learning about the binge model? Like, for example, Squid Game.

Remember everybody who was in a Squid Game came and went. Nobody talked about season three. The Bear came and went. Nobody really talked about the bear. A friend of mine texting me, He’s like, did you watch the Beery?

And I’m like no, and we stopped talking about it. I mean, back in the day, I always come back to lost. I remember sitting around the office for a week going What do the numbers mean? What does the polar bear mean? What does this mean?

What does that mean? Now? It’s like watch it, no, don’t talk about it, and we don’t talk about it anymore. So go ahead and drop four episodes of the Office on Thursday September fourth, which is probably up against an NFL game, isn’t it. Oh yeah, the Dallas Cowboys.

You know that little football team. They play the world champion Philadelphia Eels. Yeah, nobody’s going to be watching football on Thursday September fourth. They’re all going to be watching the Paper. What are you doing?

Don’t do this? Push it back a week and drop one episode a week. Why are you rushing through this? Dumb dumb, dum dum dumb. I’m feisty today.

The Paper is set at a Midwestern newsroom trying to revive its status. Larry David is coming back to TV a new six episode sketch comedy about American history, this one produced by the Obamas. The description President and Missus Obama wanted to honor America’s two hundred and fiftieth anniversary and celebrate the unique history of our nation on this special occasion. But then Larry David called. In a statement, President Obama said, I’ve sat across the table from some of the world’s most difficult leaders and wrestled with some of our most intractable problems.

Nothing has prepared me for working with Larry David. Larry David said, once Curb ended, I celebrated with a three day foam party after a violent allergic reaction to the SuDS. I yearned to return in my simple life as a bee keeper, harvesting organic honey from the wildflowers in my meadow. Alas, one day my bees mysteriously vanished, and so is with a heavy heart that I return to television, hoping to ease the loss of my beloved hive. Six episodes, presumably next year, to coincide with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the United States.

It is said to feature some Curb actors and quote noteworthy guest stars. One of the directors said, the characters Larry is playing didn’t change history. In fact, they were largely ignored by history, and that’s a good thing. The Home Run Derby is Tonight’s GQ asked Roy Wood Junior about the Home Run Derby. He said, what I like about it is how carnival like it is.

Look at these strong guys who found let’s see how far they can hit a baseball. Every other sport has skill competitions. Hockey, they put the targets up on the goal. They got to go top shelf through an eighty bitty hole. But baseball’s like, no, we don’t care about the other skills.

I’m going to my first derby this year. I imagined it to be such a choice and fun thing. You just get to sit there and watch them do all the things we love, Roy, You’re going to love it. When I worked at the old Place, I had credentials for the home run Derby at least twice I think maybe three times, and then I went as a civilian with my son when the home run Derby was at City Field. It’s just fun, especially if you could sit in the outfield and the home runs are coming at you.

That is fun. Roy. Do you have a favorite home run ever? He said, nobody’s ever asked me that. Shoot.

Favorite home run ever is Joe Carter in the nineteen ninety three World Series. Even though I paid for Mitch Williams as a Cubs fan, I’m gonna give my answer. I was at Opening Day when Gary Carter made his Mets debut and he hit a home run. That was an exciting day at Shay Stadium. Roy said, I always understood why good players left because the Cubs as an organization just never got it together in the early nineties.

Greg Maddox left, everybody left. I think Sammy Sosa was the only one that joined the team in the middle of that BS So I have conflictions about the Joe Carter home run because of my love for Mitch Williams. But the joyousness of Joe Carter rounding the bases, it’s exactly the essence of baseball. You know what. I will save more of this for tomorrow or Wednesday.

I’ve got a lot in tomorrow. Script already stick to sports. Okay. Over the weekend there was a celebrity golf tournament. I only found out about it on Friday afternoon, or it would have dropped it into one of the weekend episodes or mentioned it on Friday.

They waited pretty late to promote this one. Anyway. The Times did a big profile. They caught up with Larry the cable guy, who said he used to hate golf. He was on a tour bus and another comic made the mistake of switching all the TV screens to the masters.

Larry, it’s all the times I go. Who watches golf on a Sunday when the braves are playing? Are you nuts? But around twenty ten, a cable guy befriended PGA tour player Bob Weekly and tagged along for eighteen holes. Larry said, all I did was riding the cart with a megaphone and tell jokes for about four and a half hours.

Then they thought, man, I better learn how to play golf rather than riding a golf guard for four hours. I’m running out of material. He grabs some clubs and he was instantly hooked. He’s a lefty, he claims thirteen handicap. It is now a regular charity tournaments.

Ray Romano and other celebrity golfer said, the crowd’s there to have fun. They’re not there to see Ray Romano play golf. They’re not there to enjoy how good I am as a golfer, because we all know we’re all amateurs, but they don’t realize how much we’re grinding inside. We try to make it entertaining, especially the comedians. We got to put on a smile, tell a joke and try to be funny.

But when you hit a bad shot and then you got to try and be the clown, it’s not easy.

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Also participating this year in the acc Neaprighetsi, Colin jo Justin rob Rig…

I want the Golf channel at some point to go. Man, you believe this, Larry the Cable guys in eighth place. You have dreams of hearing those things. But yeah, sometimes you can’t wait till the round is over, so you can just get back to your room, say a couple of prayers and pay somebody to come smother you with a pillow. It’s really not hard to let your motions show on golf, but you got hold it in.

I’ll try and to see if I can get a recap of this into Morrow Show. Ray Romano said, well, you want to beat Charles Barkley. Seems like Pajeeba dot Com had the same reaction to Craig Robinson that I did. They wrote, that’s not how you quit comedy, That’s how comedy quits you. As no one learned anything from years of big announcements and fake reunion teasus before the Super Bowl.

The inevitable letdown always irritates the hell out of people. This is what happens when Peacock cancels your surprisingly solid snake hunting showing out today for Breezio Capano from the Future. It is his debut English language special, available for early access at the eight hundred pound Gorilla eight hundred PGM dot com. Now that is your comedy news for today. If you’re still enjoying the program after my Andrew Schultz editorial, I appreciate you.

C tomorrow

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Featured: Danny DeVito, Charlie Day, Taylor Tomlinson, Andy Samberg, Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson, Akiva Shaeffer, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Danny DeVito and Charlie Day promote ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Season 17
• Taylor Tomlinson discusses her comedy career and personal journey leaving religion
• Andy Samberg endorses Liam Neeson’s ‘The Naked Gun’ reboot directed by Akiva Shaeffer
• Adam Sandler’s ‘Click’ watched weekly by Australian fans since 2020

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 Daly comedy news The La Signs, which has a great conception. By the way, They caught up with Danny DeVito and Charlie Day. They’re out promoting season seventeen. If It’s always sunny in Philadelphia.

Danny DeVito apologized for sounding like he had just come out of the salt mines. He said, I did a lot of yelling this week. Danny talked about joining the show and said, I knew lots about the show already. I was going in because I was friends with the president of the network at the time, John Langraf, sent me the first eight shows and I watched it with my family. He was saying he was talking about these really talented guys that he was working with, and John was building a network over there.

I can’t remember exactly where we met, but when we met, it was weird. It was the first thing. Throw me a little bit. Do you remember where it was? Charlie said, yeah, we had a lunch.

You meet Robin Glent on Beverly Boulevard. We didn’t have an office. We were writing the second season. You’d agreed to the show and you came in, like your character from Get Shorty. You started ordering for all of us, and you told us some crazy story about your father having a box full of tea and watches, and we’re just taking notes.

I think we pitched a couple different character names. I think you shot down a few of them, but you liked Frank. Charlie Day said Danny, I know that I went and spent maybe a whole week rewatching almost everything he’d ever done. I watched every episode of Taxi. I watched almost every single movie I could find, just studying a fighter you’re going up against, and it was Get Shorty that really kind of locked in for me.

A lot of people, what have you do that Louis de Palma thing over and over again. You’re so great at that. But there was something so idiosyncratic about to Get Shorty character and unpredictable that we were like, oh, if we could tap into that. I think it took us a couple of seasons to do it, And then it felt like Kissmith that he sort of came in a meeting like that. Guy.

Divido talked about Frank and Charlie’s relationship and said, I like the idea of the scheming and everything that everybody else does, and they do it in a normal way. They want to make money, they want to get ahead, they want to be famous, they want the bar to succeed. They want this that Whenever Charlie does something, it titillates Frank. The Times of London spoke with Taylor Tomlinson. Now something driving me nuts here.

First of all, I really like Taylor Thomason, but I just think this copywriting is so lazy. The Taylor Swift of stand up talks about oversharing it. Why is she the Taylor Swift of stand up? Because their name is Taylor, because they’re both blonde. Taylor Thompson looks more like Taylor Swift than I do by a lot.

But is she the Taylor Swift of stand up? Like? What does that even mean? They’re both named Taylor. Okay, Joe Coy has never made a mean, horrible joke about Taylor Thompson as far as I know.

Taylor Thompson has never iced Joe Coy’s career by giving him a dirty stare instead of just laughing at the joke and going ha ha. Anyway, I digress. The Taylor Swift of comedy said, I’ve been a full time comedian for ten years, and it’s been NonStop. Before that, I was working two jobs and in college. I think after this tour, I’m going to take some real time off because I’ve been burning the canile.

It both ends for a long time. My career is everything I’ve ever wanted. There are certain aspects of my personal life that could certainly use some time and attention. Taylor grew up in a religious family. She began a question her of faith at age eight after her mother died from cancer and her father, who she no longer speaks to, remarried ten months later.

Tomlinson said, I’ve had to work through a lot of my guilt and shame around sex and leaving the church. When there’s a significant part of you that’s being repressed because you were raised a certain way by certain people, I don’t think it’s possible to talk about that without a lot of anger and resentment release. It wasn’t for me. Coming out as bisexual was the final piece. Look, I’m not an atheist.

I’m not ruling anything out or judging anybody’s choices, as long as you’re not using religion to scare, manipulating, control, people, so it’s just been many years of sorting through all that. Sometimes it’s funny to make jokes about something you’re really angry about, but it also could be detrimental if you try to talk about something too soon. Some of the jokes I’ve done about my mom dying, I tried when I was twenty and I hadn’t been in too much therapy, and I think you can tell when someone’s not doing well. It’s similar to going on stage and knocking over the mic. It just makes people nervous if they feel like you don’t have full control over yourself their jokes I wrote for this tour, then I ended up cutting because I was like, I don’t think I’m ready to talk about that yet.

It would feel icky and like I overshared because I was talking about things that aren’t resolved for me emotionally and are still very much affecting me in a complicated negative way. Mack Packer Andy Samberg says that Liam Neeson’s upcoming Naked Gun reboot is good. That’s stunning. I’ll trust Andy Samberg, now, let’s all be fair. The Naked Gun is directed by Akiva Shaeffer, who’s the frequent collaborator with Andy Samberg, both from The Lonely Island and The Wonderfully Terrific.

What is the jose Ca and Seiko Mark Maguire thing? What’s that called? Oh my god? I love that thing. So either he’s stating out with his friend or you know, Akiva.

Schaeffer’s got a pretty good track record. When I saw the trailer, when I saw the original idea, I was like, yeah. But Andy Samberg says The Naked Gun is pure joy, saying that Schaeffer crushed it. Samberg says everyone who’s seen the film loves it, and the film is all jokes. Wall A Wall.

Everyone I’ve seen it with walked out saying the same thing, which is like, I didn’t realize how much him is that feeling of a pure silly comedy that’s all jokes. Wat a Wall in a theater, Me and a Kiva are always involved in each other stuff, and I think he just crushed it. Liam is so funny at it. He’s so good. Pam Anderson is so good at it too.

I’m really excited for them. I hope everybody goes and sees it because it’s super funny album. Hopefully, The Naked gun is out. August first caught this one in Vice. I didn’t write this article.

I’m just telling you about it. The headline in Vice is, these guys watch Adam Sandler’s Click, the most demoralizing film ever made. Every single week. I’m telling you I didn’t write this. Wece wrote ever have the misfortune of seeing Adam Sandlor’s Click.

I put it on to ease a hangover sometimes in two thousand and eight, expecting a brain numbing, heartwarming rump, abiding by the same two word arc that all Adam Sandler films abided by. That point, idiot prospers. In case you’re wondering, it goes a little something like this. Adam Sandler’s character finds a magic TV remote in a warehouse that can fast forward time itself. He rejoices because he can now skip all the boring parts of his life, arguments being ill, eating dinner with his family, and go straight to the good stuff like promotions and pay hikes.

But then the magic TV remote learns Sandler’s preferences, and it goes rogue, choosing for itself which parts of his life to fast forward. Soon, Adam Sandler’s hurtling towards the grave, powerless to stop the remote. One minute, his kids are toddlers, the next day have gray hair, His wife marries their swimming coach. His dogs keep dying until one attacks, and when he’s a pensioner and the doctor’s find out he has cancer. This year I came across the Twitter account click Thinks, ran by two anonymous Australians who’ve been watching the Adam Sandler movie Click every week since twenty twenty, and will continue to do so for the rest of linear time.

One of the anonymous fans said, we started an online movie night during the pandemic. We didn’t think too hard about our first pick. We just landed on Click. Then the next week came around, instead of something new, we just watched Click again. Five years on, we’re still watching Click every week as if it’s the only thing holding reality together.

It’s like a dare that nobody backed out of. I like that it feels like a play with a clear two act structure. For the first half, it’s the kind of humor that Sandlor fans would expect. But then as the film transitions into its second act, it pulls the rugout from under you. Suddenly it’s no longer about the comedic possibilities of a TV remote, but about the devastating consequences of prioritizing the wrong things in life.

This guy has over one hundred and fifty physical versions of Click. He says his favorite is the Japanese version, which translates to if you could choose yesterday. He’s got a Korean VHS tape. He’s working on a rare Russian VHS copy. The Click fan said, the film encourages us to reframe how we see our daily lives, not as filler between big events, but as the core of our human experience.

Today is comedy auction. Comedy auction is part stand up show, part fever, dream yard sale. Audience members bring weird, wonderful, or cursed items from home. Two comedians auction them off. Greg Berman ish your host.

Each item comes with a story, Each bid comes with a punchline. All proceeds go to a local nonprofit. If you’re in Portland, Oregon, it’s at Kickstand Comedy today. Check that one out that sounds fun. Over in the UK, Channel four is getting all involved with YouTube now they’ve started something called a comedy thing.

So two points Aam’s gonna report on this anyway, and then b when I saw they called it a comedy thing, I was like, hey, you know, I’ve been hosting something called The Weekly Comedy Thing for over a decade. Now, new episode out today on the Live one app. The app is free, the show is free. What is the Weekly Comedy Thing? The Weekly Comedy Thing is like this, except I can actually play the bits, you know, royalties and stuff rules.

I can’t just be like and here’s a six minute clip from George Carlin. Podcasting doesn’t work that way, but on the Live one app, I can do that. It’s called The Weekly Comedy Thing. New episodes every Sunday, and a new one out today anyway. The really differently titled Comedy Thing by Channel four will publish weekly long form programming for YouTube plus content on TikTok and Instagram.

It launches with a cast of seven up and coming comics who have emerged from YouTube, including Victorio Angelone, Finlay christi Oga, kach Emi Oladipo, Mickey Overman, Mike Rice, and Dan Tiernan. Channel Four’s philosophy is that YouTube is not the enemy, but is a distribution platform, and that is your comedy news for today. If you would like the program without commercials or other interruptions five bucks a month. Go to calirog dot com slash Plus. If you’re an Apple podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening.

Oh out today a new podcast, Crown and Controversy that is a spinoff of the Palace Intrigue podcast. So Crown and Controversy, the elevator pitches what if the TV show The Crown kept going? So we picked up right where they left off. So this season of Crown and Controversy is the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, So check that out. That’s out today.

Also out today another series from US alligator Alcatraz, so you can check those two out. I’ll be back tomorrow with another edition of Daily Comedy News.

And now stick around for this.

Interview our sister. I’m going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow, that’s great, thank you, that’s so generous of you. Car that’s great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic.

She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don’t want anything to do with and stormed out. Of the room. And I thought, well, that’s not what I expected. Oh my god.

So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise it was not going to work. So that happened.

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And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial…

It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn’t being used. I wasn’t using it for me. I wasn’t using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money now, why should I wait until I die?

Why don’t I bring it forward?

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And then it was a long process for me to come around to that, but that’s what…

Now. Let’s back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest, so it was a chunk of money that they were going to get.

Well they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect. And I said, look, I’m going to bring this forward and give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it’s really a big benefit for you. I don’t want this to overwhelm you.

And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What’s that? So you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it’s one of the most important plans you can get, and it doesn’t have to be very complex. What is it that makes you happy?

What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan.

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And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time.

And so then they took it and I watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they did and how they became happier, and so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did so they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you’ve come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter.

They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy. They didn’t deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, off awful story.

So they were grieving six years later and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude, and I put them in my will and they could accept that, and I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can’t accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked and I said, look, I’m leaving it open. So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it.

Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we’ll do it because I say we’re going to wait until you die, why not do it now? And they did it. And it wasn’t the money, interesting life, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we’ll never be happy again. We don’t deserve to be happy.

And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look, you know it can be you can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

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And now you cannot believe what these people they are traveling all over the …

They’re in Tahiti right now. They climbed killamungarratt. These people are loving life. And it was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead and this brought us back to life.

Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have. You know, when you’re in those depths, it’s really it could be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn’t a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you. If that it sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking is there anything that I didn’t ask that I should have?

How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I’ll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness.

Do you you deserve to be happy? And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I’m going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I’m going to increase my happiness that choice.

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And then talk to people about it.

Talk to a husband or wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I’m made the decision that I want to be happier, and I’m like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it. And it’s not that hard, but it is challenging, but it’s a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness. I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, Lutionary Way to Increase Happiness.

Carl, where could people find the book. Wherever books are sold, And it’s now available for pre order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan.

It’s been fun.

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, Dwayne Wade, Roy Wood Jr., Hasan Minhaj, Kumail Nanjiani, Cherry Cola, George Lopez

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze starring in Amazon MGM’s Fantasy Camp movie
• Roy Wood Jr. discusses baseball passion and parenting philosophy in GQ interview
• Belly Laughs Festival in LA celebrating Asian American comedians and culture
• George Lopez’s abandoned Lopez Tacos domain now redirects to Thai language site

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. This is the final weekend where I can actually enjoy the summer before I start freaking out that summer’s almost over. I know I’m a crazy person, but like today, I can go to the beach. We’ll be like, gohs plenty of summer left.

Starting next weekend, which toly nineteenth, I’ll be like, oh, it’s only two left in July. That’s August, and I gotta start teaching again. That’s limbord. Oh, I got I’m a crazy person. I’m good from like Memorial Day till today and then I got crazy.

Naprigassy looks like he’s jumping in another movie. Deadline reporting the Amazon MGM studios have acquired Fantasy Camp. Fantasy Camp follows a group of friends at a make or break moment in their lives, as they had to Dwyane Wade’s Fantasy Camp in Miami to relive their basketball dreams. But what starts as fun becomes a battle for pride, purpose, and one last win. Is Kevin James not available?

This sounds terrible anyway. Nprighassy is looking to star in it. With Nate Land Entertainment producing Nate Nate, Nate Nate. Don’t mess it up. You got it going good.

You gotta go do SNL once a year. Learn from Alaney, do sn OL once a year. To your Christmas special. Do stand up. You got it good.

You’re gonna mess it up here. I’m telling you, We’re gonna come back in ten years and I’m gonna be doing a story going. Remember when Aprigatsy was going to build an amusement park in Nashville. I see this coming. You got it good, don’t mess it up.

Roywood Junior spoke to GQ. They were curious how Roy got the baseball bug. Roy said, f word, bro, that’s a good question. When I was in Memphis, my mom put me in baseball and I took to it. I thought it was fun.

I wasn’t good at it. I was very terrible at it, but I liked it. Then we got to Birmingham in the fourth grade and I joined the Little League. It was with a lot of my classmates. I had the right coaches, and I became excited about it.

At the same time, I was going after school care like I did in Memphis. I got to walk home, the Cubs came on at one or two in the afternoon. I would come home and sign to see that little last bit of the Cubs game. Bro. I’d sit there, no homework, no nothing, just sitting there with a Rice Crispy treat watching Andre Dawson.

I just fell in love with it, man, right down to the broadcast teams and all that.

And then I hit a second wave when I became a parent.

Yeah, I remember when baseball. The Cubs were on everywhere, the Braves were on everywhere. There were day games. The World Series sometimes played in the afternoon, and kids could see it. They even chased me.

I was a big baseball fan, and they just kept playing. Like remember the Cubs finally won the World Series, but there was a rain delay, and that happened at twelve thirty in the morning. I couldn’t even bother to stay up for that. Now, you know what they should have done that night. They should have called a suspended game and then come back the next night to play the tenth inning in primetime at like eight Eastern with a Cub That would have done a monster rating.

But baseball doesn’t know how to market anyway. I digress. GQ was curious, what’s the scouting report on roy Wood junior. Royce said, great locker room guy, lot of heart, first baseman. They can’t hit for Bauer, but will ouhustle anyone on the field.

Fairly slow, excellent glove man. The ball wasn’t getting past me. I could, scoop. I could do all that on my best day. I’d be a late inning defensive replacement when we’re defending a one run lead in September during a Pennant race.

I’m defensively dominant, but a liability at the plate. Sounds like the eighty six Red Sox could have used him too soon. GQ was curious, could you play corner outfield if you need to? Roy said, I don’t know, man, I’m not getting a no gappers, I don’t have the wheels, and my horse can’t get there. I thought this was interesting.

He says, my son’s not playing organized baseball. I’m not forcing him in any sports, but we do a little bit of batting practice, playing catch. But to me right now, baseball, much like chess and legos, is a tool to teach what I believe is very pertinent life lessons. The main one in baseball is the idea that you can’t do it alone. But a lot of time it’s just up to you, and sometimes you’re just gonna suck.

Sometimes that picture your face is going to be way better than you and there’s nothing to get you about it. Ah. I wish I were in LA this weekend. I have some family out there and they’re not out there this weekend. If I were, it, head over to LA Live for Belly Laughs.

Belly Laughs is celebrating Asian American culture by combining food and comedy. Take a look at the lineup in a second, but they liners include Hasan Minhaj coming on on Jehannny Margaret Show, Joe Kimbooster, and Cherry Kola. More than thirty comedians, three stages, two days. But there’s also a food lineup featuring food from twenty restaurants across LA. Remember during the pandemic, when you know there wasn’t anything to talk about, and I’d wind up going on these deep dive reading menus to you.

Remember I used to do that sometimes. That was because George Lopez opened to George Lopez Tacos. I remember George Lopez Tacos. He was all in about that and I kind of forgot about it. I don’t even think the url is still alive.

I think I checked this one other time. Let me do that now, George Lopez Tacos. It’s coming up on next bite. Let me click. That’s taking me to visit the restaurant website.

Yeah, now this is taking me to Somebody has gotten a hold of Lopez Tacos dot com. And apparently the text on the website is in Thai. I had to throw it into Google Translate to see what it even says. And apparently what it says on Lopez Tacos dot com in Thai language translated to English. Driving on the road today, no matter how careful drivers are, how much they prevent accidents or unexpected events, even though it’s a good thing, there’s still a chance that accidents are unexpected events will happen as usual because they may come from fellow road users or events that you cannot control.

So George Lopez is so far in on Lopez Tacos that he didn’t even bother to keep the url. Apparently, I digress. Johnny macbot here, John forgot to record the lineups. Forgive my pronunciations, after all, I’m an Ai Today, Hasan Minhaj Kumeil Nanjianni, Zarna garg Nimesh Patel, Johnny Park, Andrea Jin, Jason Chenni, Irene Two, Dylan Adler, Kieran Diol, Sabrina Wu, James, Tom Tien, Tron, Robin Tran, Tatiana Gucci and Di Loo. Tomorrow Hassan minhadj Margaret Cho, Bobby Lee, Joel Kim Booster, Hari Kondabolu, as If Ali, Joe Wong, Jenny Yang, Helen Hong, Fumi abe is My Alutfee, Aaron chen Nori Reid, Paula Gatta, Beautie shit Yarma, and Vicky Wang.

Now back to human Johnny Mac el eight Simes caught up with Kamail nan Gianni about the Belly Laughs Festival. He’s happy returning to stand up after doing some films. He said, I miss being good at something I wasn’t good at anymore. I used to have so much confidence in this. Now it feels like I’m a different person, and so in the strikes, the Hollywood strikes, I was like, I want to try and see if I still love it.

Cherry Cola says, I find being a stand up comedian as a superpower stepping on to a set for sure. I think because we’re good at crowd work. We have a quickness that on every actor has. Cherry Cola says that after being the subject of racial jokes for decades, the best way to counteract the sting of the stereotypes is for Asian comedians to write jokes about their cultures that help their communities laugh. She says, I don’t know if it’s just society trying to define us or put us in a box, but it’s almost like we just recently got permissional laugh at ourselves because we’ve been the punchline for years in the media, and now it’s a chance to exale because this is a safe space.

It’s kind of what Belly Laughs is giving. Johnny Mac, you never mentioned Pete Davidson. I know well. The UK festival fright Fest has revealed its twenty twenty five lineup. The event will open with the Pete Davidson horror film The Home Freight Fest August twenty first through the twenty fifth.

Vulture has some spoilers for the plots for the rest of the season of It’s Always Sonny in Philadelphia, So if you don’t want to know what’s coming Skip ahead. I can probably do this in under a minute, so I want you to hit skip skip anyway. The rest of the season, according to Vulture, includes the Gang seriously engineering strangers, objectifying women, hosting an orgy, breaking up a happy family, and harassing Cricket and the waitress. And later in the season It’s always Sunny. We’ll cross over with The Golden Bachelor.

Broadway World reported on a cast and call for an off Broadway show called Not Ready for Prime Time. This set backstage at SNL’s early days. That sounds pretty cool. The SNL movie it was really good. The production self describes as a play about an American institution run by people who belong in an institution.

They’re looking for people to play Lorne Michaels, Dan Ackroyd, John Belushy, Chevy Chase, Jean Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Lorraine Newman, and Gilda Radner. Late Nighter points out since Bill Murray is a character in this that it will take place in a bigger timeline than the Saturday Night movie did. Broadway World says Not Ready for Prime Time will debut October fifth, scheduled for a limited run through December fourteenth at a yet to be announced theater. Staying with SNL. Apparently people are making SNL Lego.

There’s a website called Lego Ideas. On it you can pitch potential Lego sets that are voted on by Lego officionados, and sometimes Lego makes one. A new submission is called Live from New York It’s Saturday Night. It’s actually the second Saturday Night Live themed Lego. This new design includes seven Lego minifigures representing the original cast from nineteen seventy five.

The creator says a detachable staircase could be used to pose your minifigures, as in the Face Name Is cast photo taken on opening night, eighteen hundred and thirty five pieces. The set includes glowing the dark elements to simulate studio lighting. If you want to support the idea and get Lego to actually make this thing, go to the Lego Ideas site. And that is your comedy news for today. If you’d like to program without commercial interruption or feed drops or other stuff, become a Premium subscriber.

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I’m going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow, that’s that’s great. Thank you. That’s so generous of you, Carl. That’s great.

But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don’t want anything to do with and stormed out of the room. And I thought, well that’s not what I expected. Oh my god.

So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise it was not. Going to work. So that happened.

And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial statements and I had more money ain’t there than I was really using. It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn’t being used. I wasn’t using it for me. I wasn’t using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people.

So I thought, well, if I have all this money, now, why should I wait until I die? Why don’t I bring it forward?

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And then, you know, it was a long process for me to come around to that, but …

Now. Let’s back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest.

So it was a chunk of money that they were going to get. Well, they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect. And I said, look, I’m going to bring this forward to give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it’s really a big benefit for you.

I don’t want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What’s that? So so you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but the most important plans you can get and it doesn’t have to be very complex.

What is it that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan.

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And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time, and …

I saw all their plans, what they did, and how they became happier. And so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did so that they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you’ve come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter.

They were totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never be happy again. It would be wrong to be happy. They didn’t deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story.

So they were grieving six years later and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude, and I put them in my will and they could accept that. And I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can’t accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked and I said, look, I’m leaving it open.

So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we’ll do it, because if we’re going to wait until you die, why not do it now. And they did it and it wasn’t the money. Interesting Now, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind set from being so negative. You know, we’ll never be happy again.

We don’t deserve to be happy. And the coach turned there thinking that mindset around and said, look, you know it can be you can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

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And now you cannot believe what these people.

They’re traveling all over the world. They’re in Tahiti right now. They climbed Killamungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change that is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back to life.

Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have, you know, when you’re in those depths. It’s really it can be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn’t a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you if it sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that I didn’t ask that I should have? How can my listeners benefit from this book?

What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I’ll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness. Do you deserve to be happy?

And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I’m going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I’m going to increase my happiness that choice, and then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband or wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I’m made the decision that I want to be happier, and I’m like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it. And it’s not that hard, but it is a but it is challenging, but it’s a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness.

I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl, where can people find the book? Wherever books are sold? And it’s now available for pre order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will.

Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan. It’s been fun.

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Featured: Bill Burr, Ronny Chieng, Anthony Anderson, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Sherman, Adam Sandler, Chuck Lorre, Kamala Harris

What’s in This Episode

• Late night comedy jokes from Jimmy Kimmel Live writers
• Bill Burr criticizes AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown
• Sarah Sherman cast in Netflix film Roommates with Adam Sandler
• HBO Max announces Big Bang Theory spinoff Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
• Kamala Harris unpublished interview on bacon as a spice for Subway Takes
• Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia new season release

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey air, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Good news, the comedy dearth is over. I’ve got plenty for the next few days, as I’ve been doing lately. On Friday, I like to take a look at the late night jokes.

I’ve got to tip my cap to the writers of Jimmy Kimmelive. They’ve been teeing up Anthony Anderson with some great ones. But let’s take a look at the week. Ronny Chieng on The Daily Show commented on the Epstein files and said, that’s it. You’re not releasing any more information.

I’ve never been ghosted by a conspiracy before. Ronnie again. The Attorney General said the client list was on her desk. Let me guess your desk also hung itself. Runnie again.

Pam Bondy was supposed to release the pedophile list. If we wanted an attorney general to cover up sex crimes, we would have stuck with Matt Gates. That’s a great joke and same topic at this point. The only way we can learn who’s a certified pedophiles if Kendrick Lamar makes a song about them. Wow.

Ouch. Anthony Anderson said Trump has been riding high after Congress passed his Big Beautiful Bill. This bill gives one hundred billion dollars to ICE, kick seventeen millions off their healthcare, and cuts food asistants for kids. At this point, the only bill that’s effing more young people is Belichick. On the topic of Benjamin Netton Yahoo nominating Donald Trump for a Peace Prize, Ronny Chieng said, Yeah, Peace Prize nomination from Nettan Yahoo is very meaningful, right up there with a Husband of the Year nomination from O.

J. Simpson. Anthony Anderson, Pope Leo is reportedly taking a six week vacation. Hold on, he’s taking six weeks off? Who the hell’s he think he is?

Jimmy Kimmel, that’s great? And one more from Anthony Anderson, who had a really good week at the White House. Today, President Trump met with leaders of five West African countries. Things got off to a rough start when he congratulated them on winning the NBA finals. Bill Burr is all upset about the AI generated music.

Have you seen this thing? The quote unquote band The Velvet Sundown. I actually wrote about them on Monday on my sub stack link in the show notes. The Velvet Sundown is an AI project created using the Suno app. Bill Burr not happy about it.

He said, these f in nerds have taken over the music industry. People can’t even play instruments and computers and find thingg bands it don’t exist writing songs and then they bots listen to them and they get like five hundred thousand views and then people think this is a real band and it isn’t. What eff in world are we living in here? It’s unbelievable, these fen people, they can’t make enough money, wasn’t enough to be screwing musicians the way they have unapologetically just fing them over. The ‘shire existence of the music business.

They’ve done nothing but absolutely bend over and f musicians. And if that isn’t enough, now the other band they’re writing music, This like Fleetwood Mac meets fucking Delec with just a dash of Brian Adams and then they just put it in the thing. It spits it out. Wait, so the AI comedians go along, Bill, you know that’s coming. Sarah Sherman has signed on board with a new film project.

She will store in the new Netflix film Roommates. You know that one that’s the one they’ve been working on in New Jersey, where Adam Sandler has been seen. It also stars Natasha Leona Nick Kroll. Roommates centers on a budding friendship that turns sour when two college freshmen move in together.

Also starring in the film famous actress Sadie Sandler.

HBO Max. Wait, is that what we’re calling you? I lost track? Yes, it’s HBO Max. Now they just changed the name back this week.

I’m not being coy. I just I started to read the copy and I was like, wait, what are they know? Yeah, but it’s HBO Max. They announced a Big Bang Theory spinoff. It is called Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.

Now, buckle up, this gets pretty complicated, but it sounds interesting. Chuck Lorie, creator of the franchise, said, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which we’re already abbreviating as sft STU, which trips up my brain because it looks way too much like st FU, which means something else entirely sf T STU. We’re not calling you that. Let’s say, what can we call this thing? Stuart fails to Save the Universe.

We could just call this Show Stuart now, because then you’re going to think Daily Show, all right, fails to save the universe. Wow, John, you took one word off all right. I don’t know we’re calling this thing anyway. Chuck Laurie says it’s trying to incorporate science fiction, fantasy, and comedy and will feature extensive CGI. STU is set in the future.

See even that sounds like I’m reading like a CSI or a Law and Order spin off SFT STU set in the future after the events in Big Bang. In It, comic book store owner Stuart Bloom is tasked with restoring reality after he breaks a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally bringing about a multiverse armageddon. Apparently Sheldon and Leonard worked on this device after the end of the original series. Stewart is aided in his quest by his girlfriend Denise, his geologist friend Burt played by Brian Possain, and quantum physicists all around Pain in the Neck Barry. Along the way, they meet alternate universe versions of characters we’ve come to know and love from the Big Bang theory, and, as the title implies, things don’t go well.

I already forgot what this show is called I’ve said it five times, it’s called Stuart fails to Save the Universe. Okay, so it’s sliders. But the Big Bang Theory is that what I’m getting here? Chuck Lorie said, I wanted to do something radical that would take me out of my comfort zone, something that characters on The Big Bang Theory would have loved, hated and argued about. All right, that’s fun, all right from the near post.

I want to make sure I get this one right. This gets all kinds of convoluted. Apparently, Kamala Harris gave an interview before the election that was so quote confusing and weird that she and the host both agreed it shouldn’t air. Apparently, Harris was on Subway Takes, an online series hosted by Kareem Rama where guests admit their favorite hot take. It was filmed in the summer of twenty twenty four.

Rama told Forbes her take was really confusing and weird, not good, and so we mutually agreed we shouldn’t publish it. All right, what could this possibly have been about world peace, the economy? Nope. Rama tells us her take was on bacon as a spice. Well, there’s More, according to the story, Harris’s team had told the producers that Kamala’s hot take would have been taking a stand against removing her shoes when on an airplane, but when the interview started, Harris apparently surprised Rama with a different hot take, which was bacon is a spice.

The New York Times apparently has the unpublished video, so this seems like it’s real. Rama told Forbes her take was really confusing and weird, not good. Rama, who’s Muslim and does not eat pork, responded, I don’t know, or stubbles down and says, think about it. It’s pure flavor. She explains how bits of cooked bacon could be used to enhansome meal like seasoning, said.

Rama asked, could ease bee for turkey instead, and then paused the interview and said he doesn’t eat bacon. He then asked if they could do the segment on taking shoes off on airplanes instead. Harris decided instead to declare her love for anchovies on pizza. After speaking to an advisor, wrapped it up and said, well, I’m one hundred percent I’m sure on both of those. The post says Harris’s office did not immediately respond to request for comment.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is back out. Minor spoilers for the new season. I personally haven’t seen the new season yet because I keep forgetting. I don’t have cable TV right now. I got rid of it for the summer because I like to be outside and I don’t watch all that much TV.

I’ll get it back come September so I can watch the football. So, yes, It’s Always Sunny came out, but I’m like, oh, I gotta wait until they posted it to FX. Plus, the new College Football Game is out, so if I am in front of a TV, I’m going to playing the college football video game. I’ll get to It’s always funny anyway, Minor spoilers coming up. Charlie Day spoke to The Hollywood Reporter.

He explained why episode one spoilers It Won’t Kill You. Why episode one was the conclusion to the crossover with Abbott Elementary. Charlie explains, because their episode was the last time we saw our characters, we thought, let’s just jump in with our version of it. Now. This is interesting.

Charlie says it could possibly be the end after the already renewed season eighteen interesting. They talked about writing this season’s season finale, and they asked Charlie did he think of it as a season finale in that sense? Charlie said, I mean it, I did. I mean, I knew there was an offer for season eighteen as well, and I knew that we’d all discussed likely wanting to do it. But I personally went into the writer’s room last year as if it was my last chance to be in the writer’s room.

Fortunately, I think we’re lining up everybody and we’re going to come back for season eighteen. Beyond season eighteen, I don’t know, it could quite possibly be the end, but I think there was something about writing this season and having David and John chernback in the writer’s room, and having Robert Zelle and David Hornsby in a little bit of the old gang back, and then having some of the episodes work so well was exciting in a way that reinvigorated everybody. So we’ll see how long we can keep it going. But one season is but one season at a time, The Hollow Reporter said. Recently, on social media, people were sharing the new messaging that comes up before watching Rush Hour.

I talked about that this week, I think yesterday blah blah blah. Do you think your show’s aged well, Charlie said, I think for the most part, it’s age really well. From the beginning. We always set out to make a show that was satirizing bad people behaving badly, And when your intention is to highlight the bad behavior and comment on it, that’s sort of an evergreen message. In terms of a disclaimer before an episode, I’m neither four or against it.

I think it’s better than just getting rid of, say rush hour. Let people make up their own minds. By the way, we’ve always had a disclaimer before episodes. It’s always said, hey, this is TVMA or X or whatever, lookout, watch out. But the thing that really mystifies me in our culture is how completely accepting we are of extreme violence in our content.

People getting shot and killed and murdered horrific ways. But a couple of dirty, little naughty jokes seemed to really throw everybody from a loop on gossip Corner. I guess whose name I’m gonna drop. That’s right, Pete Davidson once again TMZ saying Pete and his girlfriend Elise Hewett apparently had a nice fourth of July, Elise posted some Instagram snaps seventeen photos, some of which show off what TMZ refers to as her toned bikini body. Apparently Pete and Elise are living together.

Good luck to the couple. The laugh Out Loveland Comedy Festival is back for its third year. Friend of the show Dan Bubletz Junior putting this one together to downtown Loveland July thirty first through August third. Laughout Loveland dot com for the info. It’ll bring thirty comedians from across the country to perform at various venues.

Dan says every year the festival grows. This year is no exception. In our first year we had seven shows with six headliners. This year we have nine headliners and ten shows. Headliners for this year’s festival include Andrew Overdaal Hayden, Crystal Movida, Al Gaviy, Mike Stanley, and Matt Cobos.

Festival feature some of Colorado’s up and coming comedians along with comedians from across the country. We’ll take a look at that as it gets a little closer, but that’s a solid festival out today. Greg warrens The champ as an audio album. I’m always in favor of audio releases for comedians. So nice job, Greg Warren the champ, and that is your comedy news for today.

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And he said, oh wow, that’s great, thank you. That’s so generous of you, Carl, that’s great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don’t want anything to do with and stormed out of the room.

And I thought, well, that’s not what I expected. Oh my god. So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically to do it right, otherwise it was not. Going to work.

So that happened.

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And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial…

It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn’t being used. I wasn’t using it for me. I wasn’t using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money now, why should I wait until I die?

Why don’t I bring it forward?

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And then, you know, it was a long process for me to come around to that, but …

Now. Let’s back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest, so it was a chunk of money that they were going to get.

Well they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect. And I said, look, I’m going to bring this forward to and give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it’s really a big benefit for you. I don’t want this to overwhelm you.

And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What’s that? So so you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it’s one of the most important plans you can get, and it doesn’t have to be very complex. What is it that makes you happy?

What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan.

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And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time, and …

I saw all their plans, what they did and how they became happier, and so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people or to see what they did so they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you’ve come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally.

They had decided that they could never be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy. They didn’t deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were grieving six years later, and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I’m I wanted to express the gratitude, and I put them in my will and they could accept that and I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can’t accept it.

They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked and I said, look, I’m leaving it open. So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we’ll do it because I said, we’re going to wait until you die, why not do it now?

And they did that. And it wasn’t the money, interesting life, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we’ll never be happy again. We don’t deserve to be happy. And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look, you know it can be.

You can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

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And now you cannot believe what these people they’re traveling all over the w…

They’re in Tahiti right now, they climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change. That is one of the most heart felt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life. Because we were no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back to life.

Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have. You know, when you’re in those depths, it’s really it can be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn’t a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you. If that sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that I didn’t ask that I should have?

How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I’ll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness.

Do you you deserve to be happy? And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I’m going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I’m going to increase my happiness that choice.

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And then talk to people about it.

Talk to a husband or wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say Look, I’m made the decision that I want to be happier, and I’m like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it. And it’s not that hard, but it is challenging, but it’s a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness. I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness.

Carl, where could people find the book? Wherever books are sold, And it’s now available for pre order from Amazon and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan, it’s been fun.

Our sister. I’m going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow, that’s great. Thank you. That’s so generous of you.

Carl, that’s great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don’t want anything to do with and stormed out of the room. And I thought, well, that’s not what I expected.

Oh my god. So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise it was not. Going to work.

So that happened.

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And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial…

It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn’t being used. I wasn’t using it for me. I wasn’t using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money now, why should I wait until I die?

Why don’t I bring it forward?

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And then, you know, it was a long process for me to come around to that, but …

Now. Let’s back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest, so it was a chunk of money that they were going to get.

Well they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I. Sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can magnect and I said, look, I’m going to bring this forward to give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it’s really a big benefit for you. I don’t want this to overwhelm you.

And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What’s that? So so you know, nobody. Has seems to have a happiness plan, but it’s one of the most important plans you can get, and it doesn’t have to be very complex.

What is it that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan.

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And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time, and …

I saw all their plans, what they did and how they became happier, and so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did, so they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you’ve come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally.

They had decided that they could never be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy. They didn’t deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were grieving six years later and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude, and I put them in my will and they could accept that, And I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can’t accept it.

They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked and I said, look, I’m leaving it open. So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually, you know, and so they said, okay, we’ll do it.

Because I said we’re going to wait until you die, why not do it now. And they did that. And it wasn’t the money, interesting life, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we’ll never be happy again. We don’t deserve to be happy.

And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look, you know it can be. You can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

---

And now you cannot believe what these people they’re traveling all over the w…

They’re in Tahiti right now, they climbed Kiliman Garrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead and this brought us back to life. Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have.

You know, when you’re in those depths, it’s really it can be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn’t a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you. If that sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking is there anything that I didn’t ask that I should have? How can my listeners benefit from this book?

What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I’ll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness. Do you deserve to be happy?

And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I’m going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I’m going to increase my happiness that choice, and then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband or wife or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I’m made the decision that I want to be happier, and I’m like you to help me create a happiness plan and. Then work on it. And it’s not that hard, but it is challenging, but it’s a wonderful exercise.

And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness. I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl, where can people find the book? Wherever books are sold?

And it’s now available for pre order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan. It’s been fun.

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Featured: Craig Robinson, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, Nikki Glaser, Terry Gilliam, Whitney Cummings, Pete Davidson, Gabriel Iglesias

What’s in This Episode

• Sky Dance-Paramount merger threatens Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart jobs
• Craig Robinson fakes retirement to promote cell phone company commercials
• Dennis Doyle opinion piece: Dave Chappelle’s comedy punches down at marginalized groups
• Nikki Glaser bobblehead giveaway at Cardinals game September 1st
• Shane Gillis hosting 2025 ESPY Awards on July 16th
• Terry Gilliam on how Trump changed comedy landscape and stifled his satire film
• Whitney Cummings responds to Fox News labeling her as conservative

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. And are Johnny mcwathe Daily Comedy News. It’s still slow enough that even I am begging Adam Saylor please release your movie. Do suppress so we have stuff to talk about. But I do want to thank Craig Robinson, who’s kept it busy enough this week.

We’ll talk about Craig in a couple minutes. Let’s start with this report out of a late nighter in Status dot com, Oliver Darcy, a media reporter, suggesting that the merger between sky Dance and Paramount could mean trouble for Stephen Colbert and John Stewart. This is pretty interesting. Darcy revealed that the deals expected to close in a few weeks, and conversations are already happening behind the scenes about what might happen with the company and who might no longer fit in. Darcy writes that inside certain power circles, there’s an open question how much longer will Stewart have the platform.

Media insider reportedly told Dorsey, what better gift could they give Trump than to get rid of Colbert and Stewart. I can’t well, we live in crazy times. I struggle to imagine that happening, especially canceling them both at once. Late Nighter writes within CBS, there’s a growing sense of unease, and insider told Dorsey that top talent is grappling with the question do I want to keep doing this knowing management won’t have my back? They know Stephen Colbert could easily walk away?

Sure, but where would Stephen Colbert go? Do you just hold your nose and may How much does he make? A website called last Night on thinks Colbert makes around fifteen million dollars. Let’s assume that’s wrong by half. Let’s just assume he makes eight million dollars.

I know I didn’t do quite half there. It’s a lot of money to walk away from, and I don’t know where you’d go. In Cincinnati dot Com, Dennis Doyle writes an opinion piece, I’m not laughing with Dave Chappelle anymore. The jokes aren’t worth the harm. Doyle writes, Dave Chappelle and Sissy’s just telling the truth with his comedy.

But truth without compassion can sound a lot like contempt. A friend of mine invited me with Dave chappelle performance in Yellow Springs. I passed. I didn’t know what his routine would be, but I knew I didn’t want to hear it. Wait, what we’re reviewing shows we didn’t see.

That’s like me saying Adam Sailor’s upcoming Happy Gilmour Too is terrible. Maybe it’s great, Doyle right, Chappelle is a masterful storyteller and one of the most talented comedians of our time, but his comedy increasingly leaves me uneasy, not because it’s edgy, but because it too often reinforces the very prejudices it claims to poke fun at. Skipping ahead, Doyle writes, once more, I see people who likely hold deep biases laughing with a sense of vindication. If Dave Chappelle can say it, they think, so can I. When the joke punches down, the harm hits hard.

This isn’t about being offended. It’s about what comedy does. The best comedy punches up. It challenges power, exposes hypocrisy, and speaks truth. But when it punches down, it can legitimize cruelty and reinforce systems of exclusion.

So no, I won’t attend the show. I admire Chappelle’s genius, but I can’t pretend not to see the cost of his notoriety, especially when it’s born by the people who are already fighting to be treated with dignity. We should all ask ourselves when we laugh, who’s hurting? From MLB dot Com, not usually your home for comedy news, They’re going to have Nicky Glazer Day at the Cardinals game Bush Stadium Monday, September first. With the purchase of a special themed ticket, fans receive an exclusive Nicky Glazer bobblehead.

And if you follow bobbleheads, what’s shocking about this one is it actually looks like Nikki Glaser. A lot of these bobbleheads are a little suss. This one looks pretty cool. A portion of each ticket sold will be donated to Stray Rescue of Saint Louis and Saint Louis Avian Rescue. Nice job Cardinals, MLB Nikki Glaser.

That sounds pretty cool. If I lived anywhere near there, I would go stick to sports, Okay. On Monday’s episode of The Dan Lebizard Show, Dan wondered about Sheen Gillis hosting the Sb’s which take place Wednesday, July sixteenth. Lebitzard said, I know the sb’s and awards shows and televised a point of viewing sort of a thing of the past, but it is the biggest thing going right now in comedy. I would assume that people are wondering if shitngillis will Norm McDonald did.

I’ll come back to that, whether he’ll do anything to make it maximum awkward. He’s such a big sports fan that I doubt he’ll be anything other than respectful. I doubt he’ll go into Norm MacDonald. You may recall one time at the SP’s Norm MacDonald said there’s Charles woods in about that he became the first defensive player to win the Heisman Trophy. Congratulations Charles.

That’s something no one can ever take away from you unless you kill your wife and waiter, which case all bets are off, which is a great, great joke. I think Shane’ll just do his affable, goofy, lovable wink at the camera thing. I wouldn’t worry too much about it. I suspect the SP’s numbers will pop. I don’t know when the last time I watched the SP’s been a zillion years, but with Shane hosting it, I will be sure to tune in now.

I don’t think that airs live. I think they record that and then play it during the All Star lull. Terry Gilliam of Monty Python Fame caught up with The Hollywood Reporter. He’s now eighty four. He was asked if he still feels that humorless act or stifling comedy.

Terry Gilliam said, I think Trump has changed things considerably. He’s turned the world upside down. I don’t know if people are gonna be laughing more, but they’re probably less frightened to laugh. Many people have been very timid about telling jokes, making fun of things, because I you tell a joke, then people say you’re punching down it’s somebody. No, you’re finding humor in humanity.

Gilliam has a new comedy movie, The Carnival at the End of the Days, which is a satire about Satan trying to stop God from wiping out humanity. It lampoons woke culture. Sarry Gilliam said about Trump, well, he’s effed up the latest film I was working on because it was a satsire about the last several years when things were going as they were. He’s turned it upside down, so he’s killed My movie, Whitney Cummings is a little annoyed at Fox News they portrayed her as a newfound conservative. She reacted to a Fox segment on Jesse Water’s Prime Time.

Cummings said, I talked about now that I’m a mom, I get what conservatives think or talk about certain things. Fox News was like Whitney now that she’s a mom as a conservative, Cummings said, I’m too left for the right, I’m too right for the left. I’m like, neither of you gonna want me. But I’m used to being an outsider. And onto the Craig Robinson thing.

Craig Man lame, lame, lame, so lame. It turns out Craig Robinson has not quit comedy after all. It is, indeed, as I said yesterday, all a stunt to promote cell phone company commercials. In the Cell Phone Company commercials, Craig Robinson, who has not quit comedy, is reunited with office castmates Elli Kemper, Angela Kinzie, Creed Bratton, and Oscar Nunez. In the first commercial, Craig Robinson pitches his new team of business partners on a new AI alarm clock that he calls Craig with c R capital Aig and I hope it was worth it.

Craig Let’s stop off at Gossip Corner once again. Pete Davidson. He was at the Prospector Theater in Connecticut. He went to see F one. Pete took a picture with staff members at the theater and learned about its mission of meaningful employment for people with disabilities.

The nonprofit movie theater celebrated its tenth anniversary last year. I thought this was interesting. This is SDCC blog dot com, so San Diego Comic Con Blog, and I noticed in the autograph session some familiar names. Let’s take a look at who’s in booth number four nine four five. That’s right, it’s Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias.

You got your wall already, love the Fluffy Man, but all right. An eight x ten autograph seventy bucks. A signed Funko Pop one ten. An autograph on a premium item like a Drizzy or a Tops card one ten, seventy bucks, or a selfie a duo selfie with Joe Cooy two hundred bucks. We are told.

Please note, mister Iglesias does not sign the Fluffy gold diamond Funko Pop. Please take this into account when deciding which items you’re bringing to the signing. He’ll be a comic con Saturday, July twenty sixth, eleven of six and Sunday ten to four. You know he’s in booth four nine four five. You know who else is in that booth?

That’s right, Joe Coy, who once made a joke about Taylor Swift. Do you want to hear it? No, I’m I’m not doing that today. You guys got tired of the bit not doing it? Joekoy pricing eight by ten, seventy bucks, Funko pop eighty bucks, Jerseys one ten selfie seventy duo selfie with Joe Cooy.

I think they mean with Gabe two hundred bucks. He’s at the booth at the same time as gably reel Iglesias. Why are they a comic con? I don’t know either. I worked with the comic con folks a few years in a row.

It’s probably ten plus years ago. It’s definitely more than a decade ago. Cool people. I’m still in touch with some of them. The Nantucket Comedy Festival kicks off tonight.

It’s the Women’s Night of Comedy at the Dreamland Theater featuring Ariel Elias Gina Brillan and Mia Jackson Friday Night, Canadian comedians Aaron berg Ian bag Ofira Eisenberg Saturday. It is the comedy Battle of the Summer, Boston versus New York. Let’s see, without even thinking about it, would you take current Boston or current New York? So many New Yorkers have gone down to Austin you might have to take. It’s a tough one.

Let’s look at the lineups before we decide. ESPN legend Bob Lee will serve as the referee for the showdown, representing Boston. Drew Dunn, John Fish and Justin McKinney. Team New York Brian Scott McFadden, Paul Ollinger and Ted Alexandro. So not exactly the all stars of Boston or New York.

I mean, can we do like Bill Burr versus David Tell? Wouldn’t that be good? Little Dean Cook versut Jerry Seinfeld. Come on, let’s get this going as a pay per view. This is a great idea Nantucketcomedy dot com and that is your comedy news for today.

Back tomorrow with something. I’m laughing because normally I have the calendar half filled out for most days right now. Let’s see, right now, I have zero items for Friday, and I’ve got two three for Saturday and two for Sunday. That behind the scenes, my friends a little light. So hopefully Dave Chappelle gets into it with Rogan or something.

Please guys hook me up with a controversy. Craig Robinson douce something. Well, yeah, all right, that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow, and I’ll stick around for this interview our sister. I’m going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now.

And he said, oh wow, that’s great, thank you. That’s so generous of you, Carl, that’s great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don’t want anything to do with and stormed out of the room.

And I thought, well, that’s not what I expected. Oh my god. So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise it was not going to work.

So that happened.

And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial…

It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn’t being used. I wasn’t using it for me. I wasn’t using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money, now, why should I wait until I die?

Why don’t I bring it forward?

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And then, you know, it was a long process for me to come around to that, but …

Now. Let’s back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment? Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest.

So it was a chunk of money that they were going to get. Well, they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect, and I said, look, I’m going to bring this forward to give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it’s really a big benefit for you. I don’t want this to overwhelm you.

And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What’s that? So so you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it’s one of the most important plans you can get. And it doesn’t have to be a very complex What is it that makes you happy?

What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan.

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And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time.

And so then they took it and I watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they did and how they became happier, and so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did so that they too could do the same thing. Which Prequest is the most unique one you’ve come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter.

They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy. They didn’t deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story.

So they were grieving six years later and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude. And I put them in my will and they could accept that. And I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can’t accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down.

Well, we worked, and I said, look, I’m leaving it open. So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it, actually, you know, and you know, they said, okay, we’ll do it because if we’re going to wait until you die, why not do it now. And they did that and it wasn’t the money, interesting life, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we’ll never be happy again. We don’t deserve to be happy.

And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look, you know it can be. You can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

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And now you cannot believe what these people.

They’re traveling all over the world. They’re in Tahiti right now. They climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change.

That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back to life. Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have. You know, when you’re in the those depths, it’s really it can be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn’t a way out of it. And you know, sometimes you want to map right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you if it sounds like it was for these folks.

I always like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that I didn’t ask that I should have? How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I’ll answer that question.

First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness. Do you deserve to be happy? And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I’m going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I’m going to increase my happiness that choice, and then talk to people about it. Talk to a husband or wife, or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I’m made the decision that I want to be happier, and I’m like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it.

And it’s not that hard, but it is. It is challenging, but it’s a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness. I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness.

Carl, where can people find the book? Wherever books are sold, And it’s now available for pre order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan.

It’s been fun.

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Featured: Mark Ruffalo, Joe Rogan, John Stewart, Craig Robinson, Roy Wood Jr., Anthony Anderson, Chris Rock, Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Ross Noble

What’s in This Episode

• Mark Ruffalo criticizes Joe Rogan over Trump ice raids comments
• John Stewart’s commentary on Paramount-Trump lawsuit settlement
• Craig Robinson retirement revealed as cell phone company marketing campaign
• Roy Wood Jr. GQ profile and baseball passion
• Anthony Anderson hosts Jimmy Kimmel Live with ‘whitest thing’ segment
• Prime Video adds content warning to Rush Hour for outdated depictions
• Ross Noble bitten by shark on ITV’s Celebrity Infested Waters

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. And there Johnny Mac if your daily comedy medis thinks you’re kicking back up after the hollin a and I think that’s what the open theme back the way it was. So things are pretty good here. Mark Ruffalo has criticized Joe Rogan for Joe Rogan’s shock over Trump’s ice raids. Ruffalo says, it’s a little late now.

Johnny Mac likes a comedian controversy. Let’s throw some kerosene on this one. On the July second episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan said, there are two things that are insane. One is the targeting of migrant workers. Not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers, just construction workers showing up in construction sites raiding them Gardners like really.

Mark Ruffalo went on Threads on July sixth and said, Dear Joe Rogan, it’s a little late now to pretend like Project twenty twenty five didn’t exist and wasn’t the playbook all along. You were either not that smarter, not that dumb. It’s hard to tell at this point. Rogan had not responded at the time of this recording. John Stewart was back offacation.

On Monday Night’s Daily Show. He commented on the lawsuit that parent company Paramount settled against President Trump. The bit was John was doing commentary on the lawsuit, then cut off by a graphic that read, please stand by, brought to you by Arby’s for when you want a sandwich commensurate with your company’s shame. The camera cut back to John Stewart and he said, that’s why it’s so wrong. In case you missed it, Paramount Global has agreed to pay sixteen million dollars to settle a lawsuit from Donald Trump, who sued over the editing over the October interview that sixty minutes conducted with Kamala Harris.

Meanwhile, Hey, Craig Robinson, lame, lame, lame, lame lame. Let me just say that again, in case Craig didn’t hear me the first time, Hey, Craig Robinson, lame. Daily Comedy News and many other media outlets reported that Craig Robinson was retiring from comedy. My spidy sense was tingling a little bit, so it is now believed that the retirement is part of a brand new marketing campaign. For a cell phone company.

I’m not going to mention the cell phone company. Craig’s original words included retiring from comedy to pursue his true calling. In Los Angeles, there were now billboards in the color scheme of a particular cell phone company that’s say Craig Robinson is quitting comedy. People are suspicious, thinking why would Craig take out a billboard saying that Craig has previously started in commercials for this particular cell phone company, in which he called himself the company’s chief technology officer. A second spot co starred Brian Bombgartner from the Office, and a third featured Robinson and bomb Gartner with Rain Wilson, Jenni Fisher, Creed Bratton, and Kate Flannery.

So, Craig, I hope you liked your attention, and I hope it was worth it, and I hope the cell phone company pays well because not a good look. GQ has a nice profile with Roywood Junior, mostly about baseball. I’m going to use some of it on Saturday and some of it on Monday because it’s about baseball and home runs on Monday’s the home Run Derby. But Roy did share that he still takes his baseball gloves to games and said, I remember I got up set on a date one time when I lived in LA I’d go to spring training every year for a weekend and just ingest as much baseball as I could. A woman I was dating at the time talk to me and to let him come with me.

Then she’s like, this is embarrassing. You’re a child, and I was like, you know what, Yeah, I am. Anthony Anderson is guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live. They were doing some man on the Street stuff, the question what’s the whitest thing about you? Anderson explained the segment was directed at quote black folks on Hollywood Boulevard, tagging the joke with to do the opposite would have been racist.

One man confessed to a love of pumpkin spice. According to Late Nighter, another woman said she’s a vegan, and then who showed up on camera Chris Rock. He joked the whitest thing about me? And I have to keep this clean here. I’m gonna read it as Late Night or has it because I don’t want to get dirty user imagination.

Chris Rock said the whitest thing about me. That would have to be my bleep. I try about once a month to thank all the members in support orders of the show, the folks who have gone to buy me Acoffee dot Com, a slash Daily Comedy News, the National donut chain. Right now, they have a new flavor, a cookie dough that I’m kind of into with my coffee. They got rid of the orange donut.

The orange donut was like the most amazing donut. They do this every now and then. I mean, I’m going back twenty years. There was a lemon glazed that showed up around Easter one year and it was the all time best donuts chained donut. And it never came back.

I’m still waiting for it. Anytime I’m in the South and they have those maple frosteds. You can’t get those in New Jersey. I love them good maple frosted. But in June they had an orange donut.

Oh it was so good. And listen to me, I’ve lived in New Jersey for twenty years now. I just said orange instead of orange. My kids make fun of me when I talk about Queen’s neighborhoods like Forest Hills and they’re like forest Forest, but I just said orange, I heard myself. Ugh, punch yourself in the face, Jonny mackew losing your New York City roots.

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That’s five bucks a month and you get this show, add free feed, drop free other stuff free. And you also get the other shows on the Katalaroga Shark Network, including notably five Good News Stories, which I also host and I have to record a bunch of those right after this. Did you see this about the movie Rush Hour? Remember the nineteen ninety eight movie stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. Well.

Now Prime Video has a disclaimer Before the credits, it reads, we all love our buddy comedies, but this movie was created in a different time. FYI, certain depictions, language and humor may seem outdated and at times offensive. They’ve added similar messages to Goodfellas, Blazing Saddles, and Gone with the Wind? All right, what’s the problem with Russia Hour, Johnny Mac, I haven’t seen it in a while. Well, luckily there’s a summary here.

Apparently there are multiple jokes built on confusing Chinese and Japanese culture. There’s a running gag about Latino gang members accents. In two thousand and two, so that’s twenty three years ago. Jackie Chance said, I make the movie, and a Telmet manager see, I should never make this kind of movie. Then I go to Asia and make Asian films and they call me and they say, and I’m going to paraphrase his language here, or it’s gonna sound like I’m doing a stereotype.

Jackie said along the lines of, hey, Jackie, it’s a big hit. It’s a success. And I say what And then I go make Rush Hour two and I hate it. It’s worse than Rush Hour one. They call me and they say it’s a success and Craig Robinson probably would like this one.

My Spidey sense is tingling about this. Comedian Ross Noble is appearing on ITV’s reality series Shark Celebrity Infested Waters. All right, it’s Shark Celebrity Infested Waters. Ross Nobles on it and what do you know? A shark bit him?

Yeah? Did it? Or is this press? Let’s find out? Ross Noble said, imagine at David Attenborough dot coumentary.

Right, but Attenborough’s got an idiot mate who just jumped in with the animals, so we can see how big they are, and you learn something about these big creatures along the way. Depending on what cock caught on the camera, you could see me get nibbled by a shark. I think a lot of people would instantly think, oh, shark’s change your big teeth. I’ve never really had that fear. I watch a lot of television, so I see a lot of shark documentaries.

The big thing I realized is it’s not jaws. Sharks don’t attack people. The only way a shark has got to find out what another thing is is to have a little nibble of it. I always knew that when they attack surfers. It’s because they think they’re seals.

So that’s the story behind comedian bitten by Shark. Hey ITV, you got me to talk about it, Shark celebrity infested waters mondays at nine. That’s your comedy news for today, see tomorrow. I’ll stick around for this interview our sister. I’m going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now.

And he said, oh wow, that’s great, thank you. That’s so generous of you, Carl, that’s great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don’t want anything to do with and stormed out of the room.

And I thought, well, that’s not what I expected. Oh my god. So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise it was not going to work.

So that happened.

And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial…

It was sitting there, I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn’t being used. I wasn’t using it for me. I wasn’t using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money, now, why should I wait until I die? Why don’t I bring it forward?

And then it was a long process for me to come around to that, but that’s what finally started this, and I said, well I’ll do it. Now. Let’s back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment.

Well, this is a record of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest. So it was a chunk of money that they were going to get. Well, they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect, and I said, look, I’m going to bring this forward to give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so that you use this money.

So it’s really a big benefit for you. I don’t want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What’s that?

So you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it’s one of the most important plans you can get, and it doesn’t have to be very complex. What is it that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. So I got them to write a happiness plan.

And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time, and so then they took it and I watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they did, and how they became happier, and so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did so that they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you’ve come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter.

They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never be happy again. They would be wrong to be happy. They didn’t deserve to be high happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story.

So they were grieving six years later and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude and I put them in my will and they could accept that. And I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can’t accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked, and I said, look, I’m leaving it open.

So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it, actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we’ll do it, because I say we’re going to wait until you die, why not do it now? And they did it. And it wasn’t the money interesting now, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we’ll never be happy again. We don’t deserve to be happy.

And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around and said, look, you know it can be you can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

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And now you cannot believe what these people they are traveling all over the …

They are in Tahiti right now, they climbed Killamungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back to life. Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have.

You know, when you’re in those depths, it’s really it can be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn’t a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map right and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you. If that it sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking is there anything that I didn’t ask that I should have? How can my listeners benefit from this book?

What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I’ll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness. Do you deserve to be happy?

And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I’m going to increase my happiness just that if you make that Realistically, I want to and I’m going to increase my happiness that choice.

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And then talk to people about it.

Talk to a husband or wife, or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I’m made the decision that I want to be happier, and I’m like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it. And it’s not that hard, but it is challenging, but it’s a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness. I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiment, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness.

Carl, where can people find the book. Wherever books are sold, and it’s now available for pre order from Amazon, and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much of the time. I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you, Dan.

It’s been fun.

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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlyn Olson, Ben Stiller, Eliza Shlesinger, Mae Martin, Amber Ruffin, Michael Ian Black, Fortune Feamster, Yakov Smirnoff, Mary McDonnell, Sarah Silverman, Gary Shandling, Pete Davidson, Nikki Glaser

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais London Underground Billboard Controversy
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 Premiere with Glenn Howerton’s Near Departure
• Nikki Glaser Animal Shelter Foster Efforts in St. Louis
• Nantucket Film Festival Comedy Panel with Ben Stiller
• Yakov Smirnoff Expecting Third Child at 74
• Mary McDonnell Comedy Career and Working with Gary Shandling
• Pete Davidson Pizza Outing at Sally’s in New Haven

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey hair, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now, if you’re like Johnny Mac, the theme sounds a little different today. What’s going on? Well, on Tuesday morning, Johnny Mac’s hard drive filled up and he deleted a bunch of files and deleted one too many.

You know what I’m saying is I had to go back to the original cut of the music theme and now I have to go back in and find listen to what it’s doing.

Now let’s listen.

Yeah, we never get to that part, so I have to go back in and grab what’s called a mixed down and get the smaller part. So this is kind of fun. It is a Tuesday, coming off July fourth weekend, and this is usually one of the toughest weeks of the year to Judas program because there is no news. So I will sock slow. Oh we he just jammed in the band, all right.

R Gejorvay said, I was asked to come up with a new billboard for the London Underground as our last one was banned. This for his whiskey company. Whecky said, I thought I should do a little bit more market research before a waste company money and wondered will this be too annoying for commuters? If so, I think I’ll go with it. He then shared an image that said win a million pounds that way you don’t have to take the tube.

Hey, nice job, Nikki Glaser. This from ksd K read slow John, you don’t have a lot of news today. Last week, when the air conditioning went out at an East Saint Louis animal shelter during their heat wave gateway, pet Guardians sent out an urgent plea to the community to help Wednesday Love. Last week, they posted, this is a crisis situation. Additionally, we’re receiving a large number of calls about outdoor strays and heat distress.

We need a safe place to land. We need the community’s help right now. Part of that community, Saint Louis native Nicky Glazer the shelter, wrote on Instagram that Nicky saw our reel, reached out right away, and came by Gep as soon as she was back in town to scoop up a foster. Looks like Egbert is settling in just fine, cozy content and clearly in his comedy era. We are truly so grateful for all of you.

Nice job at Nikki Lazer. It’s always sunny in Philadelphia. Back out tomorrow. Season seventeen eight episodes, and we get two episodes tomorrow. July ninth, they were doing some press, Glenn Homerton talked about how he almost left the show.

Glenn and the gang were at the Palely Live twentieth anniversary panel. Glenn thought about leaving before season twelve. He told the creative team, look, I just don’t want to wear out our welcome. I was worried that maybe we had sort of peaked or something, and I was just like, you know, we’ve been doing this a long time, and I think I was anxious. I hadn’t figured out yet how to stretch myself and be able to do other things that I wanted to do with my career outside of the show.

I just hadn’t figured out how to do that yet. I was aching to do other things, and so I was starting to feel a little boxed in. Frankly, the rest of the cast said they didn’t want the show to end, and he said, well, I can’t stop you.

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And then seasons thirteen and fourteen, I came back as an actor, but I wasn’t…

During that period, Glenn went on The MINDI Project and Fargo. He also did ap Bio, which is okay, but not you know, that’s not the most radical departure acting wise. Rob Mack said, they just kept writing it and kept writing him in, and we’re like, he’s just gonna eventually say he’s coming back. And that’s what happened. You know what I’m talking about.

Because of the implication, if you’re not a fan of the show, I don’t even know how to begin to explain it. A short version, They’ve got a boat, some women are on the boat. Glenn’s character says that the women will hook up with them because of the implication, suggesting that something horrible could happen to the women. It’s a sitcom. Don’t write me any letters, Glenn said.

I do remember that with the cruise ship scene with the young girl where you actually had to see the implication, and actually that was one I was like, please, guys, don’t. There’s just certain things as human being, it’s just tough to stop. I don’t remember I remember thinking the implication conversation that you guys wrote was super super funny, or maybe I was like worried about crossing a line or something. Caitlyn Olson mcilhanny talked about her husband’s name changed to Rob Mack. She said, I’m legally Olsen Macklhenny, but I go buy Olsen, so I don’t really have to change anything.

We can call each other whatever we want. Whatever makes him happy makes me happy. Over the holiday weekend, it was the thirtieth annual Nantucket Film Festival. Nice Work if you can get It Ben Stiller and a group of quote comedy all stars discuss their journeys. Ben Stiller shared that he personally was dead set against a comedy career because it’s what his parents did.

He didn’t stick to that all too long. Eliza Slessinger on this panel said she was working a desk job and asked her parents to help her buy a laptop for comedy writing. May Martin dropped out of high school to work at Second City and tell jokes on stage. Amber Ruffin’s work led her to Chicago, then Amsterdam. Michael ian Black also on that panel.

Meanwhile, at Summerfest, Fortune Feamster was there. She said she was there to address what she calls America’s fun deficit by encouraging people to connect with her and with each other. She told The Journal Sentinel, I’m just here to help people have fun. The one place you can help with that deficit is at a festival. Right.

Congratulations to Yaka of Samiranov. He’s expecting his third child. Yakof Samiranov is seventy four years old. He already has two adult children, Natasha and Alexander, from a previous relationship. He told people, there’s something magical about starting over at my age.

Most people are planning for retirement. Me, I’m buying diapers, not for me, but for our future child. That’s funny. Yes, my wife and I are having a baby. People cut basking me, Yakov, how did this happen?

And I say, same way, It always happens, just with more stretching and heating pads afterwards. In Soviet Union comedy podcast Filler Fills You or something like that. Maryland Rice Cup, you know her as Chloe on twenty four. You know what I’m talking about? Jack Bauer’s assistant there, Yeah, the one that was always calling him.

She’s a comedian. Did you know that? She spoke to Entrepreneur magazine and said when she’s on the road. She does not want barbecue recommendations, especially when I’m traveling alone. I’m like, you think I’m going to go sit a loud barbecue and order a beer in a big plate of meat?

Who do you think I am? We learn she was once roommates with Sarah Silverman. She told Entrepreneur Sarah was absolutely the better roommate. I was a mess. She was so great.

I was lucky that she allowed me to be there. She also discussed working with Gary Shanling, who had such a specific confidence in his humor and how he wanted the whole world to be I remember reading the Larry Sanders script and going, I don’t see the jokes. I’m not sure if I’m getting this, And then when we did the table reading, people were reading in character. Then it was like, oh, this is my favorite humor ever. It’s so specific to the character that it doesn’t really work until you hear them deliver it.

It is indeed a slow newsday. I’m gonna pull gossip corner up here into the A block. You know who was up getting pizza in New Haven? That’s right, you guessed correctly, Pete Davidson. He was at Sally’s a Pisa.

They share the news in their social media. Apparently, Pete Davidson signed a box and Sally’s writing you guys rock. Sally’s Humble bragged and wrote even New Yorkers make the trip. A commenter was curious what Pete Davidson ordered the pizzeria only said, let’s just say he didn’t leave hungry. Really, nobody knows.

Is it a secret? You can’t just tell us, Like I don’t know, Pete ordered two slices and a coke. You can’t just tell us.

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Also Gossip Corner, race car driver Lewis Hamilton accused of giving a death …

Apparently, Jack Whitehall accidentally bumped into race car driver Lewis Hamilton moments before the race while attempting to mingle with the drivers. As the story goes, Whitehall had been signaled to pass through by a team member, but then almost body checked the seven time world champion race car driver Jack Whitehall. So hold Sky Sports just now when I was being invited to the grid and nearly body check Sir Lewis Hamilton, I don’t know whether I’m going to be invited back again, but it was a very cold stare and staying. On Gossip Corner from New Jersey Monthly, they are confirming that Adam Sandler is staying in Montclair, New Jersey, not all that far from my house, and I do teach a college class at Montclair State University. Perhaps I’ll pop over there.

It’s a great town, a great restaurant scene. There’s great theaters there. Maybe I’ll pop over and run in Adam Sandler and be like, Hey, Adam, which of your movies do you think are good? I’d be curious answer that, like if you got him, like really honestly, Like he’s gotta know, like Jack and Jill’s not a good movie. I’ll take fifty million dollars and make Jack and Jill two.

I don’t begrudge the man, but he’s got to know it’s not good, right. I felt bad for him. He went all in on uncut Gems and he didn’t get an award, and we could have had Adam Sandler dramatic actor, and we let it slip. Anyway, He’s in Montclair working on untitled roommates project, which happens to Starr, one of his daughters. New Jersey Monthly says neighbors have seen Adam Sailor spending time in the area.

He’s apparently shooting hoops and Randa Park. He was also spotted filming in nearby Livingston, New Jersey at Nana’s Deli, which owners say will be closed through July ninth because of the production. Boy, that’s like a twenty five minute drive. Maybe I’ll head over to Nana’s Deli and just stand there all day for the movie. Nanez has been repainted with a sign that says Beer and Baumbs, established nineteen eighty five, advertising deli favorites like Matza, Ball, soup Chop, liver, Rubens, pastrami, and Kinishes.

Livingston local We’ll say that Adam Sadler has been friendly to residents taking selfies with fans who shut up to the stet who I’m so tempted to go? According to a cast notice, filming for the Netflix project goes through August twelfth. A local resident who drove by the set said it’s exciting to have a little slice of Hollywood in Elltown. Yeah. From the pod News newsletter, which if you’re into podcasting, you should subscribe to, James Kridlin reports for the first time in over decade, Michael Palin performed Monty Python material on stage at his hometown to a packed audience for a podcast called Nobody Expects The Michael Palin Podcast, hosted by longtime fan Greg James.

On the Nobody Expects the Michael Palin Podcast, its chief weapon probably a surprise. I didn’t know it existed. Palin Palan did a world exclusive reading of a deleted end scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian. That scene titled the Martyrdom of Saint Brian. In it, Michael Palin struggled to getrough the scene without laughing Brian’s fingers full of naughtiness, which got laughter from the crowd.

The Times of London went to go see Tim Minchin. He’s doing a three night set at the Apollo in London. Tim was disrupted by some of the crowd shouting out details of a scientific law he just mentioned. Tim said, you won’t get this at an oasis gig. He did three hours.

The Time said his on stage chat is jokey, discursive, rather too rambling until he relaxes into it, and far more of the second half he takes us through his twenties in Australia, writing songs that rarely resurfaced in the act. He first brought to Britain in two thousand and five, hence the tourist title Songs. The world will never hear spoilers of the four Star at a five show, But though the first half is uneven, the second is almost walla wall joy. He is, in the words of one of his songs, a rock and roll nerd. If you ever get an opportunity to see Tim Minchin, you should go.

I caught him a million years ago at the Chicago Comedy Festival, which doesn’t even exist anymore, and I was just blown away by how talented he was. To meet him a few times, hung out with him as serious, A cool dude, extremely talented dude. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

If you like the program without commercials or feed drafts or other stuff, there’s a premium feed five dollars a month to get the show five Good News Stories, which I also host in twenty five plus others on the network, all commercial free. And that’s it, and I’ll see tomorrow. Now stick around for this interview our sister. I’m going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now. And he said, oh wow, that’s great, thank you.

That’s so generous of you. Car that’s great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong. I don’t want anything to do with and stormed out of the room.

And I thought, well, that’s not what I expected. Oh my god. So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically. I had to do it right, otherwise it was not going to work.

So that happened.

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And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial…

It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn’t being used. I wasn’t using it for me. I wasn’t using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money now, why should I wait until I die?

Why don’t I bring it forward?

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And then it was a long process for me to come around to that.

But that’s what finally started this. And I said, well I’ll do it. Now. Let’s back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book.

What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest, so it was a chunk of money that they were going to get. Well, they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect.

And I said, look, I’m going to bring this forward to and give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money so it’s really a big benefit for you. I don’t want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan? I said, I want a happiness plan and they said a happiness plan? What’s that?

So, so you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it’s one of the most important plans you can get and it doesn’t have to be very complex. What is it that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them. And so I got them to write a happiness plan.

And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time. And so then they took it and I watched them with their plan. I saw all their plans, what they did, and how they became happier. And so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did, so they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you’ve come across.

Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally. They had decided that they could never be happy again. It would be wrong to be happy.

They didn’t deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were grieving six years later and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to expressed the gratitude and I put them in my will and they could accept that. And I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can’t accept it. They turned it down.

They turned it down. Well, we worked, and I said, look, I’m leaving it open. So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it. Actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we’ll do it because I say, we’re going to wait until you die, why not do it now? And they did that and it wasn’t the money, interesting life, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative.

You know, we’ll never be happy again. We don’t deserve to be happy. And the coach turned there thinking their mindset around, and said, look, you know it can be you can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

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And now you cannot believe what these people they’re traveling all over the w…

They’re in Tahiti right now. They climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change. That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back to life.

Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have I have. You know, when you’re in those depths, it’s really it can be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn’t a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you, if that it sounds like it was for these folks. I always like to end interviews by asking, is there anything that I didn’t ask that I should have? How can my listeners benefit from this book?

What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I’ll answer that question. First off, think about happiness, think about being happiness. Do you you deserve to be happy, and you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice.

I’m going to increase my happiness just that if you make that realistically, I want to and I’m going to increase my happiness that choice.

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And then talk to people about it.

Talk to a husband or wife, or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I’m made the decision that i want to be happier, and I’m like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it. And it’s not that hard, but it is. It is challenging, but it’s a wonderful exercise and if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness. I guarantee it. Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness.

Carl, where could people find the book? Wherever books are sold? And it’s now available for pre order from Amazon and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much for the time. I really appreciate it.

Yeah, thank you. Dan it’s been fun,

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Featured: Craig Robinson, John Mulaney, Taylor Tomlinson, Jimmy O Yang, Corey Bell, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Craig Robinson quits comedy for bigger project
• John Mulaney’s ‘Mister Whatever’ tour early reviews
• Taylor Tomlinson leaves ‘Holiday Weekend Networking After Midnight’ to focus on stand-up
• Jimmy O Yang partners with Hong Kong Tourism
• Corey Bell discusses new show ‘Who’s With Me’
• Adam Sandler filming ‘Untitled Roommates Project’ at Montclair High School

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News right into the holiday weekend. Craig Robinson, you know him from the office. He announced he’s stepping away from comedy to pursue quote something bigger. He uploaded a clip to social media saying, Hey, everybody, just wanted you to hear it from me.

I’m quitting comedy, but not for nothing. It’s been an amazing run and you’ve all been amazing and wonderful. But I’m following something bigger. So thank you so much. I love you and stay tuned.

In a caption alongside the reel, he wrote, life update, I’m officially quitting comedy to focus on my true calling. Stay tuned. I’m working on something huge. On Instagram, he posted, Hey guys, big shout out to all my small business owners. Hey, you guys, got any advice for me?

While I’m trying to get my business afloat? I hit a few bumps on the road and I sure would appreciate your guys tips. Thank you. So we’ll say, is this for real? Is it a marketing stunt?

Is he promoting something? I’m not sure if you were promoting something you would do it into July fourth weekend. But then again I am talking about it. The folks at the Berkshire Eagle went to see John Mulaney’s current tour. That tour called mister Whatever.

Some spoilers here if you’re planning on seeing Milany. The Berkshire Eagle writes, there’s still the classic affable Millenie. Of course, his flashing eyes and expressive face still accentuated every joke. His roster of impressions, including a raccoon and the President, still shimmered, especially an affected Boston accent that evoked my own grandmother. His physicality still stocked the stage.

From kicking down a door and looking up to it would be kidnappered or rising up from a bed like something out of the Exorcist. But there was a tinge of cruelty now in some of his jokes. They still went down easy, but more than a few deliciously burned the back of my throat. Maybe it was always there and the kid who tortured a diner with Tom Jones, but out in the open it felt subversive and exciting. Take hiss cathartic, ultra personal tear down of Jeff Bezos or a shark tank pitch for a service to beat up the elderly abusive dads that made us feel like we were in a group with him.

Less successful was that exorcist routine, a bit too long and a bit too reliant on the gimmick of a sweary lucifer, but prefaced as it was with a trigger warning and representing such a stark, shocky departure. I wondered where the awkwardness was the point. M’laney said, I’ve tried to explain your parents that I’m not the good of a guy, but they won’t listen. Mister whatever felt unfinished loose. Themes of age and family recurred, but there was no central theme.

As in his past show, Some anecdotes, like seeing an aging Frank Sinatra on that steamboat, cried out for more smoldering detail. Often Malini dangled a punchline so temptingly that we knew it, but still found a way to dodge expectations. Seeing an early show of this tour, it seemed that whole sections lives accordingately to this principle, just waiting for him to make the connections. Sary, that’s totally fair if it’s early to tories working out a new hour. Sounds like it was a good show.

I saw on threads. Somebody put this in my thought, and the next time I attempt to break out a half ass impression of John Mulaney, I think this is the key. Somebody said they can’t unhear on the B fifty two s I could love shack that. Frend Schneider sounds like John Mulaney, and I’m like, oh yes, And now I can’t unhear that because I keep thinking I’ve got me a car. It’s as big as a well, right, yeah, that might be the way into a half ass John MULLENIY Gianmarco Soresi RESSI does a pretty good one.

When he was a guest on this show, he broke that out and he kind of did a very good Mulleni. Taylor Tomlinson spoke to Evoke Ireland. She explained part of giving up what was it called sorry, holiday weekend networking after midnight is what it was called, right, She said, it’s a tough schedule to film a TV show Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and get on a plane Thursday morning and go to different cities to do stand up and then fly back Sunday night and go back to a lot on Monday. So it’s just a schedule that felt unsustainable to me. It was a great experience, and the team that I got to work with was just exceptional.

Everybody was so good at their job, and I had some really, really lovely people. But I didn’t think I could keep doing the show and stand up. There’s been so many great moments, but something had to give. I understand that early in my career, I was working at the radio station daytime and on a TV show at night. And the TV show money was good, but I had a new house and a new wife and a pool, and I was getting home at ten pm exhausted, and I was like, it’s just not worth the extra money.

I’m not enjoying my life. Taylor said, with the schedule it made it very difficult to date because all day, every day, just hanging out with the most successful comedians and them making me laugh. She has now decided to prioritize stand up and said, I’ve been doing this for half my life, and as soon as I started doing stand up, I was like, Oh, this is what I want to do, this is who I want to be, and this is where I want to be. When I took the TV job was very clear. I always said stand up is my first priority, and as long as I can do both, I’ll do both.

But if anything interferes with stand up too much, I have to prioritize stand up a new topic. In the same interview, Taylor always makes sure she checks with her family before making a joke about them. She says, you don’t have to, but I do. I think it’s the polite thing to do. I don’t think it’s worth ruining a relationship just for a couple punchlines, so I tried to run jokes past people first.

My friend’s family et CE Jimmy O Yang partnered with Hong Kong Tourism to tell good stories of Hong Kong. He shared a video on social media featuring some of Hong Kong’s most iconic tourist attractions. It showed him trying Chinese barbecue pork at a local restaurant, visiting the man Mo Temple and Shang Wuan, going to a cocktail bar, and riding the cable car on Lantu Island to see the Big Buddha. Jimmy speaks both English and Cantonese, and the clip and says that’s why you gotta love Hong Kong man. All in one place.

We saw the mountain, in the ocean, the Buddha. We eat the best at barbecue w Camal Bell’s new show is called Who’s with Me? He caught up with Kuow. Bell said, I feel like my assignment is to be clear about who I am, what I believe, and then ask you’re with me or you’re not with me. If you’re with me, yay.

If you’re not with me, fine, then we’ll be over there. Let me be clear. I’m team World Peace all day long. But the type of comedian I am, there’s no shortage of things to talk about. So in that sense, there’s a lot of gris for the mill, but I wish the mill didn’t have so much grist.

My audience is automatically more conservative than people realize because I was on CNN for seven years in despite what people think, CNN is not a left leaning political network. It’s maybe middle of the road, maybe center right network. I hear people. I don’t agree with everything you say, but I’ve learned a lot. I really appreciate the way you talk about this stuff.

I don’t have any issue talking to those people on an individual, one to one basis. It’s when they get into their team sport bag of like the president is my avatar. That’s what it becomes like, I really can’t talk to you right now. To me, there were a lot of people who’ve realized I’m not a Democrat, but I’m not what this is, and I can talk to those people. On Gossip Corner we found out why Adam Sandler was over at Montclair High School.

He’s filming a movie. An actor who declined to be named said she was playing a teacher in untitled Roommates Project. A casting call production sheet was seeking actors to portray students through August twelfth. Untitled Roommates Project is a Netflix production by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions. A young man who’s thirteen years old so I won’t give his name, had watched the filming from behind a fence and said, I see this graduation that’s going on.

It looks like they put a load of effort in when it looks really nice, all the clothes, the suits that everyone’s wearing, the uniforms. Another young man, also thirteen, said I’ve seen him playing basketball just on the street. Happy Gilmore two is on Netflix. A July twenty fifth.

Speaking of Adam Sandler, Hey Alma caught up with Josh Gonoman, who asked, Jo…

Now? If he’s smart, Josh Gonoman said, Uncut Gems, the Basketball one, and say fifty first Dates. Those would be the top three if you’re correct here. But Josh Gonoman said, oh, this is such a good question. I gotta have Josh han We got to fight this out.

I think Punch Drunk Love for the one dramatic movie. I think Happy Gilmore is in the top three. Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison occupy a similar space in my heart mine too, just not the same as yours. Josh Gonoman, I’m trying to think of another era of Sandler I’d like to represent. Hold On, I’m gonna pull up his IMDb.

Okay, I’m gonna go a little bit off the menu. I’m gonna go with his first Netflix special, one hundred percent Fresh. I’m also going to give a shout out to his albums. My friend and I had his comedy albums when we were way too young and they were so dirty. We’d see the movies which were PG thirteen and Him on SNL, and we got these filthy comedy albums.

My friends and I were like probably ten to twelve years old and would have to listen to them in the woods on a boombox so no grown ups would hear them. And one by one all my friends who had bought them or see them as gifts had them confiscated by parents because they were so dirty. It was like an extremely formative comedy part of my youth. Yes, Adam Sandler comedy targeted at ten year olds exactly. The Cheerful Earful Comedy Podcast Festival returns this October.

They are expanding it. It’s going to be three cities across three continents. It is now in its fourth year. The fifteen day Festival will host over fifty live shows in London, Melbourne and New York City. Now, out of those three locations, if you said, John, do you want to go to this?

I’d be like, I do want to go to it. Do you want to get to the one in New York City? No? I hate traveling in New York City. It’s a pain in the neck.

It’s actually easier to get to London because I drive to Newark Airport and get on a plane. You want me to cross the Hudson River, are you insane? As much as I’d like to go to London, I’d really like to go to Melbourne. What a great city that is. I had a great time there, so I will rank them a Melbourne, London, New York City.

But I digress. In London, the Bedford is the festival hub. In New York City the caveat and in Melbourne stupid old Studios. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

They might like it too. If you’d like to program without commercials or fee drops. As a way to do that, you can subscribe to Caloruica Plus. If you’re on Apple Podcasts, click that banner that says uninterrupted Listening. For five bucks a month, you’ll get this show, five Good News Stories, which I also host, and a bunch of others on the network, all commercial free.

This Sunday, We’ve got Crown and Controversy coming out. That is a spinoff to our Palace Intrigue podcast. Season one of Crown and Controversy, we’ll take a look at the courtship of Kate Middleton, and Prince William. If you’re not on Apple Podcasts, link of the show notes, Calierga dot com, slash plus, and that’s your comedy news for today, see tomorrow, and now stick around for this interview our sister. I’m going to bring forward and yours and give it to you now.

And he said, oh wow, that’s great, thank you. That’s so generous of you. Car that’s great. But his wife, my sister in law, went ballistic. She said, this is too much money, this is wrong.

I don’t want anything to do with and stormed out of the room. And I thought, well, that’s not what I expected. Oh my god. So I realized from that that this was not an easy thing to do. So I learned a lesson from that, and I knew that I had to do this authentically.

I had to do it right, otherwise it was not going to work. So that happened.

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And then the third thing that happened was that I was looking at my financial…

It was sitting there. I mean, it was growing, making profits and so forth, but it wasn’t being used. I wasn’t using it for me. I wasn’t using it for things that I really cared about, not for my people. So I thought, well, if I have all this money now, why should I wait until I die?

Why don’t I bring it forward?

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And then it was a long process for me to come around to that, but that’s what…

Now. Let’s back up just a bit. Tell us a little bit about your new book. What is the Happiness Experiment. Well, this is a recording of the real events with real people who I decided that I would bring forward the inheritance the money I had for them in my will and made it a prequest, so it was a chunk of money that they were going to get.

Well, they were still young enough to enjoy it, and I was still alive to see it happening. So I saw what they were doing. So when I sat down with them, I talked about money and happiness and how one can cognect and I said, look, I’m going to bring this forward to give it to you, but what I want from you is a plan so you use this money, so it’s really a big benefit for you. I don’t want this to overwhelm you. And they said what kind of plan?

I said, I want a happiness plan, and they said, a happiness plan? What’s that? So so you know, nobody has seems to have a happiness plan, but it’s one of the most important plans you can get, and it doesn’t have to be a very complex What is it that makes you happy? What values do you want to pursue? You know, what goals and dreams do you have, and you can pursue them.

And so I got them to write a happiness plan.

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And then when I saw the plan, I gave them all the money all at one time, and …

I saw all their plans, what they did, and how they became happier, and so you know, that had to be written about so because I wanted other people to see what they did so that they too could do the same thing. Which prequest is the most unique one you’ve come across. Well, it was a very very painful and sad story because two dear friends of mine had a beloved daughter and she was hit head on by a drunk driver and killed. She happened to be eight months pregnant at the time, so that killed the granddaughter too, and also their daughter. They were totally totally wiped out, devastated, and they died emotionally.

They had decided that they could never be happy again. It would be wrong to be happy. They didn’t deserve to be happy because their darling daughter had been killed. Tremendously painful, awful, awful story. So they were grieving six years later and I met with them and I told them how much they had added to my life and how much I was so grateful to them, and that I wanted to express the gratitude.

And I put them in my will and they could accept that. And I said, but I want you to have it now, and they said, oh no, no, we can’t accept it. They turned it down. They turned it down. Well, we worked, and I said, look, I’m leaving it open.

So several months later, I think his wife persuaded him to do it, actually, you know, and you know, so they said, okay, we’ll do it, because if we’re going to wait until you die, why not do it now. And they did it. And it wasn’t the money. Interesting now, they said, it was the coaching that made the big difference, that changed their mind their mindset from being so negative. You know, we’ll never be happy again.

We don’t deserve to be happy. And the coach turned there thinking that mindset around and said, look, you know it can be you can be happy again. And they started to get the mindset of happy people.

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And now you cannot believe what these people.

They’re traveling all over the world. They’re in Tahiti right now. They climbed Killimungarrett. These people are loving life. And it was a major change.

That is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful results of the And in a sense, she said, the wife said, this prequest changed or saved my life because we were no longer living, we were dead, and this brought us back to life. Yeah, I mean dealing with grief and many of us have. I have. You know, when you’re in those depths, it’s really it can be really difficult to find your way out of it. And you know, often it looks like there isn’t a way out of it, and you know, sometimes you want to map, right, and it looks like this concept could be a good map for you, if there’s like it was for these folks.

I always like to end interviews by asking is there anything that I didn’t ask that I should have. How can my listeners benefit from this book? What should they do? What would be good for them? And so I’ll answer that question.

First off, think about happiness, Think about being happiness. Do you you deserve to be happy? And you can be happy, but you have to make it as a choice. I’m going to increase my happiness just that if you make that Realistically, I want to and I’m going to increase my happiness that choice.

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And then talk to people about it.

Talk to a husband or wife, or a girlfriend or a friend, a therapist or coach, talk to somebody about it and say, look, I’m made the decision that i want to be happier, and I’m like you to help me create a happiness plan and then work on it. And it’s not that hard, but it is. It is challenging, but it’s a wonderful exercise. And if they do it, I guarantee they will increase their happiness. I guarantee it.

Carl Barney is the author and the book is called The Happiness Experiments, A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness. Carl. Where can people find the book? Wherever books are sold, and it’s now available for pre order from Amazon and they can go to the Happiness Experiment dot com and they can pre order it there, and I hope they will. Carl, thanks so much of the time.

I really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you Dan. It’s been fun.

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Featured: Josh Gondelman, Patton Oswalt, Eddie Pepitone, Fabrizio Capano

What’s in This Episode

• 2025 Las Culturistas Culture Awards preview and categories
• Josh Gondelman discusses Modern Seinfeld Twitter account
• Josh Gondelman’s Dunkin’ sneaker collection
• Josh Gondelman’s move from Boston to New York
• Eddie Pepitone’s new special ‘The Collapse’ executive produced by Patton Oswalt
• Chilean comedian Fabrizio Capano’s first English-language special ‘From the Future’

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media man Aaron Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Hope your holiday weekend is going well. I’m having a good one. Hitting some beach time for sure, and I’m not doing that poolside. I heard from friend of the show, Scott Beckett, who was worried that I wasn’t getting enough beach time in and I explained him it was sixty five degrees in raining until about June twentieth here in the Northeast.

But a great weekend. Hope you’re enjoying it. Like I said yesterday, it’s light, so we’ll take it a little easy this weekend. But today I will compare it to just get in the middle lane, drive sixty five, hit the cruise control, just steer and listen to the radio. That’s what we got going today, and then we’ll wrap back up tomorrow with more of a regular show.

The twenty twenty five Lost Culturistas Culture Awards categories and nominees have been revealed. Why not this thing is a lot of fun. It gets bigger and bigger every year. This year, the fourth annual Lost Culturista’s Culture Awards are coming to Bravo TV Tuesday, August fifth, nine to eleven Eastern time. It’ll be on Peacock the next day as well.

The awards celebrate culture’s most iconic and consequential moments of the year. With more than one hundred unique award categories, live musical performances, and unexpected celebrity guests, The show brings culture’s most crucial moments to life. Some of the categories most Iconic Building or structure Okay, you’re ready. Even nominees are Universal Helios, Grand Hotel, the Gobi Tent at Coachella, the Coney Island Cyclone, Luman Headquarters from Severance, and the Mirror House from Abercadabra in the Lady Gaga SNL performance. That’s wonderful.

Let’s say most iconic. I’d have to say the Coney Island Cyclone, best Vibe. The nominees are Japan, the Spirit Tunnel on the Jennifer Rodson Show, Top Chef Canada, Seth Myers, and musician Doci hmm. Never been to Japan. Uh, I’m a big fan of Seth Myers.

I’m notough familiar with Dochi’s music. I’ve never seen Top Chef Canada and not really know the Jennifer Hudson’s show, I’m Gonna pick a pan. Nominees for best Breakfast include egg McMuffin, yogurt and berries, a banana crabcake, benedict or just a black coffee. I’m actually intermint in fasting. I’m gonna pick that.

Best Lunch, the nominees are half soup tomato, half salad, Caesar, fries in Caesar, half soup tomato, half grilled cheese, American preda Manger the UK version, or a free best Lunch. I’m going to pick fries in Caesar. Best dinner chicken parmesan, Korean food, todd egg quote, I actually heard the burger is really good here forty six dollars, or you get home in your new lover cook for you again. So far are they amazing? I’m gonna pick chicken palm.

Best Beverage, the nominees are Doctor Pepper, whole Milk, Martini that you order by saying filthy with way too much sauce, Big Airport, Assentia or Celsius hands down, Doctor Pepper. Best Gift for Dad, the nominees are golf, a rather nice pen, an Apple watch, and Evergreen Ticket to the Sphere. In Las Vegas, or a book about war that he already owns. I will say, get me an evergreen ticket to the sphere only because I already have an Apple Watch, and we’ll do one more. You get a vibe for what this is about.

This is the Woman of a certain age ward. The nominees are Jenna Ortega at twenty two, Dane, Helen Mirren at seventy nine, Queen Elizabeth the first Betty Boop, or Winona Rider, and they tagged on Winona Rider the age of Innocence. I’m not sure what that means. I’m gonna play it safe here. I’m just gonna go Helen Mirren looks really good in Mobland at age seventy nine, so I’m picking Helen Mirren.

Let’s move on, Like I said, Middle Lane Cruise Control sixty five. That’s what we’re doing today. Guys from Boston dot Com. They caught up with Josh Gomdoman. The discussion came up to the modern Seinfeld.

Remember that social media account, Josh explained. My friend Dan always said, and it’s true. If they had cell phones, you’d lose half the episodes, I thought, But think of all the episodes you’d gain because it’s not just we can’t just find each other in this movie theater. It’s the etiquette of using the technology. I tweeted a couple from my own account.

My friend Jacqueline was like, this could be something We started at Seinfeld today. We were both plugged in on comedy Twitter and media Twitter. It blew up overnight. We stopped doing it in twenty fifteen when we got too busy, but it was a great calling card. It opened a bunch of doors.

His favorite plotline one was something like Jerry had to break up with his girlfriend because her phone automatically connected to Newman’s WiFi. One of the earliest ones was like Elaine’s neighbor and makes his WiFi pass word an insult about her after they break up so the whole building will see it. That is pretty good, Josh said. It was one of the first things I got into where I thought, oh, this is what the grown up world is like. Obviously it’s not really, but in some ways it kind of is.

I grew up with this swarped sense of how much scheming and machination is required to be an adult, just because of how much George Coustans inform my lens on the World. I gotta get Josh on the show. He was in GQ as a Duncan clothing influencer. You’re a noted hardcore Duncan fan. Gotta talk here, Josh said, Okay, I have several pairs of dunk and adjacent sneakers.

I have to have him on now because I also have an item to tomorrow where he’s talking about adam Is Sandler movie, So right there, I could just do two topics and let him go. The ones you’re talking about where they’re collabed with Sogny for the Boston Marathon. I don’t wear them much because I could never replace them. Dude. I’ve got a pair of Jones Beach Edition Nikes the same reason.

I’d barely ever wear them, and I paid like two hundred bucks for them, but I just had to have them, and they just sit there every now and then I bust them out. Josh says, I also have a pair of new balances that have Duncan colors, not an authorized collaboration, just coffee brown with the pink and orange on the end. And I have a pair of Airmax nineties and dunkin colors they wanted sale I was like, I’m going to get a second pair of when I run through the first. Josh, do people ever give you our time about leaving Boston for New York? Josh said only once.

I was opening for John Oliver at the Wilburn twenty fourteen. I said to the crowd, it’s very meaningful for me to be here with you. This will always feel like home. I got a nice round of applause, and then I said, oh, I did move to New York City three years ago because I wanted to be happy and successful. I got boot and booed, and I said, no, you’re not allowed to boo.

You could also leave if you wanted those things. Goodwill hunting is in science fiction. I got boot and booh. My next bit got a little applause and said, no, you’re ready decided to wear against me. I don’t want your applause.

Eddie Peppertone has a new special. It is called The Collapse. It is executive produced by Patton Oswalt. It’ll be out on Veeps July seventeenth, and as a comedy album August fifteenth. Patton Oswalt says Eddie Peppettone 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 erupt in cackling disbelief that Eddie sang the things he’s saying. Chilean comedian Fabrizio Capano will have his first English language comedy special, From the Future, that One through the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla on July fourteenth. In From the Future, Capano talks about identity, fatherhood, and cultural whiplash, capturing humor in the rhymes from the immigrant experience, millennial parenting, and the absurdity of living between two cultures. Copano became a US citizen soon after completing the special and said, maybe I should make sure I can actually stay in the country. Some other stories while we’re on cruise control here.

Aaron Berg will take over as co host on the SDR Show podcast. He replaces Big Jay Ogerson. Matt Friend got a nice wax job from People magazine. Seems like the PR department at Rewards Platform built work something out for some good mentions in People. Matt was out there hawking for Built Neighborhood Comedy and said comedy shows are always the same thing to drink minimum.

There’s kind of mediocre food. You see the same kind of lineup. We wanted to create sort of a party like atmosphere, and it’s exclusively for BUILT members. The next events are July sixteenth in Brooklyn July twenty third in Chicago. They did one in December at a Brooklyn pizza spot.

Matt Friend said, Anne Hathaway and her husband were there, which was very cool. I don’t think anyone really called her out. I think she was very incognito. That was cool. People tells us the gigs have attracted folks like Marcelo Hernandez, who probably showed up and did that one thing he does really well, Mark Norman, and Roywood Junior.

Now, my Friend says, every comedian is hitting me up trying to get in on one of our shows. Matt Friend’s title is Built Director of Neighborhood Experience. He’s trying to highlight up and coming talent, he said, I mean I’m up and coming. I just turned twenty seven, so I’m young, but I’m also now in a position with bills to be able to help discover new people and bring them into this network. It’s very very cool.

Apparently John Stamos and Hank Azaria are friends. He’s quote unquote particularly close with unquote them, and they’re kind of a big mentor father figure entertainment people in my life. Let’s do this one. Since Americans probably aren’t listening today. For the Edinburgh Fringe, the Guardian looked at twenty shows to see this summer, let us pick it.

Some of the names we might know here as Yanks who aren’t listening. You’re contradicting yourself. John Jacqueline Novak is there, The Guardian writes. It’s hard to think of a stand up so indelibly associated with one hit show as Novak. But what a show?

You know? That one? It was Get on your Knees, The Guardian writer described as Get on your Knees, Blue Global and then Netflix audience is away. Okay, I see what you did there, Guardian. Now we discover what else has the New Yorker gotten her Locker Monkey Barrel is Jackie’s new show July thirtieth to August twenty third.

Michelle Wolf is over there, The Guardian writes. Not many people have landed glove on Trump and Crewe since the Donald became president Wolf did. Whether this week long fringe delivery is a political comedy or something homeler about new parenthood remains to be seen. She’ll be the Pleasant Courtyard from August eleventh through the seventeenth. Reees Darby the Legend returns his stage performances silly symphonies of antique, mime and sound.

His new show revives that stick after thirteen years to address the specter of AI. He’s also at the Pleasants Courtyard August first of the tenth. Rosie O’Donnell at the Gilded Balloon for ten days in August she will debut her recent relocation to Ireland and a bunch of other shows. You can find that on the Guardian dot com. And that is your comedy news for today.

All right, we’ll ramp things back up tomorrow as everybody gets back to work. Unfortunately, only sorry to crush your groove there. I enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend. I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Rob Mac, Seth Meyers, Steph Tolev, Jeff Ross, Milton Berle, Lorne Michaels

What’s in This Episode

• Mac’s Tavern closing in Philadelphia after 15 years
• Johnny Carson TV streaming 50 unearthed episodes
• Seth Meyers on SNL succession and Lorne Michaels’ future
• Steph Tolev on female comics and LA comedy scene diversity
• Steph Tolev hosting AVN Awards
• Jeff Ross on working with Milton Berle

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. It’s a quiet one. It’s a Saturday after July fourth. I did do a new sweep on Friday morning, and it’s a little light.

So think of today like the day after Thanksgiving. Let me make you a turkey sandwich and I’ll heat up some mashed potatoes in the microwave and tell you what I’ve got for you. Okay, you understand where I’m coming from here today? Yep. In Philadelphia, Max Tavern, the old city bar and restaurant known for its ties to it’s always sunny in Philadelphia, it is closing down after fifteen years on Market Street.

They posted on Instagram at the bar part owned by Rob Mack and Caitlyn Olsen, it’s closing. They thank supporters. They did not give a reason for the closing. The bar. On the Instagram post said when we open this bar, our hope was to create a welcoming down to earthplace where people could gather, share stories, laugh a little too loudly, and enjoy a drink or two among friends.

What we got was so much more loyal and loving community that made Max Tavern feel like home. Not just to us and the staff, but to everybody who walked through its doors. Though Max Tavern may be closing, our gratitude to you will remain open and overflowing forever. It’s all kinds of interesting, especially the liquor license part, right, So what are they gonna do with that liquor license? Won’t keep an eye on that one.

Rob Mac making a lot of news lately, And you know it’s always sunny in Philadelphia. Is coming back? Let me check the date for you, July ninth. Oh yeah, We’re gonna hear a lot from these guys this week as they drum up attention for the new season. Not sure closing a bar was the best way to do it, but and then again I’m talking about it.

Good news if you like Johnny Carson. They’ve unearthed fifty episodes that haven’t been seen in decades. These will go to Johnny Carson TV, the free ad supported streaming channel that brings the total number of streaming episodes to four hundred and seventy one. These will begin to air on the Corson TV Fast channel today, with a marathon of exclusively new episodes running through Sunday and then again every Weekend in July. Guests include loose Ball, Gilda Radner, Melbrooks, and Muhammad Alli.

Variety caught up with Seth Myers and said they weren’t going to ask him the lorn question because he’s probably sick of the lorn question. Seth said, I’m only not sick of it because I find it incredibly flattering anytime anyone asked me if I take over SNL, mostly because my first five years on SNL, I felt like I was falling into an elevator cheft. So it’s a very nice question for someone who really thought they were terrible at the show. Well, Seth, do you really believe Lauren’s never going to retire? Seth said, I do.

I’m not being glod with that answer. He just loves it so much. If he had a hobby that was like, if I can only get the show off my schedule, I’d start fishing. But that’s not Lauren. This is his first love, and nothing keeps you more young than being surrounded by young people.

Lauren is smart enough to know that. I agree with Seth there. I strongly believe as you age, you need something to do in your life. I enjoy being semi retired. I don’t think i’d ever stop doing anything.

I’ll probably host this podcast until I just physically can’t. Won’t that be fun? Some ninety one year old guy ranting about comedy in Adam Saylor Movies The Only Times asked Steph Toleev. Does your comedy help open the door not just for more great female comics, but comics who are female, who were out there scaring the crap out of anyone and everyone. That’s a great question, Steph said.

I think there are a lot of us. Maybe you haven’t seen a lot of them. I don’t know. If you know Jordan Jensen, she’s incredible. She’s out there giving it to people too.

There’s so many. But I feel like there’s so many women like me, and they just don’t have the platform to openly talk about this kind of stuff. In my meet and greet lines, it’s all women being like, I like these things. I want to say these things, but it’s like they’ve either lived a sheltered life and they don’t feel comfortable, or they’re surrounding themselves with people who don’t like when people talk like that. Nothing I say is like some weird, orpulsive thing.

It’s something gross we’ve all done we’ve all had a bad sex story, we’ve all embarrassed ourselves, we’ve all had really bad one night stands. I’m giving a voice to not even just women, men too maybe feel sheltered and feel like they can’t be their full self. The conversation switched to the LA comedy scene. Steph Toolov said, I think the LA scene right now is amazing. All the main clubs, the bookers are women, and it’s very nice to see that because they’re much more inclusive with a lot more people in the lineups are way more diverse.

You’re seeing a lot of new people who kind of came out of nowhere that are really funny. They’ve been doing comedy for a long time, but now getting the opportunity to be these bigger stages. I don’t know if it’s because I’m on a higher level, but the community feels much more inspiring and much more supportive. That’s awesome to hear. I feel like when I first moved here eleven years ago, i’d go to places like the Comedy Store and I felt like people didn’t want me there.

But now I feel like, even when newer comics come, everyone is so much more supportive and they want to meet people, and it just feels like a community. I don’t know when that happened, but it definitely feels like that right now, which is awesome. I started out here in the alt scene, which I think might be in a bit of a down swing right now because some of the bigger shows are not happening, but I think it’ll swing back again. They asked Steph about hosting the Adult Video News Awards, the AVN Awards. I found myself at the av AND Awards one night.

I think I’ve told the story on the show. We had the giggles because I don’t expect you to know this, but people who know porn movies know that sometimes they have parodies based on real movies. I can’t remember any actual titles, and I won’t make them up here, but we had the giggles as they came out.

And then also, you know, all the categories of best combination of us your im…

And then they gave us a gift. And I got back to the hotel room and opened up the gift and it was a glass thing several inches long. Here’s your imagination, And I’m like, what do I do with this? And I’m not bringing this home. I’m not bringing this on the plane.

So I just left it in a hotel room and I guess the maid wonder what happened with that. Steph said, my buddy was actually one of the writers. Every year they asked a different comedian and they just put my name for it, and that was it. I got it. And I will say that was one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever done in the porn industry.

No matter what you think about it, those people are so genuinely nice. I will agree with that from my experience at the av AND Awards, and they were so supportive, Like for every award, people were getting up and clapping. One of the girls I hosted with her parents were there, Like these Midwestern parents were so happy their daughter was there. Like you’re seeing stuff on screen, you’re seeing the clips that they’re showing you what she’s nominated for, You’re seeing stuff and they were like, ooh, great show, and what a great award show. And I was like, what the heck.

It was really nice to see parents being supportive and I got flashed a lot. Jeff Ross talked about out working with Milton Burl. Burl passed away in two thousand and two, so the stories get some dust done it. Jeff Frost hold at Howard Stern. Milton had giant hands, and every time I got a laugh from behind the podium, he’d poke me in the ribs and I would jump.

And then I kept going and I’m hitting pretty consistently getting good laughs, and finally he’s just interrupting me. I’m killing and he’s interrupting me. Finally I go, Milton, didn’t I see you in an antique shop this morning for a hundred bucks. Milton gets up and starts doing a two man show, and I’m trying to keep up with him. Buddy Hackey yells out, hey, Milton, let the kid work, remember when you used to.

Milton runs down, kisses Buddy Hacket on the lips. The place explodes, and I go, oh, there it is Milton and Buddy over eighty years of homosexual experience, and the place goes wild, and I felt like I’d found my Yankee Stadium moment. I went back to the Friar’s Club afterward. I said to Buddy Hackett, why would Milton do that? And he goes he doesn’t like when other people get a lot of laughs.

He was trying to trip you up. Ross decided to speak to Milton himself and said, I went and had a cigar with him, and I said, Milton, why would he poke me like that? Milton said, remember they only remember the home runs. It means I had too many jokes and had to edit down just the home runs. And even though he was trying to interrupt me and mess me up a little bit, I was like, that’s really good advice.

Milton and I went on to become very good friends. I think he was testing me. Kathy Griffin. You know, Kathy, do I ever come on to hear and tell you a story about Kathy Griffin that’s like, Hey, Kathy Griffin had an awesome day and impetted a pony and said life is great. She’s one of these comedians that we talk about on the show that this just always strife.

Well, Kathy Griffin reveals why she turned down hosting the View. She said, I’m gonna be honest, I had to turn it down because at the time, between doing my life on the D List and touring, I was making about ten million dollars a year. She tried to negotiate with the View. The money the View had wasn’t enough to uproot her life to another coast, she said. She told Barbara Walters, I’m gonna be honest.

This is how much money I made last year. I’ll show you my tax returns. I don’t want you to think I’m blowing smoke. But between moving costs and I’m so entwined with my mom and dad, I have a house in LA just isn’t feasible for me to do. But I want you to hear it directly from me, that all sounds perfectly reasonable.

Apparently Barbara Walters did not like that one bit. She didn’t care up their offered by a penny. I think I might have said something like can you meet me halfway? And they didn’t. But that’s the real story, that all seems fair.

Joe Quasala is the writer and star of a mockumentary called American Comic. It follows two stand ups as they try to navigate the modern comedy world. Joe said, every time he watches a movie or TV show that incorporates stand up that doesn’t look like a comedy club, audiences in a room that size wouldn’t sound like that that wouldn’t get a laugh. So when Joe made his own project, he said he tried to reverse engineer it. By analyzing what doesn’t work.

It would hopefully become clear what to avoid and I could forge my path to success. I thought about my main problems with depictions of stand up comedy and landed on three areas, the setting, the audience reactions, and the material. When one of those doesn’t come across correctly, it all goes south. So I had to nail all three. Among comedians, there might be varying opinions on the ideal setting for a stand up show, but most will agree that intimacy is key.

That means close quarters, low ceilings, the audience’s proximity of the stage and to each other. A lot of comedy clubs are designed with these qualities in mind. And that is your comedy news for two. I hope you’re enjoying the holiday weekend. It’s very very nice weather here in the Northeast, and hopefully everybody has an awesome three day weekend.

I’ve got stuff for tomorrow and I’ll see then.