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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Jim Gaffigan, Jimmy O Yang, Tom Segura, Shane Gillis, Justin Willman, Bert Kreischer, Brett Goldstein, Sarah Silverman, Sam Morril, Tim Dillon, Drüd Carmichael, Roy Wood Jr., Atsuko Okatsuka, Ari Shafir, Gabriel Iglesias, Andrew Schulz, Rosebud Baker, Christa Stefano, George Lopez

What’s in This Episode

• Best comedy specials of 2025 so far ranked by Johnny Mac
• Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize recognition as top comedy moment
• Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts renewed for season two on Netflix
• Shane Gillis Tires season two compared to The Office at peak
• Definition and standards for what qualifies as a comedy special
• Comedy special length and viewership attention span issues
• Mainstream vs underground comedy special recommendations

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny mag and we’re halfway through twenty twenty five and it’s July fourth, so I thought today it would be a good day to take a look at what I’m calling the best comedy specials of twenty twenty five so far that I’ve seen. Now, it’s a list, and I always like to preamble, it’s just a list. Don’t get upset. You don’t have to flame me in the comments.

You can disagree. You could say my list is perfect. You can send me a list is stupid. It’s all good. We have a Facebook group where we can discuss this Daily Comedy News podcast group.

It’s just a list. While I’m on the soapbox. A couple things I’ve talked about this in the past, the use of the words special. There was a time, and I’m an old man, now there was a time. What a special was George Carlin on HBO at Carnegie Hall.

That’s kind of special. Now a special might be your friend shot your Tuesday night set at the Chuckle Hut and you threw it up on YouTube and you promoted on social media. Hey, check out my new special. As a programmer, I have always tried to come in at eye level. I was emailing with a friend last week and I said, I try and do Jim Gaffigan more than say Jimmy O Yang, although candidly I love Jimmy O Yang and talking about him.

But the casuals know who Conan O’Brien is. The casuals know who Jim Gaffigan is. So what this list is not is me spending eight hundred hours deep diving YouTube looking for the uncovered gems. No, this is like the mainstream. Here are the ones that they were put in front of you on Netflix and Hulu and HBO and Amazon and the others.

These are the eye level specials, and the ones that I think are even more better than the others. Haven’t seen them all. I haven’t even seen Jim Norton’s new special yet, and I love Jim Norton. Okay, by top tier, the must watches. The funniest thing of the year so far Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize.

It’s not a stand up special, but in terms of comedy, nothing funnier. The whole hour and a half just totally rocks by a mile. Is It’s the equivalent of the Tom Brady roast from last year. This is like the shiny object in the comedy space. Highly recommend it if you haven’t seen that already.

And the other two things I have in my must watch top tier neither are stand up specials, but they’re from stand up comedians and they’re fantastic. Tom Sigora’s bad thoughts I can’t get enough of. Just please just mainline it into my brain. He could do that totally not Garth Brooks thing all day, every day, and I will continue to laugh at it. It has been renewed for a second season on Netflix.

I am happy about that. The other thing that is fantastic Season two of Shane Gillis Tires. At times it reminds me of the Office at its peak, and I don’t say that lightly. I hope Netflix picks that up again. Shane Gillis he is just naturally funny.

He can be funny just making a face for the camera. Shane Gillis Tires fantastic. Okay, John, get to the stand up specials all right? Well yeah, sure I will. Again, It’s just a list.

Your list is just as valid as mine. Don’t freak out. But here’s the order I have in the top tier of stand up specials. Justin Wilman Magic Lover. Now, is it the funniest thing I’ve ever seen?

No, But in terms of like a guy in a recliner watching an hour of comedy, it is charming as hell. It’s a magic show, but it’s really not a magic show. It’s just a great, solid hour of TV that I’ve been telling people to watch, and so far everybody I’ve put that in front of has been like, Hey, good recommendation, So you want to check out on Netflix. Justin Wilman, Magic Lover. Next up, Bert Kreischer is lucky.

It’s just funny. Kreischer knows his lane, he stays in his lane, and sometimes that’s exactly what you want Bert doing. Burt things fantastic. I really liked Brett Goldstein The Second Best Night of Your Life that’s on HBO Max, the nice solid hour, and I found him just to be nice company. Again, a dude sitting in a chair watching something.

I enjoyed it. Same note on Sarah Silverman’s post Mortem that’s on Netflix. It’s not her funniest, but there’s something just genuinely touching about this one. Sarah of course, a good storyteller and I have it in my notes here. Nice company for an hour.

I really liked him with Tel Lane’s Al Dente that’s on Hulu. You need something light, that’s it. He’s got tremendous energy. And Tim Dillon’s I’m Your Mother on Netflix. I’ve been evangelizing for Dylan for a few years now, and I think he’s kind of hit the mainstream now.

If not, he’s pretty close. Comedy fans definitely know who Tim Dillon is. But a nice, solid hour out of Tim Dillon. Okay, next group, Best of the Rest, drud Carmichaels Don’t Be Gay HBO. Max.

I thought the opening twenty minutes was really strong, stronger than I was expecting, and I was like, oh, I’m in on this one.

And then it kind of flamed out.

And he’s a good storyteller, but I was just like, all right, I’m good here. Roy Wood Junior at Your Age that was back in January on Hulu. Solid Wood knows how to build a bit, deliver a punchline. Totally fine hour. If you’re a casual, if you’re a civilian, put that on.

You’ll enjoy it as a bit of a common I’m like, eh, it was okay Otsko at Cotska’s father. I love Otsco. I do feel her previous special was better than this one. Totally worth your time, but not her best. Ari Shaffer America Sweetheart.

It’s fine Ari Shafir doing Ari Shafir things. Nothing wrong with that. You know what you’re getting. I like Ari Shafir, Gabriel Iglesias The Legend of Fluffy. It’s funny, but it is too long.

Can you guys edit this thing down? I mean part of it. When I sit down and watch a special, if you tell me like it’s like an hour and forty minutes, I’m like, oh man, that’s that’s like a commitment. That’s not just me making that up. Comedians have said that what they’ve been doing in their specials is moving what would normally be their closer up into the first twenty minutes because people have TV add and make it twenty minutes in and punch out.

I know I do that on comedy specials all the time. So you got to make sure your specials not too long these days. One of the best last year was David tel special, which I think was like thirty seven minutes but it crushed, got in, got out done. Mike bro Bigley The Good Life. Civilians are gonna love Mike Berbigleia of the Good Life.

That storytelling style out of Mike specifically hasn’t really clicked with me. I tend to start fidgeting with my phone. If you know what I’m saying, He’s got his audience. I’m not really into it. But that’s a solid special if you’re not a comedy snob.

Jessica Cursons I’m the Man from Hulu. That is another one that I recommend to the civilians. I have a listener to the podcast who text me on the side is like, what should I watch tonight? And that was the one I put in front of him the other day. So check out Jessica Cursons, I’m the Man.

All right, I’ll take the break here and I’ll come back and I’ll talk about a bunch of big names that are not on the list. All right, some other specials that have come out this year that I feel are skippable. I put this out as a sub stack, and within five minutes I was getting text from people going, how did you not like Andrew Schultz’s special? I just didn’t feel the storytelling. I like Schultz, this one just didn’t click with me.

He went for it. I think he accomplished what he wanted to do. Just one idiot in the basement with the podcast and just wasn’t feeling Andrew Schult’s life on Netflix. But I can tell you I got texts about that opinion. That’s fair Again, it’s just a list.

Rosebud Bakers. The Mother Load had the gimmick of switching between a set when she’s pregnant and one from after having the baby. I felt the premise war thin pretty quickly and it was just fatiguing to watch. I punched out on that. Christa Stefano’s It’s just unfortunate.

I don’t want to get flamed in the comments, but I’ve used a word that rhymes with tack for that one. That one who George Lopez mie Katalako I have in my notes horrific. It might be the worst stand up special of all time. George is great, but skip that one and watch his old stuff instead. Eliza Treeger’s Night Owl on Netflix.

I really liked her energy, but I didn’t think the material was there to support it. Eliza Slessinger’s good on Paper was on Amazon. I felt like she wasn’t surfing the crowd, Like the crowd was reacted in such a way that disconnected with how Eliza was performing on the material, and thus it didn’t work. It was like, I have material, I’m going to recite it in this order. In the crowd, you guys can clap or boo or be bored or be silent, and it just there was a disconnect there.

Bill Burr The Drop Dead Year’s Hulu not Burr’s Best. Sorry, I didn’t even make it all the way through. That one. Just out. Recently, Steph Tolev’s Filth Queen too filthy for me.

Now it’s in the title filth Queen. She’s trying to be filthy. She accomplished what she wanted. I could see other people going, I loved it, it was great. It’s just not my cup of tea.

So I personally passed on Steph Filth Queen.

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And then there’s probably two hundred other specials, including your favorite…

But again, it’s just a list, and it’s July fourth. Let’s take another look at this list. In December, usually the stronger specials come out in the second half of the year. That’s been the pattern in the last three years anyway, So we’ll see and we’ll take another look at this list in December. If you would like to come in to join us in the Facebook group, won’t you It’s Daily Comedy News podcast group.

We’d love to know your favorite specials. You can tell me which ones I missed. You can tell me my Andrew Schultz opinion is just plain wrong, and that’s all fair. Like I said several times, it’s just a list, all right. Back tomorrow with a normal episode of Daily Comedy News.

See you then.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Pete Davidson, Rob Mack, John Stewart, John Mulaney, Bill Burr, Earthquake, Trey Parker, Matt Stone

What’s in This Episode

• Rob Mack shortens stage name explanation
• Shane Gillis Tires renewed for season three
• Pete Davidson discusses grandfather and childhood trauma
• Bill Burr developing Earthquake comedy series at Fox
• South Park season 27 premiere delayed due to Paramount-Skydance merger

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, my name is John McDermott, and let’s pick up where we left off on yesterday’s Daily Comedy News. Rob Mack wants us to call him Rob Mack. Happy to do it, Bro, I still don’t get it. But Rob Mack himself released a video explaining the decision to go by Rob Mack.

I’ll play the whole thing here. There is a couple points where it’s a little bit visual, but when you’re like, what’s going on, he has on the video he’s showing an alternate spelling of his name. Here is Rob Mack. Hai. Okay, I’m going to dedicate exactly one minute to start the car.

Yes, I’m shortening my name to Rob Matt mostly a stage named by I digress is a kind of doucheet. But the amount of time that I have wasted trying to give people to either say or spell my name correctly is literally days of my life, trust me. I added it on. More importantly, it means thousands of you have had minutes of your lives stolen buying me because of my last name, including so it’s a family name, my grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, and I all share it, and I love them and I want to stay connected their heritage. Except it’s not even really our tame.

Not only have many generations changed its spelling, the current one was just given to my ancestor by a government official who decided that this was now the spell. Quick example my great great grandmother. Oh that’s different. All good. It was a crazy time, but times have changed, and most people already call me Rob Mac anyway.

My family knows me and loves me, regardless of family syllables I have, and that’s the only thing that I really care about. There are so many things going on in the world and this is a silly one to continue to waste your time for it. Honestly, call me whatever you want, Marion, Jerome, archfall Here, Maurice, Stephanie, Francis, Marvin Gordon, or say, but maybe we just keep it, sup one try I Rob back, Let’s see how it goes. Good news, Shane Gillis Tires renewed for season three. That’s fantastic.

I was worried that Netflix was going to netflix this thing and not bring it back, but it is great. You’ll hear me talk about it in tomorrow’s episode, which is the top of funny things of the year so far that I’ve actually seen, and Tires is way up the list. I think Tires at times is like The Office at its best. I know what I just said out loud, but that’s how I feel. Season three of Tires will come out in twenty twenty six.

Part of the original Tires deal, the one that cradd season two, included Shane getting another stand up special for Netflix. Looking forward to that one. His first Beautiful Dogs in twenty twenty three spent two weeks on the US Top ten list on Netflix. All Right, this next story is a little zorik from Pete Davidson. I read this whole thing and I just came away feeling weird.

So there’s Pete Davidson. He’s at the Prudential Center in Newark last weekend with John Stewart and John Mulaney. They’re doing a show, and according to the Post, Pete started talking about his maternal grandfather, sharing with the crowd that the grandfather got the lung cancer and I’m not close with him. I’ll quote Pete here via The New York Post. I’m close with my dad’s dad.

I don’t like my mom’s dad. He used to beat the s out of me, and I don’t like him very much. He’s old school. He’s very Irish. You know those old Irish Jews that are so Irish, they’re like pink.

Right now, I’m reading this very seriously. For all I know, Pete was, you know, being very joky about this. But all I can react to is the text version, because I wasn’t there, and I just come away going like ooh, continuing to read Pete via The New York Post. His veneers are somehow brown. He’s just an old school dude, and he’s dying.

I want to be there for my mom. She’s sad about it. I don’t want to be rude to my mom. I think I have the best mom in the world. I’m very, very lucky.

So I’ve been trying to remember a good time that me and my grandpa had so I could hold onto it. Pete did recall a few positive experiences with that grandpa, including, according to the Post, an inside joke about an internet personality known as cake fart Girl. Back in April, Pete had told People Magazine, I had a really crappy childhood and the worst thing that ever could have happened to me. Happened to me when I was seven. Referring to his father dying on nine to eleven, Pete explained that has altered his mindset over the years.

I’ve kind of been like, ef it, who the f cares? You know? And like if everyone at the end of the day, it’s like family matters, and you’re two or three friends that you have matter. Everybody else can go f themselves and you don’t have to put all this pressure on yourself. This is sort of newer for me, but it kind of shows if you see me now, it’s a little different because I went through something pretty tough.

I just think who cares what? People you don’t even know? Think like, who the f cares? You don’t know them. Pete had told The Real Ones podcast, my dad said he was going to pick me up from school on nine to eleven.

I got picked up by my mom. She didn’t tell me what was going on for like three days. She kept telling me Dad’s at work, he’s coming home whatever. I had no idea, And one night I turned on the TV and I just saw my dad on the TV. I was like, oh, okay, and they were like, these are all the firemen that are like dead.

It was weird because we didn’t know he was dead for like three weeks. They were finding people, you know, they were pulling people out of stuff, and there was just sort of hope. Like it was just up and down and nobody knew how to deal with it. You know, Dad said he’s coming home to pick you up, but he doesn’t for life. I’m like, I don’t believe anyone.

I’m trying to learn how to believe people. In Hollywood isn’t exactly the greatest place to learn that skill. My mom was like thirty, I’m about to be. I wouldn’t know what they have to do. And that’s why as they get older, I’m like, my mom was awesome.

She really loves me to unpack there. I mean, you get it right. You know, Dad says I’ll pick you up after school, and then you don’t know what’s going on. If you were in New York City or the area around nine to eleven, you just remember that whole time. I remember, as I was reading the story, you would see on the news.

Hospitals had all this staging area waiting for the mass casualties to come in, and none did. I was working at WR Radio at the time, and one of our reporters had gone down to the World Trade Center. We hadn’t heard from her for hours and hours, and I happened to be in the hallway when she returned back to work many hours later, and I gave her a hug, and she looked like I was being inappropriate, wanted to send me to HR, and I was like, I’m sorry, I thought you were dead. Very powerful day and honestly not making for a great comedy podcast here. So let’s switch topics.

Bill Burr is developing a half hour comedy at Fox based on the life of Earthquake, the comedian Earthquake real name Nathaniel Strouman. The half hour comedy at FA based on the life of comedian Earthquake will be called Earthquake, Little Kurf fluffel Over. At south Park, the season twenty seven premiere on Comedy Central was originally slated for July ninth. It’s being moved to July twenty third. The delay comes back to south Park’s streaming rights.

There’s some uncertainty over Skydance’s acquisition of Comedy Central’s parent Paramount Global, which co owns the joint venture between south Park, south Park Digital Studios and Trey and Matt. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, posted on social media, this merger is a stuff show and it’s effing with up South Park. I’m not already grammar there, but we’ll move on. We’re at the studio now working on new episodes and we hope the fans get to see them somehow. Apparently, the show had an exclusive streaming licensing deal with HBO Max worth five hundred million dollars that expired a week ago and has not been replaced by a new exclusive one where multiple non exclusive ones.

Paramount Global wants to be able to stream the show on Paramount Plus. That makes sense. Daven told investors on their earnings call that starting this July, South Park will becoming a Paramount Plus in the US.

Meanwhile, the South Park streaming rights have been streamed to other platfo…

The Hollywood Reporter has told about a letter in which Parker and Stone threatened legal action over what that document claims, including an attempt to get WBD, Warner Brothers Discovery to agree to a shorter five year term deal and to take new seasons of South Park after They’ve had a twelve month exclusive window on Paramount Plus. Boy, there is a lot going on here. Many fans had expected the show to launch on Paramount Plus on July first. That did not happen. It is the third of July.

And this has nothing to do with comedy. When I was a kid, I would go with my parents to Belmont Racetrack and go see the horses, and there was a horse named third of July, and that name always stuck with me, and I always think of that horse on this day. My father put in like a one dollar bet for me on third of July. It was like my favorite horse ever, and I just felt like mentioning it today. Now the horse would have to be fifty years old, and I don’t think horses live that long.

But third of July the horse, I’m thinking of you. On Netflix, they’re going to screen a bunch of classic comedies already up on Netflix, Anchorman and Anchorman, Two Blades of Glory, Cone Heads. I forgot that was actually a movie, Good Burger, Grown Ups, Happy Gilmore, which makes sense with Happy Gilmore to coming out later this month. Animal House a friend of mine, where we were we the other day. I feel like alcohol is involved.

But we just started quoting Animal House. I forget where we were, but I blurted out, wait till ODIs sees us, he loves us Night The Roxbury Old School, The Other Guys, road Trip, Tommy Boy, Wayne’s World, Wayne’s World two, Zoolander starting July eleventh, Threading in Caddie Shack, Groundhog Day, Mean Girls. There’s something about Mary. They came together trading places starting on the eighteenth City Slickers Clue coming to America. So I married an axe murderer.

Stripes. I haven’t seen stripes in a while. I should rewatch that super bad Tommy Boy, Waiting for Guffman, and one of the few rare good Adam Sandlor movies, The Wedding Singer. As listeners to this program, there are what five good Adam Sandler movies. They are uncut Gems, Basketball one, Space Alien one and two with Drew Barrymore, including The Wedding Singer and fifty First Dates.

Not on the list not good movies blended storing Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, and isn’t it romantic? Storing Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. Those are not good movies. There are only five good Adam Saanlor movies, and I just told you what they are. That is your comedy news for today.

Yeah, it’s starting to slow up in two July fourth weekends, and tomorrow I will take a look at the best stand up specials of twenty twenty five so far that I have seen. Then I’m holding on to some news for Monday, so I have Monday’s podcast. As for what I’m doing Saturday and Sunday, that’s a great question, my friend. I love the show and you’ll find out when I figure it out. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Andrew Schulz, Burt Kreischer, Todd Barry, Josh Gondelman, Kevin Hart, Lamar Jackson, Sean Walsh, Rob McElhenney

What’s in This Episode

• Andrew Schulz cast in Street Fighter movie as Dan Hibiki
• Burt Kreischer’s CBS sitcom ‘Free Bert’ filming in Atlanta
• Todd Barry on declining pay for comedy specials released directly to fans
• Josh Gondelman on comedy skills as learned craft versus innate talent
• Kevin Hart’s ‘Cold as Balls’ with Lamar Jackson guest appearance
• Sean Walsh mugged in London, phone stolen and tracked to China
• Rob McElhenney name pronunciation discussion

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnnie Mack and my Lucky is holding out here. On July fourth week, there’s still comedy news that I have it for you. How about this one? Andrew Schultz has joined the cast of the movie street Fighter.

Remember the video game street Fighter. There’s gonna be a movie and Andrew Schultz is in it. He will play character Dan HIBICKI. Although I’m a big gamer, you know, I have everything from anatory twenty six hundred and ford, all five PlayStations, a couple xboxes. I got a Collegal Vision upstairs.

I’ve got the original NHL game, so I don’t want to hear about NHL ninety four, NHL twenty twenty five. If you want to play NHL Hockey, I’ll go upstairs and get it. However, in the nineties there, you know, I was graduated college, had a little money, had a girlfriend, kind of missed a couple of years of the video game thing, and that’s when Street Fighter was super popular. So I had to look up. I don’t know anything about Dan Hibcky, and I want to make sure I’m pronouncing it right.

I did a little Internet research, which and I have learned first appearing in Street Fighter Alpha in nineteen ninety five, Hibiki is consistently portrayed as an over confident, arrogant, and utterly feeble character Andrew Schultz. In the series storyline, Dan was a student trained by I’m going to get all these names right. Send your letters to me. I don’t know what I’m talking about. All my pronunciations are wrong.

Street Fighter fans, get it. I apologize. Trained by Gokin, the elder brother of Akuma, who also trained Ken and Ru. Go can stop training Dan once he acknowledged the ulterior reasons Dan has in his mind. Dan’s goal is to defeat Segat, who killed Go Dan’s father.

What are you even talking about, John, I don’t know either. Let’s just move on and dumb this down to Andrew Schultz is in the Street Fighter movie. Burt Kreiser not messing around with this free Birch show. Alana newspapers are reporting that the series is shooting at the Sinnispace Studios in Atlanta. The scheduled production dates are July eighth to August eleventh, according to Local four twenty nine of the you Gotta pending here Write this down Local four twenty nine of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, COMMA Moving Picture Technicians, COMMA Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, COMMA its territories in Canada.

That’s a mouthful. What are they? They are the Atlanta Union, representing most of the crew on Bert Kreischer’s upcoming show Free Bert, which, as much as I like Burt, sounds like a lame CBS sitcom. I don’t know about this one, buddy. I’m happy to be wrong, but I don’t know about this one.

Like if we were at the casino and I had a bet on thomsigorre Lt Gray all In, if I had a bet on Free Bert being good, I’m betting against. Sorry, no offense. In case you missed the story over the weekend. In Free Bert, Bert plays a shirtless comedian, party legend, perpetual wildcard. Okay, fine, he’s good at that.

The machine was fantastic. I love the machine. But his two daughters are accepted into an elite private school in Beverly Hills, where his reputation turns the family into outcasts. He tries to put on a shirt and stifle his true self in order to fit in, but naturally it doesn’t work. Now.

I know it’s all like Bert Crazier. But if I told you Kevin James was storing in Free Gems, in which Kevin plays a comedian party legend perpetual wild card. But his two daughters are accepted into an elite private school and his reputation turns the family into outcasts, and he asked his stifless true self in order to fit in. But naturally doesn’t work. If I told you Kevin James was storing in this, you’d be like, that sounds horrific.

And that’s what I’m worried about here, Bert, But you know I will be happy to be wrong. Todd Barry got me wondering is a comedy downturn Coming off the pandemic, comedy has been kind of red hot. Part of that is because everybody who was big went out and played big buildings, and there was pent up excitement to go see people live. And because the big buildings were filled with the big people, some other people had to play smaller venues, et cetera. So there’s been a comedy boom the last couple of years.

But Todd Barry spoke to the pitch Case c and it got me thinking. So the question from the pitch Tutson Berry, how do you feel about the current wave of releasing specials directly to fans through companies like eight hundred pound Gorilla, Todd Barry said, paying an engineering because this is what’s got me worried. Via Todd Barry. Todd said, well, I mean, it’s good to get it out there if you think of it as a calling card or just an advertisement for you. It’s a little different because I used to be able to just get paid to do a special.

I mean, I guess I’m getting paid in a way, but not like I used to get paid. But I don’t know. I mean, I think a lot of people have hit pretty hard from just releasing it on YouTube. Back in the day when people watch TV a little differently, you could say it’s going to be on it this time, whereas with Netflix you can just watch it at your leisure. Same with YouTube.

So it’s nice to be able to say, if you ever want to watch this, this is where it’s going to be. Sounds like he misses the paychecks. I’ve been doing this thirty seven and a half years or whatever. When I started, there was no YouTube. If you did a show that was a one person show.

He’d make postcards for it and have to order five thousand of them, and then you’d have forty two hundred left. But it was an email lists. I think promotion is a big thing that’s changed and people getting famous because there are comics I run into who I think are not even professionals, and then you see they have four hundred and fifty thousand Instagram followers. Just staying on top of it. I find it really difficult.

And I mean when you moved to New York or LA or something. I started in Florida and we weren’t really talking about TV deals or anything. We were just kind of talking about getting gigs and jokes. Josh gonom In told THEFOD dot com. I try not to be disgusting.

There are lots of really funny comedians who are kind of disgusting in what they say, But what you’re seeing are people who don’t yet have the skills to be both disgusting and funny. You can be disgusting without a lot of practice. I think comedy is a learned skill more than an innate talent. When I started, I was very tentative on stage, and I didn’t have super compelling thoughts to share. He worked as a preschool teacher in Massachusetts and began to develop the quote ear to ground nature for examining my own life that allowed him to x ray the every day and find the comedic skeleton underneath got him until the Ford.

I think so much of comedy is just about the noticing. There are so many topics that are really serious, but when you’re close to them, you can see the kind of absurdity. Kevin Ort’s got that show Cold as Balls. You know, Kevin sits in a cold tub. The guest sits in a different cold tub.

It’s like hot ones, but not at all that show. Ravens QB. Lamar Jackson was the guest. Kevin Hard asked what position Kevin could play if he joined the Ravens. Kevin thought he could be a slot receiver.

Lamar Jackson said, we might have you on the sideline. On Gossip Corner, Adam Saylor was seen in New Jersey working on his basketball game. A TikTok video posted over the weekend showed Adam Saylor participating in a two on two with a small group at rand Park in Montclair.

Also on Gossip corner.

Comedian Sean Walsh was mugged in London, his phone snatched out of his hand. He was walking down the street in broad daylight. Sean has used to find my phone and has reported in his phone is now on Huaking South Road in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. He joked, if anybody happens to be in the area, please go get his phone. I mentioned this yesterday from a variety.

Rob Mclelhenny, Rob mclehenny, say it with me, Rob mclelhenny, Say it with me, Rob, Rob, Rob, you got it? Say with me, Rob? Okay. Now say with me mclelhenny. That wants a little hard All right, let’s break it down.

Mackel Henny, all right, let’s practice mackel you say it? Okay? Good? Good job. Now say Henny, okay, good, Jenna put that together.

Macl Henny, all right, let’s put the whole thing together. Rob mackel Henny, you got it, Rob mclelhenny, I say it fast, Rob mclelhenny, okay. Good. You could guest host the show someday. Rob mclelhenny has legally filed in Los Angeles to change his name to Rob mack.

Now, I’m of a couple of minds here. One. I think a person’s name is super important. I try to get people’s names right. Like, for example, I play volleyball with this guy Alex.

The first time I met him, he goes, Hi, I’m Alex. I’ve been calling him Alex. Then I noticed on the roster his name is Alexi, and I said, I can say Alexi. Do you go buy Alexi or Alex? And he’s like, Alex is fine, So fine, I’ll call you Alex, but I’ll also call you Alexi.

So if Rob McElhenny wants us to call him Rob Mack, I’ll do it. But I think Rob is really overthinking this. I’ll give you an example. If you’re in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, you may know that my name isn’t Johnny Mac. My name is John McDermott.

It’s not a secret. I’m not hiding it. Why do you go by Johnny Mac. Here’s why, even though it’s my own name. If I go, hey, it’s John McDermott with Today’s Daily Comedy News, the N into the M is very hard to say, even though it’s my own name.

Whereas the hey, it’s Johnny Mac roles. I just first discovered this doing college radio at Fordham University in nineteen eighty seven. It’s hard to say John McDermott. Quickly Johnny Mac rolls off the tongue and it’s serious. People started calling me Johnny Mac, so I haven’t adopted it as the name I use hosting podcasts.

Rob mcklelhenney. It’s held variety. About a month ago. People already called me Rob Mack or mac obviously from the TV show It’s always on in Philadelphia. It just makes things so much easier.

As Rob Mac’s new company, More Better Industries has gotten global, you know they’re big time soccer magnets now. Rob Mack found that his last name McIlhenny was a constant source of confusion, and he explains that’s why, as our business in our storytelling is expanding into other regions of the world and other languages in which my name is even harder to pronounce, I’m just going by Rob Mack. As I get older, people are more prone to calling me Mac or sir. I just say Rob or Rob Mack, and I find that makes things a lot simpler and easier. People already call me Rob Mack or Mack obviously from the television show That Makes Things Easier, mister mac all, that makes total sense to me.

Again, from Johnny Mac to Rob Mack. Totally get it, bro, But why are you legally changing your name? For example, are you familiar with the singer Paul Hewson. Perhaps not? If I tell you his name is Bono?

Do you know who I’m talking about now? So if you read a newspaper article, it’ll say Bono has a new special ad on Apple TV. You know who that is. He didn’t have to change his name from Paulhuson. Are you familiar with Gordon Sumner?

You may know him as Sting. Same note. Are you familiar with Johnny Mac? Same note? Variety tells us.

Before committing to the change, Rob Mack was worried that he might be disrespecting his ancestry. I did a deep dive into my ancestry, so I was always very proud of the name, which is why didn’t change it at the beginning when everybody was begging me to. That makes total sense. It turns out, as I did my genealogy, my last name has been changed, so many times. As late as the sixties, there was an offshoot of the Mcalennies that changed our name.

And it’s not like everybody was so precious about it. Prior to nineteen sixty five, my brother said, I was actually considering running for government in Culver City and I was going to be Pat Mac. Mac’s sister Katie revealed, literally every person in the world calls me Katie Mack again. I’m Johnny Mac. I get it, but I’m not legally changing my name.

That’s the part I don’t understand why. Rob Mack’s wife, Kaitlyn Olsen say that their teenage children aren’t on board. Caitlin said earlier this year, the kids are really not happy about it because they have that last name, and so do I leally. I don’t know. I don’t know.

I don’t get it. I have a similar problem. I’m not near famous, but I found a solution. Just call yourself Rob Mack and leave the paperwork alone. I don’t understand why you’re changing it anyway.

That’s Study Staley Comedy News. I’m John McDermott. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, John Mulaney, Tony Hinchcliff, Adam Sandler, Steph Tolev, Bill Burr, Colin Jost, Rob McElhenney

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle performs in Abu Dhabi, discusses Trump’s Iran conflict response
• John Mulaney launches book club ‘Mulaney Reads’ featuring Adam Ross novel Playworld
• WWE Late Night comedy event featuring Tony Hinchcliff at SummerSlam weekend
• Adam Sandler announces Boston Bruins’ first-round NHL Draft pick as Happy Gilmore character
• Steph Tolev expresses interest in joining WWE wrestling
• Otsko discusses becoming comedian after watching Margaret Cho DVD in eighth grade
• Rob McElhenney legally files to change name to Rob Mack

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media an Aram Johnny Mac was your Daily Comedy News. So far, so good for what’s traditionally a slow week. Dave Chappelle was in Abu Dhabi on Friday night and he started talking about Donald Trump’s handling of the Israel Iran conflict. Dave said, Trump, I don’t know about this guy. Can’t tell if he’s gonna do good or not.

What a week you guys must have had over here in the Middle East. Trump wrote that we did a meticulously perfect attack. We’ve disabled a nuclear facility.

And then at the end of the post, he said, and now is the time for peace.

Word. I don’t think that’s how that works. Champ Trump bombed ran in an attack that was carefully planned. On WhatsApp. Everybody in America is scared.

It’s not good. When Bible places are in the news, that means it might be the end of times. And if it is, you know what. I had a good run. This is a great set by Dave.

Naunio’s member yelled out the name of Palestinian American musician DJ Khaled. Dave responded, said, DJ coled, let me tell you something foran This man is awfully quiet right now. And as a Palestinian, how could you be that quiet right now? And why are you so fat? People are starving?

He’s the only fat Palestinian on earth right now, Dave. Again, Now that I’m a big, powerful voice in America, I’ve learned I have to be careful and get in some kind of trouble and they’ll try to extort me and put words in my mouth so that I come out here and lie to you. So if that ever happens, we need a phrase that has to be something that I would never say. So if I say it, you know, not to listen to anything I say. After that you’re ready.

The phrase is I stand with Israel. Wow. Send your letters to Dave Chappelle. It is a comedy season in Abu Dhabi. I will conclude on July twelfth with Bill Burr.

John Mulaney has started a book club. Yeah, I know, really cool right, Yeah, It’s called Malanie Reads. He went on social media and announced I will tell you about some incredible things I’ve read recently and then you can make your own decisions from there. This month, Playworld by Adam Ross the best new novel I’ve read in many years. Playworld follows a high school student child actor named Griffin as he navigates the world of New York in the late seventies and early eighties aka my favorite time period and place ever.

It’s a really beautiful story about the heavy and adultness of being an adolescent. I couldn’t like this book more. It’s available at small booksellers and wherever else books are sold. Stay tuned for next month, when I’ll probably forget to do this. WWE announced WWE Late Night featuring Tony Hinchcliff.

Right, these are three pretty big stories for July fourth week. This is great, all right. WWE Late Night featuring Tony Hinchcliff at the Bergen Performing Arts Center in Englewood, New Jersey, Saturday, August second, at eleven pm. Easter And that is late Night. Yes, it’s part of SummerSlam weekend.

It is described as a non televised event. SummerSlam is August second and third at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Boston Bruins were, of course part of the twenty twenty five NHL Draft, and their selection in the first round was announced by Adam Sandler in character is happy Gilmore Yep, We’re going to see a lot of Adam Sandler in the upcoming weeks. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman tees the intro, and then Happy Gilmore walked out on screen, hockey stick in hand, said, my name is Happy Gilmore. How are you proud to be part of the twenty twenty five and draft the Boston Bruins select from Boston College?

James Hagens, So, I do put the show together in shifts, Like you know, every morning, I’ll go and I’ll look for new stories and I kind of slot them and I’ll move stuff around. I’ll be like, all right, this one I’ll hold, like for example, this week, I’m like, you know what, it might be a slow weekend, let me hold this one for Saturday. That kind of stuff. So when I got back to doing the show after the weekend on Monday, I was like, what does tola Vella ties mean? Tollavella ties, And I couldn’t figure out what my note to myself Tolavella ties meant, and then I went, oh, Tolllev La Times and the La Times did talk to you, Steph Tleev Tolavella Times said I want to be in a wrestling ring so badly.

I don’t know how I have, and I look like a wrestler already. I watch a little bit growing up, you know. Editor’s note, I probably should have put this before the Sandler story. Oh well, too late. It’s not actually too late.

I could edit it, but that’s not fun. Johnny Mac messed up over the weekend too, and got the day wrong on mel Brooks birthday. I guess I’ve been a bad week Tellavella Ties said, I love the bad guys. I’d be a bad guy, of course. Steph Tolive said, I look and sound like a wrestler already.

I watch a little bit growing up. I wasn’t a massive wrestling fan, but I watched the intros and stuff. But the wrestling itself, I was like whatever. But I love seeing wrestlers come in the crazy storylines, getting the crowd all on your side or getting them not on your side. I love the bad guys.

I’d be a bad guy, of course. I’d be ripping everybody in half, just getting choke slammed. I’d love it. Is WWE listening to this, please cast me.

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Also from the La Times ots Goo at Cotska, she got into comedy when a friend i…

Otsko was like, I was like, this is badass, But nowhere did my brain go. That’s got to be me. I dream pretty small when I was a kid in LA and my dream was to work in an ice cream parlor.

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And then at seventeen, I did cold Stone Creamery in West LA.

By the way, it took me three takes to not say Stone Cold Creamery because my brain is in wrestling mode. I said, now what, I’ve already reached my goal. I peaked at seventeen. I have to dream more. In twenty eighteen, she got her signature bowl haircut.

She jokes about being stuck with it because it’s my brand, but also her fans have gone through the trouble of buying customizing lookalike wigs. She said, I mean, in this economy, they gotta be able to wear their wigs again the next time they come to see me. All right, gossip Corner, let’s start with me. I told you over the weekend, Colin Jost is pushing blue Moon Beer, and since I did that story, the advertising is working. I was in the mood for a Blue Moon beer, so Sunday, my son was around him, like, let’s go grab a meal.

So we went to the local bar restaurant and they had a sign outside for blue Moon beer. I was like, great, I’ve been in the mood for one for a couple days. I went in. The waiter was like, we don’t even serve blue Moon, and like it was all I could do to not get into an argument about but you guys have a blue Moon sign outside. So I got a Miller Light, which I also told you over the weekend is a beer that I enjoy.

So Scoreboard, Marcelo Hernandez One, Colin jost Zero. I didn’t want to mention real quick. I see the Rob mcalenny story about him changing his name. The short version there, the headline is he has legally filed to change just named to Rob Mack. I have a lot of thoughts.

I’ll discuss that tomorrow. I did watch them specials over the weekend. Steph toe Lefs not my cup of tea that I don’t want to just like dump on it, but like, I don’t know, I just don’t like the when you’re talking about like crapping over yourself or whatever whatever her opener was. I made it about two thirty in and a minute of that was a produced open. By the way, comedians, comedians are listening, Can you guys stop with the produced opens?

Can you just have somebody go ladies and gentlemen, comedian name and just come out or just come out? These things were like you’re walking on the street and wacky Hyjink’s happened. It’s very eighties and it’s lame, and just stop doing that. So Steph had one of those, and then the special started and it was just I sound like an old man, and I’m the first one to say I love an old man Mountain, but it’s just like just so filthy, and I get that’s what it is. That’s what the title of the special is, right like the specials actually called filth Queen, So she nailed what she was going for.

But just num me, I just hard pass on that one for me on because it’s July fourth, Candidly, I have already put together a list of the top stand up slash comedy specials of twenty twenty five so far that I’ve actually seen. You can read it right now. It’s on my substack, which is mcdeepod dot substack dot com. I’ll put a link in the episode notes. It’s already out in a print version, but that will be Friday’s episode because it’s July fourth, and you know we’re halfway through the year.

All that made sense for a pre tape one that I really really really liked. Justin Wilman Magic Lever. Just trust me. Is it the funniest thing I’ve ever seen? No?

But was it entertaining for solid hour? Yes? Slight spoilers here. If you don’t want to be spoiled, hit skip. I’ll do this real quick.

Spoilers coming up. So it’s a magic show along the way. My brain starts over analyzing how did he do that? I do that? And I’m on the internet and I’m reading along and just oh okay, I get it now, and like it didn’t ruin the fun for me because I was playing along at home.

But really funny special. Just turn your brain off and watch it. Justin Wilman Magic Lever. I’ll tell you on Friday where I have that ranked, but shockingly high, I’ll put it that way.

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Also out is a Jim Norton special on YouTube haven’t gotten to yet.

Also out is Josh Gomleman on YouTube that one’s called positive reinforcement. Haven’t gotten to that yet. He talked about being an elder millennial and said, we came of age at the turn of the century. Turn of the century is such a silly sounding thing to say. About nineteen ninety nine, when Limp Biscuit ascended, Josh told Boston dot Com the new special came out of the pandemic and performing live again.

It really jumped out of me. Oh, I’m one of the older guys. Now I feel you, Josh, I feel you. A big part of agent gracefully is the intellectual and philosophical gracefulness of accepting change and embracing new things when they’re good. But to know, I don’t have to say cryptocurrency is new and that’s beautiful.

I was performing in Bloomington, Indiana college town. There was a young woman in the front row. I told a why two K joke. I could see something in her face and I said, when I say why two K, does that have any meaning to you? She said no?

And then I had to explain why two K. We thought all the world’s missiles would launch and all the computers would crash because nobody thought a year wouldever have a zero series z heuro it that it took this herculean effort to make sure it didn’t happen. It sounds ridiculous. Boston dot Com and Josh started talking about technology. Josh Gonoman said, remember the laser disc era, when it was like a music a CDs, A movie is big CDs.

When was the last technology that basically was good with minimal drawbacks? I came up with the GPS unit for your car. That wasn’t your phone. Good stuff. I’m talking behind the scenes with Josh’s people to get him on here, so that special is on YouTube.

Check that out. The National Comedy Center announced a bunch of stuff for this week. Lewis Black is the curator of the Comedy Now week and said comedy is more than just entertainment. It’s a lifeline at times like these. Laughter helps us stay seen and connected even when the world feels upside down.

I’m thrilled to be working with the National Comedy Center and to bring some of the funniest and smartest voices in comedy today. If you’re up there today, it’s behind the scenes at the Daily Show featuring members of the writing team. Tomorrow, Johnny Carson at one hundred with Wayne Fetterman and David Bioncooley. Pretty Cool. Thursday Paula Poundstone, moderated by former guest Jerny Gunderson, who runs the museum and was on this show one time.

Friday, Tony Shaloub and Brooke Adams moderated by friend of the show Kelly Carlin. And there are comedy performances as well. Tomorrow night Lewis Black. Remember he retired, I guess not. He’s still touring.

Lewis Black’s The Rant is due tomorrow night. And Thursday, roy Wood Junior is performing so good stuff with the National Comedy Center, And that is pretty good. Daily Comedy News for the middle of July. Fourth week Tomorrow is good too. I can tell you that because I have a lot of stories already in the folder.

And I’ll meet you back here then

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Jeff Ross, Tom Brady, Margaret Cho, Taylor Tomlinson, Atsuko Okatsuka, Jordan Klepper, Mark Maron, Nate Bargatze

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer’s Netflix sitcom ‘Free Bert’ about fitting into Beverly Hills private school
• Jeff Ross explains how he got Tom Brady to do Netflix roast special
• Tom Brady’s reaction to massage parlor joke about Robert Kraft during roast
• Margaret Cho criticizes Dave Chappelle’s commentary on trans community
• Taylor Tomlinson touring large arenas in Ireland, working on film and book
• Atsuko Okatsuka discusses childhood relocation by grandmother at age eight
• Mark Maron WTF podcast episode with Jordan Klepper
• Deadline comedy business podcast production and host quality critique
• Nate Bargatze’s Nateland theme park project and stepping back from comedy touring

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. He there, Shunny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Kreischer is getting a quote unquote TV show. I don’t know why I put quote unquote. You know what a TV show is.

He’s getting a Netflix show. Probably a better way to phrase it. This one is called Free Bert. In Free Bert, Bert finds himself in uncharted territory when his daughters are accepted to an elite Beverly Hills private school. When Bert’s antics turn his family into outcast, he decides to put on a shirt and stifle his true nature to better fit in.

Is it me or is that sounding a little Kevin James? Like I told you that Tom Sigor is doing lt Gray, which feels Tom Sagora and the Machine Movie feels Bert Krescher. This feels a little CBS sitcom Bert. Here’s another log line. Krayser will play a version of himself, a shirtless comedian, party legend and perpetual wildcard.

His daughters are accepted to do an elite private school in Beverly Hills. When his antek’s turn in the family and ow Cassie decides to put a shirt on. Blah blah blah, that’s sounding a little CBS Bert. I don’t know, man, love you, I don’t know. We’ll see.

Jeff Ross explained how he got Tom Brady to do the roast. Jeff told Howard Stern I had seen Brady looking at my Instagram on Super Bowl Sunday a few years ago. I was like, why is Tom Brady on my Instagram? I had some jokes up. Maybe that’s how he on wines before a big game and then he wins.

So I hit him up the next day on Instagram, going, dude, it’s time for roast. You obviously love this stuff, he writes me back. We start talking and it turns out my agent and his agent work together, and we put a deal together to do a roast. Netflix was like sure. I’m like, let’s elevate this whole thing, bring the roast back bigger.

I said to Tom right beforehand, why are you doing this? And he goes, I love this kind of humor. People are too snowflaky right now. It took so long because he agreed that he retired and we were like, now’s our chance. Then he unretired.

Then we had to wait till he was done playing. Then he was going through a divorce, Let’s wait for that. Then Netflix was like, our festival’s next May, let’s wait for that, and let’s do it live. So he was ready on the hook when I brought up the live idea. There’s the moment in the Rose where Brady said, don’t say that stuff again after Jeff Ross made him a massage parlor joke about Patriots owner Robert Kraft.

Was Brady actually angry about the joke? Jeff Ross said, I think Tom was checking me the way a lawyer objects on behalf of a client, even though they know it’s kind of bull. I just shrugged it off and kept going. Margaret Chow she’s been doing a lot of press and says she wishes Dave Chappelle would not talk about the trans community and the way that he does. He’s such an authority on comedy, people hold him in such high regard, but then when he talks about the trans community in such an uneducated, negative and destructive way, it’s really painful.

Taylor Thomlinson is doing shows in Ireland. Talked to the Ireland press about doing big arenas and said she’s used to it now, it’s definitely a different muscle and a different cadence at a different speed, but once you figure it out, I think you have a good handle on it. I like performing in all kinds of different rooms. I think my favorite is probably on the smaller end. But you just don’t get to speak to as many people that way, unfortunately, so it’s not the most effective way to tour at this point.

But I do love smaller rooms, especially when I’m writing new material. I love Ireland. I’ve been twice now, you know. Sometimes you go to certain places and you’re like, I can maybe live here, Taylor, I’m with you. I did the exact same thing when I was there.

I was there in March, and I kind of want to go back. And let me take kind of out of the sentence. I do want to go back, Taylor says, I don’t know if I feel that way about anywhere else. When I do these European runs, I’m always sad I don’t have more time in Ireland. What’s she doing now that the TV show’s over?

And obviously touring comedy, I’m working on a movie that would very much like to get made, and I’m writing a book. But beyond that, I think I’ve been very fortunate and I have an incredible career that I’m so lucky to have. Asking for more feels sort of greedy at this point. So it’s all at cherry on top as far as I’m concerned, let’s go at Costca tell the La Times, I think I have like twelve agents or something, and I’m like, is that even a thing comes with leveling up? Right?

And not to quote Spider Man, but yeah, responsibility right. She tells a story about her childhood. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth in nineteen eighty eight. She lived with her father, later moved in with her mother and grandmother. Than when her mother started having mental health struggles, Otsgo’s grandmother moved to everyone to La to be closer to the uncle.

Grandma told eight year old Otsco they were going on a two month vacation, but eight weeks turn into years and Otsco started a wonder if she had been kidnapped. She said she had a lot of questions, like did grandma kidnap me? I also learned your gut is off and right. Some podcasts for you to listen to Mark Maron with Jordan Klepper that’s been out for a week now. That is really fantastic.

I was checking that out before my daughter’s soccer game. You know, you get there, you drop your daughter off, and then like dad has to sit around for an hour before the game. So sitting in the stands, listen to that one really good. Maren pretty forceful at the opening about political stuff. I covered that last week, and I also checked out that Deadline podcast, the comedy Business one with I Guess Nate Berghezzi.

It try to be coined here. It’s not produced well. I can tell that nobody who’s ever produced a podcast is involved with that, or if they are, oh yike’s the levels aren’t right, the eq isn’t right. These are just very basic things that someone like me could fix for you in thirty seconds, not even doing a lot of work. There are AI tools that’ll fix both those things.

But it just sounded like we ought to do a podcast. Everyone has a podcast and they jumped on Zoom and they had published Deadline. You can do a little better there. They’re gonna get good guests because they’re Deadline. The host is also not up to the game as a programmer.

The note talk to me about topic is not a question, that’s just you have a list of punch things you want to get to. And that’s not a conversation. That’s you stop listening to the answer and you look at your piece of paper and said, oh, ask him about the amusement park. Talk to me about the amusement park. Not really conversational.

So from the program director’s chair, the Deadline podcast could be a little bit better content wise. You know. I came away from it thinking, let me put it this way. If you listen to my podcast in ten years and I come on and I go, remember when nateprigets he was going to do an amusement park. That was crazy?

What was he vegging? If I do that ten years from now, that sounds about right right. Just Nate is just talking about like, yeah, I’m gonna build a theme park in Nashville. Like that’s nothing, and everyone’s gonna be like, oh, we got to go to Nateland. I mean, he’s famous, But is he famous famous?

Are we booking a vacation in Nateland? Or is it we happen to be in Nashville? What should we do on Tuesday afternoon? I don’t want to go see Nateland. I don’t know.

Man. He also gets into how he’s just going to walk away from comedy touring and how no one believes him. I’m going to jump over here to the group of people who doesn’t believe him, and I’m gonna stand over there so you can listen to that thing. It’s basically the same themes that I’ve been telling about on this show. It’s the usual Nate press of where he is right now building out nate Land Enterprises.

Now that is a good thing. Someday I’m gonna come on this show and tell you Big Media Company has purchased Nateland Entertainment for four billion dollars. Like he’s really smart with that stuff. But a theme park, I don’t know, man, anyway, check those out, all right. If you’re a comedian, you gotta be hawking a beer or you’re gonna get left behind.

We’ve got Colin Jos hawking Blue Moon, Shane Gillis, of course, but Light Now, Marcelo Hernandez, he’s teamed up with Miller Light Now, Johnny Mac. It can be a beer snob, but sometimes I just like a basic light beer, and Miller Lte is my choice of light beers. I’m not doing an ad here. I just happen to really like a cold Miller Light. You can make fun of me in the school yard and then I’ll be like, all right, let’s order a Maxisin triple stout beers knob sometimes sound like a nice called Miller Light.

Anyway. Marcelo Hernandez is now part of an ad campaign. They’ve released a twenty second commercial styled after a sports draft, announcing Marcelo Hernandez as its first pick and a fictional twenty twenty five lineup. We see Marcello wearing sunglasses, sitting next to his mom. He’s excited when his name is called.

He takes the stage. He lifts up a Miller Lite jersey and a beer bottle. The chiron says he’s from Miami, Florida and height is five eight, and we see that five six has crossed out. Miller Light captioned the clip Welcome to the original Light Beer Team. Marcelo does not speak in the clip, and I imagine if he did, he would just do that one character that he does in everything he does.

Right And from the Moscow Times, your home for comedy news, this is a little scary, they write. Russia’s former space chief dmet You Ragozen threaten to send a group of young comedians to the war in Ukraine after they mocked his PhD dissertation on a TV show. The former Space Chief said he was sent a clip from a recent broadcast of the Cavyn comedy game show, where teams compete for the title of Russia’s Funniest and most inventive club. In the sketch that he’s mad at a member of the team joke that the Space Chief had written in his dissertation that one doesn’t swap the cosmos for a chick. The Space Chief went on his telegram channel and said, we’ll take them to the front line and wish them good luck and battle, and when they return, we’ll laugh together at their unfortunate, unfunny and vulgar joke.

Mister Rigozan has a PhD in engineering and focus on weapons theory. In his post, he claimed to know which military enlistment office the Cave and team members are registered with, and said it was awaiting the name of their joke writer, who he described as a talentless punk will teach them everything, including a sense of humor. The next day, he apparently had calmed down and said that the comedians are of no interest to us due to their intellectual immaturity. They may be good for silly jokes, but not for defending the motherland. That’s your company is for today.

I don’t want any part of that. I’m just telling what’s going on. Do I have to pick sides? Bragozen’s right, one hundred percent right. I’m with that dude.

See to morrow.

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Featured: Steph Tolev, Eliza Shlesinger, Seth Meyers, Jamie Foxx, Jimmy O Yang

What’s in This Episode

• Steph Tolev’s rock concert-style comedy special at Paradise Rock Club Boston
• Eliza Shlesinger’s advice for aspiring comedians on building shows without permission
• Seth Meyers discusses podcast impact on late-night talk show format
• The Simpsons Season 36 finale featuring Marge Simpson’s death in future timeline
• Jamie Foxx cancels two tour dates in California last minute
• Jimmy O Yang discusses growing up between Hong Kong and America

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media and there shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. Steph Tolev caught up with the La Times. They said her special kind is like a rock concert. She said, yeah, that’s my big thing. I’ve been like a rocker since I was fourteen or fifteen years old.

My dad listened to grunge music, so I grew up to like Alison chains in Stone Temple Pilots. Steph, are you trying to make me feel really really old? How old is Steph Toolev? She’s forty, so your dad’s got to be at least fifty seven. And you grew up listening to dad’s music, which was nineties grunch music.

That math doesn’t make sense to me anyway, he says. As soon as I was allowed to go to concerts, I went to concerts every single weekend. And my energy on stage is so big that I feel like I want people to feel like they’re at a live rock concert. The venue where we did the recent specials, the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. I didn’t want to do a normal theater.

I don’t want to do any spoilers, but there might be some crowds at the end. I really wanted end my set by crowdsurfing, so what better way to do it than at an actual rock club. I think there’s a saying that every comic wants to be a rock star. I have a mullet. I feel like people need to experience more live stuff, because you’re not going to watch a live show on your phone and go, oh, I don’t need to go see that band live.

But I feel like people see comedians on TikTok and stuff and are like, no, I’m good. I’m like, now, you gotta go. You gotta be in the moment, especially because so many comics do crowd work now and it’s such an organic experience and you’re actually seeing a live show. Back in the eighties, you wouldn’t have seen Van Hamlon on a news conference and been like, I don’t need to see them live. So I think there’s a parallel between comedy and music.

I just think being present, actually getting off your phones and going to see something and experience a moment instead of just sitting on your button scrolling. She talked about working quote unquote dirty, and she says, I want to say all my filthy stories are real, like nothing in my specials is made up. I know comics makeup stories and everything. I don’t think I could have made up half that stuff. It’s bizarre, Like I didn’t want to be choked into basement, I didn’t want to be hung from a sex swing.

There’s all these big things that happen to me that I’m like, I just happen to lead a filthy life. I don’t want to. I don’t want to be like this. I’d like a nice, normal date with a man who takes me home and doesn’t kill his dog at night. I don’t want those things to happen to me, but they simply do.

So. I hope the special makes people see that maybe their life isn’t as horrendous as mine, and makes them feel better and more confident about themselves and being more old. Eliza Selessengers sold Billboard. I have pro tips for comics, male and female. This is an art and there’s an alchemy to it, and that means there don’t have to be any rules.

You don’t have to ask for permission. A lot of times comics ask do you have any tips? And the time you’re using to ask me about this, you could be setting up a show, you could be writing. We don’t ask for a permission to do our art. We do it because we have to do it.

So my tip would be, if you’re struggling, just go and do it. Find that bar and ask, what’s the slowest night you have? Can I run a show here? And you get up with the five minutes you have? You take your punches and keep doing it because you love it so much, and then you have to because you can’t live without it.

Seth Meyer is doing a lot of press lately. Spoke to Variety, who pointed out nearly every comedian has a podcast as that affected late night talk shows. Seth says it hasn’t infringed on the kind of common I’m doing. You want to make sure that everybody can get the kind of comedy they want. We’re always careful not to start doing the kind of comedy we don’t want to be doing.

I get it. I do that podcast with the Lonely Island Eyes, and we listen back to it and find edits and stuff. Even though I was on it, I’m like, Oh, it’s nice listening to people who like one another. It’s a different vibe. I totally get people engaged with podcasts as their comedy.

I got to go back and listen to that podcast. I think I sampled it and I was like, an, I really like Lonely Island. Seth continues. If there’s anything that podcasts have affected, it’s that you realize, when you’re talking to somebody for eight minutes, it’s very unlikely you’re going to get deeper than a podcast does with them over the course of an hour and a half. So it does put a burden on interviews.

You want to move quickly and be funny because it has to be a different thing than a long form podcast interview. Seth says, we’ve kind of weaned ourselves off politicians as guests because we have more fun talking about politics than talking to politicians. I actually think there’s more value in a politician going on a podcast and not feeling the rush to just hit talking points, which sometimes they might have a show like mine. I think it’s good for the politicians and good for the voters for them to go to someplace where there’s more time and less of a race to hit whatever their pr team has come up with. People are wigged about the Simpsons spoilers.

You haven’t watched the Simpsons in twenty years. It’s Okay, you weren’t going to watch this episode, but spoilers. In the season thirty six finale of The Simpsons, Marge Simpson dies. It’s one of those fast forwards that they do. You know, sometimes Lisa is the president after Trump.

Bart’s usually like forty years old and kind of a bum, so it’s one of those. The plot, Marge warns the kid, your father and I won’t be around forever. When you get older, you’ll need to lean on each other. The kids ignore this and grow apart. In a montage, Marsh passes away early, and we see a scene at her funeral, Homer’s crying.

Her tombstone reads beloved wife mother pork chop seasoner. We then see Bart, Lisa, and Homer coming back together as a family thirty five years later. At one point, Lisa finds a video on which Marge tells Bart and Lisa are main friends. People are like, did Marge pass away? Well, no, it’s Simpson’s time travel.

You know, things don’t make sense. At one point, Homer was born in the I don’t know, the fifties or sixties. Now he’s born in the eighties, I think. And there’s an episode in season twenty seven that also goes thirty five years into the future, and March is alive and lives on Mars. The Simpsons has been renewed through season forty.

This show’s gonna run forever. It seems not sure what’s going on here. Hope everything’s okay. Jamie Fox’s show in Stockton was canceled on Thursday, just hours before it was scheduled to take place the venue. On the website said and pay attention to this language.

Due to unforeseen circumstances. Jamie Fox playing Bob Hope Theater on June twenty six has been postponed. Please hold on your tickets as the tour hopes to release a new date in the near future.

And then Jamie postponed his Saturday night show.

Listen to the language due to circumstances beyond the Historic Bakersfield Fox Theater’s control. The Jamie Fox Show schedules for June twenty eighth has been postponed. We were working with the event organizer. Blah blah blah. I hope he’s okay.

When I worked with him, he was reliable. I’m possibly speculating. You know, a gig came along. Hey, do you want to be in uh. I don’t know, some movie or some other project, and the other project was more interesting than two dates that could be rescheduled, but to schedule it that late.

I don’t know if something’s up. Hope everything is okay. Jimmy O Yang spoke to the South China Morning Post about growing up in America. He lived in Hong Kong until he was thirteen. He said, for a long time, I feel like my brain got divided in half.

When I was starting to live in America, I forgot about a lot of Hong Kong memories. When he went back to Hong Kong, he remembered some stuff like visiting relatives’ homes to receive Lucky red packets at Lunar New Year and visiting Hong Kong landmarks such as the Peak as a young child. Jimmy says, all those are really core memories. The first beach I ever went to was in Hong Kong. The first tram I ever took was in Hong Kong, so all my first were in Hong Kong.

I think memories are connected to your senses. When you get out of the airport, you smell the dam umidity in the air. Then you smell, the sweetness and the sound and everything that brings back a lot of memory. I think this place still feels like home, and there’s a comfort to which is very nice. Happy Birthday, mel Brooks ninety nine years young today and FX is developing a comedy titled Very Young Frankenstein, inspired by the nineteen seventy four comedy classic Young Frankenstein.

Brooks is an executive producer on the show. I don’t know about this idea. I’m not crazy about Spaceball’s too, and I’m not crazy about Very Young Frankenstein. It is a weekend in the summer. Johnny Ma’s been known to pad out the shows with some articles, and here’s one that is pretty timely from The Guardian.

Mel Brooks comedy films ranked. Let’s take a look. Number ten History of the World, Part one from nineteen eighty one. I remember as a kid loving that and just think it was the most awesome thing. And because it had part one and the title, I couldn’t wait for part two.

And then we finally got Part two like a year or two ago, and it was so disappointing. Number nine from nineteen seventy the twelve Chairs. I have no idea what this is? Let’s see in the USSR Circle nineteen twenty seven. An ex aristocrat, the conman and a priest search for a missing chair stuff with Jewels.

It’s Melbrook’s second film, I Don’t Know That one number eight Robin Hood Men in Tights. Dave Chappelle makes his film debut on that one. Number seven Life Stinks from nineteen ninety one. Mel Brooks plays the leading role in A Trading Place as Adjacent morality, tale of a billionaire who accepts a bet that he can survive on the Los Angeles streets for a month. This comedy about homelessness bombed, and I don’t remember if it existing.

Number six Silent Movie nineteen seventy six. It is a metacomedy. Mel Brooks plays a Hollywood director trying to make it silent film. And it’s a silent film, all right. I like it.

Number five space Balls from nineteen eighty seven. The Guardian points out this Star Wars spoof arrived ten years too late. Yeah, kind of, I didn’t realize it was that late. After Star Wars Mania. While at number four A High Anxiety from nineteen seventy seven, mel Brooks plays the head of the psycho Neeutic Institute for the Very very Nervous.

He’s framed for murder by pigeons and cornered in the shower. Number three Blazing Saddles. Boy, I haven’t looked at this list yet. If Blazing Saddles is three, what are two and one? I guess The Producers is gonna be one of those, but I might have to put Blazing Saddles at the top.

It is unbelievably funny. Number two is The Producers. Oh wait, oh, I just figured it out, all right, no spoilers. Number two is The Producers. And number one Johnny Mac, you’re an idiot because you just talked about this film three minutes ago and said how great it was.

Number one, say it with me, young Frankenstein from nineteen seventy four. What a fantastic film. And some of you are going to watch it now and be like, hey, is that the dad from Everybody Loves Raymond? And that is your comedy news for today. Happy birthday, Mail Brooks.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Diego Luna, Joe Rogan, Liver King, Bernie Sanders, Jim Norton, Adam Sandler, Rainn Wilson

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien discusses ICE and immigration policy on his podcast
• Liver King arrested for making terroristic threats against Joe Rogan
• Joe Rogan interviews Bernie Sanders on his podcast
• Jim Norton reflects on ending 20-year radio career, appears on Joe Rogan Experience
• Adam Sandler announces 30-city North American fall tour
• Happy Gilmore coming to Netflix July 25th
• Rainn Wilson discusses tone changes on The Office after Steve Carell’s departure

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with a very busy Saturday, especially in the summer and double especially after it had been a slow week and a half. There are a lot of stuff today. Let’s start with Conan O’Brien. On his podcast, he got into politic and started talking about ice with guest Diego Luna.

Conan said, I have empathy because if you’re paying attention, you understand that it feels like eighty percent of what’s getting done here to sustain our lives and our culture and our communities coming from south of the border. They’re doing all the work. Everybody I work with, everybody who works with me, everybody who helps me in any way or helps with my family in any way, with everything that needs to be done in every way. Every day I’m working with people who are from Mexico or Central America or South America. They are the community.

In Los Angeles, a social media influencer, The Liver King, was arrested for making terroristic threats. The liver King, real name Brian Johnson, apparently posted some videos. In one of them, he said, Joe Rogan, I’m calling you out out. The liver King has two point nine million Instagram followers apparently posted a series of videos calling Rogan out. The police put out a statement.

The police said detectives reviewed the posts and observed that the Liver King was traveling to Austin while continuing to make threatening statements. Detectives contacted mister Rogan, who stated he had never had any interaction with the Liver King and considered the post to be threatening. Based on this information, detectives obtained an arrest warrant for the Liver King on a charge of terroristic threat. In a June twenty third video, the Liver King said Joe Rogan, I’m calling you out. My name’s liver King.

Man and man, I’m picking a fight with you. I have no training in jiu jitsu. You’re a black belt. You should dismantle me. But I’m picking a fight with you.

Your rules. I’ll cut weight. I’ll come to you whenever you’re ready, whenever you’re ready to go. On June twenty fourth, a video said, we have real tension, Joe Rogan. We don’t have to make videos to pretend anymore.

All of this is happening. We’re coming to you. I’ve challenged you, man and man to a fight honorable. You can hold the hand of somebody that you love, because what happens next to you, you need to remember that feeling. You’re going to need something more than what you did to give you something to fight for.

Because I have my family to fight for and that I’ll die for them. And you’re a black belt, but you’ve never come across something like this. This is really scary. I don’t even want to read the rest of it. It gets even worse.

In my opinion, the man had checked into and the details of everything the Four Seasons hotel in downtown Austin. The Liver King is apparently famous on social media for what he calls a quote ancestral lifestyle that is driven largely by his consumption of raw meat. There’s a Netflix documentary Untold the Liver King that came out in May, and apparently back in twenty twenty two, on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Rogan made fun of the dude’s bulked out physique, and then apparently after that, emails between the Liver King and a doctor were leaked and the Liver King was quote forced to admit that he had regularly spent eleven thousand dollars per month on performance enhancing drugs. Yikes. In other Joe Rogan news, he had Bernie Sanders on this week.

Now, the narrative since the election has been the left needs their own Joe Rogan, but the left has forgotten the Joe Rogan of the left was Joe Rogan. I mean, he was on board until he wasn’t. And he’s had Bernie on in the past. Well, this week Bernie was on the Joe Rogan Experience. So the Joe Rogan of the left apparently is Joe Rogan, and the Joe Rogan of the right is apparently Joe Rogan.

Oh is an okay interview? I checked it out. I’ve not yet had a chance to listen to Jim Norton on the Joe Rogan Experience, but Jim Norton tweeted, I had a great time with Joe Rogan. The episode is up now. Life is about change, but having a twenty year gig end always brings a lot of uncertainty with it.

I assume there Norton is referring to his time at Serious XAM. He was the quote unquote third cheer and the Opien Anthony Show for years and then had his own show after Opien Anthony kind of blew up as the phrase I would use. So there was Jim and Sam for I guess another ten years after that. Wow, Norton had a twenty year radio career and in my head, he’s new at it. Norton Street continues, Joe has been a true friend in what has been an unpredictable time in my career, and it’s very appreciated.

I’ve worked with Jim in the radio industry and podcasting industry a few times. He is a good dude. But the real big news today, and boy, I am so excited. Adam Sandler has announced a thirty city North American fall tour. I’m online right now as you’re listening.

I’m at a whiz in the Bronx trying to get tickets to Adam Sandler. That’s a joke for you old people. You see, younglings, we didn’t always have apps. We used to have to go to a record store and line up overnight and sleep out overnight. Like if you wanted to see Bruce Springsteen in nineteen eighty four, you’re camping out overnight, and what you would do is you would try and go to a neighborhood where you didn’t think there were a lot of fans of the particular band that you’re into.

So, for example, say Bruce Springsteen, I live in New Jersey right now. It would be dumb to stand in front of a record store New Jersey to get Springsteen tickets. But maybe you go, I don’t know Canada, and you could probably get tickets pretty easily. We used to do that sort of thing. I digress.

Adam Sandler sets thirty city North American Fall tour, including a stop at Madison Square Garden. I’m gonna before I tell you the story. And I shared this in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. People you gotta pay attention. I mean, somebody just spit out a line.

They wrote. Critically acclaimed comedian now Adam Sandler, super successful, super rich. People love him, but he is not critically acclaimed. Critics do not go see Adam Sandler movies and be like, you know, that was really good.

And then I saw a different post that said something like, I don’t know movie …

Yeah. Absolutely, he definitely has popular movies. He just doesn’t have good movies, except of course, the ones with Drew Barrymore, uncut gems, the one with the space Alien, and the basketball one. Those are the five good Adam Sadlor movies. And look, if you’ve been listening to this show since I started it, I’m up to five good Adam Sandler movies.

Now there was a time when there were only two, both of which starred Drew Barrymore. I digress again Adam Saylor thirty City Faults or Across America. It kicks off September fifth in Jacksonville, I’m sorry, guys, and then eventually make his way to New York, Toronto, Chicago, Indianapolis, Omaha, and Seattle. The swer is called Adam Sandler. You’re my best friend, and don’t forget.

We’re less than a month away now from Happy Gilmour to streaming on Netflix. That’s out July twenty fifth, So we’re gonna be talking about Adam Sandler a lot. Nothing excites me more than that. Rain Wilson was on the Good Guys podcast hosted by Josh Peck and Ben Soper. Rain was talking about when Steve Carell left the office.

Wilson said, when Steve left then it was a little bit chaotic of trying to figure out the tone of the show and who’s the lead and how are we telling the stories without you know, the comic engine of the show, which is Michael Scott. Well, what they did was they took, in my opinion, some scripts that said Michael, crossed it out and wrote Andy. That’s basically what they did for at least half a season. I liked the Robert California stuff. Not everybody does, but the Andy character went from being a likable third banana to like awful.

To this day, if I see ed Helms in anything, I run away. What they should have done is promoted Jim to boss and flip the dynamic and then kind of made it like, now Jim has to be the grown up and he has to deal with the crazies. That’s where the humor could have come from. But again, I’m not a famous hitcom writer. I’m a dude in a basement hosting a podcast.

Patton Oswalt has joked that his daughter is lethally adventurous after she went swimming with sharks, pat And told Kimmel she’ll always run towards the most dangerous things she can find. Last week, she went swimming with sharks off Hawaii in a cage sent me footage like I’m swimming with sharks, dad, and I’m like, I don’t know if you’re my daughter, because that is so terrifying. If you’re in New Jersey today and you’re not online at the Whiz trying to get Adam Sandler tickets, you might see Kevin Hart. His crew is out and about around Hoboken in Jersey City. They are filming seventy two hours.

Seventy two hours stars Kevin Hart as an older man who tries to rekindle his career by joining a three day bachelor party after he gets accidentally added to a group chat among some much younger friends. I have an idea for a Kevin Hart movie, an older man who tries to rekindle his career by doing a podcast in the basement. That could work anyway. It is believed Kevin will be in Hoboken. People are seeing signs around tenth and Washington Streets that suggest the cast will be there on Saturday.

Movie crews have made use of the Elks Lodge in that area in the past, and somebody even saw a fake subway station. Very interesting. All right, quick time out here A little behind the scenes. So in the first half there I dropped like three or four stories. Now I am thrilled that there’s a busy Saturday, especially this time of year.

But I’m looking ahead and a week from now is July fourth weekend, and having done this podcast for several years now, the week after July fourth, there’s just a dearth of stuff. So as I was recording, and I’m always looking at the clock, because you know, I try and make these shows like twelve fifteen minutes long, unless like Dave Chappelle goes on a rant and now I’ll hit twenty something. So I was editing on the fly because I do want to squirrel away stories in case I need them. Like last week was pretty slow until it wasn’t, and I’m a little afraid that July fourth weekend, but today is strong enough that I can bump stuff. Vulture.

I think it was wrote about some parody songs, one in particular called bomb Iran. Now bomb Iran is based on the Beach Boys song Barbara Ann do It in your Head. It works. I played the song on YouTube. There’s a version of bomb Iran, and boy it’s as catchy as the original.

Vulture share that In April of two thousand and seven, John McCain was on stage at a primary campaign stop, blew his nose and fielded a question about sending an airmail message to the real problem in the Middle East Iran. I’ve been saying Iran like I’m from Queen’s Iran. Plus bomb Iran is more like Barbara Ann. Bomb Iran doesn’t quite work anyway. McCain considered the attendees proposal and then launched into a rendition of quote that old Beach Boys song Bomb Iran, and he’s sang bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran.

He went viral bomb as cited it during two debates. McCain had decl he was joking. But the bomb Iran version goes back to the hostage crisis of nineteen seventy nine. If you’re old, you remember that quite well. If you throw the phrase into YouTube, it will come up.

And I happen to see this one before I even saw the bomb Iran story. But I was like, oh, this is some good pad out a summer Saturday episode kind of stuff. Billboard this week happened to write an article called Billboard’s Top fifteen musical comedians. Right now, let’s see who they are. I haven’t actually read it.

The first name that comes up is Bo Burnham, So I’m not sure you could easily say Bo Burnham’s number one from a popularity standpoint, or this might just be alphabetical, but Bo Burnham, okay? Cool? Next up j R. De Guzman, So we’ve gone B D and I doubt DeGuzman is the second most popular, So I think we’re going alphabetically here, Billboard writes. In another era, de Guzeman, whose sweet face provides cover for edge skirting comic songs about racial stereotypes, one called Asian Guys can Smash or el Sex of Christmas, the lyric at Deck the Halls with Fa La Latio, and ableism, a song apparently called Ampaty Girlfriend.

Anyway, it would be several seasons into a Network sitcom based on his life story. Francesca Duva not familiar trained as a musician. She graduated from the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins with a degree in music composition in twenty sixteen. She creates her own backing tracks for pieces that are less songs than many musicals in which she plays all the characters. Bridget Everetts is able to swing from intimate to over the top in a single breath.

Who Are Too Good for This World? HBO dramedy Somebody Somewhere set in Manhattan, Kansas, where she grew up, wrapped last year after three seasons of exploring the joys and sorrows. Kyle Gordon specializes in millennial song parodies. Tim Hidecker reasonably well known in the alt scene, Morgan, Jay, Lean and laid Back All the Way Back. Jay has made a specialty of autotune crowd work that is a pure joyed watch Mike in hand with the digital enhancement set all the Way to Travis Scott and has accompanist vamping, hushed R and B Chords works this way through the audience, poking at the usual topics in an auto tune falsetto.

This is a good list. Matteo Lane Sure we’re talking about Matteo a lot lately. Matteo is a trained opera singer with a six octave range. He says, I used to have whistle tones like Mariah Carey. They popped out of nowhere, but when you’re touring they come few and four between Ricky Lindhome.

You may know Lindholm is one half of Gorfunkel and Oats. Garfunkel and Otes are one of my faves. Oh CT I don’t know oct Billboard tells us this trio specializes in songs that push silliness towards the infinite. Don’t Touch My Clogs as an epic story that spans generations without ever straying from the instructions of the title. Dim Sun Paradise is the tale of a bus trip to Chinatown to find the Shangri Law where your taste buds burst like a distant star.

That sounds fun. Tim Platt, this is a long deep list Billboard. A mild mannered absurdist. I am not familiar with most of these artists. Actually, Platt promises jokes and songs and characters and stuff, all of which you delivered with trimming command from somewhere way out and left field.

His songs are rooted in the natural born surrealism of childhood. I’ll tell you somebody who has programmed a comedy radio for twenty something years now, the musical stuff usually doesn’t do well when you get metrics when I do play it on the Weekly Comedy Thing, which is the show I host on the Live One app which is a free app and the show is free. It’s like this except by talk a lot less and actually play bits, a weekly comedy thing on the Live one app. Check it out in new episodes every Sunday. Anyway, The metrics always show people tuning out during the musical stuff.

I usually put the musical stuff at the end. Mark rebela boy. This is long list known as loop Daddy. He shines and let him cook. Live streams which find him building ready for the floor.

Layers of beats and keyboard runs into the trancy funk, bluesy R and B electro house or spaced out hip hop tracks. I run out of air there It’s a long sentence and then ran rapping or singing on top of the results. Matt rogers, sure we know him from Las Culturistas. Read you that. Sure we know Reggie’s Reggie’s been around for a while.

The Wolves of Glendale not familiar. Keyboardist Tim McGovern describes the Wolves as a rock band trying to write the best songs we can about the dumbest things we can. That’s right up my alley. I will check this out. And the bro country stopper Ricky, a wage slave, tries to lastle some cowboy freedom by buying the horse in the song’s title, but he’s in over his head.

One of the rhymes is Ricky’s looking hungry, but I don’t know what he eats, so I make him ravioli and I pray he goes to sleep. I’m gonna totally check that out. That is the Wolves of Glendale and yep alphabetically. We have reached the end of the list, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

They might like it too. Tomorrow Mel Brooks ninety ninth birthday, I’ll talk about mill in the second half of the podcast. I’ll see you then,

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Featured: Tom Segura, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Nate Bargatze, Dusty Slay, Steph Tolev, Bill Burr, Chris Rock, Jim Gaffigan

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s new R-rated feature film ‘El Tigre’ about mistaken identity in Mexico
• Late night monologue roundup featuring jokes about Trump’s Iran airstrike
• Netflix orders season two of Tom Segura’s ‘Bad Thoughts’
• Media push promoting Nate Bargatze as family-friendly comedy leader
• Nate Bargatze to host 2025 Emmy Awards
• Dusty Slay’s new Netflix special ‘Wet Heat’ releasing July 29th
• Steph Tolev’s rise to fame after Bill Burr discovered her online

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Caloroga Shark Media either. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. During the pandemic, I was really doing a lot of stuff related to the late night monologues, and I’ve gotten away from that over the last couple of years. But last Friday I did it and I kind of liked how it felt. So maybe on Fridays we’ll just take a look at what some of the jokes from during the week were.

Fallon had most of the good ones, and that’s a combination of Fallon having good jokes and some other shows being off. But Fallon said, it’s crazy to me at the president launch an attack on Iran, his own parade and a cell phone in the same week. Found again. Thankfully, as of now, this ceasfire has held. It’s about as stable as an Ikea cabinet with a screws missing, but so far, so good.

The strike on Iran was called Operation Midnight Hammer. It was named after Trump’s favorite Stormy Daniels movie. Seth Meyers said JD. Vance defended Trump’s decision to launch air strikes against Ironnie and nuclear sites and that we do not want war with Iran. We actually want peace, and I don’t know, man, I think what you might actually want is a dictionary.

And then Colbert got on Trump saying make Iran a great again. Your whole damn thing is America first. You can’t just hand other countries your slogan. That’s like if McDonald’s had an ad campaign that said, I’m loving it it being burger king good stuff there. Yesterday was a little busy, so I bounced this.

Plus there’s a strategy to how I put the show together, and I like to have a headliner in the title of the episode to get a couple drive by downloads, so I siphoned off. Tom Sagora Headlines is working on his first feature film. It’s called LT Gray, an R rated comedy. This announcement is just a week after Netflix ordered season two of Bad Thoughts. Lt Gray follows Jeff played by Tom Sagora, and his friends as they head down to Mexico, only to discover the hard way that Jeff is a dead ringer for the infamous cartel leader LT Gray, who’s gone missing after being captured by rivals and then rescued by Alti Gra’s forces.

Jeff has to pretend to be their ruthless leader till he can find his friends and a way home. So it’s Dave but cartel. I’ll watch, Skory said. From the moment I read this script, I knew I had to play the part. As a fellow business owner, I’ve always found it inspiring how productive and efficient cartel leaders can be.

The whole team is so excited to make a rig comedy, and I’m so thrilled to be part of it. Already sounds hilarious. I mentioned yesterday about the industry just deciding, Hey, we are pushing Nate Bergatzy. Okay, everybody get on board. Nate’s the greatest thing since slice bread.

You all understand that. Well, Deadline had the headline Nate Pergatsy’s next act, ushering in a new era of family friendly comedy through Nateland Entertainment. Now, when I saw that, I was like, we did this article already, Right, we did this like two three weeks ago. Is this the same article? Then?

Why is this being recycled? No, it’s not the same article. It’s a different arraticle with the same narrative they’ve been pushing for a few weeks. Now. Congratulations team Nate Pergatzi.

You guys are getting it done. America is getting the message. We understand Nate’s great, we get it. We get it. In this version of the narrative, we hear from Robbie Pra, who runs Netflix Comedy.

We’re told even back in two thousand and six, when Robbie was programming the Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, he saw the makings of a star, the right combination of work, ethic and undeniable talent. But what he also possessed, says Pra, which made him a complete anomaly in comedy is his ability to stand in front of any kind of crowd, in any venue of any size and kill. Really, no one else can do that. You’re telling me Chris Rock can’t kill in any venue, any size. You tell me Chris Rock can’t do that, pro said.

What makes Nate resonate so widely is it’s easy to see yourself in him. Pra says. My wife stares at me during his sets, feeling like he’s a heat seeking missile talking about our life in marriage, and millions of people around the world feel the same way. I like Nate, but this narratives out of control now. Jason Hayman, a partner and film packaging agent, at Uta, who has worked with Nate for around five years.

You’re getting it done. Jason cap Tip to you says, Nate knows his brand an audience inside and out and doesn’t stray from it. When it comes to Nate, shouldn’t expect the heavy political or profane, but rather a single minded focus on putting smiles on people’s faces. Jeff Foxworthy much and working with this team, Hayman explains Burgets. He gives very strict guidelines as to what’s a fit for Nate Land and what isn’t, defining him protecting his brand with a singularity of vision.

Dusty Sligh says, personally, I think there was a time when everything was kind of clean, and then Edgy became more prominent. I think you’re allowed to say anything you want on so many platforms than when somebody actually dials it in, pulls back a little bit, but is also able to be very funny. That’s a unique thing, by the way, Jim Gaffigan, anybody I haven’t even played the Seinfeld card. I mean, come on, Nate’s good, Nate’s at the top, but tap the brakes with this because what happens is you fly like too close to the sun and people get sick of it and they turn on you. Just lay low, dude, Just lay low.

We’ll get another round of this when the Emmys come out in September. Nate is hosting it.

Speaking of Dusty Sleigh, who I really dig, he has a deal with Netflix to deb…

It’ll be out on Netflix July twenty ninth. Filmed in Chattanooga, Dusty Slagh shares personal stories on everything from milking to elevator etiquette. Sleigh says this special is as hottest July in Alabama. I do think it’s my best work yet, and I’m very excited for the people to see it. We’re having a good time, which is his catchphrase, and you know he’s his best work yet.

As if somebody’s gonna say, you know, I’m putting out this special, it’s probably my third best special. You know that other one was really good, but this one’s okay. You should watch it. Come on, you could tell Johnny Max not in the mood for any hogwash today, no nonsense today, all right. Steph Tolov talked to the La Times.

She is a good example of one of those quote unquote overnight successes that’s been around for two plus decades. She says, I’ve been doing this for twenty three years. It’s been a long journey. It’s nice to have these landmarks or events that I can look back on and be like, oh my god, I’m very proud. It’s been slow and steady.

Some people have bypassed and gotten big online and whatever. But I look back and I’m so happy that this is how my career developed, because I’m ready now. If I got this when I was like twenty, i’d be bad. I’m sure if you saw me on the thing Bill Bursaw, you’d be like, who’s this? Because you know the hell I was.

And then you went back and you could see, oh, this has three thousand videos and they have all these albums. It’s not like I came out of nowhere and have nothing to back up what I do. So her current I want to say origin story, but that’s not fair to somebody twenty three years in. Her current fame story is Bill Burr saw a clip of her and reached out. Steph says, at first it didn’t feel real when Burr DMed me, I thought it was a joke.

Account I was like, Okay, some fake Bill Burr count is saying I’m hilarious. Then after beating him, It’s funny when you meet your idols and they’re so down to earth and chill, You’re like, okay, it’s just a normal guy who finds me funny. So I think when you meet someone and realize how chill they are, that makes it way cooler. Not nerve wracking, but it was very refreshing that if someone that you look up to that is that funny, so well respected, and also find you funny. Because you guys don’t see.

They hate a lot of sea online, especially female comedians. All we get is trolled. This morning, I deleted like ten comments saying I’m ugly and of a big nose. I’m like, yeah, I know. People tell me like I don’t know.

I’m like, oh, it’s not small. The wnbas Indiana Fever are having fever Fest. Fever Fest will pack four musical acts and four comedians into a three hour show. I’ll focus on the comedians. They are Cedric the Entertainer, Leslie Jones, former last Comic Standing competitor, Aita Rodriguez Like, what’s frying my brain is?

When did that show air and I’m looking it up. Last Comic Standing aired from twenty three to twenty ten and again in twenty fourteen and fifteen. So at best, that’s like a ten year old reference. Okay, whatever she’s playing and Dion Cole will serve as host of Feverfest. Feverfest is produced in conjunction with Heartbeat, which is Kevin Hart’s company.

Heartbeat was named in February as an official culture curator for Pacers Sports and Entertainment, the parent company of The Pacers and the Fever By the way, Oh, Tyrese Haliburton, Man, I know, I’m like five days later on this. Oh, I felt so bad for him again. You heard the commercials. I was all I was, you know, a Knicks frontrunner. I was on the Knicks bandwagon, you know, rooted against Aliberton for a week, but he earned my respect and then I just felt so bad for that guy.

I hope you feel better soon. Anyway, if you’re not going to fever Fest and you’re like that’s not for me, and you’re looking for the opposite of fever Fest, I think this is as opposite as I can get for you. Borsch belt Fest will be in the Catskills. July twenty sixth and twenty seventh, Josh Gondleman will headline Borsch belt Fest, who will be more than thirty additional performers. Robert Klein will be honored on the Saturday night with a Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Josh Gonelman.

Andrew Jacobs is the board president of the Borsch Belt Museum, which aims to preserve the history of the twentieth century Jewish vacation land that drew top entertainers, political leaders, and civil rights activists. Andrew said, We’re thrilled to welcome Josh Gonoman, Robert Klein, and our entire lineup to Borsch belt Fest twenty twenty five. Colin jo just has another gig. He’s teamed up with Blue Moon. He is Blue Moon’s first ever celebrity partner.

There are two new ads co created by Colin Jost. Hm hmm, hey, Colin, you will into this? Yeh sure? Can we just punch up this line? Yeah?

Okay, great, I’ll do it, sure how much? In one of those commercials co created by Colin Jost, Colin Jost hesitates to eat the beer’s signature orange garnish until he’s gilted into it by a young Orange and a young Orange’s proud father. The father says it’s an honor to be chosen for a blue moon. In the second commercial, co created by Colin Jost, Colin Jost is on set filming a blue Moon commercial, only to realize he’s not the star. The beer is Colin Joe shut up on Staten Island Tuesday night, he appeared at three local bars to serve blue moons.

He posted on Instagram, it’s extremely hot, so I’m buying anyone who’s on Staten Island around of blue Moon tonight come by for one free blue moon. I’m not that rich. Let’s hit gossip corner. Cheech Marin visited the J bar M Barbecue. No good news for Cheach and his group.

This happened on Monday. No normally the jbar M is closed on Monday, but the owner, John Toomey, was there to greet Cheach and the rest of his group. We are told jbar M serve Cheach and friends the sumptuous Cowpuncher barbecue board that’s loaded with more than ten pounds of ribbies, pulled pork, turkey, brisket, pork ribs, chicken sausage and Hlapino sausage, as well as French fries and side dishes. Wow, it’s meant to serve ten to fifteen people and runs four hundred and twenty five bucks. But there are smaller versions.

You can get the Ranch Hand, which serves six to eight and is only two twenty five or the Little Pony that’ll serve two to four people for one hundred and twenty five dollars. And I am hungry now, but I’m not gonna pick out. I got myself an extra salad wrap the other day that’s been in the fridge, and like, I gotta eat it today or throw it out. So no barbecue for me today. Staying on gossip corner, you’re there at the Jelly Roll concert.

You’re having a good time. You’re like, man, this concert’s great. There’s only one thing that would make this concert better. I wish Kevin James would show up. Well, you got your wish.

If you were at the Buckeye County Superfest in Ohio enjoying Jilly Roll, out came Kevin James, who’s sixty years old now. Kevin helped perform the song need a Favor. Kevin was dressed just like jelly Roll, Kevin danced around the stage for the duration of the song, where black pants, a black T shirt with a black vest over it, and a backwards black baseball camp the way you could tell them apart jelly Roll has tattoos and is funny. I should just get out there, see you

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Featured: Marc Maron, Andrew Schultz, Shane Gillis, Jordan Klepper, Nate Bargatze, Joe Coy, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Ellen DeGeneres

What’s in This Episode

• Marc Maron’s political rant in newsletter about authoritarianism and fascism
• Andrew Schultz New York Times profile and use of slurs in comedy
• Marc Maron’s new HBO Max special ‘Panicked’ airing April 1st at 8pm ET
• Shane Gillis hosting the 2025 ESPY Awards
• New Deadline podcast ‘Comedy Means Business’ with Nate Bargatze as first guest
• Nate Bargatze hosting the Emmys in September
• The Landlord special by Wells premiering July 2nd on Veeps
• Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s Atlantic City stand-up with celebrity jokes

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man, you take one day off to go to the beach. It was one hundred degrees in Jersey, so I pretage Wednesday show on Monday. It’s like, I go to the beach Tuesday, and it was like all kinds of news. I mean, good problem to have, because I got plenty to talk about today.

But I’m sitting there on the beach watching my inbox and I’m like, really, come on, why today? All right? Mark Maren, he’s kind of at it with the whul Andrew Schultz thing. I told you about Andrew Schultz the other day Maren put out in his newsletter. And I’ll try and do this in a Maren e Ish not impression, but I’ll try and do his cadence.

This is it, people, It’s finally here, American authoritarianism with a fully functioning fascist cultural apparatus. We did it. Took us about two hundred and fifty years, but we did it. I’m not sure which was more horrendoucent damning, the deploying of troops to la or the bombing of Iran, but they were of a kind orders of a leader who cares nothing about the people of this country and is autocratically creating a government that serves only his whims and power. This is the cost of a mindocracy and feeds the fire of inhumanity for his myopic, brutal, and dangerous followers.

We get to live in real fear all the time now, not made up or generated internally, but actual terror of our government and our fellow Americans. Sorry, I don’t want to be grim, but the unconstitutional attack of Iran and La will put in place the machinery to make this a military dictatorship. I hope all those people that voted for this passively and based in emotions are happy and proud of the America we’re becoming, where pain feeds their excitement, and corruption and moral bankruptcy becomes their proud day to day way of moving through the world. I hope all the anti wool comics are happy about pushing this all through. The big question is when will they shut up about trans people intellectually challenge people, immigrants, that disabled, the minorities.

I mean, they won the policies they were supporting, whether they knew it or not, aren’t happening. I hope you can now stop playing the victim and just enjoy the amazing lack of diversity and diminishment of human rights and collective fury of supported. Because it’s here, I assume you’ll just keep at it. It’s one thing to mock the week and another thing to celebrate their pain and deaths. I assume you have nothing else.

Now that what you made is become hack, you can just go back to the standard. Maren made similar comments in the opening to Monday’s podcast with guest Jordan Klepper. It is believed a lot of this obviously the news over the weekend with Iran, but a lot of this is also about the Andrew Schultz piece from the New York Times over the weekend. I talked about that on Tuesday’s podcast. In the Times piece, Andrew Schultz told The Times he feels comfortable saying the R word.

Schultz explained, if a parent ever said that word hurts me and I want you to not say it. I’m never gonna say in front of them. I don’t want to hurt you. That’s not my goal. But if they’re like, I don’t want you to ever say it again in your life, that’s not going to happen.

In other Mark Maren news his new special will stream on HBO Max starting April first. It is entitled Mark Maren Panicked. Maren says, I feel this is the best work I’ve done. Everything came together, the direction, the production designed, the shirt and the bits HBO gets me, and I’m thrilled it’ll be presented by them. Now, this is interesting.

It will air at eight o’clock Eastern, not ten o’clock. Well, that’s cool. The other big news. Normally this would be the lead, but somebody went to the beach. Shane Gillis is hosting the twenty twenty five sp Awards.

That is awesome. Shane told The Hollywood Reporter. I’m excited to be at the SP’s of this year. I like sports, so this should be a good time. He’s like the perfect post for that too, and good content for the podcast.

Craig Lazarus is the executive producer of the SP’s. He said Shane is not only one of the top comedians today but also a huge sports fan, which made him an easy choice to host the SP’s. We’re through all the work with him, blah blah blah. We then recap Shane’s career. You know, LESNL podcast doing just fine.

It’s being a podcast, Deadline has a new one. This is interesting. It is called Comedy Means Business, so it shows just how big the comedy industry has gotten. The lead off guest is Nate Brigetzie. I talked about this in the Facebook group and I’ll talk about it a little bit more tomorrow.

You can just tell that Nate’s people are pushing the heck out of Nate right now. Every now and then, the industry gets together and decides this person’s next. If you listen to the show every day, we see a couple of these, maybe twice three times a year. But right now now everybody’s in on Nate, and we’re pushing Nate, and you’re gonna like Nate. Nate’s a superstar.

And if you don’t like that, too bad, because here’s another article and I like Nate. But it’s like tap the breaks, people tap the breaks. On the podcast, Nate says he’s moving away from the all consuming nature of the most expansive globe trotting touring a comic can do. He’ll do so now because he understands how much obsession you have to have, how much focus you have to have to get to where he’s currently. What he needs to do to achieve the same level of success with the ventures he takes on.

Next Nate’s hosting the Emmys in September, so more push Push, Push, Push Push. The Comedy Means Business podcast every other week on Monday, although for the first month they’re doing a pod every Monday. The Nate one is out. I just discovered this as I put the show together this morning, so I haven’t listened to it yet. Next week’s episode is called long Live the State, a documentary on the iconic sketch group The State that’s stilling.

We’ll have a special called The Landlord July seconds on the streaming platform Veeps. There will also be an audio version. I always like that. On August. The Landlord was filmed in Denver and described as a story heavy caboose about nosy, unhinged landlords.

If you’ve ever had to pay irritating lunatics in exchange for shelter, then this is the special for you. I like that a lot. Delling hopes everyone watching laughs so loudly they make their downstairs neighbor jealous. Hell, let’s clear this out. This has been around all week Margaret Show for some reason, talking about Ellen Joe recently revealed Ellen was really weird not nice to me for most of my career.

I opened for her in the nineteen eighties when she was a headliner in comedy clubs. Later, when I would do her talk show in the two thousands, she would act like we just met, and I’m like, bitch, what that’s weird? We go way back. It’s so creepy and weird. Wow, I can’t believe Ellen isn’t a nice person?

Did we know this? Tina Fey and Amy played Atlantic City over the weekend. They opened with a rapid fire monologue similar to what they do with the Golden Globes. Tina told the crowd Ben Affleck is not here. He’s home going through his contacts looking for more Jennifers to bother.

It’s a wacky Tina. That’s a hack joke. Tina, come on, that’s a hack. Probably played well with the crowd, but that’s a hack joke. Amy Pohlar on Nicole Kidman.

Nicole Kidman is not here tonight. She’s too busy being in every single movie a TV show in her name. Whoa whoa? Amy? Are you making fun of people?

Are you appropriating the Nicole Kidman character whoa whoa, whoa whoa? Los Angeles is gonna disown you. You better fall on your sword like you did last week for whatever it is you feel guilty about doing on SNL. WHOA what a brutal swipe? And Nicole Kidman, who are you?

Joe Coy it’s gonna face turn Leo DiCaprio is not here, I assume because Amy and I have a combined age of one hundred and five.

And then the entire reason I’m bringing this up is because there’s a Megan Ma…

Amy Pohler, though, going full Joe Coy here said Megan Markle’s not here tonight. She’s putting flower sprinkles on cookies and Piers Morgan is furiously raged masturbating about it. Wow, boy, you better apologize to Piers Morgan. What a vicious Amy Pohlar, What has gotten into you? Unbelievable?

We’re gonna have to cancel Amy Poehler, for these vicious jokes. Friend of the show John Marco SIRESI podcast must be doing pretty well. It’s called the Downside and it’s moving to Headgum. John Marco saidam So Jazz to bring our listeners. The one thing they’ve always complained our podcast is missing ad reads.

I feel you, you know, otherwise this is just an expensive hobby. As I like to say, are you watching Love Island? Everyone in my house under the age of me is watching Love Island. This is like the biggest topic in the house. And I’m like, what are you people watching?

What are you talking about it?

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Ian Sterling, comedian and voice behind Love Island USA, is returning to the US with a brand new stand up comedy show, Ian Sterling Live. My kids will be excited. He’ll be in LA on October twenty second and New York City October twenty ninth. Sterling told Deadline, hopefully people that have enjoyed me on Love Island and particularly enjoyed my voice, just seen what I’ve been doing for fifteen years, which is stand up. It’s my chance to show America this is what I do and I’m not just a guy in a dark room behind a microphone.

That is your comedy news for today. I can’t even imagine what Amy Poehler is gonna do next. She’s really out there. I mean, those jokes were just vicious. She should apologize.

Just terrible. All right, I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Theo Von, Sylvan Parent Badard, Desi Lydic, John Stewart, Trevor Noah, Steve Trevino

What’s in This Episode

• Theo Von’s controversial Minneapolis set at Excel Energy Center
• Just for Laughs Montreal Festival’s comeback under new ownership
• Desi Lydic discusses Daily Show hosting and Trevor Noah transition period
• Netflix 2024 comedy specials and roasts lineup
• South Texas Food Bank comedy fundraiser with Steve Trevino

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Minneapolis Star Tribune poster review of Theo Vaughn’s show on Friday night, so you can hear that, I’m doing a delivery that’s a little more serious than how I usually open up a show. And it’s because I don’t know how I feel about this. I’m gonna read it verbatim that Star Tribune rites.

He quickly labeled his Friday show at Excel Energy Center as a Juneteenth Recovery seminar, then launched into bits about a black girl with Down syndrome and short buses that catered to students with mental disabilities. I’m not racist, he said early in a set, unless you are. I don’t like the way that reads. Maybe in the room it played better, you know, body language, but that does not read great. The article says Theo’s place in pop culture is more complicated than partisan loyalty.

There were a few mega caps, but I spotted more shirts with images of Johnny Cash than images of Donald Trump. Quoting the article, Vaon pointed out several times during the show that the audience of about eight thousand seems to be nearly all white people, but I spotted plenty of people of color in the crowd, including Andres as Zanbrono, who came to Minnesota six years from Columbia. Son Brno told the paper, he’s just naturally very funny. It’s different from what you usually see. Again, directly quoting the article, everyone was a target, so Molly’s gazed, Jews, people from Wisconsin, and an autistic people.

He described George Floyd’s Square as a fent and all dance hall. Juan is at his best when he tells tales about growing up in small town Louisiana, vividly bringing to life people like Allan, a kid’s so tiny he needed two hands to eat a butterscotch, and the grandmother who wouldn’t let him visit her for a decade because she thought he stole some chocolate from her house. Skipping ahead, his one joke about Joe Biden went over a lot better than his one joke about Trump. When he told the audience who was thinking about buying a gun, the place went wild, the paper points out, and I remind you this was from last Friday. They were less enthusiastic about a bit in which he mused over where the next nine to eleven should take place.

Font Humor clearly isn’t for everyone, but it speaks to enough people to make him a voice that can’t be ignored. An email from the Just for Last Montreal Festival titled a very serious open letter from a very funny festival. It reads, Hello, I’m Sylvan parent Badard, the new owner of Just for Laughs. You don’t know me, which is why I’m reaching out to you today. Over the last few months, the JFL team has dealt with some rocky roads with strange days.

But believe me, we’re back. Maybe we’re a little different than we used to be. We still have the same objective as always, to bring loads to your summer. You’re probably expecting a joke right about now, Well not today. This letter is serious and it’s about an understanding, a promise, and an offer.

Let’s get to it. Subheading number one the understanding, the letter says. The understanding is our appreciation of the long standing, extraordinary relationship between Montrealers and Just for Laughs. For years, you gave our festival the type of unwavering support unheard of in show business. You filled our clubs in theaters night after night made big stars out of total unknowns, and through it all brought a heartfelt spirit that was more family than customer.

You are our most dedicated fan base, and we were the year’s biggest party for you. You brought us the attention that made JFL world renowned. We respected, relying on and delivered for each other. Section Two The promise. So here’s the promise.

You’re going to really love what we have in store for you this summer. Then they explain the shows. I’ll talk about the shows separately. Three the offer. So finally, here’s our offer.

We are certain you’ll love everything our team is putting together for you, but especially the Galas, the festival’s crown jewels, our biggest shows. In fact, we’re so certain that you’ll love our galas for some reason. If you don’t, we’re willing to refund your ticket price one hundred percent, pure and simple. Then there’s some details so far. Personally, I don’t know what to make of the festival.

I’m excited that it’s back. I was sad that it was gone. I think personally I need to see a little bit a few more announcements. Now, I’d like to take a minute and go through the shows here, but I’ve clicked on the tabs on their website where it says shows, and all I’m getting is a stager image and no actual shows. So let me click on artists here that seems to be working.

I’m not going to read every name, but let’s see who the bigger names that we might know from just either hosting or listening to the show every day. Adam Ray, Fortune, Fiemester, Michelle Butteau, Roy Wood Junior, Mikey Day, Nish Kumar, Malik, Alasol, John Doer, Puddles, Brad Williams, Kat Cohen, Dave mar Hedge, Emil wakem Ivan Decker, Jamarcos, Soirezi Maye Martin, Nick Muhammad, Ralph Barbosa, Russell Peters, Tammy Pascatelli, at Gamble, Jay Jorden, Tom Sigora, k Trevor Wilson, Russell Howard. So you know, nice and I’m glad it’s back, but it’s definitely fallen to number two. Now. I’m going back here and looking at Netflix twenty twenty four.

Now they only see to be doing a festival every other year, and I am on a Netflix propaganda website on Netflix dot com, but they remind us. Here is what happened. In twenty twenty four. John Mulaney had the show Tom Brady Got Roasted, which basically accelerated Nicki Glazier’s career. Kat Williams happened right, and they took a group picture of everybody in this photo.

Krascher, Jeff Ross, Jimmy Carr, Pauli Short, Chelsea Handler, Tiffany Hattish and I’m not reading everybody Chappelle, Nick Offerman, Han Gatsby, Sheng Wang, Otsko, Mosha Kasher, Natasha, Eliza, Sarah Silverman, Gaffigin, Kevin Hart, Roy Woodkin Jung, Jimmy o’yang, mad Friend, Sebastian Madascalgo, Barbosa Whitney, Dion Cole, Tony Hinchcliffe, Leanne Morgan, Papa Stavro, Sassan, the Mishi, Patel, Felipia Sparza, Sarah Cooper, Brett Goldstein, Nikki Glaser. Pretty good photo. So I don’t know. I was originally planning on going up for Montreal. I don’t know if I’m gonna go now.

I just I don’t know. Daisy Lidak caught up with The Hollywood Reporter. They asked her if there was an episode or segment she’s been most proud of pulling off on the Daily Show. She said, the day after the election was not easy. I was hosting that day.

I remember going in that morning just being vulnerable at the way I was feeling and hearing everybody else try to find humor in it. Coming in as a correspondent always played a character hosting. You’re yourself, that’s your point of view, So that day just felt like Catharsis with the audience as depressing as it was. They asked her about the host search between Trevor Now and John Stewart, which reminds me that John Stewart’s appearance on Trevor Ne’s podcast recently was really good. Go listen to that one.

DESI had you feel about that period? She said, it was disorienting, but it put a lot of faith on our showrunner. She’s the whole reason the place runs away does. I just knew I’d have to write it out. And as anxiety inducing as the whole thing was, there were some fun positives that came out of the guest rotation, working with Sarah Silverman, becoming friends with Chelsea Handler, having Morlon Wayans come in, her dream guest is Carol Burnett because she’s the entire reason I wanted to do comedy.

The South Texas Food Bank is inviting locals to enjoy a night of laughter. It’s called laugh Out Hunger. It’ll feature Steve Trevino. On August fifteenth, one of the board members said, it’s always been a concert. This year it’s comedy to see if there’s a change within the community and how many people we can drive and bring to these events.

We have to stay relevant to what our community’s asking for, so we feel like this change would be something good and different. We’re taking a risk and trying it out. Doctor Demento is retiring. Real name Barry Hanson began hosting the Doctor Demento Show back in California in nineteen seventy. Originally, he just played rock songs.

Over time, he started mixing in some of the oddities from his personal collection, and then the whole Doctor Demental thing took off. Most notably, a young musician named Alfred Yankovic started sending in parodies to Doctor Demento. Young mister Yankovic became pretty famous. However, after fifty five years on the air, Doctor Demento is announced he’ll be retiring in October. He told Radio Online.

I’m now eighty four years old. I’ve been doing the show for nearly fifty five years, about two thirds of my life. It’s been a blast, but I’ve come to the decision that I need to hang up my top hat soon. The show you just heard is the last of my regular shows. It sounds like I’ll come back for one big farewell in October, and I imagine that will be pretty star studded, at least in terms of parody records.

I’m sure mister Yankovic will come by. And it turns out that Ray Romano did not like the title Everybody Loves Raymond. One of the producers was at the Paley Center and said, in real life, raise a modest guy, and he’s like, everybody loves ray What if the show stinks? That is your comedy news for today. Enjoy the heat if you’re in the Northeast.

Who see tomorrow