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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Michael Ian Black, Matt Rife, Brad Williams, Ziwe Fumudoh, Kevin Pollak

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan and Michael Ian Black discuss parenting at Tribeca Festival
• Matt Rife’s crowd work and nearly 50 shows per month touring schedule
• Brad Williams on starting comedy as defense mechanism after Carlos Mencia
• Ziwe Fumudoh’s New York Times profile on self-care as South Asian woman
• Kevin Pollak on never getting nervous and joining Tulsa King as series regular

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. For some reason, the Tribeca Festival locked Jim Gaffigan and Michael ian Black in a room together to talk to the audience about parenting. Okay, Michael was curious how Jim’s perception of being a father has changed over time. Gaffigan said, I would say twenty years ago, I mean, I have a twenty one year old, but I was much more of the view that I’m kind of befuddled by parenting and I’m not equipped for it.

And my viewpoint now is that children are evil. I joke around and say parenting is the most important thing I’ll fell out, and there is something to that. But I think if human beings remembered how difficult and complicated and impossible teenagers are, the species would cease to exist. I think we forget that parenting is similar to the entertainment industry. Wait, by that, does he mean that, like, if you help somebody around their career, you stop calling them back.

Does Jim not call his kids back? Is that what Jim is saying there, that as twenty years goes by, he doesn’t call back people. Sorry, I digress there you could figure it out between the lines. Jim said, I think that we forget that parenting is similar to the entertainment industry, filled with enormous amounts of humiliation and you’re biting your tongue a lot. When kids are younger, there’s a cuteness to it, and when your kids are teenagers, they’re not conscious of it, but there’s a cruelty that you’re exposed to.

The Houston Press wrote about Matt Rice’s crowd work. Rice said, there’s just something kind of unique. It’s either unique or not language snob and special to my show that I just do for fun. On top of the prepared material. I’ve been so lucky it’d be so many people’s introduction a comedy, view the success I’ve out online and the people who have found it.

But it’s easy for people to think that’s all it is. But there’s so much work that goes into the preparation and the crafting of material, and they should in no way expect that from every comedian, honestly, not even myself. I don’t force situations. I can’t guarantee a certain amount of the show will be crowd work, but it is something I personally like to do. The sponsoredaity of it makes it new and re freshing to me.

That does rife find time to write new material, he said, that’s the hardest part, especially over the last year and a half. We’re doing forty to almost fifty shows a month, sometimes NonStop. You have to find some time for your life. When life happens, that’s when material happens. But I don’t really have time to sit at a desk for six hours a day and go, hmm, pin to Pat, how do I read a joke about this?

Let’s write a joke, premise, set up, punchline. That’s not my creative style. Things happen, something will happen in my life that sparks humor in me, makes me laugh. Then I think, now we’re onto something, We’ve got the foundation of something, and now I can take pen and paper to etch this out. My brain has locked on the almost fifty shows a month, all right, So a typical month has say thirty days.

Let’s assume he takes one day off a week, so those are six day weeks, so that would be twenty six days of work. So is he doing two a days Friday Saturday? So I could do the math here, right, So if there’s twenty six days, and then if you did two shows on the Friday, that’d be four more, so it’d be thirty And if you did two shows on Saturday, that’d be thirty four. If you did two shows on the Thursday, thirty eight. I can get to forty.

I can’t get to fifty. I’m sorry, Matt Rife. I’m gonna ask Chatchpt to help me out here. Let me look at Matt Riffe’s actual touring schedule and see what I come up with. Sorry, I am digressing here, but my brain is totally locked on this.

Does Matt Rife not have a website? Matt Rife Official Shows here? We go? Okay, So he’s got a show June twenty first in South Carolina. There’s a wait list.

There are tickets available for June twenty second, there’s one show. Then July fifth in Hawaii there’s one show and tickets still available. Yeah, I don’t know. I’m looking at this. I don’t know how you get to fifty.

Let me ask chat Shept to help me out. I have typed in. Comedian Matt Rife says he plays forty shows a month. What would a schedule like that look like For a typical comedian, Chat says, forty shows a month is an ambitious schedule that would involve a high level of travel and consistent performance. Here’s an example of what it might look like.

If Riife does forty shows month, that averages out to ten shows per week. That would mean two to three shows per day for three to four days a week. Here’s a sample itinerary. Again, this is all made up by the AI, but I’m obsessed here. Monday would be a travel day and then a show at seven and nine thirty.

Tuesday you do shows at seven and nine thirty, then travel to the next city. Wednesday do seven and nine thirty, have some free time, get up. Thursday, travel to the next city, do two shows, then do two shows on Friday and maybe a third show at eleven thirty pm on the Friday.

Also three shows on Saturday and then a show on Sunday and then travel.

So that’s no days off. So I don’t know. That seems a little high. But I’m not a touring comedian. I’m an idiot in the basement with a podcast.

I digress. Let’s get back to it, right, said I. Forget every single day that I have the recognizability I have Now, I’ll wake up and think no one knows me at all, thinking I’m right back where I was five years ago. I can’t go at any restaurant or store without someone giving me a compment or giving thanks to the videos I post online from the laugh at It’s very surreal, man. I’m very lucky in I’m very blessed for people to find what I do funny and find me at whatever time they need to find me in their life.

It’s a very giving job. Brad Williams told Macon dot com he started making jokes as a defense mechanism, realizing he could never be the quarterback, but I could be the funny guy. At age nineteen, and Brad was brought on stage by Carlos Mencia after Carlos made a joke about people with dwarfism. Mencia had noticed that most of the crowd laugh with the people sitting near Brad didn’t laugh, and then he saw Williams. Mencia wanted to ask him questions.

Brad answered questions honestly, not meaning to be funny, but the crowd laughed. He asked me what I did for a living at the time, and Williams said, not a joke. I just said, I work at Disneyland, and I heard some people chuckle and I said, shut up, I’m not one of the seven, and that made them laugh again. That’s when I thought, oh, maybe this comedy thing could be a lot of fun. There’s no greater compliment than someone who comes in is kind of unfamiliar with the work and then enjoys it.

Zanagar got a big profile in The New York Times. In it, she shared that I have a complicated relationship with self care. If you’re a South Asian woman, you’re taught that self care is be ye, it’s selfish. If you want to look good, why you’re already married, It’s about your kids. Now.

As her entertainment career took off, she grew motivated to take better care of her appearance and said it’s not helping anybody for me to stand up on stage and not look put together. It’s just distracting. Kevin Pollack spoke to the Pitch k C. Kevin says he doesn’t get nervous about anything. Yeah, it might be signs of a sociopath, but nothing’s ever made me nervous.

Including sitting on Johnny Carson’s couch the televised one. Ever since I was ten years old and started being a natural born ham in front of an audience, I’ve always felt excited. It’s like Christmas Morning. Kevin’s going to be in Tulsa King. He said, yeah.

Drops in September, I’m a new series regular. The next couple of seasons came out of nowhere, and I was shocked at how much fun it was. Sometimes they make it fiscally irresponsible to stay on the couch and it doesn’t really matter if it’s quote unquote fun. But every now and then it’s incredibly fun, and then this ridiculous bonus. And that’s what Tulsa King has been.

That’s a good show. Jennif Fisher told The Fly on the Wall podcast that it was Molly shann And who changed her life. She said, I’m a huge SNL nerd. The greatest part about being on the Office and being on NBC was that I got to breathe the same air as SNL people. I was a total groupie, Fisher explained.

Before being cast as Pam on the Office, she worked as a typist. She’d attend TV critics Association events. As a transcriber, she heard about an upcoming event dedicated to SNL and said, I wanted it more than my little new heart in La could stand. I started pretending like I didn’t feel good because I was going to make an excuse that I was sick so I could get off work on time, and then sneak into this party. She sneaks in.

I can’t even tell you. It was amazing Norm MacDonald. I’m looking at him in the flesh. I can’t My mind has blown. Then I see Molly Shannon.

I think I’m gonna do it. I’m going to say hi to Molly Shannon. She looked at me, took me by the shoulders, looked me deep in the eyes, and said, don’t give up. Whatever you do, don’t give up. It took me ten years to get on SNL, and my best advice to you is just no, it’ll hop and eventually if you stick with it.

Sticking Office Ish Donald Gleeson is the lead in the paper, which is the office spin off of Sorts. Gleason hopes people will find a reason to love his character. He told people, I don’t think my character is like Michael Scott at all. I think if you’re trying to compete with what Steve did, with what Ricky Gervais did, I think that’d be a massive mistake. We made a whole new character and it’s a whole new sort of setup.

But I hope people will find a reason to love him as well, just in a different way than they did the guys before and long the heads of the Fall the Columbus Comedy Festival, They’ve got a pretty decent lineup. Heear September fourth through the seventh. This year’s festival features Polly Shore, The Second City, Sam Talent, Mo Welch, and some others. The lineup will include a mix of stand up comedy, improv, sketch comedy, live podcast recording, variety, slash, alternative shows, game shows, industry mixers, and more. Several fan favorite shows that were turned including Female af and All Woman stand Up Lineup, Drunk power Point, You Can Figure Out What That Is?

And Chicago Showcase five Chicago Comedians hosted by viral sensation Chad the Bird. I’m not familiar with Chad the Bird. Back to Google. Chaddbird dot Com luckily has a link that says what’s a Chad Bird? Chad The Bird has been Chicago’s laziest journalist and only avian op ed columnists for fifteen years until I got drunk and joined TikTok when viral traveling get up early.

He’s even got a podcast, The Bird Cast. I’ll have to check that out, all right, cool, I’m going to check out the May tenth episode called We’re Not going to Talk about Star Wars. The description is in which I discuss new details that have emerged about the birthplace of Plato and totally not Star Wars. I’m in now in the next episode is about Pinball City. This is right up my alley.

All right, that’s your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Olivia Munn, Miss Rachel, Desi Lydic, Stephen Colbert, Greg Gutfeld, David Letterman, Osca Shrap

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney responds to death threats against family over Olivia Munn children’s programming comments
• People magazine pulls Olivia Munn article due to violent threats
• LA federal immigration raids and Trump’s military deployment
• David Letterman appearing on CBS Sunday Morning with IndyCar owners
• Emmy nominations for Outstanding Talk Series category with only 3 nominations from 13 submissions
• Osca Shrap releases second stand-up special ‘Father’ on Hulu

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media and Aaron Jay Mac would your Daily Comedy News. I do not like this first story, and I’m not throwing anyone under the bus here. I just don’t like how this shook out at all. Let me set it up for you. Olivia Munn, she’s married to John Mulaney, which is why we’re talking about this.

Stay with me. She was the cover story in the June fourth People magazine. The article was titled, Olivia Munn doesn’t let her kids watch Miss Rachel. Here’s why. If you’re not in the no, Miss Rachel is the host of a popular children’s show.

A few days after the cover story, People apparently pulled out a poll quote which is, I know kids love Miss Rachel, but the thing is, if I can’t watch it, I’m not going to spend the rest of my life going crazy. These kids shows drive me crazy, all right. Seems innocent enough. If your parent you know some of those shows, you know you might, Yeah, stay with me. That’s why I’m pulling my punch.

I don’t want to get I don’t want to get in the middle of this. Early People deleted the article on Thursday quote due to the violent threats that escalated towards the interview subject. In her family, John Mulaney has commented on this. Mulaney said, an innocent comment my wife, Olivia Munn made about what children’s programs we like, has somehow unbelievably been conflated with not caring about the deaths of children in Gaza. John posted this on Instagram and said, because of this, my wife and two kids are now receiving violent and threatening comments and messages in her DMS.

This is absolutely insane and needs to stop. The people doing this are so wildly out of line and so unhelpful to any conversation. You took a nothing comment to a dark and dangerous place. This kind of behavior is an activism now. Olivia had also said, Malcolm asked for blues clues and I don’t know who showed them the blues clues, but they’re on my crap list now.

I said, hell no, not in my house. Olivia had to explain in a statement to Miss Rachel and her fans, I hear in respect the passion behind your support. I never anticipated the media would single out on one small thing I said and distort it like they have. My comments were never meant to diminish the joy, comfort, and impact she brings to so many families. Every parent understands the importance of finding meaningful programming that helps us connect with our kids.

I don’t want something taken out of context to be a moment that steals even a minute of joy for anyone. Now, apparently under some new stories about Olivia, Miss Rachel wrote, who cares? I’d rather you cover me advocating for kids in Gaza who are literally starving, largest cohort of child amputees in modern history, thousands and thousands killed, no medical care, no education, no homes. Do better, not against her Olivia at all, and don’t care that she doesn’t want to watch the show. All my love to her and her family.

Disappointed in the outlets. Yikes, just yikes, what’s going on all right?

Meanwhile in Los Angeles, Desi Litik said, Yeah, nothing calms down a situati…

Desi again, you know, I’m beginning to wonder if Trump is intentionally trying to escalate the situation because more chaos allows them to portray blue states as centers of crime while positioning himself as the strong man that country needs to rally around. No that’s silly. I’m sure he’s just doing what’s best for everyone. Colbert Trump has sent thousands of troops into downtown LA. To quote what historians will remember as the Battle of that video of a burning waymod car they kept showing on cable news.

Greg Guttfeld said, California Governor Gaven Newsom and Mayor Karen Beast denounced the federal immigration raids, So now they don’t want California to have ice or water. All right, we’ll move out of the comedy part right now.

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Speaking of late night, IndyCar owner David Letterman will be on this week CB…

Hey Mike from the Letterman Pod? Did you know that? Are you learning that from me? Yeah? Well good, you’re gonna want to tape that one.

But appear as they’re talking Indy cars. A Letterman will appear alongside Joseph Newgarten, Pado Award, and Mario Andretti. Knows that the Mariow Andretti from when I was a kid. Maybe he co owns the team. I’m not familiar with the other two.

So now, IndyCar fans, you come after me, I apologize. I don’t know everything I know you listen to the show and you’re like that Johnny macke knows everything, I don’t know everything and apparently have a week spot with IndyCar Staying with Late Night. Looking ahead to the Emmys this year, there will only be three nominations in the Outstanding Talk Series category. Here’s why there were only thirteen submissions, because there’s fewer late night shows now. The TV Academy rules say if there were between eight and nineteen submissions, the number of submissions will be divided by four and rounded to the nearest whole number.

So how do we arrive at three? Well, there were thirteen submissions for the category. Let’s do the math. Thirteen divided by four is three and change and we round to the nearest whole number and we get three. The submissions these are not nominations.

These are who submitted the Daily Show Mulaney, Heart to Heart on Peacock. Apparently that exists. I know that that exists, but has anyone ever mentioned that to you? I mean that might be the bobs Burgers of late night shows, CNN’s Have I Got News for You? Hot Ones, Kimmel, Seth Colbert, Midnight Snack with Julie Chan again, as I just copped to, I don’t know everything.

What is Midnight Snack with Julie Chan? Google paste and search. Okay, so several Google searches come up with the same exact phrasing, which is Midnight Snack with Julie Chan is the first late night talk show hosted by a Chinese American woman, Julie Chan. Now Here, I’m seeing a press release from September of twenty twenty four which tells us the first season of Midnight Snack has seven episodes, which sounds like a really low number. But we’re okay with nominating Malini for twelve, right, Okay, apparently you can watch this on Asian American Movies AAM dot TV.

Again, I’m just learning the show exists, so I’m not gonna say it’s good or bad. Might even win the Emmy.

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Also nominated felon the dropout websites show called Very Important People, …

So those are your thirteen. The nominees come out July fifteenth. The Emmy Awards will air on CBS September fourteenth, out today on Hulu otsgar. So what Kotska has her second stand up special. This one is called Father.

I liked her previous special a lot, so I’m looking forward to watching this one at some point. It’s gonna rain again this weekend. Can I tell you I’m speaking to you. It’s eight twelve pm on Thursday evening. I usually don’t record at night, but yesterday was like the only nice day in a two week radius where I live.

So I took a beach day and it was beautiful. It was eighty four in low humidity. It’s sunny and just awesome. So I’m recording at night. I feel a little thrown off because I usually record midday early afternoon.

This is just weird to me. But it’s gonna rain this weekend, so I have time to watch Osco. She says her fans has just done calling her mother, but she begs to differ. She says, oh, no, I am father. In the trailer, we see that joke where she asked her husband how to turn on the Washington machine and that’s how he realized he’d been doing the laundry all these years.

She also jokes that she wants to grow her hair out, but she can’t because her current haircut is her brand. In The Special Father, she reflects on her relationship with her father, who lives in Japan and has been not really much part of her life since she moved to the States. She says telling her story on stage has helped heal her. What I found out about trauma is when you’re not going through it, you’re not going this is trauma. Now that I’m able to choke about it, I’m realizing I’ve sort of started to heal without even realizing it.

She talked about trying to pray her mom’s illness away when she was younger, and said, I became super Christian on my own. I think I needed something to believe in or something. It was community, all these things, and I was still confused about why we didn’t go back to Japan and my mom’s condition in the garage. That’s good, very seriously, to the point that even signed up for Jesus Camp on my own. I remember at the camp there were these prayer groups, and prayer meetings would break off into and one night it was like me and like thirty people in a prayer group, and I asked them to pray for my mom to get better, to be freed from the voices in her head and all these things, from the suffering from severe depression to the seizures, from feeling so isolated down all the time.

I truly thought it was going to work. I was in middle school, and I remember believing, oh my gosh, this is really different. I’ve prayed for this before. When I go home, she’s going to be healed. When I came home, I was super disappointed that she hadn’t changed, and feeling really down and hopeless because she still hears voices.

That’s on hool tonight. Looking forward to checking that out. Congratulations to doctor Colin Jost. He received the Honorary Doctor if Humane Letters from the College of Staten Island in recognition for his outstanding contributions to comedy, television and community service. What’s a little weird about this is he accepted it over video.

I mean, the whole point of us giving you the honorary degree is so you come and give a speech. Dude. What’s going on? Oh yeah, I love to go. Oh yeah, I’m filming a movie.

I can’t possibly How would I possibly get to New York City? How would I do that? Come on, Colin, what is he filming. Let me look this up from the Facebook page filming in Georgia. It says The Breadwinner is filming in the Atlanta area and Colin jos is in that film.

Colin Dude, bro, bro dude, Colin man, dude, you tell me you can’t get from Atlanta to New York City. You tell me you can’t do that. Come on, you can do that. I’m sure Nate would have understood. You could have been there.

Come on anyway, congratulations Collin Jost. A lot of big names in the show today. This is a lot of fun.

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All right, here’s a big name.

Say a week ago, you were in Cambridge. You’re on the bus, your money, your own business. You know, you’re probably listening to my podcast while surfing the internet. You know, it’s a good combination. And you look up and you’re like, hey, that tall dude with the red orange hair, he looks really familiar.

Is that Conan O’Brien on a bus in Cambridge? Yeah? It was Conan O’briight, sack’s the bus. This apparently is like totally real and not a publicity stunt. Conan gave Craig, the bus driver, shot out, saying the best driver in Cambridge.

Right here, Craig says, I was driving along on Root seventy. All of a sudden I see this gentleman on the right hand walking. I saw the red hair and it kind of looked like Conan’s hair. So I said to myself, is that Conan? And it actually was.

He said, hey, let’s take it right away. I said, I’m not allowed to have a phone on the bus Conan, and he said, oh, that’s terrible. So he was just a great guy. That’s fun, all right. The Great American Comedy Festival is in Norfolk, Nebraska to night.

You’re five feature comedians River Butcher, David Perdue, Amy Shanker, Adam Tiller, and Chip Chantry. You’re headliner James Austin Johnson. Are you watching basketball? No, me, neither. There’s one person in the world watching this whole basketball series, and his name is Mike Epps, known a Pacers fan.

He’s like the one person who was like, should we put the Knicks in the finals so we get like twenty three million viewers? No, let’s put the Pacers through so we can get seven. Mike Epps spoke to website and Escape and he’s pretty big on Tyrese Halliburton. Now, I gotta say I was pretty impressed by mister Halliburton in the Eastern Conference Finals. The dude brought it.

Mike Epps says, Halliburton is an unpredictable player. That’s what I love about him because you don’t really know what you’re gonna get. That’s how he gives it to you. You can’t really predict what he’s gonna do and how he’s gonna do it, but he gets it done. That’s what I like about him.

Some players he’s just about to pinpoint him out. But this guy here is unpredictable and brilliant when it comes to playing basketball, no question, without a doubt. He reminds me of myself. That’s why can I relate to him because it’s his avant garde approach and it might not be pretty, but it gets the job done, all right, Mike Epps, what’s your earliest recollection of following the Pacers? Mister big time Pacers fan, Mike Kep said, i’d I’ve been a Pacer fan as long as I can remember.

You grew up in the city in Indianapolis as a basketball town, so I was a Pacer fan. Probably I was seven, eight years old. I used to go to a place called Market Square Arena where they used to play, and man, I was a Pacer fan before Reggie Miller was there, going all the way back to the Billy night days. All right, that’s some street cred. When you’re a fan, you’re a die hard fan.

You have a lot of ups and downs. Me I had times where I was like, oh man, why am I a Pacer fan? When you love a franchise and at your hometown, you can’t really find yourself rooting for anyone else. That’s what die hard means. All right.

Who’s your favorite Pacers player of all time? Reggie Miller, clutch player. And when you say Indiana Pacers, that’s how you think of Reggie Miller. He put us on the map. Game four is tonight at eight thirty.

If you’re curious, I’ll be watching Ots Goo And that is your comedy news for today. All right, I got a shower and get the sand off me. You see tomorrow.

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Featured: Tim Dillon, Theo Von, Mark Maron, Joe Rogan, Eliza Shlesinger, Donald Trump, Bono

What’s in This Episode

• Tim Dillon’s Hot Ones appearance and commentary on suburban life
• Tim Dillon’s Netflix special ‘This Is Your Country’ and its reception
• Tim Dillon and Theo Von now considered part of the comedy establishment
• Mark Maron’s blog post expressing regret about podcasting’s role in spreading fascism
• Mark Maron and Joe Rogan’s opposing positions within podcast ecosystem
• Eliza Shlesinger’s Emmy nomination campaign and new special ‘A Different Animal’

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily Common You news. Tim Dillon’s from Long Island. I’m from Queens lived on Long Island for seven years. I understand Tim Dillon and he used to listen to conservative talk radio.

I’ve heard him talk about it on his podcast. He probably listened to some things that I produced back in the day. Don’t try and put me in a corner. I’ve worked on both the Bob Grant radio show in New York City and on Pots of America, so you don’t know where I stand. Although if you pay attention, you’ll know when I think certain people are ridiculous.

I’ll leave it at that. Send your letters to Johnny Mac anyway. Tim Dylan was on Hot Ones. He believes Long Island’s greatest contribution to the American culinary scene is the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. Two eggs over medium bacon, American cheese, salt, pepper, and ketchup on a roll.

And you eat that in the morning around one thirty PM. Think about it to coach your stomach. It absorbs that anxiety that would either push you to the gym or do a job or in a good relationship or in a jog, an anxiety would push you to become a better person. You can actually absorb all that with the sandwich and then go right back to bed. Yeah.

I used to like my mop up food. Two in the morning. There was a bagel store in Sunnyside, Queens and I’d go get two bagels onion bagels, probably with butter. I would actually get off the subway stop stop before where I lived, so I could get the two bagels and eat the two bagels while walking home and just kind of like the fresh air and the calories and the fat, and you know, in the cold especially, you’d feel a little more awake when you got home. Shake off some of those Bruce Kis.

You know what I’m saying. Yeah, Jim Dilan said, long Ah, there’s a place of comfort like the suburbs. The food is bad, people would riot. There’s nothing else. There’s no culture, there’s no real intelligence, nothing is really interesting.

There’s no sense of history or community or family. There’s no real athletics. I know, we used to have the Islanders. It was great. I used to leave my house and be in an Islanders game in like twelve minutes.

Was amazing. It’s not especially pretty. I’ll disagree with that. There’s no national or local meaning or feeling of purpose. It’s kind of a vacant landscape of nothing, a suburban indianess that closets you until you finally fill yourself in with bagels and nyochi or fentanyl.

The conversation turned to Tim Dillon special This is Your Country that was the Jerry Springer type special, and said, you know who didn’t like it as much? Netflix? Now, I’m kidding. They’re great people there. We love them, but they don’t love talk formats, and I think they were nervous about it.

I think we all need daytime trash TV that’s not hyper political. I think we all need to coalesce around realizing that we’re all garbage people and exploiting that. Nobody was talking about tariffs on Ricky Lake. That’s what I remember was great about the nineties. People just want to do as much damage to each other as they good for entertainment value, and that’s what I was trying to do.

So were we now in the era of establishment? Tim Dillon? Do I no longer have to say I really liked to podcast, But someday when he cancels himself, I’m gonna disavow and say I never told you that. Is he now part of the club. I think he’s part of the club.

He’s getting on cable networks hot ones is a lot more mainstream than you’d think, like a lot more, Tim. I think you’re now establishment, Tim Dillon over there with your friend establishment, theo vant who’s interviewing the vice president. What has happened all you rebel outsiders? You lived long enough and the establishment brought you in and you didn’t even realize it. Tim Dillon also defended whole milk, saying whole milk from America’s heartland, dairy farmers with whatever needs to be in it, whatever hormones are in it, need to be in it.

Hands off rfk. I’ll have my milk the way I like it, genetically engineered. He also shared what he thinks is the most influential fast food item, the mcgriddle, because the mcgriddle married the sweet and savory in a way that now everybody does it, so media pick up on something Mark Maron wrote. He put out a blog post that’s similar to his comments from last week when he said he was ending the podcast The headline now is simplifying it. Maren has Rogan regret basically the blog post.

Mark Maron writes, we weren’t the first, but in terms of making it a viable medium, we were certainly one of the ogs. We changed the world. Literally, we showed the world was now possible to create a specific type of show on one’s own terms. We helped unleash an exciting type of delivery system for pure self expression. Sadly, on some level, we also unleashed a format that’s been used for dubious means, propaganda and pure evil.

But hey, it’s not the atomic bomb. On a recent WTF, Mark said, it’s just interesting to me in the big picture of what’s happening and what the medium is unleashed, that me and Joe Rogan were both in the system, two ends of the spectrum of podcasting coming from the same source, and a now truly apocalyptic landscape. In October of twenty four, Maren said podcasts have become a medium that normalizes fascism. He called out quote comedians with podcasts for having shameless self proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their show. All it does is humanize and normalize fascism.

When someone uses their platform for that reason, they’re facilitating anti American sentiment and promoting violent autocracy. Maren didn’t call out anyone by name, but those words came three days after Rogan had released an episode with Donald Trump. By the way, uh Trump with Bono really enjoyed it. I’m a huge G two fan. You can profile me.

I’m fifty five years old from Queens, New York, and my last name is mc dermott. Of course I like you too, and it was very good, Maren wrote last October, and this is timely. I don’t know if you’re paying attention to the news this week. Are you going to the parades Saturday? Yeah?

That looked that up, Maren said. Fascism is good for business, if you tell the line. Popular podcast became tribal and divisive years ago. Now they might be in the position to become part of the media oligarchy under the new anti democratic government. All right, it’s so Senil learns to me, Mark Marion, Joe Rogan and whoever else.

So Tim Dillon to send him a letter. Eliza Selessenger has been doing a lot of press and I don’t know why. Actually I do know why. I have. There seems to be some sort of pr campaign to get her an Emmy nomination.

That seems to be what’s going on. I’ll talk more about that tomorrow because I saw a note in Billboard that pretty much said as much. But Eliza has been doing a lot of press, which is well, I just said what she said. You certainly don’t know when a joke or new hour is done. This was in a sit down chat for deadlines at Prime Experience.

But Eliza says, but you have to tape it at some point, and then the heartbreaking part is the next week when you go on tour, continue touring to find all these things you should have said. It’s almost like you have to tape an hour to know how much better your hour could be. That’s interesting. I truly believe stand up and I hate I’m saying this is like a bottle of wine and I think I’m stealing it from Sideways. But it’s an ever evolving thing.

Her latest hour is titled A Different Animal. She says there’s forty five minutes of material that never made the final cut. I believe an audience deserves a polished product, and people should expect that from Stand Up comedy.

Also, this is corny.

The title isn’t just a nod. Remember, the title is a different animal. The title isn’t just a nod to her creative evolution. It’s also an acknowledgment of the fact that what she delivers with both her material and her delivery is unique. Eliza says, I’m a different animal now than when I started comedy.

Material is different, and I’m a different person than I was when I started writing, a different animal. So I think it really speaks to the idea that what you get when you watch my stand up something completely different than people expect from comedy as a genre, or from me from what you’ve seen before. My former coworker Jamie Fox says he wants to mix comedy with quote funny church stuff and is creating an experience that celebrates both his humor and his spiritual roots. Fox went on Instagram and a video. He said, I got some funny stuff that I want to do.

I’m a church boy, so I want to do some funny church stuff. So when I come to your city, I need you all to pull up on me and play along. He’s searching for gospel choirs in every city to join his upcoming tour, so rather than a house band of sorts, so it would be a local choir. Fox has yet to share official guidelines on how this works yet, but he wants a different gospel choir in each city. Bert Krascher was on the Drop a Pin show and he proclaimed which of the American states is the best?

Are you ready? What’s your guess? Bert Krescher proclaimed that Ohio is the greatest state of America has to offer. Not only does he love the quote big cities, but he thinks that people are very understanding as opposed to other states. But it said, I think Ohio is the greatest state in the Union.

I argue that because I’ve traveled everywhere. Its topography is gorgeous. It’s the perfect political place to be where they get your personality. They welcome everyone, but they’re not lunatics. You get weather, you get on the water.

No state has the big cities that Ohio has. I think it’s the best state in the Union. Yeah, I mean, okay, weather, water, sure, No state has the big cities that Ohio has. No California, Texas, nobody’s big cities like anything else. This got mixed responses on social media and from some losers recording a podcast in their basement.

One social media user said, horrible take. It’s Wisconsin going away. The Great American Comedy Festival is back. The headliner Yakov Smirnoff. Yakov’s been doing some press this week.

He was going to do Fellon. That may have happened by now, but he’s the headliner on Saturday. James Austin Johnson headlines Friday Night. Part of the Great American Comedy Festival is honoring Johnny Carson, who would have turned one hundred this year. Festival executive director Pat Jensen said, Johnny Carson was a comedy legend, and certainly SNL isn’t that same pantheon.

If a member of the current SNL cast during the same year that we recognize Johnny’s one hundredth birthday, just feels so perfect. I heard me drop the g in that sentence. The Queen’s Accent’s coming out today. I heard it. I’m leaving it in Hit your ten second, rewind it happening during the word during.

The festival kicks off tonight with the traditional family comedy Magic Show. The festival opened in two thousand and eight to honor the legacy of Johnny Carson. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is launching its own book club, and I know you’re thinking, wow, that sounds really cool, and I’m with you, Yeah, really cool. Stephen Colbert jumped on the social media and said, we’ll be highlighting wonderful books that are worth your time that you’re not putting into watching this show. The first book in the super Cool Late Show book Club is called Orbital.

That’s a twenty twenty three sci fi novel. Colbert says Orbital is a beautiful novel about six astronauts on the International Space Station going about their daily tasks and pondering the meaning of life. It won the book a Prize, and it won the even more prestigious prize of being my first book club pick that actually sounds like a book I would like after I’ve totally made fun of the book club, but come on, Late Show book Club. Jacob Samuel has an album out today. He spoke to streight dot com.

He said one of the problems he had breaking into comedy is I’m not a good storyteller. I was never a naturally charismatic, schmoozy guy. I always thought, don’t want to do comedy writing. I didn’t really want to perform, but then you realize that to even start down that path, you need to be performing if you want to make inroads in the comedy communities. His style is observations of modern day life and quick hits of twelve to fifteen seconds.

He says, I love that joke structure where he had a little clue and then some people get it, then more people get it, and you’re bringing everyone in slowly. An example which I’m sure he told better than I will. It’s about dating apps. He said. I’d see some women write in the profile, I just love life, and that’s great because that tells me you have zero life experience.

Another I’m a jazz lover, and I don’t mean I love jazz, I mean I make love like jazz, because the way I make love is not very popular. That’s a good joke. His first album, Horsepower forty five minutes, when the twenty twenty one Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year. This new one is called Big Time. He says, sometimes you put in a lot of work and it results in nothing.

He told a story I had to cut a joke on my special that I’ve been doing for five years because the week after I recorded the special, Nate Bergetzi he came up with the same joke on the fly on his podcast. It wasn’t the exact same wording. I think mine was better because I had worked on it, but he figured out the same concepts. I’m like, wow, I can’t put that out there because the hottest community in the world just did it, and who’s gonna believe me? That sucks?

He says. One of my favorite jokes in this specials It’s one of the first jokes I wrote to rebuild my act. I dropped it for a while because the wording was a bit clunky. Then I posted on social media. Did really well.

The joke is about the Honda Odyssey. It’s a weird name for a vehicle because if you know anything about the Odyssey, you know it didn’t go well. That’s funny too. Big Talk is the name of the special, and he is Jacob Samuel. It all sounds pretty good and congratulations to Nina Yankovic on graduating college.

Her dad Al went on Instagram to announce that Nina had graduated from college. Al posted a photo of him and Nina, saying, my daughter Nina graduated from college today. Sorry, this is the most recent picture I could find of her. It was, of course, a picture of them at the graduation. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Seth Meyers, Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Taylor Tomlinson, Stephen Colbert, Jim Jefferies, Patton Oswalt

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien returns as guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers
• Just for Laughs Montreal Off-JFL festival programming announcement
• SNL cast members considering departures including Ego Nwodim
• Jamie Foxx emotional at BET Awards accepting Ultimate Icon Award
• Kevin Hart hosts BET Awards with jokes about after parties and government names
• Taylor Tomlinson on late night comedy and serious news topics
• Jim Jefferies hosts new Fox game show ‘The Snake’
• Patton Oswalt joins Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast as Vulcan

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Max with your Daily Comedy News. Conan O’Brien returns to Late Nights, not just the concept of the Late Night, but the actual NBC Late Night with Seth Myers. It is his first time as a guest on the Seth Myers incarnation. He made a cameo appearance early in Jimmy Fallon’s run That’s tonight at twelve thirty seven am.

If you want to stay up late, I am sure someone will share social media clips in your favorite podcast. Here, we’ll recap it for you. Got some information for the Just for Laughs in Montreal, Rebirth Festival JFL has announced the programming lineup for off JFL, the festival’s unique edgy sibling that has been a launch pad for the next generation of artists. This year’s off JFL features Russell Howard, Jen Marco Ciresi, a Kay, Trevor Wilson, Emil Wakeem Nish Kumar, Robbie Hoffman, Ivan Decker and some others. This is some real good names there.

I got to drop the website into English. I can sort of quote unquote read French, but not in a way where I can quote unquote read it and explain it to you as I’m doing the podcast here live ish. So this is not the main festival, but let’s see what we got here. July seventeenth, the Sketch Show, Friday the eighteenth, the Montreal Show, a couple of midnight surprises in there. Sunday Night improv.

I’ve been deck around Wednesday the twenty third, that’s in the middle of the festival, proper cave. Treva Wilson that same night, Nish Kumar that same night, and I think that’s the night of New Faces. Boy, that’s a pack night. Maybe I’ll go up there that day. So decided I finally found a contact for the new press people.

I need to reach out to them. Jay Jorden on Thursday the twenty fourth, in front of the show Marco SOIRESI on Saturday at ten o’clock. Good to see the festival back and starting to come together. Now, that’s good. Waiting for the big announcements and the new faces and all that.

Agunwotum is the latest to flirt with the idea of leaving SNL Goldderby dot com, which suddenly is reporting a lot of comedy stuff that’s hitting my google anyway. Ego was at an Emmy’s FYC event and said, I want to create something that feels like it’s mine. I want to showcase some of my other talents now that I’ve done so much on the show. But I love the show, so there’s no telling what happens there or doesn’t bo When Yang said, this is kind of what everyone’s negotiating. It’s a nice sort of collective check in for everybody.

I don’t think any of us is really at the foresight and what life would be like afterwards, and now that we’re on the other side of it, I think we’re all kind of assessing mighty. Gardner said, I think I’m looking for open doors. I found that sometimes the easiest things that come to me are the most fulfilling ones, so that’s what I’m looking for. Interesting. I think we’re going to say massive cast turnover, but time will tell.

My former coworker Jamie Fox, got emotional while accepting the Ultimate Icon Award at the BET Awards on Monday night. Jamie struggled to hold back tears during his speech. He thanked God for giving him a second chance following his health emergency. Jamie said, I don’t want to make this whole speech about that. You can’t go through something like that and not testify.

I cannot even begin to express the love that I feel from everybody out there. I gotta be honest. When I saw the in Memoriam, I was like, man, that could have been me. Kevin Hart was the host of the BET Awards. He had some really strong material here, which obviously he told better than I will recount to you.

But Kevin said, I’m shutting down the idea of after parties. No after parties tonight, none take your asses home after this. That’s why I did this on a Monday. People gotta go to work tomorrow. No after parties.

That’s where stuff gets slippery at those after parties. We’re learning a lot about people, aren’t we. We’re learning a lot. Take your asses home, and people assumed that was a commentary on the dedde Combs trial. One of Kevin Hart’s other rules for the night was he wanted to keep things classy and he would only refer to attendees by their government names, no nicknames, no rap names.

He gave a shout out to Dwayne Michael Carter Junior aka Lowayne Calvin Cortizor brought us Junior, that Snoop Dogg and Gloria Hallelujah Woods. Kevin Hart said a lot of people expected to see a big church in the back selling fish plates. Nope, that’s Glorilla. Kevin also joked that he’d gotten the audience self driving Waymo cars to take the audience home. The event took place in Los Angeles.

Taylor Thomlinson addressed these situation in LA on her soon to be over a late night show and said late night shows aren’t funny anymore. We’re just the news now. I don’t know. I just have a hard time talking about any of the stuff because I don’t think it’s funny. I can’t imagine being somebody whose mom or dad, or brother or sister got abducted by ice and you turn on TV and it’s just some dumb B word and a ponytail saying Trump’s just being silly.

I don’t know how to make it funny. It’s not funny. She then joked, how are the day laborers at home depot possibly hurting Americans? Have you gone a home depot? Literally?

All they do is offer to help. Stephen Colbert said there’s been some pelting of police and ice agents with rocks and garbage. For example, people began throwing objects at law enforcement and protests that started when demonstrators took over the one oh one, although locals were quick to point out they should have taken over the four O five to the five and saved at least ten minutes on the road to fascism. That is a wonderfully, wonderfully crafted joke. Good j job.

Stephen Colbert’s left Stephen Colbert writers seth Meyer said, Also, if you’re against property damage and protesters flying un American flags, you guys would have hated January sixth, Hey, did we know Jim Jeffries has a new show on Fox? I host this thing every day. I feel like I would have mentioned it. Maybe I raced it from my brain, but apparently he had a show on Fox last night called The Snake. The Snake features fifteen contestants leveraging their unique skills and relying on their powers of persuasion.

Throughout the game, a snake is chosen to juggle the fate of their fellow competitors, all trying to compete for the grand prize of one hundred thousand dollars, which is, you know, kind of a lot of money, but not a lot of money. The feds are gonna take their cut. You’re gonna go home with maybe sixty grand. How much is Fox getting for one commercial on this show. Yeah, sounds like a lot until you look at the math.

Jeffrey said, there is no backstabbing you in this game. People are stabbing you in your front. What makes this show different from other shows is once you win the challenge, you get to become the Snake. You get a Snake Medallion, the most coveted character in the game, and then we have a saving ceremony, not an elimination ceremony, where the Snake decides either going to save first, then that person decides to save another person, and that person decides to save another person until we get down to the final two players, and then the Snake decides who gets to live and who goes home. Patton Oswalt is joined the cast of Star Trek Strange New Worlds.

He plays a vulcan in season three. That’s terrible casting, like really really terrible. Love Patton Oswalt, but there’s nothing about Patton Oswalt that is vulcan. He doesn’t look like a Vulcan. He doesn’t act like a Vulcan.

Even if he’s a world thespian, He’s still going to look like Patton Oswalt and Hobbit makeup. This is a terrible, terrible idea and I’m a big tricky and it gets worse Star Trek fans. During the brief interaction, Spock tells Patton Oswalt’s character to give him five. Oswalt’s character gives Spock a high five. Then Spock says, now go down low and lowers his hand.

Before Oswalt’s character can make contact with Spock’s hand, Spock pulls his hand away. Uh, I almost dropped a JFC there. I’m a big treky. The current regime at Star Trek is just awful. Patton Hoswald Star Trek character says, why would you do that?

Spock says, because you are too slow? Oh my god, what are you people doing? Just leave Star Trek dye in piece. Some fellow nerds said they hope Patton Oswalt gets more Vulcan episodes. He would have to appear in three episodes to pass Sarah Silverman, who appeared in two episodes of Star Trek and of course, Dignataro was in several seasons of The Horrible, Horrible, Horrible Star Trek Discovery.

You don’t want to start me on that topic. If you ever meet me in person and you say Star Trek to me, you’re gonna regret it. Caleb hearing And is getting an HBO special. It’ll tape in Chicago. Little debut this fault, you know.

Rosenstein, the executive vice president of HBO Programming, Late Night and Specials, said, we’re thrilled to work with Caleb on his first comedy special. He’s wildly funny and has kind of an emotion, a ledge and honesty that it feels totally his own. This special captures everything that makes him such a fresh and fearless voice in comedy. How do you know it hasn’t recorded yet? Hmmm?

Caleb said, thank you to HBO for the opportunity. I look forward to seeing what the platform will be called in the fall. That’s good. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Nate Bargatty, Sebastian Maniscalco, Shane Gillis, Steve Gerbin, Andrew Schulz, Joe Rogan, JD Vance, Theo Von, Elon Musk, Steph Curry, John Mulaney, Olivia Munn, James Austin Johnson

What’s in This Episode

• Billboard mid-year touring report: top 5 comedians by gross revenue and ticket sales
• Shane Gillis on Andrew Schulz Flagrant discussing Masters trip and Notre Dame NIL pledge
• Tires season two episode two review and Office comparison
• JD Vance appearance on Theo Von This Past Weekend during Elon Musk Epstein tweet controversy
• NBA Finals ratings decline and lack of Knicks participation
• Steph Curry voice acting role in animated basketball film Goat
• John Mulaney and Olivia Munn People magazine feature on fatherhood
• Prediction on John Mulaney’s Everybody talk show return via Netflix Festival 2026

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johny match with your Daily Comedy News. Billboard has put out its mid year touring recap. We’ll take a look at the top touring comedians. In twenty twenty two and twenty three it was Kevin Hart at the Midway, and twenty four it was Nate Bergatzy All right, who do you think are the top five touring comedians of twenty twenty five so far?

Now, don’t forget to be on the list. You’d actually have to be on tour. The dates covered here are from October first, twenty twenty four to March thirty first, twenty twenty five. Midyear charts are based on figures reported to Billboard box Score. At number five, Jeff Dunham has grossed thirteen point four million dollars and sold two hundred and fourteen thousand tickets across forty seven shows.

At number four, Joe Coy grossing fourteen point six million dollars two hundred and four thousand tickets across fifty three shows. Maybe, if you ever host Golden Globes, don’t try and stare him down to ruin his career, because it’s not gonna work. Joe Coy. Number four, he’s doing fine. Taylor.

Number three Gavi Iglacias twenty million dollars two hundred and seventy five thousand tickets fifty shows. Number two Kevin Hart twenty eight point three million dollars two hundred and sixteen thousand tickets, sixty one shows. Kevin likes to work, doesn’t he? And number one I’m not sure I would have guessed this person, but once you say this person’s name, I’m like, yeah, okay, I could see it. Sebastian Manuscalco thirty five and a half million dollars, three hundred and sixty one thousand tickets sold, thirty shows.

Somebody do the math there? How much as a ticket to go see Sebastian Maniscalco seems pricey? But he plays two Mainstream America, So I get it from Golf Digest, your home for comedy new Shane Gillis was over on Andrew Schultz a podcast. He was joined by Steve Gerbin, and they were promoting season two of Tires, which I’ll talk about in a second. The conversation talked to Gerbin and Gillis’s trip down to the Masters in a browl.

Gillis told Andrew Schultz, this is what I do for this guy. I took him on a private jets of the Masters. I don’t give an f about golf. So we’re at the Masters. It was dug crap.

It sucked. It was awesome. It’s like beautiful Augusta National. You know, it’s the fing Master. So you go in, you walk in, You’re like, this is awesome, and then after an hour you go, ah, sephan golf.

You can’t see a thing. There’s no phones, you’re not allowed on a phone, so you just gotta look at the scoreboard that somebody’s like, manually, they’ve got a two on that last one, and you go, oh nice.

Meanwhile, Shane was on Joe Rogan’s podcast and said, I pledged a million dol…

That’s the licensing thing so that the college players can get paid. Now. I haven’t done one single thing. I was at the FFing Championship game watching Ohio State win, and I was going, Notre Dame needs a defensive tackle. I’m gonna give them a million bucks, and they were like, hey, you want to give us that million bucks.

I was like, no, Gillis told Schultz he wanted to play football in college, but never applied to Notre Dame because they were too good for him. So he tried to play for Army because Army would play Notre Dame that year. Gillis explains, I was like, I would play there in their stadium. In fact, my senior year would have been Notre Dame Army and Yankee Stadium. That would have been cool.

Would have gotten killed by Notre Dame and it would have been an honor. No turns out, I sucked. Grandpa and cousin played for them. It was my old family. I went to a Catholic school in Pennsylvania, so everyone that was Catholic like Notre Dame.

If you’re a Protestant, you liked penn State. Tire season two is hilarious. Tire season two, episode two. I was laughing out loud, which I’ve talked about my Emperor rome syndrome that doesn’t happen. That one had me guffawing.

My son. I watched it separately. He came down because I texted him, I’m like, oh my god, season two, episode two, you gotta watch it, and he had already seen it, and he said something that I was thinking but hadn’t verbalized it. He said it reminds him of the Office’s Diversity Day episode, and I don’t think they’re hiding it. I think they’re going for that.

Even if you watch the way the credits for at least season two. I don’t know what these season one credits, I don’t remember what they look like, but the season two credits, the way it’s shot and the music it’s deafly reminds me of the UK Office anyway. Shane Gillis season two of Tires, You should watch it, episode two. Highest recommend Welcome to the Era of Establishment. Theovaugh So the Establishment.

Theovon this past weekend with Theovon podcast had on the Vice President, and while the VP was there, Elon Musk put out that tweet suggesting that the President is in the Epstein files. Vance said, okay, wow, I haven’t even seen this one. He explained he was on a plane when mister Musk and mister Trump were changing Barbes Online. Vance said, first of all, absolutely not. Donald Trump did not do anything wrong with Jeffrey Epstein.

Whatever the Democrats and the media says about him, that’s totally bs. A clip was posted on Twitter of Van saying he hoped Trump and Musk had become friends again. Musk tweeted, cool, nobody’s watching the NBA Finals because nobody listens to Johnny Mac hey refs call some fouls. Put the Knicks in the finals. You’d have three times the amount of people watching, but instead we’re getting some of the lowest rated finals of decades.

And that’s a shame because the NBA is cool. NBA superstar is Steph Curry is taking on his first major acting role in Goat. Goat is a basketball themed animated feature. It’s set in an all animal world and it follows Will, a little goat with big dreams who gets a once in a lifetime shot to join the pros and play roar ball. Currently, roar ball is a high intensity, co ed, full contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world.

John, why are you talking about this other than being bitter about the Knicks? Well, Batton, Oswalt and Nick Kroll are some of the voice actors in this thing. Olivia Munn has a big feature piece in People magazine. I’ll stick to the John Maliney parts, and she said, I really had no idea what kind of father he would be, what kind of friend he would be to me? But the day Malcolm was born, John’s whole world just lit up.

Malcolm looks just like John. He’s just changed his whole little life. Not to be two Sacharine. But looking at John, looking at Malcolm, I could see all the healing happening. It occurred to me over the weekend, this whole Netflix Malaney thing.

Here’s how they’re gonna get out right, write this down so when they actually say this and I do my I told you so dance, you can go. Okay. Johnny Mac said this on the June tenth episode of Daily Comedy News. He was right, here’s what they’re gonna do. They’re going to announce that everybody’s live will come back, but not until the Netflix Festival.

All right, that’s my prediction, because during the Netflix Festival, they can knock out six of them in a week and they’ll have a level guests and it’ll crush and everyone will be like, oh my god, it was amazing. Plus it helps hype the festival. That way, both Netflix and Malanie could say, yeah, we always said it was coming back, here it is, and then they don’t have to do the pesky twelve week thing that none apparently not too many people were watching, and uh, you know, I’ve said my piece about it. So that’s my prediction. The next time you see The Malleni Talk Show will be d twenty twenty six at Netflix Comedy Festival.

Write that down. James Austin Johnson said, the cold opens in season fifty of SNL, we’re pretty crazy. I’ve done a few of those before, but the added pressure of the fiftieth and the added pressure of my comedy out being up there with some of us on those sketches. It was just Bowan and I looking at each other, like, look at us with all these stars, and made me want to raise my game and match their level. That’s what the whole season was about for me.

I want to find the path to be as good as these people have looked up to in the end and how they’re sharing the stage. You know, I mentioned a few times I like James, but I feel like his Trump impression really drifted this season. It was better when he first started doing it, and you know, Shane does a better one. James said this season was the first where he took out three new cast members, to give them a rundown. He said, this was the first year I cared about another living soul.

I came to SNL with my wife, who was pregnant at the time, and I was so wrapped up in our internal drama. This season was the first one where I thought I could do this. I know this, and I want to share that data with the new guys. And they’re all geniuses. They’re also ready.

I was blown away by all three of them, Ashley Pada, Emil Wickim and Jeane Wickline. They’re such naturals. That’s pretty cool. That’s good to pay it forward like that. In this next story, I had seen buzzing around, but I was only finding it from South American new sites that I was unfamiliar with, and I couldn’t tell if this was a hoax or a real thing.

But now only Washington Post has written about it, so I believe it’s real. A comedian is facing eight years and three months in prison. So here’s the story. Leo Linz is doing a set in mid twenty twenty two. He warns the audience he’s not going to hold back.

He says, I make jokes about everything and everyone. What show could be more inclusive. I even hired a sign language interpreter just to be able to offend the death mute. That set went viral and has over three million views on YouTube. During the set, he made fun of black and indigenous people, obese people, utterly people, gay people, Jews, Northeastern Brazilians, evangelicals, disabled people, and those with HIV and is now facing eight plus years in prison.

The sal Pallo State Criminal Court last week convicted him of practicing or inciting racism and religious prejudice, as well as discrimination against people with disabilities. They called his comedy bigoted and discriminatory against minority and vulnerable groups. The judge wrote in her decision freedom of expression is not out solute nor unlimited. When there’s a confrontation between the fundamental precept of liberty and expression of the principles of human dignity and judicial equality, the latter should win out. Linz responded on his YouTube page and said this video is not a joke.

This is Leonardo de Lima Borges Linz, not the comedian Leo Lenz, a comedic character created over many years that makes a servit jokes. He said Brazil was going too far with rulings based on emotion, in which no one wants to hear the person next to them, but to convince them of their own truth. In twenty twenty two, a judge had ordered Linz to pay around eight thousand dollars to the mother of an autistic child he had offended. He was involved in another controversy by joking about a child with hydrocephalus that is a disease believed to be associated with ZEKEA virus. The audience laughed at one of his jokes, and he said, I like this crowd.

You’re complicit in a crime. I’m going to use you all at trial. Very very interesting. We’ll keep an eye on that one. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Mo’Nique, Theo Vaughn, John Mulaney, Robbie Prap, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Jay Leno

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle Summer Camp 2025 dates announced
• Dave Chappelle and Mo’Nique discuss Netflix deal and creative pressure
• Mo’Nique addresses Palestinian representation in Season 2 writing room
• Theo Vaughn calls Gaza conflict a genocide on his podcast
• John Mulaney late-night talk show status unclear despite Netflix deal
• Robbie Prap dodges questions about Mulaney show renewal
• Late-night talk show format and production comparisons

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Caloroga Shark Media been air. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle is doing his hometown summer shows again. Dave Chappelle’s Summer Camp is a summer tradition. It’s back for its fifth year.

He’ll do three summer weekends at the Weird Pavilion weekend of July second to third and fifth, so no show on the fourth, and then August fourteen, fifteen sixteen, and August twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. The Hollywood Reporter put Chappelle and Moa. Mayer together for a conversation. Dave says, of Mo, we spent all the summer of twenty twenty together doing shows. The best comedians of the world flew in Ohio and we had a blast.

Moe recalls it was so nerve wracking because everything was so unsettling. It was COVID, it was civil unrest, it was my own personal stuff, and every one of my writers was juggling things emotionally. He was really overwhelming, But you, Dave, really saved my life. I’m sure that a lot of people fell that way because we weren’t working. You gave us an outlet so the story here.

Moe was invited to participate in Actors on Actors, and he suggested speaking with Dave Chappelle. Chappelle said, as you know, I notoriously don’t like to do press, but I wouldn’t have missed today because it’s used. So Dave flew from Ohio to LA and said, there’s an elephant in the room. You got a deal at Netflix to produce a show, and then Riser’s starting production on season two October seventh happened, and this is something that you’re going to have to address artistically or not. And I was curious about what’s the process of going through that.

By some weird accident, you found yourself being a solo Palestinian voice at a very critical time in human history. Moe explained. I started writing season two in April of twenty three. Then the writers Guild went on strike. We came back in October six days later.

All hell breaks loose, and particularly my writing room. Since the show centered around a Palestinian family and impacted it significantly, it caused us to have a tremendous amount of debate in the writing room itself. Chappelle was curious where the pressure comes from family, friends, bosses, most said more so from the fans of the public said I’m the only guy that’s Palestinian. It was a show that centered around the Palestinian family. The pressure around that was a minute.

There were so many phone calls and people pressuring me to speak right away. Literally October eighth, I noticed everybody was yelling at each other. No one was actually listening to one another. And I think it’s really important to understand what’s happening before you speak out. It’s really necessary to know what you’re talking about.

I’ve aween my art form as a refuge what it allows me to be myself and express myself. Outside of that, it feels unnatural to me at the moment. I had a long conversation there along those lines while we’re solving a peace in the Middle East here on Daily Comedy News, THEO Vaughn has also addressed Palestine on his podcast. He called it a genocide. There’s a clip going viral.

It’s from the May tenth episode of this past Weekend. In it, THEO says, feels to me like it’s a genocide that’s happening while we’re alive. You see all these photos of people just children, women, people body parts, just putting their kids back together. I just can’t believe we’re watching that and that more isn’t said about it. I didn’t set out today to wait into any of this.

As I put the show together and he could check the back catalog. Whoever the biggest comedian is, that’s who gets the first story. So when I went into the Chappelle thing and saw that THEO, who’s pretty big and would have been in the three spot today, was on the same subject, I put those two back to back. Had THEO spoken about something else, the number two story would have been this whole John Mulaney thing. Now, I had pointed out on this show, I’m getting up on my soapbox and doing the Hey, Johnny Mac told you I’m doing it.

Hey, remember I told you this. Remember a couple of weeks ago, Robbie pro the head of Netflix Comedy, was like, yeah, Mallenie, yeah yeah, but like never said it was actually coming back. Then last week Mulaney was on Mark Marion’s podcast and you know, said we’re working things out. Late Nighter poked at this. Robbie Pra told Late Nighter Robbie again is head of Netflix comedy Every Wednesday for the last twelve weeks has been my favorite Wednesday.

I think John is absolutely brilliant. That’s nice. My ex girlfriend from college has nice hair. That’s it. She’s nice hair.

So Late Nighter didn’t accept that dodge and asked it, you know, are we gonna get any more of this show? Robbie prot says, I have nothing to elaborate on at this time, which is not yeah, we’re working on season two right now, or yeah, twelve more episodes come out October twenty fourth, or yeah, we’re working it out. John’s touring this summer, which is trying to figure out the dates. You could have said any of that, but Prau said quote, I have nothing to elaborate on at this time. Prau also points out mulaney is an extremely, extremely busy man.

It sounds like everybody has figured out that that show didn’t work my opinion, and they’re laying the groundwork to everyone to get out gracefully. I could see a future in which it’s like, you know, working with John was great, but yeah, you know, he’s got this sixteen month tour coming up, but he’s got two young children and he’s in a lot of demand and he might host some awards show how about you know, we love him here at Netflix, and we always have the door open for an upcomings, you know, that kind of spin that’s coming. What’s incredible to me about John is how quickly we saw the evolution of the show. To put on a program that feels different from Show one to Show twelve. In the old world of late night, that would be what two and a half weeks.

I can’t really envision who else could pull that off the way John did. Well, that’s not really a fair comparison. You kick, pare twelve weekday shows to twelve weeks. You have to comp we are twelve weeks to twelve weeks, because if you’re doing a daily show, like all right, we’re done taving at six thirty and we have to get to work, and we have twenty three hours to put out another show, not one hundred and sixty seven hours to put out another show. So that’s not a fair comparison at all.

Robbie Prau, who I’ve worked with back at Just for Laughson, is a good guy. More from pra Vi e Late Night Er, which is a great website. I mean, we’re calling it late night, but it’s on streaming so it’s available all the time. So to me, it really seems like a hybrid. It’s a talk show.

Part of it feels snl E. No it doesn’t. I mean he wrestled fourteen year olds. That feels Andy KAUFMANI yes, he did the hype bit the night Letterman was on. That felt lettermany.

Yes it did. The fact that he was out there doing these ten to twelve minute not topical monologues and that they’re strong as they are is something mokes folks don’t understand the level of difference and specialness. You have to have to achieve that. Sure, but I will tell you this, Give Jay Leno a week to come up with twelve minutes, he’ll do it. But he did a show five days a week.

And let’s not pretend people don’t have writers for us as The idea of producing the show live around the world wasn’t necessarily a strategy to differ the show. To be honest, I don’t think it’s the thing that makes the show great personally. It’s certainly exciting that it’s live in the moment, but it really stands out as a great variety hour either way, That’s how a lot of our members engage with it. You may recall Jimmy Kimmel Live was called Jimmy Kimmel Live because Jimmy Kimmel was Stay It with Me Live. The Holly Reporter caught up with Seth Meyers, who somehow has been hosting Late Night for eleven years now without really having any impact on society.

They were curious, Seth, do you have a sense for what differentiates your show? Seth says, One thing I love hearing as I’ll come backstage for first time guests and they’ll say, everybody tells me this will be really fun, and that’s great. Defeedback, I think is people like doing the show because they feel like it’s a conversation. We don’t ask some of them. It’s just come and talk.

It’s a loose, good vibe. Host isn’t in a suit. We have a nice green room. Well, I mean, if that alone isn’t a reason to watch the show, they have a nice green room, says The one thing I was most wrong about is I thought politicians would be more interesting. I think it’s very interesting to talk about politics.

It’s less interesting to talk to politicians and We’ve built a show where if the conversation’s good, it’s good TV, and it almost doesn’t matter who it’s with. Honestly, I think it’s better to have a good conversation with an author than a bad conversation with an A list star. But that said, is it if more value if you have a good conversation with George Clooney? Of course, But if we realize there’s someone who’s a giant star is maybe better at being a giant star than they are being a talk show guest, that’s great. We don’t need to chase that person.

In Carmel spoke to GQ about his weight loss and said, you know what the big difference for me was, I joined a gym. I can walk to the whole idea of getting in the car and finding parking and in LA often paying for parking. I took away as many hurdles as I could. There’s a gym that’s like a twenty five minute walk for me. Perfect it’s podcast time.

Maybe he listens to this podcast. Hi, And I also drink so much water because the other thing I feel with cravings is you have to try telling them and know in as many ways as you can throw whatever you can at them. I’m probably like a three to four apples a day guy. Doctors will tell you to keep it to two, but listen, it’s that or Lasagnas. I’m doing the apples and I love blueberries.

For me, that’s a top tier berry. I think it’s the most consistently good. I don’t think it’s the best berry at its best, but it’s the best berry on average. Forgot to mention earlier. Seth’s doing a lot of press and why I don’t know why he’s doing so much press.

Conan’s doing a lot of press too. At Eliza Slessengers doing a lot of press. I’ve noticed that aproprobe nothing just thought a chair doing comedy podcast and these things come to mind when I put the show together. At the ATX TV Festival in Austin, Brett Goldstein talked about his early collaboration with Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence. That was a project called spaced Out, also in that Donald Faison from Scrubs.

It was basically a space themed workplace sitcom. Wheret Goldstein said, it was my second pilot season in la I’d gone and done a pilot for HBO the year before. There was really good, but didn’t get picked up, and then it came back in an audition for Bill’s new show. I love Bill because of Scrubs and I was excited to had Donald in it. The show was about a working class genius trying to integrate with a team of scientists building a Mars rocket.

Goldstein said it was basically Scrubs set in a rocket factory. We called it space Turk. Laurence said it was not called it was canceled. Brett says, the thing that’s awful about making TVs, we all felt on the set the pilot was really special. This is a thing so much that when Bill’s producing partner, Jeff said goodbye to me, because you do the pilot and then you start shooting the rest of the season in August, he said to me, see you in August.

So I started packing out my house. I sold my place in England, don’t know.

And then a month later it’s not happening.

I was like, where do I live? Yeah, I don’t do that. That was a rookie mistake there, brick Oldstein. Years later, Bill Lawrence calls him about this show called ted Lasso. He called me completely out of the blue, and he said, I’m gona do this football show.

You want to come right on it? And I said no, I’ve got a big stand up show booked. He said it starts next week and I was like, but I’ve got these stand up shows. Brett spoke to comedian Nish Kumar, who told him cancel the show. Cold Scene had another concern.

He had developed a show, Soulmates for AMC. The Soulmates got picked up and I was like, ef Bill Lawrence said he was running Soulmates and we hired him as a writer on Lasso. He didn’t know he was also going to be Roy Kent, but that was all Brett. We were writing. The party filmed an audition on his own.

He sent it to us and he absolutely killed. Yeah, we’ve heard that story before where he just asked, Hey, can I just be Roy Kent and they said yeah. That’s how I started hosting the show on Live One. The weekly comedy thing, by the way, I should plug that new episodes every Monday, kind of like this, except I talk a lot less. But I can also play comedy clips from comedians because of licensing and all that.

So that’s the weekly comedy thing on Live One. So when we were putting that show together, I was inspired by Phil Collins from Genesis. I’ve gone sideways here, let me back you up. So Peter Gabriel, musician Peter Gabriel, you’ve heard of him. He was the original singer for the band Genesis, and then he left and Genesis was looking for singers and they auditioned a bunch of people and then one day Phil Collins, who you’ve heard of, said can I just do it?

And they were like, yeah, sure. So we were auditioning people for the weekly comedy thing and I was writing it, but no one was quite nailing the voice. And I eventually said can I do it? And I totally had Phil Collins stuck in my head for that, and they were like sure. So I started hosting that and then I had all these extra stories left over, and I’m like, I got to do something with these stories.

So I created this podcast and here we are, and like anything else in life, I’ve been talking into a microphone almost every day for don eleven twelve years now, and you get better things. So thank you for listening. I digress. But that was the end of the Brett Goldstein story. Oh, I definitely want to stop off at Gossip Corner before we Go.

Page six reported that Jeff Gorlan was scheduled to headline a comedy dinner at the Calabasas Country Club in SoCal last week. However, he allegedly walked out after discovering he’d be paid by check. Gorlan was reportedly promised listen to this number eight hundred dollars in cash, and was unhappy to learn at the venue intended to compensate him with a check instead. Let’s just stop off there. So say you were on curb your enthusiasm for eleven years, You’re going to headline a comedy dinner.

How much do you think you would get paid? Apparently the number is eight hundred dollars. Wow. An insider told the Post the crowd was ticked, most of them come to see Jeff. Approximately forty people at the show.

According to Calabasa’s country club schedule, they frequently host events such as comedy nights and bingo. The Post says it’s unclear why Garland walked out. A different source in form Page six that he likely didn’t walk out due to financial reasons. They said, Jeff can be a very neurotic guy. You can get hung up on things, so who knows.

I think I have it in my brain somewhere. I feel like when I was at Serious XM, I feel like we were talking with Jeff about maybe perhaps doing something I may have And again, I might just be making up this whole thing. I feel like I was on a call with Jeff and I haven’t filed away in my brain that sometimes you jump on calls with people and you can tell people really want to do something and then we’ll figure out the money later.

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And then sometimes you’re on a call with someone and you feel like, oh, they …

And it’s more about the money than the idea. And I haven’t filed away this conversation with Garland that I might just be imagining, but I think it happened, if I’m remembering correctly. I think I left that call going, oh, this isn’t column B, that this is just like, hey, I heard this is the thing. When podcasting heated up a few years back, oh boy, a lot of people were out. Yeah, I’d like to do a podcast.

All right, what do you want to do? I don’t know, whatever you guys think, And it was like, you just want to be paid anyway. That’s your comedy news for today, see tomorrow.

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Featured: Tim Dillon, Seth Meyers, Colin Jost, Eddie Murphy, Rob Schneider, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlyn Olsen, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton

What’s in This Episode

• Tim Dillon on Meghan Markle and the Royal Family
• Seth Meyers writing for SNL’s 50th Anniversary special
• SNL 50th Anniversary behind-the-scenes details and Colin Jost’s leadership
• Rob Schneider’s ‘You Can Do It’ tour receives scathing review from The Observer
• Rob McElhenney and Kaitlyn Olsen’s success with ‘High Potential’ and other business ventures
• Kaitlyn Olsen’s multiple TV commitments and career momentum

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Tim Dilan was on with Fox News Digital and goof Dan. One of my favorite comedic targets, and that is Megan Markle. Now, I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigued podcast about the royal family, so I write about Megan seven days a week, so I’m very familiar with what everything’s going on.

And Tim said, I think she came to prominence at a time when there was a real cultural cachet of being a victim, and I thought it was a very funny way to be a victim, and she found a way to be a victim while living in a castle, and I always found that very funny. I think she’s a great comedic actress. I think there was a real currency in being a victim when she rose to prominence and she became a victim living in a castle, married to a prince with the royal wedding, and I thought that was really funny. It’s hard to pull it off. She did it to her credit.

You know, most people that were putting out that they were victims during that era were, to their credit, not members of the royal family. Tim then talked about Prince Harry and said, Harry seems like he’s kind of been let around and he kind of doesn’t know what’s going on. It’s probably all all adventure for him, right. I loved him, Dylon and you can follow along and kind of goofon the Royal Family. Listen to Palace Injurgue where you get your shows.

The Hollywood Reporter did a wax job for Seth Meyers’s car. I don’t know why. A lot of Seth Meyer’s press recently. They asked him about writing for SNL’s fiftieth Seth said it was funny because I wrote on the fortieth and I was very fresh from having left, and I felt right back into being a head writer this time. I felt like a guy trying to make a comeback in baseball as a fifty year old, and he’s kind of throwing his backyard and he’s like, oh, yeah, I still kind of got it.

But this current writing staff is really great. In the person I was most impressed with was Colin Jost. Seth says Jost wanted to make sure everybody was taken care of, which often gets overlooked at SNL. I mean, every good writer at SNL is always looking out for the cast, but to some degree you’re always like, well, there’s next week. But with the fiftieth, you don’t want people to get shut out.

I was at the table reading. It was one of those moments in life where you realize this is probably the last time this is going to happen for me. It was very special, and in the back of your head there’s an anxiety of like, am I doing enough of me adding enough value? Seth tells us for the fiftieth there was very little that was pulled at the last minute. Once so you ask Eddie Murphy to do a sketch, You’re not going to cut the sketch, by the way, nor will you ever be in a position where you think you should.

But in general was a really cool thing. Could they top this? Say there was a sixtieth anniversary at wich Lorne Michaels would be ninety. Seth said, yeah, this was a little bittersweet, and it might be the last great showbiz party. Again, we’re all aware we’re living at different times, but I didn’t feel like a single corner had been cut, and the after party was amazing.

I would say the only part and This was the other difference of ten years is at some point we realized the next day was Monday and we had to beat parents again. So my wife and I did great. I mean, we stayed out untill three. But the next day I was literally taking two of my kids to the Blue Experience. I wasn’t even hungover, it was emotional exhaustion.

And then I was at the Bluey Store, and every parent of the Blue Store is hoping there’s someone there that could talk to you about something cooler than Bluey. So the number of parents coming over like I can’t believe you’re out, and I’m like, yeah, me neither. They then go on to talk about late Night. Maybe I’ll go into that tomorrow. The Alice Observer had a wonderful, wonderful review of Rob Schneider’s show.

The headline Rob Schneider is you can do It Tour had us wishing he wouldn’t. The Observer rights the snl Alum show was a sad display of a comedian who now only knows how to pander to your Facebook uncle. Sounds like Lauren Upshaw did not have a good time at the show. She wrote about Rob’s move towards the right and his comedy special on Fox Nation. The Observer put comedy in quotes.

She writes, when we heard he was playing the Granada, we thought, maybe we’re missing something, maybe he’s grown as a person and his interesting insight in the time following the ascendancy of the Orange One, or maybe we just love a little bit of good cringe, And in that vein, we were truly not disappointed. The crowd was diverse in the sense that it was made up of seemingly older, rich white folks who had not seen Deuce Bigelow and the rest of the white people who definitely had seen it. The opening act was a Vegas performer who began the show with standards before pivoting midway through the set to croner versions of classic hip hop. The crowd loved it, and it was admittedly great, and so the last couple songs took a sharp turn, becoming a croon list of people to get ft. The first real applause during the set erupted when the singer said f oprah.

It was clear the crowd was there to see someone stick it to the libs, and early on it seemed that desire would be fulfilled. The second act gave us a revolting anti feminist tirade for about thirty minutes. Her jokes were typical conservative attempts at meme fodder, such as, don’t worry, honey, there’s no chance you’ll need an abortion because you’re so ugly, no one would have sex with you. Then Schneider came out. The theme of the night was free speech the observer rights.

The set was made strange by the fact that it didn’t seem to be based on conviction or even a desire to provoke thought. Instead, it came across like Schneider was just trying to use outlandish, buzzed words to claim victimhood, if not a grift. It was quite lazy writing at the best. I’m sitting on this one. I bounced this several weekends in a row.

Let me just clear this out. Variety did a big, big fluff piece about Rob mcallenny and Kaylin Olsen. We’re told how successful they are with two businesses, Linear TV and a UK foot We hear from Charlie Day you said it would be very impressive if just one of them was going on a run. But the fact is that both of them are stringing together a series of real successes. They’re out of tear.

Kaitln Olsen’s High Potential is a smash hit, one of the biggest shows on TV right now. Yeah, I guess. Let me see how that’s doing. And please understand I love kayln Olsen. From Variety on May thirteenth, they wrote for the network High Potential was its top rated freshman drama in seven years.

Craig Ierwick, president of Disney Television Group, says, I mean High Potential is truly the story of the year. If you look at the multi platform ratings this year, it does I think about double the ratings of Matt Locke. Wow. Impressive. It stands among the giants of shows that are on right now.

I think the momentum of the show will continue. According to this Variety article, High Potential Broadcast plus Streaming eighteen to forty nine gets a two point four to seven rating that is better than other shows like Abbott Elementary at two point twelve, The Rookie at one point seven zero, Shifting Gears, Tracker, Ghosts Survivor, and Bob’s Burgers at number nine, and that show doesn’t even exist. Then Variety gets onto Waxing Rob’s Car about Wrexham and how well they’ve done. We’re told how Caitlyn is on hecks. She is very good on hecks and don’t forget Sonny returns in July for its seventeenth season.

They’re also in business together as investors in the Philly bar Max Tavern. Glenn Howarden says Rob Ten’s to succeed. He’s very smart and humble on a collad of her person. I’m extremely proud of him and Kitlyn. I don’t know how she does it.

I mean, she’s on three different TV shows. What the f is going on? Man? If I want to do those, if I want to do what those two were doing, they’d probably be part of me that was jealous. But it all sounds very exhausting.

I’m too damn lazy to do all that stuff. It’s just too much happening. Boy, they publicist, you deserve one hell of a race for this fluff piece. They even got Danny DeVito to say he’s an oppressive guy. And I was always thought Caitlyn was the funniest one on the show.

She’s not only gorgeous, but as the timing and as a natural comedian. This is like the fluff job of fluff jobs I’ve ever seen. Rob is pondering a name change. He says, as our business and 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 kylen Olsen said. The kids are really not happy about it because they have their last name, and so do I legally.

The fluff piece then goes on to the first year of Sonny. Rob said during season one he didn’t quit his job as a waiter. Sonny was paying him seventy five hundred dollars an episode, minus taxes and commission, and there was no guarantee the show would keep going, he says, of that season. That was our chance, and we’re very proud of those episodes. It was certainly unlike anything else on TV.

We knew we were betting on ourselves. John the FX’s boss, was very upfront with us, saying, we’re taking a risk on you. You came in and said you want to be the showrunner. You’re not even the head waiter at a restaurant, but I believe in you. That sounds like some retro storytelling.

Can you imagine you’re sitting in the office, and then the head of FX is like, you’re not even the head waiter. I don’t know, and I’ve run into some jerks, and the guy John Langraf does not have a reputation for being a jerk, so only think that story might be a little massaged. The piece then gets into Rob and Caitlin becoming friends and then more of a relationship. Glenn Howard and said, how did I not see this was happening? She would come over and then get too drunk and sleep there.

In retrospect, she wasn’t really that drunk. She was just using the aas excuse stayed out our apartment, and then Rob would disappear for a couple nights and I’d be like, what’s going on? He tell me he went out with some girl making stuff up. Charlie Day said, I thought, what’s the big deal? I think I remember Glenn was a little more thrown off.

Glenn responds saying I thought he was doing a bit because he knows. The stupidest thing you could possibly do is date your co star. You’re compromising the show on everyone’s job. If that goes south, you’re ft, and the whole show is ft and heft everybody. So I laughed and he was like, no, I’m serious.

Anyway, this thing goes on and on and on. I think there’s some storytelling here, A nice narrative has been created. And if you’re the publicist for Rob Mcalenni and Keaitlyn Olsen, you deserve more money. Screen Rant writes, I really hope Happy Gilmore Too is Adam Sandler’s first grade comedy in twenty seven years. See.

I agree with that, except I would phrase it, I really hope Happy Gilmore Too is Adam Sandler’s first grade comedy, and I wouldn’t put a time period on it. I agree with screen Rant when they write Sandler has undeniably started in plenty of great movies over the past few years. They’ve mostly been dramas on cut Gems, Hustle, Punch, Drunk Love are the best of the best of the best. Johnny Mac big fan of Adam Sandler, dramatic actor comedy not so much, and I thought this was interesting. They pulled the Rotten Tomato scores for Adam Sandler comedies after the wedding Singer water Boy critics thirty four audience is seventy one.

Big Daddy Critics thirty nine audience is seventy four. I’m just gonna do the splits. I’m not going to keep saying the words critics and audiences, Okay, Little Nikki twenty two to fifty five, Mister Deed’s twenty two, fifty nine, eight, Crazy Knights thirteen and fifty, Anger Management forty two and fifty nine, fifty First eight, forty five and sixty five, Spanglish fifty four and sixty the Longest Yard Critics thirty two audience is sixty two. The original Reynolds Fantastic Film, Click thirty four and sixty six, Chuck and Larry fifteen and of critics sixty nine audiences, Zohan thirty eight and forty five, Bedtime Stories and I Remember that twenty seven and fifty five grown Ups ten percent from critics, sixty two audiences, Just go with It nineteen critics, fifty nine audiences, Zoo Keeper fourteen percent from critics, Jack and Jill, the one that my kids still talk about. They wanted to rent it on pay per view one day, and I said, I’m just going to take the five dollars and light it on fire critics three percent.

Audience is thirty six, That’s My Boy twenty one and fifty one grown Ups two eight percent critics, fifty three audiences, Blended fifteen and sixty four, The Cobbler ten and thirty six, Pickls eighteen and forty six, The Ridiculous six critics gave it zero. Is that possible? Even I don’t give Adam Salor movies zero audience is thirty six, The do Over nine and forty two, Sandy Wexer Boy, This guy has put out a lot of stuff, hasn’t he? Twenty seven and thirty nine, The Week of twenty six, thirty five, Murder Mystery forty three, forty six, Hub Halloween another one I like to hate on fifty two out of critics, thirty eight audiences, Murder Mystery two, forty six and forty five. They right.

If there was ever a movie that seemed tailor made for Adam Sandler’s comedy comeback, it’s Happy Gilmore two. It would be great if Happy Gilmore two finally realize that Adam Sandler isn’t enough to make a film successful on its own. There needs to be a level of craft and writing ability on display that’s been missing for the rest of his filmography. I don’t disagree, and that is your comedy news for today, see tomorrow.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, John Mulaney, Eliza Shlesinger, Mark Watson

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien’s travel packing tips and carry-on strategy
• John Mulaney discusses best cities for stand-up comedy
• Eliza Shlesinger on comedy advice and career longevity
• Mark Watson performs at Prague Fringe Festival
• Mark Watson’s new show about AI and technological change

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Wirecutter caught up with Conan O’Brien about how he packs when he travels. I just found this fascinating. A conin opened up with a joke, telling Maria Adammant, who writes for Wirecutter, that he does travel with fake beard’s, fake mustaches and a weird don Keyxote costume.

Those are props that gets sent ahead. But more seriously, when Conan travels alone, it’s carry on or bust my kind of guy. Conan pro tips from Conan O’Brien underpack, bring versatile and comfortable, multipurpose clothes, stick to a singer color palette. Pretend you’re Steve Jobs. He suggests two pairs of jeans, one blue, one black, that takes care of ninety five percent of the situations you’d be in.

According to Conan, his favorite brand makes stretchy pants with a dash of krag. Conan says, you could do yog in these, but they look just like regular jeans and they’re incredibly comfortable. That’s a good tip. Conan was even wearing one during the interview. He pairs his jeans with a classic T like his favorite dark blue T shirt from sun Spell.

He explains it’s not a cheap T shirt, but they hold up pretty well over time and they don’t start to look ratty. They actually look kind of nice. Conan also brings a dark blue cashmere Brunello zip up hoodie, which he’s had for years and explains, I’ve noticed you can wear that with anything. It can go to almost any climate. You can just wear it.

You can wear that and be a chill, relaxed dude headed down to the gym, or you can wear it underneath an overcoat. You know, you look like Sting. On his way to the Grammys, Conan says, though you don’t need a luxury version, literally could get something similar at Banana Republic.

Also in the bag a versatile dark blue suit from State and Liberty.

He likes it because it’s made with a light stretching material and says he can attend a funeral, we’re under a jiu jitsu tournament, and neither way you’re set. He always travels with a good pair of black running sneakers. If you’re squinting, it kind of looks like a shoe. That’s my go too as well. I’m actually you hear that.

I’m wearing black sneakers that kind of look like a shoe right now. You know, if you’re wearing dark pants, it’s cone and no one’s really banging attention. You can also walk for like twenty miles. You can go to the gym if you’re crazy enough to go to the gym while traveling.

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You know, It’s not like he’s going for a job at the bank. He wears glycerin GCS twenties from Brooks. I have a pair of those, not in black. My black ones i’m wearing are Nikes, but my current running sneakers are Brooks. Wow, all right, Conan, get it done.

I like this next part about his toilet trees. He says, I always make sure the containers are approved by the Heathrow Airport website, but as even so, the bottles will still be thrown out in front of me by a delighted TSA employee from Manchester. I followed every single rule that he throw has, and they still hold it up in front of me like it’s rat feces and dispose of it. They then get into there’s a lot of Aaron wirecutter, if you want to read it. They get into which razor he brings.

He talks about adapters, has been here, done that. I always like to bring the wrong adapter for the country I’m going to. It’s the correct adapter for the country I previously went to. And that’s true every time, and I’m not even kidding. Don’t cover your passport, Conan said, I used to think it was cool to have a little cover for your passport.

Don’t do it. Everybody in every country treats it with disdain. They make you remove your passport for a little cover. They had the cover back to you like, here’s your affectation. He uses an air tag and his luggage.

It tells you that your luggage is in these zories, but no way helps the situation other than that. The air tag is just a way of laughing at you, mocking you. It’s like a kidnapper who says we have your relative and you’re never getting him back. You’ll find that in the New York Times wire Cutter, that’s pretty good. During a recent episode of the Town with Matthew Beloney, matt asked John Mulaney what cities he thought were best for playing stand up.

Mulaney said Dublin and then switched to Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham was just great. I just walked around. My son was probably twelve months old. I was pushing him around the city and a stroller, and Everybody’s like, we’re coming to the show tonight, And then everybody was at the show.

It was that kind of town. Golderby dot com, you’re home for comedy News asked Eliza Selessinger. What’s some great comedy advice should pass on? She said, honestly none. I hear about comics have mentors when they start, but I never had that.

After take years, I thought I knew everything, but then you realize how much you don’t know. The biggest thing is that comedy, and really any career was a marathon, not a sprint. You have to keep working, keep evolving, and be grateful for the chance to create a body of work over time. I want to look back and see my audience growing with me and not be a flash in the pan who in the comedy world inspired you, Eliza Selessener her answer, Adam Sandler was huge for me growing up. I always loved sketch comedy, which shaped my storytelling style.

Wasn’t until much later I realized how much that influenced me. Often on the weekends, I’ll do international stuff, and I’ve got a whole bunch of international for you here. And if none of that interests you, you are dismissed. I understand. I’ll see you tomorrow.

Mark Watson gets a lot of buzz. He was recently enjoying the Prague Fringe and spoke to English radio dot CZ, which normally would get tagged with your home for comedy news, but I already used that joke. He liked Prague. Two of my kids have been to Prague separately. They both loved it too.

Mark Watson said, there’s a kind of owe the architecture in the history and how relatively unspoiled it feels. There’s a real grandeur. Two I’ve been too, slightly similar central European cities like Vienna, and it even reminds you Munich. There’s certainly a joy for a British person with the space, with the big city squares, and also all the colors. It’s lovely to look out the window and feel so far from home.

It’s a very nice city. Mark’s show is called Before It Overtakes Us. What’s it about? He says, I suppose it’s a little bit ominous. The show’s inspired by a conversation I had with what was supposedly a customer service person but proved to be a chatbot in AI.

That was last year. The first time I’d ever been successfully condonent as you’re talking to a non human believing it was human. Made me think a little bit about the changing face of humanity faced by all this technology. I’m forty five. I’ve seen twenty years of relentless technological change.

For most of it I felt slightly behind the pace, but not in a way that’s too much of a problem. Now it does feel as if it’s getting away from me, and I can feel the next generation is starting to do things I don’t understand. Welcome to Old Man Mountain, Mark Watson. Interesting topic here performing in English, where that’s many people’s second language. Mark says, it’s a British person.

You get complacent about that. I’ve performed in the Netherlands and Denmark, and yesterday I had performed a late night’s show after my show and there were people on the bill from India, Russia, Romania, all them performing to each other in English. Were really spoiled. As anglophones, you can pretty much take it anywhere. Of course, in other countries, I can and would try to speak a little bit of German and Germany and French in France.

Now I’ve tried to do snatches in those languages. Here, I’ve had very little time to adapt to the local language, so I’m going to once again rely on any checks there to be fluent or fluent enough.

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Meanwhile, an Australian disability campaigner has hit out at an English come…

Carmen is a Type one diabetic and was appalled when comedian Paul Foot went into a ten minute stretch on diabetes at his show at the Moth Club in East London about ten days ago. In the chunk, Foot quote made fun of people unquote who wear continuous glucose monitors. That’s a device that diabetics used to keep track of their blood glucose levels. He then apparently mimiced a diabetic having in an episode shaking on stage before were suggesting that the person in the sketch died after suffering a heart attack. Carman shared footage on TikTok where she could be heard booing and calling out the comedian.

She yelled out, that was a crap joke. I have Type one diabetes. That was extremely insensitive and misinformative. Foot shot back and said he didn’t think he was being insensitive, continued to set Carman yelled back, I don’t think it’s up to you to decide if it’s insensitive or not. I’ll remind everyone this was happening at a comedy show.

Foot said, due to the failure of you to grasp with that civil intellectual point, then went on to argue that comedy is subjective, and due to the failure of you to grasp that simple intellectual point, the show’s ending in an awkward way. Congratulations to Sean Patrick, who won the Not So New Comedian of the Year award. Kind of like this. This award is aimed at ax who’ve been doing it for a while but of yet to have a big break. Was previously known as the Old Comedian of the Year, but they switched that around Julia Rayside wrote an opinion piece that I found on MSN.

Julia is upset that the BBC’s new comedy lineup is full of white men and says we’ve gone back in time. Julia writes, the latest late of BBC comedy commissions announced recently features almost entirely programs by white men. A great white side of testosterone is set to wash over our screens. I had read to you some of these shows, how about a week ago. Remember Mackenzie Crooks in One and Michael Palin’s in one.

Julia Wrights. Women writers have been almost entirely sidelined. The one exception is Diane Morgan’s Android. They said, come about a humanoid robot design to keep the elderly company. But we’re back to the days of one woman on the bill.

A single female is on one side of the seesaw while the football team of white men weighs down the other end. The Christmas one off Stuffed Dust are the only non white man Guz Cohn, but it’s written by Andy Milligan, another white guy. And Crackt wrote about the biggest gatekeeper in comedy, which is a piece of computer code. Eli Youwdon writes, AI has already taken over comedy, but just from the booker’s office, Eli writes. At the current moment in AI has a massive influence over the world of stand up comedy.

It’s not writing material and it’s obviously not performing it. What it is controlling, and heavily is if you ever see the material. I’m not looking to really togate for the thousand times how Instagram is effected the quality of comedy. For Instagram to exist and for the comics well suited to get famous off it more power too than when I can’t stomach is success or failure on a singular platform being used to gatekeep the entire pursuit. What set me off was a post on Instagram by comedian Charles Gould.

The post was a bit resulting from a meeting with an agent where he was told in plane terms that until he had at least one hundred thousand followers, the door was closed. It irked me, especially because the job of agents and managers and maybe my childish mind is to find talent and then help that talent find an audience. That’s a good point, and that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please Tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Featured: Kevin Hart, Ian Carmel, Andrew Schultz, Joe List, Eliza Shlesinger, Harry Condobolu

What’s in This Episode

• Kevin Hart’s LOL Live premieres on Hulu with ten 30-minute comedy sets
• Ken Flores’s first long-form special released posthumously on LOL Live
• Ian Carmel GQ profile discussing weight loss from 420 pounds and mental health
• Andrew Schultz reflects on cancel culture shifting, discusses Matt Damon promo
• Joe List’s new special ‘Small Ball’ filmed at Chicago comedy clubs
• Eliza Shlesinger interview on evolution from dating comedy to validating women’s perspectives
• Harry Condobolu discusses selling out concept and hosting Netflix’s Snack Versus Chef
• Beetlejuice the musical returning to Broadway

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now Kevin Hart, he’s got more side hustles than anybody. He’s not afraid to work, and he’s always got a new business going on. Well.

Now he has partnered with Hulu, and the Hulu pul says may have tried to keep this away from me because you know they definitely don’t get back to May. But I found out anyway about LOL Live, which will feature ten thirty minute sets from a range of comics. It comes from Kevin Hart’s Heartbeat Production Company and premieres today. Comedians include Devin Walker, Chico Bean, Brandy, Denise Chinado, Unaka, Dethnique Springs, Justin Silva, Leah Sampson, Malik b Sidney Washington, and the late Ken Flores. Flores’s performance is the first long form special ever taped by Ken, was filmed shortly before he passed away in January at the age of twenty eight.

Hulu will roll these out two at a time. Floras and Springs kick off the run today, Bean and Unaka on the eleventh, Walker in Washington in August at Denise Milik, be In September and Silva and Simpson on October third. The sets were filmed last summer during Heartbeat Weekend at resorts in Las Vegas. GQ did a lengthy profile of Ian Carmel and Ian’s weight loss. We learned that Ian eats a lot of apples nowadays and he looks a lot different than he did at his peak weight, which was four hundred and twenty pounds.

Interesting discussion here, GQ. With dating, there’s always the feeling of uh oh, this person that I’m attracted to also thinks that I’m attractive. Something’s wrong here. That feeling never goes away. I and said, yeah, I thought you were cool, but you like me, you must be an idiot.

There’s that trap you get stuck in. People say it takes work, It takes therapy, it takes self examination, It takes a lot of being actively aware. It’s a lot like eating in a lot of ways when you find yourself spiraling. A lot of what therapy and self examination can do is it doesn’t stop it from happening, but it does let you recognize it. Maybe it gives you some tools to try and slam the brakes on a little bit.

If you could stop it and call it out doesn’t make it go away. It’s like when you’re standing in front of a fridge sheating your six spiecet pizza without having tasted it. But you have the tools to be like, oh, you’re binge eating, stop, go for a walk, you know what I mean. They got into a story where Ian thought he was having an art attack, but he went down to the street to call nine one one because he didn’t want anyone to carry him out. Ian said, that was my last straw.

It was the entire event. What struck me after looking back on it was I was so effed up in the head and desperate not to be one of those quote unquote fat people. I can never accept myself as who I was. I was like, oh, I don’t smell like other fat people. I have a job address well, not like other fat people.

I want the paramedics to be like, no, I didn’t even notice he was fat. It was another act of apologizing for myself. It turned out to be a panic attack. But panic attacks and heart attacks currently feel very similar at first, which is effed up and not a thing that makes you have less panic attacks, by the way, and the moment where I realized I wasn’t having art attack. I went back upstairs and I scheduled a telehealth appointment.

The Hollow Reporter talked to Andrew Schultz about a TED talk he did in twenty nineteen where he talked about how sensitive and politically correct the culture was. Their premise, the pendulum has swung the other way. Schultz said, yeah, it’s like cancel culture and all these things. It’s over. I mean, people could still get canceled, they still say horrible things about people.

That still happens. So people try. You can make whatever joke you want. The Promoi did with Matt Damon one of the lines that we did, but cut with him going what do you do for your specially? You gotta complain about cancel culture in a sildun arena.

It’s like we can’t cry about it when we’re selling out. Joe Liszt told No Film School that his new special, Small Ball, is not totally unlike his previous specials, and that it’s an hour of him doing stand up at a comedy club. The big difference is this is the first one that hasn’t been shot in New York City, specifically The Village Underground. This one we shot at Chicago and two different comedy clubs and two different nights, one Zanies in downtown Old Town Chicago and the other at the Rosemond Zanies out in the suburbs. Then we cut together two shows and I think I came out really well.

I’m very excited for people to see it. I hope they leave saying, man, that was fun as hell and Joe List is a damn good comedian and I’m glad he finally fixed his teeth. Eliza Selezenger spoke to gold dot com You’re home for Comedy News, and I was thinking about Eliza. She is somehow outside the mainstream. Like I feel like, you know this like this like line of comedians that are all kind of circling around each other, Like Nikki Glaser’s like in the middle of that, and Mlanie’s in the middle of that, and I feel like Eliza should be in that crew.

But she’s off like doing her own thing. You never like see stories of her like interacting with the other comedians, you know what I’m saying, neither good nor bad. I just was like, oh, yeah, she’s just kind of like out there, not in the mainstream for some reason. Eliza said, I started doing stand up at twenty one, and then I became a professional around twenty four. My specials started maybe in my late twenties or early thirties.

Now I’m forty two and a mother of two’s and my jobs to analyze life and call life as I see it. I began as a young woman talking about dating, back when the Internet wasn’t everything, and opinions on society weren’t so constant. Over time, I’ve evolved to have a more concise opinion, from commenting on women to advocating four and validating why we are the way we are, to telling other women they’re not crazy. Now people show up to hear that hot tap, reverent or serious as it may be.

Speaking of serious, the ever so serious.

Horry Condobolu spoke to the Houston Press, but I think he made some really good points here. Harry said, one big thing is the idea of selling out and how that doesn’t really mean anything anymore. For me. It’s the idea of what integrity means when you have a kid, Like, what’s your focus? Is it this idea of artistic integrity, which is this vague notion or is it that the kid needs to eat.

I gotta work, and what would you do for work? At this point, he talked more about selling out and talked about co hosting the Netflix food composition series Snack Versus Chef, which I don’t remember. Apparently was a thing in twenty twenty two. I was hosting this podcast that summer. I don’t remember talking about that at all, but Harry said maybe in my twenties, I wouldn’t have done it.

It’s not who I am now. It’s kind of like, I don’t care. It’s a fun show. And the one thing I’m trying to find a way to talk about is selling out is an ancient concept. Like everyone’s on social media.

I feel like so many people have gotten famous from the Internet, and when you’re doing something on the Internet, you’re immediately doing stuff through corporations, whether it’s Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, these are all big companies. Every single artist has a public presence, and that public presence means working with public companies. So before there was this idea of the indie artist making zines or word of mouth and the album gets passed around. Those days are done. So the notion of selling out, I think this is a generation who doesn’t know what that means, because from the get go they’ve been trying to create content for this corporate entity without even thinking about it.

Selling out is the only path, Like, if I’ve heard of you, you must have sold out. Beetlejuice the musical coming back to Broadway. Yes, I saw this before the recent run closed. It’s fantastic. You should go see it and believe me, I’m keeping track of how many times I’ve said the name of the musical so far only once.

You’re not going to trick me into saying it three times. Anyway, that particular musical, we’ll do a thirteen week engagement October eighth through January third. Beetlejuice That’s two originally ran at the Winter Garden Theater from April twenty nineteen. Initially had low ticket sales, and then there was traction on social media and a successful Tony’s performance. However, theater owners announced plans to force the show out of the theater to make room for The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman.

How did that go? Those plans got delayed by the pandemic, but a show in question had to move. They went to the Marqui Theater where it ran from April twenty two through January twenty three. That’s when I saw it and where I saw it, with a return of most of its cast, including Alex Brightman, who plays the title character who I’m not going to say his name, but he was very good as that character. Casting for the new version of a show that shall not be named not yet announced.

David Cross has taken part in a new climate crisis video. He co stars with environmental scientist Michael Oppenheimer, and Cross says, you got to speak to people in a way they can understand. Humor, as I think it has been shown over centuries is a very effective way to get people to absorb information. In the video, Oppenheier plays the straight man, saying heat records are being broken all over the world. In fact, last year was the hot year since the industrial era began.

David Cross interprets that message for lay people, saying translation, the crap is hitting the fan and the fannas on maximum. The video released by the group Climate Science Breakthrough has made videos with the UK comedians like Nish Kumar and Joe Bran in an attempt to help climate science breakthrough to many more people. And unlock action. Ben Carrey is one of the videos producers and says we’re aiming to reach beyond the converted and depolarize the debate. Mike Burriigley has spoke to Vanity Fair and says the only thing he veers away from currently is politics.

Her bigs told Vanity Fair John Stewart always said everything he did on the Daily Show is disposable, It doesn’t live on. There might be a certain point in my life where I’m going to go all in on politics or culture. But if I’m gonna do it, I’m going to go all in. He was asked who he trusts to critique his jokes, he said Hasan Minhaj is one of his favorite guests on his podcast. Pete Holmes, who’s great, is one of our favorite guests.

Is Pete still doing his podcast? That thing has gotten invisible. I haven’t that used to be one of the big ones, along with like Marin and Nerdis. But I haven’t heard a thing about Pete Holmes. And well, I’m sure he is just opening up the app here.

Yeah, it’s still coming out every week. I’m just seeing Michael Costa a few weeks back. Harland Williams, Deana Gould Sclar Brothers. I guess he just hasn’t had an a lister to get that show. Some impressed anyway, you made it weird with Pete Holmes, a podcast I’ve carently forgotten about, is a good podcast.

I digress. Pete Holmes is one of our favorite guests. He also is his brother’s wife and Ira Glass as people that he trusts in. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Adam Sandler, Travis Kelce, John Mulaney, Mike Birbiglia, Robert Smigel, Conan O’Brien, Roy Wood Jr.

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis Tires Season 2 Netflix release
• Happy Gilmore 2 trailer announcement and cast details
• Just for Laughs Montreal 2025 lineup and hosts
• Rick Mercer Stand Up for Canada Comedy Tour
• Robert Smigel new podcast Humor Me
• Conan O’Brien PTSD response to HBO’s Hacks

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Caloroga Shark Media. He there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Season two of Sane Gillis’s Tires out on Netflix today. If you haven’t watched season one, start with season one. The episodes go super fast, super bingeable.

And it’s not like the NBA wants us to watch them tonight, or they would have told the refs, Hey, refs, call some fells against the pacers, will you? But nope, the NBA wants to have pacers. Okay, see, I’m not watching I’ll be watching Tires bitter much. Sure. In season two of Tires, after the unexpected success of their big marketing idea, Will and Sheen rush to grow personally and professionally without fully realizing the cost of doing business.

Okay, Netflix announced a whole bunch of things and they shared a trailer for Adam Sandler is Happy Gilmore IWO with Premiere’s July twenty fifth on Netflix. I think we’re about to see a lot of press. Netflix had their Too Dumb presentation on Saturday, which did not go over well on social media. People were saying that it sucked, but appearing at it, Adam Sandler, Christopher MacDonald and Julie Bowen were introduced by sports commentator rich Eisen. The trailer showed Sandler breaking in another new Caddy, this time played by Bad Bunny.

On the stage, the kids who play Sandler’s children in the movie joked, is there anyone actually under sixty in this movie? I heard somebody commenting that they just took the roles played by Carl Weathers and Richard Keel just made the characters the kids of the original because the original actors have passed away and it’s just like whatever, it’s a Sandler movie. Who cares go with the jokes. Other cameos on stage and in the movie include John Lovetts, Wow, how’d they get him?

Also in the movie famous actresses nobody better to cast than Sadie Sandler a…

They must know somebody. Professional golfers John Day, Scottie Scheffler, and Rory McElroy are in this one. Us Kelsey’s in it Market Qualley and other Nepple Baby, She’s fantastic, but still an apple baby. They’re all in Happy Gilmore two, Adam Simdler till Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show that Travis Kelcey is a nice guy. You guys would love him in real life.

What a big, handsome guy, funny and cool as hell. He’s a stud and he’s so funny. Happy Gilmore too. July twenty fifth. It’s more details about the new version of Just for Laughs Montreal.

Roy Wood Junior and Mikey Day announced as the gala hosts. Roywood on July twenty fifth, Mikey the next night. So new shows announced Ralph Barbosa on the twenty fifth, Joe Jumbroski in the twenty fourth, The Nasty Shows back two shows July twentieth and twenty fourth. Just for the Laughs Culture Show on the twentieth and twenty third, New Faces of Comedy on the twenty fifth and twenty sixth. I might have to get up there for the twenty fifth and catch that one.

I haven’t been able to make friends with the new press people because my former press contact up there is now working with Bruce Hills, who used to run Just for Laughs. She sent me a press release and I’ll read it. Paying attention JFL publicists, paying attention to Hulu publicists.

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All right, let’s see what we got here.

MRG Live and Bruce Hill’s Entertainment announced Rick Mercer’s Stand Up for Canada Comedy Tour with twenty one stops across Canada. Thank you for sending things over. I will include your notes in the show if you actually send them to me. John Mulaney commented on this whole thing about why isn’t Mike Birbiglia more famous. Mulanie’s take, Birbiglia does want to be famous.

I think everyone wants to be famous, but he thinks Birbiglia is already famous. It’s kind of relative the question of fame because he’s had successes that maybe some more household names haven’t. I don’t know anyone with as much respect in the theater, stand up, film, and TV world all at once. He made deliberate choices about having a much more interesting career than pursuing one of the agreed upon mainstream roots. That’s all fair.

I was thinking about that verbig special. I feel like the media really liked it, the Bverbiglia special. I feel like the media really likes Burbiglia. Verbiglia’s PR team definitely got him on a lot of big shows. I don’t know if that had any impact in mainstream American society.

And I’m not sure. In you know, regular folks like go down to the bar and go hey Mike Burbiglia, Like go down to the bar and ask your buddies like, hey, did you watch Mike Burbiglia and see if they actually know who he is. I’m not sure. I’m not here to bash. I’m just I give my take on how I see things, and I’m not sure that special cut through Despite a lot of press last week, Robert Smigel has got a new podcast called Humor Me with Robert Smigel and Friends.

On Humor Me, Robert Smigel and his guests, who will be a line of professional writers and comedians, will help listeners write all kinds of prepared remarks, from a speech to a toast, to a eulogy, to a presentation or application essay or a thank you note. We’re just slamming someone online. His online announcement suggests things like letter to a Congressman, letter of Santa, letter to a longtime crush, or if you’re Conan O’Brien and Oscar’s monologue, Michael says, we thought it’d be entertaining the showcase funny people writing. So here’s this no word on a release date yet. This will be produced by Big Bunny Players, which is Will Ferrell’s podcast network and a partner of iHeartMedia, so that’ll get pushed pretty big.

Speaking of Conan O’Brien, he said that Hacks triggered PTSD symptoms for him as he watched the fourth season. Conan told Hacks co creator and writer Paul W Downs the show delves into late night this year, which was fascinating for me because there are things you cite in the show that I’ve lived through, and so I’ll get a little bit of PTSD from watching it. But it’s also really funny and apt, you know, like getting notes here, this is what we heard about you, you know, in the early days of my late night show research and what are people saying and what do we need to adjust? Let me chime in there. I was really into HBO’s Entourage and had to stop watching it because it was at a point in my life where I was working closely with the Foxhole Jamie Fox’s comedy channel and doing la things that you know, Jenny Mack from Queen’s normally would be doing and never felt quite comfortable.

So then I’d watch Entourage and they were doing the same kind of things like going to parties on yachts and stuff like that, and I was like, this is too close to where I can’t and I had to just stop watching it. I really liked the show, but it was just giving me kind of the same feeling Conan was getting, Like, I just this is making me excited. Even talk about it now, fifteen years later, I don’t want to go there. Remember being at a super Bowl party one night and the Big Boss was mad at me, so I was there to make sure that the broadcast aspect of Live from Jimmie Fox’s super Bowl party went well. Again, listen to me, Oh poor you.

You were Jimmy Fox’s super Bowl party. Yes, but everybody else was partying and I had to stay in manager mode. And I remember a nice young lady who thought I wasn’t having enough fun and she was encouraging me to have more fun, and I just I felt like such a loser. First of all, you know, I’m married, so I’m not going to do anything with a nice young lady anyway. But I just remember being like, yeah, I got to just stand here and look like a suit.

It sucked. Conan said, it was all stuff that just felt impossible. So I’m kind of reliving it a little bit through your show. But you guys are doing a very good job of hitting a bunch of the nerves, which means you’re getting it right. Conan brought up a scene from the show where late night hosts are arguing over a celebrity guest appearance.

Debora Vance is trying to get Kristen Bell on her show. Jimmy Kimmel confronts her and says, you don’t get Kristen Bell because she always says my show. I sort of got possession of having her after conanbur died. Conan thought it was funny that in that universe that Conan died. And what I loved about it is no one questions it.

It’s just like since Conan died. It’s just like I get her after Conan died. It’s just understood. And I’m laughing because no one questions it. That is funny.

Oh you see, now I should head for a break there, But I didn’t end on a down inflection. Remember I lectured everybody about this yesterday. So I’m going to do one more story in the A block so that I can properly throw things to break like you’re supposed to. In Canada, they’re making a Canadian spin off of the Prices right now, You’re like why, I don’t know either. Are Canadians like yeah?

You know that True Carry version is way too American for us. We have a Canadian hosting America’s got talent. We don’t get upset. Maybe we should do something about that. What is Trump doing about that?

Why is a Canadian hosting America’s got talent? Why doesn’t Drew Carry host America’s got talent? A good at old fashioned American marine. Let’s get that campaign going. Send your letters to me.

I guess I opened that cat of corn there. I’m just shucking a joke. Relax, it’s a joke. How we Mendelican host America’s Got Talent because he’s also hosting the Canadian The Price is Right? This one has a working title of The Price Is Right Tonight.

See it’s totally different. HOWI Mandela, a press release said, I’ve been a fan of the Prices right my entire life, so stepping into this PS iconic role is an absolute thrill. The Price Is Right Tonight will bring a fresh, high energy twist to everything people love about the original Big Games, lots of laughs and fun surprises. I can’t wait to say, come on down to a whole new generation of Canadian fans and remember everybody heading into a break and on a down inflection. All right, well, the stupid NBA wants us to watch PACER’s OKC.

We’re not doing that. Call some fowls, refs, what are you doing? You know the right ping pong ball comes out of the thing every year during the NBA draft. You know that seems to magically work out for wherever the hot rookie should go. Somehow that works out.

Nobody can call some fowls against the Pacers. What are you doing? You left a lot of money on the table. No one’s watching Pacers OKC. Sorry from Celtics Wire, you’re home for comedy news.

Former Celtics Ford Blake Griffin said some NBA players are pretty funny. Jamal Crawford is hilarious. I think one of the funniest guys is Jeff Tigue. He’s hilarious. I could listen to him tell stories all day.

As for Blake’s own comedic influences, he says, when I was younger, jud Apatow comedies were right in my wheelhouse. I was in high school when those were coming out. I love Seth Rogan. I love Dana McBride. I’ll watch Danny McBride planning character.

I think he’s awesome. You have Shane Gillis, his stand up is phenomenal or mind Blake Griffin Tire season two out today. I like how guys are just starting to get funding and shooting shows and selling it because they can make exactly what they want and they don’t have to adhere to a bunch of notes. Those are some of the people who are doing the best in comedy right now. An interesting story, it’s behind him paywall.

I’ve tried every trick to try and read this story. The headline from the Philadelphia Inquirer, and I’ll just tell you all I know is the headline says, a junk fee is no laughing matter. According to a new class action lawsuit against Helium Comedy Club. The lawsuit requests damages for Helium Comedy Club customers in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Missouri over the inclusion of junk fees at checkout. I tried googling to find out more about this lawsuit.

I can’t find anything. I just find the headline interesting. I’ll try and keep an eye on that. Seth Myers told a crowd in Austin that he can’t picture a world in where he would stop doing Late Night. I found from the very beginning of my career in this business, you just have to focus on the day you’re doing the show.

There’s no version of me getting ahead of what twenty twenty eight it’s gonna look like that’s going to be even close to right now, Seth’s ratings should sort of more or less double right once Taylor Thompson shows go away and twelve thirty seven to himself, you know, maybe go up one point five x. That should make the show more profitable for NBC and keep Seth away. You know, I’ve been fascinated by Late Night with Seth Myers. I feel like it has zero impact on the universe. It just exists, Seth said.

It’s an industry that’s constantly facing challenges, But I don’t think anybody on a network thinks I’m going to be the one smart enough to solve the problems of like how to fix TV. Myers has a contract to host Late Night through twenty twenty eight, which is an eternity in current television. Who knows what TV will look like in three years? Here is a terrifying fact. On July nineteenth, Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast, put on your seatbelt before I tell you this next sentence.

On July nineteenth of this year, Seth Myers will pass David Letterman for second longest tenure as host of the Late Night franchise. Seth would have to hang out until August twenty twenty nine to break Conan O’Brien’s record for longest tenure of the Late Night franchise, and in fourth place, Jimmy Fallon. Josh Gonoman announced his latest hour of material, Positive Reinforcement, will premiere on the Blonde Medicine YouTube channel on June twenty seventh, and in album for Him on July eleventh. Now what I like here is let me read it back to you. Joshleman has announced that his latest hour of material, somebody has found a way to not use the word special.

I like it. Oh no, but here in the second paragraph in the special in Brooklyn. Oh sorry, rats, I thought somebody had figured it out. I could edit that out, but I’m not going to. Gonoman details his attempts to adapt to changing times despite being born in the previous century.

I Feel You. He covers topics arranging from novelty big goods to proper pronoun usage and creative retirement planning, all while wearing a very nice sweater and a clean pair of sneakers because he knew there would be cameras there. Josh Gonoman Positive Reinforcement Blonde Medicine YouTube channel. June twenty seventh. If you are in Chicago, today is the Kids Above All’s annual Stand Up for Kids comedy Night.

Seventy five dollars. Tickets include beer, wine, and appetizers he can get Raffle tiktets. All Proceeds benefit the children and families in the Kids Above All programs. Comedians include Patty Vasquez, Chris Bourns, Kimberly, KB Marion, and Paul Farivar. Proceeds benefit the young people in families and Kids Above All programs supporting early childhood learning, safe housing, and counseling services for youth who have experienced trauma in the city of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.

Today eight pm at the Den Theater on Milwaukee Avenue and That is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow