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Featured: Marc Maron, John Mulaney, Jimmy Carr, Mike Burbiglia, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• WTF with Marc Maron ending after 16 years
• John Mulaney’s Netflix talk show Everybody’s Live uncertain future
• John Mulaney declined Oscars hosting offer
• Joe Rogan podcast with Jimmy Carr on hecklers
• Conan O’Brien praised for Oscars hosting performance
• Netflix comedy special payments declining

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 boy. There is so much going on with podcasting and comedy high I’m Johnny Mac in a busy Wednesday with your Daily Comedy News. Is all right? The big one? Mark Maren kind of shockingly announced that WTF with Mark Maren, his podcast that’s been around for sixteen years, will end this fall.

On Monday’s episode with John Mulaney and I did pull some clips, Maren said, WTF is coming to an end, and it’s our decision. He made it quite clear that this was a co decision with producer Brendan McDonald. He was very very clear about that. Maren said, we’ll have our final episode sometime in the fall. The podcast turns sixteen years old on September first.

More than sixteen hundred episodes. Probably the most notable one was Barack Obama in the Garage. I actually use that to teach my college students on this is how you do it. I’m going to miss the show a lot. I find Maren very easy on the ears, the conversations always good.

There are a lot of weeks where Maren has the same guest as someone else, for example, John Maliney and the Maren version of it is just better. Maren explained. It wasn’t some kind of difficult decision necessarily, neither me nor Brendan. We’re the only people in charge of this operation at every level. We both realized together that we were done.

All right, let’s listen to Mark Maren explain it. And this started, you know, the old garage, the you know, just no one knew what a podcast was. I was coming out of a horrendous divorce. I was wanting to figure out how to continue living my life. Things were not looking good for me.

Brendan MacDonald my producer who I’d worked with for years on other things radio and streaming related. And when Brandon and I started this saying, all we knew was we were going to do it every Monday and Thursday, and there was no way to make money. There was no way that we knew how to build an audience or anything. And it was crazy. We were doing it in a garage at the beginning that was just a garage.

It was filled with junk, and it slowly evolved into the show that became what you listened to twice a week. Sixteen years we’ve been doing this and we’ve decided that we had a great run and now basically it’s time, folks, it’s time WTF is coming to an end, and it’s our decision. We’ll have our final episode sometime in the fall. Now, I remember listening to the show. Podcasting has had kind of two waves.

The second wave everybody puts around twenty fifteen with Cereal, But there was that earlier wave when we all first got phones and you would actually have to connect to your phone to iTunes and manually download a show. Before we left the house. He had something to listen to, and I was out running, and I remember Maren and Nerdiced were like two long form pods that you would grabs. You would just have stuff on your phone to listen to as your bran. Maren said, we’re tired, we’re burnt out, and we are utterly satisfied with the work we’ve done.

We’ve done great work. Doesn’t mean I’ll never have, you know, talks like I do here or some kind of podcast at some point in time, but for now, we’re just wrapping things up. It’s good that he gets to go out on his own terms. Maren said, it’s okay for things to end. We started the show on our terms.

We grew it on our terms. We’ll end it on our terms. It’s the right decision for me, it’s the right decision for Brendan. It’s okay, it’s okay for things to end. It’s just time, folks.

But again, we’ll have a few more months, so don’t get all bummed out. Let’s just enjoy it. The world is on fire. I have the people I want to talk to. We’ll find a little joy, We’ll find a little connection, We’ll find a little solid in each other’s company.

Also, notably, he never did video, and that’s the big thing in the industry right now was, oh, you gotta have a video, and this has always been an audio podcast. Maren Show actually debuted a month after the Adam Carolla Show and three months ahead of Rogan, and then he got into the interview with John Mulaney, which was separately noteworthy. Now what rang my ears? Listen carefully to John Mulaney commenting here, Maren asks him will there be another season of Everybody’s Live? And I had pointed out on this podcast a few weeks back Robbie Prau, who heads up Netflix Comedy, gave some sort of quote that made me go, huh, this isn’t the slam dunk we were led to believe.

Now, listen to m’laney here, I’m not sure this show’s coming back. Listen Have they said we’re doing more yet we Yes. There was a plan to do more and we’re figuring it out. Yeah, yeah, are you gonna U? I never know what to say to that.

I also like this clip from John Mulaney. He’s almost defiant that if if something works, he’s going to stop doing it. Fair enough, respect the mindset, but it’s why the show doesn’t work. But here’s Mulini. Anytime you say they’re figuring it out not a bad set, a side of me comes out, you know, like they’ve they’ve found their groove.

No, we haven’t. I’ll do it blindfolded.

And also when they say things like they’re figuring out, it’s just a diplomat…

Good, Oh, I think they just say it’s not good when they don’t like yeah, I think we’re no longer living in the decent era of uh, well, they’re figuring out. I think people want the best for you, John, Oh, that’s it. Molini also talked about being offered the oscars he did confirm that it was offered to him. He said, I was very flattered. They came to me.

Must have been last summer, and I knew Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t going to do it, and they offered it, and it was honestly, they had a lot going on, and it’s months and months of work. Both he and Maren praised Conan. Malini said he came out and was not only funny, but he elevated the show to the point I almost convinced myself that I’d seen these movies and I han’t seen one of them. Mary makes some good points that Conan will sometimes self erase when he’s floundering, and in the first few seconds of the Oscars, you could see Conan was almost heading towards a flounder and then found himself. So it’s a really good listen Maren and Malaney.

But I have plenty of more podcasts for you to listen to. Joe Rogan had on Jimmy Carr a very good three hours. I can listen to Jimmy Carr talk about comedy all day every day. Here he talks about Heckler’s and. Then I’m trying, but then I’m trying to I’ve got a good fastball, and then I’m trying to work on the other bits.

But that’s kind of what I love about the industry because. It’s it’s everything. You go, yeah, I can get good at that, and then I can I can do you like twenty minutes of fastballs, and then do I’ve start About a year ago, I started putting. I started working with a videographer and putting stuff out of like Heckel videos and people talking to me, yeah, I’ll and you go. It’s just such a joyful thing because it’s almost like doing the stuff when you go, just hit me whatever you want.

I’ll do anything. It’s like seeing magician do real magic, because you kind of go, right, yeah, I’ve worked this muscle hot enough I can. I’ll write jokes life for you now. Jimmy Carr is also the guest on kil Tony. Haven’t gotten to that one yet.

The podcast The Town had on both Mulaney I’ll maybe talk about that in a few days and had on Mike Burbiglia. The clip I pulled here Mike Burbiglia sounds to me like the Netflix money isn’t what the Netflix money used to be. Here’s for bigs. Are they still paying top dollar though? Are you?

I mean, you don’t have to give me numbers, but like they’re still treating you well because I’ve heard some pullbacks. I think there have been. I don’t look at other people’s papers that much, but. I mean it’s fine. I mean it’s fine.

I’ve never, honestly, I’ve never made a ton of money from comedy specials. A lot of it is just like marketing. Getting well, yeah, and it’s getting like, look, I do a really specific thing, like I consider myself the luckiest person in the world to have found Netflix. I shouldn’t even say this on record because it’ll make my negotiation for the next cringe exactly, but it’s it’s like Netflix is the best thing that ever happened to me, because look. I was like, I Mike Berg would turn this off.

I make shows that are combination of Broadway shows, theater, storytelling, and sinup comedy, like nobody before Netflix. Nobody was like, we got to get that on Comedy Central. And I just now before I started recording, walked the Dog for an hour and listen to Diary of a CEO with Guess Jimmy Fallon. I really enjoyed it. It was nice to hear Jimmy Fallon in real person mode.

But boy, the way he tells the story he was obsessed and convinced he would be on SNL by age twenty five. It almost sounds like hogwash, but you listen to him say it over and over and he believes it. The host even asked him, well, what would happen if you didn’t get SNL by twenty five, and Fallon like, can’t even entertain that as a premise of like, what do you mean? Of course I was going to get it very interesting. There one thing that was a little fun.

It got cleaned up at the end, But in the first half of the podcast, they were making it sound like by phrasing it this way that Fallon replaced Letterman, I mean kinda sorta, But that’s like saying Jay Leno replaced Jack Parr, I mean kinda sorta. Later on, Fallon said that he replaced Conan, which is factually accurate. A note to everybody in the podcast industry, this is my number one pet peeve, but I’m specifically calling you out Diary of a CEO guy. So in the middle of the podcast, Jimmy Fallon is talking about dying, about what it will be like when he dies, and it abruptly cuts to a live read of the Diary of a CEO. Guy trying to sell us an iced coffee.

It’s a train wreck. People. You have to place these commercial breaks. It’s very easy. I do it on this podcast every day.

If you notice what I will do is I will leend a story in a down inflection and I leave a nice little hole there and that’s where the commercial goes. It’s very easy to do, and I don’t know why people can’t do. Whether there’s so many train wrecks. The worst train wrecker of all is Tim Dillon mid sentence train wrecks. Joe Rogan is awful.

Plus the reads come mid sentence. Spotify do better anyway. Diary of a CEO very very good. Listen with Jimmy Fallon. Fallon talks about the highs and lows of his career and auditioning when he was in his twenties.

He says he wasn’t the greatest, and I’m a pretty positive guy in general, but I think it was probably my lowest moment. I remember like trying to see what therapy was or if I could afford a therapist. I wrote a letter of my best friends, like I’m losing it, dude. I think was something on the point of like I’m losing it and I don’t know if I can make it. Jimmy talked about his obsession with SNL.

I became so obsessed in high school that I really couldn’t hang out with anyone. I watched the show. People are like, can’t you tape it? I can’t tape, but I have to watch it live. I said, if I do nothing else in life, that’s all I wanted to do.

And like, even if that, if I could go for one season or one episode, then I could do whatever I want. Really really good conversation. I think Fallon is better than the interviewer Stephen Bortlett. And I’m not sure Steven is the greatest host, but he’s got a pretty successful podcast there and I’m sitting here in the basement, so what do I know. But I think Fallon is really good there.

Also, catching my ears is Jimmy does kind of what I do and swallows the syllables on the first word of SNL. I’ll often say sat Night Live or Saturday Night Live or something like that unless I catch myself and over an unciate. Jimmy a few times says something like Saturnight Live if you pay attention across my ears continuing are very busy Wednesday and busy a block. Ricky Gervais last week on Friday, got his Hollywood Walk of Fame star. He said he was humbled and that his success was a mix of luck, persistence, and a little bit of pushing against the tide.

Ricky said, I’d love to claim that it was due to my unrival genius, but truth be told, it’s a cocktail of luck, persistence and a little bit of pushing against the tide. You know, you’ve got to polarize. I think you need to know if you’re gonna do anything of any worth. As many people hate you as love you. But the ones that hate you shouldn’t affect you.

The ones that love you, they buy your house, so I’d like to thank them. And we’ve had a few weird years of cancel culture, of people telling you what you can or can’t laugh at or talk about. But we push back and we won until the next time. My former co worker Jamie Fox was at the comedy store. He started talking about Diddy and called Diddy a nasty mff or.

Jamie then got into some of the stuff that allegedly happened that I can’t even make a clean version here. There’s no way to clean up what allegedly happened, So I’ll just move on interesting that Jamie’s out doing stand up And if you’d like to follow a Didty trial, we do have a podcast for you. It is called Diddy Did He Do It? Wherever you get your shows?

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And now let me teach everybody how you do this.

As I head for the commercial break, I will end on a down inflection. Late Night had some fun with the notion that Joe Biden had been replaced by a clone and or robot. Have you heard this story? John Stewart said, you’re saying that the Joe Biden, who doesn’t even know where he is, is actually an incredibly advanced cloned robot. How much Kenemine are you on?

Jimmy Kimmel said, And by the way, whoever built that Joe Biden robot is very bad at building robots. I mean, if anybody was replaced by a robot, a clone, it’s Melania, right, Gus Corner, Fortune Fiemester posted on Instagram about the call to end her marriage. She made it clear the split was amicable. In a joint note signed by both her and Jacqueline, they said they’re parting ways with love, looking back fondly, and wishing each other nothing but the best moving forward. Andrew de Simuks got married.

According to a Late Nighter, Andrew has married fellow comedian Ellie Dixon this past weekend. Married somewhere in the Santa Monica Mountains. Dixon captioned a photo saying, no offense, we just got married. Horrible story. King of the Hill voice actor Jonathan Joss murdered.

The voice actor was shot and killed on Sunday. According to police, authorities were dispatched to a shooting in progress around seven. They found Jos lying near the roadway. They tried life saving measures while waiting for ems. Joss was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officers quickly detained a suspect who had fled the scene in a vehicle. That person has now been booked for murder. The investigation still ongoing. Joss was best known for his voice role as John Redcorn and King of a Hill. Joss was set to return the newly announced revival of King of a Hill cent premiere in August, had already begun recording.

Just hours before his death, he had posted on Instagram talking about how the reboot is up and moving. Jonathan Joss was fifty nine. Nick Offerman jumped on social media, hitting back at a social media user who had used a doctored clip from Parks and rec to spread a homophobic message. A man had shared a clip depicting nick Offerman’s Parks character Ron Swanson throwing a rainbow flag into a dumpster. This happened on Sunday, the first day of Pride Month.

The person captioned it just wanted to post how I feel about Pride Month. Offerman himself commented and said Ron was the best man at a gay wedding. You dumb f hashtag happy Pride. Seth Meyers gave the commencement speech to choate Rosemary Hall’s class of twenty twenty five in Wallingford, Connecticut. That sounds up, but he doesn’t it.

Yes, it is a private Connecticut boarding school with Seth Myers sounds very very uppity. He joked that the smartly just teenagers holding roses plus the bagpipes made him feel like he was on his way to a human sacrifice. Seth said, I went to a public school. We used fewer fancy words. For example, we didn’t have a head of school.

We had a principle he asked us to call him head of school if someone would have thrown a battery at him. Not only did my school not of trustees, there was barely anyone you could trust. Seth continued. Nothing that is wrong in the world today is the fault of people under twenty. And yet you hear adults all the time saying we’re doomed because they’re getting their news from TikTok.

I’m not saying you should get your news from TikTok. You should get it from late night talk shows. And today it is the Women of Comedy Emmy Showcase. Eliza Slussinger soshirs Amada will join host Whitney Cummings for the Emmy season celebration. Whitney will moderate candid panel conversations with the featured performers.

They’ll talk about the comedian’s creative journeys, influences, and the evolving landscape for women in the comedy industry. Writing rule of three, fancy schmancy, It’s a Decrescent Theater in Beverly Hills. Invite only, excuse me, welcome reception at four two panels. The event is presented in partnership with Comedy Gives back the safety Net for the comedy community, offering financial crisis relief, mental health and substance abuse treatment sponsorship. So I hope the people that are paying for those invite only tickets are donating a heck of a lot of money.

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Also today Loons on the Lake.

The Loons on the Lake Comedy Festival in Minneapolis blends new and upcoming talent with experienced top name comedians. Starts to Toay goes through the seventh headliners Jamie Kennedy, Emo Phillips, some others who you probably aren’t that familiar with unless you’re very much into comedy. There is also a comedy competition with ten thousand dollars up for grabs forty comedians. You get to do an eight minute set top ten events in the next round, then the top five compete for the five thousand dollars grand prize. I wonder what happens to the other five?

Where’s that going? That’s your comedy needs for today? All right, I’ll see tomorrow,

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Featured: Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, Shane Gillis, Hannah Berner, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Jerry Lewis, Vince Vaughn, John Lovitz

What’s in This Episode

• Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel trade Emmy campaign attack ads
• Tires season two release on Netflix with premiere event in Austin
• Shane Gillis comments on NBA Wingstop commercials
• Hannah Berner booed by Celtics fans during New Hampshire performance
• The Day the Clown Cried: Jerry Lewis’s unreleased concentration camp film
• Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura appear on WWE Raw to promote Bad Friends

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 Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This first one is so much fun. Last week, Seth Myers was the guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live. They’re both trying to win the Emmy for Best Late Night Show, and they traded attack ads.

Kim Well started the fun, pointing out that Seth was only in LA to campaign for the Emmy nomination. So Kimmel played an attack ad making fun of Seth Myers not wearing a suit. People love Seth Myers, but do people really know Seth Myers. It’s time for a closer look. Yes, Seth, it is time for a closer look at you.

Real late night hosts wear suits and ties. You know who else never wore a suit or tie? Oh, Sam have been lucking Seth Myers wears nephew clothes. Shout da win an Emmy in what category? Getting drunk on the job.

Tell Seth Myers to go to alcoholics al Qaeda mess Jimmy Kimmel, clean sober American. I’m Jimmy Kimmel and I approved this message. Seth Meyers combatd that with his own ad. He accused Jimmy Kimmel of using unforced foreign labor, specifically Guillermo Let’s listen. Jimmy Kimmel says he’s American.

He claims to be made in the USA, but is his show Jimmy Kimmel uses forced foreign labor. Jimmy Kimmel kidnap me from Mexico and he’s been torturing me ever since. As that was Carrie, I hate snakes, he mos so sometimes I think he’s trying to kill me. Jimmy King human trafficker. Seth Myers for your consideration, I’m Seth Myers and I’m not a murderer.

Kimmel ebernt. They had more clips. Seth meyers brother Josh Regular, appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live as California Governor Gavin Newsom. Then Meyers shot back with an ad with Kimmel’s wife Molly McInerney revealing Jimmy Kimmel’s messy at home habits. Then a fifth ad two of Jimmy Kimmel’s real life children, alongside a group of actors playing Seth Meyers kids railed against their dads, wanting Emmys more than they want us.

The kids said, would you give a Trophy to a dad who doesn’t care about anything else. Say no to deadbeat daddy. So much fun there. The voting period for Emmy nominations begins June twelfth. Nominees announced July fifteenth.

The Emmy Awards will air on CBS Sunday. September fourteenth. Should be another good week for Shane Gillis is the worst I hate that guy articles. I don’t get it, but okay. Season two of Tires is out this week, which is fantastic.

If you haven’t seen season one, it’s really enjoyable. You’ll get through it really quickly. You can just binge the whole thing. There’s six short episodes, a lot of fun. Season two Netflix this week June fifth, Thursday.

However, if you’re in Texas, you can get a sneak peek at the first two episodes on the fourth. It’s part of the Dad Sick Premiere event. Head to tickets dot Austin Theater dot org. The Dad Sick Premiere event will include an introduction from the Tires creators, including Shane Gillis. They’ll screen the first two episodes of season two.

We also learned season two features an exciting lineup of new cast members including Thomas Aiden Church, Vince Vaughn, John Lovetts, Ron White, Steph Tolev So if you’re in Austin, go check that one out. And if Shane Gillis is in Austin, I bet he’ll be on the Joe Rogan Experience if he hasn’t already. Between the time I voiced this sentence and you listen to this podcast on Matt and Sheen’s Secret Podcast, Gillis told the NBA playoffs to chill on the commercials. You no, I’m going to play the clip here, so I don’t get myself canceled. Here’s Shane else?

Need to chill on the commercials. What are they doing? Bro? They they are targeting the African American community with intensity, Like every single commercial is catered to black people. Got you?

But it’s like almost like wingstops taking up a bunch of reps. NBA spread it out and put one on the PGA tour on off a little. It’s crazy that the wingstop commercial isn’t racist because it’s just a black wingstop commercials. The most racist commercial I’ve ever seen is a cool black guy. Just you describe it.

I can’t even describe the wingstop commercials. There’s a new wing stop commercial where it’s a base I think it’s supposed to be an NBA player. Shane continues, I think it’s supposed to be an NBA player. And he’s doing the whole fashion walk through that they do, and he hops in a limo and just crushes chicken, and every white guy on Earth goes, I know what they’re doing. I know what’s going on with those cool limos.

It is believed he’s referring to the Jalen Green Wingstop commercials. Send your letters to Shane Gillis. Hannah Berner said she was booed during a performance in New Hampshire after celebrating the Knicks because the people in the audience were Celtics fans. The Celtics were eliminated from the playoffs by the Knicks. Berner said on the Gigly Squad podcast, the Knicks are playing while I’m on Okay, you know I’m being silly and being goofy on stage.

I go and anyone know the Nick score? Seventeen hundred girls start booing me because New Hampshire. I forget, I’m a dumb New Yorker. She said she lost the crowd for a second and apologized, praise Larry Bird and joked about Bill Belichick’s girlfriend to win back the room. I’m excited about this.

Do you know about The Day the Clown Cried? Jerry Lewis’s never released film, It’s infamous. It was shot in nineteen seventy two. It is believed to exist only an incomplete frat I’ve seen some fragments. A few years back.

There were the fragments plus a recreation of it. Well. Swedish producer and actor Hans Crispin is saying I have the only copy. I stole it from Europea film in nineteen eighty and copied it’s a VHS in the attic where we used to duplicate films at night. I’ve kept the copy in my bank vault.

The Day the Clown Cried has never seen the light of day. There’s allegedly been like some secret screenings in Hollywood over the years. Jerry Lewis one of the thing to never be seen. I should probably tell you what this says. It’s a concentration camp.

Jerry Lewis plays a clown. He makes some kind of deal with the Nazis that he’s going to entertain the children while they’re led off to I don’t even want to go there. You know what happens. In twenty fifteen, Jerry Lewis donated a copy of the film to the Library of Congress on the strict condition it could not be screened publicly for at least ten years. And I do the math.

Twenty fifteen plus ten is twenty twenty five, though speculation is that there could still be copyright complications and the estate complaining about it. Jerry Lewis never was comfortable with the final product. He made it clear over the years he regretted the whole thing. He said it was a mistake and would never be shown. Jerry Lewis said there’s some rough cuts floating around, but the movie was never really completed.

I hope this sees the light of day. I would love to see this. A week ago, Bert Krascher and Tom Sigora were on WWE Raw. This was on Memorial Day, not the one last night. Wrestling fans were upset because Sigora had insulted wrestling fans in the past.

Sigora showed up with Bert Kreischer to promote bad thoughts, which is just amazing. I just I love that series so much. I wish six more would come out right now. I would watch them in a second. So there’s a clip Sigore is backstage with Bert Krascher and the war Raiders, as you will hear hear Bert at one point will walk away and meet up with the war Raiders.

Let’s listen yet, cool. I’ve here comedians Tom Suport and Bert Kreischer. Bert, great to see you back. And Tom, You’ve been a. Little critical of WW in the past.

So what brings you out tonight? Oh? Well, yeah, I’ve said some stupid things in my life. But you know, we had Cody Rose on our podcast and it was an amazing podcast, a real eye opener.

And then my buddy Bert had a blast at the show he went to, so he told me I ha…

So I’m here to just have a good time and watch the show. Yeah, Bert, I know you had a great time. We were actually interrupted last time when you were talking about your special. So I figured give you the chance to plug it now. Yeah, it’s called Lucky.

It’s on Netflix. Watch it. Talk about bad thoughts. I’ll hear it back. The attention span on that one.

So you also have a show on Netflix, Bad thoughts. Tell me about that. I have a new series. It’s on Netflix. It’s a comedy.

It’s a wild show where we have basically a sketch show meets faces of death. It’s outrageous, it’s crazy, it’s it happens every time. Here. Take a look. Take a look.

It’s like no brothers, It’s like looking. In the mirror, right, fire floor. Show. Hey, hey they’re gone, they left. How much does that hurt?

Am? I read a little? Yeah, I feel a lot. Scuarterer seats. Yeah, maybe they have a.

Medic and one of the wrestling fans so upset about In twenty twenty, on his podcast, Tom Sagura made fun of wrestling fans. He called wrestling effing fake and called the fans effing r words.

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Speaking of fighting on a John Mulaney’s talk show last week, he did fight wi…

The Hollywood Reporters headline John Mulaney’s fight with the three fourteen year olds was a bit of a letdown. Am I allowed to say that? To see? That’s really interesting because you’ve heard me talk on the podcast not feeling the Mallini show at all. But it seems like in the establishment media, we’re all supposed to be like, hey, John Mullane’s Reinvigorator late night, Right, Yeah, isn’t it great?

Isn’t the show great? And the show’s not great, so it’s interesting. The Holly Reporter broke ranks. Tony Maglio writes. The rules for the final segment were pretty straight up.

No punching, no kicking, no gouging, no biting. Headlocks were legal as long as the arm is encircled. They got intros from Adam Sandler and Richard Kind. The kids were the fan favorites. M’lini got booed by members of his own audience.

The four fighters took their shoes, socks, watch his rings and ties off. Mulaney went straight for the heaviest kid, who did most of the work, while the other boys assisted here and there. Once they dumped Mulleni face down on the mat, a legal headlock was applied and m’lini tapped out. It was over in fifty seconds, the Holly Reporter writes. With Netflix’s lawyers almost certainly in m’lanie’s head, if not directly in his ear, the payoff to this month log setup could only be a disappointment, and so it was Indy Wire did a quote very serious athletic analysis of John Mullaniy’s teen fight night they broke down the opponents Ben five eight one hundred and forty pounds, Jacob twenty six Adarsh five six one hundred and nine trained in taekwon do.

After consistently going for Malanie’s legs, Ben succeeded. He had a plan and the treo was able to bring down their elder millennial opponent, who’s spent a few seconds trying to crawl out of this predicament before realizing it was impossible. Malini tapped out to roucous applause before a final musical performance by Bone Thugs and Harmony.

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Speaking of Adam Sandler, I’m sorry I missed this story.

They in Portland. They had an Adam Sandler costume party in Cathedral Park. Raizah Antonio was the organizer. She was going to go with a happy Gilmore said, I’ve been feeling, like many people, the weight of everything going on in the world, the heaviness, the instability, and I kept coming back to this feeling and people need connection right now. We need to be reminded that We’re not alone, even in our hardest moments, She says of Sandler, he’s goofy, always has ben and I think that’s part of his charm.

Even now after taking on more serious roles, he still comes across his genuine That kind of authenticity really sticks with people. Adam Sandler did not show up, but a bunch of people did dressed as Adam’s. Eddie Murphy has confirmed that his son and Martin Lawrence’s daughter, are officially married. The Murphy’s and Lawrence’s are now in laws. Murphy told Jennifer Hudson, Actually, they got married like two weeks ago.

They went off. Everybody was making the big wedding plans and they decided they want to do something quiet, just the two of them. Of Martin, he says, yeah, we’re in laws, and he doesn’t have to pay for that big wedding now. Netflix has shared a first look at Leanne, the new sitcom starring Leanne Morgan, created by Chuck Lorie That’s the guy with all the big CBS sitcoms over the years. All sixteen episodes of Leanne will hit Netflix July thirty.

First, did they really expect us to sit home and watch eight hours of Leanne, Spread them out? What are You Doing? In the series, Leanne’s life takes an unexpected turn when her husband of thirty three years leaves her for another woman. Starting Over when you’re a grandmother and in menopause isn’t exactly what she had in mind. With the help of her family, she’ll navigate this new chapter with grace, dignity and jello salad.

See comedy rule of three. There see the jello salad. He knew that was coming. Leanne said, I can’t believe her childhood dream has come true. When I started comedy twenty five years ago, my goal is to be part of a sitcom.

It just goes to show you it’s never too late and dreams do come true. I’m a grandmama from Tennessee and now I have a TV show with Chuck Laurie Netflix. What in the world? Chuck Laurie said, If you’ve seen even ten seconds of Leanne Morgan’s stand up, then you know what a unique comedic for she is. The theme of starting overs universal and I can’t think of anyone better to combine heart and comedy than Leanne.

I knew I had to work with her and I’m excited to bring this story to Netflix. Ryan Styles from Whose Line Is It Anyway? And The Drew Carey Show plays Bill the guy that left Leanne for another woman. That’s an interesting casting okay? There?

From Strike Back Studios. Laugh at Forward a new stand up comedy series showcasing the freshest voices in comedy. The first episode hosted by Jimmy O Yang and drops today. New episodes weekly throughout this month. The initial lineup of presenters include Rob Riggle, Jay Farrow, King Bach and Lisa Ann Walter.

The series is available on VOD Video on demand if you want to check that one out. And this kind of sucks, I wish this person well. Australian comedian Magda Sebanski has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer. The sixty four year old posted on social media she had begun treatment for stage four mantle cell lymphoma, a quote fast moving form of blood cancer. She said, I won’t sugarcoat it is rough, but I’m hopeful.

I’m being lovely cared for by friends and family, and my medical team is brilliant and I’ve never felt more held by the people around me. Some famous people sent her well wishes. Kylie Minogue replied on Instagram, sending all the love. Jurassic Park star Sam Neil, who himself had a rare type of non hodgkin LYMFOM in twenty twenty two, wrote right there with you, darling xx. She said the cancer is only discovered after she requested blood tests after feeling unwell for quote ages and says the takeaway is get tested and listen to your body.

I hope this guys are right for you. And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you guys tomorrow

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Conan O’Brien, Oscar Isaac, Rob Riggle, Conan O’Brien, Brad Williams, Jim Jeffries, Paul Hogan

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis blamed Gen Z for bombing SNL monologue
• How comedians should handle poor crowd reactions
• Oscar Isaac’s BBC travel guide to LA comedy scene
• Rob Riggle memoir ‘Grit Spit and Never Quit’ coming fall 2025
• Conan O’Brien on ridiculing Trump during second term
• Brad Williams discusses disability comedy and mental health benefits
• Jim Jeffries on Paul Hogan’s ‘Crocodile Dundee’ knife line legacy

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. But we’ve had a little run of what I’m describing as angry comedy articles, and I’ve had fun sharing them. Here’s another one from Pajeeba. Seane Gillis blame gen Z for him bombing his SNL monologue.

Andrew Sandford writes, you don’t tell people you’re performing for that you lost them, nor do you start making excuses if you do. The great and powerful Conan O’Brien talks about that all the time. He’s mentioned that during his years as a talk show host, anytime a guest would turn to the audience says something the effect of this isn’t going well or I lost you guys, it would signal the interview’s death. Even if you think things aren’t going well, you lead with confidence. You don’t start blaming the audience.

That doesn’t strictly apply to being a late night talk show guest either. I was part of the New York City stand up scene for a bit, while that didn’t end up working out. I’ve seen a lot of bad stand up. More often than not, when a comedian starts blaming the crowd for their poor performance makes things a million times worse. I’ve seen comedians whose whole act insists of intermittently telling the audience.

I guess that was too much for you guys, or everyone here is so sensitive tonight it’s bad form. I do agree with that, that is a good point, but we’ll get to the Shane Gillis part. Shane perform a monologue about Trump wanted to buy Greenland and how white guys want to know if their girlfriends have slept with a black guy. Surprised it did not go over well. He then pivoted to a joke about the Civil War, and by that point the crowd was pretty checked out.

Even commits the cardinal sin and jokes about losing the crowd, even when he hasn’t fully lost them yet, it was bad to be even slightly fair. Of course, so likely mostly liberal New York City crowd wasn’t going to go for Gillis’s stick, but he should know that he should pivot. You don’t have to change who you are, just tell more jokes that may work where you are. But Gillis doesn’t take the blame for any of that, as he explained on a recent episode, of SmartLess. It’s the young people’s fault.

He didn’t do well, but it was not Shane Gillis’s fault. You guys so much just of Sheen Killa. I don’t get it. I think he’s funny. It’s got a goofy smile that telegraphs that he’s just, you know, a guy shocking jokes.

Just have a good time taking Toataro. We’ll headline the twenty twenty five Eureka Springs Pride Festival coming up on June fourteenth, that’s next Saturday. Already, ticket price has caught my eye, sixty eight fifty to one, sixty four to fifty. There’s also VIP meet and greet tickets in case the one sixty four to fifty wasn’t enough for you. The BBC, for some reason did a travel guy to la with Osco at Kotska.

Somebody in London’s like, h I want to go to La. I wonder what Oscar has to say. The part that catches my eye is about the comedy clubs. Osco says, the comedy scene in la is pretty diverse. We have everything for you.

She suggests dipping your twos into the scene by visiting theaters, it’s a little more artful than a comedy club. The allegioned theater is her recommendation.

Meanwhile, Largo is her go to for music enthusiasts if you like seeing musici…

Musicians joined the lineup so you can be watching stand up comedy the same night Beck is doing a set. She also recommends places you’ve heard of, like the Comedy Store in Hollywood Improv. As for the Comedy Store, it has a pretty diverse lineup in the audience is true comedy lovers.

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The Comedy Store in Hollywood Improv are two places I perform at a lot. Those are places I really feel at home. I love that the place I’m working at feels like a second home. Rob Wriggle will have a memoir out this fall. It’s called Grit Spit and Never Quit, a Marine’s Guide to Comedy in Life.

I worked with Wriggle a few times, really enjoyed his company. Just like a cool guy, you know what I mean. Wriggle tells People magazine, I hope people will be able to identify some of what I went through and it would be a service to them on their own journey. The book tells stories from his twenty three years in the Marines, plus his time in movies and TV. Rob says, I like to think of it as a motivational memoir.

I hope people will be able to identify with some of what I went through and it would be of service to them on their own journey. Wriggle retired from the military in twenty thirteen as a lieutenant colonel. That’s no joke, he says. They pushed me beyond my perceived limits. So whatever I thought it was capable of, the Marine said, actually you can do a whole lot more when pushed, and they were right, and it opened up my mind a lot too.

If I could do that, maybe I can do this. I started to actually believe myself and say, you know what, I’m going to bet on myself and so that’s when I finally got the courage to gopher it with regard to comedy and acting. So I give them Marine Corps especially a lot of credit for that. Wriggle learned the hard way. You need to embrace the suck and never give up if you want to get anywhere in life.

The description concludes with he’s jumped out of planes and he’s become one of the most recognizable comedians in the country. But at his core, Rob was a regular guy from Kansas with grit, spit and the will to never quit. The Boston Gloto bast Come out Bell, is it harder to ridicule Trump now than it was during his first term? Come out and said you can still make fun of him. I joked that my New Year’s resolution was to be more petty.

Bell says, the president is still surrounded by bumbling fools, but they’re bumbling fools that could turn us into North Korea West. That’s not a joke. The reason to make fun of it is so we don’t give all our power away to them. The more we can look them in the eye gives you the juice to figure out a way to go there and hopefully save the country. Send your letters to w pmal Bell.

Brad Williams spoke to k e Yt. Brad was born with a chondroplasia. The primary feature of that is dwarf Ism. Brad found himself bullied at a young age and says his dad equipped him to handle it. Brad told k e Yt he and I would write comebacks together, would write retorts to common things he thought kids might say.

And it was so great because when it happened, I wasn’t hurt by it. I wasn’t shock with it. I was just trained for this. Most of it isn’t based in cruelty. Most of it’s based in ignorance.

Like a lot of discriminatory practices, a lot of people that don’t like and don’t accept certain types of people just haven’t been exposed to those types of people. The first thing a lot of people notice. Sometimes people come up to me after a show and go, hey, man, thanks for talking about disability and difference. I get it. As for comedy, it’s a positive effect on mental health for me personally because that’s my therapy.

That’s how I get it out. And just to laugh, you’re releasing these joy chemicals in your brain, serotonin, dopamine. You feel good about yourself, and if you have a physical ailment like a sort of Bruce drm, you go laugh a lot. You’ll notice, hey, I’m not hurting right now. Jim Jeffries was talking about the iconic line from Paul Hogan’s Crocodile Dundee, you know that’s not a knife, that’s a knife for that one.

Jim said, that famous and iconic line by Hogan, to me is really what we’re all about. There’s a little bit of that Hogan line in all of us. I feel like when I travel on land at airports filling out the customs form, WHI says occupation I get to write comedian? How cool is that? You get to the desk and the guy behind it says, say you’re a comedian?

Are you? And they want you to tell a joke. But I’m like, if you had just told fourteen year old me that one day I’d be writing comedian on my customs form, what a blessing. Jim said, there were world class comedians who rarely for got to perform outside of Australia because it was too much of a hassle. It takes all those years to conquer Australia, so why would you bother going to another country these in the days before say streaming platforms.

I just consider myself a lucky man who’s got a few opportunities. I had a lot of luck in my career and I took advantage of it. He has a small role in the Jordan Peel sports horror film Him, which will be out in September. Jim says, it’s a couple of scenes. I haven’t seen the movie yet, but when we were making it, I knew it was going to be awesome and the trailer for it was killer.

The film is about American football, so it’ll come out once the NFL season begins. But Stand Up will always remain my first job. It allows me to control my destiny and pick where I get to go. CBS announced what’s taking over the Taylor Tomlinson twelve thirty seven slot, and it is Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen. Comics Unleased had aired in that time slot, filling the four month gap between the end of Cordon’s show and the premiere of After Midnight.

CBS will air two episodes of Comics Unleashed back to back each night. In twenty twenty three, the run on CBS consisted of reruns and never before seen episodes, all of which were shot prior to twenty twenty three. The belief in the trades and on social media is that these will be older episodes as well, So don’t get too excited about comics Unleashed. Hasan Minhaj during that Hollywood Reporter Comics roundtable I’ve been picking away at talked about I remember when we thought he was going to get the Daily Show and then didn’t because people looked at his comedy special. Remember that happened, Hassan Sai.

Yeah, I had to go through a comedy audit by Turbotext, which is its own thing. Make sure you file everybody, bring your receipts. But also there’s a critique aspect to it that’s very new. One of the first jokes that came to me was when I called a buddy and I was like, how bad is it? And he was like, the article’s bad, but the photos are good.

I was like, that’s hilarious. It’s also very funny to fail so bad that you bring back Jon Stewart. That is 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: Jimmy Carr, Phil Wang, Nick Muhammad, Michelle Wolf, Andrew Lawrence, Mark Marin, Joe List, Mark Normand, Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, Aziz Ansari, Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen, Jamie Foxx, Colin Jost

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Carr launches The Big Pitch podcast with Netflix
• Andrew Lawrence’s show canceled after Liverpool parade crash joke controversy
• Anxiety Club documentary featuring Mark Marin and other comedians releasing August 15
• The Pickup movie with Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson coming to Amazon Prime August 6
• Good Fortune film with Keanu Reeves and Aziz Ansari releasing October 17
• Jamie Foxx discusses comedy comeback after stroke on Hollywood Reporter roundtable

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I was very excited that Jimmy Carr decided to put out a podcast. All of a sudden, there it is The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr. On that show, Jimmy invites a celebrity guest to pitch an idea for a film based on one of the super niche subgenres on Netflix, from steamy crime movies from the seventies to Australian dysfunctional family comedy starring a strong female lead.

Guests pitch the plot, their dreamcast, the marketing stunts, and everything in between, and it’s up to Jimmy Carr whether it gets made. This is in partnership with actual Netflix. From the press release, where does Nick Muhammad’s mind go when asked to make In Everybody’s Home for the Holidays film? What’s the narrative arc for Ramesh Wagon, Athans BRB Crying Tear Jerker? What on earth would Michelle Wolf’s Coming of age Animal Tale look like?

Find out On The Big Pitch. Phil Wang is the guest on episode one, so I’m doubly in. I love Phil and I’m a big Jimmy Carr fan Car said, by night I’m a stand up comedian, but by day I have a proper job in real show business. I commissioned movies for Netflix, so if you’ve ever seen a movie liked on Netflix, you’re welcome. This podcast gives a glimpse behind the scenes of the rigorous pitching process and also a good excuse to mess around with some very funny friends.

Jimmy might be the British Kevin Hart. Jimmy Carr also not afraid to work. This guy’s always got stuff going on. One of my favorites, maybe actually my favorite comedian right now. Ten episodes every other Wednesday, but the first one is already out.

Jimmy was also recently a guest on Joe Rogan. As I speak the sentence, I haven’t had a chance to listen to it yet, but it is queued up for one of my dogwalks. Let’s stay across the pond for a second, as they say, this one not funny at all. A comedian who joked about the Liverpool parade crash had a show canceled following a social media backlash. This from the BBC in case you missed it at least six twenty five people were injured.

On Monday, a car crashed into the crowd which had gathered for Liverpool’s Premier League victory parade. Comedian Andrew Lawrence on social media boasted he would drive through crowds of people to get out of the city. People did not react to that well. His comedy gig was canceled. Lawrence said he was disappointed the venue had lost their courage after being bombarded with abuse and threats of violence from online trolls.

A spokesperson for the club said we send everyone impacted by the tragic events in Liverpool our support and prayers. Lawrence described the cancelation of his gig as understandable but disappointing. I will reschedule for later in the year at a different venue in South End. Sorry for the inconvenience, Have a great day. The BBC reminds us that in twenty twenty one, one of Lawrence’s stand up gigs in Hampshire was canceled after racist comments he made about England’s black footballers.

Mark Marin is part of a documentary coming out in August called Anxiety Club. Anxiety Club behind the scenes, content and commentary from fellow comedians about how mental health impacts their daily lives and the trailer, and Maren says, most of what reacted to with something your brain is making up. My anxiety stopped me from having children.

Also appearing Tiffany Jenkins, Baron Vaughan upon an Atula, Mark normand Eve…

The opening scene of Anxiety Club shows Mark Normand doing a rooftop gig. He says, I love a roof gig. This goes horribly, I could just jump right off. Joe List is then seen in a comedy club making jokes about how many times his thoughts about his parents dying or him being diagnosed with cancer across his mind every day. The press release says all of the comedians in Anxiety Club have created stand up or sketch material about their mental health that’s not only funny, but uniquely relatable and disarming two audiences.

Anxiety Club arrives on Jolt August fifteenth. Eddie Murphy will start in the pick Up. Pete Davidson also in the Pickup. It will be on Amazon Prime Video August sixth. In the Pickup, a routine cash pickup takes a wild turn when two mismatched armored trucks drivers Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson, are ambushed by ruthless criminals led by a savvy mastermind with plans that go way beyond the cash cargo.

As chaos unfolds, the unlikely duo must navigate high risk danger, clashing personalities, one very bad day that keeps getting worse. Do You Not So Canceled? A z’son Sorry is part of the cast of Good Fortune, stars Keanu Reeves. This is a movie which will be in theater’s October seventeenth. Good Fortune introduces Kano Reeves as Gabriel, a well meaning but rather an ept angel who decides to intervene in the lives of a struggling gig worker played by a zizin Sorry, and a wealthy venture capitalist Seth Rogan.

Do You not so canceled? Azason? Sorry? Told Entertainment Weekly, I’m not buying this. This sounds like Hollywood stuff.

When Reeve’s name came up and casting, I’m sorry, wasn’t so sure? Right? Yeah? No, I don’t want to be in your movie. No, not at all.

Told Entertainment Weekly that guy Reeves just seems like he’s on a different planet, you know what I mean. Doesn’t seem like would be able to interact when they finally met, I’m sorry, was awestruck to the point, and sorry was nervous not only about working alongside a Hollywood giant he grew up watching, but also directing him. I was like, hey, man, we got to hang out a few times, so I’m not freaked out about being around you, you know what I mean. So he was like, I get what you mean. So he hung out, and he came over to my house and I made him Indian food and we hung out for a while and he told me all these stories, and then we went to dinner a couple of times, and I tried to really spend time with him, to get to know him a little bit so I could become comfortable around him.

Mm hmm. Good job, publicist, Good fortune, October seventeenth, in theaters. More from that Hollywood reporter around table with various comedians. My former coworker Jamie Fox said, I had a special deal for a long time, but I had nothing to talk about. What was I going to talk about?

I was rich, I was behind my gates. I remember seeing Eddie Murphy at his house. This was around coming to America, and he says he’s going to go and try and do stand up and I say to him, you can’t. He says why, and I say, this ain’t funny. Your house is too nice.

Whatever that scent is. He had a scent, you know, the stuff that pumps through the house. And I said, what does that smell? And he said it’s pomegranate. And I said, the fact that you know what that is tells me you ain’t funny.

Bro It was too perfect, and that was me. I was living in that, so I didn’t have anything to talk about. Then this stroke happened, and I’m like, oh, this is a platform, but I don’t want to have another stroke, even though we have a deal for another hour. As it’s the beginning of a new month, let me thank the supporters of the show. They’ve gone to buy me a Coffee dot Com and thrown some money in the tip jars.

Much appreciated, deb and Tom Andrea, Gary Shannon, Mike Kenny, appreciate you all. And that is one way to support the show, going to buy me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Another way, take that same five bucks become a premium subscriber to this show, and you’ll get this one and a bunch of others on the network, including five Good News Stories, which I host three days a week. You get the shows commercial free and no feed drops. If you’re on Apple Podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening.

If you are on another platform, go to calibrog dot com, slash plus, or check the link in the show notes. But supporters, thank you very very much, appreciate it. The Atlantic had written a piece about Colin shows, saying the Weekend Update host and knows exist exactly what he’s doing. Good take by The Atlantic, They say, when Joe’s first took the job as a weekend Upday co host in twenty fourteen, he came across as a cocky prep school kid, doomed to discover that the rest of the world does not share the high opinion he has of himself. Some armchair critics and social media users sigh that, of course, Lorne Michaels had given the show’s most prestigious job to another bland white guy.

But eventually Joe seemed to find that he could win the public’s goodwill by acknowledging its disdain leading into his unlikability gave Jose a distinctive comedic energy, and funnily enough, made him a lot more likable. Jose found his groove by appearing to accept that many people were eager to tell a guy like him off. He didn’t exactly shed his entitled persona, but he settled into a role as sort of a pressure release valve, a way for others to process their cultural anxieties. For example, Sarah Sherman is his greatest tormentor. Sherman demonstrated a talent for nimbly turning every innocuous thing Joe said against him, at one point insisting that he kissed Michael Chay and accused him of being a homophobe for refusing, and when he finally agrees, accusing him of now mocking the queer community by pretending to be gay.

Hers depict him as representative fairly or not, of an antiquated mindset the Sherman’s open minded peers are perpetually butting up against. But she also paints Jose as someone who can’t win because he’s unable to keep up with the speed of her humor, and the more she piles it on, the funnier. The exchange becomes and in this one just just I’m leaving all that in. You could see it fried my brain. I don’t know what to make of this.

Tiffany Hattish and the CEO of Fanatics, the sports Apparel Guy, they were on CBS this morning’s and for some reason, Tiffany Hattish is involved with Fanatics veest. The Fanatics guy said they had seventy thousand fans show up at last year’s Fanatics Fest, So what could they do to make it next level? Well eight sports them to challenges. First place wins a million dollars, second place a five hundred thousand dollars Ferrari. Don’t forget you have to pay Texas in that Ferrari, and third place gets a two hundred and fifty grand lebron James Rookie trading Card.

Confirmed participants include Tom Brady, Kevin Durant, Kevin Hart, Rob Gronkowski, and quarterback Russell Wilson. Now why Tiffany Hattish was part of this, I don’t know. Is she hosting this? The article didn’t tell me, But Tiffany said, I’m very athletic. I was all city in high school, shot put, I run fast, jump high, and throw hard.

So anyway, Fanatics Fest is coming up, and I guess Tiffany Hattish is going to be there, but I’m not sure. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too. We already talked about how to get a commercial free, so I’ll just stop talking and I’ll see tomorrow

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Mike Birbiglia, Lana Del Rey, Tom Segura, Kevin Hart, Roy Wood Jr., Hasan Minhaj, Jamie Foxx, Sarah Silverman, Seth Meyers, Chelsea Handler, Howie Mandel

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser receives criticism from Lana Del Rey about dirty comedy material
• Tom Segura’s ‘Bad Thoughts’ Netflix series with Garth Brooks parody character Rex Henley
• Kevin Hart discusses rejection as positive force in his career development
• Hollywood Reporter comedy roundtable on unpopular opinions about comedy
• Comedians discuss how well they predict audience reactions to their material
• Jamie Foxx discusses using ‘enhancements’ before performing stand-up
• Howie Mandel on differences between America’s Got Talent and his live comedy shows

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jennie Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Nikki Glaser was on Mike Birbiglia’s podcast, Nicky’s Agents Getting It Done. Bir Bigley was the IT comic this week. Sure, so she made an appearance there.

What a coincidence? Nicki told Mike she learned that Lona del Rey was not a fan of Nikki Glaser’s jokes. According to Nicki, a friend of hers was at a party and met whom they described as a gorgeous woman. They started to share details about their lives, the friend writes for Nikki Glaser. The gorgeous woman walked away.

Another partygoer approached Nikki Glaser’s friend and said, what were you talking to Lonna Delray about? Apparently the friend heard from Hanna del Rey or a friend of Lonna del Rey’s. I like Nikki, but I wish she wasn’t so dirty, Glazier said. I was sad because I love Lonna del Rey. I thought she would have been into that stuff, and now I’m like, oh my god, it was helpful advice.

At first, I was like, how dare she?

And then I was like, I’ve got some notes too for her.

She’s one of the best brilliant artists ever, and yet I’m entitled not like things of hers. There are songs that I’m like, eh, So she’s a lot to be eh about me. I took the note and I’m working on it. Nicky says she took the criticism seriously, not just to appeal to her, but to appeal to people who like her, people that I could be sharing my message with, but are turned off because I hear she’s too dirty, and I just don’t want to hear that. Some people are deeply uncomfortable by it.

It’s not even like they’re prude. It’s like, ew, it’s grosse. Are we going to see some sort of major comedic pivot by Nikki Glaser? Seems to be a week four angry articles. I enjoyed this one from Savingcountry Music dot Com.

Apparently they didn’t find the totally not Garth Brooks segments of Tom Sigora’s bad Thoughts as hilarious as I did. I had commented I could watch Sigura do totally not Garth Brooks all day, every day. If Sigura wants to turn that into a one hour week series, I’ll watch it saving country music com long story short toms Agora loves to poke fun of Brooks and what many perceive as Gortz over the top persona. It’s been a favorite topic of Sigora going back to twenty eighteen. At this point, the whole where are the Body’s Garth thing has been used for so long it’s grown pretty stale.

Oh no, it hasn’t, not at all. No, no, no no, But Tom s Agora decided to take the joke to its ultimate conclusion by portraying a very Goarth like character in the short run Netflix comedy series called Bad Thoughts that debuted on May thirteenth. I feel like the short run is trying to be a dig there. It was just a six episode series. You know, it’s not crazy that something on Netflix is only six episodes.

Is not nineteen eighty four anymore. Throughout the six episodes, toms Agora portrays multiple dark characters in unthinkable situations and fantasies. One such character as a global country music superstar who kidnaps his own fans and forces them to live with little food in an old Western like town to help inspire him to write and hit songs. You can hear me cracking up. I’m just thinking back to the sketch I love.

Though the character’s name is Rex Henley, it’s clearly a goof on Garth Brooks saving country music dot com. Right. So, as a country fan, a comedy fan, and maybe even as a Garth Brooks fan, you were hoping this could result in some fun last But unfortunately Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts doesn’t deliver. And forget the time into the country music universe and Garth Brooks. The series of six to twenty minute or so episodes really just isn’t that funny at all, except for infleeting moments.

Oh I disagree, it is hilarious. I can’t get enough of Bad Thoughts. It’s only the first few episodes were the Rex Henley characters seen, and despite the insane premise, it might be some of the most tame moments of the series. That is true. I want to tell my adult son to watch it, and I don’t have the courage to tell my adult son to watch it because it’s naughty.

Perhaps if you’re a Tom Sigora fan and get his comedy, it helps, But if you’re a country fan who loves to poke fund at Garth Brooks yourself. Just don’t bother Garth Brooks offers more comedy inadvertent, okay. Kevin Hart spoke to You Fortunate about his rejections over the years and said, I can’t narrow it down to one not getting into comedy clubs early on in my career, and not getting chosen for comedy festivals, not getting movie roles that I thought were perfect roles for me, not getting SNL and I thought SNL was the biggest and best thing for me. There are so many things that if they would have happened, my career wouldn’t have shaped up into what it was today. You later discover those moments were some of the best for you, that made you work harder.

Kevin Horret’s mindset is rejection can be an asset. Without it, you don’t have anything to learn from or anything to adjust too. If things were easy, it’d be stupid. It’s supposed to be hard. You’re supposed to understand the reason for hard work and putting one hundred percent to a craft is because of what you want to get out from it.

The Hollywood Reporter had a comedian round table. The question at hand, what’s an unpopular opinion you hold about comedy. Roy Wood Junior said, it’s hard for me to go, well, I don’t like this or that. It’s probably because I can’t do it, Like I’m not good at crowd work. So yeah, I hate on it, but it’s what the streets have chosen.

Hasan Minhaj said the art form is bigger than ever, so when people critique it, I’m like, there are more com means doing feeders and arenas that ever is. So take the good with the bad. My former co worker Jamie Fox said, and it’s two worlds. There’s the two hundred and eighty one comics, so we think is the whole world, and then there’s Joe Coy selling out arenas. Roy Wood Junior said, it’s Shane Gillis.

Chelsea Handler said it’s a medium that’s been pretty unscathed by cancel culture. You get to say whatever you want, however you want to say it, and it’s up to your audience whether they’re coming for it. Next question, how good are you all at predicting how your comedy will land? Sarah Silverman said, I’m always surprised what specials the last two I did. The first night we shot.

You’re just excited you got it. The second night feels magical because you’re not in your head anymore, so you go, we’ll just use the whole second night, and then the editors like, now, I like the first night. Seth Meyer said, same thing happened to me. I think it’s the precision of being in your head. The butterflies actually help you focus.

Fox. I learned that when I took some enhancements to go on stage. I thought, since Richard Pryor did in enhancements. Chelsea Handler asked, what are enhancements? Silverman like cocaine?

Fox? Some people call it cocaine, some people call it enhancements. Roy Wood Junior, No one calls it enhancements. Fuck is pr instinct kicked in and I’ve been in the room with him when I’ve seen this happen to him when he’s having some fun and then realizes that he’s Jamie Fox and people are going to quote the things he says. Jamie says, I want to go on the record to say I hate cocaine.

I just like how it smells, and then laughs. The Saint Pete catalyst asked Howie Mandel. Howie Mandel does America indeed have talent. They should have said got talent, no whatever, how he said, yes, yes it does. I’m trying to sell tickets to my show.

So if America didn’t have talent, why would you buy a ticket to see me? I think there’s talent everywhere, it’s just that it’s not everybody’s taste. But yes, America’s got talent. That’s why you should come see me. Although the people who are fans of America’s got talent shouldn’t bring their children in my live show because America doesn’t always have editing.

My show is very improvisational and in the moment, anything can happen, and it’s not like what I do on AGT. Has Howie seen it all in his fifteen years on that show. Every time I think I’ve seen it all, I realize I ain’t seen nothing yet. When people will ask me what I look for, I look to be surprised. It’s anything and everything and things I haven’t even thought of.

I like the opportunity. In my own mind go WTF, Like what are you doing? What is that? How’d you even come up with that? Brett Goldstein spoke to Interview magazine about the most challenging parts of stand up and said a pitying silence is the worst.

It feels like dying on stage because you came to connect with people. When it doesn’t work, it’s like, oh my god, am I even here? Do I exist? What’s happening? And what’s so weird about stand up is that it’s so objective.

If someone were to go you’re not funny and no one’s laughing, it’s like, yeah, I can’t argue. I can’t say that last night they laugh loads, because right now I’m a ghost that isn’t funny. Molly mcinnerney is the head writer and executive producer of Jimmy Kim Alive, also his wife. She spoke to Late NIGHTERR about whether or not Jimmy will stick around. She said, I do think we need him.

I’d love for him to stay, but I also want him to be able to relax and fly fish and not listen to Trump every day. So I want whatever’s best for him. But yeah, I selfishly want him to fight the good fight as long as he can. When you wake up in the morning and it’s like Donald Trump wants to put people on appuature as you’re like, oh, I don’t think we should do the funny bit on the bull of today. We want to deliver these funny bits, and these things can take people out of the news.

But when you’re so overwhelmed by the news, you’re like, wait, we got to call him out on a thing he just said today. Jimmy Kimmel’s contract runs through next fall, the twenty five to twenty six seasons, so we got another year of him at least. Might take. Just negotiate now, dude, you already got the summer off, stretch out the Christmas break, do the permanent guest host thing on Monday and tell them you’ll host Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and let the Friday be a rerun er. I don’t even know what’s on Friday.

And that’s it. Learn from Shohnny Carson. Let someone else hose Mondays stick around. It’s a good gig. It pays well, it keeps you in the public eye.

I understand we’re all getting older. You want to work a little less. Been there, done that, doing it, So yeah, just negotiate. ABC will say yes, take a pay cut if you have to. It’s okay, you got the money.

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Featured: Clint Eastwood

What’s in This Episode

• Eastwood Reloaded podcast series announcement
• Clint Eastwood’s directorial legacy and filmography
• Clint Eastwood’s acting career from Rawhide to present
• Clint Eastwood’s cultural and political influence
• Analysis of Eastwood’s iconic films including Dirty Harry, Unforgiven, and Million Dollar Baby

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You know, the silhouette, the squint, the whisper of a voice that somehow cuts like a blade. Clint Eastwood isn’t just a movie star. He’s a myth, a mayor, a director, a cultural fault line, and maybe the last great American icon. This is Eastwood Reloaded, a new podcast series that tells the story of Clint Eastwood, one chapter at a time, through the films, the failures, the politics, and the quiet chaos that followed him from Rawhide to cry mancho Each ten minute episode breaks down a piece of the legacy, a fistful of dollars, the good, the bad, and the ugly dirty Harry unforgiven, million dollar baby American Sniper, the hits, the flops, the ones you forgot existed, and the moments on and off screen that turned a man into a myth. Because legends aren’t born, there built Eastwood Reloaded, where cinema meets rebellion.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

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Featured: Ricky Gervais, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Jack Shepard, Doug Gordon

What’s in This Episode

• Ricky Gervais receives Hollywood Walk of Fame star
• Ricky Gervais on comedy boundaries and offensive humor
• Nick Kroll discusses organizing John Mulaney’s intervention during pandemic
• John Mulaney’s talk show criticized for unfocused conversations
• Debate over NYC bike lanes effectiveness

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, JIMG with your Daily Comedy News. Ricky Gervase gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today. It is the twenty and thirteenth star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame sixteen twenty eight Vine Street. If you want to go, if you’re in LA, won’t you head on over.

It’s today at eleven to thirty Pacific. If you’re not in LA, or maybe you’re in LA, just don’t feel like leaving the house. I understand it’ll be stream live on Walk of Fame dot Com. The La Times caught up with Ricky gervas. He also is playing the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday.

Cool place to see Ricky. His last appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in twenty twenty three earned him the Guinness World Record for highest grossing single stand up performance. The La Times asked Ricky, Hey, you’ve spent your career pushing comedy boundaries as there have been a moment where we thought, oh, I’m gonna have to defend this one. Ricky said, no, it all comes and goes. It’s cyclic.

People get nervous and that’s just always been there from day one. People get worried, and I say, well, this is why it’s okay. Sometimes it’s an executive producer or a broadcaster just want some ammunition to defend it. But sometimes they don’t know whether it’s okay or not. They just don’t want to get complaints.

If I can go okay, listen, this is why it’s okay, then they often trust me because I can defend it. It’s not me sitting in the room going what’s the most offensive thing I could say to get the BBC burned down? There’s always a point to it. Offence comes from people mistaking the subject of a joke with the actual target, and they’re not usually the same real smart by Ricky there. We’re human, so we react to buzzwords and we’re cautious of taboo subjects.

That’s why they’re still taboo, because we’re cautious of them. I do that on purpose as well, particularly with my stand up where we talk about contentious issues and taboo subjects, because I do want to take the audience to place they haven’t been before. I do want them to reflect on it, worry about it, think about it, and then I’ve got to misdirect them. It’s like I take them by the hand through a scary forest. But it’s okay because they always laugh.

If we’re going out there and saying things that were really offensive and no one was laughing, well that would be odd. That’s what politicians do. Politicians say awful things and they mean it and no one laughs. Comedians say things they don’t mean. Everyone laughs, and they get the same treatment.

I don’t go out there to try and ruin the audience’s evening. I go out there and I make a joke and it’s crafted. We’re human, though, and we take things personally. But you shouldn’t because I think comedy is at best in intellectual pursuit. You should go well, that’s a bad subject and I don’t agree with the punchline, But does it work comedically?

It’s a magic trick, it’s formula. You can’t argue with chemistry. No one goes well, I know, I laugh, but I don’t agree with it. Well, it did what it does. That’s the joke, and I’m not going to change the joke or the meeting.

I think the only form of censorship as an audience is your right not to listen. You just don’t have to watch. You could leave, not buy my stuff, not buy my tickets, and that’s absolutely fine. You can turn your TV off, but what you can’t do is make other people turn their TV off. That’s the difference.

And then people complain about something you’re doing in the privacy of your own home, even though if they had to go up to their attic and stand out a step ladder and look through binoculars to see it, they’ll find it. People sometimes seek out the offense, and that’s actually where people can get addicted to being offended. They like it, it makes them feel live. The news even picks it up. They say, oh, fans weren’t happy.

Three fans weren’t happy. Good stuff. Maybe a little more from that. Tomorrow. Nick Kroll was on Armchair Expert with Jack Sheppard.

Kroll explained the process of trying to organize John Mulaney’s intervention. Kroll said it was so scary and brutal to go through because he was in New York. I was in la who was at the height of the pandemic, So it was incredibly stressful to be in the midst of the pandemic trying to literally coordinate and produce an intervention, bringing a bunch of different people together friends from college. Kroll’s wife was about to give birth, and I was shooting don’t worry Darling, which there was no stress there. That was a very controversial filming that I don’t have time to get into.

You can google it. Krol said. Then John was running around New York City like a true madman. I was so deeply scared that he was going to die, and I was trying to orchestrate all this, combining all the elements, the going of these things, like the intervention person, where he was going to go, who was going to be at it. You’re all of a sudden going back to being like, oh, that’s why I’ve been an inconsistent friend for the last X amount of time.

This explains that, And so it gives you both empathy for them an also tremendous amount of anger because they’ve been lying to you. Kroll talked about being on the film with Malaney and said, both of us crying, me just being like, I’m so scared you’re going to die. And so I felt him feeling the same way, but also just like yay New York Streets blogs, Doug Gordon is mad at John Mulaney. He was commenting on the Millennie episode from ten days ago, and said if that one was the only episode you’d ever seen, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the show was shot live at a community board meeting in New York City. After all, the conversation, which featured some of the most accomplished people in entertainment, quickly to send it into a competition to see who could most gratuitously equate Big Apple bonafides with complaints about all the ways in which bicycles have ruined New York.

I’m gonna jump in before I get more into this. Okay, I’m from New York City. I’m also very, very very pro bike lane. Understand that I’m very pro bike lane. If you want to see bike lanes work, go to Chicago, where bike lanes work.

If you want to see where bike lanes work, go to Montreal where bike lanes work. If you want to see how bike lanes work, go to Vancouver, which even has side streets that are biicles only. It is fantastic. Love a good bike lane. New York City bike lanes it don’t work at all, especially in Manhattan.

Too much chaos doesn’t work. They’re not really They’re more often than not not protected bike lanes, and when they are protected bike lanes, it pushes out the on street parking so that if you’re driving a car, you have to like creep out through the bike lane and then passed where the cars are parked and you can’t even see the oncoming traffic.

And then add in Manhattan pedestrians like me who jaywalkt will it’s complete…

Bike lanes Manhattan do not work. The Gordon writes. The stated theme of the program was is uber good? Setting aside that The Evening’s question has been known for more than a decade, it’s a resounding no, at least for people who care about congestion, carbon emissions and public transit ridership. Only an he barely bothered engage with the Walker.

The editor of torched a new site focused on the infrastructure changes and policy choices being pursued by Los Angeles as it preps for the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games. Yeah, I don’t know if you know this, Sir Mlanie’s talk show is just chaos and he can’t focus on it doesn’t work. Respectfully disagree with the friend of the show and the Great New York Times writer Jason Zinnemann Millenie show does not work. I’m sorry, does not work. The topics do work.

I don’t know why we are the least bit surprised. John Mulani could not hold a meaningful conversation about Uber, so Gordon Wright’s after Walker offered one reason why Uber is not good because of the congestion and the undermining of public transit. Mullenie asked Walker how she got to the studio. When she answered that she took the bus on the train, Mullaney seemed positively shocked. This is a dystopian nightmare, he explained.

Walker never got a chance to defend the La Metro. I went downhill from there. From the perspective of public transit, Amy Sidis and Sigourney Weaver offered pure windshield perspectives, so Daris By mentioning that she takes ubers to visit her godchildren in New Jersey transit accessible Maplewood, New Jersey, and Sigourney Weaver emphasizing that she prefers yellow cabs fine enough. Natasha Leone joined the panel. Mulaney asked her about Uber, but Leon turned to the conversation of where it was perhaps always destined to go plastering her classic New York accent so thick that she should be forced to go before the city’s Landmark Preservation Commission.

Leon stated, but I don’t like his bicycles in New York. I think we need to shut down the bike lanes that allows Sigourney Weaver to knock cyclists who don’t use the bike lanes anyway. Richard Kind chimed in and said, and get rid of the electric bicycles. They’re the worst. They’re killers.

Fact check from Doug Gordon, they are not killers. Comedy show guys. Comedy show Walker suggested the bus should have a lane, the bike should have its own very wide lane, and there should be a wider sidewalk. Natasha Leone said, that’s insane. It’s Manhattan.

We don’t have the space. Doug Gordon writ’s classic windshield perspective. Leon clearly was not able to see. It’s all the uber black Axls and Cadillac escalades, faring celebrities and other wealthy New Yorkers that are taking up all the space. Walker gets it until Doug Gordon it’s a comedy show.

I’m not even sure this is truly what these people believe and again if you want to hit rewind Johnny Max said he’s very pro bike lane. They work great in Chicago, Vancouver, Montreal, other places they don’t work him in Httan. You want my real solution, I have suggested this. Let’s take Park Avenue away from the cars and make Park Avenue. And if you’ve never been to New York Park Avenue, it has a park down the mill.

Very nice. Let’s make that bike lanes and more. John Mulaney, he was at an event hosted by PAP. He was asked if he would like to replace Lorne Michaels once Lorne Michael steps away from SNL. The question if someday Laurna is hit by a bus and they say, you know, John Mlaney, you have to take over the show, no excuses.

What’s the first thing you change mulane? He deflected and said he’s lived in New York for fifty years. You don’t think he knows that to dodge a bus. Hng Wing talk to twenty seven East and said, there’s a future of stand up that you might not have an other forms of creative expression. There’s an audience there in the moment giving you an immediate or direct response.

If you’re a painter or a photographer, you might have a gallery show, but unless you’re there with whoever’s looking at it, you don’t really know how they’re responding to it. Would stand up. They’s sort of an advantage that levels the playing field, and it’s based on some sort of meritocracy. It’s a very binary thing. Do they laugh or not.

It’s an everyday thing. You look at your notes, you try to sit down and write some new ideas. You tinker. It’s kraft and you hone it habitually. Then you got open mics and test things out.

It’s like you’re working the lab, making things better. He says growing up, he didn’t want to be a comedian. He was doing things like hanging outside playing basketball friends or hanging out of the bayou catching tadpoles. No one was ever like he’s the funniest guy in class. I was never seeking attention in group settings.

I was more of a one on one friendships kind of guy. He says. The most joyful thing is writing a new joke. And from the Hartford Current. Bob gil wrote the screenplay for the original Back to the Future films and was a producer of Back to the Future the animated series in the nineties, plotted the stories for the Back to the Future comic book series, and now works on the Back to the Future musical, which I saw and loved, and it’s coming to Hartford and you should go see it.

All right, How did it come about? Gail said, we start the process by saying, there are certain things we can do with this material in the theater, and there’s certain things we can’t do, like we can’t have the terrorist chase, But what else could we do? The problem we’re solving there is that doc dyeing motivates Marty to go back in time. It could be something else, so we made it spoiler radiation poisoning. I didn’t just ruin the musical for you, trust me.

The musical does not contain the film skateboard Chase. Having seen the musical, I didn’t even notice. Gail said, it’s just too dangerous. Marty already has to sing, dance and be funny. We’re gonna make him do skateboard stunts too, and staid we’ve got to chase through the school lunch room, which accomplishes the same thing.

Gale things, changing it up a little makes it more fun. I don’t want people to say I should have stayed home watched the movie. Some of the show’s completely nuts. He insisted on keeping four songs Johnny Be Good, Earth, Angel, Powerful Love, and Back in Time. You can’t go see Back to the Future Without those four songs.

People would tear up the seats. Back to the Future the musical at the Bushnell one sixty six Capitol Avenue, Hartford performances June fourth through va. If you should go, It’s a lot of fun.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Mike Birdiglia, Gerard Carmichael, Jim Gaffigan, Russell Peters, David Cross, Roy Wood Jr., Kenan Thompson, Dave Chappelle

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis SNL monologue controversy and Cracked article criticism
• Mike Birdiglia and Gerard Carmichael special reviews
• Jim Gaffigan discusses 50-pound weight loss using appetite suppressant medication
• Russell Peters on potential deportation concerns
• David Cross limited edition bobblehead release
• Roy Wood Jr. political joke challenges and audience walkouts
• Kenan Thompson hints at SNL cast changes for next season

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Caloroga Shark Media. I want to talk about this whole Shane Gillis quote unquote controversial thing in a second. But Hi, I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. But real quick, I put on Mike Berbiglia’s special the other night. Civilians are gonna like it.

It’s fine. I admit I’m a comedy snob. It’s par Bigulally doing bar Bigley things perfectly fine. People are gonna enjoy It’s all good. I actually like Geord Carmichael’s special on Max a little bit more.

The first twenty minutes or so, I was really into it. He’s a good storyteller.

And then I kind of flamed out on it and went back to watching Netflix or what…

But they’re both fine, and they’ll make my middle tier end of the year list. For Bigli is fine, Gerard Carmichael is more fine. And that opinion is more about me being a comedy snob than anything the artists are doing there. All right, Shane Gillis, I think there’s some sort of like federal law that if you write an article about Shane Gillis, you have to call him a controversial comedian. Shane Gillis, and I don’t know what the controversy is.

I remember, I know the SNL controversy because he did a character on a podcast a billion years ago before anybody knew who he was, and he got on SNL and then they got unput on SNL and that’s the big controversy. I don’t understand what it is about Shane Gillis that makes people go insane. But there were a couple articles this week. I’ll do one here and I’ll save another one for Monday. That’s really just a good slow burn.

But Cracked is reacting to Shane’s appearance on the SmartLess podcast this week. Will praised Shane Gillis for his jokes on SNL about ken Burn Civil War docu series, but Gillis pointed out the jokes didn’t go over too well. I did a bunch of kin Burn’s material on my SNL monologue, and everybody was kind of like, what the F is he talking about? Every time my monologue doesn’t go great on SNL, I’m oh for two of those things.

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Now here’s where the rage is coming from, because, according to Killis, the m…

Tate McCrae was the musical guest, so the audience was like, twenty year old chicks in the front. Dude, the audience this has always twenty year old chicks in the front. Have you not heard the SNL cast joke about this. They put the hot, young, good looking people in the front, and if I get in at all, I’m in the back row. So the Shane Gillis bud Light crowd, they’re not putting those guys in row two.

Shane said, I know, I’m up there talking about Shelby Foot and ken Burns in the Civil War. They had no idea, just some ogre walked out on stage and started talking about shelby Foot but cracked rights. But Killus’s assessment of the routine amid some important detales for one thing, he had already lost. The crowd even commented on that fact several times prior to the ken Burns jokes, most notably when he compared Liberals to the evil Scyth from Star Wars. And while a number of people didn’t laughtering the Civil War bit, that likely had less to do with the fact that Tate mccraye fans are incapable of understanding the concept of historical documentary, and more to do with the fact that one of the punchlines literally involved date rape.

I had to drop out of character there. Gillis joke that Burns work could be used to knock women unconscious if they yap a little ladding that it’s a little cosmey tip for you who needs roofies when we have Ken Burns presents the History of the Buffalo on PBS. It should also be said that these conspicuously tasteless jokes came around halfway through a monologue that lasted for nearly eight minutes, making it the sixth longest in the show’s history. And that’s more than two minutes longer than Adrian Brodie’s seemingly endless Oscar speech. I bet of the sixth longest in the show’s history.

Four of them have happened in the last six years. Dave Chappelle’s probably two of them. Carlin Opening Night in seventy five is probably one of them. Anyway, that’s Shane Gillis. He’s so controversial.

I have another one of those articles. On Monday, probably Jim Gaffigan was on The Today Show and joked about his recent fifty pound weight loss. He says he cannot take pride in it because he used medication to suppress his appetite. Jim joked that he was brave enough to stick a needle in my stomach. Jim Wade two seventy before his weight loss journey and said, it’s great because my knees don’t hurt standing up.

I’m less exhausted. It’s always good, you know, like the health benefits, like I’ll live longer. But I love it because I feel better. It’s great, it’s beneficial. Gaffagan had previously told people he wasn’t I’m sure the medication would work, explaining I had very low expectations because I did know someone that had tried it and they were like, oh no, I was just nauseous for a week.

I thought my true joy of eating would overpower anything. That’s some of why I wanted to talk about it, because I almost thought it was kind of odd that people were resistant to talking about it. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. There’s people walking around that obviously do not have blonde hair, yet they do. I don’t think that’s weird either.

It’s just whatever gets you through. Russell Peters told The Hollywood Reporter he does not fear being deported back to Canada. You know, should he say something about a politician and get thrown out, He’s not worried about it. Russell said of the US and all fairness, the amount of taxes I pay in that country, they’d be damn foolish to get rid of me. Now that’s a bad business move, since the country’s being run like a business.

That would be dumb. What are they going to do? Send me back to Canada? Whoop to do? What a loss for them?

Not me? I get to go back home. That’s how I look at it. That sounds like a challenge. Send your letters to Russell Peters.

David Cross has released a brand new limit edition throbble head that apparently is a brand of Bobbleheads. This one comes with signed trading cards. The description of the bobblehead his Cross is heavily bearded with a microphone in hand as he performs his signature brand of sad but Funny stand up comedy. Measuring seven inches tall, this throbblehead features a removable baseball hat and real hair beard and includes an autograph limited edition trading card. Mike ber Bigley had told Vanity Fair I opened for Dave Chappelle at the DC Improv.

He was twenty four. I was nineteen. I think after that, I asked hif I could open for other people, and they said, you can work the door and be a best boy. That was comedy college. I did that for four years, watching nationally touring, headlining comedians in the office on the weekends.

I could see how much people were paid. When I moved to New York. That was the financial model I had in mind. If I could be an opening act making three point fifty a week, what’s called a middle actor feature act making five hundred, six hundred and seven hundred dollars a week, I thought I could completely live on that. Roy Wood Junior was part of the Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Roundtable.

He said, politics gets me in trouble. Sometimes it’s not so much a political joke as it’s the early inclinations of the joke, where you haven’t figured out all the live wires. I remember being in San Francisco. This is week two of Russia versus Ukraine, and the premise of what I was trying to say was essentially that we spend money to sport other wars, but not wars in black neighborhoods. But it came across as anti Ukraine, judging from the email I got from the Ukrainian table that walked out, and you do finally get the joke together later.

In hindsight, it’s probably one of those that I should have done. On New York on a Tuesday night, Keenan Thompson making headlines for teasing quote a lot of change at SNL next season. Keenan called the season finale bittersweet, especially this year when it feels like there’s maybe possibly a lot of change next year. You want everyone to stay forever, knowing that people may be making decisions this summer. It’s always like you want your kids to stay young.

Will Thompson be back? He shared he hadn’t signed a contract for the upcoming season. He said, you never know what the future holds. I don’t want to be in the way of someone else, and I don’t want to be the stale old man riding the same thing. Doesn’t really happen that much at SNL, but there’s no guarantees.

I guess speculation is some of the folks who could leave include Michael j Commin Joes, mikey Day, Heidi Gardner in ego Nawotam. I’ll add to that list. Bo Yang seems like he’s out of there to me. River Butcher spoke to neuvou dot Net about Midwest comedy. River says he can sniff out a Midwestern comedian because I’m from the Midwest.

I can just tell you get to sense it in the way that they’re talking and thinking about things. LA comedy definitely has a style to it, but it’s not a very definitive style because so many people go there to do what they want to do, so it doesn’t necessarily produce its own style, whereas New York does. Because you have to come and do so much stand up, you’re gonna become a New York ater a certain extent. We Midwesterners also just have a profound understanding of each other. Even the most rough and double comedians still of compassion in a way I relate to.

I don’t want to compare it to other groups and act as if other groups don’t have compassion, But that’s one that resonates with me, I guess I should say. And from The New York Post, a gen Z comedian was called out for rude behavior at a restaurant.

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All right, here’s the controversy.

Australian comedian Will Gibb said he walked into a food joint wearing headphones before taking them out to place in order at the counter. After exchanging greetings and ordering his food, the comedians took to the side put his headphones back in. Will says, I’ve got my earphones in and I’m watching this person make my food. I could tell he was bagging it, so I went on my phone one last look. Then I’m looking around thinking maybe it wasn’t my food.

So I look over and the guys standing at the counter looking at me. I made eye contact with him and took my earphones out, and he said, yeah, I’m not going to bother calling your name if you’ve got earphones in. I was completely dumbfounded. All right, who’s right or wrong? Here?

Is the comedian wrong or is the server wrong? I’m on team comedian. What’s the big deal? I ordered, I was polite, I put my headphones in, I got podcasts to listen to. Put the food in the bag, dude.

Some social media viewers wait in, one said fully on the side of the server what a legend. Another said I’m with the server. I find it rude to constantly have earphones in. Another said people on the side of the server need to chill out. Another said I’ve worked in hospitality for years and I’d rather call it out and leave it to get cold bother teaching someone some kind of lesson.

Perhaps the most reasonable person said this is ridiculous. Just check a wave or thumb up when it’s pretty. Let me know what you think in the comments in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Again, I’m team Comedian here and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Ted Danson, Mike Birbiglia, Ronny Chieng, Joe Coy, Romy Youssef, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney discusses sobriety and resisting temptation with painkillers
• Mike Birbiglia’s new special explores complicated relationship with his father
• Ronny Chieng becomes U.S. citizen after 30 years
• Joe Coy delivers keynote at Cal State LA commencement ceremony
• Romy Youssef gives commencement speech at Rutgers, jokes about Arab discount on honorary PhD
• Stephen Colbert DC Comics Batman/Superman cover crossover
• Seth Meyers recounts bombing at Hurricane Sandy benefit concert at Madison Square Garden

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney was on Ted Danton’s podcast. He told Ted that he was able to resist the temptation of grabbing his wife Olivia’s cancer related painkillers and other medication. John says, the obsession of it was gone.

I brought her a tray with apple juice, something that she wanted to eat that her mom had made in the kitchen, and then it had oxyconton and some sort of nerve medication and a Xenax which they also gave for just rest and recovery. It never crossed my mind that I was holding these medications in my hand. The obsession of it was gone. I thought, Oh, I’m so far beyond that, and I can be a good butler with the best client. That’s great, great to hear about John.

He says, people stay the same in so many ways, and I’m still the same person I was when I was like five in so many ways. But I’ll admit it’s a huge change, just a huge way of looking at everything. I’m shocked I did it. I’m shocked I was able to do it. Dancing was like become sober, you mean, John said, to actually stick to it in every way, do not have well I still do this, or well I’m trying like nothing wrong or shameful about relapse.

I mean, I’m just shocked always that it landed dance and asked mulaney if he can see triggers quote two miles out. M’laney said, oh, yeah, I’m very lucky that life’s been so great that it’s always thirty miles out. But I’ll be doing something. I go, huh, you really want to be this exhausted, stretched, thin, a little aggrieved. Luckily those things are miles and miles off.

That’s part of it. It’s just always knowing, so addicted to the self control of it in so many ways, and so happy that I’m always present when I’m with my kids and Olivia and friends and everything. I was in a bad neighborhood in my brain for a while. You always ever expect for it that it’s still there. You go, I see you and know you’re there.

That’s not my daily life. Good job, John Mulaney, that’s awesome. Mike pro Bagley, it’s all Vanity Fair. They’re writing this show. The one out on Monday, forced me to try to understand my dad, because if you don’t see the humanity and the characters, it’s not interesting.

It’s extraordinarily challenging when someone’s had a cute stroke but it’s calmed him down. My early specials, my dad would shout. He wouldn’t even understand why. I’d be like, I’m eating Bretzels. I’d be like, is he angry?

Is he hungry? What’s the emotion being expressed in this special? I forced myself to unpack the emotion being expressed. He oddly doesn’t have the edge or the weight of the world on him. He’s sort of a protagonist.

He’s not evil, He’s just a human being. I think that’s my personal journey with him as well. Ronnie Ching recently became an American citizen. Congratulations. He joked about it, saying, anyone can apply for a citizenship during Obama that’s easy, Golden age great, so applin.

Now if you really want it, do it now. And that’s what I did. It’s kind of thirty years in the making in the sense I’ve been trying to come back to America since I left in ninety three when I was seven years old. I’ve been trying to come back to do stand up comedy, and I finally came back in twenty fifteen, ten years ago, and then citizenship nine years later. And it’s a weird time to do it because the things that attracted me to America were back to the future.

It was Seinfeld, it was Michael Jordan, it wasn’t the Iraq War. So it’s weird to join. It’s like you’re joining this evil empire, but that’s not why you join it. It just so happened to the evil empire. Some really nice TV shows and they do stand up comedy and The Death Star that’s really funny.

Send your letters to Ronny Chieng. I turned down offers to tour overseas all the time. I’ve got no interest in it because I came from there. I’ve been trying to come here, So it makes sense for me to get citizenship because if I do leave the country, I know he can come back to the stuff I’ve been building here. I came to The Daily Show at the end of twenty fifteen, so this Trump thing is all I’ve known.

This isn’t that new, to be honest. Since I came to America, the shadow has been looming or in charge. He’s been talking crap for a long time now. We’re used to him talking crap. He’s been throwing chaos in the mix for a long time now, So in that sense, doesn’t feel like anything new.

In terms of coverage, obviously his efficacy is stronger now, undoubtedly, But in terms of the daily show, it’s almost like being in an emergency room. You kind of get done to it because there’s always a car wreck every day. It’s something new coming in, it’s something you have to comment on. It seems outlandish, but at the same time, it’s been outlandish for nine years, so is it outlandish? That’s the feeling.

Joe Coy who once hosted the Guild and Globes and told a joke about Taylor Swift, but we’re not gonna talk about that today. He delivered the keynote speech at cal State LA’s commencement ceremony. Koi told the students it’s not easy. Getting to where you want to go takes a lot of hard work, takes a lot of sacrifice, takes a lot of falling flat on your face, and that’s when you find out who you really are. That’s when you build the grit the heart and the strength to keep pushing.

Joe Koi was conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts. Words of wisdom from Joe Koi in no matter how many times you bomb, it doesn’t matter. Just don’t give up, keep showing up, keep believing in yourself. You don’t need everyone to believe in you, just you believe in you. And if there’s a Lionel Richie impersonator, it likes you too, that’s also good.

Rommy Yusef gave the commencement speech at Ruckers. Rommy accepted an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts. His parents were there and Rommy said to his parents, I just want you to know part of why I dropped out was because how expensive it was.

And now I am here with a PhD that I got for free, and I believe it’s the grea…

The Hollywood Reporter did a big round table with many many comedians. I shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. By the way, boy, the porn bots are really trying to get in Lona spam lately. Luckily you’ve got to answer three questions and the pornbots don’t answer any of the three questions. Plus the admins helped me keep the pornbots out.

Thank you admins. Anyway, I’ll pick at this roundtable for the next few days. Seth Meyers talked about the hardest he ever bombed was at Madison Square Garden. It was that concert for Hurricane Sandy. They asked me and Bill Hater to do us to fawn thing and Bill said, I’m not going to do it, and then they said, what about Bobby Moynihana’s drunk uncle.

So we’d written this thing. Chris Rock saw us backstage costume and he goes, you’re going to follow the Who with sketches. All of the confidence strained out of our faces, and sure enough we went out and they were so angry. Stephen Colbert is going to be on a variant cover of DC comics upcoming Batman Superman World’s Finest Issue number forty. On the cover, super Man is guesting on The Late Show at Stephen Colbert as Batman stands against the City Skyline.

Backdrop, Superman is seen holding a cover of his book I Am Superman and So Can You. That is a joke referring to Colbert’s Colbert Rapport era book I Am America and So Can You. Another cover for the issue reportedly depicts Batman and Superman in the clutches of late night TV on the fictional late night show Gotham Tonight. Wonder who host Gotham Tonight? I could probably look that up.

I should look that up. Hmm. Gotham Tonight was a six episode docu series mini series Creating directed by Christopher Nolan, which was included in these special features. For the Dark Night, Anthony and Michael Hall played Mike Ingel some fun facts. Over the years, Marvel Comics has given the cover treatment to stars like Letterman, Kimmel, and the original SNL cast.

I’ve got a I think it’s a what if. I’ve got a Letterman cover somewhere in the boxes, in the back of the closet, in the back of the bay. But I have that one. A nineteen sixty three issue of There was a comic book for real called Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane. In a flashback, depicts Lois Lane appearing on The Steve Allen Show Steve Allen on the Mount Rushmore of Late Night.

In case you miss Sunday’s episode, go back and listen to it. I know it was a holiday weekend. I really liked that episode. Go back and listen to Sunday The Mount Rushmore of Late Night Comedy includes Steve Allen Batman’s Superman World’s Finest Number forty out June eighteenth. Let’s stop off on gossip Corner.

Fortune dot Com was keeping an eye on Amy Schumer’s real estate purchases, and they tell us when Amy wants to get away from New York, she flies to New Orleans, where she and her husband have invested in a second home in the French Quarter. Fortune tells us, though primarily based in Manhattan, where she moved recently. After listing her Brooklyn Town home for fourteen million dollars, Schumer told Reelder dot com that her New Orleans Highway was her dream come true. Forbes estimates Amy Schumer’s net worth today be thirty seven and a half million dollars. That sounds high.

I believe it, but wow, Forbes tells us. After finding wealth and fame, Amy said about investing in real estate, the first of which was the family form she lived on as a child, but was forced to leave when her parents filed for bankruptcy. Another of her purchases is a two hundred thousand dollars treehouse, which the listing site speculates is on the grounds of her home in Martha’s Vineyard. Must be nice, all right. The BBC Director of Comedy, John Petrie, unveiled a bunch of new shows at the BBC Comedy Festival in Belfast.

Some good stuff here and some names you will know even if you don’t follow British comedy carefully. John Petrie said the BBC continues to be the biggest single investor in original comedy content in the UK and for the second year running, eight of the top ten scripted comedies were on the BBC.

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All right, let’s take a look at the shows.

Anne Droid like Ann New Word Droid. Anne Droid stars Diane Morgan, who I Love You may know her from the various Kunk series. Diane Morgan stars as a social humanoid robot created to keep outwardly people company and monitor to their health. It’s twenty twenty nine. Sue’s husband David passed away eighteen months ago and her only son, Michael’s moving out again to try to fix his marriage.

But the good news is he got Sue surprise to help her live independently, a care provider with the difference the latest D five hundred social humanoid elder care robot. What Develops is a buddy comedy between an older woman and her robot. Okay, that’s fun. Bill’s Included a typical sitcom punny name. Bill’s Included is about Bill.

Bill is a middle aged divorcee who staves off financial ruin by renting a spare room to students. Warm Hearted and eager, but neurotic and slightly overbearing, Bill is thrilled by the youthful energy his lodgers bring, but baffled by their difference to his laminated house rules and color coded cutlery. He’s torn between wanting to be part of the gang, sharing banner, keeping up with trends, and clinging to his role as the responsible adult. Next up is Small Profits, a six port comedy created, written, and directed by Mackenzie Crook. Synopsis A comic tale of eccentric Michael Sleep, who, since his darling Clia disappeared seven years ago, has lived a very ordinary life.

One day, his dad, Brian shares an old recipe involving rain, water, horse manure, and a little alchemy with recipie in hand, Michael sets about to create a magical prophesying spirit that can predict the future and hope the spirit has the answer to his burning question, will I ever see Clea again? Boy? That’s complicated but fun. Michael Palin of Monty Python fame is part of that one in Stuffed after he receives an unexpected eight thousand pound Christmas bonus at work, Arcelon Ferrooki and his multi faith family set off on the trip of a lifetime when they swap Coventry for the Magic of Lapland his wife Hannah, his two daughters, and brother in law Jamie are all set for the ultimate festive adventure. However, you knew there was, however coming right when office worker Arsland discovers the bonus was a mistake and must be repaid immediately, Christmas chaos ensues.

In The Reluctant Vampire, set in a timeless English village where everything is picturesque, everything except for the vampires living in the Castle on the Hill come out at night for a little drink of the locals. Val has been raised in a very typical vampire family, but has always felt a bit different and hopelessly inept at rising to meet Dad’s high standards. Following a surprise encounter with his reflection, he realizes he’s not undead, not in the least bit. Now the big secret to hide, Val must navigate finding out who he truly is by mingling with the locals to learn the intricacies of their behavior and what it means to be human. Well that’s fun.

Ashlan b has been hosting Who Do You Think You Are, which airs on BBC one. Her trip followed the well established form You Love, a genealogy series renowned for producing celebrities to tears as they find out about their ancestors. B finds out in Limerick that her mother’s family were relative well to do landowners with forty acres to their name in the late nineteenth century, which brought the unwelcome attention of the dispossessed and less fortunate. In Carrie, she learns her father’s family grew up in different circumstances. Her great grandfather was a member of the Volunteers and was set to participate in the nineteen sixteen Rising until it was called off when a German blockade running vessel failed to deliver the promised armstash more British stuff.

A distinctive license plate belonging to late comedian Jethrow sold for thirty five hundred pounds at an auction. It was a personalized license plate J three five t or have you figured it out? J three five teer? It’s like Jester but different J three five t or. Harvey Pyle from Stags to Auctioneers, was expecting it to go for twelve grand.

He said, it’s a very unique piece of comedic history. He was also seen on his Toyota land Cruiser on his final journey. He was carried to his coffin for his funeral. From pokernews dot com, you’re home for Poker News. Lodge cart Club co owner Doug Pok is set to appear on Kill Tony.

This may have already aired. Tony Hinchcliffe shared a story about meeting Poke for the first time. Tony said I’m good at poker and said to Poke, I’ll play your heads up. The bet was that if Poke won, he’d earn a minute to perform on Kill Tony, but if Tony won, Poke would owe him twenty grand. Tony tells the story there we were at Mitzi’s Comedy Club after an episode playing heads up poker me versus the best in the world.

Twenty minutes later, guess who won twenty thousand dollars. Since it’d only been twenty minutes, I said, I’ll tell you what, even though I won, let’s double or nothing, forty grand versus a minute of stand up comedy in any day now, he’s going to be popping up on the show. And that is your comedy news for today. Pretty robust week here coming off from Momworld to him. Enjoy the story’s been a little different.

That’s always fun for me. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, if you’re on Apple Podcasts, click where it says uninterrupted listening. If you’re not on Apple podcasts, go to calliroga dot com slash plus the short version for five bucks a month, no ads, no feed drops, just the show and it’s a great way to support the show for just five bucks a month. I appreciate you supporting the show and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Christina Applegate, Jamie Lynn Sigler, John Mulaney, Dmitri Martin, Sarah Silverman, Taylor Tomlinson, Howie Mandel, Martin Short, Steve Martin

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien reflects on Tonight Show departure and internet support
• John Mulaney discusses his watch collection with GQ magazine
• Dmitri Martin’s visual art exhibit ‘Acute Angles’ and midlife reflections
• Taylor Tomlinson taping Netflix special in Grand Rapids
• Howie Mandel on stand-up comedy as his primary career
• Martin Short and Steve Martin competing in same Emmy category

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. Hi there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Conan O’Brien, who is indeed on the Mount Rushmore of Late Night Comedy. Hopefully you listen to Sunday’s episode where I revealed the four names. Go check it out if you haven’t.

I really enjoyed putting that episode together. That was Sunday’s episode. In this feed, Conan O’Brien was on the Messy podcast, which is hosted by Christina Applegate and Jamie Lynn Sigler. Conan’s been all over the place lately. Conan said, I’ve had multiple times in my career where things kind of blew up or went sideways.

I had no regrets about giving the Tonight show a shot, and when, for all these complicated reasons, it blew up, I was deeply upset. I thought I’m in real trouble. This could be end of my career at forty six. But lo and behold, this thing called the Internet rose up and I got this huge groundswell of love and appreciation that I didn’t expect. Because you’re doing a show like Late Night, day and day out for sixteen years, it’s submarine duty.

You don’t get a chance to you understand fully that there’s a generation of people out there that have been watching. They’re younger than me, and they all knew how to use the internet, so they all got on social media and it was a big thing. The one thing that saved me is I’m very restless, and I’m willing to change it up. The idea of doing one thing for thirty five years in television and getting a gold watch and leaving just said it awful to me. It still does, although a gold watch would be great.

Speaking of watches, I didn’t even plan this. I just put a Conan story back to back with John Mulaney. But John Mulaney spoke to GQ magazine about watches. I wish I had done that on purpose. I’m not that good.

It’s a Tuesday off, a holiday weekend. I just put some stories with big names at the top. Anyway, we accidentally have a theme. Look at that. GQ recounts the story of Mullany having to sell his Rolex when he had some drug problems.

In twenty twenty one, Olivia Munn gave John Mulaney a Rolex air King to celebrate the birth of their son. The watches from nineteen eighty two, which is the year John Mulaney was born, and that makes me feel ancient and has Malcolm’s dad engraved on the case back. M’LINI told GQ that the Air King was coming right off that whole Rolex debacle. It’s linked to a lot of stuff. Melini said he didn’t need another watch after getting the air King, but you still end up getting them.

John’s collection includes a white gold Rolex, sub Mariners and elegant Grand Sacos to the high flying show Pards and the new Brightling Top Time. How many of those words that I pronounced wrong? I’m gonna guess two. Skipping a ed, GQ says, I saw on TV the other day you wore the special edition show Pard for the Year of the Rabbit with a scene of two cute little rabbits on it. John said, two cute rabbits on it and a great watch with everyone loved.

But it’s very hard to tell the time on two gold hands moving over two slightly gold rabbits. But it’s funny. I always go it’s seven to one pm, and that’s the one where I had to go it is, and then look at the studio clock. John talked about having to pick the right watch for performing. He said, of one watch, it’s nice for most occasions, not distracting when you’re doing stand up.

There are watches you might wear where the audience might lose any empathy for you. You don’t want to wear a sub mariner and be complaining about traffic. Colour Wise, I don’t wear a rose gold, no pink gold. I like to say it’s for a better reason, but I’m that shade of pale where it doesn’t look good anyway. GQ long piece with John Mullenian watch as I barely skim that one.

The La Times caught up with Dmitri Martin. They talked about how Dmitri incorporates drawings in his stand up. Martin said, the cool thing about drawing is I could share something personal and I can use a graphic to illustrate it. More specifically, Martin’s now wondering I brought visual art into my stand up comedy. Can I bring comedy into the visual art world.

Acute Angles is Martin’s solo exhibit running through May thirty. First Acute Angles, he says the title reference is the shape of his nose. It features large grayscale paintings with a unifying color palette of bright red, sky blue, and medium gray. The paintings depict implausible scenarios. What if the Grim Reaper slipped on a banana on his way to kill you?

What if Superman ripped his underpants on his quest to save you. Martin has a month long lease of an abandoned yoga studio tucked behind a California in Pete’s kitchen in Brentwood. The Devil’s always in the details. Love that whole sentence you can relate to this. This show also represents Martin’s re emergence from his own midlife existential crisis.

At fifty one, he is older than his dad was when his dad died. I just went through that milestone. That’s the one you really think about. Dimitri’s mom was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. So Dimitri wonders, so now is this like bonus time for me?

Started asking himself that in his late forties, he’s now fifty one. Sarah Silverman was asked about Dmitri. Sarah said, he’s not without cynicism once you know him, But where comics often lead with cynicism, he is this wide eyed openness, and I think that’s the threat that pulls through all his work. Taylor Tomlinson will be recording a Netflix special, she posted on social media. She’ll tape the special December thirteenth in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

She’s taping at the Fountain Street Church. Kaylee Clements is the director of audio and visual technology at the church. Kaylee says she was looking for a venue with a nice look. As far as I understand, it wasn’t expressed to me why she picked Grand rap But I’m going to say it’s because the Fountain Street Church is amazing. Kaylee told him live Taylor was very kind and sweet.

We were taking a virtual tour of the space to see if it met her approval. Because it’s a really large production. There were a lot of moving pieces. We may have a reputation as a conservative town, and this shows again that we allowed diverse voices and we’re open to all kinds of perspectives. The Saint Pete catalyst asked Howie Mandel, why do you always come back to stand up?

How He says, I never left stand up. People always go I loved it when you did stand up. Stand Up’s my thing. I was a stand up from day one, I did a young Comedian special, and then because that’s what people did, I went to meet with a sitcom company and they gave me a sitcom called to See Elsewhere. I didn’t set out to be a dramatic actor.

While I was doing that, I was doing stand up.

And then I got a Saturday Morning cartoon, Bobby’s World.

I didn’t set out to do that. They knew my voice from stand up, and I continue to do stand up. I don’t want to be a game show host, but I did Dealer No Deal, and I kept being a stand up. Now I’m a judge on a talent show and I’m still a stand up and I do a podcast with my daughter, But really, I do stand up. Vanity Fair asked Martin Short how he feels about being up against Steve Martin in the same Emmy category.

Martin said, it’s a little weird and we do kind of divide the vote. I think someone approaching me at the very beginning about would you consider being submitted as a supporting actor when I go into that category, and I said, that’s completely dishonestome Now it was just a pondering question. I think it was from the Emmys. They were acknowledging that we would always split the vote. He told a funny story about working on the show Damages.

It was the first day and one of the executive producers, after a couple takes, came up and said, Marty, can you not smile? And I said why is that when you smile you become Martin Short? And I said, well, I’m kind of stuck because I am Martin Short. The producer later apologized and said that was a stupid note. Martin said, I think Lauren Michael said this to me.

I attributed to him that when you go to the zoo, you go to the monkey cage, and the monkeys have a right to be reflective or sleeping or not swinging by their tails. But when they don’t, you wander why, and you come back when you hear them swinging by their tails. Lauren said something to the effect of, let’s face it, Marty, you’re a monkey. I can sing. I did fifty shows on Letterman where I did a big number every time, but I never did it like I’m going to be sincere this time.

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