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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny mag with a very busy Daily Comedy News. Bill Burr’s new specialize out today. But let’s talk about John Mulaney. Oh boy, where it has start.

I’m trying not to come out of the box super negative, but I made it ten minutes in. Can we all agree it wasn’t great. I know I’m gonna be swimming uphill here. I know people are gonna be like, John Mulaney’s wonderful. But was it?

I was on social media during the show and people were not saying awesome things. It was fine, and I think it really illustrates the first series, the Everybody’s in La series. When you do it in the middle of the Netflix comedy special and you can have Jerry Seinfeld sitting on the couch for whatever else is going on, or you know, somebody of that ILK comes by, it makes the show a lot easier. I felt it was like I compared it to a baseball game where you’re watching the first inning and You’re like, oh, Pictcher doesn’t have his best fastball today, and I’m like, Mulani does not have his fastball tonight. I feel like he got by on He’s John Mulaney.

Now, I’ve been in media for thirty years. Everybody’s first show if you want to call this the first show or the seventh show, whatever. But you know, things get better over time. So I’m not kicking a can and going cansel this thing. It’s terrible, but it wasn’t great.

I went through the reviews. I feel like most of the reviews were two thirds written before the show even aired, comparing it to the LA series, and then they like filled in, oh yeah, and Joan Bayaz said something, I feel like, you know, because this thing was at ten Eastern and a lot of the meetings on the East Coast, myself included, so I feel like they were written early. I mentioned it’s a lot of easier when you have Jerry sitting there, and The New York Times wrote how or the guests their answer. Mlanie’s format can lead to awkwardness among the panelists if the conversation doesn’t flow freely at first. That seemed to be the case with Michael Keaton telling a meandering story about going to Benny Hannah.

Joan bias is anecdote about the Reverend doctor Martin Luther King telling dirty jokes was much more entertaining, though she wouldn’t repeat any of them. Men’s Health had the headline. People are roasting John Malini’s new Netflix show as cringe and boring, One user wrote on Twitter, John Mulaney is one of, if not the funniest comedians, and yet somehow as Netflix talk show sucks. Another user said it’s extraordinary boring. Most of the pickup went to Joan Baiaz.

She said to John Mulaney, you could say I could say anything I want out here. We’re all here to be silly enough fun and as long as we recognize the fact that our democracy is going up in flames, we’re being run by a bunch of really incompetent billionaires. She didn’t mention the billionaires by name, but people had some good guesses. Joan said she once owned a Tesla and said, I hated that thing. I thought I was supposed to like it, so I drove off in it.

Within forty five minutes, I smashed it into an oak tree on my property. I was thinking, that’s a sign. So in my opinion, and it might be an unpopular opinion. Rough start for John Mulaney. Bill Burr is on Hilarious Tonight, Hi Hulu publicists.

How you guys doing it is called drop dead years. I’ve talked about the week. You’ve probably seeing the PR campaign for establishment Bill Burr. So we’ll see what the special brings. Are we going to get quote the old Bill Burr or is there some new version.

We’ll find out. Today Bill did a notable interview on the Fresh Air NPR show. It’s out as a podcast. I haven’t had a chance to put ears on a yet. I’m so behind in my listening.

This is what happens because it gets cold. When it’s warm, I go out and I’ll like run for an hour and I listen to things at two point two speed, so I can get through a lot of stuff. Plus I have to walk up the hill to get home, and you know, winds up being an hour and a half and get through a lot of pods. But my kids are grown now. I’m not sitting in the parking lot at soccer practice, and I’m not driving two hours to tournament, so I have to get my listening in anyway.

You don’t care about that, Bill Burr said, I’m trying to get regular people to stop yelling at each other and realize that it’s a select few group of nerds eating raw amends, doing their stupid workouts, competing with each other to have the biggest infinity pool, and the rest of us are getting pushed down? Is Bill making it sound like he has a part time job? Hold on, I want to know where Bill Burr lives. Google. I don’t know where Bill Burr lives right now, but I found an article from twenty eighteen December thirty first twenty eighteen Variety with the headline stand up comedian Bill Burr sells Mediterranean Via in Los Felice.

Bill purchased the property in twenty eleven for one point zero eight million. The nineteen twenty three Mediterranean Via offers three and potentially four bedrooms and three vintage bathrooms in twenty six hundred plus square feet. This article does not mention a pool. It also tells us though Ber maintains a modest, one bedroom and one bathroom co op on a high floor of a well maintained but otherwise unremarkable, one hundred plus year old, low rise red brick building a couple blocks west of the northern terminus of Times Square. So he does have a one bedroom above a badega in New York.

That’s what. Maybe I don’t know. Maybe that’s just where he’s living, in a one bedroom apartment in New York City on the West Side.

Also back in twenty eighteen, a variety reported that they had bought a place…

It’s unclear if that place has a pool. I have totally digressed. But you know, Bill saying, we’re competing with each other after the biggest infinity pool, and the rest of us are getting pushed down. Bill, you’re not part of the rest of us. I’m sorry, dude, you’re just not.

You were, but you’re not. Congratulations you were successful. It’s okay. I’m trying to be successful. I’m going to get a big house with an infinity pool.

With his podcast takes off, I’m gonna have three places in LA. I’m not hating on you. I’m just saying, let’s not act like you’re just scraping by Bill. As the rest of us are getting pushed down, they politicize the whole stupid thing, and we’re falling for it. I guess he’s saying he’s not a multi billionaire, and I like Bill Burr, I don’t want to sound like hating on Bilberr a lot of press this week.

Burr found an easy target in Elon Musk. He said, I just refuse to believe that his hand salute was an accidental two times see Kyle and he does it at a presidential inauguration. This is why I hate liberals. Liberals have no teeth whatsoever. They just go, oh my god, you believe this.

I’m getting out of the country. And he said that. I think before Rosy o’donna left the country. I’m not even gonna talk about that one. I was like, you’re just gonna leave the country because one guy with diet hair plugs and a laminade face, who makes a bad car and as an obsolete social media platform, Why does an e leave?

Why are we so afraid of this guy can’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag. Variety was curious why Bill filmed Dropped Dead Years in Seattle. Bill said, if I’ve done a show there before in a city, how much I love a city, and I feel like there’s gonna be a good amount of pushback from the crowd when you’re filming a standup special there’s cameras there, so people tend to be a little more agreeable, and I need that push pull thing to happen. I don’t want to be in an echo chamber. I’d rather have it more hostile than agreeable.

Variety asked, have you found that hostility more in liberal cities? Burn No, because I adjust my a whole vibe to whatever kind of STATEUM in. If I’m in a conservative place, I go more liberal. If I’m in a liberal place, I’ll go more conservative. It’s like trying to make an over medium Meg.

You know there’s an art to it. I don’t like it if I say something everybody goes yeah. It’s one side. Everything asides now, So I have to make sure if one side gets too excited that I’m agreeing with them, that I trash them, or maybe I trash myself. Political views is something you don’t ram down people’s throats, and I go over that double line a lot.

Sometimes I’m here, sometimes I’m over there. It depends what you’re talking about. He talked about clapped spoiler for the special, Okay, minor spoiler, it’s not going to ruin the special. At one point, Bill says, I’ve been married for eleven years and the audience goes whoo. Bill says, it’s like I could a chain her or a radiator.

What are you doing? I’m doing that for comedic effect. And I also don’t like that sound. I’d rather you say something mean to me in a loving way than something genuine in a complimentary way. I don’t what to do with that.

But if you tell me, hey, ahole, you’re a pretty funny to night, that means a lot to me. If you’re like, huh, life goes by so fast and I really want to make sure at the time, I’m like, oh God, stop talking like that. It’s creeped me out. Here’s a question that’s been coming up a lot lately with the established comedians. I’m not hating on the question.

It’s a good question. It’s an interesting question. Bill. Do you ever still bomb? Ber said, I do, but I know how to bomb gracefully.

I’m like an old fighter that knows how to take a punch, so I still lose the fight, but I don’t get knocked out. The key to bombing gracefully composure. You have to maintain control even when you’re bombing, and you have to make fun of yourself. Last week, I had a benefit on Tuesday, so I was working out my set at the Comedy Store, and I had no segues. I was owning up to the fact that my act wasn’t there yet.

There’s a reason they’re coming to see me in the original room on Sunday night. But people come out to see on those nights. They’re very forgiving. They like to watch the process, and they’re entertained watching somebody they’ve seen do well struggle a little bit. Bill says the store is one of his favorite places to work out new material.

I also like a lot of the satellite rooms that the younger comics are running. Young comics keep you young. You’re still old being not at act your age comedically around them, if that makes sense. If you perform to your generation, only you grow old with them. The comics that I love growing up never stop going to the gym, which is going down to the comedy club and getting in front of twenty somethings despite the fact they’re in your fifties like me, and learning how to get your fifty something year old ideas over to them.

If you go down there in your fifties and try to act twenty that’s going to be a train wreck. You got to understand that you’re like, they’re funny, old or relative. That’s my uncle saying dumb stuff. Again. They asked about the evolution of burrs act.

I don’t want to just be up there pointing my finger at the crowd the whole time. God knows. I was guilty of that early in my career. But that’s just where I was as a young man. I was lashing out everything.

As you get older, hopefully you realize that you bring some of the problems to the table and maybe the way you handle things isn’t the best way to do it. Being married and having kids and realizing that your behavior can affect these people you’re living with in a positive way or negative way really makes you confront your flaws. God knows, I have a bunch of them, a lot of things. I used to believe that women are difficult and blah blah blah. This was my issue of not understanding myself.

Good fun follow up. Does it make you uncomfortable that your past material lives online forever? Nah? Not at all, I though when people bring that up, because I go, you were alive when I said that. Yet fifteen years to get offended.

You’re just s getting around to it now. The sort of crap happened to comics. I grew up watching They did these jokes, and generally everybody laughed. Then the natal moves twenty years later, and the same people laughed at it, act like they didn’t. But the comedian gets herosent a time.

All the comedian is showing you is where society was at the time. Hollywood in Toto asked what on earth happened to Bill Burr Subetter. The Boston Natives counterculture jokes helped pave the way to superstart him. He wasn’t conservative by any means, but his willingness to call out woke’s insiduous tentacles set them apart from the comedy mainstream. Is twenty nineteen Netflix special paper Tiger confirmed it he was part of a rebel comedy movement, alongside Tim Dillon, Shing Gillis, Theovughn, Tyler, Fisher, Chrissy Maher and Moore.

Earlier this year, Burd took a stupefying position on the California wildfires. More recently, Burd lasted billionaires in the most ignorant manner possible. They cite the line where Burr said, these effing billionaires they need to be put down like effing at rabb dogs. Total rights comedy works best. One is a kernel of truth at the center.

Where’s the truth in burs rant? For what it’s worth, the capitalistic system that yields those evil billionaires has been pretty good to Burr. They get into Burr’s comments on Luigi Burr’s comments on elon Total Rights burst taking a heart left turn, No doubt that’s his prerogative. The problem is twofold, the country’s fearing to the right following the excessis of progressive leadership. He finds himself both out of step and siding with a movement that has fundamentally lost its way.

More importantly, is anything in his recent comments remotely funny? Angry? Yes, ignorant? Sure, ill informed, of course, funny not so much. Guitar dot com, your home for comedy news, had a minor spoiler for the special.

A teaser clip shared to social media showed a snippet of Bill’s Guitar Center segment. In the video, Burd says, I’ll give you the number one place to see sad men Guitar Center. Oh my God one of the saddest places on earth. Failed struggling musicians behind the counter, A bunch of men in loveless marriages to divorce, just walking around to go the guitars. Musicians are finding it funny.

Gibson Mark Agency replied to the clip on Instagram with a row of laughing emojis. Misham and Shore of Periphery commented, Jesus, he’s going for the jugular Questlove replied with a bunch of skull emojis. Lake Wyland of the Tone Mob podcast responded, the void desires customs shop guitars and it must be satiated. Bill Burr hilarious tonight. Other news, Nikki Glaser will return as host of the Golden Globes.

No surprise there. There’s been a lot of rumors and she did a great job. Why wouldn’t you bring her back? She should just do that until they kick her out. It’s a good gig and she did well at it.

Congratulations too, Nikki Glaser. There’s a new documentary about Mark Marin. It is called Are We Good? Directed by Stephen Fine Art’s The Hollywood Reporter recaps. I guess spoilers here towards the end of Maren’s twenty three special From Bleak to Dark, Maren tells the audience a high wire joke he’s been working on since his partner Lynn Shelton died in twenty twenty.

There are scenes of Maren workshopping the joke. The film chronicles the years in Maren’s life after Shelton’s death. It follows Mark as he returns to stand up and use the stand up to navigate the painful experience. The Donkeys’s home videos, recent footage of Maren living his life for testing new bits, as well as interviews with friends and colleagues like John Mulaney. In the end, HBO asks Mark Maren for a special and at boosts Maren’s confidence.

The Holly Reporter tells us the special makes Maren feel like he’s arrived and it becomes a place where his emotional artistic lives meet. Honestly. Quick hit from Gossip Corner, The Statesmen in Austin saw Tom Sigor and Berg Krescher at NADC Burger Apparently some sort of burger joint that we’re supposed to hit when we’re down. There never been there, there been Austin, never mind the burger joint. Luckily somebody had a camera out.

Burg Kreischer says, this is so good. This is so good. The chef says, it’s good with vodka too. Actually, we’ve been talking about doing like a secret menu. Yeah, we could have a secret like you want to turn this thing into two bears, one burger.

We could spikle with little poor osos. Should we do that? Sgora says perfect. I love secret menus Kreischer, Yeah, you should, Chef, we should do it. I’ll let you know what happened.

Joel McHale admitted he was an a hole to reporters on the set of Community. Joel said the reporters would be like, such a great show, just so amazing, and it’d be this one thing if we were on a red carpet and they were like, here’s this guy from this thing. But it was like, if you come to set, if you’re sitting on a set, you should have done some research. You should know what show this is. Avery reporters come back and be like, yeah, you really got me, And I was like, yeah, I probably should just enjoy the promotion not call people out.

All right. What happened with the Community movie? Is it ever coming? Out. Joel said, well, we got the money, which is one of the harder things to do, and everyone’s in.

That’s the other. It’s really coming down to schedules and a script was written, so this is real. We just got to get those schedules together. He did give a major spoiler with a laugh. He said, I’m not gonna tell you anything about it.

I’ll just say everybody dies. He doesn’t think Chevy will be part of this, and again he’s seen the script, so I guess Chevy’s not. But Joel said, I don’t think he’s allowed to. I don’t think it would happen. I’m guessing if you asked him, he wouldn’t be interested.

Obviously, his unceremonious departure in season four pretty much did that end. And an interesting note about Daniel Sloss, he said he had to hire some security when performing in the US. After the UK’s Channel four Dispatches episode Russell Brand in Plain Sight disclosed allegations against Russell Brand, Sloss told Dispatches, according to Comedy dot co dot UK that claims that Brand was a predator were an open secret in the comedy industry. I’ve shared in the past, I worked with Russell Brand exactly once and its completely professional. I don’t know what else happened in mister Brand’s life, but I’ve also worked with Bill Cosby, who is completely professional.

Except for the Bill Cosby story that I’m not going to tell until he passes away. It’s a good one, trust me. And that is your awkward end to your comedy news for today. All right, Bill Burr, let’s see what you got see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johenni mag with your Daily Comedy News man. I hope Andrew Schultz is okay. The poor guy, he just went out to take in some professional wrestling and he’s there and Logan Paul wanted to hear Andrew say some nice things about Logan Paul, but Andrew preferred to name Seth Rollins and see him punk and the phenomenal one and boy Logan Paul did not like that, pulling Andrew Schultz out of the crowd. Luckily, AJ Styles came to the rescue.

Let’s listen. I know who I want to see. I want to see AJ Styles. That’s who I want to see the night. Jeez oh no, come on, Logan, he’s a guest.

Come. Andrew Schultze is special on Netflix right now called Life. He might not have one soon. He is absolutely spectacular. This is no way to be trading a come.

Ind Janus so log and he’s a cast claudad Tjo Come on now, loggany cat. Th fire comes Styles. Styles. You wanna call out Paul and. I but now he comes out there to say Schultz and out Styles and Paul coming at it.

Hey take Styles, it’s hard to talk. The folks over at Hilarious, you know, my my friends at Hulu. They put together a really good campaign, this one from Adweek. Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr, and Sebastian Maniscalco are sitting in a diner and in walks the Hulu mascot, which is basically the Hulu logo with like, uh, you know, mascot arms and legs. It’s a big time campaign including out of home ads placed near comedy venues in La New York and Chicago.

Is that where you need to reach? People think you need to reach Middle America? I guess this is just an imaging piece, a social media placements Influencer partnerships, Hi, Hello, Hello, Hello so uh Hulu dudes, come on man, I know it’s not the biggest show, but it’s the right show and I have filled out the Hulu media relations form and no one got back to me. You can get back to me. Go your show sucks, it’s terrible, your bad mouths all the time.

The show’s too small. That’s fine, but come on, someone get back to me. Influencer partnerships but not podcasts dedicated to fans of stand up comedy. Digital banners bus takeovers and dedicated billboards and posters at locations like Walt Disney World, at Disneyland Resort and in Times Square. Boy, this is a lot of money.

Anyway. The forty five second spot is called meet Up and it’s pretty good. Let’s take a listen, all right, it’s just about well, I wanted to introduce you guys to something or some way. Is this about religion? No, No, because you’re always doing.

That here they are, Bill Sebastian. I’d like to introduce you to Hulu. Oh wow, Hulu is getting into the stand up business and I think you guys would be perfect for it. They’re calling it hilarious. Jim, Yeah, what is that?

Well, that’s the Hulu mascot. I think it’s trying to shake your hand. Brand you stand up specials every month and now streaming on Hulu. Why is it looking at me like that? It’s not looking at you.

It doesn’t have a face. According to Aaron Goldman, EVP Creative Marketing of Disney Entertainment Television, it was Jim Gaffigan, who were told has a history in advertising, who came up with the concept for the spot and was quote a great partner in bringing Bill Burr and Sebastian Maniscalcout together for the campaign. HM possibly perhaps may be true.

Also possibly perhaps in their contracts they have you know usually with thes…

Could have been that, or Jim was just like, Hey, Bill and Sebastian, can the three of us jump on a zoom? I got to pitch you an idea? Who knows? Goldman said it was a total partnership from the beginning. Jim wrote the script and collaborated with Ryan Brasno, the SVP of Creative Marketing for Hulu, and Johnny Mazur, who is the executive creative director for Brand Marketing, who Gaff again collaborated with those guys to bring it to life.

I should note that the three comedians also improvised in riffed, which added some hilarious beats that ended up in the creative Guys, this is a forty five second commercial, so Jim sketched out I don’t know, the three of us are in a diner and the Hulu mascot walks in. This is not Godfather too. Goldman noted that in addition to the full spot, there will be shorter pieces rolling out on social and he also talked about the song. We made a custom hilarious song which is featured in the spot, based on Duran durant’z Notorious. We changed the lyrics to hularious and hopefully created a song that you can’t get out of your head now.

On that, I was curious who the hell sold out to Hulu? Was it Simon Labaugh who did this? And I have learned from the internet. Warner Chapel Music as a Chapel as a Chappelle, It’s not Dave Chappelle. Warner Chapel Music and Sony ATV Music ablishing own parts of Duran Durand’s catalog.

The Warner folks own the rights of the catalog from eighty six to the present, including many of the band’s hits, including Notorious. They also own the publishing rights to all the band’s current and future compositions. Wow Future deal Duran Duran did Wow. I am a I won’t say I’m the biggest Duran Duran fan, but I’ve been known to drive around listening to Duran Duran and you could play both hungry like the Wolf and Rio on Endless Repeat and I Will never tell you to turn it off. Notorious is also one of my favorite Stranduran songs and also a big fan of A View to a Kill, which is, as you know, the best James Bond theme.

Goldman tells us they’re looking at using the Hulu mascot as a connective thread for future hilarious campaigns, and he got the funny in saying, in the meantime we take turns wearing it to the office. Bill Burr is out tomorrow, then in April we get Jessica Curson, august Ralph Barbosa and Sebastian Maniscalco. In November, this article didn’t mention who else is in the list. I’m racking my brain here to remember who else they announced, and I’m not sure that they’ve announced anybody. Maybe I forgot one anyway, Hulu, paul A Sis get back to Me.

Trey Crowder specials out today on the eight hundred pound Grilla YouTube channel. In trash Daddy, Trey tackles everything from the absurdity of cultural and social stereotypes to his unusual and hilarious childhood upbringings as he reflects on the ultimate parental role as a trash daddy. And you to see who the New York Times profiled. They profiled friend of the show, Jason Zenneman of The New York Times. Jason and I actually recently connected.

He’s going to come on the show in a few weeks as we get closer to the twentieth anniversary of Mitch Hedberg passing away. I’m a big fan of Mitch and just wanted to observe the moment, and I asked Jason to common So we’re gonna record that in a week or so. Other people at The New York Times ask Jason, which do you enjoy more? By the way, this article speaks to me, I am aligned with everything Jason says. Here, Jason Zieman, which do you enjoy more?

Finding a new angle on a well known figure or introducing readers to an unfamiliar subject. Now, if you listen to me every day, you know what I’m going to say. You know what I say about the festivals, right, Jason said, I take more satisfaction in writing about somebody who nobody knows about. One of the great things about this beat is you spend time in improv houses and clubs, and get a sense of who’s gonna break big in the future. I remember seeing Hannah Gatsby at this tiny theater.

I was like, this is going to be a big part of the discourse, and it’s engaging in some really provocative ideas. Being the first critic to see her show in American and introduce her to readers was really satisfying a men a million years ago. Back at Sirius, I used to really love spotlighting artists. I remember we had Hannibal Burris week. I remember we did Tim Mention Week.

We used to love going out of our way and going, hey, audience, check out this really cool person who you haven’t heard of yet. Jason ads, I think one of the jobs of critics is to say just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s good. These people who are not getting a spotlight or often some of the most gifted artists times. How has the comedy landscape changed and you started covering it fifteen years ago, Jason, Increasingly their artists doing work on TikTok and Instagram, that we need to do a better job of figuring out ways to recognize For a lot of teenagers, their introduction to comedies like mine their first experience with comedy isn’t watching late night talk shows. Their stand up comic is probably gonna be on social media, So we have to meet people where they are.

Now. That’s interesting to me and I totally respect it. For my personal thing doing this podcast, I feel like if I started getting on here and chasing after TikTok comedians, I would be the Paul Bashimi, Hello fellow kids, meme and just at some point it’s not my generation, it’s not my thing. I will stay in my lane. I admit to living on old Man Mountain and don’t think Jason’s wrong.

I just think if I started doing it, it would be like, come on, oh Man. Jason says he sees live comedy three or four times a week. I still go out a lot, but less. There’s two reasons for that. One to get a sense of who’s out there.

There’s less of a need to go as often. I totally get that. But the bigger reason is the bounty of comedians online. When I started this job, I was covering comedy as a kin to covering theater. Before I wrote about someone, I wanted to see them live.

But increasingly the way that most people are consuming comedies through social media and streaming platforms. So now I spend more and more time looking at comedians online and listening to podcasts. That totally makes sense. And you’ve heard you talk about this. I’m glad Jason said it.

The question are you someone who laughs out loud at shows? I call this emperor of room syndrome. Jason said, I suffer from the same thing that most comedians do, which is that if you see as much comedy as I do, you laugh less. That that doesn’t mean I enjoy it less. I’m not someone who laughs a lot in the audience.

Sometimes that makes me self conscious because if I’m in a room with very few people, it has a big impact if no one’s laughing. So I’ve even found myself at times fake laughing just to not distort the room, or because I feel it’s almost rude not to. But I try to be honest with my laughter. Great stuff. A big fan of Jason’s work.

IHeart had their twenty twenty five iHeart Podcast Awards. This is one of those awards that if you win, you’re excited, and if you’re not part of it, you just kind of eye roll it. It’s you know, iHeart they make podcasts. I’m not saying that they have their thumb on the scale, but you know there are basement podcasts like this one, and then there are the establishment podcasts. So you know, Best Sports Podcast went to the Kelsey Brothers.

Sure, but you know, I bet if we really dug down, somebody’s doing like a really great Kansas City Royals podcast, if we really took the time to look. But that’s not how these big shiny awards like. And the winner for Best Podcast goes to Tony and Jose from Kansas City. They host Royals Talk like that doesn’t make for a good award show, So understand what this is the podcast of the year, Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. I’m not saying it’s bad.

I’m just saying, you know, somebody’s probably doing a pretty good Game of Thrones podcast out there too. It just doesn’t make for a good award show. On a same note, Best comedy podcast, Fly on the Wall A’sdana Carvey David Spade sure makes a lot of news, great stories, SNL, hot topic, talented guys, funny guys, a great podcast to listen to. Same thing, and I’m not saying, oh, I should have shot I should not have won Best Comedy Podcast, No way. But you know, is uh Carvey and Spade better than what Tim Dillon’s doing?

I don’t think so. Best ad Read got to give it out an award for Best ad Read for some reason, that went to Conan O’Brien.

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Speaking of Conan, Late Nighter reports that Conan O’Brien Must Go has been f…

Well, yeah, Conan is red hot right now, although Late Nighter points out, for those paying close attention, the announcement is less a season three pick up as much as they shuffling the deck of what we already had. They explained Conan’s second season was set to run for six episodes that was ordered just after a month, but according to the new announcement, season two will now consist of just three episodes, and HBO did not specify how many episodes have been ordered for season three. I’m gonna guess three. Netflix just did this with Megan Markle. They said, oh yeah, we renewed Megan Marko for season two.

The thing is those episodes already in the can. That’s like me telling you this podcast has already been renewed. For next Weekend. Season two all three episodes. Dun’t do you hate that when like you’re excited at something, are you watching the Pit?

The Pit is the medical drama on Max. Fifteen episodes. It’s almost like old school TV. You remember we used to get twenty six episodes of things in the good old days. Now we usually get eight.

Term in case of Con O’Brian, we get three. Fifteen is amazing anyway. Conon O’Brian Season two all three episodes coming out in May. Rommi usef as a project called Number one Happy Family USA, which follows a Muslim American family in post nine to eleven America. The premiere it takes place on September tenth, two thousand and one.

I can tell you exactly where it was that day. I was at Jones Beach romy premier these series at the south By Southwest TV and Film Festival and explained there’s a representation warning in the beginning of every episode that tells you not to use this show as representation. I’ve had a very torn relationship with representation and the idea of what it should do or what it is. This is a show about capitalism. I think when you watch the first couple episodes.

You’ll see that, but it’s certainly not representative of Arabs or Muslims, many of which I think will see things that they really appreciate, and other things will be like, what the f Rommi, why did you do this stuff? You revealed he pitched the series during Trump’s first term. That’s how long it’s been. Remember the happy Trump be sad Now by the way, I don’t know if you guys noticed the audience laughed. I don’t think he likes this either.

I haven’t seen him smile once the whole the first time. He’s always laughing. So yeah, shout out to him. This guy’s miserable. Send your letters to Robbie usef.

All eight episodes premiere April seventeenth on Prime Video. And that is your comedy news today. Back tomorrow we’ll talk about Mullenie. I didn’t forget about Mullenie. But I’d also on stay up til one am to record the podcast and Bill Burr as a special.

I don’t know if you heard about that. That’s out tomorrow as well, So plenty to talk about tomorrow. See then,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Heidley Ho. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Malaney Salk Show is live tonight, but I’m gonna talk about that in a second. I think there’s an even bigger story.

Netflix has announced a relationship with Tony Hinchcliff. They’ve ordered three Killed Tony comedy specials, as well as a new stand up comedy special from Tony. First Kill Tony. Netflix will tape at the Comedy Mothership in Austin, Texas and stream on Netflix April seventh. In a statement, Tony Hinchcliffe said, myself and our entire crew of Austin comedians, peers and upcomers are excited for the opportunity to share our chaotic, insane show with a whole new chunk of the globe.

It all started in a room in the Comedy Store with twelve audience members and barely anyone watching. In twenty thirteen, After world tours and seven hundred plus Monday releases on YouTube, it seems the persistence is paid off.

And now to think that I can pull a name out of a bucket and that person will …

Is both exciting and frightening. It’s the most spontaneous, improvised show that’s out there. The great freedom given to us by Netflix so you keep the show in its pure form is a comedian’s dream and we can’t wait to Netflix and kill I see what you did there, Tony Hinchcliff. That’s really exciting, both as a comedy fan and a podcaster, just to see something go from like an idea and now this is that. It’s a loaded word, but I use it on purpose.

Establishment to kill Tony. This is it, Tony. You’re no longer an outsider. This is no longer some little show where we’re just doing our thing. You are now establishment.

Kill Tony, and I’m not saying that’s bad. I will do establishment Daily Comedy News. Netflix, write me a check. I’ll be there. I’ll even wear a tie.

But I’m very happy for it. Tony and the Gang. What a great show. Kill Tony if you’ve never checked it out. Okay, John m’laney, Netflix crushing it.

John m’laney, tonight. Sorry that awkward pause there was Are we having an earthquake? I can’t tell if it was that or if my boiler were super loud. Anyway, by the time you hear this, you’ll know if there was an earthquake yesterday. I’m leaving that in.

Where was I? Boy? That was distracting John Mulaney. He’s live on Netflix tonight, ten East seven West. John is making the press.

He was on CBS Good Morning. It seems like once you make the establishment, I’ll keep using that word today. You go on CBS this morning. Is there a big overlap with stand up comedy and CBS This Morning or is somebody over there who books the show just into it. It just seems like, hey, John Mulaney wants to get the word out, I’ll go on CBS this morning.

Just seemed like a disconnect to me. Maybe Gaff can put a bug in his ear. Who knows. I pulled a few clips. No, now, slowly and thoughtful.

Mulaney is speaking in these clips, and this first clip he talks about his early career. Yeah, there were some early times where it wasn’t so much that the audience wasn’t with me. I didn’t know what I was putting out there. You know, you grow up watching a ton of comedy and I’m sick but I’m not contagious. By the way, for all your viewers, you grew up watching comedy, and there were so many styles I liked, and so many comedians I liked, from like early radio to Chris Rock, the Simpsons, Cone and everything.

So I just had no sense of what I even wanted to do myself, except that I wanted to be on stage doing stand up. But I didn’t know if that meant George Carlin or Stephen Wright or George Wallace or what. So I remember kind of trying out ways of being and many of those falling flat. I’d say, not to be corny, but I’m obviously I’m still figuring that out, and it’s a very kind of obvious lesson. You just kind of a presenting some heightened version of your most authentic self is what works, and your most authentic self might be like strange, cryptic one liners, like, it’s not like you have to be confessional or anecdotal about your life in order to be authentic.

Next up, some of John’s influences. It is interesting choices here, and a little bit about his look. We’ll talk about more about his look in a second. I really like people like Spaulding Gray. I really like Geene Shephard.

I really like storytellers, and George Carlin had a lot of that too, like his Irish Catholic boyhood and stuff like storytellers who get into the get into interesting personal details that are singular to them. They’re not saying to the audience, this is your life. They’re saying like, this is my life, And when presented in a certain candid way, it’s so disarming. People really see their own lives in it. I liked that a lot.

But I also liked Bernie Mack and Deaf Jam and big personality comedians and really forceful performers like Paul F. Tompkins, who were like wears like three piece suits and is still telling personal stories that way. So I wanted the presentation of a deaf Jam comic with sort of the nuanced person stuff of a Spalding Gray. And one more time, here’s John Mliny talking about where the suits came from. I did a show at the Laughing Skull in Atlanta, really fun club there, and I was wearing a checkered button down shirt and jeans, and there were five opening comics because there’s a great local scene there, so five people were on the show before me.

They all wore the same thing as me, a checkered shirt and button down jeans. Everyone in the audience was dressed like that, and I remember thinking, I’m twenty seven. There’s no reason I should have the microphone except that in this you know, con job of entertainment, I’m declaring that I’m the headliner, and I thought i’d like to look like the headliner, and I’d like to look like the entertainer for the night. So no matter where you’re going, you’ve gotten a sitter, you’ve paid the cover charge, you’ve gotten your dog created and medicated, whatever you need to do to go out for the night. And as silly as it may be, and as sort of maybe corny as it may seem in you Know twenty eleven, like I’m gonna wear a suit because I’m the entertainer for the night.

And also it’s a bit like I have to take charge of the room. Nothing I’m saying is important, so I have to act like it is. Malane eats Old CBS. He likes doing the show live because I feel like there’s more at stake. I love it.

It’s the best. The host asked, is it a feeling like coming against a cliff and dangling over it, and Melanie said, no, it’s dangling over it all the time. It’s a fun feeling to know that hopefully a lot of people are watching and it’s live globally with no delays, and you could really damage your career. That’s funny. John and the CBS crew went shopping to Amba Music in Hollywood and was asked, you know when you come to a place like this to people leave you alone.

Ma’lanie said a little bit. My joke is thought, I’m like Lewis Firechon, I mean a lot to a small group of people. The topic of John sobriety came up and does he think about it every day? M’laney said, well, that’s a good question. I don’t think about cocaine opioids in some big word Benzo ds Speren every day.

I’ll acknowledge that I understand the vigilance I need. I don’t think about it every day. I just don’t. I do think about the ways I can lead my life to perhaps never feel the kind of strain that got me there. So yeah, sobriety maybe being like a bigger term than just abstaining from the chemicals.

I definitely think about that every day. John joked about the division of labor in the house. He said, my wife and I just welcomed a baby girl into our family. My wife takes care of the five week old and I take the two year old. That’s not an equal distribution of labor at all.

Saying you have a five week old, I’ll take a two year old. That’s like saying I’ll transport this convict across state lines. You hold a potato Cool move by Josh Johnson this Romanja dot com. Josh noticed a trend during ticket sales for his comedy tour. Resellers were buying up tickets and inflating the cost, forcing fans have to pay big time prices to go to a show.

He didn’t like that, so he decided to do something about it. He said, today I refunded over nine hundred tickets to one show. A venue contacted me and told me the day they went on sale that they believe a lot of blocks of tickets were sold to resellers. One of the things that really bothers me on this tour is all of you trying to buy tickets and finding out they’re sold out and the resale price is astronomical. Please don’t pay more than the intended price of these shows.

I would rather have empty seats than any of you pay a lot more for tickets. I’m trying to add in as many shows as I can and we’ll come back to your city soon enough. Thank you for being patient with me as I figure this whole thing out. He included a screenshot from stub hub showing a one hundred and forty nine dollars ticket that was brought back down to fifty nine to fifty after being relisted for the original price on ticket Master. Josh said, all these tickets in Newark that were sold to resellers and now vailblel again so friends can purchase them at the intended price.

The intended prices range from thirty nine to fifty to fifty nine to fifty. Josh advised fans to join waitless at Josh Johnsoncomedy dot com to be notified when he adds more shows, and said thank you for all being patient with me as I figured this all out. That is awesome, great job out of him. A lot of buzz on him. He’s putting out a lot of material, keeping an eye on Josh Johnson.

Bosston dot Com reported the tailor, Solon said noted how young her crowd was. Taylor is thirty one. Now. She noticed some of the audience members were kids, and shared a video of the exchange on Facebook and wrote in the caption, apparently my matinee show in Boston was a middle school field trip. Tomlinson said to an audience member, you don’t know about Noah’s Ark?

Oh my god, are you serious? You’re twelve? Oh f you’re twelve? What are you doing here? You should not see my stuff before Noah’s Ark?

Are you here with a parent? This is your mom? Oh my god, you have the coolest mom alive. I’ve only had like a few twelve year olds ever seen me live, And every time I gotta go back to church, gotta clean it up. This isn’t good.

A voice from the crowd yells, I’m eleven, Taylor, you’re eleven. F If there’s a ten year old here, I’m walking off eleven. You shouldn’t be here. You should be at home waiting for your Hogwarts letter. What the f?

Another person yelled out, I’m thirteen, Taylor said, Thirteen’s fine. You shouldn’t have how the world works. I’m not doing any more afternoon shows. I didn’t know y’all were gonna treat it like daycare. I thought this was a fun, sexy brunch crowd.

I didn’t know we were coming here instead of the park. Hilarious Chelsea Handler in Austin. Let us know that she isn’t going to have sex with Elon Musk. She asked the crowd. He means, did anyone vote for Elon Musk to be the president?

I mean, can’t we come together, Republicans, Democrats and say we don’t want that. Can’t we agree on that at least, you know the first Trump presidency for instance, I let it take me down, I let it steal my joy, and I’m not going to do that again. It’s the power of being optimistic in the dark and not going down a wormhole. Then the host asked Chelsea would she date Elon Musk and try to persuade him away from the dark side? You know, Chelsea Handler once stated Joe Coy, who hosted the Golden Globes and till just a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift.

But I’m not going there today. Scott Beckert relax I got to beat in over the weekend. I don’t need to do it again. Chelsea said, there’s a lot I would do for the country, but having sex with Elon Musk is not one of them. I can’t.

I like a variety of men. I like men in my life. I’m not a settled down kind of girl. Apparently, Leslie Jones had an awesome time at ae W Wrestling. She was at Revolution twenty twenty five, which was live streamed on Amazon.

Fans noticed how enthusiastic Leslie was. One wrestling fan observed on social media hate to be the one that paid five hundred to be sitting behind her. Another wrote too, that was on the other side of the arena and up the stairs and could still hear her screaming. That woman was thirsty. A Leslie Jones fan said she’s perfect for us late.

I hope she’s enjoying herself. Folks in Houston who went to see Matt Rife over the weekend got a surprise opener. Mo a Mare showed up said it, Paul Wall Mo did a short set. Paul Wall did a short rendition of the hit song Grills. Did you watch Deli Boys on Hulu?

Yat I powered through that that is a massively entertaining I recommend from me. They did some fun marketing for it ahead of the release. They drove around with a Deli Boy’s food truck. Well, not the people in the show, the marketing people. Joe Ortiz this SVP of Marketing at Onyx Collective, and he said in a statement, Deli Boys is truly anything but expected, and our campaign had to follow suit.

We created a bold, in your face campaign that was disruptive and above all fun. They did a block party with a branded storefront in New York with free chai and appearances from the cast.

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If you’re on Sunset Boulevard, you’ll see a forty foot billboard, and if you’re in New York City over by Penn Station, you’ll see a three D billboard. It is a good show. I hope people check it out. The Traveling Deli was in New York at Union Square on February twenty sixth. It stopped off at south By over the weekend.

It’ll be in Chicago on the sixteenth for the Saint Patrick’s Day River Dying Festival. Wheretiez said the campaign was designed to mix crime, comedy and culture and away never seen before. What a great quote. It allowed for bold, creative, grounded and cultural relevance that endeared audiences broadly and represents community authentically. Melaney Tonight, ten East, seven West.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, it’s Johnny Mackets, some barking dogs trying to tell you about today’s daily coming news. Look, dogs, I gotta record this thing. I’mount of time. I gotta get move in here.

It’s a Tuesday, but there doesn’t seem to be a big Netflix special this week. I think they’ve cleared the runway so John Mulaney can have all the attention and the PR team working on that high dogsky. I wonder if you guys can hear them or not the noise cancelation may or may not have gotten rid of them. I’ll find out by listening back, just like you did anyway. Bert Kreischer is the Netflix special next week.

Friday did a big profile with Bert Krescher, and they were curious, Hey, Bert, do you ever still bomb? Where it said I don’t have to bomb if I don’t want to. Sometimes it’s good not to bomb, per se, but to not lean on those little tricks that ensure us to do well. Chris Rock’s a perfect example. Chris Rock works out new material.

He doesn’t do any of the preaching on stage, the walking back and forth. Though, let me tell you something, none of that he’s really he almost reads it off like a book to find out if the material really works. I’ll do a version of that. There are jokes that don’t work, there are stories that don’t work that I commit to you and tell the whole thing anyway, just to see if there’s anything in it really, really insightful answer there, Bert, do you ever go to alt comedy rooms and find it more challenging? Bert said, yes, of course, I haven’t done it in a while.

I always think I would have done better in those alt rooms because I’m a storyteller, and that’s a more alternative approach to comedy. It feels easier to swallow at the Largo or U se Be or typewriter Dynastate, whereas at the comedy store you have guys doing crowd work and set up punchline, and when you tell stories sometimes it confuses the audience. I always wondered how I would perform at those places, but I didn’t do it enough to be honest. A variety mentions minor ish spoiler here, I won’t ruin it for you, but there is a political comment in the special, and they asked Bert about that. I won’t get into the specifics.

Bert explained, I don’t have a problem telling you I am. I don’t want to alienate you if you come to my show and preach politics. I also don’t mind telling you I have two little girls and a wife, and I stand for women’s rights, so I think that’s undeniable. I don’t mind telling you I own a couple of guns. I’m not going to preach my views on the NRA on stage.

I’ll just tell you a story about having a gun. I’ll tell you my daughter thinks I’m a misogynists and make a joke about it, or tell an abortion joke. There should be a joke. If you go out and start preaching politics, sometimes you lose me. It’s sexier when I don’t know your politics.

I like when a comedian’s politics are assumed. So I like to stay away from political comedy, but I’m not afraid of it. Interesting follow up here, Variety. I heard you send a custom Berg Kreischer calendar to people around Hollywood? Is that true?

I do what’s in there. It’s all my sexy pictures. Will get you one if you want, Variety. I’m intrigued anyway. What’s the vibe around Hollywood?

These days. In terms of pitching projects, Bert said, it’s the gold rush right now. Hollywood is re envisioning the way they make TV and movies. You look like in a place like Netflix that invests maybe two hundred and fifty grand on a special for the majority of comics and sees a wild return on that money. Hollywood’s now going let’s step it up a bit.

What if we allow them the freedom to say whatever they want and maybe we could make a movie that one day was thirty five million dollars, So let’s see if we can do it for seven million dollars. I feel very lucky to be alive and working at this point. TV and movies are about to explode in Hollywood in a really fun and crazy way. It’s going to be a lot of streamers. I don’t think we’re going to be going to the box office.

But if you look at Shane Gillis’s show Tires that was made on a minimum and it’s a great show. Shane Gillis, without a doubt, is probably the most talented comedic actor of our generation. I think people are looking at him and going, if Shane’s there, then what about THEO Vaughn? What about Naper, Ghetzee, what about Dan Soder. It’s gonna be really cool to see Ralph Barbosa’s first TV movie or Renee Vakas first TV show.

Whatever they decide to do, they’re gonna give comics a lot more freedom. Us comics, we don’t need a ton of money. We can make money on the road. We just want to make things for our fans. Look what happened to radio and podcasting.

Joe Rogan runs media. In my opinion, he affected an election that was based on an eight hundred dollars investment buying a zoomer corder and two mics. It changed the media landscape, and I think that’s about to happen with movies and TV. I don’t think you’re gonna be able to get a ton of people in the movie theaters. You’ll need ten pole events to get people in the movie theaters.

You’re gonna have to get Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, Shaquille O’Neil, and Shane Gillis. I’m someone who had a movie at the box office and even I’ll wait until it comes to streamers. I have a screening room in my house. I want to use my stuff. Netflix is a great place to release stuf because they’re so hands off.

Tom Sigre has a project coming out I think in April. If I’m not mistaken, that was untouched by Netflix. It’s gonna be wild as s sires as Shane and John mckeebrew’s fingerprints all over it. It does look like Network Notes. It looks like a bunch of boys trying to make their buddies laugh.

I think that’s the direction comedy’s going in. Brady said, do you think we’re in a comedy renaissance? Burt? Oh? Yeah, stand up comedy right now is where it was when Steve Morton, Rich Pryor, Sam Kinnison Andrew Dice Clay were making specials.

That’s two different generations, Burt, right before they took over the box office. Look at all these great specials that have come out recently. Hollywood producers are getting younger and younger and every day, and they’re enjoying these comedic voices. They’re gonna be like, how do I get you to do your thing for me? From the New York Times Turn of the show Jason Cinnamon under the headline is this British flamethrower the comic best suited to take on Trump, he went to go see Nish Kumar.

Jason writes, this is not comedy that’s trying to change minds. Here he attacks manosphere podcasters like Jordan Peterson, the Canadian professor turned popular anti woke guru, as a radicalizing influence, and comedians like Jimmy Carr who enabled them for going on their shows. He also criticized the left for fixating on the wrong questions like whether people can enjoy good art by bad people. We all do, he says, with a refreshing conclusiveness, which is why he adds, this is very f I have preread this. We should all thank Russell Brand for never producing anything worthwhile.

No one heard those allegations of sexual assault and thought, well, how well I enjoy get him to the Greek That is very funny. Zennaman says. What makes Kumar stand out meet the moment is his lack of caution. His funniest material can be appealingly reckless. His most virtue, also, bit is an elaborate consideration of the assassination attempt of famous person who’s on TV a lot from New York City and own some casinos.

I don’t need a visit from the fed types. I’m just telling what Jason Zeneiman wrote. Chick it up with that there’s no doing it justice on the page, but its rigorous justification of violent thoughts carried the spirit of the ferocious comic Bill Hicks in a way that Jason z Intimate hasn’t seen in many years. Very interesting. If feel listen to the show all the time, Niti’s name tends to come up.

It tends to be a weekend items. I usually moved the British stuff to the weekends, and I see him breaking through over here. The Last Laugh podcast caught off with George Wallace. I thought his comments about Johnny Carson were very interesting. We’ll get to that in a second.

George says, marketing is just another name for BS. So that’s why I knew Trump is a bs er because it’s what I do. All bs ers know each other. We don’t know each other, but we know each other. You can see the BS coming from around the corner.

It’s what we do. So Wallace talked about being on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He killed the first night and was invited back on the show three more times, but he said he never got the wave over to the couch. As George tells it, I never got invited over to the couch, but I found out something. He recalls a story he heard from the manager of band leader Doc Severnson.

So, as the story goes, Carson quote didn’t get along with unquote people of color. Wallace started to notice that he wasn’t the only black comedian who do not get called over to the couch. He points out that Red Fox never guest hosted the Tonight show to fight the fact that the studio was next door, and shares a story about being backstage with What’s Happening star Shirley Hymnfel when she got bumped from a scheduled appearance. She said f Johnny Carson as loud as she could and chatted, I’ll never do this effing show again. Wallis recalled that with a laugh in the shake of his head.

Did it bother Wallace when he realized he may have been treated differently by Carson? Of course it did, because when you do in the show and you get nineteen applause breaks, that warans you to say hello. At least. I just find it interesting. I have no idea what the breakdown of comedians waved over to the couch is or not.

Will reach out to Mark Malcoffee, used to do the Carson podcast. I will do that as soon as we’re done recording here. You know, out of one hundred comedians, did two get waved over? Did five? Did ninety nine?

I don’t know of the two, five or ninety nine that got waved over. I don’t know what gender they were. I don’t know their background. I don’t know the religion. I don’t know what state they were from.

I don’t know if they were British, I don’t know if they were. Drew carry with classes he got waved over, but so I don’t know. I also don’t know, never mind getting waved over what the booking look like. So that’s a fair question. Caleb Heern did a show at the University of Arkansas and The Arc Traveler caught up with him.

Caleb explained, the politics came to me so early and so naturally because I up fat, gay, and poor in Missouri. Casual racism and homophobia made him political at a very young age. Politics dictates the whole of our lives, especially if you’re somebody who has marginalized identities. He says he focuses on causes rather than candidates. He works with housing and the Kansas City Tenant Union here and explains, I think hopelessness is a very privileged perspective.

I don’t really have time for hopeless people. The people I know that of the most hope are doing the most, and that’s what you need to do, especially if you have more privileged identities. We get to this one. I’ve bounced this a few times. The show’s been so busy, and I just bumped four stories.

Right now, let’s hit gossip corner. Apparently there was some speculation regarding Jamie Fox, who I used to work with. I’m not going to say we were best friends or anything, but I clearly worked with him and in the room with him. I had many conversations with him. Anyway, there was speculation about an alleged illegitimate son.

On March third, Jamie’s nephew p J Stick to his Instagram account and shared a story indicating that Uncle Fox has no son. Jay also added the decline this person of being called a son would be him and no one else. I don’t remember Jamie having a nephew, but I have not worked with Jamie in probably fifteen years at this point, so PJ. I don’t know how old PJ is, but he could have been three. You know, is now eighteen years old.

So that I don’t remember a nephew doesn’t mean anything. I’m just telling you my personal experience, because if you listen all the time, you know that I kind of sort of know Jamie a little bit. Anyway. A man on Twitter had alleged Jamie to be his father and accused him of not being a nurturing parent. Now that I will speak to having been around Jamie and family members, he’s a family guy.

Just trust me all that. I’m not going to tell you things that were probably private. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Jamie Fox, Eric Bishop is a family guy. PJ began his video laughing over the rumors, suggesting they’re all baseless, but there’s a twist.

Currently, after pj’s video, the accuser took to his own YouTube channel, suggesting that Fox to go over a month’s respond to the claims, further adding that he is grateful that PJ and Fox cleared this up because he was joking about the alleged marks. He shared a video of an apology for Fox and his family. I don’t know what’s going on there. James Acaster has confirmed that his Channel four show was axed after a disastrous pilot and says everything went wrong. A castor hosted a sixty minute episode of People Person.

On that show, a panel of comedians guess which member of the public from a lineup is the answer to each question. A castor said he did well on social media, but will not be turned into a full series. He explained, it was three hours of filming and I’d say everything went wrong that could have gone wrong. At one point I said to the audience, I think what they should do is just take these three hours, cut them up in a six half hours in real time, and put it out as a series. He elaborated the pilot episode and went from having four members of the public and four panelists having twenty members of the public on stage behind me as well.

Several things went wrong, including wrestler breaking a sugar glass vase too soon, which led to retakes in the Need for First Daid that caused Phil Wang to laugh with quote tears streaming down his face and out of Austin The Adults comedy animated series Fellowship will be presented by Starburns Industries. You know Starburns. They have created things like Community and Rick and Morty. Starburns Industries will provide the screenplay fellowship winner, industry guidance and an inside look to Starburns Industry’s development process through a six month fellowship program. It’s also a five hundred dollars cash prize.

That’s an interesting number, right. I wonder if there’s some reason they have to do five hundred to five hundred dollars cash prize and up to five hundred dollars an airfare and up to five hundred dollars in lodging travel allowance to attend the twenty twenty five Austin Film Festival October twenty third through the thirtieth. Starburns Industries reps will read the category’s top scripts to determine the winner and provide feedback on the winning script. Pretty cool. That is your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. It’s been busy lately, which is great for me. You know, it’s always good to bounce stuff from the script. Then they have to go, all right, let me google Nikki Glanzer, Bill Burndichappell.

It’s much easier to do it this way, so I’m having fun. See Tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. My hat is off to whoever handles the press for the Top Secret Comedy Club in the UK. They got worldwide pickup on this one, the headline from The Guardian. One of the UK’s leading comedy clubs has banned guests with botox.

Yeah, this made worldwide news. Good job. The Top Secret Comedy Club has hosted some of the biggest names in comedy, with star acts Jack Whitehall, Amy Schumer and Dave Chappelle gracing the stage. In a drastic move, those with botox will be unable to see similar stars live at the London venues. After stand up, acts shared concerns that audience members with frozen faces are not reacting to their jokes.

Is this a real thing? Comedians? I might have to reach out to some comedians and ask them, is this a real thing that the people have so much botox that they’re not laughing at your jokes and it’s affecting your performance? You see? As The Guardian explains, botox is a neuromodulator, which is a type of injectable that temporarily disrupts the nerve signals to the muscles that prevents them from contracting and producing the appearance of wrinkles.

The Guardian further explains the rising tweakments, particularly among twenty somethings, has risen sharply in recent years. Will then estimated one million botox injections carried out in the UK each year. Mark Rothman, the owner of the Top Secret Comedy Club who has just an amazing pr team kudos to you guys, explained, our incredibly salented comedians are fed up with performing to reactionless faces. I’ve had numerous complaints from performers who find it increasingly challenging to gauge audience engagement and bounce off their reactions. Comedy thrives on connections, and facial expressions play a huge part.

We want people to laugh, cry, frown sneer, but frozen faces from botox impact the entire atmosphere. We hope try laying this band will help move the needle and get fit reactions back into the room for the benefit our comedians and the audience. I had to check to make sure it wasn’t the beginning of April. Nope, this came out in March. One of the venues.

Regular stand up acts is Andrew Mensa, and he said performing to an audience with frozen faces can be incredibly tough. Comedy is a two way street. We feed off the energy and reactions to the crowd. Mark and the team are always devising new ideas to support as comedians. This might be his best one yet.

Paul Chowdrey, who’s going to perform at the club in March, says, my face barely moves on stage. I wouldn’t want to see the same thing staring back at me so effective. Immediately, audience members will be vetted by the door staff, and now the door staff has been trained to carry out ID checks and expression texts. Rothmun warned, we’re dead serious about the band and if you’re surprised, we need to see that. We’re looking forward to welcoming faces all the new that can still move in our venue soon.

Well done, pr team. This next item, I didn’t react well too, and then I thought about it and I calmed the heck down. My initial take was all good things get ruined, and then I thought about it more. Let me tell you what it is, John Mulaney’s talk show, which is back on Netflix on Wednesday is now going to include commercial breaks for all Netflix subscribers, whether you’re subscribed to one of the platforms, AD supported, tears or not. Following the live stream, the ad breaks will be removed for AD free subscribers.

So this is even more of an incentive for me to not stay up late on Wednesday night and just watch it Thursday. The show premieres this Wednesday at ten pm Eastern seven West. But I thought about this commercials annoying, et cetera. However, I’ve produced a lot of talk radio in my day, and I remember when I was at Sirius and we were commercial free music. The talk stations had commercials.

And among the reasons you have commercials on a talk show, sure, money’s great, we like money. I like commercials. I have commercials in this show. So I’m not going to be hypocrite on that standpoint. But you do you when doing a talk show, it is convenient to have time outs so you can connect with the host, or regroup or stop talking for a second, like right now.

Honestly, this is the third straight podcast that I’m recording, and my voice is already starting to go. But I’m not live, so I have the luxury. I can go get vitamin water or something, or take a break or finish this up an hour from now. So when you’re live, you know, there’s that maybe a segment go sideways, maybe the producer wants to get in your ear. So having breaks does make sense totally to me from that standpoint.

So I get it, and they’re taking them out of the replace, so you know, it’s not a ton of money grab so I don’t think I have a problem with this. So you know the other things you could do is you could throw it to some pre recorded thing. I’ll just point you towards. You know, on John Oliver Show, the opening segment always crushes and then they do the and now segment for like a minute in the two hole, ten years, in fourteen years, in whatever we’re in with that show. I’ve yet to see one of those segments really fly.

So could they pretape some stuff to John the timeout? They could. If you’ve ever listened to a streaming radio station that fills their commercial breaks with features, those are always lame, you know. Sometimes a professional broadcast where it just throws it to a Budweiser commercial, sometimes that actually is the best thing. So I don’t really have a problem with this one.

I’m excited. Mark Maren has announced a new stand up comedy special and to be on HBO later this year. Variety says it will consist of material from his All Into where it’ll be filmed in New York City in May. It’ll be Maren’s sixth stand up special, two years after his latest for HBO, which was From Bleak to Dark, in which Maren discussed the death of his partner Lynn Shelton. No release date, no trailer yet, but looking forward to that.

Chronogram spoke to Patton Oswalt Paton explain where he is right now in terms of working politics into the act. He says, I try to do my version of punching up, which is by focusing on Elon Trump, Bezos, whoever’s letting this crap happen. I’ve kind of cranked up the absurdity. Things are so dark, it’s such an enormous thing to expect a comedian to address. But it’s certainly not the whole set.

Our current situation is massive, but I also think there are things that they’re even bigger there aren’t being addressed, like the environment and AI. I’m obviously being affected by what’s going on. But I also sometimes feel like the MC and Cabaret who’s saying, what the hell am I supposed to be doing here? Elon is putting us through all this because he wants to be cool, and he’s not cool. He’s like the kid whose dad owns the laser tag place and thinks all the kids should like him, but he’s obnoxious and means so no one wants to hang out with him.

A few years ago, Patten got into a Twitter feud with a follower, which Patent resolved by contributing to the man’s go fundme. Paige Patten explains, you could see how miserablely was. You’re seeing similar things now with a lot of these Trump voters online going wait, my job is gone, or oh he took away my medicaid. They want someone else to be punished for their pain. They don’t realize that the people they’re voting for don’t care about them.

So a lot of times when you see someone being racist or transphobic, it’s because they’re in a lot of pain they can’t articulate it. That’d rather take power over growth. Growth involves pain, just siding with the most popular and the most powerful saves you a lot of pain, and they’re looking to avoid that. And I don’t blame them. Everybody wants to avoid pain.

No one’s looking out for them. Trump voters are especially being exploited, abused, and used by the powers that be. Donald and Elon could care less about their supporters. They openly despise them, says Paton. And it’s become very clear quickly that none of these billionaires give a hoot about these people.

So of course they’re going to lash out. Why wouldn’t you, I would I get it? Send your letters to Paton. Oswalt from short Oal comedian Harreeth a Scander has been fine the equivalent of seventeen hundred and fifty British pounds after making a punt about the word ham was deemed to have mocked Islam. The Facebook post was pulled by Meta at the request of Malaysia’s Communications watchdog.

That watchdog also demanded that the account be shut down completely. The comedian had posted a joke on social media about an iced coffee drink called ham something ham sapping the Cantonese word for leude, as well as containing the name of a port product forbidden to Muslims. Harriest wrote, I’m so confused. My faith is at risk. This iced coffee drink will lead me down the wrong path in so many ways, not just tempting to me to become whatever the offensive term is here.

I’m not here to offend, but I’ll confusing me with the word ham in. It is Candor and a woman named Cecilia who made the same joke online where each find ten thousand Malaysian ringots, which is the equivalent of six weeks average salary in Malaysia is Candor was named the funniest person in the World in an international competition run by The Laugh Factory in America back in twenty sixteen. He released a Netflix comedy special called I Told You So in twenty eighteen and regularly tours Asia and Australia. Very interesting. Let’s see what’s happening at south By Southwest today, final day of comedy over there at four o’clock the street meet a comedic celebration of food trucks, grease pits and sandwich shops.

This is Joe Deorosi’s thing. I think this is so much fun. He’ll be joined by Jeames Adiomian. I’ll tell you one thing south by the talent that they flew down there. They’re getting a lot of work out of them.

It’s the same people doing the same shows over and over. But it’s like, hey, you can come, but you’re doing six shows. Stuart Goldsmith tapes his Comedians Comedian podcast again, this time with Pete Lee. Feel like Stuart could have gotten better guests. They were a better guests.

Nothing against Pete Lee, but your names to be gotten down there. Doug Love’s Movies, they’re taping their podcast six Stand Up at Clown Live Comedy at the Creek in the Cave at seven. So weird to be The Creek of the Cave is like the Brooklyn Dodgers of comedy, like they used to be at Astoria now they’re in Austin Stand Up and Clown. James Adomian, Yeah, we’re flying you down. You’re doing every show, James, Chad Damiani, Megan Galli, Christina Catherine Martinez, Mary Neely, Opi Alagbaju, Nick Fune.

You’ve heard me saying the same names over and over. Yeah, you can come, but you’re gonna work eight o’clock. Pretty robust for a Monday night at a Comedy Festival. I said that about Sunday, but Mondays are usually deader than dead. Gotham Comedy presents Slynn Coppletz, Caitlin Polufo, Brian Simpson.

No offense of those comedians. I feel like it’s missing a bigger name there. Especially Gotham is a real good club and I know the owner. Something’s missing there that just doesn’t feel right to me. Nine o’clock stand up Downtown.

It’s got that AI I think generated image of what a comedy audience might look like. Greer Born seeing a lot of him all of a sudden, Drew Dunn, Alex English, Rich Voss, and our final show for the festival is called appropriately the Last Laugh.

Also within probably possibly maybe perhaps AI generated image of what a most…

This lineup, Reggie Conquest. I don’t think I’ve said his name right, all right, Reggie got in there at the last moment. Pete Lee, Kristin, Toomey and Godfrey. That is the south By Southwest Comedy Festival. Now we doing on time, all right?

We can get one more in here today. The Trevor’s City Comedy festival announced their twenty twenty five lineup with top comedians and diverse events. They Traverse City Comedy Festival will feature dozens of comedians from across the country and events from improv and roast battles to all star showcases and stand up sets April tenth through the twelfth, in of course, Traverse City. Pretty good lineup. You’ve heard of these people.

I don’t have to explain who Mark Maron is or Jay Farrow, Natasha Lazeiro, Gosh Blue. That’s a pretty impressive top four there, Traverse City. Other shows include The Funny Women of a Certain Age Julius Scotti, Leanne Lord. They’re not the funny Women of a Certain age, they are their own things. So Funny Women of a Certain Age full stop.

Also performing Julia Scotti, Leanne Lord in I’m just skimming down here a good thirty forty names. N most of you won’t know any of them, so I’m not gonna just read you a list of people you don’t know. I’m not dumping on them. I’m just saying they’re less famous than Mark Maron. And if you listen all the time, you know that.

I encourage listeners. If you go to Comedy Festival. Go see the smaller shows. I love Mark Maren you know what he’s gonna do. You can watch Mark Maron on HBO later this year.

Go see the smaller shows. That’s where the action is at the Comedy Festival. Events at the festival will include the Daily Dozen Showcase, featuring a dozen comedians on stage telling their best and funniest jokes. Well I hope they’re their best and funniest jokes at a showcase. Roast Battle, a single elimination ross battle tournament featuring eight fearless comedians with judges in the audience determining the winners.

Comedy Rubble a lineup of thirty hilarious comedians, each given a lightning fast ninety seconds to showcase their comedic talents. So that’s interesting because there’s a big difference between doing ninety seconds and a tight five or an eight, or a ten or an hour ninety seconds. Again, just listen to Kill Tony. There’s plenty of people can kill for a minute? Can you kill for an hour?

But okay, that’s fun, And now that I say that out loud, that’s probably the inspiration for Comedy Rubble. How about big fun Murder the improv Murder Mystery, in which six improvisers act out a completely improvised murder mystery. It’s never the same show twice. There’s the Clean Comedy Showcase. If that’s your thing.

If that’s not your thing, go see the Dirty Comedy Showcase. Love it. There’s also something called the Traverse City Kamakazi Comedy Show that has me a little bit scared, so I’m gonna get out here. That is your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media very busy for a Sunday. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s follow yesterday’s lead and try and keep everything light and silly. Christina Pe. Christina Pozitski has added her voice to those who did not enjoy Megan Markle’s new Netflix series With Love Meghan.

Before we get to Christina Pe, I’ll give you my take. I was watching it with my wife and I said, I think this is kaufman Esque level comedy. There’s no way Meghan Markle is serious about this thing. This has to be a put on. She can’t possibly be serious about the bees and making candles.

I think it’s an Andy Kaufman level bit, making Megan Markle the greatest comedian of our generation. So I plot her for that. If you want to hear just entertaining savage reviews of the Megan Markle series, check out our sister podcast, Palace Intrigue, where we talk about the royals. I’m the writer on it. I’ve been assembling this stuff.

When I say the reviews are unkind, that’s an understatement anyway. Christina p said she’s an actress playing the part of a human being right now, and it’s not working. Christina shared this with her one million followers on TikTok and said, I don’t know what the bleep of this show is. The problem from minute one is that she’s trying to be perfect all the time and it reads as phony, as inauthentic and not fun. Megan, you just need to be an actress.

Just go act You’re great in suits, but when it comes to being a household branded name, you better be that thing through and through, otherwise people know that you’re being fake and inauthentic. She’s like, I don’t even like honey, but now I appreciate it because I see how hard it is to get.

And then she makes beeswax candles out of real beeswax.

But she’s like, I’ve never done this before. Yeah, you’ve never done this before, And I can tell. We can all tell. Savage Love at Ballas Intrigue, where you get your shows, Matt Rife is playing two nights at Madison Square Garden this summer. Matt says it’s so unbelievable.

It’s about as big as a comedian can get. Realistically, I think there’ve only been about four comedians who’ve done stadiums above arenas, even if it’s not MSG. I mean, the Toyota Center is a dream, but it gets to Madison Square Garden above that it does seem like all the bucket list items are checked off at that point. It’s the most famous venue on the planet stadium wise. Bill Burr has definitely played Fenway Gable, Glacias has definitely played Dodger Stadium.

Larry the Cable Guy has played a football stadium in Nebraska. I’m sure I’m forgetting others, and you can remind me in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Rife says it’s actually not the first time he’s played MSG. I opened for Dave Chappelle on his fiftieth birthday and I got a taste of it. I was like, Wow, this would be unbelievable to do on my own someday.

Here we are, two years later, actually making it happen. I’m stoked. New York City has always been good to me. A mecca of stand up. Riife talked about arenas versus smaller theaters and said I can do the same kind of show in a three hundred person comedy club as I do in a twenty thousand seat arena all time out there.

I would think the likes of Jim Gaffigan would disagree on that, And I remember quoting Jim on something like that maybe two weeks ago, and Jerry might disagree. I’m not a performer. I don’t know. Riife said, that’s kind of what I pride myself on, being able to take the same kind of performance, same type of show, and same energy that’s relatively intimate to such a big room. Yes, there’s fifteen thousand plus people there, but it just feels like we’re hanging out at one party.

Some comedians can sometimes step out of their comfort zone, but me, just people there. The energy in an arena is miraculous. Man. I don’t know how it’s to describe it. It’s incompet it’s to be the same adrenaline rush is when someone catches a game winning touchdown.

It’s so much fun and you could feel everybody having fun. It’s like getting hit with a blast of positivity, which I imagine is the same description an adult film star would give. Rife welcomes newcomers, and he was asked what they can expect. I guess it would be context and more context. Comedians never want to give away too much online.

That’s why I post so much crowd work, because there’s such unique instances that are never going to be duplicated. That’s what unique is. Yes, I’m a language snob when it comes to unique, I highly doubt I’m ever going to see that person again. I’m never going to be in the same circumstance and the same venue again and never hear the same story. So it’s almost like a little this is kind of what’s happening at the show.

If you come to the show, you’re gonna get an hour of material, you’re gonna get interactive experience as well. I’m most likely gonna talk to somebody and have a fun interaction there and again, going back to the energy, Yes, we’re all entertained sitting and staring at our phone all day thinking haha, that’s funny. But to actually sit there and experience and be part of it, it’s physical experience as much as mental and emotional. For anyone who has never been to a comedy show before, it’s the same as going to music concert. No, it’s not.

You gotta hear your favorite musician live. We’ll keep an eye on this one. Kevin Hornt’s Bridgeport show was canceled for an unknown reason. Kevin Hart was supposed to play the Total Mortgage Arena in downtown Bridgeport on March twelfth. Ticketmaster said the event organizer has had to cancel.

Kevin Hart never afraid to take a gig. He likes to work. He’s got a new animated series because of course he does. This one is called Lil keV. Not the most original idea here at Kevin.

I feel like Chris Rack has done this before. The series is set in nineteen ninety three in North Philadelphia and follows twelve year old Kevin Hart, who’s wilder man and unshakable optimism constantly collide with his neighborhood’s harsh realities. Kevin Hart stars as Kevin Hart. Wanda Sykes stars as Kevin Hart’s hardworking mother Nancy, alongside Dian Cole, who stars as Uncle Richard Junior, Nancy’s formerly incarcerated younger brother. The show blend’s comedy and satsire while tackling real life issues.

Lil keV is the first original animated series for b et plus, and if you visit beet dot plus at a big long url, you can watch episode one. Here’s the story I bumped yesterday because it was political and we weren’t doing that yesterday. Lewis Black spoke to Dailycommercial dot Com. Lewis is not happy with this whole do g Elon Musk thing. Lewis has only twenty percent of our workforce in the federal government comes from Washington, d C.

And I’ve said for a long long time that I worked for the federal government for the Appalachian Regional Commission. My father worked for the federal government as an engineer. He went to work, he did his work, He built c minds, and he helped make defensive weapons. Right says his father didn’t sit around going gee, I wonder he did his full day’s work. Jobs are important to people, gives their lives.

Meeting at about ninety five percent of the people who work for the Feds. It’s what they do and they love what they’re doing. But they’re being treated as if they did something wrong. And DOGE has no proof except for the fact that they think they need to cut them out. Don’t act like because you work in the private sector, holier than now.

And this is where normally there’s a print interview. I’d get into a lot of profanities. Lewis said, the job cuts don’t make sense. You know we’re lowering the taxes for rich people. I mean, this isn’t brain surgery.

There is a comedic musical artist out of the UK. I’m not sure how they pronounce the name of their band pay attention here. I think is pronounced kont in the Gang ku n and another letter I always pronounced kunt in. The Gang have released a new song about the ailing Pope. It is called Is the Pope Gonna Croak?

And I’m recording this on Friday afternoon. Hopefully the Pope has not passed away between me recording this and the sentence personally, I hope all people live a long life, and I will mention for the second time in three days I’m of the Catholic fate anyway. Is the Pope Gonna Croak underlines the fact that the Pontiff is not made of magic and someday, like all of us, he will pass away. And like I said, hopefully not between Friday and meeting recording this. Let’s see what’s happening at south By Southwest on a Sunday four o’clock improv for Humans with the best improvisers in the universe.

All right, who were the best improvisers in the universe? They are, apparently James Adomian Anthony Tamnwick. Those are two good choices. Matt Besser, great choice, Lisa Gilroy, great choice. Yeah, anybody else, you know, if we want to challenge their premise that these are the best improvisers in the universe.

So there are other good improvisers. Wayne Brady always seem pretty good to me at it. Who else would you add? Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast Group. Five o’clock The Comedians Comedian is recording an episode with Scott Ackerman.

At six o’clock, The Stand presents WITS Live at south By. WITS is this new comedy network that got a lot of press earlier in the week. Kudos to their pr people. They announced some podcasts and just every media outlet picked it up. Personally, I think the reaction was oversized to what was actually announced, but that’s neither hearing her there.

Congratulations to them. They’ve got a Sunday night slot at south By, and on this show, Joe DeRosa, Sam Jay Ian Lara and TJ. Miller.

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Also at seven o’clock, The don’t Tell Comedy All Stars.

Now, I had this question. Normally, don’t tell comedy doesn’t tell us where the show is, that’s what it is. But this one is at the creak of the cave at seven o’clock and I even know who’s performing. It’s Greerborn’s, Drew Dunn, Megan gilly Opi Olagbaju, and Laura Peak. Now, guys, that’s not what don’t tell comedy is.

This is the opposite of don’t tell comedy. This is tell comedy, which is a hack joke, but it is the proper joke to make in this circumstance, despite it being hack. Eight o’clock Bonnie McFarlane, None of This is Real, says parentheses stand up comedy special. What does that mean? Let me click on it.

Join award winning comedian and writer Bonnie McFarlane for an exclusive live taping of her new comedy special None of This Is Real. On the bill, Rich Voss, Drew Dunn, and on a McFarlane. Pretty busy for Sunday Night. A lot of times Sundays are Debta Comedy festivals, Allegian Knight’s at X at nine o’clock. Chad Dommiani Christina, Catherine Martinez, A porn A Naturla, Natalie Palaminez, Nick Fune, Melissa Via Signor.

I like that line up a lot. I would go to that. The description spend the night with comics and clowns. We love as we bring the Allegians eponymous variety show on the Road Legion Night’s launched late in twenty four at the opening of The Allegian’s new room, The Vault, at ten o’clock a live comedy event called Would You Bang Him? Rich Voss and Barney McFarlane.

This hilarious mock game show features a lineup of male comedians delivering quick sets to a panel of female judges, who then answered the question would you Bang Him? I love it? Reggie Conquest, Drew Dunn, Punky Johnson, Jay jorden Ian, Lara vonn Ay, McFarlane, Caitlin Plufo boy, She’s every roll of a sudden, Rich Voss, Maddy Wiener. That sounds like fun. And at eleven, the super Good show they have.

I think it’s AI or otherwise. It’s a stylized photo of what a comedy audio might look like. It just looks so fake. Whatever generated it. This is a stand up comedy show that is advertised love the description on it.

Alex English, Lynn Cobletz, Pete Lee, Maddy Wiener, Godfrey all right, I haven’t done this in a while. I’m gonna do, though, what if we were there? What would I make you go to? Let’s see at four o’clock we’re absolutely hitting Matt Besser. That’ll take us to five point thirty, so we’re gonna miss Scot Ackerman.

Boy, that’s a shame six o’clock show, Let’s skip that and go to Let’s see, Let’s do Don’t Tell at seven. Then we’ll grab a beverage and do would you bang him? At ten? And I’m old, I can’t stay up for the late show. I’m going to bed.

You can solo on that one. And the Sydney Comedy Festival has announced their lineup. Now, if you’ve been listening for a few years, in April, you’re going to hear me really deep dive on the Sydney Comedy Festival. I like to see what’s going on down there and share some different comedians so you know we’re not every day going Hey, Bill Bird did this and gafficated that it’s fun to talk about other people, So I personally really really enjoy spotlighting. The Sydney Comedy Festival back for its twentieth anniversary, three hundred and forty shows from April twenty first to May eighteenth, a lot of good content.

In the second half of the podcast from Me, Scottish comedian Daniel Sloss kicks things off with the festival’s first one Night Stand, a Sydney exclusive show at the Sydney Opera House. That’s Thursday, April twenty fourth. New for twenty twenty five is the Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawl, where audiences move from bar to bar for surprise sets and surprise venues. That’s fun.

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Also breakouts a mentorship program supporting formergent comedians Alan Fang…

That’s fun. Highlights from this year’s lineup, says the press release. Ozzie Sallen includes Rhys Nicholson, comedy legend and star of RuPaul’s Drag Race down Under. Let’s see the viral Filipino Australian podcasters, The Cheat Coders, Mexican Australian comedic wrestlers Lucha Fantastica Love It. Some Internet national acts include Brazilian comedian Fabio Rabine performing in Portuguese, Malaysian stand ups Cavin, Jay Gazel and Poppy Zach.

They are the Malaysian Comedy All Stars and the lineup Balls includes Guy Montgomery, Barker, Melanie Bracewell and Nazim Hussein, Becky Lucas, Joel Creasy, Rhys Darby you know him from Flight the Conquerors and Steph Broadbridge. Looking forward to the Sydney Comedy Festival. And that is your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now, if you listened yesterday, you heard that I was just kind of bothered by how serious the show was yesterday. So I’m gonna just make today comedy comedy, comedy, comedy comedy, and I’m even gonna flip the order. If you listen all the time, you know there’s a rhythm to how I do things.

I’m throwing that out the window today. So let’s start with south By Southwest and see who’s playing tonight. At four o’clock, a recording of Comedy Bang Bang in the history of my career, the only show that I ever walked out of, but I understand a lot of people enjoy Scott Ackerman. We’re told to expect special guests and plenty of surprises and maybe a few familiar places. So that’s at four o’clock for fans of Comedy Bang Bang.

Another live podcast at five o’clock today, it’s The Comedians Comedian with a Parna Nurla. I enjoy a partner a lot at The Comedians. Comedian is Stuart Goldsmith. This is a popular British pod. More My Alley at six o’clock, The Upright Citizens Brigade, ass Cat for Us is an as Cat, Anthony Nasamnuwick, Scott Ackerman, Matt Besser, Lisa Gilroy, Lauren Lapkis.

I met some other people in town drop in on that one. That one is at six Nice Show, ninety minute show. There seven o’clock Creek Side Comedy, Parentheses Live Comedy. It’s at the Creek in the Cave. James Adomian, Oh, I guess he won’t be dropping by the CV show.

That was my guess, right, James Adomia, Nico Karney, Megan Gaily, Stuart Goldsmith, Lynn Copletz. At eight pm, the show called an Evening at the Hollywood Improv. This one at Estra’s Folly’s, which is not the Hollywood Improv, but they’re celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of LA’s legendary Hollywood Improv. Your lineup, Doug Benson, Jay Jorden, Opiolig Baju, Melissa Vi and Signor. They tell us, while our stage at south By may not boast the iconic brick wall, it’s still part of our legacy and we’re excited to feature some of our favorite comedians bringing down the House, nine o’clock at the Creek in the Cave comedy for cave dwellers.

Rear Born’s been hearing his name a lot. Catherine Blandford or Riggie Conquest of Punky Johnson, Caitlin Palufo, a lot of buzz on her lately. Good sets at ten o’clock Alex English, Todd Glass, Aparna, Kristen Toomey eleven o’clock Southwest skang Fest brought this up the other day. You live long enough, you find yourself doing south By Southwest. Welcome to the establishment, skang Fest, Joe Rosa, Sam Jay, Bonnie McFarland and Eddie peppotone on that lineup.

Hey, it pays the bills. I don’t judge. Tree Crowder has a special coming out next week on the eight hundred Pound Grilla YouTube channel. In trash Daddy, tree Crowder tackles everything from the absurdity of cultural and social stereotypes to his unusual and hilarious childhood upbringing as he reflects on his ultimate parntal role as a trash daddy. There is a trailer.

Let’s listen. I try to make myself feel better by telling myself it’s not a Southern accent thing. It’s an American accent thing, like the idea that any thick regional American accent can sound kind of dumb, not just this one. You know, like if you go to the doctor to get some test results back, Yeah, you don’t want this accent from the doctor. I know you don’t, right, you don’t.

But you also don’t want some mate ball from the Bronx, you know, Like, listen, it is what it is. You got stage four cancer. What are you gonna do? No, no, no, what are you gonna do? I’ll tell you what you’re gonna do.

You’re gonna take emo, You’re gonna take you righty a shit, You’re gonna kick cancers. Actually, I don’t want a Bronx doctor. I take that by ills. Sounds sounds pretty inspiring. Actually.

Nimish Pzil will premiere his new stand up social instant Karma Tuesday, April, first good day for comedy. I don’t think there’s a statement there. I think it’s just a Netflix special and those come out on Tuesday, and this year one April is a Tuesday. Instakarma is Nimishpatel’s first hour Netflix in insta Karma Nimess dives deep into the experience of growing up as a first generation Indian American. Nimesh, the lovable outlaw of his family, breaks down his relationship with his traditional parents, the mischief he causes a kid, and whether or not he’s become a better person now that he’s an adults.

For Reade the Seas, he hasn’t no trailer yet. One of the jokes we’re told, and he obviously tells it better than I do. My parents spent two hundred thousand dollars for me to get a degree in finance. Zero return on that investment. That’s good.

Let’s do gossip Corner because we’re trying to keep it light and fun after yesterday’s podcast. Normally Gossip Corner goes on the second half, but we’ll do it here. You know who’s on gossip Corner again. Joe Coy. He was in Green Bay and hung out with some Green Bay Packers.

They are football players. The Joe Cooy concert was date night for Packers head coach Matt Lafleur and wife and for incoming Packers president CEO ed Policy the Policies and the Laflor’s post For a selfie with Joe Cooy and signed a cheesehead football for Joekoy. Now, Joe Koy, you may know the name. You’re like, how do I know that name? Johnny Mack, I’ve heard of Joekoy before.

He’s the guy remember the Golden Globes. He hosted the Golden Globes and he told a joke about Taylor Swift. Here, let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globe the NFL.

On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift. I’m sorry, never gets old. And I’m picturing a friend of the show, Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast. He likes this kind of humor. This is the Letterman influence on me, where you just beat a joke forever.

It’s funny. Scott Beckett’s throwing things. More gossip Corner, More football gossip Corner. You know who was at Shane Gillis’s SNL. George Kittle, Christian McCaffrey, and Kyle Chusk.

They were all at SNL and they’re like, who are those guys? They sound familiar. They are san Francisco forty nine Ers, also a football team. Kittle went on inster and posted pictures of himself and his forty nine Ers team m It’s on set. Kittle also took a picture with Mike Myers.

More gossip corner. Dave Chappelle hit a basketball game. He was court sided a the UD Arena watching the Dayton Flyers rally from a fourteen point deficit in the second half and the Dayton Flyers beats Saint Louis seventy five sixty seven in the final home game of the season. Chappelle took seats in the opening minutes of the second half. Where was Dave the first half?

Was he in a skybox as he’d come to college basketball games late. Who knows, but we’re told. Dave Chappelle posts for photos with the fans during timeouts. He received applause from the sellout crowd later in the second half when he was shown on the scoreboard. After the game, Dave walked into the tunnel and waited for the University of Dayton players.

He posts for photos with the Flyers and then with Dayton coach Anthony Grant. Chappelle said, I’ll be back too. Coach Grant said, we appreciate you. In the postgame press conference, coach Grant said, it’s not every day you get Dave Chappelle in the house. Let’s keep it light, stuff that normally goes on the second half.

Comedy albums. You like comedy albums. These I didn’t get to yesterday because it was all angsty. In case you missed it, Rachel Pegram’s new album, Silly, Loud and Delightful is out on a Special Thing Records. It was recorded live in front of a late night crowd and Rachel settled everyone in with a neighborly INTROI before getting right to it with her hot takes on top of his including bagfoot and white people.

Now, is that two topics are one? I think it’s one, including bigfoot and white people, and there’s no comma. Probably one topic, but anyway, Bigfoot and white people, her personal history of being a late comer to art, garfunkle, discovering porn, losing her virginity, and a whole lot more so I think the topic is bigfoot and white people, one big topic. One way to find out. Check out her album Silly Loud, Delightful out now on a Special Thing Records also out a new album by Somalia.

Born in California, raised in Minneapolis, based comic a med Kaloff, a men’s album is called Hobby d Hoy. On it, he shares how to beat tough odds, like being born in a Somali refugee camp, but growing up to out white the wife of a brewery owner, and learning how to walk again after breaking his leg at thirty. Oh no, wehe there you go. We got through the first half of the podcast, no angst. It was all light and fun and silly and no politics and you know, none of the stuff we talked by yesterday.

So oho got that done. To take the break, we’ll come back. We’ll do stuff that normally would be in the first half. New Dad Andrew Schultz till the l eight times. When I can end my day by five forty five pm, I’m good because that means I get to spend time with my daughter and just be a dad for a while.

It’s the greatest feeling on earth, Schultz said. The second you have a kid, every feeling you have is the hackiest feeling ever. Whenever they laugh, it’s the best laugh in the world. When they smile, you melt you’d do anything for them. LA Times is curious, Hey, Andrew, is becoming a parent helped you write new comedy, and he said, I haven’t written a single joke since I had my daughter, or since the tour stopped, so now it’s all focused on trying to make her laugh.

The world gets really small and has made me reflect on comedy material about kids a lot, because when I was growing up, my favorite comedians would do this comedy about how they kind of hated their kids. And when you first have a kid, you’re gonna be shocked at how cloche all your feelings are. The second you have a kid, every feeling you have is the hackiest feeling ever. Whenever they laugh, it’s the best laugh in the world. When they smile, you melt, you’d do anything for them.

Good job by the La Times, who asked, we’re in this new era of comedy where more comedians are talking about being parents in today’s world and being open and honest about not only raising them, but the conceiving process, which is the heart of your special What’s it like being so vulnerable, Andrew said, cathartic. It was nice in the beginning. It was nice because there are stages. When I first started writing it, I wasn’t even like writing an hour. I was just kind of I was talking about what was going through.

It was just getting back on stage and taking some time off from the last special.

And then my wife and I were trying to get pregnant.

I remember coming back from Burning Man, I was going to a big birthday party for her mom. But I remember that was when we first started trying. I remember doing it and afterwards being like, it’s probably okay if we don’t get pregnant this time, just because I didn’t know it was in my bloodstream at that point. I mean, I was at Burning Man for a week and then I’m gonna go make a baby. So it didn’t happen that time, and then another month went by, didn’t happen.

Another one went by, didn’t happen. I was like, ooh, is it hard to get pregnant. I couldn’t fathom it was hard. You know, my whole life’s been trying about not get women pregnant. The amount of stress that’d go through and plan bees and all the other crap.

Dallycommercial dot Com caught up with Lewis Black, who I thought was retiring at the end of last year, but he’s still out there on tour. Oh wait, now I could edit this. He he got political here. I’m not doing that today. You get bounced to tomorrow Lewis Black John, why don’t you edit this out because I want you guys to know what’s going on here.

I’m bouncing the wid black story Tomorrow. I’m not doing it.

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Moving on, bounce the throwing a Guark talked about her weight loss.

She up up about using weight loss medications and the Internet being the Internet got mad at her. She thanked her supporters and told her haters she doesn’t owe an explanation to anybody. Zarna said, anything else is just exhausting. I talked about this recently on a Zarnaguard Family podcast episode, not realizing the impact it would have an offering relief to so many. I see you, I am you.

Proceed with proper medical advice and live your best life. Hater’s gonna hate. We don’t engage in the debate. She revealed she received hundreds of dms for opening up about the use of weight loss meds and wrote in twenty twenty five, can we stop the bs of pretending we’re perfect? Take the meds.

Don’t take the meds, do your thing with kindness around you, and keep it moving. Zarna shared before taking the weight loss medicine, she constantly thought about food, even when having a meal. She didn’t realize that was a habit until she started taking the drugs. Brad Williams was offered a choice write a five minute bit or anything else. He picked five minute bit.

He said, it’s the greatest feeling in the world writing a new joke and having it work. He first considered a comedy career when he was nineteen. He was at a comedian show and tells the story the comedian called me up on stage, just asked me questions and answer the questions honestly. I didn’t try and make jokes. Well, my answers got laughs, and that was the first adrenaline needle where I was like, ah, this feels awesome.

I just started going to open mic nights, driving as little as five minutes and as much as six hours to do three minutes in front of No One, Drunks and other open my comics whoever. He finds that the stage is almost like meditation. It’s where my focus is, it’s where all my intention is. I’m only worried about what’s happening on stage, and that’s a wonderful, beautiful, simplistic feeling. Brad says, I don’t cover politics because I’m not smart enough to do it.

So if anyone’s worried about coming to my show and hearing a rally that’s either four against whatever side they’re on, they’re not going to hear that. But he tells us, I am going to make you go through a whole cavalcade of emotions in the course of an hour and a half, but ultimately I’m gonna make you leave feeling good. And that’s what I want. I want people to go that was worth a babysitter, and that is your Strey free, happy Daily Comedy News for today. All Right, we got through.

One, uh no for me. I recorded these back to back, so that’s why I’m still feeling the Friday episode. But anyway, see tomor

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Hi, I’m Johnny Mack, host of Daily Comedy News. This is the Friday episode. I just wanted to talk to you guys before we get into the episode. As I put the show together, and you’ll hear me say this during the recording. As I put the show together, I was like, ooh, all these stories are really angsty.

I hope this episode doesn’t annoy people. I hope this episode doesn’t turn people off. It gets into politics, it gets into some social issues, and as I explained in the episode, I just put the stories together and I go, Okay, what’s going on today? And you know, sometimes I’ll be like, oh, that can wait till tomorrow, and you know, this could go next week. The show’s getting long.

Let me bump that. You hear me do that all the time live. But as I put the show together say it’s like, oh, this is going to be very angsty. And I hope you know, nobody who listens to the show every day goes away going ah, the show is getting really political. So I actually recorded Friday and Saturday back to back.

Is today’s show angsty? Yeah? It is, is tomorrow’s show angsty? Not at all went out of my way to make tomorrow just fun and light and silly. Today a little serious.

So this is my little preamble. If you don’t enjoy today’s podcast, I get it. But you know I’m here every day. So you know, if you don’t like today’s hit, stop and come back tomorrow and you like tomorrow’s episode, Okay, let’s hit it. Caloroga Shark Media.

Hey man, what’s up. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. More from Andrew Schultz. In an interview with The l eight Times, they were curious how Andrew feels a special like life raises the bar for Andrew’s comedy. Great question, Andrew said, I don’t know.

I’m always just trying to do something different. I think that’s the exciting thing for me. Before this special, I was never personal in my comedy at all. Like I didn’t think my life was interesting.

And then when it was tough for us to get pregnant, I think the only thing I c…

I just couldn’t think of anything else and nothing really mattered.

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And then talking about this got really exciting.

On stage. I was like, maybe I could tell stories. I never really told stories on stage. I was like, what if I could make this whole story, and then I didn’t want to tell anybody it was a story because I didn’t want there to be one man’s show expectations, and I wanted them to come in thinking like this is hard hitting stand up for an hour and have that expectation, but also see if I could have a story layered onto it. Spoiler part of the special, Andrew jokes about collecting a sample, if you know what I mean.

The only times was curious as you were collecting a sample, did you think there could be a joke there? Andrews said, Yeah. Sometimes you’re in a moment you’re like, oh, this is kind of funny.

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And then sometimes you’re just talking about it on stage, like you’re really …

And then there’s other parts where you’re just so miserable in the moments you can’t even think about comedy just yet. So I think it was both for sure, new topic. Hey, Andrew, what made you decide facial hair was part of your look? Andrew said, not all of us can grow a beautiful thick beard. Okay, some of us, this is all we got mustache.

I’m no clue. I think this is all I got. To be fair, Andrew warns us, though you can’t go too short. That’s a big no no. Be prepared for a lot of rough looks from people.

Chris de Steffan a hotel Fox News Digital he hasn’t seen American pride on such a large scale since the aftermath of nine to eleven. Chris, and I think our country honestly now, personally, I know that it’s very divided. But I think that and it might be because of exhaustion if you think the other way. I do think we’re going to make a concentrated effort to try to come together a little bit more. Chris said, I mean, you look at this Trump presidency, the very early stages of it versus the last Trump presidency.

I mean, people were trying as much as they could to get anything they could on him, to remove him. People screaming in the streets, so mad the first three months of his presidency. But just like, yeah, there’s issues, people trying, but there’s no like major upheaval because I think people are like, all right, so exhausting, can do it the other way, So why don’t we just try. I feel like we’re unifying more as a nation. There’s more American pride or a country than I remember.

I haven’t felt American pride like this since, honestly, like nine to eleven, like after that, like right after that, there was so much American pride. Everyone came together, and now I feel it again, which I think is good, Chris said. I understand America’s just lines on a map like every other country, where there’s something about having pride as a nation that’s just better for everyone. It’s better for us. I’m not saying America is the only be all end all.

I’m saying it’s good to have pride and where you’re from. Is when I go to other countries, they have pride and where they’re from, and you see their flags flying and they’re proud of something, and that doesn’t mean, hey, you know, we’re number one in Mexico. It’s like, be prideful, be proud to be Mexican, be price to be American, and we can work together. Chris continued. For me, comedians, I think we like to call it as it is, and perception is reality.

I’m in the middle. I’m Chrissy Grayzone. I think even Trump’s efforts like who knows if the executive orders will pass, who knows if we’ll buy Greenland or Candadates is gonna be the fifty first state? Who knows right, could just be wild things he’s saying. But I do think what it’s doing is trying to reassert in an American dominance, which again is just good for our pride as a nation.

The combination of stories today has me a little worried that some of you are gonna go away and be like this show has gotten really political. I just do whatever comes out, and that there’s a couple of stories coming down in the first half here that are also political ish. It’s just the zeitgeist today, So let me just do a palate cleanser here. We’ll do something else. But again, I don’t wake up and be like, I’m gonna put out a political message today.

It’s not what the show is anyway. Friend of the show, Jason Zinneman talk to Bill Burr. Jason writes in The Times, I begin to tell bur there was something he often talks about that resonates with me. When he cut me off Bill went horse ores, He respondedly, back in chuckling in a gray hoodie and jeans. That sentence almost sounds like Norm MacDonald.

Right, hores, he responded, leading back in chuckling at a gray hoodie and jeans. Now, I responded, I’m not talking about hores, fully appreciating how funny it sounds for a New York Times journalists to say this in an interview. Yes, Jason’s in him been writing. No, I’m not talking about whores. Is funny, Jason writes, So, I wanted to talk about male anger, a long time theme of Burr’s stand up.

I won’t drop into a half assed bur impression because I want to catch Jason’s words Here. He’s quoting Burr, who said, let me ask you this, he said, flashing an intense stare. You’ve been with me for an hour. Do I seem like an angry person? Jason writes, I pause.

He did appear a little annoyed when I picked a fight with him about a bit he does about women’s sports. Burr is not the only one who likes messing with people, but alone in conversation, Burr seems like the same guy he is in front of a crowd, only more cerebral than my old mannerd Burs said, there’s a lot of truth in the guy you see on stage where you just looking at me for one side, Jason writes, the side I see here is a guy with anger issues who learned how to control them. Yeah, there’s some sort of uh. I almost suspect it’s a pr campaign. You’re in.

Burr’s got a special out a week from today. You’re gonna see a lot of Burr has grown up and changed his ways and learned how to become a better man. That seems to be the messaging on the mainstreaming of Bill Burr that he became a better man, which is fun. We should all become better people than we were yesterday. I strive to do that, probably like you, there are things in my past that I’m not too proud of.

I don’t have a time machine. All I could do is be better today than yesterday. So I’m not saying Burr’s a jerking face for being a better guy, but there does seem to be some sort of campaign around that messaging is what I’m picking up. Burst said, I want to lose my edge. I don’t want to go through life angry.

And here’s the thing. If you have an edge, you never lose it. I can tap into that whenever I need it. You bark at the other dog and make it go away. I know how to do that, Jason writes.

When I tell him the right wing media figure Ben Shapiro said Bill Burr was going woke, Burr shot back. All he knew is if you put Woke on what I said, he’d make more money. I don’t know who he is, but that guy is a hmm a self enjoying dure. I teach this to my students. I could just read the phrase there.

I mean, the phrase made the New York Times, so it’s not the dirtiest phrase in the world. But sometimes trying to keep it clean makes it a little funnier. And that’s one of the reasons I do the kind of things I do where I won’t say a phrase that made the New York Times in print. Anyway. Bill Burr’s special Drop Dead Years premieres on Hulu March fourteenth.

Now my question for Hulu is if I hit play, am I going to see the entire special? Or with like thirteen minutes to go, is the automation going to cut off the special and I just don’t get to see the closer. I mean, this is a fair question, Hulu. Perhaps your publicists could get back to me and I’ll ask them. Oh, this paired up nicely, and I didn’t do this on purpose.

Remember when Jason Zinnemann wrote, Burr’s not the only one who likes messing with people, someone who liked to mess with people. But Tresea O’Neil. I’ve spoken about this in the past. I did not enjoy the man’s company. His whole thing was messing with you, and great, dude, I’m here to just be a professional broadcaster and knock out this segment that we’re going to do today.

I don’t need to mess with may just be a professional. Didn’t like Patrese O’Neil. Sorry he passed away. I understand the New York City comedians revere him. Didn’t like the man.

The twelfth annual Patrise o’nil Comedy Benefit Concert is a night of stand up comedy to honor the memory of Patrise O’Neil. This year, performances by Rosebud Baker Greer bourns I’m seeing a lot of buzz on Greer all of a Sudden DC, Benny Bilberr, Tim Dillon, to misch Ptel, Sean Patten, and Rich Voss. It’s at the New York City Center. All tickets seventy five dollars including fees. May eighteenth, Doors open at seven.

Performance at allegedly seven point thirty. Nice nice line up there. Tracy Morgan coming back to NBC and teaming up with Tina Fay in untitled comedy. Tracy Morgan plays a disgraced football player on a mission to rehabilitate his image. Tina Fey is the executive producer on the sitcom.

It’ll be written by thirty Rock colums Robert Carlock and Sean Means. So that is telling me NBC wants to be in the Tina Fay business. Very interesting, Lauren Michaels Snel, You see where I’m going there. They want to be in the Tina Fey business. I mean, it’s a good business to be in, but just interesting because I’m not sure.

In the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six media landscape, b a Tracy Morgan NBC sitcom is you know what the world is into these days? Nothing against Tracy Morgan, It’s just NBC sitcom doesn’t mean what it meant in the nineties, That’s all I’m saying there. Tracy will also star in Paramount Plus is upcoming comedy The Crutch, which is a spinoff from The Neighborhood. Tracy plays Francois Frank Crutchfield aka Crutch, a Harlem widower whose empty nest plans are put on hold after his millennial son and free spirited daughter moved back home. It’s expected to premiere it later this year.

All Right, some of the angsty stuff that had me nervous as I put the show together. Michael Rappaport’s in the news now. Anytime I mentioned Michael Rappaport, and I’ve brought this up in the past, it’s always like an angsty, angry controversy. It’s never like Michael Rappaport went to the children’s hospital, he gave out teddy bears. The nurses said he was the nicest man we ever met.

It’s never that. It’s always something like this from The Daily Wire, Michael rapp Report slammed a leftist Canadian politician for encouraging lawmakers to ban him from doing stand up comedy shows in Canada. Rap Report made his opinions known and a column he wrote for The Free Press, Canada’s new Democrat Party member, Heather McPherson had referenced rap Reports significant criminal history. I’m not familiar with that at all. Is that a thing?

I’m not familiar with that at all. If you asked me, is Michael Rapp Report a criminal? I would say absolutely not. But maybe I’m wrong. I googled the phrase Michael Rapp Report criminal.

I don’t see anything. Maybe I’m forgetting something. I’m gonna type in Michael Rapp Report crime, Google tells me. On May eighteenth, nineteen ninety seven, a rap Report was arrested for harassing ex girlfriend Lily Taylor and charged with two counts of aggravated harassment. A page six article that says, years before Michael Rapp Report’s court battle with bart Tool Sports, the actor once pleaded guilty to arresting ex girlfriend Lily Taylor.

Okay. New Democrat Party member Heather McPherson referenced to Rappaport’s significant criminal history, history of Islamic phobic speech and tendencies towards inciting violence as reasons for her proposed ban of Michael Rappaport She adds, we’re witnessing an alarming increase in Islamophobia in Canada and globally. All Canadians deserved to feel safe in our communities. New Democrats are calling on the Liberal government to deny entry to Michael Rappaport. She concluded by saying hate has no place in Canada.

Rapaport responded, writing, I have no criminal history other than calling my ex girlfriend Lily Taylor too many times in nineteen ninety seven. I’m not ashamed I was in love. I have no outstanding warrants. I don’t have any parking tickets. As far as Racislamophobia, my only phobia currently is of a radical Jihattis.

I’ll admit I have a phobia of anybody wants to kill hert or dehumanized Jews. The irony here is that McPherson, in her post asserted that hate has no place in Canada, except, of course, when hate is directed towards Jews, which Canada apparently has no problem with. He linked that to a report which found quote six hundred and seventy percent increase in anti Semitic incidents in Canada since October seventh, twenty twenty three. Report wrote some more things and then finished with if you’re reading this other a front row seats reserved for you in the New Democrats. That’s a genuine offer.

Another angsty one, this from AM New York. CJ is from Brooklyn and was having a wonderful day in Brooklyn. AM New York tells us she and her husband went to an exciting fundraiser at her son’s school before deciding to finish off a fun day at a local comedy club. Right, they definitely want us to know. The day was wonderful and it was a fun day, AM New York.

Right, she had no idea she’d end the night in tears after comedian on stage performed a set of jokes culminating with one personal attack. I wasn’t there, so I’m just going to admit the comedian’s name. It is not a famous comedian, CJ told AM New York. Most of the comedians were fantastic, at least until a comedian Question took the stage after ten pm and included a routine that focused on Jewish people and the Israeli Hamas war in the Middle East. CJ explains he starts with how Jews must find free Palestine, really confusing becase we love free stuff.

Then he said, I don’t know about you, but a Palestinian has never kept my security deposit. From a comedy standpoint, as a Roman Catholic recording a podcast in a basement, I don’t know what faith this comedian is. I don’t know what background this comedian is. But it’s not like I haven’t heard that sort of joke before, and I don’t know the nuance of the joke. So the quote from the person who went to the show was must find free Palestine really confusing because we love free stuff.

CJ identifies as Jewish, So is the we there the way the joke was told. So is this a Jewish comedian going because we love free stuff? Or is CJ self identifying and was the joke because they love free stuff? That I don’t know that would add some nuance to this story. CJ and their husband said they didn’t find the jokes funny, but understood that it was comedy, and hope did move on to something else.

Okay, But then apparently the comedian brought up the subject of slavery among Jews in history. I don’t have any information about what that part of the set was about and what the materials sounded like. CJ explains, at this point, I was getting visibly upset, almost crying at this point. It’s very sensitive. I’ve dealt with a lot of anti Semitism over the last five hundred and eight or so days.

CJ claims. The comedian then said something, quoting the article here along the lines of and then quoting along the lines of what the comedian said, something like wanting to go kill somewhere babies, this article says. The audience laughed. CJ then broke down in tears and left the club. Edward Ferrell is a spokesperson for the Williamsburg Comedy Club, told AM New York that the venue believes in free speech, especially on a comedy club stage, and will not be taking any action against the comedian.

Williamsburg Comedy Club is a place for comics to take chances. Unfortunately, people occasionally get offended. That’s out of our control. I hear jokes about many issues, topics and groups in the club that I don’t always agree with or laugh at. I will not censor any of the comics who were lucky enough to have on our stage.

A comedian made a joke and I stand by his right to do so. CJ said, I would love an apology from the club. They want to refund our ticket prices, That’s great, but whatever. What I’d really like is for at least one person to see this and not support this comedian, and to warn other Jewish people that if you see this guy’s name on a comedy lineup, don’t go. The comedian is scheduled to do some more appearances, heavy one today.

All right, let’s see what else we got here. Let’s go to Gossip Corner. Gossip Corner is always fun. Joe Coy, you remember Joe Koy, Scott. I’m doing the bit because this has been a heavy show.

I’ve been trying to solve peace in the Middle East and Trump and I gotta do something funny. So Joe Koy one time he hosted the Golden Globes. You remember the Scott Beckett. Yeah, and he told this horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. Let’s listen.

Uh, the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift. Anyway, last weekend, I’ve had a bounce this all week Joe Coy was in DC. This show’s a mess today, I’m trying. Joe Coy was in DC last weekend and he stopped by Purple Patch to gobble up delicacies from fellow Filipino chef Patrese Cleary.

Apparently Joe had some red Snapper Rihanna with crab and mushroom adobo at the Eater thirty eight. It’s some interesting fact checking here. On Saturday night, Joe Coy told the crowd at the Capitol One Arena that he’s never had Filipino food like that before. Oh but fact check, Purple Patch had previously catered Joe Coy back in twenty twenty two. Hmmm, is Joe Koy lying about what kind of Filipino food he eats?

Investigation? Oh, this one’s too serious. I get a bounce this Sorry, that goes to tomorrow. Shane gillis only the sixth most controversial thing I’ve talked about today. His SNL drew four point two seventy five million viewers and eight hundred and ninety five thousand viewers in the eighteen to forty nine demo, which I’ve aged out of, compared with the most recent regular episode, which was Timothy Chellamy on January twenty fifth.

That was down thirteen point seven seven percent among total viewers and down thirteen point two eight percent in the demo. However, it was a step up from the sixth most controversial person on Today’s Podcast, Shane Gillis. When Shane hosted in February of twenty four, he was up seven point two percent from the year before, however, with viewers aged eighteen to thirty four down ten and a half percent. Hmmm.

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Also, I saw they adjested the Conan numbers.

Let me pull that up Conan oscar readings. I remember they were saying earlier in the week it was slightly down. The Holly Reporter now saying nope, it was slightly up, averaging nineteen point sixty nine million viewers on ABC and Hulu. Of course, those of us watching on Hulu didn’t get to see the end, not that I’m mad about that or anything. The original reported number was eighteen point zero seven.

The nineteen point sixty nine million viewers is about two hundred thousand more than the nineteen point four to nine for the twenty four oscars back before the pandemic. The twenty twenty Oscars drew twenty three point six four million viewers, and south By Southwest Comedy has kicked off. Let’s see who’s there tonight. It starts with Comedy Kickoff at seven pm. Jay Jorden, Bonnie McFarlane, Oppi Alak Baju, Caitlin Palufo.

I’m seeing buzz on all of a sudden. If I were there at seven point thirty, you would find me at Elon Musk Disrupt Democracy l subtitled James Adomian as Elon Musk. The description interplanetary savior of Advanced Evolution, billionaire polymouth genius and Supreme Shadow President Elon Musk. Asterisk steps now into the light along with his most feared advisors to train the fierce fangs the dochegoons upon Austin, Texas. The Asterisk says, not actually Elon Musk.

Great, great lineup, heer James Adomian, Anthony Tamniwick, Matt Besser, Chad Damiani, Alex English, Christina, Catherine Martinez, Natalie Palomides, Boy Besser, Natalie and Tammiwick and Adomian Right there, boy, what a great show. I’m sure we’ll see some buzz on that next week online at nine o’clock. Three Girls, One Glass, Lisa Gilroy, Punky Johnson, Kristen Toomey and Todd Glass. I see what you did there well, titled show ten o’clock only Murderers in the Building, Killer Comics take the stage for a night of mussy stand up. Greer Born still you’ve seen his name ever?

All of a sudden, Lynn Coplets, Eddie Pepetone, Nick Thune. And that’s long enough for a Friday. I’m bumping some things, so I got plenty of free tomorrow and I’m about to record tomorrow. So for me seeing about thirty seconds for you, see you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Busy one today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Took me quite a while to put this one together, and I even moved some stuff into the future. So let’s just jump right in.

John Mulaney’s talk show is back next week. Somehow sort of sneaking up on everybody, least knuck up on me. But here it comes. Mulaney said he never wanted to host a talk show, but he has released a trailer. I have to give you the visual here.

So John is standing in a parking lot and we’re seeing the point of view from like a drone. So John is far away, and the discussion is how should the promo be filmed? It’s a little deconstructionist. So again, picture you’re looking down from on high and John Mulaney is somewhere down there in a parking lot. Let’s listen, let me know, let me know when you’re tight enough that I should say the line is something gonna cue me when I just want to be tight enough to saying the line makes sense?

Okay, And Everybody’s Live is on Wednesdays Live. Okay, So I wait. At twenty, I counted to five myself. So just after you call out twenty, I’ll count to five. And as you heard, the abruptly cut to music.

So it’s got you know that Letterman Cone in twelve thirty kind of vibe there, like where he’s going. During the trailer, he puts on a pair of sunglasses like David Caruso, and then takes them off again like David Caruso. Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney’s now what it’s called March twelve. That’ll run for twelve consecutive wednesdays. That I got to hang out with the trivia guys and or play volleyball and then come home and watch mullaney.

It’s a lot of work. I’m just trying to do a podcast here. Oh poor me, I have to come home and watch Netflix for an hour. Life is so hard doing your podcast, John, I feel so bad for you. Richard Kine returns as John mulanie’s mc M’LINI said the first ever celebrity sit down talk show.

There’s absolutely nothing new about what I’m doing. By taking a lot of elements other people have already done and doing them out of order, it feels new, and that’s what’s important. Andrew Schultz said, a big profile in the La Times, a lot of Schultz press. I’ll break that apart for the next oh, probably six days. It’ll take me to get through all this the La Times.

I was curious why Andrew had Trump on his podcast since the podcast is not political in any way at all. And Andrew said, no, not really. What do you think comedy helped get Trump elected? Andrew? Do you mean Trump going on the podcast Times, well, specifically comedy podcast.

Trump went on several shows, including Your Flagrant Podcast as well as Rogan and Theo. Andrew, I have a maybe more humbled than some, which is that I don’t think it influenced the election at all. I think people were going to vote this way no matter what, and I think seeing him on certain podcasts made them feel more comfortable voicing how they were already going to vote. I don’t think very many people were like watching Trump on Mine or Robo or Theo and then flipped on him one hundred percent. It’s just me.

I don’t know if we have that kind of power. But what he might do is make you feel more confident in publicly sharing how you feel about Trump, right because maybe in those situations he feels a little less radioactive. Schultz. I don’t really care about politics. I just care about culture.

But sometimes politics is the reflection of culture. That’s when I start to kind of key in on it. Now the pendulum is swung the other way, so we’re like out of the censorship area. When we’re in a censorship ere comedians are usually the first ones to complain about it because it kind of affects the way we do our thing, and that’s happened throughout history, and usually you get like really prolific comedians that come out of those times, Carlin being one of them. I mean, even Eddie Murphy, you know, like people in prior the way that they would talk about him, like I can’t believe he’s saying these things.

This is so crazy. So I think censorship in a way is kind of good for comedy. But comedians speak about it, and then comedy’s having a boom, and that’s a reflection of the most influential person on the planet, Joe Rowe and being a comedian and loving comedians and putting comedy at the forefront of his interest. There’s also like a social media aspect and where it’s like everybody wants a funny tweet, a funny picture of funny meme. There’s like currency and being funny.

You know, it’s kind of like the perfect storm. Times asked what was the hardest part in prepping for the interview with Trump? Good question, Andrews said, for me, just that I want to understand who he is. So I spoke to some people close to him. I spoke to Dana White for a while, and I spoke to Don Junior for a while, and I just said, tell me a story.

I want personal stories, Like tell me your relationship. Like you don’t have to tell me who he is or who you think he is, Like tell me moments that have happened between you guys. La Times, what was the goal of the Trump interview when you went into it. Did you feel like you accomplished it? Schultz?

The goal was like the goal with every person I sit down with. I don’t want to tooot our own horn on the pod, but I think we got the best interview with a lot of people, specifically because we’re just trying to find out who you are and make you comfortable enough to hang with us. We’re just trying to have the best hang on the internet. That’s it. I hate that I have I hate that I even have to mention this.

It’s so stupid. We offered tons of Democrats to come on, but you know they didn’t. Mark Cuban came on. I’ll say that, and then Cuban was trying to push more Democrats to come on. He’s a big surrogate for Kamala.

Good followup by the light time. Did they give a reason as for their no? Andrew? I think they’re in a situation where they’re playing like a little bit of prevent defense. And I think it’s a tricky thing.

Again, I speak about these things culturally. I don’t really understand politics, but I can just understand the people’s reaction to things. I think Americans like risk. We like people who are going to take a risk. I think that they were seduced by Bernie Sanders because he looked like he was taking risks.

He was out there like f the billionaires, f these big corporations, they’re taking your money. I want to get your money back, and all of us were like, yo, he’s gonna get killed, like this guy’s fire. I think that’s the tricky thing for the Democrats. They could win this so easily if they made this about class. If they made it a class war, they’d win in a heartbeat.

It’s so easy. But it seems like they’re not willing to do that because I think they have very wealthy people donating a lot of money to them. They don’t want to ruffle those feathers. So I have to make it about identity politics because it’s the only other thing they would win in a heartbeat if they mad it about class. I think you need a young Bernie.

Look at AOC again. I don’t care what you think about her politics, but there are people in her district voted for her and Trump, and I think that’s because people see her as working class and actually want to help the working class, regardless if you think your philosophy is right about it. He talked about the Brilliant Idiots podcast he does with Charlamagne. Dude. It’s the best.

We’ve been doing this over for ten years and now he’s always been this crazy superstar and maybe I’ve gotten a little bit bigger. But then you can see the political websites looking or stuff and basically watching the pod and they’re like clipping it. But the thing I like about it is here we are these guys that like we might disagree in terms of politics about some things, we’re friends for over a decade. It’s just the proof that we don’t need America to be so divided. We hate each other and we’re about to fight, but we can actually be best friends and we could talk smack in, you know, do whatever we’ve been doing for ten years.

In the podcast, while also disagreeing slightly, really great stuff there. The Hollywood Reporter had a similar interview, again, how much time have I spent on Andrew? Ready? I want to keep moving, but this leads into what I want to talk about next. Andrew talked about how he approached his new special and said, I’ve never been personal and I’ve never told stories.

I had to learn what a story was. I read all these books about storytelling, you name it, I read it, and I even bought these cards from Instagram with like storytelling tactics. I wanted to figure out what makes this stuff work? Why are some stories good? Why are some boring?

And it’s the thing unfolded. I was like, Okay, what if I just told one story? But I never wanted to tell anybody it was one story because I didn’t want the one man show expectation. So that leads me to my commentary. I had some time the other night and I was like, oh, I’m hearing good things about Andrew Schultz special.

Let me watch it. And I started to play it, and the note I had before I saw this Hollywood Reporter interview was I didn’t like the storytelling. It didn’t work for me. His opening joke is, okay, it is about Chicago. I won’t spoil it, but I personally have been making that joke since the nineties, at least half of it, and the other half since the early part of this century.

So not an original joke. He did have a good tag on it. Again, I don’t want to spoil it. If you saw it, it involved Chicago. That joke I thought was really good.

But then when he got into the storytelling, I just I didn’t care. Just it didn’t hook me. I lasted seven minutes, which is usually when my comedy special Spidey sense kicks in. Again. Maybe the last fifty three minutes or whatever it is is awesome, that’s not my problem.

I’m a dude in a chair with her remote and I fum board. I’m out. So I was like, all right, let me watch some comedy specials since I blocked out the time. Next, I clicked on rosebud Baker’s special. I was excited about that one, and she lost me really early.

If you’re not familiar with that special, the gimmick is she recorded some of it while pregnant and some of it after having the baby. And the way it’s cut, it’s going back and forth like line by line. So you’re watching it and she’s pregnant, and then the next scene she’s not pregnant, and then she’s pregnant again, and then she’s not pregnant again, and my brain couldn’t handle it, and I’m like, I’m out. Did not last long at all. I’m like, all right, what else is out there?

Oh? Yeah, Lisa Traeger had a special Netflix put in front of me. I clicked on that. I liked her energy a lot. I thought it was fun.

I am a comedy snob. In case you can’t tell, is I’m just hating on everything this morning. But I did think it was fun. I think at its core it was fine. It won’t make my end of the year list.

It’s just fine. It’s just another comedy special. It’s fine. But I did like her energy a lot, and I’m like, all right, let me keep going. Let me head over to Amazon and see this George Lopez special that, as far as I could tell, George Lopez did no promotion for Can I tell you here’s the word I’m using to describe it, horrific, Like George, what are you doing?

It’s kind of like George taking a victory lap. But how about some jokes? Dude, not good at all? And I bailed and I’m like, all right, surely somebody must have done a good comedy special I could watch. I went over to Hulu and Hilarious Christa Stefano was on, and the word I’m gonna use hack.

It’s also tonally off brand for Hulu if I understand the hilarious brand, and maybe I don’t, and maybe the publicist could get in touch with me and tell me what it is. But if Christa Stefano special was on Fox Nation, I’d be like, yeah, okay, this makes sense, and I am saying that for reasons stay with me for the rest of the podcast. But on Hulu it was just kind of weird and off vibe. It felt very Fox and also the jokes are ha, So I went, oh, for five. Now you can say this podcast sucks, because it probably does.

You could say I have no idea what I’m talking about, and I probably don’t. But one dude sitting in a comfy chair with a remote who admits to being a comedy snob, oh for five. Chris de Stefano has been talking a lot lately with Fox News Digital. I see him coming up every day on their site. Chris told Fox News Digital that men competing in women’s sports was a humongous issue for voters and himself at the twenty four election.

Chris believes listing men competing in women’s sports was the catalyst for many people abandoning the Democratic Party in twenty four. Quoting Chris, I think also too, just like a big, big, big, big big thing five bigs was for all of us, for certain comedians and all that. I think the trans women and sports thing was a humongous thing for voters because the you know, left wanted to go with the narrative that people are anti trans and people don’t listen. There are people who hate every group, for sure. I’ve never met someone who wants to physically hurt someone because they’re trans.

I think, like, especially in New York. I think trans people are welcome, quoting Chris. I’m all for anybody’s time on this planet to be as useful as they want it to be and as pleasurable as they want it to be. I mean, you’re only gonna live once. But I think when the Democrats came out and we’re like championing you know, trans females and sports, you forgot about like the actual women, and you forgot about like, hey, I have daughters, Like I don’t want to be competing against someone who’s born in Man just because they do have physiological advantages.

The Stefano proposed creating an all trans league, quoting Chris, I want a trans league, for sure. I would love that. But I want biological women to play against biological women, and men to play against men, and trans people to play with trans people. We’re all for that. Chris also felt that many people traditionally aligned with the Democratic Party, like Joe Rogan, supported many of the party’s causes, but were completely disaffected by the party’s willingness to support men playing in women’s sports, quoting Chris, again, I think specifically on why a guy like Joe Rogan, and again I don’t know, I’ve never asked Joe about this, but what I saw was this shift when we were saying, hey, wait, this is crazy.

I was with some of the other stuff, but like, you can’t be serious about this. Oh my, I just checked the clock. I gonna have a long one today. Wow. I want to talk about George Lopez, his recent Amazon specials being just decribed by some people as horrific.

Well, he’s getting into a new business. He has partnered with Truly Original, a production company behind such series as The Real Housewives of Atlanta and inc. Master. George and those guys are going to develop a number of unscripted projects that The first is a feature documentary about Charlie Murphy. It is called Darkness The Charlie Murphy Story.

It will tell the story of Charlie Murphy, who died in twenty seventeen from leukemia at age fifty seven. Vulture had caught up with Bill Burr. He’s in Glengarry Glenn Ross, and Bill said, I get this guy, this good guy underneath, but he just sw his mouth and rousey, which I did too, And also I think he’s right. Doesn’t have to be that way. It’s funny that was written a long time ago, showing the direction things are going in.

Have people just continue to squeeze people beneath them, and how they get satisfaction out of that. A lot of this new Robert Baronet’s just wildly out of control in every business.

Meanwhile, we’re selling crappy land.

That’s the other thing I like about it. It’s a human thing to act righteous when you’re not righteous. Bill talked about the arts of giving grief to those you love, giving craps an art because you got to feel love underneath it. That’s always out of communicator with people as far as telling them and I like them, teasing them a little bit, hope they’re going to do it back to me. These characters are like a bunch of comedians giving each other crap.

And then there’s the top comic. When human beings get upset, they say the exact opposite. I wouldn’t be like I actually really liked you, so when you say that to me, that really hurts me. It’s funny. His play was written forty years ago and manage still not allowed to say that.

It’s beyond uncomfortable, which is why we communicate in the short bursts of insults that we do all right getting along here. Let me bounce a couple things, But I do want to tell you that JR. Da Guzman’s special is out today on the eight hundred to pound Guerrilla YouTube channel, and the special, titled I’m Your Son, Papa Jr. De Guzman shares and sings the true stories of his Filipino American upbringing, filled with laughter, love, and the complexities of family life. From R and B songs about Asian masculinity and representation to smooth, sultry songs about division in America.

This special will heal you and heal the world. My phone is blowing up. Apparently the New York Marathon did you Get in? Announcement is happening at this hour. I haven’t heard one way or another.

I’m texting with a friend saying, I kind of hope I got to know, because if you get a yes, then you actually have to train for the thing and do it. If you get to know, it’s like, ah, you know I would have ran them, Aratha, but you know they won’t. Levy Ah. There’s a series out today on Hulu is called Deli Boys. Seeing some good buzz on it.

The av Club wrote, like any good sitcom and need some room to grow. Although it is solid bones from the get go, the instant hook is spoilery, but two Pakistani American brothers find themselves running a convenience store chain, only to learn that the chain is actually a front to smuggle drugs. Raj and Meir are thrust into the mafia. Underworld. Show runner Michelle Nader grew up in South Philly and said, I’m not from the rich side of Philly.

I’m from South Philly. So the sort of underbelly of Phillies my world. I think we were attracted to that and what that looked like beyond the doors of the Delhi, what’s really going on? I think Philly has that mystery to it. Interestingly enough, all ten episodes were filmed in Chicago.

We’ll talk about that in a second. The series is set in South Philadelphia’s Gray’s Ferry neighborhood, a locale inspired by Serious. Creator Abdullah Sayid said remembered a story I went to a party when I was at Temple. Some friends had moved into a house in South Philly. We went down there and it was a very dilapidated and dangerous neighborhood.

We were like you sure you guys want to live here. Somebody then told me about Grace Ferry, the Forgotten Bottom. That name always stayed with me. It felt like a place where you could have a business that’s a front and nobody would notice. Now Block Club Chicago, they cover Chicago and explain Chicago has stood in for many cities in the history of film and TV.

They were curious why Deli Boys filmed in Chicago. Executive producer Jenny Conner explained the tax break. Chicago’s a very friendly place to film. I’m making a joke, but really thank God for that tax break. Sayid said, it was very important to us that the show looks like Philly and Chicago really does, not just visually but vibe wise.

That’s a working class city that loves its sports teams and very down to earth. Deli Boys out today on Hulu. I supposedly all ten episodes, but it’s Hulu. You know, you might get into like you might watch the first nine and a half and they’re like, oh, sorry, the stream ended who has been known to do that. I am still furious about that whole Oscars thing.

And from Bloody Disgusting dot com, you know what’s out cannibal comedian, that’s right, and cannibal Comedian’s jokes kill literally. You’ll find this on screen box the log line. By day, Charlie serves killer meatball subs made from unsuspecting travelers yuck. By night, he turns his victims into dark comedy bits at the local club, but when the owner tries to steal the twisted stick, he becomes Charlie’s next bloody punchline. It is cannibal comedian and that is your comedy news for today.

And I bumped like seven stories. I don’t have time to record other episodes. Otherwise I could keep myself a week off, all right, See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Stewart has officially invited Elon Musk on The Daily Show. Last week, Elon posted on x that he would talk to John Stewart on air if his interview would premiere unedited. Now interesting that he chose premiere great because we could premiere it at three am and then mix some minutes.

But that’s not what they’re going to do. John Stewart began his monologue by reminding his audience that he made a bit of a critique of Elon Musk’s Department of Government efficiency. John said, after thinking about Elon’s offer, I thought, you know, hey, that’s actually how the in studio interviews normally air unedited. So sure would be delighted. As a matter of fact, let me sweeten or unsweeten the pot.

The interview could be fifteen minutes, an hour, two hours, whatever. I’ll be honest, I don’t think this network makes any other programming, so we could do whatever the f we want. That’s really funny, like really really funny. I’ve paused and jumped back in here. Oh it’s so true, John Stuart.

Stuart then addressed Elon’s follow up tweets. In one post, he called the Daily Show host a propagandist, and another heclaimed John Stewart used to be more bipartisan. Stuart said, you give me too little credit. Again. The guy who custom made his own dark maga hat that he wears to opine in the Oval office with the president we spent two hundred and seventy million dollars to elect, thinks I’m just too partisan.

I’m not really sure what he thinks bipartisan means. Elon. If you want to do the show, great, I support in general the idea of efficiency, delivering better services to the American people in cheaper and more efficient ways. And if you want to come in and talk about it on the show, great. If you don’t want to, sure, But can we just drop the pretense that you won’t do it because I don’t measure up to the standards of neutral discourse that you demand and display at all times.

Oh, I know I had such a good reaction to the first time or edit. I don’t want to make the edit here a longer version of the Stewart quote. So we can do whatever there if we want, as long as we want as long as we wrap before the new season of South Park, which comes out in like May or June of twenty twenty six. So I’m game. I think it’ll be a very interesting conversation.

Rob Mills is the executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment at Disney. He told Variety the Conan is welcome back to host the Oscars. Conan absolutely nailed it. It was this sense memory of thirty years of not only him in late night, but when he would host the Emmys and all the stuff he’s done. This was almost like Conan’s greatest hits.

He had a little bit of everything, an incredibly funny monologue that had the hallmarks of what Conan does, silliness, self deprecation, jokes that are funny and then twenty minutes later you realize that they’re really funny. Well, Conan, come back. That’s really up to Conan, but I know we’d love to have him back. I don’t know if this counts as an official offer, but I really hope he wants to come back. It was a joint of privilege and probably the only sort of methodone I could have for not being able to do the show with Jimmy Kimmel.

You know, I come away, I feel like the Oscars is Jimmy Kimmel’s show to host. Like, when Jimmy doesn’t host it, I feel like someone else is just filling in and they’re just going to go back to another eight years of Jimmy Kimmel. That’s high praise for Jimmy. I think he does a fine job. How the Conan was fantastic.

You know, if you Tomy Conan was hosting next year, great, But I kind of in the back of my mind feel like Jimmy Kimble should be hosting the Oscars. A great job, Jimmy, You’ve made a connection in my brain between you and the Oscars. You’ve done a fine job. Rob Mills, Disney’s executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, discussed how Hulu cut off the Oscars during Best Actress and didn’t show Best Picture. He went all suit and said, that’s not my area of expertise, and obviously you feel bad for the people who we’re trying to watch the show.

It’s unfortunate. It’s unfortunate, it’s unforgivable. Dude. Well, Chris Rock says we should forgive people. I forgive you, mister Mills, but come on, get your act together.

I think the best thing to do is look at it as a way to figure out and make sure it doesn’t happen again. In the show notes is a link to my substack. It’s mcdepod dot substack dot com. I wrote about this on Monday. At the place I used to work, stuff like this would happen, and then we would have the big meeting to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Like say Carrie Underwood’s trying to perform at the inauguration at her microphone doesn’t work. You have to make sure this doesn’t happen again, and you have a big meetings. I’m glad the Hulu people are having a big meeting to make sure it doesn’t happen again. I’ll give you a solution. Anytime you have a shiny live event, hire a board op for twenty dollars an hour to sit there and actually monitor feed.

It’s twenty dollars. It’s not a lot of money. Disney, You’ve got the coin. You could do this. Rob Mills, the executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, said It’s not the first time this has happened in streaming and probably won’t be the last.

We were at least moving into this world. We’re meeting viewers where they are, you know, except for the ending of the Oscars. Like when I watch the Oscars, I usually watch like ninety three percent of it, and then I’m like, Eh, best actress, best picture. I don’t care. I was just here to see what puts short film?

Come on, dude. Rob Mills, executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment, told Variety at the Walt Disney Company as a whole, our superpower is we have a broadcaster. We have a premium streamer. Well except for the ending of the Academy Awards, So anywhere you want to watch the show, not necessarily the ending, but the rest of the show. We want to make sure you can watch this.

And for the most part that works great. Dude, there’s the leaping money quote. Yeah, and for the most part it works great, except for the ending. He added, it works spectacularly well with Dancing with the Stars, Oh too funny? All right, how did it do in the ratings?

Sunday’s telecast averaged eighteen point zero seven million viewers on ABC and Hulu. That’s down from the previous year. Now, maybe they could have had more people had they shown the ending on Hulu. Who knows. I’m not an expert in this.

That total audience number was down by about seven percent compared to last year’s show. Can somebody do the math? If we missed the last thirteen minutes of a three and a half hour telecast? Is that around seven percent? Is it?

It might actually be somebody do the math? Why don’t I do the math? Chat GPT help me out? All Right’m asking chat EPT what percentage is thirteen minutes out of a three and a half hour telecast? Chat is telling us to calculate what percentage thirteen minutes is out of a three and a half hour telecast.

One Convert three and a half hours to minutes. Three and a half times sixty equals two hundred and ten minutes. Thank you, uh. Step two, everybody got your pen out? Divide thirteen minutes by two hundred and ten minutes.

Thirteen divided by two ten equals point zero six one nine. Convert two percentage by multiplying by one hundred equals six point one nine percent. So thirteen minutes is approximately six point one nine percent of a three and a half hour telecast, and the numbers were down around seven percent. Coincidence. I don’t know.

Why don’t you show Best Picture next year? Last year’s show was a four year high of nineteen point four nine million viewers on ABC with no live stream. I watched it. You know what, one best picture? Oppenheimer, You know how I know that they showed it.

Let’s look at the money demo, which I’ve aged out. If no one cares about me old man renting in your basement, we don’t care. In adults eighteen to forty nine, the five point two five million people watch that up from three point eight two a year ago. That’s interesting. Eighteen to thirty four’s two point two seven million viewers.

That was the highest for the show since twenty twenty. Jimmy Kimmel says Conan did such a good job. Next year, they’re giving it to Jay Leno. About halfway through the Oscars, Conan did a Kendrick Lamar Drake joke. Writer Skyler Higgley tweeted wrote the Kendrick Lamar joke, and bet our executive producer fifty dollars that it would kill just made fifty dollars.

A few hours after the Oscars, Higgley posted good morning to Drake fans and also to people who like good music. People commented back at him, why don’t you try and call out the white bet of files? Higgley wrote, well, I also wrote the Conclave joke about the Catholic Church. Try again that joke. Conan obviously told it better than I.

Well, the movie Conclave is up for Best Picture tonight. If you haven’t seen Conclave, its log line is a movie about the Catholic Church. But don’t worry. You know who’s quoted in this article is Rob Mills. Remember Rob Mills.

He’s the executive vice president of Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment for Disney. He said he approved of the joke and explained when he did it in rehearsal. I was with Jeff Rossi’s producer, and we were like, that joke’s gonna kill, and it was great. It was sort of unexpected from Conan, but that’s what made kind of fun. Thanks Rob Mills, how about you show the best picture next year?

Conan tweeted thank you to the Academy. The incredible production, cast and crew, and my amazing team for night I’ll never forget. Now I’m off to fulfill my lifelong dream to run a bed and breakfast down Orlando hashtag oscars two to zero two five, Variety tells us. A few minutes before taking his spot behind the microphone as the announcer, Nick Offerman went on stage and greeted the audience and told them they were getting a brief and wondrous opportunity to feature glamorous eyes upon my sturdy form. Verdaz tweeted, while watching a major entertainment award show, I’m pretty sure a few fellow Indian comedians play a game in our head.

We wonder why Indian award shows don’t use modern stand up comedians at major awards. Then we think of some of the jokes we would do, the other crapstorm that would follow, and we think it’s probably for the best.

Also, we remember the opening monologues at the top of the show, which logica…

Also, just rhythm wise, it’s hard to do an etchy joke after saying and then he posted a phrase that I don’t know how to pronounce, and I’m not sure what language it’s in, and I’m not being jerky here. I threw the phrase into Google Translate and Google didn’t recognize it. So I went to chat ChiPT to have the AI explained the joke, and Chat says the phrase is primarily in English, but includes words from Hindian brand names that are popular in India. It’s a mix of Hinglish, a blend of Hindi in English, which is commonly used in Indian advertising, pop culture, and social media. Some words like paravar and Zandu are directly from Hindi.

The overall phrase seems like a playful or memelike jungle of recognizable Indian brand names and terms. Here’s what Vierdas was joking about, and I didn’t get the joke, Chatchipt says. Menic Chand is a well known brand in India, primarily associated with Gutka, which is a chewing tobacco. As you know, pan Pasand is a popular flavored candy known for its battail like taste. Fun Flips a snack brand often associated with flavored cornpuffs Zoro, possibly referring to the fictional masked vigilante or a brand name.

Plus could be a generic addition a reference to a product variant. Zandu Bandu might be referencing Zandu Baum, a famous pain relief ointment in India. MDH is a famous Indian spice brand, MCD might be referencing me Chat Thanks, likely referring to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Motorola is a well known electronics brand, and Paravar is Hindi for family, possibly referencing a political or advertising slogan. So let me go back to the phrase that now that I’ve been educated.

So Verer tweeted it’s hard to do an edge joke. After saying Manik chand Pon, Pissan, fun Flip, Zoro plus, Xandu Bandu, MDHMCD, Motorola, Paravar, he probably tells it funnier. Hey, very busy Wednesday today. I gotta tell you because it starts today. Gilda’s LaughFest, presented by the gun Lake Casino and Resort, is bringing big name comics and local stars together.

Wendy Wigger is the President CEO of Gilda’s Club, Grand Rapids and Wendy Wiggers We’re excited for our fifteenth year of bringing seriously funny events. The show’s funny today. You know why? You know I am laughing right now. I’m silly to say you know I am laughing right now.

Wendy Wigger. We are excited for our fifteenth year of bringing seriously funny events to West Michigan, while at the same time raising awareness and funds for the free support programs at Gilda’s Club Grand Rapids. This year’s LaughFest feature and nationally acclaimed comedic artists who are guaranteed to make audience of all ages smile and laugh, laugh ass twenty twenty five will include over forty free and ticketed shows. Some good people at this one, Adam Ray, remember he’s doing that Doctor Phil thing. Gabby Bryan, who were told brought her a fringe hit Billion the Situation to Union Hall and garnered praise in The New York Times after a successful Edinburgh Fringe Festival run.

She’ll be there, Dan Soder, you know Dan from Billions on Showtime. Sure he’s going to be there. Corey b has been working in radio for over ten years, shifting his focus to long form content during the pandemic. Corey be is going to be there. The Clean Comedy Showcase offers dinner and brunch options featuring adult content without profanity or vulgarity.

Let’s hit gossip Corner. Jim Gaffigan stop buying the Krueger Wine and Spirits on Dolphin Drive in Elizabethtown. He was there Monday afternoon. It was a surprise. He signed a bottle of his Kentucky bourbon whiskey, Father Time for Jeff.

Jim Gaffigan asked, Jeff, Now, if I sign this bottle, you’re gonna buy it. Jeff said he would and he’d never open it. Jim Gaffigan said it was the first bottle that he ever autographed. And luckily this made it to the press, and we’re reminded that Father Time can be found in a majority of the Krueger Wine and Spirit stores in central Kentucky. I don’t know why I have the giggles today.

The show is a lot of fun. Today. I’m gonna get out there. That’s your comedy news for today. See tomorrow.