Author: johnnymacdcn

---

---

Featured: Michael Che, Colin Jost, Bowen Yang, Scarlett Johansson, Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, Chloe Fineman, Sarah Sherman, Marcelo Hernandez, Michael Longfellow

What’s in This Episode

• SNL Season 50 Finale and Cast Departure Rumors
• Michael Che Claims This Is His Last Season
• Colin Jost Potentially Leaving for Jeopardy Host Opportunity
• Sarah Sherman Profile and Season 50 Experience
• SNL Weekend Update Recurring Bit with Sarah Sherman
• MSN Best Comedians in History Slideshow

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac and tonight is the season finale of Saturday Night Live’s fiftieth season. As I’ve talked about on the podcast before, I think if you’re gonna get out, this is the time to get out. I think season fifty one, well, it’ll clearly lack the buzz and I think it’s gonna be a rebuilding year, so it could be time to get out. Deadline took a list at who is rumored to perhaps, possibly maybe be leaving.

They started with Michael Chay, who every year says he’s leaving, but in February, while performing at the University of Rochester, Chase said, this is my last season. I’m not coming back. Don’t or I’m done. It’s over for me. It’s been so much fun.

It’s a little emotional. It’s bittersweet, cause, like I said, he says that every year, but this year there were rumors that Colin Jost is going to leave. Tonight’s guest host is Scarlett Johansson, married to Colin Jost but also starring in an upcoming Jurassic movie, so it’s not absurd that she’s hosting. But some are taking Scarlett’s participation tonight as a clue. Jose and Chay are currently fourth and fifth most tenured on SNL, behind Seth Meyers three, Darryl Hammond two, and Keenan Thompson.

Deadline points out if the news desk is thinking of leaving now, is a pretty good time before the country starts talking about the twenty twenty six midterms or the twenty eight presidential election. It was also a little rumor a couple weeks back that Colin’s doing such a good host as pop Culture Jeopardy that they’re considering him for regular Jeopardy, which is a great gig if you can get it, and at Colin’s age, you could do it for thirty years. Look at Drew Carrey, who’s already been hosting Prices Right for I think it’s like fifteen years already. By the way, sidebar I want to get my oil change. Jiffy leeu B always has Game Show Network on, and they were showing a Bob Barker era Price is Right, and Bob Barker still had the dark hair.

Price Is Right is a lot harder when you go back in time and you’re like, you have to figure out first of all, what year is this?

And then when they ask you how much things cost a new car, I don’t know.

Eighty three hundred dollars. Sure. Mikey Day was asked by Deadline if he would return and said, who knows what the future will bring. Or Heidi Gardner, who’s been on the show for eight seasons. Gardner has admitted in some interviews that things have gotten a little tough trying to come up with sketches.

She told Craig Ferguson, I will say the only thing that I’ve started to feel a little bit is just sketch fatigue or idea fatigue. At this point, after doing Groundlings and SNL for so long, I’m like I’ve written a lot of sketches. Ego Nuotam is wrapping up her seventh season on the show. She told Deadline, We’d like to keep things mysterious around here. That’s part of the allure of SNL.

We don’t know what’s going to happen week to week, let alone in the fall, so who knows. Chloe Fineman finishing up her sixth season, and then Bow and Yang, who he gave an interview recently and said he wasn’t leaving, but everything about his behavior suggests that he’s leaving. He had told people, especially after the fiftieth, them seeing what life after the show is like and how beautiful it is, and how so many people in the matter how long they were at the show or just with their families and loving their lives and not letting the years take away any of that experience for them.

---

And then with SNL, new people come in, you have to sort of make way for them …

That inevitably requires me to sort of hang it up at some point, but I don’t know what the vision is yet. He then backpedaled on that a couple of weeks later and was like, Nope, I’m not leaving. If Josetin Chay Doot leave, if a speculation is Michael Longfellow will replace them as one of the anchors, I could also see Sarah Sherman at the desk, and we’re going to talk about that in a second. My guess mass exodus, Joe Chay, Bowen Yang and the other people I mentioned, I think they’re all gone, and Season fifty one is going to be a rebuild built around Sarah Sherman. And Marcelo Hernandez, who people seem to like, and I think he does one thing really well and has done it in five different characters that are all the same thing to me.

But we’ll see. Sarah Sherman had that big profile and Vanity Fair earlier in the week. I had shared it in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Sarah talked about the schedule writing night. It was Tuesday night, so I stayed up until six am writing yesterday was table read.

Then you get to work at one pm, and then you get home at eleven or so and by the end of the season, my body shuts down. It’s like yelp. I’m used to it for being in stand up. I’m a nighttime person. I feel like every season has gotten more and more busy.

Last season, I was being used as a straight man a lot, which has increased more this season, which is really fun because you feel like the writers trust you to deliver a joke concept. Even though the wilder character slots take enormous swings and there’s a lot of crazy stuff that happens, there’s something so fun about a straight man because sometimes the crazy stuff doesn’t work unless there is someone immediately grounding it. Another interesting mark I’ve had over the season is I’ve done a bunch of updates that have come about last minute, where they’ve been written off writing schedule or thrown into writing characters that weren’t my own original idea. So I’ve been flexing a lot of writing muscles too, which is new for me. They were like, can you play the squirrel?

And I’m like, all right, I have to play a squirrel. Can I write this in a way that’s fun for me that’s also still the squirrel. I came into the show as if everyone’s like, she’s crazy, and I did this crazy stuff. Crazy doesn’t go that long of a way. The show’s an hour and a half.

It can’t be crazy the whole time. So the show has supported me to move to places that make me understand comedy better. Even in my own stand up. My show’s an hour and a half. It’s playing with texture and pacing and bigness and smallness, and this show’s taught me just how it works.

It can’t be screaming the whole time, which is something I wouldn’t have learned from the show. On to weekend update, the recurring bit where she roast Colin Josts. She says, if I didn’t find fun, I wouldn’t keep doing it. I bet we’ll get one tonight. At first, it started out as just me, and then we kept it fresh by evolving and having it to be different characters.

That’s how I was able to train myself to play characters too, because sketch comedy was so new to me. How did this start? It was all Colin’s fault. When I first joined the show, I’d written a bunch of things down for table read. He told me you should come on weekend updates yourself, and I was like, oh, that’s so presumptuous.

It felt even funnier after him being so kind, like, hey, I want to give you an opportunity to try being on the show for once. To repay him by making fun of him for living in the Hamptons. I called him a groomer or something. But the only reason it’s fun is because he’s sitting there laughing. All right, the big question, would you ever consider doing update as host?

Of course I would love to hear. Are you kidding me? I’m obsessed with Norm MacDonald? But that’s the thing to think for even one second. I can do what Norm McDonald did.

What am I insane? All right? I had saved this one so that I could pre tape today. My son graduated from college yesterday, so I didn’t want to be recording a podcast at four in the morning. From MSN dot com, The Best Comedians in History, a thirty two page slide show.

Let’s see who they’ve got on the list. Leslie Nielsen, Okay, interesting choice. We all like police Squad, we all like the Naked Gun, we all like airplane. Interesting in stake starts on this list, all right, Leslie Nielsen is, of course, at one of MSN’s best comedians in History, Mort Saul before my time. I don’t have anything to say about Mort.

Definitely a name that I know. Ricky Gervais, obviously The Office is his masterpiece. You know, nice stand up? Sure, okay, Steve Colbert, they write David Letterman’s replacement on The Late Show proved to be as hilarious and intellectual as his legendary predecessor. I’m not feeling it in the pop culture.

I haven’t watched any I don’t think I’ve ever seen an episode of Late Show with Colbert. I’ve seen clips, but i’ve never sat down to watch an episode to compare him to Letterman. It’s hard for me to accept that, but okay, and we got an ad from Mattress Charlie Chaplin, believe it or not before my time, but sure, who doesn’t know Charlie Chaplin. I won’t push back on that one. Rowan Atkinson, mister Bean.

Interesting choice. Eddie Murphy. They’re mainly focusing on his movie comedies here. He’s got quite the list of movie comedies. As I’ve pointed out, someone my age really likes Eddie Murphy from his time on SNL and Ron Delirious, and as I got older and educated myself more in comedy, I realized that his stand up was a pure cover band version of Richard Pryor.

But Eddie Murphy, sure, I hope. I hope Richard Pryor’s on this list at some point. Another ad Jerry lew Us for his time in Martin Lewis and also his movies. Roberto Gomez Bolognos one of the biggest names on the Mexican comedy scene. I’m not familiar with.

Roberto Roberto Gomes Bologos, better known as Chessperito or Little Shakespeare, was a Mexican actor, comedian, writer, producer, director and author. Hey, I like somebody put some effort into this list. Jerry Seinfeld, they write this is an indisputable choice, obviously the sitcom. You know. I got into Seinfeld when he would appear on Letterman in the eighties.

I’ve been to big time comedy festivals where you’re seeing everybody and seeing Jerry. At a comedy festival, and Jerry is at the top, I won’t argue with you. There now an add for teeth implants, a slide show. I can’t believe this. Peter Sellers.

I’m a fan of Peter Sellers. I like this list. Somebody puts some effort into this list. Any such list, we can nitpick left and right, but you know this is good. Jim Carrey not really my cup of tea, but they’re citing ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, The Mask, Cable Guy, Lira, Liar Me and Myself, Irene Bruce, Almighty and more are also his work on in Living Color Again, I wouldn’t arm Rescue over this.

Laurel and Hardy before my time. You know, when I was a kid, maybe you’d see them on Channel eleven on the Weekend, but I never really have consumed any Laurel and Hardy. But again, won’t arm wrestle you, Lucille Ball, of course, the Marx Brothers. Same note, a little before my time, Jimmy Carr. If you listen, you know I’m a huge fan of Jimmy Carr.

But okay, another ad, Mario Moreno conting Floss. I am familiar with kantin Floss because there was a theater in my neighborhood growing up that would show his films. I never saw any of them, but I know who he is. The cast of Monty Python. Okay, so we just threw in six guys, all right, sure I love Monty Python.

Ellen Degenerous, Yeah, Ellen Degenerous is on this list best comedians of all time. Okay, another ad. Jimmy fallon This list just got really weird. I’ve spoken about found a few times this week. Immensely talented.

I think he dumbs down his talent to host the Tonight Show and the way they want the Tonight Show hosted. But you know, we haven’t said the word like Carlin yet, or you know a lot of names we haven’t said yet. Jimmy Fallon on the list of the best comedians of all time, The Three Stooges. Sure, Melissa McCarthy. The reason given the actress is a comedy staple, both in TV and on the big screen.

Another ad, Abin Costello, Amy Schumer makes the list. Amy Schumer. We’re going with Amy Schumer, one of the best comedians of all time. Alan Carr, the British comedian, is also one of the biggest in the game. He started as a stand up back, but he also moved on to television.

How long is this list? Another ad Kevin Hart, okay fine, Dave Chappelle, here we go, Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, James Cordon, and then the list ended. I don’t know if I can just go to bed with that list. I’m gonna ask CHATCHI to make a list. I have typed in best Comedians of all time Top twenty.

See what the AI says. I like the AI’s list a lot. You’re ready, you’ll know all these names. I want to explain them to you. Prior Carlyn Murphy, Chappelle, Robin Joan, Chris Rock, Lenny Bruce at eight Hicks, Lucy John Clees, Steve Martin, Billy Connolly, Chris Farley, Steinfeld at fifteen, Ck Hebberg, Phyllis Diller, Tina Fey, Amy Schumer.

The AI says this list is by no means definitive, as comedy is subjective. But these names represent some of the greatest ever do it. Each one brought something unique to the table. Well, looks at Betty. Sorry, I’m sorry.

Just watch Live of the Sunset strip where Richard Pryor is telling jokes and doing voices while wearing a red outfit. Just watch that, and then watch Eddie Murphy’s comedy and tell me I’m wrong. All Right, I’m shutting up. See you tomorrow,

---

---

Featured: Bill Burr, Nate Bargatze, Osco Bnyugen, Tignotour, Moa Mayer, Zarna Garg, TJ Miller

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr on comedian accountability and criticism from journalists
• Nate Bargatze at Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation fundraiser
• Osco Bnyugen discusses comedy idol Tignotour in New York Times series
• Moa Mayer on adjusting to life in America after moving from Kuwait
• Zarna Garg’s story of refusing arranged marriage at 14 and couch surfing
• TJ Miller’s involvement in bitcoin and future movie about bitcoin revolution

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnnie Mac with your Daily Comedy News. My son graduates college today, So both today and tomorrow are pre tapes that I did about a week ago so that I could be with the family today. I’m sure you can understand. Bill Burr spoke to The New Yorker.

Bill said, there was a thing for a while while we’re holding comedians accountable for what they were saying, like we were these wizards like would go on stage and say something, and then suddenly people thought that and then meanwhile corporate America could be as effed up as they want to be. Then Burr asked the interviewer, are you homophobic? The interviewer said no. Burr said, all right, what joke can I tell that would make you homophobic? Is there a joke?

How does that joke go? The New Yorker said, I mean, I agree with that up to a point. But I just wrote this piece about how parasocial relationships. Burr cuts in the article says, with visceral disdain parasocial relationships. Who’s going to say that now?

Is that a same term parasocial? That sounds like some bs to censor comedian and blame the ills of society on a comedian rather than the people that are actually making the efing laws. I’m not running into a box store, I’m not hiring people. I’m not trying to poison the fing a food supply New Yorker. As a journalist, if I say I just wrote a bunch of stuff down and you don’t have to listen to me, that wouldn’t fly.

I have to take responsibility for what I’m saying. Bur. Journalism is not stand up comedy. We’re not in the same world, New Yorker. So what do you think your responsibility is?

Bur? My responsibility is to make you laugh. And if I’m being malicious, people know. People know if you mean it or not. So what people did you?

People? You journalists for a while, they’re not even because you gave an f just because it was a hot story. All of a sudden, you’d finish your act and somebody’d be like, I want to talk about some of the statements you made, statements I was up there telling jokes, or it continues. I’ve had people who have said fed up stuff about me on the internet and then they come up to me and they’re like, Hey, Bill, how’s your family, and I want to be like, you don’t give an f about my family, but I can’t because they’re a white woman, and I can’t say anything. Oh my god, when a white woman complains, people listen.

So I’m just cordial and those are liberals, dude and burst? Are we only going to talk about this because I don’t want to be this like political ideology. Guy Bert was there to talk about Glengarry Glenn Ross. Really good piece in the New Yorker. It’s behind a paywall, but if you’re good at the Internet, you can figure it out.

Nate PERGATSI, you talked to USA Today last week. They described the scene as Nate is at the fundraiser for the Barbara Bush Houston Literacy Foundation. Nate gets up. He jokes he has a sustain for reading because every book is just the most words. We’re told he’s wearing a black tracksuit on zip to reveal a casual white T shirt and sneakers, and he opens up with I didn’t know you all wore suits.

My business casual is different than your business casual. It’s the most ties I’ve ever seen in my life. That’s a good way to warm up the crowd. I like it, He apologizes to the attendants. Reading is a hard thing.

I really want to do it. I love the idea of it. He talked about his new book and said, We’re not a book that’s better than anybody. We’re just one that sits there and it’s a fun read.

And then after us you go back to the books that they are actually going to le…

Nate looked back on the days of starting out and said, started in New York, I’d stand on the corner handing out flyers, and I would get stage time if you could bring people into the show. Yeah, if you’ve ever been to New York City, I feel bad for those people doing that. You see them all the time in the Times Square area. It is awful, and Nate said, I didn’t imagine it to be the level that it’s gotten, meaning his career being really huge, specifically playing in front of nineteen thousand people at the Bridgetone Arena. It’s kind of weird because you hit a moment with this thing that’s been driving me for twenty years, and I’ve got to think about what the next thing’s going to drive you.

That’s where the Nate Land Company and all the other stuff came in. As he said in a few other interviews, he thought about, you know, maybe not being a clean stand up. There were times and you’d feel like, all right, if I went another route, maybe I’d get to jump up. But fortunately I always tell myself, no, stay the course and just trust that it’s going to work out.

---

And then he once again in this interview, floated that he’s going to do two m…

Osco at Costco is part of a New York Times series where Asian American comedians talked about people they really dug Osco talked about Tignatour and said she’s a friend now, but before that it was a comedy idol of mine. She directed my first HBO specialty Intruder. She’s unapologetically herself as a comedian in person, an artist super deadpan, and her joke no Moleste plays on linguistics and uses that as tangient Osco explains, a lot of Americans only know one language, English, so the idea of hearing the word moleste is like, oh, it sounds like something that would have a negative connotation. She does the classic if this then what set up in stand up comedy? That structure only works when you continue building out the bigger picture and go further, and she does that really well.

I think about that joke a lot because it’s so simple. It’s not over explaining a situation. It’s trusting that all humans communicate similarly, and then we all have the ability to see of the absurd in situations. That’s what I love about it. She plays at the height of people’s intelligence.

Moa. Mayer spoke to The Houston Chronicle about coming to the States and said, there is an adjustment period. You can’t just land and feel at home right away, a massive adjustment to the geography, the buildings, the people, everything. I landed here a few days before Halloween. I didn’t even know what the hell Halloween was.

Then two days later everyone’s naked and crazy and there’s blood everywhere. Is beyond shocking and terrifying. It was a lot emotionally. I didn’t have my mom or dad with me. It was just my sister and my brother.

Was really tough for a while. Where a parent’s going to be okay. I left right before the oil fields were set ablaze. They wanted to protect me and get me out of there, but I almost wished I didn’t leave. I wanted to stay with my mother and help as much as possible.

Zarna garg I told a story on Fox News is Brian kill MEA’s show about how her father had set her up for an arranged marriage, and at fourteen years old, Zarna made the decision, no, Zarn, it’s old, Brian. My dad was like, listen, if you don’t want to get married, you can’t live here. He thought he would scare me to submission. And I thought he’d come around. I thought he’s riddled with grief because his wife just died, my mom, and then he’s going to come around.

This is all going to be okay. We’re basically in a face off. She wound up couch surfing for two years. I showed up on my friend’s house and after day and my friend’s mom was like, you should go back. And that’s when it hit me like, oh my god, I have nowhere to go, and was almost two years of where can I go?

Tonight. Zarna says her father was coming from a good place. I know it feels shocking here in America, but what he remembers is that I walked away from a guaranteed life that he was going to set up for me. He wasn’t a bad guy, to be clear, he wasn’t. He came from a good place.

I have three siblings who were arranged. My sister was arranged and is deliriously happy and successful. TJ. Miller is really into bitcoin. He says, eventually there will be a movie about the bitcoin revolution, and it will be interesting because the revolution didn’t happen all at once.

According to TJ, it takes only a little over two full days to get the average person up to speed on bitcoin. He was asked why more celebrities aren’t bitcoiners. DJ says most people refuse to sit down and study. Again. He was on Coin Stories and told host Natalie Brunell it’s really hard to get people to study after they graduate from any level.

According to TJ, it will take you about fifty hours of study to truly understand bitcoin. So by two days, he means two full days. See, I thought he meant, like, you know, two days in a row, No fifty hours. So to say somebody, it’s going to take fifty hours feet to understand this, They’re like, I don’t want to. They can’t even watch a netfl series, they can’t even watch White Lotus because it takes seven hours.

Miller introduces himself as the only celebrity that is a bitcoiner. I can’t really think of anyone else you can tell, and I’m passionate about it. So what I’d like to be able to do is be somebody that helps bring cultural awareness, spread awareness, and just be a trusting name and face in the bitcoin community that hopefully will bring more people to it. And that is your comedy news for today. To enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it.

They might like it too. If you’re discovering this thing on YouTube, it’s really an audio podcast. I’m just making these things because you know, you gotta but smash the bell and hit the like and all that, and I’ll see you guys tomorrow

---

---

Featured: Tom Segura, John Mulaney, Weird Al Yankovic, Matt Rife, Shane Gillis, Jimmy Kimmel, Kim Wall

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s ‘Bad Thoughts’ Netflix special review
• Tom Segura appearance on Joe Rogan podcast
• John Mulaney advocates for Weird Al in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
• Matt Rife starring in romantic comedy ‘Marriage Material’ with Emma Roberts
• Shane Gillis extends tour with 10 additional US cities
• Jimmy Kimmel’s comedy routine at ABC Upfronts addressing network TV decline
• Kim Wall’s jokes about network television viewership and new content

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts on Netflix. Wow, just wow? Is that thing funny? And I’ll tell you the Garth Brooks stuff no spoilers.

I could watch him do that Garth Brooks thing for hours and hours. I wish that alone was a series. The show is outrageous with a capital O dirty funny. Uh. The production value is incredible.

It looks like you’re watching a quality film. It is going for it and it is nailing it. This isn’t just some you know, side thing that they threw together. This is great Bad Thoughts Tom Sagora on Netflix. Check that out.

Sagora is also on Rogan. I was listening to it this morning at four twenty am, as I did in an airport run. I am a fan of listening to Rogan in the middle of the night because the volume tends to be very even keeled, no yelling and shouting on Rogan’s podcast. When I’ve insomnia, I turned to that and for the airport run it hit the spots. So Tom Sagora is on Joe Rogan also one hundred percent check out Mark Malkoff’s podcast Inside Late Night.

On the latest episode, he has Bill Carter, you know, the guy that wrote the various books about Late Night, a great discussion. At one point they get into the Jay Leno stuff that I’ve been talking about lately, and uh a short version. They also got into that Jay really doesn’t have a legacy, and if he does have a legacy, it’s tied to Conan. But I’m gonna hold that for Memorial Day weekend because right now it’s been a little busy and you know, remember the comedy dearth Room two weeks ago. So I don’t want to go handing in twenty five minute episodes and then go into Memorial Weekend trying to figure out how it can even fill ten minutes.

I’ll hold off on that, And I’m also holding off on the very good conversation we’re having in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group about Late Night Mount Rushmore. So I’ll do all that on Memorial Day weekend. All right, Jumping in today, John Mulaney would like weird Al to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I heavily agree with weird how there are three distinct types of weird Al songs. There are the straight up parodies, so instead of beat it, you get to eat it.

We all know about that. There are these style parodies or the pastiche parodies. For example, maybe my favorite weird Al track is called Dogg Eat Dog, which is in the style of Talking Heads, but not a talking Heads direct parody. He’s got a lot of those that are underrated.

And then there are the weird originals, which are humorous songs not based on…

Millennie told Rolling Stone, I’m a big proponent of novelty music. I’m a big proponent of weird Al getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Weird Al brought more people to music than’s recognized at all. Part of Malaney’s argument is Chubby Checker got in the hall, and it’s kind of a novelty act with twist and twist. Again, Millenie argues that this is one step closer.

I will, in fact, greatly devalue my coolness by saying, when I was young, it wasn’t until smells like Nirvana, Defang, smells like teen Spirit that I could enjoy. Smells like teen Spirit scaryt first, and after you laugh at it, smells like Nirvana. You go, oh, this is a really good song. Apparently someone has decided Matt Rife is going to be a movie star. I don’t know if Matt Riife is a good actor or not.

I told you yesterday he’s going to be in a movie. Well, here’s a second. This is a totally different story. Emma Roberts and Matt Rife will star in the romantic comedy Marriage Material from BuzzFeed Studios. That might be a clue here what we’re about to get.

Marriage Material follows the founder of a dating app whose deadbeat husband’s alimony payments are bleeding or dry submission, so she must use it to find him a new wife before her company goes public. Sounds great, Matt Rife. Marriage Material can’t wait. Shane Gillis is extending his tour, adding ten additional US cities. The new dates this summer July off of September.

Tulsa, KC. Louisville, Saint Louis, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, Houston, Hollywood, Florida, Orlando, Florida. Representatives for Gillis in an announcement said these new shows come in response to a staggering demand for tickets across the USA, Canada, and European dates, adding the Gillis Is set the all time ticket sales record at six arenas, including a one in Toronto and achieving historic sellouts, and eleven more including Phillies Wells Fargo Center, marking each of the venue’s largest comedy shows ever. Go Shane Gillis. I have it in my mind to go see Shane the next time he comes this way.

Jimmy Kimmel was at the ABC Upfronts. He hosts this every year, and did his usual thing. He told the audience of ad buyers. I might not see you again. This could be it.

I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know a lot of you over the last twenty three years, and I know many of you will worry that AI might take your jobs. But I don’t think it will. I don’t believe a computer, even the most powerful computer, will be able to do what you do. And you know why, because no computer wants to do what you do. Your job suck.

Every year, our audiences get smaller, and we tell you it’s bigger and we want more for less. It’s exhausting. I know we’re annoying and unreasonable. You have crappy jobs because of it. But at least you have the crappy jobs.

All those kids we saw graduating this weekend who they might not be able to get their crappy jobs, some of them might have to date Bill Belichick. Kim Will offered the naming rights to his soon to be born grandchild. He took shots at CBS, led by their hit comedy Ghosts, which is also what most of their views will be soon Wow, and NBC talking about their spinoff for cent Nobody even knows how to pronounce it. Versant is a perfect name. It already sounds like something you subscribe to by accident.

Kim All on the state of network TV. He said, usually I come out here to distract you from the fact that we’re dying. But somehow network television like Jesus, has risen again. Of the four major networks NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox, only one of us did not see viewership go year to year. ABC was flat.

I’m not going to tell you which one of us it is because it doesn’t matter. Please don’t ask, Just be happy for us. He commented on NBC’s chairman of Global Advertising, Mark Marshall, who had claimed that NBC has amassed the greatest collection of content that has ever been assembled by one media company. The joke, I guess Mark has never heard of porn hub. He pointed out ABC’s not really making too many news shows.

At least CBS and Fox are making shows. ABC we ordered one new show and it’s a spin off of an old show, which begs the question what are we doing here? We risked our lives flying into Newark Airport for this. I mean, if you went to a restaurant in the waiter set are special tonight is last year’s fish? Would you eat it?

He talked about a recent survey. Deloitte did a survey that show that gen Z and millennial viewers are spending more time on social media than watching TV. Yeah, no, crap, you think we need a survey to know that? F you, Deloitte, And you know what, f those ungrateful gen Z d bags too. Oh you’re too cool for match game?

Well, guess what when you have kids and you need that hit of Mowana to take the little bastards quiet for two hours, you’ll come crawling back to Disney like dogs. He talked about the new ESPN streaming platform, The new service bringing live content to millions of fans around the world. Will go buy the name. Are you ready? ESPN?

And that’s why they call us imagineers. He also got serious and asked the advertising buying public to support CBS’s sixty minutes and said, I know it’s not part of our multiplatform, but sports sixty minutes they deserve it. You have the power because you have the money. Support journalism. It’s important and it doesn’t work without you.

I saw this one on Celebrityaccess dot com. A guy named Bob left Sets apparently really liked Chappelle in concert the other day. Just this was wonderful writing. Let me read it to you, Bob wrote, last week we watched Bill burrs Knew Hulu special. Thinking about it, I felt it was more attitude than jokes.

Bill’s got a persona angry guy removed from everybody else who points out the insanity of life. But Bill puts himself down here and there. Chappelle does not, and Chappelle tells more jokes. But watching him tonight, you realize that the laugh is almost always a throwaway at the end, which made me wonder how much was pure delivery slash timing jokes are one thing, being a comedian is quite another, and a lot of comedians work fast, fearful of dead spot, expressing their anxiety about acceptance. But Chappelle works slowly with complete confidence.

He knows you’re gonna laugh. It’s like an elite sports star saying Steph Curry gives Steph Curry the ball with no one on the court, and he knows he’s gonna sink it. Dave is very real. He hangs with the rich, famous, but he doesn’t evidence airs. You really feel like you’re in his living room listening to him, and it’s not blind listening.

Chappelle makes you think it’s both an amazing and confounding experience because on some levels he’s just telling stories and he’s got his smoking stick for pauses. But then he drops truth proms and you realize this is more than entertainment. I felt like I lived through something. It was a sensation more than laughs. It’s not like I left the building feeling good, rather a bit numb, floating in my own bubble, an elusive feeling that I’d love to experience again.

Kind of like sex. You can’t have it all the time, but you’re always on the lookout for it, and when you can’t get it, it’s often all you can think about. So tonight show is in the ether. There are no recordings. You had to be there, and if you were not, you completely missed out.

Pat Oswald realized he had played in every state except Wyoming and Montana. Well, he is fixing that. Bozman Tonight Casper the next two nights. James Austin Johnson has announced a tour nineteen cities starting May twenty ninth in LA going through late August. It’s the return to Off tour.

One of the shows in Greensboro, North Carolina will be a benefit show. He’ll team up with Andrew ded Smuch’s. They’ll headline a night of stand Up on July seventeenth to raise money for hel It’s a nonprofit that provides direct, no strings attachment money to people in need in the Greensboro area. In the announcement, James said, I’m on tour this summer. There’s nothing you can do about it.

Can’t wait to see you all. The Police don’t destroy Guys or working on a tour documentary slash Special for release this summer. They were the guests on Berbigley A’s Working It Out podcast. The special compiles material from their twenty twenty three summer tour. Ben Marshall told Burbiggs, we filmed a bunch of the shows on the road, we cut them all together.

It’s taken so long. It’s finally going to come out this summer and we’re super pumped about it. They did not announce the distribution on that. People are speculating YouTube, but we will see. Kevin Hart’s always got a business going, here’s a new one.

Ken Griffy Junior, the Baseball Hall of Famer, will co host a new unscripted golf series along with golf caddy turned ESPN analyst Michael Collins. This will be on Kevin Hart’s Heartbeat LOL Network on YouTube. In it, you will see Griffian Collins tee off with celebrity guests. You see what they did there. The celebrity guests include NFL or Ryan Fitzpatrick, some guys from the Mariners, some guys from the Philadelphia Eagles, and others.

And because it’s Kevin Hart, it’s got a title sponsor. But they can pay for their mention. But I’ll throw them a bone. That guy Jeek from the commercials, he’s in it now. Tomorrow, Greg Warren has a new stand up special, The Champ.

This will be on Natepergatzy’s Nateland Entertainment YouTube channel. In The Champ, Greg Warren delivers a deep dive into the perils of poison ivy, the unexpected popularity of high school fishing teams, and his own path to champion status. Filmed at the Funny Bone in Columbus, Ohio, The Champ is the fourth stand up special release this year by Nateland, and the second Warren has done with Brighezzi. There’s a trailer. It’s two minutes long.

I pulled just the first section. Let’s listen. Do you know that state of Illinois has high school fishing fishing coaches? I’m gonna guests are similar to the coaches I had. Will you boys embarrass yourselves out there on that lake today?

Hey s got his whole caught in the tree. Jansen pulled a shoe out of the lake, and Martin, you couldn’t catch a fish in the secret department at. The Cross Restore. If I was a fish, I feel safer out everyone. It’s okay, It’s all right, yeah fine.

Sheng Wang, one of my Faves will return to Netflix one another stand up special in twenty twenty six. They’re not filming it until November eighth at the Warner Theater in Washington, so you know, I could see that on the Netflix calendar in January. And we’ll leave on a down note. Morris, a six hundred and forty pound alligator, has died at the age of eighty. You may recognize Morris from his work in Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore.

That’s not the end of his filmography, oh no. He was an alligator Alligator two Interview with the Vampire Doctor Doolittle two Eraser and Blues Brothers two thousand. He even appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Jay Young is the owner of the Colorado Gator Farm. He announced Morris’s passing in a video on Facebook.

He was sitting by the pool of Morse’s enclosure. Young gently stroked the gator’s massive head as he paid tribute to the animal he had cared for for decades. Jay Young said he started acting strange a week ago. He wasn’t looking at us and wasn’t taking food. I know it’s weird to some people that we get so attached to an alligator, but we all love our animals just like cats and dogs.

That’s your comedy news for today, See tomorrow.

---

---

Featured: David Letterman, Michael Strahan, Dennis Leary, Jamie Fox, Tom Segura, Jermaine Fowler, Matt Rife, John Mulaney, Sarah Sherman, Amy Lou Wood, Tony Hinchcliffe, Bill Maher

What’s in This Episode

• Fox Upfronts coverage and announcements
• The Bear Season 2 returning June 25 on Hulu
• Amazon’s Barber Shop series starring Jermaine Fowler
• Tom Segura’s Bad Thoughts sketch series receiving strong reviews
• Kresley and Segura 5K charity race at Raymond James Stadium
• Matt Rife starring in film The Escort
• John Mulaney’s show with new season topics announced
• Sarah Sherman Vanity Fair profile addressing Amy Lou Wood SNL controversy
• Tony Hinchcliffe appearance on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast
• Golden Globes adding Best Podcast award category

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Interesting tweet by Ricky Turvaz. He was commenting on the Office spin off The Paper, and Ricky tweeted, It’s like The Office, but set in a dying local newspaper, like an afterlife. Do I get paid twice?

He then put a crying face emoji, you know, the happy crying face emoji, And there’s gotta be a little truth to that. Fox had their upfronts. My former coworker Jamie Fox was there and did an impression of President Donald Trump mispronouncing Tesla. Send your letters to Jamie Fox. Dennis Leary was there.

He told the audience to f off because there was a nix pep rally growing outside the garden. The Knicks lead the Celtics three games to one in a very entertaining basketball playoff series that I’ve been watching. David Letterman was at the Fox upfronts. He was lifted in the air by Michael Strahan in an effort to promote IndyCar We also learned an upfront season that famous comedy series, you know, the hilarious best comedy ever, The Bear. You know that one with all the jokes left and right.

You can’t stop laughing watching The Bear. It’ll be back June twenty fifth on Hulu. They’re doing that annoying binge release things, so like, I don’t know about you. I can sit and watch eight ten episodes of something on a Wednesday night, but then you wake up the next day and Vulture’s like the shocking death in episode nine of The Bear, and like there’s a picture of Karmi and you’re like, really, it’s pet peeve of mine. With the entertainment website spoiling everything.

At the Amazon upfronts, they announced Barber Shop, which will start Jermaine Feller. New adaptation will follow Travis traf Porter played by Feller, who’s following in the footsteps of his grandfather, a legendary barber at the iconic Calvin’s Barber Shop in Chicago. The log line, although the barbers are new, the shop remains just as lively, the customers just as argumentative, and the fathes are still the deepest in the city. Because of Calvin’s. The community comes together for way more than just a haircut.

The reviews for Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts are very strong, minor spoiler here, the av clubs had to say that bad Thoughts is messed up doesn’t really do it justice. A lot of TV comedies try to be edge or dark without getting anywhere near the demented through lines of these sketches. Each of these six short episodes could be easily named after bodily fluids or different worlds. For Genitalia. Fox News had some details of the Krescher and Tom Sigora five K from a while back.

I don’t know why it took a week for a recap to show up, but one did show up, Sigora told Fox News Digital. I guess he was out promoting a show, so that would make sense. We mistakenly said that we should do five k’s every year, and so now we have thousands of people coming out. We’re Raymond James Stadium and we’re doing a five K. We have like six thousand people who come through here throughout the day.

This all started with us fat shaming each other, something you’re not allowed to do, I guess, and we did it publicly on the biggest platform in the world, on Joe Rogan’s podcast, And so our approach to this has always been lighthearted, fun you bust your buddies, chaps. That’s kind of how we operate. And I mean this is that’s great. Just a way to bring people together and do something really good for yourself and then negate it all afterwards, so it’s have fun and then party. So honestly, Jelly getting behind this race really kind of inspired a lot of people try and change a little bit.

I mean, we’re looking at one lady who was five hundred pounds. That guy over there lost one hundred twenty pounds and that’s awesome. Matt Rif will star in the movie The es Court. The escort follows a reckless, flirtatious flight attendant on the brink of losing everything who’s unexpectedly tasked with mining a neurotic fourteen year old on his solo flight to boarding school. When a hurricane diverts their flight and strands them in the wrong city, the two opposites embark on a disastrous road trip that forces them to confront their fears flaws.

Well it really means to grow up. John Mulaney’s show is on tonight the topic why Can’t I Sleep? But Mullany, for the first time announced several weeks of topics Next week is is Uber Good?

And then on May twenty eighth, the finale Season Finale, we’ll see that one’s…

It is Believe. We will see Mulaney fight against three fourteen year olds in that final episode. My commentary there on season Finale or Finale did a story about a week ago where Robbie Proft from Netflix didn’t exactly say that the show was coming back, even though it had reportedly gotten a two season pickup. I’m not sure Netflix is that hot on this one Late Nighter has a list of the guests on these three shows. I don’t have a breakout for you, but sometime in the next three weeks, Amy Sidaris, Joe Mandy, Natasha Leone, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Sean Penn, Sigourney Weaver, and Steve Guttenberg if I had to guess, and Natasha this week because her show is out and Sarah’s got a Netflix special once that one again, Sarah’s is May twentieth, so that’s next week, so that would make sense to have Sarah Silverman on next week.

Yes, the wonderfully talented Sarah Sherman got the big shiny profile from Vanity Fair. I’m gonna save most of it for Saturday because Saturday is the SNL finale. But the part that’s making headlines is Sarah reflecting on that whole Amy lou Wood thing. Amy didn’t like Sarah’s performance on SNL, Sherman told Vanity Fair was excited a play her because she’s so iconic, Her character’s so iconic, and I obviously never meant to hurt anyone’s feelings. I’m not sure Amy lou Wood is iconic.

I want to get into beef here with Amy lou Wood. No offense, Amy, but you’re not quite tailor swift yet anyway. Sherman says, never in a million years did I get into comedy to make anyone upset. I feel terrible that anyone would feel bad. Good question by Vanity Fair.

You play many more real people on the show than you used to. Is upsetting people, as you put it, something you have to consider more now, Sherman said, totally. The show’s in constant dialogue with culture as it’s happening, and it happens really fast. Long pause. You have to be vigilant, you know what I mean?

There are a lot of things out of your control. You’re playing a lot of different parts, you’re doing a lot of different roles, You’re not in control of a lot of the process of the show has been to me. How am I answering this another pause? Staying vigilant, but also being part of the show. That’s your job, being in conversation with everything popular culture.

There’s so uch a danger there. Sometimes you don’t realize how it comes across, but you’re put in a position to be engaging with it all the time because you’re part of a show that’s constantly interacting with culture and popular politics and popular whatever. And as I get thrown more and more into the show, just this other thing that I have to learn about A great interview. I’ve shared it in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. I took the dog for a long walk and I listened to Bill Mooher and Tony Hinchcliff.

I had talked about that one on yesterday’s podcast Very Good Listen. They talked a lot about politics, but it was a smart discussion. Really enjoyed it. Tony explained the whole garbage joke. Very Good Listen Club Random and I find if you woke me up at three in the morning and said, hey, are you a Bill Mohr fan, I’d probably a three oh one be like, no, no, I don’t think so.

I don’t hate the guy, but I’m not a fan. And yet more often than not, I find the interviews on that podcast to be very, very compelling. So check out Tony hinchcliff on Bill Moore. It’s being a podcast. I forgot to do this story last week, so let me get this one in.

Did you see the Golden Globes added a new award. It’s going to be for Best Podcast, but Krescher commented, We’re Dina and now this will work. The Golden Globes says the category will honor cultural and creative impact. Krayscher asked, if it’s just about popularity, what’s the point Just hand it to Rogan every year, and I think he deserves it, But if you really value substance and message, then it should be voted on. That’s what makes it interesting.

If Krayscher had his way, he’d present the Best Podcast award exactly how podcasting roasted power. I’d do it over zoom three squares on screen one for the Globes one for the audience and one for me, and I’d open with an ad read. I’d be like, this category is brought to you by Better Help. So this got me thinking, if we can somehow we’re asking a lot, but if we can somehow get this podcast to be nominated for Best Podcast, and we can somehow get Joe Coy another opportunity to host the Golden Globes, then I could sit there and make a face, and then we could bring the whole bit full circle. I don’t think any of that’s gonna happen, but the boy can wish.

On Gossip Corner, Customers in a London bakery were left stunned when a top comedian was spotted working there. Ramesh Ragon Nathan was at Coglin’s Bakery. He was wearing a baseball cap and hoodie and he blended in with the crowd. He was seen selling delicious baked goods. Why you ask, he actually co owns part of the franchise.

And if you were hoping to see British stand up comedian Stuart Lee come to the US, he’s not coming anytime soon. He has joined the list of comedians who are afraid that they’ll come here. And get deported or something. Stuart Lee told Channel four News, I wouldn’t work in the States at the moment. I’d worry about them going through my jokes and ending up spending two days locked up without my heart medication.

I just worry about it, he said. He recently turned down and offered to perform his new show, which is titled Stuart Lee Versus the Man Wolf, for a week at a venue in Chicago. At the moment, I’d have to take a huge set of American cityscape in two full sized werewolf costumes. I’d have to get those through American customs at the moment. He then had some thoughts on current notable American politicians, and that’s not why we’re here.

So if you’re curious, you can google Stuart Lee, but I’m sure you can figure out what his opinions are. And that is your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.

---

---

Featured: Tom Segura, Christina P., Kirk Fox, Rob Iler, Tony Hinchcliff, Bill Maher, Chelsea Handler, Nikki Glaser, Melissa Rivers, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Jimmy Fallon, Oscar Nuñez, Greg Daniels

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s ‘Bad Thoughts’ Netflix series premiere with 6 episodes
• Tom Segura discusses nudity and physical appearance in Bad Thoughts
• Tony Hinchcliff’s Trump rally appearance and Puerto Rico joke controversy
• Tony Hinchcliff explains his motivations for performing at Trump rally
• Joan Rivers tribute special airing on NBC from November taping
• Nikki Glaser compared to Joan Rivers by Melissa Rivers
• NBC’s one-hundredth anniversary special planned for November 2026
• The Office spin-off or revival project in development with Oscar Nuñez

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. It is very busy for Tuesday. The networks did their upfront, so that gave us a lot of TV news. But let’s start with Tom Sigora’s Bad Thoughts, six episodes out on Netflix today.

Tom till the La Times. I thought it would be fun to stream one episode of something scripted and produced on YMH Studios, just to see if there was an appetite for that. That was the idea. We shot that one episode in April of twenty one, and it was so expensive to do and post took a really long time, so it was almost twenty twenty two when we were like, here it is. Our agents looked at it and they were like, you have to shop this.

We know you can do something with this. I was in the middle of my tour at that point, so it wasn’t until twenty twenty four when I was like, Okay, we have to get on this. Bird has a relationship with Netflix, he has five specials on there, but said I was gonna take it to HBO, Amazon, all the places. I was like, I have a relationship with Netflix, I’ll just show it to them first to see if they’re interested. Netflix did not hesitate and green lit it.

Segora says, it’s six episodes, but we got to use two of the stories that were in the original presentation. Two of the three are in the actual series, and you can tell because I weigh forty pounds more. In the Kirk Fox is part of the series and says, we all have bad thoughts, but Tom has found a way to make them as funny as they are scary, and he directs the way he exists seamless economy of words. He knows what I’d like to see a scene and makes it clear to all Rob Eiler is in this here, like who’s Rob Eiler? Aj soprano, Yeah, he said.

Tom and Christina have always been extremely supportive. So when Tom asked if I do him a favor and it was outside of the Hollywood world, it made me feel like it would just be friends making a fun show. That drew me in. Seeing Tom have the cojones to spend as much money and believe in himself and then trusting me with part of that. It seemed like a bad choice on his end, but I was down for the ride, Sigora said, everyone in the cast was so good.

But do you know Rob Eiler’s last acting gig was this Pranos and then this, and it’s completely by choice. The guy gets called and offered role. Still, when people see him this, they’re gonna be like, oh, yeah, this guy’s an incredible actor. Minor minor spoiler coming up. Okay, at one point you’re going to see Sigora’s but he says it’s his.

It’s not great. I know it’s not, but I just had to deal with it. It’s funny because when my butcht was first exposed, I was very self conscious and covering up. After thirty minutes, I was like, yeah, just look at it. I don’t care anymore.

When you see the later episodes, it’s the other side. You get full frontal. Apparently we get a lot of variety in this. Tom said, I feel like I went to film school and got to make fifteen short films with all these different genres and different characters, and I got to apply what I love a fun twist. I did see a review of it.

I think somebody jumped the gun. There’s probably an embargo. Obviously, screeners are around, but as I record on Monday, nobody else had reviewed this thing, and one site did, so I’m guessing there was an embargo that they jumped. But the reviewer there said he was unfamiliar with Sigora’s work, so I’m going to discount that he didn’t enjoy the series, and we’ll all watch it ourselves today. Bad Thought on Netflix.

Tony Hinchcliff is on Bill Maher’s podcast this week. I didn’t get to listen to it yet, but I did skim the transcript. Mars said, your reputation now, Tony is a right winger because you did the Trump rally and told the Puerto Rico joke, which is a great joke. Tony says, you’d love to know the story because you would really understand it from a comedians perspective, like I’m gonna go there to do this thing and show off free speeches, this and that and make those kind of jokes. But I had a whole thing written and planned to go in the teleprompter, and that Puerto Rico joke was actually a joke.

I had done a bunch in my stand up, and it’s part of a bigger joke with more front end and a longer back end. Bill Maher was like, like, what, I’m curious, Tony, Well, it was, you know, basically the end of the normal joke. I go, you know, I’m talking about the problems of the world. And I go, I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it’s called Puerto Rico.

And the point of the joke is that people picture, obviously in my mind, obviously the great Pacific garbage patch skipping a hit, Tony said. And I knew this going into it, and I knew it the last second when I was doing it into two thirty in the afternoon, which is another terrible problem. This is one thing I was upset about. Who was supposed to go to the evening. When I got there, I go, when am I going up in this thing?

And they say you’re up first? I went up after the national anthem. Mar was curious, why did you do it? Because you’re a support of Trumper? Is an opportunity and a paycheck?

Was it a paycheck, Tony, No, it wasn’t a paycheck. I did it literally to help get someone, hopefully, if not only ten thousand, maybe not to mention one hundred thousand, maybe two hundred if we’re lucky, actual people to vote for him. Mar Oh, so you did want people to vote for Trump? Tony yep, without a doubt. On TV Today.

The Joan Rivers tribute on NBC taped last November during the New York Comedy Festival at the Apollo Theater. A funny quote attributed to Joan Rivers. Given that I’m dead, I assume someone will finally decide to honor me. Well, it’s about time. This thing features Chelsea Handler, Nikki Glaser, Tiffany Hattish, Aubrey Plaza, Rita Wilson, Joel McHale’s in this thing.

I saw somewhere. An interesting observation from daughter Melissa Rivers. She was asked by The Daily Mail, who reminds Melissa the most of Joan Rivers said, Nikki Glaser is the closest stylistically in her delivery. Obviously Melissa knows her mom better than I did. I’ve mentioned several times I did work with Joan.

I’ve been in Joan’s apartment. I’m not sure I see any Joan Rivers in Nikki Glaser, but you know I wouldn’t arm wrestle anyone over it? Curious what you guys think? You could share your thoughts in the Facebook group, which is Daily Common News podcast group. A lot of TV news.

NBC had their upfronts. They revealed they will do a one hundredth birthday for NBC. Apparently SNL fifty went well. They trotted out Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Polar said, We’re gonna celebrate this birthday hard with a once in a lifetime television event, NBC one hundred.

It will be a star studded variety special commemorating one hundred years of culture defining content from iconic moments to unforgettable stars. Do you think David Letterman will go? That’s the first thing I think of, Tina Fey says. Hosted by a mix of legendary NBC alumni in Today’s Biggest Stars, Jimmy Fallon, the night will be filled with memorable musical performances, comedy tributes, behind the scenes stories, and surprise reunions. That’s me editorializing about Jimmy Fallon.

They didn’t actually anounce Jimmy Fallon. You’ll be hearing more soon, but I can guarantee this because it’s twice the age of SNL. It’s going to be twice as long as the SNL anniversary special. That’s right, folks, six hours of a fun decade by decade look back, Mamy polar Aded. Get your protein bores and your water bottles ready for that marathon.

We don’t know when it will air, but NBC marks it’s one hundredth anniversary in November of twenty twenty six. Fourth quarter is a good time to sell ads, so you could pretty much write down November. They also shared some more details about the office spin off or retake or whatever we’re calling this thing. The paper Oscar Nunia has told a story in which he told Greg Daniels that post office he imagined Oscar had moved to a more cosmopolitan environment. Nunia said, Greg heard me and moved Oscar to Toledo, Ohio, which has three times the population of Scranton.

So it’s nice to be heard. Am I the first one or the last one who put together that? At the office takes place at a paper company, and the word is paper, and the paper takes place at a newspaper which is paper. Did everybody put that together two years ago? Because I only put that together today or are you all going like, oh wow, I don’t know.

Daniels tell the Hollywood Reporter that the paper will employ much of the same crew that worked on the office. It’s all about this struggling mid It’s about this struggling Midwestern newspaper that’s much reduced from its glory. Toda’s A lot of the storylines are about how this guy, Domal Gleeson’s character is trying to restore the paper and he just doesn’t have the budget for hiring reporters, and he has to use all the staff that work there on a volunteer basis, two B reporters. They’re completely untrained and don’t know what they’re doing. The villain here is the Internet, the ability to look at everybody’s news for free, and all the ad revenue going to Google.

Tracy Morgan getting an NBC sitcom executive produced by Tina Fay. Tracy will co star with Daniel Radcliffe in the Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. Tracy Morgan plays a disgraced former football player who’s on a mission to rehab his image. Radcoffe plays Arthur Tobin, a filmmaker who moves into Reggie’s mansion to film a documentary about the faded star. Morgan is also due to star in Crutch, a spinoff from the Neighborhood, in which Tracy Morgan plays a Harlem widower whose empty nest plans are put on hold after his millennial son and free spirited daughter moved back home.

On Friday, NBC canceled a bunch of things, including Lopez Versus Lopez and night Court, both those not coming back. Fox announced Fear Factor. The next chapter. The synopsis dropped into a remote location, A group of strangers will live together under one roof and face stunts challenges in a game of social strategy. The original ran on NBC from two thousand and one to two thousand and six.

It came back for a little bit in twenty eleven. In twenty seventeen, MTV also tried to relaunch it, with Ludacrous hosting. That version ran for thirty three episodes. How the point here is they’re not sure if Joe Rogan is coming back. Most people assume no.

Also out now Greg Guttfeld’s What Did I Miss? On that show, they placed five people in complete isolation and Upstate New York with no contact to the outside world, no phones, Internet, TV, social media. They were locked in a room or a house or whatever it is for ninety days January twentieth through April thirteenth. One of the five dropped out early. The four remaining contestants were brought to Guttfeld’s Fox News studio to play a game of true or false about the events of Trump’s first three months back in the White House.

The winner gets twenty five thousand dollars. They were locked away for ninety days for twenty five thousand dollars. I don’t want to be like mister big shot, mister big wallet, but that’s not that much money. And Greg Gutfeld seems to agree. He said, this is the cheapest game show in modern history.

These people are in a house for ninety days for twenty five grand. They could have made that on OnlyFans. A spokesperson for Fox News Media told The Hollywood Reporter the contestants were compensated daily for their time. Guttfeld said, I got them an extra five k. It’ll pay for the uber back home now.

The Hollywood Reporter did some math for okay. They point out ninety days is less than thirteen weeks if you put in forty hours per week at the New York state minimum wage of fifteen to fifteen an hour in in New York City at sixteen to fifteen hour, any full time worker would walk away from the same three month period with eight thousand dollars. And that doesn’t even factor in the other one hundred and twenty eight hours that you’re not working a forty hour week. One of the contestants, in an exit interview says, I feel terrible. I feel I had to spend ninety days of my life for no reason at all.

So much going on today, Let’s just do a bunch of gossip corner from Late Night or James Austin Johnson got injured during Saturday Night Live, Apparently during the sketch the second Amendments, where Johnson was standing behind a table the entire time playing James Madison, he slipped in the heels he had been wearing for the sketch, injuring his foot. During the Good Nights he was on crutches. Does SNL just have crutches backstage? Where did the crutches come from? The Saturday Night Network said Johnson was set to appear a second sketch called bullying assembly, but it was cut for time.

It’s unclear if it was cut for time or cut for crutches. Late Nighter points out Johnson’s injury is the first known instance of a mid show injury since season forty one, when Leslie Jones tore her acl in a sketch. Morgan Wallen was on a podcast and was asked, Hey, did SNL make you mad? Remember he kind of stormed off a little bit. Morgan is telling it none.

I was just ready to go home. I’d been there all week, because you know, you can’t wait an extra ninety seconds and wave at the camera and then leave. Avanka Trump was at the Theo vonn concert. The Irish Times tells us the President’s daughter let her hair down for a fun night out going to see the comedian. She dazzled in a little black dress, says The Irish Times.

Rob Schneider throughout the first pitch at the El Paso Chihuahuas game after being spotted in an El Paso coffee shop along with Drake Bell. Schneider wore a red Chihuahas jersey. It’s been a couple seconds warming up before throwing ball. Apparently made an ok pitch. The chiuaha was posted on social media.

Rob Schneider wasn’t a bench warmer tonight, Waca waca. Rob Schneider started in the two thousand and six film The Benchwarmers. Gabe Iglacias posted a selfie wearing a Taco Polenke hat. In the photo, he’s next to another man wearing the same hat. Who’s that man?

None other than the founder himself, One Francisco Poncho Ochoa Iglesia said in the Insta story, he’s the founder of El Poyo Loco, Taco, Polenke and Polenke Grill and I had the pleasure of having dinner with him and his family tonight in San Antonio. At eighty one years of age, he still continues to create an inspire. He’s also a Daughters fan. And that’s it. My voice is giving out, So we’ll wrap it up here and we’ll see you back tomorrow.

---

---

Featured: Louis C.K., Roseanne Barr, Nate Burgatzi, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brien, Stephen Colbert

What’s in This Episode

• Louis C.K.’s new novel ‘Ingram’ coming November 11th
• Roseanne Barr documentary ‘Roseanne Barr Is America’ releasing June 10th on DVD
• Nate Burgatzi’s SNL debut and rise to mainstream success
• Late Night TV Mount Rushmore discussion and rankings

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Louis C.K. Has a book coming out, a dramatic novel described as not particularly funny, and most of the media coverage around it so far talks about the cancelation of Louis C.K. Job is four one one rights.

The once canceled comedian calls Ingram a dramatic story and not particularly funny. It’ll be out November eleventh. Ck is reading the audio version of the book and jokes the price for Ingram will be one million dollars per copy. I know that sounds like a lot, but my thinking is, this way, we only need to sell one book to a great success. He explains, that’s a joke.

The price is a normal book price. Ck posted Ingram is literally fiction. I just learned that it’s a very dramatic story, and it better confess to you that this book is not particularly funny. I’m not saying you will never laugh while reading it. You probably will laugh a few times.

You might even laugh a lot if you’re insane. But essentially Ingram, it’s not a comedy book. It’s a literary novel. Boy, that was hard Ingraham is the story of a boy who lives in a very noworre place with no one to talk to and nothing to do and very little to eat. He’s forced to leave that place and go out into a chaotic, cool, confusing, and fascinating world.

He commences to do the only things left to him his options. He survives, he suffers, he learns, he wonders, cries, laughs, and he grows, just as anything that doesn’t die continues to grow. Over the last few years, I’ve been writing a lot of fiction, mostly short stories. I don’t know if I’ll publish any of them, but I love writing them. So one day I got this voice of a simple but eloquent country boy in my head, and I sat down to write his story.

I had no idea it was going to be a book, and I had no idea what would happened to him. For many months, I sat down almost every day and I’d ask Ingram what happens next, and he would tell me, And just like that, one day, as suddenly as he had shown up, it was over. That’s Ingram. I’m writing another novel now, by the way, it’s completely different from Ingram. Maybe I’ll publish that someday Liddhab jumped in and said, if you need a refresher on ck Meg writes excellent piece from twenty eighteen lays out these sexual harassment accusations, and Yck’s t into comedy was a sad inevitability with bigger stakes than one man’s redemption arc.

Skipping ahead a bit, they go to the description of the book, A suspenseful offer in harrowing yet hopeful Odyssey through rural America follows a young drifter’s coming of age and an indifferent world lit Hubright’s okay, not a bad log line at the jump, a little gest role, but it sounds exciting at least suspenseful, harrowing, hopeful in Odyssey is filing on a lot, but maybe pointing to something action packed and adventurous. When the description of Ingram is so vague, it’s hard to avoid filling in the blanks with real life details and guessed at motivations. Is c k just writing a rote novel about America? Or is the book about a funny and resilient character who rises from the dirt only to find a world set against him in his humble dream of truck ownership. You know who else was canceled was Roseanne.

The canceled comedian will resurface in a new documentary, Roseanne Barr Is America. It’ll be out on DVD on June tenth. The film chronicles Roseanne Barr’s life story, starting with a challenging childhood when she was raised Jewish in Salt Lake City, Utah. H In the doc, Roseanne revealed she started telling jokes to make her father laugh to avoid punishment. She winds up in La at the Comedy Store, then The Tonight Show with Johnny led It, a gig as the opener for singer Julio Iglesias at the sitcom Roseanne.

However, her success eventually crumbled under the weight of several missteps, including an unfortunate performance of the Star Spangled banner at a Padres game. She hosted her own talk show, but it all came crashing down after a late night tweet she made while she claimed she was on ambient. She was kicked off her own show, The Roseanne Revival, and blacklisted by everyone except Fox News and Doctor Oz. In the new doc, Roseanne gives her a side of the story through exclusive interviews. Nate Bergatzi is very thankful about SNL accelerating his career in the last few years.

Nate told people, I’d heard that John Mulaney, Jimmy found Pete Davidson and a bunch of SNL folks had been floating my name to Lorne Michaels for a while, but then with the strike, they needed stand up comedians to fill in, so I got the opportunity. I was already doing pretty okay on the road. People says that’s an understatement. He was selling out stadiums and had three Netflix specials already. But I knew the importance of it and that I’d be getting in front of an audience that might not otherwise be familiar with me.

I’ve been doing comedy for twenty years, but it does feel like it happened overnight to reach the mainstream. It’s just been a whole other level. After that debut, he was dubbed the nicest guy in stand up by The Atlantic. The Atlantic probably has never met Jeff Foxworthy, but I’ve never met Nate, so I don’t know, but I’ll give that title to Foxworthy.

Also, super nice is Larry the Cable Guy, But they would if they had a nice of…

I don’t even know who would win. Nate says, I was fortunate to get tagged with nicest guy in comedy and not something else. It’s nice. I’m sure it could be many other things, but it’s a good one to get tagged with. I mean, yeah, I’m fortunate that it’s that not something else.

Vulture caught up with Walt Disney Television Alternative TV chief Rob Mills. ABC now has the Oscars and the Grammys and some other stuff. So Walter asked Walt Disney Television Alternative TV chief Rob Mills if Conan doing two Oscars in a row means Kimmel has decided he’s done hosting the show. Walt Disney Television Alternative TV chief Rob Mills said, I certainly hope we didn’t see Kimmel’s last Oscars two years ago. He said they needed a little break, and I mean the privilege of having done Oscars with Jimmy Kimmel and Conan O’Brien, who were two faces on Late Nights Mount Rushmore is amazing.

When you don’t do the job the date, it’s worth asking would he be interested in doing it again? And we were lucky. I hope Jimmy’s hosting the Oscars or something else down the line. We have a litany of awards shows, Okay, the Late Nights Mount Rushmore. You get four spots, right, so Johnny Carson obviously, and we’ve got three left.

You got to give the second one to David Letterman. The guy was on for thirty years, and you don’t have Conan without Dave. So all right, so we have Carson and Letterman late Night Mount Rushmore. Off the top of my head, possibilities include Steve Allen, Jack Parr, who I think we got to consider here, Jay Leno, kim Old, Colbert Fallon, Seth Myers, James Corden, Greig Ferguson, John Stewart, all right, Carson Letterman hmm. I don’t want to ignore like Steve Allen and Jack Parr.

Younger people are probably right now, like who the heck is Jack Parr? But when Carson was on, you always heard about Jack Parr. Let me ask AI what they think? AI rights the Mount Rushmore of late night TV host should honor the legends who redefined the genre and left the lasting legacy. Here are the four Carven Granite One Johnny Carson, the George Washington of Late Night.

He hosted The Tonight Show for thirty years, launch countless careers. If you’re building a mountain, he’s the foundation. I like it AI too. David Letterman, the iconoclast. He reinvented Late Night with irony, absurdism and a top ten list of cultural influence.

AI is but Conan O’Brien, the writer turn host who turned awkward into art. His Harvard Wit surreal sketches and self deprecation redefined the genre for gen X and millennials. He’s the Teddy Roosevelt, more niche, but a force of nature. Good job, AI. The AI gave it to Colbert.

The AI’s reasoning for his dual achievements. First is the satirical Colbert Report persona, and now is the mainstream network King of the lad Show. I’m not putting Stephen Colbert on Mount Rushmore, No AI right. Honorable mention, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Joan Rivers first female host to break through, and John Stewart. They throw out there, Seth Myers and John Oliver.

We’ve also forgotten Dick Cavit. I’ll tell you what. Let’s take this up on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. I’ll leave one spot for you. I’m giving it to Carson, Letterman and Conan.

You got one more? Who do you want to put on a late night Mount Rushmore? Let me know in the comments Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. You know what, let’s just get out there. That’s a fun way to leave, right Carson Letterman, Conan, and who’s number four?

I think it might be Jay Leno, but you let me know, see you, tomor

---

---

Featured: Tom Segura, Mae Martin, Russell Peters, Michelle Buteau, Adam Ray, Jimmy Kimmel, Chang Wang, Sarnagarg, Amy Poehler, Mike Schur, Dennis Leary

What’s in This Episode

• Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival returns with new ownership
• Jimmy Kimmel launches ‘The Rabbit Hole’ web series parodying conspiracy podcasts
• Chang Wang’s ‘Sweet and Juicy’ Netflix special drives record tour attendance
• Sarnagarg discusses balancing motherhood and touring comedy career
• Amy Poehler and Mike Schur create ‘Dig’ comedy series for Peacock
• Fox renews Dennis Leary’s ‘Going Dutch’ for season two

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Mother’s Day. I Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Montreals. Just for last comedy festival is beck Baby. Your headliners Tom Sigora, May Martin, Russell Peters some other big names not included in the headliner line come in on Gianni Fortune, Fiemester, Michelle Butto and Adam Ray.

You may recall the festivals canceled last year. There were some financial issues and JFL has a new ownership now. CEO Sylvaine parent Badard said the team has worked so hard in the last few months to build back and put in place a great festival, a stable festival. This is good news for the community, good news for Montreal, good news for the comedy industry, and something that we’re really proud of. I’m rooting for them.

That was the best festival you could argue. Now the Netflix one is better, but different because the Netflix one has bigger names at this point. But part of that is because they do in Los ange Us and it’s not like a centralized festival the way Montreal is. If you go to Montreal, it’s all within I don’t know, five blocks of each other, and it’s really easy to bounce around. When I go, I can see three four shows a night, whereas La is kind of like, hey, famous person who lives in the greater Los Angeles area, do you mind coming down to the arena.

It’s seven thirty and doing a show and then you can go home. So it’s kind of different. So I really hope Montreal comes back and is as great as it was just for laughs file for bankruptcy in twenty twenty four, citing various financial troubles. There was also that pandemic in there that kind of messed things up. Prent Bogard said one day, we hope to be recognized again as the greatest and biggest comedy festival in the world.

But I know that we’re going to do great this summer, and the most important thing for us is comedians having fun, fans having fun. I’m glad you open the door there, because my initial reaction to the lineup was it wasn’t quite where the lineups have been in the past. But it’s a rebuild, so we all understand that, so I’m not going to sit your this is a terrible The festival runs from July sixteenth through the twenty seventh. Tickets go on sale May twelfth. We’re on the schedule websites, so they’ve got two Gallas listed with no name attached, so there’s potential for two really big names coming there.

In the past, the Galas are very much all stars. At this point, they don’t appear to have the site sorted by date, but some names here, Russell Howard kat Cohen. The Just for Laughs Culture Show is back that at one point I think was called the Ethnic Show, and then was just for the culture right, and now it’s Culture Show. Let’s see this year hosted by Asifa Lee from Deli Boys, Andrea Jin and Frankie Conyunis have been named to that one May Martin, Adam Rays, Doctor Phil Midnight Surprise, Camilnnjianni drop Out, Improv, Rose Battle Canada, Russell Peters, k, Trevor Wilson, Sabrina Jay Lees and ns Esmer, Fortune Fimester and Michelle Butteou, Tom Sagora, Nina Kanti, Nick Muhammad you know him from Ted Lasso, Brad Williams. Oh see, that’s a name that should have been on the first page.

Danny Boy New Faces, So that’s great. Let me check the schedule there see if they’re still doing two nights of New Faces. I’m really glad that’s still happening. No schedule yet, Okay. This year’s New Faces lineup features four distinct showcases, stand ups, three different lineups.

Oh wow, that’s great. So it’ll be thirty and characters. That’s great. Somebody tell missus Mack that her husband’s going to wind up in Canada for a few days. That’s exciting.

Three days a New Faces. I’m excited for that. The Nasty Show is back, and brits Ish is hosted by Ed Gamble. This year, Jimmy Kimmel as a new web series parodying video podcasters that pedal political conspiracies. This one is called The rabbit Hole with Jimmy Kimmel.

ABC describes it as the number one basement conspiracy video podcast the government doesn’t want you to see. It’ll live on the Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube channel. The premiere episode covers the truth about five G. Kimmel connects the dots between five G and Barack Hussein Obama, unveiling a conspiracy that threads the Five Guys Samberger Chein to the band Toto to Tanya Harding to sell Tower provider Crown Castle. Why did they make this?

I guess they had an Internet ad spend. Kimmel says, I’m just asking questions. Future episodes of The rabbit Hole will see Jimmy Kimmel exposing the secret truth so about time travel, boat wakes, windmills, elon musk leprechauns, and waffle houses. Chang Wang spoke to the Dartmouth and says this is the first tour he’s done since the release of Sweet and Juicy, and it’s the biggest tour of his career so far. Shank says, any things will be different after my Netflix premiere, but I wasn’t sure just how much the needle had moved.

It’s been incredible to see how many people resonated with the special and wanted to come out and watch my new live show on this tour, despite the fatigue of travel, I’m feeling absolutely grateful for the opportunities to do these shows for all the fans, old and new. I believe I’m still trying to find my voice to be my freest self. I think when you write your first few original jokes that actually get laughs, you get a sense that it’s possible that you can be great if you keep creating new bits and keep yourself to a hig standard to keep honing, tinkering and editing to find the strongest version of your ideas. Don’t expect them to be political. He says, curt events generally seem pretty grim.

I don’t usually discuss those things what are my feelings about them directly, but it motivates me to try to do my best to make a lasting impression on people who come out to enjoy a comedy show. Sarnagarg spoke to The Today Show about being a mom and a comedian and says you have to be quick on your feet in both jobs. As a parent, something news happened constantly, your mind is like, what am I gonna do? How am I gonna deal with it? Do I say something?

Do I retract?

Meanwhile, I’s a comic.

You could be workshopping the same material like all comics do for years, But that night you don’t know what’s gonna happen. You don’t know who’s gonna be in the audience. You don’t know what crisis you’re gonna deal with. She spoke about mom guilt being on the road. I don’t know if it ever leaves you.

My friends whose moms are ninety something, and those moms are still feeling guilt. It’s hard. Your heart drops every weekend because other moms are at my kids’ sports and they’ll send me videos and be like, Oh, he scored a goal or whatever big thing happened in basketball, And in those moments, I feel like I’ve missed something. Amy Poehler coming back to TV and working with Parks and rec Co creator Mike Sure. They’re collaborating on a comedy for Peacock called Dig.

Dig is based on the novel Excavations, which will see Amy Poehler and some yet to be cast friends doing an Indiana Jones thing. Four women working at an archaeological dig in Greece are a wildly different crossroads in their lives. When their team uncovers a long buried secret with a potential to rewrite history, they find themselves at the center of a high stakes international conspiracy. Yeah, okay, I mean good pedigree there with Mike Sure and Amy Poehler, but that premise seems a little crazy. We’ll see, But what do I know?

Because Fox has renewed Dennis Leary’s Going Dutch. You people watched that really. You may recall that Going Dutch stars Dennis Leary doing Dennis Leary things as the arrogant, loudmouth US Army Colonel Patrick Quinn reassigned to the Netherlands after an epically unfiltered rant. Yes, the wacky Army base has a Michelin star Commissary Mary, a bowling alley, a laundromat, and he’s surrounded by wacky characters, including XO Major Abraham Shaw played by Danny Putty from Community. Apparently people watch this thing, so Going Dutch coming back for season two.

Going Dutch averages eight hundred and forty two thousand viewers.

---

Meanwhile, Animal Control with Joel McHale got another season.

I think it’s their third. Michael Thorne is the president of the Fox Television Network. It says Animal Control and Going Dutch are proven winners thanks to signature Fox characters brought to life by Joel and Dennis, two of the funniest comedic voices on TV today, giving us an ideal foundation for building our new comedy block. And that is your comedy news for today. See Tomorrow

---

---

Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jim Gaffigan, Andrew Schultz, Tracy Morgan, Amy Schumer, Hilaria Baldwin, Bert Kreischer, Nate Bargatze, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver

What’s in This Episode

• New Pope elected from Chicago and late night jokes
• Amy Schumer vs Hilaria Baldwin memoir controversy
• Tracy Morgan on Knicks excitement
• Bert Kreischer’s 55-pound weight loss on carnivore diet
• Nate Bargatze invites Jimmy Fallon to open at Madison Square Garden
• John Oliver calls for Iowa Cubs name rebrand

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. We have a new pope, and Jimmy Kimmel says, we have an American pope and a Russian president. Isn’t incredible? Dosi Leidik said, but the votes are counted and the Vatican doesn’t have a January sixth, so there’s no going back.

Stephen Colbert said, Holy Father, you had me at jd Vance is wrong Kimmel again, you gotta think about this one. This must have been what it felt like when they opened the first Olive Garden. Some funny stuff on threads. Griggs posted the new Pope is from Chicago, which means I probably taught his Level three improv class. David the Stella writes, American Pope sounds like a nineties comedy movie where due to some random paperwork, era dude named Steve has made the pope.

Mark Stevens Comedy says the new Pope is from Chicago, which means his reign could last anywhere from twenty five or six to four years. Several people had the joke. I’ll credit Josh Barrow, who’s the first one I saw posted Chicago Pope Tuesdays on NBC. There’s also a CBS very into that joke. Sebastian Manascalgo checked in.

All right, here’s the deal. Pope’s from Chicago and I’m getting calls? Do you know the Pope? Why would I know the Pope? He’s sixty nine years old?

All right, where do you think I met the Pope at seminary school? I don’t know the Pope. I’m happy he’s from Chicago. All the blessings to new Pope Leo. By the way, why don’t they use the real name of a guy.

I think his name is Rob. Why isn’t it just Pope Rob? Why do we got to change the name up? I’m sure I could chat sheeap, you tee it or google it, but I thought i’d ask you guys, because you’re so smart. Good luck, Pope.

I found it odd that there was no comment from Jim Gaffigan when I looked at Friday at ten twenty five am, but he had posted about his bourbon twenty one hours earlier. I did some maths, so ten twenty five plus twenty one hours would have been when in eleven twelve one five pm Jim knew about the Pope. I find Jim social media to be pretty disingenuous. Anyway, It’s just about telling you his stuff. Andrew Schultz declared, New Pope went to Villanova Knicks in four Here in New York City, it is Nick’s town.

People are very excited. One person who’s excited is Tracy Morgan. Let’s listen. Subscribe New York City. This subscribes Nicks and everything in it, the Freedom Tawa, all of that.

We New York. We very resilient. We don’t play we scrappy. So this team represents us. This is what New York is about.

This is where King Kong died. The Warby is a film here, son of Sam was born here. You know where they filmed The first ghostbus is here? Do you understand that the marshmallow Man walked through here? I’m gonna holler at you later.

The just for laughs lineup is out. I will do that tomorrow because I want to talk about this historian people. The headline is Amy Schumer, the unnamed celebrity stranger that Hilaria Baldwin calls out in new book. Hilaria talks about a mystery celebrity in her new memoir am Manuel not included, and Hilaria writes, I don’t need to use her name and I don’t want any problems with her. No matter what, I hope I never meet her.

No people think it might be Amy Schumer. Schumer has previously called Baldwin a sociopath. In her comedy Special Emergency Contact, Hilario writes about a famous person, someone I’ve never met, who’ said nasty and untrue things about me and my family and that she even tried to bait me and Alec via Instagram. We didn’t engage with her, and I guess I’m proud of that and made me mad at the system. But here in this book is where I can talk about it.

I don’t need to use her name, and I don’t want any problems with her, and I’d like to be left out of any articles that mention her because she has nothing to do with me, A total stranger. In Amy twenty twenty three Special Emergency Contact, Schumer said, I’m not trying to bullie a sociopath. I have a point. My point is that all evidence points to this woman since she met her husband, has straight up pretended to be from Spain. People tells us in December of twenty twenty, Schumer posted some of Hilario’s family photos on her own Instagram page, later deleting them and apologizing to Hilaria, who spoke out after receiving negative comments.

In twenty twenty one. Schumer told Entertainment Tonight she deleted the posts after Hilaria quote seemed a little bit upset. I was just like, I don’t want to be mean, and she seemed like maybe it hurt her feelings. I took it down. She’s amazing and I wish her and her family the best, and I hope she gets to visit Spain as much as she wants.

Look, she’s a mom. I don’t want them to be going through a bad time. But also, you can’t just pretend you’re from Spain. Now. If you google is Hilaria from Spain, things will come up.

I’ll source here from Vox. They seem pretty reputable. They write the idealized Hilaria was born in New YORKA speaks with an accent. Doesn’t know the English word for cucumbers, jocks are fun, does Flamenco love speedboats, drinks hamp milk, eats lentils in Paea, and does a plethora of workout classes. Then they had Hillary was born in Massachusetts, went to NYU and has a brother named Jeremy Fox.

Source is somebody named Tracy Egan Morrissey, who looked into all this back then in a series of Instagram stories. Morrissey explains that Hilaria’s Spanish origin story again from Hilario, stating in multiple features with Ola that she was born in Spain and Spanish was her native language. Baldwin’s bio on her CAAA speaking engagement site states that she was born in mayerca. Hilaria also had stated in a previous interview she moved to America at nineteen to attend to NYU. Morrissey debunks the claims, pointing out that Hilaria is actually Hillary Hayward Thomas, who graduated high school from the Cambridge School of Weston in Weston, mass And there’s also a video where the mother seems to stumble over her own daughter’s name.

Anyway, that’s a lot of fun. I hope Amy Schumer jumps back in and That’s why I’m gonna cover JFL tomorrow. Bert Krasier explained how he lost fifty pounds Men’s Fitness on the case they covered it. Graysier said he did it by just eating three things. Okay, what are the three things?

Steak, eggs, and spinach. Bert says, I went to carnivore all ever eight eggs, Rebbi saw Tate spinach. Dude, I lost like fifty five pounds. Inflammation went away. I felt so clean, No booze, no nothing.

Nate Bergatzy was on Fallon, I’m a little NATed out this week. Nate is playing Madison Square Garden in September. Nate told Fallon, as everybody who has followed my career knows that tonight show has meant a lot to me because I was just doing stand up to now doing it Madison Square Garden, So I thought it would be very nice would you come over and do the shows with me at MSG. The audience approved. Fallon appeared hesitant, arguing that he hasn’t done stand up regularly in a decade and doesn’t have an act.

Nate pointed out that Fallen opened for him before. That is true. Fallan opened for Nate and Albany and Syracuse last year. Nate said, you know it works in Syracuse and Albany, so now it’s time to take it to the big top. Fallon has accepted, but was curious, what do I do you want me to do?

Impressions. John Oliver wants the Iowa Cubs to change their name. For a little bit. He was making fun of some of the crazy minor league team names and then got into Iowa Cubs and said, they’re pretty disappointing because in not embracing the glorious eccentricity of the magnificent league they belong to, they’re kind of leaving money on the table. That’s where we come in.

We are willing to use all our resources and stupidity to give one minor league baseball team a total rebrand. We’ll give you a new name, a new mascot leaving through you with theme night. If the Iowa Cubs aren’t interested, other teams can reach out at John Oliver at buntstuff dot com. I wonder what happens if you go to bunt stuff dot com. Let’s find out.

Apparently the domain is parked, but they have the email account. I guess these Saint Paul Saints jumped in on social media and said they have already contacted John Oliver’s team and they are prepared to accept the offer. On Gossip Corner, Monique was on Shannon Sharp’s podcast and said, I’m grateful I’m not fifty six and trying. I’m looking right at you. I ain’t backing down.

You better take your old butt and get someone to love you. You don’t need no twenty six year old girl. You don’t need no thirty six year old girl. You’re trying to hang out with these young b words. You can’t do it, Shannon.

Remember HQ Trivia. Remember Scott the guy that used to host it. Remember that guy? Yeah, well he’s got a new gig with Trivia Works, a corporate entertainment and team building vendor specializing in customized trivia events. Scott will lead corporate and private event audiences and hilarious, high energy team trivia competition.

You can get customized questions and entertainment between trivia rounds, and of course Scott’s trademark sharp wit. That is your comedy news for today. Hey, if you’re into this whole Pope thing, I’m working. We got a podcast called White Smoke where we’re covering this. Today’s episode is about the whole Villanova Nix angle.

So Tracy Morgan will dig that and we find out if the Pope is a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan. I’m not gonna tell you, I did a lot of work. I want your download, So go download White Smoke wherever you get your shows, and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

---

---

Featured: John Oliver, Seth Meyers, David Cross, Jimmy O Yang, Howie Mandel, Hannah Berner, Bill Burr

What’s in This Episode

• John Oliver on why UK version of Saturday Night Live is a bad idea
• David Cross touring and performing on Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy season 4
• David Cross appearing in Broadway’s All in a Comedy about Love
• Jimmy O Yang performing at Hong Kong Coliseum on June 14
• Howie Mandel on whether everyone should try stand-up comedy
• Hannah Berner transitioning from reality TV to stand-up comedy
• Bill Burr on political landscape and news networks in The New Yorker profile

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

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

Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna deliberately do some different names off the top of here today. I feel like all week I’ve just been talking about Nate Brighetsi and Bill Burr. It’s gonna work in some other people, although we’ll get to those guys. John Oliver says a UK version of Saturday Night Live is a terrible idea.

John told Seth Meyers, it just sounds like a bad idea. We’ve had sketch comedy before, and it just feels like Saturday Night Live is such a unique group. It’s a cult. I’m trying not to say the word. It’s a cult, and I don’t know how you can impose that cult on the UK.

Seth Meyers asked John to identify the most cult like thing about SNL. Oliver said, what night is it? You stay up all night? Meyer said Tuesday night. You stay up all night and Tuesday.

Oliver said, that’s ridiculous. I’m saying that’s the kind of a thing a cult leader would make you do. We stay up all night on Tuesdays. By the way, John continued, I think it’s been proven that SNL is the outlier. It does don’t have to be dictated to the day that you must not sleep on that day or the great Leader will be irritated.

I’m looking forward to Snluk gives me more things to talk about. David Cross will be at Bellingham’s Mount Baker Theater tonight. He explained touring and said, it’s what you do. You work up a bunch of material and you take it on the road, you shoot a special and when that airs, you work up new material and then you go out again. This set, though, is not quite as topical or political as it usually is.

That’s surprising, isn’t it. You’d think you’d have something to talk about right now because the first half of the set, with one exception, is just a true embarrassing situation. I found myself in another difference about this tour. Cross stopped in the middle of the tour to go to Broadway as part of All in a Comedy about Love. Remember that show?

It had the rotating cast. Cross said it was a limited ten week run or something like that, and they asked me to be part of it. It was great. It was really a feather in my cap. Cross is doing all sorts of things He’s also on season four of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy.

He played Zi Grossman and said, I don’t think I’ve worked on a show quite like that, especially with the reach that one had, and I’d never seen it before. I got the offer and it was one of those things where it was like, if you could do this, you need to fly out. On Monday. I shot a couple scenes and then I went back and started watching it with my wife and we immediately got hooked. Don’t worry about David quitting a stand up, he says to me.

It’s just what I do, and I’m doing stand up if I’m not working on a project or TV show, movie, whatever the thing is. But I’m always doing stand up. I’ve never stopped doing stand up. How did he get a podcast, he told the Bellingham Harald. I woke up one day and checked the mail and there was a thing saying it was my time to do a podcast.

It was required by the government, and my number came up, so I went down to the studio and just started doing it. Jimmy O Yang is going to do a show in Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong press was all excited about this. My comedy trackers were like, oh my goodness, Jimmy O Yang is doing a show in Hong Kong. He will play the Hong Kong Coliseum on June fourteenth. Time Out reminds us Yang can speak Cantonese, Shanghai’s and Mandarin Chinese, so they are guessing some of the material will be in Cantonese at the Hong Kong show.

Now, at first, I freaked out at the ticket prices, which I saw as three hundred and eighty, five hundred and eighty and seven hundred and eighty dollars. Now, love Jimmy Oyang, but seven hundred and eighty dollars is a lot. But then I learned I was not aware there is currency called Hong Kong dollar, so the prices are in Hong Kong dollars. And as I record this, Google tells me seven hundred and eighty Hong Kong dollars is one hundred US dollars. So that’s not too bad.

That’s reasonable to see Jimmy Oyang, and those are the price he seats. I mean, if we want to get the three eighty HK dollars, that’s just fifty bucks. Tickets on sale today at two pm, which time zone that I can help you with for HSBC credit Card Priority bookings only. So if you’re like, I gotta go see Jimmy Oh Yang in Hong Kong, I suggest you start looking right now. There’s also a kluk pre sale on May twelfth at noon.

Klook, what’s that? I don’t know either, but I’m the one hosting this thing, so I guess up to me to figure out what kluk is. Google tells us on Kluk you can find discounted attraction tickets, tours with unique experiences, and more. They seem to purvey in theme park tickets and airport transfers and other things. Kluke Time Out reminds us the Hong Kong Coliseum, which sounds like you would be this huge building, right you think Jumio Yank’s playing the eighty thousand people know the Hong Kong Coliseum only seats twelve five hundred people.

We’ll see if he adds a second show. Isn’t this fun? I haven’t mentioned Naperghetzi or Bill Burry yet. Howie Mandel was on with Nestor from Baltimore Positive. Nestor was curious if everyone should try stand up comedy at one point in their life, Howie said, I think if everybody got up Benet’s stand up, it’d be a huge crowd on stage and one or two people in the audience.

That’s funny. I love an audience. I think you should be an audience member. I think people should sit comfortably in the theater and just watch one person on the stage try to regalue with humor. I look at it like a giant party, and I’m just trying to be the center of attention.

As for working Clean, Working Blue, how He says, obviously, after all these years in the business, I have many hours of prepared material, but I love to be reared off, whether it be because of something that’s happening in the moment, technical problems, something else or whatever. I don’t have an edit button. I’m just a human. Hannah Berner got one of those big profiles by the Hollywood Proforter. I’ll zero in on the stand up comedy part of it, and they were curious if Hannah finds it odd to find herself on TV doing stand up instead of reality TV.

Hannah said, these stand up specials my therapy. Reality TV was one of the ways I was put on. So I’m grateful for it, but I can’t watch reality TV anymore. I do think reality TV, as I saw, is that everyone was put into characters, and you’re pretty much putting a box. The rampant misogyny.

It gave me this chip on my shoulder to be like, I want to be seen as me. When I say me, I mean all the sides of me. I want to put out the vulnerability, the mistakes I’ve made, the confidence I have, the anxiety have. If I’m going to be judged, I want to be judged based off at least a human rather than an archetype. I do think I always emphasize just how women are so multifaceted, and I try to in my comedy say things that maybe women were afraid of or insecure about, so they can say, Hannah just said it, so it can’t be that bad.

Alright, I’m editing on the fly here in my a block. Here, I’ve got leftover Burr and Nate. I’m a little NATed out. Want to take a Nate break. Let’s do Burr.

This piece in The New Yorker a really good profile with Burr where he got political. It is behind a paywall. But if you’re good at the internet, like really good at the Internet, you gotta have like internet skills, you can get to this one, or of course, pay for a subscription to The New Yorker like I did. Bill said, why is there Fox News? Because there were CNN.

No president has allowed to be president since the first Bush. So what he’s saying there, because I’ve read ahead, is that the news networks give every president a hard time. Here are some examples, Bill Burr. Once they went after Bill Clinton for lying about you know, the thing with the intern. Let’s not go there.

Everybody else. George W. Bush, he stole the election. Obama, he’s not from here. Trump everything that he did.

Joe Biden, let’s get something on him. We can’t get something. Oh, his kid does cocaine. As it helps if a certain percentage of the president’s stays deal with the other side trying to take him out and peach him, which is never gonna happen. Burr, who was there to promote Glengary Kelen Ross, said to the interviewer, are we gonna talk about the player?

Am I just gonna come across as the political guy? We’ve gone out three times do you want to go out? I’m recording a podcast, but I’m recording the podcast. But I just let you out. Okay, I guess I gotta take a break.

Boy, where were we? The dog does not understand that Johnny Man’s got a lot to do today. She just snuck back in. I had closed the door for a reason. All right, she left.

We’ll see how far I get here. There was a good discussion on Threads. I’d asked the question just like it did on the podcast. Is Jay Leno a good guy or bad guy? Yeah, there’s the Conan thing, but he seems like a good guy.

That’s when I was reading the stuff about Mavis and yet nobody ever seems say good things about him. I got some good responses here. Megan responded on Threads, as I’m at Daily Comedy News, Howard Stern has nothing good to say about him. After reading the War on Late Night book, it sounds like he’s a backstabber who also wants everyone to like him and no hard feelings after he betrays them. Someone named Deva V.

Wrote when I lived in LA in the late nineties, one of my roommates worked on The Tonight Show as a page and then eventually as a writer. From what I heard, Leno’s a great guy to work for, and I was able to see his real comic self, which is much more cerpic and funny than what he was like on the show for obvious reasons. Yeah, I’ve talked about this. If you watch the old Late Night with David Letterman Jaylenel appearances, you got the edgy Jay Leno, you know, not that he was you know Tim Dillon or Andrew Schultz or someone like that, but he was a lot edgier than the Tonight Show persona. And like I’ve talked about with Fallon, when you host the Tonight Show, that is a particular shade of yourself that you have to do because that’s what the Tonight Show is.

John Roy, comic who writes for Vulture, said, when I did his show, he was very cool and hung out in the green room telling comedy stories. He also knew my act, which is rare for the host. No other host I worked for did either of those things.

And then Ford probably had the best take.

He wrote, Jay is a guy like all other people. There’s some good and some bad in all of us. And I did not react well to this. Somebody came at me and wrote, how would you pair off? All your readers were asked the same question about you.

Also, why are you holding him up for a public referendum? You can let us know your record, so I did. Here’s what I wrote. Seriously, Okay, I ran SERIOSXM comedy for ten years out of a thirty year radio career. My reputation is that I’m a nice guy.

I’m sure someone out there doesn’t like me, because we’re all humans and all comments on that. My reputation in the industry is that I’m a nice guy. Like I wrote to the person back, I’m sure someone thinks I’m a jerk fase and I can be a jerk fase, and I’m sure people who are reading my substack are like, this guy’s a jerk phase. But I admit I’m writing the substack a little jerky for attention to promote the podcasts. So I’m sure people that don’t actually know me and only read that are like that guy is a d and I would get it and I would totally understand.

But people have actually worked with me. My reputation is that I’m pretty cool.

---

And then, because I was highly offended, I wrote and then I explained the spi…

Anyway, I thought that was an interesting discussion. A real quick let’s hit gossip corner. Graham Norton is selling his New York City crash pad. Must be nice to have a New York City crash pad. Listen to this crash pad.

He’s selling it for five point six million dollars. The murray Hill carriage House on Sniff and Court, which is a private gates muse Now I grew up in New York City. I’m like, where is Sniff and Court? And apparently it’s this little street that is gated in Manhattan’s murray Hill neighborhood. Sniff and Court has just ten residences.

The homes were built in eighteen sixty three and eighteen sixty four. It’s horse stables. At the turn of the twentieth century they were converted into single family townhouses. I looked at the pictures, which you’ll find on the rob Report. Pretty nice looking place.

The great room has fifteen foot ceilings, a fireplace, there’s a dining room. The second floor guest bedroom has a marble bathroom. The third floor has the primary suite. There’s even a rooftop. Not bad.

Five point six million dollars if you got the cash. I don’t. I wish I did, because the place looks pretty dorn, snazzy, and for a place in New York. It’s just that it’s even on the market. If you’ve got five point six, grab this thing.

I’m not a real estate agent. Make your own decisions, all right, And thats your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you’re finding me on YouTube again, I’m old.

I don’t know. I’m not a YouTuber. I’m a podcaster who’s on YouTube because that’s what you’re supposed to do. So smash the bell and like and all that stuff. Whatever the kids tell you to do, do that.

See you tomorrow.

---

---

Featured: Sarah Silverman, Conan O’Brien, Jessica Williams, Taylor Tomlinson, Nate Bargatze, Javier Bardem, Taika Waititi

What’s in This Episode

• Sarah Silverman’s Netflix Special ‘Post Mortem’ releasing May 20th
• Conan O’Brien Must Go On Season 2 debut on Max
• Conan O’Brien hosting Oscar-related conference panel in Vegas
• After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson final episode June 12th
• Nate Bargatze’s Esquire interview and criticism of Disney leadership
• Nate Bargatze’s NateLand theme park project updates

Questions Answered in This Episode

---

Full Transcript

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

Calarogashock Media. Hi there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Sarah Silverman’s next special Netflix, May twentieth. It is called post Morte Men. She put out the trailer.

Let’s listen. My dad and my step mom Janie both died last May, nine days apart. And oh that one needs work. And my dad was my best friend, and they both gave me so much, and most recently about an hour of new material. So let’s do this.

And this seems like a good time to mention. I do have merch this tour, but I just really feel like my parents would want me to monetize this.

Meanwhile, out today, Season two of Conan O’Brien must go on, Max.

Now you may recall they did some like funky things where they shortened the season, and I bet they regret that now that there’s been the Conaissance, I mean, there’s like a continual conaissance. But I don’t know why they had cut back the order. Anyway, We’ll see Conan in New Zealand with Taike awaititd. Javier Bordem joins Conan in Spain. Conan will also visit Austria in this season.

Max had tweaked the schedule after Conan was tapped to host the Oscars. They shortened season two to three episodes, but they gave the series a renewal for a six episode season three. So maybe I have it all wrong and they just wanted to get something out there quickly. Anyway, it is on Max today while we’re talking Conan. I had seen this thing as I was prepping the Palace Intrigue podcast because my Prince Harry news tracker caught that Harry was going to be at this thing in Vegas today.

But Conan is there as well. You’ll find Conan at the Venetian in haul A Level two from ten to eleven Pacific. Join Conan O’Brien and Jessica Williams as they the role of improvisation and comedy in leadership. Together, they’ll discuss how humor and embracing spontaneity builds trust, leads to innovative thinking, and sharpens adaptability. Sounds like a nice paycheck for Conan.

Now. This thing is called Knowledge twenty twenty five. It has been a convention of shorts all week. Individual pricing started at twenty one to ninety five twenty one hundred and ninety five dollars gets you a full conference pass for all the learning, inspiration and networking. You could even see Conan O’Brien if you wanted to.

A one day pass if you want to head out there today is only nine hundred and ninety five dollars if you want to see Codin O’Brien, who’s also on TV tonight. Nice money if you can get it. Late Night are reporting. The final date, Four After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson will be Thursday, June twelfth. All week, I’ve been talking about Nate Prighetzi.

They are coming for Nate. The Industry Trades pulled a particular quote and I share this screenshot in the Facebook group, even though the article has been out for several days. What’s coming up if you google Daytzy is Nate Pergatzy on Disney and Variety, Deadline, the Hollywood Reporter, and the Rap all pulling up with Nate Bergatzy says Disney head doesn’t care about the audience. The poll quode from Nate. Now, Disney is run by a guy that’s just a businessman.

Well, that guy doesn’t care about the audience. Now that this has come up, as I was doing the Nate stuff this week. I was coming away a little bit like he seems less likable off this interview. I’m not sure this Esquire interview helped him at all.

---

And now I’m feeling more strongly about that.

I’ve always liked Nate, He’s been on my radar for at least a decade. But this Esquire article, I don’t know a little funky. Esquire asked Nate about his influences. He listed four people, Jerry Seinfeld, Judd Apatow, Walt Disney, and Adam Sandler. And this is where the Disney stuff came into Esquire writes, recording in to Berghatzy.

Walt Disney, the man, not the brand, loved everything he made and cared about his customers. The quote, Now, now Disney is run by a guy that’s just a businessman. Well, that guy doesn’t care about the audience. Burghetsy cares deeply about his audience. He sees himself as their servant.

None of this happens without them, he says of his career, I think one thing that came out in this interview is some frustration by Nate that his career took longer than maybe he thought, Now, there are a lot of eighteen year overnight sensations in this industry. Just about everybody you’ve heard of other than the TikTok comedians have been doing this for a while, So I don’t know. It seems a little at a pace with his peers. Here, Esquire writes, while he was still grinding it out, lost in relative obscurity, he’d see his peers or mark on a controversial issue, often something political. Quoting Nate, they would skip a bunch of steps.

Now they’re mentioned everywhere because they said something crazy. Now Netflix called them and they got a special burgets. He was tempted. He considered going that route, but he resisted the urge otherwise he might lose his audience’s trust the more I dive into this. This is just a carefully created, a friendly harbor piece.

In Esquire, Nate says, the hardest thing to do is stay that past because it’s not as flashy. You just got to sit in it. You just got to keep going.

---

And then he get to the point where I’m at Now, I’m frustrated by an entire sy…

He talked about nate Land, which would be built on the site of the former opry Land theme park, and Nate says, I’ll be honest with you, I bet we’re closer than people think, but it’s still a little ways off. Apparently he’s in the market analytics phase of the project. Another weird take here, and before I even saw the rest of the media put up, I have in my notes here I wrote the other day when I split up this article. Weird take. Nate says, I don’t think anybody’s even trying to make stuff everybody.

Esquire writes to illustrate his point, BRIGETSI brings up Succession. You know HBO Succession. Nate says, I did not watch Succession. I know it’s the greatest show to ever exists. I’m not a mora on.

Everybody understands is the greatest show in the world. I want to watch it. There’s nothing to do with the show, but no one watched it in the grand scheme of things, so yes and no like. It clearly had buzz. But Forbes here is pointing out the Succession finale hit a series high two point nine million viewers, which Nate is correct, that is not a lot.

If you want to go back forty years, the Mash finale had one hundred and six million people watch it. Okay, that was a different time, if you want to go back, still a long time ago, but the Seinfeld finale had seventy six point three million viewers, again at different time. The pit on Max apparently averaged ten million plus viewers, and according to website USTVDB, the ratings as of Thursday May first Tracker on CBS at seven point six million. So if we want to find something on par with succession, if we went down to two point three million, basically as popular as Let’s make a Deal on CBS, which did two million, three hundred and five according to this website. So Nate’s not wrong there about succession.

Nate says, everybody has lives, everybody has kids, everybody has stuff to go do. They don’t want to sit and worship your art. There’s got to be a balance of appreciating succession and appreciating king of queens. Those worlds have to exist together. Now you have too many successions.

There’s nothing that’s a palide cleaner. Maybe the successions are a little bit easier to make because you’re making it for such a specific audience. You get the runway to make it for five six years because it’s cool. What if no one watches it doesn’t matter. I think there’s no one trying to do it.

People still go to concerts. I do shows in front of fifteen thousand people who are laughing and paying attention for an hour. I see it in every single city. People want to go do something. You’re not just giving them something to go do.

Very interesting article. We’ll see if there’s more blowback during the week. I also wanted to pick a little more at this Bill Burr piece in The New Yorker. Burr said, my thing is, I wish we could go back to if you work forty hours a week, one hundred and sixty hours a month, you can live comfortably. You can pay your rent.

I don’t think anybody should be able to argue with the fact that if somebody works one hundred and sixty hours a month for you and they can still pay their rent, you’re not paying them enough. And this thing, when they have to go out and get a second job, spend time away from their children, that’s going to hurt this country and It’s also an incredibly callous and cold thing to do, somebody knowing that because you want a bigger pool, they’re going to miss out on the greatest thing ever, which is watching their kid grow up. You’re stealing those moments away from them. Had a friend of mine, he told me the story. Right out of college.

He got this job with a big corporation who’s living in New York. He gets the job, he crushes it, and then they place him in San Francisco. So he got to know somebody in HR and they’re having a beer one night and he goes, you know, I don’t understand. They have offices everywhere, live in New York. Why they place me all across the country.

And the other guy goes, ah, they do that on purpose. They want to move you away from all your family and friends, so you’re less likely to quit because you have no options. And I always just want to be in that meeting because you know, they talk around it. Did you ever see what was that movie a few years ago, Zone of Interest? The way they were talking about putting people in ovens.

They were talking about it like it was cargo, and they were dressed nice, and they were clean, they were having their little coffee, and they’re talking about the most evil thing ever, like the person who came up with that got rewarded for that, breaking up families and moving someone away from and that goes back to slavery. It’s terrible. They’re constantly demonizing people with no power, like the food industry. When they saw the heroin addicts, they were jealous of heroin. They go, I wish people were in our food like that.

So what they call it is we want our food to have a certain amount of creveability. It’s beyond evil. But because it’s legal, and because politicians are so underpaid and they’re taking the money from that, they don’t do anything. A lot more there. I’ll pick up on that either tomorrow or Saturday.

Adam Sandler has got a movie he will co star with George Clooney. It is called Ja Kelly. Will hit theater is November fourteenth, before it streams three weeks later on December fifth. So maybe we’re getting the dramatic Adam Sandler here. And I’m a big fan of Adam Sandler dramatic actor.

I think he’s one of the best dramatic actors comedian. He’s terrible, but dramatic actor. I dig Adam Sandler. We don’t know anything about the movie other than George Clooney plays Jay Kelly. Adam Sandler plays somebody named Adam Doherty.

If you’re up near Jamestown, New York and you want to meet Gabe Iglesias, he’ll be at the National Comedy Center. He’s there to open the newest exhibit featuring his iconic nineteen fifty nine Volkswagen Bus from his record breaking stadium Fluffy Special. Gabe will be there to officially unveil the display. The vintage VW bus from Gabe’s personal collection is a fan favorite centerpiece of his historic Dodger Stadium show. Admission to the Comedy Center is free all day.

I wish I had known about this earlier. I would have I bet they would have hooked me up. I’m friendly with them and and I’ve worked with Gabe in the past. I I only saw this on Wednesday. If I known a little earlier, could have planned my life.

You know, you got to pre record. Sometimes you’re going to disappear for an entire day. Oh well, anyway. Admission is free to the Comedy Center’s museum all day. There’ll be a fan photo op after the ribbon cutting at four thirty.

Attendees can RSVP at Comedycenter dot org, slash Fluffy and did you see who’s back? Father Guido Sarducci weighing in on the pope stuff, he was on Colbert. You haven’t seen Sarducci in a long time, Serducci told Colbert, while I predict, I think it’s fixed. Benedict the sixteenth is gonna be the pope again. That’s my prediction.

Colbert reminded Guido that Pope Benedict is dead, and Father Sarducci responded, that’s what you think. It’s a rumor. It’s like Elvis. It’s a conspiracy. Colbert said, but we saw his funeral, and Sarducci said, yeah, but no one has seen him since his funeral.

If you would like to keep up on all the latest things, paople, don’t forget. We’ve got that podcast, White Smoke. I’m working on that one personally, and we are doing daily updates about the conclave and hopefully, well I mean not hopefully, but if they’ve picked a pope between me recording this and you hearing it, well that’s what happened. Big. Netflix plans they’re going to overhaul the homepage design.

The new layout is more clean and modern, featuring visual elements for shows and movies, while also managing to cram in more relevant information. Titles will receive callouts that highlight popularity, awards, or other features. They’re also tweaking the recommendation engine to be more responsive to your moods and interests in the moment. There will also be a TikTok style vertical video feed featuring clips and trailers from its shows and movies. Users can click and be taken to the full episode or movie that’s designed for mobile viewing on the go.

The tiktokization of the world continues.

---

Also, Netflix is partnering with the AI people on an AI search tool.

One of the suits that Netflix says you could type in I want something scary but not too scary and also maybe a little bit funny but not like haha funny. Oh so like an Adam Sandler space movie. I get it. There’s a festival today, the Toledano Street Comedy Festival in New Orleans. Founder Andrew Stevens wanted to organize the festival like many music festivals, where attendees get a day or week in pass and I have a bunch of shows to choose from.

That is always a good model. The JFL Toronto had that, and I really like that. This takes place in New Orleans at various venues around Toledano and Magazine Streets today through the eleventh tonight at Sports Drink. Is a rolling show as more than thirty comics rotate through short sets. Andrew Stevens, the organizer, says, it’s like the funniest open mic.

You can have lots of comics. We’ll do a quick set we can film on a nice camera. Everyone does a three minute set and it’ll be a long, continually rolling show. This weekend’s lineup includes New Orleans native Sean Patton, He’s fantastic, Shane Torres, Dulse, Sloan Langston Kerman, and some others. Pretty good, mister Stevens said.

Kyle Kanaane said comedy is best performed in places that violate the fire code. While we don’t violate the fire code. We love pushing up on it. It sounds like a really good time and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

They might like it too. If you’re on YouTube, Look, I’m an old man. Do what the other cool channels are telling you do, like hit the bell, like and smash and all that stuff that the cool hipsters tell you about. Just do that stuff, all right, Help the old guy out see tomorrow