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Featured: Bill Burr, John Mulaney, Nate Bargatze, Jim Bell, Robbie Prat, Jimmy Fallon, Lorne Michaels

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr New Yorker profile on fame and handling celebrity
• John Mulaney’s Netflix show struggling in viewership rankings
• Late night TV advertising revenue decline from $439M to $220M in five years
• Netflix uncertainty about renewing John Mulaney show for third season
• Nate Bargatze Esquire profile and SNL hosting debut
• Nate Bargatze’s approach to avoiding political commentary in comedy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, another busy one. There is a big profile of Bill Burr in the New Yorker under the headline bill Bird does not want to talk about politics? Or does he? I’ve shared the link in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

The link his paywall. But if you know your way around the internet you can probably figure that out. Bert told The New Yorker in my business, you can lose your way. You know, people blow smoke up your ass, gets start to believe it, start carrying yourself a different way. One of my favorite things to watch is when even your circle of friends becomes a career move.

You and I are cool, and then I get an inch ahead of you, and then I’m looking for the inch ahead of you. Friends, This business is brutal. When nobody knows who you are, you have this loneliness laying in bed going, oh my god, am I the guy who doesn’t make it? Then you do get somewhere, and then you have to learn how to handle that. And I find the way to handle it is to disengage with it.

Try as much as I could do to just do what I always did, and I find if you act normal, people act normal. It’s a law of attraction. If you show up with three stvs, people want to see who it is. Yeah. I always found that.

On the other side, you know, as somebody running radio stations or being a suit. Anytime I worked with somebody in entertainment, act normal and they act normal back. I mean, there are people in the industry we used to call them star efforts who would be like, oh, Bill, Burt, can I get a selfie? And like they’d make up some crap that it was like, you know, hey, can I get a picture and I’m gonna sell it on eBay and raise money for charity. And it was just about.

It was just about, like I don’t know, collecting a portfolio. I very rarely took pictures with anybody back in the day. It’s like Bill said, just act normal. First said, I consider what I do to be a job, and my idea of what the purse of the job is changed over the year. My thought now I look at it like somebody had a tough week or somebody had a great week, and they had an all right week.

It’s my job. Remember kind of week you had to make either you forget about it or make it a better week because you’re laughing for an hour. My job is just to make fun of things. One of things I’m most proud of is the people on the right thing I’m liptard and my wife writes my jokes, and the people on the left think I’m a trumper. And for that reason, when I go to a red state, I go extra hard making fun of the red guys.

When I go to blue state, I just go off on liberals because selfishly it’s a fun thing to do. But I also say, if I’m in a red state, I’m making fun of red people, and then I hear the Blue people go woo, then I go after them. More from that article tomorrow.

Also big article week this week the New York Times.

Under the headline is this late night TV’s last Gasp. The focus here John Mulaney and by the time we get to the end of this article very interesting. Mulaney describes his weekly Netflix show as a throwback. In some ways, it’s almost like the way you might remember a bunch of shows from the past, but it’s not exactly what they were like. No element is new, but the way they’re being laid out might feel a little bit.

We learned more about the origin of the show. You may recall during the Netflix Is a Joke Comedy festival last May, they asked John to host the show. Mulaney said it was originally envisioned as a show that would be a bit like MTV. The host would serve as a VJA introducing one comic and then the next. Laney decided he could host it himself, and before long the concept started to morph into the current show, Laney explained, and it became like, well, people can come out and I’ll talk to them, and then they’ll sit there.

Then I’m interviewing people and we’re doing bits like we couldn’t have backed into it in a more convoluted way. I was like, what kind of show do I want to watch? And it is not a topical could you believe socio political story of the day show, because that ground is well covered by Greek people, John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Daily Show, et cetera.

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Now here’s where it really caught my eye.

Robbie Prat, who is Netflix’s VP of Stand Up in Comedy, said that Netflix had not initially been looking or aspiring to do another talk show, but they were interested in being in the John Mulaney business because John is so singular. We’ll come back to praw on a second. The Times article quotes Jim Bell, former show runner for The Tonight Show, mister Bell said, of all the legacy broadcast day parts, morning shows, evening news, late night, late night might be the first one headed for the wood chippers to make, tough to monetize and no longer appointment viewing. It’s still got cultural juice, but from a business standpoint, it’s the most vulnerable. Some stats from the Times.

As recently as twenty eighteen, the five broadcast network late night shows Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, Cordon and Seth drew in around four hundred and thirty nine million dollars in advertising, according to Guideline and advertising data firm. By twenty twenty two, that four point thirty nine had become two hundred and seventy seven million. Guideline said last year it was down to two hundred and twenty so that’s half in five years with Covid in the middle there.

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Now, let’s pay a lot of attention here because this echoes something that I h…

The Times rights It’s not clear how the show is performing. Millenis show, but critical attention has been more muted this season. The first episode appeared in Netflix’s daily ten most watched TV series in the US, but the show has not returned in the subsequent seven weeks. That’s what Johnny Mac has been saying. Now listen to this.

Robbie Prat said that Netflix was not prepared to announce anything yet about a potential third season. Now that caught my eye because I was like, but didn’t they announce that this was a two season pickup? And I went and looked that up and yep. Deadline had reported mulaney received a two season order from Netflix, which greenlit the show last year. So were they now, like, eh, maybe not.

Robbie Prau is quoted as saying, every show we’ve ever done, we want more people to watch. So it sounds like Netflix is a little iffy here, and they do tend to cancel things. And if it went from you know, being in the top ten to not being in the top ten, maybe they sense that there’s no buzz on this thing. I thought it was misproduced. They finally produced it correctly.

The week Letterman was on and let Letterman have Space two himself and brought out the guests one person at a time. But the uncontrolled chaos that John went for, I don’t think it worked, which is a shame because I really liked the LA series last year. All Right. More from that, Napri getsy article in Esquire, a major profile on Nate. His book came out yesterday.

We pick up where Nate hosted SNL for the first time, and Eschoire writes one of the top searches on Google that week was who is Nate Brighezzi. Nate explains, I knew I had to destroy in the monologue. I knew it was a welcoming a hello. Jimmy Fallon apparently is the one who pitched Nate to Lorne Michaels, Fallon telling Michaels, I think he’s the guy. I know he’s kind of an unknown, but I’m telling you he will score.

Nate then talks about doing politics in his actor not doing politics. If I want to give you my opinion on who I voted for, who’s that for? It’s for me, really, because I want you to know that I’m smart. I don’t think it’s really helping an audience. You don’t think they know who to vote for their living life.

Once you run out of celebrity’s opinions on politics, maybe I’ll jump back in. But right now I just want to do the opposite. He talked about his style of comedy. I need you to be able to trust that when your kids are in the car, you can play my album and you’re not having to think. Let me make sure there’s nothing I don’t want to have a conversation about right now.

There’s a trust interesting quote from Mark Maron in the Eschoire article. Maren says Nate’s coming at a time when comedy in some ways is in trouble. You have these very tribalized camps of comedy, the anti woke crew, bravely speaking power to truth, and he sort of transcends that. I don’t know what to make of that comedy is not in trouble right now, unless Maren’s coming at that from an art form and buying into this thought that Man of Sphere Rogan Bros. Have taken over comedy.

I mean, comedy goes in waves, and there are different styles, and I’m looking at who the streamers are putting on. They’re not putting on the man bro sphere stuff. But the man bro sphere stuff is selling tickets. I think there’s plenty of comedy to go around right now, So I’m not sure what Maren’s getting at there. You have these very tribalized camps of comedy, the anti woke crue bravely speaking power to truth, and he sort of transcends that.

Okay, Nate jokes about hosting the Emmys, quoting Nate, why did they pick me to do it? Well, the election probably helped God Hollywood executives asking who doesn’t live in LA and who’s available. Back to Maren, who comments on that and says he bigger than what’s going on socially because of his talents, point of view, and the way he does comedy, which is truly unique. He would have been a big star and no matter where the culture is. I don’t know what to make of any of that.

I have shared the entire article in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. An interesting story out of Late Nighter dot Com. Apparently Paramount has pumped the brakes on a daily show branded civic participation initiative. According to the article, this is out of concern that the partner organizations on the project might prove to be controversial. The project, called Take a Seat had apparently been in the works for months.

The goal to encourage people to run for local office by connecting them with organizations that could provide them with resources to mount a political campaign. Now, as part of this there were apparently a left leaning group called Run for Something and a right leaning group called the Women’s Public Leadership Network. But the report says Paramount delayed the project after it became concerned that partnering with organizations would carry quote too much risk. Airmount is currently trying to go through a merger approval. You may have seen the sixty minute story in the news, so an interesting development there, and Variety did a profile with the new owners of Just for Laughs.

So Van part Badard is the head of Comedy Ha or Kamitah. I still haven figure that out. That’s the company that acquired Just for Laughs last year. Merging the two brands seems like there’s a little back history there. He told Variety, I wanted to launch Just for Laughs in Quebec city, but the former owner told me it was impossible, so I launched my own festival and then continued with all the respect I have for the old owners, you do not manage a creation company with a finance ideology.

When I met the CEO of Just for Laughs in twenty eighteen, I had the phone number of every stand up comedian, their management, their agent. He did not have won but he had the phone number of the bank, He had the phone number of the sponsor. He knew nothing about comedy. We learned a little more about the festival. Just for Laughs as partnering with Rob Mceleenny and more better p actions on an initiative geared to writers.

Will Arnett and the Electric Avenue Banner will work on a shorts and pilots platform, and YouTubers Smash will have a program for social media creators. Spencer Griffin, head of Development, says, we want to be additive. We want to introduce artists to the industry at the festival and then actually help them succeed in the industry. Whereas the old company just said good luck, now, we want to say, here’s how to take the next step together. Friday quotes one comedy manager as saying, a lot of pipelines have disappeared in this industry in terms of building your career.

I mean, is that true? Do we not have social media now? Or are you’re not able to just go on YouTube and create your own thing. I’m not sure I agree with that comedy manager. Having a respected institution like Just for Last backing you and guiding you is actually exciting, all right.

I am looking forward to the festival coming back. I think I’m going to head up there. I haven’t thought that far out yet. Plus, they haven’t announced what the lineup is. Are they doing new faces?

I hope they’re doing new faces. That’s my number one thing to go for. So we will see what happens when jesser Last returns this summer. And that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, John Mulaney, Nikki Glaser, Bill Burr, Kamil Yildirim, Sarah Silverman, Adam Sandler, David Letterman, Nate Bargatzel, Colin Jost, Scarlett Johansson

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien Mark Twain Prize on Netflix
• Nate Bargatzel’s new book ‘Big Dumb Eyes’
• Nate Bargatzel’s plans to retire from stand-up comedy
• Colin Jost and SNL speculation
• SNL cast member appearance records
• Nikki Glaser’s career momentum and UTA representation

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The comedy gods must have heard me, because after a week of nothing, there is a lot this week. But let’s start with the funniest thing of the year so far by a mile. If you have not yet watched Conan O’Brien’s Mark Twain Prize Award on Netflix, absolutely go watch it.

It is hilarious right out of the box. John Mulaney crushes the opening monologue. Other people that I wrote down notes about Nikki Glaser’s set is pretty strong. Bill Burr, you know, he was okay, And I thought that the set ended abruptly, and I started to post in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, hey was there an edit here? And I quickly got my answer because they cut to Kamil Nanjianni, who was already mid set.

But Kamil was also very very funny, sour silverman with a bit that I’m still thinking about day later. I don’t want to spoil it at all, but just trust me. For me, it proved once again, Adam Sandler not funny. Adam Sandler a fantastic dramatic actor. Go see him in Uncut Gems, in the Basketball Movie and the Space Movie.

He’s pretty good at os, but comedian not funny at all. And I know right now you’re like Johnny Mac, but he’s Adam Sailor. Watch the Mark Twain Awards. You tell me Adam Sandler’s funny, he’s not.

And then the King David Letterman at the end.

That was fantastic. Nate Bergatsy has a book out today. It is called Big Dumb Eyes, Stories from a Simpler Mind. And there’s a full court press happening, and I will talk about that at the end, but a big, big shiny profile in Esquire, the theme is basically, Nate has waited for his turn, and now that he’s getting his turn, he’s gonna let you know that he’s a little ticked off. The edit to wait, They opened up with the headline we keep seeing that Nate is going to step aside from stand up comedy.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Nate tells Esquire two more tours. I got this tour I’m about to go out on, and I want to do one more. Nate figures he will wrap up his stand up career in five years. He even knows the closer.

For his final set, he will deliver the joke and then say thank you, good night and leave the stage forever. As for that theme of having to wait for a while, Nate says, I never got to do letterman. I got told I was too mundane. I had to look the word up. I didn’t know what it meant.

Wasn’t good. He talked about Hollywood. They have a system. I like their system. I try to be in their system, and then I keep getting told no.

So I had to go create my own thing. I wanted to be great at stand up. I’m not trying to say him great, but I just knew I needed to figure out how to be great at this one thing and then the rest will come. That’s what’s happening now. You get a lot of stuff.

You either make it at twenty or forty. No one makes it in the middle. The Esquire article quotes Julian McCullough, an old friend and comic who MCEs Nate’s arena shows. Julian says Nate has a gift of camouflage. He’ll be sitting in a room because of the way his face looks and the way he talks, people think he’s not picking up on everything.

No one is more aware or observing people’s behavior more than he is. He’s like one of those stick you can’t believe it’s a bug because he’s watching the whole time. Nate discusses giving up alcohol in twenty nineteen, explaining I did not have a control on it. I’d go too hard with it, but I knew if I want to go to where I want to go, then this is the way. Does he miss it drinking?

Nate says, I think I missed the relief of drinking. But these days golf helps. I tell a lot of comics. If you want to do something, you’ve got to really obsess over it. That’s not always fun.

I mean that means you wake up to go pee in the middle of the night and you’re thinking about comedy. If I’m going to be obsessed over something, then I’ll use it to my advantage. The profile, which again thorough, and it’s going to take me three days to get through it. Here on the podcast, and Nate talks about incorporating his family into his material. His daughter is now twelve.

Nate says, I’ve backed off a lot on my daughter. She’s at the age where kids are going to pick on her or say something that is a good decision by dad there. As for wife Laura, Nate has a strategy for writing marital material. You’ve got to show love. If I want to talk about my family, you have to believe that I love them, or I’m the worst person ever.

The audience needs to know this is a happy couple. That’s a typical fight. So, as I said, I’ll pick it that for the next three days, and there’s going to be a ton of Nate’s articles this week. My sense here is this is a big push by the Hollywood people. We’ve talked about how Nikki Glaser has been being pushed.

Oh I forgot to mention that during the The Conan set, Nicki’s people got that done. How did Nicki get on that show? I mean, the rest of the bill was just at a level above Nikki Glaser. She was probably the least successful comedian up there. And I’m not dragging her at all, but you know, the other people were Adam Sandler, despite my opinion, and David Letterman and Bill Burr, and so Nicki’s people getting it done.

So behind the scenes here, stay with me here. I’m not complaining at all. But a year ago, when I saw the book was announced, I reached out to the publicity people and I was like, Hey, can I get on the listen. They’re like, yeah, check back in like a while. So all right.

So I checked back in a while. And the vibe I got from the publicist because I’ve been around the media for thirty years now and I kind of can read between the lines, I got the vibe from them that the book publicity is not being run through the book publicity department, that someone else has their hands in it. So I think this is coming straight out of Hollywood or wherever Nate’s team is. Yeah, it looks like Nate is with UTA, the United Talent Agency. Curious who Nicky Glazers with?

Nicki’s also with UTA. Okay, I’m onto something here anyway. So I don’t think I’m going to get an interview with Nate. He seems to be doing the Today Show and Esquire and things like that, And that’s fine, I tried. If you want to see how much of a push this thing is, let me read the credits for the Esquire article.

This is a print article that credits photography by Jeffrey Leeman, styled by Alfonso Fernandez Navaz, hair by Eric Miller, grooming by Katie Kendall. Production by Catherine Prado, Tailoring by Jason Jarrett, Visual director James Morris, Executive design director Martin Hoops, Entertainment director Andrea Cutt. This is for a print article. This isn’t Nate jumped on Zoom with Johnny Mac in his basement Anyway. More of that over the next couple days.

As the comedy Dearth is over, Thank you Comedy news gods. Hey is Colin Jost leaving SNL? People are thinking that I’ve talked about that in the season finale, Colin’s wife, Scarlett Johansson is the guest. However, Scarlett Johnson’s also in a Jurassic movie this summer, so it’s not absurd or random that she is the final guest host of the year. I saw some chatter over the weekend that some people thought Michael Longfellow might be next up for the guest Some of the chemistry between Jost and Michael during SNL this weekend and made people think that Michael Jay is now in fifth place for most appearances as an SNL cast member with two hundred and twenty, he is eight episodes behind Colin Jost.

Next up on that list Seth Meyers at two fifty three, Darryl Hammond at two sixty seven, which does not include Darryl as the staff announcer, and Keenan Thompson at a probably uncatchable at this point, four hundred and forty one. SNL makes between eighteen and twenty two episodes a season, let’s call it twenty, So to catch Keenan’s four forty one, first of all, Keenan would have to stop doing it, and then Joe ster Chay at twenty episodes and being around two hundred behind, would have to stick around another ten years. That’s if Keenan stops doing it.

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Speaking of SNL, Marcelo Hernandez got what a coworker of mine used to call a…

He got his car waxed by Rolling Stone. This was a big fluff piece and the interviewer clearly a big Marcelo Hernandez fan. We learned that Marcelo is working on a Netflix special which he’s been writing. During breaks from SNL, Marcelo was at Helium and did three sets back to back to back, playing with the order and adding little bits here and there. Marcelo told Rolling Stone, you’re exploring because those are good crowds.

Jerry Snifellow, he said, good crowds help you explore, and tough crowds help you edit. So this was a very exploratory weekend. Now what do I mean by got his car wax? Let me read you this paragraph of bait him. Part of Hernandez’s lure is precisely that he seems so approachable.

He gives off supreme kid brother vibes, or, as one Vogue writer put it, golden retriever energy, and at the same time channels the class clown every girl had a crush on in high school. When I tell a few girlfriends I’m interviewing him, the news is met with some version of a squeal heard only a dog frequencies. He’s five feet eight and stocky. He was an snl short king ambassador for nothing, with curly hair that seems to get wilder than more energetic. He gets like an ECG for chaos, and although he considers every question seriously, hardly ever breaking eye contact, there’s always a twinkle of anarchy somewhere past his retinas.

When the waiter comes by, it off for drinks. Hernandez grabs my phone and presses pause on my recording, declaring his cocktail order off the record. It’s a secret for now, but people should know he had two of them. Sounds like somebody is a big fan of Marcelo Hernandez. Boy, this is exciting.

I actually bumped three stories after a week of nothing. The comedy gods have brought the news back. It is so nice. I shared a few things in the Facebook group, including the nay thing that I’m picking away at. There’s also a fantastic Bill Burr article in the New Yorker.

I’ll start picking away at that tomorrow. I shared the link. It’s paywalld. If you’re good at the Internet and you know how to get to things, you can read it. There’s also a New York Times article about late nights and specifically Malaney.

I’ll talk about that tomorrow as well. So I’m reacting to last week here. I didn’t want to go, oh my god, there’s so many things and do a twenty seven minute episode today and then wake up tomorrow and be like, oh, there’s nothing to talk about again. So I am squirreling away things because of how slow it was for the last week. It’s great to have news again.

I was also looking at the podcast numbers and the April numbers were down, and I was like, why are the April numbers down? Why doesn’t anyone like me anymore? And I got all sad, and then I looked the numbers in April have been down the last three years. So there’s something about April and comedy. Do people go on spring break?

Do people stop listening because it’s Easter. I don’t know what’s going on, but May usually rebounds from April, so I will calm down. Mike Myers and Colin Mockery are going to do a charity comedy show in Toronto. Mike Myers will do stand up as part of It’s Always Something Open Mike at the Second City in Toronto on May twelfth. The event is being hosted by Gilda’s Toronto, a charity named for Gilda Radner and a headline I saw from Australia ausie comedian left stunned as NBA superstar delivers sixty thousand dollars active generosity to a stranger.

It was Australian comedian Brett Blake he was filming a commercial in the United States with Shaquille O’Neal, the famous basketball player. Blake said it was one of the coolest things I’ve ever done in my life, and while on set, he witnessed something he’ll never forget. As Blake tells the story, a lady rocked up to the set and her car broke down along the way. So Shaq bought her a brand new sixty thousand dollars Chrysler and just handed her the keys. Now I’m not sure how that works, so like, hey, excuse me, can you guys help me?

My car broke down? And Shack, I don’t doubt that check bought somebody a car, But like, was there a Chrysler dealer next door? Did he go come with me, We’ll go next door. And he wrote a check or put down his credit card, And like, you can’t just like buy somebody a car on the fly. It takes at least an hour, doesn’t it.

Blake says the worst part I was technically homeless at the time. I was living in a camper by Roastbud Beach. I was like, Shack, buy me a house anyway. Fun story, and that is your comedy news for today. I will meet you back here tomorrow.

I can tell you off the bat we’ve got more Nate and the Bill Burr and the Malaney thing. So we’ll see you then

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Nicky Glazer, Amy Poehler, Matt Rife, Shehan Wang, Ali Wong, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan podcast chart position and revenue analysis
• Vogue’s funniest female comedians list and Nicky Glazer’s omission
• How podcast charts work and their limitations
• Matt Rife appearing on Discovery Channel’s Ghost Adventures
• Shehan Wang discusses community and friendship in comedy with Ali Wong
• Jay Leno’s Conan O’Brien rivalry and personal life with Mavis

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Jennie mac with your Daily Comedy News. Now I’m recording Sunday and Money back to back. So I just in my life thirty seconds ago did that list of the funniest women comedian? How is Nicky Glazer not on that list?

She’s like the ind comic right now. I feel like she should be on the list. When was that list from? And case you missed it. At the end of yesterday’s podcast, I dove in on an article from Vogue that was called twenty of the Funniest female Comedians of All Time from March of twenty twenty five, So I’m thinking about that more.

I mean, the list was okay, but should Nicky be on it? It’s our silverman. Do we want to go down the SNL rabbit hole? I mean, Kate McKinnon’s pretty funny, Amy Polar, Tina Fey, No, yes, Allen was a pretty good stand up, Sandra Bernhard is a pretty good stand up. Taylor Thompson’s pretty funny.

So I don’t know. It’s an odd tide list anyway. That was at the end of yesterday’s show. It continues to be slow on these parts and you know, I was trying and lead off with a big name comedian in the A block because it allows me to throw a big name comedian into the episode title and then hopefully I get some drive by people sampling the show. That’s how this works being transparent here.

I got pretty far deep into the script today and I was like, I don’t have something for the A block. So I typed Joe and Rogan into Google and found this article from Newsweek which asks is Joe Rogan losing his mojo? I’m gonna answer no, but they say. Spotify charts show that Rogan’s podcast dropped from its usual top position to second place in January, overtaken by The Sean Ryan Show. It fell again to third place in February, behind Fall of Civilizations and The Midas Touched Podcast, before reclaiming second place, this time to Amy Poehler’s news show Good.

Hang, okay, let me explain podcast charts to you. I’ll start with the Apple podcast charts because I’m more familiar with how they work. There’s a recency bias based upon how many people have subscribed recently. So, for example, if you can get two thousand of your friends to suddenly subscribe on this podcast in the next hour, I will have the number one podcast in the country for at least a short while. Now, as you guys accelerate me to number one, what will happen is other people will go what’s this and hit subscribe or follow on Apple Podcasts the nomenclature, and then my podcast will stay high up in the charts for a bit and hopefully a bunch of people stick around, and then suddenly I’ll have a top two hundred podcast.

That’s how that works. So sometimes if you look at the charts at like weird times, like go on at like Sunday morning at like seven am, and you’ll see something random at number one, and people know how the system works and they’ll game it and people will get a flurry of subscribers, and some people known to pay people to hit subscribe. So I think with the charts you kind of have to look long term, and you know, Rogan’s always there at the top. So the recency bias is part of it. There’s total downloads, how much of an episode people consume, all that goes into it, but the big factor is recent downloads.

Anybody in the industry will tell you that Joe Rogan is number one by a lot. It’s not close. I’m not saying if you don’t look at the charts like I’ll look right now as I record this on Friday, So right now, Apple has it Polar, Mel Robbins, Rogan, And I’m not saying Polar is not super popular. I am not saying Mel Robins is super popular. What I am saying is no, Joe Rogan hasn’t lost his mojo.

The Spotify charts, I don’t know exactly how they work. I assume they’re similar. But also understand, despite what you read, most podcasts audio podcasts are consumed on Apple Podcasts, and Spotify is number two, and the Spotify charts can be a little wonky, and Spotify tends to promote their own things. For example, Amy Poehler’s for The Ringer, which is owned by Spotify. Again, not saying Gami Polar’s not good, not saying Amy Polers not number one on the Apple podcast which Spotify does not owner control.

But you know that kind of thing factors into it, so don’t oversteer it to the charts. Joe Rogan had fifty one and a half million downloads in February. Now let me walk you through some numbers in podcasting, a live read, you know, a host read you hear me? Do those sometimes for the gambling website is sold on a CPM model. Let’s do lazy math.

Say you get twenty dollars for CPM. These days, you’ll get more like twenty three twenty four. If somebody wants to be in a premium environment, they’ll get more. But let’s do lazy math. So at twenty dollars CPM means if I want to reach one thousand listeners and ad would cost me twenty dollars.

Okay, So by my account, Rogan had sixteen episodes STROP in February, and we’ll accept the fifty one and a half million downloads number, and we’ll accept my made up twenty dollars CPM. Fifty one and a half million downloads across sixteen episodes means three point two million people downloading each episode. At a twenty dollars CPM, that would mean each live read is sixty four thousand dollars. If he runs three per episode, that would be one hundred and ninety three thousand dollars per episode. And if you do that sixteen times, just in commercials, the show would gross three million dollars.

Now we do that twelve months a year, that’s thirty six million dollars a year. And I’m going to guess the numbers are higher because Joe Rogan was reportedly paid one hundred million, So my CPMs may be low. There may be more than three commercial per hour. I haven’t listened, but just to give you a sense of is Joe Rogan struggling? Now?

Matt Rife is going to be on the Discovery Channel’s Ghost Adventures. Yeah, Wednesday, ten pm Eastern. Yeah, we’ll have to pick between Ghost Adventures or Malany, Which will you pick? The Ghost Adventures crew head to Nevada to investigate the recently shuttered Whiskey Pete’s Hotel and Casino, a sprawling historic property marked by murder, mystery, and unexplained activity, and is believed to be haunted by the notorious bootlegger for which it’s named Whiskey Pete. Joined by special guest investigator, comedian and paranormal officionado Matt Rife, the team is immediately affected by the dark energy and ominous activity within the buildings.

Sounds scary. Shehan Wang was one to get public broadcastings Where We Live podcast. They were curious how important it is to have friends like Ali Wong to go through the journey with the journey of comedy. Shang said, I think it’s tough for immigrant kids to be doing stuff like this. I mean it might be a little different now, but I think pursuing a craft like this can be full of potholes and doubts and bumps on the road, you know.

So when we have friends that do it together with it makes all the difference. You know, little community, it really helps a lot. It’s kind of the whole reason you do it because at the beginning it all seems like what’s the point. You know, you’re just doing open mics at random places, from like empty rooms to launder mats, wherever you can put a microphone on a speaker. The whole way.

There’s always moments where you’re gonna doubt yourself. That Jay Leno interview he gave to Graham Benzger, it continues to pay off if you’re trying to fill your script for your daily coming to News podcast. Jay did not deny which Joe got under his skin. It is the one in Conan’s Final Tonight Show monologue when Conan said much funnier than I will tell it. I just want to say to the kids out there watching, you can do anything you want in life, unless Jay Leto wants to do it too.

That’s a great joke I mentioned yesterday, trying to get a feel for is Jay let know a bad guy good guy? I think he’s a good guy. I explained yesterday ConA thing aside a little more. This is from a different interview where Jay talking about his wife Mavis. Mavis has Alzheimer’s disease.

Jay says, I just try to get home every night. That’s the only difference. The plane weights and I come right back. I used to stay out three or four days. I just stay out one day now two days.

Most. I enjoy it. I like taking care of my wife. I don’t mind it. It’s not the greatest thing in the world, but it’s okay.

It’s not like she’s in any pain, screaming or anything. She smiles and I can see when she’s pleased with something. You know, it is what it is. I’m glad it didn’t happen when we were forty. You have forty good years and you have five.

Kind of tricky ones, that’s okay. Do I wish it never happened? Of course, You’ve got to find a humor in it. It’s like a test. I’m glad I passed.

I’m very comfortable with it. Jay has kept up his tradition of making Mavis dinner and then they watched TV together, although he says Mavis is almost totally bit written and she can’t remember what happened from one episode to the next. Jay says, it’s really the same thing. You just can’t have a discussion or talk about things. Somehow, I’ve become the patriarch of the family.

He pays eleven thousand dollars a month each for a brother in law and an uncle and nursing facilities. Those are real numbers. I had my mom in one, and not by choice. You know, that’s something I would have never thought that I would have ever done. And you know, I like throws your curve and you wind up doing that.

But yeah, it was twelve thousand dollars a month for us. Jay says, there’s a lot of people affected by this. Technically I don’t have to go out on the road, but to keep a sense of normalcy, he does. Leno says a nurse comes in twice a week to check her vitals, and a dentist has regular house calls to clean her teeth. Jay says, I don’t know how people who are school teachers or policemen or nurses who have regular jobs do.

And I’m glad I have the position I’m in so my lifestyle doesn’t change dramatically. I don’t have to get a reverse mortgage or anything like that. As for his recent incidents, you know there’s the motorcycle accident, falling down a hill, whatever that was, Jay says, that’s a great thing about being over forty. Once a man goes over forty, you can’t teach him anything you never learned by your mistakes.

All right, let’s check in on the Sydney Comedy Festival.

Lift pulled three comics once again and Alex Ward’s show is called clip Clop. Don’t stop the description Alex is really good at talking. She has to be because people want to do it with her all the time, strangers, neighbors, her parents, the gall the age says the show is studded with punchlines. Let’s listen, okay, I want to talk about the social media ban on kids in Australia. It’s very divisive.

I’ve spoken to people who are for it, and I’ve spoken to people who are against it. Interestingly, I actually don’t have an opinion on it because I don’t have kids. But what I do have is a mom who I just spent three weeks with. And I’m just throwing it out there. But if we’re going to ban all people under sixteen, yeah, I think maybe we could look at some other age groups as well.

I like her. I think that’s fun enough for a little long to get to it, and I was going to play a little more, but it takes even longer to get to the second joke. But I wrote nice company, which for me, the comedy snob is a high compliment. I like her a lot. So that was Alex Ward.

Next up, Emma Holland. Emma’s show is called Don’t Touch My Trinket. The Age gave it four stars. I think they do four out of four and said Holland is an expert at pulling out the rug from beneath her audiences. I like this clip a lot.

Let me give you the visual here. She rides out onto the empty stage in a scooter like you know, the stand up scooters that the kids have today. And so she’s on the scooter and she’s wearing a helmet. Takes the helmet off, walks over to the microphone and we’ll pick it up from there. Same one.

He like Facebook, marketplace, A couple of fans down the front. What’s the best thing you’ve ever found a marketplace? A pair of earmuffs? Pair of ear muffs, virgin, best thing I’ve ever found a marketplace. Get this for a deal?

Thirty dollars for a treadmill. It’s good, right, it’s a good deal. Long story short. It was a belt sander and now I’m three centimeters shorter. But it lays I’m ripped.

I’m trying to get massive. I’ll fight you count spell Emma without Mma. I love her. I thought that was fantastic. Emma Holland next up.

And I hope my pronunciation is close here. Hey Hwang Hay’s show is called white Man’s Burden. The description are you ready to learn how to be whiter? Don’t worry, this is a safe space. Chinese superstar Hey Huang, We’re turns and character as Christopher Rice in an outrageous satshire on white culture.

The clip I have here is not from that show, but from a traditional stand up show. I found Hey to be very funny. I did have to skip the first ninety seconds because the punchlines for every joke in the first ninety involved F bombs, and if I take the F bomb out, the joke gets castrated. So I found a different chunk. So here is like two or three minutes into the set.

Australia has so many different types of Chinese living here, and I’m a Chinese from a modern China’s family. To be very specific, my family are I’m gonna use the sea word communist, not the ausy Sea word you guys expected. Yeah, if you go to my grandparents’ house, you will literally see a lot of reflags. Like to my grandma, any flag that’s not red is a red flag. I’m the product one child policy.

Have you guys heard about this policy? Yeah, it’s very brutal and heartless policy. But on the other hand, us survivors of one child policy, a lot of us are pretty spoiled. I mean my myth I’m doing this for a living and I don’t have any other backup plans. Eventually, my parents have to support me because they don’t have any other choice.

Very very funny there, and that is your comedy news for today. Hopefully there’ll be some sort of controversy, like, I don’t know, David Letterin get into a fistfight with Jay Leto and cameras could catch it, or Dave Chappelle say something, Somebody do some controversy. I’m tired of the slow news days every day, all right, see tomorrow

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Tim Dillon, David Spade, Sarah Silverman, Jerrod Carmichael, Mike Birbiglia, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Will Schreiner, Caitlin Olsen, Shang Wang, Josh Jones, Russell Brand, Shane Gillis, Dave Chappelle, Bo Burnham, Chris Rock

What’s in This Episode

• Netflix comedy special drought in May 2025
• Conan O’Brien Mark Twain Prize for Humor on Netflix
• Jay Leno discusses awkward surprise visit to David Letterman’s house
• Caitlin Olsen explains improv techniques on SAG-AFTRA Foundation
• Shang Wang discusses daily comedy writing habits
• Josh Jones interview about new tour and lottery fantasy
• Russell Brand court appearance on sexual assault charges
• Debate on greatest comedy specials of recent years

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Aaron’ Joenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It continues to be a very suspiciously slow time of the year, and as I’m looking at it, I think a big part of that is because Netflix seems to be in a gap between doing comedy specials. A lot of times they have one every week, and they seem to be taking a month off here. The last Netflix major release was Tim Dillon on April fifteenth, and we only really had two other specials other than you know, there’s a YouTube special every five minutes.

But Hulu had Curson on the twenty fifth and Brett Goldstein on the twenty sixth, and nobody’s out really doing press looking Ahead on Amazon May sixth, so that’s Tuesday, right, David Spade’s Dandelion is out, Then another ten day gap Matteo Lane on Hulu on the sixteenth. Finally Netflix gets back into the game on the twentieth with Sarah Silverman hbo Is, Jerrod Carmichael on the twenty fourth, and then Mike Birbigley on Netflix on the twenty six So it’s a slow month coming up here. Fortunately, Netflix gave us something to watch Today in the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. Conan O’Brien had accepted the prize on March twenty third, and they filmed it. It’s funny who gets spotlighted and who doesn’t.

On the Netflix page, it says cast Conan O’Brien, John Mulaney, Will Ferrell, Bill Burr, Camille On Jeohnny, Paul Rudd, Sarah Silverman, Stephen Colbert, Tracy Morgan, Reggie Watts. I personally would have mentioned David Letterman, but that’s just me anyway, that’s out on Netflix today.

Speaking of Letterman, Jay Leno was talking about Dave recently.

Leno had that big interview on the Graham Benzinger podcast, and Jay told a story about being out on a motorcycle with comic Will Schreiner. They decided to drop by Letterman’s house. Leno recalled, thinking, Hey, let’s stop in Malibu and see Letterman. Let’s just surprise him at his house. Letterman was apparently thrown by the visit.

Leno says it was the most awkward thing. Dave was like, huh, okay, come on in. Leno said, We’re like, oh, this was a mistake. It was just so awkward because you have nothing else in common other than comedy. Really, I’m assuming this took place in the eighties, when Leno was a frequent guest on David’s show, and not in the post Tonight Show era.

Benjader was curious what would it take to see Leno and Letterman reunited. Jay said, I have no idea. Dave’s a quirky guy, and I don’t mean that in a bad way. Believe me. If Dave wanted to do something, I would do it.

But I tend to get my hand bitten when I instigate these kinds of things. Yes, you do, Jay, I can’t get a sense of is Jay a really good guy or is he a bad guy? I know there’s the whole cone of thing. I get it. And when NBC went to Jay and said, hey, you want eleven thirty back, he could have said no, absolutely.

So there’s that. But going back to the eighties, you know, Jay was the Monday guest host for the Tonight Show. Somebody offers you the Tonight Show, you’re gonna say yes. There’s all the stuff with his wife that I think I have a story for that. In tomorrow’s script.

He seems like a good dude, I don’t know, never met him. Comedians don’t seem to like him. The guy was on the Tonight Show for years and at the number one show. Somebody likes the guy, you know. But I do agree with Leno when he says, but I tend to get my handbitten when I instigate these kinds of things.

I don’t mistrust Dave. I like Dave. I think he’s great. He still makes me laugh more than anyone else. The Sag After Foundations shared an Instagram video featuring Caitlin Olsen explaining improv.

When you’re doing improv, just listen, listen, listen, listen. You don’t have to talk much, especially if you’re in a scene with a bunch of people who know what they’re doing. Listen, let them be funny. And when you have something to say, go ahead and go for it, and don’t be afraid to fail because not everything that comes out of your mouth is going to be home run. And that’s okay, it’s not supposed to be.

Shang Wang was on the Where We Live podcast. Shang says, as a comedian, you’re not writing eight hours a day. You just have to sit down once a day. It could be ten minutes could be two hours. But the idea is make it habitual and make it a daily part of your life, just like anything else that you want to pursue.

Seriously, you can’t cram it all in a one day, right, so it’s helpful to come back over and over to your ideas and to give yourself time to think of new things. Josh Jones spoke to The Pink News you’r home for Comedy News. Josh’s new tour is called I Haven’t Won the Lottery, Here’s another tour. But what if he did win the lottery? Josh says, I want new paving.

I’ve been deweeding. It’s getting very boring. He currently lives in the city but would like somewhere with a garden. He doesn’t do current affairs in his act because people are paying for a night out and I just want to entertain them, so I try and keep it light. I just want them to have the best night, not the best night, you know what I mean.

I’m not abba, but I’m pretty good night out. Josh was picked on in school growing up, and he tells the story I remember telling my mom I was getting picked on instead of being like all right, I’ll speak to their mom. My mom taught me how to uppercut properly. She was like, if you uppercut them, they lose their balance, and then while they’ve lost their balance, to start hitting them. So I did that and it worked.

People kind of stop picking on me, because no one wants to get battered by the gay guy. I’m going to take the break here and when we come back, adults situations. If you’re listening with kids, hit stop, hit a checked, be right back, okay. As I mentioned before the break, serious topic here. If children are listening, hit stop please.

Russell Brand appeared in court on Friday. Russell is facing multiple charges of sexual assault, including two counts of rape. He was in court for fourteen minutes. This one month after British prosecutors had charged Brand with one count of rape, one of oral rape, two counts of sexual assaults and another of indecent assaults. Brand stood inside a plexiglass box in the courtroom, wearing a shirt opened to show his chest and holding a pair of gold rimmed sunglasses.

I’m going to just refrain from editorializing there and I will just continue. Mister Brand confirmed his name, date of birth, and British address, then listened without showing any visible emotion. Brand has denied all of the charges. He was granted bail. The judge of the actor was free to go.

Mister Brand said thank you and left the courthouse without speaking to reporters and jumped in a black Mercedes Benz. The judge referred the case to a higher court called a Crown Court. That hearing is scheduled for May thirtieth. Any trial might be like a year from now because of a backlog of cases in Britain’s judicial system. Switching gears.

Anticipating a slow news day, I asked the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, you got any topics, guys? Dylan jumped in and floated, what was the last truly great special, meaning one that people still talk about a few years later. There hasn’t been one in the last two years. Dylan floats Shane Gillis live from Austin in twenty twenty one, Tompsigora’s Ballhog, Bo Burnham’s Inside and Dave Chappelle’s eight forty six the last great special. Now, I am an admitted comedy snob.

I gotta think about that. My brain is already going back to like Chris Rock from like twenty years ago. Let me just google here all time comedy specials. I’m doing that and anything that I find comes from twenty twenty three, So that doesn’t answer Dylan’s question. Let me go back.

I actually have my list. Let me see my Best of twenty twenty three. That year I gave number one to Gary Goleman. I don’t think we’re still talking about that one. Tod Barry, we’re not talking about I do have Shane Gillis at three and Sigur at four and Canane at five for Best of twenty twenty four, the Roast of Tom Brady.

We are still talking about that. That might be the answer, Dylan. I know that’s not really a stand up special. I also had a tell triumph Onnie Chang David Cross a Doomian. So yeah, it’s been a minute.

If I have to pick, and I’m not going to pick something from twenty years ago, I think I’d have to go with maybe one of those Chappelles. It’s been a minute, though, you are right now, Erin. I sent a link to Vogues twenty of the Funniest Female Comedians of All Time, and she couldn’t remember if I’ve done this one or not. And I couldn’t remember if I’ve done this or not, but hey, let’s do it. I’m doing this cold now as I scroll down here, I haven’t even seen the list, but there’s a picture of Gilda Radner, and Gilda is a great choice for this list.

And you know, other than the obvious, you wish Gilda were still around. Had she been part of SNL fifty, she would be up there in the pan antheon. But because she has passed, she’s not visible, and I don’t think she gets talked about, and she would have had a very visible year in twenty twenty five with SNL fifty. All right, I’m gonna fly through here now. The first name is Moms Maybley, which wants me to editorialize.

If I don’t have something to say, I’m just going to move along. I’m not really familiar with Moms Maybley’s comedy. I back in the day programmed some of her records a few times, but it’s just from another era, so they didn’t play well on the radio, and then we stopped playing them. So I don’t really have anything to say about Moms Maybley. But sure, why not Gilda.

Joan Rivers. I’ve talked about it many times. I knew Joan worked with Joan, was in Joan’s apartment, one of the greats. Definitely still talked about Wanda Sikes. I guess Margaret Show now.

Johnny Mac admittedly oversteers against Margaret Show. Here’s why. When I first started It’s serious, a person representing Margaret Show called me an idiot for not hiring Margaret. And that’s not a good way to get me to do a deal with you. That’s not how to come at me.

So I did not hire Margaret. And you know I’ve got a little buyas there. Melissa McCarthy, Okay, Sure, Tiffany Hattish. I mean, I don’t know who else is on this list or not. That seems a little high.

Jenny Slats. People really dig Jenny’s slate. Sure, Patty Harrison. I’d like to think I know a lot about comedy. Maybe I don’t.

Vogue wrote, I don’t think there’s a comedian working today who makes me as consistently sick to my stomach as Patti Harrison, whether she’s guest starring on I think you should leave. Getting banned from Twitter for impersonating Nila Wafer’s singing nonsense songs in her stand up back or delivering a perfectly improvised line in theater camp Hey, Netflix, when is her special dropping? Leslie Jones? I think Leslie is more fun than funny, more attitude than material. Tig Nataro, Sure, fantastic.

Who doesn’t like Tig Nataro? Nicole Bayer? I hear Nicole every day as I listen back to this podcast. She voices a commercial and I hear her every day. Michelle buttell Yeah, Michelle’s a lot of fun.

Absolutely. Ali Wong has a couple great specials. Sarah Sherman one of my current favorites. Interesting pick on the list here, Maria Bamford. Sure, I think Maria works better in person than in clips.

If Maria comes to your town, definitely go see Maria Eightye Bryant, Amber Ruffin, Catherine Cohen, let’s go at Cotska one of my favorites as well. She’s just squirky and fun. I like her specials a lot.

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Okay, what do you guys think erin? Who do you think should be on the list? I’d love to hear from you daily Common News Facebook group erin already knows that, and we’ll leave on a downer. We found out on Friday that Ruth Buzzy had passed away at age eighty eight, best known for her time on laugh In playing a matron who wields her purse. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Yikes. Oh yeah, Ruth was on Sesame Street. That’s kind of how I know her from. Yeah, all right, yeah, yeah, I remember Ruth. Old people like remember her on Sesame Street.

Yeah, I totally forgot that was the thing, all right. She also appeared in Freaky Friday, the Real One from nineteen seventy six, the famous movie The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again nineteen seventy nine. I’m not making fun of the movie. If you’re of my age, you remember that movie. You know that list I just read Ruth Buzzy should be on it.

And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow.

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Featured: Tom Segura, Christina P, Garth Brooks, Theo Vaughn, Jimmy Fallon, Bert Kreischer, Jelly Roll

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s Netflix series ‘Bad Thoughts’ featuring serial killer parody character
• Tom Segura’s long-running Garth Brooks serial killer joke and its origins
• Two Bears Three Bears Five K running event in Florida
• Jimmy Fallon becomes investor and brand partner in tortilla chip brand SoChil
• Sydney Comedy Festival updates

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Johnny Mac, Yesterday, you promised us you were gonna lead off with a Tom Sagora story. This Tom Sagora story better be good. You talked about it a lot yesterday. Hello, I am Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News.

In case you missed it. I held back a story because I wanted to tape today and yesterday back to back, and it helps me to have an A level comedian story in the A bloc. So let me tell you that Tom Sagora is apparently going to make a lot of fun of Garth Brooks on his new TV series Bad Thoughts, coming to Netflix. In each of the six episodes of Bad Thoughts, Sagora is said to portray a dark character in quote unthinkable situations and fantasies. One such character, Garth Brooks, is a global country music superstar who kidnaps his own fans.

Sorry, the lawyers want to say, totally not Garth Brooks. This character is not Garth Brooks. I misspoke there, you miss on derstood me. It’s definitely not Garth Brooks. One such character is a global country music superstar who kidnaps his own fans and forces them into depressing situations to help inspire him to write new songs.

If you see the picture of who Tom Sagori is dressed up as I could see where, you might think it’s Garth Brooks, but it’s definitely not. Now if you’re not hip to this, so Goora has been goofing on Garth for years. You may occasionally see the internet comment where are the bodies Grth? This goes back to Tom Sigora and Christina p They’ve been joking about this since twenty eighteen. In twenty eighteen, Garth Brooks was previewing a big stadium tour, Sigora and Christina made fun of Garth Brooks for his everyman stick and always being awkward on social media.

Then, on the November twenty eighth, twenty eighteen episode of Your Mom’s House, episode four seventy six, if you want to go here it yourself, Sigora first alluded that he jokingly thought that maybe Garth Brooks was a serial killer. Sigura, way back then jokes, what he’s thinking about is all the bodies he’s got stacked in his craze in his yard. For sure, He’s probably killed two hundred to three hundred people in his life. Sigora once told Theo Vaughn that Brooks is well aware of Segura and the impact he’s had on his social media presence. He noted that the joke originally stemmed from the conspiracy theory that missing person cases would often align with many of Gorth Brooks’s tours.

Rolling Stone profile Tom Sigora back in twenty twenty three, and Sigura then said, I woulds like to point out that these are alleged accusations and that some very savvy detectives online have managed to point out the dots between these people have gone missing and his tour dates. I know there’s an FBI task force investigating this, that’s been confirmed, and I know he has a lot of land, so that would be such an arduous endeavor if they’re trying to find anything on his property. But I do think it’s right of him or his camp to at least address this. The fact that they don’t address this has been a huge mistake and it’s just gonna grow from there. The legal department here a Daily Comedy News wants us to remind you that this is all joke and parody, and of course Garth Brooks is not a serial killer.

That’s absurd. This is all just you know it was doing a bit speaking of Sgora today is the two Bears actually three bears five K in Florida, Bert Kreischer, Tom Sigora and Jelly Roll. All participants not only get the opportunity to party with the Bears, but will also receive a finisher medal, a beer and a shirt. And they add unless your Bert, we already know he won’t wear his so faques, can I walk? Is there a time cut off?

There is no official course cutoff, but participants should be aware that there may be road closures to accommodate the event that may reopen at a later date. So before I get into this next thing, I shared in the Facebook group the other day which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Please feel encouraged to join us there. I did share a video of Jimmy Fallon doing Jim Morrison from the Doors the Doors performing the reading Rainbow songs from a few years back. Fallon is super talented.

I mean everything about that bit. They captured the music of the Doors, They captured the way that Jim Morrison would start screaming as courses got repeated, and it’s a pretty good vocal impression of jim Morrison. I’ve met Jimmy twice found them to be cool. So I have good things to say about Jimmy Fallon, But this next thing a little cheesy, no pun. Jimmy is becoming a brand partner and investor in tortilla chips and salsa brand so Chill.

Now. I’m glad so Chill told me how to pronounce so chill because I would have never gotten this right. Let’s spell so Chill together. Are you ready? X?

You didn’t expect me to say X did you know? X O c h I t L. You can’t even remember that, so it’s so Chill again x O c H I t L. And I guess if you have a wacky brand name, you hire Jimmy Fallon, who explains it’s like so Chill or so Chill Media, so Chill Network, so Chill distortion. It gets easier the more you practice it.

I agree with that, Jimmy Fallon, So that’s my first job, and then once I get that out there, they’ll probably give me other assignments. On this slow news day, we are told so Chill is America’s largest independent tortilla chip brand. I’m trying to make a show here, folks, but it is still lesser known than your grocery staples on their tortilla chip shelf. As full national distribution, it’s looking to Jimmy Fallon for mainstream boost. Hey, you got super cool podcast influencers in their basement talking about so Chill chips.

I mean this is working. Matt Leeds is the chairman and says, as a brand looking to emphasize warmth, authenticity and shared experiences, Jimmy Fallon’s funny, approachable and family friendly persona aligns well with us and our brand strategy. That’s right. Fallon says, I’ve been offered my own whiskey, my own tequila, and all that stuff. I just don’t want to be out there boozing it up with the golf course selling bottles of stuff.

Yeah, you might look super uncool, like Sayin did last summer. I want to do that, Falan said, what am I doing? I don’t know anything about that, but this tortilla chips I can get behind. It’s on brand for me, and I have no problem selling this and standing behind it. Falon said.

The dude from so Chio called me up and I said, wait, I actually know what you’re talking about. I had no clue how it’s pronounced. He kind of gave me a rundown of where the business is, and I thought this sounded like a fun opportunity. I love business stories, I love marketing stuff, and I’d love to help see something grow and become giant. Financial details of the deal we’re not disclosed, but Falan said this has the chance an opportunity to really grow.

When a brand is already massive, then I’m just doing a commercial or something. It’s paid gig. It’s all good. You do the commercial and you hope it’s funny. But with this, I’m a partner and an investor, so if it works out, I might actually see some dividends.

I’ve got skin in the game. How much do you get paid hose to Tonight Show, let’s say fail and salary. Ay I says Jimmy is paid sixteen million dollars a year, which a different site breaks down he makes eighty two, nine hundred and one dollars and fifty five cents per episode of the Tonight Show. Not bad, but that doesn’t mean you can’t also invest in chips. I get it.

Jimmy says, one of my jobs at the Tonight Show is to always be selling everyone else’s stuff, which is great. I love it. It’s my favorite jobs and now I’m like, why not do it for myself? And I agree Jimmy and I think the important here. Let’s recap what we’ve covered on the show today.

So far, we’ve covered that Garth Brooks is definitely not a serial killer and Jimmy Fallon is selling tortilla chips. But if you check your watch, I somehow killed off half an episode with not much to talk about, so all things are good here. Let’s see what’s happening down in Australia at the Sydney Comedy Festival, which has been going on. I haven’t talked about it much yet because things were a little busy for a bit.

And also in past years they’ve posted a lot of clips of the people performing…

But I took a minute to put together the show and I found three. Let’s start with Cam Knight. Cam is performing on May seventh. Cam’s show is called Unbothered, Moist Eyed, Happy, in My Lane, Focused flourishing, the description of camp shows. We’re all doing our best to get everything turning in the right direction, usually around New Year’s but it’s momentary.

We might get halfway through a self help book like Atomic Habits. I think we’ve clocked it. We may even pay a lot of money to a Balinese bomb reader for some guidance, because it seemed to work for Julia Roberts. A few things have happened to us, and I plan on talking about them and my usually hilarious self deprecating fashion being one of those people who says everything’s fine, or this too shall pass. Let’s take a listen.

The Adelaide Advertiser gave it five stars out of five, and I have made some edits here for f bombs. We try not to do f bombs here on this podcast. Hello, how’s this for serendipity? On this day twelve months ago, I completely snapped my achilles tendon. Yum.

Oh. Most normal people who rupture their achilles do so taking part in high impact sport, you know, like sprints or squash perhaps for the adventurous little bit of park all. I did mine jogging towards a trampoline. I didn’t even get on the sweet tramp like I did it on Launch. I was at a playground with my eleven year old nephew.

I heard it go crack. I thought the little trip meet right, And there is nothing more emasculating than crumpling to the ground in front of your eleven year old nephew screaming, get your mom. It’s I couldn’t. I couldn’t run around with my kids for months, right, And so everyone, all my friends and family members ended up buying my kids heaps of toys to overcompversate. How’s that I’m the one injured?

They get the gifts right, It’s so spoiled. How’s this? My eldest last Christmas? He was given three kites, three of them? Like nobody needs that much Kaytrie in their life, do they?

Plus I’ve only got two kids. There’s a kite spare do the math? Look who’s go to get involved in the show? I don’t really like you know what caught flying is vagan fishing TI. So that’s gam knight.

He’s good. Let’s take a listen to Ben Hunter, who’s performing on May tenth and eleventh. Ben says, in this my sophomore stand up comedy Shelby speaking about how the world has gone totally mad, I maybe only fifteen or sixteen. I don’t know if that’s a joke or not. I think it’s a joke.

But I could put on a comedy show that is very least on part with my contemporary some of whom I’m told her up to double my age. So this clip is a bit of a slow burn. And I talked about this earlier in the week. I know my comedy tastes are different than the mainstream. I like the quirky alt stuff, so this takes a while to get going.

But as I watched it, I thought it was really funny. Now you’re probably gonna be like joining back. The clip was, I don’t get it, but I find this very funny. Here’s Ben Hunter. Hey all go.

Do you guys know Florido the rapper Florida? You know this guy apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur any bells. I won’t give away the whole song, but it wasn’t just some of the club looking at her. Let’s just put it that way. It’s the whole place, all right.

But you don’t know who I’m talking about? Really? WHOA Sometimes i’d get a good female. Yeah this guy gets it? Yeah?

Right, you could leave I guess I. Got that’s Ben Hunter. All right, I’ll play you something a little more traditional and faster paced. Dan rath show is called Tropical Depression. I like that’s how a lot.

Dan Rath performs at the Sydney Comedy Festival on May fifteenth. The description of this show is I can’t focus. I don’t know if it’s the microplastics long covid or because I pay five hundred dollars a week to live in a mold experiment. I went to a rally dressed as Boba Fett and was bashed by both police and protesters. I formed a parasocial relationship with a door dash chatbot.

I lost all my crypto trying to buy a Mermaid skeleton. Here’s Dan Rath. I have made edits here for both content. My psychiatrist said that anxiety can lead to depression. I wish it would hurry up anxieties.

Why worse. It’s like a sushi train, just different dishes every day. Shashimi, betrayal, Taraoky, Brian cancer. Me so I skit and you just. Up free in the morning, texting all your friends were cool.

Just depressions. Why better you’re in your pajamas, drinking Costad out of the box and a Xanax. It’s relaxing. Usually my care is tasing me by Naw’s she’s doing karaoke the bitch, but that’s her. She was asking if I wanted to go to an escape room.

I’m like, no, I can just eat buffalo wings without a napkin and try and turn a doornob. That’s Dan Wrath. This show is called Tropical Depression, and that, my friends, is how you kill off a Saturday when you got nothing. This was pretty good for nothing. This was pretty good.

All right, we’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Nikki Glaser, Bill Belichick, John Mulaney, Sophie Buttel, Nate Bargatze, John Stewart, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Julian Edelman, Rob Gronkowski

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle honors Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday at Lincoln Center
• Nikki Glaser comments on Bill Belichick’s girlfriend acting as his publicist
• John Mulaney plans to fight three 14-year-old boys on season finale
• Sophie Buttel discusses writing monologues for Taylor Tomlinson’s show
• Nate Bargatze announces plans to focus on movies after comedy tour
• John Stewart plays drums in cover band Church and State at New Jersey bar
• Fake Golden Girls remake image circulates featuring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler
• Great American Comedy Festival announced for Norfolk, Nebraska in June
• Dubai Comedy Festival returns in October with international lineup

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle was at Lincoln Center. They were celebrating Duke Ellington’s one hundred and twenty fifth birthday. Now you might be like, why was Dave Chappelle there.

You may recall he attended Duke Ellington’s School of the Arts in Washington, d C. And they were honoring him a few years back. Chappelle said of Lincoln Center, man, you never thought you’d see me an event like this, But he talked about the school and said that school profoundly, profoundly, profoundly changed my life. Duke Ellington was a guy who traveled all around the world just based off his talent and his kids. We knew that it was possible, just because his energy was in the air.

The New York Times says Chappelle mostly stuck to the teleprompter, but threw in a few ad libs, including you can’t get one of the greatest comedians in the world to just read a teleprompter.

And then he talked about a certain politician and said, it’s up to us.

We got to keep this tradition alive. This is one of the best things we got going in America here saying I got to make jazz great again. To send your letters to Dave Chappelle. I’ve been mentioning a few times during this admittedly slow newsweek that Nikki Glaser is the gift who keeps on giving. If you need another story, you type Nikki Glaser into Google and you never know what shows up.

She weighed in on this whole Bill Belichick girlfriend thing, because of course she did. But what’s even stranger to me is she was responding to an Instagram post by the Dudes on Dudes podcast, which I didn’t know Nikki Glaser was a fan of the dudes From Dudes on Dudes are two guys that used to play for the Patriots, specifically Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski. Even if you’re a casual football fan, you’ve probably at least heard of Gronk. These are like some serious Patriots, so they would know Bill Belichick, Edelman said of Belichick’s girlfriend, she was jumping into that conversation during the interview, just like any PR person would jump in when there’s an unnecessary question that they probably didn’t go over in the pre production meeting, Gronkowski said, Yep, she’s become his rep on top of being a girlfriend. Nikki Glaser chimed in on the instagram in the comments and said one percent this she’s acting as his publicist.

Publicists do this during interviews. People are out for blood. A strange note from John Mulaney’s show has made the news. Have you seen this thing on social media all week? Could one hundred men fight one gorilla?

It’s been going around online, Mulaney said had prompted a debate and our writer’s room about whether three fourteen year old boys could beat up me John Mulaney. Mullanie has now vowed to fight three fourteen year old boys. On the season finale on May twenty eighth, Mlani asked, is this legal so far? We think so. It’s not assault.

We know that, and we’re vetting every step of it. I’ve been led to believe that it’s for TV. It’s a lawful practice. Now, Millennie doesn’t seem like the toughest guy in the world, but then again, he also didn’t seem like he had a drug problem, So maybe he’s secretly ripped and secretly tough. Now.

I don’t know if you’ve raised any suns. Three fourteen year old boys could be quite physically imposing. I’m going to bet a dollar on the three fourteen year old boys beating up John Mulaney if they actually do this thing. Sophie Buttle talked about writing monolog for Taylor Tomlinson’s show. During the audition process, they apparently told Sophie the monologu should be about a page, and if it takes you more than an hour or two to write a page, you’re wrong for the job.

Sophie said, I banged it out really fast, and Taylor and I went and hung out. As plan. The next morning, I flew out to a comedy festival. When I landed, my manager has scheduled a zoom. I got to the hotel and we had a meeting with the head writer, the EP some other folks.

They decided they wanted to hire me. I had to leave the comedy festival early so that I could start that Monday. She explained how long it takes to write a first draft. Technically, our day starts at eight thirty am. We get a research packet with a bunch of online trends and options to write jokes about, and I have to be done with the draft by ten.

On Wednesday, they taped two episodes. Hey, that’s the thing, people do. I know one guy who’s taping Friday and Saturday in this session right now. Wednesdays is our double tape day, so I have to do two monologue drafts between eight thirty and ten, and those are much harder. I use the full amount of time on single tape days, so it feels like a truly great feed of human willpower to get two done.

Nay Brighetzi told The New York Times, I don’t plan on touring doing stand up forever. I want to make movies. People can think if you get too big, are you’re gonna change? The audience is very much in mind with everything that I will make again, I try not to do it for me. It’s for you.

I want them, the audience, to be able to trust that keep coming and see that I’m trying to do something a little against the green right now. When I started in comedy, some comics would be like, well, I’m not for everybody, and I’d be like, well, why do you want to not be for everybody? Nate has been saying the next special will be on Netflix, and I could see maybe one more special after that. I don’t want to overstay my welcome. I also want to get out of the way.

I need to let the next wave comedians come up. I got this tour and then maybe one more. We’ll see. I’ll believe that when it happens. John Stuart, he’s in a band, and the Asbury Park Press said they play it on Monday night, Church and State TM is Rick Barry on vocals, Andy Bova on guzar, Jim Bova on bass and John Stewart on the drums.

Apparently they were at Georgie’s Bar on Monday night. Stuart joked from the stage, we know almost eight songs tonight you get to hear seven of them. John was also confused and said, you guys, don’t put the Daily Show on at eleven. I drove here straight from the show. This is embarrassing.

Tina Fay worries that people actually believe she’s remaking The Golden Girls with Amy Poehler and told those folks go to a hospital now, no offense. Tina fe and Amy Poehler, it’s actually a great idea. You guys would crush it. Can’t you make like eight of them? For Netflix, just do it and be done.

There’s a fake image floating around. It features Amy Pohler, Maya Rudolph, Lisa Kudro and Tina Fay as the Golden Girls. Tina told Entertainment Tonight, Oh, I didn’t know about this. I liked that it was fooling people like, why would we ever take a picture where Amy and Lusakudro in costume? But we are not.

If this fooled you, you might be a boomer. And if you’re gen X and this fooled you, go to a hospital. The Great American Comedy Festival comes to Norfolk, Nebraska, Friday, June thirteenth. They’ve announced the headliners River Butcher, David Perdue, Amy Shanker, Adam Tiller, and host Chip Chantry. Night will end with your headliner James Austin john And The festival began in two thousand and eight to honor Johnny Carson, who grew up in the area.

Meanwhile, the Dubai Comedy Festival is back, Baby, this one not until October. It’s his fifth year, featuring international and regional stand up stars at various venues including the Dubai Opera and the Coca Cola arena. So, who’s there, John, Tom Sagora? Who we’re going to talk about tomorrow fun store I’m sitting on. I needed a headline.

I told you I’m taping two. I told you I admitted it. So I saved the Tom Sagora story to Schoogle. Tom sigorat Garth Brooks. If you can’t wait, But that’s tomorrow’s leadoff store.

You know, you know tap of Friday and Saturday back to back. What do you want for me? Sigora will open the festival on October second, then on the fifth, ohmid Julily. On the seventh, it’s Irish comedian Joanne McNally, who previously appeared at the festival in twenty twenty three. Morgan Jay, La based comedian and musician Morgan Jay, who’s been coming up a little bit on the show lately, makes his Dubai debut on October sixth at Dubai Opera and your closer for the festival on October twelfth that Coca Cola Arena.

Indian comedian Zakir Khan Cohn is performing in Hindi. The festival overall will feature shows in several languages, including English, Arabic, and Hindi, as well as interactive experiences across the city. Out today a new comedy album, Simon Gibson’s The Wizard’s Boy, recorded live in Montana. Simon Gibson took the stage with high Kicks before sharing several hilarious personal stories, including his time working as a customer service rep, a fancy coffee artist, and deli server, plus his weight gain slash weight loss journey, his hobbyist dad’s homemade magic wands, and more. Simon Gibson is described as Chris Farley meets Sam Kinnison.

Love it. Simon Gibson’s The Wizard’s Boy out today from a Special Thing Records, And I’ve got one more John Clees thing that I saved because you know, you like like a little fun, kicker story at the end of the podcast, leave everybody with a smile. It’s kind of the format works, right. It’s the format is like big names at the front, then talk about like some comedy festival overseas, kind of in the middle. At the end, I try and leave it with a smile.

Let’s how this works. You’ve caught onto this, yes, John Cleese. It’s an old brade magazine. The Third Wife got two properties. One was in London and one was in New York, and we had to sell the other three.

What’s the difference between a famous singer and a famous comedian? About two hundred million dollars. If you lose your nest egg at seventy, there’s not much alternative to constantly working. I could have married somebody rich. And that is your comedy news for today.

Boy, I bet you can’t wait to hear that Tom Sigoris story. I know you can’t wait. Well, I’m about to read it, but you can’t hear it until tomorrow because I pre tape Saturday. See yep.

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Featured: Tom Segura, Christina Pozitski, Conan O’Brien, Pete Davidson, Jordan Klepper, Bowen Yang, Matt Rogers, Dave Thomas, Brian Cranston

What’s in This Episode

• Tom Segura’s Netflix series ‘Bad Thoughts’ premiere May 13
• Conan O’Brien receives Mark Twain Prize
• Pete Davidson Axe deodorant commercial and Instagram Q&A
• Jordan Klepper Daily Show special on young Trump voters
• The Lost Culturistas Awards moving to Bravo
• Dave Thomas creating Ukrainian Freedom Fund video campaign

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Sigor is beginning to promote his new Netflix series Bad Thoughts, and he tells Variety Bad Thoughts as everything, prosthetic, genials can join, twins, deep fakes, and one horrified Peruvian mother. Sigora said, we had to watch a few episodes at a private screening room with hidden cameras. She told me, give the money back.

You can’t air this. I’ll never see my friends again. Bad Thoughts is six episodes. It starts May thirteenth, and it’s described as grotesque, stylized, and brazenly absurd. Variety describes it as black mirror by way of David Cronenberg, if Cronenberg were tripping on mushrooms.

Sgora tells Variety, I always wanted to make movies, and this felt like the first step. I’m trying to be Jordan Peel with penises. It’s interesting how this came together. It started as a few short films that Sigora wrote between tour stops. He pitched them to a director, They did an eleven day shooting.

Then they had enough material to convince Netflix to order the full series. Tom said, I told my wife what we were filming, and she goes, I’ve non here for twenty years and these have been in your head the whole time. The show was produced while Tom Sigora’s wife, Christina Pozitski, was battling cancer. Tom said she was diagnosed in June last year. I told her I’d pause production.

She said, no, go make your show. She was home recovering surgery while I was in full prosthetics acting like a sex crazed mutant. The only note they got from Netflix involved the N word. He also says in South Korea they may have to blur some of the penis shots. Apparently, if it looks too human, it’s a no go.

Brian Cranston almost joined, but Tom says he liked the script, but he didn’t work out. So I just played the part of myself. That’s show bizy, you know. Tom Sagora, Brian Cranston. Bad Thoughts will also compete at the Emmys for Outstanding Short Film, Comedy, Drama or Variety Program.

Bad Thoughts on Netflix May thirteenth, and it’s May already not too far away. This weekend, the Mark Twain Prize Conan O’Brien remember that was the thing that happened. Well, they released a trailer and it’s really strong. Let’s listen. Thank you all for coming, and shame on you for being here.

Conan was like, don’t be cynical, and then collected fifty million dollars. You are the richest underdog in this town. Can you prove that? Not only can you meet your heroes, but when you do, he’ll flirt with your mom. Look, I know this is your knight, but you look like an idiot right now.

You just look at him. You know, the poor bastard never had a chance. I’m a comedian because of you. So after this you’ll be facetiming my parents to apologize. We have five wings here, each hotter than the last.

Oh, this one really saw Yeah, he introduced us to a bear who masturbated through a nightmare. History will show this will have been the most intertaining gathering of the resistance ever. Dam me. David Letterman is still alive today. At four Eastern, Pete Davidson takes over the axe Instagram paid which Pete will host an Axe Me Anything.

I see what you did there? It is a Reddit style ask me Anything. This one focused on confidence and Underdog wins. Pete is also headlining a commercial four acts. It is called short Kings.

In the commercial, Pete Davidson gives a pep talk to a young man insecure about a relationship before spritzing him with his favorite axe sent Pete commented on dating apps, He’s like, it’s just like no, yes, no, it’s so rude, like you don’t even know the person you know. So I really feel bad for this crop of people because I have anxiety, and when I grew up was just flip phones. It was pretty awesome. But the kids today, I don’t even have a shot. So I just hope it changes and other people revert backwards a little bit.

Since Pete is out hawking deodorant, he was asked about deodoran and said, I mean in high school, Axe was a shower. I went to an all boys school and it could be awkward when you’re using the gym, and showering in a school when you’re growing up could be tough. So I always had axe and was just spray it all over and then shower when I got home. Reminds me of growing up and playing basketball outside and having a normal life. My fragrance was Phoenix.

It’s the blue one. I just remember vividly going to CVS with my mom every two to three weeks and getting new bottles. I hate to say this, but it’s kind of how like prime sports drinks are now. Where you collected it was cool to have like four of them on your dresser. There was just something reassuring about it, and you knew that even if you smelled like crap, you’ll be fine if you have it.

So it really brings me back to my childhood. Don’t miss the Axe Me anything. Today at four, Jordan Klepper will do another special for The Daily Show, this one with the really complicated title The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse Maga the Next Generation. Yes there are three colons in that title. In The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse Maga the Next Generation.

Jordan Klepper will dive into the pocket of young voters who turned out for Trump during the election. Klepper’s travels take him everywhere from college campuses to MMA octagons. It is Jordan Clepper’s sixth Daily Show branded special. So you might be saying, well, why don’t they just give the Daily Show to Clupper and you are reminded. Oh yeah, remember he hosted the Opposition with Jordan Klepper, which was in the post Daily Show spot at one point.

So I don’t know if he’ll get another at bath there anyway. Clipper’s Mega the Next Generation special Monday May nineteenth, eleven thirty pm on Comedy Central will be on Paramount Plus and The Daily Show YouTube channel the next day. The Lost Culturista’s Awards are getting more serious this year. They’ll be on Bravo. These are the awards given out by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers.

The Lost Culturista’s Culture Awards recognized culture’s most iconic and consequential moments of the year through musical performances, special guests, and over one hundred award categories. The awards will be taped in La July seventeenth, will air on Bravo August fifth, I will stream the next day on Peacock. This next story is just fascinating. Dave Thomas from Second City Television remember him now stay with me here. He says that a close call with death in twenty twenty affected his worldview.

He told the Canadian press, I had sepsis and my arms and legs were twice their size. I was in the hospital, I was actually in hospice, and I thought I was basically done. I look back in my life at that time and I thought, you know what, I’ve got no regrets. I had a good run. But he got out and thought, what am I going to do with the rest of my life?

He is seventy five years old. How do I put some meaning into this life before I kick the bucket? So he has headed off to Ukraine. He’s creating a video campaign for the Ukrainian Freedom Fund, a Key based US registered charity run by one of his friends. The Ukrainian Freedom Fund aims to provide non lethal equipment to outgun Ukrainian forces.

Now I love this paragraph from the Canadian press. I’m going to read it verbatim deliberately because I can’t believe they put this all in the one paragraph. Okay, you ready quote. I looked at the situation the Ukraine and I thought, well, this is terrible and I should try to help, says Thomas, whose credits include nineteen ninety three’s Coneheads, the two thousand and one film Orre at Race, and ninety sitcom Grace under Fire. Why did you have to put his credits there?

Anyway? Dave says this might sound cornery, but I hope in some small way what I do might help raise money that I’ll least suffering, maybe remind people that one person can make a difference if you decide to. You can’t make a difference if you try. Let’s stop off on Gossip Corner. This from Entertainment Weekly.

I’m not sure. Chloe Feiyeman realizes what words came out of her mouth. Okay, there’s a TikTok video. Chloe Fineman says she was scolded by a rude restaurant manager in New York while exchanging pleasantries with Demi Moore and to me’s dog, pe Laff. Fineman says she walked into an Italian restaurant on Madison Avenue.

A server led to them the table right away. Fineman explains, there’s several empty tables and I sat down. Then I look up and there’s the dog and Demi Moore and I was like, oh, hi, we met once or twice, and I’ve held Peeloff because Peloff was backstage at an SNL show. Fineman’s sister says, and she said hi back.

Also, Chloe continues, the manager sees me, I don’t know, maybe I had no make…

Did I not look legitimate enough for this empty room at the restaurant? And the guy’s like, what are you doing here? Come with me? And I guess I didn’t realize you had to talk to another Italian guy to get a seat, even though there’s like a thousand empty tables. It’s very confused.

And here’s the part where I think she doesn’t realize what words came out of her mouth. Chloe Feineman said, I was a calm down. I’m not nobody. I’m on SNL. Dude, calm down.

Just because you’re on SNL, you’re not in some extra tier. Chloe says. He was like, I don’t care who you are. I treat everybody the same. Yes, good job, mister restaurant guy.

I don’t care that you’re on SNL. We have rules here at the restaurant. Follow the rules. You can be on SNL all you want. You don’t get special class.

Fineman recalled, and I was like, you’re being rude, and he’s like, you’re being rude anyway. I don’t want to get into details. Well, let’s say a personality of mine started to come up that I don’t love. I took myself out of the situation. You could call it a caring moment.

I also call it living in New York and everyone is rude as f somebody sounds a little entitled, but I wasn’t there. I don’t know. And in Philly, where people are even more friendly than they are in New York. It’s Variety Pack, a two weekend festival of Philadelphia’s weirdest all to comedy acts, not just stand up, not just improv, not just sketch, little bit of everything. It kicks off tonight through the third and then again May eighth through the tenth at the Drake Theater.

Producer Chaz Martin says, Philly is full of weirdos. We have incredible stand ups, brilliant improv in an emerging sketch comedy scene, but there’s been a void when it comes to truly wild, out of the box comedy. That space used to belong to the beloved Good Good Comedy, which closed in twenty twenty. Variety Pack is here to bring that spirit back. If you like your comedy weird and unpredictable.

This festival is for you. It kicks off tonight with Have You Seen My House? A Whirlwind cabaret featuring the songs of Patti Smith, Bette Midler, Dolly Parton and Moore. Other shows this week and include Cartoon Club, The Entire Effing Twilight Saga in sixty Minutes and clip Show, a live comedy show hosted by character actresses are Eric Thomas and Chris Newcomer. And yesterday I promised I’d finish off that John Clees article.

He spoke with the Hollywood Reporter. They were curious about the pythons fighting. They’ve seemed to always be fighting, and John said, if you look at the history of most groups, you’ll find there’s always quarrels at some I think we’ve done quite well. What people often don’t understand about a team is that a team is not composed of all people who do the same things well. It’s a group of people who do different things well.

Terry Gilliam, at an early stage, decided he just wanted to direct movies. Eric Iidel didn’t really come forward until the nineteen eighty three is in the Meaning of Life. Because Eric is very, very strong on music, and particularly on lyrics. Michael Palin, who always loved travel, did some travel programs. Terry Jones did all sorts of things.

Graham Chapman was two people. Really. He was Chapman sober, who was an extraordinary good writer and a really fine actor, and Chapman drunk, who wasn’t awfully good in anything and couldn’t remember his lines. Whereas I like comedy and I very much enjoy simple pleasure making audiences laugh, very different people, so inevitably, as we get older and become slightly more authentic, we go in different directions. And that’s your comedy news for today.

See tomorrow

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Chase Brisco, Tim Dillon, John Cleese, Seth Meyers, Nikki Glaser, Molly Shannon, Mark Marin, Ronny Chieng

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis teams up with NASCAR for Netflix Full Speed season two
• Tim Dillon compares Los Angeles and Austin, defends living in LA
• John Cleese reflects on Holy Grail 50th anniversary and comedy’s decline
• Late Night with Seth Meyers addresses changing late-night landscape and Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnight cancellation
• Nikki Glaser named to Time 100 Most Influential People 2025

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Caloroga Shark Media. Shane Gillis teaming up with NASCAR. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, and boy, it has been beautiful in the Northeast and it’s volleyball night, so I am kind of sighted, all right. As for Shane Gillis, he’s going to be part of season two of Netflix’s Full Speed. For season two, they’re putting the drivers out in front, specifically Chase Brisco.

You know Chase from Joe Gibbs Racing. Brisco and Shane did a cross promotion between NASCAR and the Tires show. Netflix shared on Instagram at Sires and Full Speed the collab we’ve all been waiting for. Sire season two premiere’s June fifth. Full Speed season two premieres May seventh, only on Netflix.

Not too much is known yet other than a picture of the two. But that’s fun. Tires is a really good show. If you haven’t seen it, binge it six episodes in and out, fun, funny, Shane doing Shane things. It is perfect.

Love it. Tim Dillon spoke to Fox News and compared La and Austin. He thinks the politics of LA are terrible, but prefers checks ins over Californians. Tim explains, La has a lot of problems, but La is a massive, world class city like New York. Austin is a small college town.

There’s no comparison. Austin’s a growing city, but it doesn’t have the infrastructure. It’s an ugly place. It’s kind of brown, and the lake is green and it’s warm and gross. And you know, my job’s to be honest about things.

I don’t live in places because of the politics. I’d rather live in California and argue with people and tell them they’re wrong and try to save it. You know, Tim, Is there anything that would make you leave La? Tim said, no, I mean I have homes in New York and La. I’m rich.

I can live wherever I want. You know. I tend to just go not as rich as I should be. Watch the special John Clees was making the rounds. It was the fiftieth anniversary of The Holy Grail.

Clease told the Hollywood Reporter, we had no idea what we were doing. We were very lucky. There was some extremely funny material in The Holy Grail. We somehow got it together because Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam managed to co direct. It was the usual Python chaos, with one of them creeping down to the editing room and re editing something while the other one was asleep upstairs.

That kind of thing. Then it opened. It was a complete surprise hit. We were thrilled because it was the last thing we expected when we started Python. The general feeling was what on earth are these people doing?

ABBC type boss bumped into our director and elevator and said, is this show supposed to be funny? I think it’s awful, That was the head of the department. One consistent theme almost everything I’ve done is that eighty five percent of the people at the top have no idea what they’re doing. John said, Python, it’s quite well known, although I think the younger people don’t know about it really. The Hollyood reporter was curious why that might be, or it’s just because the years have gone by, and Clee said, I’d like to say it’s because American culture, not the individuals, but American culture has gotten more trivial.

It’s all about short attention span. In my day, there were many more good shows about good subjects. The subjects that people are now making movies and TV shows. They just astound me. It’s either people dressed in a cross between Star Trek and something medieval.

Add a few flying dragons, you know what I mean. It’s either that or it’s the most extraordinary, sordid stuff, which I know was. But why people would want to watch it on television, I don’t know. The recent thing had such a huge success. What’s it called, Single World about a boy who kills the girl?

The Hollywood porter said, adolescence. Clease, yes, adolescence. Tragic, absolutely tragic. But it amazes me that people would want to watch it. So my take on the Python thing.

I know how I got into a Monty Python because I grew up in the seventies and we had what seven channels in New York City, and I saw in the TV guide, remember TV Guide, there was something called circus. So I put on Channel thirteen expecting to see a circus because I’m a kid, and like, okay, what else am I going to watch? I’ll watch a circus And it turned out to be this other thing, you know, So we didn’t have that much stuff. There’s just a lot more media now. As I like to explain people like, you know, do you ever get bored I’m like, I have over seven hundred hours of Star Trek.

Now there’s twelve Star Wars movies. I’m never going to get bored at this point. But when I was a kid, there were only seventy nine episodes of Star Trek, so you had seen them all a zillion times, so we consumed monty Python. Now these kids, these days, there’s so many options. I don’t know why they’d watch a fifty year old series, even though it’s hilarious.

Clease said, I’m in the process of making three hours for television sort of Life of CLEAs with masses and masses of archives stuff, because I’ve got archive stuff coming out my ears. What I’m doing in the third of those shows is saying how sad it is there’s so little comedy, and what good effect comedy has on people. I go to these comic cons sometimes there are people coming up to me in large numbers saying thank you for helping me through difficult periods of my life, because when you laugh, you move your center of gravity to a place that can cope a bit better with the problems of life. Cleese does not love the ending to the Holy Grail. He explains, yeah, it stops being very funny towards the end, and the ending is the best we could come up with.

It’s a joke that’s so bad. I have a version of the ending, and as far as I can see, people like it better than the original one. It’s just spared down. The original one just takes too long to try and build up the tension. It would be much better if it had been edited, but I think for the first hour so the film is extraordinarily funny.

It tails off a little bit, but I’m delighted people like it so much. I’ll pick more at this tomorrow. I got to work with the Pythons on their fortieth anniversary. Yeah, that would make sense. We got to put together Monty Python Radio and worked with the guy.

So that’s one of the pleasures of my career. John Clees is eighty five years old now. Seth Meyer spoke to Deadline about the changing of Late Night. He says, for every exciting new edition, like what Malaney’s doing, it feels like one or two things fall off. He had very nice things to say about Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnight.

It always just sort of breaks my heart because this was such a cool destination for people in comedy, meaning the twelve thirty five slot. You know, I was lucky enough to have this obviously be the step for me after SNL. The cool thing that After Midnight was doing was not only did they have a host, it was really a nice place for three comedians to get to do their things. So it’s disappointing. It’s never good when comedy platforms go away.

Malaney. Tonight has Molly Shannon, Mark Marin, Ronny Chieng, and music from John Cale and Maggie Rogers. Let’s see if Ronny Chieng can bust through there. I think he has the personality type to do so. Molly Shannon, I think will thrive.

I could see Mark Marin sinking into the couch and not knowing how to handle all this. We’ll see tonight. I find myself increasingly thankful for Nikki Glaser because sometimes I need like one or two more stories and a Google Nikki Glaser, and something always comes up. She was named to the Time one hundred Most Influential People of twenty twenty five. Congratulations.

She then joked that her next step is to go to space, and then she backed off, saying just kidding, no, no, no, I don’t want to go to space, not only because of the backlash I will face, but I just have no interest in going to space. I want to enjoy the riches of my success. I think I’ve been trying to maintain it like don’t go away, and I haven’t really enjoyed any of it, like you’re just trying to keep it. I want to relax and let it in a bit. Rommy Yousef will be the speaker at Rutgers University’s Newark May twenty second commencement.

Rommy went to the school from twenty nine to twenty eleven and majored in polysci. He left before graduating to become an entertainer. That seems to have worked out, and there’s been a lot of Romy press lately. In a statement, he said, thirteen years ago, I took a break from Rutgers to pursue acting. That break is now over.

I’m honored to be giving this year’s commencement speech finally receive a college degree. Thank you Rutgers for this honor, for making my parents feel like the three semesters of tuition they paid for was actually worth it. Spotify said they paid more than one hundred million dollars to podcast publishers. Some of those podcasters include Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn. Rogan reportedly has a Spotify deal worth up to two hundred and fifty million dollars.

Meanwhile, Patreon said they paid out upwards of four hundred and seventy two million dollars to podcasters for more than six point seven million paid memberships in twenty twenty four. There’s a lot of money to be made in podcasting. For example, you could run a few commercials in the middle of your show. I feel like I do this next story. Every year the headline the cost of the Edinburgh Fringe means comedy is becoming more elitist.

This time it’s comedian Matt Ford who’s saying that Edinburgh is expensive to performat. We hear this every year. He says, the Edinburgh model is making it almost impossible to become a working class successful comedian in this country. Every year we hear stories of how you have to promote your own show. Oh, and it’s hard to find a place to stay, and people like sleeping in cars and bathroom tubss and tents and I don’t know for it’said a lot of comedy clubs.

The money’s gone backwards since when I first started gigging, the money has gotten worse. The La Times caught up with Brett Goldstein watch his special on Max if you haven’t. The Times was curious if there’s anything American stand ups can learn from British comedy. Brett said, it’s not what the stand ups could learn, it’s what the clubs could learn. In American clubs, it’s relentless.

There’s three hundred acts goes on for hours, and there’s table service and people getting up. It’s insane to me because there’s this constant distraction going on all the time. As for Brett’s specific I made it moment, he says after doing Sesame Street. I mean everything else is a bonus. That’s great.

There’s a new comedy stage show that will explore the rivalry between Oasis and Blur. It is titled The Battle. What’s this about? Nineteen ninety five was a time when music was deeply woven into the fabric of culture, dominating the news and end lines. Unlike today’s fragmented scene.

We aim to transport audiences back to that thrilling summer. Expect a show so packed with filthy language and razor sharp dialogue. The Battle Old Tour the UK before stint on London’s West End. The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York has announced a few things, a new session of How Comedy Gets Made, a National Comedy Center Online certificate course. The online program is designed for creatives, professional students, and comedy enthusiasts who want to explore the creative and business aspects of comedy, from writing and performance to production and distribution.

Seven and fifty bucks, but they got Bill Hayter and Paula Poundstone not too shabby. New York Times caught up with Mike Myers. He’s been a little political lately, you know, little US versus Canada. Mike said, I’m also an American citizen. I took my oath very seriously.

That’s what’s so crazy. Americans are the last people you’d think wuldever be a threat to us. Myers took Partner TV ad for the Liberal Party featuring Prime Minister Mark Karney. Myers wore a never fifty one Jersey. Meyer said he wanted the ads to reaffirm his own canadianess and endorsed mister Kearney.

Myers explained, I wanted to be like, I know, I don’t live there anymore, and let’s talk at that. I thought it would be funny if the Prime Minister of Canada ran an identity test on me. Bringing this back to comedy, Meyer says, fascism doesn’t like to be ridiculed, It likes to be feared. Satire is an important tool in the toolbox that says this is not normal, that the cuts he’s making are not normal. I believe that he there refers to a prominent American politician, Send your notes to Mike Myers.

Mike quotes Joni Mitchell saying, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. The possibility of it all being gone has raised our consciousness of how great we are. That is your comedy news for today, See tomorrow

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Featured: Nathan Fielder, Jo Koy, Kevin Hart, Sebastian Maniscalco, Charlie Day, Jimmy Kimmel, Jay Leno

What’s in This Episode

• Nathan Fielder’s Summit Ice episode removed from Paramount Plus
• Jo Koy’s statement on Vancouver Filipino festival tragedy
• Kevin Hart cancels India tour following terror attack
• Sebastian Maniscalco to star in Apple’s Ponzi scheme podcast
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 returns July 9th
• Charlie Day discusses continuing It’s Always Sunny and Season 18 plans
• Jay Leno talks about Jimmy Kimmel incident on his show

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. A little bit of a weird one today. The stories are more doom and gloom than I usually present to you. Let’s start with Nathan Fielder.

He’s getting into it with Paramount Plus. He is upset that Plus has removed an episode of the Comedy Central series Nathan for You. Nathan complained about this during Sunday’s episode of HBO’s The Rehearsal. In the rehearsal, Fielder explains that one of his proudest achievements is creating the Summit Ice apparel brand, which he launched during season three, episode two of Nathan for You back in twenty fifteen. The point of the brand was to promote Holocaust awareness.

In the episode of the rehearsal, Nate says, in late twenty twenty three, I discovered that the episode of Nathan for You featuring the Summit Ice story mysteriously went missing from the Paramount Plus streaming service. Has this gone by for two years without any of us noticing? I don’t know. In the HBO series, Fielder recreates the moment he learned about the removal. He directs Alexander Lyce, who’s playing fake Nathan in the rehearsal, to retype his email correspondent to Paramount in a voiceover, real Nathan, Fielder says, this is so complicated.

I wrote an email to some contacts I had at Paramount asking them why the episode was removed. The thing that made this tricky was Paramount is currently airing a different series of Mind as scripted drama that hadn’t yet been renewed. How I spoke to them could have career repercussions. I remember wanting to convey how urgent this was for me. My email was extremely cordial, using phrases like forever grateful and happy Holidays.

The network confirmed in the response that it was taken down intentionally and gave me a one word explanation as to why the word was Sensitivities Entertainment Weekly dug on this, and they are reporting that they’ve learned Paramount Plus is not streaming the episode after a standards review, but it’s unclear which of the company’s standards the episode failed to meet. Fielder’s narration says. In late twenty twenty three, a decision was made by Paramount Plus Germany to remove the episode in their region after they became uncomfortable with what they called anything that touches on anti Semitism in the aftermath of the Israel Hamas attacks. Nathan claims the German decision caused other countries to remove the episode, quoting the narration, before long, the ideology of Paramount Plus Germany had spread to the entire globe, eliminating all Jewish content that made them uncomfortable. This is real, by the way.

Fielder then shared some stats about programming currently available in the US on Paramount Plus. According to Fielders narration, on the Paramount app, there are fifty results for Nazi, ten for Hitler, and zero for Judaism. We’ve been erased anyway. You will find the rehearsal on max if you want to check that out for yourself. Joe Cooi has commented on a tragedy at a recent Filipino Canadian street festival in Vancouver, where eleven people were killed dozens more injured a man drove a black suv through a crowd who had gathered for the festival.

On his Facebook page, Joe coy said, I am heartbroken here what took place at the Vancouver Filipino festival. This is supposed to be an event that honors and celebrates our beautiful culture, and now we’re mourning the loss of eleven lives that were taken too soon. My heart goes out to everyone who’s affected by this horrific event. I love you.

Meanwhile, Kevin Hart has canceled his tour of India, which was scheduled to …

The organizers posted a statement on Instagram saying important update. In light of the recent tragic events, we along with Kevin Hart’s team, have decided to cancel the upcoming Delhi show scheduled for April thirtieth. We are working closely with Kevin Hort’s team on a new schedule and we’ll share updates soon. While we were looking forward to gathering with all of you, we believe it’s important to pause and stand in solidarity with all those affected. This terror attack took place on April twenty second and claimed the lives of twenty six people.

Now there is no way to smoothly transition into the rest of the news. Those were three heavy stories to start the show, which is why at the beginning I told you your typical show. So let me just jump at the pool and tell you. Sebastian Maniscalco will start in Apple’s first original scripted podcast. This one is called Easy Money The Charles Ponzi Story eight part series premiering June twenty third.

It traces the rise and fall of the man who gave the Ponzi scheme his name. Ponzi was an Italian immigrant who in nineteen twenty defrauded the modern day equivalent of a quarter of a billion dollars. Now this is a I assume an audio podcast, but they showed mister Ponzi and Sebastian’s side by side. It’s good physical casting. Sebastian looks a lot more like mister Ponzie than say I do.

Man of Scalco said, Charles Ponzie was a larger than life character. He wasn’t just a con artist. He was the con artist. Stepping into his shoes and bringing this unbelievab story to life has been a wild ride. Easy Money The Charles Ponzie Story is a fascinating look at the man who wrote the playbook for modern scams, and Johnny Mac will comment that sentence clearly written by a publicist, There’s no way.

Sebastian just off the top of his head, phrased it easy money. The Charles Ponzie story is a fascinat look at the man who wrote the playbook for modern scams, a masterclass in term deception and the price of believing in something too good to be true. It’s always sunny. Season seventeen comes back, well not season seventeen, but the show comes back July ninth. This is the second half of the crossover with Abbott.

Elementary Charlie Day has indicated that he and Rob and Glenn are already working on season eighteen. That’s great. Charlie was on Andrew Santino’s golf podcast No Bad Lies, and Charlie explains, in this town, when you get the opportunity to do something, you take it. Plus it’s been great for me. I don’t know, it’s kept me in town.

I’m getting on the back half of raising his sun. I’ve been around. He knows who I am. There was a time when there were a lot of big comedy movies happening, and I thought maybe I was gonna be on the road more often, and those just kind of dried up. So I’m glad I didn’t quit my TV day job.

You know, here’s John’s advice. Never quit a hit show. Like say you’re Kelsey Grimmer and somebody says, hey, you want to be Fraser. You get I think he did eight seasons of Cheers, eleven more of Fraser and then two more of the other other Fraser. That’s a good gig.

Hey, Patrick Stewart, you want to be Captain Picard. Sure, I’ll be Captain McCard. And I’ve heard Patrick Stewart explain this. By being Captain McCard it gives him the money to do Shakespeare in the Park for free, which is what he really wants to do. So sure, I’ll do seven seasons of the Next Generation.

I’ll do three seasons of Picard. I’ll make four movies. Why not never quit a hit show. Jay Leno showing up in the news a lot lately. He did a podcast called In Depth with Graham and Bensinger.

I have downloaded it. I didn’t get a chance to listen to it yet. One of the stories Leno told was about when Jimmy Kimmel came on my show and humiliated me on my own show. I let it happen I didn’t edit it. It was my mistake.

I trusted somebody and went, ah, I made a mistake. Okay, I should pay the price. And it’s fine. I mean, we could have edited out of the show. Graham was curious why he didn’t make the edit.

Leno said, because it happened. It’s real, it happened. It’s my mistake. It’s how you learn. It’s not good TV for me because it started a whole thing that continues to this day.

Really, but it’s okay, it’s all right. He’s a comic. Gotta do what you gotta do. I mean, I wouldn’t have done it, but that’s okay, that’s all right. It is what it is.

You may recall back in twenty ten, Kimmel went on The Tonight Show and gave Leno the business for the whole Leno Conan Back to Leno thing. During the interview, Leno asked Kimmel about the best prank he ever pulled. Kimmel said, and this is both vicious and hilarious. I told the guy that five years from now, I’m going to give you my show.

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And then when the five years came, I gave it to him.

And then I took it back almost instantly. In twenty seventeen, Jimmy Kimmel told The Hollywood Reporter that the two comedians had made peace. This after Jimmy Sun underwent open heart surgery. Jay told the reporter, Jay and I have made peace. After my son had his operation.

He called me and he was very nice. However, after Conan hosted the Oscars, Kimmel Joe Conan did such a good job. The Oscars announced that next year they’re giving it to Jay Leno, which is just a joke. I don’t think he can get too angry about that one. Bert Kreischer was on The Jennifer Hudson Show, and the Internet is all a buzz because on the show’s Instagram we see that this is shocking.

You’re not gonna believe this. Bert Kreischer took his shirt off. That’s right, yes, so I’ve never heard of that before. Bert Krescher took off his shirt before making his way through Jennifer Hudson’s Spirit Tunnel as crew members saying Nelly’s it’s hot in here. The show even captured the clip on Instagram.

It’s getting hot in here with at Bert Krascher. So in a shocking development. It was Saturday night and I was awake at ten o’clock. That may have had something to do with Johnny Mac passed out in the chair playing MLB the show twenty five from like five point thirty to seven. It might have had something to do with that.

So at ten o’clock I was like, Oh, Brett Goldstein is on Max right now, I will watch it. I enjoyed it. I found it really nice company. Is it the most hilarious thing I’ve ever heard? No, but I just enjoyed spending the hour with Brett Goldstein.

The specials called second best Night of your Life, and I have added it to my best of twenty five list, which is very thin. Right now. I have in the top tier Krasier, Goldstein, and Tim Dillon in that order, and none of those will be number one. We’ll obviously bretton Tim won’t because they’re already two and three. But Bert should not be the best special of the year.

If it is, it’s been a pretty poor year. These will be in the top tier, but they should be at the bottom of the top tier if we have a typical twenty twenty five. I also have my middle tier of perfectly fine specials of Roy Wood, Ari Shafir and Gabe Iglesias, and I actually want to add one. I’ll do that right now. I’ve typed in the number four and I will tell you who number four is.

It’s Jessica Curson. Yeah, I put that on now. This is when I get into my It’s not comedy snobbery, but if you listen enough, you can tell I kind of like quirky things and alt things, and I definitely like British comedians. I’m aware of all those biases. I have.

Jessica’s show I think for a casual someone who’s sitting down and saying, hey, I just want to watch comedy special. I don’t know too much about stand up. If they hit play, they’re gonna go wow. That was really funny. I really like her and it is funny.

It reminded me a lot of the Bobby Slaton style of comedy. And it’s not my cup of tea, but it’s a perfectly fine comedy special. Does that makes sense? So not for me, but might be for you. Check out Jessica Curson.

In fact, I think the average person will prefer Jessica over Brett. But I really liked Brett. I just found it easy on the ears and enjoyed hanging out with Britt Goldstein four an hour on Saturday Night. It looks like comedian Benny Elbows did break the world record for the world’s longest stand up comedy set. The video has to be submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for official confirmation.

We’ll see what they wind up saying. In the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group, Aaron shared an article titled some SNL fans are worried about Colin Joe’s future on the show, and they could have a point. All right, So what’s going on here for the season finale? Scarlett Johansson is your host? Scarlett Johansson married to Colin Jost.

Also, somebody has done the math that episode will be Colin Jost’s two hundredth time doing weekend update. That has got the internet a buzz in two ways. One is Colin Jost leaving SNL and or is Colin Jost going to take over for Lorne Michaels. I think if you’re going to leave SNL, this is the year to get out. On fifty I don’t think you want to be part of season fifty one, unless you’re planning on sticking around for a while.

That said, did you listen to Johnny Mac earlier in the show? Don’t leave a hit show. It’s steady work. It’s a steady profile. Having a steady profile gets you other work.

Colin, you could just sit at that desk for another ten years. You probably should. As for Colin taking over for Lorne, I find that interesting. I never met Colin, but his public persona makes me think maybe he doesn’t have the right public persona to fight with the network. That takes a special skill.

I feel like something like Tina Fey might have more what I call hit points than a Colin Jost who just seems like a nice, cheerful guy who would come in and be like gerr NBC executives, I’m angry. Whereas I could see Tina’s pretty up there in the entertainment industry, and I feel like she could throw her weight around a little bit more like if things went sideways, Tina Fey steps down from SNL would be a major headline. Colin Joe steps down from SNL would be a headline, and then the next paragraph would be he will be succeeded by a person who’s taking over the show again. Not at dissent Colin, it’s just his public persona. Maybe he’s a total hard ass mini behind the scenes.

I don’t know, but that’s just my take. And I’m a guy who records a podcast in a basement, So what do I know. That is your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Pete Davidson, Nikki Glaser, Josh Johnson, Sarah Silverman, Bowen Yang, Tom Papa

What’s in This Episode

• Pete Davidson’s dating advice on social media and relationships
• Nikki Glaser’s omitted joke from Caitlyn Jenner roast
• Josh Johnson’s Rolling Stone profile and Daily Show work
• Sarah Silverman’s UK tour and apology for past offensive material
• Bowen Yang clarifies he’s not leaving SNL, pitches F-word usage policy
• Tom Papa discusses comedy career timing and downtime on the road

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media Hello. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Variety was curious what dating advice Pete Davidson would give to young men today. Pete said, I think social media and the internet and the phone makes everything really difficult and can cause a lot of anxiety and get you doing bad. We’re not supposed to see everyone’s stuff all day. It used to be someone found out something, you’d either call in your house phone or you met up and be like, hey, jeer reve this.

Now you have this thing in your pocket all day. That’ll make you feel bad. So my advice would be to try and not let social media or this fictitious world that we’re all trying to have a profile on effect how you behave in everyday life. We’re not supposed to know everything all the time. That’s what dating is.

Get to know someone and fall in love, and that’s what’s so beautiful about it. So I think when it comes to dating, it should be more prehistoric and not on the phone or Instagram. Nikki Glaser was at the Time one hundred summit in New York last week. It has kicked up a story about the time Nicky cut a joke from the Roast of Caitlyn Jenner. Nicky didn’t tell the joke, but Variety reminds us that in twenty nineteen, Nicky shared the joke with Howard Stern.

The joke, Caitlyn Jenner, what a beautiful woman you killed with your car four years ago. You’re a woman who can’t men straight but still manages to have blood on her hands. There was an incident back in twenty fifteen. I’m here on NBC News, the headline Caitlyn Jenner won’t be charged in fatal February car accident. California prosecutor said there was insufficient evidence to charge Jenner in a fatal multi car accident on the Pacific Malibu Highway.

Glazer said she was nervous about performing material about the car crash and asked Comedy Central could she give Jenner a warning. The network was like, now, I don’t do that, she might back out. Jenner heard about the joke anyway, As Nicki tells it, Jenner said, if there’s a joke like that, I don’t want to be part of it. As soon as I heard that, I go, okay, I’ll take it out. I just needed to hear it from her glazer said she’ll gladly take out jokes that make subjects uncomfortable.

She got that advice from Jimmy Kimmel, who said, if you’re worried about a joke and how it’s going to go over, just ask them. Josh Johnson got a really nice profile from Rolling Stone. There’s a lot of good buzz on Josh and people are really digging what he’s doing, and he’s putting out a lot of material. Josh says, I’m hopefully showing enough range and building enough trust with the audience over time that I can talk about anything, even if I don’t get to everything. He’s got a busy week.

Mondays, he records The Josh Johnson Show, it’s his podcast. On Tuesdays, he uploads a timely set to YouTube, and he works on The Daily Show Monday through Thursday. In twenty nineteen, he opened for Trevor Noah. They spent three years on the road together. Josh says Trevor taught him how to balance a grueling day job with stand up.

His mentorship has really helped me in navigating the moment that I’m in and the moment that I’m expecting. Josh pushed back on the word breakout and said, a breakout is what George Carlin did when he went from hippie dippy Weatherman to George Garland. A breakout is when Richard Pryor Ditch to the suit in the tie and the fresh cut and the Tonight Show act. A breakout has to be deeply personal. It has to be you knowing for yourself that there’s a limit.

That was a ceiling, it is now a floor. Love it, Goosh. He is aiming for bigger and more spectacle like shows. He wants people to go home thinking I’d never seen somebody do that before. He’s also doing good when he’s out there.

During a recent stop in Cincinnati, five thousand dollars from ticket sales were donated to a nearby animal shelter. That’s awesome, Josh says. What I enjoy about doing the Daily Show is the collaborative aspect and stand up. You get to see my most raw feelings on a subject. On the Daily Show.

You see my efforts contributing to the larger effort of everyone that works there, both in front and behind the camera. With his own shows, there’s no way to know if he’s meeting the moment until he’s up there and taking his best shot. Are you in the UK go see Sarah Silverman. She’s at the Palladium tonight. She talked about her past and says her persona back then was consciously ignorant, arrogant, and that it’s less charming in the days when our president is that Send your letters to Sarah Silverman.

She has disavowed some jokes she made back then, including the notorious sketch on the Sarah Silverman Program that she performed in Blackface. Sarah explains some comics are like, never apologize, and my rule is always apologize when you’re sorry, and never apologize when you’re not so simple. I felt sorry. To be the same person creatively as you were twenty years ago doesn’t feel like success to me. I like being part of the world around me, learning new stuff and being changed by it.

Comics who were still doing that thing or voice of personality they had when they got famous, that’s such a bummer. She gives a lot of credit to Chris Rock, explaining how Rock helped her after she had to develop new material following her two thousand and five special Jesus’ Magic. I was scared, I didn’t want to bomb on stage again. I had a real identity crisis. Rock brave enough to go to the comedy seller where everyone’s gonna go bananas when he walks in and then fully disappoint them because he’s trying out new stuff.

You lose people, but hopefully you gain people and some people grow along with you. Some people are like, remember what she was funny, That’s none of my business. All I have is this one life, and I’m navigating it. Is I see fit now. I keep seeing these Bowen Yang interviews and I feel like he’s done with SNL.

But Bowen Yang was quite clear that he is not done with SNL. Bowen was talking with Amy Poehler and would like SNL to be able to say the S word an the F word, explaining SNF were so comedically powerful as words, I think it would help us. His premise is that SNL should be able to say the S word five times and the F word five times during a season, and that it would bring a sketch to the next level and make it so you’d be able to know this is the real world, not sketch reality. I’ll personally disagree, but he’s on SNL and I’m an idiot in the basement recording a podcast. Amy b liked the idea and she said, I think you can monetize this.

Why don’t you have a competition and people vote, like American idolist, which cast member it gets to say the S and the f Yang said that would work as a fundraiser for our fcc fins. Bowen was on the view and he talked about the headline quote I’m leaving the show at some point. Yang said, it’s like me saying that I might die someday, or Mike will get a coffee on a Wednesday. It’s so general. Someone asked me maybe trying to get a headline, and all I gave them was at some point, but then who’s very clear?

This is all to say, I will not be leaving anytime soon, so all good, don’t worry. Houston Public Media caught up with Tom Poppa and they were curious what he does with his downtime, and Tom says, it’s not that much time. After being on the road for so long, you realize five three hours on the ground, I can get a lot done. I’m not going to a museum, but I’ll find great food and coffee. That’s the real treat.

I’ll hit the ground and to start asking people, I’m the annoying guy in the airport, likes where do you eat? They were curious for Tom how comedy changed over the years. Tom said, I had this kind of fortunate timing when I started comedy. The comedy boom had busted. It was the nineties and all these clubs.

Everyone kept telling me, this is a horrible time to start comedy because the clubs are closing and the bottom fell out. But over the long haul, comedy has never been bigger and more popular and more wanted by the public than it is now. Public media said the worst time for being a stand up must have been the pandemic, and Tom said, yeah, I was very proud of comedians during that time because everything shut down. Touring came to a halt, but comedians were doing anything they could to perform. They were starting shows in parks, they were doing them on zoom, and then the clubs are starting to open.

They’d have half the audience they normally have. But it felt like an important time to do comedy because we were isolated, and the best thing about comedy is it makes you feel less alone. It makes you drive around and you think I am the only one that feels this way, or is just my own anxieties and my family’s driving me crazy? And am I the only one going through this?

And then when you’re in an audience in a comedy club and someone’s talking ab…

And during the pandemic that was so important and the spokesman caught up with Randy feld face. Do you know Randy feld Face? I love Randy feld Face. Randy’s current tour is First Banana, which explores the idea that global evolution should have stopped when the first Banana appeared ten thousand years ago. Randy says the show has changed a lot from last year’s version because he factors in the audience.

The audience will tell me what’s funny, what’s boring, and what’s unnecessary. It gets to the point where, like, what’s most entertaining for me? Because I want to enjoy doing the show every night. It’s a pretty tight sixty minute banana lecture with a lot of very silly side steps I’m lucky in that I’m unique looking, and you revel in the silliness of it all. There’s so much fun to be had at the moment.

I know this probably comes up a lot, but now is not the time for taking things too seriously. So if I can have an hour of mostly silliness, then I hope people are able to appreciate that and enjoy that given the times that we’re in. He says, it’s a double edged sword being a puppet. People can forget pretty quickly what I look like, and they don’t give me a halt pass. If I say something they find and pleasant or controversial, I think there’s definitely something in there that can maybe soften the message a bit.

But generally, if I say something creates waves, people let me know about it. That is your comedy news for today. If you’ve never seen Randy feld face, check out Randy feld Face. See tomor