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Featured: Paul Heyman, Tony Hinchcliff, Triple H, John Mulaney, Conan O’Brien, Pete Davidson, Colin Jost, Brett Goldstein, Wil.i.am, Brad Williams

What’s in This Episode

• WWE WrestleMania Roast leaked online
• John Mulaney’s Conan appearance with single guest format
• Pete Davidson’s extensive tattoo removal journey
• Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s ferry renovation project
• Brett Goldstein HBO special release
• Wil.i.am wins Celebrity Jeopardy, donates to DonorsChoose
• Brad Williams pitches NFL Commissioner on stopping the tush push

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Wwees roast of WrestleMania has leaked online. The Sportster reports that various footage from the show has been leaked by those in attendance. I went looking for the clips.

They were pulled down by the time I got to them, But if you circulate the internet long enough, you’ll find a ten minute compilation of clips from the roost. It begins with Paul Hayman, who reportedly was the star of the show, laying into Tony Hinchcliff and then going after Gabe A Glacias. After Hayman gets done with a Glacias, Triple H shows up. It seems that Triple H cut off Tony Hinchcliff just as he made a joke about while logan Paul is allegedly banned from Japan. I don’t know what that reference means as someone else.

The first thing Triple H says once he’s on stage suggests that he came out to stop Tony from saying anything else. Now you never know, and I haven’t seen the clip. Is this a work? Is it a bit? Is that what really happened?

Who knows Triple H then makes some jokes about Nia Jackson Pat McAfee, claiming that he came out to rescue McAfee so he can sober up, before appearing on ESPN the next day. Some criticism of the Rose set. The whole point of a roast is to pick on people who were there so that they can fight back. Jacks did the opposite, going after Rick Flair, Cody Rhodes, and Michael Cole. None of them were in attendance.

Who knows. We’ll keep an eye on that. Hey, did John Mulaney take my notes? At the beginning of Wednesday’s show, there was a cairon that alluded to celebrities not knowing what to do when they’re on the show and not knowing what to talk. I thought mulanie’s episode Wednesday was far and away the best that he’s done because he went single guest with Conan and they were able to get into a rhythm.

I mean, that’s the way to do it, and that’s what I’ve been preaching about. Conan comes out, it’s just Conan and m’laney. They have some chemistry. They’re doing it. Then Io came out as the second guest, typical late night talk show dynamics.

There, everybody slides down the couch. We all know what to do, we know how to do this. The show worked much better for the callers, and I’ll talk about that in a second. I was wondering if the caller about dinosaurs was staged. If not, it was Comedy Gold.

Regardless, it was Comedy Gold. Consequence of Sound had somebody in the audience. They thought it was interesting that Malania went with Q cards rather than a teleprompter. Consequence ads it’s pretty staggering to see an hour’s worth of handwritten card stacked together. It’s much bulkier than you’d expect.

The Q Card team filed into the studio at around six fifty five pm Pacific time. As we know, the show starts at seven o’clock. Richard Kine took his position with forty five seconds to go. Consequence of Sound writes, the applause sign works hard all night, they write, sometimes, of course, in audience applause because they want to. But when filming live TV, you might need to nudge them a bit, say with a light up sign that flashes when the production team wants collapse.

What struck me most was that the applause sign flashed on what they felt like was a very planned way, and other times was operating what it seemed like it wanted to. That is not uncommon for an applause sign. I remember seeing Letterman who was forty years ago. Yeah, it’s forty years ago. Oh wow, I remember seeing Letterman that they had an applause signed back then.

The caller I alluded to before, doctor Jack Horner, who called in about the dinosaurs, was actually the technical adviser in the first five Jurassic Park movies. Consequence of Sound tells us the band Mets were so loud that they gave everyone ear plugs. Consequence Rights have been too many studio tapings before, but being handed earplugs before the show was a new one for me, and even sitting in the back row was grateful for them. We found out why Rita Moreno didn’t make her appearance. She has vertigo, a spokesperson told Entry to me Weekly.

Happy to report nothing serious, she’s bummed. Variety caught up with Pete Davidson the topic tattoos. What made you decide to remove those tattoos, Pete. Pete said, I started during COVID in twenty twenty, and it’s going to take me another ten years. My arms are pretty much gone.

On my hands meca gone, but instill my torso and back was really because I wasn’t taking care of myself. I used to be a drug addict and I was a sad person. I felt ugly and that I needed to be covered up. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with tattoos, but mine. When I look at them, I remember a sad person that was very unsure.

So I’m just removing them and starting fresh because I think that’s what works best for me in my brain. When I look in the mirror, I don’t want the reminder of, oh, yeah, you were a drug addict, like that’s why I have SpongeBob smoking a joint on your back. They should have meaning, not that it was just high watch a Game of Thrones. Pete explains it’s a six week healing process each time you get a tattoo removed. Each tattoo is ten to twelve sessions.

That’s sixty weeks of your life right there on just one tattoo to remove, So it’s pretty horrible. It’s like putting your arm on a grill and burning off the layer and then you got to do maintenance and let it heal properly, and it’s pretty tough. It sucks. I’m not gonna lie. They were curious how much money this is costing Pete Davidson.

He says, it’s a pretty uncomfortable amount of money to disclose. But I think one of the tabloids leaked it. I’ve already spent like two hundred grand that I’m like thirty percent done, So it’s gonna suck. Friday asked about the ferry that Pete ball with Colin Jost. What’s going on with that.

Pete says, we have one floor done out of the four and we’re holding events on the first floor and we’re partnering with a bunch of people to get a plan going, which is kind of a secret. But we’re gonna have a couple of restaurant. It’s a nice bar. I’m going to maintain the integrity of the ferry and have the old ferry stuff still be there, just be a little refurbished. People don’t understand this is like a five to ten year project.

People are like, I guess nothing’s happening with it. We don’t know anything about boats so we’re figuring it all out. It’s been really fun. We’re having a good time and it’s at a good place, and we have a couple of fun events planned for the summer. Brett Goldstein special came out on HBO last night.

He spoke to the La Times. He explained he’s been doing a version of this show, building off bits from the twenty eighteen Fringe show. He toured it for fourteen months around the States that at some point someone said you have to film this and stop doing it, and I said, okay. I think stand up keeps your brain sharp in a way that nothing else does, because you have so much pressure when you’re standing under the lights in front of a crowd. You have to come up with something in a way that you don’t when you’re in a writer’s room.

What I really love is that there’s no committee. I don’t have to discuss it with anyone. It’s amazing making TV and film, but it’s a huge thing that involves tunre people and you have to communicate everything to everyone. You have to compromise and deal with execs. And we do stand up.

It’s like, hey, here’s this idea. I thought of this afternoon and I’m saying it. Tonight, wcm out Bell visited Castle mind On High School in Oakland. Fresh off his win on Celebrity Jeopardy, Bell announced that the recipient of the one million dollar charity prize goes to donor’s choice. They are a fundraising platform similar to GoFundMe.

The teachers used to purchase stuff for their classrooms. Bell said, I feel like I was raised here in Oakland, California, so I hope it helps you. Brad Williams was at the NFL Draft. He pitched the commissioner on an idea to stop the tush push. You know, the tush push.

We all go up to the line and we meeting the Philadelphy Eagles and they all run forward and they get the first down like every time. Brad Williams, who if you don’t know, is a little person, told Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner. Obviously, one of the big hot topics over the season is the tush push. The brotherly chef Williams ask Goodell, my question is the late football coach Mike Leach. It was recently discovered that he had suggested putting a little person in the backfield and actually tossing him over the line for short yardage situations.

Everybody laughed. Goodell stood up and shook Brad’s hand and said, you’re in Brad’s I have a job. But you know what, that’s not a crazy idea. I mean it’s a crazy idea, but it would work. First down, Joe Rogan was happy with his meal.

It was fresh elk, he had fried it. He topped the elk with some fresh cheddar and some jalapennios. He went on Instagram to show it off. Joe said, one of my new favorite ways to cook elk sliced about half an inch thin, seasoned, fried in beef talow with a slice of cheddar on top, and sliced telipanio perfection. Rogan’s fans chimed in on social media.

One wrote this is nice. I cooked venison like this a while back. I folded strips of venison with cream, cheese and jalapenos, and some additionally wrapped in turkey bacon. Oh man. Another wrote, meat and cheese just go so well together.

The jalapenos would probably take it to the next level. And that is your comedy news for today on a Sunday. See you here tomorrow,

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Featured: Brett Goldstein, Pete Davidson, Jay Leno, Leslie Jones

What’s in This Episode

• Brett Goldstein HBO Special ‘The Second Best Night of Your Life’ premiere
• Brett Goldstein’s journey from stand-up to acting Roy Kent on Ted Lasso
• Wall Street Journal review of Brett Goldstein special
• Pete Davidson reflects on SNL 50 special appearance
• Jay Leno becomes conservator of wife Mavis after dementia diagnosis
• Leslie Jones discusses late-night ambitions and societal change
• SNL upcoming guests announced: Quinta Brunson, Walton Goggins, Scarlett Johansson

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, we are poolside once again. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’m joined by the birds, the aeroplanes, the dogs and whatever else you think you hear. You’re not crazy, but it’s too nice to sit inside and record.

Brett Can has a special on HBO Slash Max tonight ten pm Eastern. They make you wait, make you stay up late. Come on, Johnny Mac likes to go to bed, well, not on Saturday. I’m go to bed before ten on Saturday. Let’s not be ridiculous.

It’s Brett Goldstein, The second Best Night of your life. Now a lot of people think this is just Roy Kent deciding to do stand up comedy to cash in. It’s actually the other way. He was a comedian slash writer. He wrote the character Roy Kent, and then he was like, can I audition for it?

And if my audition sucks, I’ll pretend I never auditioned, And he nailed a part, and that’s how he became Roy Kent. He’s also never done stand up on Late TV and told the Last Laugh that he generally has avoid filming his act in any way. He explains, I just like it live. I really believe in the room with the audience, that’s where you feel it. That’s where you try stuff.

The game of it and the fun is sort of this energy that happens live, and it’s really hard to capture that. The beauty of stand up is every time you’re trying something, you’re kind of saying, is this normal? Is this, Madam I insane? If they laugh, it means no, and I think that too, or you are insane, But it’s funny. Brett said, I had no idea what people were expecting when I went on tour, because I know that ninety nine percent of them hadn’t seen me do stand up because they only know me as Roy Kent.

I thought I was gonna have to address it. What I really didn’t want to do, but was prepared to if I had to, was be like, hey, you all know me as Roy can’t, but I’m more like this. I didn’t want to do that. I’d rather just present this thing. To be honest, I was surprised delighted that I never had to do that, and I suspect reality was their expectations were probably very low because they probably thought, ah, this is an actor trying stand up and they didn’t know that I actually have done stand up for a very long time.

The Wall Street Journal got a screener of it. They’ve already seen it. S Boilers would be a strong word here. It’s more of a vibe spoiler. But if you don’t want to know anything about the special, skip ahead.

But again, I’m not going to destroy it for you. The vibe spoiler from the Journal says the reasons why the special works or not has less to do with the material than with Goldstein’s lack of a well defined stage persona interesting. When his humorous insights on love, sex, manhood, and money are made from a perspective of cool observation, it works much better than when he resorts to being vulgar. The Journal says, Goldstein can clearly deliver a joke a viewers simply isn’t prepared for what direction it’s coming from. One Brett Goldstein can observe that it is native England.

The name Brett Goldstein is rather exotic, while in America everyone knows that Brett Goldstein, but another Brett Goldstein can go off on a tangent criticizing the architecture of public toilets in the US, and leave a listener wondering what in the world of entertimoty is talking about. Brett Goldstein The Second Best Night of Your Life tonight, ten pm HBO. Pete Davison told Indywier. I think I was very lucky to get my own video to the SNL fifty special. There’s a thousand cast members and hundreds that are more popular and did better work than I did when I was there.

I was just very grateful to be in a sketch and have a video and even be invited. It was very surreal to see. And I was there for almost a decade, but even when I came back and hosted, I was like, Wow, I do know all these guys. I know Lauren Michaels, most of the cast. It just hits different when you see like Meryl Streep doing a sketch.

Pete said of Lorne Michaels. Yeah, he’s like my dad kind of. He’s really really sweet, and he’s always been above and beyond understanding of my life and just supportive in all the right ways. I’m very lucky, Pete told John Bernthal’s podcast, when your own show pokes fun at you, I’d be sitting in the backwatching the Cold Open, and the Cold Open is topical, political humor, whatever’s in the culture. And they’re making fun of you.

Then you’ve got to walk out and do a sketch next and hit your mark. And the show just made fun of you. What are they gonna do? Laugh at you like they just dogged in front of everyone. You’re like, I’m a loser man.

Jay Leno is the conservator of his wife Mavis. She was diagnosed with dementia. Jay has been the conservator since April of twenty twenty four. Jay to people about it and says he stepped up for Mavis in her time of need. That’s what love is, and I’d rather be with her than doing something else.

When you first get married, you sort of take a vow. Well, I live up to this, or it’d be like a sleazy guy. If something happens to my wife, I’m out banging the cashier at the minimart. No, I didn’t. I enjoy the time with my wife.

I go home, I cook dinner for her, watch TV and it’s okay. It’s basically what we did before, except now I have to feed her and do all those things. But I like it. I like taking care of her. She’s a very independent woman, so I like that.

I’m needed. Jay explained that something he does with MAVs is they go through memories on flash cards, and he says that’s brought some laughs. Jay tells it it’s kind of fun. I go, honey, that’s President Obama. Remember we had dinner, And she’ll say, oh, not me, and I’ll say, yeah, honey, that was you.

But says there are challenges when you have to feed someone and change them and carry them to the bathroom and do all that kind of stuff every day. It’s a challenge, and not that I enjoy doing it, but I guess I enjoy doing it. I’m not just this person’s attractive and sexy and having sex with them and everything. At some point in my life, I’m going to be called upon to defend myself. And I think that’s what really defines a marriage.

It’s really what love is. It’s what you do. I mean, I’m glad I didn’t cut and run. I’m glad I didn’t run off with some woman half my age or and in that’s silly nonsense. I’d rather be with her than doing something else.

Totally switching gears Leslie Jones spoke to Seven Days Vermont about being comedian, said, ain’t hard. If you’re offing funny as a comic. You need to take that kind of stuff and say, I’m tired of these mfforts being depressed. I’m gonna make them laugh about this stuff. I’m getting older and I really don’t like to travel that much anymore.

I’d be down to do a late night show or maybe a sitcom something where i’d be working here in LA from my home. Doing the Daily Show is great, but it’s in New York and I don’t want to live in New York. Leslie continued, what’s wrong with everybody right now? They’re too scared to change, too scared to face their problems. You have to endure change.

Change doesn’t give a hoot about your feelings. Change is going to happen, and it’s either going to be painful or not painful, based on how honest you are with yourself. And right now our society is choosing the painful way because nobody wants to effing change. Things are dark, but I want to give people a reason to laugh instead of cried. At the end of the day.

It’s my job to cultivate people’s happiness and not go all in on their sadness. There’s no snl A this week, but they’ve announced the guests for the next few weeks. May third, Quin de Brunson hosts Benson Boone, a musical act. May tenth, Walton Goggins and Arcade Fire they’re still around really And May seventeenth, probably the season finale here Scarlett Joynson, so Michael Jay will have a good week with that one and Bad Bunny your musical guest, Kevin Neil until the post independent laughter is contagious, and I think it’s much easier to laugh when other people are laughing as opposed to sitting at home. I’m sure somebody’s done a psychological study that always kind of amuses me how joyful it is to laugh with other people and look at the other person when they’re laughing.

This people do, they laugh and they look at the other person. It really brings people together, feel it kind of makes them forget all the insanity in the world. Kevin is now seventy one. That seems impossible and explains my goals to just basically deliver the package so that they formulated in my head, which is the premise, the set up, the delivery, the punch line of that particular bit. It’s kind of like sending a package.

You put it all together, you tape it up, you put it in the mail, and the other person receives it. You go, yes, it worked. And British comedian Sarah Millicam is in Vancouver. The Vancouver’s Son I had some questions for her, which she fielded expertly. If you’re trying to appeal to Canadians, the question who are some of your favorite comics and why?

The answer, Some of the funniest people I’ve ever seen are Canadian comics debrah D Giovanni, Mike Wilmot, John Hastings, Steph tole Evan mark Ford. They all make me hoot with laughter and be jealous of their jokes. All right, Sarah, what do you like to eat when you’re in Vancouver? She said, I will try to get poutine and I don’t like cheese curds. I need to go somewhere where they won’t throw me out for asking for poutine without the cheese curds, which is essentially chips and gravy.

And also, you have my favorite type of food here, which is huge portions. Love it all right, Brett Goldstein tonight and that’s it from Poolside. I will see you tomorrow

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, John Mulaney, Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco, Gene Hackman, Jessica Kerson, Michelle Wolf, Ira at a Berry

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes joke about Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco
• Nikki Glaser’s concerns about political criticism in Canada and US customs scrutiny
• John Mulaney’s Gene Hackman and dinosaur joke controversy
• John Mulaney’s Late Night show format changes and Christmas special
• Jessica Kerson’s new Hulu special ‘I’m the Man’
• Michelle Wolf’s 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner clip release on Punch Up Live

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. We’re about to find out if Nikki Glaser can take a punch. We’ll talk about that in a second, but let me set the scene here. It’s seventy five degrees and the humidity’s thirty four percent, and it’s Sonny out for the first time of month.

So if you’re like Johnny Mac, do I hear birds? You do? Do I hear planes? I do? Do I hear dogs?

You might? Because this, to my friends, is our first pool side edition of Daily Comedy News this year. It is too nice to sit in the basement, all right, let’s get to it. Nikki Glaser was at the time one hundred Summit on Wednesday. She said there was a joke she told during the Golden Globes that she worried went too far.

Niki explains, I didn’t say anything that was like calling anyone ugly or fat at roast you say really cruel things, that’s the job. She conceded. She was initially concerned about a joke aimed at Emilia Paris star Selena Gomez and her fiance Benny Blanco that she ended up texting Blanco to get his permission to go ahead with the joke. Quoting Nicki, I said that Selena Gomez is here because of Emilia Perez and Benny Blanco is here because of the genie who granted him that wish, and looking back, I’m like, that could seem mean, but everybody’s like he’s not attractive enough for her. For me, I’ve never looked at them and thought that.

I feel like she won too. I think he’s really cool. So because that joke didn’t actually come from a mean place, I felt like it was okay for me to say. If you pay a lot of attention to these Nikki Glaser interviews, there is definitely signs of mental struggles here. She’s pretty open about it, and you do worry about her.

Nicki said, I’m happier than I’ve ever been, but I’m not happy by any means. I’m so grateful, but i still have a lot of self loathing that’s almost getting boring to talk about. At this point, she spoke about her current hot streak. I know it. I’ll get taken away at some point because it has to.

That’s just the way things work. And when that part of my career happens. I don’t want to be sad about that, so I just don’t put too much worth in it. But I’m enjoying it now. None of that is the controversy that I alluded to at the beginning.

Nicki said she was more critical of Trump than usual at a recent show in Canada because she usually holds back in the US to not alienate fans who might disagree with her politics. But she told the audience at the time thing she got worried that she could get backlash. Oh my gosh, what if I said gets recorded and sent out. Maybe I couldn’t be let back into the country. There’s just no scenario where the headline is US government bans Nikki Glaser from re entering country.

I mean, that would just be such a massive scandal story. There’s no chance of that happening, Nikki said, I’m not trying to be an alarmist, but I definitely don’t think that I’m immune to having some kind of backlash. Look at the other places that have dictators. I have a friend Jennif Friedman, who posted on Instagram that she was performing in Vancouver and when she came back, customs asked her what she did. She said she was a comedian, and they asked her if she talked about politics had made fun of the president.

They let her go, but they asked, or I could be put on some kind of list because of some story I reposted. Look at other places that have dictators. You’re not allowed to say things about them. She then joked about being sexually attracted to Trump to get on his good side. I don’t know where you’re laughing about.

I’m one hundred percent real about this and it’ll save me when I’m on the gallows. Send your letters to Nikki Glaser. John Mulaney has come under fire for a quote very controversial joke. This from the British tabloids. The very controversial joke was about the deaths of Gene Hackman and Hackman’s wife.

The joke in question and told much better by John Mulaney. Scientists are now like, we believe dinosaurs were killed sixty six million years ago by an asteroid. Stop you don’t know that. We don’t even know how Gene Hackman and his wife died and we found their whole bodies with full clothes on one week after the event. How about that?

Santa Fe police Hello, Press conference number four hundred seventy. We now believe that a rat bit Missus Hackman turning her hands into mummy hands. Slow down. You don’t know what happened that again, told much better by John Mulaney. Is the very controversial joke?

Really okay? Very controversial? One Reddit user called the comments sickening and posted just me thinking that Gene Hackman bit was just a tad sickening. Another redditur wrote only John could get away with a Gene Hackman joke this soon really okay, guys. Late nighter watched the millenniy show.

I didn’t. I Wednesday night is volleyball night, and I made the mistake of I went for a run. Johnny Mac is out of shape, and I will cop to being out of shape when I’m out of shape. And I’m out of shape. So I went for a run Wednesday afternoon because the weather’s nice, and then I played volleyball and I was so gassed, so there was no chance of me watching a show from ten to eleven PM.

I went to bed. But Late Nighter they watch Mullenie’s show. They are very positive about the show, and it sounds like maybe, perhaps possibly Millenia has taken my notes. Late nighter, says Mullani waited until halfway through the show to explain that guest Rita Marino wasn’t there. Apparently Rita wasn’t feeling well, but he never addressed the other missing panelist, which was to be dinosaur expert doctor Luis Chiappe, who had been announced earlier this week.

Maybe John took my note that having seventy five people on it once doesn’t work. Who knows. Mllenie opened the show announcing the time and temperature sixty two degrees in LA while snow went past his studio windows. Mulaney explained this is his Christmas show since the show won’t be on in December, and he felt like it. See that’s funny, that’s like an old style Letterman inspired bit.

So was the Christmas Show, complete with twinking lights, tinsel, and a disheveled white beard. Hobo, one of the guests he did have on io at a Berry. She liked the craziness. She compared the show to Crack, but in a good way. Okay, we all know crack is bad.

Yes, we can all agree that crack is something bad, But consider this Crack gave us funk music. Crack gave us Tyren Bighams Crackavius Whitney Houston saying, first of all, let’s get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. The spirit of crack, one could argue, has also given us this show. John Mulaney Sober and a Father is basically spiritually on crack.

To be clear, I think this is a good thing. This man shows up dressed like a pentecostal deacon son headed to the twenty eighteen NBA draft all he’d end up a fifth round reject, and yet he puts out some of the sharpest comedy happening right now. She described Mlaney as a gift to comedy. He’s also maybe probably insane. But I think this is good and I think crack is bad.

Now what’s interesting is I did several googles of the term Malinie Conan. Not much came up. Jessica Kerson has a new special out on Hulu today. It is called I’m the Man. Now.

The Hulu publicist didn’t send me anything, but I will not be stopped. Hulu publicists, you keep your comedy special secret, and I’ll keep outing them, Jessica told The Daily beast. I’ve been doing stand up for over twenty years, and this special is truly special. My stand up has always stood out to the audience as I’ve performed for my fans, had especially in other comics. I’m the Man is me embracing everything I am, the crazy voices, the characters, and the fact that I’m fearless on stage.

Michelle Wolf had a surprise release, not really a special, a fifteen minute clip where she talked about her controversial twenty eighteen set at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The clip is called Dinner Time. It has premiered on punch Up Live, a digital platform for live comedy. You can watch it for free. Wolf explains there might not be a comedian at the Correspondent’s Dinner this year, but the good news is I have some leftovers.

I’ve been holding onto the set since twenty twenty two, and with everything going on, I felt like it was the right moment to share it exclusively on punch Up, a platform where comedians can release their own uncensored material without the constraints of any network or streamer. Drud Carmichael will have another stand up special for HBO. This one is called Don’t Be Gay. Nina Rosenstein is the executive vice president for HBO Programming. She says in a press release, this new special continues to build on the raw, intimate, and emotionally honest impact that his last special, Roathaniel and his recent series on the network at drud Carmichael Reality Show had no quote from Carmichael though.

Anyway. Don’t Be Gay on HBO Saturday, May twenty fourth, at ten pm. At Tomorrow’s Brett Goldstein Special. We’ll talk about that tomorrow. Good job by the birds giving me.

I hope you can hear the birds giving me some atmosphere as we do the show poolside today. Now it’s so weird putting the show together because when I put together Thursday Show, there was nothing. Now behind the scenes, I teach a college class on Thursday morning, so I often like to pretape Fridays, and as the week goes, Friday tends to be one of the lesser listen two days. I guess people get into weekend mode. So I often, when I’m teaching, will pre tape Friday show and I’ll you know, I’ll squirrel stuff away all week.

And there was just really nothing to fill Thursday show. So I had to pull. Boy, these birds are getting done. Thank you birds. I had to pull most of what was going to be today’s show into yesterday’s show just to get a show out, and it was a short show as it was now today.

Conversely, it took me two hours to put this together. There’s enough for three shows, and I’m probably gonna sit here at poolside recording the entire weekend because there’s so much. Let’s head on over to Gossip Corner. This is sad TMZ reporting Fortune Femster and her wife Jacqueline Smith recently separated and Fortune is planning a file for divorce. According to TMZ, it’s unclear what caused the split or when they separated.

TMZ thinks it’s pretty fresh. This is sad to me because wasn’t one of fortune special all about getting married to Jack’s. Wasn’t that like the whole cornerstone of it. So that’s kind of sad. They were married in October of twenty twenty.

Also on Gossip Corner, now, kids are listening to this with you. For some reason, it stopped. We don’t want the kids to listen to this next section. They’re just gonna have questions. So I’ll give you a second hero bebble.

Okay, kids are gone. Catherine Ryan has spoken out about more sexual misconduct in the comedy industry. She claimed one male comedian showed other cast mates intimate videos of himself having sex with women. Catherine explained the incident happened while backstage in the green room of a big show. She did not identify the comedian, but did say that he isn’t British.

She explained, I’ve been in green rooms were very famous male comedians. One male comedian in particular, I will say it’s not British. He was very famous, very rich, very powerful, and he was in a room on a big show. I was one of the few women on that bill, maybe three women, and there was a young female comedian who was starting out. It was next to him, and he was with all the lads showing pictures and videos on his phone that he had taken of himself having sex with women, so like really intimate photos, intimate videos, and he was showing them.

His junk was in a lot of these videos. She felt very uncomfortable about that, and she came to my dressing room to be like, oh, I didn’t like him showing me that, and she’s about to go on stage. She’s very new. I was even quite new at the time, but yeah, stuff like that, and being a minority in that situation which female comedians, especially when I was starting out, we’re always minorities in every green room, every dressing room. There are things we can’t do that the boys can do.

We can’t take a night bus, we can’t sleep on the floor with four other comedians starting out. A lot of times we have children that we have to look after, and then we get fans who could like kill us. She then talked about Nikki Glaser. Nikki Glaser, who’s doing amazing and American hosting the Golden Globes for the second year in a row. She’d make a joke of it on Instagram.

Should write, come kill me in Cincinnati at seven pm, Come kill me in San Diego at eight pm. We’d have to publish where we are at night, and we’re always alone. It’s a bit different. When I started doing television, male audience members could be weird with me. I had this following of very strange lone wolf men.

Before I had a tour manager that’d follow me onto the train and keep talking to me. I was trying to be polite and boundary, but some of those interactions were scary. I’ve been locking in part, I think because of the guys I came up with. Joe lystt, Rob Beckett and Ramesher Rag and Aathan are just really really good guys. Boy, this is all just terrible switching gears.

If you’re in Boston, Paul Reiser is at the Cabot in Beverly tonight. Paul says he doesn’t have to do stand up. I just love performing. I don’t love airports. I don’t love connecting flights.

I just tell my agent’s got to be direct flight, not too late, because I like to be in pajamas at nine to forty five if possible. Paul’s my kind of guy. I’ve been on Stranger Things, which is big and great to be in, but has nothing to do with me being on stage for an hour and a half. That’s the fun, that’s the joy. I love the order of stand up.

I love how ephemeral it is now. The goalposts are always moving and you never quite get it, and if you do get it, it’s gone the next day. It’s like, wow, what was that? Paul says it has a hard time watching his old stuff, but when I do see a glimpse of it, there are themes of things I’m still questioning. What’s also great is the audience now comes to see me.

It’s not nineteen seventy eight years greedy Number eleven Bull Riser. If people are coming and they bought a ticket and they came to see me, it’s because they know me from something probably man about you. It really does feel like getting together with old friends. The audience thinks, I know this guy who grew up together, and we got married around the same time, we had kids around the same time, and the same warmth that I think they bring I feel towards them. And maybe younger people come too, and they’re confused.

Wait, why is the doctor from Stranger Things trying to be funny? Save some more of that for the weekend. A Memphis comedian is going for a world record this weekend. Benny Elbows is working on a solo stand up show that could last forty plus hours to break the record for longest continuous solo comedy stand up routine in history. I think Bob Marley had that.

The comedian Bob Marlin had that record for a while we actually broadcast it live on serious if my memory holds, Benny Elbows says, for a while, it’s a tour guide. It did tours in Memphis. It was a ghost tour guide, like a haunted tour, not like a signed up for the tour. Never saw me again, that’s funny. The plan was for him to take the stage at six o’clock this morning at the High Tone Cafe on Cleveland Avenue.

He’s aiming to break the current record of forty hours eight minutes. His game plan. I think the most important thing is going to be caffeine. There are rules according to the Guinness World Record. I can repeat jokes, but only every four hours.

So right now I have a word document with like sixteen seventeen thousand words. It’s twenty six pages. Another big one is that we need ten people in the audience at all times. That’s hard. How will we make sure there are ten people in the audience.

He’s hoping that this press helps. Well, if you’re in Memphis, go help this guy out. Hopefully you download the podcast at three or five am when I dropped it, and you ran right over there to hook up that six am hour. All right, I know you’re curious, what about the bathroom, He explains, I can eat and drink on stage as long as it doesn’t disrupt the flow of the show. You get five minutes every hour you can use for whatever you want, say a bathroom break.

So I’m going to try to go as far as i can to the show before trying to take a nap and then finish strong. If everything goes well, he’ll break the record around ten thirty on Saturday night. And that is your comedy news for today, Poolside Edition. Have an awesome day.

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Tim Dillon, Jimmy Carr, Chris Rock, Colin Jost, Andrew Santino, Theo Von, Robin Williams, Damon Wayans

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan’s Canada bourbon story and changing Canadian attitudes toward Americans
• Tim Dillon on CNN discussing Democratic strategy and his podcast with JD Vance
• W. Kamau Bell on creative freedom after leaving traditional employment
• Jimmy Carr interview praising Chris Rock as the greatest comedian
• Jimmy Carr on teaching comedy like music and comedy influences
• Colin Jost panel at Brown University on improving as a comedian
• Andrew Santino launches new golf podcast ‘No Bad Lies’
• Theo Von New York Times article and profile coverage
• Jimmy Kimmel to host fourth season of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
• Damon Wayans accuses Robin Williams of joke theft

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Caloroga Shark Media and there I’m Johnny Mac with you know, Today’s Dalley Comedy News. I’m honest with you guys, it is a slow news day. It was like nobody announced anything. Uh. Jim Gaffigan in the headlines on a slow news day.

He was recently on We Might Be Drunk with Samuerel and Mark Norman and Jim started talking about different audiences around the world, joking that Europeans are often a bit condescending, but Canadians were always there and had the US’s back, but things have changed recently, according to gaff Again, the Canadians were always like, we know, it’s not you, it’s your government. Now the Canadians are like, we hate you. They’re furious. Jim told a story he went out to get some bourbon out of Vancouver whiskey bar. Jim explains, I like bourbon, and so I’m like, all right, I’m going to get a bourbon.

They tell him, no bourbon. I go, this is a world whiskey bar and they’re like, nope, we’re not selling any American whiskey. And I go, so did you get rid of it? And they’re like, oh, it’s back there. We’re just not selling it.

Gaff again added when he returned to his hotel, which was owned by an American company, he was able to drink some bourbon there. While we’re being political, Tim Dillon was on CNN. He had some advice for the Democrats, saying, you can’t go to war with straight white men for four years and then ask why they didn’t vote for you. That seems crazy. I’ve made fun of Megan Markle a lot.

I can’t then go, why don’t you think Megan Markle’s watching my special? I think you just have to pick your fights in a better way. Dylan talked about having JD Vance on his podcast. Dylan joked it was actually the goal and why I started comedy. JD.

Vans I knew about him when I started out in twenty ten, and I had it all plotted out like a beautiful mind on the wall. Then he got more serious and said it was kind of fortuitous. We just have this podcast that’s big and people listen to it. Trump understands the two cultural forces that I’ve seen in my lifetime have changed the way people behaved reality television and social media. He understands social media and using it to communicate.

Now that we have phones, we’re all starring in our own reality TV shows. He understands that, and he was able to utilize that understanding to connect with people in a way that Kamala didn’t seem to understand. It felt like he just had the upper hand. W come Bell likes not having a boss and says, basically, nobody can fire me, so I feel free to say what I want to now. Having said that, maybe I won’t get hired by anybody again.

But there’s two things that are important. One making sure my family eats every day and has a place to sleep, and two make you sure I’m clear about which side of history I’m on. Send your letters to w cam Al Bell, Tim Dillon, and Jim Gaffigan. Digital Spy caught up with Jimmy Carr. Jimmy said pornography is to sex with clips of comedy, or to seeing a show.

You can watch something on TikTok and go no, that’s not very good, but he watched it with the sound down, reading subtitles while going to the bathroom, paraphrasing, you didn’t get the full effect Jimmy’s comedy inspirations. I always like wordplaying clever stuff. Culture lags behind technology. VHS was a huge thing for me. In the early eighties.

Would start to see tapes of Robin Williams, who’d be thin on more comitty. Suddenly he could see him live talking about his cocaine addiction, and as a kid, you’d go, who the f is this guy? Who does Jimmy Carr think is the goat of comedy? Think about it for a second. Interesting pick here, Jimmy Carr says, Chris Rock for me is the goat because if you look bigger and blacker, it all stands up.

Those routines don’t just stand up. They’re still edgy. Now it’s extraordinary. Most comedy rots. It goes back to the pot and that’s great, But every now and then someone just comes along and nails it.

Jimmy, what made you want to be a comic? I think a lot of people who suffer little from depressions self medicate with comedy. I was using it and decided to become a dealer. I like that, that’s funny. I often think of myself like a drug dealer.

You’re dealing in serotonin and dopamine. You experience it most when you’re in a group of other people. You’re laughing together, you laugh I think thirty times more. Jimmy talked about growing up. I look back at school and everyone was hilarious.

I didn’t stand out as being the funny kid. I could definitely hold my own, but everyone was fun Why else would you be friends with someone if they weren’t a laugh That was the currency, certainly in my home. There’s a lot of mysticism around comedy, like he’s just funny, he just gets up there and does it. No. When I watch Chris Rock do a special, I see one hundred jokes that work brilliantly.

But what I don’t see is the two thousand jokes that didn’t work that got him to those that did. He had to put the work in. You don’t have this in music. The Beatles aren’t any less magicable because you can write down the tunes and analyze the notes. I think we should teach comedy like we teach music.

A digital spy at a good follow up here, you do get musical prodigies. You could teach people to write songs, but you can’t teach them to be Paul McCartney. Jimmy Carr said that’s true, but he makes my point. He wasn’t a covers band with his friends the Quarrymen. They were fine.

Then he did ten thousand hours work in Hamburg and suddenly his facility with melody was revealed. And what joke do you wish you had written? Jimmy Carr said. Anthony Jesselnik has a routine about modern day slavery that I don’t think you should print, but it’s a remarkable piece of work. I’d really encourage people to check him out.

Shane Gillis is everyone’s discovery of the last twelve months. An extraordinary talented sketch and stand up Beth Stelling. I absolutely love and check out Neil Brennan special. Neil makes me want to be a better comic. Wow.

High praise from Jimmy Carr, who’s one of the top comedians out there today. Colin Jost was at Brown University. They had a panel and asked Jost about comedy, and Colin said, I hope it’s something you can improve that you get better at. I hope I get funnier. I don’t know.

Maybe we can all agree to meet here in ten years and I can report back on whether I feel like I’m funnier than I am now. Steve Martin and Martin Short had some of the best comedy careers in history. There’s some of the funniest people I’ve ever met, and they’re still worried about Am I still funny? Am I still making good work? If you’re a certain kind of person, whatever field you work in, that feeling never leaves you all right.

Some quick notes. The New York Times did a It’s not a profile of Theovon. They did an article about Theovon explaining to people who don’t know who Theovan is, who Theovon is. I don’t think THEO participated in it, but it’s a lengthy piece, so THEO will be on people’s rad art. Jimmy Kimmel will get a fourth season of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

It is the second time kim ol will host the show in front of a live studio audience. The first two seasons of the reboot were during COVID protocols. If you missed it. Andrew Santino has a new golf podcast. It’s called No Bad Lies.

That’s a good title. It includes encurse conversations and in studio interviews with professional golfers. Athletes, entertainers, and influencers. Santino said, I’m beyond excited to dive into all aspects of the game with no bad lies, from Live to the PGA and everything in between. There’s so much happening golf right now.

I can’t wait to explore the sport from every with the people who love this game as much as I do. Damon Walliams is one of the latest people to accuse Robin Williams of being a joke thief. I think that’s reasonably well known. Damon had been on Shannon Sharp’s podcast before the recent Shannon Sharp controversy. Can google that one on your own.

I don’t want to go there, and said Robin Williams was a notorious thief. I ain’t lying. His manager used to walk around with a check book and Robin would come off stage and a comedian be like, hey, he just took me, and he’d write him a check for seventy five dollars because he knew Robin was all stream of consciousness and he’d steal material. It was known. Comedians would go, I’m not going on because Robin’s here.

It happens. But I was look at comedy like this If this is not the last joke I’m ever going to tell, then I’m not going to treat it like that. Just a joke means I got to think of something else. For people to be up in arms about a joke, Really, what is the joke? Last year, Joe Rogan commented on Robin Williams and said, I think Robin wanted to kill more than he wanted to be ethical at any cost.

Part of that manic sort of style is this constant need have a bit about anything that you’re talking about. Ever, killing was more important. Feeling that hole inside of him was more important than anything. If you ask any of those comics were back then, there were always instances of Robin going on a talk show and doing your bit, speaking of joke thieves, stay with me. Sarah Silverman spoke to The Guardian and she tells the story.

My parents were dying. I was living in their apartment and taking care of them. So when I went back to stand up, the first material I tried out was stolen from my eulogy at my dad’s funeral. I thought there’s funny stuff in here. In her new material, she is working through the death of her parents and explains There was one night when I hit notes for myself all over the stage.

I’m a stoner, I don’t know have to remember what happens next, and I was in a pretty heavy part of the show looking down on my notes. It was taking a few seconds, so I said sorry to the audience, and they all started a plodding because they thought I was overcome with emotion and apologizing for it. I probably should have just gone with it, but I was like, oh no, I’m not crying. That’s your slow news day comedy news for today, see you tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Conan O’Brien, Gabe Iglesias, Joe Koy, Kevin Hart, David Spade, Bowen Yang, Marcelo Hernandez

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney announces ‘Mister Whatever’ stand-up tour with guest appearances
• Gabe Iglesias and Joe Koy to headline first comedy show at SoFi Stadium
• David Spade’s ‘Dandelion’ special coming to Amazon Prime May 6th
• Kevin Hart to host 25th anniversary BET Awards in June
• Bowen Yang signals potential departure from SNL after season 50
• Webby Awards winners announced including SNL and late-night show digital content

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Big shows were announced, including John Mulaney’s new stand up tour. It is called Mister Whatever, and he announced it from the backseat of his kidnappers car. Tickets for the shows go on sale today at ten am Local time.

The shows will feature guest appearances from John Stewart, Pete Davidson, Martin Short, and others. In a promo video teasing and Mister Whatever, John Mlaney can be seen blindfolded with his hands pounded in the back of a car as two men with blurred faces and distorted voices sit beside him. Let’s listen. Hey, it’s me John Mulaney, and I’ve got great news. I’m going on tour.

My new tour, Mister Whatever, is coming to a city near you. Pre sale starts April twenty third with the pre sale code mister and you can get tickets at John Mulaney dot com to see you at a show. Soda tell me them local time, you’re going to serve? What appreciate local time? What do you mean local time?

No matter where you are in said I. Am tonight on Netflix, John has Conan O’Brien, I you at a berry, Rita Marino, the curator of the Dinosaur Institute at the National History Museum, and music from Mets me Etz, not the baseball team that I root for. I was thinking more about mulaney’s show and I don’t want to just pile on. But one of the YouTube comments got me thinking about it. You know what it is, I think I finally zer it on this.

It’s that the guests don’t know what to do. The show is so chaotic. The guests don’t know should they just grab the reins and do their thing or should they hang back and let the other guests talk. That’s what the big problem is with the show and the way it’s formatted. I will reiterate my advice.

All you have to do tonight is go my first guest is Conan O’Brien, and then stop talking to the point where if you didn’t say another word, Conan would just fill the void and make a bit of it and probably host the show himself. Anyway, I like John A. Lott, I don’t want to just pile on.

Meanwhile, gab Iglacias and Joe Coy announced they will be headlining the fir…

They’re aim as to sell out to seventy thousand fans. If they hit that number, it would eclipse the current Guinness World Record holding comedy audience of sixty seven thousand, seven hundred and thirty three. You know who has that record wrong. It is German comedian Mario Barth. He did this at the Olympus Stadion in Berlin in two thousand and eight.

Gave Iglesias, who was co headlining with Joe Koy, joked for one day, the two of us will be Taylor Swift, which is pretty funny because you may remember Taylor Swift nearly destroyed Joe Coy’s career by giving the ice face to this joke. The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor’s sweat. Apparently, Gabe and Joe are friends. They frequently pop up at each other’s shows, and they decided to do a co headlining appearance together one night.

Only. They’re doing their sets back to back. I wonder who opens and closes there. I would guess Joe opens for Gabe would be my guests. Especially in LA they promise special guest surprise moments and plenty of other hilarious interruptions.

Gabe said, I think every time that we crash each other’s shows, we see the reaction of the fans and people get excited. And the more we do that, the more we realize we have a lot of the same fans. We’ve always want to do shows together. Yeah, like trying to make it make sense. We have a date for David Spade’s Dandelion.

This will be on Amazon Prime May sixth. In Dandelion, David Spade tells us about the perils of flying charity auctions and the evolution of naughty movies. Nudge, Nudge. Kevin Hart never afraid to work, He’s got another gig. This time he’ll be hosting the b ET Awards Monday, June ninth on b ET.

Hart has hosted the awards before, back in twenty eleven be ET president Scott Mills. For over a decade, Kevin Hart has been a beloved part of the Beet family and we couldn’t be more excited to have him return to host the twenty fifth anniversary be ET Awards, it sounds like Bowen Yang is kind of done with SNL. The more interviews I read with Bowen, and he’s been doing a lot of them, I think he’s checked out. I think he’s laying the groundwork for exiting the show, and I would totally understand it. To me, I think, if you’re going to get out, now’s the time to get out.

In the fiftieth season, I could see fifty one being a total rebuild unless you just want to pull a Keenan, like, if you’re Jo Justin Chay, just sit at that news desk for another ten to fifteen years until Lauren’s replacement kicks you out. But you know, if you’re Bowen Yang, yeah it might be time to move on. Bowen says SNL’s just this moving, living, breathing thing, especially after the fiftieth them seeing what life after the show is like and how beautiful it is, and how many people, no matter how long they were at the show or just with their families and loving their lives and not letting the years take away any of that experience for them. He addressed the production schedule, saying, the new season of SNL, I’m just like, oh right, my time isn’t my own. And I tell my friends, I’m not really going to see you guy Unti June, and people that I’ve gone on a couple solid dates with, I’m like, hey, it’s not for lack of interest.

My time is really slipping away from me and I’m so sorry. And it’s not a youth thing, it’s a me thing. I think one of the best parts about working at SNL is whenever you’re not working on your own because you’re helping somebody else a cast. Remember, I execute on their vision. So they’re coming up to you being like you need to dress up as a drone, you need to dress up as a Chinese spy balloon and d blah blah blah, and you’re like, oh, yeah, sure, you get shot out of a cannon in so many of these situations that kind of breaks down all your hesitancies around doing anything that has only served me.

I mean, every now and then a lot of times it’ll be like egg on your face, you make an ass out of yourself, But I never ever weigh that against the wonderful things that I’ve gotten to do. The Webby Awards have announced the winners. Now the ceremonies not for another couple of weeks. I don’t understand how this works. The Webby Awards will be hosted by a Lot of Laser on May twelfth, but they’ve already announced the winners.

Okay. Marcelo Hernandez from SNL is receiving a special achievement award. It’s the Webby Outstanding Comedic Performance Award. The logic thing is The award recognizes his sharp, culturally resonant humor on SNL and his viral impact on the Internet, redefining digital comedy for a new generation. I mean, I like the guy, but he kind of does one thing over and over and over on SNL.

Anyway, if you want to give him an award, go ahead. The Webby’s called him one of the most electrifying new talents in digital comedy. They singled out Domingo. Yeah, everything he does is a variant on Domingo. SNL’s live show coverage on Instagram Stories scored two wins for Best Use of Stories, both the Official Webby and the fan voted People’s Voice Trophy.

The Daily Show got three wins of its own, including Best Social Trophy in the Comedy division and both the traditional Webby and the People’s Voice Award for Best Social in the News and Politics division. That Tonight’s show starring Jimmy Fallon won Best Use of Vertical Video for its nine x sixteen content What Are We Doing? Kimmel won Best Social for a Television Show or Film. People’s Voice winner in that same category went to Colbert.

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The Audio series Best Individual Episode from a TV Show or Film, Best Podcast Host went to Conan O’Brien. John Stewart named the People’s Voice winner for Best Host for the weekly show Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers won Best Podcast Comedy for Las Culturistas. The People’s Voice Award for Best co Host went to The Lonely Island in Seth Myers the Webby Awards Can You wait? May twelfth, Let’s stop off on Gossip Corner. Friend of the show, Scott Beckett sent this to me via The Wall Street Journal.

A very seemingly complicated kerfluffle involving Kevin James is so complicated I had to ask chat gpt to summarize it for me because I didn’t understand it when I read it. According to Chat, Kevin James has found himself caught up in the bankruptcy proceedings of National Real Time The Investment Advisors, a real estate company that filed for Chapter eleven, and as CHET understands things, the company had sold Kevin James a mansion. However, that deal has turned into a legal battle. The mansion, initially purchased by National Realty Investment Advisors for seven point one million dollars in twenty seventeen, had a history of construction problems. Before James bought the house, two hundred and fifty grand was put in escrow for repairs.

However, after Kevin James bought the house for fourteen million dollars. If Chat GPT is understanding this correctly, he allegedly didn’t carry out the repairs and the escro funds weren’t used. An inspector later estimated the home needed one point four million dollars in repairs, far more than what was initially anticipated. That’s an understatement. Apparently, Kevin sold the property as is for twelve point seven million dollars in twenty twenty three, and there’s a legal battle going on and they’re fighting over the escro and I don’t know, but that’s what’s going on on gossip Corner.

Zach Zimmerman has a new special out on YouTube, Surprised Me. Zach explores the definition of love across evangelical family members, Romance gone wrong and doughnuts Done right. My kind of show in this sweet and salty I think that’s code magical stand up special. Surprise Me is also available as an album, So they’re right there. I like it.

I’m pro Grammy then. Via Eugene Merman’s Pretty Good Friend’s Comedy label, Zach’s also on tour you in New Orleans. Why don’t you stop by the Sports Drink Comedy Club on the twenty fifth and twenty sixth. That’s this weekend, all right. The Guardian caught one of the shows at the Sydney Comedy Festival.

They really liked Greg Larsen’s Greggy. They gave it four stars out of five. The setup here spoilers as if you were heading down to Sydney to see this show. Greg Larson has broke having his card declined at at McDonald’s drive through just weeks before. This year’s Melbourne Festival was a watershed moment for him.

He’s forty one, This, he says, is his last festival show. He’s done. Gegy is his swan song, a chaotic journey through his careers, highs and lows and the decisions that led him to that drive through. The show is a window into the reality of working as a comedian, from open mic gigs to glitzy award nights and the various day jobs that happen in between. It isn’t a glamorous story.

The theme of the show, if there is one, is money and the question of why Larsen doesn’t have any? And I feel like Johnny Mac, you don’t cover Australian comedy festivals enough. I know, but I have good news for you. The Brisbane Comedy Festival sixteenth edition kicks off today. Yeah, from today until May twenty fifth, five weeks, four venues, one hundred and thirty five acts.

Who do you go see if you’re down there? How about Granny Bingo? They are the nastiest nanas out there? How about the Aboriginal Comedy All Stars? How about s faced Shakespeare?

You know Shakespeare if you’ve had a few too many drinks. And there’s future science talks comedy addition, Anti Donna they’re not there, but two of the Anti Donnas are Broden Kelly. He’s probably the most recognizable of the Anti Donnas here in the States. He’s got a solo show and Zachary Roon t up with Alexi Toleopolis to do some sort of movie theme show. Some comedian names you may know, especially if you’ve listened to the show over the years, Rhese Derby, Sarah Pesco, Archborker, Ross Noble and Mark Watson.

It is the Brisbane Comedy Festival one of these years. I gotta you know, I could probably swing it money wise, you know, especially it would be a legit right off if I went down there. But you know the whole thing is I’m married, and you know who’s letting the dogs out. Hey, I’m going to Australia for four weeks to cover comedy fstls just not gonna fly. I’m going to LA for three days.

That flies. I’m going to Australia. What are you doing? I don’t know. I’m hosting a comedy podcast and that is your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you’re on YouTube, smash the bell and like and all that YouTube stuff. I don’t understand. I’m old YouTube kids.

You don’t need to make fun of my slide show. I get it. I’m an old dude in the basement. We’re all slaves the algorithm, so I gotta make my little slideshow here. What do you want from me?

All right? See tomorrow.

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Featured: Tony Hinchcliff, Paul Hayman, Triple H, Nate Bargatze, Nikki Glaser, Tim Dillon, Michael Costa, James Mullinger

What’s in This Episode

• WrestleMania roast hosted by Tony Hinchcliff with Paul Hayman stealing the show
• Nate Bargatze’s rise to fame covered by New York Times, Emmy hosting rumors
• Nate Bargatze’s comedy philosophy on authenticity and relatability
• Nate Bargatze’s personal transformation through sobriety and lifestyle changes
• Tim Dillon’s Fox News Digital interview on comedy moving right-wing
• Tim Dillon’s critique of party flip-flopping on free speech and war
• Daily Show guest hosting round and celebrity teleprompter performance issues
• Canadian comedian James Mullinger cancels U.S. Maine tour citing border concerns

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Caloroga Shark Media, Hey Aaron, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Wrestle Votes dot com it has some intel on what went down at the roast of WrestleMania, hosted by Tony Hinchcliff. They wrote two hours of jokes that included some sexual puns and f bombs. Paul Hayman stole the show triple h end of the night with a surprise appearance. Lenna McMahon was in attendance. Don’t hold your breath for this to ever make air.

Wrestlingnews dot Co said. Paul Hayman was incredible. Tony Hinchcliff had everybody rolling. This was so much fun. Cell phones were put in pouches for good reason.

Lol. I doubt this makes it to TV. Stuff was wild. The show took place after WrestleMania at Night two. Wrestle Votes says the show was two hours long.

The New York Times had a cover piece about Naperghetzi. Now I’m seeing here with Nate exactly what happened with Nikki Glaser last year. The really good support team, the prs out there. You know, we heard that Nate was gonna host the Emmys in parallel with that there’s this big thing with the New York Times. Now that didn’t just happen overnight, So the press machine is out for Nate.

I share the article in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. There’s also a podcast version of the interview if you’d like to listen to yourself. The New York Times asked Nate how he got so big. Nate said, talking about relatable things and authenticity. Not that I’m going out for authenticity, but you’re in a world where you have the Wickeds and Avengers movies, and that’s great, but there’s not a regular person on a screen anymore.

Movies used to be like planes, trains and automobiles and home alone. That’s a regular guy in the movie that you enjoy watching. It’s easy to take in and you don’t always want to be thought provoked. That’s something I’ve tried to stay clear of. I need you to be able to come and trust that you’re going to get the entertainment that I’m showing you.

That I’m selling you, and I’m talking about myself, and I’m making fun of myself with the materials written for you. I’m not doing it to make myself look good. I’m doing it to make you laugh. You can either laugh with me or at me. You relate to it or you think I’m an Either way, I’m here to entertain you.

As for his style, Nate said, most of the comics I was around were the complete opposite of everything I did. I had to learn how to do what I was doing in those rooms. But I didn’t want you to notice that I was clean, right. I talked about that on Saturday with Andy woodholl It’s one in the morning and these people are drunk, and how can I do this material that’s not sexual or whatever everybody else was doing. You learn how to hide it, because if he walked up and said I’m clean, it’s gonna be like, yeah, this guy’s not cool, exactly what Andy said.

The Times was curious about Nate’s evolving look in the last six or seven years. You’ve changed your look. You got a different haircut, you grew the beard, mustache, started dressing a little cooler, lost some weight. Nate said, yeah, kids, show business showed up and goes, hey Fatso if you want to make it, you better get your life together. No, no one asked me to do anything as a comic.

You’re you. You’re talking about yourself, so you’re going to be you. But I wanted to do it. I’m going through it right now. I do not have great eating habits.

I eat a lot of fast food and chain food didn’t get in the way. I stopped drinking in twenty eighteen because I knew if I wanted to get where I wanted as a comic, this was going to be the way. I’ve realized that with food too. So if I wanted to do stand up at this high level, possibly make movies, I have to put in the effort to handle all this touring and the mentality it takes to stay focused. I always say, I’m looking forward to the day you can’t see my nipples through my shirt.

That’s we’re all working towards amen. Brother Tim Dillon spoke to Fox News Digital. The premise from Fox News Digital that was comedy was moving to the right. Dylan said, you know, when people call it a right word shift. My pushback to that is, were these statements right word in twenty fifteen or two thousand and five?

When did they become right wing statements? When did it become a right wing statement to say I should have the bodily autonomy to not take an experimental vaccine. When did it become a right wing statement to say I don’t think the US should be in wars? I remember those were left wing statements. When did it become a right wing statement to say that the United States should look after the middle class and workers instead of importing cheap labor so that the profits on Wall Street could go up?

Those are right wing points. This is the craziest thing ever heard in my life. I think the parties flip, but I think they might flip again. You know, this could happen again, where the Republican Party becomes anti free speech and the Democratic Party becomes pro free speech. It could happen again, certainly flip.

During the last election cycle we’re in, the Democratic Party was the pro war, kind of anti speech, seemingly pro corporate party. But if we go to war with Iran start boarding people that wrote op ed’s critical of Israel, then you’ll see the Republican parties now the pro war, anti free speech party. So you actually have to just believe in principles, and you have to hold the people that you’ve elected to account. You can’t follow the people who’ve elected Otherwise you’re just in a personality cult. You’re not a free thinking person.

You have to say, I have a belief. The belief is we shouldn’t do this, and if we do that, whoever it is, Kamala Trump, Bernie whoever, you have to hold him to account and say, you know, I don’t think this is good for America. A lot of Tim Dillon press get some more stuff coming up from later in the week, but he is out there making the rounds, and apparently the cable news networks have discovered he’s a really good guest because he’s got that great mix of doing the talk show thing combined with great jokes. As I’ve said before, I loved Tim’s podcast, and then someday he is going to step on a land mine. I could see it coming, and then I’m going to deny that I ever told you that I liked this podcast.

I’m such a coward. I could be like Tim Dillon. Never heard of him. Michael Costa’s Toll The Last Laugh podcast that when we did the guest hosting thing on The Daily Show where every celebrity came in and hosted, we really learned that many celebrities can’t read a teleprompter. I mean, some were not treating it as we felt was a very important, funny, coveted position.

And by the way, nobody was like met or terrible. But you’re just going man. I grew up on the show, the show’s foundation of who I am. Don’t half ask this please. Thankfully the network finally said, you know, these correspondents really give ahoot about the show.

Canadian comedian James Mullinger has joined the list of comedians who won’t come to the United States. James has canceled a planned show in Maine next month. He told the CBC, I love my job, but not so much that to want to be locked up for two weeks, Although would probably make for good material, but my wife needs me at home. If I didn’t have people dependent on me, I’d possibly take the risk. Mullinger had the venue and date booked his paperwork in order, but says it seemed risky to make the trip to Maine.

It just felt like not the right time. I didn’t want to get swept up in either misinformation or propaganda or necessarily believing everything you hear. But it just seemed risky. Hearing the performers being locked up even though they’re there with the correct paperwork. Have I missed a story of their performers being locked up?

I’ve missed that. I kind of feel if a comedian were locked up, I probably would have mentioned it on the show. Maybe I’m forgetful. Wellinger said, Canadians need to support homegrown comedians. By the way, he’s a brit who moved to Canada.

Canadians can do their part this summer when they’re deciding what comedy shows to go to choose Canadian performers. There are Canadian comedy festivals booking solely American comedians. Let’s treat Canadian comedians the same way we treat Canadian food. Embrace them and support them. Big Jay Ogerson dropped a special on YouTube over the weekend.

It’s called Them They Decider. Caught up with Big Jay Decide or asked for somebody who has seen your work, what should they expect? Big Jay said, for me, as a comedian, I’d say it’s always going to be dirty. You can always expect it’s going to be dirty in some capacity. That was a comedy I was drawn to when I was younger.

So much. What I try to say is it’s palatable. Dirty when I first started being dirty when I was younger, it was definitely for shock, because you get a reaction out of people when you do dirty stuff, whether they like it or not. But over the years, because it was kind of the comedy that Ozo was drawn to myself, I was like, how could I do it? So there’s a strong chance that if you bring your six year old mother with you, she still likes it somehow.

This is a CrowdWork special, Jay said. I knew it was going to be no material in all crowd work, which if you tell the crowd that, the crowd knows what they were there for, so the crowds are much more forgiving. That was the easiest prep. There was nothing to do besides get the stage the way we wanted, the lighting and everything. But that was the beauty of it.

It doesn’t spend any of my material. I don’t have to write a new hour of stuff. I’ve learned that if you ask people enough questions, you find that everyone’s weird, and the people who are purposely weird to be noticed tend not to be the most interesting people. John Oliver hit the Mets game. Snytv’s field reporter Steve Gelbs started interviewing Sean Oliver.

Oliver’s excited about the Mets hot start telling Steve Gelbs, this is amazing. I can’t quite believe it’s happening. It doesn’t feel real. It doesn’t feel like we’re allowed to have this many nice things in one place. I hope everything’s going to stay like this forever, ideally.

Steve Gelbs asked John Oliver about the production cycle of the show. Oliver said, it’s change a little bit because in slower news times we can do that, slower cooking. We’re still trying to do that. But when things hypothetically speaking are happening like a president suggesting sending American citizens overseas to foreign gulags, yeah, that probably feels like something you need to address as soon as possible. So, yes, we’re working at two speeds right now, our regular speed and then crash shows.

Unfortunately, when Twitter user posted John Oliver a typical leftist AC with severe TDS who randomly has to bring up more lies on a Sunday afternoon on the Mets broadcast, two stories that I lightly mentioned yesterday and my voice was giving out, and I promised you i’d talk about them. Otsco at Cotska. We’ll have a special on Hulu on June thirteenth. The Specialist part of their super secretive Hilarious Comedy initiative that the publicists don’t want to tell comedy podcasts about, but we find out anyway. You cannot keep the truth from Daily Comedy News at Cotska will explore themes of adulthood, marriage, and the absurdity of everyday life in Father.

In Father, she deals with the reality is being an adult who’s still struggles with life’s basics, from skipping laundry for seven years to discovering that weddings require marriage licenses. I also had mentioned Tina Fay commented on the possibility of Tina Fey replacing Lauren Michaels as the head of SNL in twenty twenty four. Lauren said Tina could easily do the job herself. Tina Fey till the Hollywood Reporter. I was very nice of him to say, and I love him very much.

He’s irreplaceable. His set of gifts and skills are entirely unique. His eye for talent, He’s one of the last three people in show business who actually understand everything. I’ll leave it at that. Bo and Yang jumped in on the whole Amy lou Wood SNL controversy.

Remember Amy didn’t like Sarah Sherman’s portrayal of her. Yang told Extra, however, she reacted to the sketch is completely valid. With parody, you kind of forget the sort of human emotional cost that it sort of extols on someone. You need these reminders every now and then that parody can go too far sometimes and that we as comedians can take accountability for that instead of banging our foot and saying we should be allowed to say whatever we want. Everyone at SNL is just a fan of the show, obviously a fan of her.

We just think that she should be so proud of the work she put into this season. Brett Goldstein is comparing ted Lasso’s season four renewal to a dead cat. He told a story to NPR. I have a friend that I went to university with, and I think about this a lot. He had a cat that died.

He loved his cat. The cat was run over and they buried the cat. He was a child. They buried the cat in the garden and he lay in the bed so sad, upset and crying, and he prayed and prayed, and he wished that the cat would come back.

And then the cat did come back.

It turned out the cat they buried wasn’t their cat, And I think about that all the time. Brett added, and so I’m like, no, wonder this guy’ left in the head because he thinks death isn’t real. So of course he’s insane. He’s such a weird guy because he thinks he could bring things back from the dead. Aaron posted in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feel encouraged to join us and participate.

I particularly welcomed this comment, as I wrote in the group, I woke up at one thirty in the morning. I had a nightmare, and like you know, when you have a nightmare, your system’s like racing and I needed to just play on my phone to calm the heck down. Aaron wrote more on the Abu Dhabi comedy season, it’s not a festival because it’s spread across several months and they’re all arena shows. Good point, she pointed out. You can also go see Toto the Band, not the Dog.

Aaron right, Chappelle isn’t on sale yet, but his best tickets are going for twelve hundred and fifty dirhams I think, and for reference, one hundred durhams is about twenty seven US dollars, so I’d have to multiply there. I’m too lazy to do that. I have Google. Let’s see. Right now, as I record this, Google is telling me that’s about three hundred and forty dollars to go see Dave Chappelle.

Wow. Aaron Wright’s I also know Joe Coy is using gadget free pouches, probably so no one can record any of his lame jokes and then beat them to death for two years. I particularly like that comment, but Aaron points out that, yeah, yonder pouches are annoying, But having intended a couple shows at the arena without pouches, I can confirm that audiences here are rude and shameless with their devices to the point of almost ruining shows. Aaron’s planning on grabbing our last minute tickets for Trevor Noah very cool. Thank you for checking in with that.

It is festival season. The Sydney Comedy Fest is underway. I’ll dive in on that a little bit more tomorrow. Being honest, here, I’m wiped out. I woke up on Monday and I saw the Pope had passed away.

And here at the company, we have a podcast series called White Smoke about the papal succession. So my morning I got up, it was about six twenty in the morning. Check my PHONEO saw that happen. But I was half out of it, and I’m like, let me make sure that actually happened. It wasn’t just a tweet.

You know, that’s not a mistake you want to make. So went on the New York Times website and they had it in like thirty six point font. Read the story when on Washington Post you want to confirm things in two sources, and they also had it in thirty six point font. So I’m like, okay, this is real. So I spent the morning.

We had some episodes scheduled. For example, they were going to canonize the Millennial Saint on this upcoming weekend, so I had to park that episode to make sure that doesn’t automatically run. Write a script for a new episode I scheduled. We already had in the can the Pope oh bit, So I turned that loose, wrote a new episode, wrote some promos, and trying to build a company, so I got to hit the trades tell him we’re up to all this. So that’s been an exhausting morning.

So Sydney Comedy Festival can wait. I’m trying to get back to Ireland. Maybe I can hit up the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival. It is Ireland’s longest running and best loved comedy festival. May twenty third to the twenty fifth Cat Laughs is coming to Belfast for the first time.

The Guardian calls it the best little comedy festival in the world. Your lineup Friday, May twenty third, Colin Murphy, Patty Raft, Mark McCarney, deetro Ocane, David o’derty. Some good solid Irish names there. Oh, then there’s an interval and then Gerald Faarley, Emma Duran, Alison Spidtele and Neil Delamere. On Saturday, Carl Spain, William Thompson, Susie McKay, Mike Rice, Colin Gettis, Sean Walsh, Deonna Doherty, flat Illitch.

That doesn’t sound like an Irish name at all, Vittorio Angeloni. What’s going on here? Sunday Andrew Ryan, Chris Kent, Kyla Cobbler, Ray Broadshaw and Scott Bennett. Not Scott Beckett, the guy that doesn’t like to Joe Cooy joke. This is a totally different person.

This is comedian Scott Bennett, who probably appreciates the humor behind the Joe Coy joke. Christopher MacArthur, Boyd, Shane Todd, Rich Hall and Patty MacDonell. John why did you do that story? Because I want to go back to Ireland. I felt like reading a bunch of Irish names.

I also would love to hit the Arctic Comedy Festival. This one is coming to Yellowknife on May seventeenth, Dawson City on May twenty first, and Whitehorse on May twenty third. You can go see Mary Walsh, one of Canada’s most memorable comedians. The festival tells us Walsh delivers in a unique and memori way that will leave you in tears. And one more story.

This is not a commercial. I just saw a press release on the newswires and I appreciate Pretzelized. I just like the copy they wrote. Pretzelize, the innovative snack brand known for combining pretzels with classic snacks like crackers and peda chips, launching a social first, fully produced sketch comedy series. It stars New York City comedians Eric Newman and Mark Gerber.

The series features two friends on opposite sides of the chip debate across four scripted, increasingly dramatic episodes. It’s not just a series, it’s your new favorite Internet debate, one that invites consumers to pick aside, take it way too seriously, and make their snack options known. That’s right, it’s pretzilized. Good job a copywriter. They invite us to join the pre solution.

That’s your comedy news for today. If you’re on YouTube, whatever you YouTube guys do. Look, I’m an old man in the basement. I’m trying to figure this out, so you know, like subscribe, bring to bell. I know it’s a slideshow.

What do you want to see a fifty five year old guy in his basement talking to a microphone. That’s boring. Enjoy my slide show. Appreciate it takes me a couple of minutes to make. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Nate Bargatze, John Stewart, Bill Murray, Steve Carell, Oscar Nuñez, Greg Daniels, Tim Dillon, Tom Green, Kevin Spacey

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Bargatze hosting the 77th Emmy Awards on CBS
• National Comedy Center Comedy Festival August 7-10 featuring John Stewart and Bill Murray
• The Office spinoff ‘The Paper’ following a newspaper with Oscar Nuñez reprising his role
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 premiering July 9 on FXX with crossover episode from Abbott Elementary
• Tim Dillon discusses Robert F. Kennedy and Kevin Spacey’s House of Cards comeback
• Tom Green on Canadian politics and being mistaken for wanting to be American

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News. If you missed yesterday’s podcast, it was a pretty good one. It was not Sunday filler. I had some good meat in there yesterday and including story about Shinge Gillis hitting up the Masters.

If you listened yesterday, you heard me kind of lose my voice a third of the way through the podcast. I don’t know what’s going on. I feel fine, but I am recording Sunday and Monday back to back. So what I’m doing here is I’m dialing it down a little. It reminds me of when I run.

You know, sometimes you get a little tight and you have to slow up a little. So I’m going to keep my energy a little more, even more even keeled than usual. Nate Berghatzy is stebbing up in class. He has been touted touted. Why did I say touted?

I could take that out. Nobody actually says that, right, He’s been touted. CBS has chosen, CBS has hired. CBS has picked Nate Bergetzy to host the seventy seventh ME Awards, held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on September fourteenth, Peacock Theater, CBS, That’s going to be awkward. Television Academy chair Chris Abrago sent a statement, Nate with one of the hottest comics in the business, with a remarkable and hilarious brand of comedy that deeply resonates with multi generational audiences around the globe.

We are thrilled to be able to leverage his one of a kind perspective to entertain TV fans watching this year’s Emmy telecast. In a statement, Nate said, it’s a huge honour to be asked to host such an iconic awards show, and I’m beyond excited to work with CBS to create a night that can be enjoyed by families around the world. The nominations will be announced on Tuesday, July fifteenth. The National Comedy Center announced who’s coming to the Comedy Festival this year in August. I got to get up there.

I’ve been talking about it for a few years, and I need an excuse for a long drive, and that’s a pretty part of the country. I think I might go up this year. John Stewart, Bill Murray, Mikey Day, Streeter Sidell, and Moore set to appear at the National Comedy Center’s Comedy Festival August seventh through the tenth, an evening with John Stewart’s Saturday August ninth on Sunday, a stand up showcase to be followed by a rock and blues concert featuring Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers. It’s an evening of comedy and music, a live blues and classic rock performance along with stand up by some of today’s top talent from around the country. Former guest on this podcast, Journey Gunderson said, John Stewart is one of the most influential comedic voices of our time.

That is true, providing his signature a social commentary at a pace responsive to the news cycle, while deeply thoughtful about our shared humanity. All that is true. That is a good quote. John Stewart said. I’ve said comedy is an iterative business and a grind, and the best amongst us just keep at it.

I’m glad there’s a museum, a national archive that drives on or that, and I look forward to seeing how the National Comedy Center tells the story of this great art form that survives every moment.

Also, the festival mighty day, SNL head writer Streeter Sidell, they will joi…

Their visit also commemorates the Washington’s dream Sketch Q cards being added to the museum. That’s fun. We found out a little bit more about that Office spin off. Oscar Nuniez has confirmed that he will reprise his role as Oscar Martinez on Office spin off. This is called The Paper I Believe, which will follow the same documentary crew that captured dunder Mifflin’s antics as they turned their focus to a Midwestern newspaper.

Ricky Gervasa’s wallet probably says thank you. Nunia says, they’re still editing and stuff. It’s very, very exciting. Oscar was talking with Angela Kinsey, who asked him, isn’t the understanding that you’re following the documentary crew to a new location and you happen to be there. Oscar Nuniaz said, that’s right.

More will be revealed, as my wife likes to say. Kinsey said she visited this set of the new show, and alongside Jenna Fisher, who you know as Pam. Jenna and I stopped by the set. Greg Daniels, the creator had invited us, and we showed up and not only was Oscar there, but our crew somebody in these wonderful peop Because the crew was our extended family. We’re still really close with them.

That was really moving to see. Steve Carell was asked about this show last year by The Holloway Reporter. He said, we’ll be watching, but I will not be showing up. It’s just a new thing and there’s really no reason for my character to show up in something like that. But I’m excited about it.

Sounds like a great conceit. I love the idea. I guess it’s set in a newspaper company. And I’ve worked with Domal Gleeson, who’s the star of this one. I did The Patient with him and he’s an excellent actor and a super nice guy.

So I think it’ll be great. Good quote from Steve Carell. There handled that properly. Season seventeen of its Always Sunny in Philadelphia will be on FXX July ninth and on Hulu the next day. The premiere will be the second half of the crossover with Abbott Elementary, there’s a clip teasing the new season.

We see the Gang volunteering at the elementary school, stealing kids brownies and auditioning them for a potential boy band. This is season seventeen, but it celebrates the show’s twentieth anniversary. We’re told season seventeen is dubbed The Gang Embraces the Arp and tells the story of how greed and the New American Dream have consumed Patty’s Pub. They’ll exploit cross network promotion to increase market share. They’ll scape goat one of their own to avoid a pr backlash.

They’ll risk everything for a handshake with the Saudi’s. They’ll bend the laws with side housles to pad their pockets, and they’ll change everything about themselves to appeal to a broader audience. According to the log line, and sure, like any corporate goon, the Gang craves money and parasitic social privileges. That’s been playing since two thousand and five, But they’re also human beings that crave love, respect, conditional freedom, constant adulation, histrionic amounts of attention, NonStop gratification, and unfiltered slap happy eroticism. There’s a pres lease for you.

I had to pause there and take a sip of my large iced coffee with pistachio. I don’t know what is going on with my voice. Maybe it’s the pollen is coming out. I feel fine. Tim Dillon was on News Nation the subject Robert F.

Kennedy. Now this interview took place before mister Kennedy’s comments on autism. We’re not going to get into that. Yllan had said he was all for Kennedy’s attempts to get Americans to eat healthier. News Nation rights.

In fact, he’d love to see Kennedy close fast food restaurants with armed soldiers. Tim said, I think it should go in too fast food restaurants with the military and shut them down. I think it should take people off the line at Chick fil at gunpoint. If we’re going to go to Taco Bell, but I knew that Rfka’d be there with the military, I might think twice about it. Dylan also talked about the Kevin Spacey thing.

In case you missed it, Kevin Spacey reprised his role as Frank Underwood to promote Dylan’s comedy special. Dylan says people are just tired of banishing people. People are imperfect, they’re flawed, they make mistakes, and he hopes that the pendulum has swung away from cancel culture. Tom Green told Vulture the number one thing people say to me when they find out that I’m Canadian is sorry about what’s going on right now. This isn’t our choice.

Green said, I don’t do a lot of political comedy, but I do have a joke I tell because the situation when right now I live in Canada, the fifty first state, the only state in the Union where nobody in it wants to be American except for Jordan Peterson, Wing Gretzky and the guy from Shirt Tank. Got it confuse laugh. Half the audience actually understands the full depth of the joke, and the other half is realizing for the first time that not everybody from every other country in the world dreams to being an American after being told you the greatest country in the world your entire life. Well, it’s a completely shocking statement. I haven’t told the joke in Kennedy yet, but I guarantee you when I tell it, people will be laughing.

For different reason. Canadians have always been a little more understated. American comedy is much more aggressive and on the nose. But our comedy is a silliness that’s just woven naturally into it, because there’s something of an insecurity, there, a humbleness that is masked in absurdity. We never say we’re the greatest country in the world.

We’re not screaming it from the rafters because it’s impolite. All right, my voice is giving out. I’m going to bounce two stories to tomorrow and take the break, but I will tell you here. The short version is otsco at Costka has got a special on Hulu and Tina Fey dodge some questions about Lord Michael’s job, but we’ll talk about that tomorrow.

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All right, Let’s see if I can make to the end here, so you get your money’s w…

The show’s free, you know. On Gossip Corner. Craig Ferguson bought a new place two bedrooms in the East eighties, a block from the Tripolitan Museum of Arn’t in New York City. Ferguson and wife Megan have sold their castle in Scotland and picked up a classic co op for one point seventy nine million dollars. Now, I’ve never lived in a castle in Scotland, and I don’t know a condo in Manhattan.

Even if you’re overlooking Central Park, I don’t know. I think you traded down there. Craig Craig said, we’re very happy to be back in New York. And there’s a new box set with the Richard Pryor albums. This is getting a lot of pickup.

The pr people did a good job here. I’m a little confused because there have been at least two boxet said the Richard Pryor comedy albums. There’s definitely one, And I remember because when I started at Sirius, my boss asked me how come we didn’t play Richard Pryor And the answer was the records at that time sounded like crap and when he played them on an actual radio, you couldn’t really understand what Richard was saying.

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And then they remastered them.

There was this red box set. I remember the box set. So I don’t know why we’re making a big deal out of this. Maybe because it’s been twenty years, John, I guess anyway. The new box set is called I Hope I’m funny.

The Warner Albums nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty three, out now via Rhino. The seven LP set features several albums. Now, I have a challenge. I’ll be honest here telling you in the story, mister Pryor titled his albums in a way that totally appropriated for mister Pryor to title his albums, but inappropriate for Johnny Mac to tell you the names of these albums here in twenty twenty five. So I’m gonna sub in the word Fella.

One of the albums, That Fella’s Crazy, was recently placed on Rolling Stone’s list of the seventy four best albums of nineteen seventy four. It was recorded at Don Cornelius’s Soul Trained nightclub in San Francisco. Chris Rock had once told Rolling Stone whenever they have a list of the one hundred greatest albums, Richard is never there. He’s not a musician, but Richard is one of the greatest recording artists ever. I’ll take that Fella’s Crazy over.

Frampton comes alive any day.

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Also in the set, Is It Something I Said nineteen seventy six is a bi centenni…

Not just his cadences or the vocal impressions. He does the outfit and I love Eddie Murphy. I’m fifty five years old. Do the math we loved, delirious and raw. But it’s a cover act.

Richard Pryor got there first and wore the same red outfit. We’re close enough. Opening today the Sydney Comedy Festival, I know you got a month of Melbourne and you got zero days in between. The Sydney Comedy Festival is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, featuring over three hundred performers today through Bay eighteenth. Daniel Sloss stars on the debut of the festival’s One Night Stands series, a Sydney exclusive performance April twenty fourth at the Sydney Opera House.

I Like this too. The Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawl attendees can explore the y C Cana I’ve been down there. I’m trying to remember what that’s stand for. I guess it doesn’t matter. The yck’s precinct bars in the CBD that Central Business District, each hosting unexpected lineups in various surprise venues.

The festival will also features a pioneering mentorship initiative hosting four up and coming comedians. They are Alan Fang, Frankie rous Thorne to be Barone, and Stella Wu to develop their acts with seasoned industry professionals. Locals include star of RuPaul’s Drag Race down Under Rhys Nicholson. International stars include Brazilian’s Fabio Rabine. He’ll be performing in Portuguese.

Malaysia’s comedy Elites Cavin Jay, Roisel Van Gazel and Poppy Zach. They are the Malaysian Comedy All Stars. The Theater Sports All Stars blend improvisers with new talents, miniature for the arts, jobs and tourism. John Graham said from Humble origins twenty years ago, the Sydney Comedy Festival has become a big highlight in our cities calendar, which is why we’re now backing it with event funding from Destination NSW New South Wales. Our government has been working hard to rebuild our nightlife after a decade of lockouts and lockdowns, which unfortunately were no joke.

I see what we had did their Minister Graham, Hey, minister Graham, why don’t you fly down like a world renowned podcaster. Hope you promote this thing. You know, if you’ve got funds, you should use them. All right, my voice is gone. Tomorrow show will be good.

I can tell you that because it’s already half written. Plus the five stories I didn’t do today. I try see tomorrow

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Steve Gerbin, John Mulaney, David Letterman, Nikki Glaser, Hannibal Buress, Leanne Morgan, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis attends the Masters golf tournament
• John Mulaney’s Netflix talk show format and production issues
• David Letterman appears on John Mulaney’s Everybody’s Live
• Late night viewership trends and comparison to Johnny Carson
• Jimmy Kimmel discusses early comedy influences and Carson/Letterman

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. People are not upset with Shane Gillis, but they’re kind of like, come on, dude. He went to the Masters last Sunday. Rory McElroy had his run there.

A lot of people were tuning in on the fly, a lot of casuals, myself included, put the golf on and on his podcast, Shane said, I don’t give enough about golf. I really wanted to. You couldn’t see a thing. Shane was there with his tires Co star Steve Gerbin. Steve had pleaded with Shane to use his celebrity power to gain entry into the exclusive Masters tournament, tagging along as their friend Chris O’Connor.

Shane says O’Connor was planning on not going, so he had already started drinking a little. He was prepared to lock down by himself at Hooters for the entire day, which I could have been more jealous of. Gillis admitted that the fairways of Augusta were like paradise and that everybody was friendly except for the bathrooms, which he compared to prison. People on social media are both jealous and kind of like, can you not appreciate it? I had an experienced once back when we did Blue Collar Radio.

I used to get hot passes for NASCAR events. So what a hot pass is is you can be in Pitt Road while the race is going on, while cars are coming in and they’re doing the tire changes and all that, and I’d be three feet from the car during a race. And every time I did it at the Daytona five hundred, I would be appreciative, but I was like, deep down, I know I don’t appreciate this. It would be like somebody else who doesn’t care sitting in the Mets dugout during a Mets World Series. That would be like my equivalent there for me.

And I’m like, this is amazing, but I’m not a NASCAR fan, and I know there’s somebody up there in the stands who would kill for this experience. Loved it, did it several times. Thought it was cool. NASCAR’s great, especially in person, really good time, but I knew, like, deep down, I don’t deserve to be here, or someone else does. I watched on Millenie Show with David Letterman and Hannibal burrus Nikki Glaser and John Mulaney’s He’s not good at hosting a talk show.

David Letterman tried to save the night, but the show it’s misproduced. Here’s some notes from somebody who’s produced a thing or two in thirty years. John’s fifteen minute story at the beginning too long. I started hitting fast forward. Part of the problem is I know that they’re going for this is different, and this is chaotic, and the zaniness and the weirdness is what makes it cool.

But it doesn’t work. You’ve got David Letterman there, but instead of just having Millennie and Letterman talk, you’ve got Leanne Morgan there. So then Milanie starts talking over Dave towards Leanne Morgan, who’s further down the couch. Dave makes a joke about how awkward it is, which was funny. Again, Dave tried to save it, but the format doesn’t work because Letterman or any guest Nikki Glaser, Hannibal Buris, they can’t get into groove because you’ve got too many people sitting there at once.

Richard Kind apparently has carte blanche to interrupt and throw the whole thing off. This show doesn’t work. I can’t understand how you have John Mulaney, David Letterman, Nikki Glaser, Hannibal Burs and Fine Leanne Morgan. And you can’t hand in something that’s entertaining. I didn’t make it to the end.

This show is not good. Conan O’Brien will be the guest on John Mulaney next week. Here’s a pro tip for the producers. Okay, you’re ready, here’s what you’re gonna do. It’s seven oh one in Los Angeles and fifty four degrees.

My first guest is Conan O’Brien. Conan, how you doing?

And then stop talking?

And then fifty nine minutes later ago, and that’s our show this week. See you guys next week. All right, write that down mlany or more importantly, write that down malleaney’s producers, says the guy hosting a podcast in his basement. The Sydney Morning Harold asked the question ken John Mulaney’s absurdist Netflix masterpiece save late night TV masterpiece. They use the word masterpiece.

The Sydney Morning Harold writes. When it works, it’s very good. However, there are some more awkward episodes. Cruise Ships, for example, didn’t end as a particularly interesting topic where everybody had good stories but getting fired. It’s alls about finding the right people.

Yeah, like so you had, I don’t know, David Letterman, hanniballe person, nickki Glazer. You could probably make a show out of that. It all has a frantic, somewhat cobbled together feeling that’s incongruous to the amount of money that’s clearly being spent on the show. And nobody seems more joyful about the chaos than Mlany. He told Bill Hayter, this is what it’s going to be like the entire time.

I have a whole new vibe. It’s very different. It might be a winning strategy, a way to save the format, but it feels less deliberate than that. Maybe it’s just a way generally a fun and beloved style of show for as long as they’re allowed to get away with it. Latenighter dot Com orroat Episode six of Everybody’s Live treats Letterman’s appearance with format breaking comic reverence, an unprecedented cold open with a mic toting Mullaney fainting towards a similarly unprecedented topical bit about the current constitutional crisis, give way to the frenzied backstage prep for the measure in they lined up people in size order.

It was a lettermanesque bit. Even Letterman said, that’s the kind of thing we used to do late night. A writs are running theme the season has been that even Mlanie doesn’t know what he’s actually doing here. His pronouncement here that his sort of late night show looks and sounds like it’s real, but it’s just kind of off is a more sucinct definition than any I’ve come up with. Letterman’s presence makes the call in segments even more of an afterthought than usual.

M’laney introduces Hannibal Verse and Nicky Glazers, two of his best stan up pals, while LeAnn Morgan’s ultra Southern stick gets tiresome, but none can compete with the legend nestled beside them on Malanie’s couch. That’s in line with my notes, ladies and gentlemen, my first guest is David Letterman. Hi, Dave, what’s going on? And stop talking? Good stuff from late night?

Or here they write for Dave himself. This sort of coded tribute is barely acknowledged even as the entire episode plays out. In one extended thank you. Rolling Stone interviewed Jimmy Kimmel. I shared that in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, they were curious of Jimmy’s earliest comedy memories.

Kimmel said, I had an audio cassette recorder, and before Letterman came on, I would watch Carson. Same note. I was there for Dave and you just you watched Carson to get to twelve thirty with something to do. Kim Will says specifically, when Bill Cosby was hosting for Johnny, I tape the monolog and I transcribed it because I wanted to see what it looked like. But I didn’t have any intention of being comedian.

That never occurred to me. I had a late night license plate and had a late night birthday cake because I love Letterman so much, not that I thought I could do it someday. Rolling Stone was curious about the late night landscape, especially in light of After Midnight being canceled. Kimmel says, ABC pays me so ideally, in an ideal world, everybody would watch our show on ABC, but it’s not how it works. It’s very easy to watch it on YouTube.

People watch anything at a moment’s notice now and in late night, I find most of the people are watching me the next day. That’s the next day in the morning. But if you look at YouTube, you look at all the shows. More people are watching our late night television than ever were. And that’s what any comedian wants.

I don’t know, I might have to fact check that. Let me see what Carson was at his peak. Okay. AI overview on Google says Carson Show averaged nine million viewers nightly. A Facebook post says it averaged sixteen million people.

Here’s the LA time saying nine million. So let’s go with nine million. I guess if you added up two million here million there a millionaire in the social media. Maybe if we add everything together, it might get to nine million. Jimmy Kimmel.

Maybe, perhaps possibly, I’m too lazy to do the math. Jimmy retirement. Yes, no, Jimmy said, I realize there’s no point in talking about it. Obsess the people I work with. There are a lot of people who want of jobs when I retire.

That definitely weighs on me. But the reality is, I’m not gonna do this forever. At a certain point, it’s gonna have to end. I also know that there’s not one person who works here who would resent me for retiring. I think they know that when I’m done, I’ll feel like I’ve done this as long as it possibly can.

But you always feel like the band leader that when you step aside, everyone’s gonna have to find new jobs. Jimmy Fallon, whose Tonight Show is in third place? And I’ve been thinking about that since I said it on the podcast. I can’t imagine a universe in which the Tonight Show is the third most popular thing at eleven thirty? How is that possible?

And yeah, I get demos and the younger people like them and all that, but like, if you’re at NBC and the Tonight Show is in third are you like, hmm, what are we even doing? So? I don’t know, but like, if not Jimmy Fallon, who and what and why? Right? So fine?

Let Jimmy Fallon sit there for twenty years. Maybe it’s the marketing. Uh you know, maybe they should hire Milanie’s producer, just have Jimmy Fallon host a mess of a show. Who knows. Anyway, Jimmy’s got another show on NBC, so I guess they like him a lot He’s going to host the marketing competition series On Brand, which will also feature marketing exec Bezoma, Saint John and a number of big companies.

On Brand with Jimmy Fallon. We follow what happens when Jimmy Fallon starts a premier marketing agency and fills it with the most creative, clever and competitive go getters he can find. Boy, somebody in the NBC sales department is creaming their coffee over this one, because a host of national brands, including Captain Morgan, Duncan, KitchenAid, Marshall’s, Pillsbury, Samsung, Sonic Southwest and thorough Body, will be part of the show, serving as the agency’s clients and of course getting a good deal of screen time. All right, so there’s a show and it’s going to be all advertising. Oh boy, NBC se executives.

So just gotta love this. Jimmy Fallon said, I love branding, I love marketing. I love the world of advertising, and I think there are a lot of people out there who do as well. This show, let’s the audience that our contestants get a peek behind the curtain of how campaigns where some of the biggest brands come together and what goes into making them. Each episode will see the on brand agency, which reinforces the show’s title, working with one of the aforementioned brands on a major campaign that may involve commercials, jiggles in Pearson Experiences, or merchandise.

The judges will pick the best ideas, which then go on to become real world campaigns. What are we even doing in Cincinnati? Yesterday? Cant Williams got a street named after him. You may know it as Reading Road at the corner of Maple Avenue in Avondale.

Nope, it is now Cant Williams Way. Happy for twenty and Easter, but happy four twenty to those of you who observe. People who do observe today’s holiday are Cheach and Shong, and I believe from my original notes when I stashed this here months ago, Cheach and Shoong’s Last Movie I Think is out today. Euchen Chong’s Last Movie is a documentary offering a wildly imaginative take on genre convention, a true life tale till through a mix of animation and archival madness, all underscored by a classic cinematic road trip comedy. My Voice is already given out.

And while I’ll con see that often happens on the Sunday episodes. That’s usually because I usually record Friday, Saturday Sunday to give myself the week and off. But you know, I had the interview yesterday, so this is actually the first one in the sequence that I’m recording. And I don’t know why my voice is gone, because I want to do Monday too, because it was supposed to be nice out today and Johnny Mac wants to be doing something else. I love you guys, but you know, it’s Sunday, it’s Easter, it’s four twenty.

I’m not a four to twenty guy, but you know, if you are, that’s fine. But it’s Easter and it’s nice out and I want to go out anyway. The Mailburn Comedy Festival wraps up today. The Guardian gave Lou Wall’s show five stars. They write comedians frequently lie, but if the story is funny, doesn’t matter.

If the truth of a hit TV show is contested, do you enjoy it less? Lou Wall’s new show Breaking the Fifth One, was nominated for Best Show at Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The story is about Wall listing a bed for free on Facebook Marketplace and the unhinged interaction that follows with a woman named Eileen. It’s a fantastic bit, not least because it’s very believable. Anyone who’s listened something on Facebook Marketplace is familiar with the absolute gauntlet of humanities weirdness that you open yourself up to.

It starts with a straightforward story and it becomes something much more meta and much more complicated. Sounds like a fun show. I think I figured out how to. I’ve dropped my energy a little bit. I’ve stopped shouting, and I think if I talk at this level, I’ll be able to record today and tomorrow.

Let’s do one more. From expats dot cz, your home for comedy news, they caught up with Icelandic comedy star Ari l Jarn. You know him from Pardon My Icelandic Well. Ari is visiting Prague. Ari is known for his razor sharp impressions and deadpan takes on Nordic oddities.

Expats dot Cz was curious, have you been to Prague before? Ari said, yeah, once, about eight years ago. It’s beautiful. Raykovic has almost no old buildings left. We basically demolished everything ourselves after World War Two.

The oldest house where I live is from seventeen ninety in Prague. The pizzeria I went to was from fourteen ninety. It wasn’t even listed as a historical landmark. Who shaped your comedic style? Eddie Murphy was the biggest comic in the Nordic countries.

His specials Delirious and Raw were huge here. They were the first stand up specials most people saw. Later, I discovered Eddie Zard. Now my manager is Eddie’s tour manager. It’s been awesome learning from him.

Good question here. Your material is very eurocentric. Do you think it works outside Europe? Any jokes that didn’t land or? He says, by far.

I’ve heard the biggest reactions from the Nordic countries, especially Denmark and Finland, and also really works on Australia. Australians really get it. The US not so much. I’ve performed there much, but I think American audience is harder to crack. Mostly the Americans who make it to my shows are very Eurocentric.

They’re often the type of say, yeah, we’re from the stats, We’re sorry, We’re sorry. Good question here. You once said translating a material from English felt like a rebirth of the jokes. It’s exciting when you realize the joke, which he thought was completely local, can be made international. It’s a fun challenge because most of my material is so intertwined with Icelandic phrasing.

When I speak English, I tend to be less precise, more of an impression of an English speaker, which can lead to strange errors. Sometimes you don’t notice them, but doing it on the fly is a mind bending challenge. It’s almost like being an AI translator. And he shares that he’s fluent in English, semi fluent in Danish, and can also make himself understood in French, German, and Spanish and of course Icelandic. I assume he says, that’s five, but I’m counting six, assuming the Icelandic one.

That’s your comedy news for today. Oh boy, I gotta find a voice for Monday’s episode. Come back tomorrow you’ll see what happens.

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Featured: Andy Woodhull

What’s in This Episode

• Andy Woodhull’s seventh comedy album ‘Beach Brain’
• Audio album vs. Netflix special production decisions
• Audience laughter and ‘clapter’ authenticity in comedy recordings
• Album cover design and Beach Boys aesthetic inspiration
• Challenges of video podcast production and YouTube pressure
• Live recording from Elkhart with single-take editing decisions

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. I’m gonna jump right in today. I’ve got a guest in the first half. Then we’ll take the break, and then i’ll tell you a couple things on the comedy front.

Andy Woodhole has a new album. It is called Beach Breen. It is his seventh comedy album. And here’s my conversation with Andy. I was checking out your podcast and I loved that you went all inside baseball on the recording of the album.

You told a great story about working in crowd laughter. I’ll lead you, but I’d love for you to tell that story to my audience because I’m increasingly suspect of what I hear as laughs in Netflix specials. I’ve got an ear for it. Short story on me. I programmed serious XM comedy for ten years, so I sat at a desk listening to comedy.

Rou Oh yeah, well, hey, thanks for playing me all those times. I’ll come back and we’ll talk about that a second. So for you know, ten years, I’m sitting there all day listening to the stuff, so I kind of know how audiences react, and I will hear stuff on some of these Netflix specials, and I’m like, no, no, no, no, So could you just tell the anecdote that I’m sharing from your podcast. Well, what I think you’re talking about is I did a recording called Live from Elkhart, which you can find, and I only had one shot at it. Sometimes you have multiple shots, so if you don’t get a joke right, you can pull it from the next set, but this one I had one shot at it, So any mistakes I did, I would just say, hey, I’m made a mistake.

I have to do that joke over. I hope you guys don’t mind.

And then so I flubbed this joke.

You know, I said a wrong word here, a wrong word there, left something out, and then I did it right, and the audience clapped like I had just finished playing Freeberg or something. It was an insane reaction.

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And then when we went to the editing, it doesn’t mean any sense that this jok…

That was a moment where I said, you have to take some of this laughing and clapping away because it seems fake. It doesn’t make sense. Are you running into clapter with audiences? I feel like that’s something that’s crept into the last ten years. There was one I don’t want to throw anybody on a bus, but I was watching one comedian who is fantastic and he did this whole chunk and the audience clapped, and I’m like, I don’t I don’t think that’s what you’re supposed.

To do there, folks. No, I don’t get a lot of it because I don’t think that I am writing that type of joke. And if there’s anyone that doesn’t know what you mean by clapter, it’s when a comedian will say something that the audience agrees with and they will clap. It’s more right then it’s funny, and it’s you know, it engages audiences, and I don’t know, I suppose has its place, but that’s not what I attempt to deal in. What made you decide to go within audio album?

I appreciate it, you know, in the year of the Netflix special, the YouTube special, and I still program comedy radio for Live one, it is great to have, you know, an old fashioned album. Sure, sure, well it’s not that. Let me give the most smart sounding decision. I guess, rather than everyone is putting out specials. There’s all these specials that look amazing, they’re highly produced, there’s million dollar budgets.

I am still basically a one man operation. Even though I did do this one with a comedy record label called Blonde Medicine, that are fantastic and they’re putting out great comics and you should check them out and listen to everyone whose album they produce. But a million dollar production buzz it wasn’t in the cards for me. So I thought to set my apart. I do something different.

I do the audio album, which is how people have been finding my comedy for the whole time I’ve been doing comedy is through things like Serious and Pandora and Spotify, And as far as the video, it’ll just be on YouTube and it’ll just be a straight shots of camera. It’s I didn’t want to go halfway, you know. I could have spent a lot of my own money and I had a higher production value, but it wouldn’t look as good as a Netflix special, and so I decided it is what it is. This is a side of the club, and if you want to see me doing it, you can see me doing it on YouTube, but otherwise it’s it’s audio. It’s so interesting to me that you say that as a comedian, because one of the things where you’ve been struggling with in podcasting is this whole Hey, you gotta be on YouTube, you gotta make a video podcast.

And I’ve struggled with it. Yeah, because for my audience who were watching this on YouTube, this is what the show looks like. This is what me recording the podcast looks like. It’s not very interesting. I’m fifty five years old.

I self describe him somewhere between Troll and George Clooney. You can pick, but you know, I’m not a sexy, hot chick in her twenties where everybody’s gon be like, oh, let me just randomly click on this thumbnail. It’s a guy with a dumb backdrop and doing comedy headlines. So you know, I love that. I don’t.

I don’t love, but I appreciate that you’re going through the same kind of struggle of I can’t keep it with a Netflix budget, like I explain, and I also teach a college class. If I’m Andrew Schultz and I have a big time politician, and I’ve got a couch set up and a three camera shoot and proper lighting and a PR team. Yeah, or videos awesome, but a guy in his basement it’s really hard. Sure. Yeah, low production as well.

YouTube was supposed to be. That’s what I think it was for a while. What it was supposed to be, and now it’s it’s great and those things are great, but now it’s no longer as much do it yourself unless you want to just watch someone’s AI edited video, which I I don’t. Yeah. Yeah.

For the album Beach Breen, I was intrigued by the cover. I’m a Beach Boys fan, and there’s definitely whoever put it together, and maybe you, hopefully you, because it’ll make a more interesting conversation. Definitely went for that nineteen sixties album cover Vibe. The fonts are right, the colors are right. Where the where did the album cover come from?

Well, I’ll take partial credit for the album cover. A lot of the credit goes towards the good folks over there at Blonde Medicine, because this is the seventh time I’ve put out an album and I have never had a photo of myself on the cover because I always felt like when the guy is on the cover of the comedy album. You know, he’s making a face. Like I hate that. Oh my god.

Yes, I didn’t know. You know, I never quite felt like what my face on a cover. So everyone I’ve done up until now has been an illustration, and I wanted to do an illustration again, and people at Blonde Medicine kind of pushed back a little bit, and they said, we think you’ve never had your face on the cover of an album. I think it’s time to put your face on the cover of an album, especially because things I’ve done in the past that have been really popular. I look much younger, I don’t have a beard.

You know, people have a hard time even recognizing me from my own self from ten years ago. So they convinced me to do that. So there was a photo shoot, which was uncomfortable because it’s in public. It’s not like you’re in a studio. Because I wanted to do it at the beach, so people are taking photos and I actually ran into this guy that I was just like a guy I casually say hi to walking my dog at the beach, and he saw the whole photo shoot and then asked me about it.

It was incredibly embarrassing and yeah, I don’t know. I had the idea to set on the beach. I wore the outfit because it’s an outfit my wife bought for me. I agree that I think it has a cool like beach boys vibe, But I can’t take credit for the outfit. That’s I just could rested by the woman that loves me at the time in my life, and I’m great with it.

I like living that life, and so she gets the credit for the outfit. They get the credit for deciding to do a photo shoot, and I believe they also have a graphic designer in house that did the final design. But the photo on the beach with the beach stuff was was my idea? Is that Santa Monica? It is Santa Monica.

Yeah, so you just. Walk out over there to a photo shooting, go. Yeah, that’s exactly what it was. I walked from our apartment to the beach. I did a photo shoot in public, like I’m an Instagram model, and I was spotted by an acquaintance and it was incredibly embarrassing.

And yeah, anyone that’s had to get their photo taken just knows it’s a little embarrassing to have, you know your photography, giant camera, they’re inches away from your face. They always seem way closer than they need to be, and it’s embarrassing in a studio. So I did mine publicly. The thing that caught my eye, and you can make fun of me in the schoolyard, and I know you agree to do this interview so that we could talk about the cover for twenty minutes. It is the Igloo cooler and I have one of those in red, but mine is from nineteen seventy six, and I know that because there’s a bi centennial sticker on it that either my mom or I put on in seventy six.

And as I was just thinking about this interview, I’m like, I’m hitting the beach with a forty nine year old cooler. But it works. Yeah, it’s a great cooler. I think my wife and I liked it because of that kind of retro design and Easter egg on the album cover. That cooler is the first thing we ever bought together as a couple.

We pitched in I think twenty dollars each and bought that forty dollars cooler. And if you zoom in tight, there’s a sticker of my older specials on the cooler. Oh nice, and you’re going to have. Century sings there? Yeah, I hope, so, I hope.

So. So you talked about the royalties from digital play, which is a nice thing. I’ll tell you a story is so, when I first started It’s serious, the initial reaction from the comedians was you’re stealing my material. Da da da da, And then people realized they were selling tickets off it. But then I was backstage with Ron White, who found out what I did for a living, and he was very happy to meet me because he had gotten a nice significant check with I think at least five zeros in it.

So that guy rid of a whole like you’re a stealing armt. Well that was because we had blue collar radios that we were playing every fifteen minutes. But you know that that money’s nice there. I wish more people would put out audio. Uh huh, yeah, well I think do people not always put out audio as well as video?

I would think that every Netflix special has an audio version? Is that not correct? So then the Netflix thing is one of my pet peeves that again on the Soapbox, I personally wish Grammys would go to audio things and not Netflix specials. I think we oh yeah, Emmys for a Netflix special. So what Netflix will often do is they’ll take something like Chappelle and they’ll put it on vinyl and they’ll sell it in the cool record store in Portland, and there’s one hundred copies of it.

But technically it’s an album. But you know something, if you wanted to get you know, Dave Chappelle’s most recent special on a CD to drive around in your car. That’s not a thing anymore. I don’t know if you can get anyone. I mean even this one that I made that’s audio only.

I don’t think you can get a CD anyway. Oh he lives along. I don’t know. I I don’t have a CD player in the car or the computer. I’ve probably got one in the back somewhere.

But I sold CDs for a little bit longer than I should have, probably because the reason I stopped selling it because this is an easy thing to sell. After the show CD and the amount of people that just want to tell me they didn’t have a CD player got to an amount where I decided to stop selling that. You don’t want to embarrass yourself and be like, hey, I’ll scan a QR code and it’ll download. Yeah, And then I did that for a little while. I did that.

I did do that for a while, and it wasn’t that it was embarrassing. I felt that I wasn’t giving people something. You know, it was like a paper and then I had like higher quality kind of plastic ones, but I still felt like, you know, if someone wants to buy something after a show, they want something, and the QR code, although it gets you to the album, and it works, and that’s how people do things because things like Spotify and Pandora and serious are so popular and those albums are available for free, especially you know, the streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music where you can click and listen to it straight through whenever you want. I think you just weren’t getting something when you did the QR codes, and I was sad to see the CDs go because now I have to lug around bags of T shirts to show after shows. And so.

You talked about your look changing over the years. Sometimes when I’m on the back end of stuff, I’ll pull up a Naperghetti album and I’m so used to him with the salt and pepper hair that when I see the younger version of him on an album cover. I’m like, oh, yeah, that’s what you look like. I mean, we all get older. You did one of his Nateland showcases.

How is he? How was that? How’s it working with that crew? They’re really Yeah, they’re very cool. I think they’re doing a neat thing in comedy because comedy has transitioned to this online model, you know.

I mean still like Netflix and Hulu now and other streaming services will be putting out specials and that’s great and people are finding comedy like that. But comedy used to be on Comedy Central and on late night TV spots, and that’s where you would find new comedians. And Comedy Central used to always have a show that would showcase people you haven’t heard of. I think there was Premium Blend, and then the one I did was called Live at Gotham, and I think there was one after that, like Adam Devine’s House Party or something like that, and it was this cool place where you could see a little taste of someone you’ve never seen before, and that person didn’t have to already have a million followers to be in that position, and that has gone away. The TV has gone away from that, and so I think the coolest thing that Bargatsy is doing is through his own record label, production company whatever, he has recreated that show where he’s introducing the world to comedians that are funny and otherwise don’t have a platform other than you know, the platform that we all have, or we can put things on our own.

But I think it’s cool that he kind of picked up that ball, that premium blend Lavigotham ball and is rolling with it. And that’s what Nyland it is, and of course it’s a Bargatsi products, so everything is squeaky clean over there too, if that’s what you’re into. And I think that makes a lot of sense. I’m no prude. I like my share of the swear words.

But I remember the first time I met Foxworthy and this is we’re putting together blue Collar Radio, and he was explaining to me. He said, I used to you know, work the same way as everybody else. And he held his hands like this kind of close together, and he said, and then I stopped cursing, and I picked up the kids and the grandmothers and he stretched his arms and that was his whole mindset. You know. I think the the art of working clean is if you don’t notice it, you’ve nailed it.

I totally agree. I don’t. I mean, I have been clean for several years now as far as my stand up, and I don’t necessarily like advertising the shows as clean shows because I think that comes with kind of a stigma of boring. If you tell me, do you want to watch this clean comedian? I don’t, but I will watch someone like Ryan Hamilton who is clean, and then you don’t.

It doesn’t even hate you tell somebody brings it up. Oh yeah, he didn’t curse. Oh yeah, And that’s what I hope people are saying after they listen to this new album or the last couple albums that I’ve made. And I think there’s an effect too if you were mostly clean and a well placed swear word, that can really just you know, punch a joke for affect, you know. Yeah, yeah, I totally agree with that too.

It really uh yeah, it’s fun to have one curse in the set. Yeah, nobody’s mad about one curse. You can curse once and people won’t say that it was filthy. I like your podcast. It’s nice and easy on the ears.

It appears to be an actual backyard and not a set because. You guys are cold, it is and we are cold. Sometimes it is. It’s Tommy Johnigan’s backyard and it’s comedians hanging out. We each bring different topics.

We have some recurring segments and honestly, my favorite thing is those are two of my best friends, Tommy and Alex Stone, and doing the podcast gives us a reason that we have to get together at least once a week, and it’s pretty great. Is everybody good about holding to the schedule, because that’s one of the pains of doing a podcast with somebody else, you know, Oh, I’m not around well. You know for sure? Yeah, for sure. There’ll be times when people are busy and we’ll have people fill in, or just two of us will do it when we can.

But I would say for the most part, we’re able to always get together and we usually record on Sunday or Monday, and we usually don’t decide until sometimes Sunday afternoon when it’s gonna. Be About two weeks ago, you did that Rhode Island, that Rhode Island Festival Roady I think it was called. Oh yeah, Little Roady Comedy Festival. There that looked like it was awesome. How was that?

It was very cool? You know, they put together such a cool, very cool festival, and it was great for the comics. My only regret is that I could go for the whole thing. I was just kind of in and out. I was only able to make it on the day for my show and then I left the next day.

But yeah, they put together amazing an amazing thing, and it is just so fun to be involved in something with people that care about comedy and love comedy, because you know I do. I love I love stand up. I love doing stand up. I feel so lucky to get to be doing stand up. And sometimes you do a show and it’s all about how many tickets did you sell?

What was it that? Why? Bye bye? I don’t know who even knows what I’m saying. And these people just genuinely love stand up and you can tell that by how they put the shows together and how they treated the comedians.

At a festival where we have more time, do you go see other people’s shows or is it more about hanging with the. Yeah, for sure, I are to do yeah, yeah, because somebody, you know, we’ve been doing comedy for a long time, so uh, you know, any given festival, you’re gonna know some people, be friends with some people. There’s gonna be some people that you will become friends with if you have a chance to hang out with them. And there’s usually hangs after the shows or like events during the day, and plenty of time for people to get together that are often on the road, and you know, just ships passing in the night. I guess you know you’ll see You’ll be at a club and you look at the poster like, oh, this month, they’re having three people that I love.

I wish that I could say hi to them, But you’re just not at the same place at the same time. You know, everybody’s got their favorite work friends, and when you’re a comedian, they’re usually spread across the entire country on any given night. So when you have a chance for people to be in the same place, it’s it is special. It’s very fun. How are you feeding the beast these days on social media and up burning material?

Are you doing crowd work or how you handling that nightmare? I will do. I mean, I do crowd work in my act, but it is not set. It is not like and now I’m getting my crowd work clip. I have.

You know, it’s organic. And I don’t always take the sets I wish that I did, because I often will have a moment where I think, oh my god, that was the most amazing moment. That would be such a good clip, but I didn’t record it, and then I have to convince myself that is my integrity of the art form that leads me to not record everything and to let some things live in the only place that they will ever be seen at that show, in that moment. It’s integrity. It’s not laziness.

That’s how I feel about it. And I don’t worry about burning material, not even a little bit, not even not even a little bit. I have this new special beach Brain. I’m going to put a clip of every joke that’s on it on the internet, on real, on TikTok. Every single part of it will be a clip.

At some point. I think I’ll probably repost them. It’s a numbers game. I think I’m not the first person to have this point of view. I don’t think, but I think Louis c.

K years and years ago, invented the I have to throw out this hour. I’m doing a new hour, and I think it makes sense if you are that level of famous where when you put something online, twenty million people see it. But for me, for a lot of people that are forcing themselves and making a big deal of not burning material, I think you can put jokes on the internet. Whoever sees it is going to see it, and then if they come to the show and they see you do the joke, I don’t think anyone’s going to be furious and demand their money back. In fact, more often than people telling me I already heard that joke on the internet, which has been never will complain that I didn’t do their favorite joke that they saw on the internet.

Are you running into helpful audience members who want to be the crowd work? And no, I’m not, no more than no more than before you know. I mean there’s always a rowdy audience member from time to time, and as far as yeah, I know you’re talking about, like some comedians are saying, these crowd work people are ruining comedy audiences because now comedy audiences want to be a part of the show and are trying to be a part of the show. And that’s that’s something I haven’t found to be drue. I think people still genuinely do not really want to be talked to during the show.

They want to hear jokes and laugh. It’s the reason why it’s hardest to see the front row at every comedy club because they don’t want to be talked to. There was just a big thing in the UK and a theater a pretty big comedian had to throw out two people from the same show because they would not interrupting and he had to full stop and get security. I mean, it’s it’s got to be hard to get the room back after that. Yes, yes, that would be.

I mean. The one thing that is good is that in the situations I’ve been in where people had to be kicked out, they were such a disturbance that by the time they do kick them out. The thing that’s not hard about recovering is people are happy because I’m if any if someone’s getting kicked out of my show, it’s not because they pissed me off and I’m like, get this person out of here. If someone is kicked out of my show, they are being such a disruption to the other people that paid the venue, is like, we need to remove these people or else. Twenty people are going to complain so often when someone is escorted out, there will be a huge round of applause and the comedian will be like, hey, aren’t you glad those jerks are gone?

And the show rolls up on. What’s coming up for you in the next couple months? What can we look forward to? Well, I am on the road for forever. I got lots of shows coming up.

You can see them all at andy Woodhall dot com. Please watch the new special Beach Brand on YouTube or listen to it wherever you want. The difference between I should say this is the difference between the YouTube version and the difference between the audio version, is the audio version is edited because things need to lead live and make sense as single jokes. If that If that makes sense. Sure, So when you edit a special together, I take any crowd work that happened out for the audio version, I take out mistakes, I take out this and that little things, and I thought a fun way to do the YouTube which would maybe hopefully set this apart from other people posting on YouTube is I don’t take any of that stuff out.

So it’s like seven minutes difference in time the audio version and the YouTube version of mistakes and references and crowd work and natural, organic moments that only happen when you see live comedy. That’s on the YouTube thing that’s not in the album version, because you know you programmed Serious, there’s not going to be a track of guy drops his glass. That’s a waste, you know, for no one that anyone that wasn’t there. That’s not additive to the show. So also pro tip for all comedians putting out audio albums, make your tracks about four and a half to five minutes long.

Those ninety second tracks, we don’t schedule those. Oh that is great tips that you could be giving out all those things that I have been told, Yeah, four to five minutes. What else? I think comedians listening would love to hear that, because I’ve been lucky enough to have gotten these tips from people like you, or maybe even directly from you through a third person, of what you need to be thinking about when you’re editing stuff together in hopes of getting play on Serious. So, yeah, so you want, as you alluded to, you want each track to be a complete Chunk’s not the right word, you know, I’m saying a complete thought.

So at a beginning and an ending to the individual track, Like I said, the ninety second, they’re too short. Anything over seven is too long. Because you want to keep things moving, having a clean version definitely helps. That was the thing when I first took over programming, the Clean Channel was way harder than the Naughty Channel because there just wasn’t the material and the stuff that was there was you know, lame or God’s Squad comedians that it just didn’t have the coolness factor. So we wound up playing a lot of New Heart and Cosby and you know, then the Cosby Library became something that you know that so if you’ve got a clean version of something, that’s very valuable.

And somebody told me once when I was recording albums, because I’ve always skewed clean, and there will be like one or two just you know, adult jokes on the album, maybe one or two curses, especially in my older albums. And you know, it was somebody in a position like yours that told me, you know, think about doing it all clean and you wouldn’t have to make a big difference because we get like ten to one submissions for the dirty channels versus the clean channels. Was it still about that ratio or is that totally off? I think I wish it were ten to one. I mean, like if you put out a clean alm or Nate puts out a clean Apple, Gaffigan puts out something that’s clean.

He has kind of at least on his album work. He cursed a little more on his early work, but I think the last few have been straight clean. That is just gold. Like you know, a listers, I can immediately schedule that’s exactly what you want. It’s interesting.

Last question for me, who’s out there that might be off the audience’s radar, Funny people that we should know about. Well, I don’t know if they’re off people’s radar or not, but I always well list my friends. Pat McGann is doing great. You can see if you’ve seen Sebastian Maniscalco in the last couple of years, you probably saw Pat McGann opening for him. He’s so funny.

I have a friend Mike Cronin who is very funny that’s opening for me this weekend. Check him out. He’s doing a YouTube series right now about making one lash push to become successful as a comedian, just like one last shot at it, which I think is pretty compelling and I’m jealous. I didn’t think of it, and I think, hands down the funniest comedian that I’ve never seen, not kill that. People maybe don’t know about a guy named Kevin Boseman out of Chicago, and he just is lights out funny.

You gotta see his live show. He never he always kills. He always kills, no matter the situation. And yeah, that’s that’s the guy I always say. You want me to name a comedian you should check out that’s not famous.

Check out Kevin Boseman. Super awesome. Ho’m glad we got to catch up today. Appreciate you coming on. Yeah, thanks for having me, John, and I appreciate it.

Thank you. And I don’t want to ignore the final night of the Moontower Comedy Festival. If I counted correctly, they have thirty nine shows on their website. I won’t mention them all. We’ll talk about headliners and some of the catch my eye.

Zarni Gark four o’clock show at the Paramount Theater. That might even be too early for me. I mean, I like to go to bed early, but would be done at five thirty. Big Jay Okerson special screening at the State Theater, also at four o’clock today. What is this clicks on link to read.

I assume this is a special screening of his upcoming crowd work special Them They, because that’s what the cover art says, and apparently Them They is out tomorrow on YouTube. You learn something new every day. Industry types might like the panel who books that at five pm. You’re invited to join us for a panel tailor to address the burning questions comedians often Pounder, We’ve assembled a dream team of industry experts. It does not tell us who these industry experts are.

John Kablakani’s back at five point fifteen, James Austin Johnson at the State Theater. At seven, David Nihill listed as a headliner. Shelf Help Thompson Theater at seven the Moon Tower, all stars are Saheb Singh, Austin Nassa and Amy Miller. At seven o’clock at cap City, A friend of the show, John Marco seven to fifteen, Creak in the Cave, Big Jay working today. At eight fifteen he’s at Vulcan doing and evening of crowd work.

Pete Holmes, He’s fantastic. If you’ve never seen Pete goc Pete live, there’s an opportunity if you can make it to Austin by nine thirty pm. He’s at the Paramount Theater doing the PG thirteen tour. Janine Garofolo haven’t seen her do comedy in a long time, stand up comedy. That is nine thirty at the Thompson Theater.

That’s pretty cool. And a bunch of other shows to round out the festival.

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And that is your comedy news for today. Hope you enjoyed Andy again. His album is called Beach Brain and it’s streaming and there’s an audio version. And I will see you here tomorrow.

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Featured: Sam Morril, Jimmy Kimmel, Brad Williams, Todd Phillips, David Letterman, Donald Trump, Greg Gutfeld, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Taylor Tomlinson

What’s in This Episode

• Sam Morril tour at Pantagious Theater in Minneapolis with new material
• Sam Morril’s whiskey company and preferences
• Sam Morril’s appearance in Joker 2
• Jimmy Kimmel Rolling Stone interview on Trump material and late night comedy
• Late night ratings for Q1 2025 – Greg Gutfeld’s highest ratings ever
• Late night viewership declines across Colbert, Fallon, and Kimmel
• Brad Williams in San Antonio discussing Texas food and marginalized comedy
• Brad Williams on avoiding punching down in comedy about trans issues

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac. You’re with your Daily Comedy News if you’re in Minneapolis today. Sam Morrill is at the Pantagious Theater two nights the Minnesota Daily. He was curious, Hey Sam, what’s new about this new set?

And Sam said, well, the jokes are new. I have a lot of good new jokes. You don’t try and add to it every day. That’s kind of how I tour. I have the bass, and then you kind of add to it.

It’s like making a big pot of chili. Dis keep adding one thing.

All right, here’s one thing, there’s another thing, and by the end, hopefully…

They asked Sam about his whiskey company. I think to be a comedian in twenty twenty five, I’m pretty sure you have to own a whiskey company. I don’t know who put that law in to effect, but they all have one, including Sam and then Minnesota Daily. He was curious, Hey Sam, what makes a good whiskey? Sam said, well, you want it to be smooth.

I want a good whiskey that stands on its own, like if you drink it neat. It’s also great for cocktails. So I always like Manhattan’s with as opposed to bourbon. I just thought it was kind of a better match. Yeah, I’m a big fan of whiskey with a second liquor.

I like the old fashioned cocktail like in Manhattan Fro. I’m doing like maybe a martiniz and a groaning. I kind of like the old time he drinks. I think the classic for a reason. New topic, Sam, were you surprised you weren’t in Joker too?

Sam said, you know what, I was just grateful to be in the first one. I think Todd Phillips is a really cool guy, and he was really nice to meet always. And I mean the fact that I kept my name in the first one made no sense. It was just Todd being cool. One more time for Sam Morrell.

I think it’s hilarious that I exist in the DC universe. It is got it cool. Rolling Stone did a lifey and very good interview with Jimmy Kimmel. I shared this in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join us.

One thing we learn is that Jimmy Kimmel has a cardboard box full of worn ties that David Letterman sent him when Letterman retired, Kimmell said, I wore one, but they’re so long Rolling Stone. I hate to do this, but let’s start with Trump. Kim ol Donald Trump, who’s that? Yeah, it used to be when you think of me, you think of Guillermo or Matt Damon not getting on the show. Now it’s Trump.

I think most comedians have a strong sense of justice, and he violates that so frequently. I know we should be hard into it by now, but I’m not, and it’s shocking to me. He seems like the kind of character that would flame out after a few years, but the fact that he’s still with us is remarkable. A year ago, I would have said, I’m hoping to show people who aren’t paying attention to the news what’s actually going on and hoping to change things that way. Obviously that didn’t have enough impact before the elections, and now I see myself more as a place to scream Rolling Stone.

From a comedy point of view, there’s some advantages, right Kimmel. You don’t have to set the joke up because everybody knows everything about him, so you go right to the punchline. The problem is he’s somebody that a lot of people don’t like they don’t want to hear his name, but there’s always material. Some days he gives you so much that you’re throwing things away. That would have been the biggest event of the entire Bush presidency.

I try not to get too deep in the weeds after remind myself this is not an expose, it’s a comedy show. They were curious when Kimmel realized that Trump was for real. Kimill said, it was twenty sixteen. I had Hillary Clinton on. I said to Hillary during commercial breako Trump gets a nomination, I think it’d be a slam dunk for you, and she said, be careful what you wish for.

Maybe I’ll pick at this a little bit more tomorrow. I don’t want to get over political on the podcast there, but I did share in the Facebook group if you want to read this all right. Late Nighter had the final Late Night ratings for quarter one twenty twenty five. The Secret Giant Monster is Greg Gutfeld highest ratings ever, up fourteen percent, up nine percent in the eighteen to forty nine demo compared to Q four twenty twenty four. At eleven thirty five, Colbert is number one Kimmel is second in total viewers.

Fallon edged out Kimmel in the demo. All three shows saw decreases of minus seven and minus eight percent among total viewers. Fallin down minus fourteen, Colbert down seventeen, Kimmel down twenty four percent. Wow. Late Nighter says at twelve thirty, Seth, which I’ve never met anyone who watches that show, and I’m not doing the bobs Berger’s bit here.

I’ve really never met anyone who’s seen Seth Meyers show. But apparently it was number one in twelve thirty Nightline and Taylor Thomlins’ is now wrapping up show split second place. Nightline had more total viewers, Taylor had more viewers in the demo. The Daily Show and Q one down one percent. Total numbers shared here by Late Nighter.

Guttfeld does a seven point four to five share, averages three point six million viewers well at eleven thirty, Colbar with almost two point four million, Kimmel one point eight, Fallin one point two at twelve thirty, and it’s actually twelve thirty seven. Now they’ve let that creep that far, while Seth Meyers nine hundred and thirty eight, thousand people and Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnight six hundred and forty seven thousand people. We may be getting closer and closer to the end of the late night era. We’ll see what happens when these folks step down the Tonight show in third place. I mean, that’s just stunning, right.

Brad Williams is in San Antonio tonight and he caught up with my san Antonio. Brad’s at the Majestic Theater. If you want to drop by. My san Antonio was curious, Hey, Texas et cetera, c eating Mexican food. Brad said, bro, this is the thing.

I tore a lot, and I’m married, so I’m not out there chasing tail. I’m out there chasing good meals. I’m chasing good food. But when I’m a place in Indiana, somebody would be like, Hey, we got this Mexican joint that’s really great, and I’m like, don’t even bring that to me. What are you talking about.

It’s like, if I’m out in the middle of the country, I’m not gonna get seafood. And I don’t mind tex mex either, put Queso on everything. My san Antonio said, you’re coming here a week too early. Fiesta starts a week later. Brad said, Oh, then I’m coming at the exact right time.

I’m aware of what my status is in life and or i am in terms of the priority to buy tickets. I’m always honored that anyone comes to see me. I’m gonna give you guys an amazing show, but I’m not trying to compete with Fiesta. I’m a dwarf tilling jokes. During Fiesta, You’re gonna have a lot of Mexicans who are not that much taller than me doing cool stuff.

It’d be like having a gig on the same night as the Lakers, whereas Kobe and Shaq playing a playoff game be in the audience. Brad says, I choose to be a political during my show. You could probably figure out my politics, but I want comedy to be that place where everyone can come together and laugh. For me, the sign of a truly great joke is when you tell a joke to somebody who disagrees with it and they still laugh and they still see the absurdity. Good question from myceanatnari here.

So when you say that you can empathize with trans people because you too, are part of a marginalized group. In case you’re unfamiliar with Brad or haven’t caught from the contextclues yet, he is a little person. Are you worried you might lose some of your audience because that subtle opinion can turn certain people away, Brad said, I know. The exact joke you’re talking about was in my last comedy special, Starfish. The joke was about the butt like controversy.

When I told it, I got a laugh from the audience, but I didn’t like where the laugh was coming from. It was like punching down. As a dwarf, you don’t really want to punch down, so I rewrote the joke. That’s the beautiful part of being in comedy. You have friends of every type of gender, sexual orientation, race, and religion who will tell me where the sweet spot is for a joke.

As a dwarf, I’ve been the butt of a lot of jokes, but I’m fine with them as long as they’re funny and as long as they’re creative. MSN caught up on a Vice Instagram clip that is doing well with the Indian American community. In it, Nimesh says, who even asked us to come here. Indians didn’t just show up in the seventies and eighties. Now, We’ve been around for over a century, since the eighteen hundreds.

To be precise, we were looking for Christopher Columbus. We heard he was looking for us. Are you in Miami? Go see Ti. He’s performing some comedy tonight at the Miami Improv Comedy Theater.

Ti says, it’s a freedom. It’s therapeutic in my music. I’m serious because it comes from a very serious part of my life. And that’s probably the scape that I get in comedy because their things are so serious and heavy in the music, and now I can get out until a whole other side of the same experiences. TI is working on a venture called in the Trap, which will feature up and coming acts similar to Comic Viewer def Comedy Jamti says, if you’re not making it to a Netflix special, there’s no really other place for comics to be seen at the Moontai or a comedy festival in Austin.

On the website listing, if I counted correctly, thirty four shows, I won’t reach all thirty four, but let’s just see what’s going on. Industry Showcase at the Creek in the cave at six o’clock. That’s the kind of thing I like to attend because that’ll give you a sense for who’s next. That John goblecon guy is back. He’s got these Sclar Brothers at six o’clock.

Whoh hanging with Doctor Z at the hideout at seven o’clock. You know about this. Dana Gould plays legally distinct Doctor Zais from Planet of the Apes. The official description eccentric nineteen seventies era talk show host Doctor Z played by Dana Gould interviews current celebrity guests as themselves, but set in a golden age of talk shows. Check that out on YouTube.

There’s several of those. That’s just fun. Nice Gimmick seven forty five at Vulcan, Big Jay Okerson, An evening of crowd work eight o’clock at Sunset, strip tag it. The lineup includes Sclar Brothers, not not writing the Sclar Brothers. It’s just Sclar Brothers.

Is that how they actually go? And I’ve worked with these guys and they’re cool, but I always refer to them as the Sclar Brothers. Yeah, their website says the Sclar Brothers.

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Also on that show, Bamford, Janine Garoffalo Interesting, Janelle James at th…

That’s speakeasy. Those are always good to go in at Antone’s at eleve o’clock Nightly Party, the Friday night Party at One More Day. And we’ll talk about that tomorrow on Hulu. Now they try to hide it from me, Hulu publicists. You could ignore me all you want, but I’m still gonna uncover your comedy specials Hulu today as Morgan Jay’s special Morgan Jay Live at the Village.

Morgan is having a big day, also doing two headline performances at the Wiltern in La today. Now this isn’t hilarious. This one apparently came to Hulu as part of a licensing deal, and the special has originally aired on YouTube. In twenty twenty three, Keith David talked about the Community movie he played Elroy in the final Underrated Season. Now, while this movie ever come out, I think it will.

And I say that because I lived long enough to see the Second Avenue subway built in New York City that seemed like a thing that was never going to happen. I lived long enough that they actually made more Star Wars movies. So I believe in the Community movie. Now. I might be eighty four years old when it comes out.

But Keith David said that he’s in quoting Keith just to show how rumor spread and lies. I never said anything like that when I asked whether to return a community. Of course, when asked, I will, and I’ve been told, you know, I will be invited to the party. However, it hasn’t fruitioned yet, and of course I would be there. It has not yet come up.

When it has come up, as I understand it, it could be a matter of schedules. There’s a lot of people to juggle around. It’s been a few years since we’ve done it. Seen I We’ll see. But let me dispel any rumor that I would not do it.

Of course I would. And The Daily Mail wrote about Benny Hill. If you are of a certain age, you remember Benny Hill fondly here in New York City. It aired on Channel nine, and those of us of a certain age watched it five days a week back in nineteen seventy one, Benny Hill was getting twenty one one million viewers and it was awarded the ITV Personality of the Year. But times change and now we look at Benny Hill and we’re like, hey, that’s racist and sexist and risque and vulgar, and we could never ever possibly make the Benny Hill Show today, even though I was nine years old and watching it, and I think I came out fine.

Apparently, over in the UK they did a TV special which weighed in on the question is it time to bring Benny Hill out of the comedy cold or should he stay canceled. Some gen Zers were shown a sketch which plays Benny Hill playing a talk show host speaking to a priest whose fly is undone. The talk show host tries to move a table with a vase of flowers to hide the priest wardrobe malfunction. One gen Zer said that was funny, and I think it was trying to cover it up with flower pad that was funny as well, just the awkwardness of it all. However, another clip, which showed a male office worker watching a young female colleague wearing a short skirt suspenders bending down open a drawer, was less popular at the beginning of the sketch, the mail worker is counting letters.

He’s up to number two thy forty four. However, after he’s distracted by his lecherous gazing at the secretary, he realizes he’s lost count has to start again. One of the gen zers said, the fact that that was on TV in prime time is insane. Another gen zer said, if that came up while you were watching TV with the family, it would definitely be weird. No, wouldn’t, really wouldn’t.

Journalist Nina Mascou said of the sketch, so this is purely a male fantasy of what a secretary is. Subservient, bent over when required, just so sleezy, just so sleazy. However, actress Nina Wadia said, it kind of works in that sketch. It works for me because the punchline is funny. Then they got into a character, Benny did.

The character’s name Chow Maine, and Chow Maine is from China. I do not recall this sketch. One of the gen zers said that wouldn’t fly today. I don’t think. Another said that caught me off guard.

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting that. The third said that act and him squinting his eyes, and that was really bad. One of the jokes chow Main makes is he is speaking, says the word election in a stereotypical accent, so the word comes out as erection. One of the gen zers said, so, the humor with the miscommunication I think was actually quite funny. But that the miscommunication was because of Reese is what made it unfunny.

You can’t have that both ways. Is it funny or not? Let me read that back. So the humor with the miscommunication, I think was actually quite funny. Towards the end of the Benny Hill Show run, they toned down the Hill’s angels.

Those were some attractive women who would appear on the show. Some critics thought that Benny Hill Show had lost its spark. By nineteen eighty four, it was canceled. Benny filmed an American show in nineteen ninety one, titled Benny Hill’s American World Tour, but his health was declining. In February nineteen ninety two, Benny Hill suffered a heart attack and was visited in the hospital by Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson apparently was a huge fan of the Benny Hill Show. Benny Hill was found dead in April of nineteen ninety two, sitting on his couch watching TV. He was sixty eight years old. That track comedy News for Today, See You Tomorrow.