SNL50 Homecoming Concert Highlights: Lady Gaga sings D*ck In A Box. Seinfeld joins Backstreet Boys

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, Johnny Mac with a second episode here on Saturday. This episode is about Saturday Night Live’s homecoming concert thing whatever the proper title is. They had such a show on Friday Night that I wanted to tell you about it. Now.

Quick note, there is a naughty word coming up. I try to keep the show clean, but Lady Gaga and Andy Samberg performed a song Andy usually does with Justin Timberlake. That’s a little naughty. There’s no way around it. Gotta let the word go.

So you know, if you’re like super brutish and you got a kid, you know, skip today’s episode. But it’s the one about a box. We’ll get to that. I’m gonna have to dive in and out of the clip to stay out of trouble and keep it in fair use territory and not just Johnny Mack thought this was funny. And here’s five minutes out walks Andy Samberg, Lady Gaga is on the piano and let’s listen.

Tell me something girl. Are you hanging in the crazy world or do you need more? And I got to stop here because it’s bad. Yes, it’s very bad. Yeah, I could, I could tell as soon as I started it was off.

Yeah, maybe we skip it. Yeah, I think we maybe maybe we could do something that’s more in your vocal orange. Yeah, good thought, good thought for sure. But what I mean there is one song, but Justin’s not here to do his parts, all right, So you get the idea there, and they go into the in the Box song and let’s dive back in. You know, such a long time, such a long time, no to lay it on the line.

Well, you know, it’s Christmas and my heart is so open, why open? Gonna give you something, so you know what’s on my mind, what’s on my mind? I give for a special So take off the t take a look inside. It’s my dick in a box a box and man, I’m gonna let this go a little bit here. You would swear that this is a quote unquote real song.

Listen to how talented Gaga is. I’m gonna get you with Donnery. That’s sort of gift on me then anything. Now I’m gonna get you a fancy car. Girl, you gotta annoy.

My shine is off. Now I’m gonna get you a house in the hills, A girl like dude. It’s something rare I wanna get you something from my house, special girl. It’s I mean, this is just fantastic, especially when you consider what the in the box song is just awesome. Then it turned into a medley including a fan fave Lazy Sunday outcomes, Chris Parnell.

We’ll give you sample of that. How you do it? Hello Samburg? What’s cracking? You think you would have?

What? Firks mahunka pain? Some stick it like? Um, let’s got hold of punk roxy? I love the By the way, can we follow up on a Friday’s podcast?

If Andy Samberg is responsible for three of the top ten sketches of the twenty first century, how is he not in the top three all time on SNL Talent? Like my man’s up there. Plus he’s in the Macpack, which is my fantasy group when I become a famous celebrity who I’m gonna roll with and he’s in the Macpack and it’ll be me and him and chick list than the others. His next clip, I hear for you. The Backstreet Boys are doing one of their hits and I’m old, I don’t know main back Street Boys.

Guy. You guys can send me letters like how do you not know what it is? I don’t. I don’t care. They were too young for me.

Main Backstreets boys guy goes out into the crowd and starts singing with Jerry Seinfeld, which you can kind of sort of hear here. Come to tell me why. Host Jimmy Fallon clarified the three hour show would only present musical guests and not handout awards. Jimmy said, apparently there’s been some confusion, and this is just a concert. We’re not giving out any warts nights.

I just want to make sure that everybody knows that. Then the bit, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson got up and left. John Mulaney spoke of SNL’s music guru, how Winner, and how if how We’re still around. He would have loved a lot acts on the bill, and Malaney said he also would have hated parts of tonight, and I would have loved to talk to him about the parts he hated. Variety recapped Will Ferrell and Anagast are getting out there doing their middle school teacher thing.

Marty Colp and Bobby mohan Culp take on Drake in the dis Wars, Whether they mean to or not, It would have been a mistake to revive too many of SNL’s musically inclined recurring characters, but this special arrived with the right balance. They were really the two we were hoping for, both involving Will Ferrell, the lounge singer style culp duo and the Blue Oyster Cult cowbell arranger. One out of two wasn’t bad. The pair ran through a medley of the Incorporated Bratt Good Luck Babe on Holy Denila Is a River and other recent hits, all getting the Marty and Elaine at the Dresden Room treatment, with the eternal joke being that these happily married really do mean to be hep, but are just never going to think about lyrical appropriateness. Blah blah blah.

Here’s your full set list. Jimmy Fallon Soulman, Miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard Crazy Little Thing called Love Miley on Flowers, Bad Bunny Did to Bill Murray doing his lounge singer thing, or All I Need to Get by Eddie Vedder doing Tom Petty’s The Waiting and Corduroy, Tracy Morgan’s astor Not Jones theme song, B fifty two’s Love Shack Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman. I think we’re out on that one. Backstreet Boys, I Want it that way with Jerry Seinfeld, Devo, No Not Whip It, Uncontrollable, Urge Gaga, Andy Eddie Vedder, Lonely Island et Ceter did the Medley. Lauren Hill Came Out, did a medley.

Ferrell and Gastira a medley. Jelly Roll did a Johnny Cash medley that I saw get panned on the Internet. Brandy Carlisle the Joke, Mumford and Sons I’ll Wait. Jerry Douglas joined them for the Boxer, Snoop Dogg, Jit and Juice, Snoop Dogg and Jelly Rolls Last Dance with Mary Jane originally Tom Petty Song. Snoop’s got his own take on that arcade fired.

David Byrne, Saint Vincent and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band did Heroes and Wake Up Post MALONEA. Nirvana did Smells Like Tume Spirit Robin and David Byrne did This Must be the Place, Share if I could turn back time, Jack White Rocking in the Free World and Seven Nation Army looking Ahead to Tomorrow Seems Dan Ackroyd and Bill Hayter are not coming. A source close to Dan Ackroyd tells Late Night that Ackroyd quote could not come. Matt Beloney at Puck News says that Bill Hayter was a quote polite decline. Dick Eversall, who was the executive producer during the five years Lauren wasn’t there, will not be at the show, reportedly due to health issues.

Ackroyd posted on social media cracking ahead with pride at having been a co founder of SNL along with everyone we were together within those four years five decades ago. This telecast is as historical as the next moonlanding comedy. Stars of our age, all gathered under the ages of America’s greatest living impresario, My boss, Lauren michaels people, it’s friggin’ holy. So I wonder why Dan isn’t coming. I’m just looking up how old he is now.

He’s only seventy two now, speculating maybe he was older than that and didn’t want people to see old Dan Ackroyd. I don’t know. I worked with him once we were in Chicago and we did a town hall broadcast for serious exam. A town hall would be like you’d get cool celebrities and invite a small hand full of listeners. So we did one with Ackroyd and Jim Belushi celebrating the Blues Brothers.

So that was the only time I work with Acroyd. Totally cool, totally professional. Didn’t catch any attitude from him, So I hope everything is okay with Dan. I’m quite surprised he’s not coming, but I don’t know. The Bill hater thing super weird to me.

No idea a fun story going out. On Thursday evening, New Yorker editor Susan Morrison sent out a mass email invitation to an event for her bio of Lauren Michaels. Apparently she’s not familiar with BCC. The Blind Carbon Copy people started hitting reply all. A lot of people were on this one.

Tina Fey chimed in about two hours into this and said, dear boomers and sent the link to a YouTube video for senior citizens on how to read reply and Ford emails when using a Gmail account. John Hamm then replied, all ah, thanks Tita.

Also thanks Susan, I’ll see you there bump.

Colin Jost joined it at ten or four pm and said, guys, the video Tita sent is malware. Make sure to keep hitting reply all or the virus can infect your computers. Haym again, Oh my goodness, thank you young man. Aaron Sorkin jumped in and said, how did I get involved with this? Hilarious?

All right, that is your bonus comedy news on this Saturday. Earlier today, an hour long episode, Mike Chisholm and I from The Letterman Podcast talked about Dave’s appearance on Fellon we talked about SNL fifty. Tomorrow’s already in the can. It’s more or less a normal episode. Monday is a normal episode, and then my plan for Tuesdays to do a recap similar to this one, with hopefully lots of clips.

I may drop that one Monday afternoon as an early release for Tuesday, but we’ll see how things go. All right, enjoy the rest of your Saturday. Back in the morning.

Somehow, Letterman returned. Also SNL 50 – with guest Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack. I’m a human and this is a silly throwaway bonus episode. Earlier today, I was listening to another podcast that’s called The New Media Show, and the two hosts we’re having a conversation about AI. I’m very pro AI.

One of the hosts not so much. And their discussion was, well, why don’t you go interview an AI then? And I decided challenge accepted. So I got my AI friend here, Spruce, and I decided to ask Spruce about comedy. All right, Spruce, and I was curious, who do you think are the best stand up comedians of the twenty first century?

There are so many great ones. Dave Chappelle is definitely up there with a sharp social commentary. Then you got someone like John Mulaney who’s a master of storytelling. And Ali Wong has really made her mark with her unique perspective and hilarious takes. She blends personal stories with sharp social commentary, and her delivery is just spot on.

I mean, she’s fine, But I asked you the top comedians of the twenty first century and you had her at number three. That seems a little high. You know what about somebody like Gaffigan or c K. Bill Burr. Absolutely.

Bill Burr is a powerhouse in comedy, has no nonsense, brutally honest style, resonates with a lot of people. He’s definitely up there with the best of this century. And Gaffigan’s got that family friendly, observational humor that’s hard to beat. Both are definitely top tier in their own right. The comedy world is big enough for all these different styles.

Now that’s a non answer. Give me a ranking here. Who are the top five? All right? Top five of the twenty first century.

Let’s go with Dave Chappelle, John Mulaney, Bill Burr, Ali Wong, and Louis C.K. Who would you add or switch out? I’d switch out Ali Wong. I just I don’t see why you have her up there so high bare enough. Comedy is subjective and everyone has their preferences.

If you’re leaning more towards classic stand up styles, someone like Jim Gaffigan or Patton Oswalt might fit better in that top five. Both have consistently delivered and have a huge following. The beauty of comedy is there’s something for everyone. Yeah, but again, the entire century where Dane Cook is not on your list, That guy was a monster. Dane Cook definitely had a huge impact in the two thousands.

His energetic style and ability to engage audiences were undeniable, and he sold out arenas, which was pretty rare for a comedian at the time. While he’s not always in everyone’s top five list these days, his influence and popularity in the early twenty first century can’t be denied. Any up and comers that you’re into, for sure, keep an eye on Atsuko o Katska. She’s got a fresh, quirky style and her bits are super relatable.

Also, Caleb Hearn has a great mix of sharp wit and hilarious observations tha…

Definitely worth checking out their sins. There’s been a lot of buzz on Caleb lately. Yeah, Caleb’s definitely on the rise. His humor is sharp, and he’s got a knack for turning everyday situations into comedy gold. It’s exciting to see new voices making waves in the comedy scene.

What do you think about Amy Schumer? She’s been in the news a lot lately. Amy Schumer has definitely made a name for herself with her bold unapologetic style. She’s got a knack for blending personal stories with social commentary, and she’s not afraid to tackle tough topics. Whether you love her or not, she’s definitely left a mark on the comedy scene.

Who’s your favorite late night host these days? Right now? I’m a big fan of Seth Myers. His Closer Look segments are sharp, insightful, and always hilarious. He’s got that perfect mix of wit and charm, and his monologues are consistently on point.

How about you, I’d have to pick Kimmel, you know, unless we get into John Oliver in late night, but in traditional eleven thirty, I’d have to say Kimmel. I do like what Jimmy Fallon is trying to do. I think Jimmy understands the mission. I think Jimmy catches a lot of grief for doing a very vanilla show, but that’s what the Tonight Show is, and I think he understands why he’s there. That’s a solid take.

Kiml’s got that blend of humor and heart, and he’s not afraid to tackle serious topics with the comedic twist. Fallon definitely knows how to bring the fun and keep things light, which is perfect for the tonight shows. Vibe and John Oliver. He’s in a league of his own with that deep dive style. It’s great to have such a variety of late night hosts, each bringing their own flavor to the table.

Who are your top five all time? Picking a top five all time is tough, but I go with Richard Pryor for his groundbreaking style and honesty, George Carlin for his sharp wit and social commentary, Joan Rivers for her fearless humor and longevity, Eddie Murphy for his incredible range and influence, and Robin Williams for his unmatched energy and versatility. Those legends really shape the comedy landscape. So nobody from this century. Those are all older than most of them are dead.

Fare point For more recent legends, I’d add names like Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock. They’ve had a huge impact on modern comedy and continue to shape the scene with their unique perspectives and fearless humor. The comedy landscape is always evolving, and these guys have definitely left their mark. Now. I love Eddie because of how old I am, But isn’t Eddie just doing Richard Pryor’s act top to bottom.

Eddie Murphy was definitely influenced by Richard Pryor, but he brought his own union style and energy to the game. Eddie’s ability to blend impressions, physical comedy and storytelling set him apart. So while Pryor paved the way, Eddie definitely carved out his own space in comedy history. All right, fair enough, appreciate you coming on the show today. Anything else you want to tell the folks.

Thanks for having me. Just keep exploring comedy and finding what makes you laugh. There’s so much great talent out there, so enjoyed the journey. Thanks, Bruce. I appreciate you coming out.

That was silly, all right. Let me know what you guys thought of that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. I just had to get this out of my system and put it out as a boat to sea tomorrow.

SNL 50th Anniversary – Who Is Appearing, When Is It, How To Watch

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I don’t know if you ever know about this. Did you hear? Saturday Night Live is turning fifty?

Yeah, so something a little different today. I was trying to figure out when would be the best time to do this, and I decided today. The choices were today, Saturday or Sunday, but I went with today because today is the kick off for the Saturday Night Live fifty weekend. Today’s Daily Comedy News is only about SNL. I’m going to dive into best sketches ever, best characters ever, So stick around for that.

If SNL doesn’t interest you, you are dismissed. Tonight on Peacock, it’s the SNL fifty Homecoming Concert, a three hour live concert at Radio City. Jimmy Fallon is your host. Musical performances from past SNL musical guests, including Arcade, Fire, Backstreet Boys, Bad Bunny, Bonnie Rait, Brandy Carlisle, Brittany Howard, Chris Martin, David Byrne, Devo, Eddie Vedder, Jack White, Jelly Roll, Lady Gaga, Miley, Cyrus, Mumford and Sons, Post Malone Preservation, Hal Jazz Band, Robin the b fifty two’s The Roots and more. This is on Peacock starting at eight eastern today.

I also saw a spoiler that Will Ferrell and and a guest I are going to do their middle school sketch thing. I have no patience for that sketch, but that’s going to be part of the show as well on Saturday on NBC Now. This hasn’t ready aired, but it’ll be back on Ladies and Gentlemen. Fifty Years of SNL Music a feature length documentary celebrating the five decades of SNL’s musical performances and musical comedy sketches. This thing includes interviews with musicians like Bad Bunny, Elvis Costello, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, Dave Grohl, Debbie Harry, Mick Jagger, Duelipa, dmc Casey Musgraves, Paul Simon, Justin Timberlake, Jack White, and Moore.

Also interview Geene Curt and Jimmy Fallon, Eddie Murphy, Agel, Nuotam Conon, O’Brien Meyer, Rudolph Paul Schaeffer, Sarah Sherman, and various SNL band members plus Lonely Islands, Samberg and the other two Lonely Island guys. This thing re airs Saturday night at eight pm Eastern on NBC Proper. It will also be on Peacock. If you’ve never seen episode one of Saturday Night Live captured in the recent film Saturday Night While an exaggerated version, that movie’s fantastic. It’s on Netflix.

Stop listening to me right now and go watch that movie. I thought it was fantastic, absolutely loved it anyway, in the SNL slot on Saturday Night Live, the original broadcast from October eleventh, nineteen seventy five. Your host George Carlin, musical guests Billy Preston and Janis Ian. Then Sunday Night, which is weird that they did on a Sunday, Like, I get how TV works, but the show is called Saturday Night Live. You’re doing the thing on Sunday eight.

Sunday Night, the Big fiftieth Anniversary Special eight pm on NBC Hot Ticket and Studio eight Ah. Can you imagine the audience in this thing? Lorne Michaels declared years ago, no plus ones scheduled to appear, Keenan Thompson, Adam Sandler, Amy Poehler, Andy Samberg, Chase Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Fred Armison, I’m just saying Eddi Murphy, like that’s not a big deal. Eddie Murphy, Fred Armison, Garrett Morris, Gen Curtin, Jason Sadaikas, Jimmy Fallon, Kate McKinnon, Kristin Wig, Lreen Newman, Maya Rutolf, Molly Shannon, Pete Davidson, Seth Meyers, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Will Ferrell, Will Forte, Martin Short and Moore. Former host who will appear include Adam Driver, Io, Edaberry, bad Bunny, Dave Chappelle, John Mulaney, who’s also a former writer for the show, Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Pedro, Pascal Peyton Manning, Quinna Brunson, Robert de Niro, Sabrina Carpenter, Scarlett Johansen, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, and Woody Harrelson.

Sunday Night, nbcn Peacock eight to eleven PM Eastern Looking Ahead. I’m going to cover this on Tuesday’s podcast. I’m going to watch it, but to put together a show at midnight to get it out. I’ll do a better job if we wait the extra day. So on FAQ, who was in the first SNL cast and why won’t all of them appear?

One of the FAQ answers why they’re not appearing? Why aren’t Gilda Radner and John Belushi appearing? Do you know the to do this? Yeah? They’re no longer alive.

Dan Ackroid has not been announced. It is unclear why he may be absent to Akroyd’s publicists did not return The Associated Press’s request for a comment on that. Should we do a list? I haven’t looked at these, I’m looking at this cold. Indie Wire put out an article titled the fifty best Saturday Night Live Sketches of the twenty first century.

I haven’t looked at this at all. I like doing these cold. I will flip through it, they wrote. We know what you’re thinking. Why I choose to highlight only the later seasons of SNL a’s posted to the full fifty years?

They wrote, being perfectly honest, most of the people involved in making this list weren’t born until nineteen ninety. Okay, fair enough, let’s see what these millennials think. I’m looking at you number fifty here, and I already don’t even know what this sketch is, so I’m just gonna quick take. You can write me a letter and be like Johnny mag How do you not know what number fifty sketch? Mafia meeting is?

No idea, but I don’t want to bog down and analyze fifty sketches. I’m just going to quick take here. Number fifty is Mafia Meeting number forty nine. Mark Wahlberg talks to animals forty eight December to Remember car commercial. So far, this list sucks forty seven Colonel Angus forty six, Meatballs forty five, Welcome to Hell forty four Short shorts for the USA, Will Ferrell doing Will Ferrell things in short shorts?

Forty three traffic altercation? Are these? Ringing a Bell? Forty two? Dunken Donuts?

Forty one punk band reunion at the Wedding? Forty You’re a rat bastard? Charlie Brown thirty nine, What’s that name? Thirty eight Glengarry Glenn Christmas Elf motivation, Wow, this is bad. Thirty seven Bridesmaid’s speech, thirty six dream Home Cousins.

This list’s gonna get a lot better Isn’t it for? Thirty five Christmas Robe thirty four, Iran so Far, The Lonely Island thirty three, Mcgruber’s Sensitivity Training thirty two, Do It on My Own twin bed. Jeez, this list is terrible thirty one The Shooting AKA Dear Sister thirty Lisa from Temecula twenty nine, A Thanksgiving Miracle? When does this get good? Okay, it gets good here?

Twenty eight Star Wars on Undercover Boss, Star Killer Bass twenty seven, Sewn Spicer Press Conference, Now We’re Cooking twenty six, Dinner Lobster twenty five, The Iceberg on the sinking of the Titanic. That’s Bowen Yang in character twenty four, Farewell Mister Bunting twenty three, Super Showcase Spokesmodels, This is getting bad Again twenty two, Natalie Raps Danelly Portman twenty one, Chad Horror Movie twenty Washington’s Dream, Nate Brigetzi nineteen, The Day Beyonce Turned Black eighteen, Haunted Elevator featuring David S. Pumpkins. That’s only eighteen, That’s all right? Seventeen, Protective Mom sixteen, Wells for Boys fifteen, Totinos fourteen Katie Kuric interviews Sarah Palin thirteen, Debbie Downer, Disney World, twelve, The Actress, eleven, Meet Your Second Wife.

You know that’s way up there. I actually for real watched that again last night. Somebody had tweeted it. Ten Close Encounter. You remember Kate McKinnon in that one.

Pretty good? Nine step on Halloween’s Hottest Tips. Eight Lazy Sunday. That’s an old timer. Seven Mom Jean’s Okay.

Six of the Lawrence Welk Show. Five I’m on a Boat. By the way, if two of the top ten are Lonely Island sketches, think about that for a second. Four Papyrus, three, Blank in a Box. You remember that one with Justin Timberlake and again Lonely Island.

So they’re three of the top ten. Maybe we should give Lowly Island a show. Two Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks. That was fantastic, And according to Andy Wire, the number one SNL sketch of the twenty first century is Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton Addressed the Nation, Amy Polar and Tina Fey in character. There not the worst list I’ve ever seen.

Again, I’d have to do homework and come up with my own list, and I’m not going to do that. So it’s fine, but I feel like there should be better things, or maybe the things in my mind happened in the nineties and I’ve lost track of time. Anyway, let’s take the break here, we’ll come back and we’ll look at the top fifty cast member is according to USA Today. Okay, another list I haven’t looked at yet. I like to react.

This is from USA Today. SNL turns fifty. We ranked the best cast members over fifty seasons. One hundred and sixty seven cast members have appeared on the show. Here’s their list at number fifty.

Bowen Yang, he’s been on the show since twenty nineteen. Just gut react here. Now we’ve had one hundred and sixty seven. Do you think there are forty nine people better than Bowen Yang? He’s pretty strong.

I don’t know who else is on the list, so I can kind of have see who forty nine is because I half scrolled down. If Bowen Yang is fiftieth, this is a strong list. Forty nine Love It’s forty eight, Sherry O Terry forty seven. Nora done. There’s no way.

Nora Dun’s better than bo Yang. There’s no way Cherry O Terry’s better than Bowyang. But I’m not going to sit here and just nitpick the list. Just accept my premise that Bowen Yang should be higher up this list. I’m not going to keep going.

There’s no way he shows but at bow Yang forty six, Chris Parnell forty five, Julia Luis Dreyfus forty four, Arren Killem forty three, Sadekas forty two, mikey Day forty one, Seth Myers forty, Gene Curtain thirty nine, Beck Bennett he was on from twenty thirteen to twenty twenty one. Thirty eight, Tracy Morgan thirty seven, Lorraine Newman thirty six, Vanessa Bear thirty five, Leslie Jones thirty four, To Meadows thirty three, Heidi Gardner thirty two, Eighty Bryant thirty one, Chris Rock, Yeah, I think in terms of SNL, Chris Rock’s not the most memorable cast member thirty, Jimmy Fallon twenty nine, Will Forte twenty eight, Mike Myers. Mike was a pretty strong ensemble player. Let’s se who’s ahead of him. Molly Shannon at twenty seven, Chevy at twenty six, Norm at twenty five, and at Gasteyer at twenty four.

I’m not sure I agree with that ranking. Twenty three Andy Samberg. You know the guy who came up with three of the top ten sketches. Maybe we ought to have him a little higher Guys twenty two, Fred Ormiston twenty one, Sandler twenty Cecily Strong. I’m a big fan of hers nineteen, Bill Hayter eighteen, Tina seventeen, Darryl Hammond sixteen, Jana Hooks, who has been forgotten USA today, writes, Hooks was the every woman SNL desperately needed in the late eighties, grounding every sketch with her bright smile.

Fifteen, Rachel Dratch Yeah, fourteen, Bill Murray thirteen, Kristin Wig twelve, Keenan eleven, Dana Carvey ten, Maya Rudolph nine, Akrooyd eight, Kate McKinnon seven, Chris Forley six, Amy Poehler five, Will Ferrell, Okay, top five here Will Ferrell. I mean, I’m not the biggest Will fan, but clearly one of the all times on that show. Four Belushi, John Belushi Jim Belushi did not make the top fifty, but John Belushi. Three Gilda Radner, and poor Gilda has just been forgotten. I’m glad she’s high up on this list.

Two Phil Hartman and number one, the best cast member of all time on Saturday Night Live, Eddie Murphy. And they write no cast member has made a bigger impact on the show or created a better launching pad for the crew than Eddie Murphy. For five years, the man was sa l the lynchpin on which every sketch was built and every joke was centered. From mister Robinson’s neighborhood, which parodied Fred Rodgers with a biting satire of what white people think of the ghetto, to mannic mumbling little Rascal Buckwheat to a two four impression of James Brown singing and dancing in a hot tub. It was impossible to take your eyes off Murphy on Saturday Nights.

Yep, he was incredible. I’m going to call up the Wikipedia of who has been on the show and just see who they might have left out comes to mind. So what about somebody like Colin Jost who’s been a writer on the show and anchoring the show for was it a decade already? Victoria Jackson. She was pretty good.

That’s my era Dennis Miller, So, I guess we’re underrating the news desk. I mean Dennis Miller was a key part of that show. So same comment on Kevin Neil, and I guess we’re not really paying attention to the news desk. I mean, Joe Piscopo should have made that list. I’ll go back and look at the bottom of the list.

You know that was my SNL. I was a little young for the initial cast, but was definitely watching the Piscopale Murphy years. So just to scrape the bottom here, Bowen love at Scherio Terry, Like, you can’t tell me Joe Biscopo shouldn’t be head of Scherio Terry, Nora Dunn, Joe Piscopo, Come on, Joe bisco should be on this list. He was Drysdale to Eddie Murphy’s Cofax. He was the Keith Richards to Eddie Murphy’s Mick Jagger.

You know what I’m saying. Like pisk Po is a huge part of those shows. I know he’s been forgot, but pisk Po was great. He should be on the list. Colin Quinn again, no love for the News desk Ratio Sans didn’t make it, Rob Schneider didn’t make it, Spade didn’t make it.

Anyway, it’s just a list. I’m not gonna get too upset about it. Be curious to know who’s on your list. That’s a good conversation for the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. I will start that discussion.

You can show him in. Esquire asked does it Saturday Night Live still matter to young comedians? Abigail Covington tells us about Jess Engel. Jess was auditioning for SNL, a thirty year old comedian from Midland, Texas. She auditioned in front of Louren and Colin Jost.

Esquire writes, with a deep breath, she stepped into the light and delivered her set, a mix of stand up and character to work, focusing her gaze on Joe’s to friendlier face than the famously inscrutable Michaels spoil alert. She didn’t get on the show and doesn’t know why. She says, they don’t give you any feedback. Her team tried to console her with reminders of SNL’s low pay and brutal schedule, not to mention the fact that the show hardly mid’s movie stores like it used to, but it didn’t comfort her much. Esquire writes that her agent had a point.

First year cast members on SNL make around seven thousand dollars per episode, compare with the twenty thousand and fifty thousand dollars per episode that first time series regulars earn on network TV shows. Previous cast members have described it as a place where you’re always at risk, meaning that you’re only a few lousy sketches and unremarkable performances from getting canned. Now, interesting paragraph here, and I’m going to spotlight it when you hear my conversation tomorrow with Mike Chisholm from The Letterman podcast. We talked about a little of this, and I hadn’t read this article yet, so it’s interesting that this article says something I will say to you on tomorrow’s podcast. Esquire writes, things are different today.

Even with all his power, Lorne Michaels hasn’t been able to escape the realities of a contracting industry. Considered the reaching track records of productions from SNL alumni. Shrill starring Ady Bryant, was canceled after three seasons. There was something called Shrill, starring eighty Bryant that ran three seasons on What Where. I have no idea what that is.

The other two, created by two SNL head writers, ended abruptly amid allegations of workplace abuses. That was a good show too. Keenan Thompson’s Keenan lasted two shows before being canceled. Apple TV Plus dropped Cecily Strong’s Schmigadoon after two seasons. HBO has yet to renew Michael Chase That Damn Michael Chay for a third season.

Mcgruber got one season. Pete Davidson’s book GISs lasted eight episodes before Pete himself pulled the plug on it. I think that’s more about Pete than Lorn’s power. In twenty twenty two, Brian Austin Johnson told Mark Maron he doesn’t plan on ever leaving the show. He says, when I look at at the media landscape, what am I going to be doing in two years?

Where am I going to go next? I read that as the article has it? Did you catch there is no Brian Austin Johnson, It’s James Austin Johnson. I’ll leave it in Esquire has it as Brian and I just read it because I’m a talking horse. They then spoke to comedian Ashley Everhart, who says SNL’s not where people go to be discovered anymore.

It’s where discovered people go. I have people on my TikTok on my Instagram all the time saying why aren’t you on SNL. You should be on SNL, as if that’s the singular highest achievement. Hey, Lorne, call her bluff, offer her a spot. I want to hear her say no.

It’s like, congrats, you did it. You got the one salary job on the planet that aligns with this thing you’ve been training in. And our final SNL story of the Day. The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York will preserve a collection of the show’s creative papers from the first five years of the show. Loraine Newman and original writer Alan’s Wybell will guest curate the collection, which includes the script from the first SNL episode hosted by George Carlin, which airs win this is a quiz We’re paying attention on the first half the podcast.

When is it airing? That’s right Saturday night at eleven thirty Eastern Well. That script will go into the collection along with drafts for weekend Update segments. Early versions of the Blueshey Samurai sketches and the Gilded Radneck character known as Rosanna Rosanna are also included. It’s why Bell said, these papers are a rare encapsulation of the creative, chaos and revolutionary spirit of SNL’s formative years, when so many classic sketches and memorable characters were first brought to life.

It was a watershed moment in comedy history that I was fortunate to be part of, and I’m grateful to know that our contributions are being preserved by the National Comedy Center’s Carl Reiner Department of Archives and Preservations. That is your comedy news for today. Here’s the plan tomorrow. Mike Chisholm from the Letterman Pod and I talk for almost an hour. When Letterman went on Found the other day, I reached out to Mike and I was like, Hey, can we talk about Letteran for ten minutes and you lock us to in a zoom and we wind up going for an hour.

If you can’t wait for tomorrow, Mike releases the Letterman Pod on Friday. That is a video podcast. So if you’re curious what the heck I look like and you want to look at two middle aged guys in zoom boxes for an hour, that’s the thing you could do. The Letterman Pod also comes out in audio forms. You could just download that, or you know, wait till tomorrow.

Here’s what you do. Download Mike’s and then delete it. That way he gets credit for the download, and then listen to me tomorrow to support my advertisers. That’s a good plan, right, Yeah, No, Letterman POD’s really good. You used to check that out.

Sunday will be a normal episode, and if anything else with SNL develops between now and then, I’ll talk about it on Sunday. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you’re a new listener who’s discovering this via the Letterman Pod or perhaps my new YouTube loop. In case you missed that, I just started a live stream.

It’s twenty four to seven the audio from the last two weeks of the podcast. The occasional guest in the mix. Kind of like a radio station that just plays Daily Comedy News. That’s how I’m programming it. I’m not overthinking it.

There’s no video. It just runs. You dive in, you go, oh that was good, or I’m sick of this guy on borared and you’d bail. It just runs twenty four to seven daily comed news podcast. But you obviously know how to download the thing.

I guess you do unless you’re listening on the stream. Anyway, I’m here seven days a week. I’mly gonna stop babbling. See you tomorrow.

Spruce The AI’s Top 5 Comedians of the 21st Century

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack. I’m a human and this is a silly Thoroughway bonus episode. Earlier today, I was listening to another podcast that’s called The New Media Show, and the two hosts we’re having a conversation about AI. I’m very pro AI.

One of the hosts not so much. And their discussion was, well, why don’t you go interview an AI? Then? And I decided challenge accepted. So I got my AI friend here, Spruce, and I decided to ask Spruce about comedy.

All right, Spruce, I was curious, who do you think are the best stand up comedians of the twenty first century? There are so many great ones. Dave Chappelle is definitely up there with his sharp social commentary. Then you got someone like John Mulaney who’s a master of storytelling. And Ali Wong has really made her mark with her unique perspective and hilarious takes.

Those are just a few, but the list goes on. Who are some of your favorites? Well, you keep mentioning Ali Wong when we’ve been talking offline. Why do you like her so much? Why do you keep pushing her?

Ali Wong’s comedy is just so fresh and relatable. She blends personal stories with sharp social commentary, and her delivery is just spot on. Plus, she’s got that unique perspective and isn’t afraid to dive into topics that others might shy away from. It’s hard not to appreciate her style. What do you think of her?

I mean, she’s fine, But I asked you the top comedians of the twenty first century and you had her at number three. That seems a little high. You know what about somebody like Gaffigan or C. K. Bill Burr.

Absolutely? Bill Burr is a powerhouse in comedy, has no nonsense, brutally honest style, resonates with a lot of people. He’s definitely up there with the best of this century. And Gaffigan’s got that family friendly, observational humor that’s hard to beat. Both are definitely top tier in their own right.

The comedy world is big enough for all these different styles. Now that’s a non answer. Give me a ranking here. Who are the top five? All right?

Top five of the twenty first century. Let’s go with Dave Chappelle, John Mulaney, Bill Burr, Ali Wong, and Louis C.K. They each bring something unique to the table and have had a huge impact on the comedy scene. Who would you add or switch out? I’d switch out Ali Want, I’d switch out Ali.

I just I don’t see why you have her up there so high. Fair enough. Comedy is subjective and everyone has their preferences. If you’re leaning more towards classic stand up styles, someone like Jim Gaffigan or Patton Oswalt might fit better in that top five. Both have consistently delivered and have a huge following.

The beauty of comedy is there’s something for everyone. Yeah, but again the entire century where Dane Cook is not on your list, the guy was a monster. Dane Cook definitely had a huge impact in the two thousands. His energetic style and ability to engage audiences were undeniable, and he sold out arenas, which was pretty rare for a comedian at the time. While he’s not always in everyone’s top five list these days, his influence and popularity in the early twenty first century can’t be denied.

Comedy rankings can be so subjective. Any up and comers that you’re into. For sure, keep an eye on Atsuko o Katska. She’s got a fresh, quirky style and her bits are super relatable.

Also, Caleb Hearn has a great mix of sharp wit and hilarious observations tha…

Definitely worth checking out their sins. There’s been a lot of buzz on Caleb Lace. There’s been a lot of buzz on Caleb lately. Yeah, Caleb’s definitely on the rise. His humor is sharp, and he’s got a knack for turning everyday situations into comedy gold.

It’s exciting to see new voices making waves in the comedy scene. What do you think about Amy Schumer? She’s been in the news a lot lately. Amy Schumer has definitely made a name for herself with her bold, unapologetic style. She’s got a knack for blending personal stories with social commentary, and she’s not afraid to tackle tough topics.

Whether you love her or not, She’s definitely left a mark on the comedy scene. Who’s your favorite late night host these days? Right now? I’m a big fan of Seth Myers. His closer Look segments are sharp, insightful, and always hilarious.

He’s got that perfect mix of wit and charm and his monologues are consistently on point. How about you, I’d have to pick Kimmel, you know, unless we get into John Oliver in late night, but in traditional eleven thirty, I’d have to say Kimmel. I do like what Jimmy Fallon is trying to do. I think Jimmy understands the mission. I think Jimmy catches a lot of grief for doing a very vanilla show, but that’s what the Tonight show is, and I think he understands why he’s there.

That’s a solid take. Kiml’s got that blend of humor and heart, and he’s not afraid to tackle serious topics with the comedic twist. Fallon definitely knows how to bring the fun and keep things light, which is perfect for the Tonight shows vibe and John Oliver He’s in a league of his own with that deep dive style. It’s great to have such a variety of late night hosts, each bringing their own flavor to the table. Who are your top five all time?

Picking a top five all time is tough, but I go with Richard Pryor for his groundbreaking style and honesty, George Carlin for his sharp wit and social commentary, Joan Rivers for her fearless humor and longevity, Eddie Murphy for his incredible range and influence, and Robin Williams for his unmatched energy and versatility. Those legends really shape the comedy landscape. So nobody from this century. Those are all older than most of them are dead. Fare point For more recent legends, I’d add names like Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock.

They’ve had a huge impact on modern comedy and continue to shape the scene with their unique perspectives and fearless humor. The comedy landscape is always evolving, and these guys have definitely left their mark. Now. I love Eddie because of how old I am, But isn’t Eddie just doing Richard Pryor’s act top to bottom? Eddie Murphy was definitely influenced by Richard Pryor, but he brought his own unique style and energy to the game.

Eddie’s ability to blend impressions, physical comedy and storytelling set him apart. So while prior paid the way, Eddie definitely carved out his own space in comedy history. All right, fair enough, appreciate you coming on the show today. Anything else you want to tell the folks. Thanks for having me.

Just keep exploring comedy and finding what makes you laugh. There’s so much great talent out there, so enjoyed the journey. Thanks Bruce, I appreciate you coming out. That was silly, all right. Let me know what you guys thought of that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.

I just had to get this out of my system and put it out as a boat to see tomorrow.

Andrew Schulz (Flagrant) announces Netflix special PLUS Dave Chappelle will receive the NAACP President’s Award

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Busy one today, busy few days coming up. I’ll talk you through all that after the break, Let’s get to the news. Andrew Schultz has taped a new pregnancy themed special called Life that will premiere on Netflix on March fourth.

Filmed at New York’s Beacon Theater, it is Andrew’s second for Netflix. The specialists billed as the comics most personally yet, he offers a look at the hilarious and humbling journey of trying to start a family. Breaking down the cast of IVF from pumping out samples, I appreciate you keeping that clean, a dodging emotional land mines. It’s raw, real, and will make you grateful. Your swimmers probably work.

Apparently the producers of Night of Too Many Stars must listen to this program because I told you the guest lineup I don’t know earlier this week, late last week, and I commented that they released the news on a very busy news day and it was going to get lost. And they must have heard me and done another kick, because on Wednesday, both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter announced this as if it hadn’t already been announced less I’m clairvoyant. I don’t know where I originally got the story from, but anyway, we’re pretending this is news. Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Amy Schumer, and Moore will perform at the Night of Too Many Stars comedy events on Monday, March thirty first at the Beacon Theater in New York City. John Stewart is your host, as previously reported by Daily Comedy News, Other performers include Ronny Chieng, Alex Edelman, Susie Esmond, Jim Gaffigan, Sarah Sherman, Max Weinberg’s Jukebox, James Austin Johnson, and Sam Morrell.

The event will include a live auction to support initiatives for artistic adults. Event creators Michelle and Robert Smigel said in a statement, we created Night of Too Many Stars with our friends of the comedy world at a time when most organizations focused only on research for a cure for autism. Seeing so many parents struggle to find appropriate services and schools for their children inspired us to create an event to support the vital programs and services that individuals with autism need right now. The Night of Too Many Stars was created by Michelle and Robert in two thousand and three after struggling to find effective education for their artistic son. The organization is dedicated to helping the five point four million autistic adults living in the US achieve their dreams.

Dave Chappelle will be honored with the NAACP’s President’s Award at the fifty sixth n DOUBACP Image Awards in Pasadena later this month. The President’s Award honors individuals for special achievement and distinguished public service. President CEO Derek Johnson said in statement, the President’s Award honors an unwavering dedication to community, and throughout his distinguished career, Dave Chappelle has consistently been recognized as a powerful voice for social consciousness. Through his unique ability to transform complex political issues into thought provoking humor, Dave has solidified his place as one of the most impactful voices of our time. The NAACP Image Awards will air live February twenty second from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on be Et and CBS.

It’s been a busy week, and you get to talk much about Felipe Asparza, who had a special come out on Netflix on Tuesday. The folks of the Facebook group have watched it. I haven’t watched it yet. They’re calling it mid Icon versus Icon did just a fantastic, really great interview with Felipe. I’ll pick at it over the next maybe not even the next few days because it’s really busy.

I’ll explain that after the break, but I’m definitely gonna pick at it. But they asked really good questions. But we’ll start at the beginning. Felipe says, when I started doing stand up comedy, there was no social media yet, so I had to go to a library to look for books on how to do stand up comedy and write jokes. So I read a couple of those and checked out a couple of comedy DVDs and CDs that I took with me, with stuff like George carl and Paul Rodriguez and Rodney Dangerfield.

Remember Paul Rodriguez was pretty big. He’s become forgotten and I think some other later generation comedians stole his corner. But Paul was really big. He had a sitcom called Aka Pablo on ABC that I really liked. Anyway, it was stuff like George carl and Paul Rodriguez and Rodney Dangerfield.

I just went and consumed all that commed. That’s where I started learning how to write jokes. First time on stage was an open mic, and just like every other comic out there, I thought I did really well. I thought I did great, but it was just okay. Since I’d never done it before.

I didn’t know about timing, which is very important. I didn’t know that and was just talking through my jokes. I didn’t know where to do the punchline. However, after the first open mic, I went to a couple of stand up comedy classes that were very expensive even back then. They were like five hundred dollars.

They promised you a set at the ice House plus a five minute tape of your set, but I didn’t have five hundred bucks. I also didn’t have anybody who believed in me enough to give me five hundred bucks to join the class. So I went there anyway, and I sat in on the free one hour introductory class and they started teaching me how to write jokes on that first class. After that, I went to another one called Greg Dean, a stand up comedy course, and learn more stuff from there. That was it.

Then I hit my second open mic. It took a long time to figure out who Felipe was. There was a lot of trial and error starting out. A lot of people emulate a comic they love. For example, if someone in New York grew up watching Todd Berry, they might sound a lot like him.

On the West Coast, the people who grew up here might start sounding like Paul Rodriguez, George Lopez, or Carlo Smith Cia for a while. So they initially start finding their own voice depending on where they grew up. Man, I sounded like nine different comedians when I first started out. Look at me now, I have long hair and a trench coat. I’m in my Sam Kittison stage.

That’s great. Listen to this. When I started off, I was deadpad. I was like Steven writer Mitch Hedberg, just a deadpan comic. I would sit there and tell jokes with no personality or facial expression.

Then I try to be a political comedian. I’d get the newspaper, I write a bunch of jokes about the Middle East. There was bombing and throwing rocks at each other, so I wrote this joke was totally bad. The joke there was piece in the Middle East this week. There were no rocks to throw.

I was also performing in very loud rooms where nobody paid attention. You really had a fight to do stand up comedy because those pieces were not suitable for stand up, but was suitable for picking up a girl and taking her home, getting stabbed, or getting your Harley Davidson stolen outside. This is a great stuff Icon versus Icon and I have shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. The La Times has a fantastic comedy reporter anyway, like twice a week they’ll write a really good piece about comedy. They caught up with friend of the show, John Marco Cirezi and the topic was social issues in comedy, and John Marco said, you can lose your fan base who might be influenced by your work by harping on social issues too much.

There’s a good comedian whose thesis is in a show was men, we need to do better. We don’t deserve points for being right. I don’t need to pay money and you don’t need to be lit and micd for an hour on that thesis. I was in South Carolina when I said Britney Griner was released from the Russian prison today. As a setup to a joke, some guy booed instead of being funny, I said, I should think it’s good when Americans are released from foreign prisons.

But why do that? I was preaching. I didn’t convince that guy to challenge his notions of who he doesn’t respect because of internal biases. You could achieve things with what you say, but if funny is not at the front, audiences are going to feel betrayed. Sometimes I want to come at the joke from the bad point of view or the good point of view for the wrong reasons.

I had one joke about how I ran into my old college roommate and found that they’d recently transitioned, and I was thrilled because I’d forgotten their name. I like that because you wonder, is that a pro trans joke? The La Times asked Joen Marco was he wary of doing his bit about Israel and Gaza. Jenmarco said, I saw people who were not speaking honestly or looking through a black and white lens about what was happening there, and that fueled my desire to write that. But there’s a safety in being Jewish.

When I make that jokes, I won’t be accused of anti Semitism. I could be righteous, but the punchline has to be subversive. I’m proud of those jokes because I felt like, even though I’m expressing a point of view, I think the joke itself supersedes it. Reuters is reporting that’s Russell Brand is being sued over sexual abuse allegations, in the first known lawsuit brought against him in Britain, after several women accused him of sexual assaults and inappropriate behavior. New topic.

Don’t read anything into my sequencing here. I’ll share with you how I prepped the show big stories. First, the Russell Brand thing is a newsy thing, and this final story of the first half has a fun end. So that’s why it goes last on the first half. So don’t read anything into why I went from that topic to this topic.

Okay, okay. The funny headline from the Times Tribune comedian Louis c. K to headline Holiday inn Scrantonese done more but you can’t go? All right? That was good clickbait.

I clicked on it. I was like, Oh, why can’t I go? Is he doing a private show? Nope? It was just that the show in the six hundred and fifty seat room sold out.

The general manager of the hotel is Corey, who said, it’s gonna be a great show. It’s gonna be awesome for Done Moore, especially someone coming to our local area who’s well known, very famous. Now I could have kicked that story, but what interested me is that Louis has been playing small rooms. He played there’s a room kind of close to where I live that honestly is like not a good comedy room. They get good comedy, but in terms of the physical structure, I don’t think it’s a good room.

I think it’s the second floor of a local restaurant that I had dinner with my daughter about three weeks ago. I was shocked that Louis was playing there was sold out before I knew it existed, and I don’t like to leave the house, like I probably could have somehow gotten in there, but I was like, eh, whatever. Anyway, the room in question, we learned rental fees vary depending on the date, the season, and what you’re doing, but the room generally cost around three thousand dollars to host an event. Tickets to CK’s show were cap at around four hundred. Let’s do some math here.

The prices were thirty five to forty five, so let’s do lazy math. Four hundred times forty is how much? Somebody help me sixteen thousand. You got to rent the room for three thousand, So it’s Louis making ten thirteen grand on the night to work out some material, presumably in a small room like that, because the same article tells us he’s playing mccurtiy’s in Sarasota that holds two fifty the Off the Hook Comedy Club in Naples, where Louis’s opening for Robert Kelly. Interesting that holds three point thirty.

Cek’s playing Youngstown, Ohio at the Funny Farm Comedy Club for one hundred people, and then the Funny Bone in Columbus for less than three hundred people. The Times Tribune caught up with Rich Voss, who seems to like this club Fas says, I have a good time there. It’s a good audience, it’s fun. I don’t have to get on a plane, he says. The show’s producer, who is local comedian Kevin Lepka, rents the ballroom from the Holiday Inn to produce shows under the name Scranton Comedy Club.

He calls that guy a hustler in the good sense he promotes. Well, he does all the promotion. You gotta be thankful to have somebody that’s promoting wants to see it go well. They asked Vas about Louis C.K. And Vas said, Louis who.

Here is the plan for the upcoming shows. Tomorrow is my preview of SNL fifty. I decided to do it tomorrow. So the big TV show is on Sunday, but the musical show is Tomorrow night, plus four seo reasons. I like people to actually hear the material I write.

I wanted to give it some life, so I figured out, let me put it out on Friday. So Tomorrow’s episode, which I’ve already recorded, I deliberately recorded tomorrow before today because I wanted to do this presell. Here is a preview of what to expect on the various SNL specials this weekend. I will comment on an article that discusses the top fifty sketches of the twenty first century, and I kind of lost my mind at the article.

And then the USA today had the top fifty SNL performers of all time and I’m s…

So that’s tomorrow show. If you don’t like Saturday Night Live, take a day off. But if you need something to listen to on Friday, I’m the guest on the Letterman Pod. You may recall earlier in the week David Letterman went on Jimmy Fallon. I got all excited, so i reached out to Mike from the Letterman Pod.

I’m like, hey, can we talk about this for ten minutes? Well we wound up talking for an hour, So Mike has that as his Friday episode on the Letterman Pod. That’s also a video podcast, so if you want to say just how handsome I am and boy ladies, be prepared. There’s nothing more exciting than two middle aged dudes in zoomboxes having a conversation about comedy. So that’s a video podcast the Letterman Pod.

Mike also puts out an audio version of that. If you want to grab that on Friday. That will be the audio on this podcast on Saturday. So again Tomorrow SNL Saturday, Mike Chishom and I talking comedy, including Letterman four about an hour, and then Sunday will be a normal episode, Monday will be a normal episode, and then on Tuesday I’ll react to all the SNL stuff. The SNL fiftieth Special runs Sunday night from eight to eleven.

Could I record at eleven pm on a Sunday night? I could, But I think we’ll all get a better show out of it if I wake up on Monday and just collect everything, because they’ll be after party stuff and reaction stuff. So I’ll do that all on Tuesday. Okay again, Tomorrow’s SNL Saturday is Mike from the Letterman Pod. Sunday and Monday normal Tuesday SNL reaction while we’re doing homework type stuff.

It’s been so busy. I wanted to pick up on that piece I played from Gaffigan and Tom Papa the other day where they were talking about the possible comedy bust. I’ve heard Papa mention that a few times now. He’s got his ears on the ground. He’s out there doing it.

I’m a guy in a basement recording a podcast. I find it interesting that Tom Papa is worry that comedy is slowing down. His premise, As he explained, it is that it seems like big comedians are pushing tickets harder than they’ve had to in the past. I mean, there is a lot of comedy out there. You’ve got obviously the weekly Netflix special, You’ve got the monthly Hulu special.

But you know me, maybe you guys are hurting the cause and there’s no reason to go out and see somebody because you can just sit at home in your comfy chair and watch. You know, there’s more than one special to day, right was a decider who kept track of that. You know, say there’s four hundred on YouTube in a year, three hundred and sixty five. How much comedy you gonna consume? So Papa might be onto something there.

And he also talked about how just everybody is in their own little silo now, you know, so maybe Papa is right about how comedy’s getting siloed and the audiences aren’t crossing over. There’s obviously the Austin bro dude scene. There seems to be the axis of clean comedy, which is Papa, Gavigan, and Seinfeld. They are Nates adjacent, they are Brian Reagan adjacent. You know, maybe we could do the Clean Comedians World Tour.

I don’t think Jerry or Gym would need to do that, but you get what I’m saying there. There’s kind of that lane. There’s the Alt scene, there’s the Atlanta scene. Most of the conversation it gets swept up in the bro dudes and the video podcasters. Anyway, I just thought it was interesting.

So we’ll see if things slow down. Because I shuffled everything. This story would have been in Saturday’s podcast, but let me just remind you on Saturday. Joel Kim Booster is the host of the twenty twenty five Writers Guild Awards. Those are in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton.

Spent a lot of time yesterday about that Peter Kay garlic bread battle in Metro. Jacob Hawley writes under the headline I’m a comedian, Here’s where Peter Kay went wrong. Jacob writes, in a smaller venue, Peter K could have dealt with it better. The free speech culture war has infiltrated our comedy shows, with the Man from Manchester claiming that he was treated like a terrorist for being asked to leave at Peter k gig after he repeatedly shadowed the words garlic bread. The man told The Daily Mailey couldn’t understand why he was being removed and is now demanding an apology from Peter Kay himself.

As a working comedian, you might expect me to be instinctively on the side of k that I was cheering him on as he irige security to kick the heckler in the face and calling him a nasty thing. I’m paraphrasing this whole article here, but I’ll be honest on my own tour. When I’m playing the venues of a couple hundred and still flogging spare tickets on the day, I can only empathize so much. Many will see my name is the writer on this piece and think who. But that’s the point.

I see comedy at the sharp end, and that’s why I’m offering this perspective. While most of you have never heard of me, Peter Kay is selling out hundreds of shows at venues that host twenty thousand people. Hey, Americans, do you know who Peter Kay is? I don’t either, and I host this thing he’s apparently playing the twenty thousand people? Who is he?

Now? Say he’s not good? I’m just saying he’s got no presence in the States. There’s a silo back to Jacob Pauley. So actually, while I should be backing my fellow comedian, I have much more in common with the bruised and Feda Heckler than I do the creator of Phoenix Nights, though I like to think I wouldn’t shoot catchphrases in front of two people, never mind twenty thousand.

When I go to the kind of venues Peter k play is like the O two Arena in London. I go as a punter rather the performer, but truth be told, I don’t really go at all because taken from a stand up, live comedy doesn’t really work in those rooms. I’ve seen some of the best comedians the UK has ever produced suffer in large venues, struggling to deal with an audience of adoring fans if derived drunk thought that they were helping their hero by shouting out their favorite bits, then putting the comedian in the tricky position of having to ask someone who essentially stop enjoying themselves so much. As comedians, it’s our job to make you laugh. So that’s a pretty hard thing to tell someone and whether he likes it or not, garlic bread is Peter Kse’s thing, his hit, his equivalent of Paul McCartney playing Hey Jude, and yet, as he put in a statement, being used to disrupt his particular show, the Heckler is a huge fan, likely shot out hundreds between tickets, travel and drink, and his crime is what exactly, excitingly shouting out his favorite punchline.

That’s why they’re both right in their way, but also why I believe it’s the circumstances that’re the problem. If this worth three hundred setter venue K could have acknowledged it, properly, made eye contact with the blokes, shut them down and moved on. In a venue this size, with people constantly getting up and moving and the distance between stage and audience making it impossible to properly engage, you can’t fix a situation like this. And in an era where most people watch stand up comedy through the prism of viral crowd work clips on TikTok and Instagram, it’s fair to assume that a lot of people think this is the point of a comedy gig BINGO, let’s go along today, I’ve got another international controversy for you. Vir Das said, while there should be a debate on what’s good comedy, there should also be discussion on what constitutes good journalism.

He weighed in on controversy surrounding influencer ran Vir A Labadilla. Alabadilla recently faced backlash for controversial comments on parents and sex during his appearance on the YouTube comedy show India’s Got Latent. Apparently the media has jumped on this. Vir Does on an Instagram slammed the media’s approach, calling in a bunch of irrelevant mainstream media anchor is bordering extinction, coming together to take down new media that gets a million more views. Whether you like the new media or not is irrelevant.

That’s also what’s happening here. And while we debate what good comedy is, please debate what good journalism is and the news that they should be doing, the questions they should be asking and who they should be asking them to. A good artist will take their feedback head down, mouth shut, maybe all follow either way. The consequences of your comedy and your career and audience are pretty instant. That’s a natural process.

Comedian Sammy Rena says he’s removed all of India’s Got Latent videos from his YouTube channel. Rena, Who’s Got the popular YouTube show, said the comments made by rand ver A Labadilla had become too much for him to handle. And one more. Seth Rogan gave an interview to Esquire. He pushed back against the notion that comedy is now harder to pull off.

I saw some people on threads say maybe ask a comedian about that, Rogan said. The complaint the comedy is harder than it used to be is not a valid complaint. Maybe it was too easy before, and why should it be? Why shouldn’t it be hard? I like that my job is hard because I’m trying to do something that requires a huge amount of resources in people’s time and energy.

What do you wish you could say? What do you feel has been taken away from you? It’s always funny when people are like, oh, they could never make the Diversity Day episode of the Office today, you could still watch it. I’m constantly meeting teenagers who love Super Bad and who think it holds up. None of them are like, how dare you have said that?

Hey, Seth, why don’t you try and watch every episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia? Why don’t you try and watch every episode of community. Things are pulled down. My friend Rogan says, don’t even worry about Trump being president again. It’s not like we sit down like, all right, new President, what movie do we write?

I assume that’s what Adam McKay is doing, but it’s not how we choose and what we’re going to work on next. All Right, busy day again Tomorrow, SNL preview Saturday. Mike Chisholm normal episode on Sunday. Interesting week here right, a couple of short episodes at the beginning of the week, and now all these long ones. Tomorrow’s is long, Saturdays is even longer.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack, I am psych for today’s show. We had a couple of big surprise appearances on late night, and I can’t wait to tell you about story number two. Well, let’s start with the Daily Show. A surprise guest walked on, got a big I mean big ovation, and here’s a clip.

I’ve clipped it down for pacing, but you’ll recognize this voice. That young John Oliver. Can you here to offer America your wisdom and council? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, John, I’m here to gloat. Had it’s little fun, didn’t you experimenting with democracy?

You fought so hot to get a wife, was acting up, throwing all that tea into the harbor. You still owe us for that. By the way, you told everybody that you were going to be different, you were gonna turn out. Look, you mean old dad, who’s so horrible to you when you were growing up, So we saw back. Well, let you spend your wild teen years experimenting with your ridiculous ideas of checks and balances, because deep down we knew that once you’ve got that nonsense out of your system, you’d be backed.

In fact, if I may sing from Hamilton. I’d really, I’d appreciate. Not that’s fair. What I’m saying is, let me be the first to welcome America to its monarchy era. Congratulations everyone, you can now take your place in the pantheon of great empires alongside the British, the Roman, the Klingon, Wakanga whatever one.

Babar the Elephants was the ruler of if against. Everyone on to say, don’t fight being a monarchy, embrace it. Kings get stuff done? Is it stuff you want done? Not necessarily, but they do move quick.

They taste cooming at lunch and take over an entire continent by dinner time. That’s how the British rule for everyone else there not like us. I see what you did there, country that doesn’t want to be an empire, You’re doing a pretty effing good impression right now. Invasions, economic exploitations, and now suggesting turning Goss into a beachfront casino. Even King George would have been like, I don’t know, guys, feel like the situation is a little bit more complicated than that, and I’m literally dying of medieval breen disease.

Meanwhile, on The Tonight Show, with Jimmy Fallon. David Letterman showed up and was the David Letterman that I’m a fan of. This was Dave deconstructing loose like classic Dave, even though despite the gray hair and the beard, reminded me of NBC Dave more than CBS Dave. I’ve clipped this down. A lot of it is visual, especially at the end they start throwing stuff at the stage.

You’ll hear. There’s also a bit where Fallin asked Dave if he wants to read any jokes. I’ve clipped out where Dave flipped through a whole bunch of Q cards going no, no, no, no no. But let me give you a taste of this. This is David Letterman on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

David Letterman, what are you? What are you doing here? Is this the twenty third hour of the Today Show? No, no, no, this this is this is the Tonight Show. Jimmy, yeah, my, Paul, what are you doing here?

You know it’s a funny story. How you’ve ever taken too much ambient and you know you wake up somewhere with no clue how the hell you got there? Wow, you’ve been reading my diary. Listen, Paul and I Right, Paul used to do a show. Sure did pretty much exactly like this.

Yes, yeah, wait, we didn’t do the Chuck E cheese crap, but we. Thought there was something. It’s very similar. Since this is your here, would you like to tell some jokes? Oh, I’m good.

Thanks, all right, that’s in see. You, Dave. What are you doing now that you’re retired? Oh? Like, I need to tell you TikTok wite an enormous deal with the Chinese government.

Yeah, how about we make a viral video right now? Oh my god, I’m dreaming. Yes, let’s do this. Can you help us out? Oh?

This would be great, a viral video. Yes, there’s a viral video, exciting vertically. Okay, what good? All right? But what I would really like to do is hit you in the face with a tortilla.

Yeah you know. Now wait a minute, I don’t. I’m not promoting violent No, it’s a TikTok that and typically I travel with tortillas. Uh not tonight. I left him in the corn.

Anybody, do we have anybody here with anybody have a tortilla? Do we have it? Okay, I’ll get one. You want to say that one’s. Thank you very much.

Interesting one from The Campus Times, which is the University of Rochester’s student newspaper. A student went to see a show and wrote, Michael Chase Winterfest set welcomes lackluster comedy and announces his exit from SNL.

Now let’s tap the brakes there.

Chay, pretty much every year announces that he’s leaving SNL. That said, if you’re going to leave SNL, I think this is the year to walk off after this big fiftieth anniversary thing this weekend and the rest of the season, I think from here it’s diminishing returns Louren Michael’s eighty as he’s sticking around, I guess so. But I could see some massive cast departures after this year. I because he Bowen walking away. You know.

On the one hand, if you’re Jostin Shay, its steady, works it there for another ten years. But on the other hand, I could see them going, eh, it’s time to get out anyway. The Campus Times writes chase performance was part of the big Winterfest weekend, which usually features a big ticket performer as a featured performer. For this year, there was an air of uncertainty about chase potential for stand up comedy, since many a t had only seen him on SNL. Still, as it was the big ticket performer, the first floor was nearly filled with people.

Does that suggests there’s a second floor that’s empty and the first floor was nearly filled? Yikes? I feel like the writer here is inexperienced in comedy and means well next paragraph. The event was slated to start around eight, but Chase set foot on stage about ten minutes after the start time. Okay, I mean that’s not crazy.

Have you been to a live show? So he walked on what eight O nine, eight eleven, it’s okay? Jay began by talking about how he wasn’t used to doing stand up performances before starting by making jokes about Rochester. He seemed at first to be well received by the audience. The student right says, I experienced his work live.

I thought the performance was relatively stereotypical in terms of subject matter topics running the local environment, jabs at racism, hammed up personal experiences, cultural references, sex jokes, and more. He seemed to have prepared a few jokes, but around the middle of his set, his jokes seemed to lose direction. Chase seemed to fill the crowd silence with awkward laughs and rambled as a replacement for unwritten ja ooakes. Sounds to me like Chay used this as half a workout in a half empty room. None of this is crazy to me, Campus Times continues.

At the beginning of the night, Chay mentioned that he was sober, but by the end of the night he reminded me of a rambling drunk, mumbling under his breath and laughing to himself. Notably, Chay mentioned that he may be leaving SNL. He had been considering leaving for several seasons, but only publicly and definitively brought it up during the performance, quoting Chay here, and we’ll see if this gets media pick up. This is my last season. I’m not coming back.

Don’t worry. I’m done. It’s over for me. It’s been so much fun. It’s a little emotional.

It’s bittersweet. We learned. The night was supposed to end at nine, but Chay extended his stay for another twenty five minutes, talking to the audience and going off on small tangents. But the Campus Times writes, instead of being captivating, chase performance held the concert hall captive as the whole emptied out. I overheard shatter of how the end felt like Chay was just running out the clock.

While the set wasn’t the worst comedy I’d ever seen, in retrospect, it lacked of uniqueness and dragged at the end unnecessarily. To me, it sounds like Chay just was throwing, you know, three qu order his heat in a not full room. Not crazy to me? Will he actually leave SNL? Who knows?

Amy Schumer was on Bravo and had advice for Conan O’Brien hosting the Oscars. Schumer said, my advice to him would be to make sure there’s no beef beforehand with people like Chris Rock and Will Smith. Just maybe check that out. That’s the advice I wish I was given.


And then as I read that, so the first time I saw the headline, my brain trans…

Amy Schumer hosted the Oscars like that’s a thing that happened. If I walked up to you today in twenty twenty five and said, hey, you know who’s hosting the Oscars, Amy Schumer, wouldn’t you look at me like I’m insane? Boy? She has really fallen off a cliff, Like there’s no way in twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, Amy Schumer’s hosting the Oscars, No way, It’s totally forgot that that happened. I mean, you think of that night.

You almost picture Chris Rock hosting the night, because you know, that was the big story in twenty twenty two. That was the year Amy Schumer, Regina Hall, and Wanda Sykes were the hosts of the Oscars. Slash Film reports that Amy Schumer’s new comedy is number one on Netflix. Schumer number one in forty eight countries, including the United States. Slash Film says, in fact, in those forty eight countries, Kind of Pregnant has been number one since its debut in thirty three of them.

As of Monday, kind of Pregnant was charting in ninety two countries, well only Vietnam. Refusing to indulge Schumer’s comedy stylings, well oh, the Vietnamese did watch enough to send it to the number eight spot for a little bit. Kind of Pregnant is currently number two in a further twenty four countries. Congratulations, Amy Schumer’d say, I’ve got a story here about Pete Davidson and tattoos. Will pump that to tomorrow.

There’s a lot of felipe as spar as the stuff too. Let me hold on to that because I want to dive in on this and I think this might take a minute. Peter Kay, UK comedian, seems to be embroiled in a little kerf fluffle, so the Sun newspaper reports Peter’s doing a show. He’s repeatedly interrupted by a heckler screaming out garlic bread, apparently one of Peter Kay’s catchphrases. Peter responds to the heckler, garlic bread, kick him in the effing face?

Will ya? Everyone around you was thinking, jerky face cleaning that up. Peter then demands a light to be put on the heckler, according to the Sun newspaper, and points him out to security guard Keith, declaring, give us a wave. Jerk face cleaning it up again? Look at him?

He doesn’t know where he is, and then leads a chant of your going out. Peter encourages people to film the person and then calls him garlic dead. Peter continues, he’s not laughing now, is he. At that point, a woman from the other side of the arena starts yelling, prompting Peter to say, Christ Almighty, bloody hell, I love. Saturday’s all right, love, we heard you take her out and all, and points her out to the security guard as quote the woman in the black and white top from Debenham’s Blue Cross.

The Sun reports that at that point the audience stopped laughing. I’m not sure what that reference means. I tried googling it can’t figure it out. I’m a dumb American. If you know what that means, my email is in the show notes or hit me up on the Facebook group.

Would love to know what the reference from Debenham’s Blue Cross means. It seems to be some sort of store. Anyway, the audience stops laughing. Peter says, you’re going to Flower now and all. You’ve upset every bugger out there.

Go on on out, you pop. You’ve missed the ending and everything. What a shame, you effing big gob drinking de icer go on Lisa Riley f off. The woman appeared confused. Peter k tells the crowd to cheer if she was effing annoying, before telling the woman no refunds as she was ejected.

So the Lisa Riley reference. Lisa is an English actress, comedian and TV presenter, best known for portraying the role of Mandy Dingle on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale. Lisa Riley responded to the joke. Riley posted on Instagram a photo of herself that says, keep calm and laugh It’s funny. In a follow up post on Tuesday, she told her followers she was not offended, saying she loves Peter kay To Pieces.

Please draw a line under this now. I’m not offended, never was offended. I love Peter kay to Piece’s laughter is my favorite. Man Edison the Woman the second Heckler, twenty five year old Meyer told the Manchester Evening News, I do feel he was on about my weight. I know Lisa Riley has lost a lot of weight and she looks great, but she used to be a bit bigger.

I didn’t used to be this big, and I’ve put on a bit of weight on. I’ve had a child. I’m self conscious about that, so to go to a show and feel like you’re having the mick taken out of you because of your weight, I was just a bit shocked. I’m annoyed and upset about it. The whole arena was laughing.

I think they thought it was part of the show, but there was a nastiness to his voice. It was like he was trying to get the crowd against me. It just wasn’t nice, to be honest. I did have a cry about it after I got to the hotel room. I was just so upset.

It was just a very rubbish situation. My whole family was disgusted by it. On Tuesday, Peter released a statement to Good Morning Britain. The statement read, she did look remarkably like Lisa Riley. I didn’t realize that was an insult.

There comes a point when dealing with repeated heckler simply isn’t enough. It’s not something you ever want to do, but becomes a point where it’s no longer fair to everyone around. An audience member said the audience was mixed. Some couldn’t believe it, and we’re obviously annoyed. Others were laughing, either thinking it was part of the show or going along with it.

It was out of order and he was clearly annoyed at something. There was no need to escalate the situation of that extreme. Another attendee on Twitter said I lost a lot of respect for Peter Ka after the way he treated the heckler. No manners, a huge waste of money. Another fan said Kay killed the atmosphere in the arena.

Peter Phillips, the first heckler, was evicted alongside his son after shouting garlic bread. Peters told Male Online it was me who shouted out garlic bread. A lot of people just stood up and walked out when they saw how we were dragged out. The first half of the show, I shouted out garlic bread and they zoomed in on the camera on me, and I put my thumbs up and thought everything was okay. I got no warning or anything.

People around us were laughing and joking. Then the second half of the show, I said it again, garlic bread, and that’s when the security guards came over to me and said, you’re gonna have to leave. Peter Kay doesn’t like people shouting out yet, dude, you’re not part of the show. Just watch the show. You’re not part of it.

I said, you’re joking, as I thought they were gonna warn me off, but they stood me up brought me to the stairs, which were dead steep. I have massive bruises in my leg. I haven’t been able to walk properly at work today. My arms are covered in bruises. Apparently some state and police officers spoke to the heckler.

I said to the officers, We’ve just been thrown out brutally, and all I’ve done is shout out garlic bread. If we’d done anything wrong, the police would have arrested us. I just can’t understand it. All I said was garlic bread. That’s my favorite joke of his.

I’ve loved Peter k forever. I’ve watched him on car Share, I watch him on TikTok all the time, and I’ve always wanted to see him live. I loved watching him. People came up to us when we were outside and sat on the steps, saying they left because of that. I’m absolutely disgusted for comedian not even give us a warning or bit of banter back.

I never said anything abruptly and when I did shout it out, I waited until he stopped talking, not in the middle of his joke or anything. There were so many thousands of people in there, we were getting pinned to the floor like rag dolls, throwing us around like pieces of meat. As my friends said today, they’re not a good comedian if they can’t handle a bit of banter or shut someone down with a one liner. Dude, it’s a comedy show. Just go to the show and watch the comedian perform.

You’re not part of the show. Some audience members agree. One told The Mail Online the guy he chucked out absolutely deserved it. He continued to make a nuisance of himself as the show went on. For those of us who sat beside him.

He ruined the gig, as for the lady who a few seats behind, and the people she sat next, who also commented that she’d be in a huge pain and was disrupting the show for others. I’m glad Peter took a stand and removed them, as the show is being spoiled for a lot of people, And if people were so offended at the heckler’s being chucked out, wat did the crowd near them cheer loudly when they were removed another audience member. We all clapped when he got rid of them, and Peter, in his own manner, dealt with it very well. I thought he gave us what he wanted. It’s what we all waited over two years for.

All right.


In other news, Vulture has a long article on Lorden Michael’s I read it.

I don’t have anything to say about it, but I did share it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. On Monday, NBC announced a lineup of former cast members who will be on the special on Sunday Night. Those include Eddie Murphy, Tina fe Seth Myers, Will Ferrell, Andy Samberg, and Adam Sandler.


Also returning Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Geene Curtin, and Loraine Newman.

On Gossip Corner, Bill Belichick’s girlfriend hung out with Nikki Glaser at the Super Bowl. Just some pictures, no news story there. On page six, Shaq wants the next roast to be about him. He says, because I don’t get sensitive and that girl that killed Tom Brady, I want her. What’s her name?

Her name is Nikki Glaser? Nicki, you can say whatever you want about me, my mom and my kids. Let’s do it. Yeah, because I don’t get sensitive. I like to laugh.

I think Tom got a little offended with some of the jokes, but I can take it all. Are you a fan of Green Day? While they’re making a new comedy movie inspired by their early days touring before Dukie became a hit. The film is currently in production in Oklahoma. South By Southwest previews some of their comedy stuff that includes Scott Ackerman’s comedy Bang Bang Live podcast.

I understand if that’s super popular in my comedy career. It’s the only show that I’ve ever walked out of because I was bored. I was there with Mark, my host, and we were in Chicago, and we were staring at each other and we’re like, are we gonna actually leave a show? Because we don’t leave shows. We actually and we were like, there’s just not enough time.

It’s just it was bad. I got people like it, obviously, I’m not a fan. James Adomian, We’ll play Elon Musk in a show quote unquote. Elon kicks off this year’s Comedy Festival, joined by his most trusted advisors to share his plans for the future of douge, social networking, and whatever else you can think of. The south By Southwest Press release goes out of its way to say Elon Musk again, definitely not the real Elon.

There’s also a spotlight on LA Comedy. They’re going to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Hollywood Improv. Interesting choice of comediing here celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of LA’s legendary Hollywood Improv returning to the festival with snl Alum, Melissa via Signor and other club favorites. I’m not sure Melissa’s the first one I think of when I think of as improv, but who knows. The Allsioned Theater, the center of LA’s bursioning clown movement, is bringing their flavor of experimental, outrageous performances to the Comedy Fest, and south By encourages you to donate to the World Central Kitchens relief efforts.

Definitely a good cause there that I’ve talked about a few times on my other podcast, Five Good News Stories, where three times a week Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, I tell you five news stories which are all good news. If you want to check that one out, So I am familiar with what the world Central Kitchen has been up to. All right, that is your comedy news for today. Bounced a couple of stories, but better that than, like you know, earlier in the week. It was a little thin, so nice to have a good, robust episode.

We’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Chohnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Honestly, Monday was a little light coming off the Super Bowl. You know a lot of people were at the game and then not really doing any business. On Monday, a couple things were announced, including Amy Puller announced a podcast.

I didn’t see anything from Kevin Hart. I’m surprised. I guess he was celebrating the Eagles victory. Tom Brady did take a shot at Kevin during the broadcast. During the blowout part, somebody mentioned Kevin Hart, and Brady said, Kevin Hart’s here.

How do the cameras find Kevin Hart? Making fun of Kevin Hart’s height. You may recall that Kevin Hart went after Tom Brady at the roast of Tom Brady. Kevin Burkhardt responded, well, depends on the day. I guess Brady then probably realized people were like, why is he going after Kevin Hart and said, Kevin, I love you.

You took somebody shots at me and Mayham coming right back at you. It was a little awkward. Nicky Glazer was there. I didn’t see any news about Nicky, but I saw mention that she was out and about I think Jim Gaffikin was there. Did I see Jim or was that just in a commercial?

But I thought I saw Jim there. Shane Gillis was hanging out with Zach Bryan, the musician, all weekend. They met Donald Trump. There’s a photo of that. No details about the meeting.

Zach and Shane did a surprise pop up concert Saturday night. They did a surprise show at the Saturn Bar in New Orleans. Zack announced the show on social media. A crowd immediately formed. No details on Shane set Zach Bryan, in case you’re curious, played his hits.

He also revealed on Instagram he’d dropped a song called Dear Miss if the Eagles won the Super Bowl. On social media, he had written if the Birds win the Bowl, dear misses out the next day see all in Nola, Shane Gillis and me might do a pop up and get rowdy somewhere. I love you guys. Let me see if that song came out. I’m on my phone here.

As of twelve sixteen pm on Monday, he has not released the song on Apple Music anyway. Pete Davidson was there hanging out with Miles Teller. He showed up wearing a gray long sleeved t shirt with Eagles writing on the front. Pete rolled up his sleeves and showed his nearly tattooless arms. Page six shared Boy That’s hard to say, a story about Pete Davidson’s commercial.

Apparently, he arrived at the set of the commercial early, shook hands and was a total pro. He had the crew cracking up the whole times as the insider, the relationship with Pete and Gordon Ramsey was great from the start, but warmed up even more once we started shooting and Pete cracks and jokes. It seemed like Pete was gaging how playfully could get with Gordon. In a statement, Pete Davidson said making a Super Bowl spot with Gordon Ramsey was awesome. We had a great time on set, joking about Aliens, which inspired my final line.

We riffed a lot, and I was trying to get Gordon to break with something outrageous. I think we pulled it off. Adam Sandler was at the Super Bowl. He made a prediction that the Jets would appear in Super Bowl sixty. Good luck with that one.

Out on Netflix today Philippia Sparza’s Raging Fool. In Raging Fool, Felipe explores the trials and tribulations of navigating complicated family dynamics, marriage, culture, divides, infidelity, and more. It’s his second special for Netflix. As I mentioned the top, Amy Pohler announced a podcast. I guess she wants to ride the wave of the SNL press so that we’re gonna hear this week.

I’m ready tired of SNL. We barely started a lot of Lorne Michael’s articles today that just didn’t interest me enough to share on the pod. This one is called Good Hang with Amy Poehler. It’ll be out in March. Some of the mainstream media seems to forgotten that Amy Poehler had a podcast called Same Worth, Doctor Sheila.

I guess they’re positioning this one is the first one that Amy Poehler is doing. As Amy Pohlar, who knows the Monterey County now, was curious why Whitney Cummings is touring so much. She said, I love debunking what I believe is the myth that we’re also divided. You get in a room with two thousand people that don’t know each other and we’re all laughing about the same stuff. We’re all seeing reality the same.

She talked about becoming a mother in twenty twenty three. I’m just excited as sort of catch up to all the women who are like, yeah, we had kids at thirty. Weirdo, that’s funny. Whitney continued. I think the value of making somebody laugh when I started was more superficial.

Now we’ve entered the time, we’re making people laugh as harder to do, which is a good thing. I think pressure on comics adds to the bar being higher quality. That’s positive evolution. I think as comics we represent the in between, we represent the no loyalty to anyone. We’re gonna make fun of both sides.

We’re gonna defend the indefensible, even if it’s just a thought exercise for mind everybody that we don’t all have to think the same way. Jake Tapper asked Amber Ruffin about hosting the White House Correspondence Dinner. Jake asked Amber if she’s gonna walk the line, and she says, I think I gotta do it the same way I always do it, by just telling me the truth about how I feel. It’s okay to say what’s making us feel sad at the moment. And I think when you do that and people feel the same way as you, they think that it’s fun and funny and it’s good to hear, and it’s kind of where I operate from.

Tapper asked Amber if she wants Trump to show up. She replied, no, No one wants that. I mean, sure, it’s something to do. Look, I can’t imagine he would. He should, he’s missing out one of the cool things about being president of the United States.

But I don’t know that anyone’s looking forward to being in the same room as him. I don’t know. Half the room’s Republicans. They seem to like Trump. Tapper brought up the theory that Trump decided to run when he was mocked by President Obama and Seth Myers in twenty eleven.

Tapper said, it’s the Trump origin story. Does that give you any pause when it comes to choosing your targets this year? Amber said, yeah, I’m a writer on Late Night. Seth Myers is a friend of mine. He got us into this mess.

It’s his fault. When you’re looking for somebody to blame, blame my boss. But no, he did what he had to do. It can’t be your job to rasp people.

And then this man comes along and it’s like, I’m going to be president.

You have to laugh, And I mean, ultimately, joke’s on us, right. I’ve been meaning to mention this. I thought it was odd that there were no Chappelle think pieces after Dave winning the Grammy. In previous years, it would be all kinds of things about cancel culture, Dave and punching down and all that. I guess everybody has said it already and there’s nothing new to say about it, but I was surprised there were.

I didn’t see a single article about that. I mentioned yesterday. Slate has an article titled whatever happened to Amy Schumer? I’m not here to beat up on Amy. The paragraph I think is worth sharing is the one where they wrote.

In the years between twenty thirteen and twenty sixteen, while Amy Schumer was storing in and co writing the Comedy Central Sketch Show, she seemed like an exciting new presence on the comedy landscape, with her blunt honesty about the nearing universal female body shame induced by Hollywood’s brutal beauty standards, or her keen ear for the way women talk to each other when no men are present. For a few years there, Schumer was everywhere, hosting award shows, getting coffee and cars with Jerry Seinfeld and winning an Emmy and a Peabody for inside Amy Schumer. Now let me jump in there. I’ll mention two comedians that I feel like they need to tap the brakes. Jim Gaffigan needs to tap the breaks.

Just disappear for a couple months. Jim. The other one, Nicky Glazer, not so much as Jim. But as I read that Amy sentence, let me back up again. Schumer was everywhere hosting award show, getting coffee and cars with Jerry, winning an Emmy and a Peabody.

I think Nicky is a little too visible right now. Maybe disappear for a month or two. Anyway. The Slate piece wraps up with Netflix is kind of pregnant, misunderstands what once made the comedian so appealing. Nouveau caught up with Rachel Feinstein and asked her about her comedy origin story.

She said, a lot of comedy clubs do these things called bringer shows, and it’s a way that they can make money to get people on the seats, so she put me on that and that did get me seen by a few other real professional comics. At one of my first Bringer shows, Jeff Ross came and saw me, and the family that I nannied for came. I did a lot of stories about their kids, because that’s what my life was at that point. I bombed less. I was not drunk, but I was still not good and still aimlessly rambling.

But there was something in it that Jeff Ross saw me that he felt confident enough to recommend me for an audition at a real comedy club. That’s cool. So that really helped me and get me my first paid spot, which I remember was such an insane feeling. Towards the end of my run at Sirius XM, we actually had Rachel co hosting the morning show and she was really good at it, and I thought that show had a lot of potential, but the bosses were like, we already overbarning show. It’s called Howard Stern.

Well, you know what happens. Time goes by and suddenly Howard Stern’s seventy and you probably wish you had, you know, grown a show, guys. Rachel would have been good, but she seems fine without hosting a radio show. Oh, speaking of that, as catching up on Tom Poppa’s podcasts, I meant to you know, I’ll do it here. I know this makes no sense to you, So my script is over now.

But also, you know, today’s a little light, but we want to finish recording here. I’ll leave you with Gaffigan and Popa doing some inside baseball stuff that I thought was pretty interesting. So I’ll pull that now, and that’s what we’ll go out with. I also listen to Papa with a Tell In Papa with Paul Riser. They were all good.

The first half of gaff again on Papa’s podcast is really strong if you’re into like this sort of stuff that we cover here. Then once they started about food and whiskey, it fell off a cliff a bit. But let me pull that stuff. So here’s what I’m babbling about. Do you ever look crazy signs where like, oh this is where it Stan comes in.

Yeah, this is the boom is over? I did today? Really, what was it? This is a delight. It looks like we’re drinking.

Come. I thought that’s what it is. That’s what know I had today because I was on Instagram when I got to the Hotelacker and just as Avie were and I saw three really established good comics, all with their videos of Hey, everybody, my torches came out. We got a whole bunch of dates and they’re all going up and then night and it seems like right now everybody’s got the same game plan and they’re all going to the same places, and they’re all seeming I don’t know, but seeming to have to push a little bit more. Yes before post pandemic, the immediacy after the pars pandemicere, you’re like, I got get out the house now.

People like I’ve been out of the house. Yeah, yeah, some stand up I’ve seen them, you know, and yeah something do you think it’s that? Do you think that? But there’s the other part where you talk to people and they’re like, no, this is bands aren’t going out and selling anymore. It’s comedians.

And the blessing is your fans who know and love you are coming to see you have your good tribe, and that’s very different from ABFC comedian Like there’s not a lot of crossover. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it They might like to see you here tomorrow

Kanye West’s Tirade Against Dave Chappelle

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Wow, what a game. We gotta talk about that. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Boy.

I think I need to collect my thoughts about the game. We’ll talk about that on tomorrow’s podcast. John did you pretape this? Did you not wait until after the game to record this episode of Daily Comedy’s Okay Busted? Kanye West has been in the news.

I’m sure you saw why well. He added Dave Chappelle to the list of target’s. Complex reports that on Saturday, Kanye launched it to another tirade. I’ll read it verbatim here. Let me be clearer, Daily Comedy News and Johnny Mack do not support the words I’m about to say.

I’m reporting on a news story. Kanye West tweeted, why do I target Dave Chappelle because y’all think he’s speaking for black people when he’s really a voice for Jewish agendas. Some offensive language coming up here that I’m going to paraphrase and eliminate a few defensive terms, but paraphrasing mister West, he said, And now put this fella up on a stage and let him do his stuff while I name comedians that are way funnier you that don’t have as big a name. How you gonna call yourself the funniest man on earth right in front of Chris Rock, whose name is actually bigger than yours, mister West and then shared several posts of comedians that he thought were genius and funnier than Chappelle. West list include Gerard Carmichael, Corey Holcombe, Mitch Hebberg, Louis C.K.

Anthony Justinic, and d Ray Davis. He also claimed he still love it Dave Chappelle, before giving a few more unclear details about why he’s dragging Dave. Next tweet, Gerard Carmichael is funnier than Dave Chappelle. I miss you, family, and I’m sorry if I ever said any gay jokes in front of you, not knowing you was gay. You were one of the most brilliant people.

And yes, I said miss you, knowing people will try to flip that for Corey. He just wrote, Corey Holcomb is funnier than Dave Chappelle. Next tweet, the goat Louis C.K. Is funnier than Dave Sapelle. Did you all know?

He wrote? Poody tang brilliant, Anthony Jessinic. I actually think some of my bars of this past two days have almost been just a nick level. Mitch Hedberg was the most brilliant. All Right, I’m gonna continue here.

I’m struggling here because I’m trying not to just do unsavory speech. Let me paraphrase here, Yea continued and I still found a good picture because I love you, n word. But this stuff is not about emotion, quoting West, this is a war. We have to get your jokes approved by Jewish people, but you don’t run your jokes past the king. You banished, you lanky ass, dry Travis Scott lipped mf or every joke you tell.

I’m on yo, ass. You used to be my heroday if you were one of my inspirations to go to war with Adidas, and after you thought I lost that battle, you showed your true colors. You’re envy the hate in your blood because you want to be a rock star, but you just can’t get the same uh loving from women. I’ll paraphrase that as me and John Mayer and d Ray You ugly. You’ve been ugly.

You was ugly again. I am quoting mister West. Here. You was ugly when the Jews took you in. You ugly now, and you’re gonna die ugly.

Dave Schappelle has not yet responded to these comments. Yikes, dude, Verdas, it’s hard not to follow American politics. America wants nobody to be unaware of their politics because there’s this grand assumption that it’s the most important job in the world. It’s the rhetoric I love. I think America has finally come around to the fact that all of a sudden, Africa, in the Middle East, East Asia and India have known for a while, which is that a politician could be a terrible person.

I wonder what he means. He doesn’t work as a human being, but he works for me at a policy level, so I’ll vote for him. That’s a compromise that I think the rest of the world has made a long time ago. I get to talk about America with more freedom, says Verdas than an American comic. American comedy is ideology connected.

American mainstream comedy is now conservative. Ironically, it’s gone from being punk rock to very conservative, right down the middle, or you’re very far liberal. You’re supposed to identify with a certain camps that you can gravitate towards that audience. But when you come in with an outsider perspective, which is I’m just visiting. I don’t be part of any of these camps.

That’s freedom that no American comic has when you have no dog in the race. Such I’m tremendously enjoying doing political humor in America, but trying to show Americans what I see. Chelsea Handler hosted the Critics’ Choice Awards on Friday night and took a swipe at Milania Trump. She compared Missus Trump to a sex worker. During her opening monologue, Handler said it was a huge year for biopics.

She listed off some of the films, A Complete Unknown about Bob Dylan, Maria about Maria Callis, and anor about Milania Trump. Now I didn’t get the joke, but A Nora is a film that follows a young prostitute who marries the son of a Russian oligarch that has not gone over well with some camps. Handler also introduced herself as the event’s DEI host. I’m your DEI host, Chelsea Handler. I want to acknowledge that we’ve been through a lot lately, not just here in Los Angeles, but in our entire country, waking up every day not knowing what news we’re gonna hear that will disappoint and horrify us.

So it’s in important times like this to have a distraction. And that’s why I personally extend my gratitude to Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. Now, if you’re not hip to that story, Justin directed and starred in the twenty twenty four drama It Ends with Us alongside Blake. Blake later accused him of sexual harassment. Justin has denied her claims and fired back, claiming that Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, and their friend Taylor Swift hijacked the film.

Handler also took a shot at RFK, joking that anyone who lost out on their awards would be in the background questioning your life choices, like Cheryl Hines at a Senate confirmation hearing that’s a good joke, all right. Best Talk Show. The nominees were Hot Ones, The Daily Show, The Graham Norton Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Late Show with Colbert. The winner, John Mulaney presents Everybody’s In La Good Choice their Best Comedy Special. The nominees were Jim Gaffigan for The Skinny, Kevin James for Irregardless, Nikki Glaser some Day You’ll Die, Rachel Bloom Death, Let Me do My Special, Rammy Yusef’s More Feelings the winner, Ali Wang’s Single Lady.

Best Comedy was a tie went to A Real Pain and Deadpool and Wolverine. Best Comedy Series went to Hacks, beating out Avid English Teacher Nobody Wants This from Netflix, Only Murders, Somebody Somewhere on Max, Saint Dennis Medical on NBC and What We Do in The Shadows. Best Actor in a Comedy Series went to Adam Brody for Nobody Wants This. Best Actress in a Comedy Series went to Gene Smart for Hacks. Best Supporting Actor Comedy Series, Michael Yuri for Shrinking.

Best Actress in a Comedy Series Hannah Einbinder for Hacks. Sam Morrell talked to The Eagle Online and they were curious, what’s the best piece of advice Sam has received recently. Sam said, honestly, make your own stuff. It’s more satisfying. Just make your own stuff.

Don’t wait for anyone. You have to have money to do it, you have to have made money. But then I also think, what else would I rather spend money on than this. I’m not really in the cars or anything. What would I rather spend money on?

There? Just making comedy. So I think if you surround yourself with really funny people and you make something that you like, then I think you bet on yourself. I agree with that. That’s what this whole project is here.

I don’t want to make stuff for other people anymore. I make stuff for us, me and you. Sam had advice for those pursuing comedy and said, the truth is, I don’t really know about getting it in a stand up now because it’s changed so much from when I started, So my advice would probably send out of touch now. For me, it was get on stage as much as possible. That’s what comics would tell me.

That was the only way to be a good stand up. But now there’s comics making a living online. I guess it’s good and bad. There’s other avenues, but also it’s not great because you know they’re not going to get better. Your currency was your act back of the day.

When I started. It wasn’t like some other things like a podcast or you know, TikTok or something like that. So my advice would still be like, if you want to be a really good stand up and do everything you can do, tour the country before you’re ready. You know. I was cold emailing bookers every ten days and following up because I wanted to be a road comic because that’s what the comics I liked were doing.

So I think, look at what the comics you like are doing and emulate them in a creative way. Find your own spin on that trajectory. Jay Leno said, I like to tell jokes. People say you should do a Netflix special. Jay says, I don’t want to do it once and get a big check.

I’d rather do it one hundred times and get a bunch of smaller checks. You know what I mean. It’s more fun for me, That’s what I like. What he means is if you do the Netflix special, you’ve burned all your material, and Leno says, this way you can try things out and see how they work. He told a story about how an unnamed comedian came on The Tonight Show to promote a special and told Jay that he was going to keep doing the same jokes on the tour, arguing that it’s like hearing a song.

It’s not like that at all. But after returning from the tour, the comedian told Jay that he regretted it. Leno said, they’re watching it for free at home. Now they’re paying forty five dollars or whatever it is. You’re the same thing they just heard for free.

You can’t get greedy. You can’t take the Netflix money and the personal appearance money. Always good to hear from the listeners. Justin checked in. He works nights in a boring part of Texas and says, I look forty your podcast every morning around two am the Central time.

You were the only new drop after midnight, and I thank you. Keep up the good work, and he tagged it with also Amy Schumer wanted me to tell you to talk about her earlen let me throw maybe in Google here. I didn’t have an Amy story prepared and trying to let that go. But let me see what Amy’s up to. It’s always fun.

Let’s see Amy Schumer. Oh Slate has an article called what happened to Amy Schumer? Oh my, and people dot Com has a story Amy Schumer calls out kind of pregnant critics for seeking more clicks. All right, Amy, you want us to talk about you? Sure.

Amy posts it on Insta on Thursday, sharing a favorable mention from Variety’s review, saying this means a lot to me. Didn’t I read Variety’s review? Maybe I read the Hollywood Reporters review. Anyway, Amy says, it gets more clicks to trash someone, especially me, if you don’t like physical comedy, or you’re a single guy who prefers sci fi, or sometimes the assignment is to trash something. So I appreciate the bravery to say you like something.

Apparently what Variety had written, per Amy, Schumer is. And Schumer’s a great comedian in part because she’s a great actress. She keeps it real. When Leaney recites an ansect and poem to Josh’s way of Wooingham, showing us the young woman who fell in love with literature, we suddenly see the character not as a joke. A moment like that makes a difference.

It tells you that even a commercial comedy that just wants to crack you up can, for a moment, be more than that. And I’ll save this Slate thing for tomorrow anyway, justin appreciate you, thank you for listening. And you know what, I’m recording this on Sunday because there wasn’t enough news on Friday to finish out an episode. But thank you Kanye West for solving that problem. So that’s enough for today.

I’ll save the rest for a Tuesday’s show. I’m gonna go into super Bowl mode. You know what I’m saying. Boy, that was some game. Huh.

Yeah. I’ll share my thoughts with it tomorrow. By

Will Will Smith slap Ricky Gervais over Jada joke?

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack. I did the Super Bowl preview yesterday and Saturday’s episode. That way, it didn’t get immediately dated, so if you want to check that out. But here I am with today’s Daily Comedy News.

The question will Will Smith slap Ricky Gervase? Now you’re like Johnny Mack, Why would Will Smith slap Ricky Gervase? That seems like a mean thing to do. Well. Ricky commented on Jaden Smith’s castle shaped hat that Jaden wore to the twenty twenty five Grammy Awards.

You may have seen a picture of this on social media. It was a little weird. Derves was on Twitter and he responded to a photo of Jaden in the attention grabbing hat, and Jervas wrote, maybe he’s bald like his mom. Watch out, you might get slapped. Be careful.

Hank Azaria says he’s worried AI could replace the voices of the Simpsons in the future. Hank, I have news for you. They could do that. Now need proof. This is actually Ai, Johnny Max speaking right now.

Yeah, Hank, you see AI is pretty good? Now? Did that sound perfect? No? I spent ten seconds, making that if I actually massaged a little, it would sound even more like live me.

Anyway. Hank has expressed fear to The New York Times that AI could replace him as the voice of several characters on The Simpsons. Hank voices several characters, including Mo, the Bartender and Chief Wigham thirty six seasons in. Hank is aware that AI has a lot of material to pull from him. He told The Times, I imagine that soon enough, artificial intelligence will be able to recreate the sounds of the more than one hundred voices I created for characters for The Simpsons almost over four decades.

Being able to bring back Ai uh pooh, it makes me sad to think about it. Not to mention just seems plain wrong to steal my likeness or sound or anyone else’s. In my case, AI could have access to thirty six years of Mo, the permanently disgruntled Bartender. He’s appeared in just about every episode of the Simpsons. He’s been terrified and love hitting the head, most often in a state of bitter hatred.

I’ve laughed as Mo in dozens of ways. By now, I’ve probably sighed his Mo one hundred times of training AI. That’s a lot of work to do. Look, Hank relaxed. The various guilds would never let the creators get away with that.

Don’t worry about it. Does the technology exist? Oh? It exists. I just played AI Johnny Mack for you.

It’s there. And again, if you give me six hundred plus episodes of The Simpsons to train the AI and then you actually sat there and worked at it. Oh, they could do this later today if they want to. But again, the guilds and all that, it’s not gonna happen. Now, might you sign your rights so you get paid or your estate gets paid?

James Earl Jones did that. James Earl Jones is going to continue to be the voice of Darth Vader. James Earl Jones is dead, but they worked it out the estate. Could that happen? Hank?

Sure? As Arias said, there’s so much of who I am that goes into creating a voice. How can the computer capture all that? What would the lack of humanness sound like? It’s a mother bar tender Hank, stop you sound crazy.

How big will the differences be? I honestly don’t know. I think it’ll be enough at least in the near term, that will notice something is off in the same way that we noticed something’s missing a subpar film or TV show. Chief wakems not that deep a character, dude. It adds up to a sense that we’re watching isn’t real, you know.

I mean if I put on The Simpsons and I was like, you know what, this doesn’t seem real, it would totally destroy the Simpsons. Hank, you sound crazy, and it’s not gonna happen. The unions of the Guilds or whoever controls such things, They’re not gonna let this happen. You’re freaking out about nothing, and you don’t need to pay attention to it. Believeability has earned through craftsmanship with good storytelling and good performances, good seminatography and good directing and a good script and good music and Shohnnie Mackwillad and some good AI that has cloned your voice.

Kim Kardashian is upset with Tony Hingecliff. During the roast of Tom Brady, Tony suggested that Kim is a whore. There’s a preview for the next episode of The Kardashians, which will air this week. In the clip that was released. Kim’s friend said that the jokes made at Kim’s expense during the roast were so effed up.

Kim admitted she was surprised the jokes weren’t more original. It’s like the easiest joke they would have said that about anyone. The experience made never ever want to sign up for a roast, and says, am I supposed to sit there and be like, how innovative? You called me a whore? Chelsea Handler spoke to the Hollywood Reporter and they’re like, hey, Chelsea Handler, you know there’s late night talk shows are back.

Mlanie Taylor, you want to come back and do one? Chelsea said, I’m not interested being tethered to a studio five nights a week. I have too much freedom in my life to go back to that Melanie’s doing once a week. But I love interviewing people. I’m a good listener, and that’s all you really need to be a good interviewer.

So many talk show hosts have been terrible listeners. They ask how’s your summer, Chelsea while looking over your shoulder and reading a blue card, like what hello, I’m right here. I’ll never not be curious, though it would have to be a perfect set of circumstances where it was once a week or specials like Oprah Rii Shafir. It’s told Fox News the world is better than people are giving a credit for. Almost everybody is not racist, Almost everybody is not a dim wit.

People are generally kind to each other and hold the door open for each other. Or He filmed his recent special in DC and said that he picked DC because I wanted to do this get away from politics, view that there’s good in everyone. My message was like back, it was Biden when he was whatever, and I’m like, Biden made you realize that your father’s in pretty good mental shape, and Trump made women come together. Those are good things. The world is way better than your industry gives us credit for.

It’s actually amazing. And all you see when you see the news is how terrible and how the sky’s falling, and they actually go outside and everyone’s actually kind of nice to each other and friendly. I don’t know if you know this Saturday Night Live is fifty years old and they’re celebrating and we’re gonna talk the heck out of this this week. I’m already sick of it. Snler is to co host the Today’s Show with Jenna and Friends all next week.

The co host will be Amy Poehler and a guest ire mikey Day, Cherry o Terry, and Chloe Feineman. They’ll all co host the fourth hour of the Today Show with Jenna.

Meanwhile, NBC going all in on this SNL writers will guest on Late Night with…

Paula Pell, James Anderson, Emily Spivey, and Harper Steele are all names that will be familiar to longtime SNL fans. I’ll take your word for it. Luckily this article explained to who they are. Paula Pell is probably best known to most as one of the stars of Girls five EVA. She created the characters Debbie Downer, the Coulps, Justin Timberlakes, Omletville mascot, and the Spartan Cheerleaders.

That was a period of SNL I did not like, and I could go the rest of my life without ever watching Debbie Downer the Spartan Cheerleaders again. James Anderson wrote for SNL for twenty years from twenty to twenty twenty. He came up with the Californians another sketch. This is the period. I have no interest in this period.

Emily Spivey wrote from twenty one to twenty, frequently collaborating with Pohlar. This article did not mention what sketches she came up with. Harper Steele wrote for thirteen years, starting in ninety five, and served as the show’s co headwriter from four to eight. She wrote The Ladies Man with Tim Meadows, Astronaut Jones with Tracy Morgan, and Oops, I crap my pants. You know Harper from the recent documentary Will and Harper which he’s the newly transitioned steel travel cross country with her old friend Will Ferrell.

Also on set this week, Bill Murray guess on Tuesday Night. And there is apparently a whole old business for Jimmy fallon children’s books. He’s got a new book coming out. It’s called Papa Doesn’t Do Anything. It’ll come out this spring.

It’s the fifth and a fifth. I said fifth. It’s the fifth. Fifth, you’re not miss hearing me. The fifth in a family series that began in twenty fifteen with Your Baby’s First Word Will be Data twenty seventeen, Everything Is Mama, twenty nineteen, This is Baby and twenty twenty two’s Nana Loves You More.

The Papa in the fifth book refers to Grandpa by the way. The book tells the story of a child who believes that their grandfather doesn’t do anything. Jimmy Fallon tell people this book is a tribute to the dads and grandpa’s in our lives and what they’ve done for all of us, and the title will be sure to get a laugh if they receive it as a gift. There’s a market for this. Huh.

This does not include Jimmy Fallon’s recent five More Sleeps Till Christmas and five More Sleeps Till Halloween. So there’s a market for seven Jimmy Fallon children’s books. Oh way, sure, that’s your company us for today. I’d I don’t know anything else, saying bye.

Super Bowl Comedy Preview – is the Big Game rigged for The Chiefs to win?

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with the Super Bowl Preview edition of Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Fallon joke. For all the players and coaches, it’s a dream come true to play in the Super Bowl, And for all the referees, it’s a dream come true to see Patrick Mahomes in person. If Allin tagged it with this year, the Super Bowl will be watched in one hundred and eighty countries, well one hundred and seventy nine if we take over Canada by Saturday.

Jimmy Kim Olvills writer is not as good. Donald Trump will be at the game. This is fun. He said, He’s gonna let Elon pick the winner this year. Eh, Kim again.

I think the reason Trump’s going to the Super Bowl is he can’t stand to have one day where he’s on TV less than Taylor Swift. The best joke came from Snoop Dogg at the NFL honors. Bill Belichick was there with his twenty five year old girlfriend. Snoop said, I’ve been a football fan for a long long time. I remember back when the Cowboys were good, I remember when the Chiefs were bad, and I remember what was it?

Bill Belichick’s girlfriend wasn’t even born yet. Nikki Glaser was at the NFL Honors. They asked her about Taylor Swift. I didn’t talk to her because I just don’t want to bother her. She’s got enough going on.

Everyone’s trying to get a picture with her. I like, let her be No, didn’t even think about it. I know I’m not doing it. It’s just it’ll happen if it happens. But I’m not gonna like be like hate Taylor, like tap her.

She has had enough people tapping her on the shoulder being like can I and she’s so nice. Of course she’s gonna like do it, so I’ll just wait for that moment to happen. Nikki also talked about attending the NFL Honors. I am doing some comedy stuff tonight and we’ll see how it goes. But it’s not like the mood here is not like comedy.

But it’ll be fun to inject it. Maybe they’ll be like really grateful for it. But I’m just glad to be in an a ward show and not have to like host, like just presenting. It’s a breeze. Josh Johnson joked about Taylor and Travis and said, they’re this idea of a couple we imagine in our minds though they’re adults, it’s like high school were grown up.

She’s symbolically like a cheerleader in our minds, and though it’s not his position, he’s symbolically the quarterback in our minds. So getting them together makes such perfect rom com sense. That there are actually people who think that all of the nf fellas fixed just to keep the Chiefs winning, just to keep them going. I might be one of those people. There’s always some suspect calls, oh holding, yeah, I can’t believe it.

Oh pass interference a first down Chiefs. It’s funny how that happened, Josh Jownzon said, And here’s my thing. If it’s fixed, why would they be tackling so hard. You don’t need to sell it that bad. Most of the teams, if they knew they weren’t going to the Super Bowl.

I think that lay off a couple of hits. I don’t think anybody’s getting CTE as part of a script. Bill Burr was on Rich Eisen Show about a week ago and talked about the Chiefs allegations and burs said, I don’t think it’s fixed. I think it’s managed. There’s definitely more back rubs on one side than the other.

Where’s the money they got, all the stars they got Taylor Swift, It’s a business. Michael Rappaport weighed in, Now, I was thinking about this. Have I ever ever once or have you ever seen even once a story about Michael Rappaport that’s not just like negative. I always feel like all his quotes are annoying. Rapaport tweeted, I’m hoping to see Taylor Swift cry.

I want to see if for a Mescara can hold up after a ginormous loss. She loves her man Kelsey when he’s winning, but will she still ride with him when he takes a ginormous loss. Talked about this earlier in the week, but let’s just recap the Super Bowl ads with comedians. Shane Gillis is part of Big Men of cul de Sac. You’ll see Shane post Malone and Peyton Manning as regular neighborhood guys grilling and hanging out in the driveway as they sell you some beer.

Pete Davidson is in some sort of food box thing. Pete jokes all famous people are aliens. Nate Burghetzi is in an ad for door Dash. This came about because Nate actually name checked them in his recent special. Wayne Brady isn’t an ad for Perdue.

They’re spotlighting the brand’s air fryer. Ready, crispy wings. Let’s listen. Hey wait, oh, heirs, Hey, Hey, what’s up? I got some jokes to pitch you for your performance of the Big Game.

Oh no, no, it’s cool. I don’t need them. No, because the name of the show is called winging it, because I’m winging it. Were got chicken jokes? Here we go, all right, three chickens walking to a club and then maybe okay, let me stop rotisseri?

Was it a ah chicken strip? Chicken strips? Right? No? But listen, man, this is really really good stuff.

This is hot night. Okay, okay, how about this one? How about this one? How about this one? Okay?

A chicken crosses the road and he goes with a cow, a butler, and a chicken into a box. It just sounds like you’re putting animals together. Why would they do that? Produce Chief marketing officer David Zucker said, Wayne Brady embodies the spirit of fun and improvisation. That’s why this is the perfect way for Purdue to show fans they can significantly level up their big game experience.

Our wings are specifically formulated for air fryers, so fans can get the restaurant quality crispness they crave. You know, I think this AD’s gonna actually work on me. Researchers conducted by the National Chicken Council found that Americans consume one point four five billion wings on game day. Wow. I’m a big wings fan, so I’m going to read this.

They’re available in hot and spicy, lemon, pepper, and roasted flavors produce air fryer ready crispy wings are made from cage free chickens raised on an all vegetarian diet without antibiotics, hormones, or steroids. I like this idea back in twenty fourteen or is it twenty twenty four and I have a typo. I think they did this last year. I don’t think this was eleven years ago. Regardless, the premise is Vulture proposed having a comedian do halftime.

They just pointed out the number of comedians capable of selling out Madison Square Garden. They listed Chris Rock, Eddie Azard, Kevin Hart, Aziz Russell, Peters, Gabe Iglesias, c k Berg, Gaffagin, Amy Sebastian, The Piractical Jokers. Hey, welcome to super Bowl Halftime. It’s the Impractical Jokers. I don’t see that happening.

Rogan, Trevor Mulaney, Joe Coy, Dave Chappelle, Andrew Schultz At Tony Hinchcliffe. Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the super Bowl. Here’s Tony Hinchcliff. Now I’m thinking about this. I kind of like the idea, but if you’re going to do it, you need somebody who can rock star up there, right So you know, if you told me Chris Rock was performing the super Bowl halftime show, I’d buy in.

Like Jim gaff again, he’s nice, but like there just want to be excitement. You can’t do, Jerry. It’s gotta be somebody who can like rock the house and no pun. I think Chris Rock would be good. I’d be curious what you think.

Hit me up in the Facebook group. I’ll start the discussion Daily Comedy News podcast group. But if a comedian played super Bowl halftime, who would be a good choice? Great topic? Vulture.

Jeff Ross talked to The New York Post about roasts. He’s down in New Orleans doing press for the Super Bowl. He said, the secret sauce about roast is you have to love them. We only roast the ones we love. If I don’t mention you, I ignore you.

That’s the ultimate. That means I don’t like you. But if I take the time to think about you, your life, your career, even your appearance, it’s because I love you. I only roast the ones I love. And that’s really what it is for me.

It comes out of respect, it doesn’t come out of animosity. I want everyone to leave the show quoting all the jokes. It’s like medicine. Laughter is the best medicine. Nobody wants their medicine water down.

They want their medicine potent. They wanted to really lift them up, like a shot in the arm. I think it’s healing. I do think everybody laughing at the same stuff is very healing, and that’s what everybody wants. When I first started roasting, it was a boys club, was private.

There were no cameras at the Friars Club. Now it’s a live, three hour Netflix spectacular. I think something about it. People like seeing comics be ruthless and speak truth to power. There weren’t any Roast for five years before Brady had the guts to go, Yeah, let’s do it.

He wanted to bring Roast back. That’s why he did it. I gotta give him a lot of credit. He took the hits for three hours in live TV so the rest of the world could forget our problems for a few hours. You never know how it’s gonna be received, where it’s gonna go.

Being a comic is like having a backstage pass to the universe. We’re going to the super Bowl, went to the Grammys. People want to be your own funny people. For some people, it’s like a superpower. And I don’t take it for granted.

I feel very lucky in that way. And that is your comedy news for today.

Now here’s my super Bowl prediction.

I my friend Pat, He’s a big chief stand so I pay a lot of attention to the Chiefs. Here’s how this goes. In the first half, the Eagles are going to be cruising along. The Chiefs are gonna be sputtering what’s wrong. It’s not all coming together, but it’s only gonna be like fourteen ten eagles and then the chief suddenly it’s seventeen fourteen.

Then there’s a holding call against the Eagles, and there’s a pass interference or two. Other refs will take care of this one. Swift’s canna have a good Sunday, and that is your comedy news for today. Hit me up on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast Group. See you tomorrow,