Author: johnnymacdcn

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Featured: Tim Dillon, Kevin Spacey, Burt Kreischer, Roy Wood Jr., Gabriel Iglesias, Jimmy Carr, Theo Vaughn, Amy Schumer, Sarah Sherman, Seth Rogen, Tony Hinchcliff

What’s in This Episode

• Tim Dillon’s Netflix special ‘I’m Your Mother’ and Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood promotional video
• 2025 comedy specials ranking and year-to-date reviews
• Just for Laughs Montreal 2025 announcements including Roast Battle Canada
• Roast of WrestleMania featuring Tony Hinchcliff and Gabriel Iglesias
• Jimmy Carr hosting ‘Am I the Asshole’ game show on Comedy Central UK
• Amy Schumer SNL sketch controversy and Sarah Sherman flowers apology
• Seth Rogen edited remarks about Donald Trump at Science Breakthrough Prizes

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna start with a long clip. I usually don’t play a clip this long, but it is far and away the best thing out there today. Kevin Spacey has revived his House of Cards character Frank Underwood.

Why would he do that to promote Tim Dillon’s new comedy special makes a lot of sense to me. Let’s listen, you podcasters think you’ve inherited the kingdom. Hold on, I’m gonna have to call you back. Whispering in ears, swaying elections, spinning the truth like it was cotton candy, when in fact you owe nothing but a bunch of clowns, juggling Bonu pills and hair tonic. Frank Underwood, I thought you were dead.

I’m as dead as John McCain. He is dead. Excuse my ignorance. I meant Hermann k He’s also dead, Dean Kane. To be honest, I don’t know.

Well, it doesn’t matter anyway, because I’m back. And that’s why I need you to go on your little podcast and say this. I don’t do political endorsements. I think you’re going to do exactly as I ask, mister Dylan door dash orders made from inside a five stars steakhouse while at a hotel in Milwaukee in twenty twenty three. You called a taco bell just to talk.

And you once paid six thousand dollars to have a Carville ice cream cake overnighted to a theater in Norway and then returned it for a refund because it wasn’t cookie puss. Jesus Christ, Frank, I’ll read it, but first you gotta plug my comedy special. Oh Jesus, it’s good. I filmed it in Austin. I don’t care if you filmed it on Mars with Elon Musk.

I’m not here to help you. These photos you gave me, I’ve posted them all. I’m on the Internet. We don’t have blackmail, we have content world demons from hell, you son of a bitch. There is no limit to your duplicity, to your panderin, to your shameless and desperate desire to cling to relevance.

You are you are, I’m what my kind of bestard? You have my endorsement, mister Dylan, Well, I appreciate that, Franken. I read ads for Morgan and Morgan Law firm. I’m sure I can endorse the Daily Wires new musical. It’s really good.

Oh, by the way, which network is your comedy special? On Netflix? You found Lonesome, Evil Little Cockroach? But I love it. I made a few minor edits there for language.

I’m mad that I could have had this in yesterday’s show. I had seen Tim Dillon’s tweet, but the text of it was, hey, watch my new special, so I just assumed he shared the trailer. I didn’t click on it, and then I was like, oh, I missed out on this. What a fantastic job. Why Kevin Spacey did that?

I don’t know how Netflix is going to feel about it. I don’t know. And I say that because if you put on Netflix and they promote House of Cards, they never ever, ever, ever, never, never ever never show Kevin Spacey. They act like he wasn’t even on the show. I enjoyed Tim’s special.

It’s a perfectly nice, forty one minutes constant entertainment. At no point am I like, oh my god, this is a great special. Ever, But at no point was I bored either. It moves along for forty one minutes. It’s like Tim strung together a bunch of material he had sort of worked out on his podcast, which is great.

I like his podcast a lot, and it therefore makes my top tier of comedy specials of twenty twenty five. It’s already April seventeenth, and boy, it has not been a good year for comedy specials. Right now. The top tier is number one. Burt Kreischer is Lucky, and if Lucky is the best special of the year, that’s not gonna be a good year.

And then Tim Dillon’s I’m Your Mother is the number two special of the year so far. According to one idiot in his basement recording a podcast, I have in my middle tier Roy Wood, Ri Severe and Gabe Iglesias, and I have nothing else on the list yet. Fourth quarter tends to be when many of the bigger specials come out, so we’ll see. But a really slow start to twenty twenty five anyway. A recommendation from me on Tim dillon I’m Your Mother on Netflix, you should watch it.

OutKick went with this review headline comedian releases must watch offensive comedy special woke losers will hate. That’s a great headline, they point out, Tim Dillon will make fun of absolutely anything, and he’s a great example of what comedy’s supposed to be. Nothing should be off limits. Let’s say offensive jokes and don’t give Wokes a single inch. That’s the mindset that has made him a star.

And then tap the brakes on this next part. And his new special is a masterclass. His new special is fine. His new special is pretty good. It is not a masterclass.

Tap that breaks OutKick he resurrected just for laugh. SI is starting to announce some things. They announced Roast Battle Canada and the Galas have been renewed and will return to the twenty twenty five Just for Last Montreal Comedy Festival this year July sixteenth through the twenty seventh. I think I’m gonna go up there see if I get hassled at the border a little more than I have in the past. Usually they’re like, come on in, we’ll see Rose Battle Canada judges Russell Peters, Sabrina Jayley’s and Kay Trivor Wilson.

That’s a great lineup. The series brings together Canada’s edgiest comics for a showdown. The Galas will return. No names announced yet. We got a little information about the Roast of wrestle Mania, which is taking place Sunday.

Tony Hinchcliff part of that. Not many details known and it is not going to be televised supposedly, but they did announce Gabriel Iglesias is now part of the roast of WrestleMania. Let’s stop off at gossip Corner. THEO Vaughn was in Tuscaloosa. He was spotted at the Waysider restaurant.

The restaurant post that on Facebook Theovann at the Waysider. Y’all can check them out at the Amphitheater this weekend. Now this weekend is last weekend. THEO posted a photo of himself and several University of Alabama football players on Theo’s Instagram with a caption, thank you, Tuscaloosa. Jimmy Carr, one of my faves, is going to host Am I the a Hole, the game show based on that famous subreddit.

This will air on Comedy Central UK. But you know, some of us have our ways. I have a really really fast plane that allows me to watch British television and then I’m home two minutes later. Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean. Jimmy Carr’s AM I the a Hole invite members of the public to come before the host and a panel of two other comedians to ask controversial questions.

The series will be filmed late this spring will air later this year on Comedy Central UK. Jimmy Carr said, there’s an impressive number of a holes in our country and they’re finally getting the recognition they deserve on national television. Amy Lee Would has continued to speak about the SNL sketch that she didn’t enjoy. Hey, Amy, stop talk talking about and it’ll go away. We would have forgotten about this by Sunday afternoon if he didn’t keep talking about it.

You may recall she thought that the White Potests sketch was mean and unfunny because of Sarah Sherman’s interpretation of her character. According to Wood, Sarah Sherman has sent her flowers. Wood wrote on Instagram, thank you for the beautiful flowers and tagged Sarah Sherman and added the holding back tears emoji. However, TMZ is reporting SNL did not reach out to Amy with a formal apology. TMZ writes we’re told Amy may have spoken to someone she knows on the show, Perhaps Sarah Sherman, and they may have apologized, but no such apology came down from SNL in any official or formal capacity.

Sources tell TMZ that SNL wouldn’t feel compelled to apologize to Amy because the show makes fun of everyone’s appearance, for example, Donald Trump’s waste in the same sketch. Variety reporting that Seth Rogan had made a crack about Donald Trump during the Science Honoring break Through Prizes back on April fifth, but if you didn’t watch the live stream, they’ve now clipped out some of the material. The organization’s full upload of the ceremony and other official clips of Rogan’s appearance alongside Edward Norton have been edited to exclude a quip about attendees. Rogan had reportedly said in the since cut remark, it’s amazing that others in the room under electing a man who in the last week single handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with three hundred and twenty million dollars and Orfka Junior very fast.

The Breakthrough Prizes have confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that Rogan’s joke was one of several edits to the show. They’re reasoning I was made in order to meet the originally planned runtime. Yeah, because you know, this is the Internet. You know how long today’s podcast is. It’s however long it is.

That’s how the Internet works. Variety comments and on the originally planned runtime excuse and says this seems unlikely as the ceremony would not have had to conform to any broadcasting scheduling requirements as it was not aired on TV networks. Additionally, the standalone clip of Rogan and Norton’s on stage presentation seems unlikely to have had an originally planned run time. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Rommy Yusef has a new television show out today, Happy Family, USA, and an animated series.

You’ll find it on Amazon Prime. It takes place around nine to eleven. Rommie says to bring in the events of the early two thousands felt important in the sense that it’s something we talk about all the time. It’s part of what we’re currently experiencing. It’s never gone away.

And when I think about how long those themes have been directly part of my life and the lots of people that I know. To get to step into a period of time that I don’t think has escaped us in any way, unfortunately, And to do it in a style that’s familiar in terms of trotting on political things that can feel a little difficult and undercuts them and doesn’t make them feel so viatile. To give this kind of family that treatment is exciting, and to go at this through an unexpected and very silly lens. Maybe that’s where the hope feeling comes from. The Times pointed out there’s a title card at the top of every episode that warns that the character should not be taken as representation.

They asked Rami, yusef, why are you so uncomfortable with representation? Rommy said, when we put out Rami on Hulu, I remember seeing a headline that was like Muslims, here’s the show for you, and my heart sinking going no, no, no. We’re two billion people and a lot of them are not gonna like what I’m doing, and they shouldn’t because I’m a guy from New Jersey who thinks this type of thing is funny. Putting the representation warning was a cathartic thing of being like, listen, this is not speaking en mass at all. I know you guys didn’t elect me, and also to be like, hey, I agree with you.

This is not a slice of what it’s like for everybody. Good couplet of questions here from the time so they asked Rommi, does it feel like tinder comedy is harder to get made than caustic comedy? Good answer here. Bad news spreads faster than good news. No one’s like, hey, we recycled a lot.

It’s not really headline. Talk to any Netflix executive. Any Netflix execs secretly will be like, hey, can you throw a murder into your show? Can you throw some sexual assault in? But also people used to get together, watch public hangings.

We’re sick times caught up? Is that really a thing someone said to you? Can you throw a murder in there? Rommi said they’re not explicitly asking, but they would never moump. The Guardian also spoke with Rommy, who has a theory, the more effed up the climate, the stupid or television must be.

You need something dumb to cut through the tension for relief. The Guardian piece points out that Happy Family USA is a prime video production. Amazon donated a million dollars to the Trump Inauguration Fund. Does Robbie believe this show would be greenlit today. He says, this feels like a glitch.

Honestly, if I walked in pitch this today, they’d say, no, what are you talking about? They’d literally say, what the hell are you thinking? Would be told it’s too polarizing for now. Happy Family USA Prime Video. It is a big day at the moonte Er Comedy Festival, so I better get to it.

There are thirty one different shows listen on the website. I’m not going to go through all of them. At five o’clock The Goblin Happy Hour with John goblecan I recently mentioned I had never heard of this until I don’t know whenever I mentioned it on the show three four days ago last week. John GOBLECN is a beloved Internet sensation metal band frontman, insurance salesman, published author, and podcast host. As the lead singer of the band Necro goble Con, John has starred in several viral music videos, leading to sold out tours across North America, Europe and Australia.

Is philosophy be less mean, be more green, don’t be a troll, be a Goblin? All right? This seems like fun. Maybe I’m just late to this, and the rest of you were like, how do you not know what? John goble con is, I didn’t know, sorry, Friend of the show, John Marco SIRESI is doing his podcast.

At six o’clock. Let’s go on. Cotska at the Paramount at seven. She is fantastic, one of my faves. Maria Bamford at the Thompson Theater at seven.

A show at seven thirty called the Texans. I’m gonna guess what this is about, and I like the premise. If I’m correct, there’s no description. I’m going to guess it’s several comedians from Texas. Somebody could have written a paragraph.

Eight o’clock at Sunset strip Redband’s Secret Show with Brian Redband stars in Bars at an Tunes at nine Almetrical Data, Gould, Todd Berry among the line up there. That’s a good show. Nine forty five, what’s your effing deal? At the Vulcan Gas Company? Big Jay, Ian Bag, Chris Porter, Orny Adams, Josh Adam Myers.

Ten o’clock, tag It at Sunset Strips, Clark Brothers, Al Madrigal, Jackie Kation, li’sa Trigger, Dana Goule. That’s a nice lineup, and this thing stays strong through Saturday. Bill Maher got into it with a reporter who questioned Bill Moore meeting with Donald Trump. Bill Maher had said, you can ate me for it, but I’m not a liar. Trump was gracious and measured.

I don’t know, and I can’t answer, and it’s not my place to answer. Just telling you what I saw, and I wasn’t high. Washington Post columnist Josh Rogan said, I think you’ve fallen into the trap. And I think I represent ninety nine percent of the internet when I say this, You’ve played the game of proximity is principle. I’m not questioning your motivation.

I’m questioning Trump’s. Okay. Mar responded, you don’t have to patronize me, dude, I don’t know, you’ve never met you. Not everyone has to like it, That’s what we said. There are people who didn’t want it to happen.

You sound like one of them. It’s okay. Rogan tried to talk over more in response, and mar said, you what I just said. What’s the alternative to not talking? Just sit at your lunch table, don’t talk to anybody.

Rogan didn’t let up and said, I agree with the principle of engagement. I’m just saying from Trump’s perspective, all Americans know that for him, this was a PR stunt and in his view, you were a prop in that PR stunt. Piers Morgan jumped into this conversation, he was a guest on the same panel, and said, I don’t agree with that. If you go on social media for five minutes now and you just have this treble fury raging all day long, everyone’s got to be implacably there, implacably here. And actually most Americans and most Brits they’re not like this.

And then the idea that Bill Maher is now going to stop criticizing Donald Trump is preposterous. And let me do you an update on Kunal Camera. Remember he was accused of being a trader and got into some trouble over there in India. Well, the Bombay High Court has granted Canal Camra interim relief in the trader joke case. Doesn’t mean that he won’t be in future trouble, but for now they’re looking into it.

The comedian was under charges of public mischief and defamation and was later transferred to a Police Reports suggests that he didn’t actually name the politician, but some people in a different political party, if I understand this correctly, said that he referred to the politician as a trader. In response, a group of party workers vandalized habitat studio where the comedian had performed. Twelve individuals were arrested for that incident and granted bail. Comra said he also received death threats following the controversy. And that is your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it to you. If you’re on YouTube, you know, do the YouTube stuff, subscribe, like ring the bell, all that stuff. You guys are doing it. The other YouTubers will tell you what that’s all about.

Just whatever they say to do, just do that. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, Bruce Springsteen, Tim Dillon, John Mulaney, David Letterman, Hannibal Buress, LeAnn Morgan, Nicky Glazer, Randy Newman, Theo Vaughn, Michael Costa, Greg Gutfeld, Ricky Gervais, Sean Patton

What’s in This Episode

• Jerry Seinfeld joins billionaires club with $1.1 billion net worth
• Jerry Seinfeld apartment featured in new Amazing Spider-Man comic
• John Mulaney Netflix special with Letterman, Hannibal Buress, and guests
• David Letterman velcro suit auction from 1984 Late Night episode
• Channel Surfing broadcast auction of 500+ pieces of TV memorabilia
• Theo Vaughn tariffs commentary sparks Fox News coverage
• Michael Costa discusses Trump comedy and political awareness in humor
• Greg Gutfeld hosts ‘What Did I Miss’ game show on Fox Nation
• Ricky Gervais launches Spirits of Comedy stand-up competition in UK
• Sean Patton special on 800 Pound Gorilla YouTube channel

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Mandam, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Congratulations to Jerry Seinfeld. He has been added to forbes annual Billionaire Roundup. The twenty twenty five World Billionaires list features more than three thousand billionaires.

Two hundred and eighty eight of them, including Bruce Springsteen and Jerry Seinfeld, are new. Jerry’s net worth is valued at one point one billion dollars by Forbes, making him the two eight hundred and twenty eighth richest person in the world as of April third. Do you read Marvel comics? Some people think that the Rhino is living in the New York apartment that used to be the residents of the sitcom character Jerry Seinfeld. There are some scenes in the New Amazing Spider Man Number one.

One of them is reminiscent of Tom’s restaurant on the corner there, although it’s called something else in the comic, And then we see the rhinos apartment, which boy sure looks a lot like Jerry’s place with the couch and the kitchen. Spoilers for Spider Man Number one, you weren’t going to read it. The Rhino seems to be out of his mind. Peter Parker tracks down the Rhino in his East Harlem apartment for clues as to what is going on. I’m recording a little earlier than usual today.

I have not yet seen any reviews of Tim Dillon’s new special, which is odd. Did they not share screeners with anyone? I don’t know? On Netflix tonight, John Mulaney has David Letterman, Hannibal Urus, LeAnn Morgan, Nicky Glazer, and Randy Newman. As I have said in the past, if you spotted me David Letterman, Hannibal Buris, Nicky Glazer, had Randy Newman do a song and Lean Morgan’s there too, all I would have to do is be like, so, Dave, what’s going on?

And shut up?

And then Dave will say something and the nick he will jump in, and then an ho…

If this mullanie show is not good tonight, the Malleni Netflix experiment is never going to work. Not gonna have a better lineup than Letterman, Hannibal, Lean Morgan, Nikki Glaser, Randy Newman.

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Speaking of Letterman, I’m sure Mike from the Letterman Podcast is saving up …

Remember the time Letterman wore the Velcrow suit? That was on February twenty eighth, nineteen eighty four’s Late Night with David Letterman. Dave wore a suit made out of velcrow, jumped on a trampoline and landed on a wall. It is now part of an auction called channel Surfing, a broadcast to binge auction. The wonderful website Late nighter dot com has a lot of information about this.

The auction is selling over five hundred pieces of TV memorabilia. Late Nighter tells us designed by Letterman’s longtime costume designer, Susan Humm. The auctioneer says the one of a kind suit was acquired from Letterman at the request of Johnny Carson. The item’s listing tells us the Velcrow still works. Bidding starts at five thousand dollars Mike Chisseomost of The Letterman Podcast, although it’s expected to fetch anywhere from twenty thousand to thirty thousand dollars.

Some other stuff. Mike from The Letterman Bob Cast might want to bid on a skyscraper from the Late Night with David Letterman backdrop, a child sized Halloween costume of a McDonald’s grilled chicken. Cards from various desk bits. Maybe you can get one of those mic and wardrobe worn by Paul Shaffer. And when you think about it, who doesn’t want to wear Paul Shaffer’s clothes.

There’s also some Carson stuff, including studio lights, desk props, a set piece from the bandstand audience seats. Some SNL stuff include crew garments, including a jacket owned by Joe Piscopo, and if you want to pick up chicks, you’re gonna want to get that jacket, one of dan Ackroyd’s conehead prosthetics. That’s fun, one of the Killer b antennas worn by John Belushi. Channel Surfing a broadcast to Binge Auction May seven through eighth, more details on the Late Night or website. Fox News was listening to Theovan’s podcast and they noticed that Theovon is behind these tariffs.

Fox News writes comedio theovaugh Worn that not giving Trump’s tariffs a try could be a wrap for America’s economy, a quote theo as saying, on this comedy tour, we’ve probably been to the top two hundred cities size wise in America, maybe even more than that, and a lot of them there’s nothing there. It’s empty downtown, and so you start to be like, nothing’s gonna change, There’s nothing coming that’s gonna make that different. Michael Costa was on the Last Laugh podcast and explained, if I just say Trump is stupid, the audience is gonna clap. That’s not good comedy, that’s not unique. We’re not pointing out apocracy.

We’re not building an argument. So we have to be aware of that. And it could feel good as a comedian if you get the audience to clap or laugh, but that doesn’t mean you’re doing a good job at comedy. And there’s a part of me that wonders if we’re making jokes while the Titanic sinks while Hitler is invading Poland. There’s also part of me that can very optimistically appreciate that the Constitution is two hundred and seventy years old.

This is not the first egomaniac we’ve had as president. It doesn’t always feel like they’re working, but there are checks and balances. That’s the space we’re trying to live in. Send your letters to both Michael Costa and Theo Vaughn. Greg Gutfeld is going to host a game show.

Sure, that’s a great idea. It’s called What Did I Miss? A new game show that will quiz four uninformed contestants on the events of Trump’s term so far. According to Fox News, the contestants have been kept in complete isolation in upstate New York with no contact to the outside world since January twentieth. They had no phones, no internet, no TV, no social media, so these people just sat there reading books.

The contestants were released on April thirteenth on What Did I Miss? The contestants will have to identify real and fake headlines presented by Greg Guttfeld for grand prize of fifty thousand dollars fifty thousand dollars to sit in a room and read books for three months, I guess. The limited series is three episodes, Gutfeld said in a statement. For these four contestants learn what really happened while they were living in isolation, They’re gonna have to get through me first, Lucky them. The show is going to tape in front of a live studio audience and will drop on Fox Nation May twelfth through the fourteenth, Looking forward to that one.

Huh. Ricky Gervaise is a vodka brand. Dutch Born has launched the Spirits of Comedy stand up competition in the UK. The Spirit of Comedy aims to unearth and promote new talent to a global audience. There will be multiple regional rounds across the UK, the grand finale scheduled for October first in London.

Ricky Gervais said, as well as trying to make Dutchborn a billion dollar global brand, we thought we might as well try to find Britain’s second greatest comic. I liked that quote. That’s a good quote. The first rounds are in May and July and twenty UK towns and cities. A second round August.

In September, highlights of the show will be broadcast on the dutch Born YouTube channel. If you want to apply, submit a short clip on the brand’s website. The winner will receive five thousand pounds that’s around sixty six hundred US dollars and will be invited to open for Ricky at London’s Ovo Arena, Wembley on November fifteenth. Every guest attending a Spirit of Comedy event will be greeted with a complimentary Dutch born cocktail. Sean Patten’s got a special out.

It’s on the eight hundred pound Gorilla YouTube channel. In number one, Seawan shares his experience with obsessive compulsive disorder, a mayhem filled to childhood, and the complex enduring connections with his family. Now, I’m not sure if this special is new new or new to the Gorilla because Sean Patten has an album called Number one that was released on September twelfth, twenty twenty three. But anyway, it’s not like we’re all quoting that one left and right, so it might as well be new. Verdaz not happy with Air India.

He alleged that he got a broken table, broken leg rest and a seat stuck in a reclined position despite paying fifty thousand local currencies for the seat. I’m gonna have to have Google help me with this one. Let’s see, fifty thousand Indian rupees are right now as I record five hundred and eighty three dollars okay, so Verdaz paid five hundred and eighty three dollars for his flight and he’s upset it Air India. Daz posted on Twitter that his wife what a fractured foot, didn’t get a wheelchair even after pre booking the service. Air India says, hey, the crew offer to assist the guest, including d planing by using the ambul lift assigned to the aircraft.

They say the delay, not denial, in providing wheelchair assistance, was due to unusually high demand for wheelchairs and staff at the time. We empathize with the guests, especially giving the mobility concerned involved, and recognize that this experience fell short of expectations. Das post a Dear Air India, please reclaim your wheelchair. I’m a lifetime loyalist. I believe you’ve got the nicest cabin crew in the sky.

This post pains me to write. Broken table, broken leg rest, her seat is stuck, recline won’t strengthen fully. We’re told the flight is newly refurbished. Two hours late, we get off in Delhi and we’re told it’s a step ladder again. Wheelchair and meet and greet services at airports pre booked.

I asked the air hostesses at the front of the plane assist my wife while I carry four bags. Silence and a clueless look at each other. We step off the plane at the top of the ladder. I ask an Air India male ground staff member to help us, looks at me, shrugs and ignores me.

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Meanwhile, Joe Coy thanked the flight crew of an LA bound flight that made an…

The flight from the Philippines to LA was forced to make an emergency landing in Japan. It is not exactly clear why the plane was diverted. However, video taken by passengers shows smoke in the cabin. That would be a good hint. Joe Coy posted a video on his Instagram thanking the crew, saying the flight attendants were amazing, thank you for remaining comm in a situation that could have went south fast.

Three hundred and fifty five passengers were on board, nobody was injured. You may recall Joe Cooy once hosted The Golden Cloves where he made this joke about Taylor Swift. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer cambra shots of Taylor.

Swift, so this surprised me. Maybe I’m just dumb and misunderstood everything. I was expecting three Kiltny’s on Netflix in a row, but no, they’re apparently spread out. Kill Tony was just on YouTube on Monday night, not on Netflix, so I don’t know what’s going on there. The Free Press had a good take on the Netflix episode, saying the lesson of Netflix’s first Kill Tony and I can’t bring myself to watch another.

One of these says O the Free Press was that just because you have a popular podcast where you could be rambling, weird and sometimes very funny, it doesn’t mean you’ll translate well to a different medium. I’m gonna give that same note to John m’laney show. Hours long podcasts have built in slack the listeners with you for the ride, especially on Netflix, does not. Every frame needs to make a case to the viewer not to click away. I’ll jump in here.

As I said, I think they put a ten minute barrier. Tony came out and introduced the band. The first comic was flat. At minute eleven, Shane Gillis’s Trump comes out. That should have been the first thing that the casual Kill Tony sampler had been exposed to.

I don’t think the casuals got to minute eleven free press rights. The audience expects polish, and it’s unclear, though becoming clearer, whether the comedians who found themselves in the mainstream are up to the challenge of shining up. I’ve been mentioning I’m obsessed with Last One Laughing UK on Amazon. There’s only like six episodes, so I’m watching one a night, but I am loving it and it got me thinking, and I share this in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Feel encouraged to join us and join the conversation.

I wondered what Last One Laughing US might look like. My mind keeps going to Bert Kreischer. I could picture Bert Kreischer in that room, and if Bert’s there, I could see Sigura there. Another person I thought would play well in that room is Sarah Silverman, because she does like to work dirty, and some of the stuff from Lou Sanders in the UK version made me imagine Sarah coming up and whispering something very naughty in someone’s ear and getting a laugh. I started to think about who would be a good host for this.

My mind went to Conan O’Brien would be fantastic. However, you know, at some point there’s a budget, right, so if you put Conan on top, the show is really expensive to begin with. So I don’t know if this is really stick at all, but you know, you could probably get Sigren Kracher to do it for laugh Sarah seems like should be game. Aaron in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group wrote, I think Sarah Sherman would kill She’s right, Sarah Sherman would be perfect for that show. Aaron also suggested Mark Marin, and I could see Mark Maron in the Richard ayoad A tough nut to crack roll.

Another name thrown out there, Tracy Morgan. I think Tracy would be really good in the room, and you could probably get Tracy anyway. Last one laughing us. Somebody make this, will you. I gotta tell you I’m really happy with today’s show, because I’ll be honest, at one point I thought I had nothing, and this is coming out really well.

Let’s head over to Moontower. Many shows tonight, Morgan Jay is your headliner at the Paramount Theater at seven. Morgan has a special on Hulu coming up on Friday. There’s actually too many shows for me to tell you about one that caught my eye.

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Also at seven o’clock at Antuon’s New York’s Finest Friend of the show, John …

That’s a nice lineup. Maria Bamford’s at the Thompson Theater also at seven, Todd Barry at the State Theater, also at seven. Interestingly, at seven point fifteen, a show called Cheers Queers also has Ian Finance on the lineup, So apparently he’s going to run from one show to the other. I’m not sure the distance between those two venues. The Moontower All Stars at the Cap City Company Club Main Room at eight o’clock features two former guests of this show, Matthew Bissarajar, Gianmarco Soresi and Ashima Franklin, who’s never been on the show.

A show at eight point thirty is called s word is Golden, so crap’s golden. What’s catching my eye here is that the cover art for the show looks like if you told chat gpt to make a cartoon of a very old Mark Maron with gray hair. And the person in question, who’s a cartoon who’s definitely not Mark Maron with here has a podcast microphone, so that’s interesting. Lisa triggers at the Creek in the Cave at nine point fifteen, and like ten other shows that didn’t tell you about, tomorrow is just as busy. And that’s your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you’re on YouTube, like subscribe, thumbs up, alarm bell, all that YouTube stuff that you YouTube people do, do it all right, See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Tim Dillon, Nikki Glaser, Dave Chappelle, Joe Rogan, Bowen Yang, Sarah Sherman, Amy Leu Wood, Conan O’Brien, Bruce Hills

What’s in This Episode

• Tim Dillon’s Netflix special ‘I’m Your Mother’ filmed at Comedy Mothership
• Nikki Glaser’s L’Oreal partnership and ‘Queen of Comedy’ title criticism
• Dave Chappelle to headline Toronto’s inaugural Departure Festival
• Conan O’Brien Must Go returning for three-episode season in May
• SNL’s ‘White Lotus’ sketch and Amy Leu Wood’s criticism of Sarah Sherman’s impression
• Bowen Yang discusses difficulty playing JD Vance on SNL, suggests Zach Galifianakis

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy tax Day. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News out on Netflix today. Tim Dillon special. This one called I’m Your Mother.

Described as a no holds bared on, apologetic ride through today’s chaos. Tim Dillon tackles everything from his odd loyalty to the British royal family to roosting the world’s absurdities and more with no filter. There is a trailer. Let’s listen. It’s so funny what we find about in America.

We’re gonna ban TikTok or we’re not. I don’t know. I don’t care how you feel about that. At a certain age, you gotta shut up. Like I’m thirty nine years old and I have friends that are still They’re like, they can’t ban TikTok.

I’m like you, Ralph, sit out, Sit this out. They can’t ban that child’s dancy. Yep, Ralph, this looks terrible. Please stop. Where am I gonna watch children?

Dash? All right? Hey enough? This one was filmed at the comedy Mothership Joe Rogan’s place in Austin, Texas. It seems like it has better audio than his previous Netflix special.

A Real Hero did that one. The mix on that was just not good. I am a big fan of Tim Dillon’s podcast. I’m not sure his stand up is as good as his podcast is, but the podcast is top notch funny. Every single week, Loreale put out a press release to discuss their new relationship with Nicky Glazer.

My headline here, tap the breaks. I’m gonna pull out some of the language. I get it’s a press release, but guys, relax with this, Okay. Nicky has had a great what is it six months now since the Golden Globes. Not even Nicky’s had a good year going back to the Tom Brady Roast and the Golden Globes.

Get it. She’s kind of the it comedian right now. But we gotta tap the brakes with some of this language. I will read to you from the press release. Nikki Glaser partnering with Loreal.

Their shared commitment to pushing boundaries and bringing innovative ideas to life provided a natural alignment for an authentic partnership between Loreal Professional, Airlight Pro and Nikki Glaser. All that’s fine, All right, here’shere, I’m gonna start to push back. The Queen of Comedy shared her thoughts on the partnership the Queen of Comedy? Are we really going to call Nikki Glaser the Queen of comedy? I don’t know who the Queen of comedy is.

Maybe nobody should have the title right now, but are we really going to call Nikki Glaser the Queen of comedy? So all right, relax with the Queen of Comedy, who shared her thoughts on the partnership’s seamless synergy, noting comedy is all about timing, and so is great hair. I’m always on the go, and Airlight Pro let’s me get that perfect look for on and off camera performances quickly.

Also, it just feels elite.

I mean, the tech is next level. The infrared light the dryer is actually helping to dry your hair fast without damage. And as someone who highlights my hair and always experiences breakage, this is so important to me. I’m picky about my tools because I often get myself ready before shows without a full glam team, And honestly, I was so blown away by the Airlight Pro’s power and precision. It’s lightweight, powerful, and really easy to use with all the custom settings.

Nikki, did you actually write that sentence? Yourself. Did you sit down with your laptop and type the sentence. It’s lightweight, powerful and really easy to use with all the custom settings. Or you know, perhaps a publicist helps you with this and you just signed off on it.

Nikki Glaser continues. It’s also quiet, so I can work on jokes and talk to my friends backstage while I’m styling. I’ve never had a dryer like this. I’m obsessed. Partnering with a brand that’s as forward thinking and dedicated to innovation as I am in my own material just felt right.

Airlight Pro is defining the future of hairstyling, and I’m thrilled to be part of it. The general manager of Loreal said, Nikki Glaser is a major voice in comedy today. That’s true, she said, the forefront of the industry, just as Weird at the forefront of beauty tech. It’s a perfect match. Nicki’s authentic voice resonates with a huge audience, and like us, she doesn’t follow trends.

She sets them. Now, the other word I wanted to didpick was in the headline of this press release, comedy Trailblazer. Nikki Glaser Now she might be the queen of comedy. Maybe she is, but trailblazer here, I’m wanting to complete the sentence. Nikki Glaser walked so Blank could run.

Can you complete that sentence? You can’t? Can you complete the sentence? Joe Rivers walked so Nikki Glaser could run. That’s a trailblazer.

Okay, relax, I get you want to sell hair dryers. Dave Chappelle will be part of Toronto’s Departure Festival and conference. Now why this particularly caught my eye is I saw a tweet from Bruce Hills. Now, who’s Bruce Hills. Bruce Hills is the executive producer of Departure Comedy who’s putting this thing on?

But Bruce Hills used to be the big wig at Just for Laughs Montreal before they had their financial challenges a couple years ago when Bruce departed. So it’s great. Bruce is a good guy and it’s good to see Bruce running comedy things again. So with Bruce Hills and Dave Chappelle at attached to this thing, we should pay attention to what’s going on in Toronto. Toronto’s Departure Festival comedy programming features rising Canadian talent with homegrown comedians including Jesseme, Rena, Ivan Decker, Sophie Buddle, as On Phil’s and Ali Hassan.

Comedy showcases focusing on emerging talent will take place at the Comedy bart locations throughout Toronto, featuring breakout and next gen comedians. Bruce said having Dave Chapelle take part and Departure is a real honor for me the festival and an amazing treat for our audiences. Starting off the inaugural Departure Comedy Festival with somebody of Dave’s caliber and influence is incredibly exciting. The Departure Festival plus conference May sixth through eleventh in Toronto and again back to Bruce Hills used to be a big week at the Just for Laughs. They not only did Just for last Montreal.

There was JFL Toronto, which was a great festival in itself. So Bruce knows the city very very interesting development there. Will keep an eye on that. Conan O’Brien must go. We’ll be back for a whopping three episode ode season May eighth.

Conan will travel to New Zealand, Austria and Spain. In these episodes, Bow and Yang would like someone else to play JD Vans on SNL. He suggests please reach out to Zach Galfanakis. Bowen says, I do my best with him, but every time I have to play him, I go to Lauren and say, you can do a buyback. You don’t have to stick with me.

Please reach out to Zach Galifanakis. Please reach out to Taran kill him. Yeah, said I worked with an accent coach. We had to find the middle between Appalachian but Ohio, Like, we really had to find the right voice. And I was like, I don’t want to screw this up.

I have such an uphill battle here. Everyone in America is going to be like the Asian guy’s playing that guy. I was like, I really got to nail this down. I’m just telling you guys, I’m doing my best. Okay.

It was a good snl over the weekend, but there was a kerf fluffel. Did you see the sketch The White potis very very fun. I’m not sure it was hilarious, but the idea and the production values on the White Potus just nailed it. Maybe laugh or laugh. It wasn’t awesome, but the idea of it was amazing.

Amy leu Wood you know her from the White Lotus television show. She called out Sarah Sherman’s mean and unfunny impression of her character. Part of the sketch made fun of Wood’s character Chelsea Sarah Sherman was wearing buck teeth. Amy said, while in honest mode, I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny XO. She wrote this on Instagram.

At least get the accent right. Seriously, I respect accuracy, even if it’s mean. So to conclude today’s rant, HBO kind and supportive and never wrong me So leave them alone. NBCSNL mean such a shame because I had a great time watching it a couple weeks ago. That’s what the show’s about.

But there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way. According to Amy, she’s had apologies from SNL. I don’t recall SNL apologizing to anyone before I threw the phrase SNL issues apology into Google, and I see headlines using the phrase SNL makes rare apology being used several places. Website Media eight says, in nineteen nine to a Wings World sketch, made a remark about then teenage Chelsea Clinton and her appearance Lauren Michaels and Mike Myers apologized. In twenty eighteen, Pete Davidson mocked veteran and then GOP congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw’s eye patch.

Crenshaw were’s an eye patch because of a combat injury. Pete Davidson offered a sincere on air apology, with Crenshaw himself present. This has nothing to do with comedy, but while I have the floor, don’t park in handicap spots, you jerk? What set you off? Johnny Mac six fifty something.

This morning, I’m at the Donut Chain parking lot, doing my thing, get my iced coffee, and there’s just a jerk sitting in the handicap spot, windows down, radio blaring, and look, man, there’s another spot two feet away. I know you think you’re just running in for a second, but as somebody who had to drive around an elderly ailing parent, don’t use the handicap spots because the people who need those spots need those spots. Okay, don’t be a jerk over it, get back to comedy. Sure, here’s the highest recommend I have of twenty twenty five so far. Watch last one Laughing UK it’s on Amazon Prime.

It is the funniest thing of the year. So you’ve heard me talk about this in the past, but I’ll remind you. So they take ten comedians and they lock them in a stylized room TV studio set, and if you laugh, you get kicked out. Jimmy Carr is your host. He’s the Jeff Proops of this thing.

If you crack a smile, he can give you a yellow card. If you get two yellow cards, it’s red, just like soccer. And if you go straight to laugh, he can give you red and you’re out. It’s fun to play along at home and see if you can watch the show without laughing. I have failed every single time.

In fact, during episode two there’s one comedian that I wasn’t enjoying that comedian’s presence, and as the comedian did something, I kept thinking to myself, can’t stand you can’t stand, you can’t stand, you can’t stand you And that person made me laugh out loud, and I got kicked off my own couch. I guess I’m a particularly enjoying Richard Ayoad, who’s great in everything, and Lou Sanders quickly becoming a very very favorite of mine. It took me a minute to get used to Jimmy Carr’s current look. He has admittedly had a lot of plastic surgery. He kind of looks like Jimmy Carr now.

I’d also like to buy him a sandwich. He’s very thin, and the camera adds weight to you, so I can only imagine how thin Jimmy is in real life right now. But Jimmy is one of my favorites. So this show I recommend. Last one Laughing UK I checked earlier this morning.

They have all the other international ones. Some might be a little too far afield for us with American humor sensitivities, but I think after I finished the UK one, I might check out the Ireland one that they did also South Africa, which if I recall correctly, was hosted by Trevor Noah, so that’s probably good. I recommend watch that, and you can also watch Tim Dillanson A Good Night of comedy. Huh yeah. Community fans know about six seasons in a movie.

What if I said to you seven seasons in a movie? Joel McHale flowed to this one. Joel said, I think there are some of us that would love to keep going, And I would be like, great, If you guys want to do episodes, let us know. I think that’ll probably depend on the success of a movie, but I think if there’s enough of a demand to do more, I don’t know what look like, but obviously the movie would have to inform a lot of that. I’m game, and I know a few others a game.

I’m not going to tell you whom, but I would definitely do more. They’re always like, oh, a limited series. I’d totally be up for that. Okay. If we look at the cast of Community, here’s who I would guess would do it.

Joel McHale obviously, yes, Danny Pody, I mean he’s doing the Dennis Lyrics sitcom. He’s going to do it. Alison Breen, she’s got a bit of a career, but she also tends to show up in a lot of random things. I think she would do it. Gillian Jacobs, I think she would do it.

Donald Glover now he left the show. Originally he seems to be the hardest one to get. But what’s Glover been up to lately? I will answer that in a second. Jim Rash is the dean, Yes, absolutely.

Ken Jung likes to work and often works with Michale, So I think he would do it event Nicole Brown. I know she had some family concerns and she had to walk away from the show for a bit, so unclear and if she would do it now. Glover was quite hot for a little bit. If we go backwards here in his IMDb, let’s see, he was the voice of Simba in the recent Mufasa Lion King. All right, that’s a legit gig.

He was a star of Mister and Missus Smith. But I think they’re going to swap the cast out for the next season of that. But that was a good hit for him. Atlanta ended in twenty twenty two. A month ago, he canceled a Childish Gambino tour after a hospitalization and said I have surgery scheduled and need time out to heal.

Huh. And back in twenty twenty four, he told The New York Times he was retiring the moniker a Childish Gambino, saying it was really just like, oh, it’s done. It’s not fulfilling, and I just felt like I didn’t need to build it in this way anymore. So who knows. I don’t really have an answer for you.

Maybe you can get Donald, maybe not, but if he’s not touring because of surgery. The other hand of paychecks a paycheck, is it less work to you play Troy then to perform a concert. I would guess maybe I’m wrong, don’t know. We’ll see if the movie ever comes out. On the other hand, At Moontower tonight, Brad Williams at the Paramount Theater.

It’s the only show tonight. It picks back up tomorrow with quite a few shows. Looks like sixteen twenty shows tomorrow, so we’ll talk about Moontower tomorrow. The Age saw a bunch of shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. One show is by artist, says Sez.

The name of SES’s show is keeps Me Young. The Age tells us, if you only see one dyslexic bisexual musical comedian, and believe me, that’s a hard sentence to say. You say say with me, dyslexic bisexual musical comedian, say that five times fast, good luck. But if you only see one dyslexic bisexual musical comedis se him getting better? Because I’ve said it ninety times, you didn’t hear half the edits make it, says the comic and skating toilet critic is armed with a guitar, a stack of personal and wonderful cringy anecdotes, and a willingness to plunder her life for laughs.

She joked to the audience, I’m forcefully outing a lot of people tonight, The Age says. Says reads the room well by acknowledging that stories about stuff you might do with your hands, bird crap on windows, and Jeremy from the football club may come across as a bit much. Four stars. Zoe coombs Mars show is called the splash Zone. This one did not get a great review, only three stars.

The Age tells us the show relies on audience distractions and cultural references. Some of the punchlines are predictably daggy, but the fans lap them up. Daggy must be some ozzy slang that I’m not familiar with. Google time. Daggy is an informal adjective in Australia and New Zealand, slang primarily used to describe somewhat or something that is unfashionable, unstylish, or out of date.

I like it, daggy, and let’s do one more. Amy Gledhill’s show is called make Me Look Fit on the poster. The review here were barely two minutes to Amy’s show and the audience is already swinging underwear in the air. That’s fun. However, not every yarn sticks the landing.

A three minute speel about how much toilet paper she accumulates fizzles hard, and some of her references are too British to translate to an Australian crowd. Three stars, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you’re on YouTube, like and subscribe and all that stuff the YouTubers do you YouTube people know what to do?

Do that hook a guy up? Will ya see you tomorrow?

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Featured: Tim Heidecker, Tony Hinchcliffe, Shane Gillis, Big E, Pat McAfee, Caitlin Clark, Douglas Murray, Joe Rogan, Anthony Anderson, Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Sarah Silverman

What’s in This Episode

• Tim Heidecker parody ‘Kill Timmy’ targeting Tony Hinchcliffe
• Tony Hinchcliffe MSG rally joke controversy and WWE Raw joke removal
• Pat McAfee Pittsburgh event with Shane Gillis as sumo referee
• Shane Gillis meets Caitlin Clark at Indianapolis show
• Douglas Murray challenges Joe Rogan on guest selection on JRE
• Anthony Anderson credits prank to himself, not Kevin Hart
• Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr at Abu Dhabi Comedy Festival
• Bill Burr Tony Award eligibility dispute for Glengarry Glenn Ross
• Sarah Silverman compares Trump to touring comedian

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Now. Yesterday, Johnny Mac, you told us today was gonna be good because you said Sunday was a slow news day and you held some stories back. So there’s I expectations on this Monday show here, you better bring it pal okay challenge excepted. Tim Hidecker is making a full length Tony Hinchcliff parody called Kill Timmy.

I love this already. This is the greatest idea ever. Did you ever catch Tim Hidecker’s Rogan parody? He did a fake Joe Rogan experience where they just talked about nothing for and then he looped it. It was like something absurd, like twelve hours long.

It was fantastic. No, I didn’t listen to the whole twelve hours, but I listened to whatever they actually created before it looped. And if you didn’t pay attention, you didn’t notice it looped. It was about an hour or so. Look at that up.

It is fantastic. That’s Tim Hidecker. All right? What is Tim Hidecker working on? Cracked Reports?

After coming out in support of Tony Hinchcliff’s in your face f your race style of humor. Heidecker is now launching his own Austin, Texas live show, Kill Timmy in the surprisingly robust market for podcasts where millionaires emotionally abuse open micers. Cracks perfectly not loaded at all. Article explains direct quote here. In the days following Hinchcliffe’s inexplicable decision to go on stage at the most high profile arena in the world and insult black people Latino families in the entire island of Puerto Rico with f Tier two thousand and six four chan level punchlines, Hinchcliff defended his performance at the Trump rally is a defiant celebration of free speech.

Just days after the MSG debacle, Hidecker sarcastically supported Hinchcliff’s comedy on his own podcast, saying I love Rose comedy. Rose comedy is the highest form of entertainment, in the highest form of comedy. Highecker called Hinchcliff the king of Rose comedy, saying what a genius. He’s just funny and mean. If you can’t handle it, I’m sorry.

I don’t have time for that stuff. You gotta have testicles of brass if you want to get in the Hinchcliff Octagon, the idea that this was a roast. That’s what he does. He’s a roast master. He doesn’t bring up Rudy Giuliani, he doesn’t bring up Q and On, he doesn’t bring up Donald Trump.

High Decker had turned critical, saying like, aren’t you supposed to roast the people there? You’re telling me you can’t come up with a Rudy Giuliani joke. Well, if you go to Tim Hidecker’s YouTube page, there is a teaser for Kill Timmy. It looks like they’ve already filmed this thing. It just says coming soon.

I am not playing any audio for you because it’s just a music loop. On Instagram, the description says you snowflakes are not ready for Kill Timmy, but listen anyway at the Patreon.

Meanwhile, remember Tony was on WWE Raw last Monday.

He had made the comment about wrestler big E. The joke being the only thing stiffer than Michael Cole the announcer is big E’s neck. Biggie had responded to it in the post show. Biggee has not wrestled in some time due to a neck injury, although says, look, I’m not hurt. I’m good.

I want the discourse to be had without me. Honestly, I really had no desire to weigh on this. I didn’t sign up for this. It wasn’t where this he did, would he wanted to? People signed off on it.

It has nothing to do with me. Well, if you want to see the clip, it had been removed at the time of this recording from the replay of WWE Raw. The joke was replaced with silence until Pat McAfee says okay. It is unclear who made the decision to take out the joke. Was it WWE, was it Netflix?

Perhaps even Tony himself. It remains unclear. Thanks to Matthew for sticking this next one in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join us as my voice gives out. Pat McAfee had a big event in Pittsburgh the other night.

Twelve, five hundred and eighty two people attended this thing. Performers included Shane Gillis, Snoop Dogg, Michael Cole from The Wrestling Thing, The Wrestling Thing, It’s WWE. I don’t why I’ve fraiched it that way. Leave it in jelly roll and there were sumo wrestlers. Shane Gillis was the referee for the sumo.

That’s kind of fun.

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Speaking of Shaney recently shared an anecdote where he ran into Caitlin Clar…

Shane explains, before the show, we were in Indianapolis, and I was like, cou’d be sick and came to the show. That’d be nice. Then, as I was pacing back and forth between the show and the green room, Caitlyn Clark walked by. I was like, do you want to hang out in the green room and she was like, yeah, sure. And recently, on The Joe Rogan Experience, guest Douglas Murray challenged Joe Rogan over the types of guests he’s been featuring on the podcast.

I listened to this episode last week found it really compelling. Murray questioned Joe Rogan’s tendency to have figures on who just asked questions but may actually be spreading misinformation or speculation under the guise of curiosity. Murray said, there’s a point at which I’m just raising questions isn’t valid anymore. You’re not asking questions, you’re telling people something Rogan said, I don’t think about it that way. I just think i’d like to talk to that person.

Pretty good episode. You’ll find that in the feed. Anthony Anderson is calling out Kevin hard for taking credit for a prank from twenty years ago. Anderson was on Watch What Happens Live, where apparently they I say a lot of swear words. I’ll clean it up here.

Anderson said, we were filming scary movie three or four Simon Rex myself, Kevin Hart. Simon played a tricks. I wanted to get him back, so I shut off all the water in his trailer, and I took a number two in his toilet and I went outside and I just sat there and watched it baked all day.

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You know what’s fed up, Kevin Hart Fu because you took credit for my prank. I’m telling the world right now, I did it, and Kevin took credit for it. Dave Chappelle will be at the Abu Dhabi Comedy Festival. This thing runs from April to July. Can I tell my wife I have to go cover the Abu Dhabi Comedy Festival will be gone for three months.

Who’s letting the dogs out? I don’t know the answer. Big line up, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah Prank, credit stealer, Kevin Hart, Gabe Iglesias, Pete Davidson, and Bill Burr and Moore to be announced resale tomorrow if you want to go.

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Speaking of Bill Burr, he will not be winning a Best Performance by an Actor …

Deadline reports that all three leads, Karan Kulkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr are each being considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a featured role that is the Tony equivalent of a supporting actor Oscar. Deadline and theater enthusiasts were curious why the committee are not listing them as lead actors, considering they’re listed above the show title in the playbill. The committee does not discuss or explain its decisions. Deadline has reached out, I’ll let you know if they hear anything. Huh was that not a good first half?

I told you yesterday I held stuff back. My voice is shot, though I don’t know how long we’re hanging around here today. I’ll try and muddle through. Let’s see what’s happening at Moontower. At Moontower today, April fourteenth.

Nothing. Why do he edit that out, John, because that’s not fun, Sarah Silverman told the I News. I hate to say it, but Donald Trump has all the traits of a comedian. He’s all charisma. He’ll say anything it takes to please any crowd that’s in front of him, but he means none of it.

Those are the traits of a comedian who does well on the road. That’s why last time he was president he never stopped having rallies. He was on the circuit. I want to say, you don’t have to be president to throw a party for yourself, you know. Send your letters to Sarah Silverman.

All right. The age caught some shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which reminds me. Dan Buobleich and I have actually been texting. I had an idea how we could pull off the Melbourne National Comedy Festival twenty twenty six, and I’m like, sleep on this and get back to me. He didn’t immediately throw pyes in my direction.

He’s like, you know what, that could actually work. So we’re thinking about it, so we will keep you posting on the Melbourne National Comedy Festival Melbourne, Florida National Comedy Festival, twenty twenty six.

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Meanwhile, at the Melbourne Australia International Comedy Festival going on …

One of the shows you could have seen had you flown down there, Haley Edwards, this is just a naughty word S bag. You know what the S stands for? Yeah? Why would you call you a show that? The Age says the title should set expectations of the raw material s bag is about literal s, metaphoric s, graphic s, but not gratuitous s.

The one person show is about being diagnosed with crous disease. I see what you did there. There’s rich material and how it feels to self advocate, fight for a diagnosis and face the unknown of a chronic illness. Four stars Bronwin cuss as a show at the Weston until April twentieth. It’s called I’ll Allow It.

The Age tells us Bronwin Cuss as the air of a born racintur. I remember playing Bronwin last year and enjoying her comedy The CanYa over here. At a party and wind up eavesdropping on For the next hour. She might be describing a horrific bus strip across the United States, or the day her temp job ended with death. But it all feels like an off the cuff anecdote.

You’re lucky enough to be let onon four stars, and I’ll do one more because my voice is shot. Scout Boxall’s show is God’s favorite at the Tower until April twentieth. Scott gets a few things out of the way early on. They are non binary, they are bipolar, and they are wearing an odd, dark, floor length garment they could probably describe as a cassock, although that’s not a word they I wouldn’t be like, Hey, that’s a cassock, right, What is a cassock? Like you’ve heard of it?

I feel like I don’t know what a cassock is. Let’s look it up. Kassick a full length garment of single color worn by certain Christian clergy, members of church, choirs, acolytes, and others having some particular officer role in a church. I would never use the word cassock. No, I disagree with your review.

The age boxel tells a single story about a week and away at a live action role playing wedding in the country, horribly marred by the fact that they forgot to take their medication along four stars. And that’s it. My voice is done. I gotta go, I gotta go have a drink. We had a good one today.

Yesterday, you know, yesterday was kind of Johnny Mac was just kind of filling up a day of punsta. But today, today, this was high quality comedy news. So therefore I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

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Featured: Jay Leno, Leslie David Baker, Brad Paisley, Tiffany Haddish

What’s in This Episode

• Jay Leno’s Law passes California legislature for classic car smog exemptions
• Leslie David Baker’s perfect Sunday routine interview
• Brad Paisley’s Groceries with Dignity Comedy Benefit at Nashville’s Zany’s
• Nashville Comedy Festival shows and performers
• Macau Comedy Festival coverage

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. It’s kind of slow here on this Sunday. I held back a couple shinier things for tomorrow that I want to talk about during the week, as the weekday numbers tend to be a little bit bigger. Jay Leno’s Law has passed its first hurdle in the California legislature.

Named after Jay Leno, who co authored the bill, Leno’s Law would change how classic car owners navigate anti smog laws in the state of California. You see, the California Air Resources Board currently requires all vehicles built in nineteen seventy five or later to undergo a smock check every two years. Under the terms of Leno’s law, smock checks would no longer be required for vehicles thirty five years or older if they’re insured as a collector car, So that would move the deadline up to nineteen ninety. Jay Leno tild supporters, I know there’s nothing more annoying than Hollywood people involved in politics, so I’ll just try to keep that to a minimum. But this one’s important to me because I’m an enthusiast California helped invent car culture, from low riders in East to light a muscle cars in the Central Valley.

These cars tell the story. SB seven one two is about keeping that story alive. These vehicles are driven occasionally, not daily, and it just makes sense to treat them differently. I’m proud to be working with Senator Grove, and I thank the Committee for recognizing the importance of preserving our automotive legacy. I laugh here in New Jersey when you go for inspections, the only thing they check right now is the emissions.

Seriously, you could roll up with crack windows, no door, a taped on bumper, Been there, done that. Nobody cares. As long as you pass the emissions, you’re good. The La Times caught up with Leslie David Baker. Now you’re like, who’s Leslie David Baker.

He’s Stanley on the Office. Remember that guy. You’ve seen the Office? You’re familiar with the character Stanley. You know who I’m talking about now?

Yeah, of course, Leslie says, I know you. Hear some celebrities say it’s a bother when people call me by my character name. It’s a bother when people are talking about the show I did this many years ago, but for h it’s an honor and a privilege to have that kind of recognition. Hali Times tells us, much like Stanley, Baker loves a good snack break, which is good because his name is Baker. He’s in partnership with frozen snack band Tasteless Tasteles, Tasteles, tast l e Z taste Dels, Taste Les you guys tell me, I’m gonna go with taste Les because it’s funnier.

They were curious what is Leslie’s Sunday routine, and Johnny Mac wisely held onto the story, thinking, someday there’ll be a slow Sunday and you’ll wish you had this story. That’s today, my friends. He wakes up at ten am. Dude, what are you doing ten am? You only wake up at ten am when you’re in college or like you know, right out of college, when you’re hungover.

You don’t sleep till ten am when you’re an adult. How old is this guy? Stanley’s sixty seven years old. What are you doing? Get up?

Ten am? He wakes up and enjoys a cup of coffee, then he takes a shower, and I’m gonna pause here to put that mental image in your brain. Because it’s a slow news day. Stanley from the office, taking a shower. You’re thinking about it.

I know you’re thinking about I’m thinking about it too. At noon, Stanley’s perfect Sunday would involve a very long brunch. He says, if I’m at Bottega Louis, I’m going to have their portobello fries. They serve it with a nice gorlic. They also have a nice pizza that’s drizzled with honey and sliced red peppers.

That sounds delicious. But if he finds himself at these sand Vicente Bungalows, he’d get one of their omelets, and their chocolate chip cookies are his favorites. At two thirty on his perfect Sunday, he would go to a flea market, specifically the Melrose Trading Post. Leslie told The Times, I got a chair a statue there from my house. It’s fun.

Parking is convenient, and it’s right down the street from Cantor’s Deli. So after brunch you’re like, I’m not cooking dinner tonight, go buy Canter’s Deli and get something for later. At five o’clock, he says he might head over to the Grove. There’s a meat market there eat. Stanley’s not looking to pick up chicks.

He’s looking to eat, have sausage. At seven o’clock, Leslie would like to hit up a steakhouse. I’m fully aware I keep bouncing between Leslie and Stanley. It’s on purpose. Did I mention it’s a slow news day.

I’m trying to make a show out of this. I’m gonna get a text from Scott Beckett and he’s gonna be like slow news day, and I would be like, yeah, I mentioned it. Leslie says. When I want a really good steak, I go to Mastros. I’d order gin with ginger beer, a splash of bitters at, a twist of lemon or orange.

That’s a good cocktail. At nine point thirty, he would catch a live show on a Sunday night. Dude, if I’m not in bed by nine to twenty nine pm on a Sunday night, my whole week is thrown off. But then again, he didn’t get up till ten am, his bedtime. Midnight.

He tells the La Times. LA doesn’t stay open as late at Chicago and New York. So usually by midnight I’m home, especially if I have to get up and go to work. Sounds rough getting up at ten o’clock every day. All right, we might as well get to the festival stuff.

Brad Paisley, Yeah, the country music guy. He’s doing a benefit today to support his free grocery store called The Store. Paisley said, it’s an amazing event in terms of the fact that comedy for charity is my favorite way to raise money for anything. Most charity events are too long. Most of them are asking a lot that people attend.

You’re asking for money, you’re asking for time, usually feeding them a badly catered meal. There’s an auction that takes too long. None of that is a part of this. This is what we call it. Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without.

The Store is a nonprofit organization that offers a free referral based grocery store to Nashville families with food insecurity. They open their first location in twenty twenty. Last fall, they reveal plans for a second store. Paisley describes Groceries with Dignity Comedy Without as a roast in comedy Night that just so happens that we raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to feed people. That’s awesome.

It’s at Zany’s tonight, doors open, five fifteen, show at six pm. Tickets. Now, it’s a fundraiser, so don’t I roll this. Okay, this isn’t Alley Wong charging you one hundred and sixteen dollars for a practice show or whatever that was the other day. This one two, one hundred and fifty dollars.

It’s a fundraiser. Okay. Let’s see what else is happening at Nashville tonight at the Rhyme at seven o’clock one to psykes, and at the Lab at Zany’s at eight thirty. Amber Autrey’s stand up, Get Down. Let’s see what this is.

Amber Autrey is an international touring comedian hailing from Nashville. She’s been featured on Peacock TV. Amber’s relatable observations and electric energy make every audience feel like they’re the best friend. So basically, it’s a nondescript comedy show as far as I could tell. All Right, that’s the Nashville Comedy Festival for this year.

I get to delete the tap and get some of my browser space back let’s see what’s happening at Moontower tonight, Johnny Mac, you usually do the festival stuff in the second half. Is it a slow news day? Oh? Can you tell? Only one show at Moontower tonight, seven o’clock at Tiffany Hattish the Funny and Fearless Tour at the Paramount Theater.

Now I’m kind of annoyed. I didn’t know the Macau Comedy Festival is going on this week because I would have talked about it. It opened on Wednesday with Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out, which is a Mandarin stage adaptation of the popular British children’s series. Well that’s not your typical comedy festival. Now.

Unfortunately the festival only ran through today Sunday, and the way time zones work, by the time you’re hearing this, you’re not gonna make it in time. But there were comedy megastars there, that’s right, Shen Tang, Ma Lee, not somebody named Molly, This is Ma Lee. They were there that you’re said you missed it. Congrats to the Woodlawn Comedy Club in San Antonio, Texas. They opened up last night.

This is the place. Paulie Shore is part of told you about that. I got a nice note from the owners. Hi, guys, good to hear from you. Got some good shows coming up.

April twenty sixth. Michael Winslow’s there. Remember him? He’s the sound effects guy from movies like forty years ago? Isn’t that who Michael Winslow is?

Yes, the man of ten thousand sound effects. You know this guy? May third, Tom Carter and Kerry Louise. May tenth, Stephen Michael Caseta. You know who that is.

He’s the guy from Breaking Bad. What was his character’s name? Shout it out at your phone, remind me while I look it up. He played agent Stephen Gomez on Breaking Bad. He’s comedian May seventeenth, Caroline Ray June twenty eighth, Bill Bellamy, And there’s some other shows in there in between.

Here’s a fun thing I saw while putting together the Palace Intrigue podcast. Palace Intrigue is the show where we talk about the British royal family. I’m the writer on it, and I can assure you we make fun of Megan Markle. There’s a lot of money to be made making fun of Megan Markle. So while I was googling Megan Markle.

I learned that Megan has invested into the six hundred dollars billion menopause market with a fresh investment in Midi Health. Now, John, we get it’s a slow news day, but why are you mentioning this because the article said some of the other high profile investors include Amy Schumer. Very interesting. The Simpsons is still on, unlike Bob’s Burgers, which has never aired. Clearly, the Simpsons exists, although much like Bob’s Burgers, it’s entirely possible that The Simpsons have just been pretending to be on for the last twenty years or so.

I know the Simpsons at least used to exist. I’m not sure it actually still exists, but they keep claiming there are new episodes even though nobody’s seen them, and stick around after the fake Simpsons for the fake Bob’s Burgers. Two questions, One, have you ever seen bobs Burgers? No? Two, have you ever met anyone who’s seen bob Burgers?

The answer is also no. Anyway, where you to put on Fox tonight you would be like, Hey, one of the bullies has a new voice. What’s going on there? Well, you see voice actor Pamela Hayden retired Jimbo Jones now played by Moe Collins. As of tonight, That iss your Slowest Heck comedy news for today.

It wasn’t the worst show I’ve ever done, but also not the one that I will send to the podcast Hall of Fame. I definitely have good stuff for tomorrow, because A I’m about to record it and B I know that I held it back. Tomorrow’s really good. Today, you know, slow to Sunday, got some brunch with Stanley. See tomorrow

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Featured: John Mulaney, David Letterman, Hannibal Buress, Nikki Glaser, Leann Morgan, Jessica Curson, Ricky Smiley, Brett Goldstein, Cameron Esposito

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s Everybody’s Live guest lineup featuring David Letterman, Hannibal Buress, Nikki Glaser, and Leann Morgan
• David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction featuring WNBA star Kaitlyn Clark
• Saturday Night Live UK launching in 2026 on Sky Max and Now TV
• Jessica Curson special I’m the Man premiering April 25 on Hulu
• Ricky Smiley special Fool-ish premiering May 30
• Brett Goldstein special premiering April 26 on Max
• Cameron Esposito’s new special about manic episodes with experimental camera work

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Heidly Ho. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, and let’s talk about that greeting. Now. I’ve been doing that, think I’m channeling ned Flanders.

But it came up in trivia the other night and they asked, how does Ned Flander as a greed people? And I wrote down heidly Hoe. But no, no, no, Ned Flanders, apparently, says Hi Diddley Ho. So I didn’t get the point in the trivia game, but I got the Dave Chappelle question correct. I shared that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, Hi Happy Saturday.

Maybe, perhaps, possibly they’ve figured out what to do with John Mulaney’s show next week the guest David Letterman. Finally, Letterman also dropped an episode of his show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. His guest is WNBA star Kaitlyn Clark. It’s not what I want out of you, Dave. I’m not gonna watch that now.

Dave is, you know, mostly in retirement. He doesn’t care if I’m gonna watch or not. But I don’t want that. Can Mulaney interview Kaitlyn Clark and let Letterman screw around with a weekly talk show. Can we make that trade?

Because I would watch that great lineup next week David Letterman, Hannibal Burris, Leanne Morgan, Nicky Glazer, music by Randy Newman. Maybe he’ll do I Love La. So they are pulling out all the stops next week, Nikki Glaser, Letterman, LeAnn Morgan, Hannibal Burus, Fantastic. Everybody’s Live with John m’laney streams live on Netflix Wednesdays at ten East seven West. Because John opens the show with that very exciting it is seven oh two in Los Angeles, it is fifty nine degrees, John, take my notes, ask Dave how to do it?

Come out, tell two jokes and roll into the show. You’re not doing this right. And by the way, if you give me David Letterman, Nicky Glazer, Hannibal Burs and Leanne Morgan and Randy Newman, and you can’t hand in a good show, forget it. It’s not gonna get better than that. All you have to do is go hey, guys, what’s up?

And shut up. At an hour later, go all right, goodnight, everybody. That’s all you need to do with that panel. If you’re in the UK and you’re like, boy, I wish we had Saturday Night Live. Well, they’re making Saturday Night Live UK.

It’ll launch sometime in twenty twenty six on Skymax and the streaming service known as Now same format, guest host, musical guests, and a cast of British comics. The CEO of Sky Studios said, for over fifty years, Saturday Night Live has held a unique position in TV and and our collective culture, reflecting and creating the global conversation, all under the masterful comedic guidance of Lorne Michaels. The show discovered and nurtured to countless comedy and musical talents over the years, and we’re thrilled to be partnering with Lauren and the SNL team to bring an all British version of the show to UK audiences next year, all live from London on Saturday Night, Google tells me. In the States, SNL Studios is a production company founded in nineteen ninety seven as a joint venture between Louren Michaels and NBC Studios. NBC Studios is now Universal Television, the production arm of NBC Universal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

So some version of NBC’s got their hands in. Lauren’s gonna get paid a lot of money to be made out there. I hope this show in the States. A bunch of comedy specials coming up. Jessica Curson will have a special on Hulu on April twenty fifth.

Now I don’t know this because a Hulu publicists sent me the notes, because that would be too easy. No, I was on the internet and I stumbled across this, so I’m happy to tell you. Jessica cursons I’m the Man. Premiere is April twenty fifth on Hulu. Jessica tells The Daily Beast, I’ve been doing stand up for over twenty years, and this special is truly special.

My stand up has always stood out to the audiences I’ve performed for my fans, and especially to other comics. I’m the Man is me embracing everything I am, the crazy voices, the characters, and the fact that I’m fearless on stage. Jessica says people need to laugh now more than ever. Is that some did? They did?

They pass out a pamphlet to all the comedians that you just have to say that in an interview. Is not every comedian saying you know people need to laugh more now than ever. Has there ever been a point in history where, like, you know, everything’s chill now, people don’t really need comedians, but you know, if you want to laugh, that would be fine. Everybody needs to stop saying people need to laugh now more than ever, Jessica continues, After everything we’ve been through these past few years, I wanted to create something brutally honest and authentic. I wanted the audience to know they’re not alone.

That I struggled too. I pride myself on being an entertainer. I wanted people to see a show nothing too much. That’s what people experience, a fast paced ride. I’m so proud of what I’ve created.

I can’t wait for the world to see it also, and I’m filled with fear now. I could play a clip here, except the Hulu publicists don’t get back to anybody. I don’t have a clip to play for you. I guess they don’t want you to watch their special. That’s fine.

I will not be stopped because I have found out that the next hilarious thing on May thirtieth is Ricky Smiley. His is called fool ish with a hyphen between the L and the Eye in fool Ish, taped at the Lyric Theater in Birmingham, Alabama. The special is said to be infused with his trademark humor, characters, and satire on life and pop culture. It’s his first special since twenty eleven, and Smiley said, as I knew after over ten years, I had offered something that was satisfy my fans. I’ve been through a lot of transformation and trauma these past few years, and I was determined to get through it and think that I’ll have a deeper connection with my audience.

From my experiences, we can find humor in so much of life. Fool Ish is for people of all ages, for those who grew up playing with etch a sketch, to those who were raised on iPads. Brett Goldstein. We have a date for his special on Max April twenty sixth. You can sit home and watch Brett Goldstein the second best night of your life.

Now, HBO does this annoying thing where they don’t release it until ten pm Eastern. You know, Johnny Max fallen asleep to ten Eastern? How about seven Eastern? Guys? If you’re like, who’s Brett Goldstein, He’s Roy Kent on ted Lasso.

Now you know who this is. I’ve even shared a trailer and it’s a big bag of okay. I had to make some medits here because there’s some naughty words we’re not going to use on this podcast, and overall I find the trailer okay. Cookie Monster is an addict. Bah, we are meeting him at the point of addiction where he’s still fun in a few months.

You don’t want to be hanging out with Cooky. Cooky is a nightmare very soon. My mom is really hot. Recently, I’ve been speaking to lots of couples in long term relationships, and I’ve been asking them about their sex lives because I am a pervert. I’m vaguely distracted by a child in the front run.

Are you a human child? Okay, We’re going to learn so much. Cameron Esposito talked about her new special with The La Times and says it’s meant to be art. Sadly, stand up comedy can sometimes just be goofing around, and it is, but also I wanted to feel like the experience of a manic episode, which is what the special is about. There’s meant to be three sections within the special.

The first it’s just the standard special that you’re used to, with more traditional camera angles. The second it’s one of the camera shifts to being almost up my nose, which is meant to sort of feel intense and a little panic inducing.

And then the third act is filming in front of an all white background where t…

I haven’t seen this one yet, but that sounds like a little too much for Johnny Mac. How about you stand in front of a brick wall and you tell some jokes. How about that the camera says, dropout. Let me build a fake stand up club. It would be cheaper to shoot at a regular club, but I wanted to be able to control the exact camera angles and where the audience was placed so we could pull off this idea of escalating energy and being on stage.

Part of the reason I chose this job is it being on stage also induces like a mini bipolar cycle. So literally being on stage floods the brain with those chemicals, like those very positive endorphins, like the feeling of working out or drugs. Because it’s also the same chemicals that happen when people take cocaine. What is going on with this special? Can’t we just stand in front of a brick wall?

So being on stage and all this chemicals being released and the excitement of that, I want people to feel that and not just feel it in the way when you’re shooting a special and there’s like a cream shot and it’s very far from the back of stage, and you’re getting this grand feeling of stand up, which is so sumportant to stand up biz, but stand up when you’re watching it. My favorite thing is being in the room, Cameron. I think that’s something that stands a test of time. Are those specials like Carlin that are really about this bigger question and they answer it with an arc. Bo Burnham has done a great job with this, Hannah Gatsby, all those specials.

I think we’ll have a lasting effect and change the art form. And these specials that are kind of like sermons, they have a point or hear me out, you stand in front of a brick wall. I was hanging out with some civilians. Now these civilians are my friends. We were at trivia night the other night and they started their own conversation about what comedy specials they were watching.

We usually talk about, Hey, what are you watching, Bill? What are you watching on Netflix? What’s good this week? Bill? Bill?

As soon as it comes out on Netflix, Bill has seen it. So I asked Bill, what should I be watching every week? So one of the guys had watched Bill Burr’s special and really liked it, and then the three of them were like, yeah, Bill Burn and I didn’t want to chime in and be like, excuse me, I’m a comedy snob. I think it’s actually Bill’s seventh best special years what I just went. Yeah.

They also talked about Nikki Glaser and found her to be a little graphic. They weren’t offended, they weren’t shy, but they’re like, oh my, I can’t believe she says such things personally, that’s not my style of comedy. And they were bored by Chelsea Handler. So that is three civilians at Trivia night reviewing comedy. You can agree or disagree.

Let’s hit gossip corner real quick. You might have been there in Adams County, Pennsylvania. You’re at the Civil War Museum and shop and in walks Matt Rife, Yeah, the Union drummer Boy shop. Posted on social media Matt Rife stopping by to check out some historic artifacts. It is unclear if he bought anything from The Guardian.

Australian comedian Alice Fraser not coming to the US after receiving legal advice that she could be stopped at the border because of Trump jokes really overreact much. Alice was going to apply for an one B visa, which The Guardian tells US permits comedians to live and work in the US if they demonstrate extraordinary ability in the arts. But after widespread reports of people being denied entry to the US and travelers being detained, Fraser sought advice from an immigration lawyer. Alice tells The Guardian, I asked the lawyer what I thought was a ridiculous question, that I do political sets are and have a fair few jokes floating around on Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and whether that be a risk. I thought I was being paranoid, but you said it might pose a risk and it almost certainly googled me are they doing that?

Which reminds me, by the way, Trump, Elon doing a great job. Nobody’s a bigger sport than me. Anyway, back to the show, she said, while the vast majority of people will be able to travel. It it out. They’re definitely doing increased scrutinizing.

Johnny Mac doesn’t want to go to the comedy Coulac guys is if this is a thing. I mean, I’m just recording stuff on the podcast. You guys are doing great, keep it up. If I didn’t have two children, I might be more open to taking a risk. But the vision of me being there with a baby strapped to me and held up in hassled or worse, I’m not up for that.

According to The Guardian, foreigners have had their devices search at the US border and been denied entry, including a French scientist who had messages on his phone critical of Donald Trump. Fraser says, I will go to the America that will have me when it’s no longer reasonable for a visa lawyer to say I should purge my social media before I go there because a joke about Elon Musk might be considered hostile to the nation. Are you at C two E two twenty twenty five. They’re in Chicago and they have a track for comedy fans this weekend. Patton Oswalt was there last night.

Second City is there tonight, Let’s see who’s at the various festivals. It is the final night of the Traverse City Comedy Festival. Three o’clock Funny Women of a Certain Age, three point thirty, Comikaze Comedy Show, five thirty Big Fun, Murder in Improv, Murder Mystery, A Next Up Comedy Showcase at five thirty. Six o’clock Mark Marin, WHOA, I love Mark Maren and it’s happening. At six o’clock, I could see a comedy show and being met by quarter to eight perfect seven o’clock Leon Lord.

Eight o’clock the Comedy Rumble with a it looks like I’m just skimming here, probably about fifteen comedians. That’s different than the Daily Doesn’t Showcase.

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Also at eight a second a Mark Marin show at eight thirty, but I’ll be in bed …

At nine thirty the Out of Towner’s Comedy Showcase, ten thirty PM A Dirty Showcase, and at midnight Comedy Karaoke. Nice job, Traverse City Comedy Fest. I get to delete that tab until next year, and my browser fills up. Guys, it can’t keep everything open. In Nashville, Dan Cummins at five o’clock again My kind of Show.

Six thirty a Zany’s showcase for the Tonight show. That’s interesting. Dan commins again at Zany’s. At seven thirty Jay Leno at the Rhyme and at seven thirty eight forty five another showcase for the Tonight show. Ninety five pm Pete Lee and at ten forty five the Dark and Dirty Showcase.

And I don’t know if this is a mistake or they put it out of sequence. It says Saturday, April twelfth, four o’clock, Yakoff Smirnoff. But I’m gonna guess this is a mistake and this is actually Sunday. Let’s say no, it says April twelfth, all right, they put it out of order yakof smirnof at four o’clock. I’d probably be at that.

They have some more shows tomorrow, and let’s go down to Austin, Texas, where it’s all bro dudes with shaved heads and muscle t shirts and all the other stuff we hate as they ruin comedy in Austin, Texas. Those jerks, right, it’s not the current narrative. Four o’clock. Josh Johnson also at for Don reed Boy Saturday afternoon comedy is the thing. Huh.

Josh does another show at seven, Handsome Live with Tignataro, Fortune Femester in May Martin at seven, Ricky Lindholm at seven, Josh Johnson at nine thirty. Josh doing three shows in a row. I don’t know if you want to see that third show, Guys, and Alex Moffatt at nine thirty at the State Theater. Out of everything I just talked about, Mark Marin and Early Bed. How’s that sound?

It sounds great, Johnny Mac, I know. And that’s a lot for a Saturday, right, Yeah, let’s go do something else. Why are we’re listening to podcasts? It’s the weekend. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Cameron Esposito, Stephen Rogers, Nate Bargatze, Brian Reagan, Camilah Gianini, Natasha Leona, Chelsea Handler, Joe Coy, Dennis Leary, Jim Jeffries, Dan Cummins, Jared Fried, Pete Lee, Caroline Benowitch, Connor Larsen

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer’s Beverly Hills Dentist Story and Whitney Houston
• Cameron Esposito New Special ‘Pills’ on Dropout
• Stephen Rogers New Special ‘Half of We’ on Nate Bargatze’s YouTube
• Camilah Gianini Joins Poker Face Season 2 as Gator Joe
• Chelsea Handler’s Vacation House Rules Letter Goes Viral
• Dennis Leary Takes Going Dutch Sitcom Seriously with Military Details
• Nashville Comedy Festival Listings and Recommendations

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Praiser has been on a little bit of good pr run. He appears in People’s new YouTube series Roast by Life, and he told a story about going to a quote very expensive dentist in Beverly Hills. Now, sometimes Bert tells a story, and I’m not sure I quite believe the story, perhaps possibly maybe exaggerated for comedic effect, But as the story goes, Bert was at the dentist with his daughter, Georgia.

She’s now twenty. This story happened when Georgia was four and poor Georgia broke her jaw. Bert explains, they had to put Georgia under anesthesia, noting, and they told me, you know, we can’t find a vein. We need you to put her under. And I was like, I’m thirty five years old.

I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m a brand new dad. I go, baby, we’re gonna put the gas off your face and you’re gonna breathe even lee, You’re gonna go to sleep.

And then Georgia, four years old, looks up at me and goes, what if I don’t wa…

And I was like, great question. I look at the doctors and I said to these dentists, I go, she dies, do we bring the body home with us? And they’re like, whoa, what are you talking about? Bert says he started panicking. I start crying uncontrollably.

I go to the waiting room and crying so bad. People in the waiting room are freaking out. They’re watching a grown man’s sob. His wife, Leanne’s crying. There’s a kid with his dad who’s like, Dad, you said it wasn’t going to be that bad.

Bert remembers a woman trying to soothe me and make eye contact. After ten minutes, the dentist shows up and says Georgia was fine. Everyone celebrated with applause. Leanne’s got Georgia in her lap, Georgia’s got caught. She’s still asleep.

I’m standing watching. All of a sudden, the door opens to that room. It’s the same woman from earlier in the story. Remember that woman, and you know who it is. It’s Whitney Houston.

And Bert says, Whitney paid for the whole thing. This is you know, a long time ago. Bert’s not a famous comedian. She paid for the whole thing. We didn’t have the money, and Whitney Houston, God Rest her soul took care of us.

Cameron Asposito has a new stand up special out today pills on the streaming platform Dropout That’s the former College Humor. Cameron guides the audience on a surreal journey through the ups and downs of her bipolar disorder diagnosis, with detours to talk about marriage, divinity, school, and one extremely unlucky dog. Oh. Cameron says, when you do this job, the number one thing people say is I don’t know how you can do the jobs. Man.

Stand Up’s my biggest fear, and I’ve always said, well, it’s not my biggest fear. Stephen Rogers’ new special is out today as well. Half of We will premiere on Nate Berghetzi’s YouTube channel. Produced by Nate and Brian Reagan, the new hour sees Stephen Rogers blend wit and vulnerability as he shares relatable mishaps, personal struggles, and stories from his engagement, all building to a shocking twist. Should you tell the audience there’s a shocking twist coming?

Like can’t we just I know, I just ruined it, but I’m just reading the press release. They want you to know there’s a shocking twist, But like, I don’t know if you want to see one of those m night movies back in the day. Now we all know the gimmick, but you know when you first went to see one, do you want everyone going, Hey, there’s a shocking twist you’re never gonna believe. I don’t think you want to know. I always loved the phrasing and press releases in his career.

So far, Rogers has opened for comedians such as Reagan, Joe List, Tompapa, Napergetzie, and Taylor Tomlinson, such as is such a fun wording. Camil and Gianni will be in the upcoming season of poker Face. He told the story, I just got a text from Natasha Leona on a Friday. Kamil and Natasha were on one of those famous people panels, you know, everybody’s sitting at a table and the reporters asked them questions and then Vulture writes about it something like that. Yeah, Camel said, I just got a text from Natasha on a Friday, and you were like, hey, you want to be in poker Face on Thursday?

And I was like, how long can I wait? So that it doesn’t seem too desperate, Camille gave us a tease about what we could expect his character spoilers. He says, it was this cop and the Florida panhandle with tattoos and frosted hair, and his name was Gator Joe and his best friend is an alligator. I was like, did you send this one to me? By mistake?

People don’t see me and go, hey, that looks like a Florida cup. But adds I love playing Gator Joe. I love this guy. I had to shave my arms and legs to get tato on, and then I just walked around with all these tattoos. People were scared of me.

Poker Face season two returns May eighth on Peacock Chelsea Handler, who once dated Joe Coy, who once hosted the Golden Globes and made a joke about Taylor Swift. But we’re not doing that bit today. She says, if you travel with her, you better be ready to play by her rules. She said she once had to send a really severe letter to her entire extended family. Chelsea told Kimmel, I was like, listen, you have to make eye contact with every person that comes inside the house, whether you know them, whether they’re cleaning your room, whether you have anything in common.

You have to make eye contact with people and say hello, thank you, and acknowledge someone to standing there. And don’t leave beer bottles under the deck. Don’t drink the last margarita’s without filling up the picture. There’s a lot of finishing alcohol without replenishing the alcohol, because half of them are underage drinking our alcohol. This worked with her family.

Chelsea said she sent the letter to friends as a template they could use on their own vacations. A couple months go by, I get the letter from someone. Someone emailed me and goes, hey, I just read this letter. This is a great letter for you to send to your family. And I’m like, it’s my letter.

I wrote it. That’s a fun story. Dennis Leary is taking this Going Dutch sitcom very seriously, definitely much more seriously than I’m taking it. Remember this one, Dennis Leary plays Army Colonel Patrick Quinn who gets reassigned to a base on the Netherlands. Larry said, I know we’re supposed to be funny, but we’re also supposed to be soldiers.

We’re all dressed that way. Even if we’re just in the hair and makeup trailer, generally we’re in our uniforms. It’s a constant reminder. He got seriously into his character and explains there are certain props the audience will never see that I want my character to have with him. In this case, there was a challenge coin I wanted made that comes from my character’s background, back when the character was winning medals in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The audience will never see it, but my character has it with him every day. Going Dutch filmed on a real Dutch army base, Lary says, there are jet planes, cargo planes, tanks, and there’s real soldiers advising you off in the distance. They’re really drooling for something. You feel really intimidated. Let’s see what’s happening at the comedy festivals.

I guess we’re starting in Mootower because that’s the tab that I clicked first. Got all these tabs saved, and I just randomly clicked one seven o’clock May Martin’s at the Paramount. Caitlyn Riley is at the State Theater with the wonderfully titled Kitlin Riley Bullies the audience, Paulie Shore at nine thirty. Guess my take there would be let’s go see Kitlyn Riley and then grab some drinks in Nashville. Jim Jeffries at the Ryman at seven, Dan Cummins at Zany’s Proper at seven, Jared Fried’s at the Lab at seven, Pete Lee and Zanies at nine to fifteen.

Caroline Benowitch homeschooled. The Freak is at the Lab at Zanie’s at nine to fifteen, eleven o’clock Connor Larsen’s Big Fun Riff Show. All right, you want some recommendations for me, gotta go see Jim Jeffries, he kills, and then for middle show, I guess Pete Lee and then let’s see what this Connor Larson’s thing is. The Riff Show is a show of completely improvised stand up comedy on the spot, in front of a live audience. Comedians have to be funny with whatever comes up.

Okay, that could be fun. And it’s only a sixteen dollars show. And where’s my Travers City bookmark? Did I not bookmark it? We’re going to have to use Google.

Traver’s City Comedy Festival they’ve got many, many shows. Tonight, I’ll just read you the bigger ones. Six point thirty Jay Farrow seven o’clock a clean comedy showcase. At eight o’clock a roast Battle starring Kevin Johnson as your host, Brett Haydon as a judge, and Ella Horwdell as another judge. I’m not familiar with any of the comedians performing in the roast Battle, doesn’t mean it’s not funny.

Nine o’clock Natasha lazerro at the Park plays Hotel, and at ten pm comedy karaoke. So I think out of those three, if you’re making me pick, we are hanging in Nashville tonight. A lot of talk this week about Tony Hinchcliff, boy, who well from theborbedwire dot com we learn for a few years now, the Austin comedy scene has been dominated by a new ecosystem led by Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliff. The city’s now nationally known as a haven for their style of say whatever crappy thing you want, It doesn’t even need a punchline comedy. For these guys and their disciples who move here during the pandemic.

The slur is the funny part. But that doesn’t mean the old guard, the people who are doing stand up before twenty twenty, has gone away, and veteran Austin comic Duncan Carson is taking Austin back. He told The Barbed Wire. They just think anybody that laughs is an inherent good, and I’m like, not if it’s a clan rally. Carson is launching a new late night show to showcase the city’s old school comedy scene, signing off A Comedy Show for the End of the World runs Friday’s at ten pm and Today’s a Friday.

Carson said, I think if you counted, I’ve hosted the most comedy shows in the history of the city. Maybe that means I’ll never get famous, but it also means I never sold my soul. Carson explains, I don’t want comedy that’s like preachy or always that’s a sports, social progress or something. Just don’t be a monster. It’s very easy to be funny without being mean.

Comedy is inherently political, and I’m tired of us acting like it’s not. The show’s head writer Mendoza told The Board Wire, We’re just trying to do what makes us laugh most of the time. I think all of us that work on the show have always tried to punch up rather than down. But adds Hingecliff is right. It only takes a minute to decide you’re not a fan of somebody, and from bearworld dot com you’re home for comedy news and one of those things in my browser.

I’m gonna have to explain to my wife like I got her to believe, like I’m in the basement. The only reason I’m on OnlyFans is because they started doing stand up comedy. Well, John, why were you on bearworld dot com? Which is not a site about the types of bears you might see in the zoo. No, this is a totally other kind of site.

But they interviewed comedian Chris Knight, who explained his comedic influences. Chris says, being in Australia, we got to see the best of the UK and the US on our TVs. Growing up. I fell in love with well written, fast paced jokes on shows like The Simpsons and the Quirkiness and shows like Dork Place. He explains how Australian crowds are different.

Aussie crowds are wild, British crowds would be some of the most supportive, and Americans will cheer you so loud you think your rockstar. Aussie crowds are wild and an rulely bunch while on stage. I’ve been offered threesomes and drugs, but I’ve also had to dodge of glass bottles. I think humor is universal. We all like to pokepund at ourselves and those in power, but the delivery of that humor changes country to country.

Australians tend to be much rougher and use some very foul language. We’re all descended from convicts, so that shouldn’t be a surprise. And that is your comedy news for today. So if you want to check my browsing history, it’s going to say things like New York Times. So I’m seeing what Jason’s Inteman’s up to, bear World OnlyFans, the Hollywood Reporter.

It’s a very eclectic mix. Who knows what’s even going on in the basement. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Tony Hinchcliff, Big E, Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Cheryl Hines, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, David Letterman, Paul Shaffer

What’s in This Episode

• Tony Hinchcliff’s WWE Raw appearance and controversial joke about Big E’s neck injury
• Kill Tony Netflix special receives mixed critical reviews for being formulaic and male-dominated
• Joe Rogan’s passive appearance as guest on Kill Tony Netflix special
• David Spade’s new Amazon special ‘Dandelion’ releasing May 6th
• Rob Schneider pitches conservative version of ‘The View’ to LA Times, deal falls apart over $14 million budget
• Seth Meyers and John Oliver extend Beacon Theater residency through end of 2025
• David Letterman and Paul Shaffer conversation event at NYC Perlman Performing Arts Center

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start with Tony Hinchcliff again, sourcing here from coutahoulic ITR Wrestling and a fight ful select but apparently backstage at WWE Raw the other night, Tony Hinchcliff’s appearance came across as a dud. Some fans did not think Tony was funny during his appearance. I thought he was okay.

Some also didn’t like the one joke that suggested that the only things differ than announcer Michael Cole was big E’s neck. Big E has not wrestled since suffering a broken neck in March of twenty twenty two. Big E addressed the joke during WWE’s Raw recap and said, I guess at might big age of thirty nine years old, people will say what they want about you. The opin interview has nothing to do with me. It’s not my business.

Looks. Say what you want. He was given a mic, he was given opportunity how they want to feel. There’s a lot of discourse oftentimes as a public figure, people say things about you, whether the joke or not, and that’s their right. And I think the one thing is I’m on here.

It was set on the show. I’m supposed to talk, you know, especially when things are mentioned about me, I should have an opinion about them. It’s just tiring going to have to weigh in on everyone’s opinion or whatever they say. Look, I’m not hurt. I’m good.

I want the discourse to be had without me. Honestly, I have no desire to weigh in on this. I didn’t sign up for this. It wasn’t aware of this. He did what he wanted to do.

People signed off on. It has nothing to do with me, truly. MSNBC’s headline Netflix is killed Tony Special proofs the entertainment manisphere lives on. They write in Trump’s America, neither getting canceled nor refusing to say you’re sorry amounts to career suicide. It might even land you a three show deal with Netflix.

Oh is this thing? Only three shows? And one’s already gone and they already played the Shane Gillis card I don’t who knows? Actually, let me go on. I’ll see how the show is doing.

Got the Netflix Top ten. My source here is at netflix dot com. As I record this on Wednesday at eleven twenty four am Eastern Gone Girls, Adolescence Love on the Spectrum, Paul’s The Medical Show, which is awful, The Residence, which is fun. W W E RAW at six Miss Rachel Devil May Care, Million Dollar Secret, Survival of the Thickest, So Kill Tony not up there and MSNBC rights. To my mind, the comedy was mostly predictable, derivative, and formulaic, but that misses the point exactly.

I’m glad. He added that that misses the point because I was going to hit you with that as an artistic endeavor. Kill Tony is not cutting edge, but it is culturally irrelevant and massively so. Monday Night was definitely for the boys. Killer Be Killed featured lots of men, men who were happy to be in the company of other men as they ridiculed other men.

Of the twenty or so comics who partook and Killer Be Killed, nineteen of them were dudes skipping ahead. Then there’s the show’s manly visual aesthetic. The set is dark, it is lined with beefy, shiny bald guys and others in weird hats. There’s a live man whose musicians perplexingly crack up at every joke. The audience stoked prime for an endless cavalcade of hot man on man smackdowns.

The episode in parts of basic bro code fellas, crave, competition, and combat. These stand ups who do well are sometimes invited back. There was also a Mexican drum off, a killed Tony tradition apparently Yes Yes, MSNBC rights. At some point in the episode, Hinchcliffe eventually noticed that few women were on his Netflix special. In an attempt to diversify the proceedings, he forsook the bucket and called one amateur female comic to the stage.

Even though her minute was unremarkable, He later invited her to perform at his Madison Square Garden show this August. I was surprised that Gillis slash Trump didn’t dub him Tony DEI Hinchcliff in response. In all, it was a very manly night. Okay. Newsweek wrote about kill Tony.

They saw what the civilians are saying, and the civilians are echoing what I forgot to put in yesterday and had to have the AI voice once I realized I forgot to make the point. Joe Rogan was there for two hours, and I’m sure he spoke at some point, but he sure wasn’t participating. On the kill Tony subreddit, one user wrote, Joe Rogan is the worst guess ever why they keep bringing him on? Somebody replied, the guy owns the place. He’s gonna be there if Netflix is going to come out to film the episode.

Someone else said, like, I get it, he kind of has to be there if he owns the club, and you know it’s on Netflix, But come on, at least engage more. I feel like he’s like that on every episode he’s a guest on. I feel like you should have definitely engaged more. No, it’s gonna air on Netflix. I feel like the whole Netflix show was unauthentic.

I spoke my pec yesterday in case you missed it. I think the show works better for me as an audio podcast. I can listen to a double speed and hit skip six times in a row and something’s not working. I also feel that the first ten minutes was way below par, and they put a roadblock to the casuals. The casuals are never going to make it to minute eleven.

When Shane Gillis’s Trump came out, David Spade will have a new special for Amazon out May sixth. It’s called Dandelion. In Dandelion, David Spade takes on the pearls of flying charity auctions, the evolution of porn, and more. They put out a trailer and here are the jokes David’s bade chose to share. How’s that for a lead?

I was eight years old. I almost got kidnapped. I’ll make it funny. I came out here blonde hair, look like exactly mcaulay culgan and I was kind of tan. I was like shorts.

I mean it was almost in trapman. I’m a bit of a dandelion. I don’t know if you can tell. I looked tough on TV, but these quads are deceiving. Down ladies.

Okay, that’s Dandelion May sixth on Amazon. Put it on your calendar. Status tells the story of Rob Schneider paying a visit to the Los Angeles Times headquarters accompanied by Cheryl Hines. Schneider was active talk with the owner of the La Times about launching a conservative version of the view. He envisioned it as a talk show with a rotating panel of host that would appeal to the mega crowd and would be filmed live in front of a studio audience.

Status says the talks fell apart for one big reason. In particular, Schneider proposed a budget of fourteen million dollars to pretty use the show. The two sides could not agree on a budget. Fourteen million dollars is excessive. Seth Myers and John Oliver are extending their residency at New York’s Beacon Theater.

They’ll be there through the end of twenty twenty five. You can go see them July twenty seven, September twenty one, October twenty sixth, November twenty third, or December fourteenth. If you want to see them in August, you are currently out of luck. Each performer does forty five to fifty minutes of stand up, and then they come on stage together to take questions from the audience. Seth.

If somebody actually offers you that SNL gig, take it. Twelve thirty talk shows are dying.

Speaking of twelve thirty talk shows today in New York City conversations Dav…

Yeah, they’re at the Perlman Performing Arts Center. The official description Late Night Legend David Letterman brings his trademark dry humor, irreverence and sincere curiosity back to Pack NYC for conversation with his longtime friend and former music director Paul Schaeffer. You know we could film this, guys. I’m just saying, Okay, let’s see what’s happening at the comedy festivals tonight at the Rhyme and Nikki Glaser there again, seven o’clock, Jared Freed at the labt Zeni’s at seven at main Zanies. Right now with John Goblcan.

I’m not familiar with John. I don’t recall ever seeing the name before you guys can shout at your phone all you want and just being honest. Apparently Right now with John GOBLICHN is the official podcast from necro Goblet Cohn singer John Goblcan. He interviews his famous friends from comedy, music and entertainment. Seems he dresses up as a goblin and four weeks ago had Dan Soder and that video has one hundred and thirteen thousand views.

Hey, you learn something new every day hosting this podcast. Huh. Jared Freed is another show at nine point fifteen, and that’s it for tonight. All right. If we were in Nashville, did we see Nikki yet?

I guess we’d go see Nicky in uh, I don’t know, go get some drinks again for the late show at moontow or tonight seven o’clock paul Is Shore, nine thirty, the not so Cancel Disease. I’m sorry nine Trevor Wilson. So I had said last night we would go see k Trevor Wilson, So I guess would go see AZ’s tonight for the late show and Paulie not many other choices. The Trevor’s City Comedy Festival is up and running tonight through the weekend. The big show there is at seven o’clock Josh Blue at the City Opera House.

So if you gave me a transporter machine and you were like, hey, John, we’re gonna go see some comedy. Should we go to Nashville, Trevors City or moontower? Out of all the things I’ve talked about, and picking Josh Blue at Trevor’s City Comedy Festival, good lineup, though some other headliners scheduled. According to the press release, Mark Maren J. Farrow, Natasha Laziro and a bunch of others will take a look at that.

Over the next few days, I did hear from Dan Bubletz Junior, who tells me he’s working on the Melbourne Florida National Comedy Festival twenty twenty six. We were texting. Yesterday. I went to the brand new Bjay’s wholesale club that just opened near my house and I was out there shopping and I was in the car and I got a text. Wife’s like, who’s Dan Boobletz.

And I’m like, he’s a comedian. He Litsen’s show and he has your number. I’m like, yeah, he has my number. We text sometimes anyway. So Boobletz is working on this thing.

I have asked him to book Adam Sandler as the headliner. I will keep you guys posted Melbourne National Comedy Festival this time next year in Melbourne, Florida. We are working on this. It is definitely going to happen. No chance that this is a bit.

We are doing this. The folks at the Age went to see Randy Adiva’s show Killer from Manila this at the Melbourne Australia International Comedy Festival. They give it four and a half stars out of five. Killer from Manilla is about Randy being proud of his rich Filipino origins his identity as an Asian Australian being under society’s Western microscope. Guilty if they gat too much.

A self confessed knowledgeable movie buff and a super diehard sports fan. We’re taken through several what if scenarios movie scenes and we meet Randy’s favorite celebrities that he looks up to. Sounds like a fun show.

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Falling in love Sammy Jay Is The show is called the Kangaroo Effect. In The Kangaroo Effect, Sammy j essentially brings the Charlie da meme from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It’s a life clawing through an archive of VHS tapes and blurry polaroids to set out a series of suspects that are to blame for him turning up at a house party in a kangaroo onesie. That’s fun. They gave that one four stars.

Luke McGregor’s show Okay Wow, is a fifty five minute show, well paced through seemingly random thoughts with just the right amounts of audience chit chat. Topics include flat earther ADHD diagnosis, step kids, the shape of his appendage, and finding the love of his life. The age gave Luke McGregor OK Wow four stars. Shanna Christmas will have a new special out on Amazon and YouTube May twentieth, and as an album album on Comedy Dynamics May twenty third. You know how I know this?

Shanna Christmas publicist sent it to me. See if you work for Hulu and you send me something, I’ll read it. Shot live in an intimate jazz club in the heart of downtown Las Vegas, the special captures Shanna Christmas doing what she does best, making people laugh so hard they forget they’re in a dark room with strangers. There is a spoiler here. I don’t want to tell you what it is, but Shanna says, I wanted to make a special that it felt like me.

Loud, fast, honest, funny, but also full of real life because comedy is how I take my power back. There’s a for YOUA and I want people to feel theirs too. Highly intelligent YouTube, and Amazon May twentieth, all remind you as we get a little closer. And that is your comedy news for today, See tomorrow.

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Tony Hinchcliff, Shane Gillis, Joe Rogan, Sam Harris, Dave Smith, Mike Birbiglia, CM Punk, Tom Segura, Ron White, Adam Ray

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer’s WWE RAW appearance and chokeslam
• Kill Tony Netflix debut reception and first 10 minutes criticism
• Sam Harris criticizes Joe Rogan’s responsibility on misinformation
• Dave Smith responds to Sam Harris criticism on Twitter
• Mike Birbiglia announces new Netflix special ‘The Good Life’

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, we’ve got some Netflix synergy going on over there. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start with WWE RAW. Apparently there was some sort of after show.

I’ve seen the video clips of it, but the announcers weren’t sticking around. Bert Kreischer jumped in the ring. There’s a fun clip if you want to go search it out. During the main show, Bert was seen in the audience drinking and chugging beer. He did a backstage interview that was interrupted by the faction American Maid, which as you know are Julius Creed, Brutus Creed, Chad Gable, and Ivy Nile.

But then a different faction showed up, the Alpha Academy, who as you know, are Otis, Maxine Dupree, and Akira Tozawa. They showed up. Luckily everyone got along. Kreischer and Otis both tore off their shirts. But then after sign off, CM Punk was in the ring.

As I understand things, Grace and Waller and Austin Theory you know them as atown down Under. Of course, they targeted CM Punk and try to take him out. Krazier jumped the ringside barrier to confront Grace and Waller. Luckily, Cempunk recovered, Punk invited Krasier into the ring. Then Bert Krescher executes a choke slamb on Waller.

The crowd loved it. Not sure why that didn’t make the live show. I don’t know how wrestling works, but a lot of fun and I love the crossover. It’s just such an environment to have the comedians on. For example, say you were promoting a fellow show on Netflix, you could have Tony Hinchcliff on ww RAW.

What would that sound like? Hmm, let’s wonder Tony Hitchcliff. I am happy to be here. This is so exciting. I’ve been watching since the Attitude era.

Michael Hole has been watching since the Jurassic era. So West, congratulations on your show, Kill Tony debuting on Netflix today. Couldn’t be happier. Happy to be here on Rock. This is a childhood dreams come true.

This is absolutely unbelievable. Mcfee’s the man, Michael Coole. I’ve been watching you forever. The first match you called was David versus Goliath. I did watch Kill Tony’s Netflix debut, and I think they blew it.

There’s no way a casual is going to make it through those first ten minutes. Maybe the Hinchcliff crew doesn’t care, but somebody should being on scene going, hey, it’s episode one, to a lot of new people, don’t introduce the band, nobody cares, get right to it, and the first comedian out of the box was horrific. There’s no way a casual watch those first ten minutes when oh, I really like this show. This is good, which sucks because if they had made it to minute eleven out comes Shane Gillis as Trump and I will tell you as I watched and skimmed the two hours, Shane tried really hard to carry the show. Luck of the draw.

The names coming out of the hat weren’t that good. The set pieces that were planned Shane of course, Adam Ray coming out, Ron White as your clothes, those were all good as expected. But the civilians, it was a particularly poor group of civilians. Ai Johnny Mac here Hume and John forgot to record his observation that Joe Rogan is there, and did Joe Rogan speak at all? He was silent.

Tom Sagora also joined the panel at one point and didn’t add all that much except suggesting a landscape or get a website. I’m not sure how much the casuals are going to like episode one of Netflix Kill Tony. The show looked good, but I’ll tell you I was trying, and at some point after an hour in Now, I did watch the first hour entirely, but then I just started skimming ahead to is Shane gillis doing Trump right now or not? I think for me the show works better as an audio podcast, where I can listen at two x and if a comedian isn’t working for me, I can go SA sape, safe, Sape, sape, sape, sape, say Scape, which is a little easier to do on a podcast app than my Roku. Anyway, I do like the show a lot.

I am a fan, as I just I think it works better for me as an audio podcast. And I feel bad here because I think people would like the show if exposed to it, but they’re not going to get through that first ten minutes. Shame production. Somebody produced it wrong. Sorry, guys.

Let’s stay down in Austin for Now podcaster Sam Harris is getting into it with Joe Rogan on his own podcast, Sam Harris recently discussed Joe and said Joe is a genuinely good guy who wants good things for people, but he is honestly in over his head on so many topics of great consequence. Harris says society is politically shattered in part because of how Rogan has interacted with information. Quote A lot of this is inadvertent, but it’s also voyable. Rogan could actually take the responsibility that really is his to take at this point to get his facts straight. He could have two brilliant journalists who’s full time job.

He could pay them each a million dollars a year to just sit there and make sure he doesn’t put his foot in his mouth in a colossally irresponsible way. Harris criticized comedian Dave Smith, who was recently on the show. I have not listened to that episode yet, but I did listen to last night they had on the Guy that is bringing Back the Dire Wolves. That was a really good listen. I do like Rogan’s podcast, especially as a late night listen.

Among other reasons that the volume doesn’t go up and down so as I drift off to sleep. And this is actually a compliment, not a dig. I find Rogan very calming. Last night, I was having a lot of trouble falling asleep, so I enjoyed the company. And did I tell the story of when I was in Antarctica?

If not, I’ll tell it again really quickly. So we went out camping overnight on the ice in Antarctica. I’ve never been so cold, and I’m not doing a bit here. I was so cold at one point that I was starting to blink out, wink out, and I contemplated, is this what dying feels like. I’m not doing a bit.

I’m not being melodramatic. I’ve never been so cold in my life. Now. I had brought my headphones and my phone, but to operate such a thing was an ordeal because I just wanted to keep I was wrapped up on the sleeping bag, so so cold. So I hit play on a four hour Joe Rogan episode because I knew it would get me until four am when the boat would come back and get us off this iceberg.

Actually it was an island, it wasn’t an iceberg. So I got my hand out of the glove and I hit play on Rogan and Tulca Gabbard and I listened to the whole thing as I sat there miserable, shivering. But it was four hours long, So thank you Joe Rogan for that particular night. But back to Sam Harris versus Joe Rogan, Harris criticized Dave Smith, who was recently on the show. Smith wrote back on Twitter, Sam’s correct.

The only reason that anybody even knows who I am is because of Joe Rogan. I should have earned it the old fashioned way by having my mother create the Golden Girls. That reference is that Harris’s mother is Susan Harris, a TV writer and producer who created The Golden Girls. It is a busy news day on a lot of other days, this would be the lead. Mike Birbiglia will have another at Netflix special.

This one is called The Good Life. It’ll be out May twenty sixth on Netflix. Interesting to me, May twenty sixth is Memorial Day, a Monday. Normally Netflix specials come out on Tuesday, but I guess they wanted to pull it into the holiday weekend. In the Good Life, Verbiggs combines jokes and storytelling as Mike talks about his father suffering a stroke and how that led to Mike reevaluating his own ideas about fatherhood.

Berbiglia said in a statement, over the years, I’ve done a lot of personal shows, but somehow this one is the most personal because it’s not in my past. It’s my life right now, so there’s really no filter. At certain points during the hour, I literally thought, on stage, WHOA am I really going to tell the story? But that’s sort of the idea behind these shows. I try to probe in it what’s most painful in order to figure out what’s most funny.

Personally, the Verbiglia storytelling shows don’t grab me. I understand. I’m in the minority there. I really liked his early stand up comedy when it was stand up stand up, but I try and watch these specials and I’m just like, eh, it’s just not my thing. It’s fine.

He’s very popular and he’ll do fun without me going, hey, I’m excited, but you know, not my thing. Dave Chappelle did a show Saturday night. On a lot of other days, this would be the lead Dave and musician y Clef Jean. We’re celebrating the Haitian community. This happened in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

You may recall there were some false rumors about eating cats and dogs, you know, about a year ago. Chapelle said, the negativity has been so loud, and this celebration was to amplify positive voices. Dave said, I think they hear so many negative voices that it’s good to hear some positive voices. And let’s see a hero from Haiti meaning white Cloff Sean saying we love y’all. All these people were brought here legally, all the unrest in Haiti, and they put this extra burden of xenophobia on them.

Chapelle said he called Jean as soon as those rumors spread. Sean was on tour at the time, but Dave says he stayed on me. I stayed on him, and finally this thing happened, and I think it needs to happen. I think it’s an important lesson, not just for the Haitian community, but for all communities, like look, there are people trying to assimilate in America. It’s a very difficult thing to do.

I think would all be better by embracing our new neighbors than marginalizing them. And I think that why Cleff was the perfect combassador. Amber Ruffin, who was disinvited from the White House Correspondents Dinner, has a new gig. Pen America I announced that Ruffin will host the Free Expression Organization’s gala fundraiser May fifteenth. Penn’s co interim CEO praised Amber Ruffin for her brilliant social commentary, satire, and exceptional talent.

She is truly emblematic of the talented creators who we need on stages and in writers rooms during a time of unprecedented censorship in this country. We’re both delighted and honored to have her here with us. Ellie King was on the Dumb Blonde podcast. She talked about her father, Rob Schneider. King said, I go like four or five years without talking to my dad.

If I would ever spend a summer with my dad growing up, it would be on a movie set. I would just get lost in the shuffle. She described herself as quote a really, really heavy child and said Rob sent her to a fat camp. She also said her dad forgot about every single birthday, including when she turned eighteen, and called Rob Schneider very toxic and very silly. Tonight, on the John Mulaney Netflix show Bill hater Chelsea Peretti Johnny Knoxville human Resources executive employee coach Katie and music from Bortize Strange.

After I watched kil Tony the other night, I put Melanie on to give it another shot, and it’s not good and people are on threads. You’re very upset at me for voicing that opinion, anyone who’s listening to the show four years. No, I like John Mlanie’s comedy, but this show is not good. The Atlantic wrote a funny article about it, and I’ll just push back that, sure, we should all applaud John mulani for trying and trying to do something different, but at some point shouldn’t the show actually be funny? Don’t we actually need results at some point?

Let me give you a straw man argument. What if the show was called Everybody’s Live with Spike Ferristed. Would people be like, boy, Spike’s really trying hard, He’s trying to do something different with his late night show on Netflix. No, the show would be panned Mlanie’s coasting on the Goodwill. I’m just calling a straight shot here.

The show’s not good and I like John Mulaney. Both things can be true. The Mountawer Comedy Festival kicks off tonight and goes until April nineteenth. Over one hundred media spanning stand up, sketch and musical comedy will be there. Some of the comedians include Disease I’m Sorry, Tiffany Hattish, Alex Moffett, and Michael Yo.

Tonight, Alex Edelman at seven o’clock a Porner and I’m sure allowed get to see her back on stage it’s seven. AZA’s I’m Sorry not So canceled at nine thirty, and Kay Trevor Wilson at nine thirty. If we were in Austin, I would make you go see Aparna and Kay Trevor Wilson, who deserves more theme. Plus, I thought we canceled Disease. Didn’t we cancel Disease?

Disease is back.

Meanwhile, down in Nashville, if you listen to yesterday’s podcast, you know …

Yeah, she wasn’t there last night. She’s there tonight Wednesday, April ninth, at seven pm at the Ryman. Nikki Glaser over at the Lab at Zanies at the same time. Jared Freed also at seven. Robert Kelly is the headliner at Zani’s nine point fifteen at the Lab Story Wars with Big Jay Ogerson and Louis J.

Gomez. If we were in Nashville tonight, I would say, let’s go see Nikki Glaser at seven and let’s skip the late show and go take in some country music and a couple beverages and maybe some hot chicken. Nashville runs all the way through Sunday, which is cool, planned to talk about. This week, The lgbt l L Queer Comedy Festival announced their lineup. Co founder Ryan Rodgers said, while extremists try to erase us, we’re making it impossible to ignore us.

Comedy has always been a form of resistance, and right now, queer joy is revolutionary. This year’s festival is more than a celebration. It’s a rally cry against censorship, discrimination, and the silencing of lgbtqia plus stories. This festival runs May twenty ninth through June first in New Orleans, kicking off Pride Month. Your headliner is Corey O’Brien, Paris Sachet, and Gabby Watts.

More than one hundred comedians from across America apply to perform to do a couple of reviews of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Still haven’t heard from Booblitz. I don’t know if the Melbourne, Florida National Comedy Festival twenty twenty six is happening or not. Dan’s probably one of those guys that catches up and listens to like seven episodes in a row, and all of a sudden hear himself called out every day for a week. Aye, Dan, all right, The Age has been hitting all the shows in Melbourne.

I haven’t figured out a way to get down there. You know, I could probably go down there and write it off, but I’d have to, you know, work it out with the family here, Like, Hey, I’m going to Melbourne for a comedy festival for months. See you who’s watching the dogs exactly. Tom McCusker’s show is b Gay Do Crime, Gay Spell Gae. The Age gave it four and a half stars out of five and tell us about dom from being born and raised in Hong Kong and living in the UK or Filipino Scottish upbringing and unique adoptive family to coming out as bisexual and even keeping the youth entertainment on a tall ship without the Internet.

Tom McCusker really has lots of detales to tell. Dressed in a pirate themed outfit, Dom opens to the show with a lovely solo shanty to the tune of Last Saskatchewan Pirate. See this all sounds like a lot of fun richeld. Each shanty has two sets of lyrics to form the chorus. At the start of each shanty, Dom sings through the first two lines with some call and response called toosies twosies.

How it works is Dom sings the first two lines, you and the audience sing back, and then finish the chorus off for the last two lines. That’s fun. Sarah Pesco’s show is called I Am a Strange Goop. As for Sarah, she’s gotten married and had two kids. She’s a family woman now and she wants to talk about it.

The age says, in most cases, yawn. Is that some commentary on like what’s going on with a lot of American women comics around age forty right now? I don’t know that’s the age in most cases? Yeah, and the audience really doesn’t care about them. Of your domestic life with the nocturnal bubbs and a man who feigns ignorance to escape chers.

We’ve heard that one a thousand times, but not in Pasco’s adroit hands. She waves mirth out of monotony. Be it the allure of polygamy simply to divide housework, or the juxtaposition of sexual inclinations of both men and women once they hit their forties. Four stars. They gave that one and let’s do one more.

Lil Winker’s show is called Bang That Tale. Lil Winker’s name Real bank Tail, jumps into character as Alan, aka the Baddest man in Texas. Strets on the stage in leather chaps, face a dorn with drawn eyebrows and a mustache. This show as well, has audience participation. You could find yourself portraying a heifer, a cactus, the saloon doors, or the nemesis This one woman clown at Western Blinds.

Physical comedy and silliness and a tightly constructive narrative. They gave it four stars. That’s a lot of fun too, And that is your comedy news for today. If you like the program without commercials five bucks a month commercials go away link in the show notes, or if you’re on Apple Podcast, click that link that says uninterrupted listening and you and the phone can work all that out meet you back here tomorrow,

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Featured: Tony Hinchcliffe, Bill Burr, Eddie Vedder, Seth Meyers, Conan O’Brien, Nate Bargatze, Colin Jost

What’s in This Episode

• Petition against Kill Tony on Netflix with over 20,000 signatures
• Ted Sarandos defends comedy as an art form requiring freedom to experiment
• Tony Hinchcliffe WWE WrestleMania roast event April 20th
• Bill Burr reconciles with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam at SNL 50
• Conan O’Brien accepts Mark Twain Prize despite initial hesitation
• Nate Bargatze film debut in family comedy The Breadwinner releasing March 2026
• Colin Jost rumored to host regular Jeopardy based on Pop Culture Jeopardy success

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, if you sign the petition yet, Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Over twenty thousand people have signed a petition to get kill Tony off Netflix. That horrible kill Tony with his amateur comedians doing one minute of comedy and then getting slammed. You know, they put their names in a hat and didn’t get forced to perform this comedy and then kill Tony and his mean cohorts made fun of them.

Sign the petition. It’s at move on dot org. Ted Sarandos, he’s the Netflix boss. He recently did Beyond the Stream a conversation with Ted Serrandos, a big time event, and he said, I knew that the art form itself, comedy always needed a safe place to try things out. Comedians to find the culture in a bunch of ways, and they do that by figuring out where the lines are and what the joke is.

It’s the only art form that you know is working because it’s defined by the audience. If the audience laughed at work, you can’t. That’s not funny if eighteen thousand people are laughing. But what if twenty thousand people have signed an online petition. You could say you disagree with it.

You could say that it offends you, you could say that it hurts you. But you can’t say it’s not funny. If someone wants to stand on the street corner and talk on they want, that’s not a Netflix show. If you’re attracting a large audience and people are laughing at the work and it’s jokes, they’re just jokes. At the end of the day, I think if we lose our ability to laugh at ourselves, we’re in trouble.

You look back at Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Richard Pryor. It’s amazing we’re having this debate about sensory comedians today. Sarando’s added that Chappelle is clearly in that class. You might not like all the jokes, but there’s no denying this is one of the greatest comedians of our time. Kill Tony out on Netflix.

Speaking of kill Tony, who you know is just ruining comedy apparently, go on threads. It’s just going threads and type in Tony Hinchcliff and see what you find. Tony Hinchcliffe has another Giggy’s teaming up with those wrestling people I missed this one when I was in Ireland. Tony and the WWE are working together on the roast of WrestleMania featuring Tony Hinchcliff and Friends April twentieth, ten pm West, as part of WrestleMania Week. Often remember to check out the WWE show and see if Tony makes an appearance.

Netflix is using the wrestling to do crossovers, very very smart. Now, this press release is pretty favorable towards Tony writing Hinchcliffe, the internationally renowned comedian, one of the top roasters in the world, and the mastermind behind kill. Tony will bring together top comics and entertainers for an unforgettable night of laughs and huge surprises. Some of the WWE superstars joining are Sammy Zain, the Miz Braun, Strowman, and Paul Hayman. And I probably got at least two of those pronunciations wrong.

Play a good wrestling podcast out there, this is not one of them. Sadly, the event will be non televised. Why they why you to go to this thing? Huh? Can’t you record it and show it to us?

Let’s see how much tickets are here ticket Master. I could get in right now. A very so I’d resale ticket one one hundred and thirty five dollars. That’ll get you in section four zero one. Not awful.

Hopefully they’ll change their mind and televise this thing. Bill Burr. Still in the news, Burr went on Seth Myers, which, Hey, Seth, By the way, if somebody offers you that SNL job, grab it. I’m just telling you. I’m telling you just grab it while it’s there.

Don’t wait too long, Seth asked Bill Burr. If Burt was able to mend fences with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, they were sitting together at SNL fifty, Burst said, I did in good nature. I was like, man, I hated your band. You edit my thing. Burr, like some of us of a certain age, liked the old time rock and roll that went from I don’t know, Chuck Berry all the way up until I think the last album is officially the Guns and Roses album, and then you know, the Pearl Jams came in and did other stuff with the Nirvanas and all that.

You kids today and your music, Burs said. Vetter was cracking up. I go to you know how long it took me to admit how great a band Pearl Jam is because now I love them, But it was twenty years ago and I was like, I’m not listening to these guys. Burr explains, I was watching all hair metal ice bands. I was loving them, and they were on the countdown.

Then Nirvana came in and I was like, what’s this? They would say Nirvana knocked it out. It was Pearl Jam. When Pearl Jam came there was another one of those grunge Seattle bands, and that’s when I was like, oh my god, this isn’t ending. They’re just gonna keep coming.

Then all my band skid Row, all of them were gone. It was just the sad guy singing about being on our bridge not being happy, and I’m like, what happened to? Nothing but a good time and ignoring all your problems with cocaine? Right like that was all over. On his own podcast, Burr recently explained that Vedder told him he was glad that Burr came around.

He was actually asking white metal bands I listened to and we got to talk baseball. What a sweetheart of a guy. Conan O’Brien revealed he considered not going to the Kennedy Center to accept his Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on his own pod, Cone and said there was a question of should I go should I not go? And I felt like it was important to show up. Johnny Max trying really hard not to be political on the podcast.

I don’t know if you guys followed the news. I’ll let you follow the news on your own. It’s really hard not to talk about, you know, the thing and the stuff con had said. First of all, we were brought in under the old regime. The people who brought me in and no longer there, but I thought we honored their decision.

Conan said, I didn’t have the strong urge to die afterwards. It’s like, what are you gonna do now? But then I realized, oh it’s on Netflix. People will see it, they’ll forget. I need to get the next prize.

I’m glad they recorded that evening because if there wasn’t a recording of it, I wouldn’t believe it. My love, and thanks to everybody who came out. I mean really busy. People flew across the country to be there, and I’ll never forget it as long as I live. I think we knew this already but more confirmation that Nate Brigetzi will make his film debut with the family comedy The Breadwinner.

Nate describes The Breadwinner in the vein of Mister Mom and Home Alone. It will be out March thirteenth, twenty twenty six. Get online for tickets now before they sell out. Nate says, it’s going to be hard to make something and then have to wait to see it. I’m used to immediate reactions.

Plus I don’t know the first thing about making a movie. I’m excited to figure it all out, what works, what’s funny when he’s tweaking. It’s gonna be a whole new world, and I can’t wait to learn. Nate talked about the changing landscape of comedy. When I was coming up, comedians out a system.

I was in New York. You do eight minutes on Comedy Central Live at Gotham, then you do a half hour special. Eventually you get an hour. There was a clear path. You were always worse looking towards.

There are rumors from Radar Online that they want to give regular Jeopardy to Colin Jost. A source says the ratings for Jeopardy have been very hit or miss so of course they’re looking to make some changes. The most important thing to understand what the franchise right now is that Colin’s hosting efforts on Pop Culture Jeopardy represent a major creative and business win for the studio, and it’s working out better than anybody anticipated. The show is a word of mouth phenomenon, is it? Are people like, Hey, did you see Colin Jost on Pomp Culture Jeopardy?

I mean losers hosting podcasts in their basement will occasionally mention it, but I haven’t seen any actual civilians talk about that show, have you. The show is a word of mouth phenomenon, and it’s brought a load of young new fans into the Jeopardy universe. If it were possible from a business perspective to just hire Colin as the full time nightly host, the studio would do it in a heartbeat and replace Jennings in the process. But Colin continues to be under contract at SNL and he still wants to live full time in New York City. Well, I got news for you.

The buzz is off SNL. Although if I were Colin, I would say at that news desk, as long as Lauren will have me. That’s a nice steady visible gig Ai is telling me Jeopardy tapes five episodes a day on two days of taping every other week, resulting in approximately two hundred and thirty new episodes. So I can solve this for everybody, Okay, and no offense, Ken Jennings. But hey, how about in the summer, will film like three days a week for like a month, and then when SNL’s on, will film on Monday and Tuesday.

Hear me out in New York. Yeah, we could build a set in New York and film it there. That will solve everyone’s problems. And Colin Jost, if somebody offers you the Jeopardy job, take it. You can do that for thirty years.

You see what Drew Carries doing over there, nice steady work. Seacrest, they were like Wheel of Fortune and great by the way, you know how you know Ryan Seacrest is doing a great job on Wheel of Fortune. Nobody talks about it. That’s exactly what you want. You don’t want anyone having a conversation like Colin jose to take over Wheel of Fortune.

See, you don’t want that conversation going. No one is talking about Seacrest no one is complet anything about Drew Carrey Colin. If they offer you this gig, no offense, Ken Jennings, take it and someone else do the math. Okay, SNL wraps up what may so say. In June, we taped three days a week, and then we did Monday and Tuesday while SNL’s on and Colin can hang out with Scarlet and go on vacation in July and August.

You know, at some point you gotta work, Colin, But you know, two full months off and we could make this work. Phil Wang comedian I really dig. He’s hosting the BAFTA Game Awards. He’s a lifelong gamer. He started with the Sega Saturn in the mid nineties.

Nube I had the old Pong games before the Atari. I mean I had an Atari, a Klico, a Nintendo with the robot and the gun. I don’t want to hear about you people that came later got a Sega Genesis. By the way, I still have always have a Colleco vision. I can go upstairs right now and get a Colleco vision.

If you want to play Donkey Kong. It’s sitting in the closet next to the Atari. Twenty six hundred. I’ve got PlayStation one, two, three, four and five. I only got on the XP this generation because I liked my PlayStations.

Honestly, this generation, I’m spending all my time on the Xbox because of game Pass PlayStation. I think it’s a better machine. But you know, no games or games on the game Pass or quote unquote free as opposed to making me pay seventy dollars. I digress. Phil Wang’s games were Rome, Total War, h Vampires and Theme Park Tycoon that makes Johnny Mac want to bust out sim City.

Phil said, I’m so thrilled to be returning as host of this year’s BAFTA Games Awards. Last year’s show is such an uplifting celebration of this incredible industry. Looking forward to continuing in that spirit and honoring another year of superb games. I played games all my life. Blah blah blah statement statement.

The ceremony today in London. It’ll be streamed live on BAFTA’s YouTube channel and on Twitch if you want to watch.

Speaking of Phil, he is one of those comedians making fun of Megan Markle, th…

And on the recent episode they all made fun of Megan. If you’re not paying attention, Meghan has a new podcast out today, which is great because I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast and we will make fun of Meghan’s podcast, Endless easy Content. I will barely have to work this week because Megan will put out something that people will make fun of and we’ll report on they’re making fun of. If you want to keep up on the royal family, especially Megan, this week Palace Intrigue wherever you get your shows. So there’s the crew on Have I Got News for You?

They showed a mocked up image of Megan wearing a chef’s hat while making jam. Yes, she’s selling designer jam. And by the way, we’ve learned through the reporting on Valace Intrigue, it’s officially not jam. It’s officially fruit spread FDA something something not enough something to qualify as official jam according to government standards. So she’s not even making jam, she’s making fruit spread.

This is how much fun Palace Intrigue is because we get into that kind of nonsense. Team Captain Ian Hislop Boy, Jenny Mexican, and all the names wrong today. Ian said her jam immediately sold out, which I thought was good unless there are only two jars. Phil Wang got in on this. He made fun of Megan’s beekeeping.

Did you see Megan going beekeeping on her Netflix show? There she held each honeycomb like it was covered in crap, and she’s like, I love coming out and getting in touch with nature, but you could see she was about to throw up. Amber Ruffin said she’s glad that she’s not doing the White House Correspondents Dinner. She was on the American version of Have I Got News for You? She told that panel I could talk for the next three hours.

What I choose to say is it’s like I lost the gig because I was out here talking crap. And I think it’s a good thing that I lost the gig because I wasn’t going to show up there and act all the way out. It’s not anyone’s fault because when we were hired, I was like, oh yeah, and we’ll give it to everybody. Ruffin says she would have had a hard time biting her tongue. Telling CNN’s panel they started disappearing people to prison in El Salvador.

They wrote back civil rights, so I was like, if we make this equal, then I’m also a piece of crap. I cain’t effing do that. Poor Jeff Ross was in the hospital. He had an allergic reaction to eating ice cream. He shared some photos.

He said it was his first allergic reaction ever, and he joked that despite looking like Mickey Rourke at the end of the wrestler, he’d be back on stage soon. Jeff explained on social media. I had a fun opening night performance of his tour. Take a banana for the ride up here in Mill Valley, California. Afterwards, me and the band celebrated with some Barrata ice cream at a restaurant down the street, courtesy of the nice owner.

It was delicious, seriously yummy. Despite the yummy dessert, his lips quickly blew up. Jeff won up in an EERI spent the night. It’s my first allergic reaction ever. I guess that’s pretty remarkable considering I’m constantly shoving whatever food is in front of me into my face.

Thank you to the overnight shift at the Marine Health Medical Center for only roasting me lightly. Oh my goodness, I just checked the clock. Johnny Mac went super long there on the first half. But I am having fun. I like hanging out with you guys.

Hey, you know what it is? Over on five Daily Trivia Questions. This week it’s Villain’s Week. That’s right, it’s a theme week. Monday was Bond Villains.

I don’t know what today is. I only write the thing, but I forget what I scheduled. I think today’s Star Wars Ville. Anyway, I could tell you what they are. It’s Bond Star Wars movie.

Scary guys like Freddy Krueger. Like that’s one of the themes. Anyway, every day there’s five daily Trivia questions and this week’s theme is Villain’s Week. Check out five Daily Trivia Questions wherever you get your shows. Jay Leno said he almost backed out of an upcoming booking in Canada.

Jay I told everyone, I’m trying not to be political. There’s a lot going on, Jay, and people are very upset, and I don’t want to upset anybody. Jay. Why wouldn’t you go to Canada? Jay was on Berrew TV.

I’m sure I pronounced that right with Canadian journalist Bill Berrew. Late Night Reports, Jay said I was almost not gonna do these Canadian dates because I didn’t want to be the ugly American coming in. Jay made fun of his recent fall down a hill, saying it’s been great for ticket sales. Tonight at the Nashville Comedy Festival six o’clock show, Dusty Slighs show is called Dusty Slays six o’clock perfect. Dusty Sleigh at six o’clock perfect.

I could see a comedy show, have two beers head out the door at seven forty and be in bed by eight fifteen. Amazing. I love this comedy festival. Jared Freed’s also at the Lab and Zanies at seven. Over at the Ryman, Nateland presents pretty good line up here, Ryan Hamilton, longtime listeners know I dig Ryan Hamilton, Dustin Nickerson, derk Stroop, Lace Larrabie, Mia Jackson, Paula Kazinski, and special host Aaron Weber.

Boy, you’d make me choose between Dusty and a bigger show at the Ryman. I would go see Dusty and then I could be home early. At Zane’s at eight fifteen That Deprived, hosted by Lewis J. Gomez, Big Jay Ogreson, Robert Kelly and Zach Amiko on that one nine to fifteen story Wars with Big Jay and Gomez. That’s at the Lab and Zanies.

Nikki Glaser is at the Ryman. No, No, that’s tomorrow. I could delat it, but that’s not fun. Nikki Glaser not at the Ryman. If you’re at the Ryman and you’re like, hey, Johnny Max said, Nikki Glaser is here tonight, she’s not.

Sometimes it’s just more fun not to edit things out. And le’s talk about the Melbourne Comedy Festival because there’s so many reviews. It’s such a big festival and if I don’t start doing these, I’m never going to get to them. Josh Glank did a show called Family Man. He’s at the Chinese Museum until April twentieth.

By the way, Dan Booblitz, what’s going on with the Melbourne Florida International Comedy Festival twenty six? Are you on this or not? Text me? You texted me like last week. You’ve got my number.

Don’t act like you don’t have my number. You texted me. The Ah tells us Josh Clang’s a Family Man is a ritous hour of musical comedy, audience interaction, and lanyard appreciation. His preacher man and French pervert characters keep the pace of the show lively and allow for a surprising multimedia callback that has everyone in the room glad they spent their heart earned money on this clown. Clown being a compliment four Stars Gary Stars show is called Classic Penguins.

He’s at the malt House until April twentieth. He can sing, he can dance, he can perform an entire show without pants. That’s one of the lesser known Doctor Seuss books. By the way, the Age tells us Scary Stars. Humor is physical, silly, and uproarious.

The interpretations are mostly literal riffs on titles. Moby Dick, for example, or Around the World in eighty days. Around the World in eighty days was one of the trivia questions last week from the Trivia Guys on Wednesday. I’ll see you guys tomorrow night. Trivia Guys, Best Men Trivia there if you’re like, if you live somewhere near New Jersey, look up and you want trivia guys Hire the Best Men Trivia Guys.

I don’t know how far they travel. Maybe we’ll book them at the Melbourne, Florida International Comedy Festival in twenty six. Get on that booblets, So I just actually pause there. I’m really impressed by my microphone. It is not picking up the barking dog.

Let’s driving me nuts as I’m recording here. She does not care. Then I have a podcast. I think if you boost your volume the ninety nine you might be able to hear her. But say you were in the basement talking about comedy shows in Melbourne, you would be able to hear her.

Believe me, just take my word for it. And I guess she’s not going to stop. So that’s it. You could have had a couple more Melbourne stories, but you’re not getting them now because Johnny Mac needs to go upstairs and be like, what are we barking at? The answer is going to be nothing, but I gotta go do it.

See you tomorrow.