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Caloroga Shark Media Busy one Today. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We are nine days out from Saturday Night Live’s fiftieth anniversary special. They’ve announced the first round of guests. It includes several frequent hosts The Five Timers Club, Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Scarlett Johansson, Paul Simon, Martin Short and Woody Harrelson.

Also set to appear Adam Driver, Io Eda Bury, Bad Bunny Okay, Dave Schappelle, John Mulani, Kim Kardashian, of course, Miley Cyrus, Paul McCartney, Pedro Pascal Peyton Manning, Quinta Brunson, Robert de Niro, and Sabrina Carpenter. With that list, maybe Amy Schumer will get invited. Who knows. More guests will be announced in the days leading up to the special. Now because of the special, this is fun if you’re a Letterman fan like me.

Paul Schaeffer and the World’s Most Dangerous Band are returning to NBC. They will fill in for The Roots next week on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon because the Roots are off working on SNL fifty. The Roots will be the house band for SNL fifty, the homecoming concert on Friday Night, a week from tonight. Paul Schaeffer told Billboard, I’ll be reuniting the world’s most dangerous band for four super fun shows with Jimmy. We hope to finally get right all the mistakes we made with Dave.

They did this once before they were the Tonight shows fill in band once in February of twenty twenty three when the Roots were in La attending the Grammy Awards. Prior to becoming Lutterman’s musical director, Paul Schaeffer was a member of the SNL band for most of its first five years, So that’s all fun. Sticking with late nights. This got announced on probably a too busy of a day to announce it. I hope this doesn’t get swallowed, but the Night of Too Many Stars is coming back.

Night of Too Many Stars benefits Next for Autism, a nonprofit organization that creates and supports programs for people with autism. Was founded by Robert Smigel aka Triumph in two thousand and three following his son’s autism dyke gnosis. Night of Too Many Stars March thirty first will include great lineup here, Ronny Chieng, James Austin Johnson, the police don’t destroy guys, Chris Rock unfortunately, Adam Sandler probably doing comedy. Hopefully he’ll just do a dramatic reading of one of his serious movies and hopefully doesn’t do any comedy. And please, for the love of God, do not do a song.

Sarah Sherman and Max Weinberg. John Stewart will be your host. Now. For some reason, this next group of people don’t make the initial paragraphs, so apparently they are not as famous as the first group. So group two Alex Edelman, Susie Smon, Jeff Gorland, Sam Merrill and quote too many more to come.

That’s exciting, and keep an eye on that one in the four spot today And normally this would be the lead off. That’s why I’m saying it’s such a busy day. The Moontower Comedy Festival announced its full lineup Moontower April ninth through April nineteenth. We are told at the Paramount Theater you’ll see Chris DiStefano. The Paramount will also host performances from Alex Edelman and Janelle James.

Over at the State Theater, Pauli s ke sure and Kay Trevor Wilson. He’s a fantastic Canadian comedian who should be on your radar. I like him a lot.

Also a partner.

N Surla previously announced Adam Ray’s Doctor Phil Live. One of my favorite things of last year, otsco At Kotzka. I think she’s fantastic. The not so canceled Aziz. I’m sorry, I’m not really a fan there for many reasons.

Brad Williams, Hank Azaria and the Eazy Street Band. You’re still doing that, Hank Okay, Janine Garoffalo, John Waters, Maria Bamford, Pete Holmes, Tiffany Hattish, zarnagarg and Moore. I had pulled up the website here just so we could take a quick look at the calendars. Let me just skim this quick, so April ninth, Edelman, Aparna Aziz, Kate Trevor, April tenth, Azaria, Pauli Shore, Aziz, Kay, Trevor the eleventh, Caitlin Riley, May Martin, Pauli Schore, christ Stefano the twelfth, Josh Johnson, Ricky Lindholm, Handsome Live, which is take nataro Fortune, Fimestir May Martin, I Guess recording their podcast there and Josh Johnson April thirteenth, Tiffany Hattish the fifteenth, Brad Williams the sixth has a couple group shows plus Maria Bamford and Morgan j Oh, yeah, it really kicks in there. Oh, there are a ton of shows here, all right.

I’m not going to read all these so you get the idea. Hit Austintheatre dot org if you want to get the full schedule, or do what I did and google Moon Tower Comedy schedule and it will come up. It is Super Bowl weekend. In The New York Post caught up with Jeff Ross. He’s doing a Beacher’s Madhouse show.

The Post tells us Beacher’s Manhouse revolutionized live entertainment and first debut at the Theater at MSG in two thousand and two. It is a circus like show that can’t be properly explained without being experienced, although Jeff Ross said it’s a circus inside a comedy show, inside a Pride parade, inside an orgy, inside Super Bowl weekend, all that wrapped up in a one hilarious, amazing night. Ross says Beacher treated me like I was famous before I was famous. That’s one of the reasons we’re friends. On Gossip Corner, TMZ has an update on that Corey Holcom story.

TMZ rides. Christina Paine says Corey Holcomb is lying about their physical altercation outside a popular club. TMZ writes she says he hit her and not the other way around, as Corey’s now claiming TMZ did their TMZ thing, and says our photographer asked her about Corey’s recent legal filing, which was a restraining order request where he ledged she sucker punched him. Christina tells TMZ Corey is flipping the narrative when he’s really the attacker here. Christina claims she’s been beefing with Corey for a dozen years, ever since he offered her a job on a radio show, and says she rebuffed his sexual advances.

She says he threatened to super sock this b word back in June, and she says she has witnesses who heard his alleged threat. We’ll keep an eye on this one, and it was a lot more fun to talk about when we were speculating on why or why not Corey Holcomb’s wrist was broken. A lad Bible covered a story. Apparently Natalie Cuomo got into it with a hackler, and this went somewhat viral eight hundred and sixty five thousand views on TikTok. As the story goes, Natalie was closing out her weekend shows in DC when someone in the front row hit back after she joked that this little man was in a relationship with his friend.

Apparently, Cuomo kept a cool the guy kepped commenting, She amped up and said, there’s so many people coming together to be supportive, and you’re putting negative. The report says. She then continued as she took to shouting in his face, saying, no, look me in the eyes. You’re putting negative effing energy out there. This is the last show my effing weekend.

Look at me in the effing eyes. It’s a sold out show, and you want to say mean stuff to me, don’t effing do that. The audience member ended up leaving and texted his friend to call Cuomo a effing clown. Cuomo read out his messages, including I did warn you I would get kicked out. Okay.

One audience member said I’ve never seen a comedian scream at an audience member because they’re being heckled comedians that can’t take a joke is actually so cringe. Others were more supportive. Let’s head on over to Rotten Tomatoes and check in on Amy Schumer’s Kind of Pregnant. I debuted with a fifteen percent score, with only thirteen reviews from critics generating that score, So the score could fluctuate, could get up into the high nineties, could happen. The audience score started at twenty seven percent, with over one hundred fans weighing in on The film got a press release.

I’m reading this because it’s just vaguely interesting to me. It involves Joe Rogan’s club, so the press release reads. Squat Up, a leading provider of white labeled ticketing and event management solutions, today announced its newest partnership with Comedy Mothership, Joe Rogan’s Austin based flagship comedy club blah blah blah blah. So I’m curious to see what they’re humble bragging about. Mobile first ticketing simplified purchasing and check in processes designed to enhance audience convenience.

Yeah, and then they probably make me put my phone in a bag. Thanks guys. Custom branding a ticketing experience that reflects Comedy Mothership’s unique identity. Fine, this is interesting. I think we could see a lot more of this coming up.

Personalized delayed delivery q R ticket codes. That’s to guard against reseller price gouging. So you know, you clowns that buy Taylor Swift tickets and then think you’re going to resell them for a trillion dollars. If Taylor finds out about this technology, all right, that’s interesting. On site support professional assistants to ensure a smooth experience for both guests and staff at every event.

Real time insights are tools to help organizers optimize operations and gain valuable insights into audience behavior and patron experiences. Sounds to me like we’re tracking you so we can make some more money. Jody Borton is the general manager of Comedy Mothership and said live comedy thrives on making connections and creating lasting memories for all pardicipants. Partnering with squad Up allows us to bring that level of personalization, along with the highest quality experience to Comedy Motherships. Event ticketing as a unique intimate venue that reaches global audiences.

We’re excited to be providing this value to fans regularly visiting from around the country, end world that it’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you have found this via the relatively new twenty four to seven YouTube loop, it’s an audio podcast. There’s no video.

I think you’ve figured that out by now. The audio version comes out at three oh five am eater seven days a week. Grab a podcast app and hit follow, or if you’re on YouTube, hit subscribe. All good, appreciate y’ all. Thank you all for listening.

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Caalarogashark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ll talk about Andy Schumer’s movie in the second half. Let’s start with Joe Rogan. There’s been some back and forth on what went down or didn’t go down with Kamala Harris not appearing on Rogan’s podcast.

I had mentioned the other day about a book, and according to Rogan, those books authors never reached out to Rogan for his side of the story. Joe said, they supposedly talked to one hundred and fifty people about this, but they didn’t talk to us. That’s kind of crazy. Joe explained his version of what went down. Here’s a lengthy clip.

I have made some edits to it for pacing. It’s a five minute clip that I’ve cut down for f bombs. I try and avoid those on this program. And the guest stepped on Joe Rogan a few times as Joe spoke. But let’s listen to Joe.

This is how it worked. Trump was really easy to book, like super easy. We offered one day. He said, yes, that was it. There was no what are we going to talk about?

How long is it going to be? Is it going to be edited. There was nothing. What’s the waiver here, give me that waiver? Sign it.

It was so easy. So he was already booked. They never committed to doing the show. So all this talk, there was another thing. They said that the reason why they did the Beyonce thing, the Beyonce event in Houston, was so that they could be in Texas to do my show.

They never agreed to do the show. None of that’s true. This was really important. Even after Trump went on, they offered for me to come to DC and do a show with Kamala. But even then it was the same deal.

It was only like forty five minutes to an hour, and you know, it was not on my set. And I said that, look, he did it here, we should probably do it here, like if it’s possible to do it here. Obviously, when he did it, it had an enormous result. I’m willing to do the same thing for her. I wanted to release both of them on the same day.

This was my goal. I was even trying to figure out if there was a way that I could do it, and I even offered to do it late that night. So the night that Trump came on, I’m like what if we do her like when she’s done in Texas, if she came here, but no one ever committed to doing it. This is really important because they keep pretending that I lied, or I did this or I did that. No one, they never committed to doing it.

We offer it, we went through. I’ve got a whole by the way, we have all the receipts. By the way, of course, I have a whole list of conversations that took place. They never said she was going to do it, But I think it’s someone trying to cover their ass for the fact that she never did it, and if she did do it, it might have had a positive effect. Nate Burgetzi’s doing a cruise with fans next year.

It’s called Nateland at Sea. It’ll sail from Tampa to Coasta Maya, Mexico, from February fifth through the ninth, so one year away. It will feature quotes a slew of comedians, along with live music and even magic before by Nate’s dead. Resale tickets for the cruise are February ninth and February sixteenth. The public sale begins February nineteenth.

The comedians include John Christ, Dusty Sleigh and Derek Stroop. There will also be a Southern Spelling Bee and a belly flop contest. The cruise starts at twelve eighty two per person based on double occupancy. In case you’re curious, The fair includes on board meals, drinks like regular coffee and non press juices, the comedy shows and more. We’re told to prepare to laugh until your side’s hurt as we cruise our way to sunny Mexico.

Matt Rife and Paul Elia have announced a new Low Key comedy series. It’ll premiere on February sixteenth on Patreon. Low Ki sees Matt and Paul act as hosts of a night of comedy, mainly improving their material along the way. They’ll introduce a number of other stand up comedians who will do the same. This one was recorded during the twenty twenty four and Netflix as a Joke Festival.

Pretty Good lineup Whitney Cummings, Fahim Anwar, Ian Edwards Lunel, Francisco Ramos and t J. Miller. The whole thing was directed by Eric Griffin. Carol Leefer is the guest on the Daily Beasts Good One podcast. Carol’s a name known to us older folks who are around in the eighties.

You younger folks probably don’t know the name. Some say she was the inspiration for the Alain character on the Seinfeld sitcom, and The Daily Beast asked her about that, and she said, well, I know Jerry has said that. Look, we have a unique relationship. We dated early on at the beginning of my stand up career in the beginning of his, and since then we really only went out for a year or so, but we’ve stayed very good friends. And I think in them talking about the genius of the show, to have the woman on the show who’s not only a friend but some of that Jerry once dated makes for an interesting relationship.

So in that regard, if you’re like, yeah, maybe I was the inspiration, Sure sounds like it to me. Amber Ruffin will be this year’s host of the White House Correspondents Dinner. A spokesperson said Amber’s unique talents are the ideal fit for this current political and cultural climate. Her perspective will fit right in with the dinner’s tradition of honoring the freedom of the breast while roasting the most powerful people on all sides of the isle. And the journalists who cover them.

It is unclear if President Trump will make this one. During his first term, he did not attend the dinner. There are those that believe that it was a White House correspondents to dinner many moons ago when President Obama made some jokes about Trump, and it was at that moment Trump decided to run for office himself to get back at everybody. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but that’s how the story goes. Late Night I wrote about Desi Leiitick hosting The Daily Show, and I think she should actually be the host.

Desi told Late Night her I watched John and all the corresponds on the show all through my twenties, and I thought, this is what I want to do for her character. She says, I like to say I’m overly confident and underinformed. Not that she’s not smart, but she didn’t do her homework. She explains, when you host, you’re a version of yourself. You have to bring a certain amount of authenticity to just throw away the armor of a character that was the part of the unknown for me.

Can I do the job just be funny as myself? It makes no sense at all. That I would feel comfortable doing this, but for some reason I do. My goal every time I set at the desk is just to be present, Just be in the moment. That’s my little mantra before going out there.

So far, I’ve been able to just enjoy every moment of it. Does He explained some advice she got from John Stewart. It’s not about abandoning your humanity and your empathy. Don’t put pressure on yourself to be the resistance, to say the perfect thing to respond every story. Just go out there and try to make the funniest and smart to shows you can, and don’t abandon your humanity.

People ask me how we’re going to cover Trump two point zero. I say, we don’t even know what we’re going to cover tonight. It’s so volatile. Stars and Stripes caught up with Joe Koy. He was touring military bases in Guam and Japan.

Joe said, when I go out there and know how much the show means to these people, this is my way of saying thank you to those who serve I get to be a comic around the world because you guys are making that happen for me. Sometimes people will take things for granted, we don’t take pride in what we got. And that’s the one thing I love about these service members. They’re proud of what they do, They’re proud of their bases, and they’re proud of their people. Each base was like this big giant show and tell, and they went above and beyond.

It was just incredible. You may recall Joe Cooy when sostud the Golden Globes and told the joke about Taylor Swift. Jack Whitehall has joined the list of people who say Prince Harry ghosted them after Megan Markle showed up. The British comedian once considered themselves good friends with Prince Harry when Harry was a bachelor. Jack told an Australian radio show that he wasn’t quite in the inner circle.

We had a few wild nights out with Prince Harry. Jack’s father, Michael, has previously suggested that Jack’s Royal exile might have something to do with a joke he made at the twenty fifteen Royal Variety performance where he called Harry Ginger nuts. As I’ve mentioned from time to time, I’m the writer on the Palace Intrigue podcast. We talk about the British Royals seven days a week, and yeah, we’re gonna talk about this story. Sure, okay.

Amy Schumer wanted us to talk about her, and so we shall. Let’s start with the reviews. Stay with me for this whole segment because I need you to hear my complete thoughts here before you just decide, Oh, John, just be to go, buddaby Shooter. I will start with the Hollywood Reporter, which is an industry trade and generally positive about everything. Their headline, kind of Pregnant review Amy Schumer’s Netflix comedy is kind of dull.

Most of the headlines did some sort of kind of pun. The hollyod Reporter writes there’s a version of this story that finds complexity in surprise heart and the concept, but kind of Pregnant prefers to stay on the surface. That shaloness puts more pressure on the comedy, which is challenging because Kind of Pregnant is not exceptionally funny either. Most of the lasts come from the sporting characters, and for all its good intentions, the movie is so formulaic that it verges on dull. We know that Laney will eventually be find out, but the narrative struggles to keep us curious, and the direction can’t recoup the lost momentum.

The results is a film that not only seems on sure if its purpose, but loses steam before it ever really gets going. Leisurebite dot com their headline kind of Pregnant review less comedy, more secondhand embarrassment. They write, with a cast as wonderful as this, this film could have done a lot better by utilizing them to the fullest, but all we get is a film that’s simply a waste of time for viewers. There’s no flow in the way things play out, no chemistry between the characters, a messy sex scene, fake characters that only spoil the whole mood, and more. There is more downside to this film than there is any good, which only pushes forth our disappointment.

Kind of Pregnant is the kind of film you’d rather skip than give a watch. Despite the wonderful cast, the overall picture is a mess and something that’s only fit to watch where there’s nothing else to watch. Two stars out of five. Film Feeder gave it a one out of five, saying mind numbingly predictable as it is, you can tell from the moment Schumer’s character begins wearing her fake bump, that the truth will out at some point, as it often does in film centered around a big, fat lie. They write, it isn’t even how desperately unfunny it is, with plenty of physical gags that border on ridiculous, and some set pieces where the biggest jokes are heavily telegraphed, in between scenes that rely on people acting overly weird and simply shouting every other line for comedic effect, as is the Happy Mass in Way.

Rather, it’s the fact that such a badly constructed script has come from Schumer herself, a far cry from her earlier and much funnier works ten or so years ago. The Guardian gave it two out of five. Their headline kind of pregnant review. I am Mey Schumer’s Netflix comedy is kind of disappointing, they write. Let me be clear, I’m always rooting for Amy Schumer, though sometimes she makes it difficult.

When she’s good, she’s great for the most part. That was on inside Amy Schumer kind of pregnant. Please with the hit. Schumer’s known for shameless physical comedy, frank discussion of bodies, brash, refusal to play good girl, but feel stuck in the past, unable to generate new sparks. There’s just not that much funny to be found here.

And you’ll probably see a review in your local newspaper. This is all sourced from the same place with the Associated Press. This one came up a lot in my search in many local newspapers against sourcing the AP. They gave it two and a half stars out of four. They wrote, and this is the best review I saw again, two and a half out of four.

Kind of pregnant is kind of good. Now I thought this was interesting. I hadn’t realized this. Director Tyler Spindel, is Adam Sandler’s nephew. Welcome to the business.

Everybody. Everybody knows somebody. Sandler is a producer on the film that his nephew directs. I will come back to that point. Tyler doesn’t do anything to advance the movie comedy, a languishing proposition in recent years with few screen exceptions, but he crucially gives his performers plenty of space to be themselves.

If Knocked Up captured the comedy of getting unexpectedly pregnant, kind of pregnant bodies, the pain of wishing you were okay. So, John, you obviously hate Amy Schumer and you’re just here to beat up on Amy Schumer. I get it. I get why you think that. Give me a second here.

My problem with Amy this week is how she went about promoting this. I just I don’t know. Maybe’am, maybe it’s just the middle aged dad in me. I didn’t need to know that you were trading favors with a baseball player. Remember that, that’s how we started promoting this.

I don’t need to know what you’re planning with your husband to do. The night before Valentine’s Day, the ozempic, it was just all like, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me. Well we looked, and the movie’s not good. I shared in the Facebook group. Back in twenty twelve, we were doing a town hall at Serious Exam.

I even found a still you could see me in the background. Lest you think I just make up stories on this podcast. So it was twenty twelve. We were doing a town hall for Carol Burnett and we needed someone to host it. And the idea was, Okay, let’s connect the generations.

Who is today’s Carol Burnett? And in twenty twelve we picked Amy Schumer and it went really well, did well in the press. I believe that’s the only time I worked with Amy. She’s fine, definitely wasn’t looking to be anybody’s friend. I remember her asking if she can have an office to go into the zone so that she could get her head into the right space to do the broadcast.

Not uncommon. Jim Brewery, who I spent a lot of time with over the years, I’ve explained, you know, he would do that before a live show. So not crazy that Amy went off by herself. But I’ve had other comedians who were like just hanging and then you turn the light on and they just go it’s neither here nor there. So I didn’t really spend a lot of time with her.

Definitely didn’t find her one of the most fun people I’ve ever spent time around, again because she was getting her head into the show. But as I was thinking about what I wanted to say today, I remembered we tried to hire her before that. I’ve lost track of the time. My number two at Sirius was this guy Rory who’s fantastic, and he had gotten my ear that we should hire this up and coming New York comedian Amy Schumer. And he convinced me this was a good idea, and I was on board with it, and we had agreed.

If I remember correctly, I’m going to say a dollar amount here. I haven’t said this, but you know it’s over a decade now at this time, Hey, bosses, I want to give Amy Schumer a once a week, one hour show. I need budget for it. Oh really, well, I’m not sure we have budget for it. How much is the dollar amount?

John, two hundred dollars? You see, back at the old place, we had our ears to the ground right, we would do this. People would be out the clubs, we’ll go up to the festivals. We would talk to other comedians. We were always ahead of the curve with who was going to be next, and Amy was on the next list, so we wanted to give her a show.

Now. Would Amy have continued to do a show fifteen years later for two hundred dollars a week? Of course not. But the idea was, let’s ride this for now and then at some point she’ll be like, hey, guys, I can’t do this anymore and we’ll all move on. But at that time that dollar amount made sense to me, to Rory and to whoever Rory was talking about in her camp.

The bosses wouldn’t give me the two hundred dollars. There’s one boss in particular, I remember having a conversation about such things, and he one day asked me to see if Chris Rock could do a comedy special for free, for free? You want him to do it for free? Yeah, you know, we’ll help promote his career. We’re gonna help promote Chris Rock’s career.

He’s gonna just burn an hour of material for free. Now, as the years went by, you probably heard reports of how much Chris Rock was paid by Netflix. Let me see if I can get an actual number. A twenty sixteen report in The Hollywood Reporter said, Chris Rock did a forty million dollar deal with Netflix. But Chris Rock is supposed to do raw Dock comedy of Favor for free.

You know we’re gonna promote his career, help Rock’s career. Oh boy, so I’m forty million dollars short of what I’m gonna need to pay Chris Rock. You think I get two hundred dollars a week. Two hundred dollars times fifty weeks a year, by the way, is ten grand assuming he does. I don’t know forty shows.

We’m talking about eight thousand dollars a here, guys for companies selling thirteen dollars subscriptions. But anyway, that show didn’t happen. So unless you come away this week going Johners hates Amy Schumer, John tried to hire Amy Schumer. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, what an exciting day. Amy Schumer’s Kind of Pregnant is out on Netflix today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Amy Schumer is kind of Pregnant.

Reviews are embargoed until today, so I don’t have any to share, But that tells me something. It means that Netflix is really really excited about these super positive reviews. They’re gonna get for it, and they wanted them to all come out today. Yeah, we’ll see. Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her, so we sure will today.

Let’s start with this piece and Decider by Anna Menta. Anna writes Amy Schumer peaked with her twelve Angry Men sketch from inside Amy Schumer. It’s been nearly a decade, but Amy Schumer still hasn’t topped her twelve Angry Men parody from twenty fifteen, and at this point, with former fans abandoning her in light of her recent controversial opinions, got to click on that. What are these controversial opinions again? Ah?

Yes, that links to the Independent. Why Amy Schumer’s Israel Gaza posts were corrected by Mlka’s daughter and an overwhelming lack of enthusiasm for her new Netflix movie, it seems plausible that she never will. I’m skimming through this, Ana meant to write Sin Schumer’s defense, It’s difficult for anything to best that near perfect comedy sketch. It aired as the third episode of the third season of Schumer’s Comedy Central series Inside Amy Schumer, which you can stream for free on Hulu. Typically, the show featured at least five short sketches per episode, but Twelve Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer broke format with a single black and white, eighteen minute long bit.

Over the next fifteen minutes or so, we see a character take on the role of Henry Fond as Twelve Angry Men character, He’s on a mission to a quit Schumer, not on the basis of reasonable doubt, but rather on the basis of reasonable chubb but meaning that each man in the room might, plausibly, under the right circumstances, find Amy Schumer attractive. What makes the sketch so brilliant, it writes Anna, in addition to the pitch perfect recreation of the original movie’s melodramatic tune, is that this is quite literally how the Internet sounds when talking about Schumer. It doesn’t seem to matter what else Schumer does to offend, and she does plenty. Another hyperlink, Let me click on that one. This one took me to BuzzFeed.

Amy Schumer doubled down on her Israel comments and it’s not great is that article? There will always be a man on the corner who simply must chime in to announce that he wouldn’t have sex with Amy. Nothing Schumer has done since has managed to find that perfect balance. A few months after Twelve Angry Men Inside Amy, Schumer aired Amy’s first movie, train Wreck, open in theaters. It’s easily her best film, though not quite as concise and clean as the sketch.

Still, twenty fifteen remained Schumer’s best air ouns. The year she won her first and only Emmy Award for Inside Amy Schumer, and she even snagged a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. And train Wreck and reminds us the review embargo for A Kind of Pregnant has not yet lifted. Never a great sign, but the general sentiment surrounding the movie seems tippid at best. We’ll get into the reviews tomorrow.

Amy popped by the View and confessed to scheduling sex with her husband. She wanted us all to know what she and her husband can planned to do for their upcoming wedding anniversary, which happens to fall the day before Valentine’s Day. She wants us to know, Well, actually, that’s the weekend of the SNL fiftieth anniversary special. So I think I get a plus one. Otherwise I’ll just ditch him.

She was joking. I believe no one is getting a plus one. That’s been well reported. Amy added, we’re pretty corny. We’ll make sweet love.

Amy then shared that they do schedule their sexy time, saying there’s never a vibe. It never just happens to people do that. One of the hosts agreed with Amy. Amy also provided the host of the view with a bag of gifts, including strap on pink waistbags modeled after pregnant bellies. These were for each of the co hosts to wear.

Amy said, just strap them right on. Whoopy Goldberg seemed confused, or at least pretended to be confused. Unclear to me, I didn’t watch the show. Whoopy held a quote bewildered facial expression for seventy one seconds then there was a commercial break. When it came back from commercial, Whoopy had strapped the fake pregnant belly to her head.

It stayed there for most of the rest of the segment disappeared later in the broadcast. Amy was also out on the Red Carpet. She believes her five year old son Jean shares the comedy gene, telling people he’s really funny. I don’t know what his story’s gonna be, but he loves doing stunts and making people laugh. Other folks on the Red Carpet where co stars Julian Bell, will Forte, Damon Wayne’s junior, and others.

Adam Sandler is one of the producers. He was there with his wife Jerry Seinfeld and Jessica Seinfeld also stopped by the Red Carpet.

Moving on, the Minnesota Star Tribune caught one of Nicki Glaser’s recent sho…

They write for Most of the evening, name dropping was kept to a minimum. She was more focused on defending the use of a zempic, detailing her visits to tanning salons, and admitting to being jealous of supermodels. She took on social influencers because they look cuter than she does. With little effort and said, I want you to do a TikTok dance next to a helicopter. But the Star Tribune writes, but Glazer’s underdog persona doesn’t resonate like it used to.

It’s hard to feel sorry for someone who, at this moment just might be the most talked about comedian on the planet. Glazer was more effective when exploring darker themes that have nothing to do with her quest for eternal youth. Apparently she did some material involving the plane crash in Washington, d C. It is unclear to me what that material it was. She got into some other stuff that I don’t even want to talk about on this podcast, but sounds like it was quote unquote outrageous.

Kevin Art has revealed that he has a new pet eagle. He has named the eagle Saquon Barkley, after the eagle’s running back. I feel like Kevin has done this bit before around the Super Bowl involving an eagle. Kevin went on Instagram on Monday, Yeah I am remembering correctly. He showed off his first pet eagle, which is named Jalen Hurts, which he says he purchased for a million five back in twenty twenty three.

Okay, I did remember that correctly. Kevin revealed he had some issue with Jalen Hurts, the pet eagle, who he says mistook Kevin for a rodent. Kevin calls in trainers to get the pet eagle Hurts properly trained, and then said, like anything, all good things come in pairs. The camera zooms out, there’s another eagle. Kevin says he dropped twelve million dollars on a rare eagle with big legs and named it Saquon Borkley.

Kevin then makes a cocktail called the Borkley Hurts using his tequila brand. Because Kevin always has to be hustling stuff. And speaking of the eagle transition, Sam Meryl spoke to The Eagle Online and that’s a college newspaper. What a terrible segue. I should be embarrassed by that.

The Eagle Online was curious if Sam knew he wanted to go into comedy by the time he was in college. Sam said, I did. Actually, my first time on stage was right after high school when school was ending, and then I was handing out flyers in my free time for stage time. When I was in college, that is awful if you’ve ever seen anybody have to do that. When I briefly went to Tulane University, I kind of got to choose some of the comics that bring down.

I had a good set in front of one of the comics they brought down. I already kind of knew I liked stand up a lot. It was kind of all on you. You could choose how hard you were going to work or how not hard you were going to work. I felt like I was missing out socially a little bit because I had friends who were like, ah, it’s a sparty night and I’m literally handing flyers out in the street and stuff like that.

But I also really liked stand up. I liked being around comics, so I did feel like I was bonding with a different type of people at that time. So you know, it was just a choice, and I think I figured, if this doesn’t work out, it’ll just be a chapter in my life. Sam was getting ready to play d C and they were curious if political jokes play differently in DC. Sam said, good question.

I haven’t been to DC in a couple of years. I think the crowd seems to be informed, but I don’t know if it plays differently. I think maybe they’re expecting it. I’ll do current events and I’ll do social commentary, but I try to keep it from being red versus blue in my act. Clearly, of course i’ll dump on a particular person, but I think when you draw the line too clearly, like there’s enough division.

It’s everywhere. So for me, pouring gasoline on fire is kind of pointless when you’re trying to give people a good night out. There’s ways to do it, I think, and I’ve done it, but I think it’s a line, you know, similar to a dark joke. There’s a line to be walked. Kat Williams has bought the Fort McClellan property.

This is in Aniston, Alabama. Kat’s plan is to turn it into a production studio. Mayor Jack Draper said, this is a sector of the economy that I think could be transformational for this region. We as a city have met with mister Williams team consistently over the last few months. You know, you’re talking about jobs.

You’re talking about construction projects not only for the city, county, but also the rein before it was closed in nineteen ninety nine. No word on when the studio might open. Joe Coy visited Duluth. He had some fun with how cold it was there he filmed a tourism video. In the video, he calls himself John McMillan, assisted to the senior Vice president of Duluf, Minnesota Department of Tourism.

Let’s listen, I think this is fun. Hi, I’m John McMillan, assistant to the senior vice president of the Duluth, Minnesota Department of Tourism. I’m here to show you the beautiful city of Duluth, Minnesota. Come follow me, sit down and enjoy the view of all water on an icy cold benches in a beautiful place to Milwaukee.

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Despite what people think, Duluth, Minnesota has black people. Oh please don’t film me. Thank you, Hi, mister Anderson O. D Lude is also known for stares for women and every day is a great day for a hot cup of coffee and d Hi mister Hernandez, I don’t know you, he knows me and stand on top of a band made snow hills and enjoyed our world famous family saunas Hi missus Segy. So next time when you’re planning a vacation.

Think all the fun things I do. Hi, mister Peterson, who mister Peterson? On Gossip Corner, TMZ reports, Corey Holcombe says he got sucker punched by a female comedian who’s hell bent on taking him down physically and financially, so he’s seeking court ordered protection. As the story goes, back in December, Corey was outside the Hollywood improv a woman put hands on him as his back was turned to her. In the documents filed Monday in LA Superior Court, Corey Holcombe claims she hurled a bunch of insults and obscenities worthy of a celebrity roost.

Among the comments, the woman allegedly made your mother is a B word. And I’ll clean this up, penis ain’t uh you know anything to look at? Really cleaning it up? There? D and s or the words that are asteriskd out in the copy I’m reading from back to his back to his d apparently shield up.

That’s why your wrist gout broke. TMZ says for the record, Corey says his wrist injury was from skateboarding, not self love. I’m glad to clear that up. Corey. A hearing was scheduled where both Corey and the woman will be able to share their versions of what happened, and then the judge was going to decide what happened.

I can’t wait to report back on that one. Will Ferrell’s working on untitled comedy project movie He’ll Start with Zac Efron. Efron will play a young convict who’s fresh out of prison. Instead of choosing to make good on his newfound freedom, the convict decides to seek revenge on the reality TV judge played by Will Ferrell, whose conviction put him behind bars. I got me curious.

Uh, what Will Ferrell has been doing lately? I called up is IMDb be it’s been a minute. His recent acting gigs going backwards. He was in four episodes of the Boys in twenty four. It was a voice indespicable me for on the TV series In the Know, he voiced Gene.

He played Terry McTeer in Quiz Lady. He was the voice of Reggie in the movie Stras. He played the Mattel CEO and Barbie That’s twenty twenty three. He appeared in Spirited In twenty twenty two, eight episodes of The Shrink next Door in twenty twenty one. He played Lars Ericsong in the Eurovision Song Contest in twenty twenty.

I’m already five years back, guys, scrolling down here, I’m not reading every single line. Played Dad in the Lego Movie two. I love the first Lego movie. I didn’t see the second one. That’s twenty nineteen.

Played Sherlock Holmes and Holmes and Watson in twenty eighteen, remember that one. Played Brad and Daddy’s Home two in twenty seventeen. He was in Zuolander two and twenty sixteen. In the Lego movie was twenty fourteen. You see what I’m saying here.

Their Anchorman two was twenty thirteen. It’s been a minute. Will feard Os will have a Netflix special at some point, no date yet. This one is titled Full Volume. I want to make sure that word doesn’t get swallowed in my accent, full fool.

In Full Volume, Feardas asked whether people should share the joy, keep it safe, or distribute it. The special was filmed in Tokyo, London, Mumbai, and New York. I’ve got two very short clips from the trailer. The trailer is mostly percussion and attitude but I pulled out a little bit. Let’s listen, this one not my dream.

This is what Mumbai does really well. Mumba’s like, what’s your dream? What’s you dream? What your dream? What’s your dream?

Movie stop? Bank manager? What’s your dream? Happily married, stable, family movie stop? No date yet on that one.

Kelsey Grammar revealed to The New York Post he didn’t talk to Ted Danson for thirty years. Kelsey said there wasn’t like a single thing that blew up their friendship, was just gradual attention. Grammer says, it got a little blown out of proportion. There really wasn’t an argument. It was at the time of my life when I was actually going through a lot of self doubt, self loathing.

Honestly, it was when I was drinking a lot. Ted had come up and said, you know, I’m kind of mad at you that sometimes you don’t show up ready to go. And I said, okay, I respect that. That was actually sort of it. Now, maybe what happened for Ted was he stepped away from what might have been a better friendship.

Maybe had just had to protect himself. I don’t really know, but I said thanks. We were fine with that. Grammar didn’t think when Ted called out his behavior that would greatly impact their relationship, but they wound up not speaking for thirty years. If you’re a younger listener, they co starred on Cheers from nineteen eighty two to nineteen ninety three.

Ted Dancing last year on his podcast told Kelsey, I feel like I got stuck a little bit with you during the Cheers years. I have a memory of getting angry at you once. It’s stuck in both of our memories. But I feel like I missed out in the last thirty years of Kelsey Grammar, and I feel like it’s my bad, my doing, and I almost feel like apologizing to you. No, I do apologize to you and me that I sat back, you know, and didn’t And I really do apologize.

Grammar then thanked Ted Dancing for the apology and said he too, which is they had spent more time together. My love for you has always been as easy as the day, as easy as the sunrise. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like to picking up some new people on YouTube.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I think Jim Gaffigan actually won the Grammy’s Ny for Gietzi. He’s got a super Bowl commercial, and of course Inny Schumer wants us to talk about her. Let’s start with the Grammys.

You may have heard there was a rather big basketball trade over the weekend that led to this joke. During the break. I don’t know how to say this. Trevor Noah was traded to the Dallas Mavericks. So I know this is a shock, but I am now your host.

Really great stuff from Jim. I’ll circle back to Jim in a second line of the night. I’m going to give to the John Westlang from Threads who wrote congratulations to FX as the bear for their Grammy win for Best Comedy Album. Best Comedy Album actually went to Dave Chappelle. I’m really impressed three in a row.

First of all, you have to put out three albums three years in a row to even win, so that speaks to the quality of the work that Dave’s been putting out. I haven’t seen the reaction pieces yet, I guarantee either coming about Dave and punching down and on the transgender topic again. I have no doubt those are coming later in the week, but for now, he’s the Tom Brady of comedy. Three straight Grammys for Best Comedy Album. Nobody’s gonna do that anytime soon.

Nikki Glaser was on the red carpet. She says she is not signed to host the Golden Globes. I will take Nicki herself over the reporting, and I’ve been a part of that reporting in the past, but let’s hear it straight from Nikki Glaser. You know what, it felt so good because the goal going in was you know, I made like a mission statement before I began preparing, I was like, Okay, what I want to do is I want to be funny, but I want when I watch a ward show, I just want to feel like I’m in good hands. I want to watch someone go.

I want her to watch. I wanted to leave that Award show and have people go. I want her to host more things that was comfortable to watch. I wasn’t nervous for her, and that’s what it came away with. All the reviews were like, she looked like she was in the pocket.

She we like her to host more things. I was like, oh yeah, cheat my goal. I just wanted people to have a fun time and not feel like I was going after anyone, but like having some fun, like I thought, I really. I worked hard to hit that tone, and I felt I succeeded. I keep seeing headlines that are like, She’s got a deal to do three more.

I haven’t heard about this yet, but I think I think it would be I think I like them as much as they like me, and I would like to keep this relationship going because I had a blast doing it. It was hard work, but it was the best job I’ve ever had. I’m ready to come back and host the Golden Globes again. It was truly the most fun night I’ve had in so long. And I didn’t have a Christmas because of it, but I don’t need a Christmas.

Nikki also talked about Taylor Swift. I forget that I hosted the Golden Globes. I’m just here as like, am I allowed to be here? I’m a comedian. You feel like, if you’re not a musician, you’ve kind of feel like what am I doing?

Even though I was nominated for a Grammy this year, I still feel a little bit like out of my element, like a snuck in. I’m just trying to fit in. But yes, I feel good. Okay. Want to ask you how much did you really spend on those Taylor Swift shows?

I mean, I’m gonna say probably what, cause I would fly my friends in, I would put them up, I’d pay for their tickets, I’d buy them merch So I would say seventy to one hundred, like it was a lot. But I again, I just want to remind people. I don’t have kids, I don’t have a house. I don’t have a nice car. I don’t buy handbags.

I wear a Lulu Umon fanny pack. Like I spend my money on experiences, and that’s the number one thing to me. Does Taylor know this? Does she acknowledge your like fandom? No, but I think she’s probably a little bit like Yike’s lady, you know, like I know, come on, I mean, I’m sure she’s she loves her fans, so I’m sure she’s like that’s cool, But I don’t.

I’m not waiting for anything from her, like I truly am. Like I come at it from like I just am a fan. I like watching her perform I’m not trying to angle for any like. I wonder if she’ll give me a letter or something, you know, right, I just I like, I like to sit back and watch her shine. Taylor did not make any jokes about Joe Koy, which is a shame.

Back to gaff again, Jim was on the Red carpet and this is pretty painfully unfunny. It never gets old. But I like to thank a time Grammy loser. Yeah, you know, no, I am so thrilled to be nominated, but I uh, it’s yeah, it’s weird. I don’t have an expectation of winning.

But that’s also you know, that’s the better vibe to carry into the event. I’m so excited to be here, and I’m dressed like a Batman villain, so that’s all you need to do. Your category step too with your friends. Oh absolutely, and people are having incredible years and there’s legends, so it’s it’s it’s really just cool to be included. Well, for the record, villains usually do dress better than the hero, so that’s right.

That yes, so maybe maybe since I’m dressed like a villain, maybe I’ll win, you know, I like that, I’ll steal it be weird. It’ll be another thing to get used to winning, because I’ve never really I mean, i’ve won, you know what I mean at being nominated. We’re going to change the telepromver so fast in the event that you win. If I win. Yeah, now I’ll do it where I won.

I can’t believe I won. What does this mean to you? It was so great and I feel like, you know, I’m just so humbled by all of it.

And now we’ll do it where I have to split it with someone.

Okay, where we splitting it with Nikki Trevor. I think it’s Nicky all right here, We’re gonna do it where. I’m like, I’m so happy for Nicky Nikki one. And you know, I’m so happy also for Trevor for winning because he you know, he’s been part of the Grammys, and I think he was great tonight. I’m so happy for Ricky, you know what I mean.

It’s like, it’s good that he’s being acknowledged. And I’m and I’m thrilled for Dave because finally he’s he’s winning something. I mean, he hasn’t ever lost, but I’m so happy that Dave Chappelle, a legend, is here to take every single award from every comedian. Aprigetzi will start in a super Bowl ad for door Dash. Now what’s interesting is usually they released the Super Bowl commercials early.

They didn’t release the commercial, they released a teaser for the commerce. So let’s listen when. We say five dollars on that takeout order, five dollars saved on my. Six hours and savings all crucial order. That to consider Corofesion starters.

Equals that’s a fifteen that I trimmed a little bit. The ad during the super Bowl will be a thirty. Nate told Variety, I used DoorDash regularly. I used it two nights ago. I’m only not using it right now because I’m in a hotel, and then I’ll be back at it.

DoorDash approached him after hearing Nate joke about DoorDash during his most recent SNL appearance. Of producing commercials, Nate says, it’s like, you know, making a mini movie. There’s not a live audience or anything, but it was all still enjoyable. I’m in trouble if I ever go to something that’s not going to be fun. He had hoped to keep his super Bowl project quiet.

He debated whether or not he should tell his parents. He did. He’s now excited for more people to see him, he said, not a lot of people. It’s gonna be a big, big surprise that it’s happening, and I can’t wait to see what people think. John Stewart lost a bet and he had to go to the next game.

At Madison Square Garden. Decked out in Philadelphia Eagles gear, John was booed by the Nicks. Faithful John had a bet against Nick star Jalen Brunson. They had bet on the Eagles Giants game and the Giants lost. John had to pay up in a Saquon Barkley Jersey.

Saquon used to play for the Giants, now plays for the Eagles. Jalen came over to compliment John’s fit.

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Also at the Knixt game, Amy Schumer, who wants us to talk about her.

She’s got a movie coming out Wednesday, and boy, Amy, for the amount of press you’ve been doing, for the amount of stories’s been sharing, this movie better be good. Because if it’s not good and you’ve used your entire arsenal promoting it, I don’t know where that leaves you. You know, During halftime at the Knicks Lakers game, the Knick City Dancers invited Amy to the court. The cheerleading squad called out Amy, who pretended to be shocked at the gesture and then flawlessly executed a dance to Uptown Girl by Billy Joel. She was recreating an iconic scene from her film train Wreck, which came out ten years ago.

The coordinated number featured Amy Schumer front and center. The dance ended with a group pos Amy blue kisses to the crowd. The crowd included Lebron James of the Lakers, who was also in train Wreck. She also was given the title Rookie of the Year. In a feature on the Nick City Dancers Instagram, Olivia Munn went on Amy’s instat and wrote, this is iconic.

Chelsea Handler added yes, Katie Couric, who was at MA, she wrote, so glad I was there to witness this go Amy. Amy has revealed that she called Kim Kardashian to get permission for a joke that’s in the new movie. Amy was on a satellite radio program and said, I want to make the show where I’m reading a kid instead of a bedtime story at Tabloid. I pitched Kim a couple jokes. I asked if she would mind.

She didn’t mind. How cool is she? Spoilers in case you’re excited about Amy’s upcoming movie. There once was a family of beautiful princesses called the Kardashians, and they lived in a palace that their dad bought them by defending a murderer. According to Amy, Kim had no issue with the joke about her father, Robert Kardashian.

Amy said, She’s like, yeah, I do the one about my dad defending a murderer. She was that chill. She’s such a good sport kind of pregnant. Out tomorrow. Are you excited?

Yeah? So you need something to watch tonight. Good news Hulu has acquired the rights to Stavros Haukias’s Let’s Start a Cult. That was the Indie Dirk comedy co written and executive produced and storing Stavros. It is out on Hulu now.

Pete Davidson has revealed how many tattoos out of his two hundred he will keep. Pete told Jimmy Fallon, maybe like two or three. Pete told Felon that he probably had like two hundred tattoos, most of which are almost gone. Now I’ve been burning them off. They burn off the layer of your skin.

Then it has to heal for six to eight weeks. You can’t get in the sunlight, and then you’ve got to do it like twelve more times. Fallon was curious why he had gotten so many tattoos. Pete said, I don’t know. Everybody was getting tattoos like five years ago.

Remember that Fox Business reported on Matt Rife digging the Rhode Island suburbs. Raife said, there were three things on my checklist. I wanted to get what I was actually paying for. There was a massive place that was probably the same price as a two bedroom with no yard in La I needed to have some kind of comedy scene, and Providence has the comedy connection out there. Great Club Boston’s forty five minutes away, an amazing comedy scene and convenient for travel.

Providence is like my Burdbank Airport in Boston is like my lax. How did he find Rhode Island? You know what I mean? He said, I was performing on Vehican Son five shows something like that. Mohegan Sun is a casino in Connecticut.

If you’re not familiar with Mohican Sun. Thus northeasterns or mohegan Sun was an hour away and we were on I don’t know Zillo and I was like, oh, I’ll peep this real quick, and we went and checked it out, and I was like, this costs like one show at mohegan Son. Awesome. Fox Business reports Rife’s comedy tour grossed more than most of the biggest names in comedy last year, topping everybody but Nate. Nate’s tour reportedly had a net gross of eighty two point two million dollars last year, selling over one million tickets.

According to Billboard, rif’s two hundred and fifty six shows sold seven hundred and thirty three thousand or so tickets, grossing fifty seven and a half million dollars. Always good to hear from the listeners. I heard from andres who reacted to my commentary over the weekend where I explained I’m a slider. In case you missed it, at some point, I’m from a different universe. At some point I made the jump from where I’m from to this universe where you guys spell the names of certain celebrities differently.

Where I’m from. The guy from Flight of the Concords is named Jermaine Clement with an R Andres roade, Hey, man, I heard what you said about Jermaine. I’m not sure if it was specifically spelled with a J or could have been a G, but definitely had an R. On Flight of the Concords. Thank you.

Andres is currently where I’m from. A new book called Fight Inside the Wildless Battle for the White House claims that Elon Musk and Dana White convinced Joe Rogan not to interview Kamala Harris. The book claims Harris’s team wanted to do Rogan and was willing to accommodate Rogan. Rogan’s team had insisted on doing the interview at Rogan’s studio. The only time Rogan has traveled for a guest was in twenty nineteen to speak with whistleblower Edward Snowden.

According to the book, given Rogan’s demands, the Harris team rearranged her schedule to do a campaign event in Texas. As the story goes, Harris’s deputy campaign manager told Rogan, we could do Friday, the twenty fifth. One of Rogan’s reps said, which we had known about the sooner because he has the twenty fifth, blocked out as a personal day campaign person. What about Saturday morning? Rogan’s team only if it’s before eight thirty am, campaign manager, the Vice president of the United States is offering to come to your effing show, and you keep putting up more hoops.

The Harris team continue to try and make it work. Then Rogan was like, nah, never mind. On October twenty fifth, the day that Rogan had the personal day, Trump was in Austin. Who appear on Rogan’s podcast. I guess that makes sense that you can’t tell the Harris campaign that Trump is coming the day that you want to do it, So that all makes sense to me.

Fun story regardless of that, is your comedy news for today. If you are finding the program on the new YouTube, a twenty four to seven stream, what I’ve done is I’ve created just an audio channel that plays, say, like the last two weeks of this program on a loop. If you’re finding this program this way, there’s no video. I know you figure that out by now, but like people get mad and they’re like, oh, oh, there’s no video Because there’s no video. It’s an audio podcast that I stuck up on YouTube.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with an early release of Monday’s episode in Today’s Daily Comedy News. It’s about a twenty pm Sunday night. I just watched Trevor Noah open up the Grammy Awards, and, as they say in comedy, he ate it. Not a good monologue at all.

I had the laptop out and I was gonna pull clips and there’s nothing to pull. Really flat monologue. Now you may recall Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes with nine days notice, if I remember correctly, and he didn’t do all that well, although he was much better than Trevor was tonight. Trevor only got announced hosting this a few weeks ago, so maybe there is something too needing to work on these award shows for several weeks. But I wish I had more to say about Trevor.

I’m on social media, people on Twitter and on threads and Facebook as well. Nobody reacting well to Trevor and Noah’s monologue. It’s still early. Maybe things look get better. The Grammy for Best Comedy Album went to Dave Chappelle for The Dreamer, his twenty twenty three New Year’s Eve Netflix special.

That was the one where Dave joked I love punching down. So I’m sure we will have Dave Chappelle reaction pieces all week from the people who get mad that Dave Chappelle even exists. This is Dave’s third win in a row in the category and his sixth win overall. So right now he is the Tom Brady of comedy. I mean six Grammys, three in a row, three peat for Chappelle.

Yeah, we’ll break that down in the upcoming days. Nikki Glaser was at the Golden Globes. She found out walking into the arena she hadn’t won. She said, I already lost. I know what happens.

They gave my award away already. Dave Chappelle got it. There’s no ceremony like televis so I’m getting my hair and makeup done and it’s already been determined that I didn’t win. The Comedy Album was announced around five pm Easter and I saw it in social media and Nicky said, no one texted me about it. I just had the most random person in my life, goes Dave Sappelle.

Again, I go, what are you writing about? No one on my team bad News wants to tell me. They just want you to find out the hard way. She was excited that Taylor Swift was gonna be there. She said, Taylor’s not performing, but she’s presenting, so I’ll get to hear her talk and be poetic in that way.

So I’ll take it. I just can’t wait to see what she’s wearing. I can’t wait to see her talk and maybe reveal something. You know, we’re used to her announcing something. I’m so excited it’s been a while.

I will not be bothering her. I’m gonna play it cool. There’s no need to be worried about what I’m going to do, all right. More about the Grammys on Tuesday’s episode.

In other news for US old people, Netflix announced that Eddie, a new document…

In Eddie, Eddie Murphy looks back on his extraordinary journey and looks ahead at what’s still to come. The film chronicles his rise from teen comic phenom to SNL breakout and stand up super nova to box office titan. I wonder if Eddie will be at SNL fifty. I guess he absolutely will. Especially if he’s going to be promoting something like this, which is a victory lap.

The doc illuminates the evolution of Eddie Murphy, the trails he blazed and records he broke on his way from Brooklyn Upstart to Hollywood. Icon can tell several publicists and probably an agent and a manager worked on this paragraph. In the film, the Oscar nominated actor opens up his home and dives deep into his eclectic, nearly fifty year career. In his own words, he talks about entertaining three generations of fans with a filmography that spans comedy, action, drama, animation, musicals, and family fair Friends. Co stars, directors, and fellow comics offer insight into Murphy’s singular life and career and the influence that has had with breakthrough stand up films like Raw Eighties Megahits, Beverly Hills, cop coming to America and trading places through nineties classics like The Nutty Professor, the Shrek franchise in the two thousands, to his Oscar nominated performance in dream Girls.

We kind of skipped the last twenty years there, I see. Dream Girls came out in two thousand and six. In case you’re curious. I don’t know if you know this. Amy Schumer has got a movie coming out on Wednesday, and Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her, so we will.

Now, how will Amy get us to talk about her? Today? With this headline? Amy Schumer reveals harsh joke she told Adam Sandler after Adam Sandler fled from the wildfires. Now, I have the clip from the tonight show.

I’m going to play it for you. I want you to pay close attention here. Pay close attention to poor Jimmy Fallon trying to pretend this is funny there with a visual Jimmy Steward that the poor guy is just faking it. Here, let’s listen. Adam Sandler, who is I mean, the greatest.

What was it like working with Adam Sandler? He’s such a perfectionist, Like he’s like, it’s just what you hoped it would because, I mean, obviously everyone like we’ve all grown up watching all of his movies, and it’s like, don’t you quote his movies like twice a day by accident? Yeah, of course, no conditioner is better like you. Every day. I did make a joke to him the other night that I don’t know how this is going to go.

But he was just you know, his family is like, you know, some some people, one of the people who’ve been affected by the wildfires, and you know, and he’s sitting at this dinner with us. She’s like, yeah, I just had to grab like two shirts and get out of there. And I’m looking at his shirt and I’m like, and you grabbed that one? You know? Did you see the Hawaii And.

I’m like, is that that’s some one new outline? Does you gotta make you gotta make your friends laugh? He laughed, he’s a good, good audience. Well, we all need comedies. So we got to watch this movie.

Only two more days until Kind of Pregnant. Amy Schumer’s movie is on Netflix on Wednesday. Can’t Wait. The Sydney Morning Herald caught up with Eliza Selessenger. She’s going to be at the Sydney Comedy Festival.

That’s not until April, but she was doing some early press. Eliza explained, to be a successful comedian, you have to come up with funny observations that people can relate to. But they’ve never heard anyone say before. She explains, we’re all thinking the same thing, so it’s about tapping into the things people were too afraid to say. How you know, it’s a good joke because when people confess after oh my god, I also shaved my big tail, where I’ve also had those weird thoughts about our principle or something like that.

The more vulnerable and honest we are as humans, the more we realize just how weird and connected we all are. The article tells us she’s had six Netflix specials today six and has built up a fan base so passionate that some make art based on her work. Eliza said, to see my art digested and given back to me, presents it on someone’s shirt or in a painting or drawing, It’s an incredible exchange. Although she has champions some liberal causes, she explains, I think you might have an idea of how I vote, but I kind of run down the middle politically at this stage of my career. When you buy a ticket to see Eliza Selesznger, you’re buying a ticket to escape and to feel seen, not to come to a political rally.

We’ll save that from my online rants. I definitely have the freedom to say whatever I like, but because it’s your freedom and you’re right, doesn’t mean it’s always a good idea. I think people have to understand the intention, both the people being offended and the people enjoying it. My intention is always to entertain and uplift. It’s never hurt anyone’s feelings.

When people don’t watch the full joke or someone’s full hour, they remove intension and then we’re all just defending each other. I find that the people most nervous about the woke stuff tend to be white men who are tired of being told that they’re wrong. The truth is, setting out to find anyone for a cheap laugh, you’re probably gonna be okay at the end of the day. We could all consider each other a little bit more. However, on the other side, I think people need to tough it up so per usual, right in the middle and take no side.

James Austin Johnson was on Seth Meyer’s show. He broke out an impression of Kamala Harris. Let’s listen, this is Kamala Harris hosting a cooking competition. Here we go, let’s try it. I think what the American people want to know is can the remaining five chefs take these family food classics cheeseburger and fries, meat loaf and mashed potatoes, vegetable lasagna and utilize those ingredients to create a five star gourmet meal for Debbie May’s our Bobby Fla and Michael Rappaport.

You have three hours not bad. As we recently discussed in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feel encouraged to join us in conversation there. His Trump has been drifting a little bit the kamala urright. I don’t know what you do with it, especially at this point, but okay. The La Times asked Gabe Iglacy as how he got involved with Funko pops.

Gabe said, I wasn’t a fan of them at first. I didn’t know what they were. Someone pulled me aside and they’re like, these are really popular, and I’m like, it’s weird looking. I started looking into it, and the next thing I know, we make a phone called a funk Go and said, hey, you guys have TV Funko pops, you have movie funkel pops. You don’t have comedians.

You guys should have comedians. There’s a lot of funny comics out there. I told them I’m interested in being the first, and they’re like, well, we know who you are, but that’s not a thing. Two years later we tried again. They said, well, we know who you are and we’re not interested in licensing, but if you’re serious, we’ll produce the figures for you, and you have to buy so many and you sell them.

We won’t even carry them in our stores, but we’ll make them, Gabe said, The founder of Funko, later admitted to me they should have licensed my doll when they could, because I sold so many. I think we’re on model number eleven. Now. It’s about persistence. I think a lot of times people give up easily.

And you know, if for first you don’t succeed, try try again. From true to old Jermaine Clement, you know him from Flight of the Concords, by the way, I don’t know if you know this. At some point in my life I switched to universes. I can’t explain this, but like I became a slider. I’m from the universe where the guy on Flight of the Concords his name was Germaine.

There was an R in his name at some point where I’m from. But now I’m in this universe where I sit in the Basement and I host a podcast. But where I’m from, his name was Jermaine Clement and the woman from Game of Thrones was Lena. He’d lee there was an extra Ellen there where I’m from. I don’t know what happened.

You might say Mendela effect, but I’m telling you I definitely switched universes. Anyway, Jermaine Clement from Flight of the Concords will star in a Disney Plus comedy. All we know is it’s a series from the makers of Baby Reindeer. No details about the plot, no details about the casting. Jeff Ross was at the Creative Coalition’s Washington, DC event honoring military service organizations, and Ross ripped into some people who think that comedy should be watered down.

Jeff said, people they don’t want their comedy water down. They wanted potent right to the stomach, and that’s what I try to do. The reporter asked or certain topics off limits? Jeff said, no topics are off limits. Now.

The kind of comedy I’ve always done is okay for my fans. Roast fans are the most dedicated. They don’t care about what any fake rules are. What’s funny is funny. You know, there are always be people who are going to pretend to be offended, but those are the people that offend me, you know, hypocrites.

Quick stop. On gossip Corner, a source close to Pete Davison tells people that Pete is still friends with pretty much all his exes, including Kim Kardashian. The insider also shared that nothing bad happened between him and Madelin Kline just ran its course. He and Kim still talk occasionally. He’s a good guy and they root for him.

Jeremy Piven’s going to be doing some stand up comedy this week at the Arlington Improv on the seventh and eighth. Pivens says, this has been an incredible journey. You have to face your fears, and one of my greatest fears was stand up. So for about a decade now been out there touring, just getting up on stage, working through it. It’s been amazing.

Being funny isn’t enough. You can make people laugh, sure, but standing up there alone it’s a whole different game. You learn real fast. Your material hast to land. You have to connect.

Once you get that first laugh, though, it’s like, okay, this is possible. He knows people think they’re coming to see Ari Gold. He leans into it and he says, I tell stories about having guys come up to me a urinal smacking on the back like I’m a douchebag because of you. And he laughs and says it’s like, dude, I’m just trying to pee here. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ve got my Suspicion hat on today. Trevor Noah hosts the Grammys tonight. Now.

I am recording this on Friday. It is eleven fifty Eastern Time as I record this podcast, and as of eleven fifty, Trevor Noah hasn’t done any press that I’ve seen about the Grammy Awards. Normally, you would expect the host of such a big award show that’d be like a splash article in the Hollywood Reporter or Variety or one of those, and there’s been nothing. Now it’s possible that you know, he had the cover of the Sunday Times this morning when you got up, but really strange to me that he’s not out promoting this thing. The announcement that Trevor was hosting came pretty late in the game, only like two weeks ago.

He is an executive producer now, but it’s just it’s just weird. And I don’t know why I did see that Trevor was overseas touring, but it’s just weird to me, especially if he’s a producer, that he’s not out promoting this thing. But they’re going to get a good number. I will tell you why. One of the presenters Taylor Swift.

Yeah, Taylor Swift’s gonna get up and present. Maybe she can make a joke about Joe Coy. Wouldn’t that be awesome? I doubt it because nobody knows who Jokoy is, but boy, that would be amazing. So normally I would have an article here where I would tell you what Trevor Noah said about the Grammy Awards, but it doesn’t exist.

I will tell you that Trevor himself is one of the five comedians nominated for Grammy for Best Comedy Album. Now, since we have time, I’m gonna get on my soapbox because I’m from the twentieth century. When you say to me, comedy album, I picture an audio presentation. Right. At one point there was vinyl and then cassettes and CDs.

You know how technology works. Somewhere along the way, the Grammy for Best Comedy Album started going to Netflix specials or HBO specials, and it became a video thing, and that bothers me. The nominees are Ricky Gervais, Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffig and Nikki Glaze and Trevor Noah. Jervas is up for Armageddon, Chappelle’s up for The Dreamer. For both those guys, it’s nowhere near the top of their game, so I will pass on those.

Nikki Glaser is up for HBO’s Someday You’ll Die, which I didn’t think was all that good. Trevor Noah’s special I would pick, except Jim Gaffigan is nominated for The Prisoner, which is only out on album form. There’s no video special for the Prisoner. Therefore, I am all in for Jim Gaffigan The Prisoner. I hope an album wins Best Comedy Album.

If we’re just going in terms of material, I would pick Trevor Noah, but I want an album to win. Ricky Gervas Armageddon won the Golden Globe for Best Performance in Stand Up Comedy. Someday You’ll Die got two Emmy nominations. Chappelle’s The Dreamer was nominated for two Emmys. Chappelle has won five Grammys out of six nominations, including last year for Dave Chappelle What’s in a Name.

Trevor Noah has won twice. Jim Gaffigan’s been nominated seven times, never won a Grammy. Rooting for you, Jim.

Speaking of awards, the Writers Guild announced that Joelkim Booster will hos…

Joel said, being a member of the WGA is one of my proudest accomplishments. Barn None. After a tough couple of years, our union has faced. I’m honitor to get to host a celebration of all the incredible work our memories have produced. I have bad news for Joelkim Booster and the Writers Guild.

Here’s the you guys picked a stupid date. Here’s why. I don’t know if you know this. Saturday Night Live is turning fifty. Yeah, we’ve known this for a while.

The big SNL thing is that weekend, on the Sunday and on the Friday, they’re doing the big music concert. So if you’re looking for press for the Writers Guild on that weekend, you’re not going to get any. SNL is going to be all that people are talking about. Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her, So okay, Amy, we’ll talk about you. Every single day.

Amy’s got a movie out on Netflix on Wednesday, and Amy wants us to know she’s no longer on ozimpic. She said she had a horrible experience on ozempic, despite losing thirty pounds. She told Howard Stern, I have this gene GDF fifteen, which makes you extremely prone to nausea, which is why I was so sick during my pregnancy. I tried ozempic almost three years ago, and I was like vomiting and then you have no energy. But other people take it and they’re all good.

God bless them. She said. She lost thirty pounds so quick and look great, but she couldn’t lift her head off the pillow from how nauseous she was. Forbes asked Gary Goleman, what was Gary Goleman’s first drink. Gary said it was either a Budweiser Miller lte at a bar in Bosston in my freshman year of college.

I remember it because I had brought eight dollars to the bar. My friend said, who brings eight dollars to a bar? I was like this. All I have was the guys from my football team. They were generous and wound up buying me drinks.

My big hang up was I was an athlete, and I was concerned it was going to make me less powerful on the basketball court and football field. Gary, what do you drink these days? He says, I’m not a big drinker. Occasionally, I’ll have a glass of champagne at a wedding, and I bought a bottle of McKellen after Neil Pert, the drummer from Rush, died, I’ll have a shot in honor of him on his birthday or the day he passed away. Forbes was curious how that tradition started.

Gary Goleman said, I was listening to Getty Lee’s biography. He reads it and he does such great voices and accents. He said. Out a memorial for Neil. He and Alex Liifsen had a glass of McKellen, and they also put one out for him.

The band used to drink it together on important occasions. So I thought that was very lovely and wanted to add that tradition to my life. They also to ask Gary about his current one man show Grand Delinquent. Gary explained, with stand up, the basic formulas try to get as many laughs as close together as possible. A one man’s show is definitely more challenging format.

I don’t know how to put it in an arithmetic but it’s about twenty percent more challenging. You need a narrative arc and a stronger ending than thank you and good night. I welcome a reasonable challenge. A musical would be way over my head. That’s something that’s close to my stand up but draws more in my acting training and writing skills.

I think I’ve conditioned my audience that I’m willing to share things that aren’t necessarily funny but are meaningful to me. I’m lucky that I have this patient, encouraging, reassuring audience there, and they don’t bristle at this. I hear loud laughs and to faws, and then I hear people who are openly weeping. It’s not what I intended. I didn’t think it would go to that level, but it’s a heartwarming surprise, he told an anecdote involving Chris Elliott.

You feel listen to this podcast regularly. You know I’m quite the eighties letterman fan Gary explained when the Great Depression came out, a friend of mine reached out to Chris Elliott and asked him to watch it one time Chris invited me up to his house in Maine and cooked barbecue at night and stayed up late and told stories and then made breakfast in the morning. I was giddy. I wasn’t able to tell him how crazy it was about his work, because I knew would make him uncomfortable, But it was a dream come true. Favorite Rush song Subdivisions.

Pete Davidson gave an update on the ferry he’s trying to turn into a comedy club. He said, the John F. Kennedy sanctioned ferry. It’s the biggest one. It’s like a five thousand seater.

Believe it or not. Not many people bid on it. A lot of people joke about it. But we have a very extensive plan and we’re a lot closer than people seem to think. The plans include a hotel on the top floor, a movie theater, an entertainment theater, and a shopping center.

Pete explained it’s only been two years and people are like, I guess it’s dead, and it’s like, we need like one hundred million dollars. Give us a second and a story caught my eye from the Phoenix New Times. The New Times wrote, after a racist comedy act did hosted drew pamphleteering neo Nazis to its front door. A particular brewery has a few regrets. Since I don’t know what’s really going on here, I’m going to pull my punches on the specific nouns, but I’ll give you the gist of the story.

The brewery went on Facebook and posted that they didn’t do their due diligence to verify concerns about one of the comedians. According to the brewery statements via The New Times, the comedian was brought along by the headliner. The statement reads headliner informed us he was providing his opening acts, as is very common in the industry. A few days before the event, we received concerns about one of the performers, who we weren’t aware of being on the show. We were assured by headliner that this wouldn’t be an issue.

A mistakenly didn’t do our due diligence to verify these concerns. Apparently, the New Times dms with the comedian in question, not the headliner, the other one who wrote I did two shows that went off with no issues. I went back to the venue of the following night. No one mentioned anything about neo Nazis handing out flyers or them having a locked the gates. I had a diverse audience, including Mexicans and Jewish people.

If this was a neo Nazi event, I’m pretty sure those people wouldn’t have been there, nor would they have hung around after the show to talk to me by my merch and tell me how much they enjoyed the show. So seeing this post seems like a load of horse hockey, and honestly, I’m disappointed in the venue. The New Time sources an employee of the brewery who worked the event, who said, as for the questionable material, there were more shouts of agreement and cheering than it was laughter. It felt more like a rally than a comedy show. The staffer had trouble recalling specifics of the controversial act, but they remembered a bit about the comedian being highly attracted to old school Nazis because they actually have testosterone and will smack you around every once in a while.

The staffer said management was complaining right along with us. We all shot each other painful looks from across the bar, specifically nasty lines. There’s been a nightmare for them and they’re even arguably more frustrated and upset than the hourly staff, simply because of the intense damage control they’re expected to do. Oh there is more. According to this, On Friday, members of some neo Nazi groups I’m not going to promote the particular groups posted photos and videos of themselves on a social media platform, masked and handing out flyers outside the show.

The flyers promoted some of their ideas which I choose not to promote. The brewery said, the views of the performers do not reflect the views of the Brewery, and in no way do we support the presence of any sort of neo Nazi groups around our business. We absolutely do not support neo Nazis, hate speech, white supremacy, misogyny, anti LGBTQ plus or racism of any kind. That’s it. I don’t even know how to wrap up here.

Awkward, But like, I just found that whole thing interesting, Like how did the show get booked? What was said? Why did the guys come by with pamphlets? Seems like there’s a lot more to unpack here. We’ll keep an eye on that one.

Uh, that’s your comedy news for today. Awkward, all right, see to worrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News’s got some more information about sen Gillis’s sixty second Super Bowl ad for bud Light. The campaign will introduce the big men of cul de Sacs. Some of the big men are Beton Manning, Post Malone, and Sheen Gillis. These are regular folks who enjoy grilling in the backyard and talking in the driveway.

The ad will air during the Super Bowl at pays tribute to those neighborhood parties that are happening across every backyard every culd de sac in America. A bud Light spokesperson says, we hope our fans can see themselves in this. I have a clip for you. I have to cut it short because the ad uses the Huey Lewis song Power of Love, and if I let that play through, I’m gonna get flagged by the people that flag things. So let me just play a little bit of Shane here at the top.

You wanna go fishing the one? I got a cole and ask me tomorrow. Pete Davidson will also be in a Super Bowl ad, this for something called hex Clad. In the ad Gordon Ramsey is tasked with having to prepare a meal for a newly discovered alien species at Area fifty one. The twist spoilers the alien is actually Pete Davidson playing himself.

Pete Davidson jokes all famous people are aliens. I see what the company says about the Pete cameo. We had a small list and Gordon was the one who was like, I want Pete Davidson. It wasn’t a hard sell. Pete was a gem.

And the two of them on the set, I mean the only time there was a second take is when they were cracking each other up. There was great chemistry. Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her. She’s got this movie. What is it, uh, something pregnant?

I could just look it up and make an edit here. What is called kind of Pregnant? I think it’s out on Wednesday. You can tell I’m excited about it. Amy went on Howard Stern because she thinks it’s nineteen eighty five and that’s a good way to promote things.

She said. According to Amy, her porn Teacher’s Sketch from the October tenth, twenty fifteen episode of Saturday Night Live is SNL’s most viewed video on YouTube. Amy said, can you believe that the most viewed SNL sketch of all time is me and Kyle Mooney the porn teacher. I want to bring it back for the fiftieth where I’m like a reeltar or something. I was shocked to hear that, and then you’re like, of course, everybody’s a pervert.

Howard asked who wrote the sketch. Amy said, oh, some pervert. You know, we just did it, thought nothing of it. It’s like one hundred something million. It has more than cow Bell.

You know, the most classic people really are perverts. A couple comments here, I’m not claiming I know everything. I have no idea what this sketch even is. I’m sure people are watching it on YouTube, but I have no idea what you’re talking about. And she’s comparing it to the cow Bell sketch, which I absolutely know and probably use the phrase more cow Bell four times a week.

So sure, maybe it’s got views. Plenty of things on YouTube of views, but this is not an iconic sketch. And Amy, if you think Lorne Michaels has time for you, a non SNL cast member at this big fiftieth anniversary thing where he’s got to squeeze in a lot of people and a lot of people that are more famous than you. Good luck. Reps for Saturday Night Live did not respond to Entertainment Weekly’s request for clarification on which writer wrote the sketch.

Writers for season forty two included Chris Kelly, Sarah Schneider, Brian Tucker, and Ken Sublette. Other staff members at the time include Michael Ja, Colin Jost, Julio Taurus, and Sudie Green. According to Entertainment Weekly, more cal Bell has only twenty eight million views on YouTube, whereas porn Teacher has one hundred and six million. However, e W says these counts don’t reflect takedowns and re uploads by SNL. More cal Bell was only uploaded five years ago, despite being a twenty year old sketch.

In case you’re curious, second Place is a Black Jeopardy sketch from twenty sixteen featuring Ssher Zamaa, Leslie Jones, Keenan Thompson, and Tom Hanks. Amy also said she often gets a mistake in my fans for Rebel Wilson and Melissa McCarthy and she doesn’t correct them. Amy says people come up to me and even though one hundred percent of the time they’re sure that I’m Melissa McCarthy or Rebel Wilson, I don’t correct them. I just go, Yeah, Bride’s may totally change my life. I should be so lucky.

Those are beautiful women. Oh, we’re gonna talk about Amy every single day. Jimmy Kimmel was at the fire Aid concert the other night. He took the stage late in the show and said, Hi, I’m Olivia Rodrigo. He then thanked the Benefits organizers and introduced Lady Gaga, who is the evening’s final performer.

Ronny Chieng was celebrating Lunar New Year. He told Forbes, the real tradition is centered around meeting up with your family. That’s the core. Everything else stems from that. You’re braving rush hour traffic to get back home.

Once you get there, you’re supposed to have a dinner. There’s gifts exchange and stuff you’re supposed to say, but that all comes from getting family together. Forbes was curious what sort of things one shouts out. Ronnie said, for context, I guess the most auspicious things Americans might say, would be happy New Year or Merry Christmas. For the lunar New Year, we consolidate all of our well wishes for the year.

And it’s connected to tossing the salad. That’s not a euphemism. There’s an actual salad that gets tossed. Okay, move on, good health, prosperity. There are Chinese idioms you’re supposed to shout out.

If somebody said they were doing a business deal, we would say, hope that you kill it. Tonni Mack. You sure about the salad toss? Ronny Chieng explained, we would always have roast pork and roast chicken, noodles, rice and vegetables and snacks, apple tarts. You’ll see mandarin oranges, sunflower seeds, and peanuts.

By the way, sometimes people ask me, like, what do you talk about on this podcast? This and their arranged in these very pretty containers and lots of red. You also have to give red packets with money. If you’re married, you have to do it. If you’re not married, you kind of don’t have to do it, which is nice.

It’s always the older people to give it to the younger people. Ronnie’s not sure how much money he got when he was younger, because in true Chinese fashion, anything we got, we gave it to my mother, so I don’t know how much I ever collected. Ronnie was there plugging some scotch, and thus the thinly disguised paid content asked Ronnie who he would like to have a scotch with. His answer, Bill Burr. He’s an executive producer of my latest comedy special Left to Hate It.

He’s the best, always very supportive and entertaining. TMZ had an update on the death of comedian Ken Flores, who passed away Wednesday at age twenty eight. Ken had been dealing with heart issues, according to the report, and been actively trying to get healthy before he died. TMZ reports Ken had been suffering from congestion of heart failure. TMZ further reports that Ken had been using oxygen and oxygen tanks were found at the residence.

One of Ken’s friends found him in his home after can’t experience cardiac arrest, called nine one one, performed CPR on him. Paramedics arrived. He was pronounced dead on the scene. Sources tell TMZ no drugs are found, no foul play is suspected. Mark Marin is playing in Monterey tonight if you want to go, He’s at the Golden State Theater.

He caught up with Monterey County Now and said, I’m a conversationalist, not an interviewer. I never prepare a list of questions asked my guests. In fact, I don’t really do much prep at all. I just looked for a way to kind of zone in on some way that will result in an intimate conversation. I try to make an audio portrait of somebody.

As for podcasting, Mark said, I was there at the very beginning, that’s all. It was pretty good cosmic timing and help with podcasting on the map. None of us, myself included, anticipated this level of success. It was a complete surprise. Early on Robin Williams and some other big stars came on and were being open like never before.

It was and still is just about having intimate, candid conversations about artists and stars and the processes meant to emotionally and artistically. Maren credits Sam Kinnison with helping Mark solidify his approach. According to Mark, however wrong minded Sam was in some ways, in other ways, he helped me learn about performing comedy outside the standard envelope, doing something about his delivery. Way beyond all the screaming. He had like a preacher like intensity that I liked a lot.

He had a special kind of darkness. People’s ideas about stand up are too narrow. The only responsibility there is to get laughs. However, you can do it. I dare you to tell me I’m not still a stand up comedian.

Well, if you want to go, take on Mark Maron. He’s at the Golden State Theater tonight at eight o’clock. Ticket started forty three dollars. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like the program without commercial interruption.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney’s talk show is back. It’s now called Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney. It’ll premiere in March twelfth at ten pm Eastern.

It will air weekly for twelve consecutive weeks. Mlanie said, we will be live globally with no delay. Will never be relevant, will never be your source for news. We will always be reckless. Netflix will always provide us with data that we will ignore.

Now, I forgot to check what day of the week March twelfth is. It is a Wednesday, so this will be your Wednesday night watch. But Johnny Mack is not up at ten pm, so this will be my Thursday evening watch. I am up at ten pm, but I’m not up at eleven pm, and I’m not starting a show at ten pm. That’s how I roll.

Plus Wednesday’s Trivia Night. And you know, I might have had a beverage or two. Maybe I’m a little sleepy. It happens, you know. By the way, second place this week, we’re having a great twenty twenty five.

We’ve got two seconds and a first and an eleventh. But we don’t talk about that. We also have a Hey guys, it’s cold and I don’t feel like going to the brewery tonight. We had one of those I digress. Just like the previous show, Everybody’s in LA.

Everybody’s Live, We’ll tape in Los Angeles. But I guess they changed the name to free themselves up of the geographic anchor. Everybody’s in LA will feature a couch of eclectic guests live your phone calls. Oh guys, he didn’t take my note? Was that segment just doesn’t work?

Richard Kind and same Oh the food delivery robot. Malaney says this will be the one place where you could see Arnold Schwarzenegger sitting next to Nicky Glazer sitting next to a family therapist, with music by Mannekin Pussy, which thankfully is an actual band. So I don’t have to explain to my wife why were you in the basement looking up Mannequin Pussy. Well, you see, honey, they’re an American punk and indie rock band from Philadelphia, formed in twenty ten. You may know them from their twenty sixteen album Romantic.

So I don’t know what you think I’m doing down here. I’m recording a comedy podcast. Laney continued, that’s just a brief sampling of guests. We don’t know if we can lock in Manneck and Pussy, but we’re into with them. I love this next line.

He said, this is a really fun experiment. Not since Harry and Megan has Netflix given more money to someone without a specific plan. Ah, that’ll make for a good episode of Palace Intrigue. That’s the podcast about the Royal family that I’m the writer on, and it’s one of those shows you get commercial free if you do the ad free thing that you know you hear the two people talking about Maline. He talked about the previous version of the show and said, you know, we had a hypnotist, we had an expert on coyotes in Los Angeles.

We had a palm tree expert, we had an earthquake expert. We covered most all natural disasters that take place in California except for one. We just weren’t ready. Apparently that remark did play well in the room. Maline said, it’s one of those shows that neither Netflix nor I really needed to do.

I never wanted a host a talk show, and they were getting out of the talk show game. It was the perfect moment to do this. So twelve weeks it’s apparently gotten a two season commitment. No idea when the second season will happen, but you know, twelve weeks, starting in March, you’ll watch, Speaking of Los Angeles, Tonight is the Comedy Gives Back fundraiser Love the top of this line up here, pat oswalt Zach Galifanakis, Bob Odin, Kirk, Bryan post Sayin, Doug Benson’s on this, Dana gould Is on this, and a bunch of others. The show benefits the Comedy Gives Back Firefund, which helps comedians affected by fires in Los Angeles.

Terrible news from Netflix. Adam Sandler is going to be in another movie now hopefully here. Let me tell you about the movie and they’ll tell you what the hopefully is. It’s a Noah Bomback movie titled JA Kelly. The movie J Kelly features people like George Clooney, Stacy Keach, Greta Gerwig, Laura Dern, Eve Houston, who’s Bono’s daughter, Napple Baby, Emily Mortimer, and Adam Sandler.

Now, whatever you think of Adam Sandler, terrible comedic actor, but he’s not a Naple baby, and he is a good dramatic actor. Maybe he’s doing a dramatic role in Jay Kelly. Maybe perhaps possibly Adam Sandler is taking my advice. Adam, you go. I hope this is dramatic.

Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her. I’m not kidding. I know I’ve been doing that all week. She wants us to talk about her, to the point I already have stuff for sad and Sunday and maybe Monday about how much Amy Schumer wants us to talk about her. She was on the Tonight Show.

She’s out promoting this movie kind of Pregnant that’s coming out, and she wants us to talk about her. In today’s installment of Amy Schumer wants us to talk about she talked about and encounter with Bradley Cooper who says to Amy, hey, I turned fifty this year, and he says to me, Amy Schumer, you fifty, And apparently that rubbed Amy Schumer the wrong way, as she had just turned forty three. She spoke with Jimmy Fallon about fans who say hurtful things to you by accident when they’re asking for pictures. They’d be like, Hi, sorry, I know you just worked out and I’m like, no, I didn’t. I had some ramen and had a kick so I’m sweating where They’re like, I know you’re not wearing makeup, but I’m like, I’m wearing a lot of makeup.

Back to Bradley Cooper, Amy said, I tried to like recover because whatever, I’m forty three, but you know, I’m like, I will be fifty, she told Fallon. She ultimately replied, yeah, no, I’m not Bradley. You know I’m not, but thank you for thinking of me. Schumer said the question got to her because we all want to be hot. This is how bad people want to be hot.

People literally run. She made fun of joggers and peloton writers, saying they’re riding a bike to nowhere to the Wicked soundtrack. Amy Schumer has a movie coming out in February. Bow and Yang and Matt Rodgers are putting out a book. It’s called The Rules of Culture, Volume one, described as a manifesto on culture and a Guinness World Records book for queer people and straight girls who get it.

The book will feature over one hundred insightful, hilarious and utterly immutable rules that govern culture in its current fragmented states. Yang and Rogers said in a statement, I apparently they have joined and become one entity. They have joined the Borg resistance is futile. In their joint statement, they said culture is a shattered mirror on the floor. This is our attempt at gluing every shart of it back together, as we will prove in this book.

Culturists for you, culturists for us, culturists for everyone. Never sure how a joint statement works, but okay, whatever. Hey, if you’re up in the Massachusetts Arie, you might want to look out for Matt Rife. He’s been showing up at local clubs. A week ago or so, he showed up at Fall Rivers Belmont Club.

Then in Tuesday he showed up at the Society Coffee Bar for Whale City Comedy’s latest pop up show. Ashley Thatcher is the founder and director of Whale City Comedy, and she said they went crazy. I never heard of fifty person crowd be that loud. That’s the best part of the show for me. Apparently Rife is trying to get as much stage time as possible, so that’s why he’s coming to the South Coast.

Whale City Comedy’s mission is to grow the local comedy scene beyond big cities like Providence in Boston. Wal City’s known for its lineup of pop up shows and an annual five day comedy festival. Thatcher said, I really love to highlight great local businesses across the South Coast, so we can pop up anywhere, from a batique in Westport to a coffee shop in Somerset, to a brewery to an art gallery. It brings exposure to these places while also creating a fun event. MOA.

Mayer’s show mo is back very good show if he didn’t see season one. The Guardian writes how Moe has found himself becoming one of the most prominent Palestinian voices in the world. When they interviewed him, it was right when the peace agreement came out, and most said, I just got a flurry of text messages about it as I came to my computer. It’s literally teed up and ready to go. Presumably look as a Palestinian man, we’re very suspicious of deals like this.

I’m very hopeful that it’s honest and real and sincere, and that it will lead to real positive change. I just have a lot of skepticism. Whatever people are willing to literally say, Cee’s fire, it’s over no more. That’s always a positive thing. The worry I have is just like it’s been going on for quite some time.

I’ve seen this so many times. I just really want for it to all truly end and for Palestinians to have a real future there. The BBC has apologized to staff members who felt they were unable to raise complaints or concerns about Russell Brand’s behavior when he worked for the BBC. The BBC has published the findings of an internal review into Russell’s conduct when he worked at BBC Radio between two thousand and six and two thousand and eight. There had been a series of accusations made against Russell Brand back in twenty twenty three.

One complaint related to Russell Brand urinating into a cup during a show on BBC Radio two. The BBC acknowledged that had been registered formally at the time, but admitted it was quote not dealt with effect actively. Another part of the report concerned in an allegation that Russell Brand had exposed himself to a woman in the bathroom of the BBC LA office. The investigation asserted that the incident was fairly common knowledge in the LA office and was often joked about. The report says what is clear is that many BBC staff and freelancers, especially in more junior roles, found Russell Brand demanding and difficult at work with and his behavior extreme, but all felt that there was no point in complaining as they believed they would not be listened to, and rightly or wrongly, that Russell Brand is a high profile presenter had the sport of station management.

A couple comments here for me, A don’t know what happened. B absolutely not being dismissive of the complaints. See personally worked with Russell Brand once for twenty minutes. In those twenty minutes, he was extremely professional and extremely charming. Again, I want to be clear, I’m not being dismissive of the complaints.

D having been showbiz adjacent for some time, a person who was at the point in their fame that Russell Brand wants around the time of those complaints, people get away with stuff welcome to show business and not saying it’s right. I’m just telling you it happens. For example, say you’re hosting Saturday Night Live, are you allot of smoke in the theater because some people apparently smoke while hosting Saturday Night Live. I’m on a website here and I just looked up the Smoke Free Air Act of two thousand and two, which protects the health of New York City workers against the harmful effects of secondhand smoke by making virtually all workplaces smoke free. So, for example, say your job is you work the cameras at a late night live comedy variety show that takes place on Saturday nights.

Say you work on one of those, The New York State Clear Indoor Act of two thousand and four impose state restrictions on smoking indoors. These acts impact the following businesses and establishments all office buildings okay, all private offices okay, All food service establishments, all bars, membership associations, all areas of theaters.

Also bank shopping, wall, sports arenas, public transportation.

So let me ask you. Say you’re hosting Saturday Night Live and you feel like smoking on live national television inside a theater in New York City. What happens to you? I don’t know. Perhaps a large fine was sent, Perhaps somebody spent ten days in jail, and it just didn’t get reported.

I don’t know what happens, but I’m telling you, for the most part, you’re sitting there going, hey, should I tell so and so that they can’t smoke here in a theater in New York City during our live variety show on Saturday night. My experience, being show business jacent is going to be yes, let it go. What are you gonna do? So let me be clear. I don’t know what happened with mister brand, could have happened, didn’t happen.

Don’t want to dismiss the people, but when I read in a complaint from BBC that staffers found no point in complaining that, I absolutely believe that staffers would find no point in complaining. Ken Flora is a comedian who helped create the Latin XL comedy show, has passed away at age twenty eight. D L eight Times reports that Ken’s body was discovered at his home at Tuesday afternoon around two p TMZ cites law enforcement sources saying it appears Flora suffered cardiac arrest and no foul play is suspected. His family posted on his Instagram on Wednesday, it is with great sadness that we confirm the untimely passing with our friend, brother and son, Kenny Flores. Please respect our privacy at this time, as we’re all shocked and devastated by the loss.

Flores had just filmed a comedy special in December. It has not yet been released, nore scheduled. According to The La Times, Joe Coy till the La Times. I always check in on him. I truly love this guy.

I literally posted about a pick of his tour schedule a couple days before he passed. It’s all so crazy, gave Iglacius till the La Times. I feel honored to have spent time with Ken. Of course he was hilarious, but above all he was kind, respectful and fun to be around. He will be missed.

Matt Raife posted, you’ll be missed brother. Ken Flores was twenty eight. That’s your comedy needs for today,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with Today’s daily comedy Newskat Williams was the guest on THEO Vaughan’s podcast. Cat told THEO that black people would be honored to have Theo Vaughn reincarnated as a black man. Kat said, as a black guy, would be honored to have you come through our path. They started talking about everything from fitness routines to religion reincarnation.

THEO said, I think about that a lot, about what it would be like to live different ethnicities, Like if I could handle it, if I think it was fun. Kat complimented THEO on his uniqueness and let THEO know that he does check out Theo’s podcast. Kat said, you, as a black guy, are also not the norm. You’re kind of a singular. He explained why THEO shouldn’t jump to become a black guy, reasoning that there’s a lot that comes with it.

Kat said, there’s certain things that go along with it. They just don’t know how you’d handle it until you got a big asset and then you got to figure this thing out. Everything is different. They discussed fitness. Kat said the secret to his fitness regime is the ladies keep me fit.

I’m heavy into sexual relations. He’s got a little more to his workouts. I’ve got a cold plunge at Jacuzzie and Asana that they do pretty ritualistically. I’ve never been a gym guy. Kat talked about the time he was at a meeting with Harvey Weinstein.

Cat claimed that Harvey got whatever he wanted. I thought that didn’t apply to me because I didn’t care about anything but ladies and business. Then he offered me two actresses like they were playing cards. I was just as shocked as anybody about how powerful Harvey Weinstein was at the time I was meeting with him, how he could not be told no. Last November, Cat talked to GQ and said, it’s not the year of truth, it’s the age of truth.

It’s not that people ain’t been wanting the truth. E set for the first time ever. Whoever them mfors are that would be involved in the Illuminati, in the shadow government and all that stuff that really exists that really runs the world, all of them is eighty to one hundred right now. Kat discussed the potential safety risk involved with being candid. Kat said, I’m honored to get to say the things I say.

When I’m saying them, I assume it’s gonna work out for the best, and I understand if it’s for the worst, then I’m prepared to handle it as well. Kat has previous claimed he was invited to an Illuminati thing with Ludacris. Ludacris denied that Kat told THEA what I was attempting to do was impossible, So before I do this interview, there is no Illuminati. It’s just a joke. It’s just something crazy people talk about.

Whatever it is, that’s the game. If we understood the Internet itself as a government function, then how much privacy would you expect. There’s also a viral video going around where Kat discussed the election currently. Kat did this at a tour stop in La on January seventeenth. Kat is quoted as saying, it ain’t black men that like Kamala down.

Who was everybody the fls Nobody voted for this B word women don’t vote for her. Indians didn’t vote for her. Jews didn’t vote for her. She married a Jew and they did not vote for her. B words that wanted an abortion didn’t vote for her.

It was sad, sad, sad, They say that Kat Williams got more votes and I wasn’t even running. They just wrote me in. I don’t know. I expected more out of Kamala. It’s one thing to at your butt whooped up.

You still got to come out. Man. She didn’t even show the f up for her own She left her own sorority out there in the cold. I’ll have to find an hour to listen to the interview with Kat Williams and Theo vaugh from Radar Online. Nikki Glaser has been signed to a multi year deal by the Golden Globe, but insiders are saying that the contract was only worked out after Nicki demanded one million dollars to return his host.

Radar Online says one million dollars is double what Ricky Gervais used to get. A source tells Rader Online Glazer initially stunned Hollywood by demanding a jaw dropping one million dollars to return next year, but producers ultimately signed her to a multi year deal for a much lower figure. The deal Nicki originally wanted would have made her the highest paid host in Globe’s history, surpassing comedy icons Tina and Ricky. She’s good, but let’s be honest. She’s not vent good, says the insiders.

I don’t disagree. She was asking for more than comedy royalty and that wrote people the wrong way. Ricky Gervais has said he would do the show for free if organizers held it in London. He was asked his price to again, he said free if they do it in Hampstead, otherwise two million dollars. Ricky hosted in twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve, twenty sixteen and twenty twenty and says it could be the Golden Globes could offer me ten million dollars for ten minutes work, you know, and I’d be an idiot.

I’d be a liar to say I wouldn’t consider it. But at the moment, given I’ve done it five times, it got better and better for me. I enjoyed them all, but it got better and I’m planning never to do it again. I’ve asked them not to ask me because I can be persuaded that’s true. You know, it’s not a principle.

I’m not sure Jason Kelsey’s ESPN late night show is doing that well. Late Night of reports had hit a new ratings low Friday Night, drawing only one hundred and ten thousand total viewers. That’s less than a third of the audience it drew the week before, and eighty seven percent down from its ratings high on January tenth. Late Nighter says ratings were down among younger viewers, with just fifty one thousand viewers aged eighteen to forty nine. Kelsey’s guest on Friday’s show included Jim Gaffigan.

You may recall he told a quote hilarious story that I didn’t find so funny Late Night or is being fair here? They point out that a line can be drawn from the show’s huge rating swings to what the lead in is. For example, on January twenty fifth, the lead in was the X Games, that had an average of two hundred and forty four thousand total viewers. On January tenth, the night of Kelsey’s ratings high, twenty million viewers watched the Cotton Bowl one point six million. Stuck around for his lead in, Well, yeah, I mean, you could put this podcast on after the super Bowl.

It’ll get a number. I don’t know how week two will do, but yeah, that’s how it works, guys. Vulture has a big piece with Bobby moynihan. I’ll just pick up the SNL stuff. It’s lengthy, just nothing there really grabbed me.

They were curious for Bobby outside of SNL, what were his big sketch influences growing up? Moynihan said, I remember feeling cool when I found out what mister show was. SNL led me to that or the State. Then eventually it was the UCBTV show that I loved. I was walking down the street one day.

I was doing an off Broadway show after college, going like I’m going to be an actor on stage, and I saw the UCB symbol above a door, walked in, bought a ticket, saw the show, and never left. They asked him if he wished he had stayed on the show longer than his nine seasons. I can’t believe he was on nine seasons. He says, yes, I would have stayed. I would have happily been keenan if I had the wherewithal and if I had children earlier, whatever, just to look Lord in the face and go, hey man, I’ll stay here forever.

That being said, I’m glad, I’m done. I went back a couple of years later to do David pumpkins and drunk uncle, and it was flipping a switch on that hadn’t been turned on for years. I realized what I went through those nine years, and I was like, whoa, you realize what it was like and how harted just to do that show. We’re not fireman, but we’re still working hard. By the way, Tom Poppa’s podcast is getting some really good guests.

Now I have to catch up on I have downloaded but not listened to yet. I’m busy. David tell Gaff again, Paul Reiser, Anthony Justin, and Henry Winkler I have not downloaded yet, but also cool guest Leanne Morgan or Shafir, Ronny Chieng, Lisa Kudro and I know I ended on an up inflection there, but I got to the bottom of my list. I thought it was gonna scroll some warp. Anyway, Tom Papa’s podcast is breaking a bread.

I was correct. Bill Ngvall has unretired. Bill had planned to retire to golf with his wife. She got better and got three holes in one during his retirement. Bill said, after the third one, I called my maiden and said, let’s book some dates.

I missed it. I missed the performances, and you can only play golf so much. In hindsight, I should have just taken a break instead of making a big announcement. I don’t think anybody would have known the difference, but it is what it is. I’ve decided to come back, but on a more limited scale.

Before I retired, I was doing sixty to seventy shows a year. Now I’m going back to twenty to thirty. That’s what Larry the Cable Guy said. Recently. Bill talked about the heyday of Blue Collar.

We weren’t doing one hundred and twenty dates a year, but when you add that tour to your individual touring schedules, it became a lot. Ron bailed early. He wanted to do his own stuff, and we get that, but I don’t think we ever got tired of it. I was always open to coming back, especially for the twenty year reunion. We had a great time.

It was during that period. Bill was in three films, launched a serious satellite radio station. I was in charge of that. I loved working with those guys. That’s me Hi, and he was in the WB comedy sketch series Blue Collar TV.

Bill says he’s uneasy about modern culture. I worry about us as a humanity. It seems like we can’t buy anything unless it salts us by some cartoon character. We have a lizard that tries to sell us insurance in a talking box that tells me when I get my colon checked. That’s one of the things that scares me.

Bill also shared when he was on Dancing with the Stars in twenty thirteen, he got engaged in an argument on Twitter with a viewer who accused him of advancing unfairly. Bill tweeted him back and said, look, I’m not sure you know how this show business thing works, but this is not how it works. I don’t walk in on Monday and say, hey, I don’t know who’s getting kicked off this week, but it’s not me, and the TV executives go okay, Bill, you’re still good. Let it go, man. It’s a dance show.

It’s not like I’m affecting your income. Jimmy Fallon made his Broadway debut. He’s in the current cast of All In Comedy About Love. That’s the thing that mulaney had been. In the current cast, Lynn Manuel, Miranda, Adie Bryant, Jimmy Fallon, and Nick Kroll.

That group will be together until February second. Lynn is going to stick around with the next cast until February sixteenth.

Speaking of Broadway just for laughs and sign on as the co producer of the Br…

They’re building up a company there. There’s just for laughs and just for entertainment, and now they’re doing this Broadway thing. I’ll keep an eye on that and things you shouldn’t say out loud. Where did the story about the Nazi guy go? I knew something was gonna be the last story here and it has disappeared from my notes.

Where’d it go? Ah? Here it is. Australian comedian Tom Ballard has been slammed after performing what appeared to be a Nazi salute during a stand up show. There is a still image of comedian Tom Ballard with his hand outstretched.

And I heard somebody else say, I forget who said this. You can hold out your hand with one finger or two fingers, but you can’t hold out your whole hand. Well, he’s got his whole hand out. He was at the Basement Comedy Club in Melbourne’s Saturday Night Some members of the audience shared the footage with the media. His bit apparently started with him saying you can’t do anything in Australia and the position of a person’s hand when they waved a greeting it someone was central to whether they were breaking the law.

Nazi symbols and gestures were banned by the Victorian government in October twenty twenty three to quote send a clear message that Nazi ideology and the hate it represents is not tolerated in Victoria. That’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like the show without commercials.

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Caloroga Shark Media. From the basement studio where if you think you hear barking dogs and construction workers, you too. It’s a busy day here. Good show today. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

Thank you, DC and band. Madonna stop buy the Comedy Seller on Saturday night to do some comedy. She was brought there by her good friend Amy Schumer, who wants us to talk about her. Amy’s got a movie coming out. In Insider shared, Madonna was brought to the club by Amy.

She did a full thirty minute set. She did well enough, but the audience was so stunned it was Madonna that it took them the entire set to warm up to her. She didn’t do as well as she’d think she would. She got laughs every time she dropped an F bomb, just because just hearing Madonna curse is funny. What do you mean she didn’t do as well as you’d think she would.

Did you think Madonna was gonna be good up stand up comedy at the Comedy Seller. It’s like a karaoke singer getting up at Madison Square Garden with their gym. Bad talk talking about the source revealed Madonna nailed a joke about with all these Trump deportations, she’s not gonna have any staff left. That got some good laughs, but really everyone was just so shocked she was there. According to the Insider, Madonna was there with her boyfriend and left ten minutes after her performance.

Amy Schumer, who wants us to talk about her she’s got a movie coming out. In February, shared a picture of herself Madonna taken at the comedy seller. In the picture, they’re both wearing black outfits. Madonna is pecking Schumer on her cheek. Madonna reposted the picture on her Insta along with the caption, last night was fun.

Thank you Amy Schumer making my stand up comedy debut. What a thrill.

And then she said something a little dirty.

I don’t want to share. Thank you. Amy. Shane Gillis is upset that Notre Dame didn’t win the college championship. He said, I was looking at the confetti watching Ohio State and just sitting there.

I called my agent immediately. I was like, let’s book a show and give all the money to Notre Dame. He joked about the funds from the California Wildfire’s fundraiser and said Notre Dame needs a defensive tackle. I need to give that to an eighteen year old. Staying with football, Jimmy Kimmel with an awesome Joe.

Taylor Swift has now been more Super Bowls than the New York Jets. Taylor Thomlinson weighed in on sports betting and pointed out, you can now wager on what Taylor Swift will wear to the Super Bowl. Tomlinson said, Yeah, that’s right. Some guy’s gonna have to go home and tell his wife that he blew their kids college fund because Taylor Swift didn’t wear a ponytail like you thought. Jimmy Fallon said, if you’re rooting for the Eagles, you’re probably from Philly, and if you’re rooting for the Chiefs, you’re probably an NFL referee.

Love it’s some of those calls, man, what are we doing? Jimmy Kimmel criticized Trump. It seemed like Trump to credit for the Chiefs winning. On truth social the President wrote, congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs. What a great team, coach, quarterback, and virtually everything else, including those fantastic fans that voted for me.

Parentheses, mega exclamation point in record numbers. Likewise, congratulations with the Buffalo Bills on a tremendous season. They will do a lot of winning long into the future. Kim Will pointed out, that’s right. The real AFC champion is Donald Trump.

Bill Burr was on Rich Eisen Show. He commented on the referees and said, I don’t think it’s fixed. I think it’s massashed. It’s definitely more backgrounds on one side. It’s thick.

Where’s the money? Come on, man, they got all the stars, I got Taylor Swift. I mean that’s gonna be a lot. It’s a business. Why are they an Edge Tamier League?

Why aren’t they a sports league? I don’t watch Chief games? Strikes me insane. Late night had a pretty good night. I know I haven’t done late night jokes in a while, but this was a good set.

They talked about AI. You may have seen that the Chinese introduced deep Seek in the stock market didn’t react so well. John Stewart asked, who names an AI company after the thing it actually does? Where are your random letters? Where your cheapt your grock?

Deep Seek sounds like what you might use it for. China’s even beating us at naming staff. I know this is bad financially, but has anyone else excited that AI had its job replaced by Ai? Taylor Thomson commented on CEO’s hiring AI’s over gen Z. Listen up, CEOs, this is very short sighted.

If you don’t hire gen Z, who you gonna cheat on your spells with? That’s a very very funny joke. Stephen Colbert weighed in on Trump threatening an emergency twenty five percent tariff on Colombian imports depunch line, into which Don Junior said, wait, not everything from Colin? All right, think about it. After Midnight with Taylor Thomason announced on Thursday they will have their first ever all drag queen panel.

Apparently the panel is Jinx Monsoon, Ben De La Krem, and Peaches Christ. I’m not familiar with any of them. I do want to share with you this impression has been making the round. Comedian Jonathan Kite has a killer Anthony Boardine impression, and he posted a video of an Anthony Boardane episode where Boardeen visits Costco. Let’s just share like thirty seconds of it, But what a great impression.

Cost go a land of abundance where your wildest snack dreams and deepest regrets are sold by the pound everywhere you look, rolling fields of clothing, couches, and cot But one doesn’t come here exclusively for the mounds of groceries and flat screen TV’s, but rather the famous. Eatery Kelsey Cook has announced her second special, Mark Your Territory. It’ll be on Hulu and YouTube on February eleventh. This was recorded in Madison, Wisconsin, after she moved to Minnesota in the dead of winterter to live with her boyfriend, comedian Chad Daniels. In the special, Kelsey Cook tells us about the perks of dating an older man, the insanity of IUD insertions, navigating a parent with dementia, and much more.

It’s notable that this special is going to premiere both on Hulu and YouTube at the same time. There’s a trailer note that she’s working clean here, very good. There’s a couple solid laughs. I laughed out loud at this, stay with it. When he and I got together, we had that conversation about labels because I felt ready to be called boyfriend and girlfriend and he goes, ah, you know, being in my forties, I feel like I’m a little old to be called somebody’s boyfriend, but if you call me your man friend, it sounds like I’m not allowed to near playgrounds.

I was like, all right, well, what are you gonna call me? And he goes, I’ll just be like, this is milady, and I was like, well, we’re not at a renaissance fair, so no.

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Also, I can’t use the equivalent of that.

I can’t be like, mom, dad, I’d like you to meet my lord. And he’s also a comedian. And I wasn’t much of a jealous girlfriend in my twenties, but then some switch flipped in my thirties, and now when I see somebody hit on the person i’m with, I just feel myself anamorph into the cast of Jersey Shore. I am ready to brawl. And he does get hit on.

When he walks on stage, women whistle at him, and at comedy clubs there’s usually a security guard in the back to kick people out in case they heckle. So at his shows, I’ve just started to stand next to the security guard, and if I see a woman laughing too hard at one of his jokes, I just walk up and I’m like, hey, I’m gonna have to ask you to leave. He’s my favorite comedian. Well, he’s my lord. Roseanne Bar tells Variety that she wrote a new comedy series.

It will star Bar and be four to six episodes, in line with the UK’s comedy format. It’s a cross between The Roseanne Show and The Sopranos. Roseanne says. It centers on a small town farmer in Alabama who is saving the United States from drug gangs and China. The protagonist dabbles and growing and selling drugs like cannabis and magic mushrooms.

Roseanne says it’s silly and out there. It’ll contain very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing. I live with my daughter and her husband and their six children on a farm and they have goats running through their house and stuff. It’s based on my life as a farmer in Hawaii. They save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime, and alcoholism.

It’s kind of like the Coen Brothers thing. You may recall. In twenty eighteen, Roseanne Barr made a comment about a Michelle Obama aid that I don’t want to repeat or dance with at all. Barr was then dropped by her agents and the Roseanne reboot moved on without Roseanne. As for the new show, she says she’ll shop into Hollywood.

If Hollywood doesn’t buy it, I’m just gonna make it myself. Does anybody in Hollywood? Like America? Are the people that watch TV? Because the people watch TV would really like to see a show where working glass people win against the enemies of America.

From baller alert dot com, You’re home for comedy news, Eddie Griffin weighed in on Snoop Dogg. You may have seen Snoop and made the headlines for agreeing to perform at Trump’s crypto ball ahead of the inauguration. Some people labeled Snoop a sellout. Eddie Griffin said, Black Twitter’s up at arms because Snoop performed at Donald trump pregame inauguration. So what’s the problem You all didn’t get mad when Kamala lying ass Harris paid twenty million dollars to Oprah to make an appearance.

He got paid. He’s in the business to get paid. He got the right to jump ship f them Democrats. The rest of you, m effer is get your stuff together. Griffin went on to credit Trump for making changes, especially to child support.

Eddie said he already saved you from child support to tyranny from a woman who’s raping your check before you even get it. They doing you just like the GD government, effing you out of your GD money. Trump took care of that. Snoop Dogg has responded to the criticism and said, get your life right. It’stop burning about mine.

I’m cool, I’m together, still a black man, still one hundred percent black. All out to you ball out or till you fall out. When Dave Schappelle hosted Saturday Night Live, he joked about the Ditty parties. Quoting Dave, he said, I saw one thing on the internet. I’m not sure it’s true, probably doubt it’s true, but I saw it.

Some guy who said he knew Puffy was like, yeah, I was at the freak Off one time and Puff was there with Carl Winslow, the dad from Family Matters. Seventy two year old reginaldvell Johnson played Carl Winslow on Family Matters. He had to chime in on the rumor. He said, the stuff that came out is so false, but I have to hear it every now and then. But Dave Chappelle made it funny and I really appreciate that.

That was really cool. He made it seem very civil. It was kind of nice to see him talk about me. I just wish he was talking about something a little bit better than the stupid lie with Ditty, but he made it funny, and I appreciate that it made me look good. The Guardian caught off with comedian Sean McLaughlin and they were curious, Hey, Sean McLaughlin, what was it like opening for Ricky Gervase at the Hollywood Bowl.

Sean said, I don’t know where to begin. The dressing room was bigger than my flat, and the stage is so vast it took me twenty seconds to reach the microphone after my name was called. There’s seventeen thousand people in the crowd and it’s open air, so I could hear my voice ricocheting around the valley. I just tried to focus on my jokes. What was difficult because Dave Grohl was in the front row staring at me.

It felt like walking on Mars or something. But I’m pretty sure I had a good one. The next night, I did a show in the back of a magic club and died as hard as I have in years. Bess Ecko. He says, heckling is pointless.

If anyone is going to ruin my audience this night, it should be me. Can you recall a gig so bad it’s now funny? Sean says. I once hosted a comedy and poetry show at a university’s summer ball. The show started at midnight and the lineup was myself in five poets.

They did some passable crowd work at the top and brought on the first poet. It launched it in a truly horrible piece called instant Rigor Mortis. The drunk students understandably started to leave in droves, but I was obliged to go on stage and introduce poet after poet, each more sow than the last. There were three hundred people the audience when the show started, in less than ten by the time it ended. And that is your comedy news for today.

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