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Featured: Jay Leno, Adam Carolla, Adam Sandler, Xavier Luggage, Patrick Quinn, Shashua Jackson, Tom Papa, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman

What’s in This Episode

• Jay Leno and Adam Carolla on comedy relationships and fantasy camp
• Adam Sandler’s pickup basketball skills at LA recreation centers
• Tom Papa’s Breaking Bread podcast with celebrity guests

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Sit there. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I imagine this week and next will be very slow for comedy news here, but I will have a normal schedule to have episodes for you each day. I’ll mix in some of my end of the year countdown specials.

I can pre tape a little bit here and give myself a couple of days off. But if you’re looking for an episode on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, ne Year’s Day, You’ve got an episode for you every day. Thank you for listening. I really enjoyed Jay Leno and Adam Carolla speaking to the Rap. The Rap asks a good question.

Is there a common thread that you guys started off with that would still translate to today? Leno said, yeah. The most common is a girlfriend or boyfriend going why do you have to work every night? If you’re the spouse of a comic, I’m sorry, you might be close to equal or second in importance, but you’re not first, especially if you’re starting out in that relationship. No comic, male or female, is going to be happy in a relationship unless they’re happy with their act.

Unless you’re happy with what you’re doing on stage, then I am worth to give my love to this person. But if you’re dating one of these people, they have to do it every night because it’s the repetition. It’s the only way they sit around that other twenty three and a half hours waiting for their little set to come out. And there’s nothing better than killing an audience. There really Isn’t People say sex is great?

Oh yeah so, and not really as good as a good comedy set. You know this joke? Right? A comic’s in Vegas the first time. He’s all excited.

It’s like one o’clock in the morning, goes back to his room after playing a set. The phone rings, Hi. My name is Felicity. I’m the leader nancer across the street, and I saw the show tonight and I thought you were really funny and sexy, and I thought maybe I could come over and we could fool around. I mean, i’d leave before morning.

I’d just like to spend some time with you. The comic goes, did you see the first show or the second show? Corolla laughs at that and says that is such a universal comedian thought, because you do two shows and there’s always one you like more.

And then at some point you run into someone they go, I see you back at the wh…

When they say the bad show, which isn’t even bad, it’s not as good as the good show, there’s a God Hates Me kind of moment. Corolla and Leno were doing that fantasy camp coming up in January. The rap is curious, can you take anyone and give them some beating spark? Carol says, I, I don’t think you can make a non comedian into a comedian. I think you take somebody who’s got a little acorn of comedy and maybe turned it into a mighty oak tree.

But I need some acorn in there. But being good on your feet and being relaxed and being sort of conversational in front of people as a universal application, if you’re an attorney certainly or socially, whatever it is, maybe you’re not gonna end up being on the marquee playing the theaters that these guys play. It’s still like I would always tell people, take a groundlings class, take an improv class. Why because you’re gonna join the cast of SNL NO, so you can be funny at a party, give and take and have good conversations. It could pay off on a first date.

Leno says, I always find people’s comedic ability is inversely proportional to their intelligence. You want to try and take as much from your life as you can. If you’re like adult person, a dullart, if you come across a sort of boring, then be really boring on stage. That’s where your humor is. Corolla with his zing, that’s what Jay does.

He draws them decisive life show a fans. How many people have had their Dusenberg breakdown on the four h five, Leno says, See be a comic. Have you ever seen a group of animals and one of the animals is injured and all the other animals try to come and eat it. That’s kind of like being a comic. That’s what happens.

Just now. ESPN wrote about Adam Sandler’s basketball capabilities. ESPN rights. It’s March twenty twenty three and an LA based photographer who goes by the moniker Xavier Luggage, is in the middle of his first pick up basketball game at the Point Set, a recreation center. The park typically fills around six pm with people arriving to get their games in, but it’s an hour so earlier.

When the intention of the player snaps towards the side of the court, they all see him warming up seemingly out of nowhere. Luggage told ESPN, it was like, damn, that looks like Adam Sandler. Sandler shows up without an durage, donning his signature brightly colored, oversized polos and baggy shorts. He looks to make the extra pass. He dishes out as many compliments as assists, regardless of whether he’s on your team, and competition reigns supreme.

Luggage said, he’s like the random older dude that pulls up to the court and you’re kind of like, all right, whatever, and then you pick them up and he’s making the craziest passes, not moving too much, not doing the most, but he’s just got the og game like he’s been playing forever. He came up to me and was like, oh, man, I hope you’re not fast. And I looked at him and I’m like, oh, you’re fed up. He was meaning to play, not just to mess around, you know, like you wanted to win for sure. It was honestly pretty magical.

Bro Patrick Quinn is a comedian who played Sandler in twenty nineteen, they were in a park in La Sandlor comes by, he goes, you, guys, mind if I play with you. Quinn played against Sandler in one game, then they teamed up for the next. Quinn said, he’s essentially an influential person in other aspects that you’re like. I wouldn’t expect him to be doing these plays. It seemed like he had to be playing a lot to do something like that, and he was nailing them.

Sandler once again was wearing bright colors and a large T shirt. Quinn said, Sandler’s outfit is disarming. His theory is Sandler does it on purpose, so you don’t think he’s going to absolutely dominate on the court. He was playing point, calling out the plays. He was calling shots out, he was doing no look passes, he was creating shots, and he was going up and down the court.

He was back and forth, sweating, putting in some work. I was very impressed. Shashua Jackson said Sandler had to be wearing something from a decade ago, like three XL pants, wrinkled big and tall shirt. He definitely had clothes on that could fit a six foot eight linebacker. He executed a simple, beckcut and squared his body with the rim.

Jackson turned around and said it was a perfect pocket pass. I had to go with it. He doesn’t wow. Sandler executed the past but described it as super quick and soft. He says it’s still the best past that I’ve ever received in my life.

And I’m not saying that because it’s Adam Sandler. Luggage said, to be honest, I don’t even remember him really leaving. I just remember that he just wasn’t there. The only time spoke to Tom Popa about his podcast, Breaking Bread. They were curious, are there any similarities or parallels between the world of comedy and food.

Papa said, yes, there are. I name my podcast Breaking Bread because I’m huge into baking bread and I love to host dinners and get together as I’ve always enjoyed it, I thought it’d be perfect to talk about the food we all love. We all have drinks before enjoying a meal and a baked bread. For every guest to open up the conversation and literally break bread over conversations is one of the things that I live for. It’s passion, mind you all the time.

The podcast is growing. We just said Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman and more. Jerry people are realizing this is a safe, comforting place to talk and enjoy bread, food, drinks, and conversations. As for food and comedy, the end result is both similar and that you’re hosting people you’re entertaining with, either with your food or your jokes, and you just want them to escape their lives and smile and enjoy themselves.

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Also, the process of cooking and baking is just as humbling as comedy.

I’ve been doing both for a long time, and it’s always a new experience. Anything can happen at a show, we’re breaking bread at home. Really, Tom, you always have to be humble about your craft. It’s not just a thing you can pin down. You get better at it, but it’ll never be one hundred percent perfect.

No one ever nails one hundred percent of every joke on their act all the time. Baking and cooking is very similar in this regard. Leanne Morgan wrote in her book that she felt unseen in the comedy industry for decades and had some advice. Leanne said, I was coming up in comedy clubs when Comedy Central was big, and back then they didn’t want to see a mama talking about three little children and how she couldn’t fit in her pants. I didn’t fit the bill.

Nobody cared, but anyone in my heart there were women out there who’d relate to me. I didn’t go and live in New York or LA because my husband had a good job and we needed health insurance. But that ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me. It was one of those silver linings and blessings because I was able to have a real life with my family, and my real life led to this wonderful material. I could mind that people could relate to what I had to do.

I would tell others to do is just keep believing in yourself. I just kept going. I’d pray about it, and God never shut the door. When I would get discouraged, I’d get some kind of sign to keep me going. Now, at fifty nine, I feel like I’ve really become my authentic self.

I was recently asked to speak at my alma mater, the University of Tennessee, and I tell those kids, don’t change who you are. Don’t be ashamed of where you’re from. That’s what made you who you are. Be authentic. That’s what people are attracted to.

That is great advice. Roz Hernandez is one of Vulture’s comedians You should and will know. Roz says, sometimes when my family would eat spaghetti, I would secretly take one of the noodles out and slurp off all the sauce like a plain noodle. And a time one end in a nod he stood with me. When no one was looking, I’d put the noodle in one of my nostrils and then fake snees really dramatically.

When I’d remove my hands from my nose. My family would see a long noodle dangling from my nose, and then I would gaslight them and be like, what is something on my face? She says, I’m gonna dust that one off next time I go on an Olive Garden date wors show. Ever, I used to present as a drag queen with a big wig and the whole shebang. I hosted a month show in the smaller room of a venue with two stages.

I couldn’t even sell those tickets. For for a while, Joe Rogan would sell out the big room or the people who couldn’t get tickets to see Rogan would come to my show instead. I learned that the people who want to see Joe Rogan but didn’t get their tickets in time or not mine’s demographic. All right, what’s your writing process? You have to sit down at a computer and write crappy jokes every day.

I feel like I heard older comedians say do that, and I’d get frustrated because my mind doesn’t work like that. Now. I just try to live life and take notes of funny things and experiences, and then I usually think about how to make them funnier as I drive around town. Biggest financial hurdle as a comedian not having rich parents. Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice.

Best get good in a smaller market before moving to a big city. I ignored this when I started in LA and I’ve regretted it because it’s really hard to undo first impressions. Worst try to appeal to everyone. Cracked writes that Jerry the character on Seinfeld. The character Jerry Seinfeld is far from a need freak according to actual need Freaks.

Someone in the subreddit wrote, how come Jerry’s supposed to be a need freak, yet him and his friends rarely put shoes on the couch. Along with that was a screenshot of Jerry enjoying a diet coke with a sneaker firmly planted on the cushion of his teal couch. Gabriel Phileppe works for the Environmental Resilience Institute and said, we can track in all sorts of bacteria, but certainly some of the ones we’re most concerned about are e coli because that causes severe dominal cramps, bloody diarrhea, and vomiting. There’s been studies that swab the bottom of shoes and something like ninety nine percent of the shoes test positive for fecal material. TV watchers point out Jerry gets rid of a shoelace for touching the men’s room floor, but steps on the coffee table with that same shoe when user said, he’s quite insane, a little confused.

I guess that’s your comedy news for today. Christmas is coming. I will have normal episodes all through I don’t take a day off. Sometimes I pre tape. If you listen on December twenty sixth, then you’re like wow.

John spent his Christmas recording to the December twenty sixth podcast. No, that was a pre tape, but I’m around, see you tomorrow.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Nick Kroll, Mike Birbiglia, Seth Meyers, Jim Jefferies, Anthony Jeselnik, Preacher Lawson, Sarah Silverman, John Marco Sirizi

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s transformation from college improv to dedicated stand-up comedian
• Jim Jefferies on breaking America as an overseas comedian and the impact of TikTok on comedy
• Anthony Jeselnik discusses acting opportunities and how his appearance affects his on-stage character
• Preacher Lawson’s advice for comedians and navigating fame while maintaining privacy
• Comedy and controversial topics: when apologies are appropriate
• Sarah Silverman on growth, apologies, and not performing from a place of fear
• John Marco Sirizi featured on Vulture’s list of comedians to know

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media, Hello Jenny Mack On Your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney told GQ, I can really be setting my ways in some ways, but I’m very good at major transformations. At Georgetown, he joined an improv group with Nick Kroll and Mike Probiglia, but said I had erratic work habits. I was very disorganized in a sense. I was always ambitious, but I wasn’t like I’m going to direct every play in high school.

I wasn’t all over it in any way. He got to New York at age twenty three and said I hit the ground running. It was all of a sudden, this total focus and drive to do as much stand up as possible. I didn’t drink alcohol anymore. I didn’t take any drugs.

I was just totally dedicated to one thing, kind of monastically, and it was awesome. GQ analyzed his style and they nailed it here. They wrote, He’s expert at landing an audience deep into the thicket of a joke set up and then pausing just long enough to allow them to arrive at the punchline right before he does. When it works best, a single word detonates like a bomb. Seth Meyer says sense to the audience, I’m in control.

I’m not particularly interested in which of these jokes you like and which you don’t. No matter what happens, I’m going to be having a very good time. Jim Jefferies told review dot Com. When I moved over to America, there was this sort of myth that I was only funny because I said the C word and because of my accent. But I sold more tickets in Australia where they weren’t fascinated by my accent and the slightest.

So it’s just good to see you can entertain people all over the world. It used to be to go to a country several times to try and break a country. When I came to America, arguably they’d only been a handful of comedians from overseas that ever broke America before that. Now you know about a whole heap of different comics from all over the world because you’ve seen their specials. I’m not on TikTok, so I’m a bit of dinosaur in that regard.

I don’t think my comedy plays out well on TikTok. I think part of the problem with TikTok is that we’re seeing comedy in short form. Amen, So the long winded stories are the things that loop around in the callbacks and the shows being a show, we’re sort of losing that nuance yep. In the same way that people don’t listen to albums anymore, they’re just listening to individual songs. They don’t listen to albums as they’re meant to be played out as the artists set it up to be heard.

And I think that sort of happened to comedy as well. Yep. High five standing oh for me On that comment, crack dot Com asked Anthony Jelsink about being an actor. He said, I would enjoy it because I enjoy the camaraderie. Stand up’s all on your own.

With acting, you’re working with people. I like that. I’m just not asked to do it very often, and frankly, I’m surprised I’m not asked. I’m a good looking guy. I have a very distinctive voice that I think they would use me in voice stuff.

But I think at some point people will start asking me. But I’m spoiler. As a comic, I see comics who are making huge movies and I talked to them afterwards, and they’re like, I lost money. If I just toured the whole time I was doing this movie, I would have done much better. It’s not something I feel like I’m missing out on and I’m not that good.

The interesting character is I wouldn’t be able to play. I’d be thinking, Oh, someone else should be doing this, and that’s a bad thing for an actor to be thinking. Cracked asked about Anthony’s current hair style, Cracks observation, the older spike eer haircut seemed more in keeping with a villain. Now your hair is a little softer, not as threatening. I assume you think about how the character looks on stage.

What prompted the change? Je Nic said, It’s something I don’t think about on stage, but it was something that I became very aware of after the last special when there was this huge debate about beard versus non beard and which is better for the character. The character seems more like a psychopath clean shaven, but I’m like, no, I like the beard. I decided to grow my hair a little bit longer on tour. I just thought, what would this do?

Does this make me more of an a hole or less of an a hole? And let’s be honest, I think having more of a styled haircut seems a little bit scarier. This is fascinating. It’s more like we’re putting on a show. Whereas the spiky haircut was easy to do.

Anyone could do that. It just seemed like I’m walking out here doing this. I feel like I’ve gotten more famous in the past couple of years because of clips, and the clips are short. Here with longer hair, he feels it can be a little more anonymous in public. Preacher loss and has been out on the road doing the Funny as Bleep tour.

And that’s not me bleeping it, that’s the name of the tour. Preacher said, I was very quiet, unless everybody in the class was quiet. Then I was like, all right, some people just really want attention. First off, everyone does. Let’s just put that out there.

No one wants to be ignored, but some people just wanted a little more. His tips for comedians get on stage immediately and just do comedy a lot. I think humor is like athleticism. Some people are born a little more than other people. Then there’s some people that are just born a little funnier.

But I don’t care how athletic you are, you still have to learn how to shoot a basketball or dribble. You need to learn technique for comedy right every day, like it’s your morning coffee. You should do it anyway for your mental health. It’s not supposed to be fun. It’s a job.

You’re not supposed to like jobs because they’re working, and that’s the trade off. Lawson says, I think I have the perfect amount of fame where if I go outside, there’s people that recognize me. But it’s not like I just want to eat with my family. I don’t like when people take pictures or videos of me without my permission. I think that feels uncomfortable.

It’s like I never said I wanted to be recorded. As for controversial topics, Lawson says, anyone’s going to get upset, but if it’s a large group of people that are upset, I think it’s usually because the comedian did a bad job of conveying the joke. Comedians, we’re just storytellers. We’re the same as you. When you go to the movies, you lose yourself for an hour and thirty minutes.

You know you’d leave the theater feeling refreshed, like that was a good time. If you go to the movie theater you don’t like the movie, you probably should have looked up the director. There’s this narrative that you shouldn’t apologize, which I think is stupid. I think there are times when the comedians should apologize and then they don’t do it because they’re like, no, I’m a comedi and it’s like, no, actually you should apologize. But he adds, I really believe anyone could talk about anything, but sometimes you say dumb things like my bad, that was dumb.

Sarah Silverman says, I don’t really come from a place of fear that I’m gonna get canceled. I talk about stuff that I think is important or funny. I’m never looking upset people are offend people. Comedy is not ever green. If you’re a comedian, you look at things you did ten years ago and don’t cringe.

You’re not growing ideally, you’re growing and changing and can’t relate to the person you were. People get mad at me because I’ve apologized for things in the past. I think it’s important to apologize when you’re sorry and not apologize when you’re not sorry. Everybody wins. Friend of the Show John Marco Sirizi is on Vulture’s list of the comedians you should know and Will Know.

They asked him, if you were immortalized as a cartoon character, what would your outfit be A very John Marco answer. Five inch shorts, a T shirt I got on Etsy for a high school musical production that I wasn’t in that’s also a little too short, a jean jacket that doesn’t really make sense given the shorts, and high top nikes where one of the colors matches the color of the shirts text. Let’s also throw in a thin gold Forever bracelet with a tea chirm that I got my girlfriend at a casino’s tattoo convention, some Warpbey Parker glasses, and a brown leather watch, the two hands of which read Memento and Maury. Which musical nobody asked? Ideally it would be Falsetto’s Company or Wild Party, just to be pretentious.

Also, if I’m thinking about this as a cartoon for a wide audience, I’d probably go with fan of the Opera, even though I’ve never been much of an Andrew Lloyd Weberstan proudest achievement of your career so far? My jfl New Faces set is probably the only important set I’ve ever done that I wouldn’t do over. I was at that show, he crushed. He was the best of the night. I wrote that down.

I told you about it on the podcast the next day. I’ve told that to his face. That was a great set, he said. Generally, I found all these career milestones are fraught and stressful and imperfect. So in terms of feeling proud a panel in comparison to a new joke working, or even better, an old joke finally working.

I did a pilot last year for a roast based panel show hosted by Anthony Jesselnik Interesting, and he anonymously mentioned me on his podcast the next week. I know this because I’ve been listening to that podcast to fall asleep to for years. I was already asleep, but my girlfriend heard it, shook me awake and was like, go back, go back now, it’s pretty cool. I’ve been procrastlading filming an hour. Which comedian’s career would you like to follow?

John Mulaney, But just in terms of his personal life, his favorite worst show was getting hired to feature in a corporate gig in Santa Barbara. I think I was getting paid forty five hundred dollars to do twenty five minutes, which was hands down the most I’d ever made off a night of comedy. My mom drove me to the casino from LA and on the drive I looked at what company I was performing for. What I learned was it was less of a company and more of a union of sorts for West Coast electrical companies with a very intense ideological bent. Their newsletter had articles like has woke this Roob?

And travel and COVID climate change and other lines Democrats want you to believe. I wish I could tell you I thought about not going through with the gig, but it would be a lie forty five hundred dollars. When I got there, my mom and I found ourselves surrounded by mostly men in their sixties thousands, all wearing full cowboy garb without looking like that ever been on a horse. So I met the other comedian, a kind and talented comic who nevertheless sold merch shirts that said who done farted? Hmm, I wonder who that was?

Marco said. The comedy show started as all comedy shows should, with the singing of the national anthem. Then the auction, of course, which consisted of small guns, guns that were intended for warfare training packages, and you know, five friends to learn how to use those guns before or hopefully not after a wine tasting. Right as they were wrapping up the auction with the AK forty seven’s, I looked through the playbill to ensure there wasn’t going to be some kind of cross burning at the end, and that’s when I saw the part with my name, which stipulated in big bold letters that the comedy portion of the evening was only possible thanks to a generous donation by Exon Mobile, you know, the evil company. I started freaking out, taking stupid comedian thoughts like well would George Carlin do?

But I didn’t have any cocaine, so I tried to think of a joke that in some way Abzombia the sin. So I got on stage and preceded a bomb for twenty three minutes. I wish I could say that was on purpose, despite the crowd, but it was more a mix of my lack of practice sticking to clean jokes plus second guessing jokes in the moment that I figured wouldn’t play well with men old enough to have served in the Confederacy. Then, with two minutes left and no momentum to speak of, I went for it. At the time, I was closing with a joke about Titanic two, a recreation of the Titanic built by some billionaire who hopefully was on the recent submarine trip.

Yikes. Normally I’d note that Titanic’s voyage was much safer nowadays thanks to global warming, but this time I said it was because of the Iceberg’s got a lot smaller thanks to my sponsor Exon Mobil. Wasn’t a boo right away. First was just noise, a unified, confused groan, but then one old man was able to close his mouth long enough to produce a bee. I wouldn’t say it was like an Apollo level boo.

It was nothing like the Apollo in more ways than one. But it was my first real boo. And whenever I have an extremely crappy gig now I try to remind myself it’s worth it for the story. That is amazing, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it and hopefully they’ll enjoy it too, and you can both hit that plus sign on the app there and follow the podcast if you’d like the show without commercial interruption.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Eliza Shlesinger, Leanne Morgan, Phil Wang, Vic McHayliss

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s early comedy days and evolution to wearing suits
• Eliza Shlesinger on female comedians facing harsher judgment and personalized algorithm comedy
• Leanne Morgan’s rural upbringing and using humor to cope with difficult times
• Phil Wang on addressing his Asian identity in his stand-up material
• Vic McHayliss on the changing landscape of comedy and career aspirations

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. By there, I’m Johnny Mac. If your Daily Comedy News. John m’laney spoke to GQ about his early days in how he was part of an old comedy scene. John said, I didn’t feel like we were black flag or anything, and I was on the straight edge of it, but it did feel like we were weirder than the norm.

Then he noticed he was getting big laughs on the road, just like he was in New York. He said, I might have been in Madison, Wisconsin. It was like twenty thirteen. It was older parents at the show with their teen kids, and they both seemed enjoyed. I thought, this plays in East Village, but it’s also working in Wisconsin.

Maybe we should see how far we can push it. It was around then that he started wearing a suit. Yeah, I think from memory. If you look at his earlier albums, he’s in a hoodie. Mulaney said.

An AHA moment came when he was playing a club called Laughing Skull Lounge in Atlanta. I remember that club when all six comics on the bill wore the exact same nerdy white guy outfit, and so did everyone in the crowd, and he said, I remember thinking they paid money to see something. Why does it look like one of the audience members is standing on stage talking and he began to suit up. The Harvard Gazette spoke to Eliza Slessinger. She discussed the balancing act between not offending and not allowing public opinion to ruin a good joke, and says female comedians are always judged more harshly, quoting Eliza, as women, we are constantly having to justify everything and make sure that you know I don’t mean to offend.

We love to pick apart people and women. We do it deliciously. We love the shodden fruit of I know that. All she said was she loves fluffy clouds, but she didn’t say she loved ring clouds also, which means you hate the rain, which means you love climate change. So Lussingery discussed the algorithm and said, we all have our own personalized channels on Netflix, and we all have our own personalized comedians because we have so much to pick from on social media.

That’s just not the way the human brain works. How could I tailor something that one percent speaks to you. At the end of the day, we’re all people we all go through the same things. When you could tap into that, which I always strive to do, that’s how you over to play Kuala Poor and also Irland and also Tokyo. You’re reaching a very human thing.

Leanne Morgan says she gets her positive attitude from her mom. I’m from a rural farming community of five hundred people and my extended family, my grandparents, aunts and uncles, a lot of family. We were always around and we all seem to make jokes out of the bad times. Did you hear me say, Aunt, I’m from Queen’s Why did I say, Aunt? I’m leaving it in aunts and uncles.

That’s how we talk what’s going on. I’m selling out. Listen to me with the aunt’s crap. You guys should throw pies in my general direction. I hope you miss, but if you don’t, I’ll understand.

Leanne said, we use humor together. I can’t believe I said, Aunt, Deacon Mike and Cleveland. You’ve known me for thirty years? What is wrong with me? Leanne Morgan said, we use humor to get through things.

Bad things would happen, but we would make light of what we could get through it. I think humor can help us see that when bad things come, there are silver linings like oh, that happened, and this wonderful thing came out of it. Leanne says, I can get bogged down and start looking at social media and freak out. It’s easy to get sucked in and start thinking the world’s on fire. When that happens, I get off social media and try to remember that God is in control.

I pray, and then I try to get out and walk. Being in nature helps me. Seeing my magical grand babies keeps me grounded. I agree with her, going for a good walk and getting fresh air and clearing your head. I know personally when I write, I write better in the morning.

I write better promos in the morning. I write better scripts for the show in the morning by like three four in the afternoon, I do tasks I call them like, oh can I just addit something where I don’t have to think but morning brains where it’s at. And go for a walk today. I actually exercise before writing the podcast, before recording the podcast, So I feel good today. You know what I’m saying, Leanne says, I come home from la or I’m shooting a sitcom from Netflix or everybody thinks I’m a star and my name is on things and I feel like Beyonce and my family’s like, can you wash my panties?

And I need to go pick up a prescription at Walgreen’s. That keeps me grounded. That is hilarious. Leanne any advice for those of us who want to be funnier, She says, go see live shows. Go see your favorite comedian, or go see a funny Broadway show.

Back to the Future the musical it’s closing soon. You should go. It really does feel good to laugh with other people. Well, you could even go on social media and find somebody that tickles you and watch them instead of all this other mess about death and impending World War III. The Guardian spoke to Phil Wang.

He said, no matter how much experience I have, no matter how many times I’ve been on TV, I always approach every gig assuming people don’t know who I am and have noticed that I’m Asian. It’s like a sick for me. I can’t stop trying to bridge the gap by joking about it. I’m writing new material at the moment and are ready. The first few minutes are about being Chinese.

It’s not conscious. Jerry Seinfeld once said, every comedian only really has the same ten minutes, and I think there’s something to that. Doing stand up about Asians is a way of me taking control, addressing what I think is the elephant in the room. As my career has progressed, comedy has become a different experience the way I see it. I used to date comedy and now I’m married to and I still love it, but it’s not all about new experiences in places.

It’s now just part of my life that’s not the same. I’m complacent. I still worry about not getting eighty percent in whatever I do. I recently watched my first special on Netflix and thought, this could have been better. I got that bit wrong.

Next time, maybe I’ll get one hundred percent. I’ll jump in there and I teach this to my fellow podcasters. I teach a couple college classes. You will drive yourself nuts and in the homework at some point the show’s done. Believe me, every single episode of this podcast I listen, I’m like, oh, that could have been better, that could have been better, and yeah, but at some point you got a hand in the homework.

Vultra had done their list of the comedians you should know and will know. One of their comedians is Vic Mchayliss, whose career would you want? Vic says, the landscape of comedy is changing so rapidly it’s hard to say. I love comedy based folks who really lean into acting and use their success to choose their work. Lisa Kudrou, Paul F.

Tompkins, and Quinta Brunson are all people I would love to follow. Worst show ever. When I was first starting out, my indie team got booked on a show at a venue none of us were familiar with through someone’s cousin. When we arrived to check in, we realized we’d be performing in a club, not a comedy club, a club club as in bottle Service. My best guess is the booker thought we were doing stand up, but he was hoping would say funny things while hyping up the crowd as the DJ switched out.

What she was not expecting were six over eager improvisers looking for one word suggestions to get started. We have been paid a very small amount of money upfront, so the show had to go on. The DJs were so mad they wouldn’t turn the music down and lay it on the horns Ount effect. Every time we tried talking the whole thing, I ended with a locally known rapper getting the entire club to chant muppets until we left the stage. Some life lessons.

The biggest thing I’ve learned is that if I’m not doing things outside of comedy, I have nothing to pull from. Sometimes it gets so caught up in shows and work I forget to do things that make me a complete person. I’ve learned it’s not only okay, but necessary to take a break and live my life where everything becomes self referential and boring. I try to do things I’m bad at and work on things that require spending actual time with people I love. Comedy requires so much of your heart that if it’s empty, it’s noticeable.

What comedy opinion Hill will you die on? VIC says comedy videos on social media aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and you don’t have to participate, but it is a valid form of comedy. Comedy is supposed to be fun, and making videos for people to see without putting studio quality lighting and sound behind them is a really cool way to see if your ideas resonate with folks. Jay Leno and Adam Caroll will be hosting the third annual Comedy Fantasy Camp in Los Angeles from July twenty third through the twenty sixth. Corolla told The Rap, I met the guy who started the rock and roll Fantasy Camp, and I was like, this is a great idea.

We should do this for comedy. The first two Fantasy Camps went so well that we thought, why not turn it into something we do once a year. And Jay Leno was kind of enough to get involved, but not just let his name to it, like really get what the campers and really get granular, really spend time and burn calories. And I think Jay had a good time. Jay Leno says, I had a good time because when I was starting out, it was lucky enough to meet the comics, Robert Klein, Gabe Kaplan, all these comics will come through Boston.

I’d meet them and talk to them, and that’s where I learned from. Because you’re usually taught from somebody who can’t do it, you kind of go, who’s this guy? People who respect his comedians, they’re gonna have a more unorthodox way of how you do it. If you’re going to do it, it’s the only thing you can do to say I’m thinking about being comedian, maybe I’ll be a writer. Well know, I’m sorry, Then you’re a writer.

I think if you’re a comedian and a writer, you’re a writer. If you think you’re an actor and a comedian, you’re an actor. Because comedians just want to commit. That’s the whole thing. You just want to do stand up.

It’s something you have to do, and you’ll go to humiliating lengths to do it. Corolla said, I always tell young comedians or young anything writers or podcasters that go, what do we need you for? Like, we’ve got a lot of comedians, you know what I mean. There’s a lot of podcasters. A lot of people think they’re funny.

There’s a lot of people think they can sing country music. Why you And if the answer is no, then maybe it’s no. But if you think you’re different, your angles are different, we’ve never met you before, then show up and bring us something we need. Leno’s as the best advice I always give young comics is don’t go up as a comic, Try and be an MC. If they have a talent show in your town, try to be the MC.

Speak of your synagogue, your church, an AA meeting, whatever you need to do to get in front of an audience. Just talk and if you get a laugh, continue to talk. If you don’t get a laugh, then sit down and introduce the next act. But get comfortable in front of people talking. And that’s all the voice I have for you today.

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Featured: Matt Rife, Nikki Glaser, David Letterman, Ricky Gervais, Ronnie Chang

What’s in This Episode

• Matt Rife’s baptism and religious journey
• Nikki Glaser hosting the Golden Globes on January 5
• Ricky Gervais gives advice to Nikki Glaser for hosting
• David Letterman discusses meditation and medication for anxiety
• David Letterman on retirement and anxiety dreams about his show
• Johnny Mac’s Letterman Podcast episode with Mike Chisholm
• Ronnie Chang on comedy’s influence in extremist algorithms

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Matt Riife surprised everybody he shared that he got baptized earlier this year. Rife was on the History Hyenas podcast and said I got baptized in August in a dude’s pool. Raife told Hosciannis Papas and Christa Stefano that he didn’t grow up in a religious household, but he’d occasionally attend church with friends a few times a year.

Rife said, I’ve never been a super religious person, but when my grandpa pasked away, something hit me that was like, I’ll never see this person again, so something has to exist. I skewed Christian so I started going to church a little bit more. But he says, I hate church. I find it excreminatingly boring. But I want to believe in God and it’s obviously a huge part of the process.

Matt Rife, if you’re listening, and I know you are, I’m gonna recommend Deacon Mike’s podcast. Deacon Mike’s podcast is called Question of Faith, and Deacon Mike and the crew they found a good way to like just be like normal person from the community who also attends church, Like they did a whole thing in the summer talking about the church softball league, so it’s not like preachy question of faith. Back to the comedy John, Nikki Glaser was on CBS this morning earlier in the week. She’s getting ready to host the Golden Globes on January fifth. Nicky’s right, a big wave of press right now.

Her PR team is taking on Nate Bergetzi’s a PR team in the or Super Bowl this weekend. Nate’s team put up three touchdowns yesterday. If you heard yesterday’s podcast anyway, here’s Nikki Glaser reached. Out to Ricky. He called me right away to give me advice.

Within like two minutes of me sending an email being like, would it be okay if you maybe copped on the phone for ninety seconds he called me. I’m like at an airport, ducked in a corridor being like, oh oh yeah, trying to hear his advice. And his advice was just be yourself. You’re not one of them. Don’t try to walk out there acting like you’re an a lister just because you’re invited.

You wouldn’t be if you weren’t the host, which is a very heals so real, it’s so real, and that’s really important. And he also wrote me and had great advice of you know, their advice that I chair so much that can only you would only get from someone who had done it was that the room is super noisy, they’re all talking. Don’t try to quiet them down because the audience at home can’t hear them. And I thought that was very valuable because I would have been out there. I’m not used to performing for a crowd of people talking.

Still, I would have been like, can everyone take your seats? The show has begune, you know, And now they just saved me from that moment, which would really possibly have been an awkward moment. Yes, if you’re a fan of me, I’m the guest today on the Letterman Podcast. Mike Chisholm and I talked to comedy for about an hour and a half The Letterman Podcast wherever you get your shows and if you’re too lazy to click on that, that will be the January first episode on this feed. But why don’t you give Mike the download no listening.

You can listen to my version, but give them the downloads. It feels good about himself. There’s also a video version of that. If you want to see how boring John sitting in the basement looks, you can go on YouTube and check that out. I wouldn’t your usual mental image of George Clooney sitting in a Chase lounge with a microphone recording off Lake Como in Italy.

That’s the image you should keep. You don’t want to see what this show actually looks like. There’s a reason this is an audio only podcast.

Speaking of David Letterman, he did an interview with GQ and we learned Dave …

Dave said, yeah, I do a little meditating. Sometimes I just meditate hoping I fall asleep. GQ was like, does that work? I can tell you firsthand it works, but Dave said, yeah, sometimes it does. Yeah, it’s pretty good.

When I was working, I would meditate. Because you’re doing five nights a week. You go out tired, sick, lonely, happy, scared. You gotta go out, Dave, you’re doing four nights a week. There was Friday Night videos for a while, and then I think when you went to five Days on NBC, one of the days was on tape and the CBS Friday night shows were clearly pre tape.

You doubled up one day a week, you gotta go out, and the meditation sometimes would give you a boost of energy. But I found when I did it religiously, it just gave me more energy to be angry. So I thought, well, this might not be what they’re talking about. Dave also said he took medication. Yeah, yeah, medication.

Doctor. The guy who saved my life begged me to go on an SSRI because he used to get so upset. And we had an office, an adjunct office, an office in the office, I’m sorry, a closet in the office full of telephones because if things went wrong, I pick up my telephone, yank it out of the wall and heave it across the room. And so we had to deal with Westinghouse, and people used to make the phones that have a regular delivery stops applying us with phone. So that was a cue that maybe I needed help, GQ.

And you don’t have that feeling anymore. I urged your hurl of phone, Dave. How have I been today, GQ? I haven’t seen him throw one phone? Davey retired?

Send me retired? What’s a deal? Dave said, retirement is a myth. Retirement is nonsense. You won’t retire.

The human mechanism will not allow you to retire. What do you do? Sit there and wait, give me the name of the show, Judge, Judy to come on. As long as you’re healthy, you still want to produce, and you’ll find ways too. Once I stopped doing the show, took me a couple of years to figure it out.

Ah, this is a completely different rhythm, and without the rhythm that you’re customed to, largely unsatisfying. So you gotta find something that’s important to you. Hello, Dave, Hi, I’m podcasting in the basement for that very reason. I understand. I’m on the back of my career now, I get it.

But I like doing this show. This show is a lot of fun, and it gives me a rhythm to my day. I hear you, David Letterman. Dave, do you think about the show in general these days? Dave said, from the day I stopped doing it till last night, two or three times a week I have an anxiety dream related to the TV show, and it’s maddening.

It’s just manning the dream is I show up and here I am I’m read do the show. I’m on the old show’s schedule. I’ve been a rehearsal, I’ve been a hair I’ve been to makeup. I come down and it’s people I don’t know looking at me, saying, Okay, we’ll get to it. But what about the audience.

I guess they’re here, So it’s me in the same mode everyone else is incomplete, and it’s anxiety. It usually wakes me up at a start. What does he think it means? I think, as it came to the college, dream of Oh I forgot where the English building is, or it could be some sort of psychosis Davis seventy seven. How much longer will he work for I don’t know.

Like I said, I’m surprised at the number that I’m still doing it now. I think if I start in the middle of talking to a world famous guest, I fall asleep. I was doing some show for Netflix a couple of years ago, and the schedule was ridiculous. We were doing three shows a night twice, and then three shows another night twice, and it was insane. And the stage manager came up to me between one of those shows and she said, you’re gonna have to sit up straight and look, I know you’re ehausted, can you sit up straight?

And I thought, ah, maybe that’s a sign. So does that mean he’s not doing anything more for Netflix? Interesting anyway, if you want to hear me talk about Letterman Letterman podcast. Today, the La Times asked Ronnie Ching, do you think comedy has the potential to become part of that extremist algorithm when it comes to how some people view the world socially politically? Ronnie said, yeah, but that goes both ways, politically right, some of that type of content can influence you to go left or right.

There’s comedy for everybody, so it can influence you in any direction. I think what’s sadder is guys, and I can speak to straight men because I’m a straight man sometimes have legitimate grapes that get kind of focused on and exaggerated by being on the Internet too much. It’s not even about politics, about losing your mind. It’s not about conservative or liberal. You could lose your mind as a liberal, you could lose them as a conservative.

I think just losing your mind is very scary. In the new special on Netflix, which is one of the top of the year, I will share my Top Specials of the Year list on the twenty seventh. But Ronnie in this special has a good, strong political chum. Hilarius has their second special out today, this one Alana Glazer. They don’t seem to be pushing this one all that much.

And that’s not me being catty at the Hulu publicist who won’t get back to me. I’m just not seeing much at all. This is Glazier’s second stand up special. It’s called Human Magic on Hulu today. The only press I had seen was with NPR, and even that wasn’t really about the special, but something interesting in that interview in PR asked are you good at knowing when something should end?

And Alana said, yeah, I am with broad City. We had signed a contract of seven seasons and then we both came to the decision and ended after five. Abby and I Comedy Essential was like, huh, but yeah, that’s something I would say is elegant about me knowing when things are at their end. CBS has picked up the pilot for Zorna Zarni Gorg’s multi camera comedy. The sitcom is called Zorna and in Zorna Zarna, Gorg plays Zarna, a pron immigrant woman who’s been raising her American born kids on Indian values, but now that they’re getting older, it’s time for her to focus on her own American dream.

Amy Schumer had a project called kind Of Pregnant, a comedy movie. It’s now scheduled for February twenty twenty five on Netflix. It follows a woman wearing a fake baby bump because she’s jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy, and leads her into awkward comedic situations. Amy Schumer has a producer credit, as does Adam Sandler. So you know it’s good.

I mentioned yesterday that I’ve pre taped a bunch. You know, Holiday’s Johnny Mac wants to take a couple days off, so you probably won’t hear me talking about all in Comedy About Love. That’s the Broadway show that’s starring John Mulaney. So you’ll see a lot of John Mulaney press next week. So if I don’t talk about it, it’s because I pre taped.

Malini said, I like every single thing about Broadway. I like that if you’re not on the crew that should move a chair, you can’t move a chair. I like that you run into everyone else doing shows. I like every single part of it. Malanie also talked to the Red Carpet about how fatherhood has changed his comedy.

Let’s listen to John and we’ll take the break. Oh it’s much less precise. Oh my god. There used to be limitless time in the day and tons of sleep to remember every little nuance and syllable of every little joke that’s gone. So I think in some ways it’s benefited from that ten percent less clever, but perhaps funnier.

Kevin Hart will tape his next comedy special Tomorrow and Sunday at the Adrian Orsch Center for the Performing Orts in Miami. Ian Lara is taping his special Lapo Swan Rouge. Did I get my friends right there? I’ll leave it in close enough? Who knows?

I don’t know. Ian Lara is taping his special Saturday at that place in New York City. Vince Vaughn’s Bad Monkey is getting another season from Apple TV. You know, I like the Apple guys. You watch one of their shows, and all their shows are actually pretty good.

They have a pretty good track record. Plus they renew things onlike Netflix, which you get into something and they’re like, eh, we’re not making any more of it, Well, like Shane Gillis’s Tires, Like that’s like ten minutes to make no offense to the writers, but that wasn’t like It’s not like they made an Indiana Jones movie. It’s guy sitting around a tire shop riffing, and they only made six of them, make sixteen episodes of Tires. Well yeah, anyway, bad Monkey, we’ll come back to Apple TV. It stars Vince Vaughan.

They got a tax credit, so they’re gonna film in California. I don’t know how that’s gonna work. It’s supposed to take place in Key West. Who knows. The Toronto Guardian caught up with Kyle Bergstresser.

He’s been told his comedy style is a mix of Rory Scovel and Pete Holmes, but describe it without referencing someone else. I’m like a guy who does so many stupid act outs that it’s basically sketch comedy. Some of his influences include some Canadians that I haven’t heard of. I’m gonna guess you haven’t either, Tim Gray Royan, Ashdana Smith. Right, you don’t know who those are?

Andy Samberg, Nick Kroll, Tim Robinson, Chris Locke, Maria Bamford, Tim Heindeker, Connor O’Malley, just anyone getting up there and being a crazy ass. Favorite comedian growing up, here’s a curve ball Bill Hicks and Richard Pryor. I knew I wanted to smoke cigarettes and be a truth teller just like them. And he says, now it’s embarrassing and weird, but my parents played it pretty safe. For the first comedy I’ve ever heard was a Jeff Foxworthy CD that was all about marriage and rednecks.

I listened to it like a thousand times and showed all my ten year old friends and we all somehow found it relatable.

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Also, some cassette tape in my dad’s truck of a Christian comedian, what’s a …

He was like, ain’t our Lord and save your funny that way? And I was like, yes, Mark, and I’d like to do this someday. His favorite comedian now John Mulaney, which is tough because he showed his behind a little bit in the last few years. But I’ve decided that I don’t need my comedian to be coke free or great husband’s. As long as they’re not total monsters, I still love them.

Wait did you say that out loud? We’re not supposed to say that out loud. What’s your pre show ritual? Two iced coffees? All right?

I like it here, I’ll shake one for you by me a coffee dot COM’s last day like comedy is fift for five push ups? Not doing that, not even doing five push ups, not doing one push up, screaming to a bunched up sweater, do the happy dance, check the hair, quick granola bar, middle finger to the sky for all my dead friends, and never bothered to catch a show. Kiss my wife, put on my show shirt, big glass of sprite, dirt off the shoulder, dance wife gets another kiss, Give her the kiss she’s begging for more. Big fat sun is right there. She’s got a cool off.

He’s a very curious boy. I tell her she’s getting it later tonight. I kneel down. I tell my big Sanchi’s perfect just as she is. I shove him over to remind him who his boss.

Middle figure of the sky again for all the times God did not provide a shadow box. My wife shows me over a little playfight that gets it out of her systems. She’ll still get it later and out the door by seven twenty. The Toronto Guardian said, Okay, what is it? Really nothing?

I usually just get diarrhea. He’s funny, this guy. I have a joke about the joker and how seriously we take him. I think it’s a pretty good observational thing. But my favorite right now is a very stupid alternate reality bit about how I’m protesting Shopper’s Drug Mart for selling one kind of toy and a different kind of toy.

That’s like a flashlight. Either know what I mean or you don’t. I love what it says about a certain type of men’s right sky, and I love seeing long it takes for the audience to realize that I’m not actually like that. Sometimes they never do. How does you find new comedians?

You gotta go to live shows. There’s so much pausing and eye contact and references to earlier sets and slight adjustments to the vibe that you can’t put into recording. No one will ever be as good in an album or special or stupid forty five second clip as they are live. I like this guy a lot. He is Kyle berg Stresser.

Let’s keep an eye on him, all right. Christmas is coming up. Johnny Mac has pre taped a couple episodes, so put this one on your calendar. If you’re in San Francisco and you’re not doing the Christmas thing. On December twenty fifth, why don’t you go see Kung Pow Kosher Comedy.

They’re doing six shows from the twenty fourth to the twenty six at the Cantonese Imperial Palace. This year’s lineup includes Afira Eisenberg, Becky Bronstein, and British comedian Matt Kershin. There’s a five pm dinner show and an eight thirty cocktail show on the twenty fourth, twenty fifth, and twenty sixth an Imperial Palace in San Francisco. Seventy one to ninety six dollars in person. If you just want to sit home and watch this thing, thirty five to eighty one dollars YouTube live stream an eighty one dollar live stream Koshercomedy dot com.

I’m clicking on that link. I support you guys, but an eighty one dollars stream eighty one Are you gonna send food to my house? All right. Let’s say to watch Kungpound on the YouTube line stream, buy a ticket from the box office. Click on the YouTube link.

You’ll get a email. All right, I’m clicking on the box office. I gotta see what I’m getting for eighty one dollars. Guys, it just says purchase tickets. I’m gonna get one for the December twenty fifth Cocktail Show.

Purchase tickets. Click here to purchase YouTube live stream tickets. Purchase tickets. A lot of links here. Pay what you wish level four thirty five bucks, and then there are tiers.

Okay, so it’s a pay what you wish starting at thirty five, and the top tiers has suggested eighty one. At least that makes sense. I mean, if you want to be generous, great, But if we’re just charging eighty one dollars for live stream, that’s a little nutty. If you’re in Daton, you might want to check out the Kakaroo Comedy Competition Saturday at the Black Palette Art Gallery. Show begins at eight.

Tickets are ten dollars. Saturday begins the quarter finals of the competition. The winners will advance to the grand finale, which is January fourth, at Brickey’s Comedy Club located inside Star City Brewery there in Dayton. That’s your comedy news. I do want to talk about Yellowstone for a second.

So if you haven’t seen the Yellowstone finale, you don’t care, You could check out and I’ll see tomorrow. But for the Yellowstone fans who saw the finale spoilers coming up, what was that? I’m not even talking about like what happened to the Dutton ranch? Fine, kind of saw that coming for three seasons. Now, yah with shit with that.

But let me ask you this. So John Dutton was the governor and his death is mysterious. Then on the show, is it what three days day later? Four days later, the governor’s son, who’s also the attorney general, he’s missing. So if we’re the investigators who haven’t actually seen the show, we think the governor’s son has beaten up his sister and then disappeared.

Eventually they’re going to find that he’s dead. Now don’t you think the governor were dead and his son, the attorney general, were dead within three four days? Because I’ll remind you, we see John Dutton’s funeral, so it’s only been like three four days in the show. It hasn’t been like three months. I don’t think it’s a couple days later, maybe a week later.

The governor’s dead, his son is dead, the daughter slash sister, she’s all beat up and then leaves town.

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Meanwhile, the guy that has openly been trying to acquire the ranch to build …

The son is dead, and the sister is beat up and leaves town, and this guy somehow controls the ranch. It sounds like a mafia thing, doesn’t it. No, we’ve watched the show. We know Rainwater didn’t do anything wrong. But if I’m an investigator, I’m looking at Rainwater going, wait, what what on here?

Your enemy is dead, his son is dead, the daughters all beat up, and let’s not forget about the drive by with the attorney who was shot in the car. Taylor Sheridan. I think he left some loopholes there at the end. Anyway, it was a good show till it wasn’t, and I enjoyed hate watching these last six seven episodes. What a mess?

Alright, see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Ronnie Chieng, Nate Bargatze, Adrian Applelucci, Nikki Glaser, Lorne Michaels, Ashley Padia, Mikey Day, Pete Holmes, Sinbad, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Bill Burr

What’s in This Episode

• Ronnie Chieng Netflix special review and storytelling
• Johnny Mac’s end-of-year comedy special rankings
• Nate Bargatze’s PR campaign for Netflix Christmas special
• Nate Bargatze’s Nashville Christmas CBS special premiere
• Washington Post profile on Nate Bargatze’s ‘Walmart of comedy’ approach
• Nate Bargatze’s George Washington SNL sketch and career impact
• Nate Bargatze’s production company Nateland and clean comedy guidelines

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. He me there, I’m shunning back with your Daily Comedy News. So I did watch Ronnie Ching special and it’s really good. Now let me tell you what I liked it. Ronnie is a great storyteller and top of mine.

So right before I recorded this, I just recorded my end of the year rankings. So let me double sidebar here. First of all, I’ve been having a lot of voice problems lately. As you’ve been listening today, my voice seems strong. This is the fourth straight episode of Daily comed News I’m recording and the voice is holding up thanks to the help of a large iced coffee with caramel and milk.

And you get support the show and buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Well, that’s not why I bring it up. I’m just happy that I have the voice to record all these things. So I have Ronnie up on my list.

I have him way up on the list. But I don’t agree with Jason’s In a Minute is not the number one special of the year. That said, I don’t think Jason and is crazy. So tune in on December twenty seventh for my complete list. But as I recorded those lists, I was talking about specifically al name names, Adrian Applelucci Special, and my problem with Adrian Special is I don’t believe any of the underlying premises at all.

They’re funny stories, but I need a little bit of reality. Like she’s telling these stories, and I don’t believe anything she said actually happened. I could be wrong, but personally I didn’t believe it. Now, as I’m watching Ronnie and he does that big opening chunk about freezing his wife’s eggs, and it’s a long chunk, I believe the underlying story actually happened or the details exaggerated for comedic effect. Sure, but I don’t feel like he sat at a desk and said, Okay, let me just totally make up a half hour story and tell it.

Well, perhaps he did, but I believe the underlying story. So he’s a great storyteller. And as he tells the stories, he will drop in tags. So that’s like, you know, after a joke, you just say, like one more short thing. And I never saw his tags coming, and they’re all really funny.

I’ve talked about on this podcast how I have Emperor of Rome syndrome, and I’ll be like, oh yeah, that’s really funny, but I don’t actually laugh. I laughed at Ronny Chieng special, so I like that one a lot. I recommend, but I won’t tell you how far up the list. You’ll have to listen on the twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty ninth for the breakdowns of those. Do you like Nate Burgetzi, because if you don’t, you might as well check out today.

Nate’s PR team should play Nikki Glaser’s PR team in the PR Team super Bowl this weekend because they are both absolutely flooring it. I don’t recall seeing a push to this effect. On Tuesday, Nate got a New York Times article, a Washington Post article, and a Hollywood Reporter article, all this to promote his Netflix special on Christmas Eve, and also tonight is Nate Burghetzi’s Nashville Christmas on CBS nine o’clock. So one thing we know about the special is, you know the George Washington bit he’s done on the two episodes of SNL. He’s doing a version of that, but he’s dressed as an angel.

One of the jokes we see in the trailers he says, let this be called Christmas, and let it be celebrated each year by gathering with family, by doing goodwill in his name, and by putting a big pine tree in your house. God commands the pine tree shall be decorated with glittering glass ornaments of incredible beauty, also with garbage that your children make at school. Now, before you feel bad for the SNL people being ripped off, Lorne Michaels is producing this special even though it’s on CBS, which is interesting that it’s on CBS right. SNL cast members Ashley Padia and mikey Day appear in the sketches Mary and Joseph, so it’s not like Nate’s thieving from SNL. Naperghetzi’s Nashville Christmas will feature a mix of stand up comedy, pre taped comedy shorts, sketches, and musical performances.

CBS says the special spots lights the heart and spirit of Nashville during the holiday season and highlighting family fun and feel good moments. In a statement, Nate said, and I want to make a great show for families to gather around and watch together. And I couldn’t be in better hands with this team. Some of his press, he said he met his wife Laura, while waiting tables at Applebee’s in Nashville, to her sense of humor and laugh. We married in two thousand and six on Friday the thirteenth.

His favorite spot at home, I have a golf simulator room that I added onto the house. His goal for stand up is to be funny on stage without saying things that will embarrass or upset his parents. In his pre stage mantra, I remind myself that the knight’s not about me, It’s about the audience. Then I go out to determine and make them have fun. All right.

Like I said, I got a lot of ate today. So if you’re not in anate, you should just bail. Let’s start with the Washington Post. On the headline, Nate Brighetzi wants to be the Walmart of comedy. They write, Nate loves fast food.

He loves big box stores and the suburbs and TNT marathons of Diehard. He finds felicity in the familiar, comfort in the caloric originality. Any ordinary somebody worked hard on that opener. The first quote we get from Nate is I had McDonald’s last night. They caught up with Nate playing golf, when we learned that he loves the pit stop around the Troubadour’s fifth hole.

A cottage filled with every temptation you can imagine, jars of candy, topshelf liquor, and a drawer of fried chicken sandwiches with pimento cheese. He points to the soft serve board and seems disappointed when no one makes a homemade version of a blizzard. He really loves blizzards, he tells the post. No one wants to be Walmart. I want to be Walmart.

When George Carland was around, you needed George Carlin, you needed Lenny Bruce. Now he thinks we need something else, so he doesn’t to push the envelope. He pulls it in. He loved comedy ever since childhood. When he heard Sinbad do a bit about McDonald’s and people not knowing what to order, Sinbad’s punch line was that they got the same menu.

The article then talks about Nate going and up to Chicago, and we’ve talked about that in the past. Then he hits New York City, where he loaded FedEx trucks from five to ten am after being on stage every night. Boy, that’s rough. Pete Holmes said the landscape of comedy was that nine out of ten comedians were going to be kind of rough. The styles you shock them and then you kick them in the place you kick people.

Pete Holmes supposed to wear clean, Pete Holmes. Pete said Canadians and college kids always loved me and Nate. Home says the audience grew weary about jokes about finding the g spot and thatvent he and Nate were a breath of fresh air at a gearshift. Mikey Day talked about how the George Washington sketch has accelerated Nate’s career and said, I truly only think that would have worked so well with Nate. The dead eyes stare that he did is just so perfect a for George Washington b just stating these dumb facts.

It was just kismet. Nate says the sketch shot his career into another world. I actually enjoy politics. I don’t talk about them, but I enjoy them. I don’t think it’s what people are coming to me for the battle isn’t with other people but myself.

I’ve got to fight myself. It’s easy to feel self important. I don’t have a crazy take ever, so I don’t get the quick hits, a lot of comic sketch. He’s got his company, Nate Land, and the guideposts for Nateland content. We’re starting at PG, but you can talk to me into PG thirteen.

That’s a good rule. That’s kind of what I try to do here. His production company has ambitions beyond comedy. Why not apply clean and different movie genres? For example, horror, let’s not show someone’s bones, says Nate.

Romantic comedy. He says, we’ve had a lot of sex scenes in movies. There’s not much left on the table. He has some taglines good clean, scary, good clean, dramatic, good clean. Bill Burth said, there’s people who work clean.

There are absolute cornballs that sound like they’re doing comedy for forty years ago. Then this guy’s like Nate, whose jokes are so good you don’t even realize he’s working clean. Nate says of his own comedy, it’s just going to be me being dumb, and you can laugh with me or laugh at me. My specials are rated PG. One of them was rated G.

I’ll be honest with you, it’s a little embarrassing. The New York Times had an article that was just one of the articles, and check your watch. We are deep into this podcast already today. Right the second one, Nate Bergetzi wants your family to stop fighting for an hour maybe two. They cover the same beats, including the George Washington sketch.

Nate says, I don’t want your family fighting. There’s plenty of times you’re gonna be fighting. So if I can be your one hour you don’t fight, we get the sindbad story again, then we get I remember when my dad brought Brian Reagan’s CD at a truck stop. He said, I’ll pull over because he was laughing so hard. My Dad’s just driving in the middle of the night on the interstate and he’s like, I can’t even drive because I have to get this out of my system.

Then I listened to it and it was that funny. To this day in my head, I want someone to laugh so hard, to just have that experience. When I was younger, someone said he always wrote me a Bob Newhart That meant not a lot of energy, not a big presence. But I was a fan of Bob Newhart. I loved his albums.

In a sitcoms, I like that I was gonna be more of that person. I was way more deadpan at the beginning, and I did move around a lot. I never moved. Being from the South and having this accent and talking slower, I always sounded pretty different, especially when I was in New York. So I learned how to write jokes first, and I feel like I’m getting more in my voice now.

I auditioned for the Daily Show. It was down to me and Jordan Klepper. Jordan was better. I did so bad. It was a quick no.

I was gonna meet my buddy for lunch. I didn’t make it to the restaurant before they called and said, you’re fine, don’t worry about it. I mean, look, I wanted it, but if you look back, it’s like, man, it’s really good that I didn’t get that, because I clearly wasn’t ready for it, and I could have really shot my career in another direction. Ah, this is interesting. I didn’t know the scene.

There’s always connections in Hollywood. And this doesn’t mean Nate is bad, but just you gotta understand how show business works, and it’s who you know. Nate tells the Times. My management company does a lot with SNL. They have Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, David Spade.

I knew my name had been thrown around, think it was anything too serious. They were just letting its sit there. Then they came to one of my shows in Vegas, and they came when I was in Radio City. The actor strike was going on and comedians weren’t our own void. We didn’t have anything all that, and then it was like, you know what, we have a hosting spot in two weeks.

And I went from I didn’t really know what was going to happen, now this is happening. My career felt like a steady climb s and I was a big leap. I’m glad my career before it was a slow build. So you’re a bit of a hand a little better. You know, it’s all slow until it’s as fast as it can be.

Some philosophy from Nate Television is chasing social media, and I don’t think it should. My company’s done very well on social media, but I don’t make it for that. You need to make your thing in the full way.

And then I hope that the clips go wherever they go.

There’s not a lot because they’re on to watch as a family That’s why Friends in Seinfeld and Ray are still some of the most watched shows. It’s not because people don’t want it. They do want it, they’re just not being given it. The goal with the variety shows to be able to have people come together and sit in their house and watch something dumb and silly. If you ever see a donkey perform a high diving act, put it in your set.

All right, I got another one. I told you. It was any Burghazzy Day, the Hollywood Porternybergatzi conquered Comedy. Hollywood is Next. We learned that in twenty fourteen, Nate was making a Jimmy Fallon Produce sitcom pilot.

Nate said, when it was happening, I remember my buddy was like, this is your shot, So if it doesn’t work, that’s it. I was kind of annoyed by that at the time, but I think it helped me. It’d put a little chip on my shoulder. I thought for sure it would go. When I look back, I’m very glad it didn’t because I have a lot more of control of where I want to go now, and I don’t think I would have had that then.

I would have been too young and not a good enough comedian or performer. Yet I look back on a lot of stuff like that, had I gotten it, my career could have gone in a different direction. And he tells the Daily Show anecdote, OLLI reporter, he almost had sitcoms at NBC, Fox, ABC, Netflix. Was there any kind of threw line other feedback? No, but I don’t think there was a lot of entertainment made for people not on the coast during that period.

They’d tell you they wanted multicams and stuff that’s designed for co viewing. Then you’d pitch one of people who aren’t watching multicams. They want them because it looks good in their budget, but then they’re like, well, this show’s not fun, yeah, because the show’s not made for you. So it was like there’s a lot of that for a long time, but now shifting and everybody seems to want broader again. We have a comic Derek Strup, who was on my Christmas special that he comes on the road with me a lot, and he’s someone I was telling CBS like, this is Kevin James.

Make that show again. Just have it be something fun that everybody can watch for thirty minutes and then you can go back to your murder show. He says, the Christmas Show is the most exciting thing I’ve done. If it does well, that’s the one thing I could see doing for an extended period of time that would be fun. Right if this became an annual tradition, Olli reporter, you worry about alienating an audience a lot.

What drives that? Nate’s I don’t want anybody to feel better or uncomfortable. Would break my heart if somebody thought that I thought I’m better than them. I don’t want to be for everybody. I mean, that’s the goal.

I grew up eating a chain restaurant and I’m going to Walmart. I’m on board with selling everything to everybody. A lot of times people be like, my comedy isn’t for everybody, and there’s a pride in that, but never click for me. I was always like, why would you not want everybody to come to your show? A little more about the Daily Show port Nate says, I was not good.

I auditioned with John Stewart and I’d heard that they’d like my audition, at least that’s what Hassan told me. Then I go to the Daily Show and I’m with John at the desk. That was good, and then I had to read to John Oliver part John Oliver uses a lot of words that I don’t really know what they mean or how to say them. It was bad and I had the suit on didn’t fit. I look like I was going to divorce court to get my daughter back or something.

They called me before I even was back in my hotel. Right, I’ve heard that part already and there’s like six more paragraphs, but I am nate it out and I have to take a commercial break. So behind the scenes, if I don’t take a commercial break before the twenty minute mark, the automation will force one. So let me put one by design and then we’ll come back and maybe we’ll do three sections today. You got an your money’s worth today, be right back.

Rose Matta Fayo has a special out on Max Today. The La Times caught up with Rosen. We learned that she started doing comedy workshops at age fifteen. She’s now thirty two, which means she’s been doing stand up for more than half her life, a fact she says makes her feel a panic slightly rising in my chest. She talks on stage about relatability and the need for female comics to be self deprecating, but she says she does not come from a place of imposter syndrome.

That’s the one thing I don’t think I have. I have everything else, low self esteem, terrible relationship with myself, all those things you’re supposed to have in your thirties. In On and on and on, we check in with Rose after a real life breakup where everybody from her grandmother to her housekeepers like Garol, move on. You weren’t together long enough to be this upset. She talks about chronicling her feelings in the notes app and this real experience of suddenly understanding her parents better.

But she’s now the age they were when she was a kid. She cut some jokes from her live performances. They were jokes about Taylor Swift and Michael Jackson. Tho was cut for time. One of the jokes is who has the time to get docks online by superfans, But a joke about the attractiveness of Wallougi from Mario Kart was obviously written and recorded before their real world arrest of Luigi, the guy accused of shooting the United Healthcare CEO.

That one stayed in Ro says, in your twenties you almost think you kind of got it together and now I’m staring at this next bit where you’re like, yeah, but you don’t know anything. You kind of have to accept the randomness of life, where friends marrying, of kids and the generation above you get sick and dies. She says she’s always had an interest in death. The first show she performed at Edinburgh Fringe was about her own funeral and involved her jumping out of a coffin in a jeweled tuxedo. Two Stories Out of the UK Today, One Happy One Sad, The Happy One Strictly Come Dancing in a Dancing with Star for the Brits they finish up their twentieth anniversary year.

The winner blind comedian Chris McCausland. Chris paid tribute to the efforts of his professional partner Diane Buswell and using unconventional methods and teaching Chris how to dance. That’s pretty cool. The Sad Story. Police have found the body of a missing Britain Got Talent star after he went missing.

Earlier in the week, comedian Martin Crofts had made it to the semi finals. His act involved him placing a pan on his head, becoming known as the pan Man and singing a song while impersonating a Dalek from doctor who Police have found what they believed to be his body in the Winnie Gill Reservoir in North Yorkshire. Felippe Esparza announced a new special coming in Netflix in February, Raging Fool. In Raging Fool, Felipe explores the trials and tribulations of navigating complicated family dynamics, marriage, cultural divides, infidelity and more. And if you’re in China, I gotta do this one today because of the way time zones work.

But on Friday in China, the Beijinger tells us the comedy the Citadel was bringing the festive spirit to life with a hilarious live version of family Feud to celebrate the Dongji Festival, also known as the Winter Solstice. The don g Festival marks the longest night of the year, enough time for family gatherings, feasting and fun. So if you’re listening in Beijing, hey, that’s pretty cool. Head on over to the Comedy Citadel. Their version will feature four teams or families and they will battle it out to answer survey questions, just like the TV show.

However, there’s a twist you the audience, Beijing listener, You’ll be the one providing the answers. It means every response could turn into a hilarious surprise. And that is your comedy news for today. Before we go, I just want to get in front of something. So Holidays coming up, I will have an episode for you every single day, just like always.

I’m not going anywhere, but I just want to be fair to myself and fair to you. Some of the episodes are pre tapes. For example, December twenty seventh, eighth and ninth pre tapes Top Comedy Specials of the Year. January first, I will air the interview I did on The Letterman Podcast. I’m the guest on The Letterman Podcast tomorrow if you want to hear it then, but I’m using that as the January first episode.

Christmas Day, I already pretaped it, so as part of that, I just want to get in front of it. So if you’re like, hey, how come he’s not talking about Nate Bergazzi special. Did he not watch it? I’m just on tape a little bit more than usual. You know.

Through the end of the year. That’s all that’s going on here. I just wanted to deal you straight. I’m about to record Friday’s episode, Johnny Max take it in some days off. I appreciate you, Thank you for listening.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Ronny Chieng, Nikki Glaser, Bill Burr, Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Joe Coy, Ali Wong, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Ronny Chieng special buzz and year-end rankings
• Ronny Chieng discusses merch strategy and vintage fashion aesthetic
• Ronny Chieng on delaying parenthood and comedy career priorities
• Nikki Glaser preparing for Golden Globes hosting
• Ronny Chieng’s influences and mentorship from comedy legends

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. In there. I warn you they’re about to over expose in a Berghetzi. There are two big pieces in the Washington Post and The New York Times. I’ll discuss them on the podcast tomorrow for reasons I’ll explain later.

Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. But I did share them in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Ronny Chieng special getting a lot of buzz front of the show. Jason Zenimann has it as the number one special of the year. My plan was to watch it on Tuesday evening and discuss it tomorrow, and then I can record my end of the year list.

Daily Times caught up with Ronnie. I also shared this in the Facebook group, and they wrote Che’s weapon of choice as a wardrobe of tailored vintage threads fit for a sixty spy caper. What a great description that is, even on a day that finds him off stage in his normal street wear, a dark blue sweater and ball cap hiding ahead of tossled black hair. Chang’s thoughtfulness in discussing his recent career uptick is indicative of the international mindset of a comic who combines old school style and a new school prospect. The only time said aspects of the special, oh spoilers, I’m spoiling myself because I haven’t seen it yet.

As I record this are bound to resonate with people your age, especially jokes about putting off having kids for the sake of your career. Have your thoughts on putting off parenthood changed it all since filming a special? Ronnie said, Yeah, it’s interesting. I did the bit and I was just kind of talking about what’s happening in my life, and I have to say not to about myself on the back, but a lot of people surprisingly have been relating to it, so it feels like everyone in America is doing it. I wrote it this year, so it’s a very current bit.

So I’m still in that mindset. I’m a bad person to ask about it because I don’t have kids, so I don’t know everyone who does have kids tell me there’s never a good time, and it’s fine. Bill Burr was telling me that he wished he had more sooner, So all that stuff gives me a kind of respective on it. Seinfeld told me that being married and not having kids is like going to Disneyland and staying in the car park. But everyone who’s the comic who I admire seems to say that it’s not only okay to have kids were working on your career, it’s great.

As for his attire, when I did my first special, I wanted it to look professional in classic because I didn’t want it to look amateur. Felt like it was an American to me, this is the NBA of comedy and entertainment. Every special idea, I try to have a visual aesthetic that matches a classic American show business era. This one was Elvis in Hawaii. I’ve been lucky to film a few projects in Hawaii.

I did at least one movie there. If not too it’d sound so hacky to say I love Hawaii, but I definitely feel something there reminds me of the best parts of Malaysia and the best parts of America in one place, and was a shelter from my wife and I during the pandemic. All right, Ronny Chieng, are there any comedy heroes you model yourself after? Interesting answer here, He says, A lot of times, I’d model my decisions after A Z’s I’m sorry, I asked myself a lot like, wou does Ese do that? And how Wouldeszz do a poster?

Because he’s very tasteful, obviously very funny, and he also managed to do comedy in a way where he kind of went beyond race. Everybody loved him. I don’t know about people who worked with him. Leave that there, John, And it wasn’t about his ethnicity. And he was sort of a super funny comic and he was always very stylish and tasteful, and he also didn’t over expose himself in terms of social media.

Ronnie, he was canceled Google, so he’s very selective in what he did. Bill Burg executive produced my special. I’m glad I can get advice from Dave Chappelle and Seinfeld and all the greats of comedy. Joe Coy gives me advice. I’m trying to imagine what that advice would be.

I would guess Joe Cooy’s advice would be like, if you’re at the Golden Globes, don’t make a joke about Taylor Swift. No, I won’t play it. I got a lot to do today. Uh, I film my last special and Joe Coy had filmed a special at the same place ten years before me. So I called him and asked him, Hey, anything I should know about this venue, and he gave me specific tips.

He told me to make up the balcony stuff like that. Ali Wang’s always giving me advice. I’m very lucky to be able to get advice from everybody.

Also learned a lot from John Mulaney.

John let me open for him this year, and I got to see how he works and how he runs his shows, and I got a lot out of it, just logistically, how to organize the show at that level. The look I picked was classic American show business because quite honestly, it was easier for me to look classic than to look fashionable. You just have to put on a suit to make sure it fits. When you try to look fashionable, you’re trying to look forward into what would be stylish or what will stay stylish. So it’s easier for me to look backwards for style and be more classic and be more professional.

He points out, you can’t dress that way doing spots in New York City. I feel like if he did three piece suits every single time, it almost looks like a gimmick, you know, kind of lose it’s its impact. Interesting question here from The La Times. Ronnie, do you think selling merch is a comic is more trouble than it’s worth? He said.

I never want to sell something I wouldn’t buy myself. So if I wouldn’t wear it every day proudly, why would I try to sell it. And when you bring merch on the road, everybody takes so much of a cut. It doesn’t even make sense anymore unless you make it into an entire operation and you outsource it. I’m happy they bought a ticket.

I don’t need to extract more money from them. But that’s just me. I asked Bill Burr about this, because he doesn’t really do much either. I asked if he ever figured out and he’s like, nah, they take such a big cut and it’s not worth it. And so I’m like, if Bill Burr can’t figure it out, then I don’t think I can figure it out.

I do sell socks and vinyl on my website, so people can buy socks and vinyl if they want to buy something, but it’s also an environmental thing. I just don’t want to sell something that would end up in a river choking out a sea turtle. Nikki Glaser was on CBS this morning. Now I’m gonna pull some clips here and not comment on them. Why.

I don’t know if you’re picking me up. But I’m a little hyper so this time year, everyone’s home, and to publish the podcast, I have to edit the podcast. To edit the podcast, I have to voice the podcast. To voice the podcast, after write the podcast, and I’m doing all that before some members of the family wake up, and before another member of the family comes home, and it’s like, hey, I want to use the workout equipment that’s two feet from the studio, and I want to do laundry. So I’m really trying to rush to get today’s show done, and I have to do some other stuff.

I have to do some voice work for the show I host on Live one, The Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s free the Aposphere. The show is free, The Weekly Comedy Thing on Live one. So I’m a little hyper here. So I’ve pulled the Nikki audio, but I haven’t at this point, as I’m voicing this, I haven’t said, oh, I’ll put this clip here, that clip there.

So here’s some random Nikki Glaser audio. It really is fun to be me. It’s it’s been a lot of hard work leading up to this point of like a twenty two year career where some people are suddenly starting to take notice on this kind of like bigger scale. And I’m at a point in my life where, you know, I’m old enough to kind of handle this kind of attention and not let it go to my head, know that it can go away at any point, and feeling like I have you know, good family, good friends around me, and and knowing like how to do a gig like this. If I would have gotten the Golden Globes five years ago, I would have not really known how to handle it.

I would have worked myself too hard. I would have been crying, yea naked getting a spray tann the night before, like what am I doing tomorrow? Like I’ve that was a moment. I had a lot of times in my life of like like I have to be on TV tomorrow.

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And now it’s just like I know how to plan things, I know how to train for the…

Normally I would comment on that audio there, but I explained to you I’m a little hyper today and I’m just trying to get this done. New York Times reported on Monday night, more than a dozen comedians walked into a Broadway theater to talk about love among other people there. David Letterman, by the way, I’m the guest on the Letterman Podcast on Friday, and I dropped a hint in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group about that interview and the numbers one one, and now I think like we’ve over hyped it. Mike Chishom, the host of Letterman Podcast Night, I think we’ve overhyped it. I’m using the interview if you don’t want to listen to it on the Letterman Podcast, but you should.

I’m using it here as the January first episode, so it’s one less thing for me to pretape over the holidays. That’s all. No major announcement. Sorry if we override that. That was not the intention.

I was just trying to be fun anyway. At the theater, Letterman, Tom Hank, Steve Martin, Pete Davidson, Olivia Munn, John Stewart, and some others. They were there to see all in Comedy About Love by Simon Rich. It opens December twenty second at the Hudson Theater. Olivia Munn and John m’laney greeted each other with a kiss and explain they hadn’t seen each other much.

Olivia said the hardest thing right now is having a toddler and a newborn. They try to schedule date nights, but then they’ll look at each other and say, should we just stay home instead. M’laney said, that’s the best type of date night when we both want to bail. John Stewart was wearing jeans and a New York Ranger as a camp with a tan jacket. His answer about love is it has to do with gummies.

Fred Armison said the thing I’ve told my wife. We’ve been married almost twenty five years, and I tell her the same thing every day. I wake up, look at her the eye and say, lower your expectations, and then I live up to them. Pete Davidson said, I don’t really have advice except I guess be patient, be yourself, and hopefully you’ll meet the right person. The more you try and look, the more you freak yourself out.

I think it should happen organically. Johnny Mac added, record your podcast when she’s not at home. Then you don’t have to fight over why you’re doing the laundry when I’m trying to record. That’s a big tip there. Andrew Schultz on his podcast, he continued to discuss the issues between himself and Kendrick Lamar.

Schultz things Kendrick is taking a page from Taylor Swift’s victim playbook. Uh oh. Schultz said, Kendrick really is the Taylor Swift of hip hop in that no matter what he does, he’s still the victim, no matter what. Like you know how Taylor’s always the victim. Like she’s the biggest in music history.

She’s a victim to the label, She’s a victim to Scooter Braun, she’s a victim to her boyfriend’s and yet she’s the biggest in the world. Somehow, Kendrick is the victim here. I’ll let she’s also a victim of Joe Coy’s vicious I mean, his joke was so vicious. I know earlier I didn’t play it, but I think Andrew brings up a thing here. Listen to how mean Joe Cooy was about Taylor Swift.

A big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift, right, I mean, that’s vicious.

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And then she justifiably made a face and turned the room against Joe Coy and …

I mean, really, to suggest that an NFL game has more shots of Taylor Swift than the Golden Globes, I mean, absolutely absurd. Schultz then broke down the timeline of the beef with Kendrick. According to Schultz, Kendrick dropped whacked out morals and mentioned Schultz’s friends on the song. Then, according to this recap, death threats start after Kendrick fans threatened Schultz and his family on social media. Schultz said he was quiet for two weeks and finally said, all of kendricks fans go, how could you say that?

And then Schultz shot back something vulgar. Schultz’s quote is saying, all of Kendrick’s fans go, how could you say that? Oh my god, you can’t go there. You can’t take it there. But I thought y’all get there when you said you’re gonna kill my family member.

So wait, you can kill my family member, But I can’t vulgar thing. I’m really cleaning up here, and I’m avoiding something I don’t want to voice. You can listen to Andrew Schultz podcast, Margaret Show in a light hot of water, So there’s no such thing as light hot lukewarm water. Margaret Show and lukewarm water really rushing today. I under a lot of pressure to get this one done.

Let’s see. Margaret was on the Out one hundred Red Carpet, an event hosted by Out magazine that honors the most significant LGBTQ plus individuals for the year. In a video interview, she was asked, who are you holding space for right now? She replied, the United Healthcare CEO Shooter. I’m holding space for as most people I know are.

We’re holding space for those eyebrows, that body the abs. Here’s Morgan jumped in and said, sickening. What is wrong with these people? Apparently what we do in the Shadows had its series finale. This is the thing that happened.

I missed it. They sure didn’t promote it. I mean, I knew about the Yellowstone finale, but apparently the series is over, very very very very light spoilers from the AV Club. I didn’t even read the entire article because I didn’t want to spoil myself. I like that show.

I don’t even know if I knew it was on. I’m sure I told you was on, but like I forgot about it because it’s on regular TV and I don’t come across it. But apparently Finale was a funny half hour of what the aft do you actually want from us? Utterly ruthless in the face of any back of bringing impulse to go for in Everybody Hugs Moment Shadows, Finale instead plays tribute to its history while thumbing its nose at the idea of deeper meanings. All right, that sounds pretty good.

I’ll have to catch up on that. On Gossip Corner, Chevy Chase went out for steak in Peoria. He was at Jim’s Steakhouse over the weekend. Waitress Gala said Chase and his family arrived around six point thirty on Saturday, and said, I was just super excited to meet him, you know, and I was really obviously honored to be able to wait on him and his family. Kristin, the manager, described Chase as a normal, regular family type of guy.

Kayla, the waitress, said I did hear him say something about he was just glad they could all be there for dinner. I just try to give him that time. The space to eat and you know, enjoy time with his family. Kristin, the manager, said, we put a picture on the table for him to sign for us to put up on the wall, and I hear that he cracked a joke to make sure that we hang it in the ladies room. While in Peoria, Chase spoke to the Peoria Journal Star and he was asked who should be on the Mount Rushmore of comedy.

Chevy’s answer, I’d want to have Danny ackroyd, Richard Pryor, Ernie Kovacs, and Charlie Chaplin with me. Well that’s five. So first of all, there’s only four on Mount Rushmore. And if I weren’t trying to get today’s podcast done as quickly as possible, I would comment on that list some other time. Chevy said, those are the ones.

They really are cracked point out that Richard Pryor would not want to be on the mountain with Chevy. Day saw were is Paul Mooney’s book Becoming Richard Pryor. In the book, apparently, Mooney wrote, Chevy Chase was the doll baby, the darling of the discotheque with straight teeth, and Richard wanted to knock them out There was supposed to be a show on Monday Night aimed at bringing together communities from both sides of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Debate. Don’t Hate would have taken place at Stand Up New York.

Organizers were forced to cancel after pro Palestinian comedians withdrew. Palestinian comedian Ahman El Hussini wrote to the organizers, thanks for reaching out, but I can’t share the stage with any Zaionazis while my people in Arabs in the region are being decipated and genocided. So Israelis can have beach houses in more Land, that’s not theirs. Libyan comedian Mohand El Shaiki posted on Instagram claiming the now canceled show was a little debate about why murdering children is wrong. Helen Rosner is a Palestinian activist and wrote, some comedy club in New York City is apparently putting on a both sides night about Israel’s annihilation of Gaza, inviting me to build a more inclusive community.

Organizer Robin Lemberg told The New York Post the intention was not to debate genocide. Humor is one of the most powerful tools we have to lower defenses. In foster connection. It disarms anger and fear, opening the door to conversations that would otherwise feel impossible. The facts are that anti Semitism is growing exponentially to diminish the rise of Islamophobia as well.

That concerns me personally and feels awful for all of us. Comedian Elon Gold told the Post it’s a missed opportunity. The whole point of comedy, beside the laughing part, is the unifying and the sharing of the human experience, and if comedians on both sides of this can’t get their literal act together, I’m concerned for the rest of humanity. Donnie Zuldan, the founder of Stand Up New York and someone I’m friendly with, and we work together in the back of the podcast company a website called the Algeimer dot com, they say last week on Thursday, Donnie released an open letter addressed to the Propalstinian Comics. According the report, the letter said, by participating, you’re not endorsing any narrative or perspective other than your own.

You’re helping to create a space where others can see what it looks like to sit in the same room, listen and engage without fear or anger dictating the conversation. We need your voices, we need your humor, and most importantly, we need your courage to engage on a happier note if you’re me. The National Film Registry has put Star Trek two into the National Film Registry. Yeah, big fan of that. I wrote about it on my substack mcdeepod dot substack dot com link in the show notes.

But we’re running along here, and as much as I want to talk about Star Trek to the Wrath of KHN for twenty minutes, I’ll refer you to the substack and bring it back to comedy. Beverly Hills Cop from nineteen eighty four is the first live action Eddie Murphy film selected for the Registry, also making it cheech and chongs up in smoke. Congratulations to those guys, and that is your comedy news for today. Whew, I got it done. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Ronny Chieng, Jerry Seinfeld, Pete Davidson, Nate Bargatze, Dane Cook

What’s in This Episode

• Ronny Chieng’s Netflix special ‘Love to Hate It’ released December 17, 2024
• Ronny Chieng interviewed by Jerry Seinfeld for Interview magazine
• Pete Davidson on reducing work frequency and avoiding overexposure
• Nate Bargatze’s Christmas special on Thursday and CBS appearance
• Nate Bargatze partnering with Waze app as driving companion feature
• Dane Cook starring in dark comedy thriller ‘Boris Is Dead’

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Aaron, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Ronny Chieng specials out on Netflix Today. Friend of the show, Jason Zinnemann of The New York Times has it ranked as his number one I’m looking forward to watching it tonight. Love to Hate It was taped at the historic Hawaii Theater in Honolulu, where he had a five nights sold out show.

In Love to Hate It, Ronnie talks about the indignities of the IVF process, the pitfalls of being a man on the Internet, American politics, and the place of the older generation in today’s world. He had written a piece for The Wall Street Journal and said his first exposure to American comedy was watching Jerry Seinfeld’s stand up intervals on the Seinfeld sitcom. You also watched The Lead Show with David Letterman, right, we like the same kinds of comedy, he wrote. I watched because stand up looked interesting. Comedians would walk on stage, talk to the audience and make jokes, and people laughed, including me.

Interview magazine got a good interviewer. The interviewer was Harry Seinfeld, the subject Ronnie ching. Ronnie said, I’m surprised you agreed to do this. Jerry said, you know something about you. You just want to say, yes, you got that thing.

I have it two you know? And laughs? How you doing ching? I’m okay, I’m actually in la. I just did Kimmel.

I heard he did Fellon. I did well. They tell me how busy you were and how much I should be thankful that you’ve decided to speak to me. I’m still not over it. Seinfeld said, I think it’s time.

I used to get this thing I would call a twenty four hour talk show virus. You do a talk show, no matter what it could be, fantastic, mediocre, whatever. You don’t feel good for twenty four hours. Do you have that, Ronnie? Now?

I think I probably have the forty eight hour one. I get it twenty four hours before the interview and then twenty four hours after. I’m sick the whole time. You don’t go on and be sincere. You want to be funny, but you don’t want to just do a set.

Jerry, Yeah, I went and did a set and it felt terrible about it. And I watched you tell a story about the night of the election. I thought that’s what I should have done. I don’t have any stories though. I don’t understand these shows.

What’s going on here? Are we worthless or valuable? Chang says, I get my kicks from connecting to people I only know from watching on TV comedians. We a lot of reverence history. There are institutions that I’m just happy to be able to touch once in a while.

That’s why I do it. I’m like all my heroes used to do this, but then I didn’t know if I should do so much press. You’re the one who actually told me, what are you talking about? Do all the press? Jerry?

Absolutely, Ronnie, So just to be clear, you’re also doing this for press, Jerry, Yes. I like to think back to my early days of doing clubs, when I didn’t even ask how many days I worked here, how many shows they did? Whatever you told me was fine. The club owner would say to me, I want to do an extra show, and I’d go an extra show, and it’d say, what’s the difference? All you do is talk?

I came from that. Now the comedians are like, well, we want to know what makes you tick. I’ve watched the you know, go from zero all the way to this insane place that it is now, Ronnie. Do you think it’s gonna go back to where they don’t care about what makes us tick anymore? Jerry, Yes, I do.

We’re in the red zone now. I think tact is gonna have to come back, and what will make it come back is aging. When you’re in your fifties, you don’t care about anybody else’s problems. Ronnie. The thing that irks me is they don’t actually care what makes you sick.

They’re just asking because they’re trying to feel words in a column or keep the interview going. Most people don’t care, Jerry. I have a new line in my set that I just started doing. It’s unbelievably gratifying. It’s a long run about what’s annoying in the world.

I say. I find that whenever people talk, it tends to be annoying. At this point in life, the hardest thing any of us have to do is not scream. I don’t care into the face of anyone that says anything. In the audience totally loves it.

Pete Davison told The Hollywood Reporter he just wants to be known for doing great work, but only every couple of years. Pete said in the Sopranos. There’s this line from Tony that’s like, you ever feel like you got into something of the end when the good times are over. That’s how I feel about show business and being a celebrity. It’s over.

When you’re first coming up getting all these offers, it’s hard to say no because you’re hungry. I made the mistake of doing literally everything. Now I am older and wiser, and I’m realizing that less is more. Like Christian Bale. He does one movie every two three years, but you go see it.

Leo Dicabrio does one movie every four years, but it’s the biggest thing of the world. It’s because you miss them, people have to miss you. I just want to be known for doing good work. I want to be out there only when it’s a movie, stand up charity, or business ventures. That’s what I want to be seen.

I don’t want to be this loser who just dates people. That’s not who I am. But people hate celebrities now. The media takes a handful of celebs every couple of years and they just destroy them for some reason. I’m one of the people they choose to go after.

It’s actually, in a way a blessing because it’s allowed me to take a step back and evaluate things. Who do you want to be? Who are you? I’m someone who’s from Staten Island want to do stand up. But if I got to do anything else because of stand up, it’s a miracle.

Hmm. I can’t speak for other I know when I talk about Pete, I usually come from a place of like, hey, dude, I’m rooting for you because I see the struggles he’s going through. But I guess I see the celebrity gossip part of Pete Davidson’s dating so and so. Yeah, I’ve done that too, I get it. Beete says he’s very happy where he is right now mentally, and feels lucky that he was woken up about being hit on the face with the Hollywood shovel right.

I found out a little bit more about Nabrigatzi’s Christmas special, which is out on Thursday. The Nate is about to be massively overexposed between the CBS thing and his Netflix special. We’re going to start to get sick about Nate, I think, and I love him. There is a trailer for the special where you know the thing where he plays George Washington and says ridiculous, and people ask questions and he gives answers, and you know you’ve seen the sketcharent he’s doing a version of that where he’s an angel or something like that.

Meanwhile, Ways, you know the map thing on your phone.

I’m a big fan of Ways. They tell us calling all comedy lovers, buckle up and get ready to hit the road with the hilarious Naprighezzi. As you’re Way’s driving companion. Nate isn’t just a comedian. He also happens to love driving and is always ready with a joke or quirky observation to make the miles fly by.

No we don’t want this, No no no, no, no, no no no. Just tell me in three miles of the highway splits and I need to go left. That’s all I need to know. Nate’s sense of humor takes the edge off your daily commute no won’t, and brings a smile to your drive. Expect witty commentary, relatable anecdotes, and a healthy dose of Southern charm.

What Ai wrote that sentence, This Ways experience is all about enjoying the solitude of the open road and embracing the unexpected turns of life. Is it the open road or is it my commute? Pick a narrative here, guys, as you hear Nate put it. Shout out to everyone driving with a list of errands from their spouse. There’s no time let on these errands.

Okay, you could be gone for months. Make sure you have the latest version of Ways and look for the Nate forgets thee Benner in the left side column. Any of the app No thanks? Uh. Dane Cook is starring in the dark comedy thriller Boris Is Dead.

Boris Is Dead follows a struggling actor working as a waiter played by Dean Cook, who unwittingly becomes involved in a violent Heights gone wrong where his boss, deep in debt, has been stealing from employees and running the restaurant is a front for the mob. Oh no. Josh Blue is that comedy works downtown. This week he spoke to Colorado Public Radio. They were curious if his timing and delivery have changed since he started, and Josh Blue said, I feel like I’ve always had impeccable timing, even as a kid.

I could just zip something in with the teacher and the whole class would laugh. I’ve always had that gift, but I feel like it’s definitely evolved, and I’ve gotten more comfortable in the silence. I’ll let something ride longer the laughter go, and then when I do hit them, it’s even harder. What’s beautiful about stand up is I’ll never figure it out completely. Every time I think I’ve got something pinned down, something new in the world happens, or something in my brain puts a new connection together.

There’s no end to this. I have a bit where somebody would get up to go to the bathroom and I’ll be like, where you go, And they go to the bathroom, and I’ll be like, you want to wait?

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And then I will wait the entire time they’re gone.

It gets a laugh without me saying anything, and I mean minutes go by without me saying something, just a facial expression or body movement, and I can get it. When they come back. It’s like a standing ovation that people are so happy this person came back from the bathroom. It’s really fun. Josh Blue nineteenth through the twenty first It comedy works downtown.

All right, you need New Year’s Eve plans. Here’s something I guess you could go with NBC announced the day Drinking with Seth Meyers New Year’s special. It’s an hour look back at Seth Meyers’s drunken interactions with Rihanna post Malone, Kelly Clarkson Blah blah blah it Al air from eleven thirty to twelve thirty five AM on New Year’s Eve. It is unclear how they’re going to handle the whole midnight thing. Not that hard.

You could just do an insert somewhere. You could time the thing out. I’ve pre recorded some New Year’s Eve specials in my radio career. It can be done. Quick story there.

Before the merger, when it was just serious, I used to do a New Year’s Eve special, rowd Dog’s Effing New Year’s Eve, and we would time it out so it aired at midnight. But we learned from the engineers for the signal to go from the computer up to space and back to your radio was twenty three seconds. But I can do math, so we used to time it out, so we would play at eleven fifty nine thirty seven and then hit your radio right at midnight. And it was kind of cool.

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And then we merged with XM, and XM had different technology and so there was …

So then we just started doing approximately midnight there, up and back was not twenty three seconds, it was a different number.

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And then they started with the Internet and the internet delay was a totally …

So when is midnight? We had four different answers. Last year NBC aired Sunday Night Football. Before that, they were doing the Lorne Michaels thing. Remember Pete Davidson was part of that.

Yeah, that went away quietly. In case you’re curious, CBS has a five hour country music special out of Nashville. ABC has Dick Clarks New Year’s Rock and Eve with Ryan Seacrest, and over on CNN, Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen will probably have a couple beverages, as they tend to do. On her podcast, Samantha Bee talked about Luigi man GEONI you know, the guy accused of killing the guy She was asked about, where’s the line? She says, how do you know when you’ve gone too far?

I’m not a person who finds murder amusing in the least. That’s a hard limit, no matter how bizarre or engaging the details. Are You ever watch darts The World of Darts Championship is going on right now. You’ll find it on YouTube if you’re in the States. It is the most entertaining thing at all.

Basically, these guys walk up the Brits right now are like, we know, but the Americans don’t know anything about the darts. They don’t know it. Let me explain it to them. Okay, So because everybody does this for a living, the commentators are like, oh, he needs to hit a twenty twenty and a triple seventeen to get to whatever the number is. These guys just walk up to the line, like you know, when I play darts at the bar, I stand there for a second.

These guys just walk up to the line. They’re like whoa who who and they’re just you know, they’re pros, but they’re great.

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And then announcer will be like, all right, this guy needs a triple sixteen a…

The crowd dresses up like they’re on let’s make a deal. And everybody, I think they’ve all had a couple beverages. So this whole thing is fun to watch. I recommend on. So a guy’s been walking around dressed up as Ali G.

It turns out it’s Jack Whitehall who posted the Darts the Greatest show on Earth. Wish I still had the stamina for it, and he shared some pictures of himself dressed as Ali G getting in the spirit of things. It’s a lot of fun. I was in Australia one time for Christmas and just started channel surfing because it was nighttime and wasn’t anything else to do. Everything was closed and I came across darts and I’m like, this is amazing.

British comedian Russell Howard will premiere his new stand up special Russell Howard Live at the London Palladium as a global streaming event January fifteenth. On the Drift platform, Drift is spelled with two eyes. I think my eyesight isn’t that good anymore. But that looks like or iiftes drift or no drift. I don’t know how you pronounce it.

Drift just spell things normally. You’re making things too difficult on yourself. The sixty minutes special was recorded during Howard’s international tour. The stream will include Off the Cuff, a bonus program featuring exclusive content totally random. Did you watch the Yellowstone finale.

I won’t spoil it here. I have so many questions. And I was hanging out in the reddit and somebody said like, Hi, I’m Chris Hardwick. Welcome to Talking Yellowstone. And after that finale we needed Talking Yellowstone.

I’ll give you a couple of days to watch them. But I have so many questions. All right, maybe Friday I’ll ask you about Yellowstone. All right, did you watch it? Hit me on the Facebook group and that’s your Daily Comedy News for today.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. But like I said yesterday, tell them about it like in the middle of January when the comedy news is back. Today wasn’t filler. I actually bounced stories today, so today was not filler. Take that back.

You can tell them today. Hey, there is this show. This guy talks about darts and Yellowstone. You’re gonna love it. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Bill Burr, Ben Shapiro, Jamie Foxx, Chris Rock, Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Sandler, Sarah Sherman, Kevin Hart, Leslie Jones

What’s in This Episode

• Bill Burr controversy over UnitedHealthcare CEO murder comments
• Jamie Foxx birthday incident at Mister Chow restaurant
• Chris Rock SNL hosting monologue and sketch performance
• Providence Rhode Island comedy festival announcement March 27-30

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start on gossip corner. In the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro writes an opinion piece under the headline Bill burg goes full a Hole, Ben Wrights. I used to enjoy Bill Burr’s work on occasion.

I still do. He’s a comedian, which means he’s very hit or miss. Once upon a time, I was such a fan that actually bought tickets for me, my wife, and two of my friends to go see him. It turned out to be one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen in my life because Burr has become woke over time. I think he became embarrassed that many people on the right thought he was very funny, so he decided he was going to go woke.

The show I saw was so bad that he got frustrated with the audience. The audience was not laughing at his jokes because his jokes are basically about how Floridians were a bunch of anti gay racists, and Floridians reacted badly because that’s not true. He ended up cutting a show early and walking off the stage. This week, he explained that he’s perfectly fine with CEOs having to live with full time security because they fear they might be shot, because after all, they are murderers too. Burr openly cheered the murder of the United Healthcare executive because he says CEOs should live in fear if they don’t act in the way that he would have them act in a system that he has no fixes for.

By the way, Ben Shapiro in The Daily Wire rights Bill Burr’s blue collar class routine act is a bunch of horse hockey. The man is worth fourteen million dollars and he makes his money creating crap movies for Netflix. At this point, yeah, old Dads was pretty bad. Yeah. If we’re gonna have a functioning country, you just can’t justify the murder of people who run their business legally in many ways with which you disagree.

It’s one thing to disagree with executives, you can call them whatever you want. But to start justifying that they should live in fear, suggesting they should be murdered, what’s the limiting principle here. It’s not just Bill Burr, it’s also Jimmy Kimmel, who decided recently to devote an entire segment celebrating the good looks they alleged shooter. Hilarious hilarious stuff glorifying the alleged murder of the United Healthcare CEO. What a delight these people are.

My former coworker, Jamie Fox is recovering after getting stitches. The dude went out for his birthday and according to CMZ, he was allegedly involved in an altercation at Mister Chow in Beverly Hills. A spokesperson for Fox tells people that Jamie was hit with a glass during his birthday celebration. The spokesperson said, Jamie Fox was at his birthday dinner when somebody from another table through a glass that hit him in the mouth. He had to get stitches and is recovering.

The police were called and the matters now in law enforcement’s hands. Mister Chow and the Beverly Hills PD did not immediately respond to people’s requests for further information. TMZ initially reported that the police were called to the restaurant around ten pm local time regarding an alleged fight, adding that Fox was involved and was no longer present by the time the cops arrived. I wonder what that’s about. All right.

Meanwhile, Chris Rock hosted Saturday Night Live and didn’t really get good reviews. The monologue seemed like was okay, although the audience groaned at points. Let’s listen to the beginning. Saturday Night Lab and Rob. I want to congratulate Lord Michael’s on twenty five great years.

I’m side out live. It’s a lot going on in the news. My god, it’s so crazy out there. It’s so hard just getting in the building the night. So much security.

My god, my god, I had walked. By a bunch of baby oil sniffing dogs. Was insane. Everybody’s worried. Everybody’s worried.

I mean, we got Luigi. We got Luigi, you know, and that’s good. I really feel sorry for the family. I mean, everybody’s fixated on how good looking this guy looks. If you look like Jonah Hill, no one would care.

They’d already given him a chair, already be dead. Okay, I can’t play the entire monologue. I will get a note from NBC. Chris Rock continues, But he actually killed a man, a man, a man with his family, a man with his kids. I have real condolences for the healthcare CEO.

But you also got to know sometimes drug dealers get shot. Rock then talked about how some New Yorkers didn’t vote for Trump because he would be undignified. Dude, this is the United States presidency. Come on, man, this is not the most dignified job in the world. We’ve had president show up at the inauguration with pregnant slaves.

Okay, and I’m just talking about Bill Clinton. Great joke. You know what country we live in, you know the history of this country. You know how many rapists are in my wallet right now. A cup of coffee in America costs seven rapists.

Trump’s going to get it down A three good joke, Rock joke. Trump will be working with the richest African American in the world, Elon Musk. That’s right, He’s African American. Elon got more kids in the Cleveland Browns. Nobody knows how to get rid of people like a South African.

Also a good joke. He talked about the Hunter Biden pardon. Only an animal wouldn’t pardon their son. Every parent in the world would pardon their son, except the parents of the Menendez brothers. Late Nighter did not like the episode.

Their headline after three seasons and four hosting gigs. Chris Rock still isn’t at home at SNL. They write, Chris Rock is bad at live TV. He just is in his unhappy tenure as a Saturday Night Live cast member. The young Rock was a shaky live performer, prone to blowing lines out of apparent nervousness.

As one of this season’s endless parade of returning the lums, Rock blue lines out of a live skittishness that never went away, coupled with the sense that he’s not really into doing sketches. As for his monologue, the set was solid, if not his tightest. I got the sense he was plucking good lines from an hour long specialties workshopping rather than crafting a unified set. His transitions were pretty non existent. Still Rock can bring it.

Not so Chris Rock, the sketch performer, sadly reading Q cards as part of the host burden of bear. But for a guy with years of experience in this very same environment, Rock is egregiously reliant on them and not remotely good at hiding it. Whether it’s a case of a big star not taking things as seriously as he should, or someone simply not suited for live sketch work. Each sketch suffered Davy. It didn’t give a good review either, but they did tell us about a cameo.

In a sketch. Sarah Sherman plays Leslie, a nurse making repeated massive errors during surgery, then demanding to know if everyone’s mad at her spoilers. The patient wakes up and turns out to be played by Adam Sandler. People were more kind to jostin Shake. Joe said they found a note on Mangioni expressing angry corporate America.

Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and then was caught at MacDonald So perhaps his greatest crime was hipocrisy. Chay joked about Trump, saying Amazon is planning to donate a million dollars to Trump’s inauguration. It makes sense because American Trump both want to ship stuff out as fast as possible. A pretty interesting festival came out of nowhere out of Providence, Rhode Island, a brand new four day comedy festival March twenty seven through the thirtieth. The lineup includes Kevin Hart, Leslie Jones, The Not So Canceled Disease and Sorry, Christa Stefano, Hannah Burner, Michael Blaustein and Moore anchored at the Historic Veterans Memorial Auditorium and spilling over in a satellite venues four days.

Also includes Josh Johnson, Melissa Via Signors, Howne Bells, Sophie Buttle, Alec Flynn, Andy Woodhall. Additional acts will be announced. That’s no joke this festival. Daniel Schwartz is general manager of the Vets Auditorium and says this event isn’t just about comedy. It’s about creating a space where people from all walks of life can come together and share the joy of laughter.

Our lineup transcends generations, blending comedy icons like Kevin Hart with hilarious rising stars like Christa Stefano to sure there’s something for everyone. Well so far not kids, but we’ll get there. Sebastian Maniscalco’s show Bookie is back on Max. I enjoyed season one very much. You know, it’s one of those shows that knows what it is.

Don’t take it too seriously, don’t think about it, Sebastian says. Sometimes stage, Sebastian comes out a little bit. He enjoys working on his acting and likes that the crew laughs on the set and says it validates what I’m doing as funny because as a comedian, I like the laughter. I like to hear what I’m doing as funny through the laughs. I’m getting used to playing off other actors and learning a lot each day.

Joe McHale will host the Saturn Awards on February seconds. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror tell us this marks Joel’s third year as the host of the Saturn Awards. His clever edgie humor is consistently delivered with charismatic flare, and his ability to make light of both pop culture and everyday situations enhances the overall experience of the awards ceremony. Late Night reacted to Donald Trump being named Times Person of the Year. Jimmy Fallon said Trump is the first man in history to be Times Person of the Year and McDonald’s Employee of the Month.

Trump said the honored that feels just as exciting as the birth of his child, except he was present for the award. Dana Perino was guest hosting Guttfeld and said it’s the second sign Trump is held the honor, the first coming after his presidential win in twenty sixteen. That was the same week Hillary Clinton canceled her subscription and smashed her server with a hammer. Michael Costa, for the win on The Daily Show, said, once again, time has not been kind to Joe Biden. Johnny Mac, I feel like you’re stretching a little bit today.

Are the holidays coming now? Why do you ask? Adam Sandler tells us Eminem makes a cameo and Happy Gilmore too. Boy. I hope I didn’t spoil an Adam Sandler movie for you there.

I should have put a spoiler tag upfront. But the spoiler is that you’re going to see in Adam sandlor movie. Sandler says that Eminem is funny as hell. Apparently Eminem came by the set and shot a day’s worth of scenes. Eminem was cool, he came by, he was great.

I’ve known Eminem for a long time. He’s a great guy, and he came in. It was funny as hell. I think we just hung out for a day with Eminem and he just shot and shot and he was insane. He said a million things we could use and a million that we’re glad we have him on tape.

Mark Maren’s going to be in this Springsteen movie. This is the one starring Jeremy Alan White as Bruce Springsteen. It’ll probably win Oscar for Best Comedy because you know Jeremy Allen White the bear blah blah blah. Yeah. That it is called delivered Me from Nowhere, which I had a look is a pretty deep lyric for a Springsteen song.

You know, you could just call this thing born to Run, which might be a little hacky, but deliver Me from Nowhere is from the song State Trooper from the Nebraska album. Mark Maron plays Chuck Pluckin, the music producer who mastered Springsteen’s Nebraska album, turning his unprocessed cassette demos into a high quality recording. You’ll watch and John Mulaney was on Jimmy Fallon’s show and tell a story. I love Steely Nann. Some people don’t like Steely Dan.

It’s a very divisive band. When I had a son, I went great, fresh person, fresh ears. There’s one reason to have a baby, and so you can test Steely Dan out on them. I put on the Steely Dan song Hey nineteen because that’s fun. He looks over at Malcolm and he’s not dancing, so I had to change the song Gaucho from the album gaut show again he’s not dancing.

My son looks at me and goes Ei eio, and I go, oh, do you want to listen to Old McDonald? I turned on Old McDonald and he immediately starts dancing. M’LINI tags this story with so here’s what’s interesting about that story. He had never spoken before. That’s how much he hated Steely Dan.

He taught himself to sock. That’s your comedy news as it was sort of for today. My voices shot, oh, come back voice. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend, like on January tenth, that they check it out to when there’s comedy news again. They might like in the meantime, there might be a little bit of filler for these next few weeks.

Happens every year. It’s okay, that’s why I’m pre taping the top specials of the year. I’m waiting to watch Ronny Chieng’s special tomorrow night. Then I’m going to accord best specials of the year, the next best specials of the year, and things that aren’t the best specials of the year. Partly it’s like I can take a couple of days off, and partly because I’ve been doing this for a while and I know it’s not like people are going to announce stuff on December twenty sixth, So you know, you pre tape a couple it happens.

See you tomorrow,

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Featured: David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno, Spike Feresten

What’s in This Episode

• David Letterman’s GQ interview and reflections on his career
• Letterman Fast Channel launching on Samsung TV Plus
• Letterman’s comparison to Johnny Carson and modern late-night hosts
• Jay Leno’s injuries and mob rumor debunking on Spike Feresten’s show
• Jay Leno staying at Hampton Inn while on the road

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. David Letterman did press, which is pretty rare. He did an interview with GQ magazine. I’m trying to figure out why.

I think because he’s promoting the Letterman Fast Channel on Samsung TV plus. A Fast Channel is one of those channels that shows up on like your Roku app or on your Samsung TV, and it’s like an old style live TV channel. You can fast forward, you have to sit through the commercials. It’s one of those. So there’s one that’s just Letterman.

I put it on last night and they were showing stupid pet tricks and stupid human tricks, which was never my bags. I bailed, but I like the idea of the channel. Let him be told GQ in show business, I find that I’ve pretended to be someone I’m truly not. The interview took place in Indiana, and Dave said, in my life here in Indiana and at my home with my family, I’m probably the person I actually am, and I regret that they don’t kind of cross at any point. Letterman is still working doing the show for Netflix called My Next Guest needs no introduction and says I’m surprised that I’m still doing it at my age.

On the other hand, I still get a kick out of what we’re doing. So what does that mean? I don’t know. GQ said to Dave, you know, if you read press about you from the eighties and nineties, you were portrayed as miserable. Letterman said, yeah, that’s great.

I love that is the characterization. Fair. Yeah, I think so. There’s a couple of things going on there. I was drinking heavily in those days.

That may have provided some fuel for misery, and I guess not achieving what I imagined to be. Like you’d say, Johnny Carson, there’s never going to be anybody as good at that kind of show as Johnny. Nobody better. Maybe there are people now who are excellent broadcasters and as good as Johnny, but nobody better. Trying to think if there’s anybody right now who says good as Johnny, I don’t think so.

Colbear is definitely not. Falin’s definitely not. Because Kimmel as good as Johnny, I don’t think so, Letterman says, So here, I’m thinking, oh crap, am I not going to be as good as Johnny. What am I doing here? I like the idea that I was characterized as miserable.

That’s delightful, Dave. Early in your career you were criticized fairly for not being a great interviewer. Dave said, probably, yeah, I think that’s true. Any criticism that has befallen me, I’m sure I had a coming. Here’s the issue with me when I got to California.

I don’t know if this contradicts everything I’ve said before. When I got to California was like, Okay, I’m here, let’s get ready to go. I thought I’m the guy we’ve all been waiting for. And I operated like that for a little bit. And the first time I realized it was a mistake, I had a morning show on NBC.

It was on for a day and a half. Then it blew up the network. And that’s when I realized, you know, the thing about me being the guy, maybe that needs to be like, let’s take another look at that, Dave. Did you get better over time? I don’t know.

I mean one hopes. God, thirty years plus one hope you get a little better. I do say that for the last handful of years and my favorite part of the show is just talking to people. Because doing comedy each and every night, each and every night, each and every night, that’s meaningful and not just laughable. That’s tough.

It’s really tough. And I was always lucky to have men and women who were really smart and really good writers. I’d just be in the next room. But the thing I enjoyed mostly was actually just talking to people. Dave had a reputation for being confrontational in the early days, and Dave said, yeah, I guess so, I will say that also in those days it was probably under some real or imagined mandate that would provide energy that would help the show succeed.

But no, that’s right, GQ. Dave, your reputation in your show years, accurate or not, was not social. Dave said, I felt like wherever i’d go out, there’d be an expectation in which I couldn’t live up to, which was, here, he comes, he’s gonna do a show, He’s gonna be funny, We’re gonna be entertained. I kind of felt like that expectation takes quite a lot of energy, because I didn’t want to bleed it off before or after the actual show, which was always in desperate need of entertainment. He talked about his energy and said, you’d either spend time preparing, time ruminating about what it might gone wrong, or try and enjoy what it went right, and anything else didn’t matter.

And that’s the mistake of having a career where it’s the same thing each and every night. Now I still advise people not to retire, but it was so single focused. If we can make these three four hundred people laugh every night, that’s our responsibility. So the idea that it actually transported beyond that would always come as kind of a glaring surprise. All I cared about was television.

One hour of television that I was responsible for for thirty years. That’s all I cared about. Everything fell apart went away. I didn’t even know if it was falling apart or not.

And now I have the energy and the broader focus to recognize humanity as othe…

A lot more here, and we’ve got some holidays coming up, so I’ll save more of that for some time, maybe Christmas week. Looking ahead, I will have episodes for you every single day, like always. I am going to pre tape a couple just so I could take a couple of days off around Christmas, and you know, there are things like best Comedy Specials of the Year that I want to do anyway, so I’ll record a bunch of those, but I’ll be here every day for you. I’m also bothered this session you’re hearing right now. I’ve only been recording for seven minutes and I can already hear that rasp in my voice that whatever bug I caught It’s almost a full three weeks ago.

Now I still feel it. I still feel that my voice going really quickly. I don’t feel sick at all, but boy, I just feel the rasp anyway. Jay Leno, let’s stay on late night type hosts. Jay was on Spike first In’s Spike’s Car Radio, and Jay pushed back on all the rumors about what’s going on.

There was one rumor that said Jay owed money to the mob and had been subject to a beat down. Leno said, it’s so stupid. Spike said the photos Jay looked like an AI of a Jay Leno that had been thrown off a building. All right, Jay, you’ve got money. Why he’s staying at Hampton In.

Jay said he got into the area at one am and was only going to be there for a short stay. He asked for the nearest hotel and happened to be Hampton In. Leno defended the brand, saying it’s a Hilton. Why wouldn’t he stay somewhere like the Four Seasons? Leno said?

Why would it pay eleven hundred dollars a night? Leno explains if his wife was with him, then he would have stayed in a nice hotel, but it’s just him. He doesn’t feel the need. Spike said he’s been on the road with Jerry Seinfeld, and Seinfeld also stays at modest hotels. Spike shows Jay some social media posts, including one where the author wrote, Jay Leno was beat up in some kind of ritual.

I suspect or to be silenced. Jay, is it a gambling debt? Jay said, Nope, never gambled in my life. I liked that the mob would drive to Greensburg, Pennsylvania to meet me on top of a hill and then throw me down the hill. All right, Jay, why were you walking?

Why didn’t he have a car? Jay said again he was only in town for a short time. He didn’t think it need one, And as I’m falling, I see these two elderly ladies. One of them goes that looks like Jay Leno falling down the hill. The two women came over after he fell down.

Leno said they realized it was actually him. They gave him a ride to a nearby restaurant. He says, of his injuries, I didn’t think it was that bad. When a server brought his sandwich over, the server told Leno, hey, you know you don’t look too good. But rather thansee medical attention, Jay asked for directions to the nearest CVS and bought an eye patch.

All right, what about all the weird stuff with the cars on the motorcycles, Leno said, there’s a lot of accidents in between you don’t even hear about. Jay says he got a good laugh when he told the crowd, ladies and gentlemen, I’m just completing my fall tour and added audiences love seeing rich people catch on fire. Maybe this is just how I sound now. I’ve worked in radio media, audio whatever this is now for thirty plus years, and I have run into older men who start to get that rasp in their voice. It sounds great if you’re a DJ.

Maybe this is just how I sound.

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During the break there, I hit pause on their cording and went upstairs and I went and got my iced coffee. Here the voice was driving me nuts. Today. Doesn’t hurt, but the fuzz all right, shut up about your voice, John, if you want to sport the show, buy me a coffee. Dot com slash d comedy news.

Serious topic here. Conan O’Brien, Oh wow, what a week. Conan’s father, doctor Thomas O’Brien, passed away Monday, December ninth. Thomas was ninety five. Three days later, on Thursday the twelfth, Ruth O’Brien passed away at age ninety two.

In an interview published on Thursday, Conan told The Globe, my father was in constant motion and he was interested in everything, absolutely everything. John Mulaney was on Jimmy Fallon during the week. Mulaney was filming a scene for poker Face and said he’s been going back and forth between Staten Island and Queen’s. We’re at a Rundown real life location like a motel for this one scene, and afterwards it was this summer. I’m standing there with Miguel and he goes, oh, no, I think I have some bug bites and I look down and he’s got these three red bites and he goes, oh, no, I might have bedbugs from the shoot.

Malanie gets back to his room. He notices he has bites and I go, oh my god, I got bed bugs from doing a peacock show. You never think that’s how you get them, but it is. I texted Natasha Leone. I go, hey, do you have Miguel’s number.

Miguel’s the director. I need to get in touch with him right now about something. She sends to me Migul’s number and I text him. He texts Miguel, it’s John m’laney. I’ve read bites on my legs too, What did you do for these?

And he’s really bed bugs. He doesn’t hear back. I call Natasha and I go, hey, mcguil hasn’t gotten back to me, and she goes, oh, yeah, I say you the wrong Miguel. Apparently m’laney texted the guy Miguel who has the hit song remind me to forgets. Malaney spoken to the TV and said, Miguel, if you’re watching, they weren’t bed bugs and on set medic let me know it was fine.

It’s a good lesson. Nikki Glaser posted on Instagram, I’m sorry if I’m everywhere right now, It’ll be over soon. She talked about the roast of Tom Brady in May and said it was a life changing performance, one of those things that you sort of like, you just never know what’s gonna happen, but everything changes after the next day, I was in line places and seeing my face on people’s phones. She told Jimmy Kimmel. I felt like Taylor Swift for a couple of days.

I felt that level of fame. No, you didn’t, and that is your comedy news or today. You didn’t. You were not Taylor Swift. Relax.

You told a couple of funny jokes on a roast A bunch of us watched. H You’re such a hater, John, I’m not. I speak truth to the media. See to morrow.

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Featured: Jason Zinoman, Nikki Glaser, Ronny Chieng, Rami Ysef, Tom Papa, Brooks Wheelan, Josh Johnson, Nate Bargatze, Kyle Kinane, Courtney Peruso, Anthony Jeselnik, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• New York Times Best Comedy of 2024 list with Jason Zinoman
• Nikki Glaser named Comedian of the Year by multiple outlets
• Ronny Chieng’s ‘Love to Hate It’ special releasing on Netflix
• Vulture’s Top Comedy Specials of 2024 rankings
• Johnny Mac’s upcoming Best Specials of 2024 episode delayed to January
• Debate over best comedy specials: Kyle Kinane’s ‘Dirt Nap’ and Adam Sandler’s ‘Love You’

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Jason Zinnemon is critic at large for the Culture section of The New York Times and writes a column about comedy. I consider him to be a friend of the program, and we interact on social media sometimes, and he was a great guest on here a few months back. On Tuesday, the Times publish an article called best Comedy of twenty twenty four. The subheadline John Stewart made the daily show Mussy TV again, Theo Vaughn had a memorable moment with Donald Trump and Nikki Glaser broke through.

I thought I’d take a look at Jason’s column. I’ve skimmed it. I haven’t really read it because I wanted to react in the moment. Here. Let’s start with his comedian of the Year.

Much like Consequence of Sound, he also has Nikki Glaser. Now, I said my piece about that on Tuesday’s podcast. I don’t think it’s an absurd pick, but I don’t agree with it. But I could see Jason Zinneman knows a lot more about comedy and has seen a lot more comedy, especially in the last decade, than I have. So I’m not gonna lie arm wrestle him to the ground.

I’d be like, no, you’re wrong, I’ll just respectfully go I’m not seeing it. Jason talks about the Rose set, but says her new HBO hour provided more substance. Wearing a glittering dress and a strategic smile, she performs showbis cheer, but underneath that shimmering facade is not just an ace club comic, but a restless artist exploring darker terrain. Gleezer gets underestimated because she’s filthy, but she can go high as well as low. Cover universal subjects and metacomedy analysis, do hilarious character work and brainy jokes.

This relentlessly funny hour is bleaker than it looks. Digging into suicide, rape, in the Apocalypse, and any year when it seemed like everyone had a comic take and why you shouldn’t have kids, hers was the funniest again, will agree to disagree. I don’t even have that special on my best of the Year list. I just thought it was, like, eh, now really interesting to me. Jason has as best special Ronny Chieng’s Love to Hate It.

This one is out on Tuesday on Netflix. The log line there, Ronny Chieng unpacks fertility treatment Fiasco’s the dark side of men’s self health and scam sensitive parents in this witty stand up special. So I’ve been holding off. I’m itch you to take my own best of the Year episode, but I’m gonna wait to the other side of Ronny Chieng. I heard from a friend of the show, Dan Bubletz Junior, who texted me and he’s like, why don’t you record your top Specialists of twenty four after New Year’s and run it like the first week in January?

Which makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it, because everybody else is putting out there topless in early December, so as I wrote back to Dan, because Channy Mack wants to take a couple of days off after Christmas. That’s why. Sorry, Just try to be honest. They’re Dan Buobletz Junior. You know, a little pre tape action on like December twenty seventh and twenty eighth goes a long way when you do this every day.

Zinneman has best political special RAMI Usef’s More Feelings. That was the one that I hated the direction on. I just didn’t like how it was shot and I couldn’t stick with it. Maybe if it was released as an album and I listened to it, I’d be like, oh, okay, But you know, I struggled with that one. Best Clean Comedy, Tom Poppa’s other in the category, Gaff Again, Fortune and Nate’s Best YouTube special, Brooks Wheeland’s Alive in Alaska.

Getting fired after one season at SNL has shadowed his career, but it’s also given him a relatable backstory. I’ll have to add that one to my list of things to watch. There’s just so many of these. I remember at one point, I think it was a decider pointed out there was like something like three hundred specials. I like this.

I like doing this. No one torches me, nobody makes me do the podcast, But like, you can’t keep up. I mean, I guess if this were a full time job and I did nothing else and never talked to my family, I could keep up. But I can’t even keep up with what comes out. Best Topical Comedy Josh Johnson on TikTok.

Josh has been putting out a ton of content. According to Josh, he’s put out twenty two hours of comedy in a year, and Jason wrote about some other things I did link to it in the Facebook group on Tuesday morning. The Facebook group is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Feel encouraged to join, Feel encouraged to participate, Feel encouraged to start converse. I enjoy when the listeners start conversations outside of me.

Those are my favorite posts. My choice for commed of the Year. Nate Brighetzi. He dropped the trailer for his upcoming special on December twenty fourth. In the special, and Nate discusses wanting a second dog, how much pizza at order for Guys Night, his wife being the responsible one, and even more.

Pretty good trailer. It’s like a minute and a half. We’ll use that into the break. My wife she runs everything, but I do do my own laundry. One day, I was like driving home and it popped in my head and I was like, all right, I’ll bring that up.

And I bring it up that day. I was like, I’m sure there will be a time where we’re be in some fight. I’ll be losing this fight and then I may not just come. I’m like, I do my own laundry. I went to career day for my daughter’s school, so I was hoping to sit at a table alone.

They put me at a table with a surgeon, which I think they did it on purpose, almost to show the kids. Here’s the difference between reading. They asked him, how long did you go to school to be a surgeon? You know, he’s like fifty four years or whatever it’s like, and they ask me, They’re like, how long to be a comedian. I was like, you’re good now, so look, finish elementary school and make your parents happy.

But then I’d get out and get after it. Vulture Publisher They are Best Comedy Specials of twenty twenty four. Back on December fourth. They have at number ten Alie Wong’s single Lady. I feel like I watched I don’t know ten minutes of that one.

I’m a comedy snob and not everything tickles my brain.

And also from the understandpoint, not everything is for me, and that’s fine …

Not on my top ten. It’s actually on my not on list section of my number nine. Langston Kerman’s Bad Poetry. I also have that one on my not enlist notes where I wrote fine but NH and I’m glad I wrote that down because I don’t remember even hitting play on it. Langston.

I like Langston. He’s been a guest on this program. Just wasn’t feeling that one. Number eight RAMI Usef’s more feelings, as I talked about in the first half, I wrote in my notes here to myself. Didn’t like the direction, couldn’t focus on the material.

A lot of weird camera angles in that one. At number seven, Kyle Kinane’s Dirt Nap. Absolutely, it’s got my favorite chunk of the year, which is his fast and Furious chunk. This one absolutely on my personal best of the year. I won’t tell you where until I released my episode, but it’s up there.

Like that one a lot. I like Kyle a lot. Number six Courtney Peruso’s Vanessa five thousand Vulture Rights. Vanessa five thousand is part of the current indie clowning wave, and Peruso’s clown is a mindless, stilted sex robot named Vanessa and black leather and a cheap blonde wig. Peruso gets the audience in game with aness on the terms defined by her programming.

I haven’t seen that one even like the cover art, just doesn’t grab me personally. Not everything is for me Vulture. At number five, they have Anthony Jessinicks Bones and all I lasted seven minutes on this one. I just felt like, been there, done that. It didn’t do anything for me.

Number four Nikki Glazers Someday You’ll Die. I’ve discussed this at length. I’m gonna sit over here in the corner with the people who have unpopular opinions. I guess I’m wrong because everybody else is saying that special is great, except me and the people in the Facebook group. I don’t know.

I thought it was okay. At number three, Vulture has Adam Sandler’s Love You. I’ve been warming up to this one right now. I have it in my second tier, so I’ve got like my top specials of the year, and then I’ve got another group that’s like these were good as well, and Sandler’s in that second group. But as I’ve been reflecting on the year, I’m warming up to this one.

What I like about Sandler’s special is he tried to do something, and I always appreciate someone who’s trying to do something as opposed to some pretty big names who did what they always do. And I guess that’s fine. But like I punched out on a lot of specials because it’s like, Okay, I know what you do next. I’m busy as Adam Zaandler’s specials go. I guess this was my favorite one.

I historically have not been a fan of his coledy, but I did like that special. Number two is Jacquelinovak’s Get on Your Knees. As I said earlier, not everything is targeted at me. Not everything is for me. Ortists can do their thing, and if John doesn’t like it, that’s fine.

My note lasted four minutes. And if you know what that special is about, and I say lasted four minutes, there’s a great joke in there. But I keep this show clean. On number one, Ali sadiqz Domino Effect Part three, I think this is one of those that I was intending to watch and for whatever reason, never did. I don’t have it on any of my lists, so it’s on the didn’t watch it list.

Vulture writes, it’s hard to imagine what other comedian could ever come close to pulling off this epicreation he’s been building for the past few years. Each YouTube installment is its own long special, but they all connect as pieces of Sidiq’s autobiography, beginning from childhood and continuing through the years he spent incarcerated for selling drugs. No part of Domino Effect is bad, but part three is a particularly remarkable standout. All right, so that’s their number one special of the year. Probably worth checking out then, right, all this is subjective.

You have your list, I have my list, Vulture has their, as Jason Simon has his. It’s just all fun. Let’s not take this too seriously. It’s comedy, different things for different people. I’m planning on doing my list right after Christmas is the plan right now from an editorial standpoint, As I mentioned, Jenny Mack wants to pre tape a couple and put his feet up for a couple of days.

And that’s your comedy news for today. Normal episode tomorrow. See you then,