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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Al Roker, Ricky Gervais, Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, Mark Normand, Ari Shaffir, Jim Gaffigan, Vladimir Zelensky, Vladimir Putin, Kim Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Fallon Thanksgiving Day Parade hungover speculation
• Ricky Gervais ‘Mortality’ Netflix special review and controversy
• Jim Gaffigan social media over-promotion criticism
• Joe Rogan four-hour Thanksgiving podcast with multiple guests
• Joe Rogan claims Zelensky requested appearance on podcast
• Joe Rogan discusses Russia-Ukraine war and Putin
• Democrats attempting to create liberal alternative to Joe Rogan show
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation chairman criticizes Joe Rogan’s influence

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. Helloom, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. You can hear my voice. Thank you, Johnny Macbot for filling in yesterday. I’ll try and muddle through here, but that’s why I use the AI.

I’ll talk about that later in the show. A lot going on today. Let’s start on gossip corner boy, I sound horrible, huh. Jimmy Fallon fans think Jimmy perhaps was possibly, maybe perhaps hungover at the Thanksgiving Day parade. Why it was very rainy in New York on Thanksgiving morning and Jimmy was wearing sunglasses.

At one point, Jimmy was walking with an umbrella, saying, rain or shine, you gotta get out here. Everybody’s still out here, cheering despite the downpour. It’s the best holiday. Some on social media said he was definitely hungover. Here’s a clip of Fallon with Al Rooker.

You know you don’t have the visual here, but picture a very handsome Jimmy Fallon in like wayfarer type glasses, and let’s see how jovial he seems to you. I think you know who’s that behind those four I got you, I got you, fall Le Jenny. Happy, thank you. This is your eleventh parade? My man?

Is that right? Can you believe that says more. Than Andy Williams. Yeah, I’m hitting right. You’s gonna say that Moon River and couldn’t.

Be fantason here. We’ve been through this together, through rain. Everything. We were here, Oh my gosh, remember that. But here we are now this is the best.

The vibe here is so good, even in the rain. Look at who these pants too. Come on, you are, mister Holidays. This is what I’m talking. Chortle does not like Ricky Gervas’s new show.

Sortle right, so we know the choreography of the stance. Now I’m supposed to call Ricky Gervais after being cruel and offensive, adding to the woke liberal outcry against him, hence burnishing his credentials as a bold free speech warrior. But that’s a simplification. There are some good jokes here, even though the cross the line, provided that you take him at face value, he’s not fermenting hate, given how far from being canceled. The number one stand up comic on Netflix is the culture War.

Might be artificial, but it gives mortality a sense of purpose that the much ignored theme of the title certainly doesn’t. However, the impact is muted by a tendency to over justify his gags and focus on the reactions he expects to get from his naughtiness, rather than just plow on with the jokes. Away from this as observations can be pretty trite. He claims Mortality is the most personal and confessional show that he’s ever done, but quickly adds not in an Edinburgh fringe way. He wants to be a man of the people, separating himself from the pretentious stereotype of the festival, even though hundreds of fringe shows are better than this.

Yet, for his claims about opening up, there’s very little it’s personal here, other than reminding us he was a working class before he became moneyed, and a bit of meditation on aging. Even in a relatively short show about seventy five minutes, he runs out of steam at the end Spoilers, he recounts trying to get a mischievous gag pass the lawyers into his Golden Globes monologues, which is a decent chat show anecdote but seems a stretch for stand up and the closer spoilers is about the football chance. Sir Elton John used to endure during the nineteen eight eighties about his sexuality. But here’s Jervaise forty years later, generating cackles largely his own out of quote backs against the wall unquote type jokes. He may be mocking how silly it is, but the laughs essentially come from the same sentiment.

It’s childish and dated at worst, low level homophobia at worst. Chorto wraps up with Jervase can be better than this, that he chooses not to says a lot. Ricky was on the Stick to Football podcast and said, I don’t go out there and just say the first thing that comes to my head, thinking there are no consequences. I don’t do that, so I have to be able to justify it. Everything I do, I’ve got to be able to go That’s why it’s okay.

A lot of my stuff, because we’re dealing with taboo subjects, seems worse than it actually is. If you analyze it, it’s not that bad. It’s just because you’re dealing with contentious subjects and buzzwords and when people gas. If you look at the jokes, it’s fine, I’d say. Over the weekend, Jim Gaffigan social media was bothering me.

I guess this is part of the Hulu deal. On Thanksgiving it on Black Friday, Jim social media had devolved into either watch my special or sign up for Hulu. I feel like your social media has to be a mix of obviously promotional stuff. I promote my stuff on social media, totally get it, but we have to mix in some personal stuff. And Jim’s account had just evolved into Hey, watch my stand up special and hey, sign up for Hulu.

And I assume that’s part of the big marketing deal with Hulu. I get it. But Jim, you know you could wish us a happy Thanksgiving in between selling us stuff. It’s just it’s not a good look. Bro a lot of articles about Joe Rogan.

On Thanksgiving, Joe dropped a four hour podcast which features Shane Gillis, Mark Norman, and Ari Shaffer. I haven’t had a chance to listen to it at the time of this recording. I started to listen to it Thanksgiving night as I was drifting off to sleep, and it was just going to be too loud, so I held off on it. And you know, four hours there’s a lot of great guests right, Mark Norman, Shane Gillis, Ari, Joe Rogan. That’s great anyway.

On that episode, Newsweek reports that Rogan claims he invited Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to come on the show. Very interesting. I’d listen to the heck out of that. On his podcast, Rogan discusses the possibility of a war with Russia and said, I don’t really think Putin’s that stupid. I think he’s going to realize what’s going on, and I think they’re probably working this out.

Rogan then said Zelenski tried to come on. His guests seems shocked, and he says they tried to get Zelenski on. I was like, what are you talking about? So I’m a little confused there. I’ll have to listen to that myself, you know what, let me see if I can pull the clip.

Hang on, he tried to come on. WHOA. I was like, what are you hugging about? Do you when you get an offer for somebody, they must come at your bookers or whatever? H huh do you go?

Do you like stopping? Like? Hold on, let me think about this, whether I want to be part of the story or not, whether it’ll be interesting or not. Well. I wanted to stay out of the presidential election tow It’s gross because I feel like I had to.

I feel like this is so nuts. This is so nuts. When that Tim Waltz guy, that guy’s it’s so nuts that guy was gonna be the vice president. You’re telling me, you’re telling me this whole thing’s fake. Then you’re telling me you don’t care if someone’s a liar.

You don’t care. If they lied about their military rank, where they served, you don’t care if they lie about being a sit you don’t care. Ifully lie about Tianaman Square. There’s too many things. This is so crazy.

Back on the November twenty second episode, Joe had said, Zelensky says, Putin is terrified f you man. Few people. You people are about to start World War three. A lot of talk about the Democrats needing the liberal Joe Rogan that whole notion to me is so funny. Here Rogan said, I think these call her Daddy podcast shows and all these different shows that Harris went on.

I mean, I’m sure they had an impact, but I think that in the future, I’m sure they’re scrambling to try and create their own version of this show. Some people point out that Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders in twenty twenty. That’s not that long ago, so maybe the liberal Joe Rogan was Joe Rogan.

Meanwhile, in Australia, a big controversy.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation chairman Kim Williams said, I think people like mister Rogan pray on people’s vulnerabilities. They pray on fear, they pray on anxiety, they pray on all the elements that contribute to uncertainty in society. I personally find it repulsive and to think that someone has such remarkable power in the United States is something that I look at and disbelief. That did not go over well.

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Speaking of Shane Gillis, Tires is coming back for a second season.

Thomas Hayden Church has joined the cast in season two of Tires. After the unexpected success of their big marketing idea, Will and Shane rush to grow personally and professionally without fully realizing the cost of doing business. Thomas Hayden Church will play Phil, who is Shane’s wealthy but immature father, a grown up version of Shane. Phil enjoys owning various businesses in Florida, where he resides, throwing back Margarita’s and flirting with waitresses. I like the season one of Tires a lot.

I think since it’s been on, Shane has become only even more popular and Stavi has become more popular. So season two of that will probably do really well. No date yet, so you hear my voice, which is why I had the Johnny Macbot host yesterday. Again, I’m not trying to trick you guys. I’m not going to get lazy.

I’m not going to start having the AI host the show. But I think if you’re here to listen to the front end of Sunday and you hear me today, that’s what that was about. So how did I do it? I train the AI on four different scripts of this show and three hours of audio to both teach it how I speak, both sonically but also my cadence and the types of words I use. So I had my normal script that I write, and I put it into the AI, and I made some tweaks here and there and to make it sound more like me, and I thought it came out pretty good.

I mean, if you pay a lot of attention. It’s obviously not actually me, but if you’re half listening, it totally works. So in a pinch, I’m glad I have that. Since I started this podcast five years ago, I was always wondering what happens if I get COVID. I don’t have COVID, took a COVID test.

This is just like this bronchial thing. I wake upvery morning to like I swallowed a knife. And I’ve lived in fear of like what if I can’t do the show, And I’ve always want to feel healthy. I have extra episodes, and I still have those extra episodes that I’ve just you know, they’re like the top fifteen comedians of all time my thoughts on that, and they’re just sitting there for a rainy day. But now that I have this new technology, I’m like, oh, okay, there are options.

So that’s what that’s about. I’m not gonna do it all the time. I’m not going anywhere, but you hear how I sound out On Netflix today, Fortune Femster is a new special, Crushing It. She shares stories from her life, including her romantic honeymoon with her wife and her reflections I’m no longer being her mom’s sorr good husband. I thought the trailer was really strong.

Let’s listen. So something happened when I met Jackson I did not expect. My mom got a little jealous. Yeah. I remember.

If I would buy Jack something like a scarf, my mom would be like, I like scarfs. I’m like, you’re not my girlfriend. Their birthdays are five days apart, which is my nightmare. I get heart palpitations in February. I remember early on in my relationship, it was very popular to go on Facebook and profess your love for whoever you were with.

So Jack’s birthday, I go on Facebook. I’m like, animis how much you are the grand insan Nanzana Homnem. I posed like thirty pictures in a clage that took five hours to put together. Five days later, I call my mom, Hey mom, happy birthday. Thank you?

Are you okay? I’m fine? What are you doing? I’m on Facebook. I was looking at my messages and I don’t see one from you.

And I know your thumbs work because you use them. Five days ago, I sent you an edible arrangement? What is this? She was pissed, so I had to unfriend her. And since I sound like crap.

Let’s wrap this up a little bit early from Late Night or Craig Ferguson had Richard Kind on The Ferguson Podcast, Richard Kine said, once you’re off TV a year later, they don’t know you. Ferguson agreed that used to be true until the Internet created a whole new repeat structure for old shows. I still get people coming to the shows. We’re never old enough to watch me when I was doing the show and they say I watch you on YouTube. I’m like someone who does a YouTube channel.

And then that’s it for my voice, and that’s your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Anthony Jeselnik, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Dave Chappelle, Martin Short, Jim Gaffigan, Conan O’Brien, Matt Braunger, Chloe Radcliffe, Ralph Barbosa, Vir Das, Andy Samberg, Brett Goldstein, Joe Coy, Nikki Glaser

What’s in This Episode

• Anthony Jeselnik on his higher creative standards versus peers
• Anthony Jeselnik’s subtle shade at Dave Chappelle in new special
• Anthony Jeselnik’s trans material and raising comedy standards
• Martin Short praised as comedy’s greatest roaster by Gaffigan and Conan
• Matt Braunger on stand-up, acting, and fatherhood after 20+ years
• Chloe Radcliffe launches ‘In Tandem’ bike interview series for comedians
• Vir Das on American cancel culture versus India’s censorship threats
• Andy Samberg’s SNL wardrobe malfunction during Charlie XCX sketch
• Brett Goldstein confirms Ted Lasso Wizard of Oz theory
• Joe Coy’s controversial Taylor Swift joke at Golden Globes
• Nikki Glaser to host 2025 Golden Globes

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media Happy Monday, I’m the Johnny Macbot with today’s Daily Comedy News. Cracked asked Anthony Jesselnick what makes you better than your peers. Anthony said, I would say, as politically as I can, that I have a higher bar. I write more jokes, and I fail with more jokes in order to get to that great one where some people just say that’s good enough. Like some people are like, well, I’m just gonna go up there and talk and they get a laugh, and you know that’s okay.

Lest I think some comics they say something backstage and their friends laugh and they’re like, oh great, and they go out and they say it on stage and the audience doesn’t laugh, and they’re like, huh, it’s still a good joke. That’s not the way it works. I don’t think I’m more talented. I don’t think i’m smarter. I just think I have a little bit of a higher bar.

That’s why it takes longer in between specials. I choose fewer projects because I really want to make every little bit of it great. But I think some people are like, you know what, let’s just make that wall look good and we’ll ignore the rest of the room. There’s a subculture on YouTube where they collect clips and then put them together, and they’re making just as much money as everybody else. There was one where I was making fun of Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura for a lot of the stuff they were doing, but it was very subtle.

Then I run into Bert Kreischer at the comedy store and he’s acting a little weird and he’s just not as gregarious as normal. And I get home and I see they put together all of these clips into one thing, and when you put it in without context, it looks like I’m trying to bury the guy. And it’s like, no, I’m just messing around. I think I’m just too well versed in what’s going on in comedy. I shouldn’t know anything about what Tim Dillon did last month, and I know so so much.

If I didn’t, would I be angry? Would I ever think about it again? They also asked him about the shade he throws in Chappelle’s general direction in the new special. Jesselnick said, it’s more powerful to not use his name, but I can’t imagine you watch that bit without thinking that’s exactly who I’m talking about He’s considered the greatest stand up comic alive right now, and he’s been riding this wave of bull crap for so so long that I think it would have done the bit a disservice to actually say his name, But I don’t know how you could watch that without understanding it. I hope that, in the same way that I think that thoughts and prayers stop people from saying thoughts and prayers, I would hope that my trans bit squashes ninety nine percent of trans material.

I think obviously make fun of these people, but you can make jokes about race without the racial slurs. That’s something that I will never condone in comedy. I’m hoping that maybe people will up their game a little bit, especially in terms of trans material. It doesn’t have to be this lightning rod. It can just be a subject.

Jim Gaffigan and Conan O’Brien recently praised Martin Short as comedy’s most devastating roaster, surpassing even Don Rickles. Wow. Gaffigan was on Conan and said Short is beyond a doubt, the quickest, the meanest, and so funny. That’s pretty high praise. Wow, Jim said at a recent show at the Beacon, he literally walked out and stole the whole show, just dressing us down for five minutes, and he left.

He’s seventy five years old. He walked out, ripped into us left, and everyone’s like, well, that’s the best part of the show. Cohen In said, the writing is so sharp. He can do it ad lib, but I think he as so has some jokes prepared ahead of time. He can hide in the fat suit and say things like, you know, your career never quite took off, now did it.

The Pitch KC caught up with Matt Bronger. Matt said, when I was a kid, I did a lot of plays in musicals. I figured that was it. I’d watch the oscars and say that I want to do those things. Now that I’ve been in this world for so long, the goal is to make as much cool stuff as you can while you’re here.

It’s not about this massive achievement. I’ve learned that you’re better off if you just keep honing your craft, but be open to things. I wish I hadn’t been so judgmental about stuff that I didn’t want to do or didn’t want to do when I was younger. I know my position in this strange universe is to be the silly one. So I’ll be the silly one and I’ll look foolish if it works.

There’s so many ways to be creative and to express yourself other than how I saw it through the tunnel vision of a young actor’s eyes. I’ve never really thought i’d be a stand up, and that’s been my main meal ticket. I still love it after twenty plus years, and I’ve been an actor even longer. I find the more you practice your art, the more peace you have in your life. These days, we’re always looking for quick fixes to this simple pain of existence.

But if you find something that can be an outlet for what you need to express yourself in this world, and you can make a couple bucks at it, it’s pretty incredible. Matt also loves being a dad. It’s one of those things I never thought I would get a chance to do, and it takes over everything in my life in the best possible way and gives me an incredible perspective. It will beat the crap out of you, but it’ll give you life and purpose like you’ve never imagined. Chloe Radcliffe has launched in Tandem, a new interview series filming comics biking through Central Park and La River.

She says it’s like comedians and cars for less successful people. The show premiered last week with Ralph Barbosa. There’s something that happens to you when you ride a bike that makes everything a little lighter, more fun, and more care free. Because we aren’t making eye contact, I think people can relax a little bit. Radcliffe says the show uses a go pro rigged tandem bike from her Bushwick shop.

New episodes drop Wednesdays at nine am Eastern Time on YouTube. Virdaz finds American cancel culture debates amusing compared to his experience in India. He told The Hollywood Reporter, the American cancel culture archetype is cute. Every time an American comedian complains about getting canceled, I’m like, grab a flight to India. Just let me show you something.

After facing serious threats in India, Doz took a strategic approach. I didn’t really milk my controversy. I just shut up and wrote a show, put the show up, and then that show got some acclaim I wasn’t doing the equivalent of crying on Oprah. After winning an International Emmy, Doz highlighted its significance for underdogs. If you’re looking for an award ceremony that supports the underdog purely on the might of their content, the International Emmys are it.

Mac Packer Andy Samberg revealed on his podcast that his shorts almost caused a wardrobe malfunction during SNL’s Here I Go sketch with Charlie XCX. Samberg said there was a lot of debate about how high my shorts should be. After requesting even shorter shorts, he realized during dancing that I really almost flopped out. I was like, oh no, yikes. Brett Goldstein confirmedy fan theory that suggests Ted Lasso heavily references the Wizard of Oz.

Brett told Entertainment Weekly Ted has to go home. There’s no place like home. He mapped characters to their Oz counterparts. Ted is Dorothy Roy Kent is the tin Man, Rebecca is the Lion, and Jamie is the Scarecrow. While the show appeared to end after three seasons, a fourth could happen despite Joe Coy’s rough reviews.

In twenty twenty four, The Golden Globes saw ratings jump fifty percent to ten million viewers, their highest since twenty twenty. You may recall Joe Coy’s appearance was controversial because of this joke he made about Taylor Swift. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift.

That’s right, Scott Beckett. Even the AI can do the bit. Nikki Glaser will host in twenty twenty five, with over four months to prepare. She says, some of my favorite jokes have come from past Golden Globes opening monologues, when Tina Amy or Ricky have said exact bactly what we all didn’t know we desperately needed to hear. It’s live, unpredictable, and in front of Hollywood’s biggest stars, who also might be getting wasted while seated next to their recent exes.

Michelle Buteau will host the twenty twenty four Billboard Music Awards on December twelfth, just before her Netflix special A Buteaux Ful Mind, premieres at Radio City Music Hall. Michelle says music is just one of those magical devices that can bring people together. With me hosting, you can expect a fun party, a cute celebration, and a whole moment in a plus size sequence suit. Her special will be on Netflix on New Year’s Eve. And that is your comedy news for today.

Johnny Mac will be back tomorrow. Resistance is Futile. Portions of today’s program were created with the help of AI. See you Then,

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Anthony Jeselnik, Tony Hinchcliff, James Acaster, Bo Burnham, Joel Kim Booster, Theo Vaughn

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Rogan vs Anthony Jeselnik podcast joke feud
• Anthony Jeselnik new comedy special review
• Tony Hinchcliff Puerto Rico joke controversy at MSG rally
• James Acaster special with audience heckling format
• Bo Burnham’s Inside special and no-audience comedy concept
• Joel Kim Booster working on new special with directors
• AI voice technology experiment for Daily Comedy News

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media Johnny Max got a bad cold. The COVID test was negative, but as you can hear, my voice does not exist. I think if I talk from the front of my mouth, I’ll be able to make it through here. Anthony jessel Nick is in a little bit of a war now with Joe Rogan and the Newest Special. Jessel Nick has a joke that says, I like Joe, but if you listen to his podcast, you’re an effing loser.

Rogan retweeted a clip with Jeslnick telling the joke and wrote, hands up if you’re a loser. I watched the special. I made it seven minutes in and I just thought it was I don’t want use the word bad. I just didn’t care. It wasn’t doing anything for me.

It’s just like, you know, here’s a premise, and now I say something twisted and dark, over and over and over and over and over, like I get that’s what the act is, but it’s tired. Seven minutes I made it into that one. The Daily Beast dusted off some background on the Rogan versus Anthony battle here. Jessinnick was on THEO Vaughn’s podcast back In twenty twenty three, The Daily Beast writes, Jessinic pushes back on comedians who believe they should be able to say whatever they want. He said, that’s wrong as far as I’m concerned.

People think as a comic, their job is to get in trouble, but they don’t want to get yelled at. It’s okay to make people mad, but they don’t want any pushback. If you put out a special and everyone’s ticked, he didn’t get away with it. You need to make everyone laugh, that’s right, otherwise you’re just a troll. In the special, Justlinnick addresses cancel culture and said comedians are supposed to be on parallel badasses.

I know this because I have an effing mirror. Towards the end of the hour spoilers, Jesslinnick says, guys. Don’t get me wrong. I like Joe. Joe’s my friend.

Joe’s a good guy, but if you listen to his podcast, you’re an effing loser. Back in twenty nineteen, justin Nik til the Last Laugh podcast. I want to be the type of villain that the other villains are afraid of. We live in a world now where there are very real villains. I’m a comedian.

People get mad at me, but I make people laugh for a living. There are way worse people out there that you should be upset with, and I like that I might make those people a freed. Krackt asked Jessinic about Tony Hinchcliff. They were curious, say, Anthony, did you watch that joke and say I know how to make that joke work. Jessinix said, I never would have put myself in that position.

Firstly, on either side of political rally at MSG was the wrong joke to tell. I don’t have a problem with to joke and listen. I love Puerto Rico. I’ve given money to Puerto Rico for earthquakes and hurricanes. I didn’t find it distasteful.

It was like, I get what you’re doing, but their constituents, you’re trying to get them to vote for you. What are you doing? And that was my big takeaway, You’re roasting the wrong things. If I had been hired by Donald Trump to do that, I would have roasted his opponents. I would have roasted states who’s definitely gonna lose that we could all laugh at.

This is not crazy talk by Jessini at all. I think he just misjudged his audience and that was his greatest sin. I think the joke is fine. I don’t think it’s a good joke, but I’m not as upset about it as some people were, unless you put it in the context of the opening of the last minute political rally, that of course didn’t change anything. Cracked.

If your audience is more conservative, do you worry that they’re enjoying your jokes but not in the way you intend? Jeslinix. Sometimes it doesn’t really matter to me. I have one joke where I say I’m against cancel culture. In the audience cheers, I think they’re playing along.

I think they know that I’m making fun of people who say that they’re going to cheer because that’s what a hack comedy the audience would cheer for. Sometimes I think they’re cheering because they know what’s about to happen. I rarely think they’re cheering because, yeah, he’s on our side. Because they know I’m gonna pull out the rug from them if they’re coming to buy a ticket, They’re like, I’m happy to have the rug pulled out from underneath me. My audience is smart enough not to have to agree with everything I say to themselves and then ay of you lost and I showed his jobs because being material.

Justin Ix said, I was always sprised that I was able to get on TV at all. What the five minutes jokes that I’d tell I was doing my actor try to audition? I have somebody hire me to write for them. I never thought I’d be a stand up of this magnitude, just because I thought they’re not gonna let me on TV with this. And this was before Netflix.

It was like, could you get on Conan? Can you get on premium Blend? And I wasn’t sure in the beginning. I also watched James Acaster’s special, and by watched, I mean stared at it for eight minutes wondering, what are you even trying to do here? I’m just bewildered.

I got the premise that people were allowed to heckle him, but maybe then, if that’s the premisure selling, maybe have somebody heckle in those first eight minutes. Uh wow. I mean I didn’t like Justin k special at all, but at least like I get it Acast I didn’t get it all, neither one of them. We’ll make my end of the Year list. I’d rather watch an Adam Sailor comedy and be honest.

Vulture spoke to Acastor their question, if you could conceive of a version of stand up where there was no audience, what would yours look like? Acaster said, when bo Burnham did Inside, I think every stand up had the thought of, oh, shoot, he’s done the thing a lot of us have been thinking throughout a career. Wouldn’t be great if I could do this without them here. But then you’re like, at what point is that not stand up anymore? I love that special.

I think it’s an incredible achievement and we’ll be remembered for generations. It’s such an amazing time capsule and it was the perfect thing to do during lockdown. But in many ways it’s the first ever YouTuber comedy special. That was his origin and he utilized that, and that’s what I thought. He was so amazing at I think the answer I’ve landed on and someone will do this at some point is the other way around.

There’s no comedian, but there’s an audience, so you go to the Abba voyage route of having a hologram. I went to see Abba and I got a jacket there and originally in the show and wear it on stage and not reference it. Someone will do it someday. I’ll be very jealous of that person. If I’m not the one who’s done it, I probably won’t be because the admin alone seems like a nightmare.

But you’d be able to do multiple shows a day, sitting at home somewhere and get on with your life. That sounds pretty pretty sweet, and that is gonna be my inspiration for what we’re gonna do. Here. You hear my voice, it’s gone. I have a new tool that I haven’t taken out of the toolbox yet.

So in the spirit of what James A Caster just did, I’m gonna take the break and I’ll deal you straight. When we come back from the break, it’s going to be AI Johnny Mac. I will write the words, but I’m going to have my new AI avatar voice it because I sound like crap. Okay, So I’m not trying to trick you. I’m not trying to lie to you.

I will write the words, the AI will voice everything. After the commercial break, and it’s a holiday weekend. What better time to experiment than right now? When I have the excuse of I sound like crap and my voice hurts, and I’ve got the technology, and it’s a holiday weekend, so when we come back AI Johnny Mac with more. Joel Kim Booster opened up to the eight hundred Pound Gorilla about crafting his new special.

He’s focused on creating a cohesive through line to elevate it beyond just an hour of jokes. He’s currently working with directors to refine the show’s structure. He prefers smaller venues that allowed direct audience connection and crowd work, saying he’d rather look the audience in the eye than perform in three thousand seat theaters. While respecting peers who thrive in larger venues like the Greek Theater, Booster maintains he’s really content exactly where I am. Patton Oswalt’s comic book series Minor Threats is expanding with a new anthology, Welcome to Twilight City.

We’ll bring in major creators including Matt Fraction, Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Alred, and Gene Haw for a four issue Dark Horse series in twenty twenty five. This next one is fun Brooklyn Cat Cafes, Monthly Zoomies comedy show features adoptable cats roaming free and occasionally heckling during stand up sets. At a recent show, a grey kitten named Pebbles became the breakout star, interrupting comics with sassy mews from the back of the room. Comics quickly learned cats make unpredictable audience members. The lineup, including host Marty Cunney and comedians like Alison Leeby and Natasha vain Blatt, had to dodge cat storming the stage, starting fights, crash into audience members, and attacking the mic cord.

The best sets embraced the chaos, making Pebbles’s antics a running bit. While lacking traditional comedy club amenities, the scrappy show delivers laughs along with the chance to meet adoptable pets. Attendees are encouraged to pet and play with cats during the show, though may have done again. Told the Dodo, the experience may leave you feeling satisfied and covered in cat hair. The show runs first Fridays at Brooklyn Cat Cafe.

Pebbles is still seeking her forever home. Adopted on chap Wayne Knight, you know him as Newman from Seinfeld, reports his one hundred and ten pound weight loss has hurt his acting career, He told TMZ. It takes time for people to accept you as you are, and then they find out whether or not you can still do things without being fat. Knight shed the weight since his nineteen ninety three Jurassic Park role through various methods including therapy, drug surgery, exercise, and radiation. When asked if he lost weight the old fashioned way, he said, what do you mean like not eating?

Yes, that does work, and that is your comedy news for today. If you’re a human with no voice, feel better and remember resistance is futile. See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Ronnie Chieng, Adam Ray, Doctor Phil, Anthony Jessel, Norm MacDonald, Trevor Noah, John Oliver, Sarah Silverman, Jimmy Kimmel, Dave Chappelle

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan’s weight loss journey using appetite suppressants
• Ronnie Chieng’s path from Singapore to The Daily Show
• Adam Ray’s Netflix special and getting Doctor Phil as a guest
• Anthony Jessel on conflicts with Norm MacDonald on Last Comic Standing
• Why comedians dislike the Last Comic Standing format

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy. Hears. You’re feeling a little heavy after Thanksgiving and the leftovers, you should lose some weight. Like Jim Gaffigan who Till the La Times.

I wish there was some romantic story surrounding his weight loss, but it really came down to my doctor who brought it up. She said, I know she’d gained a fair amount of weight. In the nineties. I was working out twice a day to be thin, and then once I had kids, I was desperately trying to find time to work out, and then it got to a point where my kniece didn’t work. So my doctor said, you can try these appetites of pressents and I’m like, yeah, sure, but I didn’t have an expectation it would work, even when I was working out twice a day.

I have a joke where I was like, I need to work out a lot just to look like someone who doesn’t work out, and I was pleasantly surprised when it worked. That joke speaks to me because I go up and down ten pounds in like a day, So I’ll go out for an eight mile run. I lose a lot of water weight, and I’m like, I feel good, and then I come home and have you know, three cookies, and then I’m back up ten pounds. My body’s crazy like that. But even when I’m in marathon shape, I will say to people, I have to work really hard to look this fat.

Like, if you ever see me walking around it, I don’t one hundred and sixty pounds. You might start wondering who’s going to take over this podcast after me, which is a good question. Hopefully we have another fifty years before we have to consider that one. Ronnie Ching has spoke to the Wall Street Journal, thank you, friend of the show, Scott Beckett for setting this one over. Ronnie said his first exposure to American comedy was watching Jerry Seinfeld’s stand up intervals on Seinfeld back in Singapore, I watched Late Show with David Letterman on TV and the comics who came on his show.

Initially, I didn’t think I could do what they did. I watched because stand up looked interesting. Comedians would walk on stage, talk to the audience, make jokes and people laughed. He wound up living in Australia and said it took me two months to get a handle on the Melbourne comedy scene. Performing in English wasn’t a problem during our Manchester years.

My parents spoke to me in English, so it was my first language. As for my delivery, that’s a matter of developing the skill set and listening for the rhythm, the timing, the attitude, when to pause and so on. That came gig after gig. In twenty thirteen, Trevor Noah and I were on a bill at Just for Laughs. In myal I already knew him from the festival a year earlier.

Two years later I received an email inviting me to audition for The Daily Show, which Trevor had started hosting. I planned to move to New York anyway. Going from Australia to the Daily Show was such a step up. I have Trevor to thank, as well as John Oliver, who gave me guidance. Adam Ray was asked what was the re action from Doctor Phil’s camp when he found out about your show.

If you haven’t watched Adam Ray on Netflix, it is very funny. Adam said, I’ve been doing the show a little over a year and had never met him. His son reached out to me on Instagram was like, we’ve got to get my dad on your show. We got in touch with his publiciste and went back and forth for like six or seven months. Yeah, I’ve been there, done that.

That’s annoying. I’d almost given up, but then I was like, okay, here’s three more dates. They said, September eighteenth works. I FaceTime with Phil maybe an hour before makeup, just talk through what the show would look like. Then we locked up everyone’s phones.

No one knew and Phil was awesome. The grad went nuts, and the whole show was great. I asked him if he was online, and he was like, that’s how I found you. My son was like, you got to see this, and I’ll admit it’s hysterical. He gave me some nice flowers during the show, but he also told me backstage, you would have known a long time ago if I wasn’t cool with this little thread there.

Wow. I think he and his fans know that my intentions are pure with the character, and it’s also made him popular in a space that he might otherwise not be. And I think he’s got to be enjoying this extra pump of recognition right. He was also asked what would it be like if Doctor Phil went on tour, is Adam Ray Now that’s funny? Adam said, I don’t know if he has the cavs for it, but I’m sure he can get the voice down.

I’d watch it more from that big piece. On Crack to dot Com with Anthony Jessel Nick, Jessa Nick talked about not getting along with Norm MacDonald on Last Comic Standing and said it was anger, but it wasn’t anger that we’re not jelling. It’s Norm’s a difficult person. I’m a difficult person. It’s not crazy that we’re not chilling.

Honestly, it’s almost an honor. It’s like someone telling you you remind him of your dad. But Norman and I were both very angry that we took the job. We were mad that we had to be there for the amount of time we had to be there. We thought we were getting into something else, and so for those eight episodes we weren’t mad at each other.

We were just mad, and when we butted heads it was a lot. We both wish we had gone back and not taken that job. I think everybody hates Last Comic Standing. I used to hate it because, you know, at serious I was the comedy expert, and people would come in and be like, to watch Last Comic Standing, Do you see so and so? And I’m like, yes, so and so is hysterical for forty seconds.

I understand why you think so and so is hysterical for forty seconds.

And then I would illustrate even stupid Johnny Mac can be hysterical for fort…

The example I used to use is a line I later heard Dave Chappelle say, and I later heard President Trump say. I would say something so out of character for me, so vulgar, that people would be so shocked and laughed, and I’d be like yeah, and I would point out I didn’t even tell a joke there. I just said something shocking and you laughed at it. Anyway, Last Comic Standing nobody liked that show. Cracked asked Anthony, what makes you a difficult person.

He said, I’m not the friendliest. You can work with me and think he was totally professional. He was great, but I don’t really have a sense of who he is. We didn’t really hang out. I’m not trying to bond with everybody.

Let’s just be professional and do our jobs. People on the road with me are like, he’s professionally, he does his jock. We don’t hang out much, but I’m not mean. Norm wasn’t mean. It was just aloof And when you’re trying to go and connect with that becomes difficult.

When the two of us going back and forth on stage. I was looking forward it and he was not, and that was difficult. Why don’t you want to hang out? Dan Denny? There’s a lot of comedians who said is the least important thing of their night.

It’s the hangout. It’s who you’re gonna see. We’re gonna go to this other club. Watch someone else said, I’m not doing that. I’m never gonna do that.

I’m like, I’m gonna do my work and go home. That’s the job to be. The fun part is the writing. Even before I stopped drinking, I was never a go out person. I don’t want to meet people after the show.

I want to get back to my room, relax, read a book. That’s the job. Would he ever just become a writer? He said, I love being up there. Obviously there’s an adrenaline that comes from that.

Also, these are my jokes. Most people wouldn’t tell them not just wouldn’t tell them the way I tell them, They wouldn’t tell them at all. Early in my career, if Sarah Silverman had said, I want to buy you for life, just write jokes for me, I would have happily done that watching her tell my jokes. If I thought a joke was great, Sarah Silverman always thought it was great. Jimmy Kimmel always thought it was great and did his best to do it.

I would have been happy writing for them for a while. Anyway, was in my twenties when I wrote for them jokes here and there, but I enjoyed that. When you get into Jimmy Falln, it’s not a knocking a inint Jimmy Faun. But Jimmy Fallon couldn’t tell my jokes. He wouldn’t have the job he has today if he told any of them.

The editor points out. Jessainnick was hired to write on Late Night with Jimmy Foun in two thousand and nine. Someone says, I hate the travel, I hate the sound check, but I love being on stage with a thousand people were there to communally laugh at this darkness. That’s something that I’ve grown into and I wouldn’t want to give it up. NBR spoke to DJ Dimmers.

He has hearing loss and says he doesn’t want to be the hearing aid guy to reach others in the deaf community. DJ Demmers is often joined on stage by a sign language interpreter, Jennifer Lees, has interpreted many of his shows. DJ says without his hearing aids, he’s considered deaf when he takes them out to sleep at sketchy hotels, he jokes, I’m very easy to murder, and since hearing aids aren’t waterproof, pool parties are a nightmare, and I’m not very good at marco polo. This is funny. He’s a new dad.

People warn him to be ready for a lot of sleepless nights and he jokes, it’s been pretty chilled. Loved eltmore, but got this damn disability, you know. Interpreter Jennifer said, I’ve seen concerts with interpreters from music, and I’ve seen lots of spoken word stuff, but comedy definitely there was a gap there for deaf and hard of hearing consumers who just want to be able to go out to yuk yuks in one of the other comedy chains. And have some fun. Nobody’s ever talked about hearing loss in a funny way, you know, people very rarely talk about it at all, never mind with an incredible insight into how awkward and strange communication can be.

Demer said, if I really leaned into being the hearing aid guy, I could capture that market. But at what cost? I have to explore more beyond it just to be artistically fulfilled, all right. The folks over at late night are noticed during a broadcast of aew Dynamite Wrestling on TBS that somebody was holding a sign that said bring Tunsis back for SNL fifty. You may recall the sketch on SNL tune Sis the cat who could drive a car.

It was the same joke over and over, never not hilarious. Tunsis Spoilers was a cat who could drive a car? You’ve had thirty years spoilers. At the end of every sketch we would learn that the cat cannot drive very well and the car would always crash. They would use the same piece of footage every time.

Look on the driving reached the hurtles. The dude with the sign is Jose Echeveria. He said, I see a lot of pop culture signs about yesteryear at aw shows. We haven’t seen Tunsus on SNL since ninety three, so I felt Tunsis was the way to go. I thought about making a Simpsons reference, which I’ve done in the past at a w W B Rass show.

But a year ago I saw somebody on social media repost a Tunsa’s Giff Jiff. I say, Giff, send me a letter, and that’s what got the juices flowing you Jiff. People are insane. It’s a hard g look at the word. Robert Smigel recently said on Mark Malkoff’s Late Night Or podcast, a Fantastic podcast, Michael said, I have to admit I was obsessed with Tunss.

I was obsessed with particularly the opening credits where they used the live cat and they had the two arms operating the steering wheel. I mean, I’ve never seen that done before. Eagle Wit is one of Vulture’s comedians. You should and will know Wor Showever, I did a show at Jamaican restaurant where they would pay us in food. I’ve done it a few times and it was always a somewhat impossible show.

This particular night was so bad. They gave us food and money because they felt bad about how rough the show was. Biggest financial hurdle you’ve encountered since being a comedian. We used to get dollar slices in between open mics, and a fellow comedian would put hot sauce on the slices because it was almost like getting a Pepperoni slice, but didn’t cost pepperoni money. He was right.

I used to go home every night and eat ramen with canned peas and tuna, sometimes corn. What comedy hill? Will you die? On? Social media is good for the business side of comedy, but terrible for the art of comedy.

And I’m not just talking about the crowd work thing. I don’t believe material gets enough time to develop In this sprint era of comedy. Quality over quantity used to matter. Bring that back when it comes to audiences. I don’t think they have to change the thing.

I think them being more sensitive will just make the best comedians smarter writers. I’m happy they’re more sensitive. It brings out the best in me. I can’t be lazy with my pen. Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice.

Best. Derek Gaines told me to never play to the back of the room. A lot of comics try to make the other comics laugh focus on the crowd. Sam Jay told me, if my only source of income is stand up, I won’t let myself take the type of risks I would take if it wasn’t my livelihood. When your whole livelihood is stand up, there’s a small voice in your subconscious saying if I bomb, it might not get booked again, So he takes smaller risks.

Roy Wood Junior told me to keep the word diabolical in one of my jokes. It sounds simple, but he followed up by saying, never stop letting them know just how messed up white people are. Where it’s like that are cutting in sharp diabolical Monda Carlo. It’s told me to keep doing the style of stand up I do and eventually the industry will come around. It’s probably a whole bunch.

I’m forgetting. My comedy OG’s have always been good to me. Worst advice I ever received not to do comedy the way I do it. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

Hopefully they’ll also enjoy it and hit follow on one of their apps that’d be kind of groovy. See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Anthony Jeselnik, Michael Ian Black, Samantha Bee, Jason Kelsey, Tim Burchett

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis stars in new Bud Light commercial with switched-up premise
• Anthony Jeselnik reflects on 20-year career and evolving comedy approach
• Have I Got News for You season two renewal confirmed
• Michael Ian Black discusses self-doubt and discomfort watching himself on TV
• Samantha Bee withdraws from Have I Got News for You due to guest Tim Burchett’s political views
• Jason Kelsey launching Late Night show on ESPN for five weeks starting January 3rd

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. He air, OK, you had a good Thanksgiving. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Shane Gillis and a new commercial for bud Light that’s a lot of fun. In the commercial, we see Shane Gillis in a dirty, graffiti filled freeway underpass. He’s sitting next to model and like there’s a guitar player and it’s all kind of cool.

Gillis then realizes he’s in the wrong commercial. Let’s listen to part of it. We are all lost. Yeah, I’m lost. I’m one hundred loss here, but we are on the end, all right, I just spotting for us, that’s yeah.

Hey, I think I’m in the wrong commercial. What h This isn’t right. Wait aren’t you Andre? No, I’m I’m Shane Shane. Huh.

Oh, I see what’s going on. You’re supposed to be in a bud like commercial. Oh. I’m supposed to be in a bud like me, a bud like commercial. Not here.

So that’s why I’m the odd one out down here. Well, if you’re here, Andre Is. We then cut to the model type guy who’s supposed to be in the first commercial, and he’s in the commercial Shane should be in where it looks like they’re basically a beat ups having some wings and having some beer. It’s a lot of fun. Ton Allen is the senior vice president of Marketing for bud Light and says as a passionate college football fan himself, Shane Gillis was the perfect partner to connect to our college football audience with his distinct style of humor, and it doesn’t hurt that he loves a bud Light or two.

On game day, I shared in the Facebook group the lengthy article with Anthony J. Justsin Aca. They facebook group is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Feeling encouraged to join us there, Cracked was curious, Hey, Anthony, after twenty years of touring, are the people who come to the shows who don’t understand what you’re doing? Anthony said occasionally yes, but at this point Lauren Michael’s once told me he was talking about Conan and his success.

The longer you’re there, the longer you’re there. So just by doing it for twenty years, everyone knows. Now, that’s a great line by Lord Michaels. It’s very few people who would think I’m a monster. And if you are, you’ve been living under a rock.

My comedy’s more accepted than it’s ever been, just through the virtue of being around long enough for people to understand what’s happening, could follow up by crack. They were curious if that changes the level of difficulty, because people go in expecting an edge and you got to keep upping and upping it. Jessla next said, it’s certainly a challenge, but in every challenge there’s an opportunity. It’s where do they think I’m going? You’ve seen the special the bit about gallus.

Humor only works if you’ve seen Thoughts and Prayers and you think you know where I’m going with that. There are opportunities in this long career I’ve had, and all the negatives those are champagne problems. There’s a lot of comics who make it five years and never have to deal with this. I’m not going to complain, but it’s certainly in my mind when I’m writing new material, how do I still surprise them? The audience tells me what works and what doesn’t.

There are plenty of jokes where I’m like, this is obvious, and I asked a friend, is this obvious? And they’re like, no, only to you would this be obvious. So it’s really a conversation with the audience because something that’s obvious to me is not to them, and vice versa, where I think this joke is brilliant and they’re like, no, no, no, we saw that coming a mile away. To keep going darker and darker, that would be serving one segment of my fan base who was always going to complain of the first album was the best, was the most shocking. I’m not going to be a slave to my audience.

Ever. I will not do that. The only way to get through it instead of going darker is to become more clever and to become a little bit more flexible. Things that you think are going to go dark, they end up being silly, And I think that’s where my future lies, and the silliness and trying to come up with a longer format narrative in order to hide the punchlines just going dark. I’m too old for that crap I loved at the time, But people rank my specials much differently than I do.

A lot of the OG fans love the original. I love the more subtle I still got you there kind of thing. You’ll often hear me Soapbox about watching a particular comedian and being frustrated that I don’t believe any of the stories that said. I’m a free thinker and I can understand that Jesslinick is doing a character. Larry the Cable Guy is doing a character.

Jesslinick talks about the character and says, the character’s so fully formed, and you’re a good hands where if it’s a lie, it’s a lie throughout the hour. I’m not pulling the rug out for you, being like, you’re an idiot for believing that. I never want to be told what to do by anyone, even if it’s Chris Rock He’s like, yeah, I got a bit fore you. I’m like, get out of my face. I want to think of it myself.

That’s the fun part. Recently I admitted to you that I was wrong. I know we were all shocked. It was absolutely shocking that I was wrong about something because it almost never happens. I was wrong about how I got news for you being canceled after nine weeks if in case you missed it, Cee and it is bringing it back for season two.

Michael Ian Black shared on his substack that he doesn’t watch the show. Black said, for the record, I do not watch the program and probably never will. I tried once when it first came on, but I found I had to turn the channel within moments of seeing my own stupid, grinning mug. Many times I leave the taping thinking everybody else was great and I was fine. This has been a perennial issue.

I very much want to be a smart comic who’s this smart and funny things, and sometimes I am, but most of the time I just feel like a fraud. Sam Bee shared why she canceled kind of late on the Have I Got News for You Folks? This from Late Nighter. Sam told the story on her podcast, The Daily Beast Podcast. Sam said, I pulled myself out of it, which I do apologize to the whole team for leaving them in a bit of a spot.

I just didn’t feel like it was the right time for me to be on the show. Like for context, I really like the show. I think it’s actually really good. I like and admire everybody who’s on it, but my personal boundaries that I really can’t go on like a fun, loving comedy quiz show with someone who just stands so opposite to every value that I hold dear. The episode in question was the November sixteenth installment of the show.

The guest that she had a problem with was Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett. I’m personally not familiar with Tim, but Late Nighter says b sided issues with Burchett’s stances on mass deportation, guns, and opposition to transgender rights, as well as desire to dismantle the Department of Education into fun planned parenthood. Sam said, I just think these questions and these issues that we’re facing are literally existential, and I don’t have a good sense of humor about it. I just wasn’t willing to sit on a comedy show with a grim facial expression, thinking what am I gonna say? What am I gonna do?

What is this like? Why am I here? The next thing I’m going to be wrong about, and that’ll be twice in one year, which would be amazing, is that Jason Kelsey’s late night show on ESPN is going to be a disaster. Now it’s all only gonna run for five weeks, so they’ll guest him up into the super Bowl. But I don’t know about a one am at Jason kelse TV show.

I’m sure it’ll do great with viral clips, but is anyone gonna actually watch it? Who knows? I’m willing to be wrong here. Kelsey is working on it. He showed up at the UCB Theater in la and was on the ASCAT show Late Night.

Our tells as Kelsey took the stage beer in hand, and he was tasked with delivering a series of autobiography stories intended to inspire scenes from the improvisers on stage. They call it Late Night with Jason Kelsey five weeks starting Friday, January third, twenty twenty five. The show will be shot in front of a live audience in Philadelphia. Last week, Jason Kelsey told Jimmy Kimmel on the ABC owned show and said, I love late night shows. I’ve always loved them.

I remember it’s sleepovers watching Conan O’Brien with my friends. The show’s even gonna have a live house band, the Philadelphia based seven piece Brass Ensemble Snack Time. The show’s primary focus will be on sports personalities. Jason says, We’re gonna have a bunch of guys up there, legends of the game, friends that I played the game with, coaches and celebrities. If you would like to see Jason’s appearance, UCB does a live stream of the recorded shows.

It will cost you ten bucks and it’ll be up there until Sunday.

Speaking of Jimmy Kimmel, a boy, Google’s got a lot of money, so much money t…

A big campaign sees Jimmy Kimmel hosting a Google Shopping branded game show called Can You Gift It? Some of the other folks in this show Ronny Chieng Otska at Kotzka, Roy Wood Junior, Robin Feed, Matt Rodgers, Joel Kim Booster, somebody’s got a lot of budget. This campaign runs through December fifth. Let’s listen. Welcome to Pay You Gift, the Google Shopping game show where the deals are endless and everyone wins.

I am shopping for my biggest hater, my grandma. I’m shopping for the phone i’d like to shop for you. Am I allowed to do that? Yes you are. The goal is to score as many deals as possible to mark them off your gift list.

Turntable, Come on on, quote, I’m trying to play the forty chess for Google. Right now, I’m going with Fluffy Dat very very wrong. Who who is the better gift? It looks like Dana Carvey is going to continue to be on SNL. I don’t understand it.

You have a cast, let the cast do things. Dana is great, Dana had his time. I don’t understand this thing where now we’re coming back to the show. Dana on his podcast said, we leave the good nights at SNL. Sometimes you do with the host.

You going to the bleachers and you come out. So I think it was John Mulaney. He went out right before me, and I think he was going and then he started skipping and I started skipping too, And skipping feels really good compared to walking and even running. It’s kind of gentle. So now, if you ever see me on SNL and I’m going back in December, if you see me come off the stage, just remember within seconds I will be skipping for quite a while.

That’s kind of inside baseball I mentioned earlier in the week. I feel like comedy is moving towards edginess. Looks like Hulu’s gonna grab the Sebastian Gaffigan corner and Netflix is getting Edgier. They just announced that Arishafir Deal Andrew Schultz is taping his special for Netflix tonight and tomorrow at the Beacon Theater. Blond Medicine has a comny album out Tonight’s I already support your nomination for Best Comedy Album for the Grammy, because Best Comedy Album should go to albums, not Netflix specials.

This one from Aaron Judge and Jenny Chilakian. It’s called Romantic Comedy Live at the Ripped of bo Dice. Eron and Jenny have been hosting a monthly comedy showcase at a romance bookstore since twenty sixteen. For this stand up album, Eron and Jenny open up the show together and then each performed long sets of their own material. The result is a delightful and hilarious glimpse into what these two dynamic co hosts experience in their day to day lives as queer women in La And if you missed yesterday show, I was poking away at the Vulture Comedians you should and will know Emil will keem He had so much good material that I split it in half, so I did half of it yesterday.

He was asked the biggest financial hurdle he’s encountered to his becoming a comedian and said, did you guys know you have to pay your taxes? That really blindsided me. I couldn’t believe we were really doing that. I was like, well, clearly, no one’s going to check up on the little guys.

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And then I got audited the first year I filed taxes as a comedian.

The irs sent me a letter and they were like, hey, so it’s like way more money. I called my dad and started ranting about how Bernie should have been the nominee and something about Jeff Bezos or something. It’s so annoying you can’t use that as a reason, like in court for tax evasion. I feel like I should be like, yeah, but you’re on Eric Capitalism America, and then the jury would stand up and applaud me. But I do pay all my taxes on time.

Now, I think, what comedy opinion hill will you die on? I love this one, he goes. I mean, obviously CrowdWork should be wiped off the face of the planet, but I feel like it’s hack at this point to say that, almost as hack is asking somebody what they do for a living in all seriousness. Short form content is melting my brain, and I think it should be outlawed unless my clips start doing good, and then it’s awesome and it’s the future. I have to admit, though, that I’m bad at crowd work, which is probably part of the reason why I and so many comics crap on it, because it is a skill.

It’s just a skill that’s ruining the world and may even lead to the downfall of civilization. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it too. If you like this without commercial interruption, there’s a link in the show note to tell you how that works. I’m gonna continue with my mission to pretape the entire weekend.

Let’s see if my voice holds up. You’ll find out tomorrow. See then,

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Jim Gaffigan, Kenan Thompson, Andy Samberg, Seth Meyers, Emil Joachim

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Fallon and The Roots at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2024
• Jim Gaffigan on comedy in the Trump era and political neutrality
• Jim Gaffigan’s Al Smith dinner performance and adjustments
• Jim Gaffigan on being labeled a ‘clean comic’ and categorization on streaming platforms
• Jim Gaffigan’s acting aspirations and level of fame
• Kenan Thompson’s longevity on Saturday Night Live
• Seth Meyers petitioning Ben and Jerry’s for a custom ice cream flavor
• Emil Joachim’s childhood experience playing Jesus in a school Stations of the Cross reenactment

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Caloroga Shark Media Mattery Thanksgiving. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. If you’re up early. Jimmy Fallon and the Roots will be part of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade if it’s their tenth time. Fantastic parade.

I used to go all the time as a kid, when my kids were smaller, I would go every now and then. You get a sixty degree day in November in New York City, and that is a great time to go today. Not so sure about that. Jimmy’s expected to play a few songs from his new album Holiday Seasoning, which features two tracks featuring The Roots. They are Hey Rudy and New Year’s Eve PoCA five four three two one.

For the first time since twenty ten, Fallon and the Roots will be on the Santa Lant Express, which is a train shaped float that’s been part of the Macy’s prate since nineteen eighty five. The last two years they were on the Winter Wonderland and Central Park Float. Fallon teamed up with the Jenny O Turkey brand to donate fifteen thousand turkeys to the Food Bank for New York City. That’s a good cause. I’ll roll with it.

I’ll read your press release because he did good work here. Jeff Baker is the group vice president of Retail Marketing at Hormale Foods and said the Geneo Turkey brand team is thrilled to collaborate with NBC Universal as The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon to ensure that meals get to those in need during the holiday season. This special time of year is about giving to others and showing gratitude, and we have a long standing tradition of working with organizations throughout the country to provide turkeys to those in need. We hope to make this Thanksgiving the momentous holiday for tens of thousands of families by helping them share a meal with the ones they love. The Hollywood Reporter did that big fluff job with Jim Gaffigan, and they asked him, Jim, it’s a very different in America that comedians travel through today.

Does any aspect of your comedy or the response change as you travel? Gavigant said, this is, for lack of a better term, the Trump era. When he first won, I’d never talk about it, but the guy who opens for me, he went through periods where he would and people wouldn’t respond negatively, they would just look at the ceiling. So I stay out of it. People go to shows to escape, and there’s just a fatigue surrounding the two.

I did the Al Smith dinner, and I knew it was a no win situation, but I said yes, because I’m a history buff and a Catholic. I try to do it very much down the middle and in the spirit of Bob Hope. But there were still people upset. I want to be able to look my children in the eyes, and I pride myself on a certain amount of authenticity. But I really do feel Americas like, we don’t need to know what you think.

They were curious about Jim feeling the room and making adjustments on the fly. Jim said, there were adjustments. We had this joke about RFK Junior. Once you’re in the setting, you’re like, you know what I’m not doing at Cheryl Hines was there there’s no sense in an innocent bystander getting shrapnel on her new topic, Jim, you’re considered a clean comic, which is a characterization that’s always irked you. Why, Jim said, the only adjective comedians want is funny with categories on a streaming platform, EDGI is more powerful than clean.

But I’m constantly looking for what to watch while i sit next to my twelve year old. By the way, Edgie is ridiculous, It’s lazy. The Hollywood Reporter editor points out on Netflix, Gaffigan specials fall under goofy, marriage and food. They are not in the provocative or politically incorrect categase New topic. Hollie Reporter said, Hey, a couple of years ago, you told Maren that you were comfortable with your level of fame, but which should open more acting doors?

Has that changed? Jim said, the same thing is less about ego and more about the opening of opportunity and being part of the conversation. But there’s this naive expectation of the entertainment industry that Tom Hanks is gonna invite you, and that doesn’t exist. That’s said, I love acting. Every time I go to Sunday as I’m thinking, all right, this is the one I’m gonna be able to play Jesse Plemman’s older brother.

That’s very funny. That is a great line. Going back to SNL, That’s what I wanted being at the after party and hanging out with Martin Short and John Hamm. I’m not the person who would just go to that party if I wasn’t on the show.

Speaking of Saturday Night Live, Entertainment Weekly caught up with Keenan T…

Andy Samberg said, the wildest thing about Keenan is that he was there before I got there, and obviously still is there and he still gets me. I’ll still be watching the show and I’ve seen his moves, like I know what he’s gonna do, but it’s still and I’ll do some new stuff. I’m like, has this fool still killing it so hard? Seth Myers is petitioning Ben and Jerry’s to get his own flavor. Seth said it would be called a closer lick.

We’ve already mocked up what the container would look like. I’ve sent it to them. I’ve called their offices and left dozens of messages and all that happened was one of the interns called and said, we already have a flavor named after you. It’s called Vanilla Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice will stream on Max starting December sixth.

I already have it in my calendar. There’s so many movies I want to watch. I actually put them on the calendar so that I get around to them now. I don’t have anything tonight because I have to hang out with the family. But let me tell you what I write for thirteen days is Friday night, Movie Night, and on Saturday, I have Diehard two scheduled.

Sometimes I lib and wind up watching something else, but that’s what’s scheduled. Imil Joachim is one of Vulture’s comedians you should and will know. They asked him, He’ll tell us a story from childhood that might explain why you ended up being a comedian, he said. I went to an Irish Catholic middle school and then second grade. Our teacher, legit none the only one left in the school.

I think she was genuinely nine years old, decided we should do a reenactment of the Stations of the Cross at a class play for Easter, and I was randomly picked to play Jesus. It was an insane thing, like we did a kid’s version of the Passion of the Christ. It was their idea of a fun thing to invite parents to, like my parents took off work to watch their son get crucified by twelve white children. I also remember wanting to turn down the role because I found that there was a scene where I had to wash the apostles feet and I had OCD when I was a kid and was super germophobic. I told my parents I wanted to turn the roll down.

They were like, this is great honor, you can’t So I went through with it. I had robes and all that. We walked around the school outside. I watched twenty four feet and then was fake murdered an unpaid roll not even sag. Which comedian’s career would you like to follow?

He said, I feel like romy is the coolest career right now. Being able to work on a special in the show and then put it out and go back and work on the next thing without having to check in every day and post stuff all the time online. That seems dope. I think it’s cool that a lot of comics are moving to non La or New York City’s at a certain level like Chad Daniels, Kyle Kanae and Rory Scovel. Being able to tour whenever you want to, your own fans and have a house and own land that seems nuts.

I’d love to have a driveway or a garage one day, having a backyard and some string lights. I just need a small legal cult of maybe five hundred to one thousand people in every major city that’ll come see me while I’m in town. Worst show ever, he said, This wasn’t necessarily my worst show, but I did a show at a nudist colony in Indiana one time. It was a private community in the forest and you had to go through a gate to get in. It was a bunch of Southern Indiana nudists living in RVs around a campsite.

They drove little golf carts in the middle of the commune. It was like this gazebo where they had events and maybe Orgi’s or something. Was wild because it was Southern Indiana. The show ended up being fun. It was like thirty naked, forty to fifty year old just sitting around in mismatched chairs in this cabin I remember the first couple of minutes of my set, I was doing extremely mediocre, and I think it was because they thought I was making fun of the lifestyle, which I was.

But then I told him I’ll do a strip poker thing where every time a joke didn’t work, I’ll take off a piece of clothing.

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And then I just pulled my pants down around my ankles and did the rest of the…

They loved it and were super fun after that because I like bought into their thing. Yes, it is always pander to the audience. This is good. I’ve got more for him than I will save for tomorrow. You enjoy the turkey and the football, and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow.

Have a happy Thanksgiving.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Anthony Jeselnik, Marc Maron, Dan Gentille, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, Kamala Harris

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle bans notebooks and pens at Paramount Theater show
• Dave Chappelle San Francisco performance review and material
• Dave Chappelle’s stance on transgender jokes and Netflix controversy
• Anthony Jeselnik interview on Marc Maron’s podcast
• Anthony Jeselnik discusses quitting stand-up and touring experiences
• Comedians criticizing Joe Rogan and the Mothership comedy club
• Anthony Jeselnik preferences for theater venues over arenas

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Callaroga. Shark Media are Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Good feisty one today, a lot of fighting I always like that, and a reminder I’ll have episodes all through the holiday weekend. I’m planning on recording them all right now. If my voice holds out, I’ve got one of those old fashioned colds that we used to get before COVID, remember those, I’ve got one.

But I’ve written all the weekend scripts. A lot to tell you about, including a lengthy Anthony Jeslnick article in Cracked that I’ve shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. Please feel encouraged to join us. Let’s start with Dave Chappelle, an article in the San Francisco Gate byline by Dan Gentille. I believe Dan has a little history with Dave, which he writes about in the piece.

Dan writes, so someone who has covered Chappelle extensively, to the point where the comic briefly made my stories a part of his act. Chappelle was at the Paramount Theater on Saturday night. He writes, A look like Dave was poised to go into grievance mode, leaning into his heel persona one fan behind me in line outside the venue remarked that he was hoping we’d hear the old Dave Chappelle, and at first it didn’t seem like it. Chappelle, who has banned cell phones. We’ve talked about that, apparently want a step further.

This time. You weren’t allowed to bring pens or notebooks. Wow. Dan writes, three different security guards disarmed him from his journalistic weaponry. The fact that I was on assignment didn’t dissuade them, no media at all.

They said, Dave, dude, this is not going to help you. This is not going to help you. Dave Chappelle, This is not going to help you. You do not want the media to turn on you, Dave Chappelle. I am warning you lovingly.

You don’t want the media to turn on you. After briefly you’re visiting the Netflix controversy, Chappelle turned to politics, noting that the transgender community will be nostalgic for his jokes once Donald Trump actually begins taking action. But aside from a couple non sequitor slurs throughout the night and a callback involving the state of Gaza, Chappelle kept the promise he made it at the end of the closure that he was done making trans jokes. Interesting note here, Dan Wrights. Those who have seen Chapelle live had heard most of this material.

He shared a bit about San Francisco needing a batman with a punchline about teaching the homeless community the thriller dance. But unlike in the past we spoke about SF, this time it felt much more affectionate. Throughout the night, he peppered the set with compliments to the Bay Area, noting that after Chappelle’ show ANDed, he spent most of his time in San Francisco. Now, this next section has leaked out before. Despite the ban on pins, I mean, what are they gonna do?

I mean, you could smuggle some coal in your crotch and right on your arm. You’re not gonna be able to stop this. Dave Chappelle spoke about the twenty four presidential election, saying the whites are back. Chappelle reiterated his support for the Democratic ticket, saying he didn’t believe in celebrity endorsements, but that he voted for Kamala Harris. He also talked about how he knows Elon Musk and thought it was a stupid idea by Twitter, but boy was he wrong.

Dave joked about that they’re eating the cats and said he drove to a Haitian restaurant daily in support and he didn’t know what the meat was, but it sure did fall off the bone. That is a quality joke. Dan writs, I’m happy he gave critics breath. The sees me nothing to complain about. It was a pretty great show.

Chappelle and relaxed storyteller mode. No punching down, no knife twisting, no dying on hills of bad opinions. He seems subdued, empathetic. The old Chappelle. Anthony Jelsinick is the guest on this week’s Mark meron a very good listen, Such a good listen.

I went through the extra step of actually pulling the audio clip Number one here Mike’s Anthony Jelsinick quit stand up Eventually. If I’m done with stand up, I might leave. I might maybe Chicago. Done with stand up? Yeah?

Do you you think that way? Because I think in terms of the hour. So if I’m like, I don’t have another hour in me, then I’m done. I know, But don’t you feel that after every hour? I not really like halfway through this hour after this tour, I was like, this might be it.

And then as I finish, I’m like, you know what, what if I do it again? Like, wouldn’t that be great? And this is my fifth one now. Yeah, so I’m like, if I could do a sixth, you know what would that look like? And that’s fascinating to me.

It seems neither comedian is a fan of what Joe Rogan is doing these days. Maren discusses whether or not he would play at the Mothership. People are like, would you ever do the Mothership? I wouldn’t even think about it. But I don’t have any reason to perform for those guys.

How much do I have to hate myself? But I imagine you have some crossover. Sure. I went toward the Mothership because I knew Curtis, the guy who was running the place at the time, from the store he went over there. Yeah, yeah, I was doing I was doing a couple of shows on a Sunday and I went over there for a tour.

Yeah, And I was like, this place is beautiful, it’s great, it’s set up as a great comedy club, but it’s too easy. Yeah, you know, it’s like you can’t fail there. I could. They just want to hear like the bad words. I’m sure they would be so happy to see you there that you would destroy.

Yeah. I can’t imagine Joe Rogan’s ever had a bad set. At that comedy club because they’re also they’re happy to be part of the thing. And an interesting take here from Anthony J. Justinic about playing arenas.

I don’t know why people go to arenas to see bands. It’s exactly a terrible way to see anything. I get why the comics want to do it. I don’t understand how. I don’t understand a Madison Square Garden has become this like this new club like I got to do I was lucky enough to do uh not Sydney Opera House, so we’ve not got to do that too.

But Carnegie Hall. Yeah, I was so happy. Yeah I did that. And I go and they’re like, the next time you come to the New York Comedy Festival, well have you do Madison Square Garden? Yeah?

And I was like, why do I give up about Madison Square? Like this is what this is the it for me. Carnegie is the coolest place I could be in and it was amazing. I loved it. That like, not from now on, I want to do just like nicer theaters.

Yeah, you know, I don’t ever want to do an arena ever, but that’s a nice theater. Is is a lot of fun for me. I mentioned at the top. There’s a lengthy interview with Anthony in Cracked. I’ve shared the link in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group.

Jessa Nixt said, even in my set now, if there’s one joke that’s way too hardcore, and that’s okay. I just don’t want to do a set full of that. But it’s nice to know the audience thinks that could happen at any time. I feel great. It’s a weird place to be in because I did this tour for two years or recorded in April.

I’m one of those guys you could either watch a special a million times and edit and perfect it. We can watch it twice and say get out of here. I can’t look at it again, and I’m the latter. Johnny Mac is the same way. What’s the line perfect is the enemy of good?

Something like that. I alsolect the general pattern quote A pretty good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan. Next week. Sometimes you just got to hit publish. Jesslink says a morning that I can’t do these jokes anymore.

I just had a great run in Europe though, so much fun. I’m excited for the special to get out there and see what the public thanks doing the show for two years. It’s people buying a ticket and coming to see it. But when you’re just checking on Netflix and you don’t give a hoot, that’s when you really find out how good it is. And I’m excited for that.

I’ll find out if I’ve ruined people’s thanksgivings a lot more with jessin Nick and not in Tomhrow’s episode, but starting on Friday again. The full article there is in the Facebook group. I have to remember to watch James Acaster. As I talked about over the weekend, HBO stopped releasing things at ten pm on Saturday night. Not a good time, Tuesday night good time.

There seems to be some sort of beef happening. I’ll source Vulture here, and I have to make sure I understand it. Kendrick Lamar dropped an album and apparently took a shot at comedians. I believe mister Lamar has a line about making Cat Williams proud. Kendrick then raps, don’t let no white comedian talk about no black woman.

That’s law. He does not specify which white comedian he’s referring to. Vulture speculates it could be Gary Owen, possibly Matt Rife, but people seem to believe it’s Andrew Schultz. On the July seventeenth episode of Andrew’s podcast, he made a few jokes about his guest description of a black girlfriend effect, in which a non black man, quoting Vulture here, dates a black woman and adopts a new style fade haircutting beard. Schultz at that time said they grow the beard because they need a cushion when they get slapped clip.

When viral online the guests apologize, Schultz refused to apologize. Live streamer Academics said he was speaking to Schultz. Apparently, Schultz may have said, is this guy too woke to un stand a joke? We’ll keep an eye on that one, hey, Just for laughs, announce their dates for July. We get to go back to Montreal July sixteenth to the twenty seventh.

Super awesome to see that one coming back. And they’re bringing back the annual Comedy pro Conference, and I’m looking forward to see who they announce. Let’s stop off on gossip Corner from the Modesto Bee. Bill Burr was in town, The Modesto Bee says in one post, Bill Burr records himself in front of our iconic arch as he declares that all towns should have something like it. Burr reads the motto water wealth, contentment Health, Burr says, not saying it’s true, not saying I felt that one is up here.

It’s funny to say water health, contentment, health. And I have an f in McDonald’s right next to it. Actor Jeremy Renner commented, my hometown. Another post chronicled Bill Burr’s day out in Modesto. Apparently he stopped for breakfast at Good Day Lucille and he had a south By Southwest biscuit sandwich.

He then checked out the Modesto Children’s Museum. He took a photo with the sign for Johanna’s Bail Bonds. People on the Modesto Reddit page said of the show, he killed it. He knew it was a smaller venue, so we barely stuck to a set list and ad libbed the whole time. But in the best way possible.

Oh comedy newbie, I bet you he didn’t you believe what you would like?

Also from Gossip Corner, Adam Sandler walking around New Jersey.

Boy, how exciting He took a few moments to post with the very busy Hackensack Police. They posted Hackensack pde had an amazing time providing security for Adam Sandler while he filmed this new movie Happy Gilmour too. Our officers are huge fans and we’re thrilled to see the magic of Hollywood and action. Thank you Adam for bringing your talent and humor to Hackensack. Before I get letters, half my family’s cops.

So I don’t want to think I’m anti police, but I also live in the suburbs, and I see what happens with overtime. Providing security for Adam Sandler is a cushy gig. Sorry, angin about half my Family’s Cops. Friend of the Pod Jason Sinnaman wrote in The New York Times about hilarious He was on a zoom call with Craig Erwitch, the president of the Disney Television Group, who said, we’re not trying to do you know, one hundred things. We’re trying to do a few carefully selected things that we really believe in that I think, quite frankly helps quality control.

Craig says he’s open to sharing viewership data with comedians, something that Netflix has hesitated to do. Jason writes frustrated some comics who are hoping to understand their audiences for purposes of where to tour, how to negotiate their next deal. That is a major reason a lot of comedians love podcasting, by the way, so Gora has talked about that at length. Craig also promises to use old fashioned marketing muscle. We don’t believe that it’s just up to you, you know, the algorithm to kind of get you to the right time, in the right place.

They sure push the heck out of gaff Again. I’m not sure there’s any post launch buzz on the Gaff Again special, but there sure was in advance. Gaff Again on the Zoom said from a promotional standpoint, there’s no comparison. I was grateful for the opportunity, but it felt more like an experiment, whereas Hulu has a twelve month to two year plan. Yeah, because they also own ABC.

They also own ESPN and the Disney products, so you could very easily get Jim gaffikin on Monday Night football. I can absolutely see from an artist standpoint where that is very appealing. Burwitch was asked if you would ever program something like Dave Chappelle’s The Closer, and he said, it’s probably not what we would want to do. What we would consider is does it feel gratuitous and purposely hate fuller provocative or purposely controversial. Now, it would probably stay away from that.

This is not to do with Disney. We want these comedies to be enjoyed by as many people as possible, and we don’t feel the needs of purposely court controversy to get attention. So let’s look at the list again. Zorn A garg Andrew Santino, A tail Lane, Sebastians. On that list, you’re like, okay, I see what they’re doing.

Makes sense. That is your comedy news for today again. I got an episodes all week and for you, you have an awesome Thanksgiving. If you skip tomorrow’s episode, I understand, spend some time with your family watching the football, eat some turkey. I’ll be here.

You can listen to two episodes on Friday. That’s allowed, all right, see you tomorrow. We’re not

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Featured: Anthony Jeselnik, Matt Rife, Tony Hinchcliffe, Joe Rogan, Ari Shaffir, Sarah Silverman, Nicky Glazer, Jay Leno, Kathleen Madigan, Kat Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Anthony Jeselnik criticizes Matt Rife and Tony Hinchcliffe in Vulture profile
• Ari Shaffir signs two-special Netflix deal including YouTube special from 2022
• Sketch Fest 2025 adds performers including Anna Gasteyer and Groundlings 50th Anniversary show
• Jay Leno defended by Kathleen Madigan over hotel climbing story
• Kat Williams purchases former Alabama military base for movie studio launch

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hit Aaron Hunni Mack with your Daily Comedy News out on Netflix Today. Anthony, jesseln, X Bones and All. Jesslnick is also a guest on Mark Maron’s podcast this week. I haven’t gotten to listen to it yet.

Vulture wrote a nice piece about Anthony last week and spoke to several comedians about Anthony Jesslnick. Fulture described Jesslnick as both evil and arrogant in a stand up in the whole package is presented with the deliberative pacing of the meditation app His stage presence is coolly predatory, emphasized by his leather jacket and Jean’s look, wolf like features and the measured way he moves. Sarah Silverman compared it to wrestling and said he’s the heel, and he takes it and he makes it really high brow. She looked back at Anthony’s breakout performance in the twenty eleven roasts of Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen and said, the conceit of the roast is that it’s friends who adore each other tearing each other apart. That’s not Anthony.

Culture writes ros are designed to have the pretense of meanness, but for Silver and says the audience is also laughing because they suspect it might be true. This is a good piece by Vulture, Continuing, they wrote, it’s easy to mistake many comedians acts as representative of their private selves. Jim Gaffigan plays up the affable dad, and Nellie Wong is the snappish, sexually aggressive mom. Their comedy requires buying into those identities and accepting them as sincere. But Jesslinic’s act requires cognitive dissonance.

He can’t be wholly the person he plays on stage, or would be too horrible to laugh at. Off stage and conversational speech. He’s faster, but his words of the same weedy, carefully chosen quality. He’s thoughtful, polite, a little particular, and boring on a setic in a singular focus on stand up as an artistic end. His podcasting partner Greg Rosenthal said people saw his personas like, man, this guy’s an a hole.

But it was harder for me to see because I knew that he wasn’t that big of an a hole. Interesting line from Jessini k Here talking about getting older, he says, friends getting cancer, these are things when you’re just waiting for the news from everyone. I’ll be forty six in a couple months, so a lot of things don’t make me laugh. Nicky Glazer recalled seeing jess Nic perform at an open mic early in his career and said he had these notes up there with him, and he said, I don’t have these notes because I don’t know my jokes. I brought these notes on stage because I don’t have any respect for you.

Glazier says that was a formative moment for me to witness somebody to be that bold and aggressive on stage and have it work. Welter asked jose Nick about that line and said, that’s one of my favorite jokes. I always do it when I’m trying out jokes, and it’s in the Bleeping Showtime documentary about the Comedy Store that Mike Bender fed up. He used that without my permission. He put it in there, and listen, no one saw that things I could still do it.

J Justin Nick did some self assessments. I would guess that most of my comic friends think I’m a better comic, that I’m more pure, that I do things they wouldn’t try to do. He’s annoyed at the current wave of indie scene clowning comedian says Vulture it’s influencers. A decided stand up was going to be too hard. One of my gifts is I never try to make it easier.

I’ve always kept it hard. If I show up and do a silly and hands I couldn’t operate like that too much pride. He discussed by Rife and said, I truly believe all roads leads at me. I just don’t know why you could eat steak and you would want to eat cow pooh. Does it bother him that audiences are drawing to Matt Rife.

I’m sure Gordon Ramsey doesn’t lose sleep at night because Donald sells billions of Hamburgers. I also take exception of the idea that the country prefers Matt Rife over me. That’s like saying the country prefers James Patterson over Sally Rooney. Popularity is not a metric I used to measure myself against other artists. He was asked about the Tony hinchcliff of garbage joke.

Jessa Nick, not pulling punches, said he thought the Brady Roast was his big moment. Even though I think those jokes were hack as hell. He’s a troll basking in the shadow of Joe Rogan Belcher, says Jessa. Nick also has no patience for displays of vulnerability like the Edinburgh Types shows. There’s no comedian who tells me what their life is like, where I even give the slightest semblance of an f I do not care.

You’re wasting time. I get that there are people who are interested in this, but it’s not what I want to do. I have an hour up there. I want to pack that out with pure ingenuity and brilliance. You know, based on that article, I don’t think I would enjoy driving cross country with him.

I enjoys comedy, but I don’t think i’d want to ride in the car with him. You know what I’m saying. It seems like the comedy wins are shifting a little bit and we’re getting back into edgy. Uri Shaffir has struck a two special deal with Netflick. The first one, Ari Shafer’s America’s a Sweetheart, will be on Netflix January fourteenth, making it probably the number one special of twenty twenty five.

The first time I start a twenty twenty five list unless he doesn’t make the list unless it’s bad and I go it’s so bad it’s not even on a non existent list. Here’s the official press release wordage for America’s Sweetheart. From the Joys of Domestic Terrorism to the Genius of Kanye West, Arii Shafir figures out a way to find the positive and gun violence, racism, censorship, political upheaval, gay rights, anti Semitism, and opioid abuse in this hilarious and darkly uplifting stand up comedy special. Netflix is also picking up Ari’s YouTube special from twenty twenty two Are Shafir Jew making it the first time a YouTube special will air on Netflix. Interesting.

Shafir told Deadline a statement, years of drug abuse has dulled my ability to feel jubilation over network deals, but my mother will be able to brag about this to her friends of jazzer size, which is nice. I enjoy his comedy too.

Also, don’t think I want to ride cross country with him?

Who do you want to ride cross country with John Larry the cable guy? That’s who? Because he’s awesome. Remember yesterday I talked about Anna Gastyer for like ten minutes, well as soon as I flipped the laptop shut. I got this from the sketch Fest publicist.

Thank you publicist, Appreciate you. Sketch Fest announces additions to twenty twenty five comedy festival. Newly added performers include and a guest tire joining the Groundlings fiftieth Anniversary. That should be a great show, by the way. Sketch Fess announces additions to the festival, taking place January sixteenth through the second of February.

The festival will host over one hundred and eighty shows. Some of the new shows include an Evening with Mister Throwback featuring the creators, directors, and stars of the hit show.

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Also added, Let’s Laugh About Hard Stuff with Anna Sale.

The Groundlings fiftieth Anniversary show also includes Anna, Michael Hitchcock, Lorraine Newman, Phil Lamore, Oscar Nuniez, Julia Sweeney and Moore theme Park Improv alongside Kevin Pollock, Gary Anthony Williams, Rachel dratchenmore. Check out the full lineup at SF sketchfest dot com. I’m mad at this. I accidentally skipped this from one of the scripts. You know, the whole thing with Jay Leno Kathleen Madigan came to Jayleno’s defense.

This is the item that I left out of one of the shows, and I’m mad. Kathleen said, I’ve known Jay Leno for thirty five years. Yeah, he would stay at such a hotel. Yeah, he would climb down a hill for wings. It’s why I’ve always liked him.

Still just a road comic who wants twenty four wings, Well, go get them. Kat Williams has bought a former Alabama military base to launch a movie studio. Kat Williams publicist Amy has sold aal dot Com. I can’t disclose the amount or exact location just yet, but I can confirm that he has purchased a former military base in Alabama. Well, how many former military bases in Alabama could there be?

Al dot Com did some research and see that Fort McClellan’s Barracks and Addiston had been up for sale at a million and a half dollar asking Bryce, that’d be a good guess. The area is known as Starships. I don’t know why, and we are told the barracks and surrounding property consist of thirty concrete buildings with three million square feet of indoor space. Ten barracks rooms each, two large gymnasiums, and more than ninety acres of usable flat land that seems like a place where you might build a movie studio. Connie Alexander was the designated broker which represented the seller of the barracks.

Connie says the property was purchased through an LLC, but did concede that Kat Williams did visit the property frequently during the purchase phase. So I did watch Jim Gaffigan Special. It’s perfectly fine, and average civilian were like it. You know, if somebody sits down and they hit play on it and Jim Gaffigan hands that in, they won’t be like this is terrible. They’ll be like, this is fine.

But I’m a comedy snob. There’s nothing special about it. And I know that the media has decided that this is Jim’s time and he’s stepped up in class or something. A lot of narrative about that, But I preferred Adam Ray Special by a lot. I think this review from Laughingplace dot Com nailed it.

They wrote throughout the first half of the skinny, I found myself laughing out loud repeatedly, even when I could see certain punch lines coming. Yep, Gaffigan. Still he would often make the joke for me, and while this remained the case in the second half, I wasn’t quite as sold on the material. It’s not that his observations on marriage and kids aren’t funny, it’s just they’re pretty well worn territory for him at this point, with this being as eleven special, even his closing joke was weak, which doesn’t seem like a good sign for a comedy special. I didn’t make it that far.

Like I said, I got fifteen minutes in. I was like, eh, I got to play Flight Simulator twenty twenty four. I got stuff to do. So I’ve got another item for you, and I do. I really don’t want to be the you just hate Jim Gafficking guy.

But you heard the butt coming right. But Jim was on the NFL pregame on Fox over the weekend and they did this sketch. Jim is a therapist consulting fans of the Saints, Raiders, Bears, and Jets on playoff delusion. I’ll play it through the Bears part. Once you get to the Jets part, it becomes more visual.

But let’s listen and you can tell me what you think. Facebook group, Daily Comedy News podcast group. My name is Jim gaff Again. I am a licensed professional NFL realist Classic. I specialize in football fans struggling with playoff delusion.

A good looking guy, many of my clients can’t face the reality that their teams aren’t going to make the playoffs. We scored ninety eight points in our first two games. Wow, it was really impressive. What happened after that? We lost seven in a row.

That doesn’t sound like a playoff team, does it? No? No, it doesn’t. Yeah, you’re welcome. There’s still a chance we make it.

For the bad boys of the NFL. I’ll give you that the Raiders are bad. You’re not going to the playoffs. Here, Halloween’s over. Take off the makeup, honey.

Now, you’re aware to get into the playoffs. It’s not by invitation. You have to win enough games. He doesn’t acknowledge the division that the Bears are in. Okay, I’d like you to take your wife’s hand, look her in the eyes, and just lift the other teams in the NFC North, the Lions, the Vikings, and the Packers.

I’m not going to make it. Are we hilarious, not hilarious. You tell me I did like the line Like I said, I skipped the Jets part because it’s pretty visual. But when the Jets fan is leaving, Jim says, see you next year. King Charles was at the Royal Variety performance and matt Ford got up and performed.

Matt did trump and characters said they’re reading the cats, they’re reading the dogs, and then turned to the King and said, your majesty King Charles, you were named after a spaniel. Be very careful to eat you alive. Cameras caught the King laughing heartily in response. After the show, matt Ford met the King and said, did you mind the joke about sounding like a spaniel? And Charles said, no, it was a very good joke.

You waited for three hundred years to be able to say it. Apparently meant Ford laughed at the King’s comeback. There. By the way, Harry and Megan, who Harry’s got this show about Polo that’s coming out next week and he’s getting savage. Check out the Palace Intrigue podcast.

We talk about the Royal family and it’s gonna be another round of Poor Harry, Poor Megan, they get everything wrong. And I’ll leave you with this one. Joe Rogan, He’s in the news a lot. This next story got a lot of pick up. Rogan on his Friday episode had some comments about President Biden and criticize Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine and use some missiles.

Rogan said, how are you allowed to do that? When you’re on your way out? People don’t want you there anymore. There should be some sort of pause for significant actions that could potentially start World War three. Zelenski says, Putin is terrified af you man, few people you people are about to start World War three.

Rogan suggested Ukraine pursue negotiations instead of escalating military actions, quoting Rogan, maybe that’d be a good thing would like to avoid from a dying former president. We voted Trump in and his idea is to stop all this stuff, and hopefully he can do that. Send your letters to Joe Rogan and that is your comedy news for today. If you’d like the program without commercial interruption. If you’re on Apple Podcast, click that banner there.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Corey Holcomb, Theo Von, David Spade, Bill Burr, John Mulaney, Bert Kreischer, Whitney Cummings, Nick Kroll, Guy Brenhams, Veer Yas, Will Ferrell, Diddy

What’s in This Episode

• Corey Holcomb criticizes Dave Chappelle’s stand-up performances
• Theo Von and David Spade making ‘Bus Boys’ buddy comedy film
• Bill Burr’s ‘Born Losers’ film project with North Hill production company
• Great Outdoors Comedy Festival Vancouver lineup announcement
• Guy Brenhams discusses worst Hollywood boss experience
• Veer Yas discusses representation of Indians in Western TV
• Will Ferrell violated Diddy’s SNL set protocols in 1998

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you’re a relatively new listener. I don’t skip days. I do pre tape sometimes, but I don’t skip any days.

So there will be episodes all seven days this week and every week. Let’s start with a controversy always fun. Did you see Corey Holcomb called out Dave Chappelle for bombing. Here’s a long clip. It’s pretty lengthy, but I think the best way for you to experience this is to hear Corey himself.

I have made a few edits for language, but here’s Corey Holcom. Ah what whenever they say SKay, everybody guess what special guess Dave Chappelle. I’ll be like, oh damn, it’s gonna be hot. God, It’s for at least a howl hour, maybe two. I’m just keeping it real.

But he needs to understand you throwing your way around to much man, standing up there smoking with them irregular shirts. On bombing. All the time. Dave Chappelle is absolutely great in movies. Great.

I didn’t say good, I said great, not a professor them scenes where he was in the movies with Martin the. Chappelle’s show was so good and entertaining. The Chappelle’s Show, they were selling it in the barber shops. It’s a TV show. They was selling the TV show in the barber shops.

Give Dave Chappelle his flowers, but stand up, God day. This man has so much power because of what he’s done in movies and TV that he can go in any comedy club. They’re going to put him up because he’s Dave Schappelle. And I promise you, this man is about to do a say no to comedy speech for as long as he up there. It’s just nobody has the courage to say nothing because it’s Dave Chapelle.

But Dave Chappelle be bombing. Now. I’ve watched Dave Chappelle specials. Out of every five specials, two of them are good. Well that’s fun.

You know. I’ve seen Dave many times, and I think it depends on what Dave is doing. Sometimes you get thoughtful rambling Dave, who tends to be philosophical, and get some good jokes in there. Perhaps he’s just working out material when he’s doing that. And the other times you get Chappelle on point, using his best Fastball and he crushes, So, I mean, does Dave bomb Not every show is awesome?

So Corey is saying it in a particular way to make a point. It is not a ridiculous US. No should though. Here’s the one that would be coming to a bargain bin at your local Walmart. Do they still have those?

I guess it’ll just go somewhere on streaming. David Spade and Theo Vaughn are going to star in bus Boys, a buddy comedy that they co wrote and have self financed. Set in a border town in Arizona. The film follows David and Theo, two friends that think becoming waiters will solve all their problems. They’re wrong, and theel’s got a big following.

But this sounds like the kind of straight to DVD thing they used to make that doesn’t happen anymore. David Spate said, we’re looking forward to gracing everyone with this comedy that no one asked for. His word’s not mine. Bill Burr is also making a movie. Sources tell Deadline that Skydance Sports has closed a development deal with Bill Burr to write, direct, produce, and star in a film that will be called Born Losers.

This will be the first film project for Bill Burr’s company that I told you about. Uh, I don’t know. I taped a bunch of these recently. I don’t know. Did I say that on Sunday’s episode Saturday I care remember?

Anyway, recently Bill Burr had a new company called North Hill. This is the first project for North Hill. What is born Losers about? It’s a secret. Nice lineup at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival in Vancouver next September in Stanley Park, which I’ve been to Vancouver and I’ve been to.

Stanley Park is a fantastic park. John Mulaney will headline Saturday Night. Boy. You know, I could make a case for me going to Vancouver. Here’s who else is doing the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival.

Brit Kreischer, Whitney Cummings, Berbiglia, Nick Kroll, Fred Ormison. You know it wouldn’t be nuts for a guy who hosts a daily comedy podcast. Do you find himself in Vancouver attending that thing? Hmm? I love Vancouver too.

Hmmm, I’m gonna think about that one. E W caught up with Guy Breinham, who looked back on his worst Hollywood Boss. He said he probably shouldn’t be telling this story, and then did Let’s see if we could figure out who he’s talking about here. Brenham said, So, he’s an actor whom I’d co starred with in a movie, and he also created a noteworthy prank show. Hm, who could he mean?

Now? Some people on the internet point out that Guy Braina worked with Aston Kutcher on the twenty eleven movie No Strings Attached, and then the year after that was a producer on twelve episodes of Punk, which was created by Kutcher. Hmm, Well, whoever he’s talking about? He says, he’s an actor who I had co starred with in a movie, and he also created a noteworthy prank show. But I just lost the best job I’d ever had in the industry, and I was desperate for money, and a friend of a friend recommended me to write for his prank show.

Hmm. And the guy who created it already kind of didn’t like me, but he was scared of me, and I value that he was one of the dumbest human beings that I’ve ever experienced. Guy said he boss had an idea for quote an amazing prank. The plan was to have a chalk artist draw a big chasm on the ground. Guy joke said, the boss probably didn’t know the word chasm.

How the prank would have worked, people would go indoors and pretend they felt an earthquake and then walk outside where the target of the prank would see the chalk Brainham said, and lass on them. And there’s nothing harder than having to not laugh in your boss’s face. Understanding if you laugh on their face, you won’t be able to pay your rent. But they’re saying the stupidest things imaginable. Olli reporter spoke to Veer to us about Losing It, his second stand up special for Netflix.

They were curious what he thinks of the representation of Indians and Western TV. Veer said, I’d love to see us more flawed, and I’d love to see us making horrible choices. I’d love to see us getting violent, and I’d love to see us dying more. I’d love to see us killing more, and I’d love to see us having more sex. I’d love to see us challenge the model minority perspective, the doctor, the diligent student, the it professional.

There are one point four billion of us who are flawed and making horrible choices and doing drugs and hooking up and having sex and falling in love. You don’t get to see a lot of that love. That answer, that’s a great answer. They were curious why has an Indian content broken out internationally in a way that say South Korean content has. Vier says, well, we’re busy.

We released six films a weekend. We have our own stuff going on, you know, so with all due respect, we’ll get to the global explosion when we have time. Right now, we’re making great movies for massive audience, and we’re very, very busy. They asked him about his infamous two India’s routine for your said, I think the hard lesson is maybe don’t use an open mic at the Kennedy Center to test out new material. But I think if you’re fortunate enough to have the kind of audience that I have globally the numbers that I have, you’re on a train ride, and one stop on the train ride is a massive public ass whooping.

Whether you’re quite or reckless, the train’s going to stop at that station at least once in your career. But the train keeps going. There are many happy stops on the way as well. I love this interview form. E W and A Gasteire recalled a story in which Will Ferrell violated Diddy’s close set protocols when Diddy rehearsed his musical performance for a nineteen ninety eight episode of Saturday Night Live and it’s old Las Culturistas.

When p Diddy came, he of course like shut down the whole building. And I said, the closing the SNL set for rehearsal was a rare and generally frowned upon practice during the herd time there ninety six to Oho two. She said, you can tell like the five A holes in the sixty years that I was there, where they’d be like so and Zoe’s in the building. Everybodys stay in your dressing rooms. Oh now, I kind of want to look at the list.

Should we do that? It’s a holiday week, let’s do that. Okay, I need a list of SNL guest hosts and musical acts. Thank you Wikipedia. This is going to take me a minute to do, but this is fun, all right.

Let’s scroll down in nineteen ninety six and see if we can figure out who the you know, jerkfaces might have been pure speculation of course, all right, Let’s say Tom Hanks, Tom Petty, No, Lisa Kudrou Show Cron No, Bill Pullman a new edition, No, Dana Carvey, doctor Dre No, Chris rock Wallflowers, Downy Junior, Fiona Apple, Phil Hartman, Bush Martin Short, no doubt, Rosie O’Donnell, Whitney Houston. You think maybe Whitney Houston. I don’t know her rap Big Star, though I could see it being Whitney Houston. Let’s put her on the possibles. Kevin Spacey Beck, David Allen, Greer, Snoop, Nev Campbell, David Bowie, Chevy Chase and Live, Alec Baldwin, Tina Turner, Sting, Veronica Sult, Mike Myers, and Aerosmith.

I have met Aerosmith. They were cool. Rob Lospice Girls, Pamela Anderson, Rollins Band, John Goodman, Jewel, Jeff Goldbloom and Vogue, Nope ninety seven Season stallone, Jamiroquai and Matthew Perry, Oasis. You think maybe Oasis. Let’s put them on the Possibles.

That’s two. Brendan Fraser Byorke Farley and the Mighty Boss Tones Love Its Jane’s addiction, Claar danes O, Mariah Carey Giuliani ninety seven. Giuliani would have been quote unquote cool though, Sarah MacLachlan, Nathan Lane, Metallica, Metallica’s cool if dealt with them, Helen Haunt, Hansen, Sam Jackson, Ben Folds five, Sarah Michelle Giller, Pored his Head, John Goodman, Paula Cole, Romadowney, Missy Elliott, Garth Brooks and Garth Brooks hmm. Maybe Scott Wolf, Natalie Imbrulia, Julianne Moore, Backstreet Boy, Steve Bushmi, Third Eye Blind, Greg Kennear, All Saints, Matthew Broderck, Nan Merchant, Dacovney and Puff Daddy and Jimmy Page. All right, so that’s one of them.

Ninety eight Cameron Diaz, Smashing Pumpkins, Kelsey Grammer, Cheryl Crow, Lucy Lawless, Elliott Smith, Ben Still Ro, Alanis Morris, Sett, David’spaty Gelid, Cherry, Joan Allen, Jewel, Jennifer Lofewitt. Beastie Boys. I almost misread that as beach Boys. Imagine the Beach Boys for the musical act ont SNL in the nineties, Vince Vaughan, Lauren Hill, Alec Baldwin. Host This Is December ninety eight.

Musical guest Pavatti, Vanessa Williams and the Philadelphia Boys Choir in Corral, Hmm, Bill Paxton, at Beck, James vander beekon Everlast, Gwyneth Paltrow, Baar Naked Ladies, Brendan Fraser again, Buster Rhymes and the Roots, Bill Murray, Listenda Williams, Ray Ramonald, The Cars, Drew Barrymore, Garbage Goodman and Tom Petty, Cuba Gooden Junior, Ricky Martin, Sarah Michelle Geller, Backstreet Boys, None of those right, All Right? Ninety nine Here’s an episode. Host Jerry Seinfeld. Musical guest David Bowie Not Bad, Heather Graham, Mark, Anthony norm with Doctor Trey and Dylan McDermott with food Fighters. Garth Brooks musical guest Garth Brooks as Chris Keenes.

I’m keeping Garth Brooks on my suspect list. Jennifer Aniston Sting, Christina Ricci Beck, Danny DeVito and Rim That’s a good show. My former co worker, Jamie Fox Blink one eighty two, Freddie Prince Junior, Macy Gray Allen Cumming, Jennifer Lopez, Juliana Mary leez, DMX, Ben Affleck, Fiona Apple, Joshua Jackson and Sync the Rock and ac DC. That’s a good show, Walking and Christina Aguilera, Toby McGuire and Cisco, John Goodman, Neil Young, Britney Spears and Britney Spears could be right, could be Jackie Chan Kid Rock Right two thousand, Rob Loo, M and M, Kate Hudson, Radiohead, Carvey Wallflowers, Charlie’s They’re On, Paul Simon, Callista Flockhart, Ricky Martin, Tom Green, David Gray, Val Kimmer, U two you think you two could be uppity? I could see you too being uppedy Lucy Lou, jay Z.

You think jay Z? I’m putting jay Z on the list, Charlie Sheen, Nelly Furtado, Mina Savari, Lenny Kravitz, Jennifer Lopez doubling up. Think it could be Jennifer Lopez, could be Jennifer Lopez Right, that’d be two and four weeks and it would be so mad. Sean Hayes and Shaggy, Katie Holmes and Dave Matthews. Katie Holmes back in the Tom Cruise Era could be Katie Holmes Conan with Don Henley.

Don Henley also doesn’t have a great rep hm hmm, Julie Styles, Aerosmith, Alec Baldwin and coleplay, Renee Zelwegger and Eve Yours Brazen and Destiny’s Child, Lara Flynn, Boyle, bon Jovi, Christopher Walkin and Wezer. That’s a great show. I know, I’m just reading you list. I know we got to do the next forty right, twenty and twenty Reese Witherspoon, Alicia Keys, Shawn william Scott, Who’s Shawn William Scott? That this is the first name where I’m like, wow, these are all household names.

Shawn Williams Scott is best known for his breakout role as Steve Stiffler in American Pie. Huh That didn’t age twelve musical guests Some forty one that October six, two thousand and one. SNL has not aged well. Drew Barrymore and Macy Gray, John Goodman, jar Rule, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ryan Adams, Billy, Bob Thornton, Creed, Derek Jeter with Bubba Sparks and Shakira, Hugh Jackman with Mick Jagger Ellen with no doubt Ellen’s got a bad rep. Maybe it was Ellen, Josh Hart and Pink Jack Black and the Strokes, Brittany Doubling Up Again, Johnny Moseley and Outcast John Stewart India Ari.

John Stewart hosted SNL This in two thousand and two. Was even at the Daily Show yet? I can’t remember Ian McKell and Kylie Minogue, Cameron Diaz, Jimmy, World of the Rock with Andrew w k Alec Baldwin, pod Kristen Duntz. Eminem went On a Writer with Moby all Right one more season. Nice kickoff in two thousand and two season premiere Matt Damon and Springsteen, Sarah Michelle Geller with Faith Hill, John McCain and the White Stripes.

I don’t know why that’s funny. Just is Eric McCormick and Jay Z. Yeah, I’m putting Jay Z on the list Man never Carlos and Eve, Brittany Murphy and Nelly de Niro and Norah Jones with Danira A Lot Things down, Al Goren, Fish, Jeff Gordon, Avril Levigne, Raeleiota and the Donnas, McConaughey and the Dixie Chicks, Jennifer Gordner and Beck Walking and Foo Fighters Queen Latifa with musical guests Miss Dynamite, Samahayakat, Christina Aguilera, Bernie mac Good, Charlotte Ray Ramana with Zwan was your musical guest in two thousand and three, zw An Aston Kushner with fifty cent Adrian Brewery with Sean Paul, Wayne Wonder and Dan Ackroyd with Beyonce. All Right, I’m gonna guess, and I don’t know. I’m gonna guess.

I’m going backwards here. I’m gonna guess Beyonce, Jay z Ellen, Garth Brooks and Diddy. Right, that’d be five who knows? Look at me now, I have a super long episode in Holiday week. If anybody’s still here, I know, I just read a list for ten minutes.

Anybody’s still here? Are you still here? So? I have a story I was gonna tell you, but I gotta finish Anna’s story. You may recall seventeen minutes ago, before I started reading a list, Anna said, the closing the set for rehearsal was rare, and you could tell the five a holes.

In the six years that I was there, they’d be like, so what hoes the building? Everybody’s stay in your dressing rooms, which is applicable if you’re a presidential candidate. But apart from that, it’s my house, Didy. He demanded a totally close set. Anyway.

During the Thursday rehearsal, Will Ferrell was dressed as an SNL crew contributor named Ron as part of the opening bit, and decided to violate Diddy’s set protocols as a gag. Anna said they were like, wouldn’t it be funny if Ron just went in? And he did. He went on down the stairs and he wrched right in. I have the video from the control room where Sean Combs is wrapping and behind him Ron’s walking around looking really disoriented in character.

Oh, I got one more for you, and I can’t bump it because it’s tonight From Boston dot Com. They write a rabbi, two Jewish comedians at a TikTok personality walking a bar. No, it’s not the setup for a joke. It is a joke because we could all use the smile right now. It’s a comedy game show called That’s So jew Its.

She’ll be at Laugh Boston Tonight, hosted by Ethan Levine the description imagine Jeopardy just for Jews. Contestants compete during five rounds of sketches, triviaan music, with categories such as poorly described Jewish holidays and jew or not a Jew. One of those questions, for example, is the British Royal family Jewish. Ethan says, the other thing Jewish about them is that they hate their daughter in law. That sounds like a really fun show.

All right, that’s your comedy news for today. I know no one’s here. I know everybody punched out in the middle of that list. Hey, I don’t know. I wanted to know.

I needed to know who the jerk fasis were, and I think we have sussed them out. But I’m getting a note from the lawyers here. Pure parody. I was just kidding. I was just joking around.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Hayden Panettiere, Jim Gaffigan, Tim Walz, Steve Martin, Sebastian Maniscalco, Theo Vaughn, Jason Zinerman

What’s in This Episode

• Hayden Panettiere retires from The Simpsons after 35 years voicing Milhouse
• Jim Gaffigan discusses getting SNL cold open hosting Tim Walz
• Hulu rebrands comedy initiative from ‘Hilarious Now’ to ‘Hulu Laughing Now’
• The Simpsons Season 36 renewal uncertainty and future of the show

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, Johnny Mac with your Bailey Comedy News. Pretty busy one for a Sunday with a couple of new specials out and people doing press tours. But the big news today the voice of Millhouse is retiring. You gotta watch the Simpsons tonight.

Yeah, the Simpsons is still on, so they say, Hamla. Hayden has voiced various characters, including Millhouse for thirty five years, is retiring. Hayden’s final episode is tonight. Treasa R Presents Simpson’s Wicked. This Way comes in Simpsons Wicked.

This Way comes A tattooed man at a mysterious night circus transports Lisa into three strange stories from Ninas in nineteen fifties, the chilling retro present, and a brutalist future where prestige TV rules the world. I think I could safely say after thirty five years, Lisa centric episodes are the worst ones. Have you ever watched? The Simpsons? Has been like, oh good, it’s about Lisa.

Yeah? Have Hayden is now seventy years old and says the time has come for me to hang up my microphone. But how do I say goodbye to The Simpsons, not easily. It’s been an honor and joyed I’ve worked on such a funny, witty and groundbreaking show and given voice to Millhouse and Jimbo Jones, Rod Flanders, Jeanie Malibu, Stacey and many others. Here’s to everybody who made this terrific ride I’ve been on Possible Thanks for thirty five years.

Be well, unhappy, my best to all ups. I’ll always have a special place in my heart for that blue haired ten year old boy with glasses. It is unclear to me what will happen to the character of Millhouse. Will someone else’s voice Millhouse? Will Millhouse just disappear?

Who knows? The Simpsons is in its thirty sixth season. The show curiously has been yet to be renewed for season thirty seven, and you have to work on animation in advance, so that is very very interesting. Keep an eye on the Simpsons. Maybe they just want to drift off quietly into the night, which is why earlier this season we had that quote unquote finale, which by the way, was the first episode of The Simpsons I’ve watched in several years.

I am not at all anti s Simpsons. I considered it myself a fan. I broke the habit. Back when we used DVRs. What would happen was football would run over and you’d get a recording of, you know, thirteen minutes of The Simpsons and seventeen minutes of Terry Bradshaw.

So I broke the habit with the Simpsons and really never got back into it. I thought I would when I had Disney Plus for a while, and I didn’t. And I don’t know, someday at the Nursing Home, I’m gonna watch those last fifteen seasons of The Simpsons. We used to talk about the Nursing Home back gets serious. When DVDs were in their heyday, we would get screener copies of everything.

I mean, you got to see my closet. If something came out between like two thousand and five and I don’t know twenty twelve or so, I have it so much stuff would come in. It would be like, here’s the complete box set of six Feet Under. I don’t really like the show. Let me give it to Jeremy.

I know he likes it. Here you go, And I remember we were staring at I think it was like Sanford and Sun season four came in, and I’m like, I don’t know what to do with this. I’m never ever going to have enough time. I’m like, even if I’m at the nursing home. They’re now now eight hundred hours of Star Trek.

At that time, I think there were six Star Wars movies, and there’s a lot more Star Wars now. We now have five Indiana Jones movies. We now have twenty five James Bond movies, and thirty six seasons of The Simpsons, not to mention you know, everything else that has ever come out. I could watch Gladi Eater again. So I would never ever ever have time to get to Sanford the Sun season four, So I don’t even know what happened to it.

Actually I know what happened to it. We used to donate a lot of things to I don’t tell anyone. So my mom was involved with the veterans, and I would take all the stuff that was hanging around and we would, through my mom, send it overseas to active service members. And I remember at one point the General wanted to send us a thank you letter and I was like, no, no, no, no, no, don’t why. I’m like, because then somebody at the company will ask, why are you giving all these DVDs away?

So we just did down the download. You need to be thanked. Hopefully somebody over there enjoyed the hell out of that rocky box that we sent over. I digress. I thought this was interesting what you’re hearing now?

I put together on Friday afternoon and Variety had an article referring to Hulu’s new comedy thing. You’ve heard me talk about this, but they refer to it as the Hulu Laughing Now brand, which will feature twelve new comedy specials. So I asked the question, what happened to hilarious? Up until yesterday? In my world Thursday, it was called hilarious Now.

I asked this question on threads and I see friend of the Show Jason Zenneman from The New York Times, who’s awesome, as you know. I asked the question, what happened to hilarious? I can’t get anyone at Hulu to interact with me, Jason said. I asked an exec who came up with the name hilarious and still haven’t gotten an answer. Okay, Jason’s Ineiman, Friend of the Show with the New York Times I feel a lot better now.

Like you know, I can almost understand the Hulu publicist not getting back to some idiot doing a podcast in his basement. Like I kind of get it. I mean I kind of don’t because I have the right target audience for who you’re going for, So I get I’m not Joe rogodw. It’s the right people. But I mean, if you’re not getting back to Jason zidhim in front of the show at the New York Times, come on Hulu.

So who knows? Now it’s called Hulu laughing now, I guess perhaps possibly, maybe it’s not. You’d have to ask someone at Hulu, because I don’t know. I said I was gonna do the rant again, but it’s back. I’m sorry.

I apologize at least not playing the Joe Coy bit. Scott Bennett Relax. Jim Gaffigan got the wax job, as a former coworker used to call it. From The Hollywood Reporter the Big Headline, Jim Gaffigan is finally invited to the party. He told a new version of the how did he get the part of Tim Wall’s story?

In this version, once Steve Martin turned it down, Me and some other doey Midwestern types were pitched on social media because casting’s now done by public referendum. But I’ve been around long enough to know there are certain things you just can’t come and pay him for. So I stood back, right, we’ve heard that version before. This seems to be new. Then I got an acting job in the UK this summer and my reps call the night before and say, hey, so we’ve been kind of telling you that you’ve been doing these estion of Tim Walls and funny messages to us.

I hadn’t. I was like, are you saying that I need to do some videos like that? So there I was in my hotel and Leeds recording my impressions. It’s also secretive and you don’t know if it’s going to get to these people. It’s a total roll the dice, but I knew how to do it.

I mean, me and Tim Walls, it’s not that different. He just has a brightness in him that I once had before I lived in New York or worked in the entertainment industry for so long. Holly Reporter, I assume yours and l run was always going to be over at post election. Jim contractually, I believe that was it, and I loved everything about it. As a comedian, it was like getting into Harvard for my graduate degree.

But also I’m touring and there are so many people to service in that cold open. There were times I was like, I hope Tim Wallas does something strange. I can have a bigger part, which is a weird thing to hope for. Thhr your career took off when David Letterman annoyed you on his show What’s the twenty twenty four equivalent? Jim said, it’s so fluid.

Now there’s a truly democratic element to stand up today. It’s not a total meritocracy, but there’s something about Sebastian Maniscalco selling out six Madison Square Garden shows that’s just undeniable. Theo Vaughn having that impact on the zeitgeist. You can’t deny that’s stuff. And Nate Brigetzi, who did it without podcasts?

I guess, I mean Nate does have a podcast, but I guess when I was coming up, it was the Roseanne era. If you were a great comedian, you became a sitcom star. Tim Allen Seinfeld. But now stand up as an industry has just exploded. Beyond anyone’s wildest expectations.

Getting long here, and we got a holiday week coming up. Johnny Mac’s gonna save the rest of that article for a rainy day, and it’s going to rain this week. Vulture did a long piece with James Acaster. I know a lot of the Vulture stuff is behind a paywall, but ye might want to read the comments in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group Nudge Nudge, Wink Winks say no more. Know what I mean?

Know what I mean? A caster said, the main thing with this show was if I don’t deal with the issue that’s making me so unhappy at work, I’m not gonna be able to do any show after this. What I wanted from it is what enabled me to just be a comedian again. Vulter said the premise of your new specials he can’t get mad at people for heckling, and practice and creating that rule keep you from getting angry internally. James said there were definitely people heckling.

He would still be jerks, but the aim was I wouldn’t get annoyed anymore because none of us can go. I’m gonna make sure I’ll never get annoyed at work again, but not crossing the line. If getting annoyed at them was really important to me. And that’s not saying no comic should do that. I just don’t think it seats my persona or my show.

There were a few heckles where I’d be like, no, it’s quite an obnoxious heckle. What I found was if I don’t get annoyed at those people out loud, the audience nine times out of ten will do it for me. I’m gonna edit on the fly here is gonna tell you some more about Adam Ray. But like I just said about Jim, it’s gonna rain this week. Save it for a rainy day.

I was teaching my college class on Thursday, and I almost quit the class and quit doing a comedy podcast and just decided to go live in a cave. I was telling the students about the Jay Leno incident and one of the college students said, who’s Jay Leno? And I was like, oh my god, like, you just saw me turn into an old person on the fly there, I’m like, and he saw me reacting. He goes, I’m twenty, I don’t know. And I qualified Jay Lenno as he’s the guy who hosted the Tonight Show before Jimmy Fallon.

I know there’s an asterisk next to that, and I didn’t want to get into all that, but yep, he’s the guy who hosted the Tonight show before Jimmy Fallon. Do you feel old? You feel old right now, don’t you. Joy Behar said people like the view because they tell the truth, unlike Dragon Believer Joe Rogan. Apparently Joe did a show where they talked about the possibility of dragons being real.

Rogan loved Peihar’s comment and said, that’s my new official ex description And I looked, if you go to at Joe Rogan, his description is dragon Believer. Love it. On Gossip Corner, remember I told you the British papers were starting a rumor about Pete Davidson. Well, Maria Georgia says not true. She posted on Instagram to clear up some speculation that she had dated Pete Davidson.

She wrote, never dated Pete. False rumor. I’m friends with his sister. Case closed. Then in a second post, she said, Pete Davidson is not in rehab and has been sober for months.

Can’t believe that this stuff. It’s very insulting to his recovery and my mental health. He’s literally home. All right, you listen to me. I feel like the fawns here.

I’m gonna say something I never say. Listen to me. This is very important because I’m an honest person with you. I was wrong. I know right, Johnny Mac was wrong.

I was wrong. I apologize to the people that Have I Got News for You. I had predicted it would end after the election. I was wrong. It has been picked up for a second season.

Amyan Tellis is Executive vice president of Talent, CNN Originals and Creative Development. In a statement, she said, for its inaugural season, Have I Got News for You has been a welcome and lively extension of the CNN brand, and our viewers continue to show enthusiasm for comic relief on Saturday nights. I like everyone associated with the show. I’m happy for them. I was wrong.

Now that I was wrong. Let me make a prediction about this. ESPN is giving a late night show to Jason Kelsey. And here’s where I’m gonna make another prediction. You should light the money on fire instead.

All right, let’s see how that one ages. This is going to be called They call it Late Night with Jason Kelcey. It will air on ESPN at one am during the Friday slash Saturday overnight hours. So I assume that means, you know, say it’s eleven fifty nine on a Friday night and you wait another sixty one minutes. I think that’s what they mean by that.

I’ll also stream on ESPN Plus and on the ESPN and Jason kelce YouTube channels. ESPN has picked up five episodes of the show, with the last episodes slated for February first, which is probably Super Bowl week. Great They call It Late Night will be filmed in Philadelphia with a live audience. The formats being described as personality driven with clear inspirations from late night shows. The show will emphasize this weekend’s NFL games and will include celebrity guests from the world of football and beyond.

If you want this thing to be a hit, get your brother’s girlfriend on. And our final story on this very busy Sunday where we’re kind of long here and I already cut two stories. As you know, Ellen Degenerous and wife Porschia de Rossi apparently did not like the results of a recent election. They have actually left. You know, all these celebrities that said if this happens, I’m leaving the country.

They left the country. They’ve put their estate in Montecito on the market and plants who never return. They bought a place in the UK. So, to use a sports metaphor, basically, we traded Ellen and Porsche for Harry and Meghan. Who got the better end of that trade.

I think we did actually keep up on Harry and Meghan by listening to Pallace Intrigue, our podcast about the royal family. I’m the writer on that one. That one’s a lot of fun. All right. That was a lot for a Sunday.

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