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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Robin Williams, Bill Burr, James Acaster, Chris D’Elia, Tom Segura, Tim Dillon, Theo Von, Hannah Einbinder, Lorraine Newman

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan’s health journey with keto diet and gardening
• Robin Williams’ unreleased album from 2006 vault recordings
• Bill Burr’s obsession with Mega Texas Barbecue in Fresno
• James Acaster’s interactive HBO special Heckler’s Welcome
• Shift from traditional media to podcasting and direct fan support
• Hannah Einbinder’s path to comedy and improv origins

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. If you missed yesterday, the last two stories were just wacky and the show went off the rails of a lot of fun. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Jim Gaffigan spoke with Men’s Health and said I think I’m a better fit for Man’s anti health. Talk yesterday about how Jim is taking Manzoro, Apparently he’s doing other things.

He went on a Keto esque diet, very low carbs, and later added intermintent fasting. Over the summer, he started gardening. We’ve learned that he has grown squash, corn beans, cucumbers, shashido peppers, and eggplants. Jim says growing vegetables makes you morch than consuming those vegetables, which makes you healthier, which makes you kind of look at what you’re consuming, which makes fast food look like the crap it is. I’m not saying I’m doing the work of a farmer, but you can do some work out there.

During the interview, he noticed is a buffet on the other side of the room with turkey sandwiches, chicken wraps, pesto pasta, thumbprint cookies. Yeah, I’ve seen that buffet and Jim said, I have friends that would take that stuff and put it into God containers, but I’m not at that level. But if it’s free, what are we stupid here? The article reveals Jim is going on tour with Jerry Seinfeld in twenty twenty five. Jim has found the new funny not in the weight loss itself, but any conflict about the right way to lose weight, hanging on to old clothes, or being a guy that used to eat at waffle house but now respects eggplant.

Jim eyeballs the buffet and says I’m finding it hard to resist and grabs a turkey sandwich. There’s a new album out from Robin Williams. This one called Working on Things Via Clown Jewels. They say it’s been in the vault for two decades. The recordings come from a set at Bimbo’s three sixty five club in San Francisco recorded October two thousand and six.

Robin was working on material for two thousand and seven special. You can check out that album at clownjewels dot com. Apparently, Bill Burr likes a place called Mega Texas Barbecue. On his podcast, Bill Burr said he discovered the gas station eatery turned brick and mortar restaurant last time moves in Fresno. First said, if you think I’m not going there again, I got nothing coming.

I’m gonna eat perfect right to that day, and then I’m gonna go there and I’m gonna get one of those Texas toykies. I’ve been thinking about ever since I had it. It was so delicious. James Acaster’s special is out on HBO today. It is called Heckler’s Welcome.

In Heckler’s Welcome, Acaster relinquishes control of his set. The audience is encouraged to interrupt James Acaster Heckler’s Welcome tonight ten pm. Oh yeah, HBO stop with the ten pm Like I’m old man, I’m not hitting play at ten pm. Just just drop it. It been like, let us watch it.

What is what the linear stuff? Stop? Just no know what the ten pm? No? Just no.

Billboard spoke to christ de Stefano, who said, to be honest with you, most of my peers and me could live off the money we make podcasting. I still do the road because I enjoyed. As time goes on, I’m always looking for ways to stay home. Stay in New York more and the podcast is that avenue, especially Patreon where History Hyenas lives. That’s the best because it’s all fans generated.

They pay five dollars a month or ten dollars a month to get extra content or get the episodes early. My whole career in life change when I put my career in the hands of my fans. I still respect the industry. I have a TV show in development. I’m doing all those things while generating income because of my fans.

I’m living my dream and doing what I want to do with or without the industry. Boy, we are hearing more and more and more of that, huh. I mean myself included. I’m just choosing not to have one of those old style jobs because let’s come with a boss. I’m grinding here in the basement, but I’m loving every minute of it.

Chris says. That’s why streaming, podcasting and all that’s very important. More than that having a direct relationship with your fans. As he mung us, it’s changing so rapidly before our eyes, and it’s a beautiful thing. You can have relative anonymity that way.

Take a guy like Tom Sagora, he sells out arenas all over the country, and he’s still able to go to those towns and the general population won’t recognize him on the street. I bring this up all the time with the top podcasters that he just nailed it. You can walk Tom Sagara down the street and we might go zero for ten. Who’s that people might not recognize him? Tim Dillon, THEO Vaughn might not get recognized.

Sigora is making fifty million dollars a year. Wow, but he doesn’t have to be locked behind gates with security everywhere because he has a direct connection with his fans. As far as entertainment goes, we’re living in such a transitional period you might think I should go on this TV show to promot myself and sell tickets. I still do it, but I can do the podcast from my home and I’ll be ten times more impactful than going on a late night talk show. So why I like my manager Emilio.

He’s adapted it used to be a manager book of flights and set up meetings. I could book my own flights on an app with two taps on my phone. I need my manager to digitally market me when I’m coming to Salt Lake City. Calling in old radio station and going on the local news doesn’t work anymore. What I need is how do you digitally market me so that when everyone opens up their Facebook or Instagram, they’re seeing an ad from my show with a link to click for tickets, and merely on his team are making it very easy for me.

Used to be, you needed all these middlemen. Now you don’t some of us recognize the shift with some of my peers, either they don’t want admit it or they don’t want to adapt. That’s fine, but the old way is getting a late night set or a sitcom. Don’t put butts in the seats anymore. When we last left, I was trying to tell you about a partner at hurl A speaking to Thrillist, and we got as far as the woppin.

Remember the walpin? Listen at the end of yesterday’s podcast, What’s a wop in? John? Well, some people think a whale and a dolphin had a kid, But as we learned yesterday, that’s not what happened. But I digress.

Let’s not go there again. That’s what yesterday’s podcast is for, where a partner says, I remember going to la with my dad for the first time, and the OJ Simpson chase happened during our trip. I remember being in our hotel room that evening and being like, hey, we were on that highway today. Not that I understood with the implication of what was happening, but now I’m kind of like, WHOA, that was weird. As a kid, I had a very exotic vision of travel, and as I’ve gotten older and I had to travel more for worker comedy, I’ve still retained some of that vacation mentality where it’s sometimes hard for me to remember, Oh, you’re still working when you’re in a different city.

You still have to answer emails. The La Daily News caught up with Hannah Einbinder. She joined the improv troop way back when at Chapman University and said, I was really bad at it. It required a mental freedom that I didn’t have, but she made it onto the university’s improv inc team, and then when Nicole Buyer booked a show with Chapman, she offered a lot of student open up for her and a voluntary for that, and after that I became obsessed. I realized that’s what I want to do.

So I bought a ton of comedy albums and started listening to them incessantly over and over, you know, really studying rhythm and format and style and a lot of older influences and alternative influences. People who do characters. People were more physical, more dry, storytellers, classic joke writers, this article points out, and maybe perhaps her mother Lorraine Newman from Saturday Night Live, you know, let’s yeah, yeah, you hear me. I feel like I’d take influence from everywhere in every form, so yeah, around my senior year of college, just became obsessed. In twenty nineteen, NPR named her one of the young comedians to watch.

LA Daily News asked her what it was like opening for Nicole, and I said, I was so nervous. Sometimes back in the day, I’d call stand up like twenty three hours of agony and one hour of ecstasy, where you wake up and you’re like, who would agree to do this? Who in their right mind would put themselves in this situation? You know, I was a very insecure kid, young adult whatever, a twenty year old. I didn’t really have a lot of self worth.

That’s what pushes I think most people to do stand up. When I opened for the Cole and I was so nervous. I stepped down on the stage and I felt every ounce of nerves melt away. It just felt really good and confident, really excited. It was a very foreign feeling for me.

I felt good with other people, but not on my own. So I became assessed with and addicted to that feeling and actually went really well. One of the jokes in that set is in my special How long was that set? Eight minutes? She has worked her way up to an hour and says stand up is both incredibly frustrating and also the greatest joy.

I like the work. A lot of the stuff on My special I haven’t really had a punch up or work on, but there are jokes that didn’t come to me fully formed, and that’s the process. I enjoy going out doing punch up, having twelve or thirteen drafts of something building it. I felt if there were bones, and the bones were things that I’ve been doing for a while, and felt like a good representation of my work. From those, I built a connective tissue.

I think Gene Smart, who stars in Hacks, is not a stand up asked me, do you have any tips? Because she doesn’t have an ego about it, and I would never say anything, but she asked me. The only thing I told her was about microphone distance. The dead giveaways. Holding the microphone away from your mouth.

That’s the sign of the novice. That’s all I told her. If you’re in Montclair, New Jersey, you know who’s at the Walmont Theater tonight, Chelsea Handler. You know who Chelsea Handler used to do, right Joe Coy? Now, I was going to do the bit, but I don’t feel like doing it because we have a couple of strong days and I don’t need to do the bit.

But you know what the bit is. You can imagine it right now as if I’m doing it. That’s the mental power I hold over you. You are imagining. You can hear in your head Joe Coy telling that joke that I’m not going to play, but you’re thinking of it right now.

What have I done to you? Oh my goodness, see tomorrow

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Featured: Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burr, Larry the Cable Guy, Adam Ray, Doctor Phil

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Gaffigan’s new Hulu special and weight loss journey
• Jim Gaffigan’s use of Mounjaro weight loss medication
• Bill Burr stepping down as CEO of All Things Comedy to launch North Hill Productions
• Bill Burr’s second podcast ‘Anything Better’ with Paul Verhoeven
• Larry the Cable Guy’s Nebraska road trip charity tour
• Adam Ray’s Netflix special ‘This is the Doctor Phil’ with guest appearance by actual Doctor Phil

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Jim Gappigan’s Who Special is out today. Now I don’t have Hulu. I might have to come over to your house to watch this thing, or maybe pony up to six bucks or whatever it is. The skinny out on Hulu today, the first of the hilarious specials they’ll put out one a month.

You probably know about Jim Special because hey, you listen to my podcast and b he is speaking to every magazine in the world. So that’s what the Hulu publicist has been up to. They shared a clip on Threads. It’s interesting here, it’s a good joke and it gets a laugh, and then the laugh turns into clapter. Stop with the clapter.

Everybody just laugh. We don’t need to clap. Here’s the clip. Because being a parent is like being a psychic who’s constantly correct but always ignored all day. Every day.

Parents are like, let me look into my crystal ball. Oh, it’s pretty cold out there. If I want to grab a coat. You’re fat. You know, if you stay up late, you may be tired in the morning.

You’re bald. Ooh, I foresee economic hardship. When I kick you out of this house. Gaffigan was profiled by Men’s Health and a bunch of other places, giving me lots of content to pretape the weekend. Thanks Jim.

Jim has lost some weight, which is the theme of the special, and he hasn’t thrown away his old clothes, he tells Men’s Health, maybe I’m a pack rat, but I’m like, I can’t get rid of that.

And then there’s something about the haunting.

They’re like, you’re gonna wear me again. Jim says he’s gone down two pant sizes, and he points out that many of his jokes were scented around his weight. Yeah, he was the food joke guy for years, right, hot pockets. Oh, by the way, I forget, I keep forgetting to mention. I’m so glad he stopped calling every single album some variation with a pale joke in it.

He was the pale guy for a while too. Don’t forget he was the pale guy after he was the food guy. I’m glad he’s dropped all that. Jim says people always used to say if you lost weight, you’d lose your whole act that nobody ever said that, and that was never true. No one ever said that, Jim, No one ever said that.

It’s so strange because in some ways we’re not the big funny guy, are we. That’s the role I’m supposed to play, But also in some ways that may be the avenue of our warmth. I never thought of Jim that way. If you put a water pistol to my head and said I’m gonna soak you if you don’t answer, I would have said he was a family comedian, playing kind of in the same space as Tom Poppa. I never thought of him as a food guy.

I mean, I know he did have the Hot Pocket Show. But Jim is on weight loss drug Moonjarro, which works by reducing appetite and improving how the body breaks down sugar and fat. It is taken by injection in the thigh, stomach, or arm ick, and it is FDA proved to treat type two diabetes. Jim says, most of our lives have been told just control your appetite, just stop being a pig. The reality is we can’t.

Maybe our brains are a little wonky or whatever. I think in some ways, the appetites’s presence, or the justification for people who have compulsive eating that they’re not weak, that some of it can be fixed. In the profile, we also learned Jim is growing vegetables and says, growing vegetables it makes you more interested in consuming those vegetables, which makes you healthier, which makes you kind of look at what you’re consuming, which makes fast food look like the crap that it is. Wasn’t it Father’s Day when you were selling us bourbon, Jim? How does that fit into this new vegetable diet.

I just have a question. Is that somebody in the audience had that question. They wanted to ask you? So are we not drinking a bourbon now? We’re eating vegetables?

Got it? Johnny Feisty Today, I know the words come out. I don’t know what to tell you. Hey. Bill Burr is stepping down from his role as CEO of All Things Comedy.

He and one of his longtime business partners, Mike, are launching North Hill Productions, a new production company with an emphasis on film and TV. All Things Comedy is named new co CEOs. Bill remains on the board. Bill’s two podcasts, the Monday Morning podcast than Anything Better? I didn’t even know he had it, and What’s anything Better?

Am I stupid that I’ve never heard of this? Anything better Bill Burr and Paul Versey seems to be one hundred and seventy episodes, and each episode since September has been with NFL Picks. Now, look, I don’t have to admit to not knowing about this, but I’m admitting to don’t know about it, haven’t heard of it, maybe even told you about it once when they launched it. But I’m on the internet, believe me, sixteen hours a day, and when I’m not prepping a comedy podcast, I’m working in the podcast industry, and this thing has never hit my radar. I look at charts, It’s never hit my radar.

I’m stunned to find out this exists. Again. You can flame me on social media and be like, what kind of idiot doesn’t know Bill Burr has a second podcast? This kind of idiot. I’m not saying it sucks.

I’m just telling you had no idea. I like football, I like Bill Burr. I will check that out. Personal friend, Larry the Cable Guy is touring Nebraska. I’ll start the tour in January.

It’s called Larry’s Nebraska road Trip. Proceeds from the tour will be donated to a local charity. In each market. Cable Guy says, I’ve spent a lot of time traveling the United States. There’s nothing like sharing some laughs with folks in small towns across Nebraska.

The people have been my biggest supporters, and I can’t wait to put on a great show and get back to the places that shaped me. I have spent a lot of time with Larry the Cable Guy slash Dan Whitney. He is an awesome dude. I know some people I roll his act. You know, some comedians have acts.

For example, Gilbert Godfried had an act. You ever meet Gilbert Godfried in real life? Very soft spoken man. Was not the same as the PERSONA cable guy is an awesome guy. He’ll kick off the tour in Kearnie, Nebraska, January twenty third.

He’s also going to Wahoo. That’s awesome. Wow, Look at these venues. Wahoo High School, then Central City High School, Pawnee City High School, Falls City, then Norfolk where he’ll play the Norfolk High School, Johnny Carson Theater, York High School, and the Midwest Theater in Scott’s Bluff, Nebraska. Wow, that’s awesome.

All right, I’m gonna hit up as publicist I want to talk to him about this sometime in the next two months. I will do that as soon as I’m done recording today. I told you yesterday I watched Adam Ray’s special on Netflix, This is the Doctor Phil, one that like I didn’t get, Now I get it. Oh my god, that was so much fun. I was laughing out loud, which I don’t always do with comedy specials.

And as the time went on, I was texting my friends. I texted my son, I made my wife come down. I was really enjoying this thing. It does have diminishing returns as the hour goes on. There are some special guests who appear.

I don’t want to totally spoil who shows up, but the front half of the special fantastic. It will make my end of the year list, but in that tier two part I won’t go down the list. Today. The only Times caught up with Adam Ray. They were curious, what made you decide on doing a special with Netflix Is Doctor Phil rather than doing a standard specialist yourself.

Adam said, yeah, Netflix came to us once the show That’s the live show at Comedy Store got as big as it’s gotten. Shows were selling out months in advance of the Comedy Store. Then we added theater shows and those are all twenty five hundred to five thousand SEA and those started selling out well in advance. So it’s just one of those things where the people in comedy over at Netflix got wind of it and had been tracking it. We’ve had big names in the comedy game.

But once we booked the real Doctor Phil, the Netflix people were like, all right, this is upthing special Phil and Phil together is really cool. Let’s do it. It all came together really quickly. The only time said had you even get the idea to dress like Doctor Phil? Of all people, Adam said, it got a point where I was getting it into a monotonous routine of auditioning, stand up podcasting, waiting to be on people’s stuff, all good noke plates, but I was losing some joy for what I was doing.

If I’m not creating, I’m not happy. I just got tired of waiting around. Was thinking if I could have my show, what would it be. I thought releasing a pilot would be a way to challenge myself. So I was like, all right, I’d love to play three different characters in a dysfunctional family show.

There was a son a grandma, and one was a gay hairdresser with a fat suit, A bald guy that left his wife became gay open to salon. The makeup took four plus hours. We shot it over a weekend. I got a bunch of favors from friends who are in it. One of my friends was playing a salon client in it and told me I sort of looked like Doctor Phil.

So that night I was like, I should just go do stand up in this outfit. I figured I should milk it and get a little more content. After getting into makeup for that long, I hit up Joel McHale was over at the laugh Factory. It’s almost going to come by, and Joel said it’d bring me up as Doctor Phil. I went up as him and we were messing around with the voice a little bit.

People were eating it up. That’s awesome, and this was pre pandemic, Adam said. When COVID hit Jeremiah Walkins, who plays a different character in every show, and I were talking about trying to find a safeway to have some fun. We were in to the little studio space and did these lost Doctor Phil episodes where Phil would interview one of his characters when it provised for two hours and put around forty minutes of it on YouTube. That’s where I got to find what the version of the character was for me honing it and getting reps from doing it.

I found this kind of likable yet abrasive guy who’s still trying to help these people. The actor strike hit shortly after we got back from COVID. It was like, I need to be throwing more darts. I was already doing these Adam and Friends shows at the Comedy Store, but there were a bunch of these type of shows that started popping up, so it kind of made me feel as doing what everyone else was doing. Burr had a cancel on one of my shows, but he was committed to do the next date no matter what, and I was like, Okay, now would be a good time as any to try this out.

I was like, Bill, instead of doing a stand up show and thinking of doing Doctor Phil the monologue, some CrowdWork and we’ll do an interview and then play a game. He could have been more excited about it. That really gave me the juice to do it and went really well, sold out in a day and became a challenge of all right, let’s do more of these, and let’s play with the elements of it. Changes all the time. We found a really good groove.

Next thing, you know, we’re doing the Netflix special and live streaming it and that was a huge success and got the show to people outside my normal fan base. There’s a lot more here. I’ll pick up on that tomorrow. But watch that special. It is fantastic.

You know what’s good news if you me when you cut an Adam Ray story in half and bump four things before the commercial break. That means you have enough stuff to pretape the weekend. Ha ha, Look I app that weekend. What do you want for me? I don’t do this seven days a week.

I do it four. Usually I do other things. Now, this next thing I didn’t plan. There just happened to be three things in a row that are all British. Matt friend.

He went on Sky News and he busted out as Trump impression and a pretty good King Charles. Let’s listen. You know, I went to the Churchill the war Rooms. Churchill’s a friend of mine. Two we golf last week at mari A Lago.

Just a great guy, little heavy set, but a great guy. I don’t know, it just happens. You’ve been getting me out of the loop. Who’s difficult to impersonally? Have you ever given up?

Well, I’m trying to figure out other dialects. You know. The King Charles is quite fun when I come here in and I try out different voices and it’s more based off of the Crowns interpretation. Now tonight in the UK is the twenty twenty four Royal Variety performance. King Charles will be at this thing.

By the way, I wanted to crossroad. We have a whole show called Palace Intrigue. All we do is talk about the British Royal family. Now we do it as New Yorkers, so we’re not like respectful of the Royal family. We’re not disrespectful, but like we’re not like, ooh, we said the wrong thing, or we didn’t call him his majesty, we got someone’s tud or we don’t care.

We’re New Yorkers. Oh my goodness, what a fun topic. If nothing else, Harry and Meghan carry the show. Love you Harry, Love you Meghan. Keep doing what you’re doing because it’s great for downloads.

That’s called Palace Intrigue. Wherever you get your shows anyway. The King his Majesty will be at the Royal Variety performance tonight. Short Old did a preview from a comedy standpoint comedians Ellie Taylor, Matt Ford, Scott Bennett, who is a different person than the guy who doesn’t like my Joe Cooy joke is a different guy and Larry Dean. We’ll share the stage with an impressive lineup at the Royal Albert Hall.

You’ve heard of that, thanks Beatles.

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Also at this show Elton john not a comedian, Magicians Penn and Taylor kind o…

The Mischief Theater will preview their upcoming West End show, The Comedy about Spies that seems to be a comedy. Proceeds from the Royal Variety Performance will benefit the Royal Variety Charity, which supports those of the entertainment industry who are in need of care and assistants.

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Meanwhile, the Times of London went to go see Zanab Johnson.

She’s got a show in soho That show’s called his jobs off The Times right. She’ll often take one slightly wonky notion, then unpack its lack of logic at length. The friend who were buy canned food and postage stamps when the pandemic broke, say postage stamps, or suggestion that the way to deter potential burglars was to leave her male friends boots outside her door, making every nonsense register on her expressive face as she keeps up a kind of nothing condemned me hostess charm. She carries the room the Big Stages Beckon four stars out of five. She’s at the Soho Theater through the twenty third.

If you’re in Vancouver, it’s the Little Weird Weekend, a three night festival featuring ten shows by local comedians hosted by the Little Mountain Gallery. The gold of the festivals support local comedy while pushing the boundaries of normal formats. Vancouver is Awesome, says. Some of the shows include a local take on task Master, a show inspired by the am I the a whole subreddit on Reddit, and an interactive stand up comedy show that allows the crowd to comment on the show while it’s happening. Brent Constantine is the executive director and says, we really like alternative formats that are outside traditional stand up or improv.

You know, I don’t forget if I mentioned that’s why I liked the Adam Ray Doctor Phil thing, because it was trying to be something right. It was just whether it lands or not, it went for it, and I love things that go for it. Brent Constantine said, Our hope is that this encourages people to put on different kinds of shows, and also that some of these first time shows will be successful and run regularly. Amen from Premiere Christian dot com You’re home for comedy news. Fern Brady has had an advertisement for her tour band by the Advertising Standards Authority.

The ASA ruled that the advertisement was offensive to Christians. All right, John, what’s going on here? Well? The ad featured Brady appearing to squirt milk from her breast into the mouth of a man dressed in religious clothing in front of a stained glass window. Fern Brady argued that the image was a satirical recreation of the Lactation of Saint Bernard, which I’m unfamiliar with, but apparently is a seventeenth century painting by Alonso Canou which depicts the Virgin Mary sprang milk into the mouth of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.

Is that a real thing? Deacon Mike, where are you? I need you? I should just call him. Um um, Yeah, I’m doing a google here, and this is the thing.

I’m sourcing the University of Iowa. Here. They seem legitimate. According to a fourteenth century legend, Bernard prayed before a statue of the Madonna Latins. As he spoke the words show yourselves to be a mother.

The statue suddenly came to life. The Virgin placed her breast into Bernard’s mouth and nursed him as she did the christ child. In many cases, this tale was illustrated with Bernard and the Virgin standing at a distance from one another as the virgin squeezes milk from her breast that shoots into Bernard’s mouth. John Reining in comedy show Remember Yes, Yes, Yes, Sorry, I went down the rabbit hole there, Fern Brady parody that in an ad, the ASA has ruled its offensive to Christians. Fern said the ad was meant as a contemporary interpretation aligned with her reverent comedic style, not an attempt to mock or belittle its original religious significance.

All right, I’m a Christian. I’m not offended, and Fern, I don’t believe a word you said. You know what you’re doing. Come on. You know what you’re doing.

You know, don’t act like, oh, it’s a contemporary interpreation. You know what you’re doing. Come on. Brady responded to the ban, reportedly calling the person who complained some virgin on social media and questioning why the ad was deemed objectionable. You know why.

And I’m not going out on that one. I can’t wrap up on that story. One more from Thrillist, they caught up with a partner. Ninturla, the subject to travel a porn has said, I grew up really enjoying to travel. My parents were both doctors and that go to lots of medical conferences in all kinds of cities.

They brought me along. We went to Hawaii once and I saw my first woppin, which is the child of a whale and a dolphin, And that really stuck with me. Is that a thing that’s not a thing? Is it? Boy?

This show’s weird today, all right? I typed walpin in and Google auto completed to walp in Hawaii. According to Wikipedia, a walpin is an extremely rare cetacean hybrid born from a mating of a female come and bottlenose dolphin with a male false killer whale. That’s a thing now. The Guardian has a headline for twenty eighteen say don’t call it a walpin.

First a rear sight of a whale dolphin hybrid. What is this show? Today? From twenty eighteen the Guardian, scientists are chauting the first sighting of a hybrid between a melon headed whale and a rough toothed dolphin in the Ocean of Hawaii. But don’t call it a woppin.

They say. The melon headed whale is one of the very species that’s called a whale, but it’s technically a dolphin. Robin Baird is a research biologist with Washington State based Cascadia Research Collective and says calling it something like a woppin doesn’t make any sense. I think calling it a wopin just confuses the situation more than it already is. Look at all the trouble you stirred up upon in a trailer, but at least everyone has forgotten about the lactating story I just did.

And I’m getting out there. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Katt Williams, Jay Leno, Kevin Hart, Nate Bargatze, Anthony Jeselnik, Fortune Feimster, Mark Marin, Anthony Anderson, Conan O’Brien, Lorne Michaels

What’s in This Episode

• CBS investigates Katt Williams’ Marine Corps boot camp claims
• Jay Leno’s black eye from rolling down a hill at a hotel
• Nate Bargatze’s Nashville Christmas special on CBS
• Anthony Jeselnik’s new Netflix special releasing Tuesday
• Fortune Feimster’s third Netflix special ‘Crushing It’ on December 3rd

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man Missy one again. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News from CBS News. The headline comedian Kat Williams often brags about passing Marine boot camp. The Marines said they have no record of it.

Get out your popcorn. I’m excited about this one. Kat Williams has been known to throw some rocks and looks like CBS is throwing rocks back. Oh how fun, CBS News writes. Cat Williams for years has claimed to have joined the US Marine Corps as a teenager and successfully navigated the rigorous training, only to be drummed out of the military when his superiors discovered he was a miner.

The Marines told CBS News they have no record of him. Wow from CBS dating back to at least twenty sixteen, Cat has claimed association with the Marines when talking about his personal biography and video blogs, at his stand up routines, and his interviews viewed and heard by tens of millions of people, CBS is loading up the truck. His claims of military service seemed not to be attached to any of his critically acclaimed jokes or characters he’s created for stage and screen, but instead a part of his journey towards comedy. Multiple emails and phone calls were sent to williams publicist and his reps at CIA. No reply was returned for almost two weeks.

Let me take some more popcorn. This is fun CBS. Continuing earlier this year, Kat Williams sat down for the Club Shashay interview. You guys know about that one. Right on that, Cat Williams, among other things, said, I try to join the Marine Corps and they won’t accept me because I’m too young.

And I’ve lied and I’ve told them I’m sixteen, and my family’s moving down. I don’t have my idea, but it’s coming, and so they let me go to the boot camp. On Mark Marin’s podcast, Cat Williams said, and then I attempted to join the Marine Corps and I go off to boot camp and I passed, and then they reveal that I’m too young, and they gave me a little ceremony because I did pass. You know, Ohrah, I wasn’t even sixteen. I had miscalculated it wrong.

I thought, you know, by the time I got back could be good. But I hadn’t turned sixteen by the time boot camp was over. Maron asked Cat if he got through boot camp and about a ceremony. Williams reaffirmed they passed boot camp, saying when you come back, everybody gets the ceremony. And I was supposed to have been probably putting the brig or court martialed or something, but they didn’t treat me like that.

As far as the Marine Corps thing, whatever those commercials was selling. You remember those commercials back in that time. If you wanted to join a gang, the Marines was the gang to join. CBS News says they have filed a Freedom of Information Actor quest for records pertaining to Cat williams alleged enlistment in the Marine Corps. Oh there’s more.

Marine Corps officials told CBS that if Kat’s story was accurate, there would be records showing his entry into the military service, his graduation, and discharge, even if he had frauduley enlisted as a miner. CBS News spoke to Anthony Anderson, who runs The Guardians of Valor, a social media website. Anderson told CBS that Kat’s claims are a slap in the face of people have earned the titled Marine boot camp for the Marine Corps is not an easy test. Call yourself from Marine. You have to go through at least thirteen weeks of boot camp and successfully navigate the crucible.

CBS writes. While it’s unclear when exactly Kat Williams began to claim he graduated from marine boot camp, the earliest example CBS News could find stemmed from Kat’s twenty sixteen feud with Kevin Hart. In a video that appears to have been recorded by Kat, addressing drug abuse allegations, Cat Williams says, ever since I got out of the Marine Corps, I can only breathe out of one nostril. Apparently, later that year, Kat spoke about this on stage. CBS says that routine was removed from YouTube due to copyright infringement.

However, the video still exists in the reader forum on military dot Com. A user posted the video on the website back in twenty sixteen and asked Kat Williams a marine question mark that’s fun.

Meanwhile, I thought I was gonna lead off with this.

Have you seen this picture of jay Leno with an eye patch? According to jay Lenol, I was at a hotel that was on a hill and I go to the guy, what’s a good place to eat? And he said, oh, at the bottom of the hill. The restaurant was there, but to get to it, I en’d have a car, so he had to go walk about a half a mile around. Jay said, the hill didn’t look that steep, about sixty seventy feet, and I thought, let me see if I can go down there.

Boom, Yeah, I rolled down the hill, hit my head on a rock, knock me in the eye. There you go. He lifted his eyepatch to show a black eye that could barely open. Instead of seeking medical attention, Leno did the show. It was only a couple hours before the show.

There were twenty six hundred people. It’s not that big a deal, and says he’s holding up fine. You may recall that one of Jay Leno’s vintage cars exploded in twenty twenty two, leaving him with third degree burns. Then you may recall in twenty twenty three he hit a wire while riding a motorcycle, leaving him with a broken collarbone. You know, this is the kind of thing I was joking on threads.

This is a joke, lawyers, but you know it won’t surprise me. If we find out that Conan O’Brien’s been holding jay Leno hostage in his basement. You like that kind of movie, And like every now and then Jaylen escapes and tries to tell us what’s happening, it’s a joke. CBS has announced a date for Nate Brighetzi’s Christmas Special, which I am actually surprised they’re not calling a holiday special. They’re using the sea word.

No, not that sea word. That wouldn’t be with Nate’s brand at all. But Nate Brigatsi’s Nashville Christmas will feature a mix of stand up comedy, pre tape, comedy shorts, sketches, and musical performances. CBS says the special spotlight the heart and spirit of Nashville during the holiday season and highlighting family, fun and feel good moments. Nate, in a statement, set, I’m extremely excited to be creating this special as I’ve long been a fan of variety.

We don’t see enough of it. I want to make a great show for families to gather around and watch together. And I couldn’t be in better hands and with this team. That team includes Lorne Michaels. If you want to see it in advance.

Get to the Grand Ole Opry Tonight’s because that’s when they’re taping it. Okay, you want to hear a solid joke. This is from the trailer for Anthony Jesselnick’s special, which is out Tuesday on Netflix. I’m gonna let this run. He tells a joke.

I want you to pay attention to how long this laugh goes, and notice it’s a laugh and not clappter. This is really long. You’re gonna be tempted to hit skip. Stay with it because Anthony deserves it. It’s a great joke.

But boy, listen to this laughter. My friends just asked me if that would be the sperm donor for her baby, except I don’t know. That’s a pretty big decision. How old is your baby? A ten second joke followed by twenty eight seconds of laughs, bones and all on Netflix Tuesday.

We also got a trailerer for Fortune Fimester, her special also on Netflix, Crushing It, out on December third, her third for Netflix. In Crushing It, Fortunes share stories from her life, including her romantic honeymoon with her wife and her reflections on no longer being my i’s surrogod husband I think this trailer is fantastic. 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 Anamy so much. Here are the grand insan Nanzana?

How many me? 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? But she was pissed, so I had to unfriend her. Matt Rife announced a tour. I’m curious to see how fast this sells out.

That’s not a loaded comment, that’s not a dig. Just last time he blew the doors off, and I want to see if it has gotten even quicker or if it’s gotten slower. I’m really curious, And again not a dig. I’m just actually curious. Matt says he’s excited to see y’all for even bigger and better shows for the twenty twenty five Stay Golden Tour.

Rife says, the greatest fans on earth have made my biggest dreams come true. Matt Rife will also have a book out in this December. His memoir will tell us what lets him becoming comedy’s biggest lightning rod before he reached thirty, with stories of bold and historical takes on everything from rap battles with X cons to matt struggles with depression and as many brushes with failure before finally hitting it big. A little behind the scenes here, it took me forever to put together the show today. There are days where I go in and you know, I start with a basic I google the word comedy and google the word comedian.

I see what’s going on. Got some sights that I always check out. Some days there’s nothing, and then today there was so much. And as I explained to my business partner Mark, when I prepped this one, and I also prepped our one about the Royal family, which is Pallace Intrigue, there’s no such thing as prepping one show, because I’m slicing and dicing. As I see items, I’m like, Okay, this has to go year because the special’s out that day, so that’s where you put the news story.

Or this is obviously big, shiny news that goes into tomorrow’s show. Then conversely, I’ll see something like, oh, that could wait. Maybe I’ll drop that into Thanksgiving, because let’s be real, if you were people live sit on Thanksgiving, Or oh, I can sleep this story because I’m taking a long weekend at some point, so I’ll want to pretape the weekend. I could do that in advance if I sleep that. And you know, I’m pretty open with you guys that I always pretape the weekends, So I don’t really prep one show.

I’m always prepping multiple at once. I’ve got this document I use. It’s a kind of a calendar meets word, and I just dropped stories in anyway. It took a long time to do it today, just so much going on. I wound up watching Adam Ray’s special on Netflix.

Now. I wanted to play Flight Simulator twenty twenty four, but so many people were on the server I couldn’t get in. So I played an hour of NHL twenty five. Aren’t you in your mid fifties, John? Yes?

John loves video games. So after an hour of hockey, then I was like, all right, what’s on Netflix? And oh, yeah, the Adam Ray things I hate play on that. I loved it. I was blown away by how much I loved it, and I started texting friends about it, and I told my wife’s to come down, and I was laughing out loud.

As I’ve discussed in the past, I have Emperor of Rome syndrome, where usually I do what the comedians do and I just analyze comedy and I don’t actually laugh, and I stoneface and I go, oh, that was well written. Oh that’s really funny. This one. I was laughing. I will talk about it tomorrow.

There’s an article in the La Times discussing the behind the scenes of it. I don’t want to say anything about it other than it was funny and you should watch it and I’ll tell you more about that tomorrow. I don’t want to spoil it at all.

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And then my son text and made me.

He’s like, ap Bio is a good Remember ap Bio Glenn Howardton’s show, And I was like, yeah, I think it’s pretty good. I mean, it’s way better than Mythic Quest. If you watched Rob Mcaleney’s Mythic Quest, it’s unwatchable. Like I just I can’t even make it through episodes. My son is the same way.

We are both fans if it’s always sunny. So I was like, yeah, I remember it being watchable, and I stopped watching it. I don’t remember, so I went back in last night. I watched two episodes. He’s away at college.

He also watched two episodes and we had the same note. It’s as if Dennis from Sonny. It’s aut a class. So I’m kind of in on ap Bio. You’ll find that on Netflix.

There’s nothing new there. I’m just telling you what I’m up to. Mitel Lane got a nice profile in Newsweek and he said, I’ve been doing stand up since i was twenty three. I’m thirty eight now. For a long time before the pandemic, a lot of comedians are sort of at the will of the booking person.

People told us what our careers were. People told us that we’re only a finite amount of people available for these slots, so to speak. For years, I tried so hard to audition and do all the stuff, traditional stuff, and it never panned out. And after the pandemic, comics started putting the stuff up online, and I thought, you know what, I’ll put my stuff up online. That’s a great way to have a TV show.

I’ll have a full blown channel of cooking, my podcast with Nick Smith and stand up and I’m in full control. I can do whatever i want, say whatever I want, edit it however I want. I feel you, Matale, That’s what this podcast is about. I’m glad people like it, and I love that I have full control over it. If some people don’t like it, that’s fine.

Mitale says, it doesn’t have to go through six different producers. Amen, Hi five brother, it doesn’t have to go through creative meetings. Double high five brother. It’s all within my voice and I’ve had a real fun time doing it. I wanted everything to have this base of comedy.

I started in twenty twenty one and it had three thousand followers. Now we have one point eight million. It’s been a lot of fun and a journey I didn’t expect. Good job. Mattel Lane zarn A gorg Is is putting out a book.

It’ll be out April twenty twenty five. Looks like next year is going to be the year of the comedy book. It’s called This American Woman. Gark tells people, did you know in many countries being called an American woman as a slur? Including in India where I grew up.

I got called American all the time from my big fat loud mouth, A huge liability for a brown girl, and I escaped an arranged marriage by fleeing to the utopia of Akron, Ohio. American Woman is a moniker I now wear proudly. That is your comedy news for today. Hey, if you like the show shared on social media, tell a friend about it, follow me on threads. I have the proper handle there at Daily Comedy News.

Please join the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast Group. You’ll get asked a couple questions so we make sure you’re not a pornbot. Thank you to the moderators on the face Facebook site who help out, you know. Every now and then I’ll jump on and I’ll see one of the moderators has already flagged a porn bots. I appreciate you all, and we’ll meet back here tomorrow.

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Featured: Katt Williams, Jim Gaffigan, Pete Davidson, John Mulaney, Andy Kindler, J.K. Rowling, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, Sylvester Stallone, Vir Das

What’s in This Episode

• Katt Williams on SNL never inviting him despite 9 impressions
• Jim Gaffigan’s weak improvisational performance on The Manning Cast
• Pete Davidson checks into rehab in Florida after breakup
• John Mulaney’s Irish spelling joke about ‘favourite’
• Andy Kindler attacks Lord Michael on Twitter
• J.K. Rowling criticizes John Oliver’s trans girls commentary
• Jimmy Kimmel mocks Sylvester Stallone’s Trump comparison
• Vir Das discusses freedom as an outsider comedian

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m chunny Man. Interesting one today. There’s not like a lot of critical mass for comedy news, but what I do have is good. So like, I can’t give you a twenty minute episode, so this might be shorter, but it involves major people and we’ll see if my voice holds out, because I just recorded eight episodes of the other podcast I host, which is five good News Stories trying to get ahead for the holidays.

There with that one, anyway. Cant Williams had this to say about Saturday Night Live. A lot of times when people are doing an impression of you, they’re really showing you how they feel about you, you know what I mean. So for Saturday Night Live to have an impression of me and have a woman do that means they think I’m a bitch. There has never been a person that has been parodied nine times on Saturday Night Live and yet never been invited other than me, So I at this point take it as a badge of honor.

I understand how the game goes, and I understand that if you love me, I know why you do. And if you don’t with me, I understand why. Jim Gaffigan was on The Manning Cast Monday Night. Now, pay attention this week, Jim’s going to be doing a lot of press. And I’ve noticed this more and more.

Jim Gaffigan comedy specials obviously very funny. Jim Gaffigan trying to be funny in the moment doesn’t have that skill a lot of other comedians have. If you’d like some evidence of that, listen to Jim Gaffigan on The Manning Cast and it’s here. Listen to be honest with me, have you ever played to a worse crowd than two brothers distracted by a football game? Well?

You know, I I feel like, I mean, at least you guys are both wearing the quarter zips, and that is just really encouraging. I feel like the whole like, is it a Manning thing where you have to wear the quarterzip? You always have to look like you’re ready to play golf? Is that ed? I love everything about the quarter zip.

Do your pajamas do they have a quarter zip on them?

Also?

That would be great? Right? So? Yeah, I think Jim’s a little better writing and performing than maybe doing on the cuff stuff there the way another comedian might successfully a field of that the US Sun, so that’s the US version of a British newspaper. The Sun is reporting that Pete Davidson has checked back into rehab.

As I record this on Tuesday, and I’m recording a little earlier than normal. I’m not seeing this in any of the major sources that I would normally use here, but the US Sun is reporting that Pete Davidson has checked in a rehab after a secret romance and breakup with bachelor alum Maria Georgia. An insider said they had a fling before parting ways. The insider says Pete checked in a rehab in Florida fairly recently, flew in on a private jet. He’s in pretty bad shape this time around.

He’s not in a good place. The insider said the check in was very recent. Well, we know that Pete was on the set of SNL on November tewod He was spotted in a restaurant in Kingsport, Tennessee on November fifth. It hasn’t been seen since, including his thirty first birthday last week. Let’s know Pete is doing okay.

In the New York Daily News, Richard Johnson had recently said that Pete has been having trouble booking new projects after canceling his show Bupkiss. That show seemed to be doing okay and then Pete walked away from it. He voluntarily sent payments to his co stars, including Edie Falco, Joepeschi, and Bobby Cornavale, for the work that they’ve lost. According to Richard Johnson, Hollywood is taking a break from Pete Davidson. His management team is trying to book him his guest host of SNL.

Johnson says Pete is working on a Netflix comedy special and has some small parts in some movies, but when he canceled Bupkiss, the source says Pete canceled himself. I get it. I mean, you know, if you’re gonna do a development deal and the story is gonna walk away and again, I hope Pete’s mental health is fine, but there’s also the business aspect of it. If we’re gonna put all this money in development, we’re gonna start a show and have a hit show, and you’re just gonna walk away, nobody’s gonna want to do business with you. I get it.

From The Irish Times, your home for comedy news, John Mulaney was online responding to fans’ questions. One fan asked John Mulaney, if you had to choose, what is your favorite John Mulaney special and why. Mullaney responded, Now, what’s interesting about this question is that favorite is spelled with a you, and that means that the person is not from America. They are from Great Britain, and as an irishman, I will not answer your question. Now, we can go all sorts of ways there.

We can get into the whole history of Ireland, and I’ll point out I’m sourcing this story from the Irish Times, which is probably why they found it interesting. Mullaney then responded to the question with an Irish flag emoji instead of a real explanation. Fans pointed out that Mulaney didn’t realize Ireland also uses the British spelling. Some fans were shocked that John Mulaney would proudly claim his Irishness without knowing that fact. Others thought he was just being satirical.

Andy Kindler tweeted the following, Now before I read the tweet, Kindler used to do the just for laughs Montreal State of the Industry and was really popular In the last few years. I’ve found Andy Kindler to be really really aggressive on Twitter going after people. I don’t know if I ever met Andy, and maybe I did it serious, maybe not. I can’t actually remember, but here is his tweet. Did Lord Michaels turn eighty time to take the remote control away from Grandpa?

He hasn’t been funny ever. He still criminally takes Writer’s Guild money for the writing. He continues to never do he let the fascist Trump post the show. He doesn’t have an ethical bone in his body. That’s Andy Kindler On Twitter.

JK Rowling had some comments about John Oliver recently. On Last Week Tonight, Oliver said there were few trans girls competing in schools and there’s no evidence they pose any threat to safety or fairness. On Twitter, Ralling said Oliver was quote an undoubtedly intelligent person who spounce absolute bs to support something he wants to be true but isn’t. Jimmy Kimmel went after Sylvester Stallone. You may have seen that Stallone called Trump the second George Washington.

In his monologue. Kimmel said, I guess those punches Rocky took to the head were real after all. Kimmel added, George Washington was the father of our country. Donald Trump is the father of Eric. Big difference there.

A hother reporter did a lengthy interview with verr Dawes. Veer said, every time at an American comedian complains about getting canceled, I’m like, grab a flight to India. Let me just show you something back. In twenty twenty one, ver Dawes performed the two India’s routine at the Kennedy Center. During that routine, he said, I come from in India, where we worship women during the day and gang rape them at night.

Politicians from India’s ruling party accused him of defaming the nation and filed criminal charges. In his last Netflix special, said I had seven criminal complaints filed against me. Was being charged with sedition and defaming India on foreign soil. I was called a terrorist on three different news channels in the primetime news. Now, that’s an interesting conversation with your mother.

That evening. The Hollywood reporters said, Hey, you grew up around the world, Nigeria, India, the US. Whird should comedy perspective come from? I like this answer a lot. Vir Das said, it’s definitely a misfit perspective.

But ironically, I think that opens you up to a lot more freedom because as comedy becomes more ideologically influenced and people of dogs in the race. I get to show up and be like, I have no dog in the race. I’m not from here, I’m not really from anywhere. And that’s how I see you, which I think a lot of outsiders don’t get to do. They don’t get to show a country back to itself.

I get to be this misfit who’s only Agenda’s friendship. I get to talk about Americans with a lot more freedom than American comics. I’m not voting in your election. I’m not part of the wo crowd. I’m not part of this alpha male wing of comedy either.

The Hollood reporter was curious what sort of TV he grew up on, and he said, I grew up in Africa and Lagos. We got something called bach TV, which was Buttswana TV. I remember being six and seven watching Fresh, Prince of bel Air and The Cosby Show. I remember watching Richard Pryor specials and Eddie Murphy’s Raw and Delirious. We moved back to Indian cable TV arrived from abroad two soap operas, in particular The Bold and the Beautiful and Santa Barbara were massive in India.

I went to college in Illinois, where I discovered stand up the first comedy Central half hour started coming up. My guys with George Carlin for sure, Eddie Zard for how he could make you feel like he was making it up all in the spot when in fact it was meticulously written in mhearst yes, and Richard Pryor for showing how to bring vulnerability and pain into comedy. So those are my big three. Carlin, Tizard Prior Well vierty Is still take inspiration from other comedians, he said absolutely. When I saw what bo Burnham did with his special Inside, I was a little ticked.

That’s so good, I thought, I got to step my game up. I don’t watch a lot of stand up because I can usually see the punchline coming. Yeah, I feel your brother, But when something’s visually very interesting or narratively very interesting, I get in on it. I’d watch any Micro Bailey a special for sure, just admire the structure and craft. All right, I guess I had a little more today than I thought.

Not too much on the back end here though, to be honest. One of Psykes announcedate tour. It is called Please and Thank You Special guest Keith Robinson. Nine Cities kicks off March twenty first in San Antonio. She’ll play Dallas, Chicago, Phoenix, Miami, and Moore.

Wraps up in Saint Petersburg May eighteenth. And maybe I should have paired this story up with the Vera Das story, But I don’t think any of us are too familiar with the comedy of Yash Rathi well. Yash faces a three month jail sentence if he’s found guilty of using obscene words or acts under India’s Criminal Code. He’s being investigated for police for using bad language on stage after being reported by the people who booked him. Yash Ravi had performed at the Indian Institute of Technology.

He was booked to play the annual festival, performing to students, their parents and staff. A clip post online shows I’m talking about, you know, doing stuff to yourself that makes yourself happy, you know what I mean. The clip shows shocked audience members putting fingers in their ears to block out his words. It shows the staff removing the comic from the stage half an hour into his hour long set when it was clear he was causing offense. The local police superintendent told the Hindustani Times that it was the college’s management who reported the stand up to the police.

Reports say the student union, as well as political and religious groups had also complained to the college’s management. The director of the college, I think it is said during the show when Rothi allegedly started using objectionable words, the institute management intervened and asked him to get down from the stage. Stand up comedy acts were held during the institute’s annual fest in the past, but such language was never used by performers. We were shocked when Rothi used such language. The official added that comedians would not be booked for the festival again.

Rothi posted a copy of the report on Instagram and said, apparently adults in front of adults use language it’s not right to use. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. If you like the program without commercial interruption, there’s a link in the show notes to tell you how to do that short version five bucks a month, Get this one and twenty plus others on the network without ads, including five good news Stories, of which I had just recorded eight episodes, And what do you know, my voice actually held up good news for me. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Katt Williams, Pete Davidson, Colin Jost, John Mulaney, Jerry Seinfeld, Christa Stefano, Tony Hinchcliff

What’s in This Episode

• Katt Williams discusses Club Shay Shay appearance and Diddy comments at Vulture Festival
• Pete Davidson and Colin Jost rumored feud following SNL appearance
• Pete Davidson potentially hosting SNL after recent rehab
• Jerry Seinfeld calls into WFAN sports radio to defend Seinfeld episode quality
• John Mulaney updates on newborn daughter and son Malcolm adjusting to big brother role
• Christa Stefano releases ‘Chrissie’s Version’ of comedy material inspired by Taylor Swift
• Tony Hinchcliff Puerto Rican jokes controversy discussion and comedy standards

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Aaron, Chenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Cant Williams stirring it up again, which is always fun for this podcast. He was at Vulture Festival and he started talking about his appearance on Club shayshe like six months ago, and said, I set out to kill the careers of the people I was talking about, but it was so vicious that I raised all the knockout blows and just left the jeb so that the comic I’m talking about knows. I know your real story, mf or.

I thought I had figured out the algorithm mathematically, and I thought I could show that when I wrote it out. I wrote it out to kill the careers of the people I was talking about, but was so vicious that I erased the knockout blows. I’ll tell this, but you know what else I know. You may recall during that appearance, Cat mentioned that Ditty would catch hell in twenty twenty four because quote, all lives will be exposed. Kat Williams, perhaps less crazy than one might think, Cat joked, I’m anti establishment, so I could never be the establishment.

Even if I’m at the Ditty. I’m there to tell I’m there to see who the f is in here? What do y’all get from being in here? So nobody likes to have me around. I’m there for bad intentions.

Also discussed the Jake Paul might Tyson fight. What a waste of time that was, and he said, what a blessing for Mike to be able to at this point in his life and career throw eighteen punches and get a million dollars per punch for a total of twenty million dollars. Let’s hit gossip corner kind of early Today, Cinema Blend is stirring it up a rumor that Pete Davidson might possibly perhaps host Saturday Night Live, but he’s feuding with Colin Jost, according to the rumor mill Hmm. The Sun newspaper recently ran a story from the John Mlaney episode that alleged an icy exchange when Pete Davidson returned. Some say Pete and Colin Jost had an awkward moment of shaking hands in the hallways of Studio eight h Others noticed the distance between the men on stage during the goodbye segment at the end of the episode.

Boy people overanalyze the heck Head of that one. Is it even a minute at the end of the show and it was overanalyzed this week. I’ll talk about that in the second half of the pod. One gossip site says there were a rumor a month or so about how Pete Davidson Colin chose they weren’t driving as friends. Well, Pete showed up on SNL.

There was a rumor that Pete wanted to come back and host, and Colin wasn’t so into the idea. But mulaney was hosting and he loves Pete Davidson like he’s a big brother who watches out for him. So the source says, I’ve heard that Pete wants to come back and host, and maybe last week’s guest bot was a litmus test to see how he’s doing post rehabitt c Gossip Corner says Pete’s people have pitched him to host the show and there was not yet a yes or no. They want to see how he’s doing. Do you think they could be fighting about the ferry that they bought.

Jerry Seinfeld, what are you doing? He apparently was listening to WFAN Sports radio. Jerry, the nineties are over, dude, Nobody does that anymore, what are you doing? So Jerry’s presumably in the car. I hope he’s not listening at home.

I hope he was at least in the car and he hears the WFAN sports radio hosts mentioned the season eight Seinfeld episode The Chicken Roasters. One of the hosts says, one of the few good Seinfeld episodes. Jerry was listening and called in, presumably he has the hotline and says, one out of two is fine. Look, we made one hundred and eighty seine Field episode, so we made three good ones. We’re like the giants.

We’re three and one hundred and seventy seven. John Mulaney gave an update on his son, Malcolm’s thing. He’s doing good. He likes being a big brother. It’s interesting with her daughter.

She’s two months old and she doesn’t do much. And I think the first couple of weeks he thought she might be a toy because she’d squeak and he’d be like, how do I make it do that again? Now I think he gets it that this is a little girl. Billboard did a lengthy piece with Christa Stefano. Last week.

Chris did three back to back sets at three different locations of the New York Comedy Club that part of the New York Comedy Festival. This being the only article I’ve seen so far really about the New York Comedy Festival. Apparently this was inspired by Taylor Swift. Why you say, well, he was recording bits they had performed previously on Comedy Central and Netflix specials. He wants to have his own version of the shows and release them as Chrissy’s Version so that he can hand them into places that play comedy records and get the street royalties himself.

Interesting, probably pretty smart. It was my manager’s idea. His manager is also the owner of the New York Comedy Club. The manager said, I want to have a headliner come in and do three headlining shows and back to back to back at my club, something different for the New York Comedy Festival. I was like, sure, it was fun.

I’m calling each show Chrissy’s version because I was doing old jokes that I did on my Comedy Central and Netflix specials because technically they own the audio rights to that stuff. We’re going to take a mash up of the three shows that I did, three hours of material, take the old bits, call it Chrissie’s version and upload them to wherever. Now I’ll own them upright, Will there be a video streaming version? Billboard asked yes, every Sunday at seven pm. For the past I think it’s ten weeks, I upload that week’s material on my YouTube channel, twenty to thirty minutes of my week of stand up.

So this week, which is two days ago, now I’m gonna put up that material. In his set at the New York Comedy Club, he alluded to Tony Hinchcliff’s Puerto Rican jokes. Chris said, it’s one of those things where for me, it’s always comedy first. Obviously, I have Puerto Rican family and I watched the video with them. They were like, it’s a joke.

You can say is the joke funny or not com subjective? I get it, and I understand if you’re doing comedy at political rallies, which are non comedy spaces, you’re definitely opening up yourself to more criticism. Comedy is one of those things where it’s got to be the right setting, the right ambience. Say, for example, Adrian Applelucci tailing Puerto Rican jokes during a Netflix special that was recorded, edited and published nobody freaked out about those jokes. Chris says, I subscribe to comedians that never apologize.

The way I look at it, you can’t be funny and hateful. Hitler wasn’t funny. So if a joke misses, it misses, don’t take one thing someone says and say this is who this person is. That’s not going to get us further as a society. My thing is, you can say whatever you want and cross that line as long as there’s an attempt at a joke attached to it.

Just don’t say a shock value word. To say the shock value word, that’s being corny. That’s not what comedians do. My job is to thread the needle of saying something that crosses the line and possibly offends someone, but offends them and makes them laugh by making a heavier subject more lighthearted. When you come to a comedy show, you have to understand what you’re buying a ticket to.

There’s a lot of times we all swing for the fences and miss. That’s part of our job. I’ll jump in. I was talking to my college students last Thursday about that and said, you know, I get up here and I lecture you to you guys for two and a half hours, and I’m doing it for over ten years. You talk long enough.

I’m sure I said something stupid at some point in the last ten years. I’m sure. I’m sure if I go back and read the transcripts of every college lecture, I said something stupid. Did I come in harm? No?

Back to Christo Stefano, the comments about Puerto Rico were one of those things where most of us understood the Whether you thought it was funny or not, it was just a joke, didn’t land. He knows that, and it’s fine. It didn’t have an impact on the election because most adults don’t give a hoot about that. Most adults were like, Hey, I can’t buy gas and groceries, so I’m not gonna not vote for whoever I want to vote for It because of a joke. That’s when you’re gonna have the celebrities coming out on social media.

It might have made a difference ten years ago, but now nobody cares. As a matter of fact, it looks worse when you have j Loo or someone who’s conservative telling people what to do and who to vote for. It’s like, really, you’re gonna tell me what to do and you’re fifty million dollar bleeping mansion. I could barely get by here, so shut up with my career. I have to be a man of the people.

You’ll see some comics get humongous and then they have a comedy special talking about their mansion or their private jet and it doesn’t hit his hard. Howard Stern. Oh sorry, I don’t know. I just blurted out, Howard Stern. There.

That wasn’t Chris, that was me. I don’t know why I said that, because if he was like, wait, where’s the comedy, I’m listening to what the common man’s going through every day. That’s why Ricky Travais is my favorite comedian of all time. Look what he did at the Golden Globes a few years ago. He just destroyed the celebrities there.

He said, tell them straight up, you guys are in no position to lecture of the public, So get your little award. An f off, Chris, anything else in the works. Chris says he has a Hulu special coming out February twenty first, Really, somebody should publicize that. To one of the podcasts, it talks about stand up comedy every day. Hulu publicists are you’re listening.

Wow, that’s pretty interesting. Who should probably have one of their publicists reach out to a podcast that talks about stand up comedy every day. For example, Netflix, they’re doing stand up comedy and I know about it. Adam Ray, for example, has one out today. This is the one where he’s just doing Doctor Phil I think for the whole time.

Okay. Netflix calls the show What of a Kind comedy featuring celebrity guest crowd work, and outrageous hijinks.

Meanwhile, Max, they have a publicist Rose Matta Fayo will have her new comed…

That One’s Thursday, December nineteenth. Max. It tells us it’s built around a sixteen thousand word note kept over time in her phone. In it, she offers her candid takes on relationships from dating in her twenties versus thirties, just porting friends, through breakups, and the stark differences between herself and her parents at the same age. She also explores whether she wants children, how aging has impacted her comedy, and her strong feelings about online relationship coaching.

You know Els has a special today, Paul Reiser. How do I know that publicists? Paul Reiser’s is on Comedy Dynamics, It’s called Life, Death and Rice Pudding. Paul Reiser discloses the secrets to successful downsizing, explains why the whole do one two others thing doesn’t work in marriage, and while boiling pasta naked is never a good idea. Paul spoke to The Independent newspaper and said, I’m not a fan of gossip.

I don’t like it about other people, and I certainly don’t want anything being said about me that I wouldn’t want shared everywhere in the news. It’s fighting, but I believe if put any warring party in a room and ask them what they want, you’re gonna find out that they’re not that different. Someone locked me in a room with a publicist from Hulu. I’m sure we could work this out. We want the same thing, don’t we.

We want people to know about the Hulu comedy special. All right, I’m gonna stop. That bit is now officially over all right, that is the last time. Oh dude, I’m done with it. That’s it.

You heard me. Let’s move on. Did you watch Saturday Night Live? I’m trying not to become the SNL sucks guy on threads. I’ve been hanging out on threads, where I’m finding a pretty robust discussion of comedy.

And I’ll say one thing about SNL, like that episode was horrific, and I’m quickly becoming the SNL is terrible guy, and I don’t feel that way at all. I just feel that Bill Burr bombed and this week’s episode was horrific. I didn’t even make it through the opening sketch, and I can’t tell you the last time that happened. Alec Baldwin came out and did RFK. He’s catching some grief from people saying he should make fun of rfk’s voice.

Not really good impression. And my question to Lord Michaels, who believe me? If we compare say Lord Michael’s current mind, you win in every category. But I don’t understand this season why the guest stars, Like why is Dana Carvey still there doing Joe Biden? And okay, maybe because he’s this year’s Biden.

Okay, fine, I’ll let her go. Why is Alec Baldwin doing RFK junior? Nobody on the cast can do RFK junior. No one. I don’t understand why they’re not using the cast.

It really confuses me back to over analyzing the final minute, where everybody stands on the stage in waves, people notice that Alec Baldwin’s fly was open. I also felt James Austin Johnson’s Trump has lost its way. When he first started doing it on SNL, it was totally on point. And maybe James version of the character is better doing the rambling weave speech thing, but when he does Trump and a sketch, it’s not flying. I thought the impression had drifted vocally pretty far this week.

And you know, he’s sitting there and Alec Baldwin’s there, and Alec Baldwin was Trump for a few years, so the whole thing is just kind of weird. I don’t know what’s going on right now. Kroll, I thought we knew this already, But this got announced on Monday as if it were news. But I thought we knew this. Nick Kroll will join the rotating cast of All In a comedy about Love.

It’s a Broadway thing, starring John Mulaney. Mullaney will appearinate it from December eleventh through January twelfth. Nick Kroll will join the rotating cast from January fourteenth through February second, alongside lin Manuel, Miranda Ady Bryant, and Jimmy Fallon, which is great because it means we’ll have lots of news during what could be a potentially quiet time. I’m always in favor of news during potential quiet times. Other cast members include Fred Armisen, Richard Kine, Chloe Feineman.

So yeah, this is going to get a lot of buzz. All in Comedy About Love at the Hudson Theater through February sixteenth. Official opening night December twenty second. The show, written by Simon Rich, features a series of humor stories of dating, heartbreak, marriage, and more, adapted from short stories written by Rich that had previously appeared in The New Yorker. And that is your comedy news for today.

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And if you would like this program without commercial interruption, link in the show notes. If you’re on Apple Podcast, click that banner there and I’ll tell you how that works. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Greg Gutfeld, John Mulaney, John Krasinski, Bill Murray, Tim Curry, Catherine Hahn, David Zucker, Robert Hayes, Connor Ratliff, Joe Rogan, Tim Dillon, Maria Bamford, Joel Kim Booster, Gary Gulman, Ricky Gervais, Ray Romano, Lisa Kudrow, Will Ferrell, Dennis Leary, Theo Vonn, Matthew Broussard

What’s in This Episode

• Sketch Fest 2025 lineup and celebration of comedy anniversaries
• John Mulaney honored as GQ Man of the Year
• Greg Gutfeld’s unfunny and offensive joke about John Krasinski being trans
• Gary Gulman’s new off-Broadway show Grand Deloquent
• Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow teaming up for Netflix mystery comedy No Good Deed
• Matthew Broussard special Hyperbolic coming December 13th
• Theo Vonn’s story about JD Vance’s security detail

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Caloroga Shark Media. Are you familiar with the six degrees of separation thing? It usually goes back to Kevin Bacon, But basically, you can connect anyone to anyone within six moves. Now, because I spent a decade at Series XM, I could do a lot in two moves. For example, I work with Jamie Fox, who was in a movie with Tom Cruise, So I can get to Tom Cruise, and two I can get to Obama.

And two my boint is one of you. There’s enough people listen to the show. Somebody out there has a connection to a publicist at Hulu for the love of comedy. Hulu publicist, get back to me. I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy views.

I am fired up. Let me tell you about Sketch Fest. You know how I know sketch Fest exists because the publicist sent me the press release and now it’s the lead story. And a podcast targeted at comedy fans is about a comedy festival. Hulu publicist, what are you doing?

Get back to me right, Shut up, John, What’s going on? Ske sketch Fest It’s awesome. I’ve been there this year runs from January sixteenth to February second. Bill Murray will appear with his blood Brother’s band. Tim Curry will be celebrated in person tributes to Catherine Hahn, JB.

Smooth and Richard Kind. A live read of Airplanes forty fifth anniversary. It’s The Groundling’s fiftieth anniversary. Some of the Kids in the Hall will be there, some of the States will be there.

All right, let’s dive in on this press release and thank you publicist.

Sketch Fast January sixteenth to February second, over one hundred and eighty shows its twenty second year. Tickets are on sale now. The forty fifth anniversary of the film Airplane will be celebrated a special live read of screenplay featuring co creator David Zucker, original star Robert Hayes, and surprise guests.

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Meanwhile, the cast of Children’s Hospital and Futurama will reunite, and the…

Sketch Comedy favorites the State will present a live read of their unproduced musical A Holiday Hubbub at Porcupine Corners. Three members of the Kids in the Hall will be there. They are Bruce McCullough, Kevin McDonald and Scott Thompson. They will team up with the Red Room Orchestra for a night of songs and sketches from the Kids in the Hall. Connor Ratliffe will be there with the George Lucas Talk Show, a fake acting class, and a parody reading of the Star Wars holiday special, this one called The Kashikh Life Day Carol.

Some podcasters are going, including Joel Kim Booster, Mosha Kasher, Natasha La Serro, and Doug Benson. A whole bunch of improv including Shamilton the Improvised Hip Hop Musical, The ucb’s Asscat Show will be there and off Book the Improvised Musical, which is a fantastic podcast. Check that out. Oh, speaking of podcasts, what’s to say Shoe Rogan, Yeah him, he’s pretty famous. I’ve been listening to the Tim Dillon episode during my three am insomnia, so I’m picking away that a little bit of time.

But that’s pretty good. Check that out. Other things. Stand up comedy includes Maria Bamford, Chris Fleming, Joel Kim Booster, Dulce, Sloan Reese, Darby Robbie Hoffman, Punky Johnson and Partner and Schurlo, the Sclar Brothers, Nor Davis, Josh Gonoman, Alison Leeby, Kate Willett Hampton, ynt Nori Reid, and a show called Comedian’s Named Todd featuring Todd Barry and Todd Glass. Love it sketch fast, check it out.

Publicists, thank you. This next story could be about Hulu comedy. But you didn’t send me anything, so you get nothing. You lose. Good day.

Sir John Mulaney joked he knew even as a child that one day he’d be recognized by GQ as one of the Men of the Year. M’laney said, little boy John was one of the most grandiose, delusional people you’ve ever met. That was probably number ten on the list. But it’s a very fun surprise and it’s been a really cool experience. I’m tempted to sound jaded about it, but it’s all been lovely.

Olivia Munn said her mother was thrilled when m’laney told them the news. John said, although I think Olivia’s mom may have misunderstood and thought I was the sexiest man alive.

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You’re not gonna believe this clip. I’m gonna play it. I’m gonna let it run and just imagine the whole time I’m making Jim halperd face. Here is hilarious comedian Greg Guttfeld discussing John Krasinski being the sexiest man alive. Let’s listen.

It’s great that people has dominated or announced that trans male can be the sexiest one alive. Krazinski never talks about it, but he’s you know, he’s trans. You know that. No, I didn’t. Yes, But I don’t have a problem with the title sexiest man alive.

It seems redundant. I’m an I’m assuming alive is a given. No one is thinking about dead dudes unless you’re some kind of perverb like Larry Kudlow. Oh, I’ll stop there, Like what is that? Like?

Like that’s not even funny. It’s like so far from funny, it’s horrific. Like what is that? Ha? Ha huh?

John Krasinski is trans and he didn’t like what? Dude? Stop. Gary Goleman will make his off Broadway debut with the world premiere of his new show rand Low quint I think there’s a joke in there that I’m not getting. I’m not ripping Gary.

Gary’s awesome. I’ve worked with Gary in the past. Great guy. It is spelled g r A and D I, l o qu e and T grand deloquent. What am I not getting?

Tell me in the Facebook group. The show will run January seventh through February eighth. Official opening January nineteenth. Ricky Gervais tweets I’m not leaving here meaning Twitter. By the way, I’m on Facebook, Instagram, Blue Sky and threads now.

But I’ll always be a Twitter guy and never calling it X cheers. Ray Romano is teaming up with Lisa Kudro for a Netflix series called No Good Deed. It’s a mystery comedy the promises to keep viewers on their toes yes. Produced by Will Ferrell’s company, No Good Deeds lineup includes Dennis Leary, Abby Jacobson, Poppy Lou Matt Rodgers, Roy Scovel, and Linda Lavin. That’s Alice, isn’t that Alice?

How old is Linda Lavin? Linda Lavin eighty seven years old. That’s awesome? In No Good Deed Lydia played by Lisa Kudro and Paul played by Ray Romano, or a couple looking to start fresh after their children have left the nest. How old is Ray Romano?

I’m fifty five. My kids have left the nest. He’s playing down here. How old is Ray Romano? Sixty six?

You’ve been an empty nester for ten years, dude, stop lying. Lydi and Paul are a couple looking to start fresh after their children have left the nest ten years ago. Deciding to sell their nineteen twenties Spanish style villa in one of LA’s most coveted neighborhoods, they find themselves at the center of a real estate frenzy. Multiple prospective buyers, all with their own personal issues, vie for the house, each convinced that it will solve their problems. However, as the couple knows all too well, the home that promises to be a dream for some is hiding a dark past.

Lydia and Paul must contend with the house’s long held secrets as they navigate the pressure of selling their home. They come to realize that facing their past may be the only way to escape the looming danger of the present. No good Deed coming to Netflix eventually. Theovaughn on his podcast tell the story about JD Vance’s security detail, said, JD Man showed up. Dude, there were snipers on the roof, full tactical gear.

I go into an ice bath. There’s like secret service everywhere. They had put up drapes, black drapes in front of the house. Right they shut down the exits on the interstate. I had no idea.

Matthew Brossard has announced that his upcoming special, Hyperbolic, is coming out December thirteenth. You know how I know about it because Matthew Prissard’s publicist sent it to me and I’m talking about it on a comedy podcast targeting fans of stand up comedy Hulu. Are you paying attention listeners? One of you know somebody at Hulu or Disney or somebody. Can somebody please yell at someone and go dude, can you return an email?

Can you get back to the guy on LinkedIn? Hyperbolic marksy full length debut special from Matthew Prissard. I saw him, oh it’s probably ten twelve years ago at the Montreal Comedy Festival. He was a new face. He was great in this sharply honed set, Matthew dives in a painfully personal experiences growing up Cajun Jewish in a waspy Southern prep school, the challenges of millennial masculinity is the bread losers who are former pro athlete and candid stories about mental health struggles in his family.

Plus some modley keen sidebars and a grammar et homology, pharmaceutical argent stories and statistics. Matthew began his stand up career thirteen years ago, aiming to leave his finance job behind. Five years in, he released a half hour special on Comedy Central Hyperbolic wherever comedy is streamed or sold. On December thirteenth, TJ Miller says he’s open and returning to Deadpool Movies. Yeah you think you know what.

I’m also willing to be in Deadpool movies, TJ. TJ had publicly stated that he would never work with Ryan Reynolds again, and then TJ’s career kind of cooled off. TJ was on the radio and said, we talked a little while ago. I think Ryan asking me, I think it’s just been such a good friend right now that I think it would be awesome. TJ Miller played Weasel in Deadpool and Deadpool two.

He did not appear in Deadpool and Wolverine. Back in twenty twenty two, TJ. Miller had told Adam Corolla he wouldn’t have done Deadpool three if they came to me and were like, we want you to do Deadpool three and we’re gonna pay you twice as much. A few days later, he was on a different radio show and said, oh, it’s a misunderstanding. I emailed it back.

It’s fine, hmm, curious. I feel like an agent may have meddled there. And that is your comedy news for today. Hey, if you’re like a streaming service and you’re, you know, making a big push in a stand up comedy and you want to get in touch, my email address is in the show notes, and my email addresses in your inbox. I am jerky lately.

I know I’m aware of it. Scott Beck is gonna send me a note and be like, dude, what’s going on. I’ll tell you what’s going on, Scott. I am still mad about Taylor Swift icing Joe Coy. Do you remember poor Joe Cooy?

He told this joke. A big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I’m fine. I just want who to get back to me.

That’s all. See tomor

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, John Mulaney, James Acaster, Kathy Griffin, Wanda Sykes, Stormy Daniels, Dick van Dyke

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien to host 2025 Oscars on March 2
• Jimmy Kimmel and John Mulaney decline Oscar hosting invitation
• Gilbert Gottfried tribute event and muscular dystrophy fundraiser
• John Mulaney discusses Late Night Show revival and creative philosophy
• James Acaster HBO special ‘Heckler Is Welcome’ premiering November 23
• Kathy Griffin stands by controversial Trump photo, denounces past apology
• Wanda Sykes discusses 2024 election on Jimmy Kimmel
• Stormy Daniels performs stand-up comedy set

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Caloroga Shark Media. Dona O’Brien, who’s sixty one years old. Somehow we’re all getting old. He’s going to host the Oscars March second. Academy CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang said in a statement together as if they are the board, we are thrilled and honored to have the incomparable Conan O’Brien host the Oscars this year.

He is the perfect person help lead our global celebration of film with his brilliant humor, his love of movies, and his live TV expertise, his remarkable ability to connect with audiences. We’ll bring viewers together to do what the Oscars do best, honor the spectacular films and filmmakers of this year. What I’m worried about is I keep thinking back to Letterman hosting the Oscars and the Oscar crowd. They kind of like you to go down the middle. They like Billy Crystal.

I’m not sure they like, you know, Triumph, the insult comic dog. Not that I expect trying for the Oscars, but you never know. I mean, I’d love the heck out of that. But is Conan too weird for the Oscars? Crowd good.

We will find out. Conan O’Brien said, America demanded it, and now it’s happening. Taco Bell’s new cheesy chelupa supreme.

In other news, I’m hosting the Oscars.

Jimmy Kimmel reportedly declined in invitation to come back this year. John Mulaney is said to have also passed on the opportunity. None of that is a dig at Conan weird statements. Raj Kapor and Katie Mullen, who produced the ninety sixth Oscars, they’ll return for these ninety seventh Oscars, And they also put out a joint statement. What’s with the joint statements?

Like the borg, they said, Conan has all the qualities of a great Oscars host. He is incredibly witty, charismitic, and funny, and has proven himself to be a master of live event television. We so look forward to working with him to deliver a fresh, exciting and celebratory show for Hollywood’s biggest night. Some big names got together the other night to honor Gilbert Godfried’s life and to raise funds for muscular dystrophee research. Among the attendees, David Tel Susi Sman, Judy Gold, Richard Kind, Robert Smigel, Paul Schaeffer, Chevy Chase, Jeff Ross, and Salvacano.

A lot of John mullany in the news lately. He told g Qdogg the Late Night Show really made me enjoy LA. Something clicked where I was like, Oh, this feels like the future. There’s so much going on, aerospace, shipping, agriculture, industry. This Hollywood thing is pretty tiny.

When he brings back whatever he winds up doing for the new incarnation of the Late Night Show, he says, there’s a quote I heard about Edward Hopper that he was a great artist, but he was only a good painter. But if he had been a better painter, he would have been a worse artist. I sort of feel like, if we try to make the show better, it could be worse. You go on instinct over data and recklessness over planning. I love it.

Letterman gave John Mulaney some advice, which is, when you’re running the weird show, you have to be the least weird person on it. Everybody’s going to be saying let’s do this and let’s do that, and you’re the one having to modulate the gas and brakes. James Acaster will have an HBO special. It is called Heckler Is Welcome. In Heckler’s Welcome, James Acaster relinquishes control of his set and lets the audience interfere.

Acaster said, performing in a round a theater I went to growing up, with the audience chipping in whatever they felt like me. This was the most I’ve ever enjoyed filming a special. I’m delighted it’s coming to you HBO.

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There is a trailer. Let’s listen before we begin. Here are the house rules. James Acaster cannot get annoyed at the audience if they heckle, talk amongst themselves on their phones, or are quieter than he would like. Richard, what is wrong with using James Acaster may not single anybody else was not heckled the most cringe moment of my entire life, and I was the only person in there here.

Even though he spent his entire career joining to Matick. This they control every single detail and every single show he’s ever done. James Acaster has to accept whatever happens. Look, if you haven’t enjoyed the show tonight, please take some consolation in the fact it used to be a lot worse. James Acaster Heckler is welcome.

November twenty third, that’s like this week. That’s Saturday, ten pm. Trump got reelected and people are asking Kathy Griffin it again. You may recall she posts for photos holding a mask of the president, a smeared in ketchup that did not go over well. Kathy said, I stand by the photo and never should have apologized.

The only thing I’m taking back is the apology. Trump used the entire DOJ to come after me. It was like, good old Kathy Griffin. You know her from tilling Penis jokes and for making fun of the Kardashians. But now she’s the DOJ’s number one enemy.

Kathy said it wasn’t until last year, and that incident was six years ago. That last year she finally started getting invited back to places that wouldn’t have her. One of those. The Mirage in twenty seventeen put out a statement that said Griffin’s photo clearly crosses the line of respect and decency. Kathy tells a story and says, I got a woman who worked with the guy at the mirage who banned me for life, and she goes, that guy’s dead.

I was like, that’s why I’m being asked back. So I just decided I’m gonna wait them all out and assume that I’m back at most of these venues because whoever banned me is dead now. Want of Sikes talked about the election with Jimmy Kimmel and said, I mean, it’s so many reasons why you can say it happened. But you know a lot of us aren’t like totally shocked, because sometimes America is just gonna America. Send your letters to Wanta Pykes.

She jokes, I blame all those damn Cheerio commercials showing all those interracial couples. You scare the crap out of white people. What do y’all do and just sell the damn cereal? Why you gotta be bringing us into this? You may find it interesting and relevant to the joke that Wanda isn’t an interracial marriage.

Wanna continued, So why are the majority of white women not voting for another woman? And I’m like, y’all need to watch more Bravo. Why you shocked. Have you seen the Bachelor women tear each other apart over dude? So why do you think this wasn’t gonna happen the Real Housewives?

I mean they do the same thing. Wanda was upset about one part of Trump’s campaign, quoting Wanda, You’re supposed to be trying to fix the problems of America, right, So it’s targeted community that’s less than one percent of the population. You’re focusing on that on sex changes. How about focus on climate change that affects everybody instead of sex changes. That’s like less than one percent of the population.

And it’s all fears. Oh you know, your son goes to school as a boy and comes home as a girl. And I’m like, relax, it’s a man bunch. Shut up. Stormy Daniels did a comedy set the State Journal Register was there, Daniels brand.

He said, people ask why you’re still a Republican. Why haven’t you changed? Stormy said, because it makes Republicans so mad? And I’m that kind of petty. Stormy asked, how are these our only options for president?

It’s the hypocrisy of the whole thing. Some comedians are upset that she’s doing stand up, Stormy says, we all know I do my best work laying down. It’s way more fun. Dick van Dike wait in, Dick Vandyke is ninety eight years old. A paparazzo yelled out to a ninety eight year old man, hey, does the future look bright for America?

Ninety eight year old Dick Vandyke didn’t hear the question at first, but the paparazzo repeated it. Dick said, I hope you’re right. The photographer followed up, do you think Donald Trump is capable of making America great again? Dick Vandyke said, Fortunately, I won’t be around to experience the four years. Send your letters to Dick van Dijke.

It is the last day of the New York Comedy Festival. Let’s see if their website wants to load today. It’s somewhat did not too bad, not too much. Going on five p fifteen at the New York Comedy cl Upper West Side. Leonard Ootz He’s doing a live special taping.

He’s a lot of fun. You should check that out. Zarnagar gives your big name tonight her show Practical People Win at town Hall at seven, and that’ll put a rap on the New York Comedy Festival. I can delete this bookmark and move on. Lloyd Griffith is a comedian.

He wrote about his hair transplant for The Guardian. Lloyd writes, twenty five years later, I’m sitting in hair and makeup on the set of Soccer Am while the makeup artist covered up the bags under my eyes. I got home at two am after doing a comedy gig, and then got up again at six after touching up my face. She reached for a pot and started sprinkling black powder generously on my hair and said it’s for the cameras so the lights don’t balance off your bald patches. I felt as if I’d been heckled, but at no comeback.

My stomach dropped. It was the first time I’d been described as bald. I was aware my hair had been fitting for the past three or four years, but I thought I’d be getting away with it. I’d comb my hair left or right to conceal my scalp, and then use the hair island at the front of my head to try and camouflage the aforementioned comb over. This is my future.

I see this coming. I’m at the point now well I look all right on a normal day, but boy, when I get out of the shower, yikes. In comedy, you spend years trying to hone your usp and my character and voice had always included the fact that I had hair. I was fat, and I made jokes about that. I didn’t want to be fat and bald.

Lloyd explains, there’s a very regimented after care procedure. Sleeping upright for five nights, spring your hair every half hour with saline, making sure nothing goes anywhere near your head for fourteen days, no sexual acts for ten days, and the list goes on. I took about one hundred photos of my head and a cab on the way back, and I didn’t edit a single one. I’d been reborn. I’m now in my ugly duckling phase, where the hair has started a shed and my head is patchy, a process we’re told to trust as over the next six months I should start to see the results.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Bill Burr, Charli XCX, Simon Rich, Jenny Slate, Victoria Jackson, Alec Baldwin, Dana Carvey, David Spade, Paul Reiser, Bill Maher

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney’s SNL hosting performance draws 6.9 million viewers
• Bill Burr’s SNL episode viewership drops to 4.4 million
• John Mulaney’s SNL writing career and collaboration with Simon Rich
• Victoria Jackson’s longtime feud with Alec Baldwin over offensive comments
• Paul Reiser discusses Mad About You reboot and comedy club origins
• SNL cast members who became more successful after being fired
• Flyover Comedy Festival in St. Louis and New York Comedy Festival highlights

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Saturday. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. You know what Arizon Saturday Saturday Night Live. It had been on a hot streak six point nine million viewers watched John Mulaney host, but last week when Bill Burr bombed Oh, I said that on threads and people got very upset with me.

They’re like, in Bob, you just didn’t kill fine. Anyway, people didn’t watch it, only four point four to two million. That is disappointing coming off the election, isn’t it. Charlie XCX doubles up tonight as both a host and musical performance guest. She will perform music when not hosting.

John Mulaney auditioned for Saturday Night Live before the two thousand and eight nine season, but didn’t make the cast and got hired as a writer. We know this from the GQ profile of John Mulaney. I’ve been talking about and I have shared with you in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Balani spent four seasons at SNL. His frequent writing partner, Simon Rich said, I remember very distinctly thinking, I really really hope that I get to write with this person.

Part of his genius is his precision and his absolute mastery of language. You never want to paraphrase a Malaney joke because they’re so perfectly constructed and crystalline. If you don’t get it word perfect, you’re not doing it justice. We’re like the post office yea haye es. But you love us.

At the end of the day, you go, look, they worked hard and got it done, but you’ve grown at our existence. I found out I’ll never need another topic to talk about. It’s like our World War two. At any event, any dinner I go to anywhere in the world, this look comes into their eyes. If you’re saying I’m an outlaw, Like, yeah, before this, I was a cowboy.

Rich estimates that he and Malaney wrote two hundred and fifty sketches, including frequently working on the host monologue. On the theory it was one thing that wouldn’t be cut. Jenny Slat appeared on Saturday Night Live. I’ve not brought back for a second season. Slade said, I think it’s so cool that I touched that dream.

I’m proud of myself. It’s almost magical in this weird way to think about it. There’s a lot of weird rewards that come from situations that we might think are more shadowy. One of the big rewards a belief in the long game, a belief in many, many options. It’s really important to believe that there’s like, actually twenty really cool, weird secret doors rather than one big, golden ornate legendary door.

If I hadn’t had that experience at the start of my career, I wouldn’t have understood how much is really up to me cracked ads. As recently scrapped cast member Chloe Troes pointed out last month, the names on the list of fired SNL cast members is perhaps even more impressive than the list of performers who were permitted to stay. And they write, it’s not like anyone would have cast Joe Piscopo in uncut Gems. I would watch that, And there are no billion dollar Marvel movies starring Jim Brewer as iron Man. Right.

Victoria Jackson remember her I bumped the story for a couple of weeks now, just there’s been a lot to talk about. But while we’re in SNL mode, she talked about her longtime beef with Alec Baldwin. The attention getting headline. Apparently Alec Baldwin called Victoria Jackson’s breast’s garbage cans. Jackson was on the Dana Carvey David Spade podcast.

Victoria’s said we got to talk about Alec Baldwin because he was on Fly on the Wall and he said my breast looked like garbage cans. Spaden Carvey asked her what he meant by that, and she said, that’s what I want to know. Apparently, Baldwin had said, the only time I ever cracked was when we did SNL. Victoria Jackson’s in there and they have her all dressed and her boobs are like two garbage cans sticking in your face. Spaden Carvey theorized they may have been complimenting her breast size.

Jackson disagreed. She also took issue with Xena Carvey telling Alec Baldwin in the episode that Jackson was trying not to fall in love with him. Jackson said, I don’t remember that way. She believes Baldwin took issue with what she wrote about him in her twenty twelve book is My Bow Too Big? An anecdote in nineteen ninety, Alec was sitting next to me on the set and he asked me why my boobs were so big.

That’s rude and it’s caustic and it’s inappropriate. I don’t know if he was flirting with me or he’s being mean. It was kind of a mixture, but I think he heard about the book and ever since, Alex’s been mean to me. Jackson thinks Baldwin probably targeted her because our political views are opposite. And I’ve also said that when he does an impression of Trump, he is hatred side of him.

So they probably read that Paul Riser’s got a special coming out this week? Is it this week or next week? Because today Saturday, the nineteenth, I guess that’s this week now, I know it’s the weekend, right, Where does the week not start tomorrow? Who cares? John?

Paul Riser has a special coming out soon and he tell the Irish Times. I started a little ahead of the boom. It was in the late seventies when I was in college. There were ready people who are on TV, who had big hit TV shows an year earlier. They were unknown.

Yeah, I remember Freddy Prinz, what a shooting star. They came out of those clubs. The people who open these comedy clubs realized there was an easy way to make money. They just get a brick wall and a microphone and can charge people twenty dollars to watch unknowns. We all flocked to it.

I would have aspired to be a comic if that path hadn’t been laid out. He talked about being in Ireland and said, we were there in the height of summer. I didn’t realize how late it stays. Light. Would come home from work at seven and then would say, let’s go to the pub.

Would sit with our guinness or two guinnesses and chatting with people and petting dogs. We don’t have that in New York. It’s a bar culture, not pub culture. In Ireland, they’re not watching the ballgame or CNN. They’re talking us.

The threeboot of Mad About You, where Paul and Jamie were empty nesters, people said, why’d you break up? They’re upset. We showed them that they separated for a bit because all marriages have bumps, but they ended up happily forever after and after a few years a whole bunch of shows were rebooting. We had that conversation. We thought, what story do they tell?

We can’t play newlyweds anymore. That ship has sailed. But we realized, if our kid has grown up, then these two idiots are all alone again, just like when the show started. I’m glad we did it. We had a great time.

All right, Let’s take a look at the comedy festivals for today. It’s the final day of the Flyover Comedy Festival out Saint Louis Way, and again I like their website. Tonight at eight o’clock the Sclar Brothers a smaller show at eight o’clock, an improv show called help Me I’m Drowning and Idiot Bitch. I kind of like that title. Oh no, here’s one at ten o’clock called S Show, and I can’t tell you what the S stands for, but whatever your guess is, you’re right.

And switching over to the New York Comedy Festival Saturday night in the Big City. I’m gonna have tons of headliners, right, yeah, I don’t know what’s going on this year. They don’t have the names I’ve had in the past. I’m scrolling down. I’ll read you the bigger names.

I’m nine shows in yet, and I haven’t seen anybody. You’ve probably heard of. If you’ve heard of Bill Maher the WTF Tour. That’s what you’re calling your tour? Are you just like completely unaware that Mark Maren has been calling his thing WTF for twenty years.

Bill Maher’s the WTF Tour. I’d love to hear Marin Steak on that. That’s at the Beacon at seven o’clock. I mean, it’s not like Maren owns WTF, but like, come on, man, you’re a comedian, you know Mark Maren is WTF. Matt McCusker is at Town Hall at seven o’clock.

Good name here, Time to kill a sketch comedy show at seven o’clock. Rachel Feinstein at the Bell House at seven thirty. Ali Colbert’s She’s on the Rise. Check her out to Union Hall seven thirty. Christian Finnegan remember him, You might remember his face from A Chappelle’s show seven thirty at Q E D.

I thought he was going to have a much bigger career than he has had. The stepfathers U see b At ten o’clock. Jason Zinnemann had some things to say about That’ll talk about that in a minute. Don’t Tell Comedy at ten o’clock at location TBD and that’s it. I mean, there are other shows, but those are your big names.

On a Saturday, Bill Maher on the second Saturday at the festival, this thing has taking a step down. No offense, but I mean there was a time when there were just huge names playing the festival. Jason is in him in front of the show, and he writes for The New York Times he recommends these Stepfathers at UCB, writes if you’re looking for something other than stand up. The Stepfathers were one of the best improv groups in the city for many years, with a pack weekly show at UCB. Then the organization shut down.

It’s returned this year in an attractive new space on East fourteenth and this is a good chance to see how the season troop ad just to new digs. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like this program without commercial interruption, there’s a link in the show notes that selly how it works. But if you’re on Apple podcast, there’s a banner and the banner says, I don’t know what does it say? Why don’t I just tell you?

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Featured: Louis C.K., Adrian Appallucci, Jim Gaffigan, Joe Rogan

What’s in This Episode

• Louis C.K. returns with email update on creative projects
• Louis C.K. directs Adrian Appallucci’s Netflix special ‘Dark Queen’
• Adrian Appallucci appears on Joe Rogan Experience
• Jim Gaffigan’s weight loss using Monjaro medication
• Jim Gaffigan’s new special ‘The Skinny’

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I’ve written a novel and I’m working on a second. That about wraps it up on me. No details on the novels or the artwork. He then went to speak about Adrian Appalucci’s special. He referred to her as truly one of my favorite comedians.

She has opened for him at Madison Square Garden. Ck directed her new stand up special to Dark Queen. Ck writes, you may remember Adrian if you came to see me on tour in the past three years, and she opened for me at MSG in January of twenty three. Adrian was astonishing on that show. I’ve heard four more people comment on how hilarious and unique and compelling she was than anything about myself, and for good reason.

The crowd at the garden loved Adrian was at little two to know notoriety, who is a humble to a fault self anthrope, who was a granite, real genuinity Louis used killing me with the source and a sharp, guttural, hysterically funny comedic voice that was rough copy. Louis, by the way, She’s not gonna be unknown anymore. Netflix special and more importantly, an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, which I haven’t had a chance to listen to. Joe’s been pumping out a lot of content. I’m still in the Tim Dylan episode.

I gotta listen to THEO now. Adrian c K shared the taping process for that special, which happened at the Comedy Seller, is part of a three show outing on the same night, and Louis says, the first show was horrible. I mean, it was one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t a horrible performance. Adrian was great, but something happened with that audience.

They were not into it the production team and I watched incredulously. Is Adrian hanging there and did her very best for an entire hour of hostile silence. She stayed in her act in herself, and she took incredible punishment. That first crowd never gave, never cracked. They left the room as miserably as they had entered it.

Adrian met the second with a determination that said, I finally have a chance to do something this world has told me over and over again. I’m not cool enough to do any Whoever you effing people are, You’re not taking this away from me. This gorgeous resolve, happily, joyfully was met by a willing, giving, cheerful a bunch of people who like who Anyone who sees Adrian’s true self fell in love with her and enjoyed every single joke, story and observation she shared. She delivered a great show, and it’s on Netflix now if you want to hear an interview I had Adrian on the show. It’s probably two years ago, maybe only a year ago.

It was a while. If you go back long enough in the feed, you’ll find my interview with her. I didn’t find her to be particularly chatty by no means the best interviewer, but I just felt like I was getting nothing back there. And I’ll tell you I cut like twenty minutes out of the interview just for pacing. That was a rough one.

I do like her comedy. I don’t want you guys to be like you know, you’ve hated on her two days in a row. I’m just telling you, well, I spoke about the special yesterday. You can hear my words, and now I’m telling you what went down with the interview, and I really cut that one back. I just I was getting nothing back from her.

And again maybe it’s because I suck, which is fine. I’m happy to suck. Louis said, she’s just funny and she has only one point of view. You’re all full of crap, and we are. I certainly am, and so are you.

We are all full of crap, all caps. If there’s one thing the human race is learning at a geometric rate, it’s that we all kind of really suck, all of us. No one is better than anyone. We’re all byzantine baboons, crapping into our hands and throwing into each other’s sanctimonious faces. Ck writes that he’s highly encouraged by Netflix having bought the special, especially for an anti algorithmic woman from the Bronx.

I hope that you all remember the question, what is being fed to you into your screen and your palm without your input. Work around the algorithm, go looking for what it isn’t showing you and share it with your friends. That is so much better than being shared with by a robot. I got news for Louis. I turned out Netflix, and you know the big box that tells you what to watch tonight, it was showing me Adrian.

So perhaps the algorithm isn’t that evil. But I hear you. I know what you’re saying. Sometimes there’ll be a new special and I’m like, they’re not even showing it to me. It’s not in the stand up carousel, and I have to actually type in what I’m looking for for so I hear you, Louis.

Jim Gaffigan, whose new special is called The Skinny, is now talking about his weight loss. Funny how that happens. We’ll have a lot of Jim Gaffigan press over the next two weeks. One week, yeah, one week. You know, Jim is like America’s comic.

He’s a friendly guy. He plays well to all corners of the comedy universe. The cool kids at the cellar like Jim. Middle America likes Jim. Why wouldn’t you interview Jim, and Jim is happy to talk, So get ready for Johnny Mac telling you Jim gaffickin stories daily for about two weeks, which is fine because we’re getting towards the end of the year and I need stuff to talk about.

Jim spoke to us Weekly about his weight loss that I mentioned that his specials called skinny. Jim said he had taken the medication Monduro. Jim said, I was so paranoid that it was going to be nauseous that I kind of put it off, but then it kind of worked. It’s weird because we live in this society where people who eat too much are told that they just don’t have any self control. There are people that just have no off button to eat right.

Jim says he finds it really fascinating how people seem to have less sympathy for people who struggle with too much eating versus other types of a dick. Jim said, I would eat when I was hungry, and I would eat when I was happy, and I’d eat when I was sad, and I would just eat. It was my reward. It was obviously personal, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. But then again, anonymity.

Is it thing surrounding a lot of struggles like that? Is this like us going back now and noticing John Mulaney was telling us that he was on drugs because Jim Gaffigan, I don’t know if you know this, has a lot of jokes about food. Jim says, I’m kind of like a square midwesterner. I’ll never look super thin. He says he was probably two hundred and seventy pounds when he decided to try Monjaro.

We’re a country that’s struggling with the obesity epidemic, and then there were these appetites of pressants. The dude wonders, So the skinny is a bit about processing society’s take on that. That GQ profile of John Mulaney, I’ve shared it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group revealed that they’re working on twelve episodes of Everybody’s in La or whatever the new version of that is. Maybe it’s in La, maybe it’s not, maybe it’s something else. Who knows.

Netflix Chief Content Officer Bella Bajaria said, I’m really excited about it. During Netflix as a Joke Festival, Malani did a live talk show called everybody’s in LA and I was there at a couple of the tapings and it was just so bold and original and fresh and then unpredictable. And I think it’ll be really fun to do a live show with him. I think there will be tremendous buzz when that thing comes out. Malaney is probably at his peak right now.

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But I don’t know because nobody at Hulu will get back to me. I have tagged publicists on LinkedIn, I have emailed through the front door, I have tagged them on threads. I have tagged them on Twitter. No one at Hulu will get back to me. I know I’m not Joe Rogan, but like guys, this is your target audience.

Someone get back to me at Hulu. So is Ralph Barbosa part of Hularius? I don’t know, how would I know? Untitled special we’ll launch on Hulu at a date TBD. Greg Proops has an album out today, Yes, an album, So I’m gonna spport him for a Grammy next year.

Purple Shasta Raccoon out on a special. Things Records recorded at the Punchline in San Francisco. Greg Proops took the stage on New Year’s Eve for thirty year in a row. He gave takes on Texas and the alame O Florida, Wisconsin hr Poff and stuff is done by Coormick McCarthy and much more. Now, if you’re listening yesterday, you heard me struggle with the New York Comedy Festival website.

So let’s start with the Flyover Comedy Festival because they have a better website game, they know what they’re doing, they have a nice grid, and their website actually loads the Flyover Comedy Festival in Saint Louis. They even put the headliners in bigger fonts. Paton Oswalt and Tig Nataro. One show. I didn’t realize that was one show.

Wow, that’s pretty good. That’s at eight o’clock at the Steele Theater. So who headlines there? Does Tig headline over Patton? Interesting?

These Sclar brothers have a late show tag it with the Scar Brothers. They’re the headliners tomorrow. That’s the Flyover Comedy Festival.

All right, let’s struggle through the New York Comedy Festival’s website, whi…

Who’s playing on a Friday night in the Big City? Tracy Morgan at seven o’clock. If I remember correctly, that is recommended that you go see by friend of the show, Jason Zinnemann. Oh, I have a Jason story to tell you. In a second, Let’s let’s focus on Stay here, Askat presented by the New York Comedy Festival.

That’s the UCB at seven o’clock at UCB, always a good show. The ASCAT Show, Sultan Kaza Sleep when I’m Dead at Grammar Sya at seven, the wonderfully titled Jared Goldstein does an Hour I Love It, Union Hall, seven point thirty. Adam Ray is Doctor Phil Live at the Beacon at eight. Gabe Iglesias, don’t worry be Fluffy. King’s theater, that’s Brooklyn at eight o’clock.

Don’t tell comedy at eight o’clock. Where’s the show? They don’t tell you. That’s how don’t tell comedy works at the stand at eight o’clock Comics to Watch. Who were the comics to watch?

Apparently Aldo Campana, Andy Aloiz, Bo Willcox, Brittany Brave, Koreyaskowitz, Eric Freddy, Gary Simons, Keegan Tindall, Catcherlong, Lisa Channel, Lucas Arnold, Nick Reynoldson, Olivia Hill, Salma Zaki, Tatsa Sheris, and Xavier Phillips. Now I, by no means are in the comedy clubs, like maybe I was a little bit younger, not at all. I don’t know one of those names. So if I were in town, I would go see that show and educate myself. That’s always my advice, Like you know what Gabad Glacis is gonna do.

That’s not a good use of the comedy festival. Go see Comics to Watch at the Stand at eight o’clock. Live taping of How Did This Get Made? At Town Hall at nine forty five. Again, nothing against that show were those guys, but bad use of a festival, like you can go see all these comedians.

You’re gonna go see a podcast taping for an hour. That’s just listen to it next week. That’s a bad use of your time. Comics to watch does another show at ten, and that’s your Friday night in the big city. Again.

This does not have the star power that previous festivals have had. And I keep saying this love the festival. They’ve been nothing good to me. I’m doing show prep here day and I’m typing New York Comedy Festival into Google and nothing coming up. There’s just no buzz on this thing.

It’s the strangest thing every year because on paper it’s great, in reality it’s invisible. Oh yeah, Gilbert Godfried. He’s got an album out today. Now the press keeps calling it Gilbert Godfried’s first comedy album. But here’s the thing.

He’s got an album. It’s called Dirty Jokes. I was playing it on serious radio for years. I play it every time there’s a Gilbert story, and I talk about it on my show on Live one. The free app my show is called The Weekly Comedy Thing.

The show is free, the app is free, But anytime I talk about Gilbert, I have been pulling from the album Dirty Jokes. I see two dates here. It either came out in two thousand and three two thousand and five, but it exists. So I asked Friend of the Show Jason Zenneman on Threads, and by the way, follow me on threads. Threads has a good comedy community.

I’m getting much more engagement over there than I ever did on Twitter. Friend of the show Jason Zinneman of The New York Times, I asked him, what am I missing here? Why are they calling this the first album? Clearly Dirty Jokes exist. Jason hit me back and wrote, you nailed it.

Respect the hustle. I mean, basically, they took material from that doc which wasn’t meant to be an album, and called it one. But you know, the more Gilbert, the better. I agree. So I saw on the New York Comedy Festival website, which drives me nuts.

I saw them referred to it as Gilbert’s first vinyl release. Maybe this is the first album and the other thing was a CD. Maybe we’re getting a little Clinton here. It depends on what the definition of is is, depends on what your definition of an album is. I don’t know anyway, Gilbert’s got a thing out today.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Tony Hinchcliffe, Adrienne Iapalucci, Elon Musk, Chloe Fineman, John Mulaney, John Krasinski, Gallagher, Bill Burr, Howie Mandel, Bob Saget

What’s in This Episode

• Tony Hinchcliffe Puerto Rico joke controversy vs Adrienne Iapalucci’s Netflix special
• Shane Gillis announces 27-city tour starting January 10
• Elon Musk responds to Chloe Fineman SNL accusations without apology
• Comedy Central twice offered John Mulaney The Daily Show role
• John Krasinski named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine
• Gallagher documentary premieres at Doc NYC Film Festival

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Pro tip, actually plug in your microphone or you wind up having to do the first eight minutes over on your podcast. Hi, I’m Johnnie mag with your Daily Comedy News rookie mistake, you idiots? Hey, am I crazy? Wasn’t it like twelve days ago Tony Hinchcliff was at Madison Square Garden and he told a joke about Puerto Ricans and people got all irate about it.

Well, Atrian Applelucci dropped her new special on Netflix and told this chunk, I’ll share it with you. I found the chunk on Samuel’s Twitter account. Let me play it and then I’ll have some commentary. Hamas has to kill all of the Jews. They are really limiting it to Israel, right, like if they wanted all of the Jews dead, and they do it globally, it’s just local.

Well, which lets you know, it’s not really about the Jews. It’s about whoever is occupied that space. If Asian people live there, they would hate the Asians, you know, Like, look at me. I’ve lived in the Bronx my entire life, so I hate Puerto Ricans And what I am proposing is a little exchange program where we send the Puerto Ricans to Israel and send the Jews to the Bronx, and then you watch how quickly the Palestinians will be begging for the Jews back. Like, oh my god.

But these people never sleep. He’s always playing music. Yeah, Now, how come nobody’s upset about that? One is because one was at a political rally and the other was set at a stand up comedy club. Perhaps maybe they’re both comedians.

I personally am able to understand the difference between comedians telling jokes and hate speech. I don’t believe Adrian actually wants to send Puerto Ricans to Israel. I think she’s kidding or is the election over or I don’t know. If she did that set at Madison Square Garden, people would be irate. No yes, no, yes, yes, no, yes.

Anyway. I watched Adrian apple Lucci’s The Dark Queen or Dark Queen whatever it’s called on Netflix. It’s okay. I struggled with it. I’m struggling with my emotions.

And there’s a thread on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group where you can discuss this with us. I think her writing is on point. I think there are particular chunks that work really well, but as a whole I struggled with it because I don’t find any of the premises to be real, and I need some reality. I need, I need my comedy to be at least a little bit reality based. So here she’s telling for an hour untrue premise after untrue premise, and each untrue premise comes with the shocking twist.

And you can do that in comedy, but I think that works better if you do it after a chunk based in truth, whereas this is just absurdist joke after absurdist joke. Again, the writing’s funny, The individual parts work well, they’ll probably work really well on social media, but as a whole it was just like, all right, I’m forty five minutes in here. You haven’t said a single truth thing yet unless you actually do want to ship Puerto Ricans to Israel, I do think you’re kidding. So overall it won’t make my end of the year list. However, I’ll recommend that you watch it because it is entertaining.

I was entertained until I wasn’t entertained anymore. Controversial comedian Shane gillis, that’s how the headlines phrase him, He’s announced a tour controversial comedian Shane Gillis. Now, let me ask you what is controversial about Shane Gillis? Is it because he got higher than fired by SNL many moons ago because somebody noticed something he had said on a podcast previously, and then we canceled Shane Gillis, And then Shane Gillis went, I’m not canceled, And he’s one of comedy’s biggest stars right now, so everybody loves him again. Is that it?

Anyway? The controversial comedian’s tour is called Jane Gillis Live. He must have worked a really long time on that one, but it does get the job done. It’s a twenty seven city tour kicking off January tenth in San Antonio. Is a mostly US show with two random shows in March in Dublin and then London.

The Dublin show March twenty first. Maybe he just wants to at Saint Patrick’s day over there. Who knows. He’s not playing anywhere near my house. I would have to drive closest.

One looks like Albudy in New York, in case you’re curious. Would surprise me if he adds dates Deacon Mike April eleventh, Cleveland, you should go. Elon Musque has responded to Chloe Fineman’s accusation that he made her burst into tears when Elon hosted the show. Elon tweeted, frankly, it was only the Thursday before the Saturday that any of the sketches generated laughs. I was worried.

I was like, Damn, my SNL appearance is going to be so unfunny that it’ll make a crackhead sober. But then it worked out in the end. He did not address Chloe’s comments. He did not apologize. People are catching up on that John Mulaney profile in GQ, which I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy, his podcast group been talked about a little bit yesterday and we’ll talk about for the next few days.

One of the things we learned is that Comedy Central twice tried to get John Mulaney to take over the Daily Show. The first time was when John Stewart left, which on a timeline would have made sense for John Mulaney, and the other time quote more recently, which career wise, I don’t think makes any sense for John Mulaney. Why would John Mulaney host The Daily Show in twenty twenty four. Right, No, why would he do that? Mulaney said, it wasn’t the right thing.

At the moment, we’re hearing mullany is going to do twelve more episodes of that Netflix late night show. That’ll be fun. Congratulations to John Krasinsky. He has been named sexiest man alive by people. So if you find yourself in meetings making faces because the meeting is ridiculous, one of two fates awaits you.

Either you become the sexiest man alive or you find yourself recording a podcast on the basement fifteen years later. One of those two things is true. Remember Gallagher, there’s a new documentary about him. Gallagher is a tale of triumph, heartick, and the resilience of an endlessly creative mind. You remember the dude he smashed watermelons?

Remember that? But that was only a fraction of his act. Gallagher was at heart a wordsmith, poet, and a visual absurdist. Over time, Gallagher’s fame faded. He claims he never landed a sitcom because he spent too much time on the road.

Was that true? Was he difficult to work with? Was he unlucky. What about the urban legend that his brother stole his act as Gallagher two? Who is the real Gallagher?

Well, the new documentary Gallagher makes its world premiere at the doc NYC Film Festival today. They have shared a trailer with me from which I will excerpt. You’re gonna hear some voices that you’d be like, ah, I know that voice. The voices you’re going to hear include in order, Bill Burr, Howie Mandel, and Bobcak Goldwaite. As like twelve thirteen.

To see an adult acting like that freedom, there was a silliness. It was visceral, and it was relatable and it was. Fun, but at the same time it becomes the only thing people known for. He had really smart material too. He was really brilliant, and he garnered a bigger audience in a wider swath and more television than anybody of his era.

So what happened to Gallagher? What happened to that surreal hippy genius I saw as a kid? I worked with Gallagher once when I had the Raw Dog Comedy channel at Sirius, which is audio only by the way. We had Bob Goat come in to smash watermelons on the radio, because that was the kind of thing we did. We like absurdus humor.

You’ve heard me talk. I like Letterman, I like Conan, I like things that make no sense. Why would we have a guy smash watermelons on the radio. I don’t know, but it was funny, and I will tell you. We did this in the it’s called the Fishbowl studio, which is the main studio at Sirius.

It’s called the Fishball because it’s all glass, so a lot of people can gather around and watch the recording from outside the studio. Oh my, did we draw a crowd for that? It was huge. There is a clip on YouTube if you want to look for it. Just google raw Dog Gallagher.

I think it’ll come up. Yep, raw Dog Gallagher. The first clip that came up from April sixteenth to two thousand and eight. Gallagher is still smashing watermelons. That’s the clip you’re going to look for.

We actually did this thing. It was hilarious. I didn’t find him difficult to work with at all. I found him cool. I found him fun.

I thought he went along with the gags that we had for him, and it was a great broadcast. Check out that video if you enjoy what I do here. There are several ways to support the show. One way is go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. Now I’m doing my usual shake the cup bit, and I see the ice has already melted.

And it’s only eleven thirty in the morning as I’m recording, so there should be more ice.

Now here’s the thing.

When I went to the chain this morning, it was a mess. Nobody’s order was ready. And every now and then, this is my number one donut chain, pet Peeve, they do the thing where it’s not really a nice coffee, it’s hot coffee that they poured over ice because the orders were backed up and they don’t have enough stuff ready, and that’s what happened today. I hate when they do that. Anyway you could support the show, you go to buy me a coffee dot com.

Throw some money in the tip show. I take your money. I go to the National Donut Chain and I get myself a large iced coffee with caramel and almond milk. These days trying to switch up to diet a little bit. If you need something to watch, Jeff Dye the last Cowboy in La premieres on the eight hundred pound Gerilla YouTube channel tonight at seven pm Central Time.

Speaking of Central Time, it’s the Flyover Comedy Festival, the annual comedy invasion that takes over the Grove and a few other venues in Saint Louis. Your headliners Tik Nazaro and paton Oswalt.

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Also in town the Sclar Brothers, Ben Bailey, Jackie Fabulous, Henry Phillips.

I do like the way the Flyover Comedy Festival has their schedule, and I wish more festivals would do this. It’s probably an Excel sheet or whatever the Google Docs version is for you kids, but it’s just a nice easy way for podcast hosts to see what is going on tonight, all on one screen without me scrolling. I see Ben Bailey is the big headliner tonight at eight o’clock. But as I’m scanning here, there’s an improv show at nine called Whimsy Lohan and Some Black People, which is just a great name.

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Meanwhile, the New York Comedy Festival, they have theirs in chronological or…

I prefer the grid that way, I can see, like all the shows at say seven o’clock one line, rather than scrolling down. Maybe next year in New York can hire the guy from the Flyover Comedy Festival.

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Also, I’m babbling as I sit here waiting for this schedule page to load.

Perhaps there’s a big late morning demand on the schedule tab. People are really excited about the lineup. Come on load. Why don’t you edit that out, John because that’s not fun? Well, fans, I did eventually have to make an edit as I sat here in silence waiting for this thing to load.

It’s not my internet. I’m checking here. I’ve got a blazing eighty eight megabytes per second of downloads. I don’t blame Johnny Max’s Internet. I suspect this website has problems because I’m looking at it and says the laughter starts in negative seven days, negative twelve hours.

Unless that’s a joke. You are a comedy festival. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. Well, they’re having problems. The mobile site loaded first, and I’ll tell you when you have all your shows in chronological order, and we’re a week plus into this thing.

Now you have to scroll through like four hundred shows to get where you want. Why wouldn’t you have the newest shows up top? Why would you do it like this? This website is terrible. Hire the guy from Flyover?

Will you all right after all that? Who is playing Tonight? Five thirty at New York Comedy Club for a shaw Ida Rodriguez? Six thirty at Chelsea Jubuki Young White at the hard Rock at seven. JB.

Smooth at town Hall at seven Comedy Gives Back Laugh Aid at Gotham at seven o’clock. Joo Rivers owed to Joan, it’s like Joe Rivers a week at the festival. That’s at the Lori Beachman Theater at seven. This is different than the other Joe Rivers things I told you about the description of this one. If Joe Rivers would have been Chinese, she would have been the spitting image of the glamorous, hysterical Joe Yang Summers.

Just call her Jiao Rivers. That’s fun well played here at the Little Field at eight o’clock The Aristour Taylor Swift Comedy Show and Dance Party. Do you think Taylor Swift will show up? Taylor Swift’s Eras tour is still going on, so Zach Schiffman and a gaggle of swifty comedians will help say goodbye to the never ending epic concert Lewis Katz haven’t heard that name in a while. His show Old Man Hassel Presents Lewis Katz Live in Brooklyn at williams Burg at eight David Tell at town All at nine forty five.

That’s the show you want to go see, no doubt, I don’t care what else I didn’t scroll down to yet. That’s the move. Go see it. Tell and the New York Comedy Festival website has sucked the life out of me. I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do right now.

I’m gonna record the New York Comedy Festival parts of Saturday and Sunday’s podcast while the website’s actually working. I’m not sure comedy is for today. See Ano Rrow guys,