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Featured: Sebastian Maniscalco, Matt Rife, Mike Kaplan

What’s in This Episode

• Sebastian Maniscalco on embracing fear and showmanship in live comedy
• Sebastian Maniscalco’s arena tour with family and avoiding social media algorithms
• Matt Rife on crowd work and handling well-meaning hecklers at shows
• Matt Rife on managing expectations from front-row audience members seeking viral moments
• Matt Rife responding to critics and working on Netflix gym-themed series
• Mike Kaplan on reviewing material and the Boston comedy lineage

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Caloroga Shark Media, Hidley Holmes, Johnny Mac with Your Daily Comedy News the LA Daily News and spoke to Sebastian Maniscalco. He said there’s no better testing ground to prove what you made of than standing on stage alone in front of a crowd. Sebastian said, everybody’s trying to do it at different levels, and when you get down to the court of it all, I think you have to embrace that fear because as a comedian, you’re up there spilling your soul to these strangers. I think it’s part of what makes the connection between you and the fans grow deeper. That’s the beauty of going up there.

I’m a huge fan of showmanship. Back in the eighties, Prince Motley, Crue, Michael Jackson, those were all musical acts, but there’s an element of production and excitement, and I want to recreate some of that by doing some of the things that might not be traditional in the world of comedy. He had been working on figuring out things like how do I get from the back of the house to the stage, or how do I make an entrance? Then of course I have to be funny or else. No one in the arena gives a crap how I got there.

I just want people to say I never disappointed them at a show. That’s kind of what most important to me. He says. Putting most of his energy into his live show is a better use of his time at this stage than worrying about boosting his profile on TikTok or Instagram. He did post a video with the lead singer of Creed, Scott Stapp.

That video got twelve million views. Sebastian said, I just put it up like a fun, stupid video and not thinking he was going nuts, rather than trying to figure out how do I get in the algorithm or what a kids want to see, what’s the other generation looking for. I just do what I do, and if you like it, great, and if not, that’s fine too. If you just do what you think is funny, I think people will relate. This tour kind of has a little bit more meaning to me in the sense that for the first time in my life, I’m sharing what I do with my entire family, in particularly my kids, because now they’re kind of aware of what daddy does for a living.

He makes people laugh. I don’t know if I’m going to be doing a dome show. In two years, I could be back at the theater or a comedy club. Who knows. So to enjoy this tour with my family is really important to me.

The Hollywood Reporter spoke to Matt Rife about crowd work. They were curious how respectful Matt’s fans are when he’s out there doing prepared material. Rife said, I’d say a large already to them. They’re respectful. Occasionally they aren’t.

But there are pros and cons of doing crowd work. He gets to interact with these amazing people that you choose at random, and then people at home are like, oh, if I buy a seat in the first five rows, that guarantees me a chance to speak to him, where they’ll purposely yell, thinking, Oh, if I talk to him and he turns into something funny, I’m gonna be in his next clip. And I gotta understand how that can be the perception, but it’s not how it works. It’s rarely the loudest person in the room is intion that’s the most interesting person to talk to. It’s usually the least assuming person who probably had no idea who I was in the first place.

That sparks the best kind of conversation. So yeah, people do yell out sometimes because they expect or want to be the person who get spoken to, and then I’m like forced to entertain it. And that’s the thing. People will disrupt a show, which is a bad thing, but then because I’m good at it, I turn it into a good thing, and then they were rewarded for doing a bad thing. But if I scold them or I don’t turn it into something funny, then I look like I can’t handle a heckler or I can’t think quickly on my feet.

That’s really interesting, isn’t it. Yeah, so I’m kind of forced to rise to each occasion, and most of the time it ends up being something wonderful and we get a good moment out of it for the show, and the whole audience appreciates it. But I’d be lying if I said there weren’t times that people do ruin a moment for the show. Raife said, here’s your headline. F the haters, like, I hear about what they say, and I think it’s so funny.

It’s pretty obvious the stereotypes of people who don’t like me, and that’s totally fine. I have no problem with people not liking me. Cool, stay as far away from me as possible, because I make a lot of people very happy and that means the world to me. And you don’t know how badly these people need to be made happy. So yeah, for me, it was just an opportunity to comedically and creatively take a jab back.

This doesn’t matter how good loose it is. I could wear in an Emmy for it and they’ll still say it’s trash. And I try not to give haters the time of day, but I was like, Okay, here’s one little opportunity to get in my licks. I suppose comedy is just intention right, So my intentions haven’t changed because they were never wrong in the first place. If people think I’m this person, then you haven’t done enough research.

I mean, I don’t think I’ve done anything controversial. Just because somebody does something that you don’t like doesn’t mean that they’re the devil. That’s crazy. People are allowed to like different things than you, People are allowed to laugh at different things than you. Even in twenty twenty four, he’s working on a Netflix series that’s set in a gym and said, right now, my writer and I are passing off a couple of different script drafts back and forth that will submit to Netflix and hopefully get picked up the series.

It’s really really fun. The gym is something that’s very important to me, and I believe should be important to everybody, not just for your physical health, but for your mental health. Everybody goes to the gym isn’t trying to be a powerlifter. For me personally, it’s the one hour I get out of my day that I don’t have to think about work and I can just focus on myself and it’s a stress release. Like right now, I’m totally exhausted, but as soon as we get off the phone, I’m gonna squeeze it an hour before a show tonight because I know it’s part of my routine and I really need it.

The Columbus Underground spoke to Mike Kaplan about reviewing past material. Mike said, I’m sure that I’m not the only comedian who reviews and reflects. I can only speak from my own experience, and I think comedians aren’t a monolith and there’s a range. I don’t know if this is accurate, but Tony V was one of the first comedians ever saw on Boston. He’s one of the funniest people I’ve ever seen.

There are a lot of comedians that come from there, but there’s a rich lineage of really strong joke writers. In addition to great performers. You have Dane Cook and Bill Burrn and Patris O’Neil coming from there, and also Gary Goleman, who I think is a masterful performer, And there are masterful writers like Wendy Leeman. There are a lot of Boston comedians who are still there and still crushing it, and you might I see them tell their perfect joke equations night after night. Tony Vee was one who I remembered.

Even it was telling the same jokes of the same stories, it would often come out differently. I don’t know if he ever wrote anything down, or at least that’s what it seemed to me. He might have. Maybe he tricked me in the way that many comedians trick many people, but it’s my sense that he was like, I have these ideas, and I know I’m funny. I’ll express them this way one night, in another way another night.

Mike Kamplan started talking about seeing Rory Skovell in the two thousand and six Seattle International Comedy Competition. Everybody was doing basically their tight fives. It’d be their audition set to get on TV, and that served a lot of people. Well, Rory completely did not do that every night. It was something different.

It was inspirational to me. From that point on, I realized I didn’t have to just do the jokes as written in the order. I decided I could leave room for chance and open up to the moment and start riffing and experimenting more at the ends of jokes or in between jokes. So the Lasher point is there are some comedians and never write things down, when there were some comedians that write things down meticulously. When I first come up with an idea, usually I’ll record it in my recorder out loud.

Then I’ll write it long hand in a notebook. Later I’ll type it in my computer, and at each stage, when I’m revisiting, I’ll a stents quote unquote the same idea. Or visiting something can always spark something new to happen. So I’m not saying that every comedian should do what I’m doing, but it certainly serves me.

All right, let’s stay comedically philosophical today Dina Hasham spoke to Sl…

Dina said, yeah, I mean, having new experiences definitely helps. It’s not like you’re not having new experiences and you can’t joke about being a comedian for the whole time. So I have to consciously make an effort to do new things or have new experiences, and that definitely helps have new ideas. What happens to a lot of comedians become rich and famous, it changes their act and for the worst for the most part. Like it’s hard for me to think of comedians who’ve gotten better with fame and fortune.

My all time favorite is Norm McDonald and he just managed to be funny his entire life somehow. Sam Campbell is one of Vulture’s comedians. You should and will know. Sam spin on my radar for a few years for his work at the various festivals, the proudest moment of his career so far. There’s a funny comedian called James Gill who runs a Great Night in London at a pub called the Tommy Field.

He host the show and one says, I left the stage, he said to the crowd, give it up for Sam Campbell, the Maestro. I got a real jolt for him, called the Maestro, did wonder for my confidence. Unfortunately was short lived. I’ve done the gig a few times since. Discovery calls quite a lot of comedians the Maestro.

He says it all the time about people. But you can’t discount something just because it’s short lived. Whose career trajectory would you like to follow? He says? The answer is simple, Shelley Berman, interesting, worst show ever.

I’ve boon more times than you’ve had hot dinners. Every time I go on, I’m trying to showcase rather than just goose around. I almost always die very badly. I’ve had some really awful, unforfiable ones lately. Sorry, it’s not a specific answer.

If I try to access some of those memories and depth, I I could trap to not be able to come back. All Right, what comedy opinion hill will you die on? Sam says, A lot of people give me a hard time for laughing at my own jokes on stage. I’d like to dress this once and for all. They’re not my jokes.

I stole them from various open my comedians and foreside comic strips, and my laughter is always genuine. Best comedy advice, worst comedy advice, the best. I have a boozy lunch with Jimmy Carr whenever he’s not touring, and it’s always an honor and a masterclass to listen to him muse on the craft. He recently said, be careful when you get to the top of the mountain. You might not be able to breathe that air.

That stuck with me. Worst advice. Johnny McCallister, who runs the Comedy Lounge in Perth, Australia, would say to me, only do your gold There was a lot of pressure. If I was a promoter, I would say to every act your golden Go out there and see what happens when the light bounces off of you. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: John Mulaney, Nate Bargatze, Andrew Schultz, Donald Trump, Jerry Seinfeld, Kevin Hart, Samantha Bee, Dave Chappelle, Weird Al Yankovic, Andy Samberg, Trevor Noah

What’s in This Episode

• John Mulaney to host weekly live talk show for Netflix
• Nate Bargatze returns to Netflix with two stand-up specials
• Andrew Schultz interviews Donald Trump on his podcast
• Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Let’s Go IDF’ message at Mets game
• Kevin Hart addresses Diddy party allegations on social media
• Samantha Bee’s new show ‘How to Survive Mental Pause’ in NYC
• Weird Al Yankovic discusses hosting SNL aspirations

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny mag who with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney is going to host a weekly talk show. Yep, it’s for Netflix. It will be live.

The Netflix Chief Content Officer Bella Bajaria announced the news at a Bloomberg screen time and said, I’m really excited about it. I mean, John Mulaney. Hello. Kind of weird the way they released this, just you know, out of the blue, no press release or anything. So we have a long relationship with John, obviously, and we’ve done his stand up specials and during the Netflix As a Joke Festival, he did a live talk show called Everybody’s in La And I was there at a couple of tapings and it was just so bold and original and fresh and then unpredictable.

And I think it’ll be really fun to get to do a live show with him. No word yet on when this will premiere or if John Mulini even knows about this. I will keep you posted a little more solid as Nate Perghetzi will return to Netflix with two stand up specials. He had been working with Amazon for a little bit. I guess he came back home where the money’s greener who knows your friend Nate Pergetzy will launch on December twenty fourth, and then they can promote the heck out of that on the football games the next day.

He’ll also do a second special in twenty twenty five, your friend Nate Pergetzy will see the comedian discussing wanting a second dog, how much beats an order for Guys Night, and his wife being the responsible one in the marriage. Andrew Schultz said Donald Trump on his podcast and laughed in Trump’s face. Trump referred to himself as basically a truthful person. Schultz burst out laughing. Trump said, of Harris, I always refer back to the simplicity of McDonald’s.

You lied about McDonald’s. You lied about many things, and she’s a liar. There should be some kind of rule, you know, where it’s a lie, you can’t do a commercial on it. But this is a thing that’s gonna end in twenty nine days, so I can say what they want. I have a hard time doing to them because I’m basically, you know, I’m basically a truthful person.

Schultz then burst out laughing in Trump’s face. Schultz said, what does that mean? Trump said, she’s given me so much ammunition. I don’t have to. She’s a radical leftling lunatic who will destroy our nation.

Send your letters of complaints to Donald Trump, or listen to the Ballot podcast, where we do this stuff every day over there, Ballots wherever you get your shows. Schultz then asked Trump if he supports abortion bands. Now that Baron Trump has been quote unleashed in New York City, Schultz asked, tell me the situation. Baron is eighteen, he’s handsome, he’s tall, he’s rich. Trump said he’s got the whole ballgame this kid.

Schultz said, he’s unleashed in New York City. Are you sure you want to reverse Roe V? Wait? Now, I mean maybe give him a few years, you know. Trump didn’t answer the question, but cracked a smile gave a straight answer about how it’s up to the states now, and I’ll leave the political stuff for the ballot show.

Let’s go hang out on gossip Corner, and it’s very gossipy today. Donald Rowling’s booked to Chicago. Defender the topic, Diddy Donale said, you know, it’s interesting. There’s two sides to every story. I had the chance to learn one version of Diddyon.

Some of those accusers are sharing their experiences in that photo, I saw a group of black men enjoying each other’s company, celebration of blackness, fatherhood, and friendship. People can interpret that image however they want, but that’s the energy I felt. Did he host gatherings like this every year? And I remember when Dave’s kids were hanging out with his kids? I believe the Dave in question there is Dave Chappelle.

Everybody was out in the water having fun together. It was a beautiful celebration of life, family and made a lasting impression. Unfortunately, many people now see him as the devil. Still, those who had the chance to work with him or receive undisputable opportunities have a different perspective, and that’s important to recognize as well.

Meanwhile, Atlanta Blackstar is asking where is Kevin the headline.

Kevin Hart’s wife, an Ego, has not posted the comedians since he was bombarded with Diddy questions. The troll attacks, as they’re being called, started on the couple’s September twenty ninth post about their daughter’s birthday. One comment read, still pretending everything is normal and acting like your eyes are blind as crazy. How did you sleep? Bro?

On October sixth, Kevin Hart shared a video of himself wearing out the gym. The comments included, you were invited to join Diddy’s jail party. Don’t forget baby oil. Kevin Hart was out in West Hollywood. A Papa Rozzo asked Kevin Hart, when you hosted for Ditty, did you catch any baby oil?

Kevin Hart responded, when I hosted for Ditty. You’re asking the wrong person, the wrong question. It’s not a good question. Which is an interesting answer here asking me if I’ve ever met Ditty? No, I have never met Ditty.

Have ever been one of his parties? No, I have never been to one of Ditty’s parties. I know that’s shocking, but no, I haven’t missus. Hart has not shared any images with Kevin on her Instagram since August twenty fourth. Again, we’re on gossip corner.

Now staying on gossip corner. Jerry Seinfeld was at the Mets game. A video shows a fan asking Jerry to send a message to the fans brother who’s in Israel. The brother was watching the Mets game from the Gaza border. Seinfeld raised his fist in solidarity and offered a three word message, which was let’s go IDF weird AWL told the story to people in which Andy Samberg, who’s in the macpack, actually weird Al should be in the macpack as well.

We’ll get to that a different day. Samberg actually called me up before the show SNL and said, hey, man, I’m doing an impressive view and I hope it’s okay, and I’m like, yeah, it’s fine, whatever you want to do. Al would like to HOSTSNALI, He says, I wonder why haven’t I done that yet? And that’s one of those things, but you know, still may happen. Who knows.

I think I’d rather be a host than a musical guest, because if you host, you have more permission to mess up, and as a musical guest, if you get one note wrong, you’re a failure. Samanth the Bee told the Daily Beast podcast she’s working on a three night run of a new show in New York City this week. The title of the program is How to Survive Mental Pause. Sam says, I’m not generally a hot takes type of person, and I do like to think about things and consider things, but the anger inside of me would boil. I would rage boil in a nanosecond.

It was such a powerful feeling that I did. At the end of the summer, I was throwing things privately. My personal anger was overtaking me. I never really did that in anyone’s presence, but it was like a private inner turmoil, and I thought, I really need psychiatric care. This is very out of character.

The show runs October seventeenth through the nineteenth at the Minuta Lane Theater in Manhattan. By the way, I want to thank the supporters. You know several of you support the show regularly. Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

You know I’ll get an email in the middle of the night telling me somebody signed up. So Deb, thank you, Deb joined the two dollars Club. That’s a nice easy way to do it. Ellen Avon, Aaron Becky Different Aeron, Liz, Travis Scott. Maybe I should blackmail Scott and be like, hey man, a little more donations, a little less Joe Coy know what I’m saying.

Nudge nudge, we have fewer Camber shots of Taylor Swift, Tommy Andrea, Gary, Shannon, Mike and Kenny. Thank you all so much. Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You know what I’ll do. I will go to the National Donut Chain.

I don’t have one with me. What this is here? This is a diet coke that I got at famous Hamburger chain. Dudes, two cheeseburger meal that you would get at a famous hamburger chain. Eleven fifty.

What are we doing? Trevor Noah said he’d be happy to drop by the Daily Show. Coincidentally, he’s got a new book to promote. Wow, it’s weird how that happens. I mean, Trevor hadn’t mentioned wanting to go on The Daily Show at all, and he’s got a new book, and now he’s like, Oh, I’d go on the Daily Show.

Huh. I see how that works. Savannah Guthrie asked Trevor while he was guesting on The Today’s Show, the question, would you ever go back to the Daily Show just for a guest thing? Look at John he’s doing Mondays. Trevor said, oh, always, always, John and I text about it all the time.

I’m just gonna come pop in and harass him for a full day and then be his guest. Trevor said he always wished he could do a version of The Daily Show with a lighter schedule, and then he messaged Sean Stewart saying, I literally messaged him and was like, you set up a bee. You figured it out. Roy Wood Junior tell the Egle Online. What makes the Daily Show so legendary but can also be burdensome creatively is they have to try to look at the solution of the problem or the causation of the problem, so he can put a real call to action on the issue.

But when it comes to Have I Got News for You, we get to live in the joke first and the solution second. I mentioned this the other day as I’m watching HBO Max, Are you watching the Penguin? By the way, somebody’s got a crush on one of the actors in the Penguin? And no, I don’t have a crush on Oz Cobblepot. You can figure out who.

But I digress. Have I Got News for You? It’s like in the Top ten. So, as I mentioned, it might not be a good idea to have on CNN Saturday night, but people are watching it, which is good. I like everybody on the show.

Royoo Junior said, everybody interprets and digests information and trauma differently. So I think we have an opportunity with Have I Got News for You to introduce a new prism through which to process everything terrible that’s going on in the world. You know, one week, Donald Trump’s talking about people eating dogs and cats. In the next week, the mayor of New York City gets indicted. Every week’s been an amazing bingo cord of chaos.

There were so many shows that were around attempting to offer their own ankles on the stuff. So the fact that a new show even dared to enter the market space in the last four years is huge. Right. Vulture is keeping an eye on this crossover between Abbott Elementary and It’s Always Sunny. They have an update which reads a lot of NSWF improv is hitting the cutting room floor.

Patrick Schumacher toil the rap. When we were shooting last week, Rob had this improv in one scene with Ava that I didn’t know was coming. He just thought about it temporaneously. It made me spit out my coffee and then wish we had an episode that was just like a gag reel of all the stuff we can’t use. When Quinna first brought it to me and Pat I was like, this is gonna work.

How we’re gonna marry the tones of these shows but stay true to the own show. It was incredibly fun to do. The Abbot folks added that Mceleenny and Charlie Day spend time in the writer’s room to make it work. No details and when it will air? Are you in Toronto tonight?

I like the title of this all of us are Asian comedy show. Exclamation boint. This is Toronto’s hottest comedy show that will take you on a wild and hilarious ride. The show always sells out. Get your tickets now.

Well, John, why’d you tell them about it two seconds before the show? I don’t know. Maybe I pretaped the weekend. You know it happens. Yeah, maybe I appreciate the weekend.

That’s your comedy news for today. Two dollars club. Love you guys, appreciated all the supporters. Appreciate you. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Felicity Ward, Jeff Dunham, Nate Bargatze, Ari Shaffir

What’s in This Episode

• The Office Australia casting and release with Felicity Ward
• Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged Up Holiday Special on Amazon Prime
• Nate Bargatze performing at Stanford with crowd work
• Ari Shaffir interview on being labeled a ‘smart comedian’
• Ari Shaffir reflects on canceled FX show Totally Biased legacy
• Aperghetzi and Laura’s $1.3M donation to Donaldson Christian Academy

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Caloroga Shark Media people are really wigged about this Australian version of the Office. Calm down, everyone, Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. They’re acting like, oh, I can’t believe they made an Australian version of the Office. Are you paying attention? There’s a zillion versions.

There’s a version on Hulu that I watched that’s Hindi. It’s like half Hindi and half English and the dialogue goes back and forth and sometimes I read the captions and it’s the Office. I get it. And I don’t know if you know this. The Office, as great as it was, was originally a British series starring Ricky Gervay’s so let’s stop acting like we can’t make a new one.

Felicity Ward stars in The Australian Office and has told fans Ricky Gervaise personally approved her casting. Felicity said, Ricky Gervais has approved a female lead. He’s very excited about a female lead. Just in case anyone is angry. Australian Office will be on Prime Video on the Australia and UK on October eighteenth.

If you’re in the US, You’re not going to get it unless you have one of those VPNs. Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. She was asked how she’s feeling about the show’s released on October eighteenth, and said, pretty chill. Actually, English people and people love the office. They’re like, hey, what do you want to do?

That’s fine. Felicity plays Hannah Howard, manager of the Sydney based box company Finley Cratick. She says, I did zero preparation because I read the script and I’m like, oh my god, this is every annoying part of my personality. I’ve been preparing for this my whole life, and I don’t know if this showrunner, I don’t know how much she had seen me before, but it was like as if she got the tapes and then edited out the charm and the bits that people liked about me, and then just wrote a character. So it’s just there.

It’s very strange playing a character where you’re supposed to make people cringe. Jeff Dunham has a new Christmas Carol inspired comedy special coming out, This one also on Amazon Prime. This one you can watch in the States. It’ll be out November nineteenth. It is titled Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged Up Holiday Special.

In Jeff Dunham’s Screwed Up In Jeff Dunham’s So yeah, I’m leaving that in. I did you hear that? All right? I misspoke and I said screwed up, and then I was going to do the pick up, and then I realized screwed up is funny. So I’m leaving all that in, including the explanation.

This is where I start over. Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged Up Holiday Special, premiering on another bust. Leave it in. I’m giving you a little behind the scenes here, all right. Take three, Jeff Dunhams screwed him.

You’d swear I’m doing a bit. Take four Jeff Dunham’s Scrooged Up Holiday Special, premiers November nineteenth. In Jeff Dunham’s scrooged Up Holiday Special, Jeff Dunham recreates the beloved Charles Dickens Holiday story with his iconic characters. In the classic roles, Guess who’s Scrooge? That’s right, Walter.

But when Jeff assigns Bubba j Peanut, Little Jeff and Ahmed to their thespian parts, they don’t quite agree and the plan spins hilariously out of control during this stand up comedy special. It’s Jeff Dunham’s thirteenth comedy special, his second to twenty twenty four. Remember back on Valentine’s Day he did I’m with Cupid, No Me neither. This is his third Christmas Team Special, following completely unrehearsed Last Minute Pandemic Holiday Special from twenty twenty Great Title and Jeff Dunham’s Very Special Christmas Special in two thousand and eight. Aperghetzi and his wife Laura are helping build an indoor practice facility for the Donaldson Christian Academy.

They’ve donated a gift of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars with an additional matching gift of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars to help the DCA with the project. Nate is an alumni of DCA, graduating with the class of ninety seven. The DCA said, we’re excited to announce the potential edition of an indoor practice facility. Facility allows to better serve all of our wildcats by creating a space that can be used for multiple purposes during all our seasons. The indoor space will feature competitive athletic facilities, state of the art strength training, multipurpose space for band and early learning, and new locker rooms and office spaces.

Junior did some crowd work and bonded with an audience member over catching her boyfriend cheating on Facebook. He bonded by saying he was caught on AOL instant Messenger. The Stanford Daily says Wood’s joke about AOL wasn’t the only one that aged him, but he maintained relevance to the college student audience by highlighting the twisted nature of the textbook sale industry. Would have joked about a process called book buy back. The program allows students to sell used textbooks at the school bookstore or a quote unquote sketchy online company for around one tenth through the original price.

Yeah, if you’ve got any kids in college, the textbook game is insane. I actually teach you college classes. I don’t use a textbook. I use my own knowledge. I teach a radio class in a podcasting class so I can write the notes off the top of my head.

Roy said, I know a scam when I see one. How much new Calculus came out in the past few months, Smile Politely dot Com caught up with the ever so serious Ari Condobolu. Smile asked Hari, what’s it like being a smart comedian? Harry said, what it means is you get described as smart and brilliant and what did Time Out New York say, deals in commonly reasoned polemics. But the word funny isn’t used nearly enough.

The only thing I want to see is funny. He’s really funny, hysterical. I’m a comedian at the end of the day. All the other things smart, well spoken, thoughtful, and I’ll throw in ever so serious. I’d be part of it.

Is your interview Persoda, dude, I’d like that to be the garnish around the funny. I do think, certainly there’s a reason that I bring an NPR audience. I use big words and reference things that might not be in pop culture and maybe more about world affairs and about historical things, while still attempting to be relatable to any mainstream audience. I guess that’s what it means, or maybe I just wear glasses. I don’t know.

Smile asked him about his show Totally Biased already said, first of all, it’s a show. It’s been canceled since twenty thirteen. To the fact that it still gets its flowers, it’s really nice. I wish I got more. I feel like the fact that the clips aren’t readily available online.

When FX bowl the clips after the show got canceled, I felt that was a really bad decision. They put the episodes up. The episodes aren’t going to be evergreen, but some of the clips will be. It’s just annoying watch things. It’d be like, yeah, we cover this a decade ago, and that’s the same angle we took, and there’s no record of it.

I’ve seen things since and it’s like, Okay, that’s literally almost verbatim. When I said three years later the same joke. It taught me that there were more people appreciated the point of view that I had, that Camal had, that the voice of the show had. It made me feel like maybe I wasn’t out on a limb the same way I thought it was at the same time, and also taught me that we were still on the cutting edge because the stuff we were talking about in twenty twelve about trans rights and police brutality and the angles we took then became mainstream angles a few years later, all of a sudden, you even see late night shows covering those issues that started with us. That a Pooh documentary I did comes from totally biased.

I was thinking of a pool uh last week or the week before, and I was watching the quote unquote serious finale of The Simpsons, and I don’t think up Poo appeared in it at all, Like not even in the background or in the audience. Maybe I just missed him, or I said, that’s the thing that spurred me to write a piece about it. Things that a community know where feel have been discussed for years are new when you’ve been ignored by mainstream society. So all of a sudden, all our old stuff becomes new to everybody else. It helped me calibrate where we were as a society and perform in real time.

When you’re doing stand up, you’re doing it in real time, but you’re also releasing things of the masses. It’s every few years in a special or set. It’s totally biased. Every night, we kind of got a sense of where people were. People still bring up that spelling bee thing I did, or the Apu thing, or how I covered Columbus Day.

Stuff that was forever go to me, and somehow it’s still relevant people. It also says that the stuff we were doing was ahead of its time. And that is your comedy news for today. If you would like the program without commercial interruption. If you’re an Apple podcast, there’s a banner.

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Featured: Ariana Grande, Michael Chase, Colin Jost, Joe Pesci, Lorne Michaels, Stevie Nicks, Bert Kreischer

What’s in This Episode

• SNL Season 50 celebration and Ariana Grande hosting with Stevie Nicks
• Lorne Michaels interview on Colin Jost and Michael Chase dynamic
• SNL joke swap segment and chemistry between Jost and Chase
• Bert Kreischer’s Bert Aid benefit show postponed from October 12 to November 15 due to Hurricane Helen
• The Hard Times satire ranking Lost characters as Joe Rogan Experience guests

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Arian A Corande hosts Saturday Night Live Tonight. I say that with the emphasis on the tea, otherwise of my native accent. It’s just Satnite Live musical guest Stevie Nicks. I don’t know if you know this SNL turning fifty.

We’re gona talk about ever day the next eight months. Yallar reporter asked Michael Chase, if you see on your phone that Lord Michaels is calling, what’s your reaction. I’d freak out, I know I would. Chase said something’s wrong. I’m always like, uh, oh, who did it?

And how are we gonna fix it? Or it’s something like, oh, we’re hosting the Emmys. But I have a great relationship with Lord. I think everybody’s relationship with him boils down to the fact that he’s one of the few people who you truly respect their opinion about show business because he’s seen it all. Same question as Colin Jost, Joe says, it depends on what time it is and what section of the year it is.

Jay says, if it’s three AM, and it says FaceTime video Boss has been drinking, that’s funny. Joe says no, he’s a night owl and he has different relationships because of it. He’s up to three four am every night, so he’s certain people he knows they’re always up then two, and they have communication between the hours of two and four and not in an out drinking way, just a regular new conversation. But it’s three am. Do you guys stay up all night?

Chase says, yup. Choset said, I had a long run, but I can’t anymore. I think he’s learned that I’m not gonna respond until nine am, and then he’s gonna see it at eleven AM when he wakes up. This is fun. I like this interview.

A lot interesting come in here from Lorne Michaels. Six or seven years ago. Somebody high up with the network who never asked me sn no questions out of respect, said update with Jose and Chay. Do you think that’s working? And Lauren’s answer says, I said no, not yet, and he said, oh, you know, I’m like, of course, I know.

But there’s a chemistry there and we’ve had a lot of good combinations, but these two just brought out the best of each other. Like who else could make jokes about Colin and Scarlett and the joke swap. Whatever hostility he thought was lurking below the surface, it’s all visible in the joke swap. But it’s meant to be funny, and it’s truly funny. I just like to chake and take these positions which kind of fly in the face of the values of most of the audience, and he’s funny and they laugh and they like him.

Wow, that is interesting. Are there ground rules for the joke swap? Jay says, I don’t know if there’s a line. I think anything can work given the circumstance.

And also nothing can work given the circumstance.

Jay gives great answers. He is so insightful with these things, insightful and funny at the same time. I love his answers. Jay said, My thing with joke Swap, which is the most stand up thing we do at SNLS, that the audience just has to believe that I’m trying to embarrass Colin and that this really bothers him and vice versa. And if that comes across, then they’re not thinking about the content of the jokes.

So it’s not oh, that’s a racist joke. It’s more, oh, I can’t believe he’s gonna make him say that out loud, Holly Reporter, why do you think you’ve both ultimately stayed at the show? Chay my mortgage? Now, we love it. We love the show.

It’s a weird thing because you get moments where you love it so much and drives you’re crazy and you want to be as far away from it as possible. Joe says, It’s like when you play golf. A lot of times, it’s very frustrating, and there are times you certainly consider quitting, but then you hit a good shot and you’re like, Wow, I love this game. I should do this all the time. That’s the way it is with SNL.

When everything comes together and all the costumes look great and the timing’s perfect and the crowd’s good, You’re just like, this is the best job in the world, this next door r Let me just be honest with you. I’m recording this on Wednesday to accommodate my schedule. Bert Kreischer posted on Facebook his Bert aid show was supposed to be in Tampa tonight. Now I’m in the past. You know what the situation in Tampa is right now, So if I’m a little tone deaf.

I just want to be clear. I recorded this already three days ago. But here we’ll let Bert explain Tampa. This is the least important information you’ll hear all week. But obviously my show October twelfth at Ruthhickert Hall has been pushed was for the relief for Hurricane Helen, and now we will do it November fifteenth, and apparently it’ll be for both hurricanes.

If you’re in Tampa, stay safe, evacuate if you can. And if you grew up with me, send me a text. Because my parents are staying in Tampa for the hurricane. They’re not leaving. We try to get them to leave, so I may need you to check up on them.

God bless, stay safe. I will see you soon. I stumbled across this article. I don’t know how much I’m going to get out of it. This is one of those things.

I’m just diving in the pool. I make it thirty seconds zero. We might go another eight minutes, but the first two things. Let me tell you what it is. This is from Thehrdtimes dot net.

The premise every character from Lost ranked by how they’d be as a guest on the Joe Rogan experience, so that’s fun. I was like, oh, I’ll do this. They’ll be like ten. No, there’s eighty and number eighty is Michael, and I’m not gonna read all eighty. I’m just gonna read the ones that make me laugh.

Seventy nine is Charlie and the premise from The Hard Times is it turns out that Joe Rogan hates the band Drive Shaft, and we know Charlie is always seeking approval, so the episode would be incredibly hard to listen to because Charlie would relapse on air. Seventy eight is Alana Verdansky. Hard Times has a good writer. They wrote Rogan would forget who she is, just like the rest of us. Is quite frankly, it’s astonishing we took the time to add her to this list.

I have no idea who she is, and I love Lost. I’m going to look it up. Is this Saturday filler? John? Did you tape this like two weeks ago?

Maybe? Alana is introduced in the sixth episode of the fifth season of Loss as an officer boarding a Jira Airways flight three sixteen with Sayid in her custody. Okay, yeah, I guess that’s someone seventy seven, Nikki and Paulo seventy six, David Shepherd. That’s Jack’s son that doesn’t really exist. Seventy five is Shannon seventy four, Bernard seventy three, Detective Mars seventy two, Vincent the Dog seventy one Frogert Ten minutes in Joe Rogan would casually hint that lifting weights might help Frogert get laid more seventy Sarah Wagner, who Rogan would spend the whole episode asking but seriously, why do you leave Jack, while Sarah just rolls her eyes and mothers something about daddy issues.

Sixty nine Kate’s Dad sixty eight Liam Pace. Rogan would kick off the episode with her drive Shaft is finally gonna have a reunion, only for Liam to explain, now, man, you’re thinking of oasis. That’s pretty good. Sixty seven is Phil He’s one of the Dormer crew. Sixty six is Bram.

Bram would rant about Jacob saving the world, and Joe would randomly ask, but if you tried Lion’s main coffee, Brian would shake his head, muttering, you’re on the wrong side. Joe. Sixty five is Nadia sixty four is Boone, Remember Boone? Sixty three is Aldo. He was played by Rob Mcalenny.

Rogan would be excited to drop it’s always Sonny in Philadelphia references, assuming Aldo knows about it because of the actor’s connection. Aldo, completely oblivious, would just blink and ask, what’s always Sonny, leaving Rogan awkwardly butchering the dentist system. Okay, apparently I am going to get eight minutes out of this. Sixty two is Carmen Carman would spend the whole episode trying to feed Joe, insisting he needs more home cooked meals. Joe would try to steer the conversation back to Hurley’s lottery win, but Carmen’s too busy telling embarrassing stories about Hurley.

Sixty one is doctor Pierre Chang. That’s the guy from the Dharma videos. Sixty Carl Martin. He’s a character that got tortured by the others. Fifty nine is Danny Pickett.

Pickett would go on unhinged rant about how grilling was the only thing keeping him from losing it on the island. You think I tortured people for fun, Joe. Now it’s just stressed from never getting the damn grill hot enough. Fifty eight George Minkowski. This is one of the actors that was on Succession.

The entire episode would be Rogan asking did you watch Succession? Over and over while George tries to explain he’s not actually in the show. Van Matthew abinon, same joke, but have you seen the wire? Fifty six Cindy Chandler, She’s one of the flight attendants. Rogan would ask to do the others get tsa pre check?

Or what fifty five is Lenin? Joe would peg Lennon as the kind of guy who could handle some potent edibles. Big mistake. Lenin would get way too high, turning the conversation into a paranoid miss rambling about dormous secrets and human sacrifice. Fifty four is Son.

Son would ignore all of Joe’s questions about survival in island life, instead launching into a passionate rant about the superiority of Korean’s skincare. Fifty three is Rose. After Rose reveals are cancer returned after leaving the island, Rogan would suggest micro dosing shrooms, grounding, and of course, buying a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Roseanont politely clearly unimpressed.

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All right, we have fifty two more to go, so this will come back someday as we…

But let’s move on. Stephen Rogers is taping his special today. I was checking out his comedy. He’s got some Mark Norman in it. Stephen Rogers is a Syracuse race comedian based in New York City who’s been making others laugh for most of his life.

He’s teaming with Nate Bergatsey’s Nate Land Entertainment to produce the new special, taping tonight at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado. Steven’s clever, rapid fire material, full of observations about his life and the world around him, has led to him appearing on The Late Show with Colbert Cordon and Dryboor Comedy. WPR was curious about Eugene Merman’s comedy festival. What’s the deal with that? Eugene said, I did a weekly show in Brooklyn with my friend Julie Smith Klem.

There was also an event that made me joke with her and Mike Berri Bigley at the time that I was going to do a Eugene Merman comedy festival and how I wouldn’t do that because I was not a known comic. It was particularly Lucris to suggests, but I thought we should do it because it would be silly. He was really fun. So at some point we decided to do a second one, and then that grew in doing a decade at these very silly shows. Veronica Slowakowska is one of vulturous comedians.

You should and will know what comedian’s career trajectory would you like to follow? She said, maybe Adam Sandler a terrible chow actually a great choice. I mean, Adam’s rich, he doesn’t care. Do you want the money? Do you want people to go?

Well, that was a good body of work. Take the money, doing a bit of everything and doing it with your friends and family seems awesome to me. You know, she is right. And Donald Glover’s the funny shows, the serious ones, the music, very cool wor Showever, I was booked on a magic show like where magicians do magic and I’m the comedy act in between. So I thought, okay, easy, breezy, everyone needs a laugh.

Turns out these magicians were so amazing, was mind blowing and be funny. What was my turn to do some alt comedy, following amazing magicians who were hilarious, charming, and also hot. I hate it, so now I do magic in every one of my sets. Her joke writing process. When an idea comes, no matter where I am or what I’m doing, I write it down.

You think you’ll remember it, but you won’t.

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Also having stuff planned but still being able to riff and play it.

There’s a sweet spot between being prepared and following your gut best comedy device, worst comedy advice. Best the audience is as smart as you, so what would you want to see? Worst the audience is a baby and you have to teach it everything. And that is your comedy news for today. If you like this program without commercials, there’s a link in the show notes to tell you how that works.

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Featured: Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Milton Berle, Garrett Morris, Johnny Carson, Brian Reagan, David Cross, David Spade, Stephen Rodgers, Eugene Mirman

What’s in This Episode

• Saturday Night movie fact-checking: what’s true about SNL’s 1975 premiere
• Milton Berle flashing Chevy Chase — myth vs reality
• Lorne Michaels and Weekend Update — when did he hand it to Chevy?
• Johnny Carson’s actual reaction to SNL’s creation and launch
• John Belushi signing his contract five minutes before going live
• Chevy Chase and Bill Murray fight backstage in 1978
• Brian Reagan shifting from dumb guy persona to observational comedy
• David Cross’s Senses Working Overtime podcast launch
• David Spade taping special in Denver; Stephen Rodgers taping in Fort Collins

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Saturday Night Movie has been in limited release until now. Today it goes into wide release. The film tells the tale of the ninety minutes leading up to the very first episode of Saturday Night Live, then titled NBC’s Saturday Night.

Yeah, there was a Howard Cosell show called Saturday Night Live. This happened October eleventh, nineteen seventy five. Young producer Lauren Michaels races against the clock to put together a live show. Director and co writer Jason Reiman interviewed lots of past and president SNL staffers and research written accounts of these sketch shows opening night. Of course, it’s a movie, so we had to take some dramatic license.

Entertainment Weekly looked at the true stories. Okay, some spoilers here, but you know, the show’s been around for almost fifty years, so you had a minute. But if you don’t want me to ruin the movie, I don’t know, skip ahead five minutes maybe because I’m going to tell you a couple of stories here. Boiler is a coming spoiler. Number one, did Milton Burrell really flash Chevy Chase.

E W says there’s no record that Milton Burle was lurking around SNL in premier Night or that he flashed Chevy. However, it was widely rumored that Uncle Milty had you know, big charisma and liked to show it off. Nudge nudge, wink wink. In the SNL Oral History book Live from New York, writer Alan’s Wybell said he was flashed in Burl’s dressing room when Milton hosted in nineteen seventy nine. Chevy had left the show by then.

Spoiler number two was Louren Michaels, the original host of Weekend Update before turning it over to Chevy. E W tells us in lesser known SNL lore, Michaels has said he was actually planning to anchor an early ineration of Weekend Update, but he didn’t hand over to Chase minutes before the show. It happened before Chase was even on the cast. Michael still Deadline in twenty fourteen. I’d done the equivalent of Weekend Update in Canada, but as we got closer to the air show, I began to realize that I didn’t think I could be the person who cut other people’s pieces and left my own inn.

Spoiler number three three, did Garrett Morris sing a song about killing white He’s at soundcheck? E W tells us. Although there are no stories about Garrett Morris singing at the show’s first sound check, he did perform the song for the movie on SNL in the first season, episode eleven featured this song. Next spoiler was Jenny Carson openly hostile to SNL, he W tells us, contrary to the film’s portrayal of Carson rooting for the show’s demise. SNL was created as a solution to the host insisting NBC stop airing reruns of The Tonight Show on weekends so he could cut his talk show down from four days a week to three days a week and air repeats on the remaining weeknights.

Per the book Live from New York, Carson was skeptical of the show and later openly appalled by some of its more outrageous gags, but did not make a threatening phone call to Lorne. Michael’s Lorn regularly invited Carson a guest host, but Johnny never appeared. Next boiler was NBC prepared to air a Tonight Show rerun in case SNL wasn’t ready. E W tells us, actually it was Lorne who wanted a backup plan, but not of the tonight show. Associate producer Craig Killum remembered in Live from New York, we almost didn’t get on the air because dress rehearsal went so poorly.

I remember Lauren seriously asking the network people, or having me ask them to have a movie ready to go just in case. Then I don’t think he was kidding. Next spoiler, did John Belushi he refuse to sign his contract until moments before the show went live. A W tells us Belushi was indeed without a contract until moments before starring in the cold open. Apparently John signed it five minutes before air.

That’s wonderful. That may do one more. Did Chevy and Belushi get into a physical fight backstage? He W says, similar to the film Chase was involved in a FIS fight, but now with Belushi, it actually involved Bill Murray. Bill Murray said in the Live from New York book, I got into a fight with Chevy the night he came back to host in nineteen seventy eight.

Bill didn’t join SNL until season two it was almost like I was goaded into it. You know, I think everybody was hoping for it. I did sense that. I think they resented Chevy for leaving for one thing. They resented him for taking a big piece of the success and leaving it and make his own career go.

Everybody else was from the improv world, where you didn’t make it about you. You were an ensemble, you were company. So when he left, there was resentment about that. It was a shock. Chase put most of the blame on Belushi in the same book, Chase said, in a sense, John caused that fight with Billy because we both ended up hitting John by mistake.

Billy came after me and tried to throw me off a little bit just before I was going on air. Ultimately, Billy’s still Billy and I’m still me. But it didn’t phaze me for the show. I was sure was upset, But I noticed John when I was going into Billy’s dressing room, and John was like the cheshire Cats, sitting in there like mission accomplished. Brian Reagan used to have a bit of a dem guy persona in his stand up and said, for a long time, I did feeling inferior fantasies on stage, like you say the dumb guy.

Reagan told the Burlington Free Press it was comedy from a perspective of a person who doesn’t want to put his foot in his mouth or feel inadequate in certain social situations. My brain is bigger than that dumb guy persona. I enjoy thinking about a lot of different things. It’s fun to share a comedic point of view that’s more observational in nature than biographical. But I still do a little bit of everything.

I like ancient civilizations, and I make a joke about Stonehenge, and I have jokes about space exploration, things that I think might surprise people that are familiar with my old work. It’s very funny stuff. He’s been acting a little bit. He says things are good. That doesn’t mean at some point I won’t want to get off the ride.

I’ve been thrilled to be a stand up comedian for my whole adult life. It’d be nice to experiment with some other ways of being creative. He’s working on an idea for a talk show where he would be on stage but would produce behind the scenes. He calls it a talk show with a twist. He’s also working on a Christmas production.

He didn’t want to talk about that in detail, and said it’s a Christmas idea with a twist. These are things that people might not expect from stand up comedian Brian Reagan. David Cross has a podcast called Senses Working Overtime. Cross says, I’ve started branching off to people I don’t know, and for me, the whole way I presented it is I’m just gonna have a conversation. It should be similar to I met you at a bar in a strange town I haven’t been in, and start a conversation with the person next to me.

That’s how I approach it. Obviously, a bunch of these people if I’m not fully aware of them. I know, at least your comics we have that to talk about. But I’ve had a lot of people on the show that I didn’t know before I met them when they walked in the room. I wouldn’t be doing the podcast if I didn’t enjoy it.

It certainly doesn’t pay anything. No, really it doesn’t. Maybe it would if I roge it up a little bit. We need more conspiracy theories, Half asked conspiracy theories would increase my paycheck. David Spade is taping a special tonight at the Paramount Theater in Denver.

Stephen Rodgers will tape his a special. He’s got a little bit of Mark Norman in him. Stephen has teamed up with Nate Bergatzy’s Nateland Entertainment. Stephen Rodgers, the Syracuse at raised comedian now based in New York City. He’ll record his show tonights and tomorrow at the Comedy Fort in Fort Collins, Colorado.

WPR spoke to Eugene Merman. They were curious about the origins of the Eugene Merman Comedy Festival. Merman said, I did a weekly show in Brooklyn with my friend Julie Smith Klem. There was an event that made me joke with her and Mike bro Bigley at the time that I was going to do a Eugene Merman Comedy Festival, but that I wouldn’t do it because I wasn’t a known comic. It was particularly ludicrous to suggest, But then I thought we should do it because it would be really silly.

It was really fun. So sometime we decided to do a second one, and then that grew in doing a decade of these very silly shows. Vaulter asked Langston Kerman, Hey, you tell a story in your special about the day you spent with your friends high and mushrooms at the park. I know your friends with Sam Jay, who also has a story in her last special about doing mushrooms with her friends at the park? Are those the same day?

Likeston said, Same day, Sam got really excited about watching the white people dance because they had set up a DJ booth randomly, and it then became this weird war between them and the other people would try and have a baby shower, were very put off by the music, and she was getting very angry at the fact that these white people had finally found their freedom dancing peacefully in the park were being told by a richer class of people that they needed to shut it down, and that became the inspiration for her story. Then, after Sam sat there watching this war happen for an hour and a half, we wanted to the ballpark and I lost my mind watching a man play softball poorly. It was great. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too.

And i’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nate Berghatz, Seth Meyers, Tommy Chong, Bill Maher, Jenna Fisher, Ricky Gervais

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Berghatz book announcement and CBS Christmas special
• Nate Berghatz SNL ratings analysis
• Seth Meyers new HBO special Dad Man Walking
• Tommy Chong claims George W. Bush ordered hit on him
• Jenna Fisher breast cancer diagnosis and recovery
• World Animal Day event with Ricky Gervais
• HBO’s Florida Man late night comedy series premiere

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Caloroga Shark Media tightly ho. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Nate Berghatzy is working on a book. It is called Big Dumb Eyes. I think the book publicist thought I was insane when I reached out to them already.

Big Dumb Eyes was announced by Nate on social media, who wrote, I’m so excited to tell you that I’m writing my first book. Big Dumb Eyes will be an easy read of a collection of personal stories, opinions, and confessions that the whole family can enjoy. It doesn’t come out until May sixth of nixt year, which is why the publicists, I think thought I was insane. Got I got those requests in though I’ve previously told you. Nate is working on a Christmas special with CBS.

Lauren Michael’s behind that one. Nate says of the new special, I’m extremely excited to be creating this special as I’ve long been a fan of variety and 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. The ratings for Nate’s SNL episode are in. Four point zero seven million people watched it, which is pretty good for eleven thirty at night when you compare that to say, Playoff Baseball.

Yeah. Week over a week, it was down six hundred and twenty six thousand viewers from the premiere. You think Coldplay would bring in more people, right. It was also down eighty nine thousand viewers from Nate’s appearance last October on the twenty eighth. That musical guest was Foo Fighters hmm.

If you want to compare week to week last year, on October twenty first, Bad Bunny hosted, Nate outdrew the Bad Bunny episode by seven hundred and twenty one one thousand viewers. HBO released the trailer for Seth Meyer’s new comedy special. It is called Dad Man Walking. I’ve got the trailer for you here. I’ve made a couple of minor edits to it because there’s some visual jokes.

But let’s listen, and I want to point out notice the music bed. It’s like stock Music Library version of the Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again? Weird choice. It like keeps distracting me because I’m like, oh, it’s fake who Anyway, let’s listen. I could never hate my kids, you guys, I could never hate my kids with that.

I hate when they wake up in the middle of the night bad news. It’s gotten to the point that when I hear the door knob rattle, I actually think to myself, maybe it’s just an intruder who will politely steal my valuables, and then I won’t have to scratch his back for the next hour. Meyer’s jokes that critics say it’s the special my kids will be talking about in therapy twenty years from now. October twenty six for Seth Meyer’s Dad Man Walking, Tommy Chong was on Bill Morris podcast. He suggested that President George W.

Bush ordered a hit on mister Chong. Tommy Chong is now eighty six. He claimed that his criminal conviction in two thousand and three for selling drug paraphernalia online, specifically seventy five hundred bonds and water pipes, was orchestrated by George W. Bush. Chong served eight months at a federal prison in California after entering into a plea deal.

The case was initiated by the US Attorney for Western Pennsylvania. Chung says it was orchestrated by Bush. He told Bill Mahr they had a hit on me. The Bush family. Bill Maher, no surprise, was curious about the claim.

Chong said, Bush was invading a raq, so they needed some sort of hippie bs more than asked him if it was a wag the dog type play. That’s a reference to a political strategy he used to create a diversion. You know, hey, don’t worry about the war, worry about Tommy Chung. Yeah, all right, Chong said, yeah, So they attacked me and they sentenced me on nine to eleven. The judge Schwartz was his name.

He had a reputation of doing whatever the Bush people wanted done, and so that’s why he was giving my thing. They needed a face for their campaign because they were going after paraphernalia on the internet. Mar Ashchong if he harbored any bitterness towards Bush Or’s family. Chong said no, Yeah, he said no, but admitted the experience was a life changer for me. Yeah.

I would imagine newsweeks as they contacted the Bush media team for comment. No comment at the time of this recording. Interesting tag here. Chong said prison was devastating to my family, especially my wife. Wasn’t tough on me.

Actually, it was quite a nice experience. Jenni Fisher, you know her as Pam from the Office. She shared on Instagram her breast cancer diagnosis, announcing she’s now cancer free. She released a series of slides in commemoration of Breast cancer Awareness Month. She said in October of twenty twenty three, doctors found something on her left breast after an inconclusive mammogram.

That December, she learned she had stage one triple positive breast cancer, a particularly aggressive form of the disease, but one that is highly responsive to treatment. They caught the cancer early it had not spread to the rest of her body. In twenty twenty four, doctors removed the lump, but triple positive breast cancer still requires chemo and radiation therapy. Jenna says during the treatment her hair fell out and she began wearing wigs and hats with hair, which her family affectionately called wigats. After twelve rounds of weekly chemotherapy, three weeks of radiation, and some other treatments, Jenna says she’s happy to say I’m feeling great.

I’m making this announcements for a few reasons. One, I’m ready to ditch the wigs. Two to implore you to get your annual mammograms. Can also ask your doctor to calculate your breast cancer risk Assessment score and get additional screenings required. I’m serious.

Caught your doctor right now. My tumor was so small it could not be felt on a physle exam. If I’d waited six months longer, things could be much worse. I’m happy to say I was recently rescreened and the treatments worked. I’m cancer free.

I will continue to be treated monitored to help stay that way. Take it from Pam and her Pam PAMs. Michael Scott was right, get them check, ladies. Some high profile animal lovers, including Ricky Gervais, attended a World Animal Day event in aid of the animal welfare charity Mayhew. More than fifteen thousand pounds were raised on the night You Are a Raffle and auction of virtual gifts to support the dogs, cats and communities that Mayhew helps.

HBO not the best timing to announce their new late night comedy series, It’s Florida Man. Hope Everyone in Florida is safe Today. The series It’s Florida Man debuts next Friday, October eighteenth, at eleven pm on HBO. It’ll stream on Max. By the way, I was playing around on Max watching the Penguin.

Have you seen the Penguin? The Penguin is very good, And I noticed in the top ten was have I Got news for you? The CNN thing that airs on Saturday Night. So maybe the Saturday night thing is a terrible idea, but the Max part of it seems to be doing well. You go, Roywood Junior.

Anyway, it’s Florida Man. We’ll stream on Max at a layer on HBO proper at eleven BM Eastern and Pacific starting on the eighteenth. The irreverent late night comedy series brings to life unbelievable rip from the headlines tales of the Sunshine State. Yeah, dude’s wrong week to announce this thing. Sorry.

I know you planned this months ago, but sometimes you got a punt. Hey Florida hilarious? Right, Yeah, that’s not going to play. And I hope I’m not even out of tone because I recorded this on Wednesday, so I hope you’re not listening on Thursday going, Oh my god, John, are you serious? Are you doing this like this is the Risk You Run.

Ripped from the headlines, tales of the Sunshine State, straight from the people who live there, featuring interviews from everyday Filaridians and playful recreations, Starring a rotating cast of actors and comedians including Anna Faris, Jake Johnson, Randall Park, Juliet Lewis, Sam Richardson, Agoneautum, and more. This hilarious and outrageous series sheds lights on the viral, wacky, and weird, covering diverse topics from mermaids to witches, extreme fantasies and feeral bunnies with equal parts and humor. It’s Florida, Man. There’s a love letter to the beaches, backwaters, and especially the people of a misunderstood yet magical state. Go carefully.

HBO Press Team. My former co worker Jamie Fox recorded his new comedy special and will eventually air on Netflix. Gail King happened to be backstage to ask Jamie some questions. Well, it’s amazing, Gail King asked Jamie Fox, I want to know how you feel after three nights. Jamie said it was an excruciating time opening those wounds every single day.

The subject matter was the story of the mysterious ailment that left Jamie hospitalized back in twenty twenty three. The show was titled What had Happened Was? Jamie says the show’s unusual because he didn’t workshop the material. Fox says it was excruciating because the worries what gets you. You got a great show in the room, but we don’t know what they may laugh at, what they might not laugh at.

Usually, when you do a stand up, specially you gought for a year and you work every nook and granny and then you take it. You don’t just show up in Atlanta and turn the camera on. It’s a personal journey and I hope I never have to go through this again. My next jokes will start out knock Knock. I’ll do an hour and a half of knock knock jokes.

Glad he’s doing well again. Having worked with Jamie in his camp for a few years, that they weren’t able to prop him up to take a photo of him sitting poolside and looking cool and being like, yeah, everything’s great. That screams to me that this was really serious, because I’m telling you, if they could have gotten one good picture, it would have hit the Internet, glad he’s doing it all right. Steph Tolev is taping her special at the Paradise Rocket Club in Boston tonight. Vulture recognized Steph as one of Toronto’s funniest exports in their annual Comedians You Should and Will Know not this year, but a previous year.

You can also see Steph tolev and Bill Burr’s movie Old Dad’s in the movie wasn’t good. Sorry, and that’s your comedy needs today. John, you end it on a jerky note. You’re more. I hate you.

I know, I’m sorry I stumbled into that, but it wasn’t good. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Lewis J. Gomez, James Austin Johnson, Maya Rudolph, Dave Attell, Chris Gethard, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis turns down SNL Trump role for Skankfest
• James Austin Johnson Trump sketch details
• Skankfest Las Vegas coverage gap
• Dave Attell on Vegas and comedy at 37 years
• John Mulaney’s late night show compared to Chris Gethard Show
• Late night talk show format and Letterman vs Conan legacy

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Well, this show is interesting. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Shane Gillis says he was asked to come back to SNL for a year to play Trump. Shane was at Skankfest, the comedy festival in Las Vegas.

We’ll talk about that in a second. Lewis J. Gomez said of Shane, nobody thought he was coming to the festival this year. Shane said, explain why? Gomez asked, can I explain why Gillis gave him the go ahead?

Gomez says, because he was offered to play Trump on the entire season of SNL and he turned it down to effing b Here Shane confirmed the story and said, they said, are you serious? You’re gonna say no? And I said, Lorne, I gotta go to Coke Magic. Coke Magic is a show where Gomez performs magic tricks. Now, this is all interesting because remember that Hollywood reporter piece I was picking away at that suggested that James Austin Johnson wouldn’t be doing Trump on the show.

But wait, there’s more. Late Nighters said during rehearsal of the Nate Berghansey episode, there was a version of the opening sketch where Maya Rudolph’s Kamala Harris was home watching the debate. In the dress rehearsal version, James Austin Johnson’s Trump was also watching the debate. The Trump character said, this guy’s doing great, before it was revealed that he’s not watching the debate. He’s actually watching American Ninja Warrior.

So really interesting, right, I mean, Shane Gillis goes from hey, you’re on SNL, Sorry you can’t be on ESNL to now they’re asking him to come back for a year. I mean, his Trump is really good, probably is better than James Austin Johnson’s right now. But wow, now, new topic interesting to me about skank Fest is again. I’ll remind you I host this podcast every day and as part of the prep I go to several websites and I also type in words like comedy and comedian. Nothing about skank Fest came up at all this year.

I would have mentioned it. It didn’t come up at all. I came up like six months ago when they announced it, and that’s the last time I saw it came and went. I would have told you who was playing. I would have said something about it even stranger as I put together the show on Tuesday.

If you type skank Fest into Google and then click on the news tab, as one might do when preparing their comedy podcast, here’s what comes up. The deadline story about Shane. I just told you the local patch telling us about the official skank Fest after party at Peppermint Hippo. That story from two weeks ago. David Tail spoke to the Las Vegas Review Journal.

They were curious what a sober fellow like Dayton Fettel does late nights in Vegas these days. Dave said, it’s a blur, but the beauty of Vegas is you’re always a block away from a T shirt shop. You know me, I like a good saucy T shirt. And I really like Vegas because we’re on the same time frame. You can get breakfast at two in the morning.

Even though I don’t party, it’s perfect for me. And the fear is right there as well. I haven’t been there, but I’ve been to the BattleBots Arena, which is a couple blocks away. It looks bigger in person than it did on TV. He was asked about skank Fest and said, this is the third year in Vegas, and I think Vegas and skank Fest they’re a perfect fit.

It’s a great town for the super fans to fly into. The guys from the Legion of Skanks podcast have always cool to me, and I love what they’ve done now they’ve built this fond that really appreciates live stand up. The Journal was curious about Lewis Black’s retirement, and Etel said, Lewis, of course is the road warrior. Nobody tore it harder than him, and the guy’s a class all the way. He’s been a role model for the rest of us.

I’ll be doing it thirty seven years now and I’m hoping to make it a forty, but that really depends on my bills. So if you see me after that, then I got to pay these bills. But I do enjoy it. The only thing I don’t like is the travel, and it’s a little harder when you’re older, but the shows are still really will get you going. I know, comedy in Vegas is kind of lowered down, somewhere between magic and massage, and I’m working on new stuff all the time.

He was worried about the temperature getting down of the low nineties and said he was going to bring a jacket. Late Nighter I spoke to Chris Gethard and pointed out that when mulaney did his talk show, a lot of people were comparing it to the Chris Gethard show. Chris told Late Nighter, Mullany is a cornerstone of modern comedy to a degree that no one can ignore it now and moving forward, you just can’t have another boring talk show that looks like every talk show since nineteen fifty. Mullaney has cracked that open. I mean, yeah, but it was Son of Letterman, to which Chris Gether talked about, and he said, for me, like a lot of people my age, it’s the Letterman and Conan.

My parents tell me I used to fake being asleep as a little kid, at like three to four years old. I’d pretend to be asleep on the couch. Then they’d realize I was sitting there watching Johnny Carson with them. But Letterman was the real game changer. Amen high five, says Johnny Mac.

I remember the first time I stayed up late and watched Letterman with my older brother. I was definitely on the younger side of it, but someone who was built to understand that guy’s being kind of a troublemaker. He’s not Carson. Carson’s what it’s supposed to look like. This guy’s not doing that.

Amen. On top of that, a lot of my favorite stuff was stuff that Letterman platform. Do you look at Andy Kaufman, Chris Elliott, Howard Stern. Not only did Letterman do a lot of stuff that really shook things up, he took the people who were really outlandish and gave them a national platform, and then Conan felt completely insane. Conan really felt like if you took the smartest version of me and my brother and our friends and put them on TV and just let them do whatever they want.

I’ve often said, if there’s only one piece of comedy I could ever watch in my tire life again, it would be Conan takes mister t apple Picking. I think there’s a little bit of that happens among comedy nerds when you think what’s the best sketch group of all time and you go, you know, oh, kids in the Hall, Monty Python, UCB, the Slade, whoever you want to say. But I really think that Conan’s rying staff from that area. Brian Stack, Brian McCann, Kevin Dwarf, Andy Blitz, Alison Silverman, John Glazer. If you just put that in a vacuum, that’s one of the best sketch comedy groups ever assembled.

It just happened to exist under the umbrella of this larger talk show. That’s the best of the best sketch comedy of that generation, all under one roof, operating at a super high level. As for the Chris Gathard Show, there were a lot of things I was just chasing, especially with Letterman Conan. If I could do anything as funny as Dave dumping ten thousand bouncy balls off the roof of the studio onto the streets of New York, I’ll die happy. If I can do anything as interesting or funny as a Conan staring contest bit, and I feel like it’s worth doing it.

But there’s definitely part of me that was like, these guys don’t like doing these monologues, these political jokes, especially back then, that’s just how Carson used to do it. So you’re making them do that. I wish the Late Night Show didn’t have to do the monologue. It seems like the part of the hosts like least the Chris gathered show was far from perfect. I’m not saying we nailed it even the majority, but I think some of the reason it developed a cult following was because people saw us going, let’s see what we could do to maybe totally turn down the stuff we don’t like about talk shows and then pour gasoline on the stuff that we do.

Back to Mullaney’s late night show. I’ve known John for many, many years now, but I saw those people going, whoa man, this show has the Chris Gathard Show in front of it, and I was really nervous about that, because, just to be clear, John Mulaney does not need to rip me off in any way. He’s a very brilliant guy. But a lot of it was very healthy by seeing a lot of the fans of the Gathered show going, this is cool to watch this Mullenie show, and seeing old Gathered show fans jump in and say, if you like this guy, you might really like this thing. I like back when I was in high school.

Here’s a link to the YouTube page, and they’re all still up there. I emailed Mullanie after the first couple nights of a show to say, it’s so cool to see what you’re going for It’s bringing back a lot of positive feelings for me. You’re taking big chances on live TV, and I really love it. I talked to my old show runner and he was like, the cool thing is that Late Night always builds on the history of Late Night. Carson built on Steve Allen.

Letterman was building on Erni Kovax, than Conan built on Letterman, and I never ever hide the fact that my show was worshiping at the altar of Letterman and Conan. Front of the Podcast. Jason Zinnemann reviewed Ali Wong’s new Netflix special for The New York Times. It’s going to take me a minute to get to Ali special. The Mets are in the playoffs.

There’s football. I have this life outside of doing the comedy podcast, so it’s going to be a minute before you hear me talk about it. Jason writes, Wong always reminds me of Bill Burr, because she seems funniest at her most tense, working through anger using that machine gun delivery. She pops off with some umbrage on light topics, but also displays stream This is a show that a time feels undercooked. There are bits about dating younger men and Midwesterners that are less than ambitious.

The show is the feel of someone rushing to tell us something. Her main message is that being a divorced woman in your forties is better than its cracked up to be. It’s a promising take, in part because you rarely hear it. But the punchlines slow down as she zeros in on herself, telling the crowd look at me as an alternative example of how it can be. Yikes, that doesn’t sound great.

Hanna Gasby started their live show in New York City. The Daily Beast saw it and said, in Hannah Gatsby’s latest excellent show, prepare for that sweet innocence to be left in undignified crumbs thanks to a brilliantly disgusting joke involving a discarded packet of Tim Tams and something. Tim TAM’s seemed to be Australia’s favorite chocolate biscuit. It consists of two malted biscuits, separated by a light hearted chocolate cream filling and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate. But I digress.

You may recall the joke involves a discarded packet of Tim Tams and something let’s say if you’re cleaning a hotel room, you never want to find on the floor. Gatsby’s both a wonderful joke and storyteller. A tilt of the head, a side eye, a pause can add to moments of extended hilarity while attempt at threading stories and jokes with moments of sharp self reflection and confession. In this show, at certain moments, they insist that these moments are just between us, reflecting on Tailor Swift’s fame and global predominance. Uh oh, watch out.

You know one time Joe Cooy made a Tailor Swift joke. I think we all know that went Now I’m not doing it. Scot Relex Speed not only confesses to not being much of a fan, but also sums up Swift as a can of coke masquerading as a sorority cult. Oh man, I guess Hannah Gatsby won’t be hosting the Golden Globes anytime soon. Gasby has previously spoken of their own autism.

Here, they talk of social media being the place where neurotypical people go to experience the worst of the condition. They joke, I’m going to be canceled by feminists. I don’t think there’s anything more feminist than being canceled by feminists. Sounds like a fun show. Trevor Noah has unveiled his latest book.

It is called Into the Uncut Grass, an illustrated story that invites readers of all ages on a journey of connection, imagination, and self discovery. Into the Uncut Grass follows a young child’s adventure in a magical landscape beyond the familiar world of home, discovering the joy of sharing connection and finding peace with the people we love. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

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Featured: Travis Kelce, Jason Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, Zack Townsend, Donnell Rawlings, Ali Wong, Tom Segura, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Nikki Glaser

What’s in This Episode

• Travis Kelce celebrates 35th birthday at Zack Townsend’s comedy show in Kansas City
• Donnell Rawlings addresses Diddy yacht party photo and clarifies it was a legitimate day party
• Ali Wong Netflix special ‘Single Lady’ releases discussing divorce and dating at 40
• Tom Segura announces 2025 tour with Madison Square Garden and Wembley dates, donates $100k to World Central Kitchen
• David Cross announces ‘The Beginning of the End of the Beginning’ tour featuring Peru stories with Bob Odenkirk
• Nikki Glaser podcast rankings analysis and chart positioning discussion

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Hey. Thanks Travis Kelcey for hooking up the podcast Discovery Seo by celebrating your thirty fifth birthday alongside brother Jason Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes throw those guys in the episode title why John, Why are you talking about football? John?

Well? They went to Zack Townsend’s comedy show at the Midland Theater in Kansas City on Saturday night. They hung out in a private loungerry and took turns at taking photos with Townsend. Jason’s girlfriend, Taylor appears to not have been there. I think we would have heard of it if she showed up, although the Twitter stalkers say that Taylor or at least her plane, flew from Kansas City to Nashville earlier in the day.

Earlier on Saturday, Kelsey had hosted the second annual Kelsey Car Jam charity event. He had scheered what he wanted for his birthday. He wants I’ll take another Super Bowl if you’ve got one of those. Donnelle Fwllings was on The Breakfast Club and he commented on the whole Diddy thing, you know, I try not to play in that part of the arena, But I think this Diddy thing is going to drag this podcast into it as comedians seem to be talking about it, and who knows who’s even involved in this whole thing. Dan I always questioning about a picture of him and Diddy alongside Dave Chappelle and some others on a yacht.

Rawling said the picture was taken during a day party years ago and was an annual holiday focus get together. Rawling said, I got the history behind that that was a day party. First off, it’s a very interesting situation even to bring this up right, and I’ll tell you and everybody knows. I know, I’ll be criticized for this, and you know, but Diddy, there are some of the best parties you’ll ever go to in your life. You got this party, you got that party, and that party was a great party.

My son was on the yacht with me. We had a great time. So I understand, like now, if you say you went to any party, people who assume it was the freak cough, that wasn’t the case. We had a good time. He joked about what he drank at the party and said, I don’t know what was in that vodka because I felt like I had a whole full head of hair on that yacht.

I don’t know, there’s something special on that I felt light skinned for a second. Rawlings added that he’s not gonna say free ditty or anything, but a good time was had during the yacht party. Ali Wong specials out on Netflix Today titled Single Lady, Alli discusses her life following her twenty twenty two divorce from her husband Justin filmed at the Netflix Is a Joke Festival earlier this year, Alli tells people, I really do believe that forty is the golden age to get divorced. It’s perfect. The age range of who I can date is huge.

I can go as low as twenty five, and I can go as high as fifty five. If you’re fifty five, I’ve got questions for you, like, can you go on a brisk walk? I can, Alli, but I’m married and we not only went for a brisk walk, we ran a five k on Sunday, So leave me alone. Very sensitive about turning fifty five? Have you noticed?

I was thinking about this on the way to the National Donuts Chain this morning. When I started the show, I was forty nine. If you started a podcast in your forties, I don’t think gets that ridiculous. Now I’m like, are people like wewis this old dude hosting a podcast? And I think they are.

Tom Sigre has a big tour for tw twenty twenty five. Dates include shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City and the Ovo Arena Wembley in London. Fancy Tom says, this is the most fun I’ve had on tour, and I’m excited to continue touring this hour of material to a bunch of great cities across the globe. If my Instagram algorithm is any indication of the state of humanity, this very well might be the last tour anyone can see on Earth. Can’t wait pre sale Wednesday general tickets.

Friday buyers and select cities can purchase platinum charity tickets. Sigor has committed to donating a portion of the proceeds from those tickets to World Central Kitchen. He’s also made a personal donation of one hundred thousand dollars to help further their work. Tom said, We’re thrilled to announce this donation a World Central Kitchen. They do incredible work to people who need all over the world.

When we announce this tour, we pledge to donate proceeds to WCK to help them continue the work we will continue to do so. Who would have thought that talking about forts and genitals could lead to helping so many people. David Cross’s current tour is called the Beginning of the End of the Beginning. If you go see David, he says, a really big chunk of the is talking about the real experience I had without giving anything away. But it’s all kind of true and crazy.

I talk briefly about going to Peru with Bob Odenkirk, we hike the Ink and trail Machu Picchu. When I use that thread in some ideas, it’s just fun. As for the title, I usually have trouble coming up with the title. Usually the first fifty things I come up with are too serious or heavy or just too punny. This one I came up with very quickly, and I don’t remember.

I wish I had an interesting, pithy answer. I know what it means, but it’s open interpretation. Just think about it for a second and you’ll come to this understanding. I’ll repeat it to you the beginning of the end of the beginning, he says, you don’t want to go to the well too many times and rehash the same idea. I definitely have a couple of bits I’ve been doing for six or seven years, but I didn’t have room or time for it in the set.

But now it kind of fits in there. But also knowing how I work, the show, you see is going to be a little bit different because more stuff’s going to happen. So I have a Nikki Glaser item for you in a second. But concurrently to the Nikki Glaser item. Sometimes when I need like one more story, I’ll go into the podcast charts just to remind me who is currently popular.

And as I was doing that, I was reminded Nikki Glaser he has a podcast, and I was like, I haven’t seen a thing about that podcast in a while. I’m not here to bash Nicki. She’s having a great year, but she does a daily podcast and it like never comes up. So I looked at the charts. I use a website called Chartable as a record this on Monday, Nicki’s podcast is around number two hundred and ten in the overall comedy category chart.

I’ll talk about that in a second in the neighborhood there around two ten or so ahead of Nicki in that neighborhood, or the Bald Brothers podcast Nurse John something called right Now with John gibbecon, then Nicki, and right below Nikki, Netflix’s a daily Joke. Now. I think part of this is that she hasn’t added a subcategory. For example, in the sub category of stand up where this podcast lives, Netflix is a Daily Joke is ten. So if Nicki were to tag her podcast with stand up, she would definitely be a top ten in the category.

This program here right now in the subcategories you can surface a little bit more is sitting in around number thirty in that a gory and it’ll bounce up and down and peek into the top twenty every now and then. So I’ll just give you relative popularity of things. I seriously imagine Nicky has at least fifty times the amount of listeners I have. The charts worked on a recency bias too. If you get a bunch of subscribers in a short window, like if you went out and got one hundred of your friends to subscribe today and they all subscribed in like a three hour window, I would actually move up on the main chart.

I wouldn’t stay there, but for a brief window, I’d be on the main chart. Just how the Apple podcast works. Anyway. Nicki is currently on seur and she posted a TikTok for one of her very best friends waiting for her backstage. Shocking, only this story has nothing to do with you know who, the singer Nicki stopped to hug at Chihuahua.

One person wrote, ohmg, we do not deserve them, you or her everything. Another fan said, oh my, she spotted you the tail wags. I can’t. Someone else said, the little friend is so proud of you. It’s Nicky’s at Chihuahua.

Back in June, she posted, I just adopted my third dog from may Day Rescue and she’s perfect, just like the other two. She doesn’t have a name yet because I’m scared of commitment. That’s also why I have a dog instead of a kid. So I’m clear to me. If she ever gave her dog a name, I hope so.

Nate Bergatzi hosted Saturday Night Live. I enjoyed the episode, thought I’ll talk about it for a second. They brought back the George Washington sketch not as good as the first one, I guess, just because not as fresh, but still pretty funny. They did a really long Sabato Jigante parody. Nate was good in that he plays a befuddled audience member pulled into the show and he doesn’t really understand Spanish.

There’s also a good sketch where Nate played an emt who’s trying to convince water park workers to let a dead body go down the slide rather than carry it down two hundred and fifty five steps. That was good. Some other notes I wrote down, So Sabado Gigante Marcelo Hernandez is funny, but I’m gonna keep giving the same note until he shows me another look. Does he do one thing? He does a variations on the character with a thick Hispanic accent, and I haven’t seen him do anything else.

I do think he’s funny, but what else do you have? Towards the end of the show a couple notes. I thought it was weird on the clock. They fired off a sketch at twelve fifty eight to thirty. You know, the show’s ostensibly ninety minutes, but I guess they were running later.

I don’t know what was going on there now. Before the twelve fifty eight to thirty sketch, they ran something from the Lonely Island, which brings up my larger theme about SNL season fifty. It’s a little weird to me. There’s like no room for the main cast. So the only island is Andy Samberg’s musical project.

And it was a wonderful pre produced video, but you know it’s taking up five minutes from the current cast.

Also in the pre produced video, not just Andy Samberg, but Maya Rudolph was i…

So again, why does Maya have to be sitting there one of the current cast? I sat there. Bowen Yang was in the sketch as well. I thought Nate was fine. I actually found his monologue a little long.

I was into it, and then I was like, okay, let’s get into the show. In the last few years when comedians hosts, they’ve tended to let them monologue a little bit longer than maybe they did for a few decades there. But you know, I watch Saturday Night Live for Saturday Night Live, which brings me back to the opening sketch. Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walls crushed it. But Jim Gaffigan’s not a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and Andy Samberg is there, and Maya Rudolph is there, and I feel like this season is quickly turning into not a bunch of twenty somethings breaking into comedy.

It’s like the All Star Show and a guess that makes sense for the fiftieth year, and a guess that’s what we’re going to get all year, and that’s fine. Makes me wonder about season fifty one when all this is gone, And that got me thinking as I watched it. You know, if I’m Jostin Chay, this might be the year to get out. If I’m Bow and Yang, this might be the year to get out. Because next year, on the other side of fifty, I could see a lot of new faces and the show almost feeling like it’s starting over, kind of sort of like it did in nineteen eighty.

I think season fifty one is going to be rough because let me ask you this, If Bow and Yang leaves, who’s the star of Saturday Night Live? Right? Yeah. Don Francisco, who hosted the original Sabado Gigante, posted on Instagram, I want to thank NBC and Marcello Hernandez for bringing back those special moments of our dear Sabado Gigante, who was not only a great television show, was much more a meaning point for families and four our Hispanic community. Cal Penn says that if John Stewart stepped away from the Daily Show, cal Penn wouldn’t mind taking his place.

I mean sure, I also wouldn’t mind hosting the Daily Show on Monday. Not gonna happen, cal Penn said, I had the chance, you guest host two weeks on the Daily Show last season, so we’ll see. They say John is back for one season. The fanboy part of me is like, I hope John stays on the Daily Show because I’m such a fan and I grew up on it. Then the agent part is one of your team and calls and is like John may be leaving after the election, Are you still interested in this job?

And I’m like, yes, of course I’m still interested in that job. It’s a lot of fun stuff happening. Anytime we’re around an election, it’s so tense. So what I love about what I do in the comedy space is you have the chance to do the opposite of like distress.

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Speaking of politics, Kamala Harris will be the guest on Colbert tonight.

Colbert was supposed to be off all week, and all of a sudden, on Sunday afternoon, Kamala announced she was doing what is it call her Daddy Howard Stern because she thinks it’s nineteen ninety five and Colbert. The Stern announcement did not go over well on Twitter. This got announced when I was watching football Sunday and people were just killing Howard for basically becoming everything he hated.

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And also the clips of Howard in blackface using the N word quite liberally st…

But Howard’s trying to clean up his legacy that he was the great interviewer and none of that other stuff happened, and most of the clips have been disappeared, but the blackface clip definitely was circulating on Sunday. Sam Walls was on Kimmel last night. At least that was the plan as I’m recording this. If you’re interested in the combination of politics and humor, check out the Ballot podcast. Look for the logo with a cartoon donkey that you know sort of is kind of possibly Kamala and an elephant with Trump like hair.

That’s the show you’re looking for there. Zack Zimmerman will tape his debut comedy special today at the Bell House in Brooklyn. That is your comedy news for today. If you would like to program without commercials, there’s a link in the show notes to tell you how that works. The short version is five bucks a month.

Not bad, right, See tomorrow

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Featured: Bert Kreischer, Ahmed Ahmed, Eugene Mirman, Nikki Glaser, Bill Maher, Billy Gardell

What’s in This Episode

• Bert Kreischer announces Bert Aid hurricane benefit show for Hurricane Helene victims
• Ahmed Ahmed LA Times profile on typecasting, acting, and stand-up comedy
• Ahmed Ahmed detained at Tel Aviv airport, controversy over Israeli Defense Force criticism
• Eugene Mirman discusses connection to Flight of the Concords cast
• Eugene Mirman voice of Gene Belcher on Bob’s Burgers
• Nikki Glaser appears on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast discussing Taylor Swift
• Billy Gardell returns to stand-up comedy after three-year hiatus following Bob Hearts Abishola

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media, find me home. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Nice job. Bert Chrascher, Tampa native. He’s announced a benefit show for victims of Hurricane Helene or to be at Ruth Eckert Hall on Saturday, October twelfth, eight pm.

Surprise guests will be announced. I bet Burton gets some especially in Florida, get some pretty good people to show up at this. Bert said, I was born in Saint Petersburg, raised in Tampa, and went to school in Tallahassee. Anything that happens at the state of Florida, I always feel like happens to me. I think all Floridians feel this way.

Florida defined me in the Bay Areas family. I’ll do anything to help family. All proceeds from the show we’ll go to metropolitan ministries to aid relief of hurricane victims. Bert aid, is what you want to look up if you want to attend that. The La Times did a nice profile of Ahmed Ahmed.

He started taking acting classes when he was nineteen, met Vince Vaughn and crashed on Vince Vaughan’s couch. He said, I was making good money booking roles as the terrorists. The driver, the sleazy guy called my agent and said, can I audition for the friend, the doctor, the lawyer. The cop ed says, whenever there’s a conflict in the Middle East, that’s when my career either rises or falls. He got tired of the type casting and stereotyping.

He said, it didn’t feel right, and that’s when I decided to shift in a stand up comedy to have a voice. He started doing a weekly show at Dublins on sunset. They had a big metal tub of peanuts and people would throw the shells on the floor. But every Tuesday night, rain or shine, we’d fit three hundred people. This is scary.

In twenty fifteen, after performing at Palestine’s inaugural one thousand and one Laughs Comedy Festival, Ahmed was halted at the Tel Aviv airport. He said he was detained with M sixteen rifles in his face, strip searched and interrogated for twelve hours. He described the Israeli Defense Force as inhumane on Facebook, which resulted in dozens of messages accusing him of anti Semitism. He says, I’m Semitic. I wasn’t saying anything about Jews or israel I was criticizing the Israeli Defense Force.

That’s like NWA saying f the police for the La Times, Ed says, ever since I’ve been irrational, I’ve had blind range. He described some incidents as comic drama between him and other stand up comedians that have gotten and bounced from the comedy store in the laugh Factory. During one show, an audience member made a nine to one to one call. Im Ed had said, how many Muslims are Middle Easian people here in the audience? Great, there’s a small group of us in here, but hey, it only takes one.

Two cops appeared at the club the following night, but he was allowed to continue with the set. I’m at joked, is a terrorist organization good to send their headhunter to an American comedy club. I want you to fly all the way to America. I want you to learn English really good. I’m gonna put you in comedy classes.

Eugene Merman spoke to WPR about appearing on Flight of the Concords way back when it’s been a minute since that show. How did you connect with Bretton Jamine? By the way, are you familiar with the Mandela effect? That’s where, like things you’re convinced happened are true, and then the world changes. I’m originally from a world where the guy on Flight of the Concords was named Germaine with an R.

At some point teleported to where you and I are now, where the guy spells his name Jemmaine. That was not the case.

Also where I’m from.

On Game of Thrones, the lead actress his last name is Heatley. There’s no L in her name anymore. I don’t know what’s going on. Maybe that explains the Bob’s Burgers thing. Maybe where I’m from there is no Bob’s Burgers, and that’s why you guys think there is one.

Something like that. We’ll get to that a second. Eugene said, I did a show in Edinburgh, I think in two thousand and five and saw them and met them, and I believe Dmitri Martin had done a show with them maybe before that, and they were coming to the US. So we did shows together in small venues in New York, and they were at Aspen Comedy Festival when I was there. It’s like anything you meet people you enjoy and you work together.

So I auditioned for the role of Eugene even though they had written it for me. WPR said, you, of course supposedly provide Jeen Belcher’s voice on Bob’s Burgers. Hmmm, Jeene plays pranks and plays the key word. What do you and Gene have in common? Eugene mermans at a certain probably goofy warmth.

Gene is what I would be like if I were a kid, now to a degree. But I think he’s a goofy warmed jokester, So that might be a bit of what we have in common.

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Also a love of food.

Hm. Nikki Glaser was on Bill maher As at Club Random. What do you think they talked about? Here? I’ll give you a hint.

The subject is Nikki Glaser. What do you think Nikki Glaser talked about? That’s right Taylor Swift. Maris said, if Taylor Swift said vote for Trump, he’d win. That’s not good Trump with the supporters.

That’s a cult. But so is this. It’s a cult. Maybe a cult leader can be a source for good and not evil, and I think she genuinely is. I have no reason to put her down or desire to.

I always the greatest respect for a success. You don’t want to take on Taylor Swift. Joe Cooy, did that you remember what happened there? Relaxed Scott. I’m not gonna play it.

Billy Gardell said when Bob Heart’s Abashola wrapped up its fifth and final season, he decided to go back to the stage. Billy said, I thought I was done with stand up. I’d take it three years off to make some health changes in my life. And when I came off Bob Hart’s Abashol, I thought, all right, maybe I’m done with stand up. But the bug get me again.

His comic buddies, Chris Titus, Steve Byrne, Alonza, Bowden, Ian Bagg and Jay Leno. That’s a crew, pretty good show, kept pestering him. New how would you line those people up? Let’s say, all right here here, let’s play this game. R It’s Billy Gardell, Titus, Steve Byrn, Alonzo, Boden, Ian Bag, and Jay Lenol.

Right, so Ian’s got to open. He’s at Gardell’s show. Is he the headliner in this? So he’s last, So you gotta put Leno right before him. Alonzo’s a killer.

Steve Burn is not a household name. It is pretty good all right, So I would go Ian Bag then Titus Burne, Boden, Jay Leno, Billy Gardell, you’d go see that show anyway, I digress. Gardell said, I went down and saw Ian performing at the Irvine Improv with my wife, and man, it hit me. I was like, you know what, I’m gonna do this again. And so I got back up on stage and I’m like, I’m a different person.

I’ve lost one hundred seventy three pounds, I’m older, and those were things to write about, and I’m an empty nester now. So I found some inspiration again. It’s just been funny get back up not being said. I’ve gone back to the clubs because you know, nowadays, if you’re not on the internet, no one knows who you are. Man, he had back to back hit CBS sitcoms.

I hope somebody knows who he is. I’m fifty five now. The only channel I watch a CBS. Nobody else cares about me. Twenty five to fifty four year olds.

They care about you. Me, No one cares. I’ll just sit here with my disposable income and not spend it on your products. I digress again, Billy says, so It’s kind of like starting over, but with no pressure, and I’m really enjoying it. At this age, stand up was always my first love.

Elas Gordell, did I say this already. He’s fifty five, He’s three weeks older than I am, so yeah, he should be on CBS. We could watch CBS together. At this age, stand up is always my first love. I love acting just as much, but stand ups Who’s brought me the dance And it’s great to be up on stage in this place where I’m doing it just because I want to do it, like you feel that way at the beginning, and then if you get successful, there’s pressure and commitments and all that.

And I’ve come through that and I’m at this place where I’m just doing it for the love of the game, and it’s very fulfilling. He talked about having the two sitcoms. When you’re lucky enough to get a show, when it ends, there’s a lot of tears and heartbreak because you and the cast of the crew you kind of become a family. We did that through COVID with no audiences and it was just us and they are trying to make this little show about love and family and one of the great through lines of that show was when you marry somebody, you mary their family, and it shows that we’re all kind of the same. We have a crazy mother, we have a wacky sister, we have cool uncle, and it reminds us that we’re all human.

And that show did that beautifully. So when it comes to close, you can’t be two down. You’re obviously sad. We have gratitude because to have that happen to me twice is just beyond my comprehension. To this day, I’m grateful for anybody who’s watched the work that I’ve done, and they’re the reason my kids in film school, and they’re the reason I have a house late night er.

I spoke to Simon Rich, he wrote for SNL on the topic John Mulaney. Simon says, Mulaney’s success is one of the least surprising things I’ve ever seen. It was apparent from the moment I met him he was the funniest person in the world. Was instantaneous, Like, within the first five or ten minutes I was speaking to him, I was convinced he was the funniest person on earth. Truly.

We started writing together the day we met. I couldn’t wait. He talked about the writing process. The writers get together for a few weeks before the show starts to write the commercial parodies, or at least that’s how we did it in the aughts. So I met him on a Tuesday night about a week or two before the season started, and if my memory’s correct, I think we were writing together within minutes of meeting.

Did he have any favorite sketches that did not make it to air? He said, Luckily, we’ve gotten most of them on now because every time Melanie hosts, he forces the issue and gets our favorite sketches over the finish line. A lot of the sketches we’ve had on the show since twenty eleven have been sketches that we wrote fifteen years ago, like toilet Death, Ejector and switcher Root. We couldn’t get him on the air until Melanie became enormously famous. Irene two told the SF Chronicle one thing she learned about comedy in La there’s no such thing as a casual stand up show.

She explains, there could be anyone here at any time. One time, I was just doing a backyard show. I’m like, who cares, We’ll do whatever. Set wasn’t very good, which is fine. Then afterwards I’m like, oh, you guys all work at some big agency.

Oops in the bay. A backyard show was its own reward, she says. Here, everyone’s just like, yeah, we’re just trying to get good at stand up. We don’t even know if we want to do comedy. We’re just kind of hanging out.

It’s more nebulous. All right, this next thing here, I’m gonna cop to. I’m gonna raise my hand and go guilty. I think this is fantastic. I like Irene’s comedy a lot, but this next thing here, I’m guilty of this.

She talks about how she gives off Big They energy. Her tour is called the Big Vey Energy Tour, and it gets its title from what two calls people’s ongoing assumption that, even after she corrects them, that she uses gender neutral pronouns. She describes her comedy as not that gay, but still plenty gay for her core audience, but leaving room to explore other socio political topics. A recent set at Eli’s took swings at both lefty activists and fibroids. She’s also trying to use the stage more move around a little bit.

Some people use the whole stage, and I’m like, but where am I going? Portland Mercury spoke to Tina Frill. Tina said, one time I came home from an open mic and I asked my mom was in the audience, and said, were the clapping because I was actually good? Or were they clapping because I’m disabled? It was inspiring?

And she said, well, maybe a little of both, and that sent me into a total breakdown. I never thought I could be good at being a comedian. It was never something that interested me, but I fell into it on a whim. Something to do. Comedy was a bucket list thing, some way to get on stage.

I never thought i’d get a little in a stand up comedy, but that maybe it would ease my anxiety for stage and I could finally sing on stage and bring myself to perform. But the knack I had for it in the external validation people tell telling me I had something there as for leaning into disability as part of the set or not, Tina said, I remember the first couple of times doing it up with Mike get In talk about disability, and it only took a matter of a few weeks. It was one tag at the end of a joke. Oh, I’ve got a good life, great friends, great family, of this beautiful state. I got a little bit of brain damage, but that’s okay, and it hit It hit like no other joke in a way that was like an icebreaker.

And then quickly after that I wrote the joke of I’m disabled, don’t worry, You’re gonna be okay, and all the jokes orbited around that one concept. For me, it’s the stuff I wish I could say to people in person, on the bus, across the counter, and it comes from rage, the quiet rage that they would just try and go about my life and I would make people uncomfortable constantly. And that’s why I say I suffer from people. It’s got nothing to do with my disability, but all those micro reactions all day, every day. I never set out to write this comedy so people could walk out with an enlightened perspective.

I didn’t want to change them or their outlook. I just wanted to call them out and sort of like get above it. If I’m being honest, I think not wanting to be put in a box comes from some internal ableism. It’s that ronic that often in interviews. I’ll say one thing, which is that I don’t want to be seen as a disabled comic.

Yet my actual comedy a lot of it revolves around disability. Good stuff, they’re really interesting in. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it.

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Featured: Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Quinton Brunson, Danny DeVito, Larry David, Will Ferrell, Harper Steele, Lewis Black, Yvette Nicole Brown, Joel McHale, Donald Glover, Alan Strickland Williams, Blond Medicine

What’s in This Episode

• Abbott Elementary and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia crossover announcement
• Larry David golf incident with Cooper Manning
• Will Ferrell documentary ‘Will and Harper’ and SNL cast retrospective
• Lewis Black farewell tour and retirement plans
• Community movie production update with Yvette Nicole Brown
• Alan Strickland Williams comedy album ‘Ran Through’ release
• Worst comedy show experience story from Blond Medicine

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Here’s a weird one and Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. They’re doing a crossover between Abbot Elementary and it’s always Sonny in Philadelphia. Yeah. Rob mcalenny teased it on social media.

On Twitter, he shared a photo of him and Charlie Day with Quintin Brunson. He posts another photo of the trio with Danny DeVito, Tyler, James Williams, and Williams Stanford Davis on his Instagram story. Both Abbot and Sonny take place in Philadelphia and both are owned by Disney. That should be interesting, right, I imagined it’s an episode of Sonny who Knows Time will tell From golf dot com You’re home for comedy News. Cooper Manning, the other Manning brother, was playing golf with Larry David.

Cooper said, you want things to go wrong where Larry David gets mad and aggravated, because that’s where he shines. So you know, even on the first green he had a put and he started yelling at it. You know, are too ard, He flustered his caddy. As caddy told them, you know it’s a little uphill. He hammered it, and he’s like, don’t ever tell me how harder or how soft to hit it unless I ask.

Will Ferrell getting a lot of good buzz for his documentary, Will and Harper and they talked about how Will when he first started on SNL, the cast members didn’t think Will was particularly impressive. Harper Steele said, the first week we went downstairs to launch, and there’s something about the two of us. We were just on the same wavelength a lot of different ways. They all thought Will Ferrell was a dud. I just knew Will was not the dud.

Will said, you were an ambassador for me to be like, now, I don’t write him off. He’s actually really funny. Sometimes you look back at these casts and people go on to bigger things and become bigger names than maybe they were at the time. The nineteen ninety six cast of SNL Chris Caton, Daryl Hammond, Tracy Morgan, Will Ferrell, Jim Brewer, Cherio Terry, Molly Shannon, Nor McDonald, Tim Meadows, and a gaesst Styre. It’s a pretty good cast.

In the documentary, Will says, if you ever scratched your head and said, why did Will Ferrell make that there’s a good chance it was with Steel, describing Steel is having a super weird, creative sense of humor. Lewis Black was on with Boston Public Radio talking about politics and said, how many jokes can you make about this insanity? Every special? I have a joke where the Democrats do this, the Republicans do that, honky hank, quack quack. It’s the same over and over again.

Now it’s just gotten a little crazier. Is this really a farewell tour? Lewis said, I’m not going to do one hundred and fifty shows. He might occasionally open for his comedian friends, or do one off performances or appear on the Daily Show. Black recalled a flight several years ago where he ran into Don Rickles, who was then in his eighties.

Black recalled saying to his own opening act at that time, I’m not doing that. Black is seventy six and says, going in front of an audience where people like you more than you’ve ever liked yourself, it’s pretty remarkable. If he needs the buzz, he’ll open for Kathleen Madigan. They’re good friends and do live shows of his Lewis Black Rantcast podcast, and if that’s not enough, he says, I’m going to go on public transit and yell at people hashtag six seasons and a movie. You know, it would help if I had actually put the new story in my script.

I only have the headline here, a little behind the scenes for you. Why don’t you edit that out? John? It’s more fun this way, Evett. Nicole Brown said the community movie is going to happen, but the script is being reworked.

After she signed on to reprise her role as Surely. She told the Rap I think it’s being reworked, but we’ve all read an entire full script, so script exists. I’ve heard that we have the big credit in LA that gives you money to make the film, so we’re definitely gonna be doing it in La. Joel McHale it took responsibility for the movies delay, telling GQ that fans can fully blame my schedule. That followed speculation that it was Donald Glover’s schedule holding up production.

Ivett said, for a minute, I wasn’t confirmed, so they have to now change some things because I am confirmed, and they can now change some things for Shirley’s character as well, So it’s gonna be a really good time. It’s just now trying to get all these puzzle pieces together of everyone’s schedule. We were scheduled to do it, and then the strike happen, and now it’s like trying to figure out when is so and so done with their show, and when is so and so done with their movie? When is so and so off tour. It’s all those things that we’re trying to get together.

But it’s gonna happen. We’re gonna do the movie, and we’re all on board to do it. For the script, she says, a lot of it’s probably gonna change, but it’s really well, it’s very reverent. It’s silly. As for that LA tax Credit community.

The movie that seems to be the title was announced as one of nineteen projects that will benefit from fifty one point six million dollars in incentives from California’s Film and TV tax credits program. Contact your local politician if you have an opinion on that. Blond Medicine and Alan Strickland Williams have announced the release of Allen’s debut full length comedy album, ran Through. It’ll be out October twenty fifth. Ran Through as a culmination of ASW stand up since he started up till the night he recorded.

The album is filled with absurd, dark one liners, those well structured pieces about the selestial bodies that hang in the sky above his Florida roots, relationships, dating, and being single, parenting are lack thereof viseectomes and guns. I like that because it didn’t follow the copywriting rule of three that was like seven. Love it. ASW excels at crash jokes about sex, drugs, and residual trauma, the kind of jokes that you can’t help but laugh at while also relating to just a bit much. Born in Texas, raised in Florida because my parents really wanted to do a number on me, Asw now lives a totally normal life in the small humble town of Los Angeles, California.

Mandell is one of vulturous comedians you should and will know. Worst show ever, Mendel says, I’ve had my fair share of awful interactions with audience members, and most of them are my fault. My worst work to date was when I used to tell a joke about my six hundred pound life. It was a newer joke at the time, and I’m trying to figure out how to get in it. So I decided to unnecessarily ask the audience who watches the show.

This lady responds instead of saying, you look like the type of person would watch the show, considering you’re the target demographic for TLC television programming, meaning she was a mid thirty suburban woman with a mid thirty suburban husband. I just say you look like it, and everybody in the audience, including her, thought I was calling her fat. Now that wasn’t my intention, So it takes me a while to process. While everyone in the room gats and started mugging me, I hear a comic from behind the curtain say, oh no, and then it clicked. I spent the rest of the set apologizing to this lady and was able to squeeze out a big laugh at the end and got off stage.

Who everything should be cool at that point, But then a comic later on in the night decides to bring the situation back up and says, ain’t nothing wrong with being a big girl. Big girls make some noise, and now our husband is full blown red and ready to fight by the end of the show. Afterward, I saw her crying, oh no, Johnny Mac, you just laughed. You’re such a chirk. I don’t know.

I didn’t know where the story was going. Mendel says, I tried to apologize again, but of course they weren’t having it right LYA she bought a ticket a comedy show in the hopes of having a nice laugh, but I got met with a bunch of folks calling her fat. Truly a rough night. I think about it at least twice a month. What comedy opinion Hill will you die on?

Mendel said, I don’t believe in funny is funny? While I do believe a lot of the best jokes speak to the human condition in a way that every person can understand, identify with that does not undermine the idea that we are unique with our own interest sensibilities, et cetera. So sometimes we’re not gonna find the same thing funny. That’s okay. A person can identify as a music lover and very much so hate country music.

I’m that person. Best advice, worst advice, best have fun? Worst stop yelling Hey, are you in Cleveland? I bet you are? After church?

Once you head on over to the seventeenth Annual Cleveland Comedy Festival. Yes, I’m shouting out Deacon Mike. Everyone then say hi to Deacon Mike. Hi to Deacon Mike. Deacon Mike, this story’s just for you.

The Cleveland Comedy Festival November sixth through ninth, Wednesday through Saturday, fifty comics in Cleveland for the four day event. The festival will be centered at Forest City Brewery, twenty one thirty five Columbus Road in Cleveland. Maybe I should go because I could pick up the bar tab and write it off for us. Yeah, let’s hang Deacon Mike. Additional venues at market Am.

No, it’s a legit. If I go to a comedy festival, that’s a legit expense. I didn’t schedule that at a brewery. What do you think of doing here? This is a business.

Steve Guys the executive director of the Cleveland Comedy Festival, and says the annual event shines the spotlight in Cleveland’s incredible comedic talent. We’re proud to partner with other venues to offer curated open mics and local showcases, giving fans a glimpse into the different levels of stand up comedy. Kicks off Wednesday, November sixth, with Cleveland’s best female comedian, Sabbatha Jones. She’ll be at Spotlight Cleveland. You know the place, eighty seven oh one, Madison.

Some of the other shows include Roast to Battle Cleveland and Your Arts Suck, a roast of fine arts. And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you would like this thing without commercials, check the link in the show notes.

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