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Caloroga Shark Media. Another I’m Channing Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle dropped by fifty Cents Charity Festival late last week. It was the Humor and Harmony Weekend in Shreveport, Louisiana, four days organized by fifty Cent to raise money for underserved youth communities. DC said, man, I flew all the way to Shreveport because any time makes history, I don’t want to miss it, and this is history.

This mf for Curtis Jackson has been the American nightmare and the American dream in the same life and brought it all here to Shreveport. Curtis Jackson aka fifty Cent and his charity organization, the g Unity Foundation, put together the event, which also included Andrew Schultz, Bill Bellamy, and Kat Williams. Joe Rogan has picked a candidate for president. It is RFK Junior. On his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan said, he’s the only one that makes sense to me.

He doesn’t attack people, He attacks actions and ideas. But he’s much more reasonable and intelligent. I mean, the guy was an environmental lawyer and he cleaned up the East River. He’s a legitimate guy. I don’t know if Rogan was paying attention to the news last week, the whole thing with RFK Junior bringing a dead bear to Central Park, and plus there was the whole brainworms thing.

I mean, vote for who you want. Rogan called Kennedy a straight shooter in contrast to the spin produced by the Democrats and Republicans. Rogan said, that’s politics. They do it on the left, they do it on the right. They gaslight you, they manipulate you, they promote narratives.

It almost sounds like he’s writing a song. And the only one who’s not doing that is Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Kennedy posted a clip of Rogan’s endorsement, saying, from one legitimate guy to another, thank you Joe Rogan for always putting substance first. Well Trump got a word of this and posted on truth Social It’ll be interesting to see how loudly Joe Rogan gets booed the next time he enters the UFC ring Mega twenty twenty four.

Then, after a couple hours of Rogan fans being like, wait, what, Joe backpedaled, I’ll say it. I’ve been challenging Joe Rogan to a fight in the ring for maybe a year now, and he’s a coward. He hasn’t accepted it. Joe, I’m gonna kick your ass. I’ll let Joe Rogan beat up for some publicity.

You know how much that’ll advance this podcast. Come on, Joe, what are you afraid of? Anyway? Joe Rogan pose on a Twitter For the record, this isn’t an endorsement back pedal much. This is me saying I like RFK Junior as a person.

You ever have your ex girlfriend say that to you, Like, Hey, I just like you as a friend. Well, Joe Rogan just likes RFK as a friend. This is me saying that I like RFK as a person and I really appreciate the way he discusses things with civility and intelligence. I think we could use more of that in the world. RFK thanked Joe Rogan for his comments.

All Right, Big Kilt Sony Show Saturday Night. I guess we should start with this one. Shane Gillis was at the event and did his Donald Trump impression. This is a great clip, little longer than I usually do, and I’ve clipped it in a few places because Shane Gillis Trump said some naughty things and we don’t want to do that on this podcast. It’s crazy what’s going on at us, Tony.

I’d love for you to stop talking about Bustin for one second. I think you tell me as New York is probably the best. And I will say this. The reason I’m saying this is we don’t have absolute cowards like little Joe Rogan telling us what to do up here. Little Joe he came in, he said he wants to endorse RFK Junior.

Can you believe this? Joe Rogan is an absolute joke and if I ever saw him, I would whoop his pitch ass. What a coward. Joe Rogan, complete coward and it’s frankly, he’s an embarrassment to this country. He used to be such a possible.

And at that point actual Joe Rogan showed up and then Shane Gillis Triump said this, this man is Joe Rogan. What a true Adria great man. I would never say anything negative about this norm order guy. What a guy. Everybody that brees this is one of the best guys we talk about.

We say Austin, Austin Texas is great. Joe Rogan is great. Frankly, Joe Rogan is the best, and everyone knows it. And I love r MK. Who doesn’t love Rumka is a great givin.

Also appearing at kil Tony New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers has played eight more minutes for the Jets than I have. Rogers chuck some footballs into the crowd.

Also appearing at this show not just Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis and Aaron Rod…

I’ve heard people say they met Joey Diaz and he was a terrible, terrible, terrible human being, like the worst person who could ever possibly meet. Some people are not fans of Joey, and I only have terrible things to say about him. Out on Netflix today Matt Riffe’s crowd Work special. It is called Lucid Netflix in the log line says We’re all in this together. That’s the premise behind Matt rife special.

Well, he’ll get up and close and personal with this audience for a full hour of crowd work, Rife mocks people who say his stand up style is just easy and leaves the audience with one question, is it really on your Netflix today? Matt Rife Lucid. It was the tenth anniversary of the passing of Robin Williams. I remember that day clearly for two reasons. One, it was the first major thing that happened after I had left Cerrus XM Comedy.

And it is my tendency when something like a Robin Williams passes, you’ll be like, oh, let’s do a tribute show, let’s do stuff. But I was sitting home with no job, so I did nothing. The other thing that happened on that day was a different news story that people have forgotten. I teach this to my college students. Do you remember and you can look this up?

When NASCAR driver Tony Stewart killed a guy? Yeah, here’s it. In corn driver Gus eleven twenty fourteen, Stuart Hitting tragically killed Kevin Ward Junior on August ninth, when the latter climbed out of his car and onto the track. But no one remembers it because, oh my god, Robin Williams died. Tony Stewart was in the news for like ten minutes, and then the passing of Robin Williams totally wiped that out of the news cycle.

Robin Williams daughter Zelda went on Twitter to debunk a viral photo of Robin Williams alleging he owned a pet monkey. Zelda wrote, Dad didn’t own a pet monkey. No one should. Zelda clarified the monkey in the photo is the monkey from Night at the Museum, and the monkey lives at an animal rescue center. She referred to the original post as some probably ai written bs, and she encouraged us to ignore the creepy robots trying to farm your clicks and do something nice for yourself instead.

I sure as hell will Jimmy fallon the Olympics. People were not digging it at all. I was watching the closing ceremonies with my wife and there were two commentators and one of them was saying a bunch of not funny stuff, and my wife was like, oh, and I said, that’s Jimmy, and she’s like, that’s Jimmy Fallon. That’s Jimmy Fallon. One disapproving fan on Twitter wrote, NBC, get Jimmy Fallon out of there.

No, this is ruining every good feeling I had about the Olympics. Another fan wrote, imagine carrying out your country’s flag and a roaring arena at the Olympics and you have Check’s notes Jimmy Fallon yapping in your ear. Another wrote NBC, what the hell just let them walk the Olympics closing ceremony. What is this Jimmy Fallon? Leave them alone?

Please? If I was a flag bearer representing my country at the Olympics and they’re forcing me to talk to Jimmy Fallon instead of enjoying the moment, I would say the C word on live national television During an interaction with athletes, Jimmy Fallon asked Olympic champion Katie Ladecki if she planned to swim home. I did broadcast the Jimmy I think twice. A’d serious youn. He was a guest on Brewer Show and he was a really good guy.

I have another Jimmy Fallon story for a different day. We’re getting a little long here ready. Very busy for a summer Tuesday. Tuesdays in general are usually light, but today’s pretty busy. Did you watch last week tonight?

John Oliver made fun of Donald Trump trying to stick Kamala Harris with the nickname Camabla. Trump’s campaign spokesman Stephen Cheng decided to whip out a Ven diagram to explain the connection between Comma and Blah. John Oliver couldn’t resist pointing out that the diagram not only failed to explain anything, it’s not how Vin diagrams work. Oliver took out a Vin diagram that had one circle labeled John Oliver and another labeled Big Bird, with the overlap being Squawk’s educational lessons on television. Then he went for another one, a diagram with Jenna Ortega in one circle and Peppi Lapeu and the other with the overlap being can’t say where they were on nine to eleven.

Anna Marie Taylor used to be married to John Mulaney. She has a new book out, and she said, if you’re looking for Malaney gossip, you’re going to be disappointed. Taylor said, I have no desire to cater to the one single thing that people might know about me. I think a lot of this has to do with the age of social media, but people feel like they know someone from fairly small amounts of information. That phenomenon kind of scares me.

She said. She was initially frustrated by the assumption that the book would focus on her divorce from Malaney, but she wanted to write about something more universal, which is the ways in which men underestimate and sideline women. To focus on her divorce from Malaney would have been a crutch that I don’t need. Boy, the publicists have been really getting it done lately. Marcelo Hernandez, you know him from SNL.

His publicist deserves a raise because he got quite the wax job from Yahoo. I mean, let’s not even talk about the story. Let’s look at the pictures styling by Alex Badilla. There’s also a senior market editor, a fashion market editor, a fashion assistant, a set designer grooming. So this is a no joke article to get the word out there about Marcelo Hernandez, who, after he booked SNL, bumped into Bill Murray at a party.

Hernandez told Bill about the first time they met, and says Bill was like, okay, yeah, yeah man, and laughs because clearly Bill Murray didn’t remember. He was so nice. Though Hernandez emulates some comedians, he would like to be like Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, Kevin Hart, Bernie Mack. He says, I want to be as successful as those guys, but I’m going to be the Hispanic version. As SNL gets ready for a lot of politics, at least early in the season, he says, I just try to stay happy and positive.

I don’t like the drama of it all. He was asked about Dave Chappelle, who appeared on the stage of SNL last year. Hernandez is open for Chappelle a few times. He’s also spent time with Dave’s family and says, I have no problem with somebody that has a problem with Chappelle. I love everybody.

I love Dave, and I love anybody that’s mad at Dave. There’s a new episode of Inside Late Night with Mark Malcoffee was my guest about a month ago, maybe a little more at this point, and it seems like a lot of you were digging an the Inside Late Night podcast. Well you know who was back, Robert Smigel. They started talking about Tunsis the driving Cat. Remember that In SNL sketch, Steve Martin and Victoria Jackson are a couple that discover their cat can drive.

Smigel said, I have to admit I was obsessed with Tunsis. I was obsessed with particularly the opening credits where they used a live cat and they had two arms operating the steering wheel. I mean, I’d never seen that done before. I was so amused by I would literally run up to seventeen where the offices were, and videotape the pre tape. The cat’s just sitting around and he has no idea.

He’s in a comedy bit. And to me, that’s the funniest thing in the whole world. Right, I’m trying to be better about promoting Five Good News Stories. That’s the other podcast I host. I tell you five stories.

They’re all good news. You get it five Good News Stories number five Good New Stories. Wherever you get your shows. New episodes Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Check you it out.

Five Good News Stories from Wbure. Palestinian American comedian Atheria Cube has not changed your material since the start of the war in Gaza. Her family fled the West Bank after surviving a bombing in two thousand. They arrived in Alabama in the summer of two thousand and one, right before nine to eleven Ukube says, my goal is just to express my personal experience growing up in Palestine and in Alabama as a Muslim woman. You don’t have to be Palestinian or Arab or Muslim to relate to the things that I talk about.

Wbur was curious why she doesn’t talk on stage about her family having been bombed, and she says, it’s a deep sea to trauma. That it’s so to make funny when it’s something that I constantly have a visceral reaction about, like fireworks are loud noises, door slamming, It’s not funny. As I’m saying it now, I’m like, it’s not funny. So it’s hard to make that into something. When I have any and process this thing living in my body, I’m being retriggered.

Every time I open Instagram, I’m seeing those terrified faces. I’m seeing the shaking. I’m seeing the physical reactions that I experienced and still experience even when I hear a noise. It’s hard. As for her comedy, I mean, yeah, being on stage is more empowering and allows me to talk about things through the lens of humor versus here’s my trauma dump.

I just want people to remove any kind of preconceptions that they have about Arabs or Muslim women. You know, not everyone is conservative, and even if you are where you’re practicing, it doesn’t mean that you’re this or that we’re a monolith. Kelsey Cook told cracked my plan out of high school. I was going to be a high school math teacher. I got halfway through college with the math major was really hating it.

I switched to a broadcast production degree, which is essentially video editing. I had to take a public speaking class as a requirement, and I kept turning my assignments into comedy routines. My professor pulled me aside after class and said, you kind of remind me of Kristen, and I could see that you’re enjoying this so much more than most students do. You might want to pursue something with it. I wasn’t a class clown type.

The guy who won class clown in my school was the kid lighting his farts on fire my first time on stage, and I think we have to put the word stage in air quotes. It was my university’s monthly open mic, and the cafeteria it was truly the worst place to start comedy. Because you’re interrupting people’s dinner. You’re having lines of students walk in front of you as you’re trying to tell jokes in a microphone. For the first time, it was a lot.

You’re performing to the sound of clanking silverware. But I brought some friends and they were laughing. Some other people were laughing. You need to feel some sort of connection. You get hooked pretty quickly, and that’s your comedy needs for today.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like the program too, know what I’m saying. Oh, by the way, you know you can support the show. You got to buy me coffee dot com slash daily compan News. I went to the donuts chain the other morning.

There it was pouring. Nobody there at like six forty five in the morning, empty parking lot, no one in the store. Very suspicious. Tamor

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you missed yesterday, I had a lot to say about an article in the Hollywood Reporter about the streamers bidding on comedy specials. Pretty lengthy episode, especially for a Sunday, so go check that one out. Today’s a lot of fun.

Chad Daniels was on with I ninety five Radio and started telling Mitch Hedberg stories. The Hedburg aissance is happening. Can you feel it in the air. A lot of people talking about Mitch Hedburg all of a sudden. Chad told on ninety five, I think one liners are funny.

One of the funniest people that has ever lived is Mitch Edburg. He was just one brilliant one liner after another. But I think to really deep dive a story, you feel that human connection. That’s pretty cool. Daniels used to open for Mitch Hedburg on the road.

Daniels revealed that he is the unnamed friend in a classic Hedburg joke. My friend came up to me said, hey, you know what I like massed potatoes, and it’s like, dude, give me time to guss. Chad said that was actually about me. We were out eating and I said that, and he grabbed his notebook and wrote something down. I watched a set that night.

Chad said, I’ve never been more thrilled in my stand up career than I have. Hebberget write a joke about me. It was crazy. Chad told Dan Soder I used to use that as a credit because I didn’t have any credits. Soda said he would have done the same thing.

That’s a badass credit. Daniel’s got the gig opening for Mitch early in his career when the two met in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Chad said he learned important lessons from Mitch Edburgh. It wasn’t about stand up necessarily. It was about how to treat the staff, how to treat people who were opening for you, how to treat the bookers, just everybody.

I don’t know anybody who had a bad thing to say about him, so I try to live a little like that. Brett Turheun was on with WISHTV and said, don’t confuse the character with the dude. Brett told Wish every day there’s something new happening in the news. I started doing a character when people were burning nikes. I just burned nikes in my mom’s backyard as a joke.

People would say, this guy’s an idiot, but it was all for laughs. In the current political climate, you can’t believe, but you tow the line and make fun of everybody. Especially in comedy, you make fun of yourself first, and that opens the door to poke fun at the rest of the world. How much of himself is in the character? I’m somewhat spoken as just me.

I wear none of those clothes. I like to humble myself every once in a while, but that character is not necessarily me. Hey, good news for me. Scrubs is coming back. Now.

When it’s coming back is another question. I guess if you live long enough, everything happens. I mean, forty years went by and the police finally released some new materials Synchronicity DELEXTX edition. Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence confirms plans for Scrubs to return to TV fourteen years after Scrubs ended. It seems like it’s been longer.

Bill Lawrence says he’s eager to return for a revived series, revealing he’d not only liked to begin work within the next six months, but’d also like to introduce a new cast alongside the legacy cast. Well, of course, so that’s how that’s going to work. Bill told lad Bible, Look, there’s no huge drive because everybody’s successful and I think the show was on for like seventy two years. But on the other hand, medical people over here right now are very heroic to me. It’s been a tough road and no one’s becoming a doctor right now to get Richard America.

So we’ve all been hanging out and talking. So I’m open to it, and I don’t want to do it as a movie. I’m definitely open to doing a couple more years of that show. Not only bed He fun to see with the characters I used to love her now, but also see what a young doctor nowadays looks like as far as the kids coming in behind them, you know. So we’ve been talking a lot about it.

I think we’ll figure it out in the next six months what we want to do. I’m just busy too, man in a great way. Of the main cast from the first eight seasons of Scrubs, season nine was a little funky, the reboot cast would probably be only missing Ken Jenkins, who played doctor Kelso. This article says Jenkins is retired. I thought he had passed away.

Nope. I’m glad it didn’t pass away. I don’t know why I made that up. Glad to see that he’s still around. Born in nineteen forty in Dayton, Ohio.

John C McGinley, who played Doctor Cox, has taken a recent break from acting. He’ll do it. It seems the easiest to get back would be Zach Braff and Donald Faison, considering they already have his Scrubs podcast and Too Commercial together. Yeah, those two would be idiots. If if somebody calls and goes, hey, guys, Scrubs and those two don’t come back, that’s stupid.

Take the money. This article’s ridiculous. Robert Macio, who played the Todd, may make a cameo. He stepped away from acting to pursue his career as a real estate broker in Santa Juanica. I’m sure he’ll come by and do the Todd.

I gotta scroll down here to my bumps from yesterday.

Also Bill Lawrence related where did you go?

Did I not move into the document? Why don’t he edit this? John? Because that’s not fun. I’m trying to tell you about Ted Lasso.

I see what I did. I had hit control C for cut, but I never did the paste part. Now I’ve put paste and the stories where it belongs. Ted Lasso also created by Bill Lawrence. Guy’s pretty good at TV.

He talked about a potential season four of Ted Lasso and says it’s all up to Jason sadeikis No pressure Jason. You know we’d all make a Lasso season four if Jason was into it, you know, Otherwise I don’t know what to tell you. No pressure Jason Lawrence, still collider. Whatever Jason feels like doing, and whatever his decision is, we’re all down with it. Not only is he the star, he’s the head writer, and he is also the dude whose life just has to be completely overhauled and moved to a foreign country with young children.

It’s a big deal. So as a fan, if someone’s like, oh, it’s gonna happen again, I’ll go nuts. As a partner, I’m down for whatever he wants to do. I have a couple questions here, and I want to be and I like, sincerely, I don’t want to have sarcasm my voice. I sincerely get Jason sidekas wanting to be around his children when they’re growing up.

In my career, I missed a lot of the early days of my kids’ lives because I wouldn’t get home from the city to seven thirty, and then Dad would be exhausted.

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It was great. So I understand Jason sidekis, but I have some questions, and there’s a little bit in my voice. I’m being serious here. Can we not write from home? Do we have to write ted Lasso in the UK?

Why? Especially if this thing’s going to make a lot of money. If you say to the writers, hey, we’re gonna make ted Lasso, but you come to Jason’s Dacas town, I don’t know if he’s in la or somewhere else. Aren’t the writers gonna go? Yeah, let’s think about what the show ted Lasso is.

Do we need to film some exteriors in the UK? Yeah? All right, Jason, you mind going over to the UK for four days. None of us like to be away from our family for four days, but you could do that. The interior shots in the locker room.

Could we not film that in the sound stage somewhere? The soccer stuff? Could we not film the close ups on some soccer field somewhere and cg in some stands? Could we not do that? What does this have to be filmed in the UK?

Other than for dex purposes? Lawrence continued, it’s a big deal. So as a fan, if someone’s like, oh, it’s gonna happen again, I’ll go nuts. As a partner, I’m down for whatever he wants to do. They’re making a documentary.

We got Gary Coleman. Remember Gary Coleman from Different Strokes? That was a sitcom in the eighties. Maybe you weren’t around yet, it was a thing. This will be on Peacock, so nobody will really see it.

The ninety minute docum Entry about Gary Coleman Premiere’s August twenty ninth. It follows Gary Coleman’s rise to international fame, and it struggles with living in the spotlight along with the controversy surrounding his tragic death at age forty two. The log line here suggests something mysterious may have happened, so we’ll have to watch that. Martin Lawrence got into it with a heckler. Martin Lawrence was on stage.

He asked someone to bring up some water. Someone in the audience yelled, hurry up. Martin Lawrence respondible with a smile, F you, and I dare you to run up on stage. It main’ going to be no Dave Chappelle crap. I’ll whoop your ass.

People on social media enjoyed it. One fan wrote, don’t forget who the original host of Deaf Comedy Jam is. Another echo of that saying brought that Deaf Comedy Jam Martin out of him. I now. A third said, the people that always sy hurry up during your water breaks still haven’t learned throughout the years.

Put Martin Lawrence on Comedy’s Mount Rushmore, and they wrote for me, it’s Eddie Martin, and then there’s everybody else. I assume the Eddies, Eddie Murphy, Eddie Griffin can’t be Eddie Griffin. Well maybe it could be Eddie Griffin. If’ putting Martin Lawrence on the amount rush More of comedy, you’re gonna put Eddie and Martin, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor cover act, come on from Human Rights, watch your Home for Comedy News. On July twenty sixth, they court in Kazakhstan’s capital sentenced thirty one year old Alexander Murcool, a stand up comedian, to ten days detention on charges of petty hooliganism, allegedly for using obscene language during a performance in June.

Murcool pleaded guilty. Is joke Kazakhstan is new, poverty is old, the reference there being to a slogan that translates to new Kazakhstan used regularly by the president. It is believed that is what provoked authorities to respond by prosecuting him for obscene words used elsewhere in his act. In May, a court sentenced another stand up comic to fifteen days in detention for swearing in public. That comedian, who also pleaded guilty, had joked about corruption in Kazakhstan and made a comment about massive flooding on the country’s north earlier that year that caused the displacement of at least one hundred and twenty thousand people.

Not sure what the joke there was, the Human Rights Watch as freedom of expression is not absolute, but international human rights loss sets clear boundaries on legitimate government measures to regulate it. Kazakhstan is acting well beyond those boundaries, and it’s pastime it starts respecting them. Alexei Elmy’s show, Alexa Play Alexei Elmy is at Fringe at Venue twenty nine. The show is at fourteen fifty five. Now.

The show’s an hour and five minutes, so that works out now through the seventeenth Alexei Elmi brings fun so already president energy, frequently crossing into expressions of aggression and reach. In her solo play Real Life Human, Alexa is fed up with Amazon’s bassatorization of her name. Thus she creates a support group, alexis Anonymous. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

They might like it too. It’s a Monday, so there’s a new episode of five Good News Stories. That’s the podcast I host where I tell you five stories, all of them good news number five Good News Stories. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily comedy. He was pretty robust one for a summer Sunday rumor kill Tony could be moving from YouTube to Netflix in a deal being compared to Joe Rogan’s two hundred and fifty million dollars Spotify contract. Apparently at UFC three oh three, Tony Hinchcliff was caught hyping up a supposed deal he was striking with Netflix said it was comparable to quote the Spotify deal, which people assume means Rogan. Back in June, on episode six sixty six, Tony announced that Netflix executives and owners were in attendance, only to be surprised when the audience booed them but cheered YouTube executives.

Tony then joked that the crowd may have effed up a multi million dollar deal for us. Very very interesting, which segues nicely into this was one of those stories I couldn’t get to on Friday. If you heard Friday, I told you there’s so much going on. This was too long to deal with in what was already a twenty minute episode. A big story in the Hollywood Reporter, and you know I’ve been doing this for a while.

I’m doing media a little longer. Somebody, some agent, somebody got this thing written. Would be my guess the headline the war for laughs. Why streamers are battling for stand up comics. Platforms from Hulu to Amazon are spending wildly to wo comedians like Nate Bergatzy and Bill Burr to put a dent in Netflix’s dominance.

All right, let’s dive in here. My Spidey sense is tingling that this is more than the Hollywood porter going, hey, we should write an article. What should we write about? Somebody encouraged this as my guest I reporter. Right at the tail end of June, Bill Burr took the stage in Seattle.

Blah blah blah. But those who know Burr say he wanted to feel imported, or at least less like a cog in the wheel at a streaming behind which now spits out specials on a weekly basis and largely relies on internal algorithms to get them seen. Plus, there was an excitement about being on the ground floor of something new, so Burr ink to deal with Hulu time out. You see what I’m saying here, This to me feels like I don’t know, somebody went, hey, watch you guys write a nice article about Hulu’s comedy, or maybe somebody’s mad at Netflix. I just I don’t know.

This really could be, Hey, guys, what should we put in the August eighth edition of The Hollyood Reporter. I thought we write about some streaming comedy Susially, yeah, that’s a good idea. I mean, that could absolutely be what happened THHR right, So burr ink to deal with Hulu, the latest entrant into what’s quickly become an arms race for stand up specials. Time out. You know, if you’re a comedy agent.

The narrative had been that Netflix was no longer paying the big bucks. So if you’re a comedy agent, it’s not the worst thing. If there’s either an arms race or a perceived arms race, you want those comedian salaries to go back up up time in thhr right, So burr in to deal with Hulu, the latest entry into what’s quickly become an arms race for stand up specials. One of the few bright spots and in otherwise bleak entertainment landscape. The same companies that have slashed budgets and cut back on serious orders are now pooning up as much as eight figures for stand up comedy.

In fact, Hulu is said to have shelled out roughly fifteen million dollars for Burr’s hour, the result of an increasingly common multi platform bidding war. So also interesting that we’re putting a dollar amount. A lot of times you don’t see something. So fifteen million dollars for an hour of Burr? So how much is Hulu these days?

Fifteen bucks? Let’s do lazy, lazy math here do we think a million people are signing up for Bill Burr? Maybe? I guess you know. People used to ask me about the Howard Stern deal.

I did serious pay Howard Stern order million dollars or right, it was thirteen dollars, And I would ask people how many people do you think signed up for it? And people would say a million, And I felt that was low, and I go, okay, find a million. A million times thirteen is thirteen million times twelve months a year is one hundred and fifty six million dollars. Let’s give Howard one hundred million, and now there’s a fifty six million dollar profit, plus the ads you sell, plus the goodwill, plus the brand went up, people stop saying cyrus. And that’s if it were one million subscribers.

Imagine if it were two million or a different number, you’d have to ask the boss. As a series, I don’t actually know. I can tell you I worked at Serious at one point when we had fewer than one million subscribers total, and towards the end of my run there, I think we are around twenty million, and I think these days there’s around thirty million. So you do the math. So fifteen million dollars for Bill Burr maybe, I guess that’s a lot of money.

Bil Burr. Wow. Mainstay Entertainment’s Derek Van Peltz, whose clients include Trevor Noah and Roy Wood Junior, is quoted in this story. Mister Van pelt addresses how the comedy landscape had been dominated by HBO and then later by Comedy Central and to a lesser extent, Showtime. Mister Van pelt says, but no comedian did it to make money back then.

It was just an advertisement for the tour.

And then ne Flix comes along and all of a sudden, it’s like, wait a minute, t…

Yeah, I don’t know. I’ll ask Kelly Carler, I’m gonna guess George got paid by HBO, just to guess. I don’t know, could be wrong. The article then talks about how Netflix spent a lot of money by twenty seventeen executives at other places, including HBO, and raise the White Flag, an HBO executives quot of saying it’s hard for me to pay exorbitant prices. Back to the article.

Now, nearly a decade later, Netflix remains the premitive buyer, paying anywhere from a two hundred thousand dollars license fee, which it considers its starter tier for comics like Hannah Burner. All right, so next time you’re watching something like say Tim Dillon’s special that seemed a little homemade and the audio wasn’t that good, he probably got two hundred grand from it, is what we’re learning here to some twenty million dollars at the Chappelle level. I don’t know if you’re paying Burf fifteen twenty for Chappelle. Seems cheap. But the streamer no longer has the same stranglehold on the industry’s output because the latter has grown considerably.

One report picked the total number of comedy specials released in twenty twenty three at more than one hundred and fifty. Oh, it’s way more than one hundred and fifty. Kidding me, wme. Agency co head of Comedy Mike Berkowitz says it’s interesting he’s quoted in this article, isn’t it. There’s now the opportunity for every artist to get what the market value is, and it’s no longer one company that’s setting the price.

Sounds like a sports agent, doesn’t it. Yeh, same thing going on here. I see what this article is. For comics in their reps, the decision of where to sell a special typically comes down to a combination of money and eyeballs, though other sweeteners include awards, potential turnaround time, and the opportunities beyond the hour itself. My opinion, it comes down to money.

That’s it. That’s what the various platforms all eager to boost and retain subscribers. The appeal is largely the same. It’s relatively cheap, prepackaged content that’s already been tested on the road. Plus notes Uta Agency partner and head of comedy touring Nick nuke fourro interesting that he’s quoted in this article.

The comedians not only bring their own fans, but also do the heavy lifting and marketing through the social media and podcast Unlike most other talent, comedians have this direct relationship with their audience and they can grab that audience and bring it with them, which brings a big role in the ability to promote a special levity. Live founding partner Judy Moore Mill, whose roster includes Taylor Thomason, Bert Krascher, and Leanne Morgan, is also quoted in this article. She attributes the explosive demand in part to a lack of comedy alternatives. Judy says, they’re not making funny movies the way they used to, so people no longer have their relief, so they’re coming to live stand up specials because that desire to laugh is still very much there. Some more numbers thrown around Bert Kraser, who grows more than thirty million dollars on the road in twenty twenty three, enough to land him at number two on the annual Pollstar chart.

That is amazing joke that he’ll have a short list of people to thank it as Funeral and Netflix as at the top. Berkowitz. Remember he’s the wm E co head of Comedy said, those other placers are going to have to prove that they can compete with Netflix in terms of eyeballs and artists relations, or it won’t matter how much they’re willing to pay. Yeah right, Hey, hey, mister Berkowitz, well I got two deals here. Netflix wants to pay me two hundred thousand dollars, but Joe’s streaming service wants to pay me five hundred million dollars.

And now you know we should go with Netflix. I think it’d be best for your career to take to two hundred thousand. Get out of here, get lost. With that quote, the Dollar Reporter continues. By all accounts, it’s taken Amazon a few years to settle on a definitive strategy, but that hasn’t stopped it from outbidding the competition on multiple occasions.

Though given Netflix’s track record, many comics have opted to stay there even when it’s offering less. I’d like to know who accepted less. I don’t think the article mentions who accepted less. They mentioned some people who did not accept less, an example being Kevin James, some other names coming up. Some artists describe Amazon as main Street America, whether it be Kevin James, Jim Gaffigan, or Nate Bergancy, Amazon’s head of content acquisition at Chris Mansililo doesn’t argue with the main street thing, but he points out Jimmy Oyang and Tig Nataros recent accesses.

According to Nukaforo, who is the touring agent for Gaffikin and Bergazy, who were both previously at Netflix. So let’s not act like people are switching from Netflix to Amazon. Okay, let’s not act like that. The former served as a test case for Amazon’s viability, and from what we learned on Gaffigan, we knew that Nate’s sensibility and its humor could really thrive there by any platform standards. Bergazzy’s clean comedy Hour was big, racking up two point nine million viewers in its first month alone.

Soon he jumped from theaters to arenas, where he now smashes records at nineteen thousand seed venues like the Bridgetone area in Nashville. This is a publicist wet dream this article. This is an agent’s wet dream this article. This year, it is said Nate has grossed nearly ninety million dollars on the road. Wow, Judy Mormel says, to date, Nate’s the most undeniable example that Amazon has had, and the industry is watching really closely to see if it was a one time thing or if it could happen with other artists.

Man Solilo is optimistic, telling the other reporter, we believe it can continue to happen with other comedians. So too Sam Morrell, who dropped a Prime Video special. Sam said, because everyone is prime, right, who’s not a lazy piece of crap American? Here? Come on?

However, Nate is now returning to Netflix, where he’s said to be getting recognition as a top tier comic, both in compensation and Ted Sarandos’s attention, and Jim Gaffigan is now moving to Hulu. So what we’ve definitely learned is Jim Gaffigan is like a sports free agent who’s like, who’s got a check. I’ll go again, no problem with it. Make that money when you can where you can over at Hulu. Billy Rosenberg, who ran the Streamers comedy division until this spring, had identified what he believed was a hole in the market for a more curated approach that hinged on just twelve specials a year.

What I sold up the chain was for the cost of one mid sized TV comedy series, we could program a year’s worth of specials, and unnamed rep though says sure Hulu’s willing to pay more, but does it end up costing me touring revenue because not as many people see it. In the meantime, Hulu has licensed older specials and remains committed to making noise with its upcoming roster, which pending deals interesting This New to Me also includes otsco At Kotska and Jessica Kerson. Multiple sources say they tried to get Jamie Fox and Andrew Schultz, but both went with Netflix. Hulu’s head of scripted content, Jordan Hillman, says they’re being really thoughtful about how to leverage relationships throughout the Lord tre Disney ecosystem, But Jim Gaffigan says, I know the intention is really good, but also because I’m doing a special for Hulu, I don’t have any expectation that I’m going to be in like the Mandalorian. Oh, I gotta check the clock.

What do we like? Half an hour into this? This is way longer than I thought. All Right, HBO is going smaller and more niche with a max of eight specials a year. That’s a shame, one of their VP said, And when we’re doing eight specials, the difference is our specials really feel special.

Johnny Mack has not been impressed by Alex Edelman, Rama, Yusef, John Really, and Nikki Glaser so far this year, although the article points out all four of those were rewarded with Emmy nominations. So what do I know? Ugh, that was a lot.

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All right, let’s take a break.

I got a lot more news man. Bill Burr is heading to Broadway. That’s right, you’re in kulkin. Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr hit Broadway next year in a revival of Glen Garry Glenn Ross, set for a Spring twenty twenty five opening. The Broadway debut for Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr.

The press release tells us Burr a wildly popular stand up comedian and star of stand up TV specials. We’ll play Dave Moss, the big mouth, often ranting salesman. I’m having trouble picturing Bill Burr is a big mouth, ranting salesman. Interesting casting there, Roy Wood Junior, We’ll host Have I Got News for You CNN’s adaptation of a British show of the same name. I don’t know about this one, Roy, because they’re airing at Saturdays at nine pm.

It’ll be available to stream on Max the following day. But Have I Got News for You? Makes its ten episode debut on September fourteenth, and My Guests will be canceled ten weeks later. I’m rooming for you, Roy, but I don’t know that’s a rotten time slot. The panel comedy series features comic observations from the satirical to the surreal through the lens of a news quiz.

Roy Woods said, for far too long, immigrants have been coming to America and taking black jobs. Kudos to CNN and the immigrants at Hat Trick Productions for bringing a black job to the States. To an honor to be part of such a hallow British institution. It helped make sense of American institutions of chaos, name calling, disinformation, reality TV, and the eight hour news cycle. I guess ten weeks will get it through the election and then they’ll cancel it.

The Olympics are wrapping up. Apparently Kevin Hart was on Peacock. Did you hear anybody talking about it well. Kevin Hart, he enjoyed it. He said, the Olympics are great.

You know, me and Keenan have tapped into a world of chemistry. I don’t think I have to talk about it. I think it’s easy for the world to see. I haven’t heard one human being talk about this other than Kevin Hart. I have not seen one article mentioned the Olympics show that Kevin Hart’s doing.

I’m sure it’s fantastic, but buzz wise, Kevin Hart, it’s got zero. Kevin also gave love to Snoop Dogg, saying Snoop is great. I think he’s been great, and I think what you just look at is what we’re all doing. We’re just giving the world a different eyesight as to what comedy can be with humor. I like the idea, but I’m not sure anyone’s watching this next story.

I really want to bump, but I want to get in front of it before the twist happens, because my Spidey sense is catching something the article. Stay for the twist here. Okay. In Dayton, Wiley’s Comedy Club will host its final show in September. Okay, that’s kind of sad.

Wiley’s comedy club is closing after forty two years. They put out a statement saying, thank you for your generosity and support over the years. We could not have done it without our amazing customers. The farewells show is on Saturday, September seventh.

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Now here’s the twist.

In twenty twenty two, Iron Table Holdings LLLC, a real estate holdings company, bought the building that houses Wyley’s Comedy Club, which is now closing after forty two years.

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Now here’s the twist.

Iron Table Holdings LLLC, a real estate holdings company, is owned by Dave Chappelle. Yeah you didn’t see that coming, did you know? Huh? So is Dave taking it over? Is Dave kicking them out to open a dunkin Donuts?

Time will t well. Time is telling me that the rest of the stories you’re getting bumped in tomorrow. And that’s your comedy news for a very robust Sunday. If you like the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too.

You know, see you tomorrow.

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Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Chi Meg with your Daily Comedy News this week. The first annual Columbus Comedy Festival takes place the fourteenth through the eighteenth, featuring over one hundred performers including national, regional and local comedians. Headliners include Jason Banks, Michael Ee, and black Tony Rock, Irene Ii fumu Abe, and a bunch of others. My guest today is Walker Evans.

Walker is putting this thing together and as you’re about to hear, dude knows his stuff. And this is no little comedy festival. This is not the as you’ll hear me say during the interview, the Smallville Comedy Festival where we grab the locals from the chuckle Hut and called it comedy festival. This is a real deal. So we get into the business of it.

And as you listen, you’ll hear that Walker knows his comedy. So it’s the Columbus Comedy Festival, kicking off on August fourteenth, five days, one hundred and fifty plus comics. Here’s Walker. So I’m really curious on your background. I’ve definitely attended festivals.

I’ve even put together a few events. It is no small task, whatsoever? What’s your deal? How do you come to put together a comedy festival? And as we dive into the details of it, this is no small festival.

I’ve looked at the sponsor list, the number of events, the level of comedians. This isn’t you know. Hey, I’m friends with the guy at the club. We’ll throw a two night event and call it a comedy festival. This is a real deal.

So what’s your story. Yeah, My wife and I have run a local news publication here in Columbus for the past twenty three years, started in two thousand and one called Columbus Underground, and about eleven twelve years ago, we decided to pivot into event production. Instead of doing like a paywall model that a lot of news organizations do, we throw events and so we can tell our readers, Hey, if you like journalism, if you like what you’re doing, buy a ticket, come to an event, have a good time, and know that helps to fund local journalism here in Columbus. Some of our events are on the smaller side to three hundred people, but we’ve run a coffee festival since twenty sixteen that has grown. Last year, in the eighth year, it’s sold out in advance with eighty five hundred people in attendance, so that event has grown into a pretty big undertaking putting this coffee festival together, So we do have experience with like larger scale of end production.

We’re aiming for ten thousand attendees this year in October. But we’re also big fans of comedy and there isn’t a festival in Columbus currently, so we’re like, why don’t we rally the troops and try and pull off one of these to a large scale? All right, so many questions, So let’s start with the business sides. Presumably you have existing relationships with sponsors, You’re known in the community, so it was a little easier to reach out as opposed to if I just showed up in small town, USA and I was like, Hey, it’s the Smallville Comedy Festival. Who wants to sponsor it?

Can I have a check? So I assume it was a little more straightforward because of your two decades. Yeah, yeah, we’ve built a pretty good reputation on being able to pull off the events that we say that we’re going to produce. So we’ve got a little bit of history and again, twenty years yeah, connecting. Columbus is a really interesting city because it’s a region of two million people, so we’re a pretty big city.

But it’s pretty easy to get to know people here. You just reach out and say, hey, do you want to get coffee, and you can connect with people pretty pretty easily. There’s not a lot of gatekeepers, so yeah, and I think people really like We love festivals. We have a whole summer lineup of the Arts Festival, the Asian Festival, the Red White and Boom. We have a huge Pride festival, so all some are long.

People are looking for things to do. And because we’re not replicating something else that’s already here. There’s six different Taco festivals. We’re not like, hey, we’re going to be Taco fest numbers step because we’re doing something different. There isn’t a comedy fest currently.

There have been some in the past that have come and gone. People seem to be really excited about something new to add to the lineup. Who’s uh, I don’t necessarily need a specific name, but who’s helping you with the booking? Because there are some big time comedians on this list. Again, this isn’t the Smallville Comedy Festival.

We’ll just get the regulars from the Chuck ohad do you play there every Tuesday? You’re bringing real names in, knowing something about the business. Again, no small feat and discussions and logistics going to that. So how are you tackling the bringing in the Mike Leean Blacks of the world. Yeah, so I guess to rewind to last year, like last October, when we were sort of noodling on this idea.

We brought together all of the local venue operators, promoters, different groups in town to say, hey, what if Columbus Underground runs the festival as a whole, But then each of the different venue partners can program their own events, do their things their own best way, and it’s all under the umbrella the festival. So that allowed others to do their own things. And so, for example, the Attic, which is a local club, they’re bringing in Jim Florentine. They have a pre existing relationship with him, so they’re able to tap into him pretty easily. The Funny Bone, which is the big dog in town, got Tony Rock, so that’s obviously a big name and they had their relationship there.

But the events that we’re programming, we just started reaching out to people to see who we could get, who’s available, whose price range and budget we can work with. And there’s been a couple of folks that you reach out to one agent or management or group and you get one person, They’re like, oh, what about this person? This person they’re on tour. Anyway, adding a Columbus date might be pretty easy. So some of it, like Mike William Black just came through talking with Curtis Flag in Chicago.

I think I reached out to him originally about Kristen Toomey and He’s like, here’s the rest of the list that I represent, right, who can we plug it? And I’m like, yeah, I love my people Black, I love the States. I’m old enough to remember the state from the nineties on MTV, and so yeah, it ended up being just throw a. Lot with the wall and see what sticks. Approach.

Let’s talk about these specific lineups and catch a listeners up on it, and I will be doing raps about it on the particular individual days, but in multiple venues, multiple artists every night, can you just give us an overview of who’s coming in what a typical breakdown is both headliners and I always advise the audience if you go to festivals, especially the really bigger name ones, I always say, don’t go see Chris Rock. You can see Chris Rock on Netflix. Go see somebody who maybe you’ve never heard of, who’s in up in comer. So just if you can give us an overview of what the next few days look. Like, Yeah, sure, I mean I would say, even like the bigger shows in the bigger rooms, the bigger headliners are still like emerging.

Upcomer might not be. The best term for them, But people like Chloe Radcliffe who’s been doing it for a while, building an audience, but still very much not an arena level comic, but headed on that trajectory. I would say her, Sumi Abe who’s coming in on Friday, Sam Jay, who was recently on the roads to Tom Brady. Some of these folks, I think being able to come and see them in a little bit more of an intimate environment in a room that seats two hundred to four hundred people is going to be something special because those folks when they come back to town and play like the big arena in a couple of years, that’s when the tickets are going to be a lot more expensive, and that sort of thing. But we have a lot of great regional comics, not just from Chicago, but Cleveland and Cincinnati.

Ramon Revas is a big name in Cleveland that’s coming down. Ran Barnaclough and Blake Hammond from Cincinnati are coming up. But a lot of great locals though too. Jason Banks is one of our big kind of hometown heroes, Simon Fraser, who’s semi local. Yeah, there’s gonna be a lot to choose from, and a lot no matter what your style of comedy is.

We try to go for diversity and style of comedy as well. What comedy are you into? No, I hate comedy. I’m just doing this festival some question. Yeah, No, I like a variety of things.

I would say I love a good weirdo. Okay, me too, yes, yes, so on. One person I’m very excited to see is Comrade Tripp. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with them. He’s based in Minneapolis.

Definitely like an emerging talent, but he’s very monotone and dry. His humor is very nihilistic, it’s self deprecating. It’s really funny if you like that style of comedy, a little emo phillips ish I would say a little Mitch hedbergish in terms of like tone. So folks like that I really enjoy quite a bit. But I’m really excited to see Pat Burscher.

He’s a Canadian comedian based in New York. He’s had some really great viral clips that I’ve watched and fell in love with on the social media, so we’ll be going to see a full set from him too. I think we’re speaking the same language. There are different styles of comedy and there’s the straightforward approach, and it was recently a notable Netflix special where the comic and question went straight down the middle, and that’s fine, but I prefer personally to play on the edges as well. As I was prepping for this and clicking on Walker Evans and seeing what comes up, you got to see Mitch Hedberg.

Now he’s not someone I saw. Just to catch you up and the listeners, I started running Serious XM comedy. I think it was two thousand and four, so Mitch was around and hot. I’ve told the listeners a story before. We were doing a broadcast at the Javit Center at the New York Car Show.

Jim Brewer was our afternoon drive host, and it’s been twenty years. Jim was a little pissy that day because the night before, Mitch didn’t show up for a show. We later found out the reason Mitch didn’t show up for the show is because he had passed away. But he was booked on the show that day, so I never got to see him. I never got to meet him.

I know his wife reasonably. Well. What was it like seeing Mitch Hedberg in concert? It was great. We were big fans.

This was it the what was then the Cleveland Improv. I think it’s rebranded to the Cleveland Funny Bone. But like, his level of fame and popularity had gotten to the point where he’s on stage and he’s trying to tell jokes and there are people in the crowd finishing the punchline because they had listened to his material, like they bought an album, and so you could see that like wearing on him and frustrating him. And at one point halfway did the show, he said something along the lines and I’m paraphrasing, but he’s you know what, screw it, I’m going to do all new material. It’s not as good, but at least you people won’t be able to finish my punchlines because you’ve never heard it, and everything we cheered that, we’ll like, yeah, let’s hear some new stuff.

So he was rolling with it, but you could tell like maybe the fame was getting to him. He wasn’t able to cope with it in a way that other people do, so it was really of his past. It’s really interesting to me to hear you tell that story unless you’ve listened to fifteen hundred episodes of Daily Comedy News and you were familiar with the story I’m about to tell. So when Mitch passed away, I’m not a vulture. I wanted to do something for Mitch on the radio station, but I’m not like, Hey, your husband passed away three hours ago, let’s do a tribute show.

So I like waited whatever amount of time, and I reached out to Lynn and I’m like, hey, we really want to do something. And she came in and shared with me that this is going somewhere that she had shared me that she hadn’t really heard from anybody was excited about it. So she came in and I was sitting in one of the little edit boots with her, and she had some tapes of Mitch late in life sets, perhaps a show you were at, and she’s playing them and they’re really well recorded, and I’m like, you’ve got an album here, and I don’t make comedy albums. Just as a fan, I want to hear it. And we connected her with Comedy Central and a guy named Jack Vaughn and that became the posthumous Mitch Hedberg album.

But she had shared with me exactly what you said, that he was frustrated that his timing was getting off because he had to speed up and tell the punch before somebody in the audience got to the punchline, and he was really struggling with his cadence there. So it’s fascinating to me as a fan to hear you tell that story that you experienced that. Yeah, Yeah, that was a really Despite the issues that he was dealing with on stage, it was a really fun show. He put on a great show and we couldn’t have been more pleased to have the opportunity to see him. I will say too, we had a local comedian here at Columbus Pass relatively recently within the past month named John Summerville, who I didn’t really know very well.

He ran a lot of open mics like ten to fifteen years ago. So a lot of the folks who are coming up now really wanted to pay tribute to him because of what he helped build in the local scene here. And we noodled with the idea of doing something like in remembrance or making some sort of award in his name, maybe for comedian during the festival, but it feels a little too soon because it was so fresh, and so it’s one of those things that we need to talk with his family and maybe see if there’s something like next year, like some sort of legacy award or something, just to kind of keep his name in the spotlight. Yeah, I think your sensibility is in the right spot. There’s always that careful walk of your heart wants to do to the right thing, but sometimes things are just better off if you take a beat, and I think legacy things like that are great.

I was recently speaking to Jerniy Gunderson, who runs the National Comedy Center, about how comedians get forgotten. We were specifically talking about people like Richard Jenny or Robert Shimmel who were huge twenty five years ago and you don’t hear their names now, and there’s their material doesn’t really surface. I guess Netflix really isn’t going to put up a twenty five year old special, and the YouTube algorithm is more friendly towards newer things, so it’s a shame. So anyway you can keep someone’s name out there, I think that’s really important. Yeah, we’re doing something else now that you mentioned that, and I guess this will in the past at the time this is released.

But this Friday we are screening the Aristocrats film from Henerie, I should say, from two thousand and five, which I’m like, man, it’d be great if it was the twentieth anniversary, but that would be next year. And you go back and watch the trailer and look at the list and how many people have passed that. Were in that. George Carlin was in that when that was recorded, but Bob Saggett has passed, Gilbert Godfrey has passed, Richard Lewis has passed. So I think it’s going to be fun to watch this, especially with some comedians in town who are like in their twenties, so they’ve never even heard of this documentary, let alone seen it.

But my wife and I saw it in the theater and. The one theater in town that would play it because AMC wouldn’t play it back in two thousand and five. So I think that’s gonna be really fun just to watch some of these comedy legends like really go off the rails. Have you seen that Cash? Well?

Absolutely, You’ve got my brain thinking now that it has been a minute since it came out and there’s this whole generation. I wonder what a Shane Gillis or a Sam Morrell or somebody like that would do with the aristocrats. I’d love to see an dated version of something like that. Yeah. Yeah, So we’re partnering with the local theater here at the Gateway Film Center.

They’re going to do a screening and we have a couple of local comedians who do like some sketch kind of stuff, like some short films. We’ll tie in some local little bits before that as well. So it should be a lot of fun a way to kick off the festival. That’s awesome, all right, more with Walker Evans in a second. It’s the Columbus Comedy Festival kicking off August fourteenth.

How are you staffing? Having ran a very small event, I know it’s hard when you’re not in the room and worrying about what’s happening in the other room and the three things that are going to go wrong, and your phone’s going to light up because somebody’s cranky about something. What do I do here? How are you staffed up for this one? Yeah?

So we have a full time events director, Daniel Hagworth, who works for us with Columbus hunder Grounds, so she’ll be in charge of a lot of that stuff. We’ll have people at each of the venues that we’re operating to make sure that volunteers are checking people in, directing people to where they need to sit, pointing out where the bar is, that sort of stuff. We’ve got a pretty good group I think about thirty five. Volunteers that’ll help reset the rooms, clean up trash, do the legwork of that sort of stuff. But then with each of the shows, we’ll have a show runner assigned to make sure that the comedians are checking in when they need to, the lights go down, when the lights need to go down, the audio comes on, and that sort of stuff.

And then a lot of just background logistics type of stuff. We have someone in charge of like ground transportation to make sure that the headliners have a ride to and from the airport, hotel, venues and stuff like that. So it’s a pretty big undertaking, and there is stress knowing that I’m not going to be in every place all at once, and I want to make sure everything goes as best as it can. We’re good at delegating and trusting and people to make sure that everyone has a good time. Are you feeling good going in?

Look? I’m looking at the sponsors White Castle. How did you pull White Castle? They’re based here in Columbus, so I’ve known the VP of marketing there for a good long time. It’s a great I think it’s easy to make fun of sometimes it’s like the drunken late night food.

But it’s still a family owned business after one hundred years of operations. So it’s a really good, like fourth generation local company, and they really care about the local community a whole lot. Yeah, just tapping it into those resources and leveraging them. But overall, I mean feel good. You know, there’s always like the nervousness speak out from an event.

I feel a little better knowing that it’s completely indoors, so whether it’s too hot or rainy or anything won’t really affect it. With our coffee festival. It’s an outdoor event, so we always start checking the weather, hitting refresh onweather dot com and praying that it doesn’t rain. But no, I think we feel pretty good. People seem to be really excited.

We’ve got some local media coverage on it, and the buzz has been pretty positive. Good. Nervous energy is always a good thing. I’ve been doing this in some form since ninety two, and I still get that nervous energy before a live show, before a big show. I think it’s a good thing.

I’m thinking now what my brain two went to is what it was at Serius XM. We did comic Con radio a few times, so that’s part of my insight into knowing what goes on behind the scenes. So we would show up there and have to put together an entire radio station from scratch when the door’s open, so we would do if Comic San Diego Comic Con was Thursday to Sunday, we’d land and not have anything and have to be on the air by six pm Eastern, which was three pacifics So the doors didn’t open un till noon Pacific. So somebody go record a panel, and somebody go talk to some fans and get some audio, and I’d send it back to New York and till my number two, who would stay back in New York to run the show. Okay, I’ve got six minutes of us talking to fans, and we’ll have a panel in eight minutes.

But I don’t have it yet, but be ready, here comes a file, upload it and he would just handle everything back and then I guess this is your role for next week. I would try and stay calm in the middle and never let him see a sweat and I’d have a million questions in my mind, but just stay calm. Yeah, yeah, I think we’ve learned with the iterations of the coffee festival, the minutia, the detail that can get under your skin and make you freak out in the moment. You’re the only one paying attention to that. Everyone else is having a good time, and you’re just like, you’re so focused on some of the little tiny things that like you have to learn to like let some of that go and just look at the thing as a whole.

So yeah, I was at my daughter’s musical last weekend and she was saying, I don’t know, somebody missed a line or somebody had to add lib something to cover something, and I said, I’m in the audience. I didn’t notice. I don’t know right going there. What other comedians are you into these days who aren’t at the festival? What are you watching?

What are you digging? Yeah, I would say some of the ones that I wanted to have, and they either weren’t available or some other sort of scheduling conflicts. I’ve really been enjoying Jeffrey Asthmas a whole lot. I’ve seen him live at times. He is a killer.

His crowd work is probably some of the best. I know. Crowdborks an overdone thing, but he’s hilarious. Sam Talent is another one who The special he released earlier this year is really good, the Toad’s morale, his videos he’s been posting on YouTube. His travel videos have been really great.

Trips to Tokyo and Paris just like tag along with Sam Talent and friends, those have been fun. Jordan Jensen is another one who I love to see. She’s coming to the Funny Bone and September, and they’re one of our venue partners, so it didn’t really make sense to have her in town August and then September would cannibalize, so maybe we’ll try and get her next year.

And then one of the specials that really blew me away.

I mostly listened to it on a bike ride and then I stopped. I stopped my bike ride and got off to like finish watching it on my phone was mo welch Sure new special Dad jokes. Yeah, that was so well done because one part documentary, one part stand up. Special and it just it blew me away. I got those are a few, I guess.

So another thing that’s coming across here in kudos to you is you’re not a business dude who went and we could probably make some bucks if we dore a comedy festival. You’re clearly a fan. You clearly know the space. Yeah, I try. I’m sure I have my blind spots.

I’m sure there’s comedians out there who are great that I’ve never even heard of. But yeah, I mean, at the end of the day, we are trying to make money because we’re trying to fund journalism and keep that alive in some way shape. We’re paying every performer, even if they’re just on stage for five minutes, they’re getting a little bit of something. Because I went, not just to the headliners, but the locals to feel like this is a career path for me and something I can develop, And so I want the venues to make money. I want the bartenders to make money.

If everybody comes away from this like having a good time, feeling good, and a little bit more money in their pocket at the end of the day, then we all win and hopefully that could be something sustainable too. If I were a quick cash grab sort of a thing, like we could just try and do as much, but then people wouldn’t want to come back next year. If they’re like, well, I performed, but. I didn’t see any sort of profit or benefit, then it makes asking the comeback second time a tough question. Yeah, sometimes people will get weird about when you’re just being real about money.

For example, I’m enjoying talking to you. I’m excited for the festival. I like comedy.

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This is a fun hobby, but it also pays the bills at some point and the commercial so there. I hope your festival makes a lot of money, so you can do the festival for twenty five years or however long you enjoy it and then pass it to the next person. Right, there’s a business here, thank you Castle. Yeah, yeah, I mean it’s it’s how the world works, right, we’re just living at it. I’m not good at geography.

How far away is Yellow Springs? Because I know there’s some comedians over there, and he chanced. Yeah, yellow Springs is super close. It’s maybe an hour drive, like fifty miles. It’s a little bit closer to Dayton than it is Columbus.

But it’s like a fun road trip because Yellow Springs is. Very like there’s some great hiking. It’s very hilly and scenic over there. But I’ve not been to the new club that Chappelle opened, the firehouse that he renovated. I know it’s delayed because of the pandemic, but it soft opened, I want to say, like at the beginning of the year.

But the local club I mentioned earlier, the Attic, built a relationship to his son and had Dave come to the Attic here in colamb It’s nice. Yeah, he did three This was last summer. He did three like unannounced shows, so like tickets went on sale at noon for the show that night at eight pm, and they sold out in fifteen seconds because the venue only seeds like eighty, so it was like a living room show with Dave Chappelle and my wife and I went to the first one because we know the owner and he’s like, the tickets are going on sailor two seconds but such a and Dave, you know, love him or hate him, it was an interesting show that we wanted to be there and be a part of, and so it was very electric, like the club was really like alive that night, which is a lot of fun and hopefully they can do more of that sort of stuff. They did something similar earlier this year with Mark Normand who was in town doing like a bigger show in one of the downtown theaters, and he did like a sort of unannounced walk on twenty minutes of the attic and it was one of those things like if you knew he was going to be there, you bought the tickets, but it wasn’t really advertised. So fun stuff like that.

That’s fantastic. You mentioned crowd work and good crowd work and bad crowd work. I’m a fan of good crowd work. For example, if Dave Attel walks into a club, I’d rather Dave just free form for an hour. I’ve seen Chappelle a few times due where he’s not doing his act, where he just takes the stage and just talks for and it can be anything from fifteen minutes to two hours.

I love that just free forms stuff. So that’s awesome that you got to see him do a pop up show, and he does a lot of those. I usually prep this show in the morning, recorded around midday, and then it goes out at three a m. The next day. The amount of times I’ve told the listeners Dave Chappelle and has to pop up show, but it’s already he’s held out.

I would have told you about it, but I didn’t know. But that happens a lot. Yeah, Yeah, it’s really cool and we I should shout out the other venue partners as well that Don’t Tell crew that space here in Columbus. Over the past two years that they’ve been running Don’t Tell shows, they’ve turned it into the number one ticket selling market in the country here in Columbus. And so Simon Brazier shout out to him who books all that Don’t Tell shows.

He’s operating out of. Chicago now and helping to book Don’t Tell in Chicago. They do a great job and bring in something and that’s where I’ve seen Jeffrey Aspas twice in the past two years. Is it don’t tell shows here in Columbus, but they bring in some talent to those shows that we’re also working with Hashtag Comedy, a newer club started as an improv troop and they do a lot of variety shows and sketch shows and improv shows and they We’re also working with next theater that was founded by some old school Chicago improv trainees that have been doing it for twenty years called The Nest Theater and Tara and Rants are amazing at improv and they they sell their shows out. They do a great job with all their improv work.

But I feel like comedy we decided to go the route of instead of doing like big expensive festival passes. It’s fully alic heart and the median ticket price. Is twenty bucks, so people can feel like they can go see two or three or four different shows without feeling like they’re breaking the bank and investing in a three hundred dollars festival pass. So I would just recommend people pick a random show, pick someone you’ve never heard of, you’re gonna have a good time no matter what, and it’s only twenty bucks. He’s Walker Evans, I’m Johnny Mack and it’s the Columbus Comedy Festival, kicking off Thursday, five days, one hundred and fifty plus comics in.

That is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow with a normal episode.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh Man, oh Man, oh Man, I can’t wait to do today’s show. Hello. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I could not wait to talk to you guys.

There’s like five six stories that could be the top story, but let’s start here. New Adam Sandler stand up Special. Oh my goodness, can’t wait. Netflix released the trailer for Adam Sandler Love You, his first stand up special since twenty eighteen, remember that one. I want to play the trailer for you, but mister Sandler apparently he can’t go more than five seconds without saying something naughty, so I’m not going to do that.

I did share it in the Facebook group, which is Daily Company News Podcast group, and boy, I’ll tell you, Adam Sandler just as funny as he’s ever been. In the teaser, Sandler says, I talk a lot and then I sing, and then we do a bunch of stuff. So all right, here it goes, and yeah, that’s pretty much what Adam’s act is and what the trailer. He talks a lot and then he sings and does a bunch of crap. Yep, I agree.

In the trailer, Adam Sandler serenades the crowd with a riff of his guitar. Fans erupt in cheers. He then announces the song he’s about to play was written about a man sitting in the audience. We then see a dog join him on stage. Mister Sandler says, what the f is happening?

That’s why I can’t play the trailer for you. Try and keep it clean over here unless Alex Bennet’s the guest. The trailer also features clips of Adam Sandler making funny faces, cracking jokes I hope so during a comedy special, and telling the crowd I love you before diving into another bit. Boy, this is exciting. Adam Sandler, Love You, Tuesday, August twenty seventh on Netflix.

Another thing that could have been the top story, the trailer for the Saturday Night Movie is out. It looks great. I played this thing and I was like, oh, I want to see this. It looks fantastic. The casting in particular looks really on point.

Vulture went through it and wrote down who played who? All right, Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels to me felt like Lorne Michaels without doing Lorne Michaels by way of Mike Myers, by way of Doctor Evil. You know the lorn Michael’s impression. Everyone does, but this did it, and if you look at them side by side, it’s really good physical casting. I won’t read everybody.

Matt Wood is John Belushi. You see Belushi in the background on the trailer, and just to the eyes, look good. Dylan O’Brien as Dan Ackroyd also caught my eye on the trailer and looked like a really good Ackroyd. Corey Michael Smith as Chevy Chase. There’s some Chase clips in the trailer.

Same note. Ellen Hunt as Gilda Radner, whoever did the costuming for this movie should get an oscar. Is there an oscar for costuming? If not, let’s create one and give it to them. Matthew Reese as George Carlin looked good enough, said some things that Carlin would say, but to me sounded like Matthew Reese.

Maybe I’m too close to all this, so I guess he’s not really doing a Carlin impression there. My note would have been to get a little more gravel e. I missed this one. JK. Simmons is Milton Burrele.

Why Nicholas bron plays both Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman. I did catch the Kaufman clip in the background, Nicholas Braun if you don’t recognize the name is cousin Greg from Succession. I would play the trailer for you, but it’s all like quick visual things and just won’t make sense here. But that is super exciting. Another thing that could have been the top story of the day kill Tony live tonight in Madison Square Garden and not like the theater at this is Madison Square Garden.

Madison Square Garden, where like the Knicks play and the Rolling Stones play two shows, kill Tony Madison Square Gordon. Last time I looked, seats were available. That is not a dig, It’s just a thing. The article I’m cripping off’s as Night one price is started fifty six seventy five. The Saturday Night show is more sold out tickets starting at three hundred and thirty eight dollars.

Wow.

Also could have been a top story.

Nikki Glaser reacted when she found out Taylor Swift had to cancel her Vienna concerts in response to a terror threat. Did you hear this news? Police warded an Isis plot to attack one of Taylor Swift’s concerts. Nikki Glaser appears distraught in one image uploaded to her Instagram story, in which she shared Austrian promoter Barracuda Music and Taylor Nation’s statement confirming the cancelation. She covered her face with her hands, and a follow up post she explained she had endured a thirty two hour layover in Washington, d C.

Before heading to Vienna for the show. Nicki and her sister Lauren recorded a video of themselves singing a song they made up inspired by the past few hours, to the tune of Taylor Swift’s Cruel Summer. The lyrics go, we were stuck at an airport gate on our way to Vienna, on a flight that was late, planning outfits and singing songs. We had no idea how things could go wrong. Then we get a text from our mom the shows have been canceled from a threat from a bomb, and we screamed in a Hudson News what the hell do I do with these bleeping sparkly shoes.

I dyed my hair pink for nothing. We’re eft. This is pretty scary, as the news goes the suspects plans, including driving a car into groups of Swifties expected to gather outside the venue before tacking with machetes and knives. Security officials said the nineteen year old fully confessed to his plans to kill as many people as possible outside the concert venue. Pull the show back to comedy, John all Right, nothing funny, there is staying topical.

Steve Martin will not play Minnesota Governor Tim Walls on Saturday Night Live. Steve Martin, who’s seventy eight now till the L eight Times, he turned down an offer from Lourene Michaels. He said Lauren called him on Wednesday to offer him the deal. Steve told The Times, I wanted to say no, and by the way, he wanted me to say no. I said, Lauren, I’m not an impressionist.

You need somebody who can really nail the guy. I was picked because I have gray hair and glasses. Paul Sheer tweeted, call me crazy, but I think one of the SNL cast members should play Tim Walls. This is interesting. Kelsey Cook had released her special The Hustler on YouTube got three million views, but now it’s going to Hulu.

So you have been able to watch it, but now you get too pay to watch it. But I guess you get to pay it watch it without the commercials. I don’t know. Maybe if you have the bad Hulu tier you’ll get commercials. Dorg it interesting move.

It’ll get her more eyeballs, for sure. I haven’t heard of a special going from YouTube to a streamer, so this is interesting, Kelsey said. My whole life, my parents would stand me on a stool so i’d be tall enough to see the top of the foosball table. Then they’d put their hands on my hands and teach me how to shoot it. It’s the reason I exist, which is really sad, but I’m grateful to foosball.

Comedy is competing against yourself, and I feel like that with foosball. Obviously you’re playing against somebody else, but I like sports where if something goes wrong, you don’t have other people to blame to really on you to get better and do your best. So it’s similar to comedy in that way. I’m smiling to myself. I had so much fun playing volleyball once the night.

Did we win? No, we never win. I’m picturing my late mother asking me, did we win. I would have this exchange every week, did you guys win? No?

And she would laugh and say you never win and no, I can’t even tell you the last time we won a game. Did I mention them? In my mid fifties, Kelsey cooks It’s funny. If you think of meditative activity, you don’t think of a beer covered foosball table in the back of a bar. But if you’re playing at a higher level, you can barely blink because the ball is moving so fast.

You have to be locked in the entire game. It’s the same with stand up. You can’t just be like, hey, guys, can you just do your own thing for a few minutes while I check my phone. You’re locked in the whole time. All right?

Jack Black has had a minute to see which way the wind is blowing, and the wind is now blowing in the other direction, So Tenacious D is back. You may recall that the other TENACIOUSD member, Kyle Gass, said something jerky after Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt. At that time. Jack Black immediately was like all future creative plans for Tenacious D you’re on hold. As a backlash to the joke.

But now I love Tenacious D. We had to take a break, but I love the D. Everybody takes a break sometimes. He also announced this as he happens to be promoting the new film border Lands, which apparently is really terrible funny how that all happens. So I’m promoting a movie and Tenacious D is back, and everybody’s kind of moved on from the Trump assassination, which was I don’t know, five six political stories ago.

So yeah, whatever, Tenacious D’s back. Way to hold of your principles, Jack Black. At the premiere of Borderlines, Jack said, we’re friends. That hasn’t changed. These things take time sometimes, and we’ll be back when it feels right.

Borderlands, by the way, is a live adaptation of the video game of the same name, featuring Jack Black voicing a wise cracking robot.

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Also in this movie Kate Blanchette and Kevin Hart Never Afraid to work.

Oh let me take a breath here to tell you, I wanted to jump right in because there were so many big stories. It’s interesting doing the podcast. This was, except for today’s show, a pretty slow week. You know, you could sometimes tell if the episodes are a little shorter than other days and if you pay a lot of attention by what stories I put in there. But today’s very newsy.

The rest of today’s podcast very newsy, So I just want to point out Sunday’s podcast is also very newsy. I’ve been pretty open that I often pretape the weekends, and you know, sometimes those stories are a little more femeral and not really tied to the news on a particular Saturday or Sunday. But this Sunday is a lot of stuff, some newsy stuff about Bill Bird that’s in there that I just couldn’t get to today. There’s so much going on now. One thing I can’t get today there is an article in the Hollyood Reporter about the comedy industry and how the streamers are bidding for comedy.

I have a lot to say about it. I’ve already recorded that section and it is quite lengthy, so I’m holding that for Sunday’s podcast. But again, Sunday’s podcast, very robust, very very very interesting article on the Holivd Reporter, So make sure you catch Sunday’s episode. Huh. Tomorrow’s show is a preview of the Columbus Comedy Festival.

I’m speaking with Walker Evans, who’s putting it together. If you’re into the business of all this and how a festival gets put together, pretty good. And I came away being very impressed by Walker Evans’ comedy knowledge. He’s not just some dude who’s like, Hey, let’s put on a festival and make some bucks. He knows his stuff.

So that’s Tomorrow, and then a lot of stuff spilled over into Sunday, which is a more robust episode than sometimes a Sunday episode might be. I’m also trying to be better about reminding you guys. I also host a podcast called five Good News Stories. It comes out three days a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and there’s smile stories, happy stories, you know, kind of what Krazinski was doing during the pandemic, only good news. So that’s called five Good News Stories.

The number five good News Stories. If you’re in Pittsburgh today, so as Kevin Nalan, He’s appearing at City Winery for three shows. Kevin tells a Pittsburgh City Paper, my act is always evolving, and I’m always trying to look for new avenues of comedy and originality. It’s also conversational and not in your face kind of stand up comedy or renting. It’s kind of a red wine comedy.

I see and you’re at City Winery. I see what you did there. Neilan published a book in twenty twenty two called I Exaggerate My Brushes with Fame, a collection of full color characteratures and humorous personal anecdotes. He says, it’s a hardback, it’s not a coffee table book. You can put it on your coffee table if you want to.

He said, I wanted to get approval just as a courtesy from some of the people I pay, and Steve Martin was fine with it. Jim Carrey was fine with it. I did one of Matt LeBlanc and he texted me back, I’m honored. I think Kevin was asked about SNL fifty. A lot of people will be asking anyone associated with SNL.

We’re going to talk a lot about SNL fifty on the next year. Kevin says, it’s amazing that it’s fifty years coming up. I can vividly remember walking the lobby of thirty Rock and getting off the elevator and everything, even where my papers were placed on my desk. I do still keep in contact with Adam Sandler, David Spade, Dana Carvey, and Rob Schneider. And here’s a good story, if it’s even true.

He one time filled a commercial with professional golfer Arnold Palmer. Kevin says, I hang out with him for two weeks and chat out a lot, and we became good buddies. We went into his clubhouse every day and I sat at his personal table with him. One day, Arnold Palmer ordered the drink Arnold Palmer, which you may know is a mix of iced tea and lemonade. The server asked me what I want, and I said Kevin Nielan.

Arnold asked, what’s a Kevin Nielan. Kevin Neilan says, it’s exactly like an Arnold Palmer, but a little taller and better looking. See. I should get out there, but there’s a lot of news today. I can’t bump these stories.

I have to tell you about this one now. This event is happening tomorrow night, but I tell it I’ve got Walker Evans tomorrow, so this has to go now. Former SNL cast members Loreene Newman and Bobby moynihan are joining James Austin Johnson in a live staged reading of Star Wars episode two Attack of the Clones. They said Dynasty Typewriter in La Saturday Night, but there are also live stream tickets. It is called the Great Camino Caper, a live reading of Attack of the Clones.

The event is being staged by the George Lucas Talk Show, which is wonderful if you’ve never seen that, and the Star Wars Minute podcast. The reading follows a previous live reading from the same team who did the Phantom Menace back in May. So I guess that answers My question? Is lucasfilm okay with this? So the lawyer’s okay with this?

Did you guys clear this? Apparently the yes, yes, and yes, because if they did the Phantom Medicine May and nobody called, they’re doing this one. Interestingly, Bobby moynihan has lent his voice to several Star Wars projects, including Resistance and Legos, Star Wars Rebuild the Galaxy. Lorraine Newman voiced a character in the twenty eleven video game Star Wars The Old Republic Who Knew?

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However, remember the asterisk I dropped. James Austin Johnson announced via Instagram that he’s home bound for the next couple days. He had to cancel a couple shows. He says, my doctor doesn’t want me to fly until it passes, hopefully soon. What passes a kidney stone?

I had a horrible kidney stone once. I can’t explain You’ve heard people, says, I can’t explain how painful it was. No, not the one it passes part that’s nothing. Just when it’s clogging up your system. The pain.

If you had said to me, Hey, I have an axe and going to put it in your skull, I would have been like, yeah, cool. It was like it was like the Walking Dead, like just oh, I’m turning into a zombie. I can’t take this pain anymore. It was awful. James says.

It’s truly a roller coaster of pain and meds. Sometimes it feels like bad constant patient. Sometimes it feels like I’ve been sabered in the gut. I remember I had so much pain that I was sitting on the bathroom floor puking into the toilet from the pain, and the puking made the pain go away, and I just closed my eyes and fell asleep on the toilet, but it was so bad I can’t James, I’m so sorry. I understand your pain.

However, he said his doctor expects him to be better by the time of the attack of the Clone show, so we’ll see if he shows up on Saturday. And he’s also supposed to appear at LA’s logo at the Coronet on August twelfth with very special guests.

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Also on the end, Brett Goldstein he had to cancel some shows.

Does he have kidney stones, No, he has the flu, which he says affected his voice. In a statement, Brett Goldstein says, the doctor has told me I won’t be able to get through the shows this weekend, and annoyingly, I need my voice to do stand up comedy. I should have trained as a mime. I’d hate to put on a lackluster show where my voice stops working. I have no energy and you all deserve better than that.

I’m truly sorry to have to cancel, and I don’t take for granted for a second that you bought tickets and made plans. It means a lot to me. I was excited to be there with you. If you had tickets for the Saturday show that is now rescheduled for Friday, August twenty third. If you had Sunday, you can go to the ten pm show on August twenty third.

If you can’t make either, you will get a refund. In a statement, Brett said, it’s not goodbye, it’s seeing a couple weeks when I’m all better. Please forgive me. And if you can’t make the new dates, you will get a refund. And that is your comedy news for today.

Pretty robust for a summer Friday. Huh check the timestamp. Yeah, this was a long one, all right, Tomorrow, Walker Evans Sunday. Pretty robust for a Sunday. And I can tell you already Monday is good because I’ve been writing a bunch of these.

And if you’re driving cross country this weekend and you find yourself in the middle of the desert listening to Daily Comedy News, I appreciate you. See tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny mag with your Daily Comedy News. The Richard Simmons family would like Pauli Shore to just cut it out. In case you’re not familiar with the story, Pauli Shuore has expressed a desire to play Richard Simmons in a bio pick. He’s been talking about it for quite a while now.

He’ll offer updates in his social media. Usually the updates have Richard Simmons asking Pauli Shore to stop. Richard has now passed away entertainment. Tonight, asked Pauli Shore, you know all right, what’s happening now? Pauli said, I know he wanted me to do it.

I don’t even know if it was him tweeting disapproval the whole time, And be quite honest, I don’t know who that was. Well from beyond the grave, Richard Simmons social media is now posting. Dicky absolutely wrote his own posts. He worked on them a week in advance, going over and over them to get the right message. He would often read them to Kathy and I beforehand.

This is believed to be attributed to his brother Lenny. What he has not done was to text email or call Paulie Shore with anything, not even to wish him good luck. As Paulie has said many times, we’ll see if this movie ever happens. THEO Vaughn excited for the NFL season, he posted on his socials AFC North is going to be Banana’s this year best division. Joe Rogan talked about booking the podcast and said, I don’t look at the numbers.

I don’t pay attention to how many downloads. It’s not like feversly checking what’s good and what’s bad. I don’t look at like what the retention is or when people drop out. I know that’s up to them. My job is just to have an interesting conversation with people that I’m actually excited about talking to.

That’s my only job. So the way I book it, I completely book it based on my interests. I don’t have a publicist that’s like examining trends in this person’s popularity. I don’t do any of that. Rogan’s special not getting good reviews.

I haven’t seen a good review of it yet. I think everyone kind of came in where I did, which was it was all right. I mean, there was Joe Rogan doing Joe Rogan’s stuff nothing special. When did Joe know that the podcast had made? It said, I’ll tell you when I realized it.

It was like twenty eleven or twenty twelve. I was on stage at the Chicago Theater and I was doing comedy and I asked the audience I was gonna tell a story from the podcast, and I said, how many of you guys listen to the podcast? And it was just like yay, thirty seven hundred people cheering, and I was like, whoa. I’ll never forget that moment. Nicole Bayer was on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s podcast told an icky story.

She said, I did shows in Appleton, Wisconsin, which to talk about in my special, and I really hated it there. The vibes effing sucked during my show. I had a white host, a black featurer and the crowds were so unruly. At one point, my black feature was on stage and a guy in the crowd was like, this is terrible smile. We can’t see you.

I was like, what the f After the audience member made the remark, Bayer walked down on the floor and looked at a server. I was like, you’re not going to say anything, and the server was like what Bayer said. I refused to do the meet and greets, even though it was sold with the tickets. I told my agent, I’m just not meeting with these people. I’m sure there’s nice people in this crowd, but overall garbage, bad people, bad vibes.

I couldn’t believe that man said that. Sheng Wang said when he first stand up in college, he was basically doing an impersonation of Chris Rock because that was one of the only comedians he’d ever seen on TV. Everything changed when he saw Mitch Hedburg for the first time. Are we having the Hebburg guess sense? I hope so.

I’m a big Mitch fan. I was thinking after I recorded yesterday’s show, of all my various half ass impressions, the first one that I started doing on the podcast was half ass Mitch Hedburg. I’m not gonna do it for you today, but that one will be coming back. Sheng Wang said. It changed my whole idea of what stand up could be because it suddenly felt like I could maybe do that.

I could maybe just share those thoughts I have. I’m just a pretty low key person, so that’s how it always was from the beginning. I’m not a fast talker. I was not quick with comebacks or anything like that. As for Shang Wang’s now familiar look of long hair, he says, that is totally a pandemic accident.

I wasn’t playing on keeping it. I just wanted to see how it would look when people kept saying nice things, and slowly it just felt like it did look like me now. He thought about cutting it before taping his special Ali Wang convinced him to keep it. Shang says, my whole career before this, I was trying to be as mundane and boring, as far from my physical appearance, to be as bland as possible. The idea was not to be distracting.

That’s the mindset I had, was to go on stage and let the joke speak for themselves and not have things that people can think about or judge me. On Vulture checked out that comics for Kamala the other night. Apparently Matt Friend was doing Howard Stern. He does a good Howard Stern, but it you know, it’s a weird move. I grew up listening to Howard Stern.

Howard went to series in two thousand and six. So he’s been candidly out of the spotlight. I mean, the media will write about him, but like no one under forty cares about Howard Stern at this point. You know. So it’s a good impression by Matt, but like, who you going after Matt?

Well, you might as well do John Wayne anyway. On comics for Kamala, Cecily Strong joked jd Vance is confusing because his rhetoric wants us to panic about immigrants, but his eyeliner wants us to panic at the disco. She then joked their speculation that Trump is unhappy with jd Vance at his thinking about getting rid of him, but he’d better hurry because it’s been six weeks. I did go looking for Kamala Harris jokes to keep this fair, didn’t find any. Send them my way, happy to do him.

Colin Jost will be the new headliner at the Fringe, No, not that one, the Rochester Fringe Festival. He will replace Pete Davidson, who canceled his show. All tickets previously bought for Pete Davidson will automatically be honored for the Colin Joe show. Anyone who doesn’t want to see Colin Jos can return them for a full refund. Colin Jost now playing the Kodak Hall at the Eastman Theater on Friday, September thirteenth.

If you enjoy what I do here, one way to support the show is going to buy me a coffee. Dot com a slash Daily Comedy News. There’s some money in the tip jar. I will go to the National Donus chain and enjoy a large iced coffee with caramel and milk on you. I’ve been good.

I haven’t been buying anything other than coffee, just trying to get all that processed sugar out of my system. I’m trying to stay this fat. It’s hard enough staying this fat, so I’m laying off be good. I’m having my breakfast shakes. I’m trying.

And Cohen announced to her new special it’s called Come for Me. I guess I could have put a different verbal spin on that. I’m not sure how she intends it. I’m gonna take it that she wants us to go see her. You can interpret it however you want.

Come for Me will be on beeps at approximately five pm Pacific on Thursday, Act over seventeenth. I guess the lawyers got involved and said, hey, you know you can’t promise exactly five pm Pacific. You never know what happens with streaming and delays and internet. You know, we gotta be careful here. Part’s stand up comedy port cabaret Come for Me is built as an openly glamorous, decidedly horny exploration of what it means to be a woman entering her thirties.

So perhaps my verbal spin on the title is incorrect, but we all have the giggles. Nail Hannah Gatsby talk to the Guardian about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where Colin jos is not expected to perform. Anna said, in two thousand and six, I slept in a closet, performed a fewer than one hundred people across my whole time there, and got hit by a golf ball. Well, I also lost an obscene amount of money and cried three times in public. Then I came runner up in the Fringes.

So you think you’re funny competition, but it doesn’t really factor in my memory list that year because success is not what defines the fringe experience. A failure does. The fringe might promise to make your showbiz dreams come true, but in reality it’s more likely to give you scurvy. I returned to the Fringe with eight shows over the next decade. I wouldn’t say experienced much of the way of success in the time, but my failure rate remained consistently high.

In twenty eleven, I came off my bike and cracked my head open on some cobblestones. Another year, I committed to having a healthy fringe and swore off alcohol. I opted instead of propped myself up with an artificially sweetened caffeine product, and as a result, I enjoyed a month long jittering that looked very much like what those in ye old times would have described as a nervous breakdown. Then there was the year my pockets were literally too shallow and I lost my wallet, my replacement wallet, and the envelope I used to replace that. When I returned in twenty seventeen with Nanette, I was not gambling.

I knew I had a show that could not be ignored, and I was right. I don’t think it’s impervot lea to say that Nnette is one of the most successful stand up shows who ever go at the Fringe. I didn’t even lose that much money. And that is your comedy news for today. If you join the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You spend enough time on Twitter, you see random things. Swan Marcus tweeted, it’s so weird how the RFK junior bear story. I don’t know if you heard this one, Google it.

It’s so weird how the RFK junior bear story is only the third worst story involving at Kennedy having a dead body in their car. Wow, I’m excited about this. This just hit the wires as I’m recording Mitch Hedburg documentary. Yes, Deadline reporting the life of comedian Mitch Hepburg, master of the one liner and a talent beloved by fellow comics. That is true will be the focus of an upcoming documentary from two two two two two two two Films.

They announced they have completed principal photography on the project, a five year long undertaking that features interviews with Margaret Chow, bj Novak, Lewis Black, Jim Gaffick, and David Tel, Doug Stanhope, Who’s the right Person, Gary Goleman, Nick Swartzman, among many others. Bj Novak said, we talked about him as if he were too special for this world. He had this energy that he was from another planet. Director Jeff Siegel says, a lot of people have had a lot to say for a very long time, but no one said it until now. It’s taken many years to connect with nearly everyone who is a part of Mitch’s life and piece together who’s largely unknown story.

All that most people know about him is that he was hilarious and died young. But he was so much more than that. Among the interviews are close family members, childhood friends, comedy colleagues. The press release says the documentary takes viewers into comedy club scattered throughout America in the nineties. For Hedburg and his peers, the road was life and the grind was real, especially in the days of carving out a career before the internet, before society learned to better address mental health needs.

I’m finding it curious that this one story that I’ve seen about this does not mention Lynn Shawcroft, Mitch’s wife and who I worked with on some Mitch related projects. Back in twenty eighteen, Vulture road a piece and then they quoted Lynn as saying she’s been working with an LA based production company to digitize everything and her goals that everything Mitch left behind, every half written joke, every spontaneous utterance on a MicroTape will be accessible within a few clicks on a mouse. I’m not seeing anything about Lynn and a documentary. I’ll dive into it when I have a little more time, and we’ll see what else pops up. But that is top of mind to me.

Let me call up a story ahead later in the podcast, but it’s relevant, let me move it here. From a Late Nighter, Kelly Carlin seems surprised that George Carlin is appearing in the Saturday Night Live movie. Apparently Kelly tweeted and now has deleted it, but the original tweets that I found it so strange that this film is about the first taping OFSNL on the host that night isn’t in the film. I know he was doing a lot of blow that week, but I do know he showed up for the taping. Cameil n Gianni.

Let Kelly Carlin know that her father is indeed a character in the film, played by Matthew Reese. Kelly then wrote, I guess he is in it. I can’t find anything on IMDb about it, though, Gunna have to make some calls tomorrow. Late Nighter makes clear that Kelly isn’t necessarily opposing that George is in the film. When you heard he was playing George, she said, oh wow, he’s great.

Larry Wilmore than chimed in and said, if that’s true about Reese, that’s great, He’s amazing. Kelly wrote back, we loved Barry Mason Late Night or rates. However, she added, the estate was in the dark about it. We were never contacted by anyone about it. I think they’d get clearance to use his name and likeness, she told, come on on, Gianny, I just find that weird, wouldn’t you, Late Nighter says.

Kelly admitted she’s unclear on what legal permissions, if any, are called for in the situation. Another user speculated George’s likeness might be fair game since he’s a public figure. Kelly wrote, from my experiences my dad died, depicting someone’s name and likeness as usually something you get permissioned for. I’ve had TV shows. He’s a picture of him on a wong get clearance for that, but maybe this is different.

Late Nighter mentions that the Hollywood Reporter named that George Carlin’s longtime manager Jerry Hamza serves as the executor of his estate. I personally have worked with Jerry Hamza as executor of the Carlin estate. I assume he is still the executor. If it’s not Jerry, it would probably be Kelly. Well, it’s unclear if the Carlin estate itself was contacted.

Kelly was at least making it known that no one had contacted her. All right, that’s all interesting and goes back to my point about I hope somebody talked to Lynn Shawcroft about this. Mitch Hebburg a documentary A little bit of Buzz on an event that happened Monday night Comedians for kamalaw Nick Offerman was trending for a while. He sang an original tune from the perspective of reformed Republican voters. He introduced the song, telling the audience he was powerfully grateful to Sport Harris, who didn’t just prosecute rapists but also is not one herself.

Nick said, I think there are going to be a lot of Republicans that, for obvious reasons, are going to be Kamala curious. He wrote the song from the perspective of a Republican men who might have once been blind but now can see a clear way to decency. Offerman played the tune of God Bless the USA. You know, proud to be an American that song, he sang along the lyrics, I won’t sing it here, I will read it in a flat voice. When he mocked the disabled in war heroes, I look the other way, he said, to march on the Capitol.

If the President says it’s okay, I don’t mind sex with porn stars. I’d do it too if I had the guts, But when it comes to banging the furniture, that’s just effing nuts. I’m proud to be a Kamala man who’s quit the GOP because I just can’t abide a man who’s tried for thirty four fellow knees. It’s time to stand up and face the facts that the men I once cheered or a bunch of wing nut white nationalists. Those guys are effing weird to send your letters to Nick Offerman.

Meanwhile, Kamala has chosen her running mates Minnesota Governor Tim Walls. The internet started speculating who might play Tim Walls on SNL. Some of the picks Nick Offerman Steve Martin, and I’ll go with this one Jim Gaffigan, who’s a pretty decent actor. One Twitter user wrote, rooting for Tim Walls for many reasons, but mainly because I’d love to see Danny DeVito play him on SNL for the rest of the election season. Phil Wang, a comedian that I like a lot, has a new Netflix special coming out September third.

It is called Wang In There Baby, Wang In Their Baby is about being British, being Asian, octopuses America, and the trappings of minor fame. There is a clip, let’s listen. I went on really great holiday recently to Paris. Nice holiday is a good holiday because I went with people who didn’t mind being touristy, right, I hate going on holiday with people who don’t want to be touristy. It’s like, get over yourself.

You’re a tourist. You’re here to do the tauristy stuff. The touristy stuff is actually the fun part of the place. Otherwise you’re just living there, are you? Oh?

Phil? Oh the Eiffel Tower. It’s a bit touristy, all right. Then it’s got to the dentist into a big shop. Because I won.

Phil Wang Netflix op Tiber third. Colin Jost is done with the Olympics. He’s heading home late nighter. Says it’s not clear if it’s because he hurt his foot where the finals were delayed or whatever, but he left before the finals. Colin Jose had told NBC’s Mike Tarico that he was under strict doctor’s orders to keep both his head and his feet out of the water.

He’d also been told he couldn’t fly for two days. Subbing in for Colin Jost is Australian meteorologist and radio personality Luke Bradham, who was into Heiti covering surfing for Australia’s Channel nine. Luke says, I got a phone call the surfing came back online. It was literally just Colin’s not able to work it. Could you please fill in for us.

It is unclear why Colin left. I’m going to speculate because the flight home was already booked before the finals got delayed, and somebody looked at it and went, you know what, this bit isn’t working. It’s not worth throwing more money at it. And Colin’s like, yeah, let me come home. I got to go to Tahiti for a week.

That was the plan. John Stewart is not on the Daily Show this week. He tested positive for COVID. Hope you’re doing okay, John. Michael Costa will host every night this week and starting today, it’s the sixteenth annual Ashville Comedy Festival kicking off tonight.

Your headliner, Tom Sagora definitely not a serial killer. Check out yesterday’s episode for that callback The pressure Lease tells is Tom Sagora, a comedian celebrated for his sharp wit, end distinctive comedic style.

Speaking of comedy festivals, right before I recorded this, I recorded with W…

That’ll be the Saturday interview this weekend. Impressive dude, impressive festival. So that is coming up. And 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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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello on Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start with kiss el Paso. That’s a radio station website. It’s not a dating website.

What do you think I’m doing down here in the basement. I’m just recording a comedy podcast. I’m not up to anything. The headline is comedian Tom Sogura secretly Austin’s Ladybird Lake killer. I’m gonna guess no, but I’ll indulge kiss el Paso and see what’s happening here.

Kiss el Paso writes. TikTok, Well there you go has once again become the breeding ground for wild theories and eyebrow raising speculations. This time, TikTok is a buzz with a jaw dropping claim. Comedian Tom Sagora is allegedly a serial killer operating around Ladybird Lake in Austin, Texas and being handed a note by the lawyer. Please be sure to make it clear Tom Sagora is not a serial killer and this is just a bit okay, got it?

Kiss el pas Yk. So not a dating website, writes. The theory seems to have started with a TikTok video analyzing Tom Sigora’s comedy specials taking place in Austin, specifically after he moved there in late twenty twenty one. The video pointed out his frequent references to dark humor and murder, some of the supposed evidence. Since Segora moved to Austin, twelve men have gone missing around Lady Bird Lake.

The theory suggests that Tom Sigora’s move and the timeline of these disappearances are too coincidental to ignore. They also claim Sigora’s show sales have been declining and the number of listeners to his podcast have decreased. I’m not familiar with that being a story, and I study this pretty closely. Observers have noted that Tom Sagora appears visibly frustrated and angry in his podcast episodes, which some interpret as signs of deeper issues. That’s it.

That’s all the alleged evidence. We’ll keep a close eye on that story.

Meanwhile, Kevin Hart is still feuding with Michael Jordan and says I could c…

Kevin’s been talking about Michael Jordan during his current tour and says, Michael’s had an attitude with me for years because I hosted a celebrity event for him and he came in late. I saw him coming in late, and I hit him with a joke. It was quick, it was all in fun. I don’t know where it came from. I hit him with a quick one.

I’m forty five years old. It’s not about the progression of life. You get to the point where little things don’t matter. I’m not the same person I once was now. It’s unclear when the charity event took place, but in twenty sixteen, Kevin Hart told Jimmy Kimmel what the joke was, which is, what age do you get where it’s okay to wear your pants that high and nobody addresses it.

He compared Michael’s outfit to a pregnant lesbian. Over the weekend, Kevin defended himself, telling his fans he believes Michael Jordan is a horrible dresser and wears some of the worst genes I’ve seen in my life. He went on a joke that Michael Jordan has huge back pockets that can fit a Dell computer on one side and a modem in the other pocket. That is funny. The podcast is about to get a little naughty here, as we quote Kevin Harnton.

There’s another naughty story later, So if you have kids with you, maybe stop listening. Okay, adults, you’re still here. Kevin told the story about when he had to buy penis bills following an injury he sustained last year that cost his penis to look like a thumb and he could move his legs. Kevin joked at the gas station where he went to buy the pills would run out of stock because one guy buys them all and stores them in his back pocket. The joke, I said, there’s only one back pocket big enough to fit that many penis pills.

Michael Jordan. Michael penis pill Jordan. He then said Michael will kill him when he hears the joke. Kevin also made fun of Michael’s kids and said, if you ever told me I could get Michael Jordan DNA off the street, I would pay top dollar for it, shoot it in my son’s butt immediately, and go say all right, go to a layup jump. Let me see something.

If you don’t think Michael Jordan thinks about it every time he sees del Curry on the sideline celebrating with Steph Curry. Michael got to look down the couch at Marcus and Jeffrey. Look at you two just sitting here all cuddled up with different colored Jordan combinations every day. You two pieces of bleep Now, Despite the hilarity, Michael Jordan’s son Marcus recently tweeted that Kevin Hart is a hilarious man after attending one of Kevin Hart’s shows. Marcus tweeted at Kevin Hart four real the hilarious man as a new joke about my brother and Michael joh watch that Kevin is continuing to tour until December.

A friend of the show, Jason Zenneman, in The New York Times, wrote about Joe Rogan’s comedy special, I addressed this specially yesterday. I thought it was a big bag of okay zinman rights. There’s one question you don’t hear investigated on the Joe Rogan podcast. One relevant to a success, but taboo in certain precincts of the comedy world. Is Joe Rogan good at stand up comedy?

That can be a dangerous one for some comics to touch on, because Rogan is becoming a powerful gatekeeper, the owner of a club in Austin, Texas and a host who drives viewers to specials and movies. Whereas he performs patient thoughtfulness in his podcast, his stand up is frantic animated, full of unmodulated yelling, His eyes pop out and his face reddens. Midway through burn the boats, a jagged line of perspiration forms on his tight yellow shirt, making him look like Charlie Brown on steroids. Yeah, he had a bad sweatstain in there. Bad shirt choice.

I didn’t think Joe looked good, but he looked a little old. Zinneman rights his jokes, relying the most well worn of stand up subjects, pat downs at the airport. When it comes to six men have you heard are different than women? The variation with Rogan is additional sentence, mocking the straw man of those who think the differences are purely cultural. His joke constructions are also familiar the things you think but don’t do, the words he can’t say.

He leans into stereotypes that have cracked up drunken club crowds for generations. When he discovers a genetic test that he has some African ancestry. You know, a joke about penis sizes on its Why I wrote that in the Facebook comments? So that was one of the jokes you could see coming. It was borderline hackey.

Not only will nothing he say here get him in real trouble, but it bonds him to his audience, who are told repeatedly that critics are humorless and the media is unfair, deceptive and weird. While his stand up here is cliche, his podcast is not. Rogan has interested in ideas on his podcast, whereas in his new special he prefers playing dumb good stuff. That’s Jason Zennemann. In The New York Times seven Days Vermont spoke to Ariel Elias.

Any article about Ariel has to mention the shot scene round the internet. Her set at a New Jersey comedy club, Uncle Vinnie’s in twenty twenty two, she incurred the wrath of a Donald Trump supporter. A woman can be heard heckling Elias in the video yeeling out. I could tell by your jokes he voted for Biden. Elias fire’s back.

I can tell by the fact that you’re still talking when no one wants you to, that you voted for Trump. A few seconds later, the heckler’s husband hurled a nearly full can of beer at the comedian Harryel says, look, I’d much rather have gone viral for a well crafted joke than having a beer thrown at me. I don’t do a ton of political comedy, so I think it may have given people a different idea the kind of comic I am. But at the end of the day, the goal is to have eyes on you, gain followers, and sell tickets, so I’m grateful, even if it was vaguely traumatic. She was recording a new set in Burlington, Vermont, and says, after the crowd strikes stuff, I might choose all my taping locations based on whether or not I can drive to the venue.

It’s my first special, so I’m not sure what the process is supposed to be like, but I’m pretty sure what comes next is an editing process where I stare at myself and try not to critique my voice and my whole body endlessly, then start to beg everyone I know with a podcast to have me on a promoter, followed by asking my manager a thousand times a day what I’m doing wrong. She plans to shop these special to streaming services and networks. If that doesn’t work, she’ll upload it to YouTube, but says there’s no doubt that the market is crazy oversaturated. Now that’s an understatement, having a specialist in the big thing it used to be. You’re not looking for it to change your life as a comedian.

And here’s another naughty section. You’re not still listening with the kids, are you? Are you watching the Olympics? Did you see the French pole vaulter? Did you see what happened here?

In case you missed it, there was a French pole vaulter and he’s going over the pole and then, uh, you know what knocked the pole over his penis. Yes, this is the thing that happened. Watch the clip on the internet. God admit it’s pretty funny. Sorry olympian who trained all that, But you probably suddenly have a lot more fans on social media than you would have had you won the gold.

You know what I’m saying. Nudge nudge. Some of the headlines covering this, The Daily Beast went with Olympic pole vaulter loses thanks to battle with his bulge. Well done out magazine said this Olympic polevol his own huge poll got in his way and cost him a metal. Metro dot co dot uk went right at it with pol Walter’s Olympic dream shattered by his own penis.

If you need some stuff to listen to you other than this, of course, Patton Oswalt is the guest on Neil Brennan’s Blocks. I enjoyed that a lot, Mark Marin dusted Off and Bob Newhart interview that I thought was really interesting, And at one point during it I forgot that Bob passed away. Bob was talking about doing some more acting. I was like, oh, I’d like to see. Oh, that’s right, that’s not gonna happen.

Pretty good, not bad. Written by and starring Ellen Soland. Going to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival previews at The Tank in New York City tonight and tomorrow, and from Missing Perspectives the next wave of Australian female comedians Across the Pond. I didn’t know you could cross the pond from Australia to London. Thinking of the world map, there isn’t that two ponds?

No, I guess not. I guess you could fly up to Asia and stay landlined. Maybe that’s one pond I’ve just I don’t know. I usually associate that phrase with the Atlantic Ocean, and I digress some of The up and coming comedians are Shaiera Gaglanie, Freddy Arthur, and Laura Rose. What got them in a comedy in the first place, Freddy said, I was very lonely, so I started going on dates.

People always telling me I was funny. But this one guy kept telling me I should actually be a comedian. I’d grown up hearing that women aren’t funny, so I didn’t even consider it. But then he took me on a surprise date to a comedy show, and I remember thinking, yeah, maybe I could do this. We didn’t see each other for long because he ended up sleeping with four other people and then realizing he was still in love with a woman he hadn’t seen in ten years.

But I kept going to stand up comedy because most up in my nights are free and I was still very poor, Shaierra said. Growing up, I realized that making people laugh was the best way to avoid getting grounded. But to be honest, the turning point kind of came when a white male comic mistook me for another woman on the Brown women comedy lineup. I’d never done comedy before that, so I went to watch the show. Turns out, nobody really looked like me, but I did end up writing a short stet, doing as many open mics as I could find.

Eventually I ended up in the lineup for Brown Women Comedy and now we’re bringing it to Edinburgh. Laura Rose said. It took a worldwide pandemic and me turning thirty to look back and realize it wasn’t getting any younger. I always had a career to fall back on, a loving husband, and well with age, I started to stop caring what people thought, so I thought. Fit Shier said.

When I first started, the comedy scene was like a boy’s locker room, smellyon, full of bad jokes. But things are changing. Female comedians are finally getting the recognition they deserve. It’s no longer just about being funny for a woman. It’s about being funny period.

But yeah, there’s still a way to go. The Edinburgh Fringe continues until August twenty sixth. Then that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it they might like it too. If you like this thing without commercials, link in the show notes, meet you back here tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you watch the Big Joe Rogan Live Special on Netflix? What did you think? It was incredibly ordinary?

I have woken up on Sunday morning and I’m just not excited about it. I didn’t dislike it. You can find my notes in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast Group. I found the first ten minutes borderline hacky. To be honest.

There were a couple of times I saw the twists and the punchlines coming, and that’s not a good thing. Most of the material somebody posted on one of the social media groups I’ve been bouncing between Threads and Twitter lately, and somebody wrote it was like Joe took the last five years of his podcast and distilled it down into an hour and just nothing surprising, nothing amazing. I didn’t feel like he had anything to say. The storytelling was fine. Again, not a miserable hour, but it was okay.

And I’m wondering if it hurt the Netflix brand. And I’m looking at this through a Netflix perspective. Maybe they knew that they didn’t have something good. I talked about during the week how there was no buzz on this. It wasn’t really being promoted, and maybe Netflix knew that it wasn’t that good and it wasn’t that good.

Also, of note, somebody pointed out on social media the captions were ahead of Joe, so maybe they pre captioned it from one of the rehearsal shows, or he was on some sort of delay, or there’s some aspect to technology. I don’t understand where the captions are ahead of the video, but the captions were definitely ahead of the video. Whatever that was about for a live special Cracked Road. Imagine if someone gave you a Joe Rogan Bingo card in advance of the live special. The card is all the usual topics he’d find it, a month’s worth of Joe Rogan experience podcasts, alien probes, fear Factor, COVID, vaccines, trans people, gay people, UFC, Fox News, Alex Jones, China, Elon Musk, the n slurr, the F slurr, the r slur and whether or not Joe Rogan is canceled.

Congratulations, your card just won the game horizontally, vertically, and diagonally over the course of his special tonight. And I think it was about an hour three, hour four. Rogan played every one of these greatest hits the person from Cracked Rights. As I watched Burn the Boats, I was already predicting headlines like varieties, Joe Rogan, slam’s COVID vaccines, come a trans people, and yep. Brogan provided plenty of individual lines to cherry pick, supporting any argument anyone wants to make against him.

But the special was way more toothless than you might think. When Rogan dished out punchlines that were met with awkward silence, he had already made retort, They’re just jokes, folks, No one’s getting hurt. The problem wasn’t lame material. It was people who were too serious. But for the most part, that wasn’t the problem.

The San Antonio crowd was at a whoop it up mood, roaring no matter which side of the fence Rogan straddled in any given moment. The Daily Beast wrote, Joe Rogan is keeping Austin weird, and not in a good way. Like Donald Trump and JD. Vance. Rogan needed his viewers to know that he’s not weird.

It’s the new reality that’s weird, arguing you can’t just put lipstick on Now you can poop in the woman’s room. When his fans cheered him on, he grabbed a drink of water and chuckled all of a sudden. It’s an eight rally. So while I added to my best of twenty four list, I have added it in the currently last position, seventeenth best. It’s watchable.

If it hadn’t been live, I probably would have bailed around the forty two minute mark. I kind of had enough of it. It’s a little too long again. It’s not awful, but it’s not really interesting at all. So I have it at seventeenth, behind Rachel Feinstein at sixteen, Taylor Thomlinson at fifteen, and take Nataro at fourteen.

We’ll see though, as the year goes on, I may pull that off list. I’m really wishy washy on this. I’m wondering too if it did some damage to the Netflix Hey Live special brand? Right, these have been all exciting so far and this one was kind of eh. And the damage it does there is if they announced comedian X live on Netflix, you’re now more a tempted to be like, eh, all right, those are okay, very curious to me that they didn’t promote it, and I think now we know why.

In other news, Molly Kearney is not returning to Saturday Night Live for season fifty. On Instagram, Molly wrote, that’s a wrap on my time on SNL, reflecting on the amazing two seasons I got in the show was such a dream come true. So incredibly grateful for this period of my life. So much love to my big hearted buddies behind the scenes who make the magic happen every week. So many bald caps, so a little time.

I’m not really a big loss from a viewers standpoint, Late Nighter points out, with the exception of the Police Don’t Destroy Guys, Kearney had the least amount of screen time in season forty nine, with less than twenty five minutes over all. Punky Johnson, who’s also leaving the show, had the next least amount of screen time at thirty seven minutes and thirteen seconds. So next up on the list of who wasn’t really on the show much Michael Longfellow thirty nine minutes, seventeen seconds. Season fifty premieres September twenty eighth on NBC. I checked in with Dan Buobletz Junior and I’m like, hey, did anybody throw an ax at you during your set?

Nobody did, which is a good thing. So congratulations to Dan and the folks at laugh Out Loveland. Conan O’Brien had on what’s her name? You should prep the story? Why don’t you redo this?

John? No, I’m just having a brain fart and I’m leaving it in. Nikki Glaser is who was on. I could have easily redone that, but that’s not fun. So there’s Conan and his guest.

Who is it? That’s right, Nikki Glaser. They started talking about Conan being on hot Ones. She was curious how Conan prepared for Hot Ones. His solution be a total a hole.

Conan said, my first thought was I don’t want to just taste the wings and talk about the wings. I have to go on and be a total a hole. Glaziers said, You’re not someone who drinks a lot, and you don’t lose control. You’re always in control, even if you’re seemingly out of control. And I felt like it was the first time I’d ever seen you maybe on the brink of losing control because you were in so much pain, but you were fighting it.

You still had it, and it was one of the most brilliant things I’ve ever seen. Conan says, it sounds crazy, but if I think something’s funny and it’s going well, the performance energy or whatever that just takes over. He told a quick anecdote. A car filled with big jackey guys backed over my foot about ten years ago, and I think broke it. I was having a good time, and rather than ruin the evening, I just decided, skirt, my foot isn’t broken.

So I went out and had a lot of fun with these people.

And then I woke up in the morning and my wife saw my foot and it didn’t look …

Colin Jost has a new TV gig. He is the host of Amazon Prime Videos upcoming Pop Culture Jeopardy. Pop Culture Jeopardy in case you don’t know what it is from the title is a brand new twist on the classic quiz shows answer and question format that combines the academic rigor of Jeopardy with the excitement and unpredictability of pop culture. I’ll take who Cares for two hundred The answer pop Culture Jeopardy ding what is something Johnny Max is not gonna bother watching. Contestants playing in teams of three will need to be experts in categories from alternative rock to the Avengers, Broadway to MMA and copyrighting, Rule of three gen Z to Zendeia as they compete in a tournament style event for the grand prize and ultimate bragging rights.

That’s right, ultimate bragging rights. You know who I am? I won pop Culture Jeopardy hosted by Colin Jost on Amazon Prime Video. That’s who I am imagine having that bragging rights. Wow.

Lauren Anderson is a suit over in Amazon and said We’re thrilled to welcome the multi talented Colin Jost as the host of Pop Culture Jeopardy. The New York posted a lengthy interview with Nate Bergiazzi. How lengthy was it? So lengthy? I saved some of it for an upcoming vacation day that’s not for months from now.

I’ve got a little folder and I’m like, ah, here’s some leftover Nate stuff. So months from now, when you’re like, hey, this sounds kind of generic, I wonder if this is the vacation day Johnny Mack was talking about back in August you’ll be right, Nate says, right now, I don’t have a new hour, So these final shows on my Be Funny Tour, I’m adding a few new things. The fun part is when you get done taping and you’re like, oh my god, what else is there to talk about? But then you find stuff and you get laughs on the new jokes. I have one about door Dash that I came up with right after the special, Nate told the Post after S and L I’d go to every town and say I met the Foo Fighters.

They with a musical guest on his episode, and then I’d say Dave Girls from here. Truth be told, I don’t know where Dave Girl’s from. You know that famous Georgia Washington sketch which is an all timer, and Nate said it almost didn’t make it to air when we did a table read. I wasn’t into it. My timing is based off crowd, so George Washington didn’t look like it was going to be a good sketch.

And then Lauren let me do it during the dress rehearsal. It was the last sketch he knew. I liked it, and it was like, yeah, let’s see what it’s going to be and it destroyed. Streeter Siddell and mikey Day wrote the George Washington sketch. I did it just as they wrote it.

It was written in my voice so well that people think I was involved with the process. That’s the first time I did anything where it was with words that I hadn’t written, which was new. That’s just how good they are to be able to do that, especially someone like me, who only does words that I write. Yeah, million years ago, when Jim Burrer was doing Afternoon Drive at Serious raw Dog Comedy, I would write promos in Jim’s voice, and I had it down pretty well. I don’t mean a half ass impression.

I mean writing words that would sound like words Jim Burer would say. Nate says, there was one sketch I liked that I wish could have gotten on, but didn’t even make it to dress rehearsal. It was about this assistant coach that keeps bringing up that he needs the team to pitch in fifty dollars for uniforms. Like, hey, I didn’t get all the money from everybody. Nate says, A fortunate to get asked back.

Maybe we’ll try that one he talked about the sing along Lake Beach. That was James Austin Johnson. He’s originally a stand up comedian from Nashville. Funny Nate said, all that wait for the next story, wait for it went out there. You had funny enough.

Our dads know each other from college. I’m older than him, but saw him when he first started Nashville. So that was a song that I think he was doing on the road. They asked me d sing and I was like, absolutely not. Then when they did the sketch at the table read I saw them do the song, I was like, Oh, I can do that.

I don’t have to be a Dell.

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Speaking of James Austin Johnson and Nashville, James Austin Johnson spoke to…

I didn’t even do this on purpose, James said, I bought a truck and I’m doing the first round of a cycling that I promised everyone I would do as soon as I got a truck, because not having a truck was the excuse for not hauling anything, which was a good excuse to not haul anything. He loves Nashville. When I was coming up, it just didn’t feel like there was a path in comedy. This was pre podcasting, and many of the lanes in stand up felt just kind of frozen in time. I knew I wasn’t gonna be Killer Bees, that’s a famous Southern comedian.

And I knew I was going to be a guitar comic or something like that. So I looked around and I just felt like I was a bit impatient with what my path could be. His parents started driving him to classes and auditions. That path was two decades long. On that path, he met local comedy crew corporate Juggernaut, who brought in then up and coming comics like Pete Holmes and Kyle Kanaane James says, so God bless my parents.

They always supported me, even though they might not have seen what I saw. They might not have had the vision I had, But my sweet dad he drove me out to LA from my final semester of college. And I’ll always be fully indebted to them for the support that they could give. Tom Popat told Wtop my act is kind of the special place where I spent a lot of time making sure that you’re gonna laugh every ten seconds for an hour and a half. It’s evergreen.

You want stuff that’ll laugh, and people can go and tell this joke to their friends for the next five or ten years. Something that happens in the news, that’s for Colbert or Kimmel in those places. Those are daily shows, and that’s where that stuff belongs. What about the ballot, podcast, ballot, wherever you get your shows? Tom says, I talk a lot about family.

I talk a lot about mental health, talk a lot about the pets that are ruining my life. I find his comedy extremely relatable, really enjoy it. I talk about how my family’s always changing and evolving, how my parents came and had an insurrection in my house for two weeks. Matt Friend will be the celebrity host for this year’s KC Superstar Finals. When are they John Sunday, August twenty fifth, What is it?

What will he be doing? Well? As host of the event, Matt Friend will be charged with interviewing with all ten KC Superstar finalists throughout the evening. Hundreds of teen singers from across the region have participated in KC Superstar since its inception, and several competitors have continued to perform professionally. Case Superstar provides over twenty two thousand dollars a random number in scholarships to the top ten finalists who come from across the metro area.

Some publicists must have put out this sentence which got written. Friend has become a popular comedic figure on social media, stages in red carpets worldwide, earning praise from notable names such as Howard Stern, Jeff Goldbloom, Paul Giamati, Austen Butler, Doctor fauci Leev schreiber, Sebastian Maniscalco, and John Oliver for his spot on impressions. I doubt that the local paper came up with that on their own, but I could be wrong, because here’s another sentence. Friend’s passion for comedy and entertainment has propelled him to great heights, amassing over one million followers on TikTok, Instagram and other social platforms, and they got his handles in there. Friend is known for his impressive repertoire of over two hundred and fifty impressions, from Jeff Goldbloom to Timothy Schallamey to Stanley Tucci.

Tammy is a producer at Casey Superstar and says, we are so thrilled to have Matt Friend as our celebrity host for our finals. You can read between the lines in our last story, I didn’t say anything. Read the transcript back, I did not say a thing. According to Late Nighter, Punky Johnson will not be returning to Saturday Night Live. Apparently Punky announced this at a live comedy show at Union Hall and Brooklyn.

Someone at the show posted Punky is leaving SNL. She said this was fine a share online, so I guess Twitter is the first to know. Definitely wasn’t a joke either, Like she’s actually gone and she’s very happy about it. Other people at the event then operated the story. Not sticking around for season fifty is a curious move.

We’ll see whose choice it was. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. Don’t tell Matt friend about it.

He’s not gonna like it tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I will talk about Joe Rogan’s live special on Monday’s podcast. Joe Rogan has made a shocking prediction for who he believes will be the next person in the United States. Joe Rogan is betting on Kamala Harris.

He says she’s gonna win. He said this on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Rogan said, I feel like we’re in a very bizarre time where people are giving into the bs in a way that I never suspected people before. They just want no Trump, no matter what, and they’re willing to gaslight themselves. And by the way, I think Hillary could win.

She’s the least popular vice president of all time.

And then in a moment in time, all of a sudden, she’s our solution.

She’s our hero. Everybody’s with her, all those social media posts about her. Try googling a negative story on her. You won’t find one. Send your letters to Joe Rogan.

Nate Berghatzy talk to bill Board about building his career. You know, he’s one of those twenty year overnight sensations. We talk about. Kate said, you never know when all the eyes are going to switch over to you. I’ve done this now for twenty one years, So you just kind of keep doing what you’re doing, and then when the eyes end up hitting you, you need to be ready.

Nate said he took a number of steps to reach his goals. I stopped drinking in twenty eighteen. I was starting to sell clubs out and so we’re about to go to theaters and I wasn’t able to drink like a regular person. I knew, all right, well, if I want to go to that level I want to go to, I have to get this out of my life where I’m not going to be able to get to that next level. And I’ve seen that now with even the training and the food.

You may know that Nate is the son of a magician, and he says, my timing definitely comes from my dad. He was working on magic all the time, even at home. He was doing it so subconsciously you’re taking it in like, well, if you want to be great at something, you have to do this all day long. When he first started playing Arena a few months ago, he was using a traditional setup, you know, where the stages at one end, but he has quickly changed it to an in the round configuration. Nate says, when you have the stage at one and the audience is so far away from you, it’s very easy for them to feel disconnected.

But the round really changed everything because I’ve cut the distance in half from the farthest person. He also increased these size of the screens and put TVs on stage, so even when his back is to people, they can see his face. He says, comedy can work in arenas. Weirdly, he can work even better at a two thousand seed theater. You can’t see my face that great, but in an arena, I played to the cameras.

He also adjusts his canence every night, saying, when you’re doing the arena, it’s like music. My timing is based off their laughter, and it changes according to where you’re at every night. It’s a little different to keep twenty thousand people’s attention. I love it. I love how hard it could be.

You’re on a kind of tightrope. You got to keep them intrigued the whole time. It’s amazing. He filmed his April thirteenth and fourteenth shows that will premiere as a special this fall who’ll also put out an album through Capital Comedy. Might he do some acting?

He said. I try to do auditions at the beginning, and it was hard. I can only really be me, and if you don’t want this, then it’s not going to completely work out. I see Adam Sandler and his production company Happy Madison. I love that where Adam Sandler goes and he’s him.

You know what you’re getting when you’re in his world. You sure do he need do on cut gems and he can do all that other stuff. And maybe there’ll be stuff like that down the line. But I got to get some stuff on board. The only thing I’ve really ad is SNL as a thing outside of stand up comedy.

So there’s a lot of things that I need to get on board and get moving forward. Taylor Tomlinson enjoyed Niagara Falls. I was up there recently. Taylor said, I went to Niagara Falls last time I performed in Buffalo, and oh my god, change my life. So much water and you can see it from so many different angles.

If you’re willing to spend a little extra money, which I was. I wonder what she means by that. I was just there. You can walk around. I guess she means the boat.

Yeah, of the boat, or maybe there’s behind the falls. We have an episode of Travel Is Back, a podcast that I sometimes host. I did the Niagara Falls episode that’ll be in the feeds sometime in August. So, yeah, you could take a boat where you could go behind the falls. I guess those would be different angles you could throw money at.

On her current tour, it’s a deep dive into a lot of very personal things. It’s a lot about growing up religious and exploring your sexuality and deciding whether or not you’re ready to have kids or if you want to at all. Aggo Nuotam, who happens to have a new podcasts coming out, told Andy Cohen that she’s friends with Jason Momoa Ego says he wants to set me out with someone, or rather, I’ve asked him to set me up with someone, and he’s like, but I don’t know any guys who are worthy. Well, here’s a showbiz publicity story if I’ve ever heard one. See, they have a text chain.

We have this thing that we do where I text him and I say who you wit? And he’s supposed to show me a picture of the man he’s with at the time, and he does as recently as a few weeks ago. I hit him with the who you wit? And he showed me a picture of a stranger in the airport. Rommi Yousef and his Cairo Cowboy production banner have signed a first Look TV deal with Netflix, according to a variety, Under the deal, they will develop and create new scripted projects for the streamer Netflix.

And I was curious, what does that mean for the television show Rommy. A quick Google shows me Rommy has not yet been renewed for season four. I wonder if that’s over. The Shepherd Express spoke to Steve Hofstetter, who said, whenever you’re doing stand up, you’re talking to more than the people in the room. You’re also talking to whoever they may quote you to.

That is a great line by Steve. Steve says, when I’m uncensored, I met my best, but I’m able to edit when I need to. I grew up with a sailor’s mouth in a house that didn’t allow cursing my friends. I was filthy, but my mom never knew. I didn’t curse in front of her until I graduated in high school.

All right, laugh Out Loveland continues today. If you played along at home yesterday, Dan Boobletz, junior friend of the show who’s been organizing this thing, he had events starting at one pm and going into the night, and they were all at places that would serve beverages. So you know, if I were there, I’d be pretty hungover today. I’m never drinking again. Let’s take a look at the schedule.

Today starts at one o’clock, which is good because knowing me and probably trying to catch a red eye home and then I lose the time zones and I’m just gonna want to get out of there. So one o’clock is a good choice for laugh Out Loveland presents hilarities and hatches comedy with an edge. The venue is called Axe to Grind. Now, Dan, is this gonna be one of those axe throwing places? I’ve clicked on it?

Yes, axe Throwing in Loveland at Colorado Experience, Northern Colorado’s top spot for axe throwing. We welcome first time axe throwers to get to know our awesome staff and learn from some of the best. No, Dan, let me just dand direct here. Dan, a couple things. One you might want to make sure the bouncers are really really good, just saying.

And two, you might want to make sure you have your very best material. You know, you don’t want somebody he at the ax throwing place to go you suck. You know. I don’t want to put any ideas in anyone’s head, but that would not be good. I’m looking here at the pictures.

I don’t know what you call ax throwing lanes alleys. If we’re bowling, i’d call them alleys, but they’re runways, alleys, fenced in areas where you’re throw your axes and that way. They’re fenced off so you don’t accidentally hit somebody with an ax. There’s even an axe store. They have a full lineup of competition axes to take your ax throwing skills to the next level.

Then at seven pm, Dan, I’m not gonna be able to make this one. I’m hitting the airport. I got to catch the red eye home. Tom Davis Saloon presents the Laugh Out Loveland Best of the Fest Showcase with Eland at Stribbling. Dan Bouletch Junior also scheduled to be on this show.

Plus or minus how the act show goes. You know what I’m saying, what did you mean by all that, John, I mean, like, say, dan at his first set, he’s so good that somebody from NBC goes, we’re firing Jimmy Fallon. We want you to take over the tonight show immediately, but you gotta get on the plane right now. You can’t do the seven o’clock show. That’s what I meant.

Dan Eland and looks like six other comedians unless it’s the Riddler who’s playing it is a green circle with a silhouette of someone with a question mark on their face. It could be the Riddler. And before you say that sounds absurd, does the Riddler not tell funny riddles? It would make sense. So stop by the Tom Davis Saloon at seven o’clock to see what’s going on there.

And you know that SNL in nineteen seventy five movie, It’s got a new title. It is now just called Saturday Night. I’m not sure the first title wasn’t better, but anyway, Saturday Night will be released into theaters on October eleventh. October eleventh happens to be the day that Saturday Night premiered back in nineteen seventy five. I believe the first episode for sure, and May the whole first season or half first season.

It wasn’t called Saturday Night Live. It was called Saturday Night. There was a different show that was called Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. I believe if I’m recalling this, I have Google. I could look this up.

But is that fun? No? Anyway. Saturday Night The Movie October eleventh, twenty twenty four. The movie recounts the night of SNL’s series premiere.

It’s told from the point of a ferocious troop of young comedians and writers that changed television forever. It depicts the chaos and magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t counting down the minutes in real time to the infamous words live from New York, It’s Saturday Night, and that is your comedy news for today, Dan, I have a good show. Make sure those bouncers are on point. See to Worrow