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Featured: Colin Jost, Michael Che, Roy Wood Jr., Amber Ruffin, Michael Ian Black, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Sarah Sherman, Mike Birbigley, Hank Azaria

What’s in This Episode

• 2024 Emmy Awards nominations and predictions across comedy categories
• Colin Jost and Michael Che’s live special on Peacock
• Roy Wood Jr.’s new CNN show ‘Have I Got News for You’ debut
• Late night comedians’ jokes about Trump’s debate performance and the eating cats/dogs claim
• SAG-AFTRA members calling for protection against blacklisting over Palestine views
• Comedy Seller owner Norm Dworman on difficulty of joking about Gaza-Israel conflict

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. The Emmys are Tomorrow night, which means for me, I can’t finish off Monday show until like halftime of Sunday Night Football, when I jump in my office and put a new top on Monday’s episode. I don’t like working that way. I like working a little in advance.

You know what I’m saying. Yes, the Emmys. Here are the nominees for Best Comedy Series. They are Abbot Elementary, The Bear, curb Hacks. The Bear is not a comedy stop curb Hacks only murders in the building.

Palm Royale from Apple TV Plus remember that reservation Dogs, What we Do in the Shadows, Let’s see. I’m going to give a Lifetime Achievement Award to Curb. Not sure it deserves it for the recent seasons, but that’s how things work sometimes. Best Actor in a Comedy Series, Matt Barry, What We Do in the Shadows, Larry David Steve Martin for Murders Martin Short for Murders. Jeremy Allen White for a non comedy The Bear Tofaraoh won a tie for Reservation Dogs.

Let’s see Lifetime Achievement Award to Larry David Is my vote. Best Actress in a Comedy Series, Quina Bruson for Abbot. I you had a Barry for non comedy of The Bear, Selena Gomez for Murders, My Rudolph Loot. That’s an Apple TV Plus thing. Gene Smart who I’m gonna give it to for Hacks, Kristen Wig Palm Royal, Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Lionel Boyce for non comedy series The Bear, Paul w Downs for Hacks, Ebon Moss Bocherock for non comedy series The Bear.

He’s fantastic but not a comedy. Can’t do it, dude, Paul Read for Murders, Tyler James Williams for Abbot, Bowen Yang for SNL. Huh hm. I don’t like any of the choices there. Can I hand it in a blank ballot.

I don’t get a vote anyway. I don’t know. Vote for if your want Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Carol Burnett Palm Royal, Liza clone Zayis for non comedy series The Bear, and an Einbinder for Hacks. Janelle James for Abbot Sheryl Lee Ralph for Abbott, Meryl Streep for Murders. Let’s just give it to Carol Burnett, because we love Carol Burnett.

Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, John Bernhal for non comedy series The Bear. I mean you mentioned giving John Bernthal a Comedy Emmy for what he did in The Bear, Matthew Broderick for Murders, Ryan Gosling SNL, Christopher Lloyd Hacks, Bob Odenkirk in The Bear. I have no strong feelings there either. Let’s give it a Christopher Lloyd. Why not?

Oh?

And also Will Poulter for The Bear.

Sorry, I put a break in my little list there where a Breake didn’t go. But The Bear not a comedy series. Sorry. Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, Olivia Coleman The Bear, Jimmie Lee The Bear, Caitlyn Olsen for Hacks, Divine Joy Randolph for Murders my Rudolph, and Kristin Wigg both for SNL appearances. Let’s give it to Kaitlyn Olsen because they’ll probably never reward her for It’s always Sonny and I have in fact checked that maybe she’s won ten Emmys for Sonny.

I don’t know, but let’s give it a Kaitlyn Olsen best talk series, The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmellive Seth and Colebert. I would give it to Kimmel. Roy Wood Juniors CNN show Have I Got News for You? Makes its debut tonight. I’m rooting for your Roy, but boy tough time slot again.

The way the show works, two teams of comedians, new makers, actors, and media personalities use news clips and headlines to drum up jokes and gags, all improv style through a round of different segments. Amber Ruffin hosts one team, Michael ian Black the other. Roy Wood Junior says the desires to get newsmakers, even polarizing ones, to take part. Roy says, in America, we’re not always the biggest fans of the bad person being given the microphone. But above all, this is about laughing and what have we got to say?

And if we can get those two things to connect every week, then I think we’ll have a product that’s going to be on the air for a very long time. Roy, this thing’s going to be on the air for ten weeks. It is not again, I’m not saying it’s not good. I’m saying they scheduled it on Saturday night. Ten weeks.

Write it down, sorry. Buddy. Roy says this was the type of scenario I was hoping for when he didn’t get the Daily Show. If there was a good opportunity for me, I believed it would happen in an election year, not after. And that’s what’s gonna happen with the show.

Ten weeks takes you just too about the election. I’m telling you, sorry, Buddy. Michael Ian Black says the show’s format offers a late night vibe with fast paced topical humor, even though it’s airing in prime time on set Saturday night. He highlights how the panelists don’t know the topics beforehand, which means they have to react on the spot. His first reaction to the show being on CNN, he said bizarre.

He was intrigued by CNN’s desire to branch out. He says, we want people from all walks of life as long as we can make fun of them. Colin jos and Michael Jay did their live special on Peacock Thursday evening. Boy, did you feel the buzz? The earth practically shook from everybody talking about this thing.

Man, Wow, Peacock, what an impact this thing made. John, you’re sarcastic today. Joe said, tonight’s gonna be like group sex. If it goes well, then we can do it again every couple months with our friends. And if it goes really bad, it’s a disaster.

We’ll never talk about it again. And either way we’re gonna film it. Good joke. We’re on Peacock. You guys know Peacock, right.

You know Peacock from the phrase I can’t believe the NFL made as a download Peacock. Michael Jay said, what the f is wrong with you? Man? The checks didn’t clear. This is the experience that we have to when we go to drop to places.

We want to give that to the country. Does Peacock play all over the country? Jost? We wanted it to be the second funniest line I’ve event this week after the debate. Nothing sounds more presidential than screaming they’re eating the cats and the dogs.

I think that was Thomas Jefferson. The Special, which you know everybody watched. Everybody’s buzzing about it. Oh peacock, man, give it up. The Special saw a previously unannounced lineup of comics take the stage one by one.

They included Alex English, a Eita Rodriguez, Amina Amani, and Carlos Miller. Good closer Mike Birbigley, who grabbed the mic and forced Jost into a Q and A for Biglia said I recently texted Colin and asked him to be on my podcast working it out? Do you remember what you wrote back? Pause? Nothing?

Salvolcano made an appearance, so did Sarah Sherman, who said about Joe’s this place is close to my apartment. Looks like you didn’t respect the restraining order. Stephen Colbert with a good joke, and to see an ND poll taking immediately after the debate, sixty three percent said Harris won. Thirty seven percent said Trump one, which of course means that thirty seven percent of Americans don’t own TVs. Jimmy Fallon, following his rough debate, Trump’s inner circles now doing damage control.

I’m sorry you work for Donald Trump? What are you not doing damage control? Hank Azaria took to Twitter as Chief Wigham, Let’s listen. Spring Fair Police Chief clans Wigham speaking, I’m gonna have you people are eating dogs? What do I mean a hot dog.

Oh cats, mister Katz is eating hot dog. Nah. People are eating dogs and cats. People are eating dogs and cats in Springfan? Are they good?

Some sag After members, including romy Yousef, are among the hundreds of union members calling on their organization’s leadership to keep people from being blacklisted for their views on Palestine. Friend of the Show Scott Beckett sent me an article from the Wall Street Journal. Norm Dwormann, who owns the Comedy Seller, says, I curate laughter. Nothing should be off limits, but there’s obviously a very very very high degree of difficulty for certain matters. The topic at a hand here.

Gaza Noom says, the Israel Palestine war, maybe more than any issue in my lifetime, has been really something that people have not found a way to really joke about and totally get away with. In June, he had to refund a large party check because a comedian made an offhand joke about the war. Nothing anybody would think was offensive, but people are so sensitive on the subject they complained and I gave them their money back. He says. Most comedians are staying away from it.

The few that have tried are not really succeeding. One comedian who is an exception to that. Andrew Schultz. No Onman said, I saw him in Masson Square Garden do cemetery about kaza and he was destroying. He was fantastic, but of course that was his crowd.

His audience is very diverse who enjoy politically and correct humor, so they weren’t offended. An example of one of his jokes, which of course Andrew Schultz would tell better than me. I saw people protesting the Israel Palestine war was wild. All these white Australians out there, shout and give them back their land. Noeman told a story about comedy being therapeutic.

He was speaking with Nick Apollo. Noem tells Nick, I don’t if my father’s going to make it much longer. Nick Nick said, oh no, who gets the lexus? Noa said, my father’s dying and he’s joking about who’s going to get the car, and everybody starts laughing. In a situation where everybody unders and each other, nobody suspects the worst about where somebody’s coming from, then you talk about anything and be okay.

The best comedians, like all the great composers, will break rules. Dave Chappelle’s name came up, and what’s gonna be in Dave Chapelle’s obituary. Johnny Max says one host of The Chappelle Show two controversial comedian trans something something, Well, they talked about that, and Torman says the transhumor controversy doesn’t seem en have to to Dave Chappelle’s career in any way whatsoever. When he comes down and performs at the Seller, nobody complaints, and why would they. There’s a wonderful culture at a comedy club where you can talk about anything.

And I don’t mean on stage. I’m actually talking among the comedians, and that’s why many of them say, I don’t want to hang out with anybody but comedians. Joda Rosa is taping a special tonight at the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. The Columbus Underground caught up with Mike Camplan. They were talking about the Edinburgh Fringe.

Mike said Edinburgh was like putting the show through boot camp, like really working out in one place the whole time, but there were a variety of completely different audiences. There’d be some Americans, but it usually be majority non American, often English speaking, but not always English as a first language audience members over there, they don’t have the same TV show references. Necessarily, they get American TV and movies, and our culture pervades the worlds. I had one joke about family feud, but in Britain it’s called family Fortune, and they don’t have Jeopardye. The only people wh knew what I was saying about had seen the movie White Men Can’t Jump.

It’s a different part of the world. But additionally, there are thousands of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest. I think I went to about sixty shows that weren’t mine, and I did my show every night, plus a few other spots around town here and there. Those sixty included other comedians, storytellers, dance magic, a couple of amazing clown performers. The clown seed in Edinburgh and Europe is massively large, something that certainly doesn’t exist in our culture in the same way.

It’s a beautiful art form that’s different from stand up and from communists. Dot read your home for communist news see what I did there? They wrote about the Fringe under the headline no laughing matter, Thoughts from a Communist comedian. The communist comedian rights the commodification of comedy shifts its purpose from generating laughter through providing a unique perspective on life, to generating profit. It becomes diluted by the need to appeal to mass audiences.

As promoters, mainstream comedians are pressured to conform to market friendly content, avoiding material which may alienate promoters. In Britain, the comedy scene has become increasingly commercialized, with a focus on corporate sponsorships and high profile TV deals. It offers a sanitized version of comedy, one that avoids critiquing any element of CAPITALI society too Sharply, after all, the only comedians are willing to echo the opinion of the British establishment have any chance of making it. The contemporary comedy scene is also a majority of gig economy performers work under conditions of harsh financial instability and job instability, particularly for working class comedians at the start of the career, as most comedians will go at least six months before receiving even five pounds per performance. This makes the industry inaccessible for working class acts who don’t have a cushion of money to fall back on.

Sadly, the Edinburgh fringe festival, despite being celebrated for its diversity, continues to starkily reveal these economic disparities, participation costs including accommodation, venue, higher fringe registration, and promotional materials racking up into the thousands. Furthermore, the many times offered to new or non mainstream acts tend to be either in the middle of the day or middle of the night. You know, I’m not sure I disagree with the communist comedian. On the other hand, we do live in a capitalist society and in all formats play the hits. So if I can put I don’t know, Nate Bergatzi at eight o’clock and some obscure comedian doing something a little avant garde.

Yeah, that’s not getting the eight o’clock room. I don’t have a solution for you. I’m not going to advocate that we turn this into the communist comedy society, but I do think Communist comedian did make some points. And that’s your comedy news for today tomorrow, part two of vulturest Comedians You should and Must Know or whatever it’s called. I can’t even remember.

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Featured: Tommy Tiernan, Bill Burr, Kathleen Madigan, Lewis Black, Matt Rife, Melissa Rivers, Joan Rivers, Kathy Griffin, Jim Gaffigan, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Howard Stern

What’s in This Episode

• Tommy Tiernan on Bill Burr’s podcast discussing Irish comedy culture
• Kathleen Madigan announces Day Drinking Tour with 29 dates starting January 2025
• Lewis Black wrapping up touring after 35 years to focus on writing
• Matt Rife discusses backlash, therapy, and upcoming book ‘Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me’
• Melissa Rivers announces Apollo Theater tribute to Joan Rivers on November 7th
• Kathy Griffin discusses upcoming comedy special about PTSD and mental health
• Jim Gaffigan to host Al Smith Dinner with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on October 17th
• Colin Jost and Michael Che discuss SNL future on Howard Stern Show

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Caloroga Shark Media. It appears to be Friday in the thirteenth, which is neither here nor there. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Tommy Tiernan was on Bill Burr’s podcast and explained the Irish people became natural comedians because we had no choice. That’s why we’re like that.

It’s not like we had to choose between being masters of the world and singers. We had no choice. We had no money. We’re good at talking. We love music and drinking and singing and crying and fighting amongst each other.

Bill Burr said, you get what life is about. Teternian explained, when you have no money, when you got nothing, what do you do? Burr said, over here, you got a gun and start robbing people. Tiernean said, in the old days, the Irish would concoct a drink made of rain and tears and old potatoes. There was nothing to do except drink it and see what happens.

And then somebody’d make a fiddle out of an old cat and it’d start making music. And that was our culture for eight hundred years. We were so downtrodden and our only refuge was the spoken word. Music and drink, and to this day, Irish people aren’t great at architecture or any of the obvious hallmarks of an empire.

Meanwhile, Kathleen Madigan, we’ll hit the road for the Day Drinking Tour.

We are reinforcing all the Irish stereotypes today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac by the way, Irish American. It’ll be her thirty fifth year as a touring comic. It’s the Day Drinking Tour. It kicks off January seventeenth in Omaha, twenty nine dates.

Interesting note from ball Star here, Madigan has regularly performed at two hundred and fifty dates a year. Highlights from twenty twenty four submitted to ball Star include a seventy eight thousand dollars grouse against nineteen hundred and thirty nine tickets at Clow’s Memorial Hall on the campus of Indianapolis a Butler University More sixteenth. So if somebody wants to crunch the numbers there here, let me be lazy. Nineteen hundreds like two thousand and seventy eight thousand dollars is like eighty thousand, so forty dollars a ticket something like that eighty grand two hundred fifty days a year two hundred grand minus expenses. Are you w in the math right there?

So eighty thousand dollars two hundred and fifty times would be twenty million dollars minus expenses and I rounded up there. But sounds like Kathleen’s doing okay. Kathleen Madigan often tours with Lewis Black. He’s wrapping it up after thirty five years. He says, I want to get back to writing.

I do a rant cast. I want to do more of that live. He was doing one hundred and fifty shows a year, but says he will misperforming. Yeah, well, because it’s something really nice about showing up at a city where you know, maybe two people and a thousand show up really excited that you’re there. It really is something the energy you get from them.

The l eight Times writes, though Matt Riif’s dream has been too entertained at the highest level, Raife says he’s used to being a target for backlash, and it’s no coincidence that two of his favorite comedians are Dave Schabelle and Ricky Gervais, two of the most popular and criticized comedians. Raife says it’s lots of juggle. In the beginning, you mostly only hear the positive, and then a very select people go, oh, this person’s very well loved and respected, and I myself might lack that love and respect in my own personal life, so therefore I don’t want this person to have it. So then comes in influx of negativity. You then have to really appreciate the good because the bad’s gonna come with it.

Guaranteed, nobody is universally loved. I used to avidly respond back to people nobody could be meaner than me if I really want to be. But you can’t do that because it’s whether or not you feel like you’ve won that interaction or you had the better roast. What this stroller hater said doesn’t matter. You gave them exactly what they want, and all they want is intention.

Raif talked about his grandpa passed away in twenty twenty two and said he never got to see me have any of this. He’s the reason I have any of this. I’ve been so happy to be so distracted and keep busy and keep my mind off that kind of stuff. But through therapy and this book, which has been a massive form of therapy, It’s forced me to take time and reflect on all the things that got me to this point right now. His book is called Your Mom’s Gonna Love Me.

It will be out in December. Raife says, that’s a new anxiety, by the way, because that’s the hardest thing. How many viral sensations are there at a year thirty. Anybody can have a high year, a hot moment of their career. So many musicians, actors, comedians have them quite often hard parts maintaining Joe Rivers daughter Melissa has announced two upcoming shows.

On November seventh, eight list comedians will gather at the Apollo Theater in New York for a living tribute to Joe Rivers, benefiting God’s Love We Deliver. That’s part of the New York Comedy Festival.

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The play will follow the life of the edgy comic from getting her start at a small Greenwich village nightclub to being a regular act on the Tonight show I Wonder Who’s playing Joan. Joan says of mom, she was shy She hated social situations, but she covered that up by being funny. What’s interesting is a lot of performers are very shy. One of her biggest fears was being in social situations outside of her friend group, because she was always concerned she was going to disappoint someone that they were expecting her to be Joan Rivers rather than Joan Rosenberg. Up until the day she died, she answered the phone Rosenberg residents.

Kathy Griffin spoke to EW dot com about her upcoming show and said, you don’t want to know what I’d do to sell tickets. I don’t want to use the term have sex with a donkey. Whatever it takes. My hustle game’s never been stronger. She will joke about her PTSD, which includes twelve hour panic attacks and NonStop vomiting and dry heaving.

Kathy says, I’m gonna make it funny. I make fun of my remedies. I have a whole team of people trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. She uses affirmation saying I’ll go look at Mirren say like you’re gonna be okay today, Kathy. It’s me.

Kathy’s talking to you. Kathy You’re gonna be okay. If anybody ever walked in there and’d have me committed on another fifty one to fifty psych hold I have to min after me making fun of celebrities being on fifty one to fifty psych holds. I’m a little bit excited that I’m now in the company of Brittany and Kanye. Six time Grammy nominated Catholic comedian Jim Gaffigan will host the twenty twenty four Al Smith Dinner on October seventeenth.

I love the phrasing. Six time Grammy nominated. I meane it Max. It sound like he’s oasis. I mean yeah, but no.

The Al Smith Dinner is an annual event organized by the Archdiocese of New York. You know who else is going to be there? Deacon Mike. Now, Deacon Mike’s not going? Are you going?

Deacon Mike? Maybe he is. He knows everybody these days. Well, who is going to be there? Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris both noted Catholics?

Why are they there? What is happening at this thing? Jim mcgaffigan posted a copy of an invitation on Twitter that Liz Trump and Harris Is the guests, Jim Hilarious as always, joked that he was unfamiliar with the names of the two candidates. In his caption, he said, I’m so honored to be m seeing this year’s Al Smith Memorial Dinner on October seventeenth. Too bad, I don’t recognize those two names.

In the middle of the invitation, anyone ever heard of them? Hilarious Jim Colin Jose to Michael Chay went by Howard Stern because apparently it’s nineteen eighty eight, and Howard asked them if they have a plan to leave SNL. Joe said, we definitely don’t have a game plan. We never had a game plan every year. It’s sort of like you just reveal you’re seeing if you still like it.

Stern was curious if they’ve had a discussion, you know, if you go, I go. Chase said, we’ve had that discussion at different times. Stern said, Michael seems like a guy whoever year wants to leave, but he sticks around. Chase said, yeah, but it’s not a matter if I want to leave because I want to leave. It’s like I want to leave because I always feel like I miss stand up and all this stuff.

It’s always that. Sterne asked Jay if you do the news by himself? If Joe departed and Chase said no, same question to Jost. Joe said no, Chase said, in a heart beat, he wood he’s lying through his teeth, and then Joe said, I’ll do three years. Joe Coy, who once hosted the Golden Globes, by the way, made a joke about Taylor Swift.

I don’t know if you had heard about it. New materials literally the job, he says, always, hands down, the surprise element is the best. It’s so important to not do what you did on TV if your audience is coming out because they sell you on Netflix. They pay all this money to see you live, and then I just do my Netflix special live. It’s like they’re not coming back.

What is this an unplugged version. It’s not like music. Music you can do that. You can write a hit song played for the rest of your life and people keep paying to hear it. It’s a different vibe.

Comedy can’t do that. The most important part is to punch. If you know the end of the book, why are you gonna watch the movie? Can’t kill doing an old bit for new material. He says, I have the most maduskull idea of where I want to go, but as far as when I’m on stage, I love to improvise.

I love to be in that moment. Sometimes the audience will create something off an idea for me and it turns into this thing. Unconsciously, it starts to write itself when it hits and lands the way I know it’s supposed to land, and I know it’s not just a joke for this particular group of people. And by the way, I mean locally, like they’ll only get it here in dallatreet Houston. I want them to be able to get the Omaha joke in Hawaii.

If I can hit that moment genuinely, then I’ll keep it. I do know vaguely where I want to go, but unconsciously it develops on its own. John Earley has an album out today, them dot Us I wrote a lot about John Early, and they say in previous iterations of his comedy, John Early felt like he had to decide between being confident or self deprecating, between singing songs and telling jokes, or between collaboration and going solo. With his latest special Now More than Ever, which is the basis of the comedy album of the same name, which comes out today. John early decided he could do all the above.

He says, to finally blend music in comedy was groundbreaking privately, because I was suddenly like, oh, there’s a motion and there’s musicality in my stand up. There’s a yearning aching quality to my stand up that I have only let out in the music. John Earle, what comedy albums inspired you? He said, I listened to all of Maria Bamford’s comedy albums quite a bit. My family used to listen to Andy Griffith’s comedy album.

In my twenties, I used to listen to Sandra Bernhard’s live album that was certainly influential. He was asked about his band The Lemon Square Is being part of the album. John really said it really started when I first started doing stand up. You do like little ten minute sets or ten minute open mics, and after I’d been doing it for a couple of years, I want to do a bigger solo show. But I want to offer something more than just stand up, which maybe belies that I don’t think my stand up is enough to offer.

I really wanted to put on a show, and it felt exciting to do. Sincere covers like he does serious music songs, I’ve never had the impulse to write songs or comedy songs. I wanted my live shows to feel a little more groovy. Do you feel the John Early on stage persona changes between telling jokes and singing, He said, I feel like it’s more fluid. At the time, I was making a special, something finally integrated.

For the ten years prior working with the band doing live shows, there was something disjointed about it. Then COVID happened. I didn’t really perform for a while. I forgot how much I loved doing it. When we came back for the special and started rehearsing, I realized the sincerity of the music was pulling the comedy in a more direct, generous direction.

It was nice. It all started to blend into something more unified. John Early now more than ever video version on Imax. The album of the same name out today from my Denim Records. A slash of thirty tigers, And that is your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too, And I’ll see you here tomorrow,

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Featured: Will Ferrell, Harper Steele, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Andrew Santino, Pete Davidson, Whitney Cummings, Jim Brewer, Jeff Foxworthy, Tim McGraw

What’s in This Episode

• Will Ferrell regrets performing in drag on SNL
• Will and Harper documentary on Netflix
• Harper Steele’s transgender coming out
• Late night hosts joke about Biden debate
• Andrew Santino’s celebrity golf group text chain
• Pete Davidson checks into rehab after Madelyn Cline breakup
• Pete Davidson living situation concerns from insiders

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mac, you with your Daily Comedy News. Mike Capell said, I think Trump should drop out and be replaced by Biden. Jimmy Kimmel said, usually when Donald Trump gets a spanking from a woman, it’s with a Forbes magazine. Kimmel added, Here’s what I’d like you to do right now.

I want you to imagine we’ve never heard of Donald Trump before, and the first time you’ve ever seen him was during the debate. What would you reaction be. You’d be shocked. The Republican Party would have to close their headquarters and turn it into a spirit Halloween store. Jimmy Fallon added, Harris was on the right, Trump was on the left, and Biden was at home wondering where do I know these guys from falling again?

Just like the previous debate, there was no audience. Yep, they were speaking to a totally silent, empty room. Whereas JD Vance calls that a rally. I’m honest with you guys, right, So sometimes I come down to prep the show and there’s it takes me like two hours to put together. There’s so much news, and it’s been like that for most of September.

Today, I got nothing. I’m being honest here. I don’t like today’s script. I really had to dumpster dive just to put the show together. The first two stories are real, the rest is extreme, a filler with me googling every comedian’s name I could possibly think of.

And even these first two stories really should be like at the back end of the first half, not the lead anyway. Will Ferrell says he’s no longer interested in performing in drag for laughs. He did an interview on the New York Times Interview podcast. He was joined by his friend and former SNL head writer Harper Steel. Steele came out as transgender thirty years into her friendship with Will Ferrell.

That’s the subject of a documentary Will and Harper out on Netflix, so you’ll see a lot of press from Will coming up. Will express regret over the Janet Reno Fantasies sketch from season twenty three of SNL, in that Will Ferrell dressed in drag. He said, that’s something I wouldn’t choose to do now. Steele at it that kind of bums me out. I understand the laugh is a drag laugh, and it’s hey it’s a guy of dress and that’s funny.

It’s absolutely not funny. It’s absolutely a way that we should be able to live in the world. However, with performers and actors, I do like a sense of play. Steele continued, It’s an interesting question to me. Do queer people like the birdcage?

Do they not? Robin Williams, at least as far as we know, was not a gay man, and yet he spent about half his comedy career doing a swishy gay guy on camera. Do people think that’s funny or is it hurtful. I’ve heard from gay men and think it was funny, and I’ve heard from gay men and think it was hurtful. I’m a purple haired woke but I wonder if sometimes we take away the joy of playing when we take away some of the range that performers, especially comedy performers, can do.

Will tell The Times there’s a fair amount of sketches from his SNL tenure where he laments the choice and then joked, I mean, in a way to cash, you’re kind of giving the assignment. So I’m gonna blame the writers or my new Steele was the head writer, and Steele says, yeah, he’s not coupable at all. Steele ads, I wrote Monica Lewinsky’s stuff I wasn’t proud of. I wrote some good Britney Spears stuff and some stuff that I’m not as proud of. I wrote some Clinton things I wasn’t proud of.

I’m just moving on, I have to. Will said he had zero knowledge about the trans community before Harper came out to him. Will said, I had met trans people, but I didn’t have anyone personally in my life, so this was all new territory to me, which is why I think this film is so exciting for us to put out in the world. It’s a chance for all of us on the CISC community to be able to ask questions and also just to listen and be there as a friend to discuss this journey. Will and Harper on Netflix September twenty seventh.

From Golf Digest year home for comedy News, Andrew Santino is part of a fancy schmancy text chain. Who’s on it? Charlie Day, Rob Mceleenniy, Michael Pania, and Scott Kahn. Why those guys, They’re all golfers at the same La Area club. Santino said, well, Mac joined somewhere else, so we don’t see him anymore.

He’s better than us, and then joked and said, now we still see him sometimes. A Santino plays to a three handicap and had a career best score of sixty nine despite not taking lessons. Santino says, I’ll play anytime I can. I’m an addict. It’s an addiction.

It’s disgusting, it’s sick, it’s twisted. Pete Davidson’s friends are worried about him going back into the limeline after his most recent stay in rehab, and insider tells Okay Magazine Pete checked into a psychiatric facility to focus on his sobriety following his split from Mantelin Kline. The source said Pete took the break up very hard for just a blank vana. He may have thought she was the one. They burned so brightly together, and it’s so much in common.

The insider opinion pet should move in with his mom and not look back. Life on the Hollywood Fast Line continues to chew him up and spin him out, and it’s not healthy for someone with Pete’s problems. The source noted. The Limelight’s not good for pet and he often felt used, especially by Kim Kardashian. According to the Insider, those are not people who care deeply for him and want to see him at his best.

Where’s Kim when all this stuff goes down? Nowhere? But what do you expect from Hollywood?

All right, let’s start dumpster diving, he’d put together in a complete podca…

Whitney Cummings shared on Instagram that she walked into a Texas BUCkies and met fuzzy mascot Bucky himself. In a post, she said, look there is I mean, it’s definitely like someone that’s tight on CASHO hast to wear this costume, but I’m still starstruck. This is like my Disneyland. Now. My san Antonio did some research here.

The photo said that she was in Austin, but there is no BUCkies in Austin. They suspect she may have been in Bastrop, the closest BUCkies to Austin. I googled other words Jim Brewer, and I found this from c L Tampa and the question do you prefer playing the bigger venues like the Stress Center or are you like smaller clubs. Jim picked the bigger arenas because they’re paying to see you and they’re not drunk wasted vikings. Quite frankly, I put up better shows because in the clubs I usually got to do like four or five shows in a weekend.

I’m conserving my energy, and by the third show, it’s not that I’m not into it, but I start getting pretty exhausted. So I was like, oh good, I could pick apart this article.

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And then I saw the next question was, hey, Jim, you live in New Jersey and Ji…

And then I checked the interview was from twenty thirteen. Thanks Google. Not sure why that surfaced all of a sudden, but hey, we’re dumpster diving today and Local News eight spoke to Jeff Foxworthy, and Jeff told a story. People always say, where do you come up with that stuff? There’s no research going on.

It’s my family and friends. So I’ll tell you one real quick. I had last weekend. I’m in the pool with my three year old grandson. He swims over, he goes Grandpa.

I got a pepe and I said, well, let me tell you something, buddy, don’t tell anyone, buddy. Everybody beat in the pool. They don’t talk about it, they don’t admit it. But everybody peed in the pool. And he said really, And I said yeah, And you let go of my neck.

He swam to the side, climbed out of the pool, dropped his bathing suit, and standing on the side piece into the pool. And so I wrote a redneck joke. If you ever peed in the pool without being in the pool, you might be a redneck. Tim Mention says, I’m just lucky. For every one of me, there are in ninety nine people just as talented who didn’t find the right audience or the right expression of their talent.

And there’s a bunch of people who worked harder than me who haven’t got what I got. I think part of my luck is I’m not great at taking advice. I just didn’t really listen very much. Tim has quit Twitter and said before I got off Twitter, which I did many years ago, I looked back recently and I’m like, what the F did I think I was achieving just by putting my woody opinions into the world. It’s just another piece of anxiety.

He has a new book. It’s called You don’t have to dream. Advice for the incrementally ambitious. It’s a collection of three commencement speeches he’s made in the past. One of his speeches has five point three million views on YouTube.

Him said he had no idea was going to be recorded, let alone how well it would do. He says that’s a pretty good argument for not knowing too much. Mentionin says, I’m not a person who thinks much about the market. When I make a musical or show, I’m not thinking what do they want. I don’t get caught up and receive wisdom about what audiences will or will not take.

I go what would I be proud of? What would I love if I were the audience. My work isn’t very condescending. Sometimes it’s winky, sometimes it’s pretentious, and sometimes it might not be very good. But I don’t say, oh, little audience, I’ll spoon feed you what you want.

I care deeply about how people receive my work. I just don’t get caught up in the idea that I can second guess that if I put my heart and soul into something and really care about it and believe in it, then it usually works out all right. At which point someone says you’re talentless and then I crumble. But it doesn’t affect me next time because I’ve just done a how else to do it? I have no instinct and try to chase someone else’s definition.

It’s just not in my brain, all right. Tim Mention’s nine life lessons, one of them is you don’t have to have a dream encouraging people to be micro ambitious, he says it speaks to his worldview. I can only speak to what worked for me. It does relate to my lack of ability to go. I’m going to try and make an Oscar winning thing.

I know what wins. I’m going to reverse engineer some art based on my knowledge of what usually ends up getting an Oscar gross. How do you make good art backwards? It has to come from story and instinct, and I feel the same. You can’t make a good life backwards.

You can’t make a good career backwards. If you’re a tennis player, when you go I want to be a number one tennis player, there’s actually a really simple thing to do, which is get up at five o’clock every morning and play tennis. But most of life doesn’t work like that. If you want to be a star and say one day I’m going to be a Hollywood star. You’re just not going to be a Hollywood star.

It’s a crappy way to think about it, because you’re going to feel like you let yourself down. You should just think, I really want to be good at my school play, playing the Third Conquis Door or whatever, like I’m going to nail Third Conquis the Door. I think there’s a lot of mythology around the idea that what you should do is set your sights on the top of the mountain and not rest until you get there. But maybe there’s mountain passes that you would have missed. You don’t have to have a dream.

Advice for the incrementally ambitious. A book by Tim mentioned Peards said about the way he speaks, statistically, this is the sexiest accent in the world. At any given moment, more women are having sex with this accent than any other accent in the world. In your face, France, statistics don’t lie. Our accent wins.

Before the debate. The other night, I put on a here’ Shas special on Netflix. It just didn’t grab me at all. I usually like that type of show. I like British comedy a lot, but just not one thing was registering.

My brain didn’t last long. Remember, they’re making that follow up to the Office that really has nothing to do with the Office. They’ve added three cast members. They are Melvin Gregg, at Chelsea Frye and Ramona Young. They joined Dom Hall Gleeson and Sabrina im Packageatry in the ensemble.

The World is set in the quote same world as The Office and will also be a mockumentary. The show’s description reads, the documentary crew that immortalized under Mifflin’s granted Branch is in search of a new subject when they discover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it with volunteer reporters. Creator Greg Daniel says the show’s not a reboot, and Steady compared it to the way The Mandalorian fits into the Star Wars universe. There are no confirmed dates for production or release. Will be on NBC, will it be on Peacock or we’re getting eight episodes, twenty four episodes?

Nobody knows nothing. That’s your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nate Berghatzy, Adam Sandler, Jimmy Fallon, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Ricky Gervais, Larry David, Ali Wong, Bob Saget

What’s in This Episode

• Nate Berghatzy hosting CBS holiday special produced by Lorne Michaels
• Happy Gilmore 2 officially in production at Netflix
• SNL Season 50 cast changes and new members Ashley Padilla, Emil Joakim, Geene Wickline
• Colin Jost and Michael Che perform summer joke segment on Tonight Show
• Tommy Hilfiger fashion show on decommissioned Staten Island Ferry with Colin Jost and Brooke Shields
• Ricky Gervais tennis court controversy with neighbors over backyard renovation
• Larry David announces 10-city conversation tour starting in Denver
• Ali Wong announces new Netflix special ‘Single Lady’ filmed at Wiltern Theater
• September 11 remembrance and how comedians handled performing after 9/11

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Nate Berghatzy will host a holiday special for CBS Put That in Your back Pocket. It’s produced by Lorne Michaels. The press release tells us the show will shine a spotlight on the heart and spirit of Nashville during the holiday season, including family fun and feel good moments that resonate with audiences of all ages.

Nate said, I’m extremely excited to be creating the special as I’ve long been a big fan of variety and we don’t see enough of it. I want to make a great show for families to gather around and watch together, and I couldn’t be in better hands than with this team. No title yet, no date yet other than December. My Hemming and Hawing don’t all Lorne Michaels projects go to NBC slash Peacock. This one going to CBS slash Paramount Plus in SNL’s fiftieth season.

That’s odd. Adam Sailor announced on Monday that Happy Gilmour two is in production. Exciting Netflix posted on Twitter. Happy Gilmore two is officially in production. Sandler went on Instagram and said, it ain’t over the way I see it.

We’ve only just begun. Adam Sandlor also dropped by the Manning cast during Monday Night Football when my San Francisco forty nine Ers completely manhandled the New York Jets Aaron Rodgers through a pass intended for wide receiver Garrett Wilson was tipped in the air and intercepted by forty nine Ers linebacker Demetrius Flanagan fowls. Adam Sandlor said, maybe you should get rid of me. I don’t want to be here. I’m going that was terrible.

This is a mistake. Jimmy Fallon was mid monologue and then suddenly said, wait, I can’t do that joke. That news is almost three months old. Then out walks Colin Jost and Michael Jay. Joe said, seems old to you, Jimmy, but we’ve been away all summer.

There’s so much news that we haven’t been able to joke about. So we were wondering would it be okay if we told some of those jokes from the summer right now? Fallon agreed, as if Fallon’s going to go no, I’m hosting the tonight show. I can’t believe you just walked on and thought we were going to do a surprise segment. That’s not how the show works.

Fallon said. In July, Donald Trump chose Ohio Senator eighty vance As as a running mate, to which Cha tagged, well, I guess he can’t dodge every bullet. Fallon said, I saw that Kendrick Lamar hosted a massive June Teeth concert in La Cha joked, which is weird because I thought it was Drake who liked the teenths. You either know what that means or not. Most of Colin Joe’s lines had the implication they were written by Chase to sabotage him.

Fallon said. This summer, Louisiana became the first date to mandate that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Joe said, wow, every public school classroom. My only question is what’s public school? Fallon an Indiana court ruled that at Taco’s a sandwich, Jost a Taco’s a sandwich, that’s it.

Build the wall.

Speaking of Colin Jost, his ferry did get into use.

Tommy Hilfielger Welcome Guessing Board. The m V. John F. Kennedy, The decommissioned Staten Island Ferry. They did a little fashion show Sunday night.

Colin Jost was there, Pete Davidson was not there. Brooke Shields was there.

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Speaking of a Saturday Night Live.

They’ve added three new cast members for season fifty and one has left. The new Cash member Ashley Padilla, Emil Joakim and Geene Wickline. They are in. Chloe Trust apparently was on the show. Chloe no longer on the show.

I couldn’t pick Chloe Trost out of a lineup. On Instagram, Chloe Trost wrote, Unfortunately I was not asked back to SNEL this season. I wish I was going to be back with all the amazing friends I made there. It truly felt like home. Marcelo Hernandez, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker make the jump from featured players to the main cast.

My root Off will be back as Kamala Harris. Chloe Troust joins Punky Johnson and Molly Kearney as non returning cast members, but he has been a member of the Groundling since twenty twenty one. Wakim has performed stand up at the Tonight Show and Just for Laughs, where is named a New Face of Comedy in twenty twenty two. Wickline is part of the ensemble for staple View, which we’re told is a sketch show that’s gained a sizeable TikTok following Larry David is doing it towards called a Conversation with Larry David ten cities, beginning in Denver on the twentieth of this month. The events will feature Larry David in an information to scout with a local moderator.

Topics will include Seinfeld, curbyr, enthusiasm, and everything in between. Very exciting Denver, Seattle, San fran Philly, Atlanta, Chicago, Portland, Oregon, Phoenix, Austin, and Hollywood, Florida. On December fifth, Netflix announced Ali Wang’s news special. It is called Single Lady. It’ll be out in October.

Filmed at the Wiltern Theater in la as part of the Netflix Festival, Alli opens up about post divorce life and the quest for love. I didn’t know this. Ali Wang was named one of Times one hundred most Influential People in both twenty twenty and twenty twenty three. Ricky Gervais is in a fight with his neighbors over plans to build a noisy tennis court. I don’t know if he’s planning to build a noisy tennis court, but that’s what the neighbors are saying.

Ricky wants to rip up his back garden and put down a new permeable sports surface for the occasional game of tennis. He also has plans to demolish a basketball court, waterwall, per goda and some retaining walls. Neighbors are complaining about noise and las privacy, and you know, the trees being tarn down in a designated conservation area. Neighbors fear the court could also be used for five a side football and lead to flooding. I don’t know.

Is Ricky Dravas having people over for some five on five soccer games. I struggle to imagine it, but what do I know. In a letter to the local council, one neighbor wrote, it will not only be the ball or balls being hit or bounced before serving that will be noisy. If practicing a machine firing balls over the net is even more noisy. The players will make noise when speaking or shouting to each other.

From time to time, there’ll be spectators watching shouting and cheering. There’s no fencing around the court, so they’ll be a danger of being hit by a ball boy. I don’t know who to side with here. Like if my neighbors were tearing down the woods and putting in a tennis court, I’d be like, all right, that’s a little bit much. But on the other hand, I don’t think i’d be worried.

Like I’m sitting by my pool and a tennis ball is gonna hit me. I’m not too worried about that.

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Also, if the neighbors started having five on five soccer games in the yard, …

Ricky Gervais, planning agent, said, this new law is no enclosure or lighting, and it’s been designated to be visually an acoustically screened from the neighbors. Officials at Barnett’s Council will make a decision later this month. Today is a September eleventh. I am a New Yorker. I was in the city on that particular day, so it does not a day I can ignore.

Back in twenty twenty one, Vulture wrote about how comedians handled the environment after twenty twenty one. Very good article. If you want to go back and read it. They spoke to Bob Sagett at the time, who said, about two or three weeks right after nine eleven, I went to New York because I had a press tour for a TV show that was premiering October fifth. I think I went up at the comedy seller and talked about it a bit sarcastically and backhandedly, plugging a sitcom and how meaningless everything felt, especially show business, and yet I felt it was part of my job to make people laugh when I could, as soon as it felt like they wanted it and needed it.

I had not one joke about nine to eleven. When I did stand up, was to distract with my silly jokes, and if they were reverent, it was only in the way of talking about things that were unrelated to that event. In my PG nineteen style of comedy, There’ll never be anything for one about nine eleven. I’ve never done a joke about it. The mere mention of it does for me what it does for most people.

It makes us hurt as deeply as possible, for those I perished, and for all those who lost their loved ones. Patton Oswalt said, I was on stage less than a week later. Blaine Kapitch woke me up with the scariest phone call I’ve ever received. It was eight o’clock in the morning on the West Coast, and there’s Blaine’s voice in my ear. After I answered, saying turn on the TV.

Man, I asked what channel. He said, doesn’t matter, and then he hung up. The walk from my bedroom to the TV in the living room was eighteen nightmares and as many steps click on the TV, and I’m living in a different world. I was on stage at the Largo the next Monday, the seventeenth. I’d had six days to be variably hopeful and stupid, angry, paranoid, and then terrified.

So I hit the stage that Monday. I was the least president I’d ever been as a comedian, as a person. So was everyone else. No one didn’t talk about it on that show. I think Sarah Silverman and Kevin Sickia went up.

I can’t remember anyone else, and I can’t remember too much of what I said, except at one point out of nowhere, I just blurted, I keep seeing people say the hijackers are all religion and violence than they are, but we’re the bloated late SEVENTI Zeppelin and Emerson Lake and Palmer of Relige violence. Those guys are the ramones. They’ll carry their own amps while we’re arguing for bigger fog machines something like that. There’s a lot of fear and self righteousness, and I knew right as I was saying it that the comedy was gonna suck for a while. Monster Brownie said either the following Saturday, maybe two saturdays after, I’d been hired to do a private event at someone’s house in Irvine, California.

Irvine is pretty notoriously red steady, and they called this guy and I said, hey, I don’t know if it’s a good idea if I’d come to do my show. How can you be funny now? And with my background, I feel like I’m coming to the dragon’s layer. And the guy was like, Noah, you should come. People need to laugh and be good for everybody and listen if it makes you feel any better.

My wife’s actually Turkish, so she’s from that part of the world as well, and that helped me feel a little more. Okay, I flipped my act so it didn’t lead with me being Iranian. At one point I said, oh, by the way, I’m Iranian and then said something along the lines of like, yeah, I know, I’m disappointed too, meaning hey, I didn’t have any to do with it. I felt like I had a tiptoe of that portion of my act because of my fear of having some sort of retribution. The difficult part of the show was not that it was necessarily that there were a bunch of racists there standing at me.

Was the show being at a fancy home in Irvine outside by a pool, which is not the best for a comedy acoustics. I remember I bought an American flag and put it at the back of my car. I don’t know if it was out of fear of having somebody shoot me or if it was out of patriotism. I was probably aut of both. I was pulling into the parking lot of the comedy store and there was this comedian, Marilyn Martinez.

She was laughing at me in a funny way. She was like, oh my god, look at master Brownie. He’s got his flag. Just try and blend in. And I go, hell, yeah, Marylyn, I’m blending in.

I’m not your comedy needs for today.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, John Mulaney, Colin Jost, Pete Davidson, Jay Pharoah, Sheng Wang, Kristen Wig

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show reduced to four new episodes per week
• John Mulaney’s Broadway debut in ‘All In’ comedy play by Simon Rich
• Colin Jost and Pete Davidson’s Staten Island Ferry potentially hosting Fashion Week event
• Jay Pharoah’s SNL career and dream to play Green Lantern in DC Universe
• Sheng Wang’s journey from Berkeley business degree to stand-up comedy career
• Kristen Wig as official spokesperson for Dunkin’s new Dunklet latte

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Big presidential debates tonight. Stephen Colbert said, to figure out who gets which podium and which one goes first or last, they flipped a coin. Trump won the coin to us, Thank god, otherwise would have to listen to months of coin denial.

Jimmy Fallon said, ABC will later the Trump Harris debate, while Fox News will just reair the one with Biden. We’ll be covering that on the Ballots podcast wherever you get your shows.

Speaking of late night shows, NBC snuck this one in I think late Friday after…

We’ll only do four new nights. The show will be on five nights a week starting this week. Jimmy Fallon will have new shows Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Fridays will be a rerun. At first, I was like, oh my god, they’re cutting back late night, and then I remember growing up, Johnny Carson Monday Night was a guest host often Jay Leno, Gary Shanling.

Tuesday was a Carson rerun and then three new shows a week was only on four days a week. Kim Ol only does four new ones, Colbert only does four new ones. So calm down, Johnny Mac. Now NBC is spinning this. A factor in the move is Fallon’s consuning commitments outside the Tonight Show, which includes Tonight Mayor’s a new Haunted Maze Experience.

No no, no, no no. You just realized there’s no reason to put on a new show Friday night. Nobody’s watching, and your budget cutting stop late night. It reminds us. When Letterman moved to CBS, he expanded to five original episodes to match the Tonight Show that would have been the Jay Leno Tonight Show.

Later in his run, Letterman began taping his Friday shows on Mondays, doing two shows on that night. I feel you, Dave, I know somebody who’s about to record a podcast for this weekend. I understand, but original shows did air every weeknight. The Tonight Show’s gone through periods of adjustment. When Steve Allen originated the show, Who was a ninety minute national broadcast five days a week, and plus he did an additional fifteen minutes for New York’s NBC affiliate.

In nineteen eighty, Carson got it down to sixty minutes, four nights a week excluding Monday. NBC made a new show featuring a guest host. Later, three nights a week, Jay Leno brought it back to five. Conan hosted this night show for five minutes. He kept it at five.

Fallon has done five shows a week except during the summer since he took over in twenty fourteen. Jimmy Kimmel was at the Creative Orts Emmys and told reporters, as a group, we have a little text chain of all the late night talk show hosts. All of us sent our congratulations to Jimmy Fallon for getting Friday off. All right, big news. John Mulaney will star in a Broadway comedy about love and marriage.

This got the New York Times treatment. It is called All In Comedy About Love, a new play by Simon Rich and includes a celebrity cast taking on the roles of pirates, dogs, and other zany characters. Mulaney said his new Broadway play is a weird fantasy camp of things I always wanted to do with my very good friends. All In Comedy About Love is staged at Vignette about relationships, marriage and heartbreak. The production will run for ten weeks performance beginning December eleventh, and official opening nights has not yet been announced.

By the way, if you’re hoping John Mulaney’s to do a late night talk show anytime soon, I guess not. Mulaney, Richard Kine, and Fred Armison are set to be in the show through January twelfth. M’laney said, there’s something so exciting about doing something this funny around the holidays. Altogether, it’s an enormously gratifying thing. Hey, remember Colin Jose and Pete Davidson bought a Staten Island ferry.

Well. Page six says that it might be part of New York Fashion Week, which is almost over as I record this. I don’t think anything’s happened with this thing yet. But page six saw the Staten Island ferry being pulled out by tugboats. The rumors it will host a big time fashion show.

We’ll see. Jay Farrow, caught up with the Winnipeg at Free Press, talked about doing impressions. He said he started when he was six years old, trying to impress a playground crush by imitating Gilbert Godfrey. That’s how you pick up the chicks. You do a Gilbert impression that has never failed for me.

The chicks love that, he says, that’s how it actually happened. If there’s ever a biopic done, that scene will be prominent. I’ll be on top of the jungle gym and we’ll be sitting there talking to each other, and then it cuts to twenty years later and I’m on stage. I would have never thought that kid would have ended up on sn L. Being on SNL, you’re forced to become quick because you have to audition for your job every week, and then you have to have a different show every week.

So you always have to make sure that if your finger on the pulse, and you always have to stay sharp. But you’ll just fade. What does he want to do next? He wants to break into the DC universe. He says, I love the grittiness of the DCU.

It’s my dream job to be John Stewart. No, not that John Stewart, the John Stewart that is the Green Lantern in DC comics. Jay says, I know it’s going to happen, but even if it didn’t, and my life will be lived at a short period of time. I would still be happy about all the accomplishments, so fear in the legacy for another little kid who feels like it’s impossible to get out of his surroundings to accomplish things. The Texas Standard took to Sheng Wang, one of my favorites, and they were like, were U s.

Berkeley getting a business degree? What happened? Shang said, that’s correct. I was a young kid in college. I was definitely not exposed to stand up.

The part of the entertainment culture was not something I knew much about as a kid. We didn’t have cable TV or anything like that. We didn’t watch much. But basically I was in college, I was scared to commit to any kind of creative pursuits because it just didn’t seem like something was possible for a young Asian kid. And I ended up getting a business degree, but just for fun, I dabbled in some extracurriculars that involve some poetry or some photography in comedy, and I love doing all those and comedy somehow became the easier one to follow through On who are your idols?

He says, one of the biggest was Mitch Hedberg. All right, and he was about everyday stuff. But I’m also a big fan of many other comics like Dave Shechabelle and Bill Hicks, Patton Oswalt, and Maria Bamford, who’s just kind of like trying to figure things out at open mics. I mean, everybody starts to do comedy at open mics, but you keep doing it and you find your style in the areas that you feel most comfortable in. It’s all just kind of taking a look around.

You run yourself around your environment and noticing things and trying to capture magic in the every day, in the mundane. So I guess it’s just something I was naturally drawn to, just trying to create, trying to find a joke, and the easiest thing for me to do is just look around my life and look at my own personal experience. If you enjoy what I do here, one thing you can do is you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com a slash Daily Comedy News. You get there are some money in the tip jar.

And then I get up in the morning and I go to the National Donuts chain. I got one of these large iced coffees with caramel and milk. So National donuts chain. I hope you’re paying attention here, because I’m here to promote you. Kristin Wig is pitching herself as the official Duncan spokesperson for the Dunklette.

I will read your press release sure. This fall, Duncan unveils its latest coffee creation, the Dunklet, the Duncan Way to Latte. That’s sweet, creamy, and truly unique. It’s so irresistible that even Kristin Wig wants in on the action. That’s right.

In a new ad campaign, beloved comedian and actress Kristin Wig brings her signature wit. Pitching herself as the official spokesperson for the Dunklet. We goes all out to prove why she should be the face of the dunkelete, portraying a series of colorful characters, from a drink engineer, to janitor to chief beverage officer. The press release tells us each funnier than the last. Her competition coffee Milk Cow.

I want to know more about coffee milk Cow. Jill mcvigor is the chief marketing officer at Duncan, probably the smartest marketing officer in the country. I mean, Jill’s got her Pulse on Everything she Knows which podcast to spend money on? Jill’s No Fool And Jill said, when we first created the Dunklet, we knew we had something special on our hands, but including coffee, milk and unfamiliar concept the most was a challenge. Finally, we thought, a drink this delicious deserved to be named after ourselves.

From that moment, we made it our mission to make everything about the Dunkelet as dunken as possible, fun, approachable, and totally craveworthy. There’s merch. You can go to shop at dunkin dot com to get exclusive items while supplies last. All right, what could we get? A dunkle at beanie just twenty four bucks?

A Dunklet hooded sweatshirt forty eight bucks, matching sweatpants also forty eight bucks, all of those in the creamy, light brown hue of the perfect Dunkelete. Plus if you would like your own coffee milk cow at home, and who doesn’t, you can get a coffee milk cow plush toy for twenty two dollars. And again, buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You know what I’m saying Jill, let’s do this on gossip corner.

The Des Moines Register tells us Lunel a dinner at Bubba’s, a southern restaurant in downtown Des Moines, last Thursday night. She live streamed her meal. Not sure the etiquette of that. I don’t I’m just gonna go. Don’t, don’t do that, but she did, and on the live stream of her meal, she said, this place is fabulous?

Does it get popping? Later, she told her server Parker, that she had just flown into to Moine from Las Vegas. We didn’t even go to the hotel yet. What did she order? Well, gumbo, frog legs, crabcakes, chicken poblano soup, and deviled eggs for appetizers.

That’s a lot of appetizers there, louinell how many people were in this party. They also got some Cadillac margaritas and said you can keep them coming, and so I’d tell you to stop because I have nothing to do today. The table also ordered chicken, fried steak, fried chicken, and mac and cheese. She told her fans on the live stream, and again, don’t live stream. The Bible said gluttony is a sin, but he didn’t have that mac and cheese.

For dessert, the restaurant sent out a hummingbird, a cake. I don’t know what that is. Somebody let me know, pea can’t buy and bourbon bananas. Foster also on Gossip Corner, Atlanta Blackstar giving Tiffany Hattish the business. Apparently, fans are rolling their eyes at Tiffany Hattish after she put herself in a cringe worthy catwalk moment during a New York Fashion Week where you might see Colin Jost and Pete Davidson’s ferry who knows.

On Saturday, Tiffany Hattish was spotted front row. She was hanging out with Paris and Nicky Hilton fancy schmancy huh. While the models clear the runway, Kathy Hilton encouraged Tiffany Hattish to take an impromptu runway stroll. The Hilton family and other front row guests laughed as Tiffany Hattish took Kathy’s direction and crashed the runway. One social media user said, if she wants to be a clown?

Letter Comedy dot co dot uk has the best reviewed comedy performers at Fringe this year. The stats come from forty two hundred plus star rated reviews, Matt Ford The End of an Error Tour and Nina Conti, whose Faces in any Way scored multiple five star reviews. They got the joint highest average ratings of The Fringe four point eight out of five. On Netflix today, a here Shaw’s special called Ends that was the winner of the Edinburgh Cromedy Award for Best Show in twenty twenty three. Well now it’s on Netflix.

The special shows off SHA’s motormount tendancy’s and brilliant storytelling skills. Whether he’s talking about accidentally being the monarch of all pimps where goodness gracious me’s impact on his career trajectory, Sha is captivating.

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Also out today, Kylie Brickman.

This special is called Linda Hollywood’s Big Night. You’ll find it on Amazon, Apple, Google, wherever you get your streaming stuff. The description ever wanted to see Princess Carolyn from BoJack Horseman do stand up? That’s the energy. The character comedian Kyle Brigman brings to the stage is Linda Hollywood, the tough talking, big time talent agent who’s unafraid to scream into a cell phone.

Meanwhile, Ken Jennings is trying to get better at hosting Jeopardy. He’s being slammed for being awkward and none funny, an insider told Closer, how to be genuinely funny’s one of the things that hinders him. People on the show know it. Ken knows it deep down. He’s an awkward character and can’t make people laugh unlike his contemporaries Steve Harvey and Drew Carrey, and it bothers him.

Miss delivery and timing have got to be improved if he’s gonna win over audiences. He’s only got four days of shooting a month, so he has the downtime he wants to hone his craft and be funny. He needs to focus on his comedic skills. Now, get some lessons and if people come on over to give him help. Now, what’s going to make things worse is Colin Jost is hosting pop culture Jeopardy.

The presidents of game shows at Sony pointed out Colin’s smart and quick like our contestants, and we know he’ll be able to keep up with them while making this new series his own. We couldn’t be happier that he’s joining us for the new journey. You know, Colin, I mean We all love Ken Jennings, but four days a month work when this SNL thing runs out. Jeopardy is not a bad gig. He could do it for twenty five years, just saying.

And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. See tomorrow.

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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Jon Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, Chris D’Elia, Seth Meyers, Whitney Cummings, Jim Jeffries, Jay Pharoah, Jamie Foxx, Tracy Morgan, Jermaine Fowler

What’s in This Episode

• Stand Up for Heroes 2024 Benefit Lineup Announcement
• Chris D’Elia On-Stage Seizure Incident at Comedy Club
• Seth Meyers Jokes About Trump and Biden Election
• Whitney Cummings Discusses Motherhood Impact on Comedy
• Jim Jeffries Rolling Stone Australia Cover
• Jay Pharoah YouTube Special Release
• Jamie Foxx One-Man Show in Atlanta

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mac who with your Daily Comedy News. Seth Meyers joked about last week’s Foxtown Hall, during which Donald Trump criticized George Stephanopolis said his interview with President Biden was the softest interview I’ve ever seen. Seth said, you’re gonna say that while you’re being interviewed by Sean Hannity. I asked tougher questions when John Oliver’s here.

Trump told Hannity that he couldn’t imagine anyone in New Hampshire voting for Joe Biden. Set said, Yeah, I can’t imagine anyone in New Hampshire voting for Biden. You know why, because he’s not on the ballot anymore. I made an executive decision yesterday. I did Part one of Vulture’s Comedians to watch the List.

I’m gonna do Part two next Sunday, so we’ll do a normal episode today. A lot of news as September continues to be busy. The New York Comedy Festival and the Bob Woodruff Foundation announced the lineup for their annual Stand Up for Heroes benefit. This year, It’s on November eleventh. Your lineup it’s you know, both a really good lineup and somehow feels like a step down from past years.

But here’s the lineup, Jim gaff Again, Nora Jones, Mark Norman, did quest Love, Batty Scalfas, Jerry seinfeldt Bruce Springsteen, John Stewart and Moore. So if I just take the headliners there, it’s you know, Springsteen, John Stewart, gaff Again and Seinfeld with Mark Norman batting fifth. So Johnny Mac, I don’t know what the heck you want these people to put out there. But I don’t know. It just seems like there were more people on the list in previous years.

I might be making that up, but Gaffigan, nor Jones, Mark Norman pretty good list. Will keep an eye on that one. The Daily Mail reports a scary scene transpired during Chris to Leah’s a stand up show. A man sitting in the front row seemingly suffered a seizure. As the report goes, instead of stopping the show, Chris continued with the show by reacting to the situation.

Chris did a thirteen minute bit where he ranted about what he had just witnessed, and a question and an answer session about the man’s condition. So apparently, the man’s head slowly began to fall as the seizure started. He fell forward and then backward in his chair. Someone next to him caught him. Delia stopped the show to ask if he was open.

After a few moments, when it appeared the man was all right, crystal Leia asked, you’re right, bro, Yeah, round of applause for a guy who almost died. You are right, y’all? Good? Is that something that happens? The man confirmed he was okay.

Deliah then realized that the man was not okay and began to seize again. Chris said, no, no, he’s not okay. We should call in an ambulance somebody. A couple guys then carry the man away from the seating area to give him metal attention. Crystallia says a round of applause, let’s do the show, let’s walk with him, and then transitions back to comedy and jokes.

WHOA, that’s crazy. I guess that Pride month bit really hit him hard. That’s when I fan yelled out too soon. Chris said, too soon? It happened now during the comedy show.

What do you mean too soon? What am I supposed to do a monologue from a Tennessee Williams play. It’s a comedy club. This stuff happened in the front row. Didn’t happen back there.

You guys are like, be cool, dude, Well f you, dude. You know how hard this stuff is right now? The guy almost died when he Cummings spoke to the Dallas Observer. She has often talked about the bedroom in her comedy, and now so that she’s a mom, she says there’s a whole new world of topics she wants to share with her audiences, and if that means there’s less sex chat in the mix, that’s fine with her. Whitney says, I’ve spent so much time talking about dating and sex, which was surprising at the time, but now that’s all you see on the internet.

The most shocking thing you could be is a little wholesome and talk about things that are more simple observations. My goals for people to sit in theater of two hundred people and we all laugh at the same things. Comedy is supposed to be a unifying thing. I took a while to have a kid, and I’m glad it took a while. They called it geriatric pregnancy, which is insane.

But I think having a kid older is better. I think my brain just started functioning properly. Like if I had a baby one year sooner, I’d probably have sold it for tickets to Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift’s name comes up a lot in this podcast. The way it changes to you is pretty magical, and I think about how it changed me and how it’s changed the way I see the world.

The thing is, as a comedian, you’re always looking for a way to turn something on its head, to show people something that they see every day and take for granted. It took a long time to make sure I was breaking these ancestral cycles. If my child is born a comedian, I failed. When you have a kid, all the stuff comes back, like putting him in the high chair. My eyechair was basically scaffolding.

I drank out of the hose until I was fourteen. There are pictures of me and Drawers as a baby. We’re all doing a little better than we think, and it’s part of a comics job to make people leave with a little perspective and context. I get that phones are bad for kids, but we played on seesaws that it’s a miracle that any of us survived. I was trying to strap my baby in the back of the car and I had a flashback of being the back of a pickup truck when a lawn chair.

Jim Jeffries gets the cover of Rolling Stone. But it’s the cover of Rolling Stone Australia and New Zealand. Doesn’t mean it’s lesser. I’m just telling you you might not be able to buy it in Los Angeles. Who knows, maybe you can.

Maybe does international newstand with New Zealand Rolling Stone. I don’t know why did I fall into this hole? Move on? Jim Jeffrey said, my mother was a hard person to grow up with. She was a very hard woman.

She was physically and verbally very abusive. So sometimes I mentioned I’ve had a chip on my shoulder about women. Jim says, I’m very interested in doing as many different things as entertainment as possible. I like a challenge, I like doing something new. I don’t know if they’re there’s a stand up comic from Australia who’s had a more diverse career, you know what I mean.

I think of myself like an entertainer more than a comedian Jay Farrow has announced a new special. This one will be on YouTube on September twenty second. He also released a trailer. I pulled the audio from the trailer, but it’s just it’s too quickly edited and a lot of bleeps where the swear words go. It just wasn’t gonna make sense for the podcast.

In his new hour, and I haven’t seen a title for it yet, Jay Farrow rips the lid off pop culture, talks about a suburban upbringing and a run in with the law. Taped at the Den Theater in Chicago. My former coworker Jamie Fox is getting ready to hit the comedy stage. He’ll be in Atlanta October third through Sunday October fifth. It is called One More Chance, An Evening with Jamie Fox.

In an Instagram post, Fox posted an image of a black box featuring the words what had happened was? Then the log line Join us for an unforgettable one man show as Jamie Fox takes the stage to share his journey through a serious health scare filled with humor, heart and inspiration. Experienced Jamie Fox like never before. This intimate and gaging performance as he opens up about his struggles, triumphs and everything in between. Get ready for a night of laughter, reflection, and genuine connection.

I’m curious to see what he says here. You know, I spent some time inside that camp, and I personally found it very surprising that nobody was able to just get a picture of I don’t know, Jamie sitting poolside looking cool, giving a thumbs up. It was very interesting to me that there was like nothing for a while. I hope he’s doing okay, he’s a good guy, and I’ve done that this next story already, but I took a second look at it, and I have some comments. I told you Jermaine Feller will join Tracy Morgan on the comedy series Crutch.

Now let’s break this down again. I didn’t pay enough attention the first time. That’s on me. Okay. Tracy Morgan plays Crutch, a brash yet beloved Harlem shop owner whose world has turned upside down when his highbrows son and free spirited daughter moved back into the family home.

Okay, so we’ve got an old curmudgeonty guy whose hippie daughter moves home with her ivy league husband. Isn’t that just all the family from late night or this one caught me by surprise. Sarah Sherman did two days on General Hospital. What Sure? She played Miss Robin Finch.

Apparently her character criticized Olivia for the way she pronounces croissant. Finch introduces herself as a dialect theorist and tutor to the stars, claiming she once coached Meryl Streep’s daughters. This once, Lois says she never hired a tutor, Tracy confesses that no, I did hire miss Finch. Tracy explains, Lois is my employee. Our sales are directly linked to her presentation.

I believe that her numbers will improve if Lois’s rough edges are smoothed out. Sarah Sherman said, I was so nervous about flubbing my lines because I was surrounded by pros and memorized like a billion pages of dialogue a day. Very strange. Dennis Leary, He’s got a sitcom Going Dutch. I’ve told you about this one.

There’s no way this is good. Going Dutch follows an arrogant, loudmouth US Army colonel played by Dennis Leary, who, after an epically unfiltered rant, is reassigned to the Netherlands, where he’s punished the command position at the least important army base in the world the log line. After serving with distinction in every war zone of the last three decades, he now finds himself in charge of a base with no guns, no weapons, and no tactical purpose. Instead, it as a Michelin star level commissary, top notch bowling alley, and the best and only from Majeray in the US Army. Surrounded by a diverse group of underdogs, the colonel tries to reinstall military discipline and professionalism with the help of the basis previous interim leader who just happens to be as a strange daughter.

So why am I bringing this back up? Deadline reports. Danny Putty will play the role of XO Major Abraham Shaw, the colonel’s executive officer and right hand man. So I’m just trying to picture this show, right. So it’s sixty seven year old Dennis Leary playing an army colonel.

He’s sixty seven. I imagine it’s Dennis Leary doing Dennis Leary things. So he’s going to do some slow burn about a back of my day. We had guns man and then Danny Putty is going to say something wacky millennial, and then the laugh track’s gonna play. There’s no way that’s going to be good.

And I like Danny a lot. There’s just no way that this show’s good. South Park will return in twenty twenty five. Trey Parker and Matt Stone has said they don’t want to deal with the election. They told Vanity Fair, we tried to do South Park through four or five presidential elections and it’s such a hard thing to do.

It’s a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance. Trey said, obviously it’s important, but it kind of takes over everything. We just have less fun. I don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump. They said.

Not returning until next year’s on purpose. They also want to wait for Paramount to figure all their crap out. The last regular episode of south Park season twenty six aired March twenty ninth, twenty twenty three. Since then, we’ve had the amazing south Park joining the Pandaverse special that came out October of twenty twenty three. Then we got a second special in December of that year.

South Park not suitable for children, which parodied oldly fans and the most reason one May of this year, South Park the End of Obesity, made fun of Ozampic and I’ll leave you on this poignant note from Billy Connolly, who said I used to think about death and about the life I led, and would ask myself, how will I be held responsible for it when I come to judgment? For God, I don’t believe that anymore, although the whole thing’s still a mystery to me. Billy is eighty one. He says he no longer fears the prospect of death, and he’s found peace with his Parkinson’s diagnosis. He told the Scottish son, with something as big as that, you just confront it and stick to the front of it, be with it, and make decisions based on it.

And I don’t think you’d been badly treated. And I don’t think he got the bad pick of the straws. It’s not like that. You’re one of millions. Just behave yourself, relax.

You realize that death isn’t the big thing everybody’s made it out to be. It’s nothing. It’s a sudden nothing. Wait to leave us on an up note, Johnny Mac, you’re welcome, and that’s your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Sabrina Briar, Sam Campbell, Nico Carney, Aaron Chen, Georgia Severus, Francesca Duva, Brandy Denise, Malik Ali Sal, Roz Hernandez

What’s in This Episode

• Vulture’s 2024 Comedians You Should and Will Know list
• Review of 2023 Comedians You Should and Will Know accuracy
• Changes in comedy industry in 2024 including venue consolidation and streaming services
• Rising comedians featured in Vulture’s eleventh annual roundup

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media, Helloon, Johnny Mac with Your Daily Comedy New is. One of the most interesting lists that comes out every year is from Vulture. It is the Comedians You Should and Will Know List. This year it is twenty twenty four’s Comedians You Should and Will Know List two dozen of tomorrow’s stand up sketching online comedy superstars, according to industry insiders. Not just to add a curiosity, let’s look at a twenty twenty three’s list to see how good they do.

All Right, So from twenty twenty three Fumi Abe that was a good call. He had a good year. Brian Baje had a good year. Ralph Barbosa for sure. Charlie Bartley and Natalie Roger Lateman still not sure who they are all right?

Three and one Sophie Bottle sure four and one Curtis Cook, Katrina Davis, Stavros Hakki has had a monster year. Rob Hayes. This is the twenty three list. Jordan Jensen, Andrea Jin, Rachel Kayley, Eddie Modica, Opie A La Baju, Nimesh Patel had a pretty good year. Richard Perez, Jordan Temple, Asha Ward, August White, Maggie Winters, Sabrina Wu cut through Zach Zimmerman, cut through Sophie Zucker, kind of cut through Zach Zucker.

So all right, from last year, I don’t know seven or eight. That’ll ballpark how we’re going to do here? Wulta writes, the comedy industry is undergoing a metamorphosis in twenty twenty four. Name brand comedy venues are opening new locations. Local venues are being brought out by mega corporations and streaming service.

Home comedy festivals are usurping the old fashioned ones. With so much going on, the mattmosphere is sure to be rife with hacks and phonies, but it’s also full of undiscovered treasures. So the hell with the algorithm, Let’s do Vultures eleventh annual round up of Comedians you should and Will know, After polling more than one hundred industry insiders, including TV execs from streaming and linear TV, bookers for clubs, artistic directors from comedy theaters, indie comedy producers, podcast network heads, top brass anime studios, terrestrial radio chiefs, comedy record label execs, comedy festival programmers, comedy historians, live show photographers and performers featured on last year’s list, They were left with a pool of more than two hundred comedians. From there, Vulture had to grapple with some questions. Which names came up over and over again, Who stood out from the crowd work, who’s on the rise to stardom, and who will be the masterminds of our future favorite TV shows and stand up specials.

In alphabetical order by surname. Sabrina Briar, Ulture tells us Sabrina Briar’s face can turn the most unremarkable life experience into a meum in case in point, the way your eyes bug out and she juts her body forward like a blondea delaphosaurus when she says her Memorial Day weekend was amazing except for her raging uti. It’s not just the relatability of her behavioral observations that helps this persona connect with her massive online audience. It’s the palpable way she revels in the squirmy, grotesque rie. There were entire cringe compilations of her uttering the single syllable, Oh number two, Sam Campbell, Sam’s been buzzing, You’ve heard mention Sam.

Over the years, here, especially when we talk about the International Festival’s Vulture Rites and Sam Campbell’s twenty twenty two solo show, Comedy Show, winner of the prestigious Best Comedy Show awarded Fringe, The comedian introduced his brand of comic absurdism to the audience with the tongue in cheek one liner, my mind is a prison full of crazy ideas, and I think there’s going to be a jail break. As Campbell has matured as a performer, he’s grown more depth to translating a style from mainstream audiences. Campbell’s eccentricities are palpable but never alienating. In one twenty one sketch, he plays a boyfriend meeting his girlfriend’s discriminatory parents for the first time, but their instant dislike of him isn’t rooted in religious or racial prejudice. They simply can’t get past the fact that he’s thirty percent transparent.

Third up Nico Carney. Once Nico gets to the part of his set where he reveals that he was a Division one athlete in college, everything clicks in a place only years of early morning drills and after school practice leads to stand up. That’s this consistent smooth and fine tune to kill. Carney starts a set with an introduction to his trans identity. People are very curious about trans people.

People ask me sometimes, how did you know? When did you know? It happened to me? The same way it happens to all of us. Caitln Jinner bit me, that’s a great joke.

Number four Aaron Chen. Some comedians tride on stage with a sense of grandiosity and expansiveness. Chen stands, blinks calmly, and waits for the audience to recalibrate to his measured pace. Chen says he took an uber to the show and the driver asked if Chen minded if he talked to a friend. Chen says, of course, and thank you for considering me a friend.

I want it way up to four. Georgia severus. George says, I can’t believe I fell for orange wine for three years. It’s because I have too much faith in food professionals, because of my own progressive politics. Saveria says a gay, glasses wearing, cynical Greek man who in the stand up world is wildly over educated.

Stanford Mt Alum while, as he put it to podcast co hosts Sam Taggart. I’m default either bitchy, condescending, or rude. He imagines what it would be like to have a beautiful daughter who hates him. He describes attending progressive straight weddings. There’s a ChEls with blue hair, the bride is being walked down the aisle by a random lesbian, and the bride’s dress is ripped to represent our broken justice system.

That sounds really funny. Francesca Duva has the pop acumen of a Swedish hit maker and the comedic sensibility of an entire thirty rock writer’s room. She could probably have a lucrative career writing five songs for an episode of Netflix reality shows. Instead, she creates the best musical comedy in Brooklyn, which is saying something in a burrow that has more musical comedians per capita than doctors. A Mary poppins on Popper’s song about nanny, ing the lyrics I am your nanny and I will be till I die.

I’ll never leave you even after I die, I’ll be your ghost nanny finds her voicing a little Cockney boy with a budding foot fetish, a song about wanting to play Joseph and the Catholic School kindergarten nativity play functions as an exploration of the way she struggled with being othered as a kid, But it also ends with another kid getting crushed by a cross and a pitch perfect Shakira impression. What do we have to number six here? Brandy Denise brandy signature standup bit centers on her previous career as a social worker when she says she’d often get hit on by her clients. You gotta have a lot of confidence to hit on your social worker. After the interview, you just told me you live in an underpass.

You haven’t had a job. You can’t feed you. I know you can’t feed me. Malik Ali sal how many comedians can say their journey ins to the performing arts began with their high school teacher attempting to pilot a theater program just to nurture their talents. Malik delivered book reports at his Islamic private school in Calgary with so much theatrical verb that one kind teacher was inspired to take up his cause.

It wasn’t long before the program was shut down by another teacher out of an abundance of religious precaution. He impersonates one such teacher with a flare for character work. It says, when you see the power of a laha on the day of judgment, brother, he will not be laughing. Continuing with Vulture’s Best New Comedians at twenty twenty four, are up to Roz Hernandez. Roz is loud, indignant, and ready to entrap both spirits and audience members, and her stand up, she leads audience members down a cliff by coaxing them into saying the other name for a water spritzer, which is mister, then getting offended that they misgendered her.

Part of the fun of Hernandez’s act is how her joyfully exuberanto style so directly contrasts her connection with the macabre. The classic hernanage image is of her in a zebra print coat with a blue feather collar, recapping how a ghost ruined her hookup by turning a lights on what her makeup wasn’t done. Those shady ass ghost said, sir, I want you to see what you’ve signed up for. That sounds fun and different. Ros Hernandez.

There, all right, Skyler Higley, I think we’re up to number eight here, if I’m counting correctly, and I’m probably not. Higgiley grew up in Utah as a black child of white Mormon parents. This is, as Higgley puts it on stage, half of What’s wrong with Him. He has a joke about being high on acid while writing Public Transportation and realizing a guy near him has his whole ass hanging out. I don’t want to look at ass.

I want to look at a beautiful sunset. I want to see a rainbow. But because I was tripping, I realize I’m not looking at ass. I’m looking at billions and billions of cells made up of billions and billions of atoms. That ass is amazing.

Thats good. Chloe Hilliard reached six foot one by the age of twelve. Her sense of humor stamps from being the awkward big girl at plenty of time to observe others. First day of high school, I walked into this sh the teacher’s here. That’s great.

Another bit LA’s origin story is the gold Rush. They were like, I’m going to be the one to find a nugget of gold and change my family’s life forever. That’s why today everyone in law say Liss is delusional. Hilliard wrote for a Black Lady’s Sketch Show, and wrote F Your Diet, which was awarded Best Comedy Book in twenty twenty A Leslie laugh when we have to number ten here or so I’m trying to do twelve. I realize I can’t do twenty four today.

In her twenty twenty three Netflix verified stand upset, Leslie said, I’m thirty six years old. I have a bedtime decisions to make. I don’t have a night. You need to give me information that matters to me. All I need to see is your manhood, clean that up and your paycheck.

When I was younger, I used to be sad about being single. Now I’m angry. I feel like when I find him, I’m gonna be like a mom whose kid got lost at the grocery store. Like where you’ve been get in the car. That was so embarrassing.

Everybody was staring at me. Mandw all caps M, A and DL, the Atlantic comedian possesses a rare Norm MacDonald like quality, where in his natural cadence, parlance, and body language make the journeys to his punchlines as rewarding as the punch lines themselves. All kinetic energy and the little giggles. He leans on animated stories and sprawling bits that build momentum as they unravel. Mendal’s work caught the attention of John Mulaney, who had him open for Everybody’s in La That’s Interesting.

He also opened for Melanie and the Netflix’s Joke Show at the Hollywood Bowl. And if I counted right, this is number twelve Gavin Mattz, who says, I’m not masculine. I’m just regular toxic. My toxicity has no masculinity. It’s hard to articulate.

He had a joke about police brutality that he did at the Comedy Seller. It’s hard to articulate that you’re intellectually insecure when you’re as dumb as hell. That’s why I understand why police gets so violent. As soon as they step on a college campus, they’re like, ah, everybody here reads, I gotta start hating somebody. Older people will be like, there’s two genders.

How would you know that you have six remotes? You have more remotes than their genders. I don’t think so. All right, that’s twelve for today or eleven or thirteen? You tell me I didn’t count.

Maybe we’ll continue this tomorrow, right, so that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it, and we’ll do something tomorrow. See then,

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Featured: Gianmarco Soresi

What’s in This Episode

• Gianmarco Soresi’s summer special release and Biden debate timing
• The Silver Lining recurring show at Joe’s Pub in New York City
• AI-generated Italian stereotype comedy material
• Themed comedy shows and identity-based lineups at comedy clubs
• Challenge of marketing comedians beyond identity labels

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. My guest today is the very funny, hilarious John Marco sir RAIZI. He is one of Vulture’s comedians you should know and will know. We talk for about a better part of an hour here.

During the summer, he released a little something Special which is one of my favorite things of the year, very very funny, fifteen seventeen minutes something like that. But did Biden chunk in it? Then? When Biden didn’t have such a good debate and looked like he was going to drop out, John Marco was like, oh, let me get this thing out there now. So he’ll explain to us how that came out.

He also has a recurring show in New York City called The Silver Lining, which has been sold out consistently for over two years and theater adults the show coming up at Joe’s Pub. He will explain what that is. I may have tried a little too hard here in the first couple questions. I just I try not to be like, so you’re a comedian, huh, And I try and come with a different angle. So I’m not sure he was totally feeling me the first minute or so here, but then we really clicked.

Sitting here and just making sure that I sent out the proper link of everything I’m clicking on an industry trade. This is totally random, but I figured it’s hopefully more interesting than just going So what do you think of cancel culture? A press release? A comedian media store with over eighty followers is about to launch a podcast, So is that really good publicist? Or you know?

I always set the bar low, so you got exceed expectations. So the big stress of my life today is what happens if the DMV calls me in the middle of this interview. I figured, let me just start with awkward things, So why would the DMV call me? Long story medium. I went to get my license renewed and a New Jersey was like, sorry, your license is suspended in New York.

I haven’t lived in New York in twenty something years. Twenty five dollars. Fine, I have to get a letter from New York and it’s it’s not like you click on the website and they send it to you. So supposedly the DMV’s going to call me and no offense, love you. But if they actually call me, I’m going to have to bay otherwise, I my Chad drive.

Me to work. Man. Sure listen, I hear about. That’s a good excuse, so you keep me posting. I was catching up on your podcast.

I enjoyed recently dropped a Patreon episode with some AI written Italian style comedy, some very hack comedy. I thought that was amazing. Yeah, it really because I don’t talk about food. It was all about food. So really all the AI was able to do is they said, he said he’s Jewish, they said he’s Italian, and then let the stereotypes roll and it was all this food.

I don’t talk about any food in my app. There’s at least one comedian that I can think of that could deliver that material. Now, I didn’t think the material was particularly written for your wheelhouse, but I can think of one guy, if he had the crowd rolling and did it in his delivery at his stadium shows, could have performed that material. The materially itself, in the right environment, maybe could have flown. Are we talking Sebastian on a scalco You can go sure, sure he could act it out.

He could take that. He could take a soft punch line and show him serve with the batsa ball soup or serve with a PASTRAVI he could make it work. I could see it. You’ve got the right name for it. I was thinking maybe you could do like a bobcat Gouldwaite thing and open for yourself, Like could come out and just you, really John Marco, and then you come out and do your normal act as a closer.

Maybe give yourself a different first name for the second part. Listen if I leaned in, if I leand into the Italian thing, and honestly I would, It’s just I wasn’t raised like in an Italian community. My dad’s a little Italian, so I just don’t have that many jokes about it. Believe in me. I would be that comedian if I could.

But my dad was making cup of noodles, not spaghetti and meatballs. But you grab three other guys with Italian sounding names, you start a tour, you go out. I’ve tried to think the Italian. It’s got to be like the mob bosses of comedy. Okay, I’m well ahead of you on the AI twenty minutes ago.

I’ve got ten for you. You’re ready, Here we go. Sure, some of these even for Hack or Hack. But the Gobbelgool Gang. I liked that they added the gg the Gobbegle Gang, you and three of the guys.

This one is in Hack’s Corner of hack Town. Boughta being Comedy jam though they had a jam. Sure, Pasta and punchlines pretty awful. The Canoli Chronicles, Oh, brutal spaghetti and stand up these are so bad. I like this one, Sauce and SaaS sure, the Forget About It Funnies is just awful.

The Meatball Mafia awful, Manja and Mirth and the Mozzarella Mirth Tour. Yeah, and the short stuff is too on the nose. I just put it in now. The don of comedy sounds cool, but that it looks like that exists already. But listen, chat GPT is already good enough to replicate at least eighty percent of the stand up comedy world, and it’s eventually it’ll get better enough.

Sometimes I’m quite a comedy snole. My daughter is working in a local theater and part of her job is to just research acts that they could potentially book. And she came home one day and was like, have you ever heard of this? And it was one of these. It was the Italian American Wise Guys of Comedy, and I just said to her, I go, there’s no way that’s good.

It’ll probably sell out, but there’s no way it’s good. Sure I did when I did Just for Lasts last year, it’s last year. I did the Just for the Culture Show, which used to be called the Ethnic Show. And before the Ethnic Show, they had the Italian Show, the Black Comic Show, the Jews Show, and then last Society Guru. They’re like, okay, well combine the ball.

Okay, We’ll call Just for the Culture. And I was on the lineup with Judy Gold and I was like, oh, they think she’s the Jewish one and I’m going to be the Italian the stand up in SaaS and they we really just ended up being a Jewish, very Jewish lineup between me and Judy. My name can be misleading. Do those nights still exist? I’m rusty, but LA used to have Asian Invasion and Chocolate Sundays was one of them.

Those are still around, Chocolate Sundays, and I would say, crack them up. Comedy is also like the Black Show or the Urban Show at the Comedy Store. In the belly room. So those still exist. I don’t know about the Asian invasion, but listen, I think of those theme shows, even they’re not seen, but centered around identity, can bring in a lot of people who have never seen a stand up comedy show before because they go, Okay, this is geared for me.

I guess, and so I had scripted. If you look at a lot of comedy club lineups, you might as well call them the straight white guy show. So what’s fine? Maybe we need to create some special pockets of shows. Dude’s a prep.

But I always find it fascinating anytime I google you, there seems to be a fascination with headline writers. It’s frequently Italian Jewish comedian or Jewish Italian comedian. And I look at that and I’m like, you know, are we booking Irish Catholic Jim Gaffigan coming to town? Like, I don’t get it. Yeah, I just think people people think that that’s going to give you everything you need to know about someone’s comedic dialings.

I guess to go, oh, Jewish, he’s gonna be a neurotic again. I’ll talk about his gil pig mom and then Italian it’s like he’ll talk about food. You know, it’s hard to write about comedy in a way that has massive peel. What are you going to say, a mix of Anthony Jesslnik and John Mulaney with a theater kid background. No one’s find tickets to that show.

They’re going to say, obviostly Jesslink or John m’laney on their own. So I whatever they want to say, I think theatrical and dark are the words that I want to Then I think i’d want to get through just so just to deter someone who’s very doesn’t want anything mean. I think that would be the thing of it’s not going to be it’s not warm, that’s not going to be the evening ahead of you. That’s the only thing. But also that’s not a great title.

Eight come to see that not warm and fuzzy. John Marco SIASI. I never noticed the Mullany. You’re in the same vocal range. You’re not a mulleni clone.

But if we put a suit on you and shaved and made you play Millennie in a sketch. You could do that. I think Mullaney musically, I think the way I have to limit how much I listened to it to him because I just think the way that he made it a little nasally and it just fits comedy, and I really do. And I’m sure apparently there was a comedian who works at the Seller, the Comedy Seller, named Dan Natterman, and someone told me that when mulaney started, people called him like Dan Natterman, ripoff or something like or he was imitating Dan Baderman. So I like to believe that, like the music of comedy, which I feel like it doesn’t get talked about as much, just like the musicality of the way people deliver jokes, Milani’s is just in a certain kind of range and register that I think is just feels right when I’m joking with my friends, if I’m trying to have riff off with them.

It’s just the place that I do. It’s a little bit presentational, it’s really clear. It helps you make a clear setup and you different to the center for the punchline because you change the often and it’s fun. That’s fantastic. So but I have the ear for this because I’ve worked in radio for my career in podcasting, so we always when you build a team, you want to make sure people aren’t in the same range.

So, for example, you and Malaney would not partner up on an audio only radio show, whereas you and Sebastin Maniscalco would because. You wouldn’t be like, which one is talking? Sure, that’s really cool, I’ve mad sense now that you say it, But yeah, you’ve got to there’s podcasts where I go I still don’t know which voice is which guy. It all just bleeds into one. After listening for two years.

Right, yeah, how are you enjoying podcasting yourself? I dig it. I certainly wish we had more listeners, but the clips and the videos that we get out of it are enjoyed. And ultimately, when I started making the podcast, I had all these ideas, these high concept ideas, and I had a friend who was like, come up with something that you’d want to do, even when you’re in a terrible mood, even when you don’t want to do it. And ultimately it was like a looser concept the downside complaining with a good friend as a co host, And I’m so glad that I picked something that I not only loved, but also where the podcast could be notepad for ideas.

I could talk about stories, I could talk about whatever’s going out of the news, my family, my life, and I just it richens my work. I think I get a lot of joke ideas from that podcast. So I love it, and I’m glad that I prioritized kind of something I loved over maybe something with a clearer hook. Because it’s so much work and the rewards are still minimal. It’s financially devastating, but I love doing it and I love being able to see my friends on a regular basis and just choot the shit with him.

So naively respectfully, you said it’s so much work, So what is the difference between a perception of you just show up and riff for an hour and fifteen minutes and you go home and it’s a lot of work. Sure, I think. First, we have guests for a lot of episodes, and I like to do my research. I like to if they’re a stand up, I’ll listen to their most recent special, I’ll comb through. There are tweets, some interviews just to seek what they enjoyed, talk talking about what aspect of their life are they willing to get into the weeds and talk shit.

And then there’s a lot of. Post work where it’s I built kind of the engine of my comedy career off social media and clips. So I go through a transcript of every episode. I’m picking out what’s the clip that best catch is it, what’s going to pop online? Send it to my editor, check the caption, schedule, all the posts.

So it just becomes a huge And I think when we have a really great guest, the episodes can d of be two hours two and a half hours. So the better it’s going, the more work it generates. And I think I’m going to make. Sure even though it is loose, I got to cut with my pockets filled. I had an acting teacher that always talked about coming to a role with your pockets filled.

What happened that week, what do I want to talk about, what’s a cool new segment, what’s a little prank I can play on my co host? And I think the key to having all that looseness really work is you got to have kind of some hidden structure underneath. Does it work as a sort of workout room? Are you testing material or is it the opposite that a conversation goes somewhere in spurs an idea. I think it can be a workout room.

My co host has a great laugh. Pete Holmes, he is his own last track on his podcasts. He provides it for me. That’s slit. And it’s my co host who’s a laugher, and he is not.

He’s allergic to joke jokes when I love joke jokes. So I think it’s not fully a workout room. And I’m saying what I would say on stage, but I think it’s if we get into an idea that really gets him going, and really we start risks and I go, oh, there’s something there, and then I got to do the work after the fact. So in a way, it is a workout room, but not as strict as let me run this bit. Let me try to sneak in this bit, because if my co host sniffs the manipulation around a joke, he’s out.

He’s out. I beg him. I say, please, let me tell you my jokes from performing at the Fish Festival this weekend, and he’s okay. But it doesn’t It just doesn’t work. Like those old style horrible talk show guests.

Hey tell me about podcasting. Never mind podcasting, let me tell you about the airport, the TSA. These those guys, I think. Codin O’Brien, Johnny Carson was very clearly like a Rodney Dangerfield panel interview and Johnny, I don’t know how much prep they did, but Johnny was always really good at just like stay in that one line to keep it going and never screwed up a joke of Rodney Dangerfields.

And then I think.

Conan did a much more evolved form where Norm McDonald was there to tell his moth joke and Codin had to figure out like how to be frustrated that he was taking so long without disrupting the tension of the jokes, and Cody was so good at that. And I sometimes have guests on ZARNAGARV. I think is a perfect example, guests who like, she’s got some jokes she wants to do, and she likes the old school panel style, and I can sense, I like to think I can sense when she’s going into kind of a bit of a routine and I go, okay, how can I support this in the podcast sphere where it doesn’t feel corny but she’s supported and instead of been feeling like a punchline, it feels like the most genius, spontaneous thought a person has ever had. And that can be fun if you can pull it off. Yeah, I’m a big Bob Hope fan.

A lot of people judge Hope by his last fifteen twenty years, but if you look at the entire work of his century, some really great stuff. But Johnny Carson hated Bob as a guest because Bob would basically declare, I’m coming on your show and it’s NBC, and Bob Hope’s the one person Johnny Carson can’t tell to go hose yourself. But Hope would do what we just talked about and just sit down and Johnny go Hi, good morning or good at good night, and Hope would just go in as material. And Carson hated it. In a tourbiously, where as I haven’t consumed that much Bob Hope, Like, where do you start?

What’s the thing that I would Is there an album of his best hits? I think if you can find video. So he had a very popular radio show, and then when television came along, all the radio shows became TV. So if I’m sure they’re on YouTube, his very early television shows are basically a radio show with a camera in front of it, so he’s standing up to stand up Mike and when the announcers going now from NBC the Bob Hope Show, and he’s just doing the monologue and mugging for probably the camera guy. But you can see how quick he is.

And this is probably I don’t know Bob in his forties, maybe early fifties, not the eighty five year old reading off Q cards guy. But he was just so quick. So I would say that period of around I don’t want to TV really come in, say nineteen fifty one Bob Hope just to throw a dart, and of course his movies. You got somebody who can sing with Bing Crosby and dance with Jimmy Cagney, and you got to give him some props there. But I digress.

Oh can you just Carson’s in my mind? Now? Can you imagine as a comedian if we go back it’s fifty years now, what a huge spot that was, because now you can self markets there it’s can I get on the Tonight Show and I’ve got I don’t know what was it, five minutes eight? It was probably five? Right?

You got a type usually think Johnny waves you over. That must have been insane. Yeah, I think about it a lot, because because sometimes it can be very frustrating what it feels like. Man, it feels borderline impossible to do one thing and have it like catapults your career. There are so many There’s just a million little things you can do, and maybe something crazy happens that goes viral that maybe it boosts you a little bit.

Be on the Tonight Show. Now, I did Cordon, and I think maybe one person in my whole life has said to me after a show like I loved your courting, and I think it’s this mixed thing. Yes, it is. Cool that the Carson you go on there and your whole life would change, unless not cool if the booker didn’t like your vibe or you pissed off whoever that guy was going to the comedy store and you never had a shot Carson. It definitely feels like it was just way too much power under this one kind of cranky guy who’s asked you had to kiss.

And personally, I’ve always struggled coming up with clean deaths that I like love, or at least by today’s. I sent a set into the Tonight Show after New Faces, and the response I got was a holocaust joke. Yikes, And I was like, oh, no, I’m not getting this, and it was like at the time, it was like that was and that was the centerpiece. I had this a joke that mentioned the Holocaust and I loved it. And I don’t know if back then, if I would have been in easy to fantasize, Oh, I would have been in.

I would have had that Tonight show. I would have killed it, got into the couch. But there’s another world. Where he didn’t like me. I didn’t have the set, and then I would have been dying for Instagram to let me gradually build myself up.

So I think it’s there needs to be a middle grounds. I think that tonight soo when I hear about it, it sends a shiver down my spine because I just go, God, that guy controlled whether you had a stand up career or not, and that’s not good. I just did a story for the podcast. Somebody else wrote a hot take. Joe Rogan is too powerful in comedy now, and I’m like, Joe Rogan’s good for comedy.

Not everybody likes Joe Rogan, that’s fine, but he’s good for comedy. He basically created a third Coast. Sure, I had my previous touring agent I had was like, you have three ways to succeed in touring. And this might have shifted a little since then, but it was like big social media, you’re on TV or Joe Rogan’s podcast, and I was like, geesus christ. I think I was saying this last night.

I was at the Comedy Cellar and I was talking with Nathan McIntosh about so many people will come to shows and we’ll say afterwards and say, this was my first stand up comedy show. I don’t think that happens a lot with music. I don’t think people at the end of concerts but this is my first concert. But like, stand up. Comedy is such an untapped market.

There’s so many people who don’t necessarily know they would be into this. So there’s a degree where I go, Yeah, Joe Rogan talking NonStop about stand up comedy makes a new generation of men. If we’re speaking about Rogan and being honest, get into stand up comedy, and great. Maybe they get into that, and then there’s tastes to expand beyond Joe Rogan’s sphere. I think the fear is that Joe Rogan creates a specific kind of thing and that universe, that kind of really wants to see a white guy say a slur that you’re not supposed to say anymore, and that’s their definition.

That’s the only fear I think of the kind of ideology of that general sphere. I hope it ex fans. I hope it intermingles. I hope all comedians start splitting up sharing lineups. But that’s ultimately.

I do think it’s good for comedy that he exists. And I’ve had audience I remember an audience member years ago came up and they said, Oh, I saw you’re working on new material. That’s so cool. Joe Rogan talks about how comedians and imes have to work on new material during the show, and I’m like, you know what, God bless if he’s educating our new comedy fan as to how this all works, and you’re into it. Great.

You talked about spheres, and it reminded me there are all these spheres that I guess don’t touch each other. What came to mind was when Kat Williams went on Shannon Sharp’s podcast and started throwing heat that surface to maybe a different audience. The whole Atlanta scene and the various beefs that go on in that sphere of comedy, and that probably doesn’t cross over with the Rogan verse unless Gat goes on Rogan. I think ultimately. When you separate these worlds is it doesn’t benefit the quality of the comedy because suddenly you’re not dealing with the cream of the crop.

You’re dealing with the cream of your little sphere. And it’s just the quality goes down overall whenever people are And it’s the same with you could call it the opposite of the Joe Rogan universe, but like the Brooklyn world, like there is the world of you could call it old comedy or just left leaning comedy, where if you never mix with another world and the best from that world, it just gets worse and worse. And I think that’s happened to a degree with the Austin scene. I think that’s why New York is such a powerful is still, in my mind, the best place to keep doing comedy, because there’s more colliding, there’s more a mix, and that elevates everyone, that forces them to be good to continue to participate. And I have nothing.

I don’t know Austin well enough to have any kind of hard opinion about the Austin comedy scene. I just know from more secondhand and occasional shows that I do there, that I could use a little mixing. To put it politely, it could use a little mixing, and I think it will happen. I do. I don’t think these worlds can stay itsler forever.

I think I think we need more panel shows, and we need those panel shows to be a mix and I think one day, I think kil Tony will get to a point where it does have some comedians that you wouldn’t think would do it now, and it will expand the vocabulary and show more people what great comedy can be. And I’m hopeful that kind of will come to pass. We did a show at Serious early in my run there. He used to run the comedy properties there. It was called four Quotas and it was basically a tough crowd rip off, except we just leaned into the four quotas.

There was some gimmick that the government had passed the law you had to have a white guy, a black guy, a woman, and then the wild card position just to make the booking easier. And I look back one of those early episodes was Jim Gaffigan Lisa Lampanelli Asi’s I’m sorry, and I forget who the fourth you thought about being diverse? That was a really fun show, a little too early in the runned series for it to take off. We talked about isolating one joke, and we talked about the civilians coming in, and I think there’s something to be said for taking in an entire set. My wife will often come down.

I will be watching a special and she’ll show up thirty six minutes into it with a laundry basket, stand there at the TV for forty seconds ago, is this guy funny? And it’s just I have to hit pause and it kills the whole room, and I’m like, you know, I can’t go into you see that line There is actually a calling back to eighteen minutes ago where he set this up, and that was a headshake, like it’s just is that guy funny? They what? First of all? I sometimes I have to acknowledge.

And sometimes it’ll happen, like when a clip goes viral and some people go, this guy is not funny at all. Some people don’t like stand up and that’s fine.

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And then someone who loves musical theater I know more than anyone that like …

Someone will see a Stephen Sondheim musical, the most agreed upon, the greatest composer of all time, and they’ll go, eh, that was no good and it’s okay. You don’t like the form and that’s fine. And it’s the same for stand ups. Some people don’t like those jokey things. But I agree.

It’s always hard with a partner when you don’t love the same piece of art. Sometimes he fights could be brutal. Now, my girlfriend, she’s a manager, she’s a comedy manager, so she represents comedians, and she doesn’t want to watch as much stand up as I do. And because sometimes I’m watching it, Okay, what’s going on here? What’s okay?

What is the best amount of scalco talking about right now? What can I learn from the cameras? And our rule is when she can guess three of the punchlines, it goes off automatically and it happens a lot. And I do like to think that her bar keeps me sharp because I’m like, even in conversation, if I’m trying to be funny with my girlfriend, I gotta if she guesses three times, she’s going to break up with me on the spot. So I gotta keep my comedy game high.

So I found it interesting there how you explained how you’re watching comedy and the cameras as I have a producer’s breen. The night of the attempted assassination of President Trump, I clicked on CNN because it’s what one does, and I knew it was six point thirty on a Saturday, so the d team was anchoring and I’m watching it. I’m like and I’m like, actually, she’s doing a really good job. She’s doing it. And I said to my daughter, I go, Wolf Blitzer’s in a cab and somebody’s calling Anderson Cooper in the Hamptons.

Now going, dude, get here right away as soon as you can get there, And sure enough, top of the hour came, Wolf’s in the chair. You wait another hour, Anderson’s in the chair. So like, I’ll tend to watch breaking news and not actually care about the news part and just look at all the what’s going on behind. Oh, they got caught with their pants down. Biden stepped down at one forty six pm on a Sunday, so nobody’s there to cover it, so they’re stuck in an infomercial.

I love that stuff. Yeah, that’s really There was a very funny thing on Twitter because wolf Blitzer had just tweeted a picture of him like getting a martini called the wolf Flitzer, and he looked like really fun.

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And then an hour later it’s him at the desk and he looks a little just oh my …

We all know you’re buzz dude. All right, natural segue. You dropped a special because the President announced he wasn’t rerunning, so you released Sorry, I dropped my notes here. I want to get it. What’s the title again?

I want to get it right? A little something special, A little something special. Yeah, so walk me through that was that going to be part of a longer special? And he went, oh my god, this chunk just got. Need Honestly, it was like I was waiting on a couple different things to see if they wanted an hour from me, different streaming networks.

Do you want an hour? Do you want an hour? Do am I going to release something on my own? Let’s wait, let’s see what they say. And I just have a chunk of material that felt I want to release this yesterday, and it feels like it feels just so on the pulse, and I go, well, if you know xyz stream or wat this, they’re going to film it in five months, it’ll be released in a year.

Especially when you’re not famous, famous. You you could record something and it could come out so far away. Your ability to be topical is more limited than I think if you were Chris Rock or John Lady and I think I just had these jokes and I was like dying to get out there. I felt like if they came out a year from now, they just wouldn’t be quite as exciting to hear, And so very last minute, I just picked a weekend I was doing Comedy Connection in Rhode Island. I had a good one night or the year before, so I was like, this will be good.

I guess my opener is also a great cinematographer and editor and producer. He basically put it together. We did three cameras, we flew in two people, and he could very scaled down version and I had a very specific I was like, I want to do this fifteen minutes. And it touched on mister Beast, It touched on trans writes, It touched on Roe v. Wade being overturned at abortion rights, and then it opened with some jokes about Joe Biden versus Trump again, and just one particular joke was how I was able to recycle all my twenty twenty jokes about them going against each other.

So I felt really good about it. I was going to just release it and then cut it up into clips, and I had a whole schedule planned for the end of August. I was going to Australia in August. I said, I’ll come back, release this, do podcasts.

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And then one night it was my girlfriend’s birthday and I wasn’t watching the …

And he was one of the guys who was saying, like Biden, he’s got to stick it out. He’s the guy who can win, and he’s just an institutionalist. And he texted me in the middle of this dinner he said Biden needs to drop out right now. And I was like, oh. I was like, what what could have possibly happened at the debate and my girlfriend’s birthday.

Because I’m a workaholic and because her work is Tommedy, we had agreed that this why we weren’t going to talk about work. I wasn’t going to talk about if it works things. And I get this text and suddenly my mind goes racing, like, oh my god, all my opening jokes are about Biden being the nominee. And I watched the clips and I said, this is not looking good. And all the op eds came out and the next morning I said, they’re in bed at eight in the morning.

I’m just like, I feel like I have to release it today because I didn’t know if it was going to happen that day. It felt so the first surge of Biden being called to step down was very intense that first day after and I thought it could happen that day, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and I was like, I got to get this out now. And thank god, by editor, we had gotten a lot of stuff done in advance. Sound was mixed, it was edited, it wasn’t captured, it wasn’t clipped. But I basically said, oh, I got the day wide open.

Let’s release it by three pm today. No podcast, no press. I don’t know what he’s going to drop out. I don’t want to cut the beginning of it off. I don’t want to have to like be like, hey, guys, I know the beginning’s a little dated, but check it out anyway, And we got it done, and by we by my team, my social media team, my editor, my captioner, my girlfriend was there to let me run even the clip captions by and I was so glad we did.

And ultimately he stayed in the race, I think for three weeks after, maybe a month after. But I was so glad that we put it out in a time again where it felt topical. Although I will say it, if I ever record something like that again, I will be a lot more hesitant if it’s a special to include political material that isn’t very big picture, because that’s the risk we run in comedy, and a lot of comedians the day Trump’s assassinated, comedians now were. Like going, what’s the joke? What’s the joke?

People are recording it that night, they’re captioning it that night, and why because on social media, it can pop, It can get into the stratosphere, it can go viral, it gets featured in news, and there’s a real struggle between are you just making the obvious joke? Are you just regurgitating all the natural jokes? That would come out of this. Do you need time to make a deeper joke? And have we ultimately made our humor more shallow by feeling like we need to immediately react to events.

That used to be Late Night’s job and they had a writing staff, And now it’s every comedian the moment a tragedy happens or anything crazy in the news. We got to be like going up in twenty minutes, what’s the joke? What’s the joke? And I had a boss at Sirius who one time asked, us, how come we don’t have our own version of the Daily Show? And I’m like, me and my staff of two, I’m like, you’re gonna give me twenty writers like you want us to bang out a half hour of top notch comedy four nights a week?

Are you insen? But Late Night even now the new cycle so fast you recorded five thirty. By the time eleven thirty rolls around, there’s three new things in the news you’re not talking about in your monologue. It’s really hard. I don’t know what to like.

I once had the thought, and I just don’t think it really works in practice. But I always think to myself, Man, the best jokes. Twitter has made it in a way where like, the funniest jokes are in the moment, and it’s because it’s it’s thousands of people taking a stab, and then the ones that go viral are the best, and you go, these Twitter jokes are better takes than a writing staff of five on the East Coast. And I always thought that when it be fun, if you have a late night show where somehow they were paid and they wanted to be a part of this, you could have. I think if you told me after a day’s events that I could look at the best tweets and craft a monol out of those jokes, I think you could have a fucking electric in the moment monologue that night.

Now, obviously would those people be into that, what would the pay system be, how would it work? But I do think there is something about telling a joke out loud to an audience that gives it an extra dimension. And I wish we could combine the kind of incredible power of social media making the best jokes rise to the top and live entertainment. Maybe someone will try it someday, Maybe I’ll try it. It’ll fail miserably, but that’s the problem with topical jokes, and I think sometimes stand ups in certain scenarios, I have to go, you know what, I don’t have the best joke about this, And if I try to always chase the topical joke, I’m never going to build the deeper joke that is more universal, reaches deeper, is more original.

And I have to make sure I have a balance, because if I lean towards in the moment, I’m just going to create a lot of kind of fluff that expires the next day, and that’s not what I want to do. I did want to ask you about feeding the beast. I don’t want to bore you with a crowd work discussion, but it’s got to be insane now just to have to constantly put up something on social media. And is that fight the development cycle of a proper routine to use an old timey. Word, Yeah, it’s very I enjoy again, like I enjoy that I can put out a joke, I enjoy also the capacity I can put out a joke that is, I think it’s a good joke, but I wouldn’t put it in a special I think that’s cool.

Then I can still get it out there and get some kind of visibility awful thing that I like but isn’t my final forms. So you can use social media, I think, to feed your creative process. And if some joke does better than I thought it, that I can go, oh, is there more there to explore? Can I bring this? Can I incorporate it into something else?

But ultimately, You’re right, it’s incredibly exhausting, and I think it’s very hard to decide how do I develop my quote unquote act with what I’m putting out there, especially the concept of burning material. I think a lot of comedians are we used to be. My friend Jay Jorden used to be We’re comedy stops, and there was a degree off. You do it on your Comedy Central, it’s burnt, or if you do it on your special, it’s burnt, And then it’s like if you release it on TikTok, then even if it goes viral, even if it’s seen by millions of people, when you have a show at Banana’s Comedy Club and Hasburg Heights, New Jersey, maybe there’s one person in the audience who saw that clip, and do you get rid of a joke that’s tremendous because that one person, or do you go, I’ll never post my finest material, okay, but then you don’t have any fucking fans because you didn’t put enough out there to build up a fan base. I saw Mike Bribigley last night.

At the Comedy Cellar and he was mentioning how he said there’s some jokes from his first album I believed that he had done on a show recently, and he was shocked because nobody had heard them before. And there’s this thought of, oh my god, why would I not do this incredible joke I worked on for so long and made so good, and no one in the audience knows it. And I’m not doing it because why Because that’s the comic code, because there could have been two people who knew it. All those conversations I think are evolving, and I’m figuring out an hour that I want. To film, and I have to come up with my own rules.

I did a set on Netflix. Not a lot of people saw it. Is it okay? If I use one line that’s a really good bridge between my divorced material and my theater material. I’ve asked myself that in some cases, I go, yeah, this is a shit backit.

Just do it. If it makes the hour great, do it. This is a lot of people’s introduction to you.

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And then there’s the other part of me that goes, I should move on, I should l…

And it does make it harder. It does make it a lot harder. But also. He gives me an ability to show my best joke to someone who’s never going to watch a comedy special. If I have a joke about drag queens, it’s going to get to an audience of people who will never see a comedy show, who will never go to Netflix to watch a comedy special.

But they did get to watch a minute of me telling a joke that I’m really proud of. You win some you lose. So that makes sense to me, especially pulling out a line or two. And any artist is going to have their super fans. But oh, we heard this already.

I liked him better when he was in the clubs. But I think that makes a lot of sense.

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And then I’m thinking, as you were speaking the other way, if it’d be very ol…

I’m not sure I’d be upset. I’d be like, oh cool, I get to hear carl and do that now. I would hope the rest of the hour were new. But if he went into that thirty years later, it almost like the stones dusting off start me up. I’d be like, Okay, I think it’s again.

I think someone told me that Louis C.K. Back in the day after his shows, he would come out and say, are there any bits you want to hear? And he would like, let the audience request their favorite bits, and he would do it like that. I think there’s listen. I think comedy is relative to music, is still a younger art form, and I do think there’s room for us to figure out, like, oh, you know what they do like when I go into this chuck, they do like if I bring this thing back and maybe you do it as an encore, maybe you slip it in there a bunch amongst and a lot of other new stuff.

But at the same time, I do have that it’s an old school impulse that was kind of taught to me of just if they know if they’ve heard it before, they’re not gonna like it. And I just think the world is too fractured in terms of you have a special on HBO and nobody sees it. The world is too fractured to live by those old rules, because then what happens is if you’re trying to churn out too much new material. And I struggle with this too, it doesn’t become as strong. I have jokes that I can tell you when I first started telling a worse version of them five years ago, five years ago, seven years ago, and I go, it didn’t reach its vital form until so many years.

And with our current system, it’s hard to think that a joke would live that long without being quote unquote burnt. So we’re all going to have to navigate it. And I think I’ve seen a lot of comedians used to be very strict about levoz on comedy centrals. It’s done, completely give up on that notion because that’s just not what’s supported anymore. Is there peer pressure from the back of the room.

Look at John Marco’s being lazy, He’s just doing his good joke. You get that crap. I think a little bit less. I don’t know what it was like. I’ve been doing comedy for ten years.

I don’t know what it was like back in the day, if like comedians watched each other more or commented more. But no, unless someone like really does not ever seem to change their act at all, I don’t think people go always doing that bit. Again. I notice the people who I go, Jesus Christ, you haven’t changed a single bit of your fifteen minute set? Aren’t you bored?

But no, I think, and I don’t think this is good, but I think comedians’ eyes are more unlike how each other is succeeding in this career, more than artistically. And I don’t think that’s good. But I think we’re in such a doggy dog world. It’s such a real ruthless climb. That’s where people’s minds are right now.

I always found it as a civilian, not a comedian, never want to be a comedian, not claiming to be a comedian, not a performer obviously, but just as a guy in clubs. I always found that the comics either appreciated if one of their peers was crushing or eating it. They would find if you were eating it fun as well. It was that middle ground of you’re not even trying. That tend to be the comedy snobbery.

Yeah, there’s times when I’m working on more news stuff and immediately I go, I’m not doing really well. Everyone watching here is things that I suck.

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And then I try to remind myself that when I see comics that I really admire w…

I go, yeah, that’s what you’re using this Sunday night spot at the bar show for. And I think that impulse to crush is always there, and you have to fight it sometimes. I remember just seeing Bill Burr at a comedy club. And he was like he wasn’t doing great, and he was very clearly like sticking on a topic and just hidden every possible thought he had on that topic. And I’m sure the audience, as they do with more famous comedians, went like, yeah, he was okay, but I.

Knew from the back of the room as a comedian. I was like, yeah, this is his workout room, my hot Friday night show room at a comedy club in New York. For this moment, I need to use this because I’m doing Madison Square Garden tomorrow. I’m going to work, and I think the great comics and the prolific comics they have to fight that urge to kill every time and bombs sometimes if it means take a risk, and you see someone kill with the same set for years, I do think, I go, what’s the point though? What’s the point of killing on this random bar show right now?

With jokes already work one hundred percent? What do you gain? And when I’m doing spots, I really like to gain something. I like to learn something, and if I don’t, who cares. Yeah, I always appreciate an artist going for it, even if it misses like I as a snob.

I hate the sitcom with the dead that looks like me, that could lose some weight and has the hot younger wife and she thinks he’s stupid, and We’ve seen the sitcom five hundred times and I’m like, you’re not even trying. Whereas I appreciate something that is coming from a different angle aspiring to be something, which is my lead in to ask you about theater Adult, which I don’t want to misdescribe, but as I read it, and I’d rather you explain it, here’s somebody trying to do something. Basically, I came from this acting background and I have a lot of theater jokes related things talking about theater. I would have people complain about my podcast they go Jesus Christ another musical theater episode where you talk all about community theater and bad shows and teachers and all of that. That says to me is that, oh, okay, Like I have a very specific interest that I do want to cultivate.

I’m drawn to and so it’s okay. So where in my life can I create a vessel for all my theater thoughts, my theater jokes, my my theater just talking about it. So I made the show Theater Adult, and we’re about to have our second one at Joe’s Pub where I open it with some stand up and I get to go deeper into my theater jokes. Fred Armisson did a comedy special where it was for drummers, and it’s like, if you never drummed, you’re not going. To get most of the jokes.

And I’m like, this is for all the people who this is for theater kids, this is for people who did theater, who do theater, who love theater, and I can go deeper into the those jokes get more specific and then I can do I do a lot of I do a lot of crowd work at my headlining shows, and I love talking to people about their theater disasters, the shows they did in high school and what do they do now, How does being. A theater kid. Does it play into their own life now? What are they like when they do karaoke? So I want to create like a show where I could open with my theater standup, go into my theater crowd work, and then from the podcast side of it, get someone who either used to be a theater kid and now is whatever a lawyer and just an actor, a comedian, or someone who is on Broadway but did theater when they were younger.

I focus on that part of their life and I want to find out about the disastrous performances, the summer camps where they came out of the closet an acting class. I want to hear that story. I want to use the theater to talk about deeper things about their own life, their family, their romantic life, their dreams, their failures, and then just to make my dreams come true in fuse it with a little bit of singing, so I have my guests sing some songs from their old high school productions, even if they’re totally wrong for it. Lot of there’s a lot of non Jews who played Teva and sitting around the roofs and I go, here’s a space where I give you permission you can do if I were a rich man.

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And then at the end I join in for a duet from my own theater past.

So it’s just like a space that I think I can infuse my comedic sensibilities with my love for theater and the nostalgia of a lot of us when we were in school, was I have a sports or theater that was just the division. And so there’s a big swath of people out there who have this experience who, even if they don’t love theater, now they did it and they can enjoy talking about it. And I’m really excited about just making it a more regular show in New York at comedy festivals where I can get a really cool guest that people are excited to hear about their past, use it to just have conversations that they haven’t they wouldn’t have a normal interview circumstance. I think that’d be great for festivals, definitely great for New York. I love the feedback of stop talking about theater on your podcast.

That’s like, hey, Rogan, stop with the MMA talk like you know, you know. One of the things if you google you, theater kid tends to come up. Like Rogan like it’s a and shouts people who go into Rogan ago, it’s it’s another it’s an MMA guy, I’ll skip this one. And it’s yeah, that’s fine. That’s fine too, And that’s why Rogan ultimately he goes on the it does panel for the MMA and it’s okay, you find a space for your interest too.

I’ll let you go because we’re way over, and I appreciate you giving me so much time. I didn’t want to ask you how much you enjoyed Australia. I was there in twenty fifteen. I just loved it, and it’s not easy to get to, especially for a East Coast, but I would love to get back and just I want to someday in my maybe in my sixties. I’m gonna tell my wife I’m going away for three weeks.

I want to rent a car and just drive around the entire circumference. Growing up in Queens, I’m always attracted to nothing. If I go out to Arizona or Nevada, I like going out in the middle of nowhere and being around nothing. So there’s something about Australia that appeals to me because, all right, they’re Sydney, there’s Millbourne. But if I go thirty miles that way, I could be in the middle of nowhere.

That’s very that’s a you sound like an easy vacation, or that sounds like easy. It’s the I loved Australia. I think first of all, the comedy was great in the sense that, like, they know so much about America that I didn’t really have to adjust to what I wanted to talk about. I was able to just play with with. Just American topics and they understood everything, and they’re excited because they know this is the one time I’m going to be there, probably for two years maybe, And the audiences were just so just smart, and we’re very much people who have known my work for years and there was never a chance to see me.

So they just bring that excitement to the shows. And in terms of the country, it’s the food, it’s incredible, the views are astounding. Sydney. The bridge in Sydney was just so pretty, at night. I could never be that chill.

The people there are very chill. Everything moved at a much slower pace, and I think after a week and a half I’d be like, oh, come on, please, please, can I have a refol of my water? I’m begging you. But it was really it was a special trip and I want to go down even longer next time because it’s just different world, dude. And I didn’t make it to New Zealand.

When I went, it was long enough ago that I used a travel agent to help me put this trip together. Sure, and the travel agent was like, you can’t do Australia New Zealand in two weeks, you need that’s a separate trip. But you hit New Zealand. How was it? It was fast and furious.

The food was just so great. I just got there’s so many There’s just so much like Japanese food in New Zealand, and sashimi which I love, and fresh fish and I didn’t I wasn’t really into doing the Lord of the Rings thing, and it was at the end of the trip, so I was a little bit worn out. But just the food, just every single meal, you go, what are they feeding us in America? Because everything here. Is feels fresh, if the blueberries are bigger, and.

Next time I hope I can hop around the islands a little more. That’s awesome, shen Marco. Thank you for your time today. Looking forward to seeing you on the Botta Being Comedy Jam during US Paul and then coming to to Netflix. I appreciate that.

Thanks, thank you, appreciate it. Shenmarco is a razy Thank you for coming on the show, repeat guest. He’s really fantastic and he is one of Vulture’s comedians that you will know and should know. And we’ll talk about that list on tomorrow’s podcast and see it then

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, John Mayer, Jeff Ross, Bob Saget, Kelly Rizzo, Zarna Garga, Greg Fitzsimmons, Bill Maher, Phil Wang, Dane Cook, Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, Tom Brady

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser’s dark comedy and suicide material in ‘Someday You’ll Die’ special
• Bob Saget Legacy Award honoring John Mayer and Jeff Ross at Scleroderma Research Foundation fundraiser
• Zarna Garga’s comedy journey starting from mother-in-law jokes at age 19
• Greg Fitzsimmons’ early writing job with Bill Maher on politically incorrect
• Phil Wang on stand-up as alchemy and balancing engineering degree with comedy career
• Dane Cook on maintaining his comedic identity and cancel culture commentary

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. I know Johnny Manhood your Daily Comedy News no Taylor Swift fan. Nikki Glaser tells any why I’m not a politician. I’m not enacting laws. My job is to be truthful to myself, and what’s authentic for me is to share these dark thoughts I have.

It really releases some of the shame I struggle with the morality that’s put on comedians say the right thing and have the right take. We do have an influence, obviously, but we’re also telling jokes. It’s hard because the things I do think are so wrong and so bad, and there’s fear of getting canceled for saying the wrong thing. But ultimately I know I’m a good person. I dealt with a lot of like, am I a bad person because these thoughts?

And I’m really not. I could sleep well at night knowing that I didn’t really say them to hurt anyone. I’m only as sick as my secrets, and so I try to release as many secrets as possible up there. I do worry about Nikki the more of these interviews I read. In her recent special Someday You’ll Die, she ponders guns are easier to find than compassion.

She then calls out the suicide lifeline nine to eight eight. Throughout the special Sedgy material, it took her a while to get to a point where audiences felt comfortable laughing with her right City Wire Glazer says, it becomes a challenge the suicide material stuff. I was getting a lot of pushback from audiences, and I thought, Oh, guess I can’t really go there and talk about my suicidal thoughts and joking about how I’ll probably kill myself some day. They’re never gonna be okay with it. But I kept going, and I kept trying until I found a way that actually worked, and it was one of the biggest laughs of Mindsire said, that was really gratifying.

I hope she’s okay there. Bob Saggitt was friends with John Mayer, so no surprise that Bob Saggett’s favorite charity will honor John Mayer with a special award at the Scleroderma Research Foundation’s annual fundraiser, Cool Comedy, Hot Cuisine that’s on October twenty ninth. The nonprofit will give John Mayer and comedian Jeff Ross the Bob Saggat Legacy award in honor of how they helped Sagat raise funds and awareness. Jeff Ross will host the event, which would feature additional comedians, TBA musicians and performers. Kelly Rizzo, Bob’s wife, said, I could not be more thrilled to see the Bob Saggatt Legacy Award go to John Mayor and Jeff Ross.

They were two of Bob’s dearest friends and both in body’s dedication to the cause. The reference ensure that Bob’s impact continues, proving that laughter and music can be powerful tools in the fight against this disease and bring us closer to a cure with every event. After Saggot died in twenty twenty two, John Mayer paid for a private plane to transport the body back to California and later served as a pallbearer at the funeral. Earlier this year, on Bob Saggot’s birthday, John Mayer posted a photo of himself with Saggot, saying, I miss you the most when I’m exhausted and I just want to talk to my friend. We all miss you.

Lost me be out of our control, but remembrance is our active defiance and we will never Forget You. Zarna Garga got into comedy because of her teenage daughter. After all, mom sold funny stories. How hard could it be? Sarna jumped on stage in twenty nineteen.

She’d never been inside a comedy club before. Then her children convinced her she was funny. She went up onto the open mic and was given half an hour. That’s eternal. A half hour is endless.

She didn’t really have material, so she went with what she knew. Gark told post Media the thing is I discovered there’s a big and vibrant audience for Indian mother in law jokes. I didn’t know enough to have stage fright to be honest with you later around the op but Mike encourage me to go up there and talk about whatever I think is funny. I thought about a lot of things my mother in law said to me, so I went with it without thinking twice. I’m really glad I was ignorant of what it should be to be afraid up on stage because the vibe of just naturally showing up on stage and talking about life is also how I do it.

Now. It’s much easier for me to not overthink it and to treat every show like a big extended dinner party. Zarna says, you don’t have to be part of my culture to know there are inappropriate people in everybody’s life who say crazy things. They don’t have to be Indian or even have a mother in law. We all have that friend or neighbor or uncle or aunt wherever that randomly blurts out completely inappropriate things.

It thinks it’s totally okay to do it, these things of all the one thing at a time. Once I understood what stand up comedy was, I hung out with comics, learned what they were doing. I’m immersed in that world of entertainment in the comedy format. Now in a minute, I’m very tuned what’s going on in the digital space. It’s very interesting.

Once you decide you want to do something, you start learning before you even know you’re learning. Greg Fitzsimmons said his first writing job was with Bill Maher. I was hired to do audience warm up but only been doing comedy maybe seven years, and he liked my warm up, so he offered me a writing job. I was with a bunch of guys who’s still as writers twenty five years later. It’s like a club there I didn’t stay in that club.

I got fired, but you know that just happens when you’re write for TV shows. You get fired a lot. Usually a producer will call you in and gently let you go. But Bill sat down with me and did it himself like a man, and I’ll always respect that. The South of China Morning Post is your home for comedy news.

They caught up with Phil Wang, who said stand up is like alchemy, turning nothing into something. There’s something mystifying about that. To stand on stage on your own and turn that nothing into a room of laughing people. I found that fascinating. It’s not about I’d give it a go.

The first gig I ever did was at school in Bath when the drama teacher invited people to do five minute open spots. To me and this other kid said yes. People were surprised, but I found I had a knack for performing. The jokes were mainly stolen from you, Twoe, but I had the ability to tell them the sense of the rhythm, the intonation, the punctuation, the musicality of it. Three years ago, Wang put out a book called A Side Splitter, a book about being mixed race and having grown up in Malaysia and then moving to the UK.

Phil says it was awkward and confusing. I suppose in Malaysia I was sort of treated as a white kid, a bit foreign, but people mostly found that interesting. But I never really felt like part of the gang or that I was meant to be there, which is why I was excited when we moved to Britain and then at the school I was treated as the Asian kid. I realized that was gonna be the case wherever I am, so I might as well embrace it. And embracing it I found stand up.

Phil has a degree in engineering from Cambridge and said going to Cambridge was important for the comedy angle. Although I was still half thinking I’d be an engineer and half thinking I’d be a comedian, but comedy overtook the engineering. The second year of engineering was the hardest I’ve ever worked in my life, and then I promised myself I’d never worked that hard again, and I have kept that promise. Dane Cook, how has your comedy changed over the years. That was a question from Boston dot Com and Dane said, well, anytime it starts to change, I go back to Boston and fix it.

To get right back to exactly what I’m supposed to be doing in the first place. I’m a cut up. I’m supposed to say the thing that’s wrong. I have to remind myself of that. What about cancel culture?

After all, this is an interview with the comedian, and he got asked about that. He says, I don’t pay attention. I don’t care when Dave Chappelle spoke his mind on his Netflix special, if Shane Gills got cann from SNL, they made it come back. Tom Brady Roaston ever laughed so much in my life. I kept saying, I can’t believe this is live.

Comedy’s back right now, right now, and they’ll never take it away from us again because enough comics have gone through the ring of people dissecting their bits. Judging an excerpt of a comedy routine is like trying to defend somebody for crime, but you’re only allowed to use a tenth of the evidence. With an excerpt, it’s impossible to know where somebody’s heart and soul is. They’ll still be comedians who misstep, but as far as silencing or tampering with a freedom of speech of comics, that that’s over. Dane’s line, if it hasn’t happened to me, if it isn’t how I see the world, I ain’t saying it.

But if it happened to me and I experienced it, I’m saying it. That’s my truth. As a comic. I believe that if you’re observing and reporting on things that are actually happening, just like in journalism, it’s fair game. I didn’t write the story, but I’m telling you what happened.

New Arab caught up with Dave or Hedge. Dave expressed his hurt and pain over the situation in Palestine. Dave said, I just feel like there needs to be more empathy and it’s so sad what’s happening. Palestinians deserve better treatment. I feel it’s inhumane.

We should be ashamed of what’s happening. You feel helpless and it’s just very sad. How are we arguing anything when children and humans are just dying. The conversation to talk to Dave at being cast in the twenty twenty three films, sometimes I think about dying, and Dave said, it’s always great to be you know, cast or looked at for your skill set. I mean for me, to play many different types of roles and tell different types of stories.

I think it’s something I’ve always wanted to do. I don’t necessarily have to play a Middle Eastern person all the time. Some comedy tapings this weekend, Roywood Junior. He’ll tape a special at the Lincoln Theater in Washington tomorrow night on the seventh. Then on Sunday, Nick Fune.

All of a sudden, hearing a lot of Nick Fune, I guess he’s been opening for Nate and Nate is producing this new special. Nick Thune will be at Zenies in Nashville. Yeah, so this is really in the Burghetzi verse. If you’re not familiar with Nick, he is a dead pan who mixes storytelling and one liners.

Also on Sunday, Dean Delray.

Guess who’s opening for Dean Delray? Who’s opening for Dean Delray? Bill Burr? Wow, this one is also in Nashville. So you’re gonna have to choose which show you want to hit.

This one’s at the Cavern’s just outside of Nashville, and Pellam at Tennessee Sunday Night. Dean Delray with special opener Bill Burr. And that’s your comedy news for today right this weekend. Tomorrow, I have an interview with John Marcos Siraisi. We went most of an hour really interesting discussion, talked about some of his projects.

We got into naty gritty of comedy. I was enjoyed speaking with him.

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And then on Sunday, I’ll poke at the variety list of comedians you should kno…

But good stuff coming up over the weekend. If you enjoy the program and tell a friend about it, they might like it too. All right, see you back here tomorrow with Jamarco

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift, Joe Coy, Hasan Minhaj

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert’s electoral college and election humor
• Jimmy Fallon’s Joey Chestnut hot dog eating joke
• Seth Meyers Russian spy Navalny death joke
• Chiefs Ravens NFL game and World’s largest tailgate event with Rob Rigel
• Adam Sandler discusses Taylor Swift on Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast
• Joe Coy’s Golden Globes hosting experience and Taylor Swift joke backlash
• Joe Coy interview with My San Antonio about his comedy career
• Hasan Minhaj Netflix special announcement for October 22nd

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, Late Night Back, and Steven Colbert came out of the box firing it some good ones. One. Because of the electoral college, the election could come down in just seven states. Yeah, it’s going to come down to Michigan, Wisconsin, Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance Colbert again.

One reporter describes the seven state race as the equivalent of a knife fight in a phone booth. See a knife fight in a phone booth is notoriously difficult because it involves close quarters and finding a phone booth Colbert. One. More, Harris is particularly popular with women, while Trump is ahead among men, leading some to call this the boys versus Girls election. And remember many Trump voters are not vaccinated against cooties.

Great stuff there. This next joke, I don’t know how this made it to air. Really, Jimmy Fallon writers, this is what you got. Jimmy Fallon talking about Joey Chestnut eating eighty three hot dogs in a contest. Fallon went with us on the show.

I can’t believe it. Three hot dogs in ten minutes. That’s basically me at every wedding when they pass out pigs in a blanket. Ha ha ha. Thanks Uncle Jimmy.

I’m sure he told it better. Seth Myers with a good one. Did you see the Russian spy Harness well passed away? Seth said, even crazier. It died after falling out an eight story window.

Are you ready for some football? It’s Chiefs Ravens tonight, It’s Chiefs. I know that for sure. Yes, it is the Ravens. The Kansas City Chiefs, World’s largest tailgate will return.

Rob Rigel will co host the event. Rigel a well known Chiefs fan. Good guy. I’ve worked with him more than once. The tailgate games lineup includes the Sauce Relay, the two Minute Drill, Coaches Cheeseburger Challenge, and the Chiefs Cup.

Give us some details, Johnny Mac okay, I will. The Sauce Relay is a relay race in which participants will traverse an obstacle course while carrying containers of barbecue sauce. At the finish line, competitors will pour the remaining sauce into a bucket, and the team with the heaviest bucket when the timer runs out wins. That’s fun. The two Minute Drill is a passing challenge where participants where homes with blacked out visors and they have to attempt to complete as many passes into cardboard cutouts as possible in two minutes.

The coaches at Cheeseburger Challenge, you can’t use your hands. You have to assemble a cheeseburger using your partner’s hands from behind them. The competitor who’s using their hands will be blindfolded. The competitor in front has to guide their partner. You know, that just seems like an excuse to have a pretty lady be your partner, and you’d be like, Oh, I’ll wear the blindfold.

Yeah, I know what’s going on there. Fellas, Been there, done that. Chiefs Cup a variation on the traditional Flip cup competition where the cups get progressively larger throughout the game. Before you can begin flipping your cup, you have to dump a cup full of confetti on your head. The first team to flip all its cups wins.

Okay, there’s more. There’s BBQ and a Ask Me Anything style interview segment with Chiefs players answering questions over a rack of Kansas City ribs with no napkins in sight. Chiefs Trivia. We can figure out what that is. Chiefs Cup Challenge players try their hand at Chiefs Cup to see who could register through the fastest time.

Adam Sandlor is a major Swifty, we learned, and he was on Travis Kelsey’s podcast. You might know. Travis Kelsey plays for the Kansas City Chiefs and dates Taylor Swift. See how this all came together. There very nice Well’s lot of John You’re welcome.

Sandler and the Kelsey brus started talking about Taylor Swift. Adam Sandler said, by the way, what a girl. What a girl? Travis said, you know it, best performer out here. Sandler said, she means so much to our house.

The kids were little and we were listening to Taylor Swift. It was one of the first times that he listened to every song on the record. When I was a kid, the Beatles, you did that with maybe Elton John every tune. They know every word. I love listening to her in the car.

I love what she has to say, every message, every melody, the production. What she meant to young girls, what she means to women, what she means to guys doing the right thing in life. Sandler said, someone asked me who I get nervous around. I said, I do get nervous around Taylor Swift because I don’t want to blow it from my kids and say something stupid. He then said, to Travis, you being together the photo of when you first started dating.

My family was like, yes, look how good they are together. He’s a gentleman, and she’s having so much fun with him. At anytime Taylor’s laughing with you. My whole family is high fiving. Mi.

San Antonio caught up with Joe Coy. All right, Scott Beckett, fan of the show, not a fan of a particular bit. I’ve already mentioned Taylor Swift, and I mentioned Joe Coy. You know where this is head and buddy, right, I mean you could just it pause now because it’s inevitable today. My san Antonio article says that earlier this year, audiences were unkind to Joe Coy after he fell short as host of the Golden Globes.

Wow, sounds like it was pretty rough. What could have possibly happened? Well, Joe made a joke about Taylor Swift and it didn’t go so well. Let’s listen. A big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL on the Golden Gloves, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift.

Joe Coy didn’t let it bother him. He says, you can only get inspired when you hang around inspirational people. Negative stuff always brings you down. My San Antonio asked Joe Coy, when you think of San Antonio, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Joe Coy said, to be stupid if I didn’t say the Alamo.

Right. One of the coolest things I did in San Antonio was with my son. I had no idea you guys did live re enactments. He was about seventeenth the time and told my son, let’s go next thing we knew. We heard gunshots.

It was a lot of fun. Joe Cooy, how would you describe your year overall? I’ve loved everything about it, the upside, the downs, but everything puts everything in perspective. You can’t enjoy your wins unless you go through things. So I love where we’re at now.

The Life from Brooklyn special is amazing. Now we’re preparing for a second special for Netflix. Oh. They asked him about the Golden Globes again. He said, I just enjoyed the position I was in with my family and my fans, and seeing all the big wigs that come, like Kevin Hart and Seth and Whoopee and Jamie Fox.

It was an amazing time to have your peers with you. He talked about it being a difficult gig. Yeah, I mean I could go on forever, but it was so last second. Kim will get six months to do the oscars and I got about ten days. Would you do it again?

Everything’s worth a shot, but it’s never been a lifelong goal of mine. Host an awards show, I think stand up has always been my dream and I’m living my dream, so everything else would just be a bonus. Joekoi talked about being a zaddy. My san Antonio was like, you have to have some kind of swagger, a sex piel. No, Joe said, I think that’s on the eye of the beholder.

My san Antonio said the most famous zaddies right now were Jeff Goldblum and Pedropus Gal you were at their level of zattiness. Joe Coy said, hell yeah, I vote me in the same level.

And then for some reason they asked him who should play jd Vance and Tim Wall…

You guys were crushing it. You shouldn’t have tagged with this question. Joe Coy said, you know, it sucks that we don’t have the Phil Hartman’s and the Dana Carvey’s anymore. That’s my generation. I don’t know who can pull it off, but it’s always funny when they do it.

SNL always rips those people apart. They’re gonna crush it. I think it’d be funny if Will Ferrell came in and did something. Hasan Minhaj is just getting another special for Netflix. This one will be out October twenty second.

It is called Off with His Head in Hasan Minhaj, Off with his Head. Hasan Minhaj is back in full force. We see him tackling politics, misguided self improvement, and the challenges of life with young kids and aging parents. Donald Trump taking shots at Joe Rogan. Trump was on Lex Friedman’s podcast, which is just a bizarre podcast.

It’s super popular, but it’s just weird that it even exists. Lex Friedman asked Donald Trump, what’s the beef with Joe Rogan brought up a truth social post where Trump wrote, I wonder how loudly Joe Rogan gets booed the next time he enters a UFC ring. Trump had written that right after Rogan had announced that RFK made sense to him. That was before r FK pull out of the race and decided with Trump. Friedman has said, well, he said some nice things about RFK, Junior, you said some not some nice things about Joe.

I think that was a bit unfair. Trump said, I don’t think there’s any intention, And I’ve always liked him, but I don’t know him. I think he’s good at what he does, but I don’t know about doing his podcast. I mean, I guess i’d do it. You would do it in a heartbeat.

Are you kidding me? Get out of here. You do it in two seconds. I mean, I guess I do it. But I haven’t been asked, and I’m not asking him.

I’m not asking anybody. Rogan has said that he’s turned down several requests from Trump’s camp to have Trump on. Rogan told Lex Friedman, I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form. I’ve had the opportunity to have on my show more than once. I’ve said no.

Every time. I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him. Trump went on to say Rogan is sort of a liberal guy. I guess from what I understand I liked did he likes?

Kennedy’s a kind of guy. Don’t forget. If you would like this program without commercials, you can go to Calaroga dot com slash plus. You’ll get the details there, but the short version is four ninety nine a month. You’ll get this program and almost everything else on the network commercial free Kalaroga dot com slash plus link in the show notes.

I watched Phil Wang special Tuesday night as planned. My daughter joined me. We both liked it a lot. I love the venue, the Shakespeare Globe Theater, so nice, small wooden room lit by candlelight. As Phil pointed out, I did comment in the Facebook group, which is daily Common News podcast group.

Especially in the first ten minutes or so. My spidery sense was tingling for perhaps, maybe possibly wouldn’t surprise me if somebody had added some crowd laughter there. There were a couple shots where I heard what in my mind was registering as a waveform of just that HAA. A bunch of jokes had a similar laugh of similar length, and then you saw it, particularly on Phil’s left shoulder. Some audience members they weren’t laughing.

And then conversely, there were a couple of times where there were things that potentially were a laugh line, and somehow the audience all knew at once not to laugh at that particular laugh line. So keep an eye out for that. In the first ten minutes that said, it’s a really good set. I was able to disengage my brain from analyzing waveforms. The materials really set, So Phil Wang, I like that a lot that will make the end of the Year list.

Also out this week. I haven’t seen it yet. Jennie Hogan’s Regression. That one’s on Amazon and some other places. Genny Hogan used to be a data scientist, but she up and left her job in San Francisco to move back with her parents in New York.

She talks about addiction, turning thirty and Los Angeles. Congratulations to Will Ferrell. He will receive the seventeenth annual Kirk Douglass Award for Excellence in Film. Big Fancy Black Tie Dinner in Santa Barbara’s Ritz Carlton at least tells us no actor in the twenty first century has been associated with more hit comedy films than Ferrel. Among those in which she starred two thousand and three is Old School An Elf two thousand and fours, Anchorman, The Legend of Ron Burgundy, thousand and six, Talladega Nits, The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, two thousand and eight, Step Brothers, twenty ten’s The Other Guys, twenty fourteen’s Get Hard and the Lego Movie, and the list goes on.

That is a pretty good run there, Michael Douglas said, comedy’s the hardest and you make it look easy. Will congratulations, Dad, loved you From the Boston Globe. Sam Jay will be at the Wilber Theater on Saturday. Sam is just enjoying her tour, not worrying about industry pressures. Sam is just enjoying her tour and not worrying about the industry right now.

I’m just kind of having fun with comedy again. I kind of like not being in this development of an hour mode because it’s a different part of your brain that has to work to do that. I’m just having fun doing stand up and connecting with audiences again and just playing with ideas as they come. If you go see her at the Wilberg, There’s gonna be some political jokes in there, because that’s part of my repertoire. There’s gonna be some oservation in there, but because that’s what I do.

But to say it’s gonna be this or that, I don’t really know what’s gonna be. Stylistically, Jay says she doesn’t set the table and just starts talking. I was always like, I was over here, this kind of thing happened to me, and I still approach comedy in that way. So I’ve never felt a name to explain myself. The more I’m up there and the more I learn, the more I know about myself.

So with that the comfortability comes. Apparently everybody wants a late night show all of a sudden, Hey guys, no one has any money. No one’s getting a show. No one has any budget at all. Everyone is cost cutting.

You’re not getting a show. The kid Miro has scheduled two test shows for what he’s calling a work in progress talk show. They’ll film the first one tomorrow at the Comedy Seller, another on Tuesday, September seventeenth. The Comedy Seller’s website says this is a late night talk show style show and not a traditional comedy seller show. This is a test show and taping Jesus and Marrow at a show on Showtime twenty nineteen through twenty twenty two.

They seem to no longer get along all right, We’ll see what happens with that. Jermaine Foller will star opposite Tracy Morgan in Paramount Plus’s Crutch. Tracy Morgan plays Francois Frank Krutchfield, who goes by Crutch, a brash yet beloved Harlem shop owner whose world is turned upside down with his highbrow son now played by Jermaine Fowler and free spirited daughter moved back to the family home. Fowler’s character is named Jake, an ivy league educated lawyer who forget goes a high paying position at a swanky white shoe law firm to provide low cost legal aid in Harlem. Yellowjackets has added Joel McHale for a guest role in its upcoming third season.

Details on Joel Mchal’s character are being kept quiet for now. Maybe the in between ers will come back. Have you ever watched this show? It’s fantastic one of my favorite shows. British show about I guess they were high schoolers, typical horny teens kind of comedy, but it was really good.

Star Joe Thomas as that he and his co stars would consider reuniting for a third movie. He told the Always Be Comedy podcast that the idea had been discussed in various forms. We’re all still around, we’re all still in each other’s lives, we all still like each other, and it was something that came up. I think we would want to do it. I think it works with the right idea.

It would be challenged in doing another series just because of the timeline. Yeah, I don’t know how they would be still in high school. It’d be forty but the film, there’s all sorts of options. Thomas said a bachelor party could be a good vehicle. Las Vegas would be an interesting venue for the boys to reunite.

He said, there’s something about the adult world and how much more complicated it is than the world of adolescence. A film can be a special occasion. A film is about a disruption in normality, whereas the sitcom is about what normality is like. A film is a story with an ending, whereas the sitcom is more like going down to the public friend, who’s funny and it’s just open ended. The in between Ers ran as a TV series on Channel four in the UK back in twenty eleven.

The original movie grossed eighty eight point nine million dollars worldwide. The twenty fourteen sequel made sixty three point nine million dollars. Aaron Weber will tape his special two nights tomorrow and Saturday at the Lab at Zany’s in Nashville with the help of Nate Berganzy’s Nateland Entertainment. Nate is becoming a mogul from the Press. Harold christ de Gooth is a comedian based in Portland, Maine.

He’ll be at the Portland Main Comedy Festival, king off tonight and going through the weekend. He says, my perfect day in Maine begins at six am, when I get out of bed and walk to the back of the porch to catch a glimpse of the sunrise over the Eastern Promenade. I’d behold the breathtaking scenery and say to myself, Wow, I can’t believe I get to live here. Then immediately I go back to bed and sleep another five hours. I’m not a morning person.

Once the clock strikes eleven. I get out of bed for real this time and climb up Monjoy Hill to double grate for an iced latze whole milk. I’m viciously lactose intolerant, but that’s how I start my day because pressure makes diamonds. After breakfast, I drive to Higgins Beach. It has a special place in my heart.

I taught myself out to surf at Higgins. Anyone can learn by the way. You don’t need to hire someone to teach you. Surfing is a lot like stand up comedy. You just have to do it, keep doing it, and except they’re gonna suck at it for a little bit, well for a little while, really long time, actually years and years.

Surfing is easier than stand up comedy. But you get the analogy, right. Does he end his perfect day? He closes down the open mic and makes his way over to Empire Comedy Club to do a spot. He orders some chili Chris renoodles and some General So’s bow buns for dinner from the Empire Chinese Kitchen, and I have a killer set because this is my perfect day, and a boy can dream.

And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program. I have a friend about it. They might like it too. Appreciate all your new listeners for sticking around.

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