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Featured: Ellen DeGeneres, Tig Notaro, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Bert Kreischer, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Vulture’s ’20 Comedians You Should Know’ list
• Ellen DeGeneres’ final Netflix special ‘For Your Approval’ premiering September 24
• Tig Notaro Hulu special taping November 9 at El Capitan Theater
• Colin Jost and Michael Che’s ‘New York After Dark’ Peacock special September 12
• Saturday Night movie premiere about SNL’s first episode
• Bert Kreischer’s Rite Aid store conditions in Los Angeles
• Adam Sandler sighting at Goldberg’s Deli in Milburn

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. The numbers are up man. Thanks everybody for listening. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. And if you’re on YouTube, yeah there’s no video.

I know. I didn’t say there was. I’ll tell you. Usually this week is a dead week off Labor day, and I had been squirreling stuff away. I don’t need it.

Plenty of news. Everybody got right back to work. It’s like what I talked about on yesterday’s podcast, the annoying boss going, Hey, you know, Simmer’s over. Let’s good to work, guys. Okay, they got to work.

Vulture put out there what do they call it? It’s comedians you should know and will know list. I’m gonna deal with that on Sunday. There are twenty of them and it is quite long, so let me hold that until Sunday and I’ll do a deep dive on that. Then.

I did share the link in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group if you can’t wait till Sunday.

Also a reminder, Saturday, I’ll have John marco Ciresi, who is one of the twe…

They keep dripping out information about Ellen’s new special, Ellen DeGeneres for Your Approval, premiere globally on September twenty fourth on Netflix. In a statement, Ellen said, to answer the questions everyone is asking me, Yes, I’m going to talk about it. Yes, this is my last special. Yes, Porsche really is that pretty in real life? Netflix tells us the final comedy special of her historic career.

Ellen gets personal and reveals what she’s been doing since being kicked out of show business, from the mundane world of raising chickens and parallel parking to the harsh realities of becoming a brand name celebrity. She goes deep into her stand up roots and brings laughs through life’s most real and absurd realities. I always found her stand up to be pretty good. You may recall. The Ellen Degenerous Show ended in twenty twenty two after nearly twenty years on the air.

Its finale came after a series of reports detailing allegations of racism, sexual misconduct, and intimidation on set. Hulu’s not messing around. They’ve now lined up otsgo at Katska. She’ll have a special on Hulu. No date yet, no title yet, but she will tape it at the el Capitan Theater in Hollywood on Saturday, November ninth.

This part of her full Grown tour, which kicks off on September thirteenth, includes twenty dates across the US. In Canada, I think she’s fantastic. You should go see her, Osco said. As a company that pionneered cartoons, it was only amount of time until they asked to work with me. I mean, look at me.

I rock a bowl cut and wear bright color as I am tuned down excited to bring good times and shenanigans to the people of the world with the Disney Hulu family. Peacock announced that Colin jos and Michael j Present New York After Dark will stream September twelfth at nine pm Eastern. It’ll feature a rotation of the pair’s favorite New York City Club comics, along with fresh faces and likely some familiar ones as well. So that’s interesting, right. That’s more of them hosting an evening than doing comedy themselves.

We’ll keep an eye on that. That Saturday night movie made its premiere Intellier Ride. People seem to really like it. Deadline wrote a top director once told me ninety percent of the success of movies is casting. If you get that right, you’re on your way.

If that’s the case, then Saturday Night director and co writer Jason Rightman nailed it and then some, with a killer ensemble of more than eighty speaking roles helping to bring the life to film. This is a masterful movie comedy firing on all cylinders. Wow, I’m excited to see this one. With no time to breathe, and it’s tight one hundred and three minute running time. I have to do some math here, so that’s sixty and forty three an hour forty three.

Johnny Mac thinks the perfect movie is about an hour thirty nine, but one hundred three minutes. That’s good. Brightman has mine comic gold in telling the incredible tale of how producer Lorn Michael’s navigated a nervous network, bruised egos, and an unpredictable cast. Blah blah blah. The clock ticked down to eleven thirty when it still wasn’t certain, believe it or not, that NBC would press the button for its first SNL or the Johnny Carson Tonight’s Show rerun they had ready to go in its place.

Some of the casts stand outs, according to Deadline, Corey Michael Smith’s spot on Chevy Chase Lamur and Morris’s Garrett Morris no relation, Matt Woods, John Belushi, Nick Brown’s rolls of both Jim Hansen and Andy Kaufman. Wonder why they did that. That’s an odd choice to have him played two different roles. Right and some others, including a chilling pitch perfect JK. Simmons as Milton Burrell.

Simmons nails Burl’s visit to the set had missed all the chaos and a brief but an unforgettable turn that has to be seen to be believed, and that includes a thing. There’s a fun fact about Milton Burrell. I like to keep this show clean, but it’s a big fact. People know this big fact about Milton Burle legendary. The big fact, Rolling Stone said.

Saturday Night turns the SNL origin story into a late night bad news bears. The Stone writes, part sloppy and overly Reverend tribute, part hilarious nineteen seventies gross out romp, and an all out assault to recreate the adrenaline Russia, producing that inaugural LESSNL. Jason Rightman’s Saturday Night seeks to bring folks back blah blah blah when Michaels keeps the ship together.

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Meanwhile, Chevy Chase is already being courted as a breakout star with a bri…

Dan Ackroyd is flirting with every female in site and carrying on a not so secret relationship with a rosy Thray. Newman is neurotic, Geene Curtain is ironic and waspish, and Gilda Radner is adorable and deafy. It’s all admittedly funny and nerve jangling, with the comedians mugging and the pressure mounting, and the chances of Michael’s dream of a show made for the generation who grew up on TV by the generation who grew up on TV actually airing, slipping away minute by ticked off minute. The movie also heads to a foregone conclusion. Imagine an underdog story about a group of rag tag baseball players who you already know will eventually turn out to be the nineteen twenty seven New York Yankees.

Anyway, that sounds like it’s going to be fun, all right. Bert Krascher was walking around a right aid in Los Angeles. I guess he found the shelves pretty empty. He tweeted a video, and yes, the shelves are pretty empty. Here’s what Bert Krascher had to say.

I had to make several clips to get rid of some f bombs, but you’ll get the idea. This is Los Angeles. Everything is gone. Look at this is our deodorants. I think this place is going.

I mean this looks like looks like it’s been looted. And I guess thieves just come in and take whatever is expensive and just walk out with it. This is crazy. This is unrecognizable. When it moves to Los Angeles, you come and ride it to spend the afternoon looking around.

This is so fad. This is Los Angeles. On gossip Corner. Adam Sandler, his wife and daughter, died at Goldberg’s world famous Deli in Milburn. I saw this story in one of the local papers, and I’m like, world famous.

It’s not even the most famous deli in Milburn. I mean, I’m sure the locals somebody’s gonna argue this, but I always hear about the Milburn Deli, which is not Goldberg’s world famous deli. Anyway, Sandler was at Goldberg’s. According to owner Chris, they came in and walked up to my wife, and she gasped in surprise and let out a wow. She thought she was keeping her surprise on the inside, but she was not.

Who’d be able to They were so nice to everyone. As soon as they walked in, the entire deli just lit up in joy. Everyone was smiling and just so happy to have such a fun family joining us for a meal. Sandler was happy to take selfies with guests and staff. Adam’s been in my greater local neighborhood.

He hasn’t been like next door, but he’s been pretty close to where I live. Filming Happy Gilmore two. Chris the owner has a message for Adam Sandler. It is Adam, if you’re reading this, all the best and making the world laugh and smile once again on your latest endeavor, Happy Gilmore too. All Right, I finally ain’t got around to watching Adam Sandler’s comedy special.

I know I’m a week late on this, but you know we talk about Sailor enough here. You’re probably like Johnny Mac, did you like it? Did you hate it? You hate it? You hate everything?

Right, Johnny Mac. Well, I’ll tell you what I liked it. Let me break it apart. The safty stuff at the beginning where they kind of shot it like a movie and Adam pulls up in a car and we follow Adam walking to the club and people ask him to sign stuff. I really like that.

I thought it was interesting. I kind of hate the way most comedy specials open and wish it would just be like Ladies and Gentlemen, Joe Comedian and the comedian comes out. But you know, a lot of these specials have to have these forced opens. I kind of liked that this one was stylized that said during the set proper the fake stuff like the random dog or Adam pretending that the venue isn’t good even though it’s a fake venue, you know, and pretending there’s technical problems and all that. It just didn’t work work for me.

Maybe if I didn’t know it was fake, I would have been like, oh, that’s interesting that they left that in, But it just it didn’t work at all for me. I watched it in two chunks Friday night. I was kind of tired, had a really busy week last week, and I kind of liked the low keyness of it. Adam was kind of chill, and I was into it. My wife came by with the laundry basket, because, as I’ve told you, one hundred percent of the time, if I’m watching a comedy special, she will come by about thirty seven minutes in, and sure enough she did, and she was like, is that Adam Sandler?

Yeah, I thought, you don’t like Adam Sandler, and I said I don’t, but I have a comedy podcast that said I liked it.

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And then I was like, how much more of this?

And there was still like another forty minutes. So I went on to do something else. But Saturday night I went back in and watched more of it. The second half I kind of got bored. There was more of the Sailor songs in there, and his songs are just really dumb, and I know they’re supposed to be dumb, but they’re the same thing over and over.

He just sings like four line a normal song and then says something ridiculous at the end, gets the laugh line, and the song falls apart. They’re not even like complete thoughts. It’s just like roses are red, violes or blue. Let me say something absurd so you laugh now, And it’s that same formula over and over. Rob Schneider came out as Elvis and I had to fast forward through that.

I couldn’t even do it.

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And then some people have said the song at the end is very poignant.

To Adam, sing’s like a ten minute song about other comedies in the history of comedy and famous comedians, and he’s got a clip show behind him, and it’s designed to make you clap and designed to make you feel good. And it just felt really forced to me. John, it doesn’t sound like you like the special. I did like the Special. It’s got a lot of problems.

I’m going to add it to the list of best of the year. It’ll probably be the last thing on the list, however long it gets, but it makes it. I appreciate when someone tries to do something like what came to mind is Kevin James last special not trying to do anything that was just dumb. Sandler here is trying to do something. I’m not sure it worked, but I appreciate it, if that makes any sense.

So it’s not in the top tier at all. It’s in my second tier on a rather long list now, and it’ll probably be the last. But yeah, I liked it, Okay, Adam Sandler, I trash you a lot. I feel fair here, and if we look back now, since Hub Halloween, you’ve done Uncut Gems and Hustle, the Basketball Movie, and the Space One, and you’ve had two specials, one of which I liked. Maybe I’m coming around on Adam Sandler or maybe I don’t know.

I also watched Greg Fitzsimmons, a special on YouTube that is going to make the list as well. It’ll be in the second tier, but at the top of the second tier. But what I found interesting about it is it’s eighty percent really funny, but also twenty percent really hack It’s a weird mix. When he’s on, he’s on he definitely reminds me of Portman’s Bill Burr, and then he’ll do some hacky material and I’m like, really, dude, that’s like awful. Which one that I like better?

Fitzimmons is better than Sandler, for sure. I have not watched Philang yet. That was my plan for Tuesday nights, so I’m sure my wife is planning on doing laundry. About thirty seven minutes after I hit play on Phil Wang, shortle saw it spoilers coming up here. They gave it spoilers.

Are you gone okay three and a half stars out of five. Phil Wang opens with the main difference between white people and Chinese people. Straight out of the gate, doesn’t even say hello, but chortle tells us don’t expect any hack material or edgy race based content from this mild mannered comedian. Later, he tackles the N word in rap lyrics and the concerns most non black people have in singing along. His solution takes potential offense and makes it cozy, typical of a comedian so physically soft, he confesses to injuring himself on bread, complains about having to do everything himself when flying seem lightweight, but end with a more distinctive payoff, calmly dismissing a task that he doesn’t want to take on.

It’s the closest the composed comic ever gets to snapping Phil Wang Wang in their baby Netflix. That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. Could follow me on Twitter at DCN pod, follow me on threads where I got the proper at Daily Comedy News, and please feel encouraged to join us and start conversations in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group, See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Theo Von, Phil Wang, Dane Cook, John Mulaney, Langston Kerman, Josh Johnson, John Stewart

What’s in This Episode

• Theo Von urinated in red solo cup during Trump interview on This Past Weekend
• Phil Wang new Netflix special ‘Oklahoma!’ filmed at Shakespeare’s Globe
• Dane Cook documentary about brother’s imprisonment and comedy from tragedy
• Everybody’s in LA season status and potential future episodes
• John Mulaney and Langston Kerman discuss hosting and vocal delivery
• The Daily Show with John Stewart’s return and guest host rotation

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Time, Johnny Max, today’s my least favorite day of the year with your comedy news forgot to say that part. So recently my daughter asked me, what’s your favorite holiday? And I said, Thanksgiving? Why?

Dad, Because everybody celebrates Thanksgiving, and you know, I just like it. Everybody takes the day off. We all kind of do the same thing, the same basic tradition, turkey football, go to somebody’s house. Details may differ, but you know, the basic thing. Kind of everybody in the country celebrates it.

But then I said, except me. I’d rather just stay home, play video games and get a pizza. So we continue that conversation. I said, my favorite moment of the year is Friday afternoon into Memorial Day weekend because you have the whole summer in front of you. The possibilities are endless.

There’s long sun, so you know, around five oh one on that Friday, it’s like, oh, it’s summer. This is so great. Today, the day after Labor Day, is my least favorite day of the year. We are as far from summer as possible. You can’t listen to the Beach Boys.

Shomy Buffett doesn’t sound right anymore. You gotta go back and hard rock winter music. And if you have a job, job, and I don’t have a job job right now. Boy, the bosses always are like, okay, back to work fall initiatives, and it’s just like, I don’t want to be here, dude. Anyway.

THEO Vaughn claims he was so paranoid about using the bathroom when he interviewed a former President Trump that THEO decided to urinate in a cup. Why he thought the secret Service agent might think the sound was some kind of secret message, THEO said, some super scared there. He ended up just being into a cup. They had a red solo cup that I brought in there and peed in it, and then I just bought it into the toilet. Dude, like along the side of the toilet walls.

It’d be real quiet, you know. I just kind of think I was getting super paranoid. I think super paranoid is an understatement. Phil Wang’s new special is out today. Apparently I source this from The Fordian, which is like The Guardian but a typo Phil Wang?

Are you excited about your new stand up special? Wang? In their Baby arriving on Netflix today, Phil Wang said, I am I don’t know, he said, more. Apparently because of my previous one, Philly Philly Wang Wang was affected by the pandemic. That was a really good special.

That last special was covid Wang. This is normal, actual whang. And it’s nice to have an exclamation point in the title, like Oklahoma. It gets you going before we even started. It was filmed at the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe.

How’s that? Phil said? So cool beautiful, the only completely candilit venue in London, if not the country. Right now, stand up is being consumed in very intimate ways, often on phones, so it plays into that the combination of wood naked flames adds an extra frisen. Johnny Mac has to look up the word frisen.

Anybody out there know what frisen means. Frisen, also known as esthetic chills or psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli that often induces a pleasurable or otherwise positively balanced effective state and transient paresthesia, sometimes along with pilo erect and my dresses. I’m still not sure what that means. I think it means like, oh, the environment feels cool. Prison is the French word meaning to shiver or to have chills.

The BBC has an article called Frison why music can give you chills or goosebumps, Just say goosebumps. Boston Magazine asked Dane Cook the question that anyone would ask Dane Cook. Dane, do you believe the old saying time plus tragedy equals comedy. That’s exactly the first question I would ask Dane Cook. Danefield it and said absolutely.

I’m doing a documentary right now talking about putting my brother in prison during what was the most harrowing time of my life and career, was at the height of my comedy career, in the depth of personal tragedy and betrayal. And in the documentary, not only am I laughing at some of the things I went through, but I’m enjoying being entertaining telling people how I got clobbered, literally eviscerated by that betrayal. Boston mag fought up, does comedy come from a place of anger or pain? Dane said, no, I’ve never subscribed to that. There’s certainly something to be said for overcoming trauma and overcoming challenges.

You know, a lot of good comedies come from being bullied or minimalized. But I gin it’s really more about understanding people and interpreting those clunky human moments that we all experience. Dane, when was the last time you snorted from laughing too hard? Yeah, I put a comment there. I don’t know what you’re accusing Dane Cook of, and I’m definitely not.

I just find the choice of the word snorted interesting, Deane Cook said, probably just lying in bed with my wife. We were both scrolling TikTok showing each other things. That’s still the funniest thing in the book when the guy comes out on his front porch and he doesn’t know the whole porch is black ice. He just takes a header and ends up halfway down the driveway. I’m a sucker for slapstick.

I was also listening to some old Patriso Neil bits and I laughed out loud. On the same day some old Opie and Anthony clips of them playing the male Gibson tapes where he’s yelling at his wife, and it was all just so twisted and demented. I had a good long day of laughing at all that content. Opie’s got a podcast by the way, and he’s been playing old Opie and Anthony clips on that one Vulture caught up with Langston Kerman and John Mulaney the question that everybody’s asking, will there be more episodes of Everybody’s in la Mulaney said, I think we’d like to figure out how to do more. It was a very interesting experiment in this confined amount of time.

Definitely open to it. We had lots of bits that we didn’t get to. Langston said, yeah, I’m into it, but I’m not in charge of that. By the way, speaking of John Mullany, and I shared this over the weekend, I’m play it again here. It was a really good conversation with John Marco Sarasi, and in it he slipped into a Mulani the discussion you’ll hear the extended discussion.

I said that I hadn’t realized that his vocal range was in the same range as mulaney, and then here listen to this. 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 setup for the punchline because he changed the often. So that’s Saturday with John Marco Langston. Do you happen to know any friends in comedy who are the subject of rumors that one day they’ll host the Oscars?

Length had said, what do you want me to do? You want me to nudge him? Listen? I didn’t get a single joke on in twenty sixteen. Langston was a writer that year.

Chris rocketed everything I offered, and I respect that choice. He was doing the right thing for him, and John hosts a lot of cool stuff. I’m sure he’ll figure it out if that’s what he wants to do. Melandy said, I think I’m not hosting. I said, no, people are telling me I’m not.

Yeah, I’m not doing that. Vulture asked Josh Johnson how the Daily Show has felt since John Stewart came back. Josh said, I think we’re in a beautiful place. I think we’re doing one of the most historic election seasons the country’s ever had, and I think we’re doing with a team that’s been tested, having to go through so many different guest hosts, a testament to the agility of everybody to work with different voices and have a real sense of what the show wants to do and what the show has to do outside of just one person. So now we have John Back, I don’t have this amazing news team of people rotating that all have very distinctive voices, and they all have very different comedic takes on sometimes the same topic.

One of the ways to keep people engages to mix up both the delivery of takes and the takes themselves, and it helps keeps the show fresh and the people excited. Let me jump in here. We have on here on the Caloroga Shark Media Network Ballot. That’s our ten minute daily show ish kind of program, and I contribute to the writing. It’s been a lot of fun fun lately that show has found its voice.

So Ballot’s ba at Doublelot wherever you get your shows. There’s some shows with similar titles. It’s the one with a cartoon drawing of an elephant with Trump like hair and a donkey with Kamala like hair. Josh says, I think the daily show feels more exciting because I’m coming from the Trump years where we’d have a show ready and then Trump would do something at three and would be like, we should probably include this. So things don’t rattle to me at all.

I think it’s more sort of the unprecedented events where’re like, what’s the best way to talk about this, where we’ll look back and be really excited that we took the opportunity. Do you want to host? I’d be open to it, but right now I’m happy to be learning. I’m excited to be doing my chats and going out in the field. I’m just learning the differences between writing and being a correspondent, and the differences between performing for the studio audience and performing for people at home, and how to get more and more comfortable out in the field.

Mike Cannon will have a new special add on September fifteenth. It is called A Traumatized Animal, a little premiere on Chris de Stefano’s YouTube channel. Chris also served as the specials producer tape last April at the New York Comedy Club in Stamford. Traumatized Animal irreverent and honest look at parenting as a millennial father looking to break the chain of generational trauma and an hour jam pack with jokes and stories. Mike candidly speaks about his own mental health struggles and love for his child one on the Way, as well as deep dives into his own childhood while breaking down how it’s impacted his approach as a father.

There’s a relentless and refreshing, authentic hour of comedy from a comedian that’s ready to launch. And I love this article from Slate. It’s about Adam Sandler, they write, it needs to be said that despite his current rehabilitation on the pop culture for Mint, Adam Sandler has mostly starred in slop. I, like almost every other thirty three year old white guy on the planet, retained some fawnas for the schlocky eighty eight minute comedies who produced in the late nineties and early odds, Billy Madison, The water Boy, Big Daddy. But my affection for those films has more to do with my wistfulness for a bygone, outrageously y two K form of cable TV osmosis that’s impossible to replicate in the streaming age.

It’s ten PM on a summer night, you and your friends are a six pack deep and crushed into an unventilated basement den, someone flips on Spike TV, Happy go on, Life’s never been better. This is the world which Adam Sandler became a superstar. And I think I speak for a lot of people when I say I haven’t revisited much of his work since I left for college. The jokes weren’t great then, and they’ve only gotten worse since. People are coming around.

Have you noticed now where what five years into this podcast? You can go back? There are tons of episodes with me putting in the title Adam Sandler’s not funny or something like that, Like I’m on the record on this. People are coming around to Johnny Max’s corner of Hey, maybe Adam Sandler is not funny at all. Seems like a nice guy.

He’s a good dramatic actor, uncut gems, the Basketball one, the Space one. He can do it. But some of these things awful, Jack and Jill, come on, he’d be Halloween seriously s late right. Sandler put us all through a truly grotesque late prime. I think even in his most ardent, defenders would struggle to go to bat for click or pixels.

We’re grown ups and grown ups two those have ten eight percent of rotten tomatoes, the Sandlor Cinematic four Mammeeler war thin Quickly. There were a lot of fart jokes, a lot of poof jokes, had a potentially lethal dose of Rob Schneider, and Yeah. As Sandler enters his late fifties, all of his crimes have been miraculously washed away. Last year he won the Mark Twain Prize. His recent special bolstered by strong endorsements from needle movers like The New York Times.

The Comedy Specials being framed as the next chapter in Sandler’s ongoing cultural coronation.

Meanwhile, halfway through it, Sandler concludes a story about a genie who on…

Has he changed? Have we skipping ahead? Nearly all his peers, particularly his nineties era SNL compatriots, are heavily invested in what they perceive as a war for the soul of comedy. It’s led to some exhausting, redundant seminars posting as stand up specials. I never needed to hear Chris Roxay, the word woke.

Sandler should fit the same mold. He’s a man in his late fifties who can credit much of his success to the low browed territory in which his filmography treads. Instead of fighting in culture war, he’s dedicated as craftmanship to becoming astonishingly effective telling the same penis poop and Ford jokes he’s been telling for decades, trimming the fat, reforging their elements. Tell the land with something you could call grace, and that it is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

They might like it too. Welcome to Fall, Go, get a pumpkin donut, Buy mecoffee dot com, slash daa comedy news. See you tomorrow

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Joe Coy, Taylor Swift, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Ricky Gervais, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Gerard Carmichael, Michael Che

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser announced as host of 82nd Golden Globe Awards
• Joe Coy’s controversial Golden Globes monologue about Taylor Swift last year
• Michael Che’s experimental late night talk show pilot at City Winery

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Helloom, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Boy. I like summer, and there’s what eighteen seconds left on the clock, and I’ve got a time out. I could feel somemmer inning. Nikki Glaser will host the eighty second annual Golden Globe Awards.

You know, kind of sad. I really enjoyed what Joe Coy did last year, but apparently some people didn’t like this joke. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift.

Yeah, that joke didn’t go over too well. And in my opinion, Taylor Swift murdered Joe Coy’s career. All she had to do was smile a little bit and it would have been fine. But you know, you can’t take on the Swifties. But I’m taking on the Swifties right now.

I hope the Swifties come after me. That would be great for downloads. Come on, Swifties. You know who music is awful, Taylor Swift. You know who’s overrated?

Taylor Swift. You know who sucks at football, Travis Kelcey. Yeah, bring it. Nikki Glaser, Taylor Swift fan, will host the upcoming eighty second annual Golden Globe Awards. I mean good news for me because of the whole Nicky Glazer, Taylor Swift Joe Coy triangle.

There I get to do the bit for another three months. Sorry, Scott Beckett. Scott Beckett fan of the show, not a fan of the Joe Coy clip. Nikki Glaser said, I’m absolutely thrilled to be hosting the Golden Globes. It’s one of my favorite nights of television and now I get a front row seat.

Actually, I think I have to host from the stage. The Golden Globes is not only a huge night for TV and film, but also for comedy. It’s one of the few times that show business not only allows but encourages itself to be lovingly mocked. At least I hope, so God, I hope so. Except for Taylor Swift.

It’s an exciting yet challenging gig because it’s live, unpredictable and in front of Hollywood’s biggest stars such as Taylor Swift, who also might be getting wasted while seating next to their recent exes. That’s not a dicktt Taylor Swift, That’s just what Nicky said. Some of my favorite jokes of all time have come from past Golden Globes opening monologue. So Tina Amy or Ricky and have said exactly what we all didn’t know or desperately needed to hear. Notice she didn’t mention Joe Coy.

Hmm. I just hope to continue in that time honor tradition that might also get me canceled. Ooh yeah, Nikki, you’re gonna be so edgy on CBS or wherever this thing is. You’re gonna get canceled for hosting the Golden Globes. Ricky Gervaise didn’t get canceled.

You’re not getting canceled. You could walk on stage and say good evening, welcome to the Golden Globes. You know who’s a Sea word tailor Swift, and you’re not getting canceled. This is truly a dream job. Plus I no longer have to feel guilty for every TV show and movie I’ve binge over the past year.

It was all worth it. Now. This article here says Glazer is the latest high profile comedian to host the Golden Globes. She joins the likes of Tina Fane, Amy Pohler, Ricky Gervaise, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Myers, and Gerard Carmichael. No mention of Joe Coy or Joe Coy.

It really wasn’t that bad. You guys are harsh on poor Joe Coy. Helen Hayin is President of the Golden Globes and says, Nikki Glaser is a comedic powerhouse who’s daring an unfiltered humor is the perfect match for the gold Globes. She’s sure to bring a unique energy and spontaneity to the show that will keep the audience entertained all night. And if by all night you mean the host basically disappears after that first twelve minutes.

Sure, ooh, we got more quotes. Jay Penske is the chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions. He said, Nikki Glaser brings a fresh and unmatched candor to her comedy and to the Golden Globes. Boy, you worked a long time in that quote. Huh, And I’m telling you really really good chance that the publicist went, hey, I’ve drafted a statement for you, and Jay Penske, Chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions, just went yeah, fine.

Her unapologetic style made her an obvious and compelling choice as host for this year’s event. We’re hopeful this could be the first of many Golden Globes that Nicki will surprise and delight our CBS audience as well as our audiences around the globe. Okay, let’s remember that a year from now. Jay Penske, chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions, is hoping that Nicky will be back for years and years. Suppose to the last year.

What it was like, Oh, shoot, the Golden Globes are next week and we don’t have a host. Who’s free? Joe Coy? You loose, yeah, man, and I’ll do it so also too, while we’re grading on the curve here. You know you gave poor Cho Coy a hard time.

He had what nine days to prepare Nikki Glaser. It’s what September one? You’ve got? When is this thing January? I don’t even know.

You got three months? No excuses? You better be good. Oh my goodness, how many quotes in this press release George Cheeks from the office of the CEO for Paramount Global and President and CEO of CBS for Now. George, I don’t know if you’ve heard the rumors about your business being sold.

George Cheeks said, The Golden Globes has a rich history as a night for entertaining provocative humor. Nicky Glazer is a comedic force who’s funny, bold and irreverent. Comedy will continue that legacy and further established the special as a can’t miss event on CBS. Oh, there was a funny comment in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. Please feel encouraged to join us.

What was the one I gotta find this? This was great, Dylan wrote, She’ll do great as long as Jeff Ross and Tony Hinchcliff right for her ouch zing she wrote her own stuff at the roast of Tom Brady right. Yeah, it’s a good line though. I like it. I’m punchy today.

Late Nighter had somebody at Michael Chase taping last week. Michael Chay did, I don’t know, a self made pilot for a late night show. I don’t know what he’s trying to do here, Michael, nobody has any money anymore. The only way you’re getting this is if Lauren Michaels goes, especially in the fiftieth anniversary year of SNL. If Lauren goes, I want Michael to have a show, You’ll have a show.

Other than that. I don’t know if this was good or bad. I haven’t read the article yet. I think you’re really funny on SNL, but no one has any money. You’re not getting a late night show.

The eight hundred pound Gerrilla says the congregation could be the new dog Bound, at least if Michael Chase first episode of his late night talk shows any indication this was one of those no phones allowed shows, they said. The show was at the loft at City Winery, which seemed to have sold out it’s one hundred and fifty person capacity. The stage featured a makeshift desk for chay, a couch for guests, and a DJ off to the side. The show inquited here to the trappings of a traditional late night show, and that seems to be by design. The live show experience seemed more exploratory than anything else, with the comic keeping things loose.

He explained that his main vision at this point is to create a conversation with the audience after a set by comedian Derek Gaines. It was more of an opening act than a typical warm up comic. Chay took center stage to deliver some of his own stand up comedy versus a traditional monologue. Then came the guests. All right.

Former SNL writer Alex English appeared in characters a singer sitting for a chat, then singing Beyonce’s Freedom. Comedians Amina Amani and Reggie Conquest also guested. That’s interesting to me, you know, no big names there, and if you’re actually trying to ship this thing, that’s when you call on the favors and you go, hey, somebody with some name value, can you do this thing? Like I was just listening to Conan’s podcast with Robert Smigel and I can’t remember if that episode is new or from like two years ago, but they were talking about when Conan was doing pilots, and again those were official NBC pilots. I think Jason Alexander was one of the fake guests.

You actually Jason Alexander, but it wasn’t a real show, you know what I mean. But Jason Alexander did it. Late Nighter, says the result was a show that feels less like the tonight’s show, despite the fact that was wearing a foul and sweatshirt, and more like the Chris Gathered show where John Mulaney’s Everybody in la. Before wrapping up, it evolved into a seemingly unplanned dating game style panel with three audience members, all of whom volunteered to be considered for a date with the money. The only pre written material came by a way of fake ads interspersed throughout the show.

Beyond a couple of references about possibly pitching it to streamers or showing a tape to the City Winery event to Lorne, he didn’t elaborate and where he’d like it to go. This is random. My daughter just texted me the seventeen year old dog I was telling you about at the end of yesterday’s show. So she is a Border Collie and will patrol I call it. You know, her senses are gone and she got stuck in the bushes in the yard and my daughter just wrote my fitbit registered me rescuing the dog from the bushes as a swim.

Apparently it was forty four calories and took nineteen minutes. Dad was not home when that happened. I digress Jay made one thing clear, There’s more to come. He tild the crowd. He wanted to do more of these live events, so fans you missed out keep their eyes open.

Sticking with a Saturday Night Live. Chris lem apparently has had it with Saturday Night Live. He’s heard that cocaine is back at thirty Rock according to a video posted on Instagram. And if they are doing coke at SNL, Chris Fleming wonders, where’s the rush, where’s the excitement? Let’s see some results.

Then you’re doing coke? To do a Zillo sketch, at least Belushi used to run through a wall. Chris Fleming said, you better be morking Mindy season one. If you’re on cocaine. The crime to do coke simply to be boring or bomb at the Weekend Update desk.

If Colin Jost is on coke, Fleming swears to God it’ll carry out some unnamed threat and frustration. Fleming then went out on Colin Jost and said he exists in a very interesting space where we’re aware of him, but he’s the last thing we’ve ever thought about, Like if knowledge and awareness were a land mask, he would be on the furthermost tip of the peninsula. He’s the final pebble before the estuary of not knowing. How do Colin Joe’s parents remember that they have him as a kid. They must have so many mnemonic devices in place and note cards all over the house.

Inside the fridge it says Colin jostas your son? Why why are we going after Collin Jows? This seems armless. How to Scarlet Johansson not download RAYA? I had to look it up, Old, that’s a dating app.

Within fifteen seconds of leaving her house. She must have Google glasses that say Colin Jost exists and he’s your husband. Tim Heidecker commented, wow, otsco at Cosca through in a savage Nick Fune wrote, thank you for your service man A little long here on Labor Day. Usually I’m scraping the bottom of the barrel this week, but no, I’ve got a lot I can tell him. We’re any going to bum Phil Wang, he’s got a new special tomorrow.

One of my favorite comedians. This from the Guardian. Phil will kind of material you currently drawn to? Phil Wang said, silly joke. Silly’s coming back, comedy got very serious, particularly during the Trump and Boris years.

I have this theory that when politics gets silly, comedy gets earnest. This is armchair sociology, but I think politics and comedy are in this symbiotic relationship. One has to balance the other out. Now the politics is a bit more serious, at least in the UK, comedians can stop speaking like politicians and just be funny again. Phil Jost did have I Got News for you at short notice back in May.

Howd that go? Phil Wang said, I got the call the night before, halfway through a pint at the pub. Was thrilling. Growing up, my mom used to bring back videos of the show from the UK, so it’s always been part of my life. The first time I was a panelist felt like a dream.

Hosting it was the next step up. He was asked about the Labor government. What do you think of them so far? Phil Wang said they’re more boring, which is exactly what I wanted. It’s weird not to be following some cycle drama every day.

If Kamala Harris gets into We’ll love lawyers as leaders on both sides of the Atlantic, imagine all that boring economic stability. Phil Wang was in Wonka and broke his arm. What happened? I had a small part and it was my first ever day on a movie set. I had to do a tap dance on a table and after a few takes it broke under me.

I seemed to fall in slow motion. I remember being in mid air thinking Timothy Chalamey is right there. How embarrassing, and crunch I landed hard. The next morning I woke up and couldn’t move my arm. Being in pain with Willy Wonka in full purple costume being sympathetic was quite drippy.

Phil Wang, you were a huge succession fan. What’s replaced it in your viewing repertoire? Phil said, my girlfriend is making me watch Sex in the City. The movies aren’t so great, but the TV show’s genuinely funny, and the performances re spectacle. All right, Who do you identify with good question?

Definitely not Carry Sadly not Samantha. In some ways, I’m a Charlotte, but she’s too prudish. I suspect I’m probably Miranda. And that’s enough for labor Day. Let’s hit the beach.

Some must fall. That’s your companies for today’ se tomorrow,

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Featured: John Marcos Serraisi, Doug Stanhope, Matt Rife, Adam Sandler, Chelsea Handler

What’s in This Episode

• Adam Sandler Netflix special audio quality complaints
• Doug Stanhope SWAT team training mission at his home
• Matt Rife’s OnlyFans special reaches 100 million plays
• Matt Rife crowd work criticized as pandering to women
• Matt Rife compared to Dane Cook’s career trajectory
• Chelsea Handler new residency at Cosmopolitan Las Vegas

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Caloroga Shark Media. Helloom, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I just want to tease something I’ve got for next Saturday. I recorded with John Marcos Serraisi and along the way he slipped into a Malini impression. I just want to share with you.

I’m really into this. Milanies 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 setup for the punchline because you change the often.

So that’ll be on Saturday. John Marcos Sarrissi is my guest today. My kind of story from the Daily Mail. Despite soaring straight into the Netflix Top ten list, fans were not in used by Adam Sandler’s newest special. That’s right, one user said on Twitter.

Let me start out by saying I’ve been a big fan of the Sandman for decades. With that being said, this special was effing awful. The audio was absolute dog poo, Adam mumbling everyone else just so loud, including the crowd. The sound engineer needs to be fired. All the scripted pieces that are supposed to be candid or techy and take away from the special.

Another user said I only watched about ten minutes. It was too hard to understand what he was saying. The format was just bad or something. Another said I’m a huge fan of him too and thought the way he was doing it was clever, but I ended up stopping at about fifteen minutes for that reason it was too hard to understand. I’m glad it wasn’t just me.

I have not had a chance to watch yet. It’s been a crazy week in my life. Doug Stanhope. It looked like he had a crazy week, but there was a twist. Fans of Doug Stanhope were worried that he’d been arrested on a live stream, but false alarm.

The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office tells DMZ that Doug stanhopes Arizona home was used for a training mission by the county swat team and Doug stand and okate them the full go ahead to do it. The spokesperson clarified when the trainer kicked off nobody was home, and then Doug showed up during the final training scenario, asked to join as a role player and got the green light. It was all voluntary. Doug was not arrested, not involved in any illegal activity. The scene did look super real, it is being described.

It shows Doug Stanhope appearing to be apprehended by multiple armed men entering his home, with one figure clearly identified as him by viewers. There was also another guy in the house involved in the role play, and knowing Doug stand Hope just a smidge, he probably thinks this is the greatest thing that ever happened. The eight hundred Pound Guerrilla celebrates Matt Rife on having the number one most watched special on its channel OnlyFans has thirty million views on YouTube one hundred million total plays across all platforms. One of the founders of The Gorilla said, we wanted to recognize this important moment not just for Matt, but also for fans that watched the special.

Meanwhile, the Daily Trojan with a hot take.

They say the comedy world is rife with problems. Get it women. Comedy fans are often treat it as less important that needs to change. The Daily Trojan Rights and stand up comedy. Crowd work is an important skill to have, especially when starting out open mic nights.

Matt Rife went viral for his crowd work on TikTok, especially among women. Some found him attractive, or charming, or funnier, maybe the mix of the three. Regardless of how the Matt Rife fan pipeline operates, it really works. Yet it seems like Rife is not satisfied with his success. Before the premiere of his Netflix special Natural Selection in twenty three, he told Variety, There’s one thing I wanted to tackle in the special, showing people that despite the way you think about me online, I don’t pander my career to women.

I would argue this special is way more for guys. The Daily Trojan Rights. I look at the rest of his YouTube channel shows the almost exclusively post crowd work content, with such titles as Spitting Game to a Veteran and Handicapped crowd Work Compilation. The latter’s over thirty minutes long and has two point eight million views. Matt’s doing completely fine with popularity.

There’s no reason to rebuke the women who support you. Aside from misogyny, There’s nothing wrong with the wanting to expand your audience, but it doesn’t have to come make the expense of your audience. Celebrities don’t know anything to their fans, but there’s a concerning pattern of disregard toward women. Women are able to appreciate comedy, music, and art just as well as any other person. Success with women comedy fans should be understood as regular success, not something less than.

America Magazine with a Matt Rife hot take. Comedian Matt Rife’s crowd work depends on marginalized people in the audience. In Walking Red Flag, Jake Martin writes, contrary to first impressions, Matt Rife is not Dane Cooked. If you understand this reference, congratulations you are old. Dane Cook was, at the beginning of this millennium, like Riife is today, a good looking, twenty something white guy’s stand up comedian who’s bread and butter was raunchy and misogynistic humor.

Cook was at one point able to parlay his enormous stand up success, which included selling out Madison Square Garden, into an ever so brief a film career. Rife is almost that. But when I say he’s not the second coming of Cook. That’s important because Rife’s level of success has yet to reach the levels that Cook achieved at his peak. For you younger fans, I was doing this during Dane Mania.

Dane was really popular there for four years, five years something like that. The other comedians hated him. Part of it was just jealousy that he’s a MySpace comedian. Met Dane once he was cool. Back to America Magazine, where rifus a pass Cook is in focusing a stand up less on the scripted, structured monologue that has been part and parcel of the medium since at least Vaudeville.

Instead, Rife has focused on interactive crowd work. His best moments are in his extemporaneous back and forth with audience members, particularly those from traditionally mortalized groups such as people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ community, and the elderly. In one set, when an elderly man tells him that he’s been in a wheelchair for thirteen years, Rife responds, it’s nice just to relax, isn’t it, then turns to the audience. It says optimism. Rife gestures back to the man says optimism Now I read that as flat as possible, and I thought those were two good jokes.

Maybe I’m a jerk. When Rife interacts with a young woman with several palsy who tells him from the crowd that he’s hot, he responds, you want your hands now. Just because you’re in a wheelchair doesn’t mean it won’t beat your brakes off. That’s a bit hacky. Rife’s going out of his way to interact with the marginalized in a show speaks to two correlative aspects of humor, both of which open up a space for the construction and the deepening of authentic relationships.

One of those aspects is the knocking over of sacred cows, which in turn leads to another aspect, the deflation of tension. The one two commedy procedure proves liberating for the audience and allows for authentic engagement. In Rife’s case, that authentic engagement is usually full of scatological and sexual humor, but that’s beside the point. In its foreshadowing of the marginalized, He’s given them a public space to fully manifest their humanity. They’re not being celebrated, they’re not being degraded.

They’re being allowed to be who they are. Chelsea Handler has a new residency. That’s a great gig if you can get one. She’s got one at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas is a thirty two hundred seat Chelsea theater. It’s called Chelsea at the Chelsea.

Well done agent who put that together. It’s a monthly or so gig. Tonight November tewon and thirtieth January eighteenth or twenty first eight early teenth. Had she come up with the schedule, she joked, I think they were just trying to link it to my menstrual cycle. That’s Vegas for you.

Some spoilers for her material and I know you’re going tonight, so you might want to hit pause here. She says. There’s a story about me playing pickleball on three edibles at the Bush Compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. There’s a story about my field romance with former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo before he was canceled. And there’s a story about Bill Cosby.

It’s a shame she didn’t mention one of her ex boyfriends, you know who I mean there, Scott Beckett, because then I could go into a bit. But I’m not gonna do it. For those of you who don’t know. She used to date Joe Coy, one time host of the Golden Globe, so Handler says of Cosby, this was many years ago in his hotel room. But I had two men with me, so my experience didn’t in the way it could have.

There’s not many people with such crazy stories, but I feel if you’re sincere, you can’t go wrong. The people who are my fans rely on me for the truth. Does she party? I’m more of a homebody. Okay, Well I’m in Vegas.

Sure I’ll be out with my friends gambling, partying, you know, But unless I’m doing that or on stage, it’s low key for me. I’m in bed by ten my kind of person. On the weekends. Now sometimes I’ll stab two eleven fifteen, crazy, right. I am up early, though, Chelsea said.

I just got a new dog and we went wine tasting up in Napa. He’s a chow chow named Doug, and I’ve had chouse before and they’re not very social. They don’t play fetch. But he has all those traits in one dog, and it’s impossible not to notice his good looks. I don’t want to objectify him, but he’s so handsome.

Chelsea’s favorite musicians I listened to with Spotify called Golden Hour. It’s a mixture of cool soul, funky jazz, and you know, happy hour songs. But I also listened to Nathaniel Rateliff, I w hay to sort of perform, and I enjoy Chapel Rowan songs and Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift of course. Eh, you know Chelsea used to date. Somebody made a Taylor Swift joke one time.

I mean, you’re practically begging me to play at Scott Beckett’s driving around listening to the podcast. He’s throwing stuff at his dashboard. I’m not gonna do the bit, Scott, Relax. What up and coming comedience is Chelsea? Healler excited about?

Sorry, are Chelsea Hayler most excited about? That’s how English works. Her current favorites are Yaminica Saunders and rosebud Baker. How about politics, she said, I heard a great quote recently, decades can go by without any progress happening, and then within weeks it could feel like decades of progress. It feels like there’s a good momentum good energy, but I won’t touch politics in my shows.

My shows for people to enjoy themselves. They’re coming to see my stand up back to take a load off. If you enjoy what I do. Here one are the ways you can support the shows. You can go to buy me acoffee dot com, slash Daily Comedy News.

There’s some money in the tip shar I will take your money. I’ll go to the National don’t chain where pumpkin is back. I put on the app the other day and they were like pumpkin donut and I was like, yeah, pumpkin donut. You got me. So I’ll be fattening up until when did they get rid of the pumpkin?

Like November sixth or so, Like I get how Halloween works, but then like there’s some pumpkin spice hanging around. They keep using it. By the way, you know, it’s really tasty and tm I here the butterprick can. But if you suffer from kidney stones, like one podcast host in his basement, butter per can, we’ll create kidney stones. Don’t do it.

I get that it’s delicious, stick with the caramel, maybe the pumpkin. Anyway, Buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna give you a random, non comedic podcast recommendation. Question of Faith is hosted by my buddy, Deacon Mike. So yes, it’s a spiritual podcast, but that’s not why I’m listening.

Apparently Deacon Mike put together this softball league, and he’s been updating us on the Catholic softball league out in Cleveland, and I’m fascinated by this Question of Faith. Wherever you get your podcast, at least I hope where you get your podcasts. Hopefully Mike has submitted it everywhere. It’s definitely on Apple Podcasts. Greg Fitzimmons says, I still walk on stage with a crumpled up piece of paper with bullet points on it.

I have notes when I’m trying new stuff, and I still get excited about it. Sometimes I’ll be out to dinner with some friends. It’s ten pm. We’ve been sitting there for hours, eating, talking and laughing to you. We dropped the g the Queen’s came out, and I’ll be like, all right, I got ahead into town.

They’re like, what are you talking about? And I’m like, oh, I got a show, and they say how much you’re making and I say thirty dollars. Pat McGann is getting ready to open up for Sebastian Maniscalco. Sebastian’s doing four nights at Madison Square Garden in New York City. That’s insane.

Pat says, I grew up with funny people. We walked to school together and try to bust each other up. Combine that with just like in comedy my parents, I remember them talking about Seinfeld even when it’s just a regular on Carson. Was Cherry a regular on Carson? He was definitely a regular on Letterman?

Was he a regular on Carson? Mike from the Letterman Pod? Hit me up on the side, tell me the answer to that one. I’d sneak away to watch Eddie Murphy Delirious. When you’re ten twelve years old, you understand some of the material, but you’re also seeing this guy on SNL.

He’s also a man of Pearl Jam and he says their latest record, Dark Matter, is a favorite. I’ve been listening to it front to back. I just let it play. And that is your comedy news for today. And before we go, a very happy birthday to my dog.

She is seventeen today. Happy birthday, doggie. 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: Tony Hinchcliffe, Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, David Lucas, Andrew Dice Clay, The Black Keys, Aaron Rodgers, Brian Holtzman, Pauly Shore, Big Jay Oakerson, Jeff Ross, Ari Shaffir, Jim Norton, Harlan Williams, John Mulaney, Langston Kerman, Stav Malakis, Kelsey Cook, Chad Daniels

What’s in This Episode

• Kill Tony MSG sold-out shows grossing $2.389 million across two nights
• Tony Hinchcliffe’s vision and execution of the Kill Tony MSG events
• Tom Brady Roast: Tony Hinchcliffe’s preparation and on-the-fly directing
• John Mulaney’s Netflix Late Night Show and writer Langston Kerman’s experience
• Stav Malakis announces feature film ‘Let’s Start a Cult’ releasing October 25
• Kelsey Cook discusses dating fellow comedian Chad Daniels and touring together
• Hulu launching stand-up comedy branch with licensed specials

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News from Pollstar eating SNL’s Lunch. How Tony Hinchcliffs Killed Tony podcast became your favorite comedian’s favorite show and sold out MSG twice. Pollstar tells us the MSG shows sold twenty ninety three tickets across the two nights, averaging twelve five hundred ninety six per night, engrossing a total two million, three eighty nine. According to the Box Office report submitted to Polestar, that a really nice profile about the show.

I shared it in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Polestar says, if you do well as a regular on Kill Tony, you might become a Hall of Famer like David Lucas, introduced by Tony Hinchcliffe as the dark Roast God when he came on stage. Pollstar said he lived up to his name, shredding anybody sitting on the panel next to Hinchcliff, including Rogan, Shane Gillis, David tel Adam ray Is, Joe Biden, and Shane Gillis Is Donald Trump. On night two, Tony said, watching my regular get to have the moment of their lives up there to watch people that got pulled out of a bucket have an opportunity. Going from sitting in the audience not knowing if they’re performing the performing in the greatest arena of all time made me feel so happy.

I feel like I haven’t even begun to come down yet. Luckily, a lot of my friends that were part of the show been calling and telling me the same thing. It makes me feel more human. Getting a call from Andrew dice Clay saying that was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen. I’ve been having trouble sleeping because of the adrenaline.

Diyce was the first comedian to ever sell out MSG, and here we are, many decades later and he’s losing sleep over it. It makes me feel like I’m okay. And I’ve been getting those calls from absolutely everybody. The Black Keys, Aaron Rodgers, Joe Rogan, and another person who some people feel is the worst person they’ve ever met in the history of life. I’m not going to say the person’s name.

Everybody that was part of it. The Black Keys opened the second night of kil Tony and MSG. Aaron Rodgers came out to throw kill Tony footballs in the audience. Rogan appeared after being called a coward by Shane Gillis for endorsing Robert F. Kennedy Junior.

Over the two days, Brian Holtzman, Paully Shore, Big, Jay Ogerson, Jeff Ross, Ari Shaffer, Jim Norton, Harlan Williams, Joe Rosa, and Moore had performed don at least one of the episodes. That is great. I don’t think they’ve released it on YouTube yet. Last time I checked, it wasn’t up yet. I hope they do, unless they’re saving it for something.

Tony said, It’s just surreal to have those guys be part of it. It’s absolutely a milestone in my life. It took months and months of hard work and me sitting at a desk all by myself, trying to picture how this could go, what the flow would be like, just envisioning the two nights of explosion that everybody got to see. It was a lot of manifesting, a lot of picturing. Executing it, quite frankly, was the easiest, less stressful, most fun part.

I got to sit back and just watch my vision come true. One of the things that makes our show special is that you’re seeing different people, different shapes and sizes and races and ages and everything. Usually with long form podcasts, you’re watching two people have a conversation about different topics for a long time. But on this show, I don’t even know how to describe it. It’s fireworks.

There’s different colors and explosions, different moments, and even some duds that make you realize that the whole thing is live and anything can happen, which makes you appreciate the great moments that much more. Ange Cliff also talked about the Roast of Tom Brady and said I was adapting it up until the very last second. Everything was changing. I was making edits, adding things, cutting things out, and repositioning things. I’ve prepared a lot of those shows for the roast, but I didn’t know how and when I was going to do it.

I decided very early on when I got there that I was going to go from left to right and be the only one that moves around. Was trying to figure out what the main cameras were seeing so they could see me and also the person I was roasting, so I was directing while I was performing. It was a lot of work and a lot of adrenaline, a real blur and an absolute blast, one of the highlights of my life. A lot more there. I’ll hold on to this because traditionally, the week after Labor Day is a slow week, so I might need the rest of that story next week, and I’ll hold on to it.

Let’s see, I’m editing on the fly here. I’ve got more from Nikki Glaser from that Vogue article, which I think is best done as Triumph, the insult comic dog channeling Nicki. But this is the third straight podcast I’m recording, and I’m already losing my voice. If I start doing Triumph, I’m going to lose it, all right, let me bounce you for now. Late Night I spoke to Langston Kerman.

Langston was a writer on John Mulini’s Netflix pseudo Late Night Show. Kerman said, you put Lunel and Pete Davidson and all these big personalities on a couch and they’re going to do what they do, and you sort of have to be on your feet and malleable Mulaney’s the best at that and just accepting whatever being offered to him and figuring out a way to navigate it. Mulanie’s ask of us was not to write to him. It was to write to things we actually thought that we wanted to try, or things that we thought would be really interesting that would be able to take the helm on because he hired a bunch of producer level folks who we wanted to be able to activate and say, hey, go make this thing on your own with our money and our cameras. John Mulaney noticed Kerman’s show bust Down, which lasted just one season, and said John was so into it.

At one point he had sort of reached out basically being like, Hey, if you guys end up doing season two, I’d love to come on as a producer, maybe even be your Danny DeVito fifth in an always sunny kind of vibe. We were like, that’d be awesome. Then Peacock was like, we don’t give an f We’re not doing this ever again. Stavros Alkiez is headed to the big screen. He announced on social media that his feature film Let’s Start a Cult will be in theater’s October twenty fifth.

The log line for Let’s Start a Cult. Having missed out on his cult’s long awaited ritual suicide, an obnoxious loser teams up with his bogus x Messiah to rebuild their doomsday commune. Traveling together through Middle America, the constantly bickering duo induct a military wanna bee, a mentally unstable mom, and a mysterious foreign hitchhiker into their cult. But will this family of outcasts fulfill their transcendent destiny or decide this life might be worth living at all? I can already see the protests.

People are gonna be so mad at that log line. Stavro said. It’s really dumb and fun, with jokes every minute, and a ton of hilarious people are in it. There are appearances from Joe Para, Tom Poppa, and professional wrestler at cmpunk. Kelsey Cook hosts the Pretend Problems podcast.

Whether they’re partner comedian Chad Daniels, Kelsey says, I personally love it, especially because Chad has been doing stand up longer than me. He’s my favorite comedian. His new special on Netflix is really good. It is in my top of the year, and so we have zero sense of competition between us and our careers, which is pretty crucial for two comics dating. You have to be actively rooting for each other and have no underlying feelings of fomo if one person gets something and the other doesn’t.

We’ve been really fortunate that we both feel like each other’s success only helps the other. We just want each other to succeed. The only time it can be tough is our schedules. We both have to tour to make money. We’re trying to figure out some ways next year to do tour dates together, which I’m really excited about.

Hulu creating their own branches stand up Commenty. They’re licensing a group of specials that have already been released. The Hustler’s been on YouTube for a little over a year now. To continue to live on YouTube, which is great, but now to be on Hulu as well, which hopefully we’ll reach a whole new audience that’s super exciting. Lamar and Morris is in that new Saturday Night Live movie called Saturday Night, and he said it was a chaotic filming.

He plays Garrett Morris. He told Vanity Fair, I gotta say it was chaotic. That might have been intentional because it’s all one big cast, the same way it was back in Opening Night when there was so much confusion of what we were doing. There was a lot of that while filming too. He explained that filming involved a lot of big long shots which were really difficult to get right.

Once you’re doing take number twenty twenty two, twenty three, the pressure’s on and the actors are tightening up. Really to see who’s gonna mess up this shot? After a six minute take, you’re like, which one of us is gonna screw this up? For everybody, Wright men directed the hell out of this thing. It’s a great look at day one at SNL, the ups and downs, how the show almost didn’t happen.

The character is obviously now we know fifty years later what the show’s become. But to see the origin of it and the actors in this movie will blow oh your mind. Saturday night in theaters, October eleventh, and my voice is shot. This is gonna be the last story of this recording session. Congratulations to English comedian Amy Gledhill.

Amy has won Best Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The director of the Comedy Awards, Nika Burns, said the judges love the fact that she blends writing that echoes the genius of Victoria Wood combined with the magical physicality of Julie Walters. This show is make Me Look fit. Judge Byrne said Amy’s show is joyful, delightful, and full of laughter. It’s a show back with jokes and so much hard that everyone in the audience falls utterly in love with her and has a wonderful time.

Also, congratulations to Joe Kent Walters, who won the Best Newcomer award. Judge BYRNS says Joe Kent Walters as great the extraordinary character of Frankie monrou which is both a love letter and satirization of a workingman’s club MC. His accomplishment is such that it’s hard to believe this is Joe’s first Fringe hour. Joe draws on a range of skills including pantomime, musical comedy, and stand up to bring you into Frankie’s world. My voice is shut comedy news for today.

I got plenty of leftovers. I will be here tomorrow and I’ll see you then.

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Featured: Joe Rogan, Kat Williams, Brendan Schaub, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Andrew Schulz, Ari Shafir, Brian Callen

What’s in This Episode

• Chris Beck’s critique of Joe Rogan’s influence on comedy
• Kat Williams’ comments on Joe Rogan promoting unfunny comedians
• Brendan Schaub’s 91 JRE appearances and comedy special criticism
• Bert Kreischer’s career trajectory and attention-seeking behavior
• Tom Segura’s physical transformation and comedy decline
• Andrew Schulz charging for special before Netflix release
• Ari Shafir’s controversial Kobe Bryant tweet
• Debate over Joe Rogan’s overall impact on stand-up comedy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Man, Johnny Mac, you think you could do something a little up beat the back half of Thursday’s podcast where you talked about Jerry Lewis Film of the Day, the Clown Cried, and the Nazi stuff in there. That was a little heavy. Johnny Mac, What are you doing, hey, listener? You think you got a bad I’m recording Thursday and Friday back to back because I got some stuff going on in my life and I had a pre tape.

I just told that story in my world ninety seconds ago. I’m still feeling it. But it is hot take time. Here’s a hot take. I didn’t come up with this hot take, but I will read you a hot take.

The hot take is Joe Rogan is too powerful in the comedy world, oh know. Chris Beck wrote for Splice Today the lead off sentence the comedians he promotes or as annoying as a midnight car alarm. Oh wow, Okay, so we’re gonna come for Joe Rogan here, let’s see what Chris Beck has to say. In January, comedian Kat Williams start up the comedy world blah blah blah for some truth telling Joe got six comedians that have never been funny that he just wants to push out, said Kat Williams. Williams didn’t identify the comedians.

Chris Beck has speculated that those comedians are Brendan Schaub, Bert Krescher, Tom Sigora, Andrew Schultz, Ari Shafir, and Brian Callen. Beck writes, Brendan Shab has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience ninety one times. Still, he’s merely a filler guest who gets the call so often because he’s Rogan’s buddy, and Rogan’s loyal to his pals. However uninteresting that may be, you don’t tell him out. Mike from The Letterman Podcast and I we’ve been talking about doing something semi regular, and it’s not like, oh, I have nothing to talk about, let me just bug Mike from the Letterman Podcast.

We just really get along and like talking about stuff. The only reason we haven’t done it yet is because of scheduling. But like, I have no problem with Joe Rogan going here’s a reliable guest that I like talking to. That’s what you do, Chris Beck writes, Shab’s comedy special Gringo Poppy, filmed in Dallas. I have not seen.

It is the least funny event who happened in that town since the Kennedy assassination. Rogan won’t even let Shop appear at the Mothership. Bert Kreischer, with thirty seven Joe Rogan Experience appearances, is another member of Rogan’s goon squad, although unlike Shop, he’s had financial success as a comedian. He had an adventure show on the Travel Channel and a low rated comedy special on Showtime. When Rogan called him up and told him to quit TV because he was a storyteller he should be telling stories on stage.

Yeah, wasn’t that pretty good advice? Hey Bert Kraser, you know that story you have about the machine, it’s a good story. You should tell it. That’s great advice from Joe Rogan to made the dude’s career. And it’s a good bit and the movie was fine.

Kreischer’s signature move is to take a shirt off, exposing his obast torso he does this during his act and even while sitting on a couch on a podcast. Why it’s a look at me move from a guy who graves attention. Like all of Rogan’s squad does. Dude, do you think there’s a single stand up comedian who doesn’t crave attention? Well, that’s why they’re up there.

I will work with a lot of comedians. They’re all at least a little crazy. When Krascher appeared on Tony Hinchcliff’s popular comedy show Killed Toun, New York comic Jim Norton cracked a funny ed lib. Instead of letting Norton take all the well deserved applause for the audience, Chraysier Adopta’s shirt so we could get in on the action. Dude, come on man, all right, continuing, Tom Sagora has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience forty one times.

He was funny when he was chubby, but after he hired a personal trainer and buffed up, the laugh started to go away. Of his xs pounds. All right, So Burt Kreischer is too fat. Tom Sagora is too fit. His act is now like listening to your boring friend who won’t stop talking about the funny things his kids do.

It’s the laziest form of comedy. No, it’s not the laziest form of comedy. The laziest form of comedy is just getting up and saying something vulgar for vulgar’s sake. I used to illustrate this and teach her to my college classes, and I used to just out of nowhere go and then I punched her in the place you probably shouldn’t punch a woman. Dave Chappelle has used a similar joke.

I heard Chappelle do it after I pointed this out. Anyway, when I used to randomly say and then I punched her in and I would get laughs, and then I would point out to this class, I didn’t even tell a joke there. That’s the laziest form of comedy. And again I’m not a comedian. I’m just illustrating.

I could say something really vulgar or really outrateous and get a chuckle out of you. It doesn’t make for good comedy. Actually, the article last year, when I had an airport employee made Tom Sigora check his bag. He had a two day meltdown, beginning with his tweet dumb seaword from airlines made me geet check my bag so she can feel little power that she has in her life. I get it.

You win this round, Seaword when this repulsive prima doma like Range elicited a bunch of negative responses from his fans. Sigura duck deeper, tweeting all the pores and losers have the same response, Oh you were inconvenience, Well you should accept it. Sigor has let his money go to his head. Continuing the article, Andrew Schultz is another Rogan regular who got some fame began to buy the hype. Schltz is annoying before he opens his mouth because of the bizarre Hitler esque haircut he’s sported lately.

Okay, so now we’re going to judge people on their looks. Maybe you don’t like his stylized haircut doesn’t mean he’s not funny. It’s the equivalent of Bert Kreischer’s gross shirtless look as an attention grabbing device. I almost lipp in a triumph there again. Should I do that bit again?

Schultz once charged his fans for his latest comedy special and then put it on Netflix a month later. That happens a lot. Dude. Brian Kallen has appeared on The Joe Rowan Experience eighty six times. Callen’s not as annoying as the rest of Rogan’s boys, but he’s hardly worth mentioning.

He’s made four comedy specials but hasn’t been able to sell any to a streaming service. Or Shaffer has sixty seven Joe Rogan experience appearances. We have to behave, but when it appears, I’m killed. Tony He’s known for pulling his testicles out. He’s violent too.

Comedian Bobby Lee once invited some of his mat TV buddies to LA’s Comedy Store for a set. Shafiro’s girlfriend was there, met with one of Lee’s friends, and was soon dating him. Shafir blamed Lee and physically assaulted him on three different occasions. I’ve never heard that story. I’ve in fact checked it, but one should not physically assault anyone.

Now. I have googled here Shaffir assault Lee, and there are several youtubes, TikTok’s reddits, nothing from anything that I would consider a major news source. So I just want to throw that out there. I don’t know what’s true or not. Again, I am reading from an article in Splice Today under the headline Joe Rogan is too powerful in the comedy world.

Shaffir’s comic Cretch is trying to be edgy even though he’s fifty. Can you not be edgie at fifty? George Carlin was pretty edgy. On the day of Kobe Brian’s death, Shafir wrote on Twitter, Kobe Bryant died twenty three years too late. Today he got away with rape because of all the Hollywood liberals who attack comedy enjoy rooting for the Lakers more than they dislike rape.

I hate the Lakers. What a great day. That caused an Internet firestorm about a bad joke, but there’s no joke there. It’s a straight troll, reasonably fair. There are some aspects to Kobe Bryant’s biography then I’m not going to litigate here, but on that particular day, that did feel a little too soon.

I remember that day anyway. Interesting article there in a Joe Rogan hot take. My take, Joe Rogan has been very good for stand up comedy. Comedy comes in many forms. You might like the Austin scene.

You might like the New York brick walls smoking cigarette guys. You might like the La All scene. It’s all good. Dean Cole’s got a new special coming to Netflix. It is called Okay Mister.

In it Dean Cole recalls the telltale signs of aging, bedroom mishaps, at dating deal breakers and more. Let’s listen to a bit of the trailer. I’m cutting a little bit early here. He’s got one more punch line after I cut. But it’s a little naughty when.

Black people cheet, like we dip off with somebody else. You know, we’d like to go to white establishments because we know ain’t no black people there to see us. I was with this girl one day. She was like, why you got me at this medieval castle? Dean Cole.

Okay, mister, filmed back in May in La. Part of the Netflix is a joke festival. Okay, mister. On Netflix September seventeenth. I’ve mentioned this before, but they’re bringing back Chris Rocks.

Everybody still Hates Chris. This time it’s animated. It will be on Comedy Central. We now have a date September twenty fifth at ten pm. I have no idea why we’re making this.

Love You Chris Rock, but I don’t think anybody really cared about the the first time. But now it’s an animated series. Okay, fine, in Everybody still hates Chris Chris Rock narrates stories inspired by his experience growing up as a skinny nerd, you know, working class family in Betstye, Brooklyn during the eighties. Terry Crews plays dad. Tim Johnson Junior plays young Chris, a nerd who wants to be cool, but he’s outshined by his younger brother, tortured by his little sister, and foiled by his cheapskate dad.

All right, let’s do some political stuff from both sides. Kamil nan Gianni says he’s been in touch with the Harris Walls campaign about getting involved with the election. Kamal says, I’m gonna make videos to get people to register to vote. I might make some appearances later. I think it’s really important everybody registered to vote and everybody does vote.

Whoever you vote for, that’s on you. But you gotta vote. Please register to vote. Camille says it’s really unbelievable how I was feeling a month and a half ago and how I’m feeling now. It’s really inspiring.

This has given me faith in humanity. I just feel lighter and happier. I’m gonna say I’m fighting to stay hopeful and not get too optimistic or confident. There’s still a lot of work to do. Tim Dillon made a lot of fun of Kamala Harris on his podcast.

Tim said, Kamala Harris is running on I’m not even kidding the word joy Joy be happy. There’s nothing to do with healthcare. She said. We’re going to stop the food from being expensive, fatty, You’re gonna be able to eat for less. That’s what Kamalo’s platform is.

She wants to put price controls on the food or platform. Right now, the only policy we know about is essentially a sign in a Vegas restaurant eat for less. That’s all she said. She’s gonna let these fatty boom patties into the grocery store. From the Moscow Times, they will have a new show about Joe Biden.

This one is called Goodbye. In Goodbye, the character Joe Biden travels to Russia incognito to find out why his sanctions aren’t working against Russians. During the visit, Joe Biden loses his passport and finds himself trapped in Russia. He’s then forced to live in a Soviet era apartment block and work as an English teacher to save money so he can buy a new passport for his return home.

Meanwhile, CIA agents whisk away retan pensioner Ivanovich, who looks just li…

Yes, it’s a body swap comedy. It won’t be out until twenty twenty five. Though that’s too late, guys. No one’s gonna care about this a year. You got to get this out next week.

Russian actor Dmitri Jusef, who’s best known for his role as Cosmos in the hit gangster series Brigata, We’ll play Joe Biden. Photos taken during the production show Dmitri dressed up in a silver gray wig and wearing pearly white genters. He was quoted in the press release of saying, I’m really curious to see what will come of our bold experiment and whether the audience will be able to recognize me and Biden and Biden and me. Nevertheless, I can guarantee it will be a kind, lifelike and funny story. And that is your comedy news for today.

This weekend will be normal episodes. I’ve got plenty of been working on it for some time. You know. I hate producers that wake up and go, oh my god, it’s labor day. Weekend, I don’t have anything.

We should take the week off. I plan so I’ve got shows for you and I’ll meet you back here tomorrow. See you there

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Featured: Shane Gillis, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Josh Safdie

What’s in This Episode

• Shane Gillis Bud Light commercial partnership and college football campaign
• Adam Sandler Love You Netflix special reviews and reception
• Adam Sandler special production design and venue setup by Josh Safdie
• Comparison of Adam Sandler’s comedic styles across specials

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Shane Gillis isn’t a new bud Light commercial. USA Today points out Shane Gillis drinking a bud Light for a college football game isn’t exactly headline news. A quick scroll through his Instagram and you can see Shane and his friends enjoying bud Lights while out at various events.

In January, Shane announced a partnership with bud Light. They have a new campaign rolling out across TV and social media. Ton Allen is bud Light’s senior vice president of Marketing. He said, as a passionate college football fan himself, Shane Gillis was the perfect partner to connect to our college football audience with his distinct style of humor. And it doesn’t hurt that Shane loves a bud Light or two on game day, all right.

In this commercial, which I’m going to play most of for you, it’s called The Dean’s Office. Shane Gillis plays Coach Herb who’s brought into the office for a meeting between the college dean and a football player in trouble. A bucket of bud Lights is offered in exchange for the truth. Let’s take a listen. It takes a minute to get rolling, but once we get to Shane major payoff.

Here you go, Bobby, you’ve been accused of pagiarizing your master’s thesis. If you were found guilty, you will have to forego the football season. But if you confess, I will make it only half the season. I’ll make you a deal. You tell the truth, you can have this ice cold bucket of bud light.

All you have to do is confess, all right. I’ll go first, grease the wheels a little. What no, I confess said? I practice my halftime speeches in the shower before games. Professor Wilkins, do you want to confess anything?

No, all right, I’ll go for you. Professor Wilkins has been taking karate classes ever since that saxophone girl put him in a headlock. Jane Gillis provided an exclusive statement to USA Today in which Shane Gillis says, I’ve spent the past couple of years working with these guys on projects from beautiful dogs to tires. Getting to shoot new shorts with them and bud was a lot of fun, all right. Adam Sandler recaps.

Here’s the deal. I’ve got some stuff going on in my personal life. I had a tape a couple days in advance, so I’m actually recording today because I’m not around today. I had to record this on Tuesday. My plan here as I sit here in the basement is to actually watch Adam Sandlor.

But as I record, I haven’t seen it yet. But a bunch of reviews are out, the first from USA Today, Who Right, there are two Adam Sandlers. One is the in your face, lowest common denominator fort and penis joke guy you know and maybe love, depending on your comedic taste. Johnny Mac personally hates that the other is getting a little bit older, a little bit romantic and very nostalgic. I like the older Adam Sandler.

I’ve talked about this. I openly don’t like most of his movies, and I think some of the more dramatic roles, I think he’s actually pretty good at it, and I’d like to see him do more of that. USA Today Right says for the special these two men meet in an odd dysfunctional marriage and Sandler’s new Netflix special Adam Sandler, Love You. They gave a two and a half stars out a four. The hour long special is a foe off the cuff event directed by one of Sandler’s uncut Gem’s collaborators, Josh Safti.

It makes more odd penis and sex jokes than you would expect, with a bit of melancholy and softness sorry my brain locked on penis jokes and softness, I know, plus some unreality pretending to be real. Altogether, it’s a little joring, sometimes off putting, but also kind of sweet. Love You is nowhere near the heights of his last special, twenty eighteen’s one hundred percent fresh. That outing was full of energy and newness. Spoilers.

Love You opens with Sandler driving a car with a shattered windshield into an alley. He’s instantly overcome by fans and gets a hoodie from a stranger. It’s meant to be raw footage, but in reality it’s clearly scripted to be weird and off putting, complete with a random ventriloquist as Saandlor’s opening act. It stinks of Safty involvement, as films from Safty and his brother Benny, including Gems in Good Time, are known for their stressful, slightly off killed re version of the real world. It doesn’t really work or does a series of technical glitches after Sandler takes the stage that might have been real or but also come off scripted.

This is really interesting. Now I’m looking forward to watching this and considering the special was filmed over four nights, that’s the most logical conclusion. Yeah, that’s too that they had to take four different nights to make an hour here or seventy minutes here. A little weird coffee in hand, which he demands to be sweetened with Stevia and not a different artificial sugar. Sandler begins a row call of middling jokes about life, veering from the mundane to the fantastic.

Old topics include genies, talking balloons, other mythical characters. He’s never been the kind of comedian to invite the audience into his actual personal life, even if some of his experiences as a husband, father, and celebrity sneak into a storytelling. There are many many of his typical, less than tasteful jokes. Kids walking in on their parents having sex, a genie tricking Sandler in a performing something naughty in an airport bathroom, songs about old guys with kids. The list goes on the line between funny and vulgar has crossed more than once, but that’s nothing new for Sandler.

This is USA today. But then there are the simple, folksy kind of jokes that hit without inducing. Rob Schneider appears in an Elvis Presley get up to do a really solid impression of the King as Saandlor sings along. I played on The Weekly Comedy Thing. That’s the show I host on Live One.

I played a Schneider bit where he was doing Yoko and Julian Lennon. Now, the Yoko is every stereotype you can imagine, but the Julian Lennon was pretty good. It was basically doing Lennon as the John Lennon everyone does. But it was really entertaining. Anyway.

That show is called The Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s on the Live One app. The show is free. The app is free if you want to check that out. I do that once a week, new episodes every Sunday.

The Elvis thing is not really a joke so much as a solid musical interlude. The Chicago Sun Times reviewed Adam Sandler’s new special and say we are living in the age of the streaming comedy special when it seems like there’s at least one new stand up show every week. Yes, there are the first five minutes of Love You Play, like a deleted scene from uncut Gems, with Saidler pulling up an allie. I has talked about that one sailor’s inside. It’s clear the venue isn’t exactly the United Center or American Airlines arena.

Sandler wonders aloud, who booked this place? So like, I haven’t seen it yet. That sounds kind of lame, like Adam Sandler’s walking in having no idea where he’s performing. I mean, that’s just not true. So you know, I have two minds here.

One it’s comedy, Just laugh whatever, have a good time. But if the underlying premise is, oh, I can’t believe I’m in this arena? How did this happen? How is my Netflix special being filmed here? That seems a little leame to me.

But again, I haven’t seen it yet, he sometimes wrights. Turns out the grubbiness of the venue was literally built into the production, as Saftie in the production design team built the Nockturn Theater in Glendale, California into a ramshackle disaster that looks like it’s on the brink of being shut down. It’s strange to see one of the biggest comedy stars of his generation in such a down skill setting. But it’s never not interesting. None of this would matter if the material isn’t there and that department Sandler delivers a hilarious yet thought provoking mix of jokes and songs.

Not everything works, mostly though, Sandler comes through where he’s telling a story that sounds like it’s pulled from real life but quickly turns absurd. We’re playing solid guitar while performing these genre hopping songs, and a friend of the podcast, Jason Zinnemann in The New York Times, writes, Adam Sandler, at fifty seve Vin hasn’t lost a step before it became a huge star. Sandler made proudly filthy and beloved comedy albums full of irreverence. Sketches the Chronicle subjects like an extremely long bout of urination. I’m gonna jump in and again.

I respect Jason Zineman, and as I told Jason Zinneman when he was on the pod, Jason knows more about comedy than I do. But I’m going to push back on beloved comedy albums. And here’s why I programmed a serious comedy for ten years, and especially in the area of programming on Live one and Slacker. I can tell you Adam Sandler bits are not loved. Like, for example, on the Live one app, you can thumbs up and thumbs down things, and I get to see all the data.

Anytime I schedule Adam Sandler stuff. It is at the bottom of any playlist, all of them. They are not beloved, at least by the people that use the Live one app. These are not beloved. Jason Zinneman, but love you, Jason writes, the new Special can feel like a throwback to that era.

If anything, age allows new avenues for potty humor. Sandler hasn’t exactly matured that was destroy his comedy so much as allowed sentiment to overtake the humor he had helped from family, his wife and daughters, and now as much of regulars as his work as Chris Rock, David Spade, and his old friends from snl are. Sandler gives his old pal Rob Schneider an unnecessary cameo doing an Elvis impression. The best parts of the special are its long winding, dirty stories told in its characteristic mumble in crooked angles and close ups. Safty shoots Sandler watching his show fall apart a dog runs on stage.

The video doesn’t work. Sandler makes one joke about his own fame and stature, but the visuals undercut any hero worship, even putting silhouettes on the heads of audience members in the foreground. He’s playing a small room and speaking softly about juvenile things. For certain kind of comedy, that’s all you need. Jason also wrote about Langston Kerman’s bad poetry that one I did watch last weekend, and you know it was okay.

I just didn’t do anything for me, so I bailed on it. But Jason writes in his Terrific debut Hour, Langston Kerman displays the kind of effortless, laid back charm that can make you underestimate him. There’s an ease with which he moves between talking about his mother’s romantic life for the student cruelty experience when he was a school teacher that can make his act seemed tossed off. You might also think he benefits from great stories, like an amazing one about a man his mother married who was fired from his job as an NBA mascot. But there’s a precision to his low key stories and attention to detail that puts jokes across.

His setups and punchlines are solid. Even his transitions contain gems, like all our heroes are monsters, and all our monsters have podcasts. The Punchline Comedy Club is opening with Dave Chappelle. It’s their new location at twelve oh four Caroline in Houston, inside the former House of Blues restaurant, space capacity two hundred and fifty. Dave Chappelle will perform September sixth and seventh at the new location.

It’s probably sold out by the time you hear my voice. I tell you. The Traitorers wanted Ricky Gervais to be on their show. Ricky has responded on Twitter saying he loves the show and I’m very flattered, but it won’t happen. I’m too busy and there’s no way they could afford me.

He wrote that alongside an emoji of a face wearing sunglasses. So when I put a show together, I have these little documents and I’ll put the stories and I’ll slot them in a different day. For example, if you announced a comedy special coming out December first, and I got a press release, I would not only mention it today, but in the December first folder, I would put it there to remind me to talk about it three months from now. And the other thing I do is like say, I’m gonna talk about Adam Sandler. I just have one word, all right, Sandler, to let me know as I go into the next story, what I’m about to talk about.

What I’m about to talk about here is Michael Keaton. But for some reason I spelled it k E A R t O w N. I don’t know how that happened. Kereton, Michael Kereton. You know him, he was Batman.

Well, he’s also in Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. I know I’m not falling for it. I’m not saying that word a third time. You know what happens if you say it three times?

Michael Keaton said. The only thing I was worried about was should we have left it alone? You know, should we have just said, don’t touch it, just walk away, go make your other movies. So for me, it was a big roll of the dice at the end of the day. If somebody said you have to pick one thing you’ve done how I make my living, I’d probably pick that character that I’m not saying if it’s all encompassing thing, just for it.

Sorry, you know what I mean. I mean in you know, some pretty good movies, but this sequel is something different. I’m looking forward to this one. Do you know what The Day the Clown Cried is is? It is an unfinished and unreleased nineteen seventy two drama directed by and starring Jerry Lewis.

Okay, have you heard of this? It is one of the most famous loss films in history. It’s so bad, Jerry Lewis declared it should never be seen. Every now and then I hear stories of like a secret screening in a Los Angeles. I’ve seen a recreation of it on YouTube.

So what’s so bad about The Day the Clown Cried? How bad could it be? Where? Here’s the synopsis of a new film called Darkness to Light. Darkness to Lights synopsis reads.

In nineteen seventy two, the King of comedy, Jerry Lewis, was at the peak of his career, driven by the ambition to play a dramatic role for change, he set out to craft a very special movie project for himself, The Day the Clown Cried. It turned out to be an epic fiasco, becoming an elusive ghost of a movie, with Lewis leaving the set and never speaking about what happened. The movie was never completed and has become the ultimate Hollywood myth. Okay, what’s the deal John? How bad could this movie be?

In the Day the Clown Cried, Jerry Lewis plays a German clown in a concentration camp. Now the story I’m cripping off here doesn’t talk about it, but basically spoilers for a fifty year old movie that’s never coming out. The Nazis something something with Jerry Lewis the clown and Jerry Lewis the clown, performs to distract the children, who then get led to the gas chambers. This is a Jerry Lewis film. It never came out, So I’m looking forward to this documentary And if you really scour the Internet you can’t find the film.

It really has been put away. I’m pulling up the Wikipedia right here. Jerry Lewis repeatedly insisted The Day the Clown crid would never be released. Later donated an incomplete copy of the film to the Library of Congress in twenty fifteen. Under the stipulation it was not to be made available before June of twenty twenty four.

According to Lewis’s son, there is no complete negative of the film, and outstanding copyright issues have prevented its release. Wikipedia has the plot as Helmet Dork Doork. Helmet Dork is a washed up German circus clown during the beginning of World War Two in the Holocaust. He was once a famous performer who toured North American Europe with the Ringling Brothers. Dork has now passed his prime receives little respect.

After Dork causes an accident during a show, the head clown convinces the circus owner to demote Dork. Upon returning home, Dork confines his problems to his wife Ada, and she encourages him to stand up for himself. He goes back to the circus something Something. Helmet is arrested by the Gestapo for drunkenly mocking Adolf Hitler in a bar. He’s in prison in a Nazi camp for the next three to four years.

He remains there while hoping for a trial and had a chance to plete his case. Subplots about his time in the prison. The other prisoners go dork in a performing for them, but he doesn’t realize that he’s actually not that good. The other prisoners beat him up and leave him in the courtyard to sulk. He sees a group of Jewish children laughing at him from the other side.

Delighted to be appreciated, Helmett performs for them and gains an audience until the new prison commandant orders him to stop. Helmut learns that fraternizing with Jewish prisoners is strictly forbidden. Unable to leave the children in a state of unhappiness, he continues to perform for them more plots, skipping ahead. Seeing a use for the commandant assigns him to help load Jewish children on trains leading out of the internment camp with a promise that his case will be reviewed. By a twist of fate, he ends up accidentally accompanying the children on a box car train to Auschwitz.

He’s eventually used in pied piper fashion to help the Jewish children to their deaths in the gas chamber. On February twenty third, nineteen seventy three, Jerry Lewis appeared as a guest on The Dickcavit Show, where he stated the film would complete editing in six to seven weeks and had been invited premiere at the Cannes Film Festival that May. It would be released in America after that, the film was never officially released and remains unreleasable to the failure to secure the underlying rights. In twenty twelve, French director Xeviergani told a talk show he had managed to track down a seventy five minute copy of the film and had shown it to a number of people, and I don’t see it here, but I feel like there was an only screening of it at one point, like you had to be in the cool kids club. Anyway, I’m looking forward to that documentary.

There’s no way I’m digging out of this hole and making the end of this podcast fun. So let’s just get out and that’s your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Taylor Swift, John Oliver, Josh Johnson, Langston Kerman, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser attending 22 Taylor Swift Eras Tour concerts and media coverage
• Nikki Glaser’s history with Taylor Swift fandom since 2007-2008
• John Oliver on writing political comedy in 2024 election cycle
• Josh Johnson recording topical comedy sets on current events
• Langston Kerman’s new comedy special directed by John Mulaney

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Caloroga Shark Media. Guys, I’m gonna have to go full George Lopez tacos on Nikki Glaser. I just can’t anymore with this, Nicky, Please stop. Hello. I’m Johnny Mac with your daily com news from Vogue.

Liking this woman is part of my identity now. Comedian Nikki Glaser on attending twenty two Taylor Swift Eras concerts. How many of these articles are we gonna do? Okay, Nicky, you crushed on the rest of Tom Brady. Great, You’re like the hot comedian right now?

Great? You like Taylor Swift. Great enough with this? This is like the George Lopez tacos. I can’t read an article about this every day, Nicki tells Vogue.

It makes me feel so good. I don’t drink anymore, and I try not to do drugs, and honestly, this is just a really good drug. I’m kind of addicted. I get a little bit sad at the idea that it’s gonna run out at some point and I’ll probably have to replace it with something else. But it’s not really hurting anyone, so I just lean into it.

The more I embrace it, the less I’m embarrassed by it. At this point in my life, I’m not embarrassed by it at all, or I wouldn’t be talking to you about it. Yeah, no kidding. When I first moved to LA I had a roommate I met off Craigslist, and she worked on the Warners Brothers lot and had tickets one day to go see taping of Allen. When she came home from it, I was like, who was on?

She said, this country artist girl, and she shared her calendar was probably for two thousand and seven or two thousand and eight. It was the Taylor Swift self titled album calendar. We kept it on our coffee table as a joke because we didn’t know who this girl was. I’d flip through it late at night when I would get home from sets and just look at the girl’s pictures. I would eat cereal off this calendar.

I remember being like, this girl so pretty and cute, but it’s probably not the kind of music I would like. What I would give now, I would pay five hundred dollars for that calendar. All right, Nikki Glaser, When did you get into Taylor’s music? It happened in several different stages. The first time, I was like, oh, this is something special.

I was moving back to Saint Louis after I kind of struck out in LA for the first time. I’d just done this tonight show, but it didn’t change my life. I was still babysitting and borrowing money from my parents, and they were kind of like, we can’t do this for you anymore. So I drove across country back home and we listened to the radio the whole way and Love Story was just playing a lot, and I remember being like, this is the song of the summer. I was instantly magnetized to that song.

I almos slipped in a triumph there. Maybe that would make this whole thing funny. Nikki Glaser Triumph. When did you start going to Taylor’s concerts? I went to the Red Store.

I loved it, but I wasn’t a swifty yet good bit. This is a good bit. I just remember thinking, this girl is massively talented. I got to meet her backstage after it. I remember all I said to her is, I can’t believe that was you.

She was in a buttonhoun shirt, petal pusher bets and her hair looks so normal. She just looked normal, but she says this girl flying through the air performing for a stadium. I just remember being like, I can’t believe that’s you out there, Like, look at you. You’re just normal, And she was like, isn’t it crazy? She’s just so relatable and cool.

I was a fan, but the swiftie in me hadn’t sunk in yet. That didn’t happen until I was lying in bed listening to nineteen eighty nine. It had just come out and it was like the way people describe doing heroin. It just hit my veins. I remember thinking, my life will never be the same.

This is part of who I am liking. This woman is part of my identity now. It just felt like the same way when I found stand up, Like I’m never gonna be the same page. Is more of this holiday weekend filler coming up? Oh yes?

John oliver Is spoked to Variety. He talked about the low hanging fruit that is political comedy in twenty twenty four, and he said, it’s not necessarily a gift that you want, to be honest, technically, it’s a gift, but it’s not a great one. I think the tendency is often to think that it writes itself I promise you it doesn’t. Everything moves so fast nowadays you can get first take jokes online very quickly, so you have to be writing the most obvious joke for anything to have that kind of surprise factor. On top of that, things are very bleak when you’re writing jokes.

I’m still laughing about the triumph Deally ticking Glazer. When you’re writing jokes, you want to try and find a way to deal with the bleakness that isn’t kind of fiddling while Rome burns. One of the flaws of the way American elections work is so much of it is about personality and non policy. The policy stuff, of course, is so much more interesting and definitely so much more important, and that could be a problem, especially when you’re writing comedy. It can seem encounterintuitive to say, don’t look at this subjectively funny thing.

As for Trump, because it’s the third time he’s running for president, there isn’t much more to say about this guy. He’s an open book. I don’t know what we can really add in terms of content that we haven’t done already. So it actually it feels easier to talk about other things. That was not the case in twenty sixteen, Walter spoke to Josh Johnson, who, two days after the assassination attempt on Trump’s life at least a forty five minute set about the attempt, written and recorded the day it occurred.

It currently has over eight hundred thousand views. Johnson has been writing and recording twelve to forty five minute sets inspired by topical events, including Justin Timberlake’s arrest at the FBA, rate On Diddy’s house, Joe Biden dropping out, and more. Josh says, I’ve always been writing a lot ever since I started. When I lived in Chicago, which is where I started doing comedy, open MIC’s were four or five minutes, and in my head, it just made more sense to try a different set every time. It wasn’t always productive, because I still learned to do stand up and I wasn’t necessarily getting the repetition of a concentrated four or five minute set, but I still felt like I was exercising a different muscle which was generating a large amount of general output.

When I started, all of my real heroes and stand up were timeless, so I very much wanted to be timeless. I felt like being topical and current was the antithesis of that. When I realized I was writing really fast and I was getting bored with my own ideas very quickly, I was like, what if I gave this topical thing a shot. I wanted to start post more. I wanted to start sharing what I’ve been creating.

I had these notebooks full of jokes that were going nowhere, and it was important to me to try to share that with people. And I couldn’t have imagined the journey that’s been taking me down. People have really taken me in a way that’s hard to describe. Sometimes when you see a video, it’s my first time doing it. I just wrote out as much as possible and did my best to memorize it, and I’m feeling out the rest of the connective tissue by the audience’s reactions.

I go. And sometimes I’ve been able to do it two or three times. I think the two ways to be different is to either have one of the more nuanced takes about the big thing everybody’s talking about, or to talk about the thing nobody is talking about. Ult to talk to John Mlini about Langston Kerman’s new special. Milleni is the director on it, and said not to sound conceited or big brothery, but it very much reminded me of the special I did in twenty eleven New in Town.

I was like, Langston is really sought after as a writer and actor as well, and everyone knows he’s a good stand up, but he’s got a great hour that’s got to get out. When I felt when I recorded my special was this is everything since I started stand up. These are the type of bits I’ve been trying to nail, and now I have a whole row with them, and they add up to an hour, and I want to do this right now. Every bit of the special is a take home bit. I always think of specials like album tracks.

In each of these is a hit to mein critique of most specials is and I wish it’d be hard on myself too. Every part of it has to be good. Just wait if you don’t have it. This hour was so tight and ready to go. The reason of film it was because it was so good.

As opposed to somebody just saying I need to or want to make another special, Langston said. We wanted the special to cool and not like a silly thing that other people are doing, and m’laney said, yeah, and if I named any of the things we avoided, you could go find out what specials I’m probably talking about. So I’m not gonna do that. I’ve got some corner. Ricky Gervais has shown fans his new fourteen and a half million pound home in Hampstead, nine bathrooms, a spa and its own gym and hope, so for that kind of coin, Ricky went on Instagram and posted the entrance hall and marble staircase, as well as a large room that he’s using as an office.

He says, though it’s not going to be a forever home, his longtime partner Jeane, who’s sixty three. Ricky is also sixty three. Jeane has concerns about living there in their eighties. Ricky said, I thought the last house was going to be the one I was going to die in. Bill Simmons has Adam Sandler on the Monday episode.

I tried to listen to it. I’m not even I’ve been dissing Adam Sandling here. The audio quality was horrific. I can’t believe Bill Simmons actually put it out and nobody cleaned it up. Terrible, unlistenable.

Rob Schneider is weighing in on politics. He put out a lengthy statement, I’m going to skim through it when I raise my voice here. Those are words that Rob Schneider put out in caps, the words of Rob Schneider, de your fellow Robert Kennedy, Junior supporters and American citizens. As we have seen this week, once again, the Democratic Party is not running on any ideas to make American lives better. There once again running on the hatred of one individual, Donald J.

Trump, and they are hoping that you will hate him so much that you will forget about the Democrats forever, wars that are pushing the world closer to World War three in the primary, affecting a coup pushing out a duly elected president and much like the Soviet politbureau installing the new puppet leader who had the lowest approval rating of any form or vice president. Dude, relax with the caps. He sound crazy. I kind of want to slip in a triumph here and do that. And who still refused to take any questions from the press.

Yes, the Democrats are hoping. It’s much funnier this way, isn’t it. Yes, the Democrats are hoping that you hate Trump more than you love your country and your free speech, your children’s education and safety, and your freedoms. Rob Schneider doing a half ass triumph, continue to write as a fellow American citizen and Robert Kennedy Junior supporter, I hope that you will oppost tyranny and join us and vote for Donald J. Trump for President of the United States of America.

Schneider concluded his message with an image of the American flag. Send your letters to Rob Schneider. Tonight, Seth Myers will host a stand up show with the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center to benefit the friends of the chill Mark pre School. According to the organization’s board president, the school is currently a capacity and has how to turn local families away. They need three and a half million dollars for the new facility.

Seth Myers Hooking it up. Seth said, it’s nice to know that are there are places where our kids can start to experiment with creativity and learning. When I walk into a preschool, I wish that my kids were dropping me off. I can’t remember the last time somebody gave me a full ninety minutes to fingerpaint. Expect the show to include dad jokes that says, no matter how little you like a dad joke before you become a father, it becomes impossible to hold them back.

Once you become a dad. It’s pretty much all you can think about. Please Don’t Destroy and Friends. Live sketch comedy from the Please Don’t Destroy Guys plus some Special Guess will be at the reopening of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. The show’s part of a week long run of performances taking place at the new UCB Theater starting September thirteenth.

The theater has moved to a new location in the East Village and is currently running preview shows leading up to the grand reopening. Shannon Fielder has a new special it’s called thirty, flirty and Crying. In it, she riffs on universal topics such as the horrors of dating, the pressures of ordering the right wine, and the inherent dangers of using public restrooms. Let’s listen, thirty. Two is not a cool age.

Taylor Swift does not sing. I don’t know about you, but I’m. Feeling my mortality like I have just as many friends that have babies as I do that have drug dealers, and actually many of them are the same friend. I spent all of my twenties dating guys just like Aladdin overconfident, compulsive liars who wear vests. You might know them as bankers.

Shannon says. While the themes in point of view of this show are similar to my videos, thirty flirty and Crying is a much more personal exploration of the topics. I’m always riffing on stand up as a place where I’m not taking on characters, but instead sharing my own stories and opinions. Shannon Fielder was named a Comic to Watch at the twenty twenty three New York Comedy Festival. And that is your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. A lot of new listeners. I don’t know if that’s because of Apple changed something last week. They added away for the android people to come.

So if you’re new to the show, Hi, welcome, appreciate you, and I’ll see you back here tomorrow.

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Featured: Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Michael Che, Greg Fitzsimmons, Dave Chappelle, Matt Rife, Ricky Gervais

What’s in This Episode

• Adam Sandler’s new Netflix special ‘Love You’ and why his daughters won’t watch it
• Happy Gilmore Too movie in production with casting calls underway
• Adam Sandler’s upcoming film with George Clooney for Netflix
• Michael Che staging test episode of late night talk show ‘Don’t Sleep with Michael Che’ at City Winery
• Greg Fitzsimmons releases new special ‘You Know Me’ on YouTube from Comedy Mothership
• Dave Chappelle shows in Yellow Stone featuring special guests
• Ted Lasso Season 4 casting and production updates
• BBC’s The Traitors celebrity version seeking Ricky Gervais and other high-profile participants
• Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024 statistics and attendance

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Caloroga Shark Media. It’s just an amazing time to be live. Today, my friends, we have a new special from Adam Sandler. Oh. I took the whole week off just so I could watch this thing over and over.

Adam Sandler Love You on Netflix today. I can’t wait time. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Adam Sandler. You know he must be a good dad because he’s looking out for his kids. He doesn’t want his kids to watch an Adam Sandler comedy special, which is really tremendous advice.

I’ve tried to advise my kids not to watch Addy Adam Sandler comedies. They one time spent five dollars to rent Jack and Jill, and Dad lost his mind. It was just a complete waste of money. I said to them, wanting to just light the five dollars bill on fire, but they rented this movie. I don’t know.

So Sandler has told his daughters don’t watch Love You on Netflix out today. Because I do curse a lot. I apologize to many many people out there, especially my family. They don’t need to know those words exist, you know. I noticed that.

Listen to him on Rogan He can’t get through a sentence without cursing. It’s very strange anyway. Adam Sandler’s daughters, Sadie and Sonny, as you know, two of Hollywood’s up and coming actresses. They’ve been in several films. They did not see the screening.

Adam Sandler did say they can see a couple parts of it. I don’t throw it on for them too quickly. Rob Schneider says that Adam Sandler has called him every week for thirty years. Schneider spoke to people about Adam Sandler. He’s credentialed here as the star of Murder Mystery two.

What a weird thing to credential Adam sailor is? Is that what he’s known for Murder Mystery too? Schneiders as there has not been a week in thirty years where he doesn’t check in on me. I mean that’s true. No matter where I am in the world, I’ll get a phone call.

Sometimes the middle of the night. He called me from Italy and said, what are you doing? And I go, it’s two o’clock in the morning. We’ll get up. I need to talk to you.

Are you good. We’ve been friends for five decades now. He’s a special cat for him to including me and all this stuff ever, it’s incredible. I mean, I don’t have any words to say except I love him. I just want him to be healthy, happy, successful.

He’s just incredible. Schneider says, Sanidlor’s just getting started. It’s beautiful. Him doing Hustle was great, and Uncut Gems is great. Those are two of the best Adam Sandler movies.

I agree with you, Rob Schneider. The Sandler should do that, not the thing he usually does. He’s good at that. Do that. Him doing Hustle was great.

He’s working with really, really intelliged people. I even liked that Space movie. That’s me, not Rob Schneider. Schneider said he’s got a new movie coming out with George Clooney for Netflix. Really, George Clooney, paycheck much.

It’s been wonderful, great experience for him and a great deal for Netflix to get the biggest movie star in the world on there. What’s this movie? I don’t know about this? Google George Coloney and Adam Sandler a new film that’s described as funny and an emotional coming of age film about adults. Sandler spoke to people about the Happy Gilmore sequel.

By the way, they did a casting call by my house last week. I was out of town, but people in the neighborhood told me there were zillions of people over in town trying to be extras in Happy Gilmore Too. Five round. I probably would have gone, I would not be amazing if I were in an Adams Say the movie.

And then I came on the podcast and talked about how terrible it was.

That would be ironic, but I would stick up for the extras. They’re usually good. Seandler’s had more than excited, probably the most excited I’ve been in many years to shoot something. We worked hard trying to write something that we thought people would have a good time with. We don’t want to let anybody down.

People and ask me for a long time do Happy Gilmore Too. I was always like, nah, I’ll only let you down, and then we came up with this idea. We’re really excited about it. We wrote our butts off and we’re continuing to try to make it a movie that you guys will like, and I think it is. We’re excited.

So many golfers are being nice and they’re gonna be part of it, and all please make Hub Halloween two. Actually, please make Jack and Jill two. That’s the movie. I want Jack and Jill too. Michael Chay is trying to get a late night show.

I don’t know if this plan is gonna work. He’s staging a test episode at City Winery in New York City to night to ten pm. It’s called Don’t Sleep with Michael Chay, a late night talk show created by Michael Chay. Jay announced this on Instagram, saying, all right, I’ve decided I’m gonna produce my own late night show. I’m recording a test episode next Tuesday.

Get ticks and be part of late night history. He said his original idea was to do a morning show because everyone on daytime TV are too happy and chipper and energetic. I want to do a show for people like me who hate mornings, called Don’t Want to Wake Up with Michael Chay. I have previously told you that he and Jost are doing a live thing on Peacock on September twelfth, and says we’re not getting paid, just wanted to do it.

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Also happening today, Greg Fitzsimmons has his new special, Greg Fitzimmons, …

It’s on YouTube filmed at the Comedy Mothership that’s Rogan’s Club in Austin back in November. That’s a long time ago. In you Know Me, Greg Fitzimmons reflects on thirty four years of sobriety, sex with a fifty seven year old woman, convincing your children that you’re cool, and combating loneliness on the road, and he realizes he’s happy where he is. Apparently, at least one of the Chappelle shows out in Yellow Springs was a banger, as the kids say. Matthew reported in the Facebook group.

Special guests for night one were Dave Chappelle of course, Matt Rife, Sipha Sounds, and Sheen Gillis. That’s a pretty good set. Huh. Thank you Matthew for sharing that in the Facebook group. All of you are encouraging you join us in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group.

But I particularly like when you guys start the conversations and I can react rather than the opposite. So please join Facebook dot com slash Daily Comedy News. You will be asked a few questions, got to keep the spambots out. One of the questions is have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers. If you’re a longtime listener, you know the answer to that one.

I mean, it’s obvious, and you will also be asked what is your quest, which is a bit of a test of your comedy knowledge. Ted Lasso supposedly coming back. It is unclear what Ted Lasso Season four is going to be about. Hannah Waanningham, Brett Goldstein, and Jeremy Swift are back. Jeremy Swift plays like the general manager guy.

You probably know who Hannah and Brett or if you’ve watched Ted Lasso. It’s unclear how much Jason Sedakis will be and he’s an executive producer on the show. I can’t imagine him not being in it. Like I’ve said in the past, it’s not that hard to film it wherever he is and work around it. The producers of the BBC’s The Traitors is hoping to get Ricky Gervais to do the show.

They’ve got a bunch of high profile targets, including Ricky. The Traders. He’s a group of people put together in a Scottish castle where a minority or secretly created murderers. The suspense is built on whether or not the group can succeed in polishing everyone off before they are uncovered. The celebrity version will begin filming in twenty twenty five.

They want Ricky Gervais, Courtney Cox and British TV presenter Jonathan Ross interesting. The Fringe put out a statement saying over two point six million tickets were issued this year and thirty seven hundred and forty six shows were registered. Sixty countries were represented on stage, including thirteen country showcases. Eighteen hundred accredited arts industry members, including promoters, producers, festival and venue bookers from sixty four countries attended the festival. Nine hundred media professionals from twenty seven countries, five hundred and ten artists attended the annual Meet the Media event, and the Fringe Society ran thirty seven events as part of the Fringe Central program.

Martin short was asked what he’ll do if Steve Martin passes away, and he said, oh, I’ll phone Billy Crystal. Martin explained in the show we do each other’s eulogies and there was one joke it did about Steve, I miss you so much, although Billy’s been looking good and rehearsal the flyover Comedy Festival, the annual comedy invasion that takes over the Grove in Saint Louis, has announced quite the lineup November fourteenth through the sixteenth. King Nataro and Patton Oswalt will be joined by the Sclar Brothers, Ben Bailey, Jackie Fabulous and Henry Phillips. Jay Schrter is a communications senior manager of the Regional Arts Commission of Saint Louis and said the Flyover Comedy Festival is putting Saint Louis on the map as a comedy destination, not only by bringing in national acts, but also by highlighting the amazing local talent we have in the area. Ten different stages.

Events include improv, sketch, musical and variety performances in addition to traditional stand up. Comedian Sam Baron is working on Milwaukee to the City, a variety show I Love It. In twenty twenty, he decided to combine his comedic talent and passion for all things local to start a monthly variety show. It is called Milwaukee to the City. It brings a late night TV format to the backyard of Champions Pub.

There are games, video segments, trading card stickers, awards and and localized laughs. Sam told the Milwaukee Journal I was trying to figure out how to make Pee Wee’s Playhouse in Nickelodeon’s What would you do in a show that features people I like? Late night shows are nothing new and their format’s really simple. You got three guests that pretty much carry the show and offer the viewer looking to the latest thing, whether that be a comedian, a movie star, musicians. This allows me to have structure in the chaos that I create.

I also just love Milwaukee, and I think the stars of the city, the people who live here, whether it be comedians, business owners, leaders, or musicians. Comedians performed ten minute sets, then act as co host for the evening. Then they have a local business guy we go in film per day. After the business is the final guest, the musical act. They performed two shows with an interview between them.

I have the guest play games that made up to earn crafty trophies, a house to make exclusive trading cards and stickers for each show. That sounds like a lot of fun. And the monthly show is tonight, And can I be honest with you, I was flowing and my wife showed up and started doing laundry and I just lost my flow. Can you not do laundry while I’m recording podcast? Cage is Not?

I got enough left see tomorrow

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Featured: Theo Von, Donald Trump, Adam Sandler, Jimmy Carr, Christina P, Shane Gillis, Ellen DeGeneres, Bassem Youssef

What’s in This Episode

• Theo Von and Donald Trump discuss cocaine and addiction on This Past Weekend
• Trump shares story about his brother Fred’s alcoholism and influence on his own sobriety
• Adam Sandler’s new Netflix special ‘Love You’ filmed at the Hayworth with no monitors
• Jimmy Carr to host UK version of Last One Laughing for Prime Video
• Liza Glazer announces new comedy special Human Magic coming to Hulu
• Christina P reveals she needs additional cancer surgeries and will require breast reconstruction
• Shane Gillis criticizes the New York Knicks on podcast, receives response from Josh Hart
• Ellen DeGeneres performs final tour stop in Minneapolis with religious protesters outside
• Bassem Youssef deactivates Twitter account citing safety concerns over antisemitism accusations

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Theovonn had Donald Trump on. They started talking about cocaine. They were discussing opioids when Trump asked the Vonn, who was in recovery from cocaine but not opioid addiction, how he’d gotten addicted to drugs himself.

Vaughn said, I would just do cocaine. Trump laughed and remark, that’s down dirty, right. He also asked if von still takes cocaine or if it became too much to handle. THEO said, some of the stuff started to get a real rattle in it too. I don’t know where we were even getting it from in this country, but yeah, it started to making me feel like I was a mechanic or something.

Trump was curious, So the thing you go back to then is alcohol for the most part, THEO said, yeah, but what I probably want is cocaine. But I know if I have a drink that’ll get me. It’ll be like, all right, if I had a drink, then I could do this. Trump asked, is cocaine a stronger up? Vaughn said, cocaine will turn you into a damn owl, homie.

You know what I’m saying, You’ll be out on your own porch. Trump jumped in and said, and that it’s a good feeling, and THEO Vaughn said, no, it’s horrible. Trump. So it’s not even good during what would normally be the good time. In other words, so why would you do it?

You think you’re controlling it? And Vaughn said yeah, and then you’re go kart racing with hookers and stuff. It gets bad. During the interview, Trump attributed his own a version of alcohol to some advice he’d gotten from his brother decades ago. I had a great brother who taught me a lesson, don’t drink.

Trump’s older brother, Fred, died in nineteen eighty one at age forty two from a heart attack that his family said stem from alcoholism. Trump told THEO that Fred was a great guy. He was a handsome, very handsome guy. Admired so much about him. He had so much going a the look, he had unbelievable personality.

Somewhere along the line, it happened all of a sudden. You know, it’s not unique, it’s a very common story, unfortunately.

And then the family would see it and start to notice it it didn’t get better.

I would say that if I did drink, I could conceivably be the type of person on an alley they would have like you, like I have a problem. He was wise in a sense. Think of it. He got this problem and it was very important for him to convey to me to not have the problem. And I couldn’t have been successful if I had that problem.

He had a great talent for flying. He was a pilot, but ultimately had to give that up because the alcohol. He had to give that up, which was a hard thing for him to do, but he had to give that up. Excited did you take the week off like I did to watch Adam Sandler special Tomorrow? It’s out on Netflix.

Can’t wait? Sandler told Vulture before we did the show, I did a set at the Hayworth in LA with no monitors, no nothing. I just went up there with a guitar and did it. All the jokes are nice when they’re just jokes. Josh Safti, who directed it, said, we had to sell that the monitors didn’t work, so we built a venue where that would make sense.

We wanted to make it look like it had been there for sixty years. At a real vibe. John Tuturo said it was like hanging out his friend’s basement and laughing at his funniest friends. Adam Sandler’s Love You a Little over seventy minutes. Oh that’s awesome, and it had to be cut down for more than three hours of footage from six shows performed at this purposely ramshackle spot where the mayhem could come at any moment.

That means not only were we getting seventy minutes of hilarious Adam Sandler comedy, there’s like two plus hours of unreleased footage. Maybe we can get a Blu ray with some extras, and maybe they could make three more spec out of this. Boy, the world’s gonna get all this Adam Sandler outtakes. Imagine how exciting the stuff that didn’t make the special, How great that stuff must be. I can’t wait.

Jimmy Carr, whose comedy I Enjoy a Lot, is set to host a UK version of Last One Laughing for Prime Video. In the Last One Laughing, Jimmy Carr will challenge ten of the UK’s top comedians to make each other laugh, with the last one to laugh crown the winner. The press release says famous for his dark humor one liners. In That Laugh, Jimmy Carr challenges ten of Britain’s funniest comics to spend the day together without so much as cracking a smile. Over the course of the series, they will use every ounce of their comedic talents to try and break their opponents without cracking up themselves.

There have been twenty international versions of this, including France, Germany and Italy. Rebel Wilson hosts the Australian version. I think from memory, didn’t Trevor Noah do a version of this too? Carr said, I’m thrilled to be making Last One Laughing UK with Prime Video. It’s short to deliver and if it doesn’t, it will leave the fun with your neighbors.

Usually when I make a TV show with ten brilliant comics, I’m expecting everyone to have al what a good laugh, But not in this series. The Last One Laughing wins. It’s a great format and it’s been a huge hit around the world. I can’t wait to see who cracks up first. A Lot of Glazer has a new comedy special coming to Hulu.

This one called Human Magic. It was taped at the Elgin in Winter Garden Theater Center in Toronto. In May, Hulu stepping it up. So now we have specials. They’re going to do one a month.

So we have Jim Gaffigan, Bill Burrroywood Junior, and now a lot of Glazer. That’s exciting. More bad news from Christina Pee. She explained on her podcast that she did have the surgery to remove the cancer, but and I’ll quote her here, she needs to get a quote pair of fakers because additional surgeries are needed. She said, they didn’t, unfortunately get everything.

After we did the first surgery. They went through the materially took out and there’s still some laughs. So mom is gonna have to go back and get chop chops, both taitas. But then I’ll get some real nice fakers. She joked about how she’ll wind up having four sets of breasts in her lifetime, the originals these then reduced, then attempt track they’re gonna put in like temporary ones.

I won’t be flat, and then the final result, which I’m super stoked for. After this, I should be right his reign. I feel positive about it. It only took me what nine days to come back after my surgery. Shane Gillis was on a Knicks podcast and said, yeah, the Knicks suck.

Dude. It’s all good though, you guys want a serious It’s felt so good of the Garden back the mecca of basketball at a zero Bleepin’ rings. Nick four Josh Hart took to social media to respond to Shane Gillis, saying, man, I like Shane Gillis, now I gotta hate him. Vulcher had somebody at Ellen’s last show. They wrote the mood was lively outside Minneapolis’s Orpheum Theater ahead of the comedian’s final tour stop.

A pair of religious protesters interrupted the pre show buzz with some biblical stuff. One woman near the box office yelled, you don’t know crap. Had a man in a T shirt which read repent or perish. Opener. Tom Ryles till the audience tonight, you are all part of history.

This is the last time Ellen will ever be on stage performing comedy again, and we’re tabing in for in Netflix. Tom Ryles, a former Ellen show employee, didn’t tell jokes. He spent the time apparently ushering the audience into a zone of Ellen, writes Vulture. Tom Morales told charming anecdotes about his boss, including one about her lobbying him to name his daughter Ellen. The audience was apparently raucus.

One observational bid about how restaurant menus should feature a large print option for old people or in the kind of applause usually reserved for closers. Ellen joked about how she closed her show with be kind of one Another and said, had I ended my show by saying, go f yourself, people would have been pleasantly surprised. Egyptian American comedian and TV host bossum Usef has deactivated his Twitter account citing safety concerns. Yousef said anti Semitism was an accusation that used to freeze the blood in people’s veins. I see many people now realizing how the sphere tactic is used to shut down conversations and scare people.

It’s been overused and abused in order to intimidate people. He later clarified in an Instagram post that he was not banned. He wrote, no, my Twitter account wasn’t taken down by X, and I don’t wish to falsely victimize myself using this. When safety issues concerning my loved ones are alleviated, I might consent coming back. I wish to deal with this away from the media.

I’ll still be posting my content on TikTok, Insta and Facebook. Punky Johnson talked to Entertainment Weekly about leaving Saturday Night Live and said it’s a big decision. I feel like with me and SNL was a neutral thing. By February of last season, I was like, nope, I’m done this season. Before that, I questioned it, and I talked to my team like, I really don’t know if I belong at this job, so maybe I should step away.

I told them super super late, right after I found i’d get to go back, and they’re like, Punky, you need a plan. You can’t just quit your job. I never grew up in sketch. I never went to a sketch school. I didn’t really feel like I fit like it was in my zone.

That show’s for a different type of person. I’m crazy, mo r out of the box. I’m all over the place. That show is a structure. She said about Lauren Michaels, and the tone here is lovingly.

I think I drove him crazy to the point where he just started ignoring me. He’s just like, get out of my face, I’d mess with him. My relationship with the show is still strong, and we just mutually understood that it wasn’t my zone. Saturday Night Live, Season fifty September twenty eighth in That is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it that they might like it too.

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