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Featured: Louis C.K., Ralph Barbosa, George Lopez, Mike Ward, Shane Gillis, Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Dion Cole

What’s in This Episode

• Netflix Is a Joke Festival kicks off in Los Angeles with 350 shows over one week
• Louis C.K. performing at Netflix Is a Joke Festival and launching a Netflix special
• LA comedy scene diversity and opportunities for emerging comedians at the festival
• Notable performances: Ralph Barbosa at the Orpheum, Shane Gillis and Friends at Hollywood Bowl
• Sold out shows including Punkin conversation with Diane Morgan and Charlie Brooker
• Dion Cole benefit show and philosophy on crowd work vs. prepared material

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media Hire. There, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. The Netflix is a joke comedy festival kicks off in Los Angeles. The LA Times has a lot of coverage of it, and in the La Times, Nate Jackson writes, the LA comedy scene has never been just one thing.

Sure, we’re home to some of the best comedy clubs and comedians of the world, legendary improv troops. We’ve got them, podcasts at Center, We’re drowning in them. When it comes to variety shows, drag brunches and clowns, Our Town is top tier. Yet still at some point even the most omnivorous comedy fan can hit a wall when it comes to looking for new things in this city to laugh about. Thankfully, every other year for the last six years, the Netflix is a Joke Festival and Jack’s LA with a large doseph discovery.

Tracy Pacosta is Netflix is head of comedy until the La Times being able to put groups of people together or talent that’s doing this for so long, I think that’s what makes the festival great. The change this year is the festival is one week, not two weeks. It’ll go through Sunday. Eliza Schlessinger said, we have so many opportunities for comics to showcase themselves, and we have such unique voices here in LA and there’s such diversity. It’s a chance to see all your favorite comics in one place and then about five hundred other comics.

It might not be great for your brick pads or your traffic time, but there’s a lot going on. Sheng Wang till the La Times. There’s a lot of smaller shows around town that are also listed as part of the festival. I like doing those rooms to just practice and get reps. But it’s cool that they’re partnering with the festival so they can kind of build a profile for themselves.

Let’s go at Cotska called the festival comedy Coachellaunge said, for me, it was the alt rooms that helped me grow because you know, everyone has different energies and backgrounds and backstories. I’m not someone that could start at a comedy club. My personality doesn’t allow for it. The seven day festival has three hundred and fifty shows. Tracy Pocosta from Netflix said, I think it sort of goes back to wanting to be in business with incredibly talented people, and a lot of comics were talking about Louis C.K.

And what he was putting out recently. In order to make sure that we have the best and most variety on service, having him perform at the festival and then ultimately launching a special on Netflix, it gives members the opportunity to see if they want to. When we’re getting the talent we’re working with that, we have a lot of respect for how great he is and how he’s doing this. Again, it’s like, Okay, we want to be able to give people the choice to see it. I’m not going to editorialize here, but I suspect some people will have some commentary on Tracy’s comment.

Case you, I don’t know what I’m talking about. Google, Louis C.K. Canceled. We learn here that otsgo at Kontska plans to shoot her next special in LA later this year. I saw that show a month ago already, that show’s ready to go.

It’s very strong. Eliza Slessinger said. Comedy wanees and it waxes and right now. It’s just everywhere. People you’ve never heard of are micro famous.

They’ve got a billion followers, they make a jillion dollars. You’ve never heard of them. And the festival is great because it keeps growing, so there’s more opportunities for that audience to find you. Some of the shows the La Times is excited about. They have a whole list.

I’ll pick at it day by day, but they’re excited. Tonight at seven pm, Ralph Barbosa, who they remind us, garnered viral fame by being distant, then apologized to by George Lopez, who didn’t know who he was at the time. We are told Barbosa heads to the Orpheum with a newfound spark of energy and attitude on stage, adding some spice to his naturally laid back style. The Al Times also suggests you had to Dynasty Typewriter at nine thirty tonight. Mike Ward might not be a household name in La yet, but he is widely respected in the comedy world for pushing boundaries.

Known for dork, irreverent and unfiltered stand up. His joke related legal case reached the Supreme Court in Canada, which ruled in his favor in twenty twenty one. I remember that The Only Times also suggests that the Comedy Store at eight o’clock in the belly room, it’s Timmy no breaks. You may know Timmy from kil Tony. If not, think confident, unpredictable and hilarious improv at its finest.

We are told his signature line boom Roasted, turns a typical one minute set on Kiltny into a full night of NonStop energy. I think that’s also my son’s cat. I wonder if they’re the same person. Godfrey is at the Ice House at nine forty five. Let’s take a look at the Johnny Mac version of the list.

Have got the schedule up here, and they have things in chronological order, which is my favorite type of schedule to have people post. Other comedy festivals please take note of this. Let’s see what we’ve got going on tonight. Shane Gillison Friends at the Hollywood Bowl eight o’clock. That seems like a big deal.

Tell you though, as I recorded this sentence around twelve forty five pm on Friday afternoon, plenty of tickets available for Shane Gillis and Friends at the Hollywood Bowl. You could get in for fifty nine to thirty plus fees, kind of surprising six o’clock at the Saban Theater. It’s Rushmore with special guests Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. One of the shows I wanted to go see and one of the few shows on the website that actually says sold out is Kunk in Conversation with Diane Morgan and Charlie Brooker. That would have been one of the shows that would have gotten me to go out there.

And as I mentioned earlier on the podcast and not earlier today in a different episode, the issue there was some of the stuff I wanted to see was like tonight and then fly to the Concords a Sunday, and just everything about going to LA for like a full week during finals week so my daughter can’t even hang out with me, six seven, eight days of hotels car. I was just like, I’m not doing it, doubly so without credentials. These Netflix people, I know, I suck. I’m a loser in the basement. I reached out to Robbie Praul on LinkedIn, didn’t hear back.

That’s fine. Tried going through the front door to the publicists. You get nothing back. Tried going through the back door to the publicists, you get nothing back. I had my publicist reach out.

This was impenetrable, so you know, eight days. I’m not looking for freebies, but you know, just having the proper information about this stuff makes this all easier. So thumbs down to the Netflix folks. Thumbs up to the Just for Laughs folks who were awesome, super easy to work with, Get right back to you, book guests for you, hook you up. It’s all great.

I digress punkin conversation with Dian Morgan seven o’clock at the Egyptian. Donnane Rawlings at the Blasco nine five, Dusty Sleigh at the Troubadour at seven. Joel Kim Booster has a low ticket warning. He’s at the Trouba Door at ten. Ron Funches at the Hollywood Improv Main Room at seven thirty.

Friend of the Show Ismo is at the Ice House at seven thirty. Natalie Palamedes, who is awesome and one of the few sold out some I’m seeing here. She’s at the Allegion at seven and many many other shows. That’s pretty busy for a Monday night. Dion Cole is doing a benefit show out there tonight.

He’s all the La Times. He’ll do crowd work if he has to, but he’d much rather tell you the jokes he wrote. He says, the audience feels like, hey, we came to improv, we came to have fun. It’s like, no, you know how long it took me to write these jokes. I don’t need to come in here screaming at me, and then I spend five minutes talking about you and your mom and your kids.

Then I forgot what I was doing, and now the tone of the show is messed up. Love it. He is proud of his career. He says, there’s a lot of people look in the mirror every morning, go out in the world and becomes something else when the thing that’s gonna make them rich and successfuls in the mirror. I think, whoever that person is in the mirror, you need to take that person with you and apply that person to every that you do, and that’s gonna make the difference in your life.

The Times was curious how his prep has changed over the years. He says, I’m more confident. You know, back in the day, it might be a thirty sixty chance that a joke will work thirty, meaning it will work sixty that it won’t. Now in a point when I can think of something and there’s an eighty five percent chance at work fifteen that it won’t. So my preparation is for us thinking of something on going to execute it.

Being able to execute it is another difference. Back in the day, I’d have to ask for stage time. Now I can think of something, go to a club and go right up. I can hear something now and go that’s funny, and then go do it and it becomes funny. So just having confidence to do that and I question myself as much.

Also out today, it is Kevin Hart’s Funny AF Live Semifinal on Netflix at nine o’clock. There is a clip. Now interesting as you watch the visual of this clip, and you can’t because this is an audio podcast. The visual says tonight features guest Chris Rock, But unless I missed it, Kevin Hart didn’t actually say that, so they must have recorded this earlier and then booked Chris Rock later. But the text says Chris Rock is on tonight.

Anyway, let’s listen. I just crossed the country to find the freshest and the funniest new voices in common. Recently, I just had my first threes attempt. You’ve heard from legendary comedians. Some people have that thing.

Marshan, why are you here? Did you think Kevin was a football? Now? Le JITs are in a vaulte your favorite stand up comedian, I’m down with dinner for what you watch the live semi finals on May fourth and the grand finale on May fifth. White mom chores are like Hunter take Out the Try.

Immigrant mom chores are like Hey, get up and get me up passport when one will rise above the rest and take the mic and wins it, all people are going for me. It turns out CTE just stands for casting talentless idiots. This person is going to be common one of us. This is now a death patch. I will see who stands up in the pressure and who doesn’t.

So I need to know, well, who will you vote for? And from last their headlines Sorry New York City. In Chicago v’s funny AF comics say LA has the stand up scene to beat. LA based comedians Felicia Folks, Steve Fury, and Ray Lao said that for them, LA is the place to be. The three were among the group of forty four comics like to celebrate in funny af Steve Fury told Las there’s a real camaraderie among comics in LA and the other cities can’t match.

He says, there’s a couple of people that everyone hates, you know, but overall you’re competing with people, but in the end you see someone win. I don’t really get mad about it, and I don’t think a lot of people in LA do. Steve Fury said. A lot of people since the pandemic have kind of crapped on LA, especially some people that decided to move to other places. Do you mean Joe rogan I digress?

Steve said, this is a great comedy scene. The best guy in that small town moves here. The best person in New York a lot of times at some point still gonna end up here. Sure, there was an exodus of a bunch of podcast comedians during the pandemic do you mean Joe rogan I Digress? But it allowed the scene to grow in a way that it hasn’t seen a long time.

You know, there’s a lot of people like Ray Laud coming up and showing that this is a fantastic scene and it can hang with any other scene. This is a great place to come for finishing. It’s almost like your searing steak. It’s almost done, you put it in the oven for the last hour. That last hour.

The heat that this place has is la and that’s how you become great. It cuts all the fat off, the bs off your act, and it makes a great good stuff there.

Speaking of Ray Lau, Heat’s old last it’s totally a grind.

But at the same point, to be honest, I prefer it because I’m not really sure I would have cracked through in the old world where bookers and gig keepers could decide whether or not you could move through the ranks. And in this way, at least, all of it is technically up to you. I mean, it’s extremely exhausting and stressful and difficult and nearly impossible, but it’s up to you. LA gets a lot of crap talked about it, and in New York there’s a lot of good comics and there’s a lot of stage time there, and that’s good. I just like where I’m at, you know, sometimes the grass isn’t greener.

I like my life here, I like working on my stand up. I like my friends here. I’ve gotten to know the bookers and other comics, and it’s just nice. Felicia Folks said, I love comedy and LA has a great history. I can get on stages here.

I know people complain a lot about not being able to get stage time, but I think that’s a skill issue. I’ve never had problem getting up in my city. I don’t know what to tell these people. Will be talking a lot about Los Angeles this week, as the Netflix Is a Joke Comedy Festival has begun. King Charles has returned back home.

Josh Johnson on The Daily Show apparently agrees with me that Charles was pretty good at jokes. Josh said, what’s annoying about this? As a comedian, he’s actually killing He called the King the world’s oldest NEPO baby. A couple jokes from Late Night about the King. Josh Johnson, you know, I’ve always wondered what white deaf jam would be like.

Josh again, Wow, he really commands the stage. I’m sorry, he really colonizes the stage. Seth Myers with a bomb. King Charles gifted President Trump a gold bell from an old submarine called the HMS Trump And what better gift for a guy who’s way underwater. That’s lame Kimmel.

Unfortunately, only Belle Trump likes is the Tago one. Greg Guttfeld, you know the guy from Fox. See know all you people that were like, how could we never talk about the other side because they recaps never included Guttfeld And now they do, and you will now see how lame Guttfeld’s jokes are. I mean, tell them way, way, way way better than I do, but they’re not good. Gottfield, King Charles and Queen Camilla paid visits in New York City to make them feel at home.

None of us f lost. I mean, you can hear the audience groaning, right, do that joke in your head? You can hear Gottfeld. Yeah. The White House held a steak dinner for the King and Queen of England and I actually attended, though they stuck me at the kids table.

Yeah, it took Prince Andrew’s seat. Wow, okay, Jimmy fallon today, King Charles and Queen Camilla were in New York City and on Earth visit time Square Elmos, which from Jack Daniels to Crown Royal. See that’s cleverly crafted. Rob Schneider wants ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel. Remember the whole kerf fluffle last week with Jimmy Kimmel and the joke and Milania and all that.

Yeah. Rob Schneider has posted a letter to Walt Disney Company CEO Josh Tomorrow. In the open letter, Rob Schneider called for Kimmel to be fired for quotes a pattern of reckless, dehumanizing rhetoric that disrespects human life and contributes to the tucks climate of hatred and violence threatening our nation. Schneider also claimed keeping mister Kimmel on your network is a serious and dangerous mistake that reflects poorly on Disney’s values and leadership. When a major network platform repeatedly portrays the president and his family and his supporters as legitimate targets for contempt or worse, violence, it does not entertain, it incites.

I don’t recall Jimmy Kimmel inciting violence at any point. Mister Schneider is welcome to refresh my memory if I’m forgetting something, but I don’t think that is a fair comment at all. Again, if I’m forgetful, let me know in the Facebook group or Rob you could reach out directly. Be happy to have you as a guest if you’d like to come on. Rob Schneider said the Disney Company’s platforming of an individual who has shown such blatant contempt for basic human decency allows that legacy to be stained.

The eyes of the nation and history are watching. Wow and good news. Scrubs was renewed. Yeay hey. Season two slash eleven of Scrubs will happen.

How many episodes, Johnny Mac, Nobody knows. They didn’t announce that part. It is suspected it will once again be a limited number of episodes. Scrub Season one slash ten was nine episodes and very good. That is your comedy news for today.

See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Marcello Hernandez, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien, Nikki Glaser, Michael Cruz Caine

What’s in This Episode

• Marcello Hernandez Netflix Special and Cultured 100 Recognition
• Stephen Colbert CBS Contract Negotiations and Show Ending
• Conan O’Brien in Amsterdam Filming New Travel Special
• Nikki Glaser Podcast Headlines About Relationship Openness
• Michael Cruz Caine Comedy Special on Grief and Loss

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Acent is the algorithm loves. Cultured magazine put out their Cultured one hundred. One of the Cultured one hundred is Marcelo Hernandez, who, in my opinion, does one thing, and does one thing well but culture It said.

In his four seasons of SNL, Marcelo Hernandez has played, in no particular order, an emo teen, a soul patch wearing wife stealer named Domingo. Yeah he’s done that, one, a frozen embryo, and himself patron saint of short Kings for the culture. At one hundred, he was interviewed by my former coworker Jimmie Fox. Fox said, you’re good looking, he got the swag. Now that the specials in your review mirror.

How are you feeling, Marcelo Hernandez said, looking back, I can say to myself, I gave it every single piece of me. When we called you, I was sitting there going crazy, and after a conversation, I was like, yo, Jamie Fox is the regulator. You put it in perspective, like it’s already shot. It’s too late to be freaking out. I wasn’t enjoying it.

I was suffering it. Fox said, Okay, let me give you this Michael Jackson Billy Jean Motown twenty five iconic. But he went backstage after and cried because he thought it was the worst performance of his life. You can’t always see what we see, so I told you get in the Ferrari pull out and have a great time. That special had like forty six and a half million views.

I just want to see how that feels. What’s it like to be on top of the mountain? Man? Did it at forty six and a half? What was that even on other Remember it was on Netflix.

I will have to take Jamie Fox’s word for the forty six and a half million views. Marcelo said, I’ll tell you what, Jamie. When I first started doing comedy, I wrote down on my little yellow pad the two people I wanted to be like. I wrote, I want to be physical like Eddie Murphy. I want to be meticulous like Jerry Seinfeld.

And that As I got older and I started to see more, when we started thinking about how we want to shoot the special I thought, I want to shoot it like prior. I want to be sweaty, I want to flowy shirt. You know. Richard Pryor filmed in Miami, and so did I. I wanted to tef Greens look old school, look vintage.

Yeah, so when you said you wanted to be like Eddie Murphy, that was the point. Eddie Murphy’s just doing. Richard Pryor watched the specials back to back. Now, this is interesting aut of Stephen Colbert. In that New York Times profile, Colbert said CBS tried to renew him for as long as five years.

During negotiations in twenty twenty three, Colbert went for a three year extension. Oops, one might say, Colbert told the Times less than two years before they called to say it’s over. They were very eager for me to be signed for a long time. So something changed. As for what’s next, the show takes like ninety five percent of my brain.

He won’t seriously consider new opportunities until he has a little more time to breathe. Now, Colbert reportedly makes fifteen million dollars a year. And here’s some advice from Johnny Mac. If somebody ever offers you fifteen million dollars a year, Just say yes. That’s generational changing money.

And if they’re like, hey, we’ll give you fifteen million dollars a year for five years, and now if you do some math, that’s seventy five million dollars, you say yes. Especially on the talent side. You know what was gonna happen. NBC is going to go, hey, we’ll give you sixteen million dollars a year. That wasn’t going to happen.

Just say yes, What are you doing, dude. Conan O’Brien, who settled with NBC for reported forty five million dollars. When The Worst Person who Ever lived, Jay Leno, took the Tonight Show back, Conan was seen in the Netherlands. He was taping a new episode of Conan O’Brien Must Go. Conan was spotted celebrating King’s Day in Amsterdam, then went on Dutch talk show Eva.

Conan said, we showed up, my wife and I got here at six in the morning and I went out on King’s Day, absolute madness day, drinking, which I’m used to. That’s my sport. They seem to be making an episode involving fashion. Conan explained one of my fans. It’s a high fashion model here in Amsterdam, and she said she could teach me how to be a male model.

I showed up, I met with her, and she told me at the end, this isn’t gonna work. She was very disappointed in me. Conan says his show is less interested in educating viewers about a country than putting Conan in absurd situations. We’ve all watched travel shows. They tried to teach you about the country.

I want you at the end of my program to know nothing about the country. I want you to maybe even be dumber than you were at the start of the show. Conan is impressed by the Netherlands, particularly that people are tall and have bikes. He said, so many tall people. I’ve met, so many women that make me feel short.

And everyone’s on a bicycle, which I love. In the United States, when you get on a bicycle, people dress up in these crazy outfits. Here you just see people riding their bikes in normal clothes. Nikki Glaser admits she wasn’t necessarily prepared for the reaction to her, saying that she’s open to her man fulling around. You remember that old story, Yeah, Hollywood Establishment insider Nikki Glaser was on Karras Swishers podcast, So it’s over.

That’s it. If we’re gonna line up the comedians and say who’s an insider, who’s an outsider? Nikki Glaser’s paling around with Kara Swisher, that’s it. She’s done. Don’t expect her to be a roast comedian or doing any of that.

The agents have successfully completed the mission. Hollywood insider Nikki Glaser told Kara Swisher I wasn’t even thinking about censoring myself in any way that this podcast makes headlines, meaning call her daddy. But Nicky said she woke up to headlines saying that she likes for her boyfriend asleep with other women. Nikki explained, it was like five different headlines showing up in my feed, and I don’t even follow myself. I don’t look for news about myself.

I avoided at all costs. It was just really embarrassing. Yes it was. Esquire wrote a piece the headline, this new comedy special completely shocked me with joy, they write. Michael Cruz Caine’s son Fisher, died from sepsis in two thousand and nine, just thirty four days after he was born, Fisher’s twin brother lived, and Caine and his wife Carrie also have a daughter.

The family’s world was destroyed. It needed to be rebuilt. Ten years later, Caine stand up comics started writing on Twitter about his grief. The comment started coming in by the thousands. The tweets turned into a one man show that Caine titled Sorry for Your Loss, which is the kind of phrase that shows up on cards.

Caine told Esquire, Yeah, the show’s about grief, specifically about how I felt, starting from the moment my son died, which was in two thousand and nine, untill now, because the grief continues. It’s an honest reflection on those feelings, and a lot a lot of that is comedy, because I’m a funny person. Even in the worst possible situation, there are still things that, if you’re a human, will make you laugh. I didn’t want to hide from those things and pretend not to see them. I just wanted to feel free and be myself as opposed to trying to be a quote unquote grieving person.

People have an expectation of what someone who’s grieving will be like, but all that stuff made me feel alienated from people. What made me feel good was talking to people who talk to me like I was a person. I know you, you’re my friend. Can we just talk how we normally talk? As for the special, he says, once you release it into the world, you lose a lot of control over how people receive it.

It’s funny. The New York Times did a piece about like how grief in comedy a few years ago that I was in. I read all the comments. A large percentage of them were like, what kind of sicko experiences some kind of tragedy then tries to turn it into jokes. I guess they hadn’t seen it, so that’s what they think.

It is that one is called sorry for your loss. He is Michael Cruz, Keane Kay and E Interview magazine caught up with Ronica Slowakowska. They did a little free association short form. She said, easier in ways, harder in ways. SNL’s a form of It’s not exactly live.

It’s edited on the spot about attention, spans, short and screwed up. But I don’t think all is lost. I can totally binge Sister Wives Delivery. I’m a corporate slot person. Rice Bowls protein a vegetable, something that’s sustaining my energy and making me think good.

I’m obsessed with this place that is Brussels sprouts. Whatever we order it. Everyone’s offices smell like farts actors. She says, I feel like I was right in the middle of comedian and actor. But since getting on SNL, I’ve chosen a side as being a comedian cooler.

I don’t know. Maybe about sleep. SNL gives us time to sleep, but will you sleep is the question. I’m just damped up. I’m excited tonight’s writing nights.

Am I going to go home at midnight? Or am I going to go home at four am? It’s kind of up to me. A few weeks ago, Ay Lorne Michael’s documentary came out. The Oler reporter said, Lorne Michaels has been enigmatic and evasive for long enough that he doesn’t seem more or less uncomfortable having a camera in his vicinity, knowing dorn Well that he isn’t going to let anything slip by by accident.

This same principle lets director Neville linger in Michael’s office, and even in the film’s closest to revelatory moments at Michael’s lakeside get away in Maine. Nothing Michael says is all that revealing or candid, but Nevill’s eyes are still loud to wander, inviting viewers to latch onto Michael’s life ephemera and read meaning into it. It’s his love of Gordoney and extension of his devotion to cultivating talent. He won’t say so, but maybe is his office filled with fish that he refuses to name as a mirror of the constant rotation of cast members of his best known show, Don’t Know, not surprisingly that people with the loosest lips are people who no longer rely on Michael’s for a paycheck. With many of the highlights coming from John Mulaney, Fred Ormison, Bill Hayter, and Adam Sandler swapping stories, Mulaney, like Tina fay Conan O’Brien and a few of the veteran writers, gives the strongest impressions of knowing where the bodies are and buried when it comes to revealing details about Michaels, but each other people who appear to know him best has and I can never repay Lorne story that makes it clear that they aren’t saying anything Lorn wouldn’t once said if Michaels were to retire after the season, Neville’s documentary could be shown at his retirement party without anybody feeling awkward.

The av Club said that Lauren the documentary fights a losing battle against all the other Sketch Show history lessons. They write, SNL has been so celebrated, chronicled, and mythologized that it seems impossible to imagine anything new to say about the Sketch Show, but documentarian Morgan Neville gives it a shot. Narrated by Chris Parnell, Lauren establishes early on that Michaels isn’t particularly interested in the movie being made about him. Michaels presents himself as we often see him, dressed up, gray hair, button down, a tad aloof The result does a likable film that auto appeal to SNL fans and hardcore comedy nerds. As an SNL history lesson, Lauren will feel rudimentary to those already be sotted up by the show.

As a portrait of Michael’s early years and comedy beginnings. The documentary passes by key biographical details too quickly for them to fully register. And the program’s memorable sketches have been played to death by this point. If somehow you’re just now getting an SNL and having a ready ingested, endless lore about the most aduring of sketch shows, Lorne might be a meaningful primer for everybody else. You’ve heard this joke before.

All Right, the Netflix is a joke of festival is about to kick off. They are highlighting the short list, a showcase spotlighting nationally touring comment These are not newcomers, but rising voices on the cusp of their next chapter. We are told, so kind of new faces, but different. Here’s your list. Comedian CP aka Chris Powell, writer and performer who’s comedy special Sunday After Six debuted in twenty twenty five.

Ethan Simon’s Patterson a stand up comedian who’s been featured on Comedy Central and is a regular at The Seller. Gabby Bryan is a New York based stand up comedian, actress, podcaster, and Emmy winning producer. Lucas Zilnik a stand up comedian, born, raised and based in New York City, featured on Comedy Central. Matty Wiener stand up comedian who made her fallon debut last year and his filmed to stand up sets for Comedy Central and Don’t Tell Comedy Opie Alakbaju, La based stand up comic who’s been recognized by Vulture as one of the comics you should and will know. Peter Ravello, stand up comedian, actor, and writer based in New York.

He debuted on Fallon and has appeared on Comics Unleashed, Yeah Chappelle. Lacey La based stand up comedian who performed at the Comedy Store and hosts a YouTube series called Cooked in the Comments. Sophie Buttle, She’s kind Of No No. Sophie was the head monologue writer for CBS’s After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson and has appeared on Fallon Cordon and CBC’s This Hour Is Twenty two Minutes. And Zach ned Towers, LA based comedian, actor and writer who appeared on Netflix’s Dear White People.

Those are the short list. The showcase takes place tomorrow, two shows starting at six o’clock. And that is your comedy news for today. I will catch you tomorrow

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Featured: Catherine Blandford, Max Amini, Hannibal Buress, Jeff Dunham, David Spade, Chris Allen

What’s in This Episode

• Catherine Blandford’s rise to comedy after viral parents joke, opening for David Spade
• Max Amini on Iranian culture, social media’s role in his comedy career, and comedy’s growth in Iran
• Hannibal Buress’s Charlottesville show with multimedia elements and hour-and-a-half set
• Jeff Dunham’s new Discovery show ‘The Cars that Drove Us’ and comedy club audience sensitivity
• Jeff Dunham discusses comedy timing and cancel culture in modern stand-up

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, their Happy Derby Day. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Catherine Blandford is an amy she’d keep an eye on. She’s been to the Derby.

She said. I was in college and took my roommate to the Derby with me. She’d never been to Kentucky. I was like, porta potty racist tradition. I forgot to tell her it’s illegal.

She gets to the end and she’s dancing and celebrating and people are cheering and the cops are waiting for her to get down. I was hiding, and she was like, I’m a team mom, It’s my first night out. She went to the drunk tank for the rest of the Derby. Ha Lanford started performing comedy at the University of South Carolina. She says, I’ve done a competition for a fraternity when I was in college.

It was like a pageant. You had to do a talent portion. I wrote a sketch like I was Chelsea Handler. That’s when her show Chelsea Lately was big. I roasted a bunch of frat guys and then did an interview with the pledge from their fraternities, Charlie Sheen.

Obviously we won and I kinda had the bug. She hit it big in twenty twenty two when a clip of her joking about her parents being cousins went viral. David Spade saw the clip and they connected. Blandford started opening for Spade. That lasted two years.

She started headlining on her own, moved to La She’s a regular at the Improv and the Laugh Factory. She plans to record two specials this year. Interesting Maximini was asked by the Hollywood reporter do you think the rulers of Iran will ever loosen their grip? Max says, I think so, and it has I think of it as water and oil. The ideology hasn’t been able to penetrate a culture that people there have had in their DNA for centuries, go back to the attacks of the Mongols, to the Arabs, to the Greeks and so on.

These different ideologies and invasions have affected the country and the people in the culture, but the foundation cannot be destroyed. The minute young Iranians get an opportunity to show themselves. I think the world will see a very friendly, kind and enthusiastic nation who likes to smile. Look, despite forty seven years of this Islamic republic mentality, every household still has their parties and gatherings. They have art shows and man, the music they listen to.

They’re so open minded. You have social media and the younger generation of moderates. Over time, I think it’s going to de escalate. When I was in Iran, you weren’t allowed to have a cassette tape and you’d get arrested for listening to music. Today, the same regime allows concerts, obviously with a lot of guidelines, but the progression has happened.

It’s inevitable. Max says, I never really thought of the opportunity to do comedy in Iran. But when I came back to America, that true sense of freedom that I can do all these things I could have never done in Iran was the spark. When I started college, I decided to become a theater major and pursue acting in comedy. I was very funny when I did my improv with my classmates.

I discovered stand up comedy through that. In the last four or five years, a lot of young stand up comedians have popped in Iran. They’re doing open mics, and they have their little comedy cafes that didn’t previously exist in Iran. I feel like me hanging in there and doing stand up and four Sea is going to pave the way for Irunian comedians down the line to be able to tour and build from there. Right Max, what do you think he got popular?

He said, For many years, I was disappointed that the industry was not recognizing my talent. No casting director, producer director, no projects, no comedy festivals. But I’m one of the lucky people, and that social media gave me the opportunity to let the people decide who they like. The Cavalier Daily went to go see Hannibal Burris. Charlottesville comedian Chris Allen was the opener we saw.

At the end of his sets, Chris Allen offered a heartwarming introduction for Hannibal Burris, calling him a personal inspiration who proved that off kilter black comedians could succeed in the industry. Hannibal grabbed the mic and jokingly took offense to being called weird by his opener. Hannibal started with some political comedy Send your letters to Hannibal Burris, who lamented that America would be in much better shape if only Donald Trump’s television show The Apprentice had been renewed for another season before his first presidential campaign. Hannibal did some more topical jokes about the economy and the war in Iran and did an hour and a half Wow. This is different to keep things fresh throughout the set, different for Hannibal.

I’ve seen other comedians do this. Hannibal used to screen to the back of the stage to show funny text messages he received from his friends, and brief video clips that amplify the impact of certain jokes with meme like outbursts were told. The audio visual elements were you sparingly until the finale. After stepping off stage for a moment, Burris returned to an act a scenario in which a rap song he wrote called the Tallest Person at This Mexican Party became his most popular contribution to society. Seems like it was a good show.

Jeff Dunham talked about his new television show on Discovery, The Cars that Drove Us. This from the folks that made the toys that made us. In the movies that made us. Jeff Dunham and developed his love of cars from growing up on hot wheels. Remember hot wheels, fellow oldies, we were hot wheels.

Person are a matchbox guy. I was a matchbox guy. I never really liked the hot wheels matchbox bleeding cool as Jeff. If you guys get another season, do you know what cars? Jeff said, not a clue.

What I loved about this one was it with seven great cars.

And then in the eighth episode we did a call It’s called the factory.

It was some of the goofy things that car designers put in the vehicles. So we have an idea they’re not be there’s still a cars. And if you pointed a gun at me right now and said tell me which ones they are, I couldn’t do it because I can’t remember since we’ve gone through so many ideas. But I like the idea and a season of having one episode that’s an outlier, kind of a weird one. Switching to comedy, Jeff Dunham, do you have to temper your act?

You know, times are changing, tastes or changing, Jeff said, timings everything. I wouldn’t want to be a new comic coming up right now, trying to do stand up comedy because it’s been a long time since I did a show to a comedy club. But as I understand it now, especially out here in Hollywood, the audiences can be brutal if you say anything that’s somewhat too left or two right, and you will get nailed, nailed, nailed by the audience. I laugh when I talk to my daughter who’s in college in California, and she cancels me about three times a day. Now, if you listen to me every day, there’s two thousand episodes, you kind of get what my vibe is.

Right, Like I was explaining to her about Season one of Survivor. I bought this is all true. I bought the DVDs of season one of Survivor. Fellow oldies, did you watch Season one of Survivor? Remember Root the old Guy.

There’s a clip you can go on YouTube because I sent this to my daughter where one of the contestants, Rich is gay. But twenty five years ago, people are like quizzing him, like, so is it okay to say that you’re homosexual? And Rich is like, yeah, I’m homosexual. Let me pull up the clips. So you don’t cancel me.

Here’s Richard Hatch explaining, it’s okay, guys. You’re not just homosexual. I know gay guys don’t like to be called that because you’re not homosexual. You’re gay. You know you’re I’m homosexual.

Do we not like to be called? No? Because it just makes no If you classify that, it’s own classifying people’s sexual lifestyle. Right, and well, there is a lifestyle associated with being gay, but it’s not something you can’t say I decided to be gay. But it’s been interesting in this new environment to kind of decide when to say what about yourselves?

I think there’s only one person you got worried about. Oh, I’m not worry about it at all. As people get to know me, they learn who I am, and then eventually over time find out I’m gay. I’ve never once in my life encountered prejudice based on my being homosexual anyway. So I want to watch a Survivor one with my daughter just to watch her freak out and cancel me for liking a show.

Twenty five years ago, I Digress. Jeff Denham said audiences can be brutal, and if you say anything that’s somewhat too left or to right, you will get nailed by the audience. They don’t like it. When all this business started rumling a few years ago, as at a point in my career where there are two different ways you can go to comedy club. You’re either paying money just to go to the club and you know who’s going to be there, you don’t care, just want a night off, or you’re paying a little bit more to specifically see a particular person.

That’s a little bit easier because the audience who pay to see you, most of them know what to expect. When I was doing theaters and arenas, it was eighty five to ninety percent already my crowd. They already loved Acamed the Dead terrorist Jose Halapino. Want a stick. If I came about those characters right now, there’s no way they would work.

As a comic. You must, as you say, temper things, or at least I’m not gonna use the word temper. I’m going to show you how I present the comedy. And because I do it as a ventrill quist, I have a little bit of a huge advantage over the other comics because I can point and counterpoint the dummy can make a joke and I can argue with him, and I can say, ah, that’s not okay. So it’s a conversation, a debate.

I like this a lot. The true ingredients of comedy are conflict and tension. I can create that on stage myself, and by the time I’m finished with whatever I’m talking about, whatever the subject is, the audience walks away going, I really don’t know what he thinks or what he believes. Friend of the Show, Ismo, remember he was on. He was a guest.

He has teamed up with a Finland based production house they’re pushing into the live comedy space. Ismo said, it’s exciting to take the next steps with ic S Nordick. We share the same ambition to build comedy of the Travels internationally while staying true to its roots. Not entirely sure what they’re up to, but I’m behind it because he’s a cool guy. Hey are friends.

At the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. They’re starting a new premium ad free service called Gorilla Comedy Plus, launching May fifth. Gorilla Comedy Plus will feature exclusive news specials, plus the full eight hundred Pound Gorilla catalog that includes more than two hundred and fifty titles. At launch, you’ll have access to things like Star Trek Ruiner, Patton Oswalt’sle Hour’s Heat in Scotch, and specials from the likes of Pete Holmes Gorilla Comedy Plus, priced at nine to ninety nine per month. The folks from CNNs have I Got news for you.

They are Roywood Junior, Amber Ruffin, and Michael ian Black. They will be hosting the upcoming Sports News and Documentary Emmy ceremonies, but individually on different nights. On May twenty sixth, Roywood Junior will host the forty seventh Annuel Sports Emmy Awards. Michael ian Black will host the Documentary categories of the News and Documentary Emmys on Thursday, May twenty eighth. Amber Ruffin will host the news categories on Wednesday, the twenty seventh, Michael ian Black the documentary categories on the twenty eighth.

All these events take place at the Jazz at Lincoln Centers, Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York. Paralyzed by Hope that Maria Bamford story recently played the Milwaukee Film Festival, filmmaker Neil Berkeley said, so many comedians these days have put her on the Mount Rushmore of the Greatest of all Time with Richard Pryor and Rodney Dangerfield. She’s that revered in this industry. I’m so tempted to bog down on a Mount Rushimore of comedy that has Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield and Maria Bamford.

That’s not too bashed Maria Bamford. But you only get four on Mount Rushmore’s. And he also gave a spot to Rodney I Digress Paralyzed by Hope. The Maria Bamford Story explores Bamford’s comedy journey and the mental health struggles that have influenced her material. Neil says, I want people to experience Maria.

I want people to know there’s this person who gets up at eight in the morning and is comedy for ten people in a bookstore, and then that weekend goes to a thousand seed theater. She has this ability to turn all of her life’s experiences into these incredibly funny but also useful stories. And this isn’t always the goal of stand up comedy. But you can go to her shows and everyone in that audience can hear something or learn about one of her experiences. That they can empathize with.

The film looks at Maria’s creative process, switching between interviews, stand up tapings, and other archival footage to show how Maria’s mental health struggles and trauma have informed her comedy. And that is your comedy news for today. I will see tomorrow.

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Featured: Colin Jost, Pete Davidson, Tim Heidecker, Robbie Hoffman, Jimmy Kimmel, Donald Trump, Adam Carolla, Ted Cruz, Stephen Colbert

What’s in This Episode

• Colin Jost defends Pete Davidson’s ferry as not a money pit
• Tim Heidecker taking over Infowars
• Robbie Hoffman on relationship dynamics and travel spending
• King Charles visits United States
• Jimmy Kimmel’s joke about Trump’s marriage longevity
• Stephen Colbert returning to politics on Late Show

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Caloroga Shark Media. Howdy. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the algorithm loves. We’re gonna find out how good my noise reduction and plug in is because I have the fan on.

There’s just no fresh oxygen here in my little studio. I just need to circulate the air. But that’s not why you’re here. You’re here to learn more about Colin Jost and Pete Davidson’s Ferry Well good news. Colin Jost was on the SmartLess podcast and says it’s very misreported that the Fairry is some sort of crazy money pit.

Colin said, I joke about it a lot, but we’ve done some events on it where we’ve already made back the money we’ve invested in, the money we’ve spent on stuff to dock it and all that. Colin says that the John F. Kennedy is the same ferry he often took when commuting to high school. He said, it was usually the seven am ferry that I took because I went up to this high school called Recha’s High School that’s up on the Upper east Side. I didn’t know, Colin jo just went to regis interesting and it’s free if you get in.

It’s a really great school. All right. What are you gonna do with the ferry now? Colin Joe said, they want to use it either as an event space or an entertainment venue. But it’s been a long process to try and find a place to dock it.

Colin says, I was thinking in a real estate way, if you put it somewhere, it’s seventy thousand square feet. So I was like, if you put that on a dock in Manhattan, you’ve suddenly got basically a building on the waterfront. There also may be an altruistic version of this. Colin said, growing up in Staten Island, I went to this place called the Great Hill Swim Club. It was a swim club where people would just go and the kids could all hang out, the adults could hang out.

I could imagine creating a place like that that’s not a weird, fancy members club, but is actually more middle class in Manhattan. That’s never gonna happen. Let me know when that happens. Colin. He imagined a swimming board on the deck and a seasonal transfer to Miami to take advantage of Florida’s sunny winters.

There’s no way a ferry is going all the way down to Florida. None of that is going to happen. Ever. Tim Hideker caught up with The Hollywood Reporter the topic taking over info wars Highecker’s and said, it’s been a wild ride. I’ve been involved behind the scenes for several months.

I love playing with these people, and I’ve been following Alex Jones and the QAnon stuff for so long. I offered my help and heard nothing, because at that point it was kind of a stalemate. But it came back again last fall. There was a new energy behind it and they reached out to me. My initial thought was, Yeah, if you get this thing, it’ll be fun for a little while.

But then what where do you take it? How do you continue to jab at him? But maybe not in a direct satirical way. The idea from Tim what the world needs right now is a home for the people who used to make shows on Adult Swim in Comedy Central and are now scattered around social media making great stuff that isn’t curated and certainly not funded. Could the ultimate joke be that this turns into a place for thriving creativity and humor and goodwill.

Not Hackey stand up Specials, Not Rambling, four hour conspiratorial podcast by people who do sets at the comedy store Good Stuff. Robbie Hoffman was on the Not Skinny but Not Fat podcast and said, I’m the boy in my relationship. I pay a lot when somebody else is paying. It’s unusual for me. Robbie said, when she travels solo for work, she likes to keep things low key.

But when her wife, Gabby comes along, that’s when I splurge. We’re pressing play on the movie at the same time as a whole different experience, Robbie said, Gabby is a first class woman. People don’t want to see gabbin me necessarily an economy. They want a dream. We’ve been at it, They’ve seen us, and they’re like, hard work does not pay off at all, Like the American dream is that dead.

King Charles visited the United States this week. That leads to all sorts of stories that we’re going to talk about. Let’s start with some jokes from Jimmy Kimmel. The King of England is in the United States, King Charles and Queen Camilla are here to visit President beef on Wellington.

And also they have quite an itinerary.

They’re going to New York. They’re making a stop at the Wisconsin Dells. They’re going to a screening of the Delaware’s product to at the Burbank amc and I guess they’re wrapping it up with a fish concert in Vegas at the Sphere. Trump has a particular affinity for the royal family, and so in Washington they pulled out all the stops to welcome the King and Queen. The Department of Transportation lined the streets with what they thought was the Union jack.

The British flag turned out to be the Australian flag. Well, they had to take them all down and swap them out. Somehow, they they managed to screw everything up. It was a literal false flag operation going on there. Yesterday, the Royals joined the Trump’s for afternoon tea, and boy, would I love to be a fly on the cucumber sandwiches for that conversation.

No way, Trump was drinking tea, right. I bet they boiled some diet coke and put it in a cup for him. King Charles delivered a speech today before a joint session of Congress. His goal in this trip is to try to calm transatlantic tensions. Trump heard this ease and the Atlantic is transit out too now.

In this next section, the President was talking about his own parents and how they were together for sixty three years. Trump looks over at Milania and says, we’re not going to make it that long. Kimmel had some thoughts about that. Let’s listen. Trump was very excited about hosting the King, and a lot of it is because Trump’s mom was a great fan of the royal family.

My wonderful mother, Mary McLeod. She came to America at nineteen met my incredible father. We loved him so much. We all loved him, We loved her, We loved him Fred and they were married for sixty three years. And excuse me, if you don’t mind, that’s a record we won’t be able to match, Darling.

I’m sorry, just not going to work out that way. Wait a minute, did he just make a joke about his death? We should be fired for that. Only Donald Trump would demand I be fired for making a joke about his old age.

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And then a daily go out and make a joke about his own all day.

Adam Carolla has come to Jimmy Kimmel’s defense about that whole backlash from the expectant widow joke. Corolla and I agree with this said, that’s a pretty typical roast joke. It’s also a trope any younger, beautiful woman who’s married to an older guy, especially if the guy’s rumored to be sort of douchey. You’d make that joke at any roast. Send your letters to Adam Carolla.

Ted Cruz, sticking up for Jimmy Kimmel sort of, I had mentioned that the FCC was possibly, perhaps maybe looking at the Disney TV licenses. Ted Cruz said, it is not government’s job to censor speech, and I do not believe the FCC should operate as the speech police. Stephen Colbert was profiled by The New York Times. I’m holding on to most of it for the week of Colbert’s last show, but one thing that came up is that after the first few months on the Late Show, his producer encouraged him to lean back into politics. Colbert said, at first the plan was to back away from politics after leaving the Colbert rapport.

Stephen told The Times it was my instinct to be less topical because I didn’t want to have to engage with what I saw was an increasingly contentious public discourse, and I thought, aren’t there other ways to have fun with the audience. But after the twenty sixteen National Party conventions gave Colbert an opportunity to do politics, Steven said he felt like Clint east Wood in Unforgiven. He buried his guns, and I’m like, you know, I buried those guns. I was talking to Paul Zanello, he’s one of my oldest friends and one of my producers here, and he’s like, you’re having fun. People love to see that.

And I said, but that means I gotta go dig up the guns. And he says, buddy, that’s the part the audience wants to see. Josh Johnson had some jokes about the ballroom. He told these on The Daily Show and told them much better than I will. But Josh said, I can’t believe they dissolved dose right before Trump demanded a four hundred million dollar ballroom.

It’s like how the Michael Jackson movie ended, right before he starts some molesting. You just went ahead and skipped all the important stuff. Huh. Honestly, as soon as I heard about the ballroom, I knew we had end up paying for it, Like Trump is the type of dude to win and dine you and then forget his wallet. One more, Josh said.

Don’t get me wrong, with so many seniors getting scammed in America, I’m glad one of them is turning the tables. I just don’t want it to be on us. Comedy stock Market. Thank you, Burt Reynolds Voice of the Comedy stock Market. That really is Burt Reynolds AI voice properly licensed.

Don’t worry about that. Talk to his estate. I don’t know. I just saw it available. I went, yeah, all right, I’ll use Burt Reynolds.

That’s fun, all right. This week’s Comedy stock Market is looking ahead to next week. It’s the Netflix is a Joe Comedy Festival, and I’ve got some buy recommendations. Let’s buy even some more Osco at Cotska because I’ve seen her latest hour and when she does it in LA in front of all the fancy press people, people are gonna notice because this hour is really good. She’s part of the festival.

So let’s buy some more Otsco. Let’s buy some Dave Chappelle. I know it’s obvious. It’s like me telling you to buy I don’t know apple stock, but yeah, let’s buy Dave Chappelle. He announced three shows at the festival.

They’re gonna be great. Everyone’s gonna be like Dave’s awesome. Some people are gonna get mad at some things, he says. You listen to the show, you know how this all goes. So yeah, let’s buy some Dave Chappelle.

Let’s buy some more Flight of the Concords. I just got a feeling. Yeah, okay, maybe the tickets aren’t quite six hundred and ten dollars anymore, but market correction. To me, that was always absurd. But I think people are gonna be really happy that those guys are back.

And I’ve got one more on the comedy stock market. I didn’t realize how funny this next person is. But here’s who we’re gonna buy, King Charles. I’ll play in a clip in a second, But those are your recommendations this week by Osco at Coonska by Dave Chappelle. Buy Flight of the Concords by King Charles, No sells Johnny Macker you had a good mood for once.

I know, right, Nope, no seals this week, all buys, All right, King Charles is actually really funny. He gave some great speeches. You can hear them all on the Palace Intrigue podcast. I’m the writer on that one. I was quoted in USA Today, and man other aggregators aggregated the USA Today article.

I’m in like all these publications all of a sudden because I am, of course a expert, which makes me smile. But I’ve also been writing the podcast for seven years. At this point, I really do know more about the British royal family than your average American. Now, your average brit not at all. But for a kid from Queen’s I’m pretty good anyway.

King Charles is hilarious. Let’s listen this said. French friends can feel equally at home with a glass at a map. Indeed, you recently commented, mister President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking French.

Now. I don’t know how King Charles would feel about a recent show. Jenny Zigrino did. She dressed up as King George the Third. Yeah, that guy, the one we broke up with.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, Jenny was hosting a historical late night talk show called History Tonight. She was joined by Rob Crean, whose day job is a tour guide on the Freedom Trail. Rob Bla George’s sidekick former Prime Minister George Grenville. All the comics on the bill dressed as historical figures. Jenny explained, when I first moved to Boston for college, for Halloween, I dressed up as Amedeus and everybody thought I was Thomas Jefferson, which I was pretty mad about.

Jenny is a history buff. She hosted a show called Badass Bitches of History on Comedy Central’s digital channel in twenty eighteen, chronicling the contributions of mostly unheritled women. She says she wants to get back to some of her historical roots. She said, I’m just gonna embrace it. I’ve always loved history, so why not just do it now.

Even though she might have an Revolution era powdered wig on it doesn’t mean she can’t comment on current events. She said. It might even offer a better perspective. To talk about things like the no King’s protests, she said, and send her letters to her. You guys don’t want a king, but you have a mad king in office because you’re a character.

If you’re more leeway in what you could say. Having King George the Third, especially in drag because I’m a drag king talking about this, it’s more impactful than it was just me on stage doing it. Love it cultured magas and put out there Cultured one hundred. One of the Cultured one hundred is Caleb Heroon. They asked Caleb what keeps you up at night, and Caleb said, the size of the oceans in outer space.

I have to lie on myself when it comes up. I think about black holes and I get scared and then I go, that’s a myth, buddy, go to sleep and that helps, all right, Caleb, what are you looking forward to this year? Eating a grilled hot dog by a lake with just a tiny little sunburn this summer. Name and influence of yours that might surprise people, Caleb told the Culture Monique. Growing up, my dad showed me a lot of stand up by straight guys, and I liked it.

When I saw Monique’s Queens of Comedy set. She was outrageous and quick and fat and sexy and confident. I just couldn’t look away.

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And then she does precious legend in every sense of the word.

And if you’re in New Zealand, the New Zealand Comedy Festival has kicked off, taking place all month long now. The folks at stuff dot co dot Nz your home for New Zealand. Comedy News asked some of the comedians performing who they would go see. Courtney Dawson says, to go see the Coro Conicles by Hated Dawson, who happens to be her dad. Apparently her dad was always the cool dad growing up all right.

Abby Howell says, go see nos Feratu looking for Love. It’s funny, weird, I’ve seen it multiple times. Rhanna McCall dresses up as no s Faratu night after night with bald cap, white paint and full turtleneck under theater lights. She’s a madman. That’s fun.

Jerome Chandra Hazen says, go see Zach and Liza bought a gun. He says, I’ve never heard anyone else extole the virtues of Bucky’s gas stations for ten minutes and have the entire room enthralled. Joe Damon said, I’d like to recommend Sean Collier, who I believe his hands down one of the best comedians of the country. He juggles being a full time lawyer and recently moved to Australia for better prospects. It is absolutely killing it.

He’s still young and will be in his twenties when he hits a decade in comedy. Felicity Ward also says Rihanna and McCall on that no s Faratu show, so I will have to keep an eye on that.

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The New Zealand International Comedy Festival today through the twenty fourth in Auckland and Wellington. One of these years I’m gonna do is like some massive international comedy festival tour. But this year I’m not even going to Los Angeles. I wanted to go, but my daughter who’s out there, is home from college in two weeks and you heard me tell the story already. Okay, I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: David Cross, Bill Maher, Dave Chappelle, Craig Ferguson, Kevin Hart

What’s in This Episode

• David Cross and Bill Maher debate transgender politics and cancel culture
• Dave Chappelle joins Netflix As a Joke Festival with three Hollywood Palladium shows
• Craig Ferguson announces American on Purpose CNN series for USA’s 250th anniversary
• Kevin Hart’s sixth Netflix film ’72 Hours’ debuts July 24th with ensemble comedy cast
• Ted Lasso Season 4 trailer released, new plot focuses on women’s soccer team coaching
• Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement stars in new Hulu comedy ‘Alice and Steve’

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Caloroga Shark Media. From the basement where the landscapers leaf flowers are so loud I can even hear them with headphones on behind closed doors. I’m Johnny back with your Daily Comedy and who was a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Listen to David Cross on Bill Mooher. I’ve said this before.

If you asked me, Hey, do you like Bill Maher, I think I would just say no. And every time I listen to his podcast, I find it really compelling. He and David Cross just had a bizarre, feisty conversation. It was wonderful. One of the topics they clashed about was over transgender politics, and the quote unquote looney left Bill Maher said, good luck with President Vance.

David Cross had casually mentioned that his nine year old daughter had transgender pals in third grade. Cross had already admitted that he lives in a bubble. Bill mooh were calling an anecdote from Seth Moulton, the Democratic representative out of Massachusetts. As that anecdote goes. Molten said, Look, I don’t want my twelve year old daughter to be on the soccer field and be run over by someone who’s identifying as a woman but is really a boy.

A lot of people applauded him for that. Mar continued, I mean we saw in the Olympics, so and okay born a man now fighting as a woman. Boxer just beat the dog crap out of a woman. The other boxer. A lot of people would disturb by that.

It’s very disturbing to watch because it’s a man beating the crap out of a woman. I’m just saying there’s stuff inside the bubble that could be bad. Cross claimed that he’s seen prepbescent girls kick the crap out of boys. Mar said, that’s what’s wrong with the looney Left. They just die on hills that are unnecessary to die on.

Later in the show, Cross mentioned that his daughter has transgender friends. Mar said, wait, she has trans friends in the third grade. They know they’re trans in third grade. Cross said, well, nobody’s doing this to her. Mar said, somebody is doing something, because eight or nine year olds can’t do anything on their own.

They agreed to disagree, and that’s when more equipped. Good luck with President Vance. As I say to my woke friends, we voted for the same person. You’re just why she loves. This is a case of that.

Cross went, wait what Maer said, we voted for the same person. You’re just why she lost. America’s here this and they’re gonna go. Bill’s right. Eight year olds can’t really make decisions on their own like this.

That’s what most people are gonna say. And this is where the Democrats are with David Cross living in Brooklyn with man Donnie loving, and this is why you know we’re gonna vote for Jade Vance. That’s American in a nutshell. The conversation turned to New York City Mayor Zora and Mamdanni Mar called him a straight up communist. David Cross said, no, he’s not.

He’s not Bill. Bill moore Than talked Cea Weaver. I hope I’m pronouncing miss Weaver’s first name correctly. Ceam unfamiliar with her. She serves as the director of the New York City Mayor’s Office to protect tenants.

David Cross said he had no idea who she was. Mar explained, she’s the head of like we’re gonna fix housing. This is what got him elected. He has not disavowed her, and I could show you all her tweets that she’s put out over the last few years and quotes, and one of them is elect more communists. I don’t think you have to read between the lines, so somebody he stands with and by saying that, and also her other quotes are like all home own ownership is racist.

David Cross said, well, that’s ridiculous. Cross said he would look up more information on Weaver. In a different part of the conversation, David Cross almost laughed in Bill Maher’s face. And I’m not even sure almost is the right description there. He definitely laughed.

Maybe he just wasn’t close enough to his face. Bill Maher suggested that Bill Maher has been soft canceled. Let’s listen, people Sindis want to say cancel. People aren’t canceled because they’re still doing this, or that there are different gradations of it. There’s soft canceling.

I would say, I’ve had some of that happen to me. What soft canceling would be like, we will never give you an Emmy, even though plainly I’ve deserved them. No, Bill, No, you don’t think I’ve ever show they don’t know. What the what the categories of the context or any of that anyway that episode of the podcast is well worth your time. There’s a new performer who has signed up for the Netflix As a Joke Festival, which starts next week.

That new performer is Dave Chappelle, who will perform three shows at the Hollywood Palladium May seventh, eighth, and ninth. Craig Ferguson is going to celebrate USA two point fifty with his new CNN series American on Purpose. Craig explains, one of the greatest things about being American is the fact that what that actually means isn’t always been up for discussion. My idea of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness isn’t necessarily yours. Being American is like stretching nitwear.

It looks different on everybody, and I’m fascinated by the endless variety of compatriots. There is a trailer for it. It’s pretty visual. I went to pull it and I’m like, yeah, that’s not going to make sense for the show, Craig said, I love this place. I want to show you why I became American on Purpose.

Kevin Hart’s sixth film for Netflix, seventy two Hours, will be out July twenty fourth. I didn’t realize Kevin did five movies that were for Netflix. I’d have to look that up, but sure. In seventy two hours, Kevin Hart is joined by Ben Marshall. All right, the please don’t destroy guys, we like him.

Cam Patterson somehow got a second gig after his stint on SNL that I think is won and done. And you know who else is in this Marcelo Hernandez oh Boy. Kevin Hart plays Joe, a married father of three who, after mistakenly being included in an email chain for a bachelor party, joins the group for wild seventy two hours in Miami. Amused in nostalgic for his own wild days, Joe Kevin Art keeps reading the emails, reminiscing about a time when life was more care free. Eventually, he comes clean about the mistake, revealing who he is and he wasn’t actually meant to be on the chain.

To his surprise, the group’s best man, Nick, invites him to join the trip for real. What Joe doesn’t know is that Nick has ulterior motives. He hopes that Joe’s presence in his settled domestic life will convince his best friend Mason to call off the wedding, but Nick’s plan quickly backfires as Joe’s unexpected arrival profoundly impacts everyone involved. I want to know more about who Marcelo Hernandez is playing. I can guess.

I’m pretty sure I know what Marselo Hernandez’s character will be on IMDb. The character doesn’t even have a name, but I’m pretty sure I know what it’s gonna be. There’s also a trailer out for ted Lasso season four, and honestly, I didn’t make it halfway through it. I was just like, I’m so sad because we all love that show, especially during the pandemic, and it just hit all the right spots. I feel like they waited too long, and I’m not sure I’m excited about this new plot.

Season four of ted Lasso will debut August fifth. Episodes drop weekly until October seventh. Season four sees ted Lasso returning to Richmond to coach a second division women’s soccer team. In a trailer, ted Lasso is seen trying to coach his young team. We’re told throughout the course of the season, Ted and the team learned to leap before they look, taking chances they never thought they would.

Anna Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, and Jeremy Swift all return. They are joined by some new cast members. I don’t know. I mean, I’ll watch, but I have a feeling my wife and I are gonna give each other the do we actually want to watch this face? Things are hot for the Flight of the Concords.

Jamaine Clement is starring in a new comedy series Alice and Steve, will premiere on Hulu on June eighth. In Alison Steve, Alice is devastated when her best friend Steve played by Jamaine Clement, starts dating her twenty six year old daughter Izzy. She’s going to lose her best friend and her daughter in one fell swoop ballas tries everything she can end of the relationship. Unfortunately for her, Steve’s more than ready for the attack. What begins as a perfect friendship devolves into an all out feud.

Gossip connor Wis business Tree, gossip con problem, gossip con Withers list with Johnny Mac sully Trees. Pete Davidson has decreased the asking price of his home in Westchester, New York by one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, just weeks after he listed it for two point seven million dollars. Pete Davidson attempting to move to Staten Island. Pete purchased the four bedroom, three bath home in twenty twenty three for one point nine five million dollars. Not sure what’s going on with Pete Davidson.

He appears to need money, which is surprising. He should have some money. Website the city has a suggestion for that Staten Island ferry owned by Pete Davidson and Colin Jost, the state official in charge of creating habitats for underwater creatures, told the city he wants the ferry. That’s right. Marine biologist and diver Chris Laporta runs the state Department of Conservation’s Artificial reef program.

Porta said, something like a Staten Island ferry would be approaching a naval vessel. They’re gorgeous. They would make a fine habitat for sure. Think about the iconic look on the bottom for divers, because you’ve got that beautiful blazing orange of the navy blue. It would be something should New York could be able to acquire the ferry Laporta would sink it in one of the designated reef zones that can create complex habitats which otherwise do not exist on the flat sandy bottoms of New York Waters.

On SNL a few months back, Pete Davidson said, in case you’re wondering why how to do a show in Saudi Arabia, We’re losing millions on this ferry in New York City today it is the Paragon Comedy Festival. It takes place starting tonight through May second, twelve shows across the three floors at Paragon Sports in Union Square. I love the idea of this festival. It has sold out two years in a row. That is part of the fun of the Paragon Comedy Festival.

Secret lineups now. In the past, folks like Marcelo Hernandez have showed up, and I’m pretty sure we know what Marcello Hernanez did. Other comedians who have shown up at Underground Overground comedy shows have included Sam Marill, Roywood Junior, Mark Norman, David Tell, and others. This year, it’s not just comedy, there’s also live magic. It is the Paragon Comedy Festival, kicking off tonight.

Are you in the mood for some more late night shows. Comedian Ben Gleib is launching the first late night talk show for YouTube. It is called Goodnight with Ben Gleib. It will launch May twenty eighth. The pr is that it’s the first late night show launching on YouTube that was made exclusively for YouTube.

Glebe’s weekly series or Right So Tap the Breaks. It’s a weekly show, not a nightly, is designed to evolve the traditional celebrity focus late night space, offering chats with the usual suspects, while broadening in scope to include top thought leaders, creators, experts, and entrepreneurs, including but not limited to wellness and financial experts, relationship coaches, AI futurists, and psychologists. It will debut ahead of Outside Tonight, another recently announced late night show for YouTube, that one hosted by Julian Shapiro Barnum. Gleeb’s Goodnight will tape one day ahead of the air date and run on his Goodnight YouTube channel, which has two point nine million plus subscribers at the time of this recording. It will premiere Thursdays at ten.

There will be a live studio audience and a wall of screens showcasing the first global virtual studio audience at late night, bringing in real time reactions from viewers around the world. I think I’m gonna hate this, but it’s also innovative, So I salute them, and I support them, and I hope I don’t hate it. Each week we’ll also feature a post show after party episode where Gleebe dives deeper with his guests at additional curated invitees off and over drinks and candid conversation. Keith Harris, the drummer of The Black Eyed Peas, will serve as bandleader and musical director. Some of the guests for season one include Nicky Glazer.

Yeah no way right, Yeah, NICKI tap the breaks, NICKI Also. Other guests include Bob Odenkirk, Tiffany Hattish, Craig Robinson. I thought you quit comedy, buddy. I’m not letting that one go. That was a bad thing you did, and I’m calling you on it.

Sophia Bush, Jeff Ross, Adam Ray, and some others. So that is coming soon. This all reminds me I keep forgetting to bring this up. The Netflix is a joke comedy festival next week. No one has really pointed this out.

John Mulaney is not recording his talk show, and if he’s not making new episodes of his talk show while at the Netflix Festival, that means that show is dead. So I’m just pat myself on the back when I said two years ago that I didn’t think the show was working. Apparently Netflix agrees with me. It could have been good. It needed to be produced better.

And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll catch it tomorrow.

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Melania Trump, Jimmy Fallon, Greg Gutfeld, George Clooney, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, John Stewart, Matt Friend, King Charles

What’s in This Episode

• Melania Trump demands Jimmy Kimmel be fired over joke
• White House Correspondents Dinner security incident on Saturday
• Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue about Melania’s ‘expectant widow’ glow
• Late night hosts respond with jokes about the incident
• FCC reportedly reviewing ABC’s broadcast license
• King Charles visiting the United States
• Matt Friend’s King Charles impression

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media, are there. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry, A cent as the Algorithm loves. Malania Trump has demanded that ABC take a stand and fire Jimmy Kimmel over what Malania Trump described as his hateful and violent rhetoric, calling Jimmy kim L a coward that engages in atrocious behavior. Now, last week, Jimmy Kimmel had done a fake White House correspondence dinner again last week before the incident on Saturday night, Kimmel did this comedy routine last week. In the comedy routine, Jimmy Kimmel had joked that missus Trump had the glow of an expectant widow.

I wasn’t in the writer’s room, but as a semi comedy expert, I will suspect that the nature of that joke was a commentary on the President not always looking healthy. Anyway. After the incident on Saturday night, the clip resurfaced. It was now recontextualized, obviously on social media. Milania Trump’s account wrote, Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.

His monologue about my family isn’t comedy. His words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough.

It’s time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community. I’m not going to replay the clip because I’m not looking to stir that pod.

Also, if you’re in the Facebook group, you know about this.

So here’s what happened on my end in Sunday Morning show, I had the Kimmel bit, so if you do want to hear it, it’s there if you want to go back and hear it.

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And then I was watching the Knicks on Saturday night and as the next game was…

And it’s breaking news here and we don’t know what has happened yet, So let me take the Kimmel stuff out. And I sat down and I made an edit, and I uploaded a new version of the show that didn’t contain the Kimmel material. So then on Sunday morning, I’m driving to the National Donut Chain listening back to the show. I always listened back to the show to see if they’re new mistakes, and to my horror, the Kimmel material will still in there. I’m befuddled as to how that happened.

And I’m positive I made the audio edit because A I have it, and B I specifically remember having to move the commercial marker because when you change the audio, the show got shorter, so the commercial marker had to move to where the commercial hole was. So I’m positive that I uploaded it. I don’t know what happened. Maybe I didn’t hit safe, maybe something happened with the computers. I don’t know, but anyway, the point being, I heard the Kimmel clip and I was like, oh no, so the Facebook group knows that I felt truly bad about that, and I come in peace.

I like to make fun of stuff. I like to be rascally. I don’t come in hate at all. So back to Kimmel again. He made these jokes last week, and I don’t think these were violent jokes.

I think he was just goofing about the president’s age and general health. And I don’t think Jimmy would have done the same bit on say Monday Night show. After a potential shooting later in the day, the President of the United States weighed in, saying, I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel’s despicable call to violence, and normally would not be responsitive to anything that he said, but this is something far beyond the pale. Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC. Jimmy Kimmel hosted his show on Monday Night and responded.

Jimmy said, you know, sometimes you wake up in the morning and the first lady puts out a statement demanding you’d be fired from your job. We’ve all been there, right. He then cleared up the joke, which is kind of what I think it was Obviously it was a joke about their age difference, and of joy we see on her face every time they’re together, who is a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost eighty and she’s younger than I am. It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination. And they know that I’ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular.

The other late night hosts weighed in. Jimmy Fallon said, everybody was talking about how bad the security was at the White House Correspondent’s dinner. The good news is everyone is safe, and I think now security has figured this out. They said, for now on they’re going to put Trump in a lock the owner in case like CVS. All right, fallin again.

When the incident occurred on Saturday Night, Oz the mentalist was performing for Trump, Trump looked at him like, yes, I did have the six of diamonds, but why didn’t you predict this? But Trump wants the event to be rescheduled within thirty days. An FBI director Cash Burttel said he expects the security at the next dinner to be entirely different, because by then he’ll be fired. That’s a solid one. Now people often say, hey, John, how come you know both sides things that I say, because anytime I do a recap there’s nothing from the other side.

Well today there is. Greg Guttfeld said good news Nancy Pelosi was safe as she was wearing a a proof face. Gut felt again. When reached for comment, Joe Biden said, it’s times like these that made me glad I’m already dead. George Clooney weighed in on this.

Now, it’s unclear if the reporters knew they were speaking to George Clooney or if they thought they were talking to me, and we’re like, okay, he hosts Daily Comedy News. We should get a reaction from him. Clooney and I are often confused for each other, so it’s unclear who the reporters thought they were talking to. But it wasn’t me. It was actually George Clooney, who said, Jimmy’s a comedian.

And I would argue that Carolyn Levitt didn’t mean shots should be fired. You may have seen earlier in the day, prior to all this happening, Carolyn Levitt had encouraged everyone to tune in, using the phrase shots will be fired. Clooney continued, saying she was making a joke. Fair enough, you look at that side and go, well, jokes are jokes, but the rhetoric is a little dangerous, and we’ve seen it a lot lately. Triumph, the insult comic Dog was at the White House Correspondent’s dinner, which sounds like something you’d make up.

Nope, he was there and he spoke to John Stewart about it. Were you worried about, to be honest, getting killed, Yes, but mostly because I didn’t want the RFK Junior to eat my carcass. Late Nighters said that multi reports say that the FCC is taking steps towards launching an early review of ABC’s broadcast licenses. This may or may not have something to do with the Kimme Old joke. CNN’s Brian Stelter said that the review could have come as early as yesterday afternoon.

I’ll let you know what happened.

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Meanwhile, King Charles, he’s visiting the President of the United States, an…

I’m the writer on that. I was actually quoted in USA today Pop on my LinkedIn. There’s a link to that. But anyway, King Charles was asked about Matt Friend’s impression Matt Friend not having a good week. Let me play a clip of Matt Friend doing King Charles.

This is not the clip that King Charles was reacting to, but here is Matt Friend doing Charles on Sky News. But I’m trying to figure out other dialects. You know, the King Charles is quite fun when I come here to and I try different voices, and it’s more based off of the crowns interpretation. Now, honestly, that’s not a bad King Charles impression at all. However, Matt Friend attempted to do King Charles two King Charles, and the King said keep working on it.

Ah, let’s all wish Stavros Halkias well, he went on Instagram and said, Hey, bad news. I broke my arm. I fell off a scooter. I wish I was telling you that I heroically stopped a burglar from harming a woman and suffered harm as a result. But no, I flat lay rode a bird scooter.

The wind took my hat almost and I reached up to try and stop it, lost my balance and fell arm first into the street, two hundred and eighty pounds of me directly onto my arm, cracked it smooth in half. It hurts like bleep. I’m pretty fed up, and I’m going to be fed up for a little while. He has had to postpone the taping of his comedy special. He was going to tape one in Baltimore July eighteenth and nineteenth.

He said, there’s just no way for me to do the special any justice right now. I want to do a good job for you guys. I don’t want to put out some fing half assed bs just because I would lose money not doing it when I scheduled. Social media was kind as always. One person wrote, someone tracked down the CCTV footage of this, please it must exist.

Another fan wrote, we can rebuild him the six million calorie man. One of the top comments read, did you immediately pull your shirt back down? Tom Sagora said he almost had Garth Brooks on his podcast You May Recall Back in twenty eighteen, Tom Segora started joking about Garth Brooks joining Facebook. Back in twenty eighteen, Sigora made the joke, what he’s thinking about is all the bodies he’s got stacked in graves in his yard. For sure, He’s probably killed two hundred three other people in his life.

After that episode aired, Garth Brooks’s comment sections on social media began getting flooded by fans of Tom Sagora asking Garth Brooks, where are the bodies? Well, we’re now learning that Segora was contacted by Garth Brooks team to have Gorth appear on Tom Sigora’s podcast. Sigora told this story on Andrew schultz Flagrant podcast. Sigora said, I tried to get Garth on. At one point.

They reached out and they said, Garth’s going to do some interviews. Would you like him to be on the podcast? I said, of course. So they were like, write something that we could show to one of his people. Sigora said he took the request semi seriously, writing back that he’d love to have him on to talk about his career.

Sigora thinks they weren’t even sure if Sigora was the ware of the Body’s guy. Quoting Sigora here, the agent told my guy instead of confirming, didn’t he say something crazy about Garth? I feel like it could go wrong for him. I feel like that guy had said something. Eventually they’re like, he’s not coming on that show.

Too bad. That would have been amazing. So we’re all in this for the money, including Johnny Mac. But you can die a little inside when Kill Tony gets a little more corporate. Fox’s Red Seed Ventures is expanding in a stand up comedy and live entertainment through a multi year deal with kill Tony.

That’s right. Red Seed Ventures, which features is a creator services company within Fox’s two B Media Group, will handle advertising sales for Kill Tony on both video and audio. The Kill Tony Show will be distributed on Fox’s streaming platforms two B and Fox Won. Tony Hinchcliffe said, Red Seed Ventures is the perfect partner for our podcast. They understand our brand, our vision, and the importance of capturing and delivering live content to audiences.

Do you hear all the cool sucking out of Tony Hinchcliff as he said that sentence, Chris presumably the CEO of Redzeed Ventures. Chris and his team have the right tools and resources for us to maximize and elevate our podcasting footprint. Listen yourself, Tony only s and we’re excited to kick off the partnership with even more great comedic content for our audiences. A Red Seed Ventures portfolio includes folks like Nancy Grace and Megan Kelly kill Tony is their major push into comedy. Can I interest you in some comedian trading cards?

The folks at the Laugh Factory have unveiled the first line of collectible trading cards. That’s right, the founder of the Laugh Factory, Jamie Masada, said, from the very beginning, Laugh Factory has always been about giving comedians a stage in a voice. To now see comedy honored in this way with its own collectible trading CARDDS is something truly special. Some of the comedians featured on the cards? Do you want to guess?

Should I give you a minute, who do you think is gonna be featured on the cards? Well? Wrong? Deane Cook? Okay, Now we can draw a line and then go like three quarters of the way down the page.

The first name is Deane Cook, and then Ornie Adams, Tom Dressen, Katherine Blandford, who I think is great, and moster Brownie, who I’ve always enjoyed when I spent time with him. But it’s Deane Cook, Ornie Adams, Tom Dressen, Katherine Blandford and Monster Brownie laugh Aactory President David Feher said, these cards honor the voices, the risk takers and the artists who make people laugh for a living. We’re proud to help them at the legacy of comedy in a completely new way, and that completely new way is with an Ornie Adams trading card. Trevor Noah is heading back to South Africa for South Africa’s Festival of Comedy. Trevor Noah has been named captain of a national comedy team.

Did you guys listen to the comedy draft last week? What happened to her? Trevor Noah said. The goal to grow the South African comedy scene and bring people back to live stand up. Trevor said, we want to create something that gives comedians a bigger platform and reminds people how powerful live comedy can be.

The festival isn’t being pitched as a typical lineup of shows. Instead, it’s being framed like a sports rollout, with Eugene Koza as vice captain and the Tosh Madlin Gozi as coach, all working together to spotlight both established acts and newer voices. Trevor NOAs said, comedy has always been a reflection of who we are. This is about celebrating that voice on a larger scale. Major live shows are expected in September in cities like Pretoria and Cape Town.

Seth Myers and John Oliver have extended their residency at New York City’s Beacon Theater. They already had shows May thirty first and June fourteenth, They will now also do September twenty seventh, October twenty fifth, November twenty second, and December thirteenth. Each show features a forty five to fifty minute stand up set from both comics. Then a Q and A and Angela Johnson will have a new special, Ugly Baby, will be on YouTube Mother’s Day Sunday, May tenth at noon Pacific time. At the heart of the special, as Angela’s journey into motherhood in her forties, she opens up about personal struggles with fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum life.

There is a trailer. However, whoever mixed the trailer mixed it too loud and it’s going to sound like crap on the podcast, so I’m not gonna play it. Angela said, I’m grateful that I’ve been able to do this seven times. My boobs may be falling lower, but at least my career continues to reach new heights, all thanks to my loyal fans. Blah blah blah.

And that is your comedy news for today. I will see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien, Jeff Ross, Matt Friend, Matteo Lane

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser’s Golden Globes joke about Leonardo DiCaprio and his younger girlfriends
• Conan O’Brien’s daytime talk show idea and NBC return discussions
• Matt Friend’s bombing performance on CNN’s America Laughs special
• Matteo Lane’s harsh critique of Springfield, Massachusetts and the Rorer Comedy Club
• Netflix comedy festival pop-ups launching across Los Angeles

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence the Algorithm loves. I’ve been having fun doing the show lately. I mean, I always enjoy doing the show, but I feel like different names have been coming up, except for me talking about Nikki Glaser every day.

But you know, like yesterday, I had just like different people in the mix. That always freshens it up for even me. But let’s talk about Nikki Glaser. She was on the Tonight show because of course she was her PR team getting it done, the agent’s getting it done America saying we’re done. I think, I don’t know, kind of getting that vibe anyway.

Nikki Glaser name dropped Leonardo DiCaprio, as one does. At the twenty twenty six Golden Globes. Nikki Glaser said, what a career, Leonardo DiCaprio has had countless iconic performances, You’ve worked with every great director, You’ve won three Golden Globes and an Oscar And the most impressive thing is you were able to accomplish all this before your girlfriend thirty, which is a fantastic joke. Well, we learn that Nikki Glaser sent Leo flowers. She told Jimmy Fallon after I do it a joke.

I always send flowers to everyone that it made fun of. That was a good sport about it, which shows everybody just to say thank you, because it’s part of why I’m successful at it. The only person who sent something back to me was Leonardo DiCaprio. He sent me three baskets of pasta as a thank you. So funny, so good, and part of me was like, does Leo want to smash?

Which is discheeing up a joke, because no, Nikki, you’re over thirty. Conan O’Brien started joking about returning to NBC. Conan was kind of goofing around with the idea that CBS is selling Stephen Colbeer’s soon to be former timeslot off to the highest bidder. Conan said, well, wait a minute, you’re saying I could go back to NBC. They’d probably let me go on at like three in the morning if I bought the time.

His producer Jeff said, nif that, and ConA said, okay, four in the morning, I could give the Farm Report. Can my production company by the four o’clock time slot on NBC and create her own show and sell all that sweet advertising money that would be coming in at four am. Conan took that a little further and said, I think I’d be great in daytime. I think housewives would love me. Now, this is interesting, His producer said, Conan had that opportunity.

Ross reminded Conan before we went to TBS, we took a meeting with these guys at Debmore Mercury and they wanted to do a daytime show. When we learned that Debmore Mercury’s past and present daytime TV titles include The Wendy Williams Show and Sherry, Conan said, I’d be so lovable and fun as a daytime talk show host. A different producer said, as you’ve aged, your audience has stayed very young. You have a very young, mobile, digital first audience. Conan said, how dare you tell me of aged?

This makes me want to shut down the podcast on the HBO Travel Show immediately because I’m very reactive. I’m launching a daytime talk show. This is hilarious. God, it said, It’s syndicated, and yes it’ll do terribly, but we get to own how terribly it does. I’d kind of love to see that, wouldn’t you.

A late night er spoke to Jeff Ross on the side. Ross confirms that the previously unreported meeting did indeed happened. The pitch would have been for Conan to host a thirty minute syndicated show. So it’s been coming up on the show lately, the topic of bombing boy. Listen to this.

This is from CNN’s America Laughs with Matt Friend. Dude, America did not Laugh with Matt Friend. In the Facebook group, Jeff and I were going back and forth wondering if this was an example of the crowd being micd or not. And I’ve gone back and I’ve listened. The crowd is miked.

Here off this first joke, you will hear a laugh. It will be the last laugh that you hear. And I also suspect, just having been in studios for thirty years, I think maybe perhaps possibly that’s a producer laughing extra loud to goose the room. I’ve done that personally, I’ve clapped extra loud to gooser room, and I think that’s what’s going on here. But here, please suffer with me as we listen to America does not laugh with Matt Friend from CNNA political comedy special, Who boy listen to this?

I am gen Z. We cannot go to war. I look like if Pickleball was a person. Okay, I look like the youngest Kushner brother. I look like I’m in a business club with Baron Trump at NYU.

I am not equipped for battle. I had an anaphylactic food allergy as a kid. What am I supposed to fight with my EpiPen like? I’m not afraid of a grenade. I’m afraid of cross contamination.

Not a terrorist but a loaf of bread. We have no iconic Americans to send to war either, gen Z, Like previous generations sent Elvis Presley and Clint Eastwood to war. But who do we have? Benson Boone and Timothy Shallomey backflipping and Iran? My generation, every moment is an opportunity for content, Like we would do a fit check at the battle when it starts.

I’d get there. Hey, guys, just got to Iran. Check it out. Custom camera pants Dara, Yes, bullet proof vests, thrifted boots from Sheen. It’s giving dystopian sleigh.

Yes, we would find out we’re drafted through an Instagram reel or a TikTok like I’d be naked on my couch doom scrolling. Nothing beats a jet too, holiday, You’re going to war next week? What is happening right now? Yikes? Okay, now, how can we dust this off?

Do you have anything actually funny? John I do? Mass Live noticed that Matteo Lane had posted on Facebook now here Matteo Lane is saying mean things about Springfield, Massachusetts. Mass Live tells us that the references here are to the Roorer Comedy Club at MGM Springfield, where Matteo Lane performed for four nights back in twenty nineteen. Check your calendar.

Apparently, the Rorer Comedy Club is a refurbished armory inside the Casinos Plaza. This is the opposite of mad friend. This is funny. I did make an edit here to eliminate a word that rhymes with maggot. The worst place I ever perform is anyone from Springfield, Massachusetts.

Okay, let’s talk. So the people are trashed, the town is trashed, the food is trashed, the cars are trashed. When the clouds move over, the town. They become trash and I was forced to work in this weird castle they converted into a comedy show. It was also, by the way, all castles are gay.

Nope, am I wrong? Their castles are gay. No, straight guys like I want to tolerate that is a gay thing. And I love castles as a kid. I like a lot of books on castles, and they’re gay.

It’s like Modes Wizard’s Secrets. So anyway, there I am at medieval times and I’m just remember medieval times like, oh God, like I get okay, so I know. So anyway, there I was, and I was first of all, there was like sixty people in the audience. There was in huge rooms like just echoey and terrible, and I was gonna bomb and no one kneho I was. So I did my stupid joke right the like mateial Lane and I walk out.

I’m like, hi, thanks so much. I’m obviously gay.

And then this guy just stood up and went nope and walked out.

I know, which is fine if you want to be there, that’s fine. But the whole time I was on stage, I just kept thinking myself, I’m like, what did you think I was? Going to do for a whole hour. It’s just thanks so much and obviously gay. Close the doors.

Mass Live MGM Springfield declined to comment on the video. According to mass Live, they also tell us Springfield Mayor Dominic Sarno did not respond to a request for comment about Mateo Lane not enjoying his four nights in Springfield. Back in twenty nineteen, some people in the industry are talking about this email that we got kind of late on Friday from the Netflix. Is a Joe Comedy Festival. The big banner says every comedy in every corner of LA.

Claim free tickets to seventy five plus comedy pop ups across Los Angeles. Tickets are limited Reserver spot today and from the conversation I’m seeing on reads, these seem to be well known Los Angeles local scene shows and there are a lot of them. For example, Poncho’s Comedy Night with It Dan o’ carter. If you want to claim tickets for the free event, that free event is May fourth at eight point thirty Boy John Lovettz Love It or Leave It from Crooked Media. May fifth at five o’clock.

That has tickets available. The Two Bears five K Thoms, the Goren Bird Krascher’s thing at the Rose Bowl. I can just claim tickets and join that five K. Dimitri Martin is also a painter at the Fairfax Art Gallery. You can claim tickets to that, and then there’s a big and so many more sections.

So not sure what’s going on here. Some people are suggesting that maybe Netflix just wants to take over the city for a little bit. Now, this particular story you’re hearing right now, I’m recording on Saturday morning. I’ve previously shared with you the Deadline noticed that tickets weren’t going well. Here’s a random show Shane Gillison friends at the Hollywood Bowl on Mayson.

That seems like that could be cool, right, let me pop on here. Yep, I’m on ticketmaster dot com. If you want to sit in section five, Row ninety, standard ticket fifty nine thirty and there appears to be a lot of tickets available for Shane gillis not picking on him, just Deadline had put this on my radar. Let’s see if he wanted to see Dusty Sleigh at the Troubadoor just for a random show to click on. That one is sold out, all right, Let’s pick one more random show.

I want to say how my Flight of the Concords are doing. Sold out at the Greek Theater. I wonder how that’s doing on the secondary market. Two shows May ninth and tenth, both sold out. Now this is interesting.

Now, remember I had told you tickets were six hundred and ten dollars, and I’ve been making a big deal about that. Now I’m on sea geek here and I can get into Flight of the Concords. It’d be sitting all the way in the back, but I can get in for ninety four dollars, so not six hundred and ten. There are There is a six hundred and seven dollars ticket available front and center. But you could get into this thing for buck twenty five if you wanted to row double e two tickets for one hundred and twenty seven dollars including fees from Defector just a wonderful headline.

The headline is a Rob Schneider comedy show. Maybe long and expensive, but at least it’s boring. Let’s unpack this. This was one of my favorite things. I tried to get this in over the weekend, but it was pretty busy.

I’ve had this as the lead story in episodes, but let’s do this here. This is fun, Defector Rights. On the afternoon of April ninth, twenty twenty six, partisans of the Alberta Separatist Movement scored a major endorsement. Rob Schneider posted on Twitter. I officially recognized the new independent nation of Alberta and its separation from the People’s Republic of Canada and the socialist morons in Ottawa, Okay.

Defector Rights time has not been particularly kind to Schneider’s brand of catchphrase comedy. Like a lot of ostensible celebrities in Trump Land, Schneider has become more valuable for his political alignment than anything to do with his work. He’s like if kid Rock were funny, except he’s also not really that funny, Defector Rights. You got the feeling that people tend to like them material because they aligned with the guy. So it makes sense that a Rob Schneider comedy concert would also feel like more of a political event than a cultural one.

I love this, Defector, writes Rivers. Casino in Philadelphia is pretty close to my house, where further away I might have hesitated to go see Schneider perform, but my wife was out of town, and I had accrude enough of the casino’s rush rewards points to earn a free slice of pizza and a bottle of beer, So what the hell? The gig drew a mostly white, mostly male, mostly middle aged crowd myself included lots of guys wearing golf bolos woven in a range of moisture wicking synthetics. One man sported the rare double wallet chain, and more than a few with air jails spiking up the last whists of gray hair, clinging to the front of their domes, wearing sunglasses wrapped around the back of their heads in case it suddenly got super sonny. At eight pm in April in Philadelphia, Indoors Schneider took the stage in a black fedora and a shimmering olive green suit and saluted the freest country in the world, the United States of America.

Defector tells us. Freedom in this case was expressed with a battery of half form rip, touching on stock stereotypes and some fresh racial prejudices. Fans of voice comedy were treated to all the hits Mexican voice, old black lady voice, Japanese man voice, Vietnamese manicurist voice, Southeast Asian or East Indian voice, and of course everyone’s favorite gay guye voice. There were or slurs, f slurs, dusty jokes about tipping. There was nothing about Alberta separatism.

The worst Obama impression I’ve ever heard was followed and turned by the worst Trump impression I’ve ever heard. Greg Gutfeld’s name raised cheers. Robert de Niros Drew Booze. To be fair, the defector guy says, I did laugh precisely twice, once at a joke about single use straws, which Snyder pointed out are not actually single use. You can drink from them and they could choke a turtle to death.

Okay, no, not bad. Rob definitely told it better. And a second time, when a long boring bit about self service Korean barbecue restaurants paid off with a punchline about a Korean whorehouse. His words were reminded where the client tell are invited to do some things to themselves. Still, a pair of chuckles is a pretty pitiable hit rate for a show that’s stretched to an eternity like ninety minutes.

As some of the audience petered out, others carried on full volume conversations and some seem to actually nod off. David Cross says he’s not gonna appear in anymore Alvin of the Chipmunks movies. David Cross has appeared in the first three live action Alvin in the Chipmunks films from twenty seven to twenty eleven. So I don’t know if there’s another one coming. It’s been fifteen years.

You never know. They could reboot it. But anyway, David Cross isn’t going to be part of this. In a new interview, he said I would never work with any of those people again for the rest of my life. They were just so awful to me.

I don’t know what the deal was, but right for the beginning, I was in London because we’ve been asking for a year, like, am I going to be another movie? Because they knew they were going to do a third one? Am I going to be in it? I was in pre production for a show Todd Margaret, and I’m there with my now wife and basically living there. We’re writing when in pre production fifty to seventy five people depended on me and the show’s going for their jobs, and we asked and asked nast.

We don’t no, no, we’re not sure. It could be maybe we don’t know. My phone rang I know that’s my manager, my agent, my lawyer, and this is only going to be really good news, really bad news. There’s nothing in between. My manager goes, hey, you sitting down.

They’re gonna use you in the third Chipmunks movie. They need you to get on a plane on January third. This is around Christmas. What that’s in a couple of days. It was just crazy.

They were doing like crappy things on purpose. Out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla, Lisa Lau she’ll have her debut special, Silky Smooth. It’s available for exclusive early access on the Gorilla Silky Smooth, Lisa explores the chaotic stages of adulthood, scheduling fun plans with tired friends, the unfair treatment of single people, being attracted to silly men, and the fear of being a role model to her pretend children. Emil Joachim, remember he was on SNL. I kind of didn’t realize he wasn’t on SNL anymore until I saw this article.

He got a Netflix special. They’re gonna tape in October. Premiere date to be announced. He will also be the Netflix as a Joke comedy coming up very soon from Axios, your home for comedy news. A new Portland dating show uses dogs to make matches.

I kind of hit the word dogs there the way Norm McDonald would have.

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All Right, here’s how this works.

If you’re a Portlander who is romantically and emotionally available and you have a friendly dog, you can audition for about twenty slots at Migration Brewery at the end of May. Comedian Andy Mann says she is screening out psychos. Here’s how it’s going to work. You’re all gonna go to a farm later this summer and all the dogs will be released at once. Matches are made based on which dogs play and naturally vibe together.

Six people will be chosen to go on film dates, plus you’ll go under a makeover. Main said the dates aren’t necessarily meant to spark romantic love. It’s just two people who are meeting because their dogs brought them together. If any long term relationships come from it, that’s awesome. And you’re watching the Kevin Hart funny af thing?

Is that what it’s called? John? You hosts the show. I don’t know Kevin Hart comedy competition thing Netflix. Wabe caught up with Daniel and Delano, who’s one of the contestants.

Daniel describes his own comedy as honest, sometimes too honest, conversational style. There’s so many great comedians in Atlanta, and for them to pick me, I thought it was really cool. It was an honor. He taped his set for Funny af in Chicago. He said, it was my first time in Chicago.

It was cool seeing Kevin Hart there. It was just a really fun experience. I’m doing this because I enjoy what I like to do. I enjoy putting this out into the world. That’s why you create what you create, and that he’s your comedy news for today.

I’ll see tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee, Jimmy Fallon, Christian, Shane Gillis, Patton Oswalt, Tim Heidecker, Josh Johnson

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser hosting American Idol Taylor Swift Night and soft campaigning for Oscars hosting gig
• Bad Friends podcast creators Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee launching The Bad Game Show
• Jimmy Fallon apologizes for controversial Survivor challenge design that led to contestant Christian’s elimination
• Shane Gillis attends Game 3 of NHL Playoffs Philadelphia Flyers vs Pittsburgh Penguins
• Patton Oswalt marks 10-year anniversary of first wife’s death, receives supportive comment from current wife Meredith Salinger
• Tim Heidecker becomes face of The Onion’s new Info Wars parody project, creating satirical content

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, daily briefing on standup comedy, comedian and the comedy industry. A sentence, the algorithm loves America can’t get enough of Nikki Glaser, although I’m starting to think America is like, yeah, enough with Nikki Glaser. Tonight, American Idol, Nikki Glaser will host Taylor Swift Night. Of course she will.

The top seven contestants will perform Taylor Swift Hits on the live episode of American Idol.

Meanwhile, Nicki was on Good Morning America, and pay attention to this.

This is some politicking here. They ask her if she wants to host the Oscars. But listen to her phrasing. She says, I’ll have to adapt if she’s offered it. You haven’t been offered it.

I know you’re campaigning for it. I know you’re trying to resteal your career. I know your agents and your PR people are getting it done and we’re trying to reposition you. But no one has asked you to host the Oscars. Would you is it a dream?

Would you want to do the Oscars? Of course? I mean I think that there’s always just this like, oh, what’s what’s the next thing. I really have to say. I enjoyed the Globes though, because it is it is set up so perfectly for comedy.

It’s a looser night, there’s drinking, everyone’s like kind of casual. Everyone’s sitting at these tables. They’re not all in these just like stuffy rows. They and it’s set up like a comedy club. It’s the lower ceiling.

The Oscars is a harder gig, so I’ll have to adapt in a different way. All the cool is sucking out of the Nicky Glazer room. That is all I hear. The more press she does, the more I’m like, es, I’m to high out for a while, and she’s not going to She’s knocking on Hollywood’s door, and I don’t know, the media seems to want to let her in. I’m not sure Hollywood wants to let her in.

We will find out. Bobby Lee and Andrews Santino have wrapped production on a ten episode season of something called The Bad Game Show. The Bad Game Show is an unscripted comedy series inspired by their podcast Bad Friends, created by Andrews Santino and Nick Krice. The Bad Game Show drops celebrities into a chaotic mix of trivia and absurd challenges, with surprise guests crashed the game and nothing goes as planned, all unfolding inside Bobby Lee’s mom’s basement. The show is being made for digital distribution across Talent owned channels and platforms, revenue being driven by brand partnerships through custom integrations, sponsored sketches, and host red ads.

People are mad at Jimmy Fallon. I think that’s true almost every day of the week. Why are they mad at Jimmy Fallon? Now? Are you watching Survivor?

Now that comedy Survivor’s over, you might as well watch traditional Survivor. Spoilers for last week’s episode. There was this guy, Christian, and he was on the island and he took part in a challenge and he lost in the challenge. This particular challenge in the Survivor fifty which has celebrity stunts. This challenge was designed by Jimmy Fallon, who if you didn’t complete a puzzle in time, you had to vote yourself off.

You had to cast a vote for yourself. Well, Christian went to tribal council and guess who was voted off Christian while voting for himself. Christian looked on the camera and told Jimmy Fallon, this idea you had it’s terrible. No more ideas from you. I look forward to your apology.

Jimmy Fallon did apologize on the tonight show. He even had Christian as a guest. Fallon said, now that we’re all in the same place, so all I have to say is Christian, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry about this. It wasn’t supposed to be like this.

It wasn’t supposed to be you. I feel so bad because I love you. That’s an interesting thing for Jimmy Fallon to say. Now. Apparently in the confessional scene with the vote, some stuff was cut out.

Christian said. He said something like Jimmy, Jimmy, I’m not sure I like this idea. What other ideas have been yours? We’re looking at the Titanic and you’re like, you know what, too many life votes were you on the Hindenberg? And he said, you know what, this needs a smoking section?

What other ideas, Jimmy, I don’t think you need any more ideas. I think you could have a seat and let us play Shane Gillis got the crowd going at Game three of the Eastern Conference first round NHL Playoffs. It was the Philadelphia Flyers taking on the Pittsburgh Penguins. Flyers super fan Shane Gillis was joined by team mascot Gritty to ignite the orange before the game. Puck dropped a stupid controversy last week involving Patton Oswalt.

It was April twenty first, and Patton Oswalt marked ten years since the death of his wife. Patton Oswalt posted on Instagram ten years gone by miss you baby. People thought that was rude to Patton Oswalt’s current wife, Meredith Salinger. Salinger posted, what a beauty. She was smart and cool and brave, clearly smart enough to love you and wonderful enough to be adored by you.

And she made the greatest kid on the planet. Wish I had known her. I’m so sorry for the heartbreak you and Alice will always hold. I love you both with all my heart, hugs forever. Tim Heidecker getting a lot of press.

He’s the new face of Info Wars, the former Alex Jones website now being run by The Onion, and they’re having a good time running it. Hideker’s mission. He’s asking, can you change the way people think about a word like info wars? That felt like an interesting question to explore. This even got a profile of Tim Hideker in the Wall Street Journal, of all places, Hidecker and the team are making content for the new Info Wars, including a parody of Tucker Carlson’s show, Tucker Carlson one of those people that is all of a sudden surprised at the President of the United States, as if I’m not going there, Tucker Cross the surprise.

Listen to Tucker Cross’s podcast. One early episode of the Carlson parody says, the American people don’t know this, but JFK didn’t kill himself. Alex Jones is not happy with the parodies. He said, the whole thing’s about defaming me. Just because you’re wearing my shirt doesn’t mean you’re me.

Well, Tim Hideker shaved his head to look a little more like Alex Jones and walked into the new offices. He shared a video on Instagram. Let’s listen to some of it as we head into the break. I’ve made some edits here for pacing and for language. Hey, everybody, it’s Tim Heidecker checking in here.

I’m in the Onion headquarters. Here Jamie Brew eating a sandwich, a bunch of guys trying to come up with funny ideas. How that goes? You know, they got all the posters of all their dumb ideas, women’s bath room, gender identity whatever. Uh.

Just you don’t have to stop because I’m walking around. Go back to business. Are you doing this or what we taking over in for wars? Mister Collins? Is that that what’s gonna happen?

What are we gonna donna disrupt? Right? That’s correct, that’s exactly. We’re gonna do. Well, you’re my leader.

I’m gonna follow you into battle. We’re gonna we’re gonna storm the gates, trial by combat, whatever it takes. Matt Carlin thinks he knows what’s going on. He doesn’t know anything. Whoever you are.

And then they got cambucha. Now they’re making everybody here drink cambucha and it’s making everybody turn into little lizards, turn into little lizards running around Anyhow, it’s been a great launch. We’re excited. Onion his own fire. I couldn’t be happier.

The folks at the Cavalier went to see Josh Johnson. It was a free performance at a college, We’re told. Before Johnson took the stage too, other commie is performed Clay Dickerson, the outgoing student council president and a fourth year student. Dickerson did some local material about local elections. Then the second opener was Rammind Mustafity.

We’re told he’s known for his writing ability and acting chops and did some gen Z related comedy. Okay, and that makes sense. Probably wondering how could Josh Johnson possibly follow those openers Josh had set and included judging people based on how to eat fruit, to broader commentary on politics, technology, and social behavior. A college student went to see the show and said, I really liked the main act. You think I could tell everything He was joking about all of his stories.

He put a lot of thought into it. A different student, a freshman, said, I feel like his bits in comparison to the openers. He had a softer delivery and a lot more commentary on the world in a way that wasn’t always trying to be edgy. He wasn’t trying to use shock humor the whole time. Now I don’t want to shade the up and coming comedians, although I may have accidentally done that already.

We’re comparing a guy that does like a fresh hour every week to two college students opening for him. Yeah, I’m pretty sure Josh Johnson’s going to be better at it. All Right, I got a couple of awful things to talk about from TMZ. Jelly Roll is facing accusations from comedian Nicole Arber. A rep for the Nashville PD tells TMZ, as you’re probably where, there appears to be an ongoing online back and forth between the two.

No charge has been filed. There’s no current investigation underway. TMZ reports that Arbor has escalated her feud, accusing his team of sending her alleged hush money. Nicole Orber has been blasting jelly Roll on social media. Now, I’m unfamiliar with Nicole Arber, so I went to the internet and I’m told Nicole Arber is a Canadian multi hyphenate who works as a comedian, speaker, choreographer, singer, actress, and YouTuber.

She’s released several albums and singles. Then as I was doing that, the autocomplete came up and people have searched the phrase why is Nicole Arbor famous? I’ll push back on the word famous, but let’s accept the premise why is Nicole Arber famous? Here is the description from the interwebs. Nicole Arber, the five to nine comedic blonde bombshell who began her time in the public guy working as a choreographer and a cheerleader for the Toronto Raptors before becoming known worldwide for her viral comedy and music, has officially solidified herself as a commanding voice in modern entertainment.

That update was of February twenty seventh, twenty twenty five. So again, one of the commanding voices in modern entertainment. Nicole Arber in some sort of whistling match with Jelly Roll. I’ll keep you posted.

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I at first I didn’t have the story in this in the you hear me stumbling. I’m not gonna make that edit there. I didn’t have it in the script at all.

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And then I’m like, let me at least mention it.

Let me read it verbatim and flat. From the Guardian, Russell Brand said he had exploitative consensual sex with a sixteen year old girl. At the height of his fame. Speaking about his past actions and appearance on the YouTube show of the US journalist Megan Kelly, Brand described himself selfish and a quote exploiter of women. He said, quote I did sleep with a sixteen year old when I was thirty.

I was a very different person. I was a lot younger and I was an immature thirty year old. He added, consensual sex with a lot of people when there was a strong power differential, as there is when your famous man was the ability to attract women than I had at the time. I think that involves exploitation. I think it’s exploitative.

I recognized that my sexual conduct in the past was selfish and I did not apply enough consideration barely any I suppose, really to how that sex was affecting other people. The Guardian mentions the age of consent in the UK is sixteen, unless it’s with an adult in a quote position of trust unquote, such as a teacher, social worker, sports coach or doctor, in which case the age of consent is eighteen. Guardian reminds us a court has previously heard that Brand is accused of raping a woman in a hotel room while she attended a Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, grabbing a TV worker’s breast and orally raping her after dragging her into a male toilet, and kissing and groping a radio worker after pushing her against a wall. I’ve met Russell brand once in my life. We were at a studio.

We did a recording session. In that one session, he was super cool and personable. But as I’ve shared on the show before, I’ve also worked with Bill Cosby, and when I worked with Bill Cosby, he was the very professional public Bill Cosby. And as I’ve said on the show before, someday Bill Cosby will pass away and I will tell you a story. Let’s not go out on that.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will receive an award in honor of Robin Williams. Affleck and Damon starred along with Robin Williams and Goodwill Hunting. Today they will be in San Francisco to receive the ninth Robin Williams Legacy of Laughter Award, presented to them by Glenn Closes nonprofit Bring Change to Mind, as a fundraiser today at the Fort Mason Center. Aaron sent this over from the New Zealand Herald. Aaron noticed that I was on a Flight of the Concords kick and she wanted to know about New Zealand Spy, a six part comedy series.

This follows Michael Brown, a spy who struggles with his real name his cover identity. That’s not important. What’s important is that he and his colleagues at the New Zealand Intelligence Agency or all that’s protecting New Zealand from the Great Enemy of Australia. Now you know who’s in this Brett Mackenzie. He from the six hundred and ten dollars Flight of the Concords tickets.

Mackenzie plays Michael’s boss. New Zealand Spy begins on TV n Z two on Wednesday eight thirty in a lossol stream on TV and Z Plus and on Johnny Max’s Pirate Chip. If you know what I mean. Chris O’Dowd you know him from the IT crowd. He will join Bill Burr in Bender.

Bender is the coming of age comedy that’s shooting in Ireland this summer. Chris O’Dowd will play a self made family man trying to put on a brave face while his business is marriage and his faith begin to crumble amid a brutal economic recession. Bill Burr plays a gruff American record store owner who convinces the RegTech gain of teenage misfits that they’re best and possibly only chance to lose their virginity before graduating high school. Is at a massive open air mass for the visiting Pope. That is your comedy news for today.

I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Jimmy Kimmel, Shane Gillis, Louis C.K., John Mulaney, Katy Perry, Gayle King, Victoria Beckham, Pete Davidson, Kat Williams, Nate Bargatze, Jerry Seinfeld

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser hosting TIME 100 Gala and bomb allegations
• Jimmy Kimmel hosting alternative White House Correspondents Dinner
• Netflix Is a Joke Comedy Festival ticket sales struggles
• Pete Davidson and John Mulaney sold-out shows at Netflix festival

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, the daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. A sentence, The algorithm loves Nicky Glazer was at the time one hundred thing of a jig. She was the MC. I’ve got some audio for you, and my question to you is is she bombing now?

To be very very very fair, the crowd is not miked well at all, and you can do the best comedy. If they don’t mike the crowd, it will sound like you’re bombing. But even beyond that, and if you listen closely at times, you will hear the audience laugh. I think she’s bombing here. I think the cool Hollywood people don’t want to accept her, and the cool Hollywood people know that they don’t dare laugh at the jokes.

Oh no, a Katie Perry joke. We better not laugh at that one. We’ll get in trouble. We won’t be liked by the other cool Hollywood people. So this is a tough room, and I think she bombed.

The original was quite long. I’ve clipped it down for both pacing and language. Here’s Nikki Glaser. Hello everyone, I’m Nikki Glaser and welcome to the Time one hundred, the one list you actually want to be on this year. Yes, congratulations to everyone here tonight.

This is such a phenomenal accomplishment for each and every one of your publicists, truly right. Personally, I am just so excited to be in the same room with people. My therapists told me to never compare myself to Donna. Was right. But I’m your host, Nikki Glaser, and this is such a thrill.

I’ve of course hosted the Golden Globes, but this is different because this is time I will never get back, you know, No, I’m kidding, I’m I’m so excited to be on this list. I am. I’m also one of four people on the cover, which is a quarter of my dream come true. Yes, oh my god, I can’t wait for all my friends family to see it three years from now in a dentist waiting room. Well, Tonight’s ceremony is different than most stars studded events because this is an event where the greatest thinkers in the fields of science and technology are asked the big questions like who are you wearing?

And who are you Because We’re just not celebrating actors here tonight, you know, but the scientists, scholars, musicians, writers and athletes that those actors will play hotter versions of in movies. One of the most impressive people on the list is Victoria Beckham. Of course, oh my god. She was a global pop star, now a serious fashion designer. She’s married to David Beckham, She’s rich, successful, stunning.

What’s it gonna take to get you to smile? I mean, really, please smile. You’re one of the only British people who should. Okay, wow, But there’s just so many impressive people in this room tonight. But what really blows my mind is that we have actual astronauts here tonight.

It’s insane. Yes, these brave people who risked it all to go up into space and search for the unknown. And by astronaut, of course, I’m talking about Gail King, all right, Gail. I love you so much. Gail, Really though, Gail, you had the courage to do something that so many people wouldn’t have the guts to do, spend twelve minutes alone with Katy Perry, and we we thank you for that.

The other day, Nikki was on Kelly Rippers show, which is just like the most difficult thing to watch. It’s not my thing at all, and a Verrely, Nicky’s skirt was a little too short. Let’s listen. That is just for you. I know, I’m right the barrel.

Sorry, guys. Yeah, yeah, I don’t mind at all. Oh god, God, I’ll send you a picture later.

And then they want on to have more of a conversation, which I just found naus…

Let’s listen, I realize there’s. This recent development. You have something in common with Pope Leo. Finally, finally, I mean we’ve always both loved hat since can speak Latin, but it’s uh no, we’re both one time one hundred most influential people. Yeah yeah, I me your cover the Pope and mister Bees.

Yeah, I mean that’s extraordinary. It’s so cool. And Nikki Glaser’s. Babyhood, baby childhood, wildest dreams. Do you imagine that?

Never? I mean, looking at that photo, I’m was just like, it just feels like one of those you know covers that you get made at like a carnival. That’s like you can be on time. It seems like a joking Nikki, You’re posing is really good there. Thank you so much do you do you naturally pose?

They do you know how to do that stuff? That’s so deeply uncomfortable. Mark, Oh my gosh, photo shoots. I think things look that comes so natural, But that is one photo out of like thousands, you know, and it’s just so uncomfortable because everyone knows just like to buzz like this, like I can do this, like but then like in these you have to be like, right, this is not natural. You just have to think you’re so cool and like it’s just I think that’s why models, the models are paid a lot of money because of that.

They can’t do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and the maintenance. It’s much much, much, much funnier. Jimmy Kimmel, So last night was the White House Correspondents Dinner, and for the first time in recent memory, they didn’t have a comedian host it, so Kimmel decided to have his own. He called his the All American White House Correspondents Dinner, and I have trimmed this down for pacing and also on ABC Network television.

He told the joke that I found a little too naughty for even this show. Those standards differ. Gisha curious. He told a joke about uh, I thing guys like anyway, Here’s Jimmy Kimmel live. From the Trump Kimmel Sinner, Washington, DC.

It’s the All American White House Correspondent’s Dinner. You’re as your host for the night, Jimmy Pival. All right, by, welcome to the twenty twenty six White House Correspondence Dinner. Look at you all dressed up in formal wear, dresses, tuxedos. I haven’t seen this much black since every page of the Trump Epstein files.

We’re gonna have fun tonight on and I’m happy you decided to stay, mister President. And don’t worry if we bruise your ego, it’ll only make your hands look less disgusting. That president didn’t want me to tell any jokes about him tonight, but he also didn’t want to pay me one hundred and thirty thousand dollars to shut up. So here we are. Sorry, mushroom ice.

Baby Ice. By the way, in the unfortunate event that our president has a medical emergency tonight, do we have a doctor in the house? I mean sorry, I mean do we have a Jesus in the house. I always confuse them too. I get why you think you’re Jesus this guy.

Every time he walks into a room, people say, Christ, he’s back. You’re looking good, though, mister President, who did your makeup? Craft? Singles as the President will tell you repeatedly until you beg him to stop. President Trump has accomplished so much during his second term.

He passed new incentives for oil and gas. He put the brakes on solar and wind. That will be your legacy, sir, breaking wind and passing gas. Deadline’s keeping an eye on the Netflix is a joke comedy festival. The Festival Los Angeles may fourth through the tenth.

Deadline’s written about this before, but they continue to say that the festival will be, according to an insider, a story of the haves and the have nuts. Deadline’s update is one validation of netflix investment in podcasting is the Pete Davidson Showline and says after getting to low ticket warnings with the show featuring John Mulaney, Pete Davidson has booked another at the Wiltrin Theater to feature Nikki Glaser, but they say that aside, I’m not seeing many more sellouts on the schedule than I did when we last checked in. Now this is really interesting, Deadline Rights. Strangely, some of the biggest, more key names in comedy are those with the most tickets left to sell as of now, and this was middle of last week. Shane Gillis, Louis C.K.

And John Mulaney are far from selling out their shows at the Hollywood Bowl. Kat Williams as a good way to go at the Into It Dome, as does Nate Berghatzy with his two shows at the venue, and in particular the May ninth show. More from Deadline, Seinfeld’s sales aren’t great for a show featuring Leanne Morgan and Jim Gaffigan hasn’t yet approached selling out the Dolby Wow. Really weird, right, Deadline Rights. The numbers are puzzling when you consider all the records comics like Burghetzie and Morgan are achieving around the world, and as Gillis approaches his huge homecoming show at Lincoln Financial Field, and it’s striking to assess them in relation to the ticket sales of younger buzzy common like tren Marco Sarzi and Jeffer Keiy, who have sold out multiple shows, albeit at much smaller venues.

Very very interesting at some point during the week, I sat in front of the television and watched Kevin Hartz. What is that called comedy competition thing? Funny af that’s what it’s called, right, Yeah, maybe John you host the show you tell us Sorry. As I wrote it in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group, it’s a good version of the comedy competition show. I’m a comedy snob.

I struggle with these things. Some of my notes. I actually ran my Apple watch timer. We’re seeing ninety second sets. You can almost get by on just pure charisma for ninety seconds.

For a lot of these ninety second sets, you’re seeing that it’s basically one good joke. There was one guy, he had a really great joke about bears, and that kind of stretched out to ninety seconds, and you know, Okay, that doesn’t make you George Carlin, doesn’t make you bad. But like relax, and a lot of the ninety second sets are edited off. Somebody will get off a good joke and a good laugh and then it’s just cut to the end, and you could tell that the set didn’t actually end there, or they just kind of wrap it up. One thing that did make me happy is if you listen regularly you’ve heard me talk about what I describe as the Emperor of Rome syndrome, which means I have heard so much comedy in my lifetime that my brain is fried.

And I do what the comedians do, which is in the back of the room, they’re going, Oh, that’s really good. That’s really funny, but don’t actually laugh. And you’ll see that at times, specifically with Keegan Michael Key sitting at the table with Kevin Hart just saying oh, really good, really good, really good. So if you want to know what I talk about when I talk about Emperor of Rome syndrome, watch that for good illustration of it. Anyway, it’s a nice enough version of that.

Oh and then I got to the end episode one and they were like, and the final comedian moving on is Cliffhanger, And I’m like, Netflix, I’m not hitting play on a second episode to find out who’s going through to the second round. I don’t care that much, so I’ll probably watch the whole thing, but I’m not like obsessed with it. It’s fine. It’s a good version of what it is. I did like Rommy Yusef’s special.

It’s a little long, but the front half is particularly strong. TV Insider asked Rommy about the special, which was filmed in February and is pretty topical. How close to the shoot were your fine seating material. Rommy said, I think there’s the bedrock of the set that are things that I know I want to hit, and I think for me from a performance perspective, it’s really important for it to feel like it’s happening in a way that when you’re filming a special, it’s a tough balance because you’re playing for a crowd that’s right in front of you, and you’re playing for everyone else in their living room. I do try to honor the people that are in the physical room as much as possible, and that is spontaneity.

They shot at the way you doing a stand up show. When you’re doing crowd work, no one in the crowds he’s who you’re talking to unless you’re sitting next to them. So we didn’t even try to grab the crowd. It was more we’re gonna play it as if you were in the room, and by the nature kind of walking in the set and knowing going to do crowd work and I don’t know where it’s going to go. We also felt like we were going to commit as much as possible to one of the shows, and that Special is really just the majority of one show.

Robby said he likes to talk about pedestrian things and TV Insider said, you had talked about meeting the Pope. That’s not a pedestrian thing. Rommy said, My feeling is if you can meet people where they are, they’ll go with you wherever you want to go. And the balance is, you know, my life is not that crazily different except for every once in a while doing something like meeting the Pope, and I think that’s just letting people in on that feeling as well. David Cross sat down with Fox News Digital to discuss David Special the end of the beginning of the end, David said of his audience, I know this sounds corny, but they’re really smart and they’re mostly like minded people, and they know what they’re getting.

At this point, which he described as a balance between silly and political jokes, including some personal stories, offensive humor, and topical bits, Cross said he doesn’t tailor his work for algorithms or soften his material for mass appeal. What Cross actually said was, at this point, I don’t give a hoot. Man, I’m gonna do it, And if you want to come down, show up. If not, whatever, it’s fine. I’m doing my thing.

The audience is happy, come down if you want. I don’t give an f I don’t want to make it too heavily silly or too heavily political. I like to keep a really nice balance throughout the whole thing. As for putting together a set, he says he considers what flows more than a theme. Cross explains if there is kind of a thread or theme is something that presents itself.

I never sit down and go how can I talk about the inhumanity of man? You know it’s not that kind of thing. Gossip Connor wis Business changed? Gossip conn Problem, Gossip Gone Withers with Me? John Mactow and the.

Trees No Pete Today. Gossip Corner features Dave Chappelle. The manager of the San Francisco Giants was out and about and his night ended with a fist bump from Dave Chappelle. Tony Vittello didn’t have a game last Monday. He went to a downtown restaurant that had been recommended by a friend.

He said, to hell with it, I’ll go to the restaurant see. His concern was the Giants were off to a bad start and he thought some Giants fans would be sad. Sure enough, there were Giants fans there. They gave him a hard time and he said, well, what do you guys doing? You having fun?

And they said, yeah, we’re getting ready to go see Dave Chappelle. Ptello bartoned ways with the fans and called an uber and then had a change of heart. He said, it was raining. I called an uber, stared at the uber, canceled the uber, apologized to the Uber driver and asked myself, why am I being so scared? I coach guys and tell them to be scared.

So he bought a ticket to Dave Chappelle’s show. At the punchline, Tello said, Dave was Dave, so I needed to laugh and it was good to do something in the city. Was a lot of fun, met some cool people and got some rest to get ready for this deal. That deal was an interview with MLB Network. At the end of the night, he got a fist bump from Dave Chappelle.

But I don’t know how that part works. Is he sitting in section three oh nine or did he have VIP tickets? How did he get a fist bump from Dave Chappelle? But he got a fist bump from Dave Chappelle.

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Meanwhile, we are told Dave Chappelle secured the perfect deal on an art piece.

Dave was walking around Soho. Dave was on his way to Sidell’s when he spotted artist Lauren Wilson passing by with one of Wilson’s original bees wax sculptures in hand. Chappelle stopped Wilson and commissioned his work on the spot. Wilson said, Chappelle was so engaging. I just gave it to him and told him don’t worry about it.

And Star trek ruin Er Patton Oswalt has a new gig. He will lend his voice to the audiobook edition of Other Worlds Than Things. That is the upcoming novel by Stephen King. It is the final installment in the Talisman trilogy. The series kicked off in nineteen eighty four with The Talisman, a story about Jack Sawyer, a twelve year old boy searching for a magical item that could save the life of his ailing mother, and now the third novel in the trilogy, will be voiced by star trek Ruiner paton osweald To.

That is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Theo Von, George Lopez, Greg Gutfeld, Jimmy Kimmel, Ramy Youssef, Raymond Arroyo, John Oliver, Tim Heidecker, Alex Jones

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle’s PBS interview on President Trump’s leadership
• Theo Von’s commentary on Trump’s policies and their impact on working Americans
• George Lopez’s criticism of Trump’s cognitive fitness and nepotism
• Greg Gutfeld vs. Jimmy Kimmel debate on late night host responsibilities
• Ramy Youssef’s Sesame Street appearance teaching Arabic and conservative backlash
• John Oliver’s comments on Prince Andrew and the British Royal Family
• The Onion and Tim Heidecker taking over InfoWars from Alex Jones

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Now today is very political. If you don’t like the political stuff, check out now. And if you listen to the show and you feel that I’ve loaded it one side or another.

I don’t make fun of the candidate you don’t like or whatever, put the clips under my nose. There’s nothing loaded here now. I think some of my opinions on some of these folks does creep out from time to time, but I’m happy to make fun of everyone. Let’s start with Dave Chappelle. Dave Chappelle was on PBS and he discussed his opinions on the President of the United States.

How do you think he’s doing? He’s joking, right, He’s man, Come on, man, nobody wants to feel this way, and I don’t think anybody war. They definitely didn’t want to arguably lose one. But when you’re asking him please do better, what was it in that moment that you were asking the president to do and to do differently? Well?

I believe in that same monologue, I reminded him that everyone on earth is counting on him. Yep. I think I made the point that the presidency is no place for a petty person. So personally, I would say that, you know, anyone at any type of leadership position or even like a nightclub can being like me. We have to suffer sights and injuries, and we have to kind of just let some things go, and we have to focus on what’s actually important and not cultivating a browth of confusion, which I believe is I believe he’s doing that, you know, you know, for political expediency or whatever reason.

I don’t standard methodology, but I just know that Americans. I think everyone wants to have some semblance of peace, and they get there different ways. Some people think there’s different things threatening their peace, you know, but being a president seems like an opportunity to be a very unifying force, and I feel like perhaps he squandered that opportunity, to put. It likely, THEO. Vaughn also has some thoughts about the President of the United.

States and what American is this helping besides the war, the industrial war complex, What American hard What guy who’s trying to take care of his family or a single mother who’s a nurse who’s going to work and has to get home and get to her kids ballgame and has to be both parents. What farmers is helping regular person? Is this helping? I just don’t know. I don’t understand.

So, yeah, that’s what that’s what That’s what our president’s up to, and it’s baffling. And George Lopez also has some thoughts about the president of the United States. If you had cognitive decline and. You worked at anywhere Barrack. Guns on victory and they said, hey, there’s about the right hand that’s laying out the silverware has cognitive decline, I don’t think should be near the knives now that long he’ll be all right.

You wouldn’t let a valet person be cognitive decline and be working. So we have a guy that’s the leader of the free world with cognitive decline, who who is attacking the war with just on his own. I mean, listen, I always think everybody’s Mexican, you know, so I think Trump, you know, he’s remodeling the house he don’t own. He’s starting with other countries. His son in laws over there, you know, hired them.

I mean, if you have a job where you can hire your family. You have a job, you don’t have a career, because they’re not gonna be like, who’s this fool right here? I don’t know. I just started working Americ Experiences. I told just to come.

But I mean, the idea that this guy could get away with so much and and and have it really kind of go uncalled. On Greg Gutfeld on Fox News Slam Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel had been on Michelle Obama’s podcast. On Michelle Obama’s podcast, Jimmy Kimmel said, first of all, don’t tell me what my job is. I don’t tell you what your job is.

My job is whatever I decide. My job is whatever my employer allows me to do. That’s what my job is. Greg Gutfeld, it’s all Jimmy Kimmel. Look, he’s right, he doesn’t have to listen to criticism.

But then don’t complain about it. You could do what you want and we could tell you what sucks. You could paid handsome links to take it like a man and stop blubbering. People get criticized every day who make one one hundredth of what you make in menial jobs, and they don’t complain about the complaints. You don’t even know criticism.

Try being a right winger for a year, got fail at it. I only complained when one of the my friends get shot and killed and you make up stories about it. Gray continued. My feeling is he’s hopeless because he’s decided he’s too important to be funny. He’s incapable of self deprecation.

He can’t poke fun at himself, and he lost the ability to be silly. I’m a fool. I’m the first admitted. I embrace it. The less important you think I am, the better it is for me.

No one mocks me more than me, and most of the insults directed to me from critics they took from me. So there, people are upset about Ramy Yusef. Earlier in the week, Romy had stopped by Sesame Street and hung out with Elmo. Here’s a quick clip, Sanna monicum, everyone, I’m Ramy Yusef. Hell is here, mister Ramy?

What is salamikm Well, Salam means peace and it’s a way to say hello in Arabic. Raymond Arroyo on Fox News said I wish Sesame Street would stick to teaching kids about letters and numbers, and then mister Royo went on to say some other things that I’m not going to repeat. They were not very welcoming. Ramy Yusef was on the view and said, I feel for them, right. I think they’re worried about Arabic immersion and it’s got to be tough because I think there’s supporters of the president.

So imagine your president on Easter is tweeting praise be to Allah and al Elmo saying Habibi. That feels threatening. Rommie said There’s been lots of languages on Sesame Street and there’s been no backlash to those, so it actually really did surprise me. John Oliver share that he’s not a fan of the British Royal family. He was asked about the future of former Prince Andrew.

John said, long term, if I believed in Hell, it would be there. I don’t know where he’ll end up. I had very little respect for that guy before all of this, so I don’t know where he’ll end up, and the marrow of my bones, I don’t care. By the way, you can keep up on the Royal family by listening to the Palace Intrigue podcast. I’m the writer on that.

We cover this stuff all day, every day, twice a day. There’s a lot to talk about the British royal family. John Oliver also talked about Sarah Ferguson. Remember Fergie, she used to be married to former Prince Andrew and all John Oliver said was and he couldn’t give a flying s word. Alex Jones is no longer in charge of Info Wars.

The Onion is taking it over. Comedian Tim Hidecker is the new face of Wars. Let’s listen as we head to the break and I have cut this down a little. Hey, everybody, I. Got some breaking news for you.

It’s looking very likely that Global Tetra Heaton will seize control of Info Wars in the coming days. The folks that Global Tetra Heaton have asked me to step in as to run the show over there and become a big part of the future. So we’re. Exploring. Sorry, my name is Tim Heidecker.

Just here to let you know that I am now in charge of Info Wars. It’s an honor to take over the reins and chart a new path towards the future. We’re looking forward to relaunching the site soon in the next coming months and We’re not really sure what we’re going to do with it. We’re talking about all sorts of ideas. We were playing around with it being a real estate broker service, or a cryptocurrency exchange market, a place to, a place to or pictures more most like a drop box account.

Not sure, a lot of ideas, but very excited to take this on. UH and just want to wish everyone extend a hand of friendship and UH and grace as we proceed through this process. It’s not going to be easy, but I can assure you that we have our best intentions in mind. We are in the city of brotherly love and I want to extend that sentiment to all our friends over there. Longtime fans and consumers of the info Wars products, got some exciting products coming as well.

We’re working with a company that will enable you to turn your urine into into gold. So stay tuned for more information about that and stay with us. Stay stay updated on info Wars for more information as this story develops. Hulu is adding the Handsome podcast to their platform. Handsome features Tignatsaro off which Fimster and Mae Martin Arii Shafier caught up with the La times about the end of formerly known as this is Not Happening.

Not entirely true. John, you kind of were loose with the phrasing there, but you guys know what I mean that thing Ari he said, I’m excited to show some people new people. Even with the live shows, I’m always like, let me show you two headliners. You know, a mid level guy you’ll know, and let me show you two people that you just don’t know. That’s a good way to put together a show.

That’s what stand up is. In New York, LA and even Austin. There are some killers no one has ever heard of, and they’re destroyers. So I’m excited to show people. Call Um Tyrell because he rules.

He’s so funny and his story’s great. Tony Hitchclub’s story was really good. He’s a monster storyteller in every sense of the word. Now and Roywood Junior is so smooth it makes me feel like I’m needy and insecure on the stage. Sam Talent is going to be one people talk about.

Jim Brewer is so great. Steph Tolev crushed it with something fun and interesting and wow, this is really tough. Every time I’m doing a promo for the show, it’s like, what about this person? And this one having big jay ogwriston back was key because he’s on the Mount Rushmore of this show, and we have three of those on the end, Jay, Miss Patt and Ali Sadik. We couldn’t Sean Patton now because he was shooting something and Bert Krascher had a movie or something with his daughter moving, or maybe was a graduation.

The LA Time said it would be funny if Bert Krascher paid to have a graduation move so we could do your show. Alre he liked that idea. I said, yeah, just pay the school to move the graduation for a week. Don’t you make like fifty million dollars a year, It’s so funny. He used to be crazy.

You think of someone making one hundred million dollars and now there are like ten comics who make at least half of that and without doing press, and it’s really cool. I haven’t paid for lunch. It’s so long. And Ali Sidiq has become so huge. He’s like the success story.

The storytelling show in its entirety, everyone got helped a little bit, but Ali kind of broke off these stories. And to see him so successful and still so smooth. It’s really cool. You can’t be niche doing arenas, and there’s this independent boom that’s not gonna wait for anybody. So it’s another big win for us.

It’s our turn in the whole story of this.

Speaking of Oli Sidiq, he and his daughter, chef Jaydon Genes, are taking own…

The restaurant is an all day cafe neighborhood market created by James Beard finalist Chris Williams. When william stepped away for his daughter’s birth, Gaines stepped in a chef and general manager and has been running it like it was hers ever since. Williams approach Gaines earlier this year about owning the business. Alsidiq will be part owner and will ACKed in a support role and out of San Francisco. The sf Gate tells us about the Wash.

The Wash was a one night recreation of the legendary venue Brainwash, where Ali Wang got her start. Ali Wang had described Brainwash on Hot Wings, saying it was literally half cafe, half laundromat, one hundred percent homeless shelter. Brainwash hosted open mic nights from April fools Day nineteen ninety nine to its closure in twenty seventeen. MC Tony Sparks said, it started out as an insult oddly enough, because I was the monopoly of open mics. I wasn’t welcome to the community, but the open MIC’s all blew up really fast and got popular.

They were calling me the godfather, like they had a bow and kissed my ring to get in. Comics came from all around to be there to learn, how can I get work where it needs to go? Stuff like that, The Gate tells us, as one can expect from an open mic, the quality was let’s just say mixed. We’ll see if they do it again. Spark said, I hope this is a kick off of bringing back that same energy we had back then when people worked together and everybody rallied around one another to make this whole comedy thing work.

Let’s see. I hope they do bring it back. And that is your comedy news for today, See tomorrow.