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Featured: Jim Norton, Joe Coy, Jim Jefferies, David Letterman, Chris Moose, Miley Cyrus, Charles Barkley

What’s in This Episode

• Jim Norton marries 26-year-old trans woman Nicki from Norway, launches YouTube channel
• Jim Norton proposes in Vancouver, Nicki gets food poisoning after saying yes
• Joe Coy releases Netflix special trailer with excessive profanity
• Jim Jefferies discusses being punched twice by hecklers on stage
• David Letterman’s Netflix show returns June 12 with Miley Cyrus and Charles Barkley as guests
• The Guardian profiles Toronto comedian Chris Moose on his comedy style

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. You know who’s an idiot? Me, Hi, Johnnie Mac idiot with your Daily Comedy News. If you listened last week, you heard me a couple of times saying I was siphoning off stories, sleeping some stories, making the podcast a little bit shorter to make sure I had enough for the holiday weekend. So on Friday, I sat down to record the entire weekend, gave myself the weekend off, and I finished recording Sunday.

And then I scrolled up in my little document. I used that as all the news stories, and I found a second complete file with a script for Sunday. I had two full shows Sunday, so now I have it’s out of leftovers. I guess a good problem to having a holiday weekend, right, yes. Hi.

Jim Norton spoke to Forbes about his marriage to Nicki. Nicki is a twenty six year old trans woman from Norway. Jim Norton is fifty five, and they get along just great. They recently launched a YouTube channel called Nicky and Jim and Ikki. They upload content that captures moments to their life.

Jim told Forbes the most important thing is that people actually like it for what it is, which is just two people showing you the piece of their lives. I’m not trying to convince people politically to do this, do that. We don’t care. We just want them to judge us on watching us and whether they like it or not, and just what they’re seeing. I know Norton in real life.

He’s pretty soft spoken, thoughtful. You know, he could turn it on and do the Norton Act in a second. And he’s naturally funny. But you know, if you see him in the hallway and say, hey, Jim, hey this easy going guy. Do Jim and Nicky see kids in their future?

Jim says, we’re working on a dog. Nicky shares that she wants children, especially a daughter. You can see the chemistry here. She says, I think it’s weird if I picture myself being fifty with no kids, that’s very weird. But then you’re gonna be eighty.

Jim laugh said her joke and says he’d get a dog if NICKI will walk in. Nicky says, I’ll walk in. I’m so ready for a dog because I don’t have a job. If anything, the dog’s gonna be my purpose. Jim says, She makes me laugh, even if she’s cranky.

I definitely marry the right person. You don’t see married couples like us where one partner is transgender and the other is not. It’s the same. We fight about the same, It’s not this earth shattering different thing. Nickcky has read her DMS and says, I don’t feel as offended as I thought it would be.

Most people like, you’re a man. You’re not gonna tell me I look ugly. I think they know that I look on and not to be on my high horse. That’s reality, and they don’t have a lot to attack me on. They were on vacation in Vancouver.

Vancouver is awesome if you’ve never been, Like, I love Vancouver. I wanted to move there and buy. There’s this bike shop right across from Stanley Park. He’s it called, Yes Stanley Park. There’s this bike stopped there.

I rented a bike out of there. I’m like, I just want to come and buy this business and just make this my life. Rent bikes to Taurus is so beautiful. Jim got down on one knee with a ring. Norton said, I wanted to be more traditional because so much about our life is untraditional.

If you want to understand Jim Norton in real life, that sentence right there, that’s Jim Norton.

Also Jim Norton in real life.

This next second, then I have a photo of her two hours later vomiting into a bucket. She’s got food poisoning or something. You realize who you just said yes to and you threw up. Joe Coy he released a trailer for his upcoming special. I can’t blame it for you because he doesn’t more than two words without an F bomb.

I got into this a little bit late last week, the whole working clean thing, like I got no problem with you working naughty. I got no problem with you working square words. But if you play this Joecoy trailer, and again, I can’t play it for you because it’s like, uh yeah, So I went to the bleeping store and I talked to the bleeping store clerk about the bleepin potato chips, And he doesn’t need to do it. It doesn’t add to the material at all. It’s just during in F bombs for no reason.

You know those people that just throw them in like left and right. Unbelieve me in real life when I’m not doing this, I swear like a sailor, especially while driving a car. If you want to know what it’s like to be if you want to know what it’s like to be in the car with me, should I just pull the audio one of my favorite clips. This is Dennis Reynolds from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia driving one hundred percent me. Let’s listen.

Oh, merge, merge, come on, you seize the goddamn get. People are so goddamn it efficient. We got a damn it. I caurf you’re all, says the gap, You all fat bretch not letting you intag. Wanta shot to work?

Be like, where is the foot all of you? Because I have just stud the night flo who causes all that happen? Come on, what’s your plan? Huh? Two miles an hour?

There you go? Oh god it, here’s your secondal you cow. So yeah, that’s me, including all the gds, uh, including screaming at the top of my voice, except I throw in more F bombs. All right, So Joe cooy, I get it. But you know, I somehow figure out how to do this podcast without dropping in an F bomb.

That’ll be on Netflix. It’s June fourth, you don’t know who Joe Cooy is. He’s uh. Some call him an insult comic because he listen to this. He went after Taylor Swift ones.

This was vicious. As you know. We came on after a football doubleheader. H the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer shots of Taylor Swift.

I swear Taylor did not deserve that. Joe Cooy Jim Jefferies, this is one of the stories I tell you always holding on to before I realized, oh, you have one podcast script, too many, too many stories. He was talking to The Daily Mail about being heckled. He’s been punched twice by heckler’s. Jim says he’s not the best at dealing with them.

Jim tells us if you google Jim Jeffries punched, you’ll see what people do with me when they heckle. I’ve actually been punched on stage twice, but it’s only been caught on film once. One of the ways you can pot the show is you got to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’m actually shaking my cup here, but you can’t hear it.

Let me tap the mic with it, because that’s not a coffee, that’s a smoothie. I like this smoothie chain, right. What is this one here? Beach bum with dark chocolate. My daughter just picked this up for me.

So if you go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and you throw a couple bucks in the tip jar, you gotta drive right past the National Donut Chain and hit the smoothie place, and boy, these are yummy. David Letterman announce the next two guests on what is his show called? My Next Guess is right? Isn’t that what it’s called? Whatever?

The Netflix thing? Miley Cyrus and Charles Barkley. David Letterman’s show on Netflix returns June twelfth. The Guardian spoke to Toronto comedian Chris Moose and they said Chris Moose is a comedic force to be reckoned with. Moose blends personal anecdotes with sharp wit to create humor that resonates with audiences far and wide.

So he tells anecdotes with wit that connects with audiences. So that’s both Dave Chappelle and Jim Gaffigan and Dimitri Martin and me. Drawing inspiration from the quirks of everyday life. He brings laughter the Forefront Guardian. You’re gonna have to try harder, Chris.

How would you describe your comedy style? All right, Chris says, I guess I’d say that I’m funny. I try to model my jokes after my lived experiences so that they’re more relatable to people. I like to acknowledge the weirdness of my life and experiences and then embellish on that. Wait, I’m not here to bash on, Chris Moose.

I didn’t read this in advance. If you listen, you know I never read these in advance. I just kind of put them there so I can react to them. Wait, so, Chris Moose, you get up on stage and you tell a story based in truth and you exaggerate it for humor. Is that what it is?

Let me guess. Then you joke about some other things, and then you know, unexpectedly a few minutes later, you’ll go back to the first thing. Right, is that it? I could graft this for you. I’ve seen this.

I like technology, the weirdness of my life and experiences, then embellish on that. I think by finding faults and weirdness in my own life and telling stories and jokes about that makes it easier for the audience to connect and laugh at me. Who are your influences? He says, his family, my dad, my uncle. But it’s only until I was in university that I figured out the easiest way to make people laugh was talking about lived experiences and embellishing them, which I picked up from watching Kevin Hart and John Mulaney.

Who’s your favorite comedian right now? I’ve taken a lot of inspiration from Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Sebastian Maniscalco, John Mulaney, and I’ve been watching Angelo Shirukas, Trevor Wallace, and Jeff Rcurrie. If I had to pick a favorite, I’d have to say Dave Chappelle, what’s your pre show ritual? I question everything before I go on stage. Then when I get up there, I hit the autopilot button.

I feel like a different person I’m on stage. It’s one of the best feelings I’ve ever experienced, but I still get nervous every time. I also drink a coke sometimes. I love this article all right, This next one will be my last story of the day, it is major spoilers for the new season of Hacks, So if you don’t want to be spoiled, bail okay spoilers for Hacks in three two one, it was inevitable spoiler that Debora Vance was going to flirt with cancelation, so when it finally happened in season three, it is not surprising you were warned. Executive producer Jan Statsky told the rap the stand up comedy part of the show has always been something that we work on really hard.

It’s a group effort. It’s something we think about and loose some sleep. In one of the episodes this season, again at major spoilers, a video starts the surface of Deborah’s more controversial material over the decades. She was supposed to be going to Berkeley to accept an honorary doctorate. The college students start protesting.

Wow, good timing by the writers on this. Executive producer Paul W. Downs tells the rap was really complicated because we wanted to both show jokes that in the context of their time, would have happened and would have potentially worked, but also didn’t age well. We were really conscientious of not trying any material that was really inflammatory or really offensive. Some of the jokes include spoilers, including a Spanish to English dictionary at the US Mexico border, calling dyslexia lystexia, and saying that Anita Hill should be drinking diet coke.

Google that one. If you don’t get that one, let me just read it here. Back in the nineteen nineties, Hill publicly accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexually assaulting her. A buzzy point of the hearing was Hill were counting a time when Thomas asked her who put a pubic hair in his coke. Downs noted the joke was very specific and about the time it was a very very delicate needled thread.

This is well thought out by the writers. I like that show a lot. Another one of the staffers said, if a scene calls for a broad joke, anything goes as long as in Deborah’s voice, and it largely respects Ava’s view that comedy should never punch down. They say, let’s just generate a ton of jokes and go with what’s the funniest. Other times, a scene calls for a specific joke, and just because a Debora joke makes its way into the script.

It doesn’t mean it’s going to make the final cut downs, says, we see how Gene takes it on. We try and adjust the punch line or take a couple words out to try a whole new thing. Those are the things we have to evolve constantly. This is really good stuff. The season thirty finale of Hacks Thursday, May thirtieth.

That’s this week, and that is your comedy news for today. I’m going to join my smoothie here again. I’m shaking it for some reason. You’ll just have to believe me that I am here. I’ll top the mic again.

It’s in my hand, you hear it. But smoothies don’t make sound. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Andrew Santino, Bobby Lee, Kevin James, Adam Sandler, Paul Scheer, Carlos Mencia, JB Smooth, Zach Tuck

What’s in This Episode

• Bad Friends podcast getting Hulu animated series
• Kevin James stand-up comeback and Solo Mio film
• Kevin James SNL audition failure
• Paul Scheer’s Jack Nicholson impersonator best man story
• Carlos Mencia on NYC mayor’s immigrant lifeguard comment
• JB Smooth on comedy as survival and comedians as empaths

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This one caught me by surprise. Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee. You know, they have that podcast, Bad Friends that’s massively popular, but like most of mainstream America, has no idea who either one of them are.

It’s funny with comedy, you could be like secretly huge. There’s a lot of comedians that are secretly huge. And we’ll talk about this sometimes in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group walk down the Street one hundred people go, hey, do you like Andrew Santino? And unless you like specifically pick a certain demo, you might go, oh for a hundred, you might go like three four, a hundred. But it’s not like, hey, have you ever heard of Jerry Seinfeld?

Right, But they’re good anyway. The podcast is being made into an adult animated series for Hulu. Bad Friends follows the relationship between Andrew a fiery lightning bug and Bobby a shy roly Polly as they navigate the treacherous waters of being adolescent misfit bugs in high school. Okay, sure, no details other than that, but you didn’t see that one coming, did you me neither. Yahoo profiled Kevin James, which makes for some great holiday weekend filler.

Kevin told a story where he showed up to a stand up gig at a bachelor party and found out the guests were expecting a stripper instead. Kevin told Yahoo the stripper didn’t show and they put me up on stage and I had to stand on a chair in the middle of a bunch of guys to do my act. It was pretty rough, but I left with a lot of tips that night. That’s a good tag. He hasn’t done stand up in a while.

He says it’s nerve wracking when you haven’t done it for a while. Like when you’re doing a new show. You got to oil the muscles again and get everything working again. You go through that couple of shows and you get your legs. I wouldn’t say I get nervous anymore.

It’s more than I get excited. I just love doing stand up. I can understand that. I always would get nervous before a big radio show, if we were doing a remote or a really big guest, there’d be nervous energy in the room. Even though you would do radio every single day and you know, I’d been in the career twenty five thirty years.

You still get that nervous energy. I hear you. He got an audition for Saturday Night Live. He bombed. At the time he thought it was a failure.

He now sees it at one of the best things that ever happened to him. He recalls, you feel like, oh no, what did I do? I bomb? But I’m so happy I did. I really am.

He’s currently working on Solo Mio, in which Kevin James plays a groom who got suited up at the altar in Italy and decides to go on his honeymoon alone. He says, these movies aren’t made anymore. There aren’t that many of them. I’m gonna bust my butt to make this thing. I do love those type of movies, and I haven’t done one in a long time.

Solo Mio sounds like it should be an Adam Sadlor movie. No, yes, boy, it’s like the article read my mind now who writes. One of james frequent collaborators is Adam Saylor, who he met decades ago. They didn’t become friendly until Kevin was on the King of Queen’s Saandlor had an office on the Sony lot they met. Kevin says, I just met him, hung out and talked and became really close.

Now he’s one of my best friends. Just the greatest guy in the world. I’m very happy to be part of that camp. I really am. Anytime he says, hey, I’m thinking of doing this, I say, I’m in.

I get it. Hey, I would be in an Adams movie. Now the movie would be terrible because it’s an Adams Sandler movie, but I would be in it. Sure. Will Kevin James make in appearance in Happy Gilmore too?

We can only hope, so, he says, I don’t know. We’ll see. We’re talking about it right now. We’re working on some other stuff and hopefully, yes, if it happens, I couldn’t tell you anyway, but I don’t know. Hey, you ever get five minutes into the second podcast of five you’re trying to record, and you hear your voice going already, yeah, trying to take a long weekend.

Paul Sheer was on Conan recently and told a story about who he picked as his best man at his wedding in two thousand and nine. The answer a Jack Nicholson. Impersonator, as Sheer tells the story in a Nicholson impression, I don’t have one of those. The Nicholson impersonator arrived to the wedding late and goes, hey, sorry, I’m late. I was at a party at Robyan Polanski’s house.

That was his opening line. The wedding venue was split with parents and older adults on one side, the couple’s friends on the other. Paul says, now our friends on the other side are having the best time, going, oh, this is insane, and the people the other side started going, I think he might know Jack Nicholson. This is hilarious. Want I hear this properly told?

It’s on Conan’s podcast Shere says the day of the wedding, he pulls me aside and goes, you have a teleprompter. I say a teleprompter. No, it’s a wedding. There is no teleprompter. He goes, I’m not really going to remember too much of the speech.

So the man started improvising. He starts devolving into things that aren’t even Jack Nicholson. Paul said, I didn’t know that I married the right person because when I brought that up to June she was like, yeah, you can have him, and that was a nice moment, very nice. Carlos Mencia spoke to Tucson dot com weird set up here. New York and Mayor Eric Adams recently suggested immigrants could help fill the city’s lifeguard shortage because they are excellent swimmers.

The response did not go over well. Carlos Smancia, though, said the joke has two sides to it. One side is whoa what’s he trying to say? On the other side is all my immigrant family saying no, He’s right, we are very good swimmers. One of his setups in his shows a spoiler in case you’re playing agin seeing Carlos Smancia a clap if you were not born in the country.

Then he waits people clap and he goes, how many of you are good swimmers? See, that’s why he likes the Eric Adams stuff. And you’ll see they all clap, And then I’ll find somebody wh speaks English with a really thick accent, and I’ll go, were you offended by this? And the cool thing is it’s not always somebody from Mexico. The other day guy from Lafia said, I’m from Lafia.

And I am an immigrant and I’m a great swimmer. That’s the beauty of what I’m talking about. My ability to take reactionary moments, moments that are like ay man, I’m not supposed to be like that, and talking about the humans it effects. Let us not be arbiters of what is offensive to other people. Two soun dot com writes, Mencia recently appeared at an LGBTQ plus event and watch comedian after comedian tell LGBTQ jokes.

When it was his turn, he asked the audience why it was okay to tell those jokes but not at his comedy club shows. Mincea said. Somebody said, because here, we know that they’re one of us, and I said, so I’m not one of you. Two sound dot com says the response was something of an epiphany for Mencia. Comedy cannot be contained in a bubble.

It has to be given license to put a mirror in all of society, not just segments of it. That’s where I am. Now. I’m free. You don’t have to go to latinos show, you don’t have to go in an urban show, you don’t have to go to a redneck show.

Come to my show. And it’s like all those shows put together. We’re gonna laugh at each other and ourselves, and that’s it. My intention is good. If you don’t understand that, then I don’t know what to say.

I’m a comedian. My intent is to make you as happy as humans possible doing what I do. JB. Smooth was on The Daily Show and talked about stand up comedy. He sees it as vital to survival because there’s no way in hell you could take the brunt of the real world every day without that filtration.

The move argues, the comedians are empaths. They have to read the room and adjust their sets accordingly. Good stuff there. Vulture recently profiled Zach Tuscannie Back in August of twenty two. Zach was performing a stand up show in Boulder, Colorado, when suddenly an audience member’s hyperactive dog began running laps around the house like it had been possessed.

At first it was a minor distraction, but then the dog came back with the remains of the rabbit had been chasing. You see, Zach to Scunni does dey shows an average house show, and by house show, I don’t mean you know what a comedian would normally call a house show this is a show at your house. Zach. He usually plays around forty to fifty people. He charges a flat fee eight hundred dollars for shows on weekdays, twelve hundred for shows on the weekend.

Some guests also give out his Venmo and encourage the guests to tip him. That can bring in an extra three to four hundred dollars. He did forty five house shows in twenty twenty eighty five and twenty three. Twenty five of those were rebookings from the previous year. Some of his fellow comedians have been like, no, that’s great, but then you have to hang out afterwards and talk to people, and yeah, most comedians don’t want to hang out with non comedians.

Comedians are a breed, They’re a particular breed. Zach says. It’s the better part of doing the whole thing. You feel like you’re actually connecting with people. There are times where going to the show, I’ll be like, I’m feeling kind of tired.

I’ll probably do my set, hang out for a little bit, and then dip. Then afterwards I’m like, they’re gonna have to kick me out. I do that all the time. I call it going rock star. The amount of times I would drag myself to go out after work planning to catch the seven thirty train and then actually catching the twelve thirty am train.

Yeah, and I’m not even a big drinker. I just get into the hang and the socialness of it. If you hang out with me, you’ve heard me say the phrase two beers not eight. Zach says I did one show in a suburb outside of Oakland. The people who booked me were like, we’re Palestinians.

So while the people here tonight are in the Palestinian community, I don’t think I would have had access to that if I was at a comedy club that show in particular, I was like, let me eat all this food. They were like, we’re going to dance after this. You want to dance? I was like, yes, let’s effing dance. One show, there was a couple who were like, hey would like to book you.

We just moved in together, we’re getting married. Is it gonna be wird if it’s just us? Kyle Knane asked to come to one. He comes to an apartment show with those two people. So he sits in a lazy boy chair behind the couple sitting on their couch while I’m standing in the kitchen doing comedy.

It was a blast. That’s really funny. A lot more to this article. It’s on Vulture. It was up there a couple of weeks ago, but search for let me give you his name correctly, Zach Tuscani, zak new word, Tosca and I.

That’s on Vulture. Definitely worth your read there. And that’s your comedy news for today. Keep it a little shorter on the holiday weekend. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it day mainly Coat two.

If you’d like these things commercial free, we’re banging the desk out of that promo, Well that’ll tell you what to do. Open up Apple podcast click four ninety nine. You’ve heard the promo, just do it already a right, see tomorrow

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, Morgan Spurlock, Tim Dylan, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Nicky Glazer, Nathan McIntosh

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle calls Gaza a genocide at Abu Dhabi Comedy Week
• Morgan Spurlock passes away from cancer at age 53
• Morgan Spurlock’s #MeToo allegations and career impact in 2017
• Wheel of Fortune bloopers and funny moments
• Late night comedy jokes from Fallon and Colbert
• New York Times comedy special recommendations for the weekend

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Do me a favor. If this is the first time you’re hearing this podcast, listen to any other episode. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, and this one’s for me. Sometimes they just need to talk to the audience.

You can hear my voice. So I went to see The Stones Thursday night, right, and again, if this is your first time with the show, this is totally self indulgent, go find a different episode. So I headed out to The Stones and bark the car and I was sitting there with my buddy Glenn, and we had gotten Chipotle and we’re eating our burritos and you know, nice enough night. And I take a selfie of us, go to send it to my wife. Worlds at Tamos tailgate and I see two miss calls, a voicemail and a text that says call me now.

That’s never good, right, And nope, it was not good. Just took another stomach punch, some more terrible news. But you know, we were at the show and there was nothing to be done. And I don’t have a time machine. So Glenn and I saw The Rolling Stones.

I’ll have it in substack on Monday, that’s my free newsletter where I talk about the media. So if you want to get a full review of the show, that’ll be in the sub stack. You can hear. I can’t even form a sentence today. I think they were really good.

It was one of those things where I was not good company. Glenn understood. But I’m sitting there and I’m half thinking about the phone call for my wife, and I’m half enjoying the Stones, and I’m like, you know, kind of out of it, and then like, oh wow, this sounds really good. I really like the song Miss You. But what this conversation gonna be when I get home.

So that’s where I am today. But I just want to tell you the Stones I think they were pretty good, but I’m not sure because I was out of it. The other thing affecting me today is Morgan Spurlock passed away. Now, I worked with Morgan, and I’m trying to explain the Morgan Spurlock I worked with circa I don’t know, twenty fifteen, sixteen seventeen, somewhere in that range. Yeah, somewhere in that range.

Was like a really cool, thoughtful guy. He passed away on Thursday in upstate New York complications from cancer. He was fifty three. I’m fifty four. We did a podcast with him.

It was a weekly news recap show, A really good idea. I think maybe we tried it a little too early in podcasting’s growth curve. It was a show that deserved a lot better. I don’t even know if it’s still up. Let me look, yeah, I don’t see it.

My old company may possibly have taken it down. Let me read from his obituary and variety. This is where it gets a little complicated. In December twenty seventeen, as the me too movement continued to gain traction, Spurlock wrote in a lengthy social media post saying he was part of the problem. In the post, he admitted to serial infidelities and said he had settled an allegation of sexual harassment from a former assistant.

He also said he had been accused of rape and college. The post effectively ended as Spurlock’s documentary career, as Spurlock stepped down from Warrior Poets shortly after. If I remember correctly, he stepped down at the Christmas party that year. Yeah, December twenty seventeen, he had a lengthy lunch with him on the other side of that, I don’t know what happened or didn’t happen. I can tell you he was quite remorseful about everything, and I found it would be a very thoughtful person.

Again, I don’t know what happened, and if something horrible happened, I’m not here to defend it. I’m just telling you at lunch, the guy I worked with found to be cool. I found’ll be thoughtful. But he canceled himself for a reason, So I don’t know. So all that’s kind of on my mind today.

Also, out of that podcast that I worked with Morgan on, That’s how I know Tim Dylan. He was one of the frequent collaborators on the show, and you know, at that time, I’m like, I don’t know who this guy is, and he would crush every time he came on. So, you know, I often think of Morgan when I think of Tim, and just when I heard this news on Friday, I was just absolutely stunned. All right, let me see if I can find my fastball here. I also, personally, I need a couple of days off.

It’s been quite a stretch. I’m hoping to take Memorial Day weekend and just sit on the deck and listen to music and play video games and gonna watch Dune and stuff. I need to turn my brain off for a couple of days. So my goal here is to immediately find my fastball and then record a bunch of these and give myself a couple of days off. So thank you for that self indulgence here in the first five minutes.

Again, if this is your first time listening, that’s not normally what you get here. Right. Let me see if I can find my upbeat delivery, because our top story today, all right, let me find it. In three to one Dave Chappelle and the News. He was performing at Abu Dhabi Comedy Week and as part of his set, he said, a genocide is striking the Gaza Strip, all right, So that’s going to make huge news.

As I record Friday around lunchtime, this story just starting to bubble up. Chappelle’s comments get complicated. Abu Dhabi has maintained its diplomatic relations with Israel, although it has increasingly criticized Israel’s conduct in the Seven month war.

Meanwhile, pro Palestinian marches have swept across the Middle East since th…

DJ Trauma played the song My Blood Is Palestinian by Palestinian singer Mohammed Asaf. Now, no footage of this show yet, as it was one of those the Yonder Pouch shows. Keep an eye on that one. All right, I need a laugh. I’m going totally out of sequence here.

Did you see what happened on Wheel of Fortune? Here? Listen to this, let’s do it. Our first toss up is worth one thousand dollars. Category is phrase and off and golf.

Tomorrow’s right in the butt? What no blake that says the best? Yeah, that’s that’s it, I think. Yeah, I’ve got to also late night with a couple of random jokes. Jimmy Fallon pointing out that it’s Fleet Week in New York City.

If you’re in Manhattan this weekend, you’ll see a lot of sailors. Usually sailors are in shape and look good in a uniform. I’m a straight mail but I understand why, you know, some people would be like, hey check that out. Fallon said, of course, Fleet Week kicked off here in New York City with the braid of ships, and it ends Tuesday when all the bartenders wave away flag. Fallon again.

He talked about there’s a new airline, bark air is for dogs. I talked about this on the other podcast I host five good news stories. The short version is dog Airline. Okay, you get the setup there. Fallon said, the flights take a little longer because the plane has to do three circles before it lands.

New topic, Colbert talking about a Trump aid task with printing out copies of flattering articles for Trump. Colbert said, when she really needs his attention, she prints those on a slice of baloney. N silly joke. Another silly joke from Colbert unified Reich is the most fascist presidential ad since Dwight Eisenhower’s. I like Reich, just a silly joke, joke.

I love joke jokes. The New York Times as an article on what comedy specials you should watch this weekend, and I figure I better do this one today. Right is by Jason Zinnemann. I respect his work a lot. He recommends Nicky Glazers, Someday You’ll die.

I didn’t feel it at all. I understand that’s an unpopular opinion, but didn’t feel it at all. Nathan McIntosh on his list Down with Tech. I’m not familiar with this one. Let’s see Down with Tech.

Self produced focuses Nathan’s populist fury on the tech oligarchs with how much are attention we’ve conceded to their whims? All right, I’ll try and file that in the back of my mind. I don’t know how much comedy I’m in the mood for this weekend. I really think I need to watch like Dune. It just turned my brain off totally.

Part of it is if I start watching comedy special, I start mentally hosting the show again, and like I said, I just need I need a little break, need a little break. Rachel Feinstein’s Big Guy. I forgot that even came out here in this busy week that’s on Netflix. I want to check that out. Neil Brennan’s Crazy good, solid recommendation there.

He’s another one off the beaten path, Ian Abramson’s The Heist. This one on YouTube. Jason writes, if you’re a comedy fan with an experimental bent, give this Giddaly oddball performer a shot. He begins with a cinematic high scene and ends with a wild lark of a closure that no one will see coming sounds fun. All right, let me take the break here.

This was all new. I threw out the first half of what was originally Saturday. I’ll chop into pieces and I’ll use it over the course of the weekend. And the second half you’ll hear my normal delivery because I recorded a couple of days ago. Now, if you were listening last Sunday, you heard me say that, oh, I have a ton of leftovers.

Maybe I will record a Memorial Day weekend. That’s this part here. The Columbus Underground caught up with Bill Burr and they said, a few years ago Rolling Stone had you as seventeenth on their list of best stand up comedians of all time. You’re in the same tier as Bill Hicks, Robin Williams, and Andy Kaufman. Thoughts persaid, you know, it’s funny, bug me when I was left off it early on, or if there was someone I thought wasn’t as good, just mentioned I wasn’t, and then I just kind of realized somewhere along the line that I get this business to be on a list.

So much of it was also if you had a hot career at the moment, or if you didn’t, or who you knew all that stuff, just like the awards show, the effort, the promotion, the schmoozing, ah, the stuff you have to do just to get friggin nominated. I mean, it’s Washington, d C. It’s the same thing, like you’re running for office. I don’t pay too much attention to it, you know. It’s like, look at that the list of top drummers and musicians, something I don’t do, so I can have fund debates of like, dude, how can you put this drummer ahead of that drummer.

I don’t want to look at a list of something I’m doing because there always only somebody off it I feel strongly about. But the worst is it’s just kind of a lazy list. If who’s selling the most tickets and stuff. To be honest with you, that’s how I made it on those lists, certainly because of my looks. Eventually you start selling tickets, someone goes, well, this guy’s selling tickets, he’ll bring eyeballs or he’ll sell magazines.

By the way, this is not meant to be a bilber impression. It’s more of a vibe. Once you finally make it a list, then you gotta wonder how much of what’s on there is true the fact because you know I played Madison Square Garden. If I did the exact same thing but only did it at Funnybone Clubs, why don’t you even make the list that if I do? Where am I in a list?

I mean, it’s nice to be mentioned, but it’s not something I hang my hat on or really start believing, like, Wow, I guess I’m on eleventh of all time or whatever the hell I have. That’s hilarious. If you look at the people who are actually the reason the R form exists, there’s about thirty people right there. I feel like you have to tell of like an Eddie Murphy or something like that. Maybe I don’t know, but you look, I think wherever I am on those lists?

Because it’s twenty twenty four and I’m selling these tickets right now. Let’s say twenty years from now, when I’m a senior sists and nobody gives a hoot about me, if I’m still making a list, and I’d be like, yeah, that’s pretty good. That’s all right. Let’s see, since it is a holiday weekend, let’s see if the list is around. By the way, someday I’m going to get the flu or something I have had for two three years.

There’s a couple safety episodes sitting on the back end in case I just can’t speak or I’ve deep dove into these lists. They’re gonna be pretty moldy by the time it actually runs. All right, I think this is the list, and I’m not sure when they made the list, but the list is something like this. Number one Richard Pryor to Carlin, three, Lenny Bruce four, Woody Allen, five, Chris Rock, Steve Martin, Rodney Cosby, Roseanne at nine, Come on stop Eddie Murphy, who again, I’m from the eighties. Love Eddie, But the more I pay attention, it’s just a Richard Pryor cover band top to bottom.

Now, if you’re my age, we loved him. But it’s a Richard Pryor cover album. So I don’t know. I gotta move Eddy way down the list in these days. Carson Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Bob Newhart, Letterman, Ellen Rickles, Jonathan Winter’s Hicks, Canison, Dennis Miller, Klein, Stephen Wright, Red Fox, Bob Hoe Open, twenty five, ver Mono, Leno, Jack, Benny Milton Burrole, Gary Shalaling, I’m just trying to get to Bill Burr.

But maybe this list might be from like two thousand and four, George Burns, Albert Brooks, Handy Kaulfman, but He Hankett, Phillistiller, Jim Carrey, Martin, Lawrence, Bill Maher, Billy Crystal, mort Sahl, John Stewart, Flip Wilson. I mean John Stewart’s great but best stand ups of all time John Stewart, number forty one, and number forty three is Dave Chappelle. Now, clearly, if you made that list today, there’s no way that that’s the rankings right, No way. And number forty six is Adam Sandler, so obviously the list is complete garbage. Sebastian Man of scalco I was talking about AI in comedy, said I don’t know how it’s gonna affect stand up comedy.

Guess I really haven’t seen that yet. I haven’t really been on the pulse of things going oh wow. I mean my wife used it to redesign our kitchen, what our kitchen might look like if we remodeled it, which is cool to see. He said. He thinks live entertainment will always be around, but who knows.

Twenty years from now, I might be talking to Union, might be going, wow, you never saw AI coming, and I’d be like, yeah, now I’m unemployed. Look, you’re always gonna want to see the actual performer again. And I would to see The Rolling Stones a few days ago, and I have Rolling Stones DVDs. It’s not the same. You want to be there, you’d be part of it.

Can a AI write some stuff? Sure? It can write some stuff. Can it AI voice some stuff? I use AI to revoice a couple of my stumbles three four times a week, including this phrase right here.

If I said welcome to the month of July and I meant to say June, I can replace the July with June and you won’t notice, and I won’t notice, and I’m me. But if I start to use a lot of AI, it falls apart. But that’s as bad as the AI is ever going to get. So it should be pretty interesting as we head forward. And that’s your comedy news for today.

Enjoy the holiday weekend. I’ll have episodes for you all through the weekend and meet you back here tomorrow.

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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Shane Gillis, Andrew Schultz, Joe Cooy, Stavros Halkias, John Marco Cireesi

What’s in This Episode

• Stephen Colbert’s joke about Trump’s ‘unified Reich’ campaign video
• Shane Gillis throws first pitch at Philadelphia Phillies game
• Shane Gillis Netflix special ‘Tires’ review and R-rated comedy content
• Andrew Schultz performs at Abu Dhabi Comedy Week
• John Marco Cireesi’s rising star and ‘Leaning Into Our’ tour announcements
• Discussion about working clean vs. dirty comedy

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Caloroga Shark Media. I need you guys straight. When I have nothing today, I’ve got stuff. And the weekend’s pretty good too, So you know, Memorial Day weekend. I get it.

Not everybody listens, but don’t blow off the episodes. They gotta have nothing because they’re actually pretty good. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News Stephen Colbert with a pretty good joke. Earlier this week, Trump’s social media account put out a bit of disturbing content. It was a campaign video with a headline about a unified Reich.

Now, before you get two worked up, there’s a simple explanation. Donald Trump wants to rule over a unified Reich. I love that joke because of the simplicity. Let me digress here. I’m actually saving this as a real topic for a Monday, but I just shared in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group Joe Cooy trailer and dude, can you go more than two words without an F bomb?

We’ll start a discussion in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group about working clean. And I’m not saying you have to work clean, but I am saying don’t work dirty for no reason. And if you play that Joe Cooy trailer, you’ll hear what I’m talking about. We’ll do that on Monday. Shane Gillis throughout the first pitch at the Philadelphia Phillies game on Wednesday, Shane said, I’m trying not to be like fifty cent.

If you’ve ever seen it, fifty cent had one of the worst ceremonial first pitches of all time. I got one day of practice in I was at the University of Texas. I got to throw from the mound a little. NBC’s John Clark asked Shane Gillis how he felt leading up to the first pitch. Let’s listen, you perform in front of a lot of people.

Yeah, Like, is that nerve racking or resists? This is way more nerve wrecked. This. It’s a test, my man. With that, I’m certain I’m gonna fail.

You’re gonna be fine. How cool is this? It’s awesome. This is a cool team. I’m happy to hopefully not ambaniss myself.

Good luck. Shane Gillis, a south paw from Pennsylvania, threw a strike. Congratulations OutKick saw that new Shane Gillis show tires on Netflix. I’m looking forward to it. But last night I went to see The Rolling Stones.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are eighty, by the way, which is encouraging. I could host this thing another twenty five years. I saw my buddy Sal yesterday and he was asking me where do you record from? You go to a studio, and I’m like, no, basement. USB Mike straight in too my MacBook and he’s like, that’s what I thought.

Sounds good. Well, thank you, Sal, But yeah, I’m in my basement. I digress all right. OutKick talking about Tires. The headline from OutKick, Shane Gillis’s new comedy series is a massive middle finger to wokeness.

They write in a non spoilery way, what I can say is that Tires couldn’t care less about what should shouldn’t be allowed to be joked about. The premiere episode includes jokes about I gotta clean this up, favors that you might do for somebody you really like. You know what I’m saying, nutche nudge wink wink, say no more the results you get from such a favor nudge nudge wink only fans where you know, as you know, sometimes I lock myself in the basement and I watch some comedy from Natasha la Giro. I don’t know what you think I’m doing down here, reliving the high school football glory days, Oude Hussein lying about hooking up with women and being an idiot. Where else can you find a show with jokes about sex and the deceased son of Saddam Hussein.

That’s a good question. And it’s a pure R rated comedy and exactly what Shing Gills fans have come to expect from him. It’s absolutely everything the anti comedy woke mob hates? Is there actually an anti comedy woke mob? Does that actually exist?

Where? Is just like we just write articles about it and I talk about it every day, and Chappelle does twenty minutes about it, and Gervaise sweets about it, and everybody writes articles about everyone’s being canceled while Luis c. K plays Madison Square Garden. Is there an anti woke well? I haven’t seen it.

The jokes are so edgy at times that you might even feel a little uncomfortable, and I loved every second of it. The entire premise is a middle finger to people who want to sanitize comedy Again, are those those people. Or maybe it’s me because I don’t want JOKOI to try f bomps. Maybe I’m the anti woke mob. Wow, I just had a self awakening.

Tires also includes appearances from Stavros Halkias and Andrew Schultz. Schultz’s character immediately gets hit with pejoratives as soon as he’s introduced again. The show is edgy as hell and I love it.

Speaking of Andrew, Schultze just performed at Abu Dhabi Comedy Week.

The National News said comedian doesn’t hold back and uae return. They tell us it’s rare for a comedy show to leave you tearing up with emotion. But that’s exactly what happened when I saw Andrew Schultz at Eddie Hot Arena on Tuesday. Who’s a return to the area. Apparently Andrew had played there in October as part of the UFC Showdown Week.

The writer says, back then was the first time I’d heard of Schultz. Curious to know who this American comedian was that had sold out Eddie Hot Arena. It came across a short clip he uploaded on his YouTube channel. I instantly became a fan. After all, who wouldn’t be impressed by someone from the US learning and joking about an Arabic slang used to describe teenagers who hang around malls and groups.

The writer then shares that he or she went to see Andrew in Boston and then added, I was surprised to see the same opening acts I’d watched in the US comedians Derek posted Mark Gagnon, who took the stage and warned up the crowd while they were both entertaining. I had already seen them perform the same jokes a few months previously, making me worry that Schultz might do the same. You see somebody in Boston and the Abu Dhabi Comedy Week and you get the same material. I don’t think he could be like, what, how could we not do it a fresh set? Yeah, if you’re not going to play your hits at the Abu Dhabi Comedy Week, I don’t know when you’re going to This is not the seller good news.

The writer says, I was relieved to learn that wouldn’t be the case. As he stepped down on the stage with a thin bamboo stick, or as he joked, his comicky stick, I hope I pronounced that right. That is the aforementioned that slang word about teens in malls something to defend himself from these teens in malls and keep them at bay. And the two times I’ve now seen him live, I’m continually impressed just how good he is at what he does. And he personalized his sets based on what city he’s in.

He is a seamless way of knocking out jokes in such a natural way they’d already think he was quite familiar with the region. That’s cool, while we’re in the weeds here. While most of his jokes were hits, I did have to turn up my partner at one point to see if he understood a quip about UAE beating Saudi Arabian football, as there seemed to be some confusion, even with Schultz seemingly asked the crowd if that was true. My partner clarified that he thought it was a reference to Al Anine beating Alan Nassar in the AFC Champions League a couple months ago. That’s deep, Andrew, that’s deep.

Jen Marco Cireesi, his star is rising. Picks eleven New York City are aware of who he is now. They had him on They tell us recently, John Marco dropped a series of semi not safe for work announcements for the third leg of his Leaning into Our, which features John Marco in various states of censored undress with a winking, off kilter approachability. It’s this charming blend of self awareness and on assuming male energy that have made Seresi something of an internet heart throb for countless scores of straight women and gay men. I wasn’t aware of any of that.

I’m neither of those, and I’m a fan those star has been on the rise for some time. The leading and tour has coincided with some recent major industry attention for the host of The Downside with John Marcos Ressi podcast. He says, I was always funny leading. I always enjoyed comedy, and I probably thrived more in comedic roles than dramatic roles, even though deep down I always wanted to be like Daniel da Lewis, he says with a wink. But then after several years in New York and not getting that much work and struggling, I finally wrote a play for myself and it just lent itself to being comedic.

I got very addicted to the feedback loop of stand up comedy and stand up comedy, I immediately get to find out if something is good or bad or how to make it better, and it just sucked me. In Pixe eleven says, among John Marco’s strongest comedic attributes is the loose and cutting but kind way the comedian navigates awkward situations that can evitably arise at a comedy show full of drinking adults. Earlier this year, he was performing at a drag bar in Ohio doing some Trump material. A guest in the front row let her support be known. John Marco said, there’s no way you’re in the front row of a drag show and voting for Trump.

I don’t think it’s my job to take a poll before the show. Is there anyone in the audience who’s Republican? But you got to ignore, especially seeing as how drag queens have become the focal point for conservatives to try and use hysteriot inside homophobia, et cetera. Anyway, I could not talk about it, so I challenged her on it, and I said, how can you beat a drag show when the people you’re voting for would in their fantasies ban this from happening. All right, I have an on the fly update.

That first half was pretty good. I bumped two stories to Monday, and now I can tell you Monday is also pretty good. So listen all weekend solid episodes all the way through huzzah. Following up on yesterday, I was doing a Taylor Swift rant that yeah, I do listen back in the car every day on my way to the National Donute Chain. And as I listened back to Thursday’s episode that first segment where was talking about Nikki Glaser, I didn’t like it.

I didn’t nail it. I’d like to do that one again. Just didn’t nail it. Heather jumped in on the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, not knowing that I didn’t like the segment, but I didn’t like the segment, and Heather wrote, friendly neighborhood Swifty here just wanted to say that Nikki Glaser brought up Taylor Swift. She wrote, do not insert Joe Coy joke.

Okay, because on Taylor’s new album she has thank You Amy, and she reminds us that the spelling on thank You Amy has a capital K a capital I and a capital M and the rest in lower cases, and Kim spells Kim. She has a song on the new album that people think is about Kim and reignited the Kim K hate. I think that was Nicky’s first thought when Kim K got booted the Brady Roast, but then she remembered that this family sucks in general in most people’s opinions. Fun fact, Nicky’s body shaming comments about Taylor were used in the Miss Americana documentary, which Nicky has since apologized for. Appreciate the note there.

I do like Taylor Swift, by the way. I just I like the bit more than I like Taylor Swift. When I saw Taylor last year, that was the best concert. I think. I’ve talked about this in the past, and I’ll let you know how the Rolling Stones were last night.

But when I left Taylor, and I’m a big Springsteen fan, I said, Okay, Bruce, you and the guys are going to stand at one end of the arena and play guitars for two and a half hours. I’m no longer impressed. Heather also to post with hashtag Bob’s Burgers fans Unite Well. Ellen is a Bob’s Burgers fan. Now I’m hoping the Bobsburgers fans unite and maybe, you know, if people run with the gag enough, maybe they’ll make like a fan film, or maybe they’ll like actually produce an episode of Bob’s Burgers from all this merch, and then we could all laugh at the joke that the show was real for the last fourteen years.

We’ll see Ellen wants to buy me a coffee dot com thank you, Ellen, and bought me three ice coffees. You can hear one right here. I’m gonna keep doing this because i haven’t done this in a while. And she wrote in the words of the why David Letterman, if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatever. She adds, I believe that applies to Johnny Mac as well.

I’m not offended anytime anyone wants to compare me in any way to David Letterman. Great compliment accepted. Thank you, Ellen. Hope you’re enjoying Bob’s Burgers. Oh my brain is fried here.

So I’m looking at the next story. It is from people and it says Richards tells people, And I’m like, do I have a Keith Richards from Merlingstones. Do I have a Keith Richards story in here? Oh no, no, No, it’s Michael Richards. He was Creamer on Seinfeld, still talking about that infamous night where he lost that on stage.

He said, I was immediately sorry the moment I said it on stage. I’m not looking for a comeback. My anger was all over the place and it came through hard and fast. Anger is quite a force, but it happened. Rather than run from it, I dove to the deep end and try to learn from it.

Hasn’t been that easy. Crisis managers wanted me to do damage control, but as far as I was concerned, the damage was inside of me. He says he has spent the past seventeen years in deep analysis. It was time to figure out where all the anger was coming from. Part of it came down for him, his own insecurities.

Somehow I couldn’t connect to the joy of being an artist. I was a good character actor, but I was comfortable being the character, not in being me. I said no to the offer of a store in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I didn’t feel deserving. I said no to hosting SNL twice because I didn’t feel good enough.

I never really felt satisfied with my Seinfeld performance. Fame magnified my insecurities. As for the infamous night in two thousand and six, he says, I’m not racist. I’m nothing against black people. The man who told me I wasn’t funny had just said what I’d been saying to myself for a while.

Felt put down. I wanted to put him down. The Veil Comedy Festival back this weekend, kicks off tonight. Jenny Zigrino Is you’re a headliner. You’ll find her at the Gambit Bar tonight at seven thirty.

She says, I feel like every time we do comedy in Colorado, I have an amazing time. Last year I was at the High Planes Festival in Denver. It was so great hang out with my peers from all over the country. My favorite memory from doing a festival like this is the crappy diner food you have the next morning after the closing party. I love seeing friends I haven’t seen at a long time at festivals, discovering new comedians that are hitting the scene.

My favorite part of festivals crazy after parties. I like to go back to the hotel and sleep and just knowing the funniest people in the world are on the same show as you. It’s the craziest thing that has ever happened to you at a comedy show. She says. One time I asked Blake Griffin for his phone number.

Blake Griffin, the NBA player, best known, I think for his time on the Clippers, the La Clippers. He gave it to me. I don’t know if it was real or not. Comedian Mark Masters is the organizer of the Veil Comedy Festival, and he said, you can go to comedy festivals where you’re going to a theater and you’re watching with five hundred or thousand people. You’re watching most of our shows with less than one hundred people.

And after the show you go into any of the great restaurants in and around Veil Village and the comedians who just saw on stage or sitting right next to you. Boy, imagine if Patton I was what was there eating a hot dog and that would be some scene. It’s very common for me to hear stories about guests buying beers for comics. I’m thinking, what’s the term. There’s a term.

I can’t think of it. For female fans of comedy who sometimes buy a beer for comedians. Sounds like it might be an opportunity to buy a beer for comedian this weekend. There’s a term. I can’t think of it right now.

Comedian Monroe Martin is originally from Philadelphia, is in New York City. He will also be headlining the Veil Comedy Festival. Mark Masters was asked how does he pick it comes to the festival. There’s a whole committee that scores their submission tapes. It’s a complicated process.

And I don’t choose the comedians. Those comedians get scored by a group of industry professionals and selected through a screening process. I’ll chime in. I assume part of the screening process is cost Like, let’s go to the Johnny Mac Comedy Festival. I’m gonna have Chappelle, Seinfeld, Malaney and affagain at Bill Burr and Seane gillis pretty cool festival.

I can’t afford to book it. And that is your comedy news for today. Oh and look at the clock. This was not a short episode today and I bumped another story. So we’ll have robust stuff all weekend.

Uh. You know, if you’re taking the weekend off and bring your podcast app with you or catch up on Tuesday. I’m cool with that. Have a great weekend, see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Jon Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld, Shane Gillis, Kevin Hart, Patton Oswalt, Bob Saget, John Mayer, Tom Brady

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser explains Tom Brady Roast booing incident
• Jon Stewart defends Jerry Seinfeld against recent criticism
• Shane Gillis Netflix series Tires renewed for season two
• Kevin Hart postpones Jackson Mississippi shows for NBA coverage
• Patton Oswalt visits Grand Rapids Coney hot dog restaurant
• Bob Saget birthday tribute and John Mayer’s grief post

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News that Tom Brady Rose still making news. Nikki Glaser is still making news, but not for her new special There’s no buzz on that one. Apparently Nicki, who was out promoting her special, which there’s no buzz on, was on the Not Skinny but Not Fat podcast. She explained that she ran into someone at the comedy store in West Hollywood after the roast of Tom Brady and they were with some quote wild guy who’s a comedian with a quote reputation for just like starting stuff.

Nicki told the podcast. Apparently he started the boo is just like a joke. He just had too many drinks or something, and he’s not affiliated with Swifties or anything, and just felt like saying a boo into the air. And apparently everybody was so riled up it just kind of caught win. But it wasn’t swifty meditated.

Okay, all right, relaxed. None of us thought it was swiftly meditated, none of us. Did. I do have that on good information that it was not based on that, because I was like, this doesn’t feel like a huge swifty crowd you’re gonna make me break out the Joe quoy if you mentioned Taylor Swift again. No one was thinking this is about Taylor Swift.

No one mentioned that fifteen days now. Stop because I was like, this doesn’t feel like a huge Swifty crowd. But it didn’t feel like there was a vibe in the room. The guy started it as a joke. He caught on too much, but I was so glad to learn it was not Swifty meditated.

I’m gonna have to do it. Scott Beckett’s having a nice day, and you’re gonna make me play the clip. Stop mentioning Taylor. Nicky said it’s not just Swifties who have beef, and she said many people are stuck on the belief that Kim and the rest of the family are not talented and famous for nothing. I don’t want to hear that anymore, that they’re not talented.

They clearly are. They’ve achieved something consistently for twenty years now. They’re talented. It just doesn’t look like the talent you define. NICKI was on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast.

By the way, of all the comedy shows I ever did back at Serious XM, that was the only one we walked out of Scott Ackerman wasn’t good. Sorry, Buddy Popular, it wasn’t good. Johnny is throwing heat today. Yeah, and I’m in a good mood too. I told the comedy Bang Bang there was some message I got that they’re going to do a bunch of these greatest roast of all time with hopefully Serena Williams and Lebron James and Tiger Woods, like it’s gonna be a new thing and Tom Brady’s gonna kind of run it.

That ain’t gonna happen. None of that’s gonna happen. None of that. Glazer revealed that Tom Brady was kept away from all the comedians prior to the show. I got over at Scott Beckett.

I’m not gonna play the clip your luck today, No clip today. John Stewart commented on everyone coming after Jerry Seinfeld last week. Stewart said, look, Jerry Seinfeld took more crap over the past two weeks promoting a pop tart movie than Harrison Butker did for his entire speech and ask you people, what’s the deal of that? He did not do a Seinfeld impression there. I legitimately would like to know why he’s taking so much crap about everything from everybody?

And who are these people? Shane Gillis was scheduled to throw out the first pitch at last night’s Phillies game. His new series Tires premieres today on Netflix. In Tires, Will, played by Stephen gre Urban, is the nervous and unqualified air to an auto repair chain, and Will attempts to turn his father’s business around despite constant torture from his cousin In now employee Shane Shane is played by Shane Gillis. Did you need my help with that one?

Netflix has already renewed it for season two. Kevin Hart postponed some shows in Jackson, Mississippi, this weekend. Those performances will now be on September twenty second. The reason for the postponement was not released. However, the Clarion Ledger did some good sleuthing.

They say that ESPN announced that Kevin Hart would be doing his NBA Unplugged with Kevin Hart showed during the NBA Conference Finals, which do overlap with the now postponed dates, and I did warn you over the weekend, no twenty minute episodes this week. There’s not much going on, as evidenced by Patton Oswalt raves about Grand Rapids Coney Dog Joint. Sure, why not, there’s Patton Oswalt. He’s in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He tweeted, damn good dogs.

The post was met with hundreds of likes and comments from locals excited to see Patton Oswalt having a grand Rabpit’s Coney Cony co owner Connor Malloy told em Live the Patten heard about the local hot dogs shop after shopping for comic books at Vaults of Midnights. Patten was also spotted at Doctor Grinn’s Comedy Club ahead of Dan Soder’s show. Coney owner Malloy said he went down there earlier in the day and the workers were talking to him kind of suggesting places to eat, and they asked him do you like hot dogs? And he was like, oh, I love hot dogs. So they messaged us that he might come in dd that like, I mean, Patton Woswald is you know this isn’t Tom Cruise showing up the hot dogs Dad?

Are people like, oh my god, Patton Oswalt’s down south. Let’s go get the car. Let’s guy, let’s got light? Like all right, Patton Oswalt’s getting a hot dog. That’s not gonna draw a big crowd, is it?

Em Lone tells us. While Patton Oswalt ate his late lunch, many locals driving and walking by did a double take, surprised to see a celebrity basketing in the sun and showing a hot dog right there on Fulton Street. Coney owner mala He said, I talked to him briefly out there, and he was definitely getting a lot of attention walking around, which was awesome. I didn’t have the guts to ask him for a photo, so it was cool that he took a photo and posted it. Excuse me, mister Oswalt, would be okay if I took a picture of you eating a hot dog?

What is going on? It’s Paton Oswalt. I’d punching today. Oh there’s more. Oswalt spent time chatting up Malloy, who told him that he and his wife Olivia, took over One Stop Cony in twenty twenty from its founders you remember Leslie and Brian Ustille.

The place sure. Malloy was a former employee of the Hot Dog Joint, which originally opened in two thousand and nine. You know I’m surprised it took me this long. Now, I’m a menu curious as I tend to get. John has it a slow news day?

No, why why do you think that?

All right, here’s one stopcony dot com hours Monday to Friday, eleven to seven.

Saturday only noon to four is Saturday. Not a big hot dog day. Sunday not open at all. All right. A Detroit dog will cost you three point fifty.

That comes with Detroit style chili mustard and onions. You can get a flint with Flint style chili mustard onions for three seventy five. Chicago dog will go four to seventy five. Plain two seventy five. A bacon ranch ripped dog, which is a bacon wrapped deep fried dog, cheddar, cheese, lettuce, tomato, ranch dressing, four seventy five.

New item hot pepper deep fried dog, hot peppers, sour kraut, pepper, jack, cheese, tomato, spicy mao four seventy five. You know you can make these things. A combo fries and a drink’ll run these things up to six twenty five. You get a classic corn dog for four seventy five. But here’s what’s weird.

The middle of the menu highlighted in yellow, the rest of the menu is white. Is promoting burgers and sandwiches. What kind of hot dog place is this? Cheeseburger six fifty. I’m not coming to your hot dog place for cheeseburger anyway.

Paton finishes food left for his show. Bob Sagett would have been sixty eight years old. John Mayer expressed his ongoing grief on social media. John post that I miss you the most when I’m exhausted and I just want to talk to my friend. I missed you when this magician was performing at this party I was at and it was just a okay, and I knew you’d have interjected with insanely funny one liners even if I couldn’t imagine what you would have said.

Loss may be out of our control, but remembrance is our active defiance, and we will never forget you. Love you, Bob, Happy birthday. Comedian Moe Welch announced that her stand up special slash documentary Hybrid Dad Jokes will premiere on the YouTube eight hundred pound Gerrilla channel June fourteenth. Filmed at the Lodge Room in a Highland Park and all over Illinois. Welch’s debut special follows her.

She explains her lifelong obsession with dad jokes as way to process the aftermath of her own father’s abandonment. Welsh travels to Illinois in search of her father why, acerbically unpacking his absence in her life and what that has meant for her comedy and her journey as a new mother. CNN is in on this whole Bob’s Burger’s host. They post an article this long running sitcom wink wing nuts, nudge sure Jan has only gotten better thanks to its writers taking big leaps, CNN tells us fourteen seasons later, although no one has ever seen the show and no one has ever met anyone who’s seen the show, the Belchers are still messy and sticky, for their hearts will soften because the writers speaking for them have grown protective of the fictional family. Bob’s Burgers, whose writers place equal value on warm family moments and bodily humor, shines brightest when it’s focusing on the small moments from a family dinner to a poetry meeting, and if it hurts a little along the way, then it’s not too far moved from life Bob’s Burgers.

No one’s ever seen it. It’s very strange. Can you feel the holiday weekend coming? I can feel it. I’ve got some stuff I’m rationing.

I could tell you about Jim Jeffreys heckling people, but then we want I talk about all weekend. You know what I’m saying. I gotta do this seven days a week. Sometimes it’s a slow news week, being honest with you. Thank you all for listening.

This is a lot of fun to do every day. I enjoyed the back and forth of the Facebook group. It has been increasingly lively and it’s a lot of fun and over there we kind of drop our guard and have some fun with the jokes. We’ve got a nice community to go in here. I appreciate you all.

Thank you so much for listening. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Ben Affleck, Tom Brady, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, John Stewart, David Letterman, Keith Robinson, Sal Volcano, Steve Carell, Bill Lawrence, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sabrina Carpenter, Sarah Sherman, Mikey Day, James Austin Johnson

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser critiques Ben Affleck’s Netflix Tom Brady Roast performance
• Late night hosts cover Trump demanding Biden take drug test before debates
• John Stewart shares story about canceled talk show and David Letterman’s advice
• Keith Robinson Netflix special announcement about life after two strokes
• Sal Volcano special premiering on 800 Pound Gorilla YouTube channel
• Steve Carell and Bill Lawrence new HBO comedy series announced
• SNL accused of stealing Scooby-Doo sketch concept from 2016 Nerdist short

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Caloroga Shark Media, Yellow Jenny mag with your Daily Comedy News. Two good ones from Late Night, Jimmy Kimmel talking about Trump demanding Biden take a drug test before the debates. What are they gonna do? Test them for? Sasprilla?

Love it, Colbert, They really wanted to delay the debate, waiting for two old men to pee. John Stewart told a story about when his old talk show was canceled, not the Daily Show. Remember he had one in New York, was on Channel eleven. Nobody watched it. Stuart said, we were all very sad, and when your name is on it and they tell you to get out of the building, it’s very hurtful.

But David Letterman had some advice for the then up and comer. On the final show. Letterman said to me, don’t confuse cancelation with failure. And I thought that was a really interesting and then in the commercial break he said, although this is also a failure. Hey, Dave had a failed daytime talk show.

I wish the clips of that would surface. I think I saw it once back in nineteen eighty two. Must be somewhere somebody showed those. I mad at myself. I had this story yesterday.

I remember a slow news story day when I kind of checked and jive for twelve minutes. I had this one, and I forgot to actually do it. Nikki Glaser has been ripping on Ben Affleck for Ben’s terrible appearance at the Netflix Tom Brady Roast. She told the barstool folks, I haven’t watched it again like how it looks, because I don’t like to watch people bomb. He didn’t prepare.

He’s someone who’s famous enough he probably thinks it’s beneath him to do it, Like I’m just gonna do a favorite. It’s not gonna be that big a deal.

And then you do it and you go, oh, this is way bigger than I thought it was g…

I’m just kind of phoning it in. He probably had a picture the writers probably like maybe I’d do an angle or a man about tweets, because that’s his thing. Affleck said live on stage, I don’t think I’ll ever get this chance again. I’m probably never gonna work again. Actually, after tonight, you guys out there talking crap all night behind your keyboard.

That doesn’t make you a fan, That makes you a B word, Glazer said, there were so many jokes that didn’t get used that could have filled up an entire set of his that would have been amazing. But either they couldn’t get him on the phone enough to work something out where he didn’t practice enough, or he just picked a bad premise and then he had to stick to it the whole time. It didn’t work right, so it’s not gonna work later. If you joke bombs, you’re onto the next one. That’s probably what he should have done.

A couple specials were announced. Netflix is set the premiere for Keith Robinson in Different Strokes Tuesday, June eleventh. One hour special, Robinson will share raw personal stories from the aftermath of two life altering strokes, one in twenty sixteen one in twenty twenty, as well as insight into his recovery and the challenges he’s faced while navigating his new disabilities. In his statement, he said coming up with the title Different Strokes was a stroke of genius, stupidity mixed with perseverance. I love making this special and thanks to all who helped make it happen.

It is his second special for Netflix. Apparently, he had one in twenty fourteen called Kevin Hart Presents Keith Robinson. Sal Volcano will put one out on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla channel on YouTube eight Pacific on May thirty first. I think May thirty first is next Friday, eight am. Release on a Friday in summer.

Not sure anyone thought that out. Release it on a Tuesday, dude. We are told it’s unclear what he discusses in the special a mystery, but it is said to offer a fresh perspective on his hysterical real life experiences. Filmed at the VIC Theater in Chicago. Great theater.

It’s executive produced by Ari Shaffir. That’s cool. It’s for the launchtime and the we’re not telling you what it’s about. Not sure this pr strategy has been thought through, but we’ll see. Steve Carell, he’s doing a new show.

I have some thoughts about this. At the back end, the eleven time Emmy Award nominee is set to star in and executive produce a new comedy series ordered by HBO. Bill Lawrence is attached to this. You know Bill Lawrence from Scrubs and some other stuff. Ted Lasso, Yeah that was pretty popular, so great pedigree there.

Bill Lawrence says, HBO has long been a standard bearer of quality TV. Getting to do a show there with Steve Corell is an immediate career highlight. Nothing can go wrong now. A suit gave a quote the combination of Steve Carell and Bill Lawrence promises to be full of great laughs, warmth, and charm. We’re thrilled to be the home for this long overdue collaboration.

I was working on something here at the podcast company and someone drafted a press release and there was a placeholder quote attributed to me, and I’m like, I’m not quote unquote saying that I will get destroyed in the media. So I crossed it out and they gave me a couple of days to come up with it in my own quote, and I couldn’t come up with anything that didn’t sound like me going, you know, the combination of Steve Carell and Bill Horn’s promises to be full of great li Like, I just didn’t want to sound like that, And you can’t give a quip quote in my normal style, like I can’t say. John McDermott said, yeah, sounds cool, Like you can’t put that at press lease. So I just said, how about I’m not in the press release at all. So that’s why we went with Steve Carell, best known for being the lead in the Netflix comedy series Space Force.

He also briefly appeared as Michael Scott in something called The Office. Hey, Steve, let me give you some advice here. You’re looking to star in a sitcom, presumably so that people can laugh and you make a lot of money. Right, that seems to be the idea. Here’s an idea.

It’s called the Office reboot. How about it? Michael Scott moves back from Denver, moves back to Scranton because reasons, paper company reasons. I’m sure that would do well. Why are we messing around?

Little controversy SNL being accused once again of stealing an idea On the most recent episode, Jake Gillenhall and musical guest Sabrina Carpenter starretist Fred and Daphne from Scooby Doo. Sarah Sherman and Mikey Day played Velma and Shaggy. In the sketch spoilers, the shadow Phantom is revealed to be a bitter old man played by James Austin Johnson, so Fred rips his mask off. We’ve all seen that bit. Then he rips off a second mask.

But it’s not a second mask, it’s the guy’s actual face. Some Internet sleuths pointed out this is very similar to a twenty sixteen Nerdist comedy short called Scooby Don’t, which found the Scooby Doo gang reducing a villain’s face to a bloody mess. The director of Scooby Don’t, Andrew Bowser, pointed out the similarities on social media, suggest Daden he had directed this sketch seven years ago. Got a really strange note in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast group. I don’t know what to make of it, Ellen wrote, I’ve been listening to DC every day for about a year.

Decided to join the group. What that’s awesome, Ellen, We welcome you. We’re glad you’re here, Thank you for listening. Truly appreciate you listening every day. I decided to join the group solely based on the Bob’s Burgers focus on today’s show.

Oh that’s good, because you know I am very outspoken about the Bob’s Burgers hoax. Again, if you’re a new listener, two questions. Have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? Know? Have you ever met anyone who has seeing Bob’s Burgers.

The answer is also know it’s weird. I don’t know what the hoax is about. It’s probably like a four Chan kind of thing. I don’t get it that Ellen wrote I’ve watched every episode with my family. I know people who watch.

I have attended a table read with the cast. Hmm what. I don’t know what to make of this. I mean, Ellen seems pretty cool. Appreciate Ellen listening every day for about a year and taking the time to write in.

But I mean, I don’t know what to say. I’ve never met or heard of anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers. And Ellen is saying that Ellen has seen Bob’s Burgers. I mean, I’ve seen the video of Bigfoot, pictures of Lockness Monster. It could be that kind of thing.

I’m not sure. Ellen writes give it a shot, Signed a super fan from Fargo. Well, I appreciate you joining the group. Uh you know, if you ask me, this sounds like the work of Kristin Shawl. I know Kristin a little bit.

We did some stuff together back. It’s serious and you know she’s a jokester. I bet Ellen is really Kristen but you know, if anybody out there has seen this Bob’s Burger’s show, which again you haven’t, but if you think you have, join the Facebook group. It’s Steely Comedy News podcast Group. Ellen.

Thank you for listening from Esquire Middle East, your home for comedy news. Tom Sigora getting ready to play Abu Dhabi Comedy Week. Esquire Middle East asked Tom about how he researches a new place that he’s performing. Si Gore says, you never want to go in a place completely ignorant. But when I do international shows, I tried to do the show that I’ve developed.

If you’re doing bits where you have to reference things that are very American, sometimes you gotta go, okay, what’s the equivalent here? But going in thinking I’m going to do a show that hopefully hits all the notes that these people would want to hear in this market, I don’t do that. Tom is working on a six episode series coming to Netflix in twenty twenty five. The question has a TV show been a long time coming for you? It did Netflix catch you at the right time?

Si Gore said, TV and film development, that process is always very taxing. It’s long, it’s arduous, and I’ve been through it. So I had this idea of shooting something I wanted to shoot, and I could have called an agent in seat up a meeting. Instead, I was like, you know what, I want to go shoot this. The original idea is I’d put it out on our same pay per view platform that sixty nine Minutes aired on.

When I was getting ready to air it on that platform, I showed it to my agents and they said, you gotta let more people see this. We showed it to Netflix and then they acquired it. How much freedom does he have from Netflix, se Gore says, so far, it’s been on real it means to be seen, though they haven’t been given scripts yet, so I don’t know what they’re gonna say when they actually read the scripts. But it’s been a good process so far. If you are attending Abu Dhabi Comedy Week, Tom will be at the Eddie Hot Arena on Saturday.

Andrew Santino and some others are set as the leads in Yahoo’s eight episode comedy Sin City Saints. I like Santino as an actor a lot. He’s just he has great presence. Whatever that thing that was called that was not about the comedy store in La and he played like the comic that was kind of making it. I thought he was great in that Sin City Saints follows the Triumphs, Travails and Transgressions literation of Las Vegas’ brand new pro basketball franchise, The Saints.

Santino will play Jake Sullis, the Saints unpredictable and charismatic owner who made his fortune as an Internet disruptor in the field of big data. All right, I could see him in that role. That sounds good, But it’s for Yahoo. Like Yahoo’s making shows again. I remember they did the last season of Community.

Where’s this going to air on Yahoo? I don’t get it. Clara o’caine as a new comedy album out. It is called Everything I Know How to Do. It’s on PGF Records.

She jokes about leaving her job at SNL, open marriage, gender identity, OCD, induced mantras, talking to ghosts and more. And that is your comedy news for today. I’m starting to see the news stripe. I’m starting to see the Hey, here’s all the albums we’re excited about this summer articles that you could have written in February. Starting to see those populate, so we’ll see.

Ellen. Thank you for listening, Thanks for joining us in the group. It’s all in good fun, you know. If you want to become a character, keep sending me bombs Burger’s notes and I’ll have fun with it, especially on slow news days. I’m tempted to play Joe Coy here just to say hi to our friend Scott Beckett, but I won’t, as you know, see tomorrow

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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, Colin Jost, Scarlett Johansson, Rachel Feinstein, Anthony Jeselnik, Norm MacDonald, Joe Koy, Harry Shearer

What’s in This Episode

• SNL year-end joke swap between Jost and Shay
• Jerry Seinfeld’s Virginia show interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters
• Rachel Feinstein’s new Netflix special ‘Big Guy in The Guy’
• Anthony Jeselnik’s set at Netflix Festival and audience feedback on jokes
• Joe Koy’s Portland Maine show in November with speculation on surprise guests
• Harry Shearer discusses The Simpsons casting change for Dr. Hibbert character

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. SNL did their annual year end joke swaps between Jost and Shay. The one I like the best was written by Michael Jay, voiced by Colin Jost, who said chat GPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in Her, which I’ve never bothered to watch because without that body, what’s the point of listening. That’s a good joke.

In case you don’t get the joke, Colin Jost is married to Scarlett Johansson. That’s why it’s funny. Jerry Seinfeld insists on being in this podcast every single day. What happened now, Johnny Mac. Jerry’s there in Virginia.

He’s just trying to do his little comedy show. Here’s some alliteration. A pro Palestinian protester proceeded to stand up and shout insults towards Jerry Seinfeld, calling him a genocide supporter. The protester yelled, save the children of Gaza, no more American tax dollars for genocide. Audience members began quickly booing the heckler and demanded that he shut up and get out.

The protester kept shouting to the audience, you should be ashamed of yourself. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. According to TMZ, Jerry said, this is fun. I like this. I think your message is really resonating with the crowd.

People seem to be on your side. Wow. The protester responded, how dare you support a genocide? According to the version I’m seeing, Jerry supposedly said, I like it when that you hater spice up the show. According to TMZ, additional videos from the night showed an audience member starting a fight with the protester, eventually grabbing the protester in a headlock.

Security cheam and escorted the protester out of the room. The crowd chanted Jerry, Jerry Jerry. TMZ says they were about eight demonstrators throughout the show who were all escorted out by security. Wow. Eyewitnesses say Jerry told his audience not to boo and supported their right to protest.

Rachel Feinstein’s new special is out on Netflix today. It is called Big Guy in The Guy. Rachel describes her life as the wife of a firefighter, a mother, and a stand up comic. In the words of her three year old daughter, my daddy’s a hero and my mommy’s sarcastic. Today’s one of those days where we see if Johnny Mac can make an episode out of nothing.

I just played my two cards. Everything else is me shocking and jiving. A Vulture had somebody at Anthony Jesselnick’s show at the Netflix Festival. John wasn’t that two weeks ago? It was, but according to Vulture, Anthony opened his show talking about how an audience member had thought a joke he told a week earlier it was problematic.

Jessel next said he had closed his show with that joke, so we vowed to stop closing with it. Instead, he decided to open with it. During his set, he joked about politics, redecorating his place, telling jokes in the South, porn addiction, having a day job fifteen years ago, and the time that Kanye West attended one of his shows. All right, let me read verbat him here speaking of being canceled, Jessnaok takes a long pause at one point, ramping up to talk about the subject. He says, and let me see if I can recreate it here.

I’m again’s cancel culture. That’s my impression of a crappy comic trying to get on Rogan. He closed with the story about Norm McDonald. When jessel Nick was asked to host Last Comic Standing, he initially said no. When they told him Norm was a judge, he said yes.

For the first few episodes, they didn’t get along. Then they went on Larry King and Norm suggested that they start a bitter feud just for fun on the show. So Nick goes out and talks about how much he doesn’t like Norm. Then it was Norm’s turn. When asked about Jessa Nick, Norm said Larry He’s one of the greats.

A prank on the audience, and Larry King was turned on jess Nick. Ultra says Jesselnick’s set was a tight forty eight minutes. Here’s an article that Scott Beckett’s gonna like. It is entitled five surprise comedians Joe coy could bring to his Portland main show. Now you know Joe Coy, right, He’s the guy that hosted the Golden Globes and he got a little controversy with Taylor Swift.

He told this horrible, mean joke like you know, I come here. I just want to, you know, brighten up your day. I’m not looking to be mean, but just you know, not everybody knows who Joe Cooy is, and I want you to understand who this guy is. He’s just a vicious comedian that goes after Taylor Swift. What’s not to like about Taylor Swift?

She’s out there singing her songs and then this guy has to go and say this. The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I mean, brutal right. I don’t blame Taylor for sitting there and not laughing at that joke and just making a mean face and basically wrecking Joe Cooy’s career.

I mean that was just uncalled for anyway. WJBQ dot com, Scott, I told you I’m trying to make a show out of nothing today, go with the bit relax. They asked five surprise comedians Joe Koy could bring to his Portland main show. I love the word. Could you know I could have Jerry Seinfeld co hosting this podcast tomorrow?

You never know. You’ll have to download it to find out. Is it statistically likely? No, but it could happen, all right. The first person that Joe Cooy might possibly perhaps bring to the Cross Insurance Arena on November fourteenth, they suggest, Chelsea Handler.

Sure, Joe Cooy’s ex girlfriend is just going to get at his show in Maine. Seems likely. Next up, Adam Sandler. Sure, Adam Sandler is just gonna pop into Joe Coy’s show in Maine in November because he’s promoting Happy Gilmore two. And what other way could Adam Sandler get anyone to talk about him than just doing a cameo Joe coyced Maine?

What is this? Article? Number Three? Who could show up at Joe Cooy’s show? Nikki Glaser Q ninety seven point nine Hit Music tells us there may not be a comedian that is trending more right now than Nikki Glaser.

Nicki could ride the wave and be a huge surprise for the Cross Insurance Arena crowd. Yeah, I mean career wise, that makes sense, right, She’s riding high. It’s May twenty first, sit tight for four or five months, show up in Maine in November, do a cameot to Joe Coy concert. I’ll recap it. I’ll do the Taylor Swift bit.

Nikki Glaser gets some pressed. That makes a ton of sense. Next up, Bob Marley. This almost makes sense. Bob Marley known as the comedian from Maine.

He plays in Maine a lot, so sure that might make sense. Next up, Rob Gronkowski qu ninety seven point nine hit music Rights. This one is way out of left field. You think, actually, you should have made a football pun there. No, Gronk is a comedian, but he shocked a lot of people with how funny he can be during the ROAs to Tom Brady, wouldn’t it be great if he was a surprise guest in Portland for Joe’s show?

I mean, yeah, sure, great suggestions there. Appreciate that one killed two minutes on a slow news day. I love you. Harry Shearer spoke to Exclaim don c a about The Simpsons and he says the cimpizens is not going woke. Relax, folks say, the show has become woke in recent years and one of my characters has been affected.

I voiced the black physician doctor Hibbert, who I based on Bill Cosby. Back then, he was known as the whitest black man on television. Then a couple years ago, I received an email saying that employed a black actor who then copied my voice. The result is a black man imitating a white man imitating the whitest black man on TV. I haven’t seen an episode of The Simpsons in a minute, and I like this a lot.

It’s just I fell out of the habit when they started being inconsistent with when it aired after football, like it aired after football. But I try and tape it and I wind up with a lot of incomplete episodes, and it just broke the habit. You can’t break the habit with stuff. You gotta be there, Like later this year, I’m taking a major trip. I may have to pretape a lot of episodes, but I’m going to do it.

You’re going to get an episode in the feed every day. Can’t break the habit with the listeners. Jimmy Kimmel is going to host a fundraiser for President Biden on June fifteenth in Los Angeles. No venue yet, but George Clooney and Julia Roberts will be there. Tickets started two hundred and fifty dollars apiece and go up to five hundred one thousand dollars.

And in case we couldn’t tell which way kimme A leaned in this particular election, I think he’s made it clear. The gods of slow news day have hooked me up. Vulture wrote an article twenty five essential Bob’s Burger’s episodes. Thank you Vulture so much for this. I need this today.

Vulture tells us it’s been updated with more our episodes ahead of the Bob’s Burgers season fourteen finale. This thing is claiming I’ve been on for fourteen years now. Longtime listeners know what I’m gonna ask here, But if you’re new, let me just focus for a second. I’m gonna ask you two questions. I’m very serious here.

Two questions. One have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? Like, have you ever actually seen the show? I get that it exists in popular culture, for example an article and Vulture where there are t shirts where they’re a merch where people talk about this show. I get it, But have you ever actually seen it?

I know you would watch football and Joe Buck would say after the game, an all new episode of Bob’s Burgers, and then they would put this really long postgame show there, during which you would switch over to NBC and watch Sunday Night football. Did Bob’s Burgers actually air? Did you watch it? You didn’t watch it, You watched more football. Was there a promo, Sure there was a promo.

Is there artwork? Sure there’s artwork. But you’ve ever actually seen Bob’s Burgers? You have it? Now?

Here’s what’s really weird. Have you ever met anyone who’s seen Bob’s Burgers? Has anyone ever come up to you and said, did you see Bob’s Burgers recently? To watch it last night? Man?

I love Bob’s Burgers. I haven’t met anyone. And this thing has supposedly been on for fourteen seasons across like how many years. Bob’s Burgers supposedly debuted January ninth, twenty eleven. You ever seen it?

No, you ever met anyone? No? Now, I’m not going to read this list. It’s on Vulture. I shared it in the Facebook group, but Daily Comedy News podcast group.

But just because this is an article doesn’t mean it exists. I refer you to this article that I’m on right now. List of Inspectors Spacetime episodes in case you’re not familiar with Inspector Space Time. It’s the very popular British science fiction show that’s been on the air for over fifty years. Created by Sir Anthony bottom Piece in nineteen sixty two, the show follows the adventures of a mysterious being only known as the Inspector, a time and space traveling alien.

The show had low production values in the first few seasons were broadcast in black and white, despite color being available. A succession of actors and one actress have portrayed the incarnation of the lead care Each actor wore a variation of the traditional uniform of the Inspector, a trench coat, an ascot and a hat, typically a bowler hat. There’s an episode list for example Season one, a Timeless Man, The Blorgons, The Trip of Ruin, Ferdinand Magellan, The Gloom of Aquanas, the Incas, The Radar Men, Rain of the Nightmare. I can read episode titles for fifty years. Season twenty seven, the Ninth Inspector took over.

If you’re not familiar with Inspector Spacetime, it’s a made up bit from Community and I just read you a ton of episodes, so don’t tell me Bob’s Burgers exists. It is a hoax. Two questions, Have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers? No? Have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers?

That answer is also no. And I have just killed off a slow news day. That’s your comedy news say tomorrow,

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Featured: Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Bill Maher, John Mulaney, John Oliver, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, Sam Morrell, Bert Kreischer, Justin Willman, Post Malone, Jerry Jones, Dak Prescott, Michael Irvin

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Fallon launches Tonight Show podcast
• John Mulaney’s ‘Everybody’s in LA’ Emmy category change from Scripted Variety to Talk Series
• Emmy submissions tracking for talk show and variety categories
• Painting with John HBO series and unknown Emmy submissions
• The Magic Prank Show with Justin Willman on Netflix
• Dallas Cowboys schedule release video featuring Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis, Sam Morrell, and Bert Kreischer
• Late night podcast landscape overview with Colbert, Stewart, and Maher

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Good joke from Jimmy Fallon. Lego just announced a new five thousand piece Lord of the Rings Fortress set that costs four uner sixty dollars. Anyway, if you’re looking for a line and a first date, that ought to do it.

As seth Meyer said, the makers of Oreos unveiled new packaging inspired by the Star Wars franchise. The way it works, the first three Oreos are pretty good, the next three are pretty bad, and the rest you eat just because he ate the first six. I love it. Quick housekeeping I talked about yesterday with the festivals kind of over in Memorial Day heading if you’ve been addicted to twenty minute episodes, so they’re going to shrink back down of the eleven twelve minute range for a little bit. If you didn’t listen this weekend, though they were both pretty robust.

There was this Chappelle story on Saturday and a Tim Dillon story on Sunday that just got a little longer than I thought, But those were pretty good episodes. Jimmy Fallon has started a podcast. It is a podcast version of the Tonight show. It features Fallons monologues, sketches and games, and extended versions of his interviews from the previous night’s episodes. You know, I never really listened to the Late Night podcast, and I like Late Night as a concept.

I mean, part of it is there’s only so many hours in the day. I can barely listen to my own podcasts someday because I have to make other podcasts, you know what I’m saying. But the summer’s coming, I’ll be sitting outside a lot more, half asleep, just listening to a six seven hours podcast while I sit under the umbrella. I’ve recented my Jimmy Buffett lifestyle. I had a couple skin scares.

I’ve got a couple spots that are pre cancerous and nothing too worrisome just yet. But you know, it’s the universe telling me, maybe don’t sit out in the sun for nine ten hours a day, which you know I did for half a century. I do believe I’ve been pretty good with lotion aside from my reckless behavior sitting in the sun. But you know, I think a lot of the damage was done in the seventies what we used to put on suntan oil. And remember you’d go to the beach and if your friend had something with a two on it, like you’re putting on two sunscreen.

And then the fours came out, and then I remember when eight came out, it was like eight, and then when fifteen came out, it was like fifteen. Same thing on thirty. Keep doing the bit. It’s not a bit, but if you have a certain age, you know what I’m talking about. I mean, we used to just go out and bake.

Remember people would sit with like the tinfoil reflectors to get more son on them. Remember when you thought it was like normal behavior, Like you’d get that like early summer burn, and then it would like crust off and then the second skin would tan properly. So I think a lot of my problems happened in nineteen seventy eight, I digress. Jimmy Fallon said, I’m excited to announce that I’m officially the last person on earth to start a podcast. Colbert’s Got One.

It’s the Late Show pod show and audio cutdown of his show with some extras. There’s the Daily Show. Of course. John Stewart has his new separate one from the Daily Show. I have to remember to add that to my podcast to Q just check that out.

Hopefully it’s better than the Apple one. HBO’s been putting out full episodes of Real Time with Bill Mahers podcast since twenty fifteen. I had no idea Jimmy Kimmel does not offer his show as a podcast. Sticking with Late Night for a second, John Mulaney is going to throw his what was that called Everybody’s in LA. They were planning to submit the show into the Scripted Variety category, where it would have competed against Saturday Night Live and John Oliver.

Oliver is gonna win because SNL led SNL season was so uninteresting. I haven’t watched the last five episodes. They’re all sitting on the DVR, but I’m just like, I just don’t care. However, Variety has learned that Netflix and the creative team feels the show is better suited for the talk series category and it will compete against Kimmel, Colbert, Seth Myers, and Jimmy Fallon. Last year, nineteen, the series were entered for Talk Series, which invited five nominees.

Variety believes they’re currently thirteen with their hat in the ring, including Kimmel, Colbert, and Fallon. Last year, Scripted Variety had twelve submissions. Variety right now is only tracking five. John Oliver snl Netflix’s The Magic Prank Show with Justin Willman. What the what?

That’s a thing that happened? Did anyone see this? CBS is after Midnight and he now canceled Painting with John from HBO slash Max. What was that? I feel like I’m dreaming.

I just read five shows, two of which I’ve never heard of. As I explained recently, I don’t know everything about comedy, but like I do do this every day. I do, at least five days a week, go on Google and type in words like comedy and comedian, and I read articles I don’t just like sit here and go oh, let me make up twenty minutes of content. I do some research. What was Painting with John?

HBO has a FAQ’s website? Who is John Lourie? I am John Laurie. Thank you for asking? Who else appears in Painting with John?

Nesper? And Wolf has Scooched the Oucher and Mary James Leroy, Jacob and Rudolph the Man who sleeps in the Mango Tree. I’m asleep right like I’m just dreaming. There’s no such shows called Painting with John that’s nominated for an Emmy. Right, what is this part meditative tutorial, part fired side chant?

Musician John Laurie shares his philosophical thoughts while honing his water color techniques, and there’s three seasons of it? I’m sorry, guys, tell me in the Facebook group? Did I just like Mendela effect? Am I on now Earth two? Because on my Earth we didn’t have Painting with John?

That’s not a thing. What’s this Netflix Prank Show with Justin Willman. I’m convinced the alarm clock’s going to go off any second now, and I’m gonna be like, Oh, I had the craziest dream. I was hosting the podcast and I was talking about all these shows that I didn’t remember existed. Right.

The Magic Prank Show with Justin Willman twenty twenty four to six episodes. In this irreverent comedy series, a magician stages elaborate pranks on unsuspecting targets. See this, I’ll believe exists. The other one on Max for three years. I don’t think that exists.

Per nomination procedures when categories have fewer than seven entrees why do I say entres? It’s not food entries. Leave it in why did I say andres? The submissions will be screened by the appropriate peer group for a nomination, any entry I must said entre again. Any entree that receives nine tenths approval will receiving nomination.

Think of it as a simple up or down vote, and then consider how difficult it can be to score ninety percent approval in everything rules. Further state, if none of the nominations receives ninety percent approval, the nomination with the highest approval receives the Emmy. The Dallas Cowboys put together a video for their schedule release. Apparently schedule releases are a big deal now and the teams are all trying to one up each other. While the Cowboys went with Shane Gillis, Sam Morrell, and Bert Krascher and a quick appearance by Joe Rogan, the video stars Jerry Jones, Post Malone, Dak Prescott, Michael Irvin, and Tim the Tatman.

They represent the Dallas Cowboys in what appears to be a team supergroup. They prank call their opponents fans via FaceTime. Shane Gillis represented the Eagles, who look to be answering a call during a cold plunge, featuring a brief appearance from his friend Joe Rogan cheering on Go Birds. Sam Morrell represented the New York Giants, who appeared to be utterly and comically annoyed to be hearing from the team with a process smirk, saying I don’t like this at all. Bert Krescher represented the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

He appeared joyfully surprised and answered laughing, saying, am I getting drafted a lot of press for Nikki Glaser lately? But no buzz on that HBO special? Like, no buzz at all. She was on The Today Show with Hoda and Jenna. That’s like the it’s like kind of the Today Show, but not really like it has the Today logo, but it’s kind of like Aday hour fifteen or whatever it is.

I don’t know. I have nothing against them. I hate daytime TV. Like anytime you go to the dentist or Jiffy Lube or any of those, they always have daytime TV on usually ABC. You usually get subjected to what’s her face Kelly Rippa, and then you have to sit through the view either get that or sometimes like the dentist office.

They’ll have on like the local news twelve news channel. That’s like less annoying, except if you sit there for half an hour and you’ve heard the weather report five times, it’s just like, Ah, I digress. Nikki Glaser told the Today Show folks, I didn’t freeze my eggs. She says if she feels the pulled up children one day, she’ll consider a option. She noted the kids are hard work.

She wants to focus on her career, but the real reason, she said, is I’m scared to love something that much. She said something I would have said someone, which is a callback to a Robert Shimmel joke, which I’ll clean up slightly, but he does the pause. I’ll try and recreate it for memory. So he says, you ever just need a bang something someone? So yes, my two cents, your child is someone, not something.

I digress again. Jenna said, that’s why I think your comedy is so amazing, because at the center of it are real conversations women are having. I have friends that decided not to have kids, and there’s still some shame there. Nikki said, you see your friends wanting it so badly, genuinely wanting it, and you feel like, what’s wrong with me that I don’t want it? You feel kind of left out.

That’s what I’m struggling with more than just well should I do it? Because I’m kind of sure I don’t want it, but I’m like, what I want this thing that everyone seems to want. I feel like I can always adopt. Hoda jumped in and said, by the way, i’d like you to know adoption rocks. Hoda has two adopt a daughters, Haley seven and Hope five.

Galai just says, I have some time, and I really don’t care if the baby looks like me. It’s not really interesting to me. John, you’ve told us twice in a row that the episodes we’re gonna stop being twenty minutes long, and they’re gonna get shorter because there were no festivals and we’re all checking our watch here and these things are getting long again. I know, I know there’s a lot going on. Salon wrote about cancel culture, Bill Maherr and Bill Burr.

Salon, right, So, remember when Gilbert Gotfrid was fired from his Affleck deal for making tasteless jokes about the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan. That was twenty eleven when the great evil was called outrage culture, largely generated by jokes like that, along with rape and sexual violence. The reason I called out Bill Burr’s observation Bill was on more recently talking about cancel culture, et cetera, is because we don’t hear from or about the people whose careers have actually been canceled. And this is let me drop all the snark in goof. Let me get a really flat raid here, because I think this is actually a really great point and important.

Like the five women who came forward in twenty seventeen to detail Luisik’s misconduct one quick comedy altogether, others like Rebecca Corey keep trying to move forward in a career they’ve been building long before they crossed K’s path. Corey, who was more than three decades of experience as a performance stand up, wrote a twenty eighteen Vulture essay describing the difficulties she encountered before her name became habitually linked with CKS, and spoke to Variety in twenty twenty two after K won that Grammy, She told Variety, why am I constantly being asked to speak on cancel culture. The joke that is the me too movement in ck every time he’s in the news cycle. I don’t care what that guy does. And of course cancel culture is real.

I’m living proof. The moment I was sexually harassed at my job, I was canceled. That’s how it works, kids. So let’s talk about what I’m doing and when my Netflix special is happening. There are people who have been doing stand up for five minutes, with comedy specials, another with multiple specials who sucks.

So when’s mine? I’m ready? When you are, Ted Sarandos, Netflix CEO. Yeah, I think the points getting lost in the weeds there. Should her career have been canceled?

No, of course, not separate from that, whether you ever met Luis c. Kir not. Not everyone gets a Netflix special people who have been doing stand up for five minutes. I’ll translate to that to be I don’t say, like Matt Rife, but Netflix is a business and they’re putting up there who they think is popular. And Robbie pra has been calling some pretty good shots.

It’s really hard right now to say Netflix has been giving specialists to people who suck. Now they air comedy shows. This is back to the whole specials versus hours thing. Things show up on Netflix that you know have a box. It’s a picture of a comedian and it’s a box, and the comedian is calling it a special.

But I would call in an hour. We’ve discussed that on previous podcasts. You know, So are there comedy programs on Netflix? Sure film one yearself and offer it to Netflix. They might say yes if the price is right in terms of the specials.

And I think we just saw what the Netflix Comedy Festival was. I think could be hard pressed to look at anybody at the Netflix Comedy Festival and be like, that person’s not in the top echelon of comedy. Back to Salon, Ellen Degen is sharpening her material for her Netflix special. Let me jump back in. I mean, it’s not crazy that Ellen has a Netflix special.

Many things can be true at once. Ellen can be funny. Ellen apparently can be jerky to coworkers. Both can be true. Rolling Stone took in her recent set at West Hollywood’s Largo at the Cornet Theater and characterized her means of addressing her partner shows downfall less processing, including copying to being an immature boss who didn’t know how to be a boss.

During a post show conversation, one woman asked Allan, do you think you’ll seek revenge for those who have wronged you? This was met by what the reporters described as a loud round of applause and cheers from every corner of the room. That’s your evidence of what famous people crying over suppose. Cancel culture is yielded, not justice or a new sense of fairness, but misdirected grievance aim towards less powerful people, ruining everyone else’s good time by exposing our favorite star’s misdeeds. Yeah.

I have been I call it showbiz adjacent for many years now, especially the years at Serious And it’s an ugly business. And I do my job. You do your job. If you go back to your hotel room and do lines and lines of cocaine, and I go back to my room and watch Star Trek, you do you, I do me. Nobody should be harassed, nobody should be bullied.

But does crappy stuff go on on show business? Yeah? And I don’t know how you’re gonna clean that up or whatever. I don’t know. Maybe as technology changes and people can reach audiences without going through the system.

There’ll be more decent people, but for every decent person, there’s going to be somebody who asks out a seventeen year old. So I don’t know, very complicated and that’s your comedy news for today. Load of comment at the end there, John, Yeah, see tomar

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Featured: Desi Lydick, John Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Maher, Joe Rogan, Tim Dillon

What’s in This Episode

• Desi Lydick’s case for hosting The Daily Show
• Southern schools restoring Confederate names
• Jerry Seinfeld and Joe Rogan podcast feud on Bill Maher’s Club Random
• Tim Dillon sold-out comedy shows in Phoenix
• Cancel culture and freedom of speech in comedy

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News DESI Lydick, who should be the host of the daily show, was talking about Bob Menendez. That’s the senator from New Jersey. He’s involved in a little legal thing. Ex Senator right.

I guess he stepped down. I don’t know. It’s a joke. Who cares, as she said, Bob Menendez. His argument is that his wife was secretly orchestrating a corrupt international bribery scheme and hoarding gold bars in his house and he never knew it.

And that, gentleman, is why you need to ask your wife about her day. I love that joke. Dessie again talking about some schools in the South, putting him back the Confederate name. She said, Let’s be honest, this isn’t about restoring your heritage. If it was, then you’d name it.

Hey, my cousin’s kind of hot. High school integned with. I can make that joke because I’m from Kentucky and my cousin’s kind of hot. She’s fantastic. Just give her the show.

Let John Stewart do Monday, have her prominently feature on Monday, and let her do that the other shows that way, You’ve got a transition plan, You’ve got a good host already there. Why are you not making the move? Deadline profiled Assi during the week, and she joked as how many Central does any focus groups and checked feedback? Have you checked my Twitter comments lately? Because I feel like someone’s making a huge mistake.

She’s been with The Daily Show since twenty fifteen. When I walked into the correspondent job, I never in a million years thought I would have a shot at sitting at the desk, but I knew how big and rare of an opportunity it was, and I needed to jump in there and put my hat in the ring. And I’m grateful. It’s pure delight. Sometimes it’s messy.

Sometimes you make mistakes, but you think, well, I’m not gonna do that again. Let me pivot from there. And I’m definitely pretty tighte A. And I like to do my homework. I like to prepare as much as possible, so the one thing I can do is get ahead.

I’m just doing research on the guests that I’m gonna have on. I like to read the books I watched the series. I always want people to feel comfortable and ask the right questions and be prepared. She said she got a tip from John Stewart, who explained the difference between long term issues and short term news or a Stewart calls it climate versus weather. I thought this was really smart.

It’s as if John Stewart knows how to host the show, as he says, We’ve had so many evolutions of the show in the last nine years, and we’ve had challenges with the pandemic, filming from home. Figure out a way to make the show under those circumstances. Then coming back last year with the guest hosting, I mean, Trevor’s been gone like eighteen months already. Figure this out, guys. The beauty with all those changes is that creatively you can stay pretty fulfilled by challenging yourself and making the show in a new way.

Now to be able to have a little desk time, you’re going to play with my friends and try out duos, it’s like a dream. Apparently the Joe Rogan fans are not happy with Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry not making a lot of friends. This month, Jerry was on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast that’s been making a lot of news lately and not really for good reasons. Jerry told Bill Maher, when you go Larry King, that was always so great.

It was great that show. Do you think it’s all over that show? Mar said, well, I think it’s Joe Rogan Tim Dillon whose podcast is fantastic, but someday he’s gonna be canceled and I’m gonna run so far. You guys should be like John, you told us three years to check out Tim Dillon. I’m gonna go.

I never said that. I never once told you to listen to Tim Dillon’s podcast. What are you talking about? I have nothing to do with that guy. KJ ZZ, all right, talk about because I’m fifteen at heart.

You know, like a station will be like, you know, w f AN and they’ll go the fan, or it’s I don’t know, Kiss and Los Angeles and they go kiss FM, that kind of thing. I keep looking at kJ ZZ and it’s not a jazz station. I know what you’re thinking. I’m thinking too, but I’m not going there. I just want to know what kjzz’s nickname is.

Why don’t I just go to the website. Let’s see what they call themselves. I know what I want to call it ninety one point five kJ ZZ. They don’t seem to have a nickname. They have podcasts.

One of the podcasts is called The Show. Not sure that’s the best idea for SEO, or maybe it is kjzz’s. The Show is a stream of curated stories from Phoenix, the Southwest and around the country. Are they even a jazz station? At least be a jazz station.

If you’re going to be k j ZZ, you know you could be uh ninety one to five the jazz you know? No, yes, all right, let’s move on John Tim Dillon. They talked about Tim Dillon and Rode. On a recent Friday night in downtown Phoenix. The line outside Stand Up Live snaked all the way from the front door of the club, down a flight of stairs and onto the sidewalk.

It was almost time for the fourth show and I sold out. Run by comedian Tim Dillon. One person in line said he makes me feel a little bit more sane in an insane world. Another fan said he’s not necessarily afraid to be politically correct. What I think is important in today’s day and age with cancel culture.

I think freedom of speech is really important at being able to say what everyone’s already thinking. Yeah, but here’s what they’re missing. Tim is saying what everyone is thinking in a character where he’s making fun of what the people that think Tim is on their side is doing. Listen to the podcast, you’ll get it. He’s kidding.

He kind of says what we’re all thinking. I think that’s what kind of comedy is say the unspoken. So I’m a huge fan of that. Another fan said, cancel. Culture’s gone too far.

People are too scared to say what they’re really thinking. Love this. The folks from the jazz asked, can you get you? I really want to make the joke. It’s like bursting out of me.

I can’t. Oh, I just made it. Leave it in. Can you give an example of something you’ve heard him say that? I lost my trade of thought.

I’m leaving all this in. I’m making myself laugh this morning, all right? K j z Z reporter asked a fan, can you give me an example of something you’ve heard him say that feels like the kind of thing people are thinking, but feels like the kind of thing other people aren’t willing to say. The fans said, well, I don’t know. Is the stuff maybe I’m thinking?

But it’s just, you know, it’s stuff it’s maybe come up in your head throughout the day, and he just comes up with something that’s similar enough to where you connect to it. Another audience member said, he speaks in a way that really isn’t acceptable anymore, and I find it to be wildly entertaining, hilarious and refreshing, and I like it a lot. The reporter from k j z Z asked, I don’t know why those call letters are so funny, but they’re funny when you say a way that’s not acceptable anymore, what do you mean? The audience member said, well, just specifically things that are publically incorrect, you know, and we all know these things that you’re not supposed to say and that you can’t say, and that all’s well and good, and that’s how it’s supposed to be, but there’s a huge vacuum for that in today’s modern life and times in the society. All right, let me call a full time out here, because I have the giggles I mentioned yesterday.

I was in a bad mood. This morning, I noticed I was in a great mood. So yesterday when I was driving around town, I was screaming at people through the sunroof. Why are you blogging the intersect today? When I was driving on the National Donuts chain by the way, I screwed up my order.

I forgot to click the caramel, so I just have this thing that has just no flavor in it. But that’s on me. I realized, I like, I’m I’m waving at people. I’m saying hi to neighbors. Honk did they haven’t seen it in a while, as was a woman rollerblading with dogs.

I’m like, all happy and now I’m a giddy At k j z Z, one group of Dylan fans tell the reporter from k jay z Z that he was asking all the wrong questions. If people are taking what he’s saying is super political, I think they’re missing it, like deeply missing the point. Especially if you’re taking a comedian for his political views. You’re probably too dumb to understand comedy. I want to have put it quite that way, but I think that fan does understand what Tim Dillon’s doing.

The reporter from kJ ZZ says, at that point, I was starting to notice that almost nobody had talked to said they were there because they liked Tim Dillon’s comedy. When I asked them about their favorite Tim Dillon bits. They might reference a rant from Dylan’s podcast. You know, I do think that’s fair. He’s a better podcaster than a stand up Yes, I agree.

The reporter from k j ZZ The Jazz said, I found Tim Dillon to be somewhat quirky on stage, a heavy set guy from Long Island who occasionally dies his hair and likes to wear ill fitting T shirts and baggy jeans. He’s gay, but he said he’d happily let the British monarchy call him homophobic slurs all day if they let him live in one of their castles. Part of the reason the reporter from kJ ZZ came out to the club was because they’d noticed that Dylan has become a mainstay of the freddy, aggressive masculine circuit of comedy podcast like Rogan’s, and it seemed like an odd match to me. The more I talk to the fans, the more I started to think they weren’t necessarily there because they loved Tim Dillon’s jokes. They just love Tim Dillon.

One fan said, he’s personal up in blue collar Long Island, so he’s just relatable. I grew up in Queens so yeah, I get Tim Dillon. I’ve been listening to his podcast for about two years now, every day twice, they said, which is interesting because it comes out once a week. There’s a separate episode on Patreon, but that’s the most twice a week every time I do Cardio. You know, I know he’s a big guy, and I’m a big guy myself, so I like to take his inspiration, his political advice whenever it comes to current events.

I love his position on everything. The reporter from kJ z Z The Jazz wrote, Tim Dillon went into his acting. I gotta be honest, I don’t remember most of it. But that’s not because it was bad. It’s because at the very end something happened that I’ve never seen it.

A comedy show, what’s this, I’ve probably been a several hundred comedy shows. They always end the same way. The comic hits their final punch line where they don’t and they put the mic back in the stand. They say something like I’ve been so and so, thank you good night. No they don’t.

They crushed with the final line and they wait for the crowd and they go they don’t go, eh, and I’ve been Dave Chappelle have a good night. They don’t do that. The reporter from kJ ZZ the Jazz says, that’s not what Tim Dillon did. He’d been on stage for about an hour, and as he built his last rift to a furious crescendo, the crowd was roaring.

And then right at the moment I imagine every comic dreams of all day long, he…

Dylan stood there for a moment, let him laughter some side, and then he started doing some crowd work. He starts asking a fan, how you doing things? Are good working? You’re finding work? The person in the crowd says his last job had been playing pro rugby.

Tim says, what do you want to do outside of rugby? The random person in the audience says, honestly, I want to be a comedian. Tim says, you want to be a comedian? You want to get up? Do you really want to get up?

The guy gets up. Tim says, what’s your name? Nick? What? Ladies and gentlemen?

Nick Hartley? Hartly did ten minutes and apparently was good planned maybe possibly, perhaps, I don’t know how random the Tim Dylan would do crowd work and the guy would be good. That’s weird Boy. Second day in a row, I jumped into an article that went way longer than anticipated. Let me do some housekeeping here.

So with Netflix, Festival and Sydney and Melbourne all that behind us, the show’s theoretically at least we’ll get a little shorter now because that segment takes like two three minutes. We’re also heading towards Memorial Day, so the news is going to dry up. The week after Memorial Day is usually a slower week, So if you’ve gotten addicted to the twenty minute episodes, they’re gonna start creeping back more towards that nine ten eleven mark, at least for a little bit. I don’t really do it to time, other than at some point I look at my timer and I go, okay, this is too long, now shut up. For example, I just bumped four five stories from the first half that I can use any upcoming days.

But I didn’t expect to go that long with Tim Dillon. All right, So that’s the housekeeping segment I heard from JB who was responding to the other day where I was questioning the premise of Louis C.K. Being out fifty million dollars when he was canceled, not canceled. JB wrote, Louis C.K. Fifty million.

Yeah, his TV show Louis was canceled and taken out of syndication, no longer on FX. Not sure how many more seasons it had on order, but that was a pretty big hit. Potentially four more seasons missed out on. Plus he had a movie about to be released that got dropped more potential income. I forgot about the movie.

Great point stop touring another revenue stream killed respectfully, it stopped touring for a minute. I mean, he’s playing Madison Square Garden, so he’s doing okay there. I don’t think fifty million is far off concerning He was at the top of his game when he got called out. Let me say how much he was making for the effects show. All right, This from The Hollywood Reporter back in twenty seventeen John Langraf, the head of FX.

I don’t think this is really going to answer it, but it’s playing on the same side of the street. Lang Graff said, Yeah, Louis called me at home on a Saturday and said, I’m really having trouble saying this out loud, but I think I need to not make Louis for a while. This was after the last season in twenty fifteen. It was very surprising to me because we had unilaterally rewritten his back end definition and given him very very lavish financial incentives. All right, JB, you made an excellent point, Lanegraff said, Look, I’m feeling trapped by being this version of myself.

I planned this TV show, and I’m feeling trapped by the expectations that I now go out and do this again. I know I can’t do right now. I have to go do something else. Lang Graff says, So what are you going to do when you have that conversation where you could go to the Dave Chappelle way and back up Mick and say, Louis, I’m going to pay you fifty million dollars to make two episodes of TV or whatever. It is all right that I’m not being difficulty or that implies that it was less than fifty million dollars.

But anyway, JB, thank you for listening. Thank you for taking a minute to write in. I know it’s really easy to listen to podcast, whether it’s this one or different one, be like hey, that guy or that that point is stupid. I truly appreciate anyone who takes a minute too right into the show. My email is in the show notes.

Always happy to hear from everybody. I was emailing on Friday afternoon with one of the listeners, just about stuff. Always happy to hear from you guys, so JB, thank you for checking in. As for me, I always try and explain it’s kind of like running, right, So I’ve ran two marathons very slowly. If we ranked all the people on the planet, I’m probably factually in the top two percent of people that run a lot of miles.

So I run more miles than a lot of people, but the people that are ahead of me are way better at it, if that makes sense. So in terms of comedy, I don’t know everything. I just know a lot more than the average person. Like, walk down the street and say Tim Dillon to one hundred people, you might go zero for one hundred. I know a little bit about Tim Dillon.

We’re in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Richard had mentioned he went to see John Marcos Sireesi partly because I had been talking about John Marco again. Walk down the street and say John Marco, SOIREESSI to a hundred people. Most people aren’t gonna have heard of him, so I know a lot. I don’t know everything, and I’m sure I mispronounced comedian names every single episode.

Oh and I’m checking the timer here, all right. Especially for a Sunday. The weekends, I try and make a little shorter just because factually people listen to fewer podcasts on the weekend, so I say some things for Monday when I get more downloads. But this is good because, like I said, mymor of the day is going to be super slow, so I’m glad I have all these extra stories. I might actually bang out Saturday of more day weekend with the leftovers, just to make my weekend a little easier.

Anyway, that is your comedy news for today. Thank you so much for listening. Please feel encouraged to take part in the Facebook group or email me and I will see you tomorrow.

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Featured: Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Desi Lyric, Nikki Glaser, Tom Brady, Bobby Kelly, Tony Hinchcliffe, Kevin Hart, Jeff Ross, Ben Affleck, Dave Chappelle

What’s in This Episode

• Late night jokes about Biden and Trump’s upcoming June 27th CNN debate
• King Charles’s controversial new royal portrait and reactions
• Desi Lyric’s future hosting the Daily Show
• Nikki Glaser’s Tom Brady Roast appearance and HBO special promotion
• Tom Brady Roast rankings and performances by celebrities versus comedians
• Dave Chappelle’s surprise pop-up show at San Francisco Punchline with controversial material

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Caloroga Shark Media. I love this joke from Seth Meyer. As President Biden and former President Trump are said to face off in two presidential debates. Biden is looking forward to laying out his twenty twenty four agenda, while Trump is happy to go somewhere where nobody will draw him while he sleeps. That is great fallon, said Biden.

Trump will meet June twenty seventh on CNN, and one of biden debates conditions was not having an audience, So that explains why it’s on CNN. Trump agreed to the debate. He said, I’ll be there, assuming it’s okay with my parole officer. We are covering all of that on the Ballot podcast if you want to check that one out. Oh, another one from Seth Biden getting Trump to agree to no audiences.

This is a great joke. Let me set it up again. It’s such a good joke. It’s well crafted. Biden getting Trump to agree to no audiences is like getting a vampire to fight you at noon on the beach during the garlic festival.

Really well written. Stephen Colbert with the winner, though, imagine Trump with his cut, He’s gonna look like the world’s angriest mime.

Meanwhile, did you see this new portrait of King Charles.

If you haven’t, just google King Charles portrait. It’s epic. It looks like he’s the devil. It’s red, it’s intense, it’s great. I wish my portrait looked as cool as this one.

We’re talking about it over in the Palace Intrigue podcast. Wow. Two plugs in the first ninety seconds, John Way to cross promote You’re welcome other shows. Desi Leightik hosting the Daily Show. We’ll talk about Desi in a second.

But she had two good ones. Obviously, this portrait is a pretty big departure from other portraits to the royal family. For example, Queen Elizabeth was often painted with her beloved corgies. Compare that to Charles, who looks like he was painted with her corgis once Christy no one was finished with them. Wow.

Now, clearly this painting has gotten a lot of negative feedback, but King Charles swears that he loves a portrait, which probably means that he’s having an affair with another portrait on the side. Wow’s great stuff. Oh I thought that Desi Lightok story was in Today’s podcast. It’s in Sunday’s podcast. Never mind, we’re not gonna talk about Desi at all.

Here’s my quick thought on DESI give her the Daily show. That’s it not qualifying at all. I get the whole John Stewart thing. Fine. John can do Mondays.

John can do Mondays forever. Give the show to Desi. She’s the right choice. Why are we messing around? Just do it?

Give it to her. More of that tomorrow because I’m in a bad mood. Why are you in a bad mood? John? Here?

Because it’s four o’clock on Friday. Four o’clock on Friday. I like to be hanging out on my deck with a beverage. But there were some capers today. I’m only starting work at four o’clock on a Friday, so I’m grouchy.

It’s not your problem. Nikki Glaser was on the whatever hour of the Today Show. It is when you get Hoda and whatever Bush daughter that is you know that one the like sort of Today’s show. Nicki was on that she thinks Tom Brady quotes maybe didn’t consider the backlash from his family and how it would affect them. She expressed disbelief that Tom Brady wasn’t aware what he was getting into, noting he could have prepared by watching, you know, comedy roosts.

Nicky said, I think it’s kind of a thing you say after the fact. It’s impossible to me that he didn’t consider that could have happened. Glazer joked that she thinks Brady couldn’t take it because no one has ever said a bad thing to him in the past thirty years. I got a sense it was a little more than he planned for it. He hadn’t planned out to react, and it kind of jarred him.

I don’t think he thought they were gonna go there. By the way, zero buzz on Nikki Glaser’s HBO special, the HBO specials prestige, I’ll use the word prestige has gone way out. Nicky’s been undoing press all week. All the press has been about the Tom Brady ROAs, which is thirteen days ago. Now none of it about her special.

Oh, she’s promoting the special and nobody’s talking about the special. Bobby Kelly was on I ninety five. DJ Lou asked Bobby what he thought of it. Robert Kelly said, I’ll give you my rankings. Nicky Glazer one, Tony Hinchcliffe two, Drew Bledsoe three, Belichick four, Andrew Schultz five.

And then I’d say Kevin Hart stinks. Yeah, I’m gonna go there, just wing it. He pulled to Keith Robinson. He just repeated, Oh wow, Nicky, she was great, all right, Nikki, right too. Just read off the teleprompter to write a joke.

Stop giving us all personality. You’re four to two, we get it, you’re full of jazz. I disagree. I thought Kevin Hart was hilarious. And I have previously questioned out loud why we gave Kevin Hart the Mark Twain Comedy word for prize.

That’s not a sentence. I’m not revoicing that, you know what I meant. Yeah, I’m not the biggest Kevin Hart fan. But Robert Kelly, why are you giving Kevin Hart a hard time? He did a good job.

DJ Lew asked, how does it work with people who are not comedians like the athletes. I assume those people have jokes written for them by the other comedians. Is that the deal? Robert Kelly said, Yeah, they have about twenty writers that you never see that are writing jokes.

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And then Jeff Rosco’s in and takes the best one off the top, and then there a…

But here’s the thing, it doesn’t matter. You can write a good joke for somebody if they can’t deliver it with a little something, if they can’t make it their own, it’s gonna stink Like Randy Moss and Ben, I mean Jesus. Ben turned into a crack attic halfway through his set. His lips were sticking to his fake teeth. Oh, Ben Affleck is who we’re talking about.

I was like, what you know what I mean? Isn’t it funny the faked teeth? Figure out who he meant? These actors don’t understand. When you’re bombing, your mouth goes dry and you need a sip of something.

DJ about Tony Inchcliff, you mentioned him. I think it was great too. Yeah, Tony is if I were to say anybody, Jeff is great, the roast Master whatever they call him, You know what they call him. Come on, Robert Kelly, you’ve been calling me for twenty five years. At least you know who he is.

Don’t act like you don’t know that Jeff Ross is the roast Master. That’s what he’s known as. Jeff is great, the roast master, whatever they call him. Never heard of the guy who Jeff what? Never heard of him?

But I think Tony’s more of that guy. He knows how to deliver joke. I don’t know if he’s gay or bisexual, straight, I don’t know what he is. Odd thing to bring up? Who cares?

He’s funny, He’s very ripped torn. He is the swagger of a Navy seal and a gay man combined. That’s a great combo, the tip of the spear in both ways. He’s just got that confidence. He hammered him.

I don’t even know what to make of that interview. Dave Chappelle controversy always fun from the sf Gate. The headline Dave Chappelle called me out at his surprise at San Francisco show. Now, I wasn’t aware of the surprise at San Francisco show until Friday. I think this one happened nine days ago.

As you listened to this podcast, hadn’t seen anything about Chappelle all week. But at the surprise show. At the punchline, Dan Genteela writes, Dave Chappelle crossed plenty of lines doing cringy Chinese accents, leaning into Jewish stereotypes, and gleefully yelling LGBTQ slurs. But midway through the set, he checked himself and stopped to joke short pivoting to how hard it is to be a celebrity because there’s always one snitch in the room. He peered around at the tightly packed one hundred and eighty two person audience, saying he was gonna find the snitch, all right, the gate tells us.

The night began with a stellar opening set by Oakland born comic Diude nimi Ar. I’m not familiar with dude, whose pro Palestinian videos let to the cancelation of several gigs last November. Then Chappelle began his fourth and final show of this run four surprise shows, How come wait to hear about these by talking about how he got in trouble with the local news in twenty twenty three for a joke about how San Francisco needed a batman. Oh, I see the writer and Chappelle have a bit of a history here. Oh this is fun.

Let’s keep reading. The local news was made? Hey, my story about the show when viral and was aggregated by Fox News, resulting in the most hate mail I’ve ever received. They even found me on LinkedIn. It’s not hard to find somebody on LinkedIn.

For example, my name is John McDermott. I say Johnny Mac on the air because it’s easier to say Johnny Mac. Even though my name is John McDermott. It is hard to say the N into the M so air name Johnny Mac. If you go on LinkedIn and you type in John McDermott, it’s a fairly common name.

Once you get the McDermott, you get a lot of john’s. But you can probably figure out. Oh, let me type in what do I know about this guy? Let me add the word serious or add the word comedy. That’s me So, I don’t get the point if they even found me on LinkedIn.

No one’s on LinkedIn on a pseudonym. I digress.

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Meanwhile, about forty feet away, I scribbled down his words in my notebook, …

Next came a half hearted sidewalk poop joke, and he pounced on the lack of reaction. Chappelle used a derogatory term. I don’t want to repeat here, so I will paraphrase. Chappelle did something along the lines of and a hush goes over the San Francisco crowd. I left a word out.

You can ask Dave what he said. Here we go. Here’s the loaded paragraph. For those who’ve been following the past few years of his career, that line isn’t that surprising. Chappelle turned heel with a string of controversial Netflix specials that earned him widespread combination from the LGBTQ community and a place on the anti woke Mount Rushmore.

Oh, anti woke Mount Rushmore. Who’s on anti woke Mount Rushmore. I’m curious. Well, here’s the answer. Joe rogan elon Musk, Kanye West, and Dave Chappelle.

That’s anti woke Mount Rushmore. I feel bad for Ricky Gervais. He didn’t make it. What’s this guy’s name again? Dan Gentilly writes he relished villain status, leading into his grievances and casting himself as an hundred doog, even though he’s rich enough to have purchase nearly an entire tan in Ohio, a move he cleverly describes as reverse gentrification, an explanation for this price show.

This time, it was an opportunity for him to test out new material while waiting out his one year non compete clause from Netflix. Chapelle said, I’m practicing on you. What resulted was more of a fireside chat than a typical stand ups at that’s like eighty percent of the time you see Dave Chappelle that he’s just kind of hanging out and talking. I dropped the g there, queensax, And as is common for many comedians these days, he uses a service called Yonder, which collects attendee cell phones. Yeah, Johnny Meck does not like Yonder.

Dave acted a little more self aware this time around, sincerely apologizing halfway through a joke about domestic violence to anyone in the room had experienced it. But he could not stay away from the slurs. He’d sneaked them into unrelated bits dog whistling about his old grudges. For such a virtuistic storyteller, it felt like a lazy move, a misdirected misdirection. When discussing our divided country, he drew the battle lines of a civil war as Maga versus gay slur land, but he said in this case he’d likely be on San Francisco’s side.

Politics was a recurring theme. This is a fascinating article. I didn’t realize how deep this was gonna be. Dave said, the upcoming election is the hardest of people’s lives. He did not elaborate why the Warren Gaza was another topic.

Chappelle dropped in a line about Israel having the right to defend itself and feeling like the best defense is a good offense. He’d bemoaned the fact that the US is sending guns to Israel and food to Palestine and that the hostages seem to have disappeared from the conversation, before pivoting back to familiar territory. Now I’ve looked ahead. As a joke joke. Now, if you understand comedy, this is just a line.

I understand why people are going to be upset about this line. I have critiqued Dave about this before, but just as a joke joke, this is a good line, Okay, So I’ll back up. Dave is talking about how the hostages have disappeared from the conversation before pivoting back to familiar territory. His line, if the hostages were transgender, they’d be rescued. That’s just out of Dave Chappelle on the persona that he’s built up, where you know he’s going to do that, him actually doing it in that context, I think that line is funny.

That’s Dave making fun of Dave. That’s Dave making fun of the Dave character that he’s become. Now. I don’t know why he’s chosen to become the character, but now he’s making fun of the character. One of the bigger laughs was about a communist toy store toys arrests for all of us, but it was followed by a distasteful rhyme about Chinese people that so cliche would barely score a laugh on an elementary school playground.

Let me jump in again. This is a workout show, right, I mean, this is what it is. He’s trying out material. Some stuff didn’t fly. That’s what this show is.

It’s a workout for such a small show. The crowd wasn’t that lively, a fact that wasn’t lost on Chappelle. At one point, he playfully said, the crowd sucked. He went longer than his scheduled hour, finishing three cocktails before a bartender brought him a beer, which he took as a subtle hint. Dave said, I understand then, joke people, I have a few more beers after the show and go fight some crime.

See that’s funny, too good callback what yourew. The biggest laughs were nostalgic stories about the origin of sketches from his Comedy Central show.

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Also of note, the Blue Note Jazz Festival in NAPA, they announced the twenty …

Not on the lineup this year Dave Chappelle. Dave was the headliner of the last two years. He violated the curfew of the festival both years. Wow, we are long today, all right? Bump bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump bump.

Plus I’m in a bad mood. Plus I’ve told you already. It’s almost five o’clock. All right, Sydney Comedy Festival. I think tomorrow is the last day.

Yep, this is it? All right? Who haven’t we looked at yet? Freddy McManus’s show is called Remind Me Later. Freddie McManus is putting on a show about all the things he’s been putting off.

He’s seen the damaged procrastination can do with the deadbeat family dogs still living with mom at home after seventy six k nine years. I like one of the reviews. That review reads as seen opening for Jim Jefferies. Theater Thoughts gave it four and a half stars. A non stop barrel of laughs will leave you with tears in your eyes and a giddiness in your step.

Grace Jervis’s show is called Oh the Horrors. It’s our third solo show. Grace will touch on the themes of establishing independence and identity evaluation, loaded with the trademark whimsical Jervis social commentary continuing to secure her place. Is one of the rising stars of the Australian comedy scene. No reviews and Oh, I was gonna click on Paul Douglas Thirst for the Worst, But it says canceled.

I wonder why it was canceled. Well, maybe the description tells us this is what it says for real, you know that feeling that makes you just go f it That that’s why it was canceled. Uh? What Moore? The very last box on the grid all right, Xavier Mishalides, I’m counting on you.

His show is called Xavier is a massive tool. The Harold Son gave it five stars. The enthusiast great Name says, hugely impressive with creativity and wit to burn. Chortle says Mitchelides isn’t just a larger than life character actor in the mold of Matt Lucas, He’s a more than useful writer, too interesting. All right, Sydney Comedy Festival bookmark delete and with that I get a fraction of memory back in my computer.

Ugh, how is this podcast so long? Today? I didn’t expect to talk about hell for ten minutes and plan this? All right, I’ll be back tomorrow. Normally I record the weekend all at once, but it’s four seventeen on Friday afternoon, and I just want to be done, and I got some work to do, all right, I know, poor me podcasting the basement life is so hard.

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