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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, Howard Stern, Jessica Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Larry David, Louis C.K., Jeff Ross, Seth Simons

What’s in This Episode

• Jerry Seinfeld’s 17-year-old girlfriend relationship resurfaces after Duke commencement walkout
• Howard Stern’s 1993 criticism of Seinfeld’s relationship with teenage girl
• Seinfeld’s dating history and marriage to Jessica Niederlander
• Seth Simons Daily Beast opinion piece on Seinfeld’s political views and Israel support
• Comparison of comedian controversies: Louis C.K., Jeff Ross, and Seinfeld facing different consequences

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. They are coming for Jerry Seinfeld. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Pretty much ripped up the plan for today. The first half will be single topic.

You can hear my change, my delivery, a little bit of drop down. I’m not doing the hyperage gentamen, I’m gonna We’re just gonna talk here. They’re coming for Jerry. A headline I saw on Yahoo sourcing the Daily Beasts. But the Daily Beast had a different article.

But this one I saw on Yahoo the headline Jerry Seinfeld’s seventeen year old girlfriend saga resurfaces after Duke walk out. I’m not surprised, giving that many headlines this week featured both the words Stern and Seinfeld. And you know, back in the day, Howard was quite vocal about Jerry’s dating history and not so much in recent history. I discussed that, and I wrote about in the substack, so you can hear my previous thoughts on that from the Yahoo piece. Jerry Seinfeld’s problematic relationship with a high schooler he was well into his thirties has been grossing out a new generation this week, just after Duke students staged a walk out in protest of his commencement speech.

Yeah, I remember back in the day, and let’s see nineteen ninety four. So nineteen ninety four, I’m twenty five and I thought it was weird in nineteen ninety four. I’ve been amazed these last thirty years that everybody was like, oh, yeah, whatever, we love Jerry Seinfeld’s great show. But this story seems to be back now. Daily b slash yeah who writes a quick excerarch will bring up numerous tweets that referenced Seinfeld’s teenage girlfriend from the nineteen nineties, who he picked up in Central Park when she was still a senior at the private Nightingale Bamford School in Manhattan.

According to People’s cover story about the pair, at the time, she was seventeen, he was thirty eight. According to People in March nineteen ninety four, sources told the magazine that the young lady’s family approved of the match, as Seinfeld whisked her around the country to watch him perform and even meet his mother. The young lady told People, I’d like my life to be normal and just go about being a student. Jerry said at the time, I’m Shoshana is a person, not an age. At the time, Seinfeld’s friend George Wallace said, I think it’s serious between them.

She’s beautiful and mature. She’s good for him. Yahoo Daily Beast writes. As this type of normalizing media coverage continued for Seinfeld, Howard Stern was one of the first public figures to call the comedian out for his romantic interest in a minor. That’s what I was curious about this week, you know, when Jerry took a shot at Howard.

I was curious to see if Howard would go rabid and bring this back up. Howard did not, but others have. Stern sang a parody song about Seinfeld’s relationship at the Miss Howard Stern New Year’s Eve badget in nineteen ninety three, where Stern kruoned quote Seinfeld’s girl was seventeen and innocent with double d’s. He saw those breasts and flipped his lid for a real young, busty high school kid. Again, we’re talking about multiple topics here.

Don’t forget Howard Stern, the great interviewer. Never mind that he had Miss Howard Stern Newyear’s Eve pageant nineteen ninety three. He is the great interviewer, but I digress for Yahu slash the beast. He also called Seinfeld a horny, lonely TV geek and the young woman jailbait. In the song Elsewhere, the lyrics asked, can’t he find girls his age to date?

At first, Seinfeld denied knowing the young woman’s real age when confronted about the relationship during an interview with Howard Stern the following year, but on stern Show a month later, he said, I in realized she was so young. This article says the relationship continued nonetheless. A few years later, in a Vanity Fair profile timed to the finale of Seinfeld, Jerry revealed that he almost got married to his much younger girlfriend. I know everyone looked at this relationship is here’s this rich TV guy and here’s this young, hot girl. What was like that at all?

We were very much in love, but the timing wasn’t quite right. That same year, Jerry met his current wife, Jessica. Those two married in December nineteen ninety nine. Jerry was forty five, Jessica was twenty eight. Another sidebar here from Wikipedia.

In June nineteen ninety eight, Jessica married Eric Niederlander, a theatrical producer, etc. Etc. So that’s June nineteen ninety eight. In early August, after the wedding, on a honeymoon in Italy, she met Jerry Seinfeld. Niederlander filed for divorce in October nineteen ninety eight after only four months of marriage.

Interesting now the Daily Beast Proper the Daily Beast website. In an opinion piece by Seth Simons, Seth went all in everything that hasn’t been said, Seth Simons has said. Seth writes, one would be forgiven for wondering what world Jerry Seinfeld is living in. Where the extreme Left, as he claimed in a recent interview with The New Yorker, has purged American television of good comedy. For all the Left’s mighty powers, it couldn’t quite manage the halt production of abbodat Elementary Superstore, Crazy ex Girlfriend of the Good Place, Nor did it manage to stave off dark, even transgressive cable fare like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the Righteous Gemstones Atlanta or Penn fifteen.

The Democratic Socialists of America certainly didn’t stop Seinfeld’s erstwhile collaborators Julia Louis Dreyfuss and Larry David from making Veep and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Seinfeld, whose net worth recently past one billion dollars, has long fashioned himself an a political comedian, But of course he’s far from an a political figure, reading from the Daily Beast here, a long time donor to democratic candidates and causes, he’s also been a full throated supporter of the far right state of Israel, not so much in the abstract sense of celebrities who waxed poetically about Israel’s right to exist than in the concrete, enthusiastic sense of a man who once took his family to an IDF fantasy camp in the West Bank. There he participated in shooting training with displays of combat according to the camp, and posed playfully with the same soldiers. In Seth Simon’s Opinion Peace, he writes, it seems only natural that his public opinion turns against Israel, so too should it sour on Seinfeld. Last month, his wife Jessica, contributed at least five thousand dollars to a pro Israel counter protest at UCLA.

She later claimed the funds went toward a peaceful demonstration out the violent mob that attacked a pro Palestinian encampment last Sunday at the Duke Thing, Jerry said, it’s worth the sacrifice of occasional discomfort to have some laughs. Seth Simon’s rights, What exactly does Seinfeld know about discomfort? His creative put since ending his eponymous sitcom twenty six years ago, this week has consisted chiefly of the animated B movie. By the way, I only realized this week that B movie was upon on B Movies. I just was like, oh, it’s a movie about bees.

I never got the joke, Jerry, Sorry, maybe it’s me. A TV series in which he drives luxury automobiles with his friends, a short lived reality show called The Marriage ref various sitcom appearances as himself, a Netflix special in which he complained about texting and unfrosted. Now in the opinion piece in The Daily Beast by Seth Simons, and I’ve shared this in the Facebook group Daily Comedies podcast group. Seth rights, Comedians, especially very famous comedians, could do pretty much anything and come away with their reputations intact. Now we’re gonna get a little wider here.

Louis C.K. Has released four specials since confessing to sexual misconduct in twenty seventeen, one of which won a Grammy Award. Jeff Ross accused of grooming a teenage girl and a virtually forgotten twenty twenty New York magazine Expose just featured prominently and Netflix’s roast Tom Brady. Seinfeld himself at a relationship with a seventeen year old girl when he was a thirty eight year old TV star. If that didn’t affect his legacy, why would anything else.

Jeff Ross floated through the controversy largely thanks to an LA comedy scene unbothered by inappropriate sexual relationships, perhaps because it was built on them, and less than a year later he was sharing a stage with Dave Chappelle. Seth writes, do you remember the twenty twenty one child sex abuse lawsuit against SNL cast member Ratio Sands that implicated Lorne Michael’s Jimmy fallon Tracy Morgantina fe and Seth myers, that’s okay, neither does anyone else. Comedians protect comedians. The industry operates as a social club with a code of silence so strong you think it must be a police force. This is some beasier.

Normally on a Thursday, I would record Friday and Saturday back to back. Sometimes I’ll do Friday and Sunday in case I think there’s gonna be news. I’m not recording the weekend yet. I feel like this could bubble up a little bit. Seth continues, whether an open my comic podcast or a headliner or a TV star comedy is essentially a business of favors.

You put me on your show, I’ll put you on my show. And he brought up something I recently observed. Damie Schumer starred and Unfrosted after hiring Seinfeld’s daughter Sasha to write on the latest season of Inside Amy Schumer and then later on Life in Beth. Washington Post headline Jerry Seinfeld’s media tour could have been a plot on Seinfeld. The comedian wanted to put his Netflix movie on Frost in the Spotlight.

He ended up there instead. This is our third Jerry Seinfelder article today. The critics waged in, the protesters wait in the whole of social media weight in, But this is Jerry Seinfeld. Those minds he stepped on exploded only with strawberry filling. Seinfeld has sworn he has no interest in making another film or even recording another stand up special.

He just wants to tour, to do comedy, to continue in making people slightly uncomfortable, and therefore continue being slightly uncomfortable himself. Whatever he’s doing works for him, so why would he change. Maybe he’ll pull a titleist out of a blowhole once in a while, but he doesn’t need to. As he told Duke’s graduating class, I’m seventy. I’m done.

The telegraph headline, why the world stop laughing at tone deaf rich guy Jerry Seinfeld, the billionaire king of comedy, has been booed, called out of touch, and accused of making the worst Netflix movie ever? Or does he care? Had this been an isolated incident, would have been easy to dismiss as little more than a piece of performative rudeness, orchestrated by a gang of attention seeking rabble rousers. Those are the Duke students. In any case, he could hardly have been surprised by the reaction, given that Sparbacks twenty fifteen, Seinfeld had advised his fellow comics not to perform at university campuses.

Seinfeld claims to value the cut and thrust of being on stage in front of audiences who treat him the same way as any other performer, But no other performers in such venues have the luxuries of private jets, multiple expensive residences all over the world complete. If the rumors are accurate with a seventeen thousand dollars coffee maker, that’s when you know they’re coming for Jerry. Wouldn’t they start to drag up that stuff. A look at him, He’s got a seventeen thousand dollars coffee maker. I don’t know what happened when the sun came up on Thursday morning, but the universe said, Jerry, we’re coming for you.

If the rumors are accurate, with a seventeen thousand dollars coffee maker and well paid pr staff on hand to flatter his considerable ego at all times. I met Jerry once. He was a guest on Jim Brewers video show way back in the day when I worked. It’s serious. Jerry was what you’d expect.

Walked in, Hey, how you do like not looking to be your friend, not being a jerk, didn’t demand anything, didn’t want to hang out with you, didn’t w want to not hang out with you. It was just exactly the way to think aloof Jerry Seinfeld. Ah, right, where we’re going. We go to the studio, all right, we’re doing this. You record the show, all right, Thanks everybody, and it leaves.

That was my one experience with Jerry Seinfeld. Telegraph wrapped up with dear what I ask whether the angry mob but Duke should have been complaining less about Seinfeld’s political stances and more about how he seems to have forgotten the art of being funny. Wow, many things could be true at once. Is Jerry seinfelt funny? Yes?

Is Jerry Seinfeld quote still funny? Sure? Absolutely was unfrosted funny. I thought it was fantastic. Did a thirty eight year old man hang around with a seventeen year old girl?

Seems to be a lot of evidence. So I don’t know the world’s comfort Jerry should be interesting. Let’s take this break. Who Bill Burrs in Ashville tonight? He spoke to Nashville’s Scene Bill Saiden, I love going to the South and like I deliverly act like I don’t understand you guys.

If I go to Red State and make fun of Red State stuff, I’m not just gonna tell them what they want to hear. And if I got a Blue States, you know it make fun of Hillary and all that kind of stuff. I think the South gets a really bad rap. White people like to act like all the racism, all the racest white people just in the South. It’s been my experience that they’re everywhere.

It’s kind of like how people like to act like all the pedophiles are in Hollywood. It’s like you don’t remember to catch a predator. They did a bunch of seasons on that show. They never had to go to Hollywood to find one. That’s a funny line.

Since he’s a comedian. He was asked about cancel culture. It was almost like a political campaign, like say no to drugs, you leave no child behind. It was this thing. It wasn’t even liberals.

It was extreme liberals, which are no different than the religious nuts that are way on the right. Really got out of controlled. It died under its own weight because she couldn’t get enough people behind it.

And now it’s funny because the people that were doing it are not trying to wa…

It wasn’t that bad. It’s just classic toxic behavior. You do it, and then years later you get called on it, you act like it never happened. My job is to make people laugh their ass off, and I think I’m really good at it. I also feel like I’m just starting to hit my stride and I have a lot left in the tank.

Awful news for me. Netflix has confirmed that Adam Sandler will be returning as Happy Gilmore. Oh. They tweeted Happy Gilmore’s back exclamation point. Adam Sandler will apprize his iconic role in a brand new movie coming in Netflix.

A. Sandler then said, in a video shared by the PGA Tour, It’s been twenty five years since I’ve done this, meaning played golf. Let’s see what happens. I’m scared, Shooter McGavin. This is for you.

That’s just awful news and better news. Mack packer Andy Samberg is working on something called The Robots Go Crazy This for Amazon MGM Studios. Deadline reports the studio has snapped up the film, which it describes as a hot package. It’s a little naughty sounding, isn’t it. So what’s happening in this hot package?

Well, Colleider says plot to tails are being kept under wraps. Yeah, you don’t want anyone to know what happens in the Robots Go Crazy. Clyder says it is known that it’s an action comedy. Presumably the film splot will involve robots who will then go crazy. No other details available.

I am exhausted. Sydney Comedy Festival is two days left. They’ll see if I can find a clip or something. I can’t find any clips. But Ruben Solo must be doing well because they’ve added another show to his program called Please Clap.

The Barefoot review said four and a half stars, a unique style all his own. These scotsmen four stars, gleefully daft nonsense. I enjoy some daft nonsense. Oh, Nikki Osborne, she does have a clip, I’d take it back. Let’s listen.

I have to play the clip in advance. This is a little naughty, and I’ve edited for pacing. Little naughty, little naughty, but it’s a good joke. Let’s listen. Do you know how you tell if your husband’s been watching porn?

You get him a fit bit because it messes the pendulum that way, if he ducks off to the bathroom, toumps out six thousand steps. Lady, you don’t you got the night off. Capital FM Drivetime gave her five stars and funniest stand up I’ve seen. The Upside News also five stars, funny and heartfelt. Osborne tells it like it is, and that is your comedy news for today.

All right, let’s see what happens with Jerry tomorrow. I can tell you already Tomorrow’s podcast is pretty good, even if nothing happens with Jerry, just because of the amount of stuff I bumped from today to Saturday. So you don’t want to miss Saturday’s podcast. There’s a Tim Dillon thing, a Bobby Kelly thing about the Tom Brady roast, a locket bumped. It’s all good tomorrow, all right, see you then,

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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Tom Brady, Jim Gaffigan, Conan O’Brien, Bill Burr, Bill Maher, Louis C.K., Will Ferrell

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC Upfronts monologue
• Tom Brady’s regrets about Celebrity Roast and impact on his family
• Jim Gaffigan special ‘The Skinny’ launching Hulu’s new Laughing Now series
• Conan O’Brien Must Go season two announcement
• Bill Burr on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast discussing Louis C.K. and cancel culture
• Louis C.K.’s comeback: Grammy nomination, Madison Square Garden tour, and streaming specials

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jimmy Kimmel hosted the ABC Upfronts and said, two years ago I couldn’t be here in person because I had COVID, Last year I couldn’t be here because of the writer strike, and this year I couldn’t think of a third excuse. Tom Brady has regrets about the roast. I don’t think Tom Brady did enough research on how a roast goes.

Brady was on the Pivot podcast and said, I loved when the jokes were about me. I thought they were so fun. I didn’t like the way it affected my kids. So it’s the hardest part about it, like the bittersweet aspect of when you do something that you think is one way and then all of a sudden you realize, who, I wouldn’t do that again because the way it affected actually the people I care about the most in the world. It makes you, in some ways a better parent going through it, because again, sometimes you naive, you don’t know, or you get a little like oh shoot.

Bourbon entrepreneur Jim Gaffigan is getting into comedy. He will be the first of a new series of specials on Hulu. Who was Laughing Now, a new comic on Hulu’s Laughing Now, will be featured each month. Twelve specials expected throughout a year. You see, there’s one every month, and in a normal year there are twelve months.

So that’s how they arrived at twelve. Jim Gaffigan special The Skinny, which thankfully doesn’t have the word pale in the title for once Well, debut November twenty second. That to me feels like it’s gonna be the Wednesday before Thanksgiving or such. Let me look, No, that’s gonna be Fridays when that’s gonna be okay, So they’re gonna put these things out on Friday night. I’m not sure that’s a good night.

Netflix does theirs on Tuesday, which I find works really well. HBO Saturday Night at ten pm, because they think it’s nineteen seventy eight. Those aren’t working for me at all. Amazon does Amazon do Monday? Is not even sure anyway.

Craig is the president of Disney Television Group, and in a statement, he said, with the launch of Hulu’s Laughing Now, we’re excited to round out Hulu’s world class comedy offering, Yeah with a lineup of some of the funniest voices in stand up comedy. Today. Hulu will also be launching a curated collective of licensed stand up specials from eight hundred Pound Gorilla and Comedy Dynamics. No word on who the other eleven comedians will be in year one. Conan O’Brien will get a second season of Conan O’Brien Must Go.

Season two will come out someday and will be six episodes long. We waited quite a while for season one, and as amazing as Conan O’Brien Must Go, is not sure this is what we were looking for. Conan. Although we’re getting like a variety show where you’re gonna be on HBO Max Max, HBO Max, you know more than like you’re basically on slightly more than I am. Can we get a little more output?

Buddy Bill Burr was on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast. The topic Louis C.K. Bill Maher said, I mean, don’t get me started on that. Isn’t it time everyone just went Okay, it wasn’t a cool thing to do, but it’s been long enough and welcome back enough. I mean, for the lord’s sake, clean that up.

A little. It’s not the end of the world. People have done so much worse things and gotten less. There’s no rhyme or reason to the me too type punishments. I’m sorry, is Louis C.K.

Canceled. He seems to be doing okay. He’s selling specials. He’s selling out Madison Square Garden. I’m on his website now.

Let’s see. I can buy his Madison Square Garden show for five dollars. If you’re playing Madison Square Garden, you’re not all that canceled. I’m sorry. He has a new special that we can apparently download and stream for ten dollars.

Oh yeah, he was nominated for Best Comedy Album by the Grammys. He had that movie last year that we totally forgot about fourth of July or remember that. Let’s not act like he’s on an ice flow in the middle of the Arctic somewhere. Bill Burr said they took fifty million dollars from I think they punished him. I’m I would love to ask Burr about how he arrived at that number.

Am I forgetting something like when you tell me Dave Chappelle walked away from fifty million dollars? I understand that number because he had a deal with Comedy Central, which he walked away from. Who’s the they that took fifty million dollars from c K? Bird talked about cancel culture in general and said, no one cares anymore. It started off with something everyone could agree on, then quickly it spun out of control.

Or remember when cancel culture got to the point where it was like, I don’t like some of the topics your stand up aackt right, That’s when it got weird. Cancel culture, it’s over. No one cares anymore. Bill Maher said there’s these actors who won’t work with him anymore, and some of them made movies with them, and saying I regret doing that. What a bunch of whosies cleaned that up.

First of all, it’s a very improbable crime they’re accusing him of. Plainly the other party had motivation and was vindictive. What On the maryseu dot com, Rachel Leischmann writes, let me explain. C K was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women and admitted to masturbating in front of female comedians without their consent. He went on to continue performing stand up just a few months after the situation.

Sure, he’s not starting it an FX series anymore, but he’s headlining comedy tours. Luis c K back in the day, put out a statement. The statement read, these stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my penis without asking first, which is also true. But I learned later in life too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your penis isn’t a question.

It’s a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is they admired me, and I wielded that power irresponsibly, skipping ahead. I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me didn’t want to hear it. The allegations against c K went public, and he learned nothing. He went back to doing stand up making fun of the situation, winning a Grammy for his comedy album while selling out Madison Square Garden.

Nothing happened to him. Did he lose out on opportunities because he was a creep was found out. Yes, people like mar just really want the bad man in the world to get a slap on the wrist and be told, okay, don’t do it again. Wink wink. My personal point here, let’s not act like Louis canceled winning Grammys in Play in the Garden.

He’s not canceled. I’m sorry. Bilberr also spoke with Columbus Underground. Totally new topic here at the Columbus Underground asked Burr, have you ever been offered feedback about your work that actually been useful to you? So much of that stuff, like social media, you don’t even know if it’s gonna be bots at this point.

So I listen to that. I do listen to my comedic friends. I listen to my wife when she goes, hey, you know, I don’t know if you should be saying that. You know, I’ll get stubborn and all the finch stuff. But then eventually I’ll just be like, all right, it’s down.

A buddy of mine I saw doing a joke and the punchline was just what the f Don’t ever have a punchline in your act. That’s just what the f. Everyone’s laughing at it because they’re all thinking, what the f. They want you to elaborate in what they’re thinking because they can already think that by themselves. They don’t need a professional what the F guy.

For the most part of his feedback from comics, a lot of it nonverbal. If they’re hanging out to watch your set, so you know you’re doing something right. If they’re not hanging out anymore, maybe you should dig a little deeper. Columbus Underground said, I spoke to Brian Rigg in a month or so ago. You both often get called comedians comedians.

Do you agree with that? What does it mean? Burce said, Well, what a comedian is comedians that not only like what you do, but they really understand you. I’ve been quite prolific this week. Prolific it’s a little strong.

I’ve been writing a lot on the substack. I don’t know if any of it’s prolific, but there’s a lot of it prolific marked by abundant inventiveness or productivity. Hmm, maybe there’s a lot of it. Anyway, I wrote more about Howardstern. I was happy with the way the Howard one came out because I was trying not to Bury modern Howard.

I wanted to show my respect for younger Howard and explain my personal struggle with Howard twenty twenty four versus Howard Say nineteen eighty four, and realized maybe it’s just about me because at Hard I’m fifteen years old. So that’s on the substack link in the notes. It’s free. If it’s up for money, just go no money for Johnny Mac and just subscribe for free. Please thank you.

A new list the top fifty podcasts in the United States. It did not make it, So this is probably the fifty first most popular podcast in the United States as far as I can tell. And I’ll just go with that until somebody goes, no, you’re not. From a comedy standpoint number one, The Joe Rogan Experience SmartLess at number eight, Comedy Adjacent Club Shashay Kat Williams says, you’re welcome. That’s number eleven.

At number twelve, Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee’s Bad Friends number fifteen, Mainstream America, not noticing that even exists. Same note on THEO. Vaughn Office. Lady’s Still hanging Around at number twenty two. Conan at twenty five that seems low, doesn’t it?

Yeah, Two Bears one cave Sigorin Krasier thirty one, falling out of the top fifty, Mark Maren Probably it’s incem fifty one. Maren’s probably the fifty second most popular podcast, this one being slightly more popular than Mark Maron until somebody can prove otherwise. At the Sydney Comedy Festival, I couldn’t find any audio to play for you today, So does read A couple real quick? Tim Ling’s a show is called well this is awkward? How do you stop awkward situations for happening?

Ting wishes she knows she’s been a plus one at a funeral fought of Michael Jackson impersonator is constantly roasted by her mum about it. Weekend Notes said Ting is dry like a good martini. One of the hottest up and coming comedians on the circuit, Tom Witcomb’s White Collar Dark Jokes also no. This is a stand up comedy hour packed full of razor sharp jokes and devastating punchlines from a comedian who doesn’t believe in too soon or too far For lovers of Jimmy Carr, Anthony Jesseneck or Frankie Boyle comes see the closest thing Australia has to offer, right, I would be into that. See do Eat gave it four stars.

Confident, articulate and very funny. A comedian on the rise. CNN is going to do a US version of the BBC comedy quiz show Have I Got News for You? British version features two teams of panelists who answer questions about this week’s news, cracking jokes and sparking discussions in the process. The producers of the BBC version will also produce the US edition.

Well that’s good. No announcements on who might be on yet. Tracy Morgan nick fan. He was on the CNC NBA show Draymond Green was filling in for Charles Barkley, who had a night off. Tracy said, let me tell you something, Draymond.

I love you like cooked food. I love you like the fat kid loves cake. But don’t talk crap about my team. This is New York City, kid, this is the home of King Kong. This is where he died.

This is we get down. Don’t talk crap about my team, Draymond, I love you, piece. New York City is not the home of King Kong. I believe mister Kong grew up on Skull Island, did he not? Isn’t it right?

I mean that’s his home. He was kidnapped and brought to New York City and escaped and climbed the Empire State Building and then you guys shot him. I don’t think he considers that his home at all. Netflix has announced a golf comedy starring Will Ferrell, a scripted series comedy about golf. Ten episodes.

It will co star Romi Usef. That’s all weird. It is called Golf All Caps. In Golf, Will Ferrell plays a fictional golf legend. Details of Yusef’s part are being kept under wraps.

This completely different than the one where Owen Wilson plays a golf legend on Apple TV and Mark Maron is his old caddy or something. So we have dueling golf shows. That’s your comedies for today. If you would like this and the other shows on the network, ad free open up the show on the Apple podcast at more. It says subscriptions click it.

I pay the four ninety nine a month, but not the first thirty days. That’s a free trial, so you can test drive this thing, and you can decide, uh, either I’d like it or I don’t. Or Johnny Max sleeps too late. I’m up a four thirty in the morning, and I hate him. He doesn’t upload the commercial free version till sometimes seven am or seven forty five if he has to drop his daughter off at school, and I don’t like that.

I get it. What is it now in my world? It’s one thirty three at two pm Eastern today in my world, yesterday in your world. I have a meeting to try and solve that, So stay tuned. See tomorrow

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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, Howard Stern, Andrew Schultz, Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Jimmy Carr, Tony Hinchcliffe, Kim Kardashian, Tom Brady

What’s in This Episode

• Jerry Seinfeld apologizes to Howard Stern over interviewer vs comedian comments
• Andrew Schultz critiques Kim Kardashian’s performance at Tom Brady roast
• Bert Kreischer and Tom Segura discuss their preparation for Tom Brady roast on Netflix
• Jimmy Carr discusses comedy analysis and the ’emperor room’ phenomenon

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Joenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Jerry Seinfeld in the news yet again. Howard Stern has accepted Jerry’s apology. On his radio show, Howard said Jerry had said that I’m basically an interviewer and that I’m not a comedian.

That now comedians of podcasts and comedians are, you know, funnier or something than me. I read and I went, that’s weird because Jerry’s a personal friend of ours, especially his wife Jessica is really good friends with Beth Stern. Stern confirmed that Seinfeld called him quote immediately to apologize for the comments, and Stern was happy to forgive his friend. Or Howard I said, Jerry, you don’t even have to please. This is embarrassing.

I’m the king of going on the air and having millions of regrets afterward. Apology accepted, I don’t care, And you know what, I’m not a comedian. I’m an interviewer. I don’t know what I am. I’ve always considered myself a bit of a comedian.

But whatever it is, don’t worry about it. Time out. Here’s Howard, yet again positioning himself as the great interviewer, third act Howard, revisionist history Howard. Not the guy that did beastiality dial date. No, not the guy that had women come in and ride a device that I can’t even describe if I want to keep my podcast clean.

Not that guy. Not the guy that did blackface. Not the guy that was route to Bob Hope when Bob was like ninety five. Not the guy that had a war with bon Jovi, Not the guy that had a war with Sam Kinnison. Not the guy that didn’t book people like Gilbert Gottfried once this third act thing started, Howard.

If he’s not a comedian, he’s an interviewer for Howard Stern. I don’t know what I am. I’ve always considered myself a bit of comedian. But whatever it is, don’t worry about it. Stern explained that Seinfeld apologized for a really long time, and he said it came out really wrong.

According to Howard, Jerry asked to come on the radio show to apologize there, but Stern said, not necessarily. I don’t want to get into it. It’s awkward. It’s fine. I’ve got to call up people and apologize for stuff I’ve done on the air.

When I’m a huge fan of these people, I don’t know what gets into me. I f up sometimes, So it wasn’t that big a deal. I didn’t really think much about it. Now this is me being a sure II. They go all out radio war with nineteen eighty five Howard Stern killing Jerry over this, just for the drama of it.

That’s what we loved, Howard taking the high road and going it’s okay. I mean, where’s the fun in that? Hey, Sam Catison, It’s all cool, bon Chovy, don’t worry about it. Where’s the fun in that? Hey, zoo keeper peace Bro, where’s the fun in that?

Howard? Howard Stern, the Great interviewer? Ignore the part before twenty fifteen. U. I’m in a good mood today.

I don’t pick the news. I just tell you what the news is. Andrew Schultz compared to Kim Kardashian to a robot with no human aspect. Schultz was on his own podcast, Flagrant and said that Kim sat with perfect posture for three hour street and seemed disassociated during the roost of Tom Brady, which we’re still talking about ten days later. Schultz said, even when she was up there, they were kind of booing her.

It didn’t make her smile, didn’t make her set. It was nothing. Kim’s up there doing her set, and this guy in the stands out of nowhere just goes bitch, just as if he’d been holding it in for a whole minute and he just couldn’t hold it in anymore. Just seeing Kim Kardashian on stage for three minutes was too much for him to hold it in. Bert Krasier and Tom Sigora on the Two Bears podcasts they had Jimmy Carr on I was trying to go back through the Facebook group to think, whoever told me to listen to this?

Thank you? Whoever it was, Dylan Scott, whoever it was, thank you. I pulled several clips here. First up here is Bert and Tom talking about how they prepped for the roast. Oh, let’s talk about our experience with the roast.

They get a call like a month ago and they say, hey, we’re doing this roast to Tom Brady, would you be interested in doing it? And you go I said yes, we’re both in, and I go no. He said absolutely, I go no. You were like, there’s nothing we can win out of this. Like, what are you talking about, Like, we’ve never been on roast, we’re not roasters or anything.

But then they said, we’re trying something different where we want you guys to do it together. And even then I was like, you mean like just go to the podium together and rose together. And they were like, no, we want to do like we’re thinking of, like trying something that we’ve never done before. I think they wanted a sports center thing first. Yeah.

Yeah, And we were like, nah, I got to give flowers. I give him to you last night. I’ll give them to everyone. Yeah. Well you said no, and you said you called me and said, we’re not saying yes yet.

We’re gonna have a meeting with Netflix. We’re gonna talk through with the writers, yeah, and with the producers. So we got on a thing and in a thirty minute zoom call, I spoke zero, which I think everyone will find shocking. Yeah, that’s true. And you talked the whole time, and you had a million questions of things angles, you liked, angles, you wanted to do, things you were cool to do.

You liked the multimedia presentation, you liked it being different than everyone else’s. Yeah, because you’re like it and there you can’t really draw comparison because it’s apples and oranges. So we can succeed on our own or fail on our own. Yeah.

And then at the end you were like, Bird, do you have any do you have anything…

And I said, I said yes, Thursday, Yeah, that’s exactly what you said yessday, I said yes, before we had any idea what we were doing. Then Jimmy Carr joined what was interesting to me about the Jimmy Carr segments? And I could listen to Jimmy Carr talk about comedy all day? Apparently because I did it this morning and I did it yesterday. This turned into a conversation between Bert Kreischer and Jimmy Carr.

Sogora kind of disappeared during it. I don’t think there’s anything weird going on, or maybe Bert was just excited. But you know, I’m listening for an hour and I’m like, is sigory even there? I got a text? Did you hear the text?

I’m gonna get more texts. I’m supposed to be ordering lunch from Jersey Mikes, so the family is going to be texting me orders. Why don’t you mute your phone, John, because that’s not fun. That’s not how I like to do this podcast. I like all the quirkiness.

Anyway, Sigora kind of disappeared in the middle of it. No harm, no foul, just noticed it. They started talking about Tony Hingecliff and echoed what I said the other day that I think Tony just took a step up in class, as they say, and from time to time you’ve heard me. Here’s another order? Could you order for Jersey Mikes?

I better pause this podcast, be right back. All right, I’ve got the orders here. We’ve got a number fourteen, the veggie number seven, turkey and provolon that’s for me, an original Italian number thirteen, and a Chipotle cheese steak. No, we don’t want a Chipotle cheese steak. See it’s a good thing I’m doing this bit.

We want a regular cheese steak. All right, that was close. I’m gonna hit next here, thirty eight eighty. I’m not telling you my credit card number. I’m telling them, but I’m not telling you done.

Where were we? What’s gonna happen now is I’m waiting for my banker to call me back. And that’s why I had my phone unmuted, So now that it’s muted, I’m gonna wind up missing his call. Oh were we let’s see. Oh yeah, I’ve talked about the past where I do this Emperor room thing where I don’t really laugh.

I analyze comedy, and comedians do that in the back of the room. And here’s Jimmy Carr talking about that very thing. I would say, like I was watching, it is a bit of you that watches in, you know from the audience is a comic going that’s good, that’s good, that’s great. Line. Okay, you know, you’ll kind of you’re kind of analyzing.

I think I wish it was up back.

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And then one more clip the setup here is Tom and Bert were talking about how …

This was something that I kept noticing too, because in seeing prompter and watching all the acts, one of the things that you pick up on was the people that didn’t do well, and there were a few that like it was. I’m saying, like the regular roasting was was. It wasn’t because of them or the material. It’s that they kept going off script. Yeah, because we would run with that and they commit to the bit.

They would read like the top line and you’re like okay, and then and they don’t realize, see, we know how important economy of words and like the you gotta say this before this is the connective tissue to that, and they would go first line and then I would watch them like riff on that and then try to pick up and you’re like, yeah, it doesn’t work like that. You have to stick to the whole thing for the thing at the end to pay off. Yeah. I thought. I thought Kim cutish she did a great job.

I mean, the joke is why I wouldn’t have told anyone. The reason the reason I think she was able to witch because she ended up getting a big couple of big pops, is because she stayed in the pocket to get booed like that and to just sit with it, yes, okay, yeah, and then to do it the confidence yeah yeah, like to get booed by that many people, It’s like most people would crumble while we’re analyzing comedy The eight hundred Pound Gorilla tells us Mark Norman’s got a new documentary called Page to Stage. Mark is ready to pull back the curtain on how he writes his signature jokes and open up on his creative process. Page to Stage is available on punch Up Dot Live. The doc follows Mark Norman as he takes an inkling of a premise that came to him in the bathroom of a fast food chain to five different stages in New York City that very night.

Over the course of six months, Mark sculpts his joke failure after failure throughout Europe in the Midwest, until it’s finally ready for a sold out show at Carnegie Hall. That’s fun, Norman says, these jokes don’t write themselves. Rolling Stone caught one of Ali Wong’s shows last week during the festival. She told the audience, I didn’t expect the news of my divorce to be so widespread in public. I felt embarrassed and ashamed, but I didn’t realize that all these media outlets were acting like a bat signal, letting all potentially interested men know.

I’ve never been pursued this much of my life. I get a phone call from this guy who I met a dinner party in the past and he got my number from a mutual friend. He was like, Hey, it just hopped near the news about your divorce and I’ve had a crush on you forever. I actually told my best friend years ago that you were my dream girl. And you know it sounds crazy, but I want you to be my girlfriend, she jokes.

I was just like, I just paid twenty five dollars for the dating app. You seem really nice, but I got to get my money’s worth every time she arrived at a new location on her vacation, and that man sent flowers to every hotel she stayed at. When she told her girlfriends about the gesture, they thought it. When she told her male friends, they said the man sounded like a psychopath. I’ll go with the latter as well, she said.

That’s how cheap and lazy men have become. When a fellow man commits any act of kindness and a romantic gesture, it must be a symptom of an undiagnosed mental illness. Ellen Degenerous is returning new Netflix for what she’s calling her final stand up special. This is six years after her last hour, which was called Relatable. This one will air later in the year.

Ellen says to answer the questions everyone was asking, Yes, I’m going to talk about it. Yes, this is my last special. Yes, Portia really is that pretty in real life. Let’s see what’s happening down at the Sydney Comedy Festival. I’ve already played this clip as I pulled the audio, and I really like this from Kevin Duo Jin.

Kevin Jin is the physically largest Asian Australian comedian in Sydney. He’d like to talk to you about Buddhism. There’ll be Zen Riddle’s diagrams and family photos from Kevin’s childhood. Before I hit the clip here, I should probably tell you he has a long strand of hair, which you will notice, and he will explain I have a foot long ret title because I want to have a social life on hard mode and I hate being able to date. My mom actually gave me some dating advice.

She said, Kevin, if a girl ever likes you, she’s wrong, which is very mean but also very silly, because I’m not going to take dating advice from a virgin. I don’t mean a brag, but I’ve actually taken several women out for a night in the city, you know, get a nice dinner in Chinatown or as I like to call it town. At the end of the night, I’d be like, oh, hey, I had a really good time. Just want to be clear, was this a date? And sometimes I’ll say, ah, I just want to be friends and that’s cool.

But sometimes I’ll make it weird. They’ll be like, oh, I just want to be friends.

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Also, I don’t date Asians.

It’s not exactly constructed criticism, like, if anything, this is a genetic condition. But so Rondo for had a really good comeback. They’re like, all the Donasians and I’ll be like, you know what, that’s totally cool. It’s totally fine. I don’t date racists.

A little clapter at the end there, but I laughed at the front end, really enjoyed that. Ali Morgan’s show was called hard Lunch or is it called hard Launch? I wrote both down. I’m gonna guess launch is correct. Remember the old thing from the seventies far out space nuts was it?

They were going? They pushed the launch button instead of the lunch button, and they wound up in space? Remember that, you know what I’m talking about it’s called hard launch is Ali Morgan’s show no clip, But being really honest, what caught my eye was the cover art that she’s using. She looks nice in this photo. And you know, if you’re in any sort of show biz us recording a podcast in your basement and I did actually shower before the podcast today, a major step up.

How you look is part of it, it really is. You know, why did I click her cover art as opposed to thirty others? Well I did click thirty others, but nobody else had any audio, neither does she. But this was the one I went, Ah, I’m interested in seeing what Alie Morgan has to say. Ali graduated from drama school ready to take on any role that came her way, and what came her way was commercials.

The Sydney Morning Harold said newcomer could be a younger Tim mentioned that’s how praise four stars. The Sydney scoop five stars belly laughs, they said. Australian Arts Review said we can expect Morgan to make some big waves in the near future, and the Theater People gave her four and a half stars, saying part bo Burnham, part hannigansby Morgan holds her audience in the palm of her hand, A right that sounds good. Far Out magazine got up with John Clees. Clees was talking about how there should be a separate OSCAR category for comedies.

The topic Standy Kuprick’s Doctor Strangelove. The nineteen sixty four movie was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peter Sellers. At one Nune Clease noted that Sellers lost out on Best Actor to Rex Harrison for his role in My Fair Lady, Please feels that Sellers had one of the greatest comedy performances of all time. Of course, they never give oscars to funny people. I think there is an extraordinary, completely incorrect idea that drama is somehow more important and more difficult than comedy, whereas, in my opinion, comedy is a great deal more difficult.

All you have to do if you get a straight part is you’ve got to make certain choices to make them believable. If you’ve got to be funny, you’ve got to make certain choices make them believable, and then put all of your comedy technique on top of that, which a lot of straight actors don’t have. There are some actors who can do funny and some very good actors who can’t. But I think all the very very best comedians can act interesting. Seth Myers he’ll be hosting Late Night with Seth Myers through twenty twenty eight.

In case you’re curious about the rest of the gang, John Oliver’s deal goes through twenty six. Stephen Colbert has a three year deal that he signed last year, so two years left on that, and Kim All he’s getting near the end here of this deal of twenty five. He’s talked about retiring, but I’ll believe it when I see it. And the Stranger dot Com has been asking comedians who were performing at the Egyptian about the ghosts. They asked Sam Miller, Hey, Sam Miller, this shows out the Egyptian, which is rumored to be haunted.

Do you believe in ghosts? I don’t know why I like this, bet, Sam Miller said, I don’t, and I checked. I used to stay up for three days at a time, and if anyone would have seen a ghost would have been me. But I’ve been wrong before, so don’t take any chances. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, Nikki Glaser, Rachel Feinstein, Jimmy Carr, Josh Zepps

What’s in This Episode

• Duke University students walk out on Jerry Seinfeld commencement speech
• Jerry Seinfeld’s defense of privilege in commencement address
• Johnny Mac’s critique of Nikki Glaser’s HBO special
• Nikki Glaser’s appearance on Tom Brady roast and Patton McAfee show
• Rachel Feinstein’s new Netflix special ‘Big Guy’
• Jimmy Carr interview on Uncomfortable Conversations podcast discussing comedy and real jobs

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media Robust one again. Hi. I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I cannot get Jerry Seinfeld out of this podcast. You may have seen that on Sunday dozens of students at Duke University’s graduation walked out on Jerry some chanting free Palestine.

Let’s listen our commencement speaker. So Jerry was able to keep as cool deliver his entire speech no interruptions. I listened to the entire seventeen minutes and I pulled some clips for you as you listen. What us how Jerry actually speaks like Tomp Poppa’s delivery, not the Jerry Seinfeld impression that we all do though. Hey, you ever notice he doesn’t really speak like that.

It’s more of a Tomp Papa delivery. Pay a lot of attention to it. If you’re in a small submersible that looks like a giant kazoo and going to visit the Titanic seven miles down at the bottom of the ocean, and the captain of the vessel is using a game Boy controller, pay attention to that. What are you checking out down there? Oh?

I see what happened? This ship sank. Now I understand why it never made it into port. And here’s an interesting take on privilege from Jerry Seinfeld. Find something where you love the good parts and don’t mind the bad parts too much.

The torture you’re comfortable with. This is the golden path to victory in life, work, exercise, relationships. They all have a solid component of pure torture, and they are all one thousand percent worth it. Privilege is a word that has taken quite a beating lately. Privilege today seems to be the worst thing you can have.

I would like to take a moment to defend it again. A lot of you are thinking, I can’t believe they invited this guy too late. I say, use your privilege. I grew up a Jewish boy from New York. That is a privilege.

If you want to be a comedian. Thanks. If I messed up a funny story around my relatives, they would go, that’s not how you tell that joke. The prostitute has to be behind the drapes when the wife comes in. You went to Duke, that is an unbelievable privilege.

I now have an honorary doctorate, a Humane letters degree from Duke university, and if I can figure out a way to use that, I will. I haven’t figured anything out yet. I think it’s pretty much as useful in real life as this outfit I’m wearing. But so what I’ll take it. My point is we’re embarrassed about things we should be proud of, and proud of things we should be embarrassed about.

This incident led me to wonder should Jerry Seinfeld go political in his comedy. I talked about this on Saturday, and then this came up, and then I doubled down on it and wrote about it in the Substack on Sunday. I’ll just refer you there. The link is in the show notes. It’s free.

If it asks you for money, just go nope. I want the free version if you want to read my thoughts but the too long didn’t read is Hey, Jerry, why don’t you go political? George Carlin wasn’t the hippie topp weather Man forever. Would love to see your take on things. You’re a good writer, you know how’d be funny?

You say you’re passionate about it. Go for it anyway. I wrote at length about that on the substack link in the show notes I mentioned in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, I did not like Nikki Glaser’s special. I was bouncing around the channels as we do. You don’t do that anymore, but you know what I mean on a Saturday night and I’m like, oh, hbo Nikki Glaser special.

I will check this out because I’m really into her this week because she crushed at the Tom Brady Roast and that special. Didn’t like it, and I knew as soon as I posted it. I knew Nikki Glaser is having a great week and people are gonna get mad at Johnny Mac for not liking the special. Didn’t like the special, as I wrote, I just didn’t buy her premises, at least in the twenty minutes. Maybe later in the special, and I didn’t watch the entire special where she got serious about depression and topics.

Maybe then it was good, But that first fifteen twenty minutes it sounded like stand up comedy is supposed to sound. We actually got into that in the Facebook group as well. I was discussing Bob Hope. Let me pull it up because I made just a nonsensical example of a Bob Hope joke. So I wrote a Bob Hope esque joke where the tag doesn’t even make sense from the setup, but it has the rhythm of a joke.

Now, I don’t have a half assed Bob Hope impression. I just tried five time and it’s so bad I took it out, so I’ll just do it as Johnny Mac. But setup would be, Hey, do you notice Richard posted in the Facebook group nay pause and you book for the camera that Bob Hope way and you go, yeah, it was either that or try to convince Nixon to leave Vietnam. Right. The punchline doesn’t even make sense, but it’s got the rhythm of a joke, and that’s what I felt NICKI was doing that.

It was just yuck, yucks, and it had the formation of comedy. But I was like, I don’t buy anything you’re doing here. I know this opinion is going to be unpopular, but that’s okay if you’ve been listening last week or so. Let’s just add Nikki Glaser to the list of people that can be mad at me. So we’ve got Jerry Howard, Nikki Glaser, Mulaney.

Everybody at Netflix. Newsweek really liked the special coincidentally they had her for an interview. I don’t know if that’s real late or not, and they write comedian Nikki Lazer never wants to offend, quoting Nikki, I never want to say offensive for raunchy things or push the envelope, because that speaks to some kind of comedian who just wants to rile people up. She wants to hate you with honest and really funny, precise, acute jokes throughout.

Meanwhile, Glazier said she was at the Tom Brady after party and Tom Brady di…

She said he probably had something to do because he’s a busy guy. Kind of weird that Tom didn’t show up with the party. He was on his way out and I ran into him in the hallway and just said, hey, thanks for having me. We didn’t meet him before the show. I only met him after I got done with my set, and after telling horrible things about him, he just goes, you did a great job, good luck with everything, which is pretty much saying I’ll never see you again and don’t try to contact me.

Have a good life. Nikki said all that on the Paton McAfee show last Thursday. Netflix announced that Big Guy, A special from Rachel Feinstein will be on Netflix one week from today May twenty. First, there is a clip, let’s listen. My mom is like aggressively liberal.

She would have preferred if I married like a genderless Kenyan composter, an Irish Catholic fireman. Like she was praying one of us was gay. She was just sitting in the kitchen waiting, like there’s Coco if anyone feels gay and wants to talk about it a lot. Even physically, she’s always wearing some sort of long like menopausal cape, just some kind of navel host smock. She wears a hostile amount of turquoise.

It’s aggressive in Big Guy Rachel Feinstein, who we had doing mornings at series Sexam Raw Dog towards the end of my run. But there was a boss there who one time told me that his wife wasn’t familiar with the comedians we were playing, and we had to redo the playlist and we basically turned it into a top forty station instead of the original nine point five years, which was, hey, we know comedy and we’re trying to educate you, So we were too early on Rachel. Oops, sorry, boss Guy at him’s the list of people. It’s Madame Rachel and her new special Big Guy Jokes about her life as the wife of a firefighter, a mother, and a stand up comic in the words of her three year old daughter, and my Daddy’s a hero and my mommy’s sarcastic. A very good listen is the podcast Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Zepp’s I’ll refer you to the Jimmy Carr episode.

I went for a walk on site and really really enjoyed listening to Jimmy breakdown comedy. Here’s Jimmy talking about the importance of having a real job to appreciate your showbiz career. I work for Shell Oil for a couple of years. Yeah, I’d like a proper job. I think it’s quite important as well, because that thing of the haardonic treadmill.

We get very used to our lives being good, so you need something to anchor you. You kind of need the school years or the colleges or the work years. If you’re in show business or doing anything creative, you need something to judge it against. Yes, to go, well, that was really boring, and now I do this thing and it’s really fun. Very few people get to breathe that rarefied air, and so I get kind of sick and tired of people complaining about it.

Jimmy’s a comedian, so he had to be asked about cancel culture. Interesting take here, Yes, but I think you have to like size it. I think you have to write the size that you have to say, Well, look, I told a joke and some people didn’t like it. That’s as serious as it is. Like, if someone has a problem with that a joke, Okay, I’m not for everyone.

I would say, there are fifty jokes in that show of that show that’s the new one, that was a preview of the new show. Ye, I mean it’s literally happened fifty jokes that are worse than that right in the show. Right, you have no right to be offended by that joke, right, because what about the ones that came before and after and the idea that you go, oh, that sacred cow, the thing that offends me you can’t joke about. But the jokes in the show about rape or pedophilia or famine or does it not to be about Jimmy? But all the other all the other stuff’s fine, right, that one that’s a specific one, I think actually, the way the world is at the moment, it just seems very true.

I can’t imagine tend to be a slow newsweek when these things catch fire. Comedy sort of like a canary in the mine if you look at like Jerry Seinfeld stopped playing the universities in America about ten years ago. He said, yeah, I’m not I’m not playing the university campus anymore. They’re a bit too sensitive. That was the canary in the mind, right, That was the that was that was ten years ago, going this this these people are being crazy.

Do you remember his gag that that he got the they were upset about. He had a gag, I know, he had a gag about the young people scrolling through Instagram and just scrolling or scrolling through Tinder or one of these dating apps or something, and he said that there’s they’re kind of just scrolling and checking it and selecting and yes or knowing like a gay prince or something. It was like it was that mild, and they were like, that’s a homophobic it’s also an anti royalist slur perhaps, but or like or like I think he’s a gay French prince or something like that. He was just saying these people are behaving in an entitled fashion, right, and but yeah, that was that was I mean, if that’s pretty your okay, yeah, you’re offended by that? How many gay princes the world?

Good luck in the world though, because it’s you know, if you’re that brittle and good stuff from Jimmy on the evolution of stand up comedy, which you know, I struggle with this as well, like where do we start? And he’s starting it with Carlin and Pryor. Good take here, but really I’d say sixteen ninety seventy if you look at maybe Richard Pryor and George Carlin as John the Baptist, these guys come along and they start selling out shows where it’s just them talking for sort of an hour and a half two hours and being hilarious, and they’re kind of they’ve come from the nightclubs, but they’re doing an hour and a half. They’re playing like rock stars in these venues and people are coming to see them, and they’re looking at them and they’re they’re saying something very interesting. There’s there’s no filter.

You know, if you really think about what friendship it’s like, really good friends, you’ve got no filter. Work colleague’s got a bit of filter strangers, you’ve got a lot of filter comics. It’s no filter. It’s sort of direct with them. It’s like a friendship.

And then as things progress through the seventies, eighties, nineties, it’s getting better, it’s getting more relevant. I’d say it’s more relevant today than it’s ever been. So we’re going to work on a thing at the moment on teaching stand up comedy, because it strikes me that it’s more relevant than music. Like music is non verbal communication, and it’s incredibly important to me. And it it because an emotion within you, or can anker emotions within you that are just it’s phenomenal, right, but it’s not as relevant as stand up comedy.

Robbie Prau getting nothing but good press. The Wall Street Journal profiled Robbie. He’s the guy running Netflix comedy, and I thought this was really interesting as to how these deals are getting done these days. The Journal rights using the lower cost, lower risk model on Netflix now applies to most stand up deals. Robbie Prout licensed a one hour special from Leanne Morgan.

She had to cover the cost of producing the show, but retained ownership and could negotiate a new deal if it performed well. That explains why a lot of these specials look homemade. Like Tim Dillon, who I love and I’m going to deny that when he gets canceled. I never said I like Tim Dillon. Who said I like Tim Dillon?

I never said that his special The sound was terrible. I don’t know if he hired a friend. I don’t know what went into Tim Dillon’s special, but it wasn’t mixed right in my opinion at Tim Dillon’s illist right, howidz Tern, Jerry Seinfeld, John Mellany, Tim Dillon, fans of Nicky Glazer, and everyone at Netflix. Leanne had a cover the cost of producing the show and Scott Beckett he does not like the chokeoid joke. He’s mad and I can tell he doesn’t like it.

She had to cover the cost. She had to cover the cost of producing the show, but retained ownership and can negotiate a new deal for form well. I’m everyone was a hit. Last month, Morgan signed with the streamer for two additional specials plus a sixteen episode sitcom. An agent at CAAA said Robbie basically recreated Montreal comedy festival in a better location with significantly more financing for me.

W Bert Kreischer is not a cokehead, and he’s thrilled that the Tom Brady roast didn’t make him seem like one. He explained to Jimmy Kimmel that he had nicotine patches and a can in his pocket, but he was informed by the director of the roast that they were too distracting. So I said, okay, I’ll put them in a little bag. Sam Jay Ripbert saying that he’s a fake party animal, that I don’t even do drugs. I’m not even dead like the big ones.

So I went in my pocket and pulled out my nicotine patches and I just wiggled them. Andrew Schultz goes, you got a bag of blow on you, and then the camera’s on me in the forum and the forum goes nuts, like this guy brought coke. Sigoura comes back to me and tells me you’re about to go viral. Everyone’s gonna think you’re a coke heead, but they edited it out. Thank god.

I don’t want to have to deal with My daughters have been saying no pills, no powder for years and the dad’s rolling in with half an eight. Paul Bert said the roast was terrifying because it’s a big list, it’s a big day as there’s a bunch of murderers. But it went real well. It went great, and then god we followed Kim Kardashian medi and Rudy Moreno passed away Friday evening. Moreno died of complications from a stroke and sepsis, according to his son Nathan.

Nathan added, he put up a gritty fight and did all he could. Agent Mark Scrogg said Rudy was a great mentor to many comics. Was a great comedy show host, which is the toughest job in comedy because you have to support and let the others shine, and it was very involved in local charities. Ken Jung bothed on social media, my heart is truly broken. Rudy Moreno, the godfather of Latino comedy, was the first person to book me at the ice House.

In fact, the first time my wife ever saw me stand up was at the ice House on Rudy’s show. All this led me to doing my Netflix special at the ice House. Thanks to Rudy Morino constantly supporting me letting me get stage time. And all his shows, and he was hilarious, the consummate comedian. I’m laughing thinking of his East La Santa bit right now.

He was an incredible actor, guitarist and singer as well, which is a brilliant artist. Love you so much, Rudy, I know you’re making Heaven laugh. At the Sydney Comedy Festival, Bonnie Tanky’s show is called Lab Meet. The Herald’s son calls her a dry and delightfully kooky. She’s here to do something very different.

I played some of her material from Melbourne about a month ago, but here is a different part of her set. Let’s listen. I don’t have kids because I can’t afford them. I was I was online the other day, just like looking at kids, and I saw this thing and it said that the average cost of raising a child in Australia is half a million dollars. That’s ivucave them the whole time.

And I just don’t have that sort of money. But my sister has kids, and the youngest one, I was about two months old, and I was holding her the other day and I was looking at her and I was thinking, you are so cute. Not worth half a million bucks. And at that moment I dropped her. Yeah, and I just felt like so bad, like because it really does depreciate their value lots of fun.

I like her a lot. The Holly Reporter was that Nick Offerman and Friends Versus Climate Crisis part of the Netflix Festival last week. Some of the friends included Nicole Byer Otsko at Cotska and kamel On Gianni Mae Martin as well. The reporter says one of the highlights was Otsko’s set about her high school cheerleading days. Drag queen Patty Gurnia gave the audience a science lesson in support of their thesis and Nature is Gay.

The environmentalists performed a delightful drag routine of a clownfish transitioning from male to female that included NEMO references, costume changes, and confetti that sounds fun. SNL’s fiftieth anniversary coming up. NBC has announced a seven month long party to celebrate SNL, including a November election special, new holiday specials, a documentary series That’ll be Good, multipart music specials That’ll be good as well, and a comedy special. At Radio City Music Hall, there will be a three hour SNL fifty primetime special that will air Sunday, February sixteenth from eight to eleven PM. Unless the NFL pushes the super Bowl to that weekend, then you’re not going to show it that night.

I’ll tell you that. What is the super Bowl next year? Oh, you’re in luck. The super Bowl is February ninth, so it’ll go. I guess they’re not afraid of the Daytona five hundred.

The show and red carpet event will welcome stars of the past and present. I’m expecting a lot of Will Ferrell. Technically, the fiftieth anniversary is October eleventh, twenty twenty five. Dennis Larry I have told you about this before, but it’s now official. A series order going to Going Dutch Abody’s storing and executive produced by Dennis Leary.

Dennis Leary is sixty six. By the way, this single camera series, I bring that up for a reason. It centers on an arrogant, loudmouth US Army colonel, a sixty six year old colonel who, apparently after an epically unfiltered rant, is reassigned to the Netherlands, where he’s punished with a command position at the least important army base in the world. After serving with distinction in every war zone of the last three decades, the sixty six year old colonel now finds himself in charge of a base with no guns, no weapons, and no tactical purpose. Instead, it has a Michelin star level commissary and a top notch bowling alley.

If I’m understanding what I’m reading on veteran dot Com correctly, age sixty two is the maximum age listed in the title ten USC for officers below general and flag grades. Sixty six year old Dennis Leary, I guess is playing a sixty one year old colonel. What if the show runs ten years? What will happen? It’s a sitcom.

John po dot Com tells me that the average age for a colonel is forty five years old. I’m sure I’m misunderstanding something. If you are clearly more expert than I am in military rank and age, would love to hear from you. Either email me it’s in the show notes or hit the Facebook group taiy com news podcast group. Tracy Morgan getting a new show on Paramount Plus.

This is set in the same world as The Neighborhood. Tracy Morgan will play Francois Crutchfield aka Crutch Cedric. The entertainer said in a statement, I’m excited to be expanding our the Neighborhood universe by producing a show with the legendary comedian Tracy Morgan. Legendary is a bit strong ed Tracy to the list, Howard Stern. Tracy Morgan.

The new character is a close cousin of my character Calvin Butler, and you’ll enjoy some of their many similarities. Why can’t it be the same character? Morgan plays crutch a say it like it is widowed father who is challenged when as two adult children and a couple of grandchildren need to move back home, and let’s just say there’ll be several comedic complications. Bill Maher has announced he’s not gonna do stand up anymore. He was on Club Ran and I’m talking to his guest at Jerry Seinfeld.

Mor said, after this year, I’m gonna stop doing stand up comedy. I don’t want to make it like a big announcement or anything. I’m doing a special at the end of the year. It’ll be my thirteenth for HBO, and that’s a lot. I put a lot of time and effort doing it, because, as you know, stand up is like playing the cello.

You can’t just walk up there. You have to stay in practice, and I do, and I’ve always loved stand up and I’m always working on it. But I have a show. Jerry said, it’s not crazy. I think perhaps for you, whatever feels right for you feels right.

And that is your comedy news for today. If you like this program, ad free hit subscribe in the Apple Podcast app four ninety nine a month to get this and the other shows on the network and free. See tomorrow

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Featured: Joe Coy, Ricky Gervais, Jim Gaffigan, Theo Von, Dan Soder, Bobby Kelly, Joe List, Lewis Gomez, Robert Kelly, Ari Shaffir, Dante Powell, Kat Williams, Joe Malaney

What’s in This Episode

• Joe Coy Netflix special announcement for June 4th
• Ricky Gervais vs Jim Gaffigan alcohol brand endorsements comparison
• Ricky Gervais ticket sales and fan demand in UK
• Theo Von allegedly paying openers only $100 per show
• Joe Malaney late night show format suggestions
• Kat Williams new Netflix special reception

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. When we last left, I was recording Sunday’s episode. Now I’m recording Monday’s episode immediately after. Why because I have the house to myself.

Now, let’s see how long that lasts. What happens is sometimes people come home and they start sneaking around doing the laundry. My studio is right next to the laundry room, and they think I can’t hear them. I can hear them, and the sneaking around is actually more distracting. If you came downstairs here to the basement level and you had a drum and a kazoo and you were super loud.

At least I could make a bit out of that, like when my dog barks. At least I can make a bit of that. But sneaking around, Hi, do I sound grouchy? There’s only one way to get out of grouchy. Let me move a story up to the top.

This was not originally elite story, but just to shake the mood here already. Have you figured it out yet? Netflix has announced Joe Coy Live from Brooklyn, the latest special from comedian Joe Coy, see him already in a good mood. Will premiere on Netflix June fourth. In Line from Brooklyn, Joe Coy shares his unfiltered opinions on social media, aging and moving into a new phase of his life.

His Zaddy Face taped at the King’s Theater in Brooklyn last November. Now we all know Joe Cooy can have some pretty unfiltered opinions. One time, Oh boy, he was just so mean. He went after Taylor Swift. Poor Taylor, She’s just out there trying to sing her songs, make everybody happy.

She shows up with the Golden Globes, and then Joe Koy had to go and do this. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift. All right, while I’m in this kind of mood.

Ricky Gervais versus Jim Gaffigan Battle of the alcohol salespeople. Jim Gaffigan went on the WGN Morning News. He was as Bourbon. Let’s listen, how did you come up with that name? And does it have a double meaning?

It does well, it’s not about the old guy that kind of rings in you know who we you know, get rid of at the end of the year. And it’s not about the time that a father which is very important that a father spends with their children. It is the time when a father can drink alcohol. And you know, I love it. Like alcohol is not the solution, but it’s pretty close in and so all right, you know, kind of funny line there, but the energy is just off.

Ricky Gervais, please show Jim Gaffigan how it’s done. Hi, I’m Rickey Gavaz and this is Dutch Bond vodka. It’s a premium quality spirit made from British apple, so it tastes great and it’s friendly to the environment. I’ll tell you love this, Einstein, it’d be like, oh, he equals MC or SIT squared. In all seriousness, alcohol isn’t good for clear thinking at all.

It’s a neurotoxin that can disrupt communications in the brain. It also affects the function of brain cells and that can lead to intellectual impairment. If anything, so Dutch Bonn, that’d be fair. If Jim did that exact same material. I’m not sure it would have worked as well, and I could see Jim deliver go back and write a transcript for yourself.

Actually, no, you’re on an Apple podcast. Now there’s a transcript scrawled back up and read in your head to Jim Gaffigan voice what Ricky just said. Jim could absolutely do that material. But Ricky, I don’t know. There’s just something about the way he munkes for the camera.

Maybe I don’t know.

Speaking of Ricky, the Advertiser and Times dot co dot uk tells us Ricky Gerv…

They started lining up for tickets at four a m. On Friday. One fan said he got up at five point forty five and arrived at fifteen and there were ready twenty people ahead of him in the queue. By the time the doors opened to the ticket office, the line stretched all the way up High Street. Regent Center house manager Chris Cole said it’s a real honor to be selected as the only venue outside of London for Ricky Gervay’s new material show.

This is one of the most high profile acts we’ve ever welcome to the Regent, so we’re expecting tickets to sell incredibly quickly Ricky Gervay’s and Friends Regent Center, Tonight’s end Tomorrow your original lead story before I shuffled the order on the fly. There theo Von currently supposedly possibly maybe I don’t know, never met the guy, I’ve never opened for him, but possibly perhaps baby doesn’t pay his openers too well. Yeah, Dan Soder was on the REGs podcast and set a spectacularly successful podcasting comedian only pays his openers one hundred dollars. The Rags is hosted by Soda, Joe List, Lewis Gomez, and Robert Kelly. This article points out they’re all deep enough in the comedy industry to reliably spread rumors and gossip about comedy’s biggest name.

So Soda revealed he had heard from a working comic who may or may not have opened for Theovonne. Soda then mouthed words to his co host that looked like he said Theovon, but he didn’t actually say it. Whoever this comedian is, that’s cheap allegedly only pays out one hundred dollars a show. The rest of the cast were appalled. Soda told Bobby Kelly, and this ain’t when you started in the sixties, Soda said, the Chicago Theater seats over four thousand people.

I think around there. I’m gonna look that up, thirty six hundred seats, so yeah, around four thousand. Soda said he’s doing two sold out shows a night at least eighty dollars a ticket, and you’re making that’s two hundred thousand a night, and you’re paying your opener one hundred dollars. Other comedians corroborated the rate. In the comments, users found instances of stand ups such as Ari Manis opening for Theovonn and revealing during their sets they were only paid one hundred dollars.

Iowa based comic Dante Powell offered his own story of opening for Vaughn in a thread. According to Dante Powell, this article I opened for Theota Theater a couple of years ago and didn’t get paid at all. That said, not only did he get us into some really cool spots in that city as well as some dope restaurants. He paid after the shows, but he was a welcoming hang and tagged me at a bunch of social media posts that got me a bunch of followers, So even out in the end for me. I can’t stress enough how kind he was.

I’m a regular feature for Kyle Kanad and Gary Goleman, and they both make sure I do really well financially, really in all caps, really well financially any weekends I do with them, so I try to take it all in stride. I don’t know what Ari and the other opener got paid, but they didn’t mention any issues with it. Soder said he was inspired by this story to value up and coming comics, saying I’m gonna venmo all my old openers. Bobby Kelly said that’s nuts, because the podcast money is bleeping nuts, never mind the money from the shows. Joe Liszt teased that THEO isn’t the only comedian at that pay grade who doesn’t trickle down the wealth, but he would not say who.

He was talking about. Good stuff from Vulture about Joe Malani’s late night show. They wrote, here’s the thing, Netflix and Malanie don’t need to keep doing Everybody’s in LA as it exists now. A future effort from Malaney could be adjusted to air just once or twice a week. That’s what I think the move is, rather than every night.

The weirdness could be dialed down just a bit to bring in a broader audience and make the show feel more about pop culture and world events versus a la travelog. Or maybe Malanie could do this format four times a year, pulling a twenty twenty four ConA and traveling to a different city each quarter. I’d sure watch Everyone’s in New Orleans. That all a great suggestion. The Grio with a great take on Kat Williams.

I share this in the Facebook group on Friday Daily Comedy News podcast group The Grill writes, we have to be honest about Kat Williams because I watched his new Netflix special and I have questions. Williams is a comedy icon, no doubt, we love him, but there’s something missing from his act, and I think a lot of people are afraid to say it. In the spirit of comedy where nothing is unsable, I’m gonna say it. You know the old joke about how you go to a Chinese restaurant, need a whole meal and you’re hungry thirty minutes later. Well, when I watch a comedy special, I don’t want the comedy slip out of my mind thirty minutes after the show.

I want more than laughs. I want jokes, at least one that I can walk away thinking about. I want those well constructed moments I can repeat to myself, maybe to friends, to remind myself how good the comic was. Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Trevor Noah. I think there are two types of comedians.

There are people with great material and there are people with a funny vibe whose whole on stage presence is so hilarious that they could read the phone book and it would be funny. Chappelle is equally both, so is Wanda Sykes. Rock is much more of a material guy. His work is meticulously crafted, and I think he needs that to kill. Tracy Morgan, on the other hand, is much more of a phone book guy.

This is really well said, All of this, this is on point, everything so far from the grio. Cant Williams is probably the biggest phone book comic today. His vibe is energy and his voice all make his comedy come alive. I’ll jump in here, I had commented when I reviewed the special last week. I felt like it was taking him forty five seconds to set up an okay joke, but I was entertained.

The guy is entertaining. He’s compelling. I like wat I like listening to him speak. How funny it was, I don’t know. It was all vibe, and I think the Grio has nailed this here.

He plays a character on stage, a badass, hyper self confidence, super black man who may or may not be a pimp. That character adds a lot to the funny he’s getting by on the cat persona and the voice and the funny energy. He’s not putting in the work to write great jokes, and I know he can do that. I want that from him. Joe Rogan had high praise for Tony Hingecleff.

Tony’s a lot more popular than he was a week ago thanks to the roast of Tom Brady and well deserved guest at Derek Post and said, when it came to roasting, I think Tony’s the goat. I think he’s the greatest. Rogan said, Tony’s the best. There were some forces that were trying to limit him from his ability to shine. Hmm.

Interesting, He’s reckless. Fortune Fiemster and wife Jax will serve as the Chicago Pride Parade Grand Marshals. Paride is Sunday, June thirtieth. Parade organizer Pride Chicago said, Fortune and Wife will bring their infectious energy and inspiring love story to the hard of Chicago’s LGBTQ plus community. I ninety five Rock asked Lenny Clark, who is on the Mount Rushmore of Boston and boy Dennis Leary.

I hope you’re not listening, Lenny Clark said, well, Bill Burr, Louis c. K and as much as I hate to say it, Dane Cook and Joe Rogan. Yeah, I think he nailed those four. I mean, these are all incredibly successful stars that came out of Boston. It’s funny.

I was listening to Bill Burr the other day and he said, we left Boston because we couldn’t crack the ceiling. The guys there were Steve Sweeney, Don Gavin, myself, Kenny Rogerson, some unbelievable comics you may have never heard of. But these guys. We used to work a show in Boston and bring in these nationwide acts and would blow them off the stage. Just three shows at the Sydney Comedy Festival, I won the Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase.

The second the best of the Fest International on the third is I’m stumbling here trying to figure out how to clean it up. Faced Shakespeare. You know when you’re drunk. Drunk faced Shakespeare, you got it? Yeah, drunk face Shakespeare, let’s go with that.

Am I actually going to get through this whole podcast without somebody coming home and doing laundry? This? This is amazing. Chris Mahea spoke to the Stranger dot com You’re home for comedy news. He was playing the Egyptian, which is rumored to be haunted.

They asked Chris Mahia do you believe in ghosts? Chris Mihas said, I’m ghost agnostic, but also I don’t mess with ghosts. I’m not gonna test that out. If the Egyptian really is haunted, you better not leave me alone in any rooms. I know white people love to go to haunted places test that stuff out because you love being in places you don’t belong.

But nope, I’m good, bro. And that is your comedy news for today. One way to support the show, buy me a coffee dot com a slash Daily Comedy News. I didn’t bring a prop with me. I still got half a cup upstairs.

Courted a little earlier today. Wow, nobody was home anyway? Throw five bucks in the tip jar, I will take your money. I will go to the National Donus chain and I will get a large iced coffee with caramel and almond milk. Back on the almond milk kick and Johnny Max gotta start running.

Oh my goodness, the wait is back. It’s just awful. Do I really have to run like thirteen miles every day just to be somewhat fat instead of really fat? Don’t get old folks, Hey tomorrow

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Featured: Andrew Schulz, Jerry Seinfeld, Tom Brady, Jeff Ross, Chris Rock, Dana Carvey, David Spade, Cedric the Entertainer, Paul O’Neill, John Stewart, Nikki Glaser, Josh Ocean Thomas, Matt Rife, Jimmy Carr, Claudia McKenna

What’s in This Episode

• Stormy Daniels testimony jokes from Late Night hosts
• Tom Brady reacting to Jeff Ross roast joke about massage scandal
• Jerry Seinfeld attempting to book Chris Rock for Unfrosted Bowl and Spoon Awards scene
• Paul O’Neill’s $57 residual checks from 1995 Seinfeld appearance
• John Stewart launching new weekly podcast with Comedy Central
• Josh Ocean Thomas roasting Biden administration audience member
• Matt Rife Hollywood Bowl show addressing transgender and domestic violence jokes
• Jimmy Carr mocking chef Claudia McKenna on This Morning TV show

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Choenni Mack, who with your Daily Comedy News. I’ve been having fun writing on the Ballance podcast where we make fun of politics, and Stormy Daniels was back on the stand. The Late Night guys had some good jokes. Stephen Colbert said that was not her first rodeo, and they would have known that if they’d seen her movie, My third Rodeo.

Jimmy Kimmel said, Trump’s lawyers spent the day trying to paint Daniels as a sleazy money grubbing liar, which, if is true, you can see why they hit it off. I love that joke. Fallon tag that with Trump’s attorneys finished their cross examination of Stormy Daniels and accused her of lying and hawking merchandise for personal gain, and Trump was like, this also feels like a shot at me. Andrew Schultz says he thinks that John Brady was actually mad about Jeff Ross making a Robert Kraft joke. Schultz explained it on his podcast.

I have made some edits here for language, but you’ll get the gist. When Tom checked Fross, I think that was one undercent real. Oh yeah, like so Jeff, So I think it got cut from the broadcast. I’ll tell you also because the reason why I think it’s real is because they told us no jokes about happy endings with Bob Crafts. Because I had a Bob Kraft tag.

I had that joke about Randy Moss. I was like, Randy Mars, you made on a Super Bowl Sunday. It’s the only people celebrating a happy ending with a priest. Oh yeah yeah.

And then the tag was and by and of course Bob Krafts, and they were like, Tom…

I was like, all right, cool, Like the guy’s coming here for this thing, like whatever, he’s not getting roasted.

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And then Jeff did it.

And then Tom walks up and he goes, don’t do that again. But think about it, like this is the first comic that goes on a live roast and it’s your night. Yeah. He was ready to shut the whole thing down. Very interesting.

I don’t see any reason Schultz would make that up. And like I said, when it happened, I think everybody doing a little spin there. That would have been epic. If Brady would have hooked that that would have been monster news. You think to Fleetgate was big news.

Imagine you have all those comedians there, You’re live on Netflix and Tom Brady throws a tantrum and storms off his own roast. What do you do? They might have just roasted a chair, which could have been epic. Now that I’m thinking about that, imagine that one. Jerry Seinfeld still in the news every single day.

I need a Seinfeld break, but he keeps making these stories. Apparently, when he was on with Dana Carvey and David Spade, he said he tried to get Chris Rock to be unfrosted. Jerry said, the other thing I wanted to do that I almost did was Chris Rock was gonna be the MC of the Bowl and Spoon Awards, and we shot that right after the Will Smith slap. I was gonna have somebody come on stage and have Chris punched him out as they got there. Recording to Seinfeld, Chris Rock wasn’t up to perform.

It was a little shocked from that event. That’s what the scene is gonna be. But Cedric saved the day. I love Cedric. Seinfeld then asked Spade and Carvey if they thought the bit would be funny.

Carvey said, there’s still kind of a residual darkness around that. Seinfeld said, isn’t that we’re attracted to more than anything, residual darkness. I don’t know if it would have worked, it was an idea. During the Yankees broadcast, Paul O’Neill started talking to his fellow broadcasters about how much he makes in royalties from the Seinfeld episode he appeared on in nineteen ninety five. David cohne asked Paul O’Neil if he still receives residual checks from the sitcom.

Paul said, yeah, you know what they are. They’re like fifty seven bucks. Houston four Yankees three. John Stewart back with a podcast, this one called The Weekly Show with John Stewart, a partnership with Comedy Central. Hopefully it’s a way more interesting than the one he did with Apple, because that was just I was kind of boring.

John said, After much reflection, meditation, and prayer, I’ve decided to extend my work week to two days.

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Speaking of podcasts, I grabbed the Last Laugh podcast to listen to Nikki Las…

It’s not good. She’s fine, just no chemistry with the host that they get good guests. But I don’t know about that one either. I’ve been quite uncensored in my opinions lately. Hopefully you’re enjoying it and you’re not like what happened to him?

He became a jerk. I’m usually such a nice guy that anytime I’m not like one hundred percent nice, people are like, what’s up with you? Okay? I’m fine. I’m just telling you I did enjoy a podcast, and I think John mliney shows misproduced, and Howard Stern became everything he hated, and Jerry Seinfeld’s dating history is interesting.

That’s all. I’m fine. I should read my own rundown. You’re gonna be like, what is wrong with him? Okay?

This from Fox News. During a recent stand up show, a comedian roasted an audience member who reported working for the Biden administration. I can’t believe Fox News. I mean, I can believe Fox News went with this. It’s so lame.

The comedian Josh Ocean Thomas finds out that the audience member works for the Biden administration and says, what a crap show of a job you have?

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And then listen to this hack joke hacks.

Think this is hack. Ocean says you work for the Biden administration. Is it your job to wake him up? Or what’s your job? Oh my, come on, dude, I’m sure he told it much better.

The crowd liked it exactly. If you have the freedom to lie, it could have said you were a hooker and I would have been prouder of you. All right, that’s not bad, Rife, Yeah, he’s back. During his sold out Hollywood Bowls show on Wednesday, much of his stand upset revolved around what kind of jokes are okay and not okay? After making a few jokes about transgender people, can you all stop comedians?

Just do something else? Rife said, what am I gonna do? Get canceled? Cool? I’ll do another bull show?

Awesome. You know that’s not a real punishment. Nothing happens. Prison’s a punishment. Rife then went into prison jokes and addressed his controversial domestic violence joke head on.

He did some crowd work that involved talking to an audience member who apparently served time for assaults. Rife said, Mammy, okay, asking the man’s date. Guys, I’m kidding. Domestic violence is not funny ever. Ever, on any comedy special.

Ever, towards the top of the sets, he made a joke about that whole thing with the helmets. Riife said, I got so much trouble for making a joke about special needs helmets. Then I come to LA and perform in the biggest helmet, referring to the Hollywood bowls around structure. Hah. During the show, at one point smoked a joint with a sixty eight year old woman.

Matt Riife is twenty eight. Jimmy Carr got into This story is probably about a week old now as you’ve been listening. There’s just been so much going on ITV viewers were furious, and they took to Twitter, slamming comedian Jimmy Carr for his disruptive behavior on the set of the daytime show This Morning. Not did it happen this Morning? That’s the name of the show.

The show is called This Morning. Jimmy Carr was due for a chat with Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary, but carefully watched Irish chef and author Clauda McKenna in the show’s kitchen before he had to answer the presenter’s questions. While Clauda expertly tended to a chicken carcass. She recommended viewers set in a saucepan. Jimmy joked, what have you not got a bin?

The chef kept her composure. Jimmy kept going, pop in the bin. It’s gone. The chicken is gone. Boy, this is like Taylor Swift joke level mean.

Jimmy then proceeded to mock the chef as she boasted the flavor of a chicken broth. Jimmy said, listen to this. This is worse than Joe cooy ever did wait until she finds out about stock cubes who shivy core back it down vicious. Clauda went on Instagram both of a selfie with the host but not Jimmy Carr and captured it. One chicken, three recipes, one Jimmy Carr.

I’m officially ready for the weekends. Oh yeah, Happy Mother’s Day. It is the final day of the Netflix is a joke comedy festival. Gotta say they had a killer festival. They’re doing that roast battle thing outside.

Tonight’s guest judges Jeff Ross and Sarah Silverman. Seven o’clock killed Tony again, Ali Wong again at seven Dmitri Martin at seven, a screening of Terminator two. Not sure how that fits in with this, but okay. Mosha Casher at seven, Colin Quinn at eight, Fern Brady at nine forty five. I almost watched The Fern Brady on Netflix on Thursday night.

I was just sleepy. I went to BET at nine on Thursday. That’s why I’m not watching John Millenia ten. I went to BET at nine, but I was up at five thirty. So there, it’s still eight and a half hours sleep.

Johnny Duts’s on a good humble brag. You’re right. Eight pm at the Comedy Store, secret headliner and a bunch of just addeds. Why nine o’clock just added Bill Bellamy. Nine thirty just added All Star Comedy.

Seven o’clock just added Todd Glass, just added Ian Edwards, just added nine to forty five, Ariel Olias. Why were you suddenly adding a bunch of shows on Sunday night? Nine five just added Brian Postsin. All right, if you and I were there, Well, we’ve seen kil Tony already, right theoretically, so early show, let’s do Dmitri. Late show, Let’s do Brian Possain that’s kind of alty.

And now I get to delete the bookmark, which makes me really happy because the more bookmarks you have pinned, the slower your browser gets. So close tab Great job Netflix, at Great Job Robbie pra Mondays at the Sydney Comedy Festival are light to the only thing is the Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase at the Bondai Pavilion. I’d rather go just hit on Bondai Beach. Did that one day when I was down there. Oh amazing, Water’s cold though.

All right, I’m gonna wrap it up here because I have the house to myself, but everyone’s going to come home soon and I want to bang out Monday’s episode while it’s quiet. So that’s it. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Jerry Seinfeld, Jessica Seinfeld, Bert Kreischer, Taylor Tomlinson, Chelsea Handler, John Mulaney, John Stewart, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer

What’s in This Episode

• Nikki Glaser opens up about depression and suicidal ideation on Last Laugh podcast
• Nikki Glaser’s roast of Tom Brady success and new special ‘Sunday You’ll Die’
• Jerry Seinfeld wrestling with Jewish identity and Israel-Hamas war advocacy
• Stand-up comedy industry boom with grosses nearly tripled over last decade
• Netflix comedy spending and special deals outcompeting traditional networks

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. There’s so much going on. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’m recording Friday and Saturday back to back. I just finished the Friday episode.

I’m looking at the raw number and it’s twenty two minutes before I edit out all my stumbles, but add back in the clips and the commercials and all that, and trying to keep this thing tight. But it’s just been so busy. Nikki Glaser had a great week thanks to the roast of Tom Brady. She happened to be the guest on the Last Laugh podcast who said to Nikki, your new special Sunday You’ll Die as the darkest premise that you’ve put out there so far. Does that reflect your state of mind right now?

NICKI shared, I struggle with self esteem and depression. It’s not easy. It’s bad for me. I’m sickly going through really intense self doubt and imposter syndrome and immense depression and just defeat. And it seems to get worse the more successful I get.

And it’s something that I’m constantly trying to figure out and find a cure for because I can’t really keep going like this, things will be going good and I’ll be cofid and feel like, you know what, I don’t need more and this is enough when I’m talented and I didn’t trick anyone, and then that’s gone by the next day. Neither feeling lasts forever. I’m so glad the feeling of depression doesn’t ever last. But that’s kind of what gets me through it, knowing that it will lift at some point. But the good times don’t last ever either.

Some serious stuff here, she says, So I think somewhere in the past couple of years and he said, okay, you could start talking about the thing you were scared to talk about or ever reveal, which is, despite all your success, despite how great things are going in your life, you still think about dying a lot, and you wish to die a lot of times. Oh no, I hope she’s okay. There’s some freedom of just saying that stuff out loud. I feel like I have some control over it when I talk about it so much, and if I can laugh about it, I can own it a little bit more and control it more. And that’s a comedy podcast.

I’m me just jumping in here right now. If you were thinking about suicide, or you’re worried about a friend or a loved one. If you need emotional support, there is the nine to eight eight Life nine network just in your phone down nine eight eight. Last Laugh asked Nikki if she finds herself censoring herself on stage. She said yes and no.

I mean I don’t. I really like to hurt people’s feelings. So if I said the R word and there was someone in the audience who had suffered because of that word or felt called out or alienated by it, I’d feel really horrible. When you first start tackling a subject like that and you’re figuring out the wording still and making it palatable, that’s where you have people getting offended and worrying about getting canceled. But I know I’m not a hateful person, and I don’t like making people feel bad about themselves are sad, and so if I ever do get canceled, I think I’ll be able to forgive myself.

This sounds really good. I’m going to download this for my listening over the weekend. This is the Last Laugh podcast. NICKI how about turning forty? She says, I’m really okay about it.

I kind of do this thing where I always say I’m the next age. So I’ve been saying I’m forty all year so I could prepare for it. When it does that it’s not that big a deal. It’s going to be a struggle. But for now, I feel like forty is young.

I know it’s ahead. I’m really scared about sixty. I’m fine with forty. I had a conversation in my kitchen this morning. My daughter joked about us being forty four, and I said, forty four sounds really great right now.

Nicki says I’ve let go of wanting to look twenty at ay more. I really feel that way, but I also feel very stunted emotionally. I’m not married, i’s still rent, I don’t know a place, I don’t have kids. I don’t feel forty in many ways, but I think it’s cool. Whenever you turn the next decade, you’re the youngest of that decade.

So I’m like the oldest thirty year old right now. The New York Times earlier the week wrote a piece about Jerry Seinfeld that I just didn’t have room for. I thought it was really interesting. The Times wrote the comedian, long beloved for his a political riffs has been wrestling with what it means to be Jewish amid the Israel Hamas war. Not everyone is pleased since the attacks of October seventh.

Seinfeld seventy. That looks so weird to see a seventy next to Jerry, because in your mind, he’s always I don’t know how old he was on the show thirty years ago. It was forty. I think the character is late thirties, right, He’s forever frozen at that age in my mind. Seinfeld seventy has emerged as a strikingly public voice against anti Semitism and in support of Jews in Israel in the United States, edging warily sort of more forward facing advocacy role than he ever seemed to seek across his decades of fame.

I’ll jump in here. I’ve always felt, if you have a platform and you believe in something strongly use it. Otherwise what are we all doing here on our time on the planet? The times rights. As some American cities and college campuses simmer with conflict over the Middle East crisis in Israel’s military response, Seinfeld has faced a measure of public scorn that he’s rarely courted as a breakfast obsess comedian, intensified by the more vocal advocacy of his wife, Jessica, a cookbook author.

Missus Seinfeld attracted attention she promoted on Instagram and said she had helped bankroll a counter protest at UCLA. The shifts in Seinfeld’s public bearing after October seventh have been modest, if still perceptible. He remains far less outspoken on the subject than other celebrities and comedians such as Amy Schumer, but for figure long held up like few others in entertainment as a generational narrator of the American Jewish experience. Even a cautious exploration of his identity has been notable. Jerry told GQ, I don’t preach about it.

I have my personal feelings about it that discussed privately. It’s not part of what I can do comedically, but my feelings are very strong. You could do it comedically. That would be a major statement. If Jerry went out on tour and we somehow got aggressively political, Jerry Seinfeld, that would get noticed, my friend.

Would people get mad at you? Sure, some people will get mad at you, But we have so much time on this planet, and if you have a platform, you should use it, and you don’t need any more money. Why don’t you go all in? Jerry? And I say that, I know my voice cracked there and made it sound sarcastic.

I’m serious, Jerry, go all in. Jerry says, it’s not part of what I can do comedically, but my feelings are very strong. You could do it. Another thing I couldn’t get to this week an oracle from Bloomberg. Lucas Shaw writes a stand up comedy has tripled in size over the last decade.

Burt Kraisher, Taylor Thomason, and Chelsea Handler discussed the boom and stand up. Lucas writes, I went to see John Stewart perform in front of a packed crowd at the Greek Theater. A day later, more than seventeen thousand people crowded into the Hollywood Bowl to watch John Mulaney. Stand up comedy grosses have nearly tripled over the last decade, climbing to where than nine hundred million dollars last year, according to pollstar. Bert Kreischer grossed about thirty three million dollars on tour between October twenty two and twenty three.

Second only to Kevin Hart. Bert Kreischer recently said I have a shortlisted person I should think at my funeral, and Netflix is at the top. Robbie Pra, who runs Netflix Comedy, said stand up was very undervalued. Competitors complained that Netflix was being a rational spending more than the specials were worth. Netflix released fifty or more specials in twenty seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen.

Taylor Thomlinson had a choice between a fifteen minute set for Netflix is the Comedy Lineup and a thirty minute special for Comedy Central. She picked Netflix. Taylor says it became clear that Netflix was the best and fastest way to find your people and build up that fan base. Before that, yet of a sitcom was so hard to get and then have it be successful. Some of the biggest names touring right now, including Andrew Schultz at the Ovaughn, building an audience using YouTube or podcasts.

Bert Kreischer’s first brush with fame came when he uploaded a clip from Especially Made for Showtime on a social media The machine went viral. It was only after that Netflix he gave him a special. Vulture interviewed Robbie Pra Robbie says, something we’re seeing more and more is the cultivation of fantoms by individual artists. So that happens sometimes outside of Netflix. Your neighbor may not know who this person is, but they’re selling out the readA in your town that night.

We just had this discussion in the Facebook group. I think it was Dylan who was pointing out Andrew Schultz sold out the garden a few times. And I said, very very respectfully, walk down the street and ask one hundred people who Andrew Schultz is. You might go zero for one hundred that said he’s selling out the garden. He’s super popular.

So Robbie pra is saying the same thing here. Robbie says, I think the big change, and we’re part of this fly wheel, is how people speak directly to audiences. Oftentimes, now they’re coming to Netflix with diehard fans that are excited to get to watch their favorite person, which otherwise could be very expensive night out. We think it’s a pretty good proposition that you get to see the person on Netflix. One more Quickie article comedy podcast led by the Joe Rogan Experience game to add market share in twenty twenty three.

This one was from Variety. Podcast ad revenue in the US after seven years of double digit hit a slow down in twenty twenty three, however, comedy podcast led by Joe Rogan, gained market share overtaking sports is the biggest content genre by spending. Comedy represented seventeen percent of US podcast AD revenue, up from fourteen percent in twenty twenty two. I just bumped seven stories. That’s how busy it is this week.

So that’ll be busy next week too, so I have at least seven leftovers. Remember the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor that they gave to Kevin Hart, Well, it’s on TV. If you want to see Kevin Hart honored by Little Dickie, Dave Chappelle, Jimmy Fallon, Chelsea Handler, the Plastic Cup Boys, Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld, you might want to watch this thing. It used to air on PBS, I thinks span I don’t even remember, but now it’s on Netflix, which means it’s going to be a lot more visible. That’s today.

Let’s take a look at the festivals. I’ll do Sidney casually, as I’ve been saying. I’ll get more into that next week. Once Netflix Clears Cam James show is called Mixtape. This is a show about music, love and the summer in two thousand and nine, that I worked as a singing Captain Jack Sparrow impersonator at a suburban dinner theater restaurant.

He wants us to press play and turn the volume up loud. There appears to be a clip here. It wasn’t planning on playing a clip, but a right, if you really want me to, let’s listen. I have no idea what’s about to happen. Here’s what happened.

An error occurred. Please try again later playback id J I R HG dash TSST zero learn more. That getting worked out better for me? All right, Netflix Comedy Festival. We’re almost done here.

Saturday night should be a big night right outside joke at the Hollywood Palladium. All this outside one o’clock Adam Raised, Doctor Phil two fifteen, middle aged Dad jam Band three thirty, Mortgage A four forty five, Regie Watts five point thirty. That ninety show hosted by Kevin Smith. Seven pm. Roast Battle.

That’s the thing I told you about yesterday Judges Jeff Ross and Tony Hinchcliff eight thirty the drop In, hosted by Tim Dillon. Maybe we just hang outside the Hollywood Palladium and see that’s seven and eight thirty shows. Those are great, but then we’d miss Trevor Noah at the Hollywood Bowl at seven thirty, Brut Krasier at the Forum at eight, Chelsea Handler, Fortune Fimester, Mattel Laine, Sam Jay, Vanessa Gonzalez all on One show at seven late night at the Hollywood Palladium, Nikki Glaser at ten thirty, Brett Goldstein at seven two more. Alley Wongs added, she’s either super popular or we’re having trouble recording as special. I’ll guess she’s just super popular at this point for some reason.

The Purple Reen fortieth anniversary screening, Why is that part of the comedy festival? Tom Barry at four pm at Dynasty Typewriter, and a whole bunch of other things. As usual. As I scroll down, it gets more obscure.

All right, let’s make a day of it.

Let’s get up early. Well, let me rephrase that. Let’s go see Todd Burry at four o’clock. Hopefully you’re normally up by three thirty when I want to meet you, so we’ll go see Todd Barry at four. I don’t know, maybe just hang outside and watch the roast battle judge Jeff Ross and Tony Hinchcliff and then stick around for Tim Dillon and then uh maybe do ten thirty Nikki Glaser.

She’s just hosting, but you know that could be a good night, right, Yes, that’s enough for today. That’s your comedy news. If you would like this program, add free. Go to the Apple podcast app find this show. Then on the app you’ll see it says subscribe four ninety nine a month.

You’ll get the show commercial free, and you can get the other shows on the network commercial free. Top Tour debuts on Monday. Do you like top Gear? Did you like the Grand Tour? This is Top Tour.

It’s fun, a lot of fun. Made it myself, had a good time with it. Top Tour Episode one might be secretly sitting there in the feed right now if you want to sneak preview Top Tour. Where we get your podcast? All right, see tomorrow

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Featured: Jerry Seinfeld, Howard Stern, David Spade, Dana Carvey, Travis Kelce, Andrew Santino, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Jeff Ross, Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, David Beckham, Tom Brady, Joe Coy, Taylor Swift

What’s in This Episode

• Jerry Seinfeld apologizes to Howard Stern over comedy criticism
• Jerry Seinfeld discusses podcast popularity on David Spade and Dana Carvey podcast
• The Office spinoff with Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore announced for Peacock
• Travis Kelce wants roast by Andrew Santino, Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, and Jeff Ross
• David Beckham checks on Tom Brady after roast

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I’ve been saying this all week. There’s so much going on this week, I keep bumping stuff, but this has got to be my lead today. Jerry Seinfeld apologizes for saying Howard Stern lacks comedy chops and has been outflanked by comedians with podcasts.

Let’s go slow here because I want to unpack this one. There’s a lot more to this than the headliners are writing. Jerry was on the David Spade and Dana Corvey podcast. He was discussing the popularity of podcasts with Dana and David Seinfeld, astitute comedians. Howard Stern vetted, this is right, Jerry continues, but we’re better than him.

Now, Howard’s interesting. That was a great interviewer, But comedy chops. I mean, can we speak candidly? Spade said sure, Carvey said no. They both laughed.

Carvey said, well, he’s got Robin, and Robin is a big part of how he’s funny. Yeah, they’re all great, but let’s face it, he’s been out flanked by some very in yourselves. I mean, absolutely, this show comedy podcast, this is the best one on the air, because you guys play nice together. It’s smooth. You’re not jumping on each other, which is annoying to listen to.

All Right, Jerry has cleaned this up. He told TMZ. He meant to say he must feel surrounded, but I said out flanked, which sounded terrible and insulting. Of course, no, these little shows are any threats to his giant show. Anyway, I was bad, and I’m sorry, Howie.

I still love you. Please forgive me. Ohkay. I have met Howard Stern once in my life. Howard paid me the compliment of my career.

To understand. I am fifty four years old, grew up in New York City. I was already listening to WNBC in nineteen eighty two when Howard Stern came along. I was already listen to the station. And this funny guy started doing afternoons, and he started talking a lot more between records.

On my way to high school, listening every morning, I would get up, hit record on a cassette, go take a shower, and then when I came back, I would have that cassette because when the seven train went underground, I couldn’t hear Howard’s radio show, so I’d go back to the part I missed major major Howard fan here, do you hear the butt coming? I was at Sirious when we hired Howard Stern. The day before we had Howard Stern. If I told somebody where I worked, I’d go, I work it Sirious, and then go, I don’t have Cyrus. I have XM.

Every time somebody would call it cyrus. The day we hired Howard, nobody ever said cyrus to me again. Howard made serious. Howard paid me the comblement of my career. Met him once and he found out that I was running the rowd Dog Comedy channel, and he said, the station sounds great.

That meant so much to me. That’s two thousand and six. Somewhere in the last eighteen years, Howard became everything he hated. I wish I had a time machine and I would go back to the days of Howard Stern ripping into John de Bella, the quote unquote zoo keeper from Philadelphia making fun of Deblla for being bald. I’m sure Howard’s hair is naturally as dark as it is making fun of Bella’s marital situation.

You know, Howard, You’re living in the Hamptons with your second wife and your hair’s a little too dark. You became everything you hated. At some point, Howard somehow disappeared a lot of his career, and here in this third act he wants to be remembered as the great interviewer. And Jerry even kissed the ring here. But Howard became everything he hated.

It’s hard for me to watch. I have not enjoyed the third act of Howard’s career.

Also here back in the day, because I was listening, Howard Stern used to kill…

Let me google here so I get my facts right. People magazine reported that Jerry Seinfeld met so Shanna Lonstein, then a seventeen year old and a senior at a private school back in nineteen ninety three. In a nineteen ninety three Playboy interview, Jerry said he didn’t know old she was when they met. I met this girl, so Shanna. She’s a very sweet girl and she’s very pretty.

I didn’t know old she was. I knew she wasn’t forty. Took at a basketball game and that was the whole thing. Jerry Seinfeld was a guest on The Howard Stern Show. Howard Stern asked Jerry back in the day, so you sit in Central Park and have a candy boar on a string and pull it when the girls come.

Jerry defended his action, saying, I didn’t realize she was so young. The only girl everyone else was was that young. I wasn’t dating her. We just watch your restaurant. That was it.

Jerry tells people, I’m not an idiot. Shoshanna is a person, not an age. She’s extremely right, she’s funny, shirt very alert. We just get along. You can hear the click.

So here we are in twenty twenty four. Jerry maybe accidentally takes a shot at Howard personally. I think perhaps possibly that. I imagine Jerry doesn’t want Howard to get rabbid. That’s what I think is going on.

Here. We’re seven minutes and I’m still on the first story. You may recall I was talking about Jerry Seinfeld being on with Dana Carvey and David Spade. They were talking about comedy podcaster or He said, who knows a marget? Who knew people wanted to get to know us?

Who gets the credit to figure that out? Jerry apparently criticized comedians who get personal on their podcast. It’s saying, mega’s laugh. How understand do you think you are? You know that interesting?

Okay, you know you know what? You’re funny? You were that? This is my line. You know me, you know me now?

But you know I draw that line. If you’re not that funny, We’re not that interested in you. All right, there’s a new version of the Office. I’m gonna comment on that as well. Yeah, I had my caffeine this morning in the Office.

Spin Off is the word I’m seeing, and I’m gonna comment on that. The documentary crew that immortalized dunder Miflin Scranton Branch is in search of a new subject when they discover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it with volunteer reporters. Apparently Dominal Gleeson you know him from Star Wars movies. My brain’s not working, Redhead Guy in the sequels, the bad guy General Hawks is a General Hawks. Him and Sabrina and PATCHA Tory will lead the cast.

Production will begin in July. Now is this spin off? I mean? Okay, there’s a documentary crew filming people. So is Modern Family a spin off?

Then is Parks and rec Season one at least a spin off? You know? Are they gonna do something lame like when Oscar Nuniaz moved to the Midwest to volunteer at a newspaper. Are they going to do that? Don’t do that.

This thing will be on Peacock. I think that might be a strategic mistake. If this were on NBC, everyone’s gonna watch it. It’s on Peacock. I know they want to get subscriptions.

I don’t know, is like sort of the Office interesting enough to get anyone to get Peacock? Not sure. David Beckham was on Kimmel and he said he reached out to Tom Brady after the roast. David explains, I know Tom quite well, and I must admit I did fire my message just to check that he was okay. Tom Brady’s okay.

Beckham found the roast very funny. Travis Kelcey has flowed the idea of a roast of Travis Kelsey. He was talking about it on his Big Famous New Heights podcast. Travis suggested who we would want to have roast him, he said, Andrew Santino Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, and Jeff Ross. Well, sure, yeah, all great comedians, and after this week you probably want Tony Hinchcliff and Nikki Glaser too.

Why not ask for any Murphinus Prime while we’re at it. Now, what’s interesting to me Kelsey called Chappelle an all time great, called Santino one of my favorite comedians of all time, and said he would effing deliver. Now what’s interesting to me is he didn’t invite Joe Coy. Now, now hear me out here, Travis Kelcey is dating Taylor Swift. Joe Coy probably a pretty good roaster.

Maybe Travis is afraid that Joe Coy would go after Taylor Swift. Now, you’re like Johnny Mac. Joe Cooy seems like the nicest guy in the world. Why would he go after Taylor Swift? Well, you gotta be careful with Joe Koy.

Now, one time he hosted the Golden Globes. That couldn’t even do it a straight face. Oh, leave it in now. One time he hosted the Golden Globes and this was just unbelievable. He went after Taylor Swift.

Here, let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Natasha Lazio, known for her candid and straight shooting comedic style, made her the ideal choice for period. Undermaker thinks latest ad campaign, That’s a Right, Natasha went on a twelve hour road trip through southern California. It’s a showcase leakproof protection.

She’s asked, what’s the craziest thing you ever did while on your period? Nasasha said, well, I had to take my kids at water park and I leaked into the wave pool. I just blamed it on someone else. I’m all hung up on this John Mulaney show. I so many so I feel bad even talking about it because quite obviously I record the podcast the day before you hear it, and because Mlanie Show’s on late I’m kind of like two three days behind, so as you’re listening.

The most recent episode I’ve seen is Tuesdays, which was not good. I bailed after fifteen minutes. I’ll talk about that in a second. Late Night Are writes The Chris Gathered Show walked so everybody’s in LA could run when social media user said John Mulaney recreated the Chris Gathered show, but with a higher budget from Late Nighter. The two shows do share much of the same DNA like mullaney, show Gathered featured old school viewer call centered around of chosen topics.

Other similarities the lineup of comedian guests and their embrace of absurd sidekicks. Gethard said, I’m greatly enjoying the new show Mlanie’s doing on Netflix. Kayatic and funny and interactive and unpredictable and good. I like live TV and phone calls and seeing celebrities slightly uncomfortable. I just like it.

Another Twitter user said that endorsement is like shaking Sinatra’s hand on the casino floor. So the Tuesday Night episode, I did like the weirdness that it was just for no reason, sunglasses night, and they’re all wearing sunglasses. That’s something eighties Letterman would have done. But I’m watching it and the main guest is Napergatsy and they have this helicopter pilot on and m’laney just has this really long conversation with the helicopter pilot and Nate’s sitting there doing nothing, and I’m like I’m bored, so I bailed fifteen minutes into it. Apparently during that episode, I missed this phone call.

I’ll explain it all the back end, but let’s listen. This will give you a good feel for what this show is. One of the voices you’re gonna hear in the middle here, you’ll recognize it.

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And now I pointed out as Patton as so again you have Nate and Patton and you’…

What are you doing anyway? Let’s listen, Bob, you’re on Everybody’s in LA with nine people. What do you have to say about helicopters? Hi? There, I’m uh.

I’m just calling because I get you know, I tend to get annoyed. I live out in Malibu and they make a lot of noise. They spook my horses. They spook your what horses? They spook my horses?

I got horses. You have horses in Malibu? No offense. I thought, he said it spooked his horse like that. That threw me for a second.

That might also be happening. That could also be happening, Bob. How many horses do you have in Malibu? I might have thirteen fourteen horses. Probably not sure, Bob, you’re Sere’s precious angel.

There’s the slow train. This idiot win, I got a I got one named Joey. And what’s your last name? About? Is Bob wearing sunglasses?

Bob? What’s your full name? I was sunglasses? Bob Dylan, I’m a recording god’s for Columbia. Oh you’re letting us know you’re a recording artist for Columbia.

Bob Dylan. Malibu resident so Malany revealed during the closing credits Bob Dylan was actually James Austin Johnson from Saturday Night Live. Johnson posted a video of his end of the call to Instagram. He wrote, calling in too, everybody’s in la is Bob Dylan when I’m supposed to be writing stuff. I still continue to really like this as an idea.

Now, I’m an old man who goes to bed at ten ten thirty Monday through Thursday or Sunday through Thursday. If this thing were at eight o’clock Eastern, I’d probably watch it every night. With it being on ten. I feel like, as I explained earlier, I’m like three days behind by the time I talk to you about it, not that the show’s topical at all, But I don’t want you to be like John. It’s Friday.

Why are we talking about Tuesday night’s show? And I’m still thinking about the other night yet John Stewart and Gabriel Iglesias, and you know it’s too much. You don’t need both. Just book John Stewart in a different night, book Gabriel of Blasis. I know they’re trying to show off for the six days, but if this thing goes long term, it needs better producing.

I’m making a lot of friends today on Today’s podcast. So so far, Netflix producer is gonna be mad at me. Howard’s den is gonna be mad at me. Howard, if you want to do an hour on me, go ahead. And Jerry Seinfeld is probably gonna be mad at me as well.

I’m recording a podcast in my basement. John Mulaney is dating Olivia Munn On John Mulaney Show Tonight, Hannah Gatsby Flea and a music performance by Beck. Netflix Festival Tonight’s Roast Battle seven o’clock, a Decade of Destruction Birthday tournament with special guest judges Jeff Ross and Nikki Glaser. That’s interesting. Who’s on this one National Roast Battle League’s best competitive roasters enter the outdoor stage at the Hollywood Palladium to go Mike to Mike to determine who’s the funniest.

Only one will survive the brutal disses and bloodthirsty crowd. All right, that’s pretty good. Eight thirty The drop in, hosted by Jim Jeffrey. Seven thirty Kevin Hart. Eight o’clock, Killed Sony?

Why did you put kill Tony kind at this end? Kilt? He’s at the Kia Form, which means they’re gonna show off with who shows out? All right? Sorry, Rose Battle show kill Tony at the Kia Forum.

You gotta do that show. I mean that is just gonna be amazing. Brett Goldstein at seven. Ali Wong just added again there’s either a huge demand whor we’re now five tries out of two trying to get a special taped Spidy sense is tingling. Sheng Wang nine forty five Low tickets warning.

Hannah Berner at seven Low tickets, Anthony J. Justinik nine forty five. Ryan Hamilton remember him? I love him. Seven o’clock You’re gonna lose out to kill Tony.

Sorry, Rachel Feinstein at nine forty five. This is such a great festival. Oh, I mean it’s too much. Chris Fleming at nine forty five. Now I’m getting low, as I tell you every day, as I start to scroll down, it gets less interesting.

Eight o’clock sold out, Big Jay Okerson, ten thirty sold out. Ari Shafeerz renamed Storytelling Show meaning totally not. This is not happening, This is not this is not how happening, which is owned I believe by Comedy Central. This is a different thing hosted by Ardishafir. I’d like that.

Okay, let’s pop into Sydney quickly. As previously mentioned, I’ll do a lot more Sydney next week when things calm down. This one looks fun just at it. It’s called all right Hey Show Dancing Queen. As a self proclaimed social media veteran, it’s about time all right Hey released his memoir.

The only problem is no reputable publishing agency is offered to print it. Thankfully, he’s publishing in his own way. Live on stage looks fun.

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Also on Saturday or Teaste, Mister Bean meets the Mona Lisa in this high ener…

It’s at one point thirty in the afternoon. Website nothing ever happens in Brisbane calls it a celebration of creativity and playfulness for both young and old. Oh my goodness, I just check the timer again. All right, this is when I start with shaddying topics. Let’s say you can wait.

Let me tell you about this one. I’ve been trying to get to this one all week. Tracy Morgan visited a ho little recently greeted cancer patients. Tracy visited the Florina Cancer Center on Staten Island. He told the patients God is great, God as good.

God is everywhere. Tracy popped in and out of several adult and pediatric rooms in the infusion center. Were about thirty patients we’re receiving treatment. Right, you’re not expecting Tracy were gonna come by. I guess that brightened up your day.

And that is your comedy news for today. So much going on and it will be a robust, normal weekend, no filler, all killer hack. If you enjoy this program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. One way to support the show, you go to buy me a coffee.

Dot com slash Daili comedy News. This one’s eight percent left, probably about three SIPs left there. And if you would like this program, add free, open up the show on Apple Podcasts, you’ll see it, says Caloroga Shark Media Plus. Subscribe and for four ninety nine a month you’ll get this program and others on the network. Add free and you can test drive it for thirty days free to see if you’ll like the whole idea of it or not.

All right, see tomorrow

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Featured: Nikki Glaser, Katt Williams, Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Jordan Klepper

What’s in This Episode

• Late night comedy coverage of Stormy Daniels Trump trial testimony
• Nikki Glaser jokes cut from the Roast of Tom Brady
• Katt Williams allegedly leaving Netflix is a Joke Festival brunch when Kevin Hart arrived
• Katt Williams special ratings vs Roast of Tom Brady viewership
• Netflix edit removing Kim Kardashian joke from Tom Brady roast
• Monique’s criticism of Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily comedy whose late night had some fun with Stormy Daniels testifying the Donald Trump trial. We’re covering that over on the Ballot podcast. Stephen Colbert said it was a historic day because Stormy Daniels did what she does best, and that’s spank Donald Trump. Jordan Klepper hosting The Daily Show, come on, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash acting like you’re too good for this, Like you’ve never seen Genitalia before.

You’re very prudish for people whose names sound like porn names. Seth Myers. Stormy Daniels testified that she spanked Trump with a rolled up magazine that had his face on the cover. And I think it’s weird that the hotel even had a copy of Bankruptcy aficionado Stephen Colbert. Trump explained that he and Milania have separate bedrooms.

Yes, we’re having trouble falling asleep in the same bed because she snores and I bang porn stars. Seth Myers Stormy Daniels setting a phone call after the section. When Cannon with Trump in two thousand and six, he would always call her honey. Bunch, honey bunch, and you guys think Biden is too old. New topic of Chinese zoo had some dogs that they painted, were passing them off as pandas Colbert said, well, there’s a simple explanation.

The dogs are in a Christi Nome protection program. That is great, all right, we got some beefs going on. This first one from Atlanta Blackstar. I’ve read this a couple times and I’m trying to make sense of it. Honestly, it’s not the best written oracle I’ve ever read.

I’ve read it three times and I’m like, all right, let me get to the gist here. I will try here. The point being people accusing Kat Williams of ducking out of a party when Kevin Hart showed up. But let’s see if we could figure out the details from this article. The event was the weekend brunch at the Netflix is a Joke Festival.

By the way, that is not an easy thing to say, Netflix is a joke festival. We got to rename this thing, Robbie pro I mean I stumbled over that four times. Nathi ed at this time, apparently at the brunch, Dave Chappelle, Tiffany Hattish Kevin Hart, Marshall, Warfield, Mike Appsolute Rel Dion Cole, they took a picture. Hattish told the Breakfast Club that the brunch started around noon and that she saw Kat Williams. She said, we was outside, okay, so we wasn’t in the same room.

Everybody was there and Kat was there, and he was looking very interesting, very shiny, and it was super cool. We Apparently Kat was dressed differently than me. He’s wearing a hoodie in a baseball cap. He was talking to everybody, moving around the room and stuff. As soon as Kevin got there, nobody could find Kat.

I don’t know where Kat went, but he did perform live. She claims they took a group picture with all the comedians. Kat’s not in that photo because Kat left right as Kevin pulled up.

Meanwhile, Monique, who opened for Kat, took some shots at Oprah Winfrey.

I will have to quite paraphrase here, Monique said, F you Oprah Winfrey, F you Tyler Perry. She then questioned the nature of Winfrey’s friendship with Gail King, suggesting perhaps there’s more too there friendship, and said, I’m too mfing old to be scared of this Bee I’m too old to be intimidated by this bee. I’m too old to the mfing truth. Cat Williams did better in the ratings than the roast of Tom Brady. Kind of surprising, No, I find that very surprising.

So is this bad for Cat? Because there were super hype on Cat. You know, I was stressing, should I blow off Deacon Mike and not go to Cleveland and stay home in Kat Williams. That would have been a mistake. Deac and Meg had an awesome party and Kat Williams Special was all right.

Everybody was waiting for Kat Williams take shots, and he didn’t really take shots at anybody anyway. Cat Williams won the ratings war. Streaming ratings are a little wonky, but we have learned that Cat Williams earned four million views, a metric determined by total viewing time divided by running time. That’s double what Tom Brady got for two million. But this is where it gets walky.

The roast had more total viewing time at six point two million hours to just four point one million hours for Cat Special. But Brady’s thing is three times as long, right, so I watched for three hours, So they get credit. For three out of me, whereas I also watched cat for one, so they get one out of me. Makes sense? It barely makes sense, right, Yeah.

John Mulaney presents Everybody’s In La also made the Netflix Top ten. They did not break out the viewers on that one, so who knows, Baby Raindier remains number one. That’s really fantastic if you haven’t seen that. Jerry Seinfeld’s pop tarts movie Unfrosted topped the list with seven point one million views for its opening weekend. Kuwaiti Romcom Honeymoonish number one fourteen million views.

Really okay? Netflix has made an edit to the roast of Tom Brady. What did they take out? No, not the Robert Kraft joke. They took out the booze of Kim Kardashian.

That’s lame. We all know what happened. Leave it in. Nikki Glaser, having quite the moment, she went on The Howard Stern Show, apparently thinking it’s nineteen eighty eight, and told Howard Stern that she had cut some jokes out of the roast. One of the cut jokes, Tom, I love your work that you’ve done on your face.

Seriously, slow down, what is happening with your cheeks. You look like a ken doll that was microwaved. You love deflating things, so stop. Did I imagine that that joke happened? What that joke happened?

I’m going crazy. I just took a pause and skimmed, Nicki set and I didn’t find that joke. Somebody did that joke. I’m not crazy. Help me out in the Facebook group.

Somebody did that joke, Nicki said. She also cut a joke about CTE. The joke read, it’s really cool. All the proceeds are going to CTE research in the NFL’s coordinated effort to cover it up. She did make an NFL cover up joke.

I just played it back during the pause there. People don’t know, but it costs millions to murder those doctors that know the truth. These guys really effing damage their bodies and brains all for the sake of men hugging each other in a Buffalo wild wings. Nicki is on the Last Laugh podcast that was recorded before the roast, and she told the Last Laugh, I’m educating myself about football. I just learned about football from Taylor Swift.

Now I’m doing all this research on Tom Brady, and I’m learning to love it and learning to really respect him. So I have a great angle I fear, but it’s terrifying. I haven’t done a ros since pre COVID. I thought it was behind me. I thought, if they ever come asking again, I’m gonna say no, because the last time I did one, I was thirty four and if you called me old, it didn’t really work.

But now I’m thirty nine and this is old. They can make those jokes now or make fun of my looks, and it’s not like I’ve gotten any more secure in my looks. It’s painful to do a roast, so I’m kind of worried about that. But I’m in the state of mind now ahead of it, where I’m just focused on writing and I’m not even thinking about the jokes that could have been written about me. And that’s always rough when you sit there and hear about how ugly I am or how unfunny I am.

The last laugh said, well, you’re definitely more famous now than you were at last rose, maybe you won’t get those jokes. NICKI said, yeah, that was don’t bother me because I’m pretty aware of my level. I don’t care if people say I’m not famous. I don’t really care about being famous. I mean, yes, of course I care because it means more money, which means more security, which means I won’t die any apocalypse, which is my biggest fear.

But I don’t care. Please come at me for all that, I’d love it. She talked about limits put on it and quoting Niki here, Dude, they kind of said, don’t go after the kids, and I was like, why would I go after as kids? You really have a license say anything, because if they’re there and they sign up for it, you can go after them now. Jokes about Gazelle.

I don’t want to frame Gazelle in a poor light. I don’t ever want to frame his kids out on the days they haven’t sign up for it, But anyone else I will not pull punches, but I will say I have a lot more heart going to this one than I have in the past. I don’t want to be mean like that. It has to be really good to be mean. Jim Gaffigan, Jenny Slaate, and Tig Nazaro talked parenthood and the best and worst things about being a comedian today.

Boy, doesn’t that sound exciting? Don’t you wish you were at the Prime Experience in Los Angeles. Nice move there, Prime Experience in Los Angeles, having your own comedy event in the middle of the Netflix Festival in Los Angeles. I see what you’re doing there, Jim, you’ve clearly chosen sides. Okay, Robbie pro is gonna remember that.

Jenny Slat says, there’s much to love about working as a stand up comic today. We have the opportunity to be really thoughtful about saying something deeply important about our own personal development, about the world at large, about current events, about censorship and art, and about what the current vernacular in art is. Jenny says, cancel culture is frightening. It’s scary to be a personal with the microphone, but it’s also great privilege of your performer, and you feel that you’re talented. If you pair that talent with thoughtfulness, I think it’s a great opportunity to feel fully expressed.

Tick Natara was asked about the best and worst of being a modern day stand up and Tick said, there’s so much going on and so much opportunity. Could feel a little oversaturated, but I don’t know. I don’t have any complaints I started doing stand up solely because I’m obsessed with it, and so from open mic days to now, it’s really neat to get on stage and want to just share these stories and experiences. Amazon. I’m gonna remind you guys cross Town.

John Maliney sitting there with Jerry Seinfeld. He’s not talking to Jerry Seinfeld, but he’s sitting there with him. What is this event? Why did you do this event? This is a bad look.

Jim Gaffigan joked he started in comedy when there were wooden microphones. Yuck, yuck. Jim said he tends not to call his kids out by naming his act for the sake of their privacy, but he observed at the same time, kids would rather hear you talk about them and stand up than if you posted a picture of them. If you post a picture, that’s crossing a line, but if you make a reference to them being misanthropic, they’re like, yeah, that’s great. When asked what’s next for him, Jim Gaffigan joked, I’m gonna be Donald Trump’s running mates.

Can I tell you I have been talking about how there’s so much going on last week and this week that I could pre tape all of next week. Take a week off. I’m not kidding. The raw version of today’s podcast was twenty minutes. It gets shorter after clean up all the stumbles and stuff, but it’s twenty minutes and I hit save and I’m like, oh, you forgot to do the festivals.

And that’s after I bumped three stories. There’s just so much anyway. Festivals Tonight, Cryptocamerina seven thirty Andrew Scheldtz Sing Gillison special guests. You gotta do that right eight o’clock, Tom Sigora come together. This is reminding me.

I forgot to look up what happened at their five k. Apparently the big news at the Two Bears five k from the other day is that jelly Roll finished it. He spoke to Entertainment tonight. He said, I couldn’t walk a mile when I started trying to do this back in January. So the fact that we got three point whatever it was, it’s three point one.

Jelly Roll got it down. I felt really good about it. Yeah, I understand, man. When I first started running, I couldn’t do a five k, and I’ve now run two marathons. Oh, here’s a funny picture of Grasier with his shirt off in a metal This looks pretty funny.

Oh and I digressed more as I threw Burke Kreischer into Google to see if I could find something about the five K. But I see this headline. Burt Krascher and Tom Szagre react to Gazelle bunch In being upset over the Tom Brady roast jokes. A source told Entertainment Tonight, Jazelle was upset and hurt by some of the jokes about her, her relationships with her boyfriend and her marriage to Tom. Her main concern has always her children and her family, and she wants to protect them.

She found some of the jokes to be distasteful and disrespectful. Sigura said, oh, that’s awesome. That means everyone did their chop. Krayser jokingly said he had heard from Bunchin’s camp and said, I don’t speak Portuguese. I don’t care what you say.

That’s funny. Grayscher said, to be fair, Giselle got half that check anyway. Netflix Comedy Festival. You see why these podcasts, I’m telling you, Pumping Story is left and right, all right? Cheltz and Shane at seven thirty Sigora at eight, Country Wayne at seven, Ali Wang again taping another show, this one I think was planned.

I’m wondering if they’re having trouble getting a special Shang Wang nine forty five, Love Him, Somebody Feed Phil at seven, Nick Offerman at Friends at seven, Jared Freed at seven. Dean Cook is out there. I didn’t know that. Dane Cook at seven. Jessica Curson has sold out at seven, and I’ve seen very few sold outs on this grid.

Curson again at nine forty five, Spinal tap the original fortieth anniversary screening at four. Felippia Sparzo sold that at nine forty five, Jeff Ross at seven, Josh Wolf at seven. He’s really good, but you’re up against that show at the Crypto Arena, Eric Griffin and Friends, and like the other days, as if I scroll down four enough, it gets uninteresting. All right, if you and I were there, We’re going to Crypto Arena. We’re seeing Schultz Shane and whoever shows up late show will do Shang Wang as that sound.

We are so long today, I’m not gonna hunt for clips at Sydney, but I’ll just tell you about a show that we haven’t talked about yet have we’ve done Connor Burns from Scotland. This shows called Verdigo, a punchline pack sixty minutes featuring submarines, relationships and the inevitable family drama. The Scotsman gave it five stars, saying he’s a great comedy tale. He’s fearless and wonderful, hilarious. Of the list four stars, but perhaps at four brilliant.

GAG’s coming you at a terrifying rate. She your fearlessness, he’ll go far. We’ve got plenty left in this festival. There’s just been so much gone with Netflix domining, so a lot more sitting next week? All right, Tonight on John Mullany’s Late Night Thing, the guest David Letterman, Bill Hayter, Cedric the Entertainer, and music performance by Los Lobos.

Okay, John MLINI write this down because I watched the Monday night show. You were not taking my notes. Stop taking phone calls. The phone calls are terrible. Get rid of the robot.

The robot’s not working. Here’s what you do. My first guest tonight is David Letterman.

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And then stop talking and let David Letterman be funny.

Then when Bill Hayter comes out, go hey, Bill Hayter, how are you doing?

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And then stop talking, same notes Cedric and then lost Lobos.

Don’t take a phone call in the middle of Los Lobos. I did enjoy Monday Night, Mulaney. They’re not taking my notes, says the guy in the basement of the guy dating Olivia Munn. LA Magazine ads folks out at the Netflix Festival. They were at Bill Burr on they write as for Burr.

After openers Nate Craig and Dean del Ray, he took the stage to spew his well honed stick about the sad state of the world. He was his usual curmudgeonly self, riffing on family life, white privilege, and male depression. His takes on middle aged dues at Guitar Center was spot on. We had a surprise guest, John Lovettz, trading barbs back and forth NonStop. These two old pros improvised put downs with love that were just the ticket, not the best.

Review Patton Oswalt at the United Theaterre on May fifth. LA mag says fans rain praise on opening acts Orlando Lava, who clowned that he lost America’s got talent to shadow puppets and Benny Feldman, who noted that his turette syndrome was like the abstract art of disabilities, joking that audience to say I could do that. Patton referred to himself as the cartoon rat guy and joke he’d rather beat the roast of Tom Brady happening at the same time across town. Patton lit up the room with stories about cat demons, the Planter’s Nutmobile, and an ill fated trip to Hobby Lobby, then joked that he should have opened the show Rising from dry ice smoke like zz Tap. Gab Iglesias was at the Palladium on May six.

The show apparently was unruly. Heckler is in more than a couple loaded ladies had to be admonished for yelling out indiscernible nonsense and interrupting comics during the show. Elie mag says, we won’t call out which comics got dragged or whether they deserved it, but let’s just say that anyone can have a bad night, and the female guests on the bill experience what we’re guessing is a rite of passage when facing a room full of drunk strangers who really only care about the headliner who that sounds like it sucks. Bigger names like Deon Cole and Matt Rife fared much better that We found Rife set and particularly his sex and trans material not only mean spirited but painfully unfunny. I think we figured out Matt Rife, right, We figured it out.

Yeah, the crowd disagreed, and the controversial comic got a load of laughs. George Lopez got a third season for his sitcom Lopez Versus Lopez. A comedian Ethan Levine is trying to earn the Guinness title for most ceremonial first pitches thrown. He’s out there this week throwing some first pitches. This week he’s working the Chicago area, but not the actual White Sox, doing some minor league teams.

And Levin told The New York at Jewish Week, I was just doom scrolling one night, and I thought of it and checked to see if there was a record. He figured a small town mayor somewhere must have set a lifetime record for first pitches, but he didn’t find anything. Guinness was like, I don’t know forty. He’s hoping to throw fifty. He says, A million cold emails and cold calls later.

I’m sitting outside of Dunkin Donuts Park, which is home of the Hartford Yard Goats. That’s your comedy news for today. If you’d like this ad free, open up the show in the Apple Podcasts app and click that Caloroga Shark Media Plus thing there. Four ninety nine a month, you get this and all the other shows on the network commercial free. How about that?

Huh bargain? You should do it. Actually, it’s doing really well, Like I’m really excited about how well it’s doing. So yeah, four ninety nine a month, and you can test drive it thirty days free. If you’re like, eah, this sucks, or Johnny Mac doesn’t get up early enough.

I’m up at four to fifteen in the morning and he hasn’t loaded the commercial free version. He had to hate that guy. I understand. I’m working on it. I don’t control the back end.

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Featured: Jeff Ross, Tom Brady, Robert Kraft, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, David Letterman, Nate Bargatze, Tiffany Haddish, Sam Morrill, Joe Koy, John Mulaney

What’s in This Episode

• Jeff Ross defends Tom Brady roast, says Brady wasn’t mad at Robert Kraft joke
• Late night jokes from Fallon, Meyers on Trump and jail
• David Letterman’s Gods of Comedy featuring Nate Bargatze
• Letterman apologizes for rejecting Nate Bargatze’s 2012 audition tape
• Tiffany Haddish backtracks on college campus protests comments
• Sam Morrill heckled by 76ers fans with Joker movie reference
• Joe Koy announces Just Being Cool tour starting September 21
• Joe Koy’s controversial Taylor Swift joke at Golden Globes
• Netflix testing late night show with John Mulaney

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. That Johnny Mac laughing because I know what story number six is. Today with your Daily Comedy News Late Night had a couple of good ones. Jimmy found said a man who caused an emergency landing out of flight from London to New Jersey because he allegedly got drunk and started yelling, was finding just twenty thousand dollars. The most surprising thing he was from London and not New Jersey.

Seth Meyer is getting political, he said, please, you think Trump is scared of jail. The place is full of mobsters and white supremacists. He’ll walk into jail like Norm walks into cheers. That joke is epic. I’m writing for the Ballot podcast, which we’re having a lot of fun doing, and Stormy Daniels testified yesterday, so I got to put on my writing hat and head over to ballot Land.

But first Jeff Ross going into spin mode like we all expected. He said, no, Tom Brady’s not mad about the Robert craft joke at all. Why would you think that Ross was on the Rich Eisend show and he said, come on, no way, Brady was having fun. Robert Crafts is like a father figured him. He was just showing his love for Robber Kraft, and Robber Kraft loved it.

We had a great talk afterward. He was so happy. I gave him a shout out and a salute. It was beautiful. Sounds like everyone had a happy ending.

Gross said he loves the roast. Brady is a student of the roast. I kept him in the dark on a lot of the surprises, and he didn’t hear anyone’s jokes. He abided by the rules of the roast, which is basically anything goes and surprise me. I gotta give the guy credit.

He really did it all right. David Letterman doing the Gods of comedy. The first god of comedy is a comedian. I like a lot, but gods of comedy Nate Bergatzy, No, Dave No, maybe you, but not Nate Pergatzy. We all like Nate Pergatzy, but gods of comedy in Apergatsy No, Letterman said, I’ve not met this man said a nudge up against a guy who’s just as good as it gets.

As a thrill for me. In the world of comedy, some perhaps are as good, and no one is better. Ninety minutes Letterman talked to Natepergatsey about Tennessee his journey is a comic, including the time when bookers for The Late Show with David Letterman rejected Nate’s audition tape in twenty twelve. Nate told Letterman, I was told it was too mundane, and I don’t know what the word meant. So I looked it up and put it in my head and I was like, oh, I don’t think that’s good.

Letterman apologized to Nate before playing a clip of Nate on Conan where you performed the same joke he’d submitted to Letterman. Nate talked about his early days as a comedians, saying, you’re just constantly getting told no. So it’s frustrating because everything’s switching and you don’t want to miss out on the things you grew up seeing. But finally I submitted it to Conan and they said, yeah, all we do is mundane. That’s funny.

Letterman said, you mentioned earlier you couldn’t work dirty, had to work clean? Who said that? Who told you that? Nate said, I just never wanted to be dirty in front of my parents. I never we’ve heard that before.

Okay, I don’t write material for kids. But my favorite viewers I see in the crowd are a lot of grandmothers because I don’t think they really have anything they can go watch, and noone wants to go watch anything with them. Jeff Foxworthy said the same thing to me twenty years ago at my special. There was a twelve year old girl sitting in the front row, and then it’s awesome to see a lot of grandparents. I liked that they can all come together because it’s the only stuff that it was allowed to go to as well.

I think if you can make movies like Home Alone and things that everyone can enjoy and everyone can go to, I don’t think that’s happening now. So that’s where I wanted to go. Tiffany Haddish has the back pedals out. This from The Hollywood Reporter. The other night at the Netflix is Joe Comedy Festival, Tiffany captured on video sharing her thoughts on the campus protests.

I will have to paraphrase here, Tiffany said, I don’t give a f about that stuff. I never went to college. Why would I care about college? There’s not genocide at the college. I give an f about what’s going on on the other side of the world.

But why would I give an f about the college? This the stuff I’m talking about. Stupid mffers at the college ain’t never worked a gosh darn day in your life. Do you remember nine to eleven B word? What the F did we do?

America? We went the f over there and we f’t there behind up? Didn’t we? I paraphrased there in case you couldn’t tell. Tiffany spoke to TMZ and said, Yeah, I think they’re gonna protest for one place.

They should protest for all the places that are having genocide happening. How many black people got to dive before we got to protest. If you want to protest, protest. But if you really want to be effective, mcchee, go up to the legislation office, call up you sen it, or call your council, go to Congress, go to the people who make change. Would be way more effective.

I actually feel really bad for the students whose graduation have been canceled. These are the same kids that lost their freshman year. Yeah, complicated issue we’re not going to solve. On Daily Comedy News, Sam Morrell was at the Knicks game some seventy six Ers fans are not happy with these shots Sam directs at their stars. Sam posted the infamous picture of Harvey Weinstein pushing a walker he captured it Joel Embiid when things are heading south.

When Sixers fan heckled Sam back with a picture of Joaquin Phoenix’s character Arthur Fleck bombing in an open mic in The Joker, and they served it on a platter because you know what. In the movie The Joker, there’s a comic who kills before the Joker gets on. You know who that comic is. Yeah, if you figured out how this story is gonna go, that’s right, it’s Sam Morrill. You even hear the MC in The Joker go one more time for Sam Morrell, and then the Joker gets up and bombs Sam apparently, i explained on KFC Radio Barstool.

At one point, the scene was filmed in the closed comedy club Danger Fields. The only instruction he was given was to make sure the jokes would work. In the eighties. Sam decided to tell a different joke for each of the dozens of takes so that the laughter would sound genuine every one of them. That’s smart.

Chris Red was jealous of his performance because Sam got to perform an entire set in front of movie stars, while Red had to repeat at nauseum one more time for Samurel. This is funny too. They said that Sam’s a slambag at the Sixers fan is on par with the Toronto Blue Jays Twitter account response to someone asking for a source on a trade report, the Blue Jays responded, literally us. The Blue Jays, Seth Myers and John Oliver are extending their monthly residency at the Beacon Theater through the end of the year. You know who else announced the tour Joe Koy, Yes, story number six.

It’s the Joe Koy Just being Cooi tour. This kicks off September twenty first, and his statement, Joe Coy said, I never take for granted that I get to live out my dream on the stage every week, and this new tour is something special that I can’t wait to share with everyone. Tickets go on sale today at noon. Pre sale code is comedy, all caps, possibly comedy with a period at the end of it. All caps, then general audience on Friday.

Joe Coy, perhaps best known for hosting the Golden Globes. He was the MC. This year, and he made a very, very, just a terrible joke about Taylor Swift. I kind of don’t want to repeat it, but here, just let me play it for you. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader.

The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go to. Here Scott Beckett throwing his coffee at his car windshield right now, Hi, Scott, love you. The Telegraph things in Netflix is testing out at late night type show with this John Mulaney fellow.

I’m seeing a lot of articles about the John Mulaney Late Night Show at the time, but this recording I have only seen the Friday Night Show. Maybe tonight All Watch one or two was very sleepy Monday night, still recovering from Deacon Mike’s big shindig. They know how to party in Cleveland anyway, Seeing a lot of people saying the same thing I said about Friday Night Show, which was it was a mess, and you had Jerry Seinfeld right there the Telegraph ask ken John Mulaney returned to who he was absolutely not, so we’re to next. There’s chatter he might be in line to host the next Oscars. He would be great, But just let Jimmy Kimmel do it.

Don’t mess with it. Just let Jimmy Kimmeill do it. Let Jimmy Kimmell do it for ten years. It’s fine. Don’t fix it if it’s not broken.

You see what happens when you try and fix it. Leave it alone. Tom Blaney could host say the Golden Globes, but you know, don’t make a joke about Taylor Swift due by the way you see Tom Brady, it’s like a shot at Taylor Swift. It’s totally uncalled for here. Listen, Kansas City, you say your stadium is the loudest.

It helps when all your fans are fourteen year old girls. Mullaney at forty one, some of that squeaky man boy energy is finally dissipating. He’s filled out at such He’s wearing his hair longer, shagger and has stubble more grated. I saw some websites saying m’laney look like in a nineties haircut. I think he looks good, but what do I know.

I’m wearing the same clothes room yesterday recording a podcast in my basement. Telegraph says it may take a long time to reset his career. I completely disagree. He’s already reset his career. He did the specialists out of the way.

Nobody cares. Nobody cares about the drugs, nobody cares what happened with the ex wife. People are happy for him and Olivia mun and the baby would Malcolm. Everybody’s happy. It’s all good tonight on John Mulaney’s la thing.

Sarah Silverman, Tom Sigora, Ronny Chieng, Weezer.

All right, here’s some notes for me, ladies and gentlemen.

Sarah Silverman, Hey, Sarah, what’s going on? Shut up? My next guest? The very funny Tom Segura, Hey Tom, what’s going on? Shut up?

My next guest? You know him from The Daily Show? The very hilarious Ronny Chieng, Ronnie, what’s going on? Did you watch the Trump trial? Then?

Shut up, ladies and gentlemen. Weezer, and don’t take a phone call in the middle of Weezer. I’m gonna miss this Netflix comedy fest when it’s over. Right tonight again the website just with a really weird layouts, so I jump all over on the Times seven point thirty met rife. Eight o’clock shing us Mike EPs at seven Dodgers Comedy Night, hosted by Cedric the Entertainer and presented by all Star Dodgers Catcher, Will Smith, Super Curious featuring Dusty Slay, Felipiasparza, Heather McMahon, Justin Wilman, Tom Poppa.

It’s pretty good, but might have to pick Shane over that. We’ll see what the rest of the list is. Seven o’clock just added the Alli Wong Residency. She was taping a special. Let me tell you what’s going on there.

They don’t like what they got at the taping. She was taping a special over the weekend. Just added, means we don’t have a special on tape yet, do one more? That’s what’s going on there. Jimmy Carr at seven Gods of Comedy with Letterman seven thirty.

Are they telling you, Susan, No, they won’t tell us who’s on. I don’t really like Letterman the interviewer anyway. I’d rather see Dave throwing stuff of a five story tower, honestly. Eight o’clock just added an all Star Tribute to the Comedy Union. Low tickets warning for Christina Pe at seven, Plenty of tickets available at nine five apparently Lavelle Crawford nine to forty five, he’s really good.

Let’s see what else we’ve got here. I’ve noticed as you scrolled down it gets a little less interesting. Ali CDC at seven, Jay Farrell seven thirty Made in Brazil just added, not to be confused with Made in Canada at seven. There’s just too many shows, all right. If you and I were in Los Angeles, Shane gillis early and you want to do Lavelle Crawford late, you want to do Christina Pee late.

Meanwhile, at Sydney, I put some work into this for reels, trying to pull clips. Most of these artists do not have clips. I discovered the Sydney Festival Facebook page and I was like, ooh, there’s clips. And one of the clips just was not funny, the other was a little too dirty.

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And then I found one clip for tomorrow’s list at Sydney, but we had played th…

Today. Let me tell you about one or two of the shows. Oliver Coleman’s show is called goof Coleman comes on stage and gets straight into it. He’s on fire tonight. Something has obviously gone terribly wrong.

People from the audience outed him to stop, drop and roll, but he’s acting like this happens every night. The man’s professional. He’s got jokes to tell. Winner Best Comedy Weekly Award, Adelaide Fringe twenty twenty two. The Advertiser says, a five stars comic genius catapults to the point of sheer chaos.

We played him before in Melbourne. He’s the guy that we told you about. He does a joke about stand up comedy being basically a high school auditorium performance. Stephen k Amos, Wow, I haven’t heard his name and forever. He’s fantastic.

No clip though, Oh no, there is a clip. I missed this earlier. Here, let’s listen. I’ve got to say what a pleasure it is to come back. It’s been a weird couple of years.

In fact, I to come back on this trip, I had to do a four and a half month’s paperwork to get permission exemption to fly into this country. The dare arrived, You guys, change the rules. I arrived Immigration. The guy was like anything to declare, I gave him my file, this figurement. We don’t need that anymore and even just go on then go on, go in.

So thank god I brought those three hundred cigarettes from Dubai. Tried to salvage that one. He went a long way for a joke with a funny punch line, but it ended with a hard C word and we don’t do that here. Our Daily Comedy News Devin Walker, James Austin Johnson and Andrew de Simukee sevennounced a nine city comedy tour. It is called the Summer Jobs Tour.

Johnson said, comedy is so back and I’m not even cap must be some lingo the ves use I’m not familiar with. The tour kicks off in June seventh, Brooklyn at the Bellhouse. Itv is going to showcase some of the quote most exciting comedians that this year’s Edinburgh Fringe with a series of special programs. Itv X presents Edinburgh Fringe Live will be streamed live on ITVX and available to catch up for thirty days afterwards. That’s cool, and that is your comedy news for today.

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