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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A lot of Shane Gillis reactions, but first let me tell you about a Seattle comedy club that canceled four stand up comedians. They are Dave Smith, Lewis, J Gomez, Jim Florentine, and Kurt Metzger. They were canceled after angry community activists complained.

According to the comedians involved, these shows were at the Capitol Hill Comedy Bar, and the version that we’re being told is that left wing community actives and progressive comics were offended. The comedians say they received an email from the club co owner, who’s also a stand up comics, saying the gigs had to be canceled. The decision came after discussions with our team, investors’, local comedians, and neighborhood advocacy groups. An email posted by Jim Florentine and Kurt Metzger says Capitol Hill is known for its progressive values, and we received significant feedback expressing concerns about the alignment of these upcoming shows with the neighborhood’s eth This feedback includes concerns from local advocacy groups that are deeply embedded for our community and work towards upholding its values. The goal is to avoid any potential negative impact on both our club and the artists involved, as well as to maintain the harmony without our community.

Gomez on his podcast said, are they idiots for booking us?

And then on booking us?

Yes, it’s a dumb move. Is my former agent an idiot for booking me at a superwoke progressive venue like that? The entire lineup was like blue haired freaks. That’s what happens when comics don’t have anything going on, they look for drama. So the owner found drama within the comedy space there, and she was like, all right, I think they’re great, but I don’t need to make it a thing.

According to a report from Kiing five, the Capitol Hill Comedy Bar makes comics adhere to the Code of Conduct, which outlines expectations for respectful behavior and language, helping to create a welcoming space for both comics and guests. Podcaster Joshua Smith said, who needs comedy when Seattle is already a joke? Okay? Comedian Toby Turner tweeted the community bought tickets the people sabotaging. It aren’t really the community.

What’s going on over there? Fox News’ is tyrus said friendly advice book and another venue close to the town. Sell it out and kill it in three months. When they tell you it’s all good to come back, send them the same email. Juno Mann is a local comic and show producer who works with the club and hosts Funny Queer Asians.

She said, I have loved working with this club and a more resolute and doing so given their decision to prioritize the safety and inclusiveness of the local community. So I see an article from last May from a King of five Comedy born now open in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. According to that article, Capitol Hill Comedy Bar is dedicated to supporting the art and craft of stand up comedy with integrity and professionalism. The staff believes that creating a safe, accessible, and respectful environment is of utmost importance. The goal is to provide a harassment free environment regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body type of race.

All comics performing on stage must either adhere to the Code of Conduct, which outlines expectations for respectful behavior and language, helping to create a self and welcoming space for comics and guests. So you know, I can both sides this one. If the club wants to have a certain vibe and style and expectation, sure go ahead. But why book these guys? These guys are known, they do a festival called skank Fest.

I mean, did nobody do homework? How did they get booked? A lot of Shane Gillis’s reaction as expected. I on Sunday Night watched the entire episode as opposed to just watching the individual clips. I thought it was an above average episode for the last two years of Saturday Night Live.

It didn’t hit the heights of say the Nate Berghatsy episode, but they’ve been far worse. The Io Atabury episode was also pretty good. She was great. So I’ll continue to say what I’ve been saying. I find Shane funny, I find him charismatic.

I also think some of the points that I talked about during one of last week’s podcasts about some of the guests he’s had on the podcast, so those are worrisome. Vox writes. When Shane Gillis tells you who he is, believe him in that article, they write. Shane Gillis is a thirty six year old guy from Pennsylvania who was chasing a fledgling stand up career when he began making inroad in twenty sixteen through the medium of comedy podcasting. This included a stint hosting a show called a Fair One for Compound Media, a podcast network created by Anthony Kumia, a notoriously offensive shock jock known for his own racist comments.

Yeah that’s Anthony of Opian Anthony. Some of his comments are so controversial. When I teach my college class on the fall, I spend two and a half weeks just talking about Opian Anthony. And these are now twenty year old incidents. Aunt plays on the side of the street that I don’t want to play on.

I was actually asked to run the Opian Anthony channel and I declined, and it probably didn’t help my career at the old place, but I just didn’t want to deal with any of that. I don’t know if I’ve ever spoken to Anthony. I know Opia a little bit and fed ob to be a good guy, Fox writes. Compound Media also hosted Gavin Mcinness, the white nationalist who rallied other members of the network together to form the Proud Boys, the extremist group that played a major role in both the twenty seventeen Charlottesville Unite the Right rally and the January sixth insurrection. Doesn’t want to deal with any of that.

Compound Media was the platform on which Gillis dropped the racist slurs that ultimately got him dropped from SNL, but it wasn’t the only medium in which he aired his views and his independent comedy work. In other projects, he was not shy about voicing repugnant views, as one Philadelphia comedy club noted in twenty nineteen and a sense deleted tweet, we like many were very quickly disgusted by Shane Gillis’s over racism, sexism, homophobian transphobia, expressed both on off stage. Upon working with him years ago, Gillis’s fans, including more liberal comedians like Gerrod Carmichael, seemed to believe that, rather in being actually racist, Gillis is consciously cultivating his offensiveness purely for the purposes of his comedy work. Vox writes this view as as old as comedy itself, but in the current cultural era, it’s evolved into what nprs Eric Deakins is called bigotry denial syndrome. The thinking goes that a comedic project has a certain level of importance and purpose, the level of which should completely negate any suspicion that the comedian truly believes what they’re performing, let alone that they deserve consequences for the offensive material.

In Gillis’s case, it seems more accurate to say that he’s not performing ironic racism at all. He’s coasting on other people’s good faith belief that he must be acting totally ingest. In a twenty sixteen interview with Gillis, he claimed to be running experiments on his audience. He said, it’s funny what people will laugh at compared to what they’re so eager to prove that they’re not laughing at. The conclusion we’re left with is with all that panic, as it so often does whenever someone is supposedly canceled, has subsided, likely to have dissipated.

In the wake of Gillis’s continued success, Vulture put forth two reasons for hosting the gig, and the timing, one that perhaps Michaels is trying to remain a political during an election year and wants to do that by opening up a platform for comics who appeal to the right. And two that Lorne Michaels lives for the drama Pointer had a good note and they had me wondering what Dave Chappelle might have done, how Dave Chappelle might have addressed his own controversy point right, So I saw Gillis’s monologue as an opportunity badly missed and what might be his only churn. Ever, his host, Gillis would have smartly addressed his past controversy as well of his style of comedy. By the way, if you haven’t heard the monologue, I played clips from it on Monday’s podcast. Shane could have explained his point of view.

He could have given his critics something to consider instead of letting them assume as comedy goes to the lowest common denominator. If Gillis is talented enough to actually have once been hired as an sl cast member, and funny enough to still end up being a host after being fired, shouldn’t he be clever enough to come up with a monologue that weaves together as comedy and commentary about his comedy that is an excellent point by pointer. Gillis took the safe way out and delivered a moment, then a real no impact, A hollow reporter writes. Fortunately for Shane Gillis, the SNL writers know how to deploy a Gillis type, and he amiably played average white joes and most of his sketches, including a contestant on the floor desperately trying to convince others that he actually can identify famous black people. And as Forrest Gump’s former bully who peaked in high school, I thought both sketches were good.

Gillis played an Ohio Catholic dad who drags his family to church quifacationing in Jamaica. He catches the spirit. The whole sketch ends with a literal crossing of the aisle as the white source family and jams alongside the Jamaican congregation. I also thought that was a funny sketch. Vulture wrote, Shane Gillis got away with it, though we sometimes comes off as if barstool sports were a person not bad.

What Gillis does best in his comedy is translate red state values and interest for a slightly broader audience. In his SNL monologue, though he does the opposite, explaining at one point in the least defensive way that you can muster what a dude himself thinks gay men are like. It’s just filled without data cliches that have no business in an era of this show that tends to assume viewer familiarity with the modern landscape of sexuality and gender, and, considering that his firing was partly due to homophobic content, performing this bit in the setting seems particularly unwise. It did not go over well, especially with the house band so many articles about the young and guitarist. She’s probably getting a lot more attention on than she wants.

The Guardian says, what’s ironic about all this is how Gillis’s actual comedy doesn’t gell with either a narrative. Certainly, his persona is that of a meat headed conservative bro, but his material for his edge, Lordy as it can be, more often than not ridicules that demographic and with four sharper accuracy than ostensibly left leaning comedy, including an especially snl. Anyone who’s seen his recent Netflix special Beautiful Dogs and as being Honest with Themselves recognizes his talent, even as his web series Gillian Keeve suggests he’s a mediocre sketch commedian in at best. For as much he did online discourse as Gillis hosting BEGAT over the past couple weeks, it’s hard to imagine anyone feeling strongly about this episode one way or another. Gillis didn’t exactly make a case himself as any great missed opportunity, let alone the iconoclast as most ardent fans were expecting.

In fact, writes The Guardian, his reluctance to address this firing made him look soft, especially when you compare it to the nineteen ninety nine episode that Norm MacDonald hosted one year after his determination. But then, Gillis is no Norm. The Guardian marked the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Bill Hicks. This by Brian Logan, who wrote five years ago, I spoke about Bill hicks legacy with comics who weren’t even born when he applied his trade, and was startled to discover and how low regard they held his work. Of course, I knew some of his material was out of step with the times, but the extent to which the entire manner, the whole Bill Hicks way of being as an outlaw, comic, of teller of truth or power, and a man splainer now for many things A thing hideous to behold that caught me by surprise.

I have always found within the industry Bill Hicks to be revered. Brian Logan Rights, I push back against it a bit. I still would now, but revisiting Hicks material thirty years since he died, I see more clearly what they meant if you’re not familiar with Bill Hicks. Basically, Dennis Leary lifted Bill hicks entire persona, so that might be a way to shorthand it. But do yourself a favor and look up Bill Hicks on YouTube.

This reminds me of back at Serious before the merger, Comedy Intern number five loaded some albums by Bill Hicks, except there’s another artist named Bill Hicks who did like smooth jazz guitar albums. So I’m listening to my channel one day and there’s like Bill Hicks guitar on and I’m like, did you not listen to the clip? Stupid intern intern did not get a job at the end of the semester. Logan Rights, I suppose that my taste and standards like anyone else’s can’t help but be shaped by the changing world around me. And with each passing half decade, I get a bit more distance from the teen comedy fan that held Hicks to be just about as good as comedy gets more of that tomorrow, getting a little long here.

Donnell Rawlings has a new special out today. It is called Donnel Rollings A New Day. Actually it’s called Chappelle’s Home Team, Donnell Rollings a New Day. You’ll find this on Netflix. Dressed in a blue suit, red sox and lotion ankles, Donelle’s here to discuss toxic relationships, traveling in New Zealand, aging cope, parenting, and much more.

Kind of weird, right that Donell had all those controversies last week and was shouting to Corey Holcomb and just a week later he’s got a new special on Netflix. Weird. A correction on yesterday’s podcast, I teld you tig Nataro’s special is out. No, yesterday was February twenty sixth. Tig Nataro’s special is out on March twenty sixth.

Sorry if I ruined your Monday night. Amy Schumer has revealed she has been diagnosed with Cushing’s syndrome, a relatively rare hormonal disorder that can change a person’s facial appearance and cause weight gain. She spoke with the newsletter News Not Noise. Amy said there are a few types of cushing, some that can be fatal require brain surgery or removal of adrenal glands. While I was doing press on camera for my Hulu show, I was also in MRI machines four hours at a time, having my veins shut down from the amount of blood drawn, and thinking I might not be around to see my son grow up.

So finding out how this kind of cushing that will just work itself out and I’m healthy was the greatest news imaginable. It’s been a crazy couple weeks for me and my family. Aside from fears about my health, I also had to be on camera having the Internet chime in. But thank God for that, because that’s how I realized something was wrong, just like when I had realized I’d named my son something that didn’t sound so good. The Internet is undefeated, as they say.

The only thing I’d like to add is that this is a good example of the fact that we never know what’s going on with someone. Everyone is struggling with something. Maybe we can all be a little kinder to each other and ourselves. Late Night with Seth Myers turned ten years old over the weekend. Seth said it’s took about six months for the show to find itself.

He think a big change is when he stopped doing an opening monologue and just sat at the desk. He jokes, once people stop seeing my legs, we turned a corner. Another change, he said, it seems so silly to wear a suit with no audience during the pandemic, so I was in casual. Then when the audience came back, I just felt more in my own skin. Dressing more like myself allows me to be more like myself.

I don’t know if it’s permanent, but it’s a nice feeling. The other day I put on a suit for something else and I was like, ugh, I don’t ever want to feel that way. Will he still be doing this job in ten years? Sas says, I don’t know. I’ve tried my career to never think that forehead.

I’d like to do it for a few more years. I can’t imagine anything being more enjoyable than that. I’m coming up on twenty five years at thirty rock, and I’m pretty sure I’ll get a watch or maybe a nice pin tell you this. If I don’t make it at twenty five, there should be an investigation because that means they just don’t want to spend watch money. Conflicting reports.

Donald Glover suggested that the community film script was done, but Dan Harmon, who would know because he’s writing it, tells Variety it’s almost done. Dan says, what can I tell you about it? Set on the campus of Greendale Community College. I’m super excited about it and we’re almost done. And that is your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the program, let’s tell more people about it. Share it on social media, or tell your friend at the bar at trivia and I’d be like, Hey, I was listening to this podcast and this guy’s not that annoying. You should check it out. Something like that. Much appreciated.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Funny joke from Kermit Appiois on Twitter, who wrote, be careful when you order your Trump sneakers. It says they weigh two pounds, but they actually weigh twenty eight pounds.

Also, they have no soul.

Hey, I know not everybody listens to the weekend episodes. Saturdays in particular was very strong. If you missed that one, I highly recommend you downloads Saturday. Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live, mixed reviews. I thought it was pretty good.

I seem to be unpopular of that opinion. Before I get to the monologue, since I talked about Trump sneakers, let’s start with a sketch about Trump sneakers. The setup here is that Shane is portraying a regular guy who’s bad at basketball and stuff, and then he gets some Trump sneakers good at basketball. No, they give me the power to say I’m good at basketball, and they double down on that until people actually start to believe it. No gets whatever he wants, mister Mitchell.

Everybody’s saying, I should have your office because my cubicle is a disaster right now? What can I have a minute to gather my things? Bye bye? He gets whoever he wants. Wow, that was the most fantastic love making you’ve ever had.

How really it only lasted two hours? That was a two hour love session. You had a big O in They’re a very big O. But I did no want to go again. I’d love to, but you’re too tired, all right, So you get the joke there.

Later in the sketch, James Austin Johnson shows up as I guess actual Trump, and we get my predicted to dueling Trumps. You know, in many ways, the real magic has been inside of you all along. Wrong it comes from the shoes, and you’re coming off as very stupid and frankly quite rude walking in here like this. My work here is done in terms of basketball movie pastiche, and with regard to shoes, I think we’ve done wonderful. White Man, Kim Trump.

Oh, ask for the monologue. I’m going to make some trims here to tighten up crowd and pacing and stuff. But let’s listen to Shane Gillis, Ladies and gentlemen, Shame Giles, thank you, thank you very much, it’s yeah, I’m here. Most of you probably have no idea who I am. I was, actually I was fired from this show a while ago.

But if you know, don’t look that up. Please. If you don’t know who I am, please don’t google that. It’s fine, don’t even worry about it. I don’t know this is I probably shouldn’t be up here.

Honestly, I should be home. I should be I should be a high school football coach. That’s what I should be, Like, God molded me perfectly to be a high school football coach slash ninth grade sex education teacher. Now, if you watch his body language, he’s just shucking jokes. It’s the same thing I said about a special He’s just like, hey, I’m a big goofy guy, and these are just jokes.

And I think people are taking this way too seriously. About two and a half minutes into the monologue, we get our first controversy. He said a word ended upset people. My mom asked me, She’s like, when did we stop being best friends? And she’s right, we used to be best friend.

Do you remember that when you were a little boy and you like, you loved your mom and you thought she was a cool. You remember when you were gay? Do you remember when you were just a gay little boy? Every little boy is just their mom’s gay best friend. There’s literally a zero difference.

I was gay for my mom. She would pick me up from school. I’d hop in the van. I’d be like, girl, tell me about your day. I thought she was cool.

I would listen to her music. I’d be like, bam bam, badam, bam bam bam, let’s go girls. I would dance for her. She’d be like, look at my little dance. He heard about the for minute ten second mark, he goes into if you’ve seen his specials, some familiar downs at syndrome material.

He gets criticized over this material a lot. And maybe I’m just a jerk face. This does not sound hateful to me. I don’t know if you guys, if you can tell by looking at me, but I do have family members with down syndrome. It almost got me.

Hu I dodged it, but it nicked me. It nits me. It’s funny it Look, I don’t have any material that can be on TV. All right, I’ll try my best.

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Also, this place is extremely well lit.

I can see everyone not enjoying it. This is uh yeah, just the most nervous I’ve ever bet. Don’t clap now, shut up. No, I talked about I brought up down Center. You got you can always tell who’s never been around down center when you bring it up, Like if I to help people, if I’m like, yeah, I have family members with down syndrome, people that have never been around it are always like, oh, Like it’s like it’s the end of the world, Like, oh, are they okay?

Are they doing it? It’s like they’re doing better than everybody I know. They’re the only ones having a good time pretty consistently. They’re not worried about the election. They’re having a good time.

Later in that routine, he does use the R word as the tag and a long story, but again in context, it just doesn’t sound hateful. Colleider wrote, the Shane Gillis episode of Saturday Night Live was rough to watch. Picking out the best sketches of the night was a lot harder than you’d think, and it was because none of them were particularly great. Well, that’s been true for two plus years, guys. I’m not sure we should blame Shane for that.

Perhaps the writers, at every turn, every sketch It’s something that was just insulting to people for no reason. From a sketch about a sex doll mocking people with amblyopia to a frankly distasteful Forrest Gump sketch, the episode left audience is wondering, who is this for? People who like to laugh at sketch comedy shows, That’s who it’s for. An episode the felt I was never going to end. Gillis’s grand debut on the stage of Studio eight h was beyond painful to watch.

What’s the worst possible to way to remake Like Mike in twenty twenty four by using that same premise but applying it to Donald Trump’s nearly four hundred dollar sneakers that are bright red, blue, and gold. The idea is that Gillis is playing a man. There’s really bad a basketball I’m talking to anyone. When he wears just Trump shoes, he can suddenly convince everyone lady’s good at this stuff. Yeah, pretty funny.

Did he miss the shot? No, he didn’t. He thought he did, but he didn’t. He totally made it up. Yeah, it was a funny.

Sketcher just played it. The Daily Beast wroach She and Gillis bombs on SNL with dawn syndrome and gay jokes. So does this monologue have the same victory lap vibes of Norm McDonald’s nineteen ninety nine monologue after he was fired. Not quite, because it doesn’t seem like there was any real beef between Gillis and the people running the show. Perhaps, if the criticism hadn’t kept growing as it did, Lauren Michaels would have kept Gillis on regardless of whatever racist or homophobic thing had said in the past.

This is the same guy who let Donald Trump post in twenty fifteen, after all, despite the casts of discomfort. But my favorite take of the night is from Franktouris dot org. Have you noticed the young lady guitarist in the band? You have to watch her reactions. It’s fascinating, and Frank Taurus writes, the Saturday Night Love Band is in a very tough spot.

During each new episode of the show. They have to play on the superstar hosts and keep a poker face during their entire monologue. The spotlight landed on guitarist Maddie Rice. While Rice makes several faces during the monologue, the one that social media ran with was the one where she appeared annoyed Gillis’s remarks, which she upset was she trying to hold a poker face? Only she knows the answer to that.

The rest of the band was more relaxed if you smiled and softly chuckled saxophonist Lenny Pickett, who’s usually the thermometer during these show openings. So it’s mostly neutral with an occasional smile and polight applause for Gillis’s dad. Oh and forever It’s worth everybody. At the end of the show, in the credits, Bowen Yang hugged Shane Gillis. I’m sure we’ll talk more about this tomorrow.

The Daily Beast caught up with Rory Skolvell again. If you missed Saturday’s pot podcast. I played a clip from Rory’s special Are people edding laughter or do comedy specials? Not saying Rory did, but is that a thing that happens in the industry. Listen to Saturday’s episode from The Daily Beast, Rory says, I don’t appreciate a band that just kind of always puts out the same album, even if they’re putting out an album.

Then I don’t end up liking I always appreciate that at least they try to do something slightly different than what they’ve done before. In terms of comedy, he says he has no interest in seeing any hour from someone who hasn’t learned anything, or hasn’t grown or revolved or changed in any way. Chappelle, Sorry, I keep coughing during the recordings, and you know, apologize for that. Who knows, at the end of the day, you probably end up losing some people. He’s been getting a little more political, and he says, who knows, at the end of the day, you probably end up losing some people because they just can’t stand jokes about politics, despite the fact that they’d spend their free time in a rally.

But I think at some point you kind of get pushed to the point where you want to speak out and say what you really think, and if you could turn it into something that entertains people or gets them a laugh, or who knows, maybe open their eyes a little bit to other people’s situations. He jokes about his Carlin phaze and says, but then I walked away from that being like, you know, the Corlin thing is kind of interesting, not you want to go. I’m gonna try to be Carlin. I don’t want to do that, but he does want to see what his version of the political rant with a message would look like. Tak Nataro has a new special out today.

It is called Hello Again on Amazon Prime Video. I teach a college class on Monday nights, so you’re gonna have to give me a couple of days to get around to watching that. One. Tig finds humor in situations ranging from the every day to the bizarre, crafting comedy out of hallucinatory text messages, a botch of meeting with a Hollywood heavyweight, and comedy Rule of three, a late nine encounter with a mustache fireman who has her questioning everything. Amy Schumer and Will Forte have signed on for a new Netflix comedy movie, kind of Pregnant.

Now just there. I see Netflix movie and I’m like, uh ceandlier, here we go again. Well wait for the twist. John. The synopsis is jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy, Laney wears a fake baby bump and accidentally meets the man of her dreams.

Guess who produces this? That’s right, Amy Schumer and say with me Adam Sandler, Oh Good, and Amy Schumer. Adam Sandler produced Thing on Netflix. Looking forward to That Little Dicky Dave Bird was on the Hot Ones podcast and he said, I’m not gonna name names, but there are several instances where episodes have been written about a particular celebrity. Oftentimes it ends up being a rapper and they don’t show up on the day, and then I immediately have to totally reimagine and rewrite the scene on the spot, call someone else and hope someone else is in town.

I’ve had to bring twenty thousand dollars in a backpack for whoever shows up that day.

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And then I left the backpack at catering at lunch and then I was like shootin…

I’m like, oh my god, twenty thousand dollars and I spread it to go get my backpack. It was still there, and then an artist came and actually didn’t even charge anything. Anyway. It’s always very stressful. It’s much easier as time gets on.

In season one, I’m like, trust me. Season three, I’m like, Brad Pitt, I know you’ve seen it gets easier as time goes on the show. Unfortunately, he’s on a hiatus so Bird can focus on his music. Hopefully that show comes back.

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Also a comedian who’s any music is Phil Wang, who you were picturing naked in…

I know you were, and you’re doing it right now too, Phil Wang, naked in the shower. You’re thinking about it. He does chortle. That’s really me singing in Wonka. Here’s a little behind the scenes bragging.

I was told by someone on Wanka that, you know, sometimes in movies they have to correct a singer if they’re not a professional singer in post production, and they didn’t have to correct me at all. I hit all the notes, all five notes I was given. I hit them spot on Dusty Slay, speaking to al as in Alabama dot Com, al dot Com said, I was trying to be a Southern comic. Look at me, I’m real Southern, right. I was wearing overalls and no shoes to perform and it wasn’t going very well.

So I quit doing stand up comedy.

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And then in two thousand and eight my friend invited me to do a show and he w…

So we write this bit about the letters of the alphabet. I go out and do this bit and it’s on YouTube and on my album Making That Fudge, But I do it in front of an audience people, in front of a bunch of comedians that never heard of me, and I crushed every show. Wasn’t like that. I wasn’t crushing every but that hooked me. I was like, I can’t wait to get back up there and do it again.

Jim Norton spoke to I ninety five Rock about audiences. Rock was interested. Our audience is different now. Now I’ve worked with Jim Norton quite a lot. He is on stage persona and his real life personality are different.

When you’re hanging out with Jim Norton in real life, he’s very thoughtful and not talking about hookers in Vegas all day. So when I read this quote, picture a very insightful Jim Norton probably saying this, soft spoken Jim said. It’s been happening a lot longer than just two years. It’s not just comedy so that everybody’s attacking everybody. Everyone’s using everyone else to pretend to be angry so they can get a little attention for themselves.

There’s been a decent amount of pushback on it. But I think the difference now is that everybody in the audience is performing as well. It’s like you have a guy in stage and the people in the audience are performing pretending they’re upset, or going on social media pretending they’re upset. It died down a little bit, but that’s the reason for it. Everybody’s their own corporation now, so people are trying to get some credibility by acting like I’m upset publicly, will people come and give me some attention.

Everybody’s got a voice, which is fine. Everybody wants to let everyone else know how hurt they are. It’s not just comedy, it’s kind of everywhere being affected by it. If you enjoy what I do here, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News.

I will take your money. And it’s Monday, so and I teach on Monday nights. Usually what I do is I drive past the own chain, I go to that smoothie place and I’ll get a buffalo rap and a beach bum. I think it’s called beach bum. I don’t know.

It’s like I told people it was raspberry, but I looked it up. Apparently it’s strawberry with some dark chocolate in it. Very good. So I get a buffalo rap in one of those. I eat that before class, so that’s like lunch dinner on Mondays.

Buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’ve mentioned this before. Israel Hamas is a very touchy subject and a lot there to not laugh about. But I also feel that comedy should discuss important issues and I don’t want to ignore the topic, but when the topic comes up, I tend to put it in the second half.

If you listen every day, you kind of feel there’s the first half of the podcast before the commercial break is usually headlines and hits, and then I go a little deeper in the second half. This from The Guardian and they interviewed bossom Yusef, who I just find fascinating, like a really really interesting guy, and they’re right. Usef opens a show with a disclaimer to the audience members who know him as the Egyptian John Stewart. Usef says, I know some of you used to be performing in Arabic, but the show will be in English, the language of the Infidels in the show frequently refers to Joe Biden as genocide Joe. By the way, for those of you keeping score at home, that the guide Pylon Trump all the time, please note I’m doing this story right now frequently refers to Joe Biden as genocide Joe, but he never directly mentions the Israel Gaza war, which birthed the nickname.

He tells The Guardian that’s a deliberate choice. Usef says, I don’t want to be capitalizing on this right now as it’s happening. It’s not the story I want to tell. I wanted to tell my story. He says he was surprised to be put on a pedestal after his appearance with Piers Morgan.

When people say thank you for speaking up, thank you for being our voice. That’s a trigger sentence for me. I’m a human being and I have limitations. I can’t be someone who’s the face of that much of a cause. I do what I can, but sometimes it’ll be beyond my ability.

If you’ve never seen the thirty minute clip of Bassom with Piers Morgan, it is amazing. Here is the opening buckle up. The Guardian called it a roller coaster ride, and I agree. But here listen. I want his words to speak for themselves, because the how how are they’re doing?

But you know, we’re used to that. I mean, it’s just like it’s it’s it’s very repetitive. We’re used to that. We used to them being bombed every time and moving from one place to the other. You know, it’s just like those Plastinians.

They’re very dramatic, ah Israel killing us, but they never die. I mean they always come back. You know. They’re very difficult to kill, very difficult people to kill. I know because I’m married to one.

I tried many times, couldn’t kill her. I mean there’s a dark humor there, and I under time why because oh it’s not dark human I really I try to get to her every time, but she uses our kids as human shields. I can never take her out. Right. So he’s doing this wonderful mix of very pointed political observation with jokes in the middle.

You could see peers like the joke is funny, but you know, do you want to laughter in the subject? And I just think this is comedy at its best because he’s using humor to make wonderful, wonderful points. He said, he turned down Peers Morgan invitation twice before giving in the third time, he said, it’s the contradictory expectation of his dual audience. If I was too much, I could lose my career here in the US. It was not enough, I lose my career in the Arab world.

I was going in knowing it was a lose lose situation. So why do it? I don’t know. Until now, I don’t have a clear answer. And I’ll follow that up with this comedian Matt Rife inducted into the Mahegan Sons Walk of Fame.

Wow, what an honor. Congratulations to Matt Rife, twenty eight years old and already in the Mohegan Sons Walk of Fame. Who else is in the Hall of Fame? John Well, Taylor Swift, Earth Wind and Fire, and Rascal Flats. He’s the forty first inductee into the Mahegan Sons Arena Walk of Fame.

Now I’m curious. Now I’m looking it up and I can’t find the fullest. Some other names Chris Rock, Toby Keith, New Kids on the Block, bon Jovi, and Matt Rife. I’m bad. That’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. When is the NFL back? What am I supposed to do all day? Hi? I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

I will talk about Chin Gillis on tomorrow’s episode. Ricky Gervas tweeted worst ad Ever and shared this, which I found funny. Hi. I’m Ricky Gervaias, and this is Dutch Bond Vodka. It’s a beautifully crafted premium spirit.

It tastes great and it’s friendly to the environment. It’s known as the posh one in the brown bottle. But if you can’t afford it, just get smart enough get that for fifteen quid. In some places it does the trick.

Meanwhile, Jim gaff again via the NWI Times, Jim did an add of character post…

Jim tweeted, I grew up ten minutes from Valpariso, in the home of Orville Popcorn. I was thrilled when a friend sent me this limited edition popcorn bourbon by Journeyman Distillery. No, it doesn’t taste like popcorn. Or movie theater butter. It’s made with popcorn.

It’s awesome and reminds me of northwestern Indiana. The bourbon is only available in Valpo, but Journeyman Distillery has a bunch of stuff you should check out. I don’t know if that was paid or just enthusiasm. Who knows. Jimmy Kimmel dropping some hints that he might be near the end of his talk show Ronney, he caught up with The La Times.

Jimmy will host the Academy Awards on March tenth. It’ll be his fourth time. The first time he hosted was remember when they messed up the Best Picture Award. Kim Will said, I didn’t think I’d ever hosted again. I did two of them and they went well, and something crazy happened at one of them, with a story I’ll have for the rest of my life.

I how much work goes in of them, so I thought, yeah, I don’t necessarily want to do this ever again. What changed his mind, according to The La Times, was Top Gun Maverick. Kim Will said, I knew there was a movie that people had seen and just makes the job easier than this year. I’m sitting at a movie theater watching Barby and thinking, well, maybe I’ll do it this year, because at least I have a point of reference with everyone. Kimmel has experienced enough to know that the more popular the nominated films are, the more the audience gets the references to a movie’s plot and his monologue, Kimmel said, I made a joke about Moonlight that made it clear to me that the vast majority of the room had not seen the movie even though it won Best Picture.

Only three people have hosted more times. Can’t you name them? They are Bob Hope nineteen times, Billy Crystal nine, and Johnny Carson five. During the summer, when he was on the Strike Force five podcast, he mentioned he was considering ending Jimmy Kimme Alive, but it was the strike that made him realize how much he still enjoyed it. He said, it’s hard to yearn for it when you’re doing it.

Wednesday night, I was very tired, and I had these scripts to go through. I had to revise and rewrite all these pitch ideas for the oscars, and I was literally nodding off into my computer. In those moments, I think I can’t wait till my contract is over. But then I take the summer off, or I go and strike, and you start going, yeah, I missed the fun stuff. However, I think this is my final contract.

I hate to even say it because everyone’s laughing at me now. Each time I think that, then it turns out to not be the case. I still have a little more than two years left on my contract. That seems pretty good. That seems like enough.

I would imagine ABC would give that slot back to the affiliates. Right, are you going to start another fresh late night show? I think those days have passed. We’ll see. The Montecito News asked Brian Reagan.

As many people who asked Brian Reagan about Working Clean, Brian said, when it first started, I wasn’t completely clean, had some stuff in my act that would shock people today, but it was a small percentage. I enjoy the challenge of seeing how hard and get people laughing without hitting those four letter words or buzz topics. But it’s not a mission statement. I’m not riding around on a white horse with a banner that says, follow me to the land of clean. Dirty is fantastic as long as it’s truthful and real and organic.

But that’s not me. Does he swear in real life? He says, hang around one of my golf foursomes and you’ll hear some pretty rough language, probably after my very first t shot. Was he always funny? The answer is definitely no.

In fact, I can be amazingly unfunny if you hang around me long enough. I’m not mister cut up. It’s mostly nose to the grindstone. I hope this doesn’t sound lazy, but it doesn’t work well for me to sit down and try to come up with material. It’s not how my brain works.

I just do what I’d normally be doing, and every once in a while I’ll see her experience something in a different way, and I want it might have some legs out stage. That’s the writing process. Rolling Stone spoke to Ramy Yousef. He says his early stand up back was basic stuff. I talked about dating a lot.

I remember doing one set at a bar. I was like, I’ve been fasting for raman On. I do it because I actually believe in it, and then there was silence, and then I thought, oh, that’s interesting. It was a type of silence where I was like, did I just say something edgy?

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And then I thought, Oh, yeah, this is what I’ve been trying to get at.

I was like, oh wait, everyone’s engaged. It’s not like they’re rejecting it. They’re actually really curious as to what I’m going to say next. In that moment, I didn’t have that part. But then I said, oh, that’s my job.

How do I step into that because that’s actually what I’m chasing. My first filter was if this doesn’t get a laugh, you still have dignity. He started working a bit about how the hardest part of being a Muslim is that you go to the mosque on Fridays before the weekend, whereas Christians don’t have to go to church until Sundays. His joke, I’ll be at the mosque being like, I don’t know what I’m doing tonight. It’s such a worse position.

After pre apologize, it feels so much nicer to do it and then say sorry. As the routine began to connect with the audience, he felt emboldened, saying, because this is fully me, but it’s also in the reference of the culture I’m surrounded by.

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And then I started writing it in those pockets interesting anecdote here from…

He did a set on Stephen Colbert in twenty seventeen and a couple of stage performances before that, he’d closed his act by saying, I’m not trying to be preaching, and really not. All I’m trying to say is just submit to Islam because it’s the truth and it’s the only way you’ll be saved. Seriously, both times it got huge laughs, but Yusef says the Late Show producers was so nervous about the joke that they told him if you fight us on this, we’re not gonna let you do the set. He pushed for a compromise. He would close with submit to Islam, and if they still felt uncomfortable, they could edit it out of the aired version.

Instead, it killed, and the final version of the segment ended with a cut to Colbert beaming with delight as he sent the show to commercial. Wow, that’s a great story. Hey, if you need something to do today, say there’s no football at one pm Central time, you could do the math there. Tom Cashman’s Pests premieres on the eight hundred Pound grill Is YouTube channel at one Central. Congratulations to Macpacker Henry Winkler if you’re new to the podcast.

The macpack is my fantasy the celebrities I would hang out with if I were also famous. So it’s it’s Michael Chickliss, Henry Winkler, Andy Samberg, Jeff Goldbloom, Tom Cavanaugh. I forget there’s like a holist, but I would hang out with these people. I got to meet Winkler once, and I know he’s heard this so many times, but I was just like, oh my god, seven year old me would just totally be losing it. Now, what a nice guy.

Mack Packer. Henry Winkler will receive US’s prestigious Oakie Award for Exceptional Achievements in Film and TV Comedy. The award presentation takes place Tuesday, March fifth, at seven. It’ll include an in depth conversation with Henry Winkler, moderated by Bill Hayter. The La Times profiled Jeff Dunham, who combined puppets with Johnny Carson’s approach to comedy, and it paid off big.

In nineteen seventy, Jeff Dunham was given a dummy a gift from his parents. Twenty years later, he made his first appearance along with Peanut, on The Tonight Show. The Ali Time says, you took ventriloquism to the highest level humanly possible and made it cool, not that it was uncool. You get it. Jeff says, oh, I get it.

This is how I know for sure that we’re living in a simulation. Some dad out there and the kids going, hey, Dan, watch this, and the dad goes a really famous ventriloquist. Now that would never happen. Not sure if you know this, but in the vaudeville days, the ventriloquist was the act they shoved on stage when the curtain came down to keep the audience entertained. Why they reset the stage for the real act.

The time said, you used to be one of the few comics selling out arenas, and now there’s an amazing comedy boom. Do you feel like you should get a finder’s fee? Then I’m said, it’s pretty great. What’s going on. The one thing that’s said about being a headliner is you hardly get to interact with other big headliners to share stories and talk about how long a second what it took to get to the top.

It’s also interesting to me is what comes along with social media and being able to put yourself out there instantly if I had a choice to come up now or when I did, I’d choose then just seems crazy difficult now with all the social rules and what you can and can’t make fun of. If you’re an established name, you have a bit of license, but even then you really have to navigate those waters and know your audience. I really feel like the world is full of good people and it takes a handful of idiots and the jerk faces to mess it up for everyone else. From Truro to old Phil Wang has plans to release an album of swing music. He says crooning, rather than comedy, is his true passion, tells s Trotle, this year, I’m trying to do different things.

Maybe I’ll record Phil sings the Blues or something. I’d love to do that. Sometimes I still think I need to stop this stand up experiment and get back to my real life, because this hobby’s gone is long enough. Still doesn’t feel like a decision I made. People always say, how did you fall in the stand up?

And I think that’s quite an accurate description of how you do it. You fall into it, But the real passion is the swinging and the crooning. I find it too painful to do now, because comedy takes every last bit of your earnestness from you. It makes you cynical about everything, and music is very earnest. It’s very hard to sing cynically.

When I sing alone in the shower or something, I love it and I’m gonna leave you there. I want you to picture Phil Wang naked, yeah, in the shower singing. Don’t act like you’re not thinking about it. That’s your comedy news for today. It’s he to wor

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Caloroga Shark Media Happy Shane Gillis Day. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Shane hosting SNL tonight. The New York Times wrote a big article about Shane. They resurfaced a twenty twenty one interview with Shane from The Joe Rogan Experience, on which Shane said he had told SNL about the tone of his podcast.

Lord Michael Sposeley asked, Shane, do you have anything you want us to check out? Gillis replied he had a podcast, as The New York Times quotes, I say like gay and retard a lot. According to Gillis, they were like, ah, that’s fine, don’t worry about it. The Times reminds us that that year Bowen Yang joined the cast. In twenty twenty, Yang told The Times, the reason I didn’t comment on it was because there was a sense of opposition being created between the two of us, right, But a lot of it was invented because it wasn’t like he was making any comments about me specifically.

So why is Shane back? Well? The Times went with this when hosting SNL in nineteen ninety nine, about a year and a half after being let go, Norm McDonald said, I wanted to keep my job, and they felt the exact opposite. How did I go from not being funny enough to even be allowed in the building to being so funny that I’m now hosting the show? How did I get so damn funny?

It’s inexplicable to me. Then it occurred to me, I hadn’t gotten funnier, The show had gotten really bad. Time Magazine writes SNL’s Sheen Gillis flip flop comes as no surprise. This is a very good article I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. Time rates on SNL the buck stops with creator Lauren Michaels, So it seems fair to presume that the choices reflect some combination of his taste and what he and his team believe viewers want to see.

And you hear him tell it. He never stopped being a fan of Shane Gillis’s work. As he explained in twenty twenty two, NBC was in something of a panic. It was like they’re gonna boycott the sponsors. Reflecting on all this in twenty twenty two Inner with Andrew Yang, the rich guy that ran for president, Remember him?

Shane told Andrew, I understand both sides of the argument. He should be fired or he was just joking. I’m not a victim. There’s a video of me using a slur. There’s gonna be some backlash.

Time says that might not seem like much. Certainly isn’t an apology. Yet it’s remarkably rare to hear such a clear eyed articulation of his own predicament. Usually, comedians double down, refashioning themselves as free speech warriors. Chappelle Sorry, I had a cough there, rallying against cancel culture and ultimately embracing an audience friendlier to their brand of bigotry.

Some, most prominently Louis C.K. Have issued apologies and disappeared for a while, only to resurface with material geared towards reactionary fans. Gillis can be refreshing and that he doesn’t pretend I have all the answers or be an exemplary human being. And his jokes he casts himself as ugly bad at sex, subjectively inferior to his girlfriend’s Navy seal. X wive in Austin opens with the comedian roasting his own hair.

Then he advises an overwhelmingly white male audience. If you’re white, don’t get it to me Midican haircut, you just stand up looking more racist. He then doesn’t a brief impression of the Dominican barber, Sime writes, it’s a bit of a punchline overload. Who’s actually the butt of the joke? Gillis Dominicans, racist white people with their stupid haircuts.

A thorough review of the context surrounding the racist language that knocked them off a pedestal might lose some nuance. The new material might even be enough to make you wonder whether SNL hadn’t been overly hasty and cutting them loose. Would a comic this perceptive really step off the stage and spew hatred for its own sake? Time rights? Unfortunately?

Yes. If an interest in history is a gateway to republicanism, then Gillis’s stand up that’s a call back to a joke that’s not a dig from time. Then Gillis’s stand up might be a gateway to his partially paywalled empire of slurs, conspiracy theories, and all manner of other bigotry. Seth Simons has made a study of all the things Gillis says, outside of his Aisle crossing stand up in The Daily Beast, I talk about this early a week. He offers a damning indictment of Gillis’s choice to platform holocaust deniers, one of whom happens to be his podcast co host’s brother Simons brought a run down of the comic recent utterances for The La Times.

Features inwards, anti Semitic K words and a crude impression of some with down syndrome, the misgendering of trans women, praise for Proud Boys founder Gavin McGinness, and as well as that old standby charactertures of Asian people. I’m looking forward to this episode tonight. I will talk about it on Monday, because you know SNL ends at one am and Johnny Mack goes to bed.

Speaking of SNL, I think this is really cool.

Colin Jost and Michael Chay are celebrating Saint Patrick’s Eve. See this year it’s a leap yeer. Saint Patrick’s Day was supposed to fall on a Saturday, which is awesome. When I used to be the mayor of Saint Patrick’s Day, there was one year I lost my voice on Saint Patrick’s Day. I went out anyway, but because of the stupid Leap Year, Saint Patrick’s Day is a Sunday, which sucks.

So Jost and Chay and Jamison Irish Whiskey are promoting Saint Patrick’s Eve. Chay tells People Magazine, we don’t really like doing brand deals, that’s not a thing. But for a really good cause like Leapier, I mean we had to. Jay says it’ll possibly be the greatest holiday that will ever exist. Even though we just found out about it, feels like we’ve been celebrating it forever.

Joe just said, I think this is going to be at least the second biggest countdown of the year that happens at Times Square Top two for sure. Jay says, obviously, Saint Patrick’s Day’s a big deal in New York. I just always love that everybody’s in kind of the same spirit together. It’s very rare that a city this big find something we could all agree on. Just kind of cool to see everybody on the same page and having a good time.

Joe sasked, did you ever march in the parade? Jay says, march of the parade? What am I a cop? No? I never marched the parade, but I’ve seen it maybe forty times.

Chris DeStefano said he had a callback audition for a reporter role in James Gunn’s Superman reboot. I don’t think he got it. He was up for Steve Lombard, who apparently is the Daily Planet’s sports reporter. That must have happened after I became an adult and stop reading Superman comics. Lombard often as a comedic undertone.

It is something of a workplace foil for Superman’s nerdy Clark Kent secret identity. They often have a strained relationship but wind up being good friends. Who knows rory scovel specials out on HBO Max. I’m not adding it to my end of the year list. A couple notes here, and this isn’t at Rory, this is at everybody.

The intros on these comedy specials they’re too long, man Like, Get to It. Rory’s thing was like two minutes. Kevin James did the same thing. Get to It to the twenty first century. We’ve all got ad D.

We’re all playing on our phone while the TV’s on, and you’re just gonna like walk out to music for two minutes and the crowd here just get to it. Tell a joke. So I got through all that, and I gotta admit the long intro already put me in a funk. You’re already digging yourself out of a hole because I’m already annoyed at the direction of the special. But I’m gonna play a clip here, Okay, I want you to pay attention.

I’ve been noticing this a lot on specials. Are the comedians adding laughter to specials? You tell me, listen to this, I’m gonna play a clip. The initial joke is solid, definitely deserves the laugh. But then listen to the tags.

Listen to the way the audience reacts to the tags. To me, feels like a sitcom. I feel like the laughter’s way out of whack with the relative hilarity of these tags. You tell me, I also want to be fair here After the word holy, he said the S word. I try and keep this podcast clean, so I’ve made an edit here.

Other than that, it’s as it aired on the HBO Max special. Take a listen, you guys. Have you ever met someone who’s like I’ve read the whole Bible? Is your first thought? Oh my god, we should hang out the whole Bible.

What are you doing tonight? Holy the whole Bible. You ever seen somebody with a highlighted Bible? Why did that start? I just thought Jesus made such a good point here, and I want to I just I was reading it and I was like, wait, this is me.

But Jesus said it back then. Ah, So what do you think? Huh? Yeah, I don’t know. I’m noticing a lot of that.

Anyway. That does not make the end of the year list. The list continues to be only number one, Dusty Sleigh, number two, Taylor Thomlinson not on the list, Beat Davidson, Jackie Novak, Kevin James, and now I have to add I already forgot his name, Rory Scovel. I would hate to think people are adding laughter to their specials. But Mitch Heedburgh had a joke twenty years ago about sweetening, so might be a thing that happens again.

Use your years, you tell me got a lot here for a Saturday. Huh. The Washington Post it caught up at that. Robert F. Kennedy fundraiser Jeremy Piven compared white men to bitcoin, saying we were the toast of the town, and now everyone’s trying to dump us.

Rob Schneider prowled the stage in a fedora, says the Post. He complained in California public schools, one day, you drop off a girl. In the afternoon, you pick up a boy. Schnyder said, I’m old enough to remember when the Democratic Party was the Democratic Party. Remember when they were against war, censorship, don’t trust your government.

It was really a joke, was it, Post says. People appear to have come for the politics as much as the comedy. They laugh, but just as often cheered things like the Constitution and my Glendell and booed things like Jimmy Kimmel and Gavin Newsom. The crowd was diverse in age and style of dress, but mostly white and skewing male. In an informal survey of twenty odd attendees, quoting here, only one, a sharp dressed black man named Emmanuel, said Biden was the second choice.

The rest leaned toward Trump unquote. The evening’s entertainment was heavy on podcast comics loosely connected to what some have called the manosphere. I have not heard that term before. The manosphere among the audience, which paid one hundred and fifty dollars for theater seats and up to fifteen hundred for after party access. Podcasts were cited as an important source of information.

THEO Vaughn’s name came up a lot, as did Adam Carolla. Both have given RFK Junior a lot of airtime. The La Times ads so what got the crowd going? Jokes about lockdown, masking, Biden’s age, the pathetic Democrats, and more masking. Not sure if they’re quoting someone here or paraphrasing, but they wrote, isn’t it funny how you had a mask when walking to a restaurant but not at the table?

How about on a plane visiting your elderly mom? Should do that? As angry Jerry Seinfeld and a funny I had a mask? And why at a restaurer? Have another tell?

How about out of play and were visited you earlier? The mom quite the show. Varidy caught up with Michael Keaton about these sequels of Beetlejuice. The movie is titled Beetle Juice and I’m not saying it a third time, not falling for that, but it’s that word twice is the title, Kean says, It’s the most fun I’ve had on a set in a long time. The one thing that Tim Burton and I decided on early, early, early on, from the beginning, if we ever did it again.

I was totally not interested in doing something where there was too much technology. They had to feel handmade. It’s the most exciting thing when you get to do that again. After years of standing in front of a giant screen pretending somebody’s across the way from you, this is just enormous fun. What made it fun was watching somebody in the corner actually holding something up for you to watch everybody in the shrunken headroom and say, there are people under there operating these things, trying to get it right.

We thought, we have to get this right. Otherwise don’t do it. Let’s just get on with our lives and do other things. So I was hesitant and cautious, and he was probably equally as hesitant and cautious after all these years. Once we got there, he said, all right, let’s go for it.

Let’s see if we can do it. B were, I’m not falling for it is the most fun you can have working. It’s so fun, it’s so great. You know what this is. We’re doing it exactly like we did the first movie.

There’s a woman, a spoiler in the Great Waiting Room for the Afterlife, literally with a fishing line. I want people to know this because I love it, tugging on the tail of a cat to make it move. Movie sequel, not Falling for It in theater is September sixth. Hopefully that gets people reinterested in the musical. I saw the musical.

It was fantastic. Paul Versey is taping his next special at the Din Theater in Chicago tonight and on YouTube you many. American comedian I’m ed Al Khardri is releasing his first special. Ahmed brings his striking goofy charm to tales that span the spectrum of life subsurdities, from taking mushrooms at a Lizo concert and playing taboo with his brothers to the comedic nuances of dual cultural identities that one’s called special not special. You’ll find it on YouTube and that is your comedy news for today.

Hopefully. Shane Gillis creates all kinds of controversies. I like the controversies. See tomorrow

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Caloroga, Shark Media Bloom, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Shane Gillis will host Saturday Night Live tomorrow. There’s still really no press about him, which is surprising, but NBC finally put out a teaser for the episode. In it, we see Shane Gillis working out his monologue on a stage with almost no one in the audience. Let’s listen.

What sorry, man? Now you’re fine? Are we interrupting? I was gonna I was gonna work on my monologue. Actually it’s nice.

Can you guys check it out? Yeah? Sure, okay, all right, so I’m gonna come out. I’ll go Saturday.

And then I went to an Amish wedding once I was the only one there who could d…

Yeah, okay, all right, new plan of the Apes is coming out. It’s gonna be bananas. Headlights are getting brighter. Politics. Now I do a little crowd work, like, are you guys dating?

Are you seeing each other? Yeah? It must be nice. I’ve been alone for a while. How come dogs are the only ones that get cool names?

Not us? Too relatable? Yeah? Who likes impressions in the crowd would be like?

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And then I’m like, you guys, ever see a horse and it’s like and then that’s t…

That’s about it. I’m about done with that monologue. Great, I think it’s right there, love it, thank you, and then it’s like Righty’s annual Power of Comedy event will return to south By Southwest March eighth. You’r honorees Samantha Bee, John Leguizamo, Nick Kroll, Lily Singh, Andrew Reynolds, Hannah Einbender, Pamela Adlina Jubuki, Young White, Robbie Prau, and Cazzie David. That is an interesting group, interesting carrying a lot of water there for Johnny Mack.

Sam Bee will receive the Comedy Innovator Award, presented by Brooks Shields of course, obviously representing Sam’s accomplishments as a comedian, writer, author, and trailblazing late night TV host and producer. Robbie pra you know him as the VP of Stand Up in Comedy Formats at NETFLX. I worked with him back when he was at Just for Laughs. Good guy. He’s done a great job with Netflix and Variety tells us.

In that role, he’s been instrumental in helping to nurture a new generation of comedians, as well as shepherding successful stand up events from a list comedians including Chris Rock, Davechapel, Etceteratca, Kroll and Rynolds will receive the Comedy Duo Award in recognition of their work on I Don’t Understand You, which premieres it south By Southwest. It must be really good. It’s not even out and it won the award. Okay co star Morgan Spector will present them with the award. What are We Doing here?

Guys? John Leguizama will be honored with the Comedy Actor Award for his project Travino Likes It, which will also premiere at south By. What is going On? Don’t you actually have to have? Like?

Best Podcast of the Year, Tomorrow’s Deely Comedy News, the one I Haven’t even recorded yet, Best Podcast of the Year, What Are We Doing? And Variety’s backing this up with. Leguizamo’s storied career in comedy also includes all Right, I’ll give you a second, watch your rattle off. John Leguizamo’s famous comedy films, Give you another second? Here, you got them, You got the whole list right, Yeah, of course, Tu Wang Fu.

Thanks for everything. Julie Newmar and the Ice Age franchise. What are we even doing? Nick Fune will present Leguzama with that award. Hannah Einbender will receive the Comedy Actress Award or She’s really good on Hacks.

That’s fine. That’ll be presented by Gene Smart, also from Hacks, which will premiere it’s third season at South By. I think we’re giving awards and just promoting our things, don’t you. Pamela Adlon gets the Comedy Director Award for Babes, which also premieres at South Pye Point, taking John we got it the first six times. Adlin’s notable credits include serving as the writer, director, executive producer, and star of the award winning FX comedy series Better Things.

Hold On. I just got a text this is real from my daughter. She’s at the National Donuts chain and she texted, me, how do I see past orders? The lady is arguing with me that I didn’t order a donut. I have to pull up my app.

I don’t even have my phone with me now, she wrote, nevermind leave it in. I’m writing back, okay, recording. I’ll go down on the National Donuts chain and tell them we spend twenty five thirty dollars a day there between me, my daughter and when I get my mom’s stuff, So don’t accuse us of trying to steal a donut. Where were we? Pamela Adlin will be honored with the Comedy Director Award for her work on Babes.

Her notable credits include serving as the writer, director, executive producer, and star of the award winning FX comedy series Better Things. Remember Better Things? Of course you do, just case out. I’ll google it so we can all remember together what Better Things is was Better Things the story of Sam Fox, a single mother and working actor with no filter, trying to raise her three daughters. This ran from twenty sixteen to twenty twenty two without me noticing it while hosting a daily podcast.

Willie Sing will receive the inaugural Comedy Crossover Award. I’m gonna not even read the paragraph. I’m gonna guess She’s going to receive the Comedy Crossover Award for Something premiering at south By Let’s see for her evolution as a storyteller from YouTube creator, a TV host, and now to actor culminating in her comedy film Doing It, premiering at south By Southwest. To come on with this, I’m not reading any more of that. That is just nonsense.

Last weekend, Joe Coy set a new record after his two shows at the La Forum. Joe Coy is now the only comedian to hold the title for most headlining shows by a comedian with six shows at the Kia, all of which were completely sold out, which is shocking because he recently made horrible, horrible fun of Taylor Swift. Here, let’s listen the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift Boy. That is harsh.

I don’t know how anyone would go see this person after he was so mean to Taylor. Joe Koi went on Instagram to share the massive accomplishment with his newly awarded plaque. He captured it first comedian to sell out the Forum six times. I’m living the dream. I Love you, La.

Adam Sandler is filming his special at the Nocturn Theater in Glendale. He’s doing several shows from the twenty seven through the first so we’re gonna edit those together and hope we can get a funny performance out of it. Good luck. Yeah, Caddie John is back. I did the nice episode.

I drank your coffees. I’m back to my real opinions. Adam Sandlor not funny. Let me look this up. He’s not really doing four shows to get a special.

They usually do two, which I understand because you need pickups and whatnot or something that’s go great. But four is a lot. Let me say wow. Two shows on Tuesday, two on Wednesday, two on Thursday, and one on Friday. I mean, part of that might just be you can sell a ton of tickets and he’s already there.

But also between the five shows out can get a good performance. This next item is just shocking, and I’m sorry to upset everybody, But according to a Variety, I know this is going to shock a lot of you, so you might just want to take a seat for second. As you know, Adam Sandler has a movie coming out called Spaceman. Apparently it’s not good. Sorry, I know, I just ruined your weekend, I know, right, Like Adam Sandler and a cgi alien?

How can that not be great? Variety writes Adam Sandler, we can all agree, is a serious actor. Time’s a great one is comic DNA will often threat its way to performance, has but not always an uncut gems. He had a frantic agro desperation worthy of a scor Sesi crime film. That’s right in Hustle, the crowd pleasing Netflix sports drama, and, as I recently said, the second best Adam Sadlor film.

He played a pro basketball scout with a minshe mouthonis that carry the audience right along. So when you sit down and watch Space Man, in which Sandler plays a morosely bearded and I’m tired looking Czechoslovakian astronaut who’s six months into a solo mission to the far side of the Solar System, you give Adam Sandler the benefit of the doubt. Of course you do. If any actor has the resources to hold down the center of a movie like this one, rides variety, it’s probably Adam Sandler. Of course, who else would you possibly cast in such a dramatic role, But variety says, Spaceman It’s my duty to report is a glum and meandering science fiction fairy tale of a movie.

It premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, and you could see why it was programmed there. It’s got an austereur dystopian vibe that allows it to pass for an art film. Sailor certainly does what he can with the role, but the director doesn’t know how to carry the audience along. See it’s the director’s fault. Spaceman gets lost in space and mostly just sits there limply because everything that happens is too soft.

Right to the spoiler whoh spoiler article. I won’t ruin it for you. I know you want to watch this. You know you go to a theater this weekend, or just wait, it’ll be on Netflix next Friday. Sorry to ruin your weekend like that.

Let me cheer you up and tell you. Nicki Minaj wants to add Kat Williams to her Pink Friday to World tour. She tells us she’s looking to bring the funniest managed show business on the road with her this spring. Nicky says, I know that he’s the busiest managed show business. I know that he’s rich.

I know that he’s the funniest man of show business. Can y’all hit up Kat Williams and ask him what would be his price to be part of the Pink Friday to Gag City tour. Williams has yet to respond to Minaj’s inquiry, which reminds me neither Joe Rogan or Conan have gotten back to me about my challenge to fight either of them, or perhaps even both of them at the same time. At UFC three hundred, they are wuss’s Kevin Hart has not murdered anyone. That was trending.

Apparently someone else, also named Kevin Hart has been arrested in charge with murder, and this is not funny. But the person who is murdered is named Jackie Robinson, so I’m sure there’s going to be all sorts of weird google going on. But the famous comedian Kevin Hart has not murdered anyone. A bunch of things out today. Bernie Max posthumous album Tapes from m King is out on Kevin Hart’s record Lay Adam Burke has a new comedy album called Weaponized Empathy, Chris Martin has a new album called Above Ground Comedian, and Jenny Slate’s Seasoned Professionals on Amazon Prime today.

The mainstream media has just done a lot of fawning over Jenny Slayton several articles, and I’ve wanted to share them with you, But as much as I quote from articles, there’s very little interesting in these articles. I don’t know what is going on. I just read them and I’m like, hey, that happen. Here’s one from the Hollywood Reporter who asks Jenny slat seems like there’s an expectation for stand ups to deliver specials at a fairly regular pace these days. Do you feel pressured?

Jenny tells the Hollywood Reporter, Thank god, I don’t. The pressure that I feel arrived from me around fourth grade, and continues on, I’m forty one, and that’s just will they like me. It’s not really up to me, is it. I try my best and hope the audience understands that I want to be with them. This shows what I have to offer.

It’s my weird dowry. One of the best things about filming a special is this feeling that comes after It’s like, who I want to take that exam for a while. It would be a sad day for me to say I’ll never do stand up again. Doesn’t feel realistic. But I’m increasingly interested in other ways that I could be funny, on stage that don’t involve the tight rope of stand up.

It’s really weird to be afraid of the audience because it’s not about the audience. It’s about my wobbly grass on my own sense of power, whether I can drive this vehicle that is me onto that stage. Chris Martin’s album Not That One, points out the press release, Above Garround Comedian is out today on Blonde Medicine. In Above Ground Comedian Chris Martin, Not That One tells tales of how his parents informed Chris’s foray into parenthood, his shortcomings of veganism, surviving marriage, cultural assimilation as a Brits living in LA and of course, his dog’s butt love It. Adam Burke’s album Weaponize Empathy on a Special Thing at Records.

He has takes on health issues, the real meanings of Generation X, and an Irish Hello originally from Ireland by way of Australian England. Long Story, tells the press release. Adam’s been performing comedy in Chicago and there at the US for seventeen years. From Gossip Corner, Tim Dillon has listed his house for five million dollars, apparently, according to the rob Report, previously owned by Silicon Valley actor Thomas Middleditch. Tim paid four to six for it.

Now he want’s a little under five million for it. Originally built in the early seventies, these Spanish style premises have been renovated throughout the years. It includes three bedrooms, two baths. There’s a guest cottage with a steam showered to equipp bath and an attached to car garage tucked away in a cliff top barcel of lands spanning just over a third of an acre high above Mulholland Drive. The main house is introduced via decator of arches spanning the entire front of the terra cotta roof and stucco structure.

The Robberport tells us. Probably best known for the Tim Dillon Show, which has massed one million weekly listeners, the thirty nine year old New York native also maintains a nine hundred thousand dollars house in Austin and a two point six million dollar house in Southampton. Tim Dillon’s pod is doing okay. Al Magriical and Jay Larson have a new podcast. This one is called The dust Up.

In the dust Up, Almgriical and Jay Larson will take a deep dive into historic fights, feuds, and melee’s and break them down each week. Some of the fights Adidas versus Puma, Biggie versus Tupac, R two D two versus C three po Yeah, okay, more magical, and Larsen joke that they have temper and anger issues. I don’t know, gimmick podcast, I don’t know, sure, why not? That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Donnell Rawlings is defending his beef with Corey holcom Dona was on TMZ Live, where he explain that the beef was because he wanted to shield himself from Corey’s allegations that anybody in comedy who’s done three movies or more has had to do a favor for somebody in the business. Donelle points out that Corey himself has done four movies, perhaps doing a favor, perhaps not, I don’t know. Donale points out that Corey’s literally guilty of his own joke.

He’s also mad that Corey took shots at Dave Chappelle. You know, I was listening to yesterday’s podcast in the cars. I was on my way to the National Donuts Chain. I do that most mornings to QC the show see if I blew any edits or made a horrible mistake of some kind. And I was listening to Corey say that out of five Dave Chappelle specials, two of them are funny.

That’s kind of act. Donelle says he doesn’t understand the need for comics to create controversy by taking shots at others, something that’s been happening quite a lot lately in epic fashion. Well, here’s why in show business, you fight up, you never fight down. Kat Williams through Kerosene on everything, and now everyone’s talking about him. That’s what’s going on here.

When’s the last time you heard me mention Corey Holcomb on this podcast before this week? Never two years ago? I don’t know. I can’t remember it. So, yeah, that’s what’s going on here.

Everybody’s throwing heat, which reminds me that coward Joe Rogan still has not accepted my challenge to him. I guess he’s some sort of wooss. I will fight you in the ring, Joe, you tell me where UFC three hundred I’m in? What are you afraid of? Joe Rogan?

See, that’s what everybody else is doing. Maybe I shouldn’t take on Rogan. Could I fight Conan O’Brien. I mean, he’s a lot taller than me, so he’s got reach. But I feel like I could take Conan O’Brien.

Conan, what are you afraid of? Your woos? Let’s go UFC three hundred. Me and Conan O’Brien in the Octagon, bring it? Are you scared?

Awkward segue time? Ossia. Last week out, Lucas made a George Floyd related joke attempt. Apparently there’s a video out there of David Lucas claiming I’ve spoken with members of George Floyd’s family as well as close friend Stephen Jackson. Lucas apologized for the pain they may have felt, but did not apologize for the joke.

Lucas was on the Willie d Live Show and said, I’m an advocate for free speech right. The Great Patrise O’Neil said that a funny joke and a bad joke come from the same place. So that was my attempt at comedy. It was to get shock value. I’m a troll.

You heckle me, now I heckle you. I don’t apologize for doing the joke. Who are we as the gatekeepers to say when a joke goes too far? Well, you’re the comedians. You guys get to say what a joke goes too far.

I joke about beating on white women, I joke about killing white women. I joke about gay people. This sounds like a great set, David. I joke about the transsexual community. So the moment I apologize for George Floyd joke, and now I gota apologize for every other joke.

Move on, John, So, who in this situation is the gatekeeper to tell me you went too far or you didn’t go far enough? Is it because I’m not famous? If Dave Chappelle had told that joke? What would have happened? If Dave Chappelle told that joke?

There would have been five million articles about it, followed by five million opinion pieces and me putting Dave Chappelle’s name in the episode title of several episodes of this podcast. That’s what would have happened. There’s still wait, let me check one more time, because I did the show prep a few hours ago. I believe there’s still no Shane Gillis press. And this is not because I’m an idiot and don’t know when the episode is airing.

Its airing this week. If I throw Shane Gillis into Google here on Wednesday afternoon, we see the article I talked about yesterday. Why did Shane Gillis keep promoting the Holocaust deniers? Up rocks has one called SNL host Shane Gillis had Holocaust deniers on his podcast, and the third one is Shane Gillis coming to Rockford in June. Is SNL trying to sneak this episode in I don’t know what’s going on here?

Are you happy Shane Gillis is hosting? Did no one else want to host it? I mean somebody would have hosted it. No, why’d you pick Shane? If you’re not going to promote it?

They are promoted The upcoming hosts. Sydney Sweeney will host on March second, Casey Musgraves as your musical guest, then Josh Brolin and Ariana Grande on March ninth. Maybe tomorrow we’ll see some Shane Gillis press. Very interesting. Adam Sandler out there promoting Spaceman.

The movie was making its debut at the Berlin Film Festival last night. I wonder if anybody was excited about it. Doing some of the weightless scenes, Sandler says, the wires were tough because my body’s not the most flexible body. The wires hurt me. They dug into me.

The stunt man who would wire me up every day would say that hurts, and they didn’t believe me. But we did it as a team. The director would say you don’t look like you’re floating. What are you doing? And I’d say, well, what should we do?

And then they’d wire you hot up and he’d be like, more like this. Spaceman in select theaters, February twenty third, Netflix, March First. You could probably wait the eight days. No, yes, oh no, it’s February. It’s not even eight days.

Seven days. I counted on my fingers. Sandler was asked if you’d do more dramatic roles. He said, yes, I love doing the Spaceman. It was an amazing process.

Now you know me, I’m muh much prefer dramatic Adam Sandler. His two best films are, of course, Uncut Gems and Hustle. Much prefer that to Adam Sandler’s attempt at comedy. I actually think he’s pretty good as a dramatic actor. So more of that now, this one with a CGI alien.

As much as I like science fiction, I don’t know, but I’m gonna watch a set of Curiosity so I have something to talk about the podcast as well. Day the Week’s More first, Oh a Friday, Great Mike Gaps has a new special out on Netflix. Jason Zinneman, who does great work in The New York Times said Mike Gaps may be the only stand up comic alive who’s upset that Kat Williams didn’t insult him. A non spoiler of Vibe review, as I call it, Zinneman writes, on stage, Mike Gaps convincingly plays the rascal who was trimmed his way out of trouble. Sometimes his chrism is a crutch his writing concoast, especially early in this hour, when he seems to be his most generic, doing pandering or familiar jokes about prison rape, fat girls, and code switching.

His most surprising moments are not punchlines, but when he says something that could, in different hands come off as serious, like when he mentions he’s been pretending to dislike white people for forty years. There’s also a moodier side of him that you get peaks of in his stand up, but that probably deserves fuller expression. Like Dave Chappelle, Mike Epps makes a habit of scampering across the stage after a punchline and hitting the microphone, but there’s something sweetly innocent about his version, often accompanied by a wide smile. Zenmann points out he’s a fantastic mimic. Epps has long been compared to Richard Pryor, who imbued his finest work with a startling human vulnerability the swagger.

There was only a setup to the joke, something many of his successors missed. That’s great by Jason, but not Epps. You can hear the influence most overtly in a joke about how cocaine affects your sex life when he gives a voice to a body part speaking of Richard Pryor Micah. Epps beat out several other comics, including Marlon Wayans, for the title role in a Richard Pryor biopick that was gonna happen around twenty sixteen. Never did, but Epps did play Richard Pryor in HBO’s Winning Time.

Here’s that clip. There are many people speaking here. The one that sounds like Richard Pryor is Mike Epps. And if you don’t think anyone sounds like Richard Pryor, then the impressions not that good apparently, but I think it is here. You go, Hey, black man, black man, black man, man, man man, oh man.

You’ve been living like a sink these days. But if you want to celebrate after the game parties at my place in the heels. Come on up, man, we got it all man, we got white bitch. Calder Zinneman floats a theory that why the movie didn’t happen. He says after that winning time clip, Richard Pryor’s widow tweeted out her disapproval.

Hmm. Jimmy Kimmel seems annoy that he was sued by George Santos. He asked, did anybody else get sued by George Santos this weekend? I’m currently embroiled in what might be the most preposterous lossit of all time. Kimmel said, we did a nice thing.

We supported him by ordering his cameo videos. Ricky Gervais shared some extremely sad news. The very funny and very lovely you and McIntosh are known too many as Big Keith from the Office has passed away. An absolute original rip McIntosh was fifty years old, roughly sort of kind than not really the Kevin analog on the original British Office. I’ve got a bunch of clips here that I just didn’t get to it.

It was so much controversy yesterday. Yesterday was a fun nampisode. Not that today’s bad but yesterday. I love the fights. Here’s Michael Blaxon on Vlad TV talking about Taylor Swift.

Watch out, Michael, She’s not gonna like this. Taylor Swift was giving him that energy. I mean, it’s always great to have your woman there. You know, it hypes you up. Bet.

I mean it had been great before Taylor. Let’s be honest, Taylor didn’t know nothing about football. No till she started digging this guy. She knew because you watch her earlier in the season, she’ll be cheering at the wrong time. She’s like, yeah, Teller is halftime.

See now you have no clue what’s going on? Do you? Yeah, she just did just cheer her man. She’s I’m so happy for her because you could tell for the first time she’s in love. Weird Al was on with Craig Ferguson.

Al started talking about and he sounds really way too guilty here about some language he used in songs early in his career. Al. We know you come in peace, we know you don’t mean anything, and I really think you’re overthinking this. But here’s Weird Al with Craig Ferguson. I’ve been releasing records, you know, since the late seventies, so some of the you know, I obviously tried not to be offensive or do anything that I thought that would come back to haunt me later.

But there’s there’s some languages, some words that I used in the eighties and nineties which you know are now considered slurs or offensive. So you know, in fact, there’s one song that I did on this last tour which had had an offensive word in it, and I sang the word, and then the whole band stops and I have to explain, like I wrote this on the nineties, I didn’t mean any offense by it. Language is a fluid thing. But you know, you can you give me I don’t I’m not going to ask you to say the word, but can you let me give me a clue to what the word is or what it pertains to. I’ll say it because I say it is hermaphrodite.

Is that a slur? Well it is apparently, you know I thought it was a medical Well that’s exactly that’s exactly how I explained it. And you know in my apology that you know, when I wrote it in the nineties, I thought, okay, this is a technical medical term. And this is you know, the person in my hypothetical story happens to be one, right, And apparently that word is considered a slurw nowadays, which obviously, no, I’ll be honest, it’s not a word I use often, no id No, I know. Yeah, And you know, I can see the why you would use it, because it’s clearly writes with stuff.

And you know, because language changes, I mean, even the word lame, uh, you know, which is in common usage. And you know, I haven’t stopped saying that, but I mean the point has been made like, oh, that’s an ablest term, Like okay, I can see that, but still it’s it’s such a common and and there’s there’s another word that I used and I won’t say this word, but it’s a word that both Beyonce and Lizo got in trouble for. It rhymes with plastic, do you know what I mean? And begins with an sp oh gosh, yeah, right, okay, so uh and you know, in North America that’s just considered like a goofy, you know, yes, kind of good person. But in other parts of the world it’s considered a horrible slur.

Well, you know, what’s interesting is that the words the word you’re talking about, When I was a kid growing up, it was used to in medical terms to describe or like you. If someone was going to a school for people that suffered from disabilities or had disabilities, they would be called that yeah, and they would be on the sign in the school. Yeah. And it’s not that I have any objection to language change, and it does change, but I think for I feel like there is a great deal of legitimacy in the changing of the language. But I also feel there’s a lot of people out there on the balls of their feet, just waiting to be offended when there’s no genuine harm meant by yeah.

Dusty Slay was on Neil Brennan’s Blocks podcast, told this story about an earlier part of his career. He was a pesticide salesman. I like this a lot, started doing comedy as a and then I won a competition in Charleston. I made a thousand bucks.

And then the next year, in between that one and the next competition, I quit …

And then by the next year I won the competition like by way more votes, and it’s like so I was like, oh, I maybe I got something here, so I start trying to figure out how to make money doing comedy. But I don’t know if it was so much ambition as it was I hate the other job that I have, and if I can make money doing this, I mean I always said, I don’t need to be famous. If I can make a living doing this, then that’s better than what I was doing. Yep. I was really trying to do it for a minute, you know, but I was also drinking a lot.

So what you had to do you’d have to drive to the Low store and then go inside and you had to call in on the Low’s phone to you know, to a system. That way they knew you checked into that store. You couldn’t do it from yourself on That was like the way to get yourself fired instantly if you call it in from your cell phone. Okay, but I would be so I have that part wrong. But you did have call in, but I would be hungover.

So I would go show up, call in on the Low’s phone, and then go back out to my car and sit and smoke cigarettes and listen to the radio for an hour and then go back in and Dusty here talking to Neil Brennan on blocks about acting nervous on stage. This was pretty interesting because I’d picked up on that myself when I watched the special I’ve done the Tonight Show. I just did my fourth appearance on The Tonight Show, and it’s like the first time, I think they thought they had made a mistake booking me because I was so nervous. But this last time I did it, I wasn’t nervous at all. I was like, all right, I’ve done this, let’s do it.

I’m happy to be here now. On the other hand, I did the Seller to prepare for the for the Tonight Show, and I still I’m still nervous there because it just seems like the coolest place. The first time I did the Comedy Store, and the only time I did the Comedy Store, I was in the main room and I tripped down that little step going out. I was the first one, no host, no warm up. I got five minutes and I trip coming off that step.

Wonderful, but I still was able to recover and had a great set. Yeah, it was awesome, great, But it’s like, I don’t know, I found a way to use the nerves. It’s like, if I am nervous the only thing that anyone can notice is that my voice. If you know me really well, you can tell in my voice I’m a little nervous. Yeah.

But other than that, all the moves are still the same. I may touch my glasses a bit more. John Stewart good for business Man Monday Night. This week got one point three million viewers. That’s up from nine hundred and thirty thousand and week one.

That’s gonna make him, I think, the most watched late night television show. I told you, guys, put this on CBS proper. You didn’t listen to me. Put it on CBS Proper. Don’t wait.

Start doing it now and back up the Brinks truck and see if you can get John to do more. What’s gonna happen to the Daily Show when John’s gone after November? Like this is gonna be fun all summer, and then election is gonna happen and John’s gonna react to it, and then it’s gonna be January of twenty twenty five and they’re gonna go, hey, look, everybody, here’s Jordan Klepper. This might actually kill the Daily Show like they were lucky. Trevor was able to follow John, who’s gonna be able to follow John the second time if the numbers are up this much.

Episode one, aside from the nine hundred thirty right away, it hit three million viewers with the live plus three day numbers including simulcass On other Paramount networks. The one point three million is the most watched daily show since twenty fifteen. You know who was the host then, John Stewart Monday Night Show beat every episode of Trevor Noah’s Run and I like Trevor Noah, but back up the truck. Here you go, John, Daisy Leidik is your host this week. The four day Slow Comedy Festival kicks off tonight and it’s fourteenth year in sam Luis OBISPO founder and director Eric Schantz tells Ksby that he started it fourteen years ago after seeing a similar format done in Edinburgh or year one.

We had stages on milk rates with tabletops that we used folding tables on to actually have a well built stage, actual sound system, spotlights. It’s an amazing transformation. Twenty two shows across ten venues. Information at Slocomedyfestival dot Comslow Comedy Festival dot com. I skim the names.

I don’t think there’s anyone that, unless you’re really into this, that you would recognize. So I won’t do the lineups every night, but it sounds like a cool festival. From the Department of don’t make this, Please don’t Paramount Pictures working on a spinoff to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The spinoff takes place kind of during Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. It centers on the two valets who borrow the Ferrari belonging to Cameron.

Remember that scene. Yeah, this is called Sam and Victor’s Day Off. Hollywood is of ideas. Man, if you’ve got HBO Max Max Max Max, HBO Max Max, HBO Max, Rory Scovell’s got a new special today. I’ve mentioned this before.

It’s like, how did Rory Scovell, who’s fine, How did Rory Scovell pull an HBO Max special. Well, Conan O’Brien is producing it under his team Coco Banner. That’s how. Doesn’t mean the guy’s not funny, doesn’t mean the guy’s not cool, just means Conan O’Brien’s producing it. So that’s part of Conan’s deal.

That’s how he gets it. In the New Hour, Rory Scovell offers observations on disparate subjects such as religion, sex, mushrooms, vaccines, parenting an eight year old, and much more. Seventy minutes set, which is probably fifteen minutes too long, says the guy who hasn’t seen yet Rory Scovell. Religion, sex, and a few things in between on your Max today, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, let’s get right Wait, where’s the crowd? Crowd? Where are you? Oh?

There they are. What happened there? That was weird? Anyway, get your popcorn out and let’s get right to this today. I want you guys to pay attention.

Originally when I did the script, John Stewart was the top story. There’s so much fighting today. Wait do you hear how long it takes me to get to Stewart. Let’s start with Corey Holcombe. Corey Holcombe was on the fifty one to fifty show.

I want to let his words speak for themselves, but I did have to make some edits here. He said a lot of things you would bleep, but you’ll get the gist. Dave should will be bombing. I’m just keeping it real though I have watched whenever they say, SKay, everybody guess what special guess Dave Chappelle, I’ll be like, oh damn, it’s gonna be hot garbage for at least a howl hour, maybe two. I’m just keeping it real.

But he needs to understand you throwing your weight around too much. Man standing up there smoking with them irregular shirts on bombing all the time. Dave Chappelle is absolutely great in movies. Great. I didn’t say good, I said great, not a professor.

Them scenes where he was in the movies with Martin when Dave Schappelle is in the movie man Dave Chapelle killed. We was talking about it before we came on. The Chappelle Show was so good and entertaining. The Chappelle’s Show. They were selling it in the barber shops.

It’s a TV show. They was selling the TV show in the barber shops. Give Dave Chappelle his flowers, but stand up up. This man has so much power because what he’s done in movies and TV that he can go in any comedy club. They’re gonna put him up because he’s Dave Schappelle.

And I promise you this man is about to do a say no to comedy speech for as long as he up there. It’s just nobody has the courage to say nothing because it’s Dave Chapelle. But Dave Schappelle be bombing. Now. I’ve watched Dave Chappelle’s specials.

Out of every five specials, two of them are good, all right, according to TMZ. Donelle Rawlings was up on stage at the laugh Factory, Corey Holcomb was supposed to follow him, started heckling him. Donell told Holcomb that he was a provocateur who was only trying to incite people. There’s a bit of an argument, you can hear. They get back and forth into it.

Corey questions don El’s street cred. Donelle is not happy that Corey employed. Is that if you have made three movies in Hollywood, you had to do a favor. You know what I mean for someone in the business. Anyway, Let’s listen to the clip best we can, all right, listen, listen.

Just be fair legendary. No, no, no, no, no, Let’s be fair. Let’s be fair real. You say you keep it a hundred. You know how I get that?

I ripped you? Rip once? I ripped you. You had any ever see me, Bob, anybody and you have anybody that don’t know me. I didn’t take no, say no.

You trying to say I’m a bum. I ain’t. No boy. The way you know what you’re doing now, you’re a provocateur. You know how to incite people.

People look at you nothing us at tomorrow, I’ll put you out. I’m guess what that’s that and guess what. You can say what you want to say. You can say what you want to say. You calling me a mouth comic, it’s totally off.

More fighting. Eddie Griffin has called Shannon Sharp’s podcast club shay Sheha. He’s referred to it as this is Eddie saying this, not Johnny Mack. Eddie called it club gay gay. He has been joking about Shannon Sharp’s sexuality.

I’m going to have to quite paraphrase here. There are some in words I’ll substitute in the word fellow, and I will not attempt to match Eddie’s speech pattern. So I’ll do this as Johnny Mack. But the transcript more or less reads and club shay sheha, Yeah, shay shay gay gay. I don’t give an f that that fella is gay.

That fella sitting there with tight pants on, with his stuff all up in Kat’s face. You can tell by how that fella drinks that he is gay. He kept saying, Now, now, Kat, those are favor lips, fella. I have cleaned that up that mfer had favor on them lips. Don’t know fella drink like that.

I hope that makes sense to you. I cannot do it in its original form at all. Shannon Sheriff said, there he isn’t the same joke. But at some point it’s going to get old and people are gonna get tired of y’all saying Shannon’s gay and Shannon this. You’re gonna have to get back to telling jokes.

Distractify looked into a rumor that Bert Kerscher was arrested. He was not. They write news of Bert’s jail time was trending for a moment. Let’s break down what really happened. I didn’t even see this trending, but okay.

In an episode of Two Bears, One Cave, Tom Sigoura revealed that Bert was quote doing a little bit of time during the recording. Tom didn’t share any details about why Bert would have been arrested, but he extended words of support to Bert, saying, hopefully his legal matters resolve themselves. I know he has the best attorneys you can hire. He’s also got a lot of health trouble, so they’re taking care of him in the medical ward of the jail. Tom did that dead pan and apparently fooled some people On TikTok.

One person commented, I can’t wait to hear Bert’s stand up that comes from this experience. Another fan wrote, Burt’s probably so confused why everyone thinks he’s in jail? That’s fun. The Daily Beast went with the headline why does Shane Gillis keep promoting these Holocaust deniers? Here we go, Johnny Max’s been waiting for Shane Gillis controversy.

This autist started up. The Daily Beast writes, when SNL introduces host Shane Gillis, the comedian who was hired and quickly fired from the cast in twenty nineteen over his history of racist, homophobic, and transphobic comments on February twenty fourth, some viewers will inevitably find their way back to his podcast. Those who keep listening will eventually meet Bill McCusker, the brother of Gillis’s co host Matt and Andrew Pacella, their longtime friend. Those two have appeared nearly twenty times on Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, currently Patreon’s top rank podcast with the more than eighty thousand paid subscribers. Boy, let’s do the math on that hold on.

I’m on graftreyon who show Matt and Shane having eighty two thousand to five hundred and fifty two paid members. The estimated earnings per month are somewhere between two hundred and thirteen thousand and five hundred and seventy eight thousand per month. Let’s just say each of the eighty two thousand members are paying one dollar. That’d be eighty two grand a month. I’m gonna go to their Patreon.

Boy, don’t get mad at me when I run a triple commercial in the midroll. Guys, Okay, there are grandfathered poors for a dollar a month that has sold out. The professional class is five dollars a month, where you can join the Divine Order of the Dogs for ten dollars a month. So if we do lazy math, eighty thousand times five’s four hundred grand times twelve. Not a bad living.

However, back to Bill McCusker and Andrew Possella, they are Sandy Hook truthers. Johnny Mack has no tolerance for that whatsoever. I am not gonna pull any punches. The are no tolerance for Sandy hook truthers. According to the Daily Beast, those two are Sandy Hook truthers, arguing in two separate episodes of Matt and Chain’s secret podcast that the slaughter never happened.

Disgusting. They are nine to eleven truthers who believe, Perposella, that the Israelis knew about the attacks in advance and may have orchestrated them to take over our meetium, destroy our country cheese. They believe in pizzagate, writes The Daily Beast, some more yucky things I don’t want to share. In one episode, McCusker, the brother apparently asked, do I want Hillary Clinton to be eating effing children with her lover because she’s a lesbian. No, but it’s where it brought us.

Wow, I had no idea, According to The Daily Beast. In a different episode, Pacella, speaking of the Honocaust, says, prove to me that it happened. Show me historians. Why are they lying, dude? Why are all these so called survivors making up stories?

It was a hallucination. How about the actual footage of the showers? Bro yikes? Wow. Quoting from The Daily Beast, here, Passella keeps going questioning whether we were the bad guys in World War two?

Quote? Why do they keep making movies? We’re like, oh, dude, we save Private Ryan skipping at a few paragraphs. Boy, John, this is a fun podcast today. Shane Gillis jumps in and says, Okay, see, this is what I’m worried about, the genuine anti semitism.

The Daily Beast writes. He tells the Due I have a problem, and he believes Pasella is behind it. Selah says, I’m not behind it. We just collectively one day were like, le’s figure out if this absolutely happened. Gillis responds, stop, stop, stop, I’m doing the audio on this.

There’s no pauses, there’s no takebacks. The BET says the duo’s Holocaust denile did not dissuade Gillis from welcoming him back to the podcast many more times. Yikes, that’s all ikey, isn’t it. Yeah? Sorry it took you there, guys, but boy, that really said.

Some context for Shane Gillis hosting SNL this week. Let’s do a quick palette cleanser here. Here’s Joe Coy being really really mean to Taylor Swift. The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift.

Oh, Joe Coy, that is so vicious. All right, check your watch? How far into this are we? When I finally got to John Stewart was back on The Daily Show Monday. He spent most of this show responding to the blown back he got for hosting the show the previous week.

John said the response of the first show last Monday was universally glowing. Okay, maybe not universal, and he showed some screenshots of critical tweets. John said, everything on Twitter gets a backlash. I’ve seen Twitter tell Laborty to go f themselves. I just think it’s better to deal head on with what’s an apparent issue to people.

I mean, we’re just talking here. It was one show. It was twenty minutes. I did twenty minutes and one show. But I guess, as the famous saying goes, democracy dies a discussion.

But look, I’ve sinned against you. I’m sorry. It was never my intention to say out loud with what I saw with my own eyes.

And then Breen John was good for the ratings, not only his night, but for the…

Jordan Klepper hosted last Week for February thirteenth through the fifteenth. Klepper got four hundred and sixty one thousand same day viewers. That’s the highest mark in more than two and a half years. That includes the tail end of the Trevor Noah run and the year of nobody hosting the show. That four sixty one compares to John getting nine to seventy on Monday.

That drags the average up to five hundred and eighty eight. So, for example, if you combine my audience with John Stewart’s audience, we’re also averaging around five eighty eight. The highest RATEUS of the random year of guest host was Al Franken. Yeah, you didn’t think I was going to say that. He got four hundred and forty thousand klepper and I would have got four to twenty five.

No other guest host averaged better than four hundred thousand. Trevor Noah’s final ten weeks drew about four hundred and twelve thousand per night. DOESI Leidich as your host this week through Thursday. John Oliver is back and in the past they used to show most of the show on YouTube. There was a while where I didn’t have HBO and I would watch.

Basically they would post everything but the opening desk bit. They would post the long story, but an HBO spokesperson has confirmed to nine to five Google that HBO Max is now delaying when last week Tonight is available on YouTube. The spokesperson says the hope is those fans choose to watch the entire show on Max, you now won’t get the videos until Thursday. John Oliver himself hopes they changed their mind unquote interesting change because they’ve been doing it the other way for ten years. The big news out of this week’s show, John Oliver has offered to pay a Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas a million dollars a year if he resigns from the Supreme Court.

I tried to pull the clip, but it John took about five minutes to finish off the joke, but you get the ji. John says, that’s the offer. A million dollars a year Clarence and a brand new condo on wheels. He had shown a picture of a pretty fancy truck. All you have to do is sign the contract and get the f off the Supreme Court.

A lot of f’s today, John. The clock starts now thirty days, Clarence. Let’s do this. The Guardian points out that Supreme Court justices. Make it two hundred and ninety eight five hundred dollars.

All right, Mitch Hedberg fans. I had the most amazing moment. I was at Habitburger with my daughter. She asked what kind of soda do they want? And I said doctor pepper and she said they don’t have doctor pepper.

So I looked and there was mister Pibb. Now, if you’re a Hedberg fan, you know where I’m going there. This made me laugh so much that I sent a note to Lynn Shawcroft, who is missus Mitch Hedberg, just to tell her that this happened to me in real life. So my daughter goes, I don’t know what mister pib is and I just said, didn’t get his degree. You either get the story I just told or you’re like, what the f is Johnny Mack talking about it?

But if you got it, it was wonderful because I got to use the line erin from Australia. I want to buy me a coffee dot com. She shot me a note, and boy, Aaron is correct, she writes, I always feel like the pronunciation police, So I’m buying you a coffee this time to say Lisa Lisa trigger pronounced Lisa smiley face eboji.

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Also, Survival of the Thickest got picked up for second season FYI.

In case you’re not familiar with Survival of the Thickest, this is John talking not erin say comedy drama TV series CRO created by Michelle Buteau based on a memoir the same name. The series star is Michelle Buttow as a plus sized woman attempting to rebuild her life after a breakup. So Eron and I exchanged notes on the side. I appreciate it. Every time I say anyone’s name on this podcast, I’m terrified I’m gonna get it wrong.

Like I’ll look at John Oliver and I’m like, is it Oliver? How do you say? I do this on every single name. I’m sure I get seven wrong a week, especially with newer comedians that maybe I haven’t seen in person, but specifically Lisa and I almost did it again. I have it in my brain to make sure I checked pronunciation on that, because I used to say Liza, then I said Lisa, and then when it came up recently, I looked at it and went, oh, yeah, don’t mess this one up, and I of course did so.

Aarin you keep those notes coming. You’re like Lieutenant saffag and Star Trek two. When I’m like, there’s no such regulation, you give me a sexy vulcan eyebrown and go, oh, yes there is Lisa trigger aerin thank you for the note. Kirsty Ally’s really cute Star Trek two. I mean, let’s just be real, all right.

One more wacky one from TMZ. Larsa Pippen, former NBA star Scotty Pippen’s ex wife. You may recall Scotty Pippen was on the Chicago Bulls with Michael Jordan. I hopefully you don’t have to explain to Michael Jordan. Is Larsa Pippens, Scotty’s ex wife and Marcus Jordan, the son of Michael.

They’re in a relationship, and TMZ says that that relationship was put in the crosshairs during a stand up routine over the weekend, comedian Greg Wilson with the sleigh this is great. Larsa Pippen is here with Marcus Jordan looks at Larsa and says, you’re a legend. You’re the only person that’s ever managed to f up both Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan at the same time. You’re basically the greatest New York nick of all time. You should be in their ring of honor.

TMC says, I’ve got some laughs, but the vibe was a bit awkward. And that is a feisty, floaded edition of Daily Comedy News. There was so much today. I bumped two controversies to tomorrow. I can tell you already.

Tomorrow is gonna be a lot of fun. So if you join the program, tell a friend about it or share it on social media. And if I got any of the names wrong, if you’re like, it’s not Larsa, it’s Lar’s. Whatever I did wrong today, you can tell me about it. You don’t even have to go to buy me a coffee.

Dot COM’s last Daily Comedy News, you can just shoot me an email. My email is in the show notes and it’s John at theshark deck dot com. And I’m always, always, always, always happy to interact with listeners. Love hearing from you, guys. Thank you for listening, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I haven’t used the late bot in a while, but it has gotten much better. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News from late Bot. Have you heard Donald Trump is launching his own line if Sneakers. They’re designed to get over any obstacle, unless that obstacle is releasing your tax returns.

That is a solid joke. AI. The sneakers are said to me incredibly durable. They claim to withstand impeachment processes, subpoenas, and even the occasional capitol riot. The sneakers are designed for those who love to run, run for office, run away from tax auditors, or run towards Twitter.

Congratulations to Adam Sandler, winner of the Icon Award at the People’s Choice Awards. I’m gonna play a clip for you. I had to cut it down a couple of reasons. One, it took Adam a long time to get to the stage. The person you hear speaking with him is Jennifer Aniston, and I’ve shared this clip in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group.

As this goes on and on and on and on and on and on, Aniston is basically making the face that I would were I hosting the People’s Choice Awards. She’s just like, what is happening? It’s hilarious. Sandler’s not hilarious. Addison’s face is hilarious.

The audience rolls with it. So I’m gonna play a clip here and then I’ll cut it off and I’ll tell you why, Aniston, I love you so much, and she and I know you don’t love doing stuff like this, and you’re coming You’re okay. Thanks, I do too. You were fantastic. Sorry for coming up early.

I got nervous too. This is this is going to be a little humiliating. So what happened was all right. I know you should prepare a speech for a big night like this. I had one prepared on Force.

So when my agent called me and said I won the People’s Choice Icon Award, I was driving. I had him on speakerphone and I was also eating frosted flakes, and I didn’t hear I think I misheard him. I thought he said, I congratulations, Adam, you won the People Magazine Sexiest Man Alive. So anyways, I wrote a speech for that, and I don’t have one prepared for the Icon thing, but I’m gonna do the speech I wrote, and because they said I got to talk a few minutes, So let’s get to it. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, my name is Adam Sandler, and I am the sexiest man alive.

Can I get a hell? Here? To the People Magazines Academy members of Hotnessing Sexual Attractiveness, I would like to say thank you for recognizing me as the man who made our entire country to horneus this year and was by far the most talked about person individualm by couples or thruffles during fantasy role playing slappy time. Can I get another hell? Yea, I am trying to be gracious People Magazine, but I have to admit three words keep popping into my head right now about freaking time.

So Sailor then goes for another four minutes explaining what he’s going to do in the bedroom with Missus Sandler and it aired on TV. But it’s a little too naughty for this podcast. Plus enough Ready I couldn’t make it to the end of the clip. It was just diminishing returns. He went for like six minutes.

What are you doing, Adam Sandler, Icon of the Year, and be honest with me, did you find that funny. I know he does the dumb voice. I know Hollywood’s gonna go along with it unless you’re Joe Koy having your career murdered by Taylor Swift. But boy, that’s just not funny. I’m sorry, it’s not funny.

The People’s Choice Awards the Comedy Movie of the Year nominees were eighty for Brady Anyone but you? Are you there? God, it’s meet Margaret. That happened to Asteroid City, Cocaine Bear who that should have won? No Hard Feelings in Wanka the winner, Barbie of Course Comedy Movie Star of the Year.

The nominees Adam Sandler for you are so not invited to my bot mitzvah that happened? Remember that? Glenn Powell for anyone but You, Margot Robbie for Barbie, Ryan Gosling for Barbie, Scarlett Johanson Asteroid City, Sidney Sweeney anyone but you, Timothy Chellamy for Walka the winner, Jennifer Lawrence in No Hard Feelings Comedy Show of the Year. The nominees Abbott Elementary just like that. Never have I ever snl ted Lasso the Bear, Young Sheldon the winner only Murders in the Building, Comedy TV Star of the Year, Ali Wong for Beef Bow and Yang snl, Hannah Waanningham for Ted Lasso, Jason sedeikas Ted Lasso, Quinta bruntson Abbot, Selena Gomez Only Murder, Steve Martin only Murders The winner, Jeremy Allen White The Bear Comedy TV Star of the Year.

Did you watch the Bear? I love the Bear? We’re going to say that was Jeremy Allen White was the Comedic Performance of the Year, What Are We Doing? Nighttime Talk Show of the Year Kevin Hart’s Heart to Heart is currently a thing? Has anyone actually seen that?

Jimmy Kimmel, Oliver Seth Daily Show with No Host, Elly’s Show, Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, and the winner The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Not gonna give that to Oliver Okay. Host of the Year went to a bunch of things, but Jimmy Fallon won for That’s My Gem and the Comedy Act of the Year. The nominees were John Mulinie’s Baby, Jay, Amy Schumer’s Emergency Contact, No Way, Marlon Wayans God Loves Me, No Way, Want of Sykes, I’m an entertainer, No way, Trevor no is off the record, Kevin Hart’s Reality Check, Na Sarah Silverman, someone you Love but the winner Chris Rock selective outrage. I don’t think Chris Rock was there to accept the award.

I haven’t seen anything online.

Meanwhile, in the UK at the BAFTAs, Nick Mohammad you know him from Ted Lasso.

He was explaining to the audience what would happen if there’s an emergency. The order of evacuation would be starting with me, then in order of importance, the Baptist trophies, followed by winners, nominees, publicists, everyone else, then the influencers. That joke landed well, and then he went, oh and the Royals, and then the cameras got to Prince William who found the joke funny because it is funny. And if you want to follow with the Royals lot being going on lately Harry and Megan out of a good always fun follow the podcast Palace Intrigue, where you get your shows. Sam Morrill mixing it up, taking a shot at Steven A.

Smith and I’m all for it, boy, that’d be a great war to have. Sam has called out Steven on his Twitter feed. Dan LeBatard asked Sam about this, and Sam said, Stephen a is a curse to the franchise. Stop rooting for us. I don’t want you on our side.

Anytime he calls a game we lose, go away. How could ESPN get any worse? Dude? Replace him with Richard Jefferson or JJ Reddick or someone who knows what they’re talking about. He apparently also doesn’t like Kenny Smith.

On TNT, Sam said TNTA, I love those guys, but they won’t give the Nicks props. I know what Kenny Smith is against New York, being a New York guy, but get over, dude. We’re here. No one wants us in the playoffs. We just got to get healthy cool.

Hopefully that starts a war. DL Hughley said, I would never go on Club Shaysha. That’s Shannon Sharp’s podcast, probably best known for Kat Williams scorching the entire earth. Delle was caught walking out of a building by reporters or Papa Rozzi and said, no, I haven’t spoken to Monique. Would he take anything back that he said about Monique?

And he said not one thing. She said what she said. I said what I said. We’re grown people. We don’t have to be in the same space.

But I think the idea that people need to reconcile when they’re obviously never going to see things out of eye is a bit of a fallacy. Fun Jenny Slate as a special on Amazon Prime. It’ll be out on the twenty third, which I think is Friday, right in nineteen twenty Yep, Friday. I went to pull a clip. It takes her too long to set up the joke to get to laugh, So you know, I don’t like doing those long clips on this podcast.

She spoke to The New Yorker. The New Yorker interview is kind of not the best interview ever. Right, let me leave it at that. But it opened with Jenny apologizing for her cold, and she said, I’m embarrassed about the fluid situation. I found that after COVID, the sound of fluid in the nose is a turnof for many people, which totally makes sense.

So I’m calling out that. I know that I’m gross. Grub Street falling around Mosha Casher. Grub Street will do this. They’ll ask somebody to log what they eat for a week.

I could do that, but it’d be bored. Here’s what I do donut Shane. Usually a coffee roll, smoothie, Place smoothie. Sometimes I get a buffalo wrap, and a lot of times I don’t eat dinner. But if there’s a bag of M and m’s, I’ve been known to grab a handful as I walk by.

I gotta start running again, Mosha Casher. It’s told grub Street for change of pace. I went to eat lunch at the moynihan Food Hall at Penn Station. I go with pizza. But I’m not sure if you know this, but New York is said to have the third best pizza in America after Cleveland, and of course my hometown sunny Los Angeles.

The Napple hit the West. I buy two slices at Sauce. The crust is so thin it’s reminiscent of the bread of affliction of my people. I fuld both slices like a real New York guy. That way, no one knows I’m a tourist.

While a Poundstone told the Day that she has regular ping pong parties in the backyard of her house in Santa Monica. My daughter and I added up one time how many times I’ve done them. It’s now over seventy. She cajoles the fifty attendees to compete in a ping pong tournament, and she says, because of inflation, I’ve uped the prices to one hundred dollars instead of fifty. I have a fantastic antique scoreboard from a flea market.

She says she will often done a blank name tag when I get nervous. I can’t remember names. The blank name tag is a great conversation starter, and it’s embarrassing to ask somebody who’s been to my party seventy times what their name is. Axeost had asked Josh Connoman or people from around the country shock that you grew up in the Boston suburbs, but you don’t act to talk like Bill Burr. Josh said, people almost always assume I’m from the midwestern Canada until I start talking about the Celtics.

People associate the Boston area with a very Walbergian mickismo, and they tend not to give as much notice to other folks have come here with different vibes. What does he like to eat? In Stone said, I’ve gotten a little out of the loop, but I will say the Stones was very accommodating of my recent Stoneham High School reunion, and I always trying to make time for runn At and as Takaia when I’m back in town. Al dot com is in Alabama asked Dusty Sleigh, Dusty Sligh’s your real name correct? Dusty said, it’s my real name.

I mean, some could argue that my name is a little different on my government paperwork, but I’ve always been called Dusty Sleigh by my parents and everyone, I think. He told Neil Brennan his name is Dustin. Out dot Com said with a name like that, it seems like you’re predestined to be a wrestler. Dusty said, well, I grew up watching wrestling, or wrestling as I called it. I don’t know when I started calling it wrestling and people stopped calling it wrestling, yet it happened at some point in my life.

I grew up watching that. You see all these pro wrestling promos and all those guys are talking to me, that’s cool stuff. I grew up listening to country music. I love country, and that’s where I got a lot of inspiration from. Merle Haggard is very famous for doing Workingman’s songs.

He addressed how being sober has shaped his comedy, said, it was just real clarity. It’s some real self control discipline. I mean that was the thing for me. With drinking. I never had control.

I was still doing comedy. I was still funny. In fact, I want to composition in Charleston. As a drinker. But the moment I stopped drinking, I started being able to write jokes better and faster, and I could remember them better, and just my daily walk was better in general, because as a drinker, I’m always kind of pursuing that next beer.

But when you eliminate that, then your pursuit of other things. You need to find other things to bring you fulfillment. And I didn’t lose as many friends. Nate Bergatsi’s out on tour. What can we expect to hear?

Nate said, I talk about what I would have been doing if stand up didn’t work out, stuff about my wife and my parents getting older every time. I’m older than I was when I did the last special. Yes, that is how time works, Nate. So I talk about where I’m at at my life and stuff that I’m going through. It’s fun to grow with your audience, What would you have done if you didn’t do stand up?

I was a water meter reader. I read water meters. I would have been working for that company. Probably hopefully by now I would have moved out of water meter reading and higher up, But I don’t know. Got a pressure release.

Orange Theory fitness and comedian Hannah Berner have announced Hannah’s next breakout comedy event. It is called wtf is OTF. On February twenty eighth, Hannah Burner will take the stage for a roast of the fitness industry and the many cliches and fads that come along with it. The event will take place in New York City. It’ll also livestream on TikTok.

Hanna Burner said, this wtf is OTF comedy event is gonna be epic. Expect laughs, roasts, and maybe a little sweat. I know first an what it’s like to be in a bit of a fitness limbo, and all the fads swirling around at the start of the year don’t help. What Orange Theory helped me to realize is that sweating it out doesn’t have to be too serious, and this partnership proves that while answering all of our Biggest Fitness wtfs. I’m actually planning on hitting the exercise bike right after I finished this recording.

I’ll do the edits later, hoping to do a forty five minute on Apple Fitness Plus. From Deadline Bossom, Yusef claims he lost a role in James Gunn’s Superman Legacy movie due to his public support of Palestine. During a Piers Morgan segment. Deadline says Usef taped an audition pre actor strike for the role of Rueman Harjatti, but by the time gun turned in his final version, the role was cut. That was before Yusef was on Peers Morgan.

James Gunn went on Twitter and said this is accurate, meaning that the character was cut from Superman like I say. Before the Peers Morgan interview last week, Yusef told Salon I was cast in the movie Superman. Then they told me we changed the script after this Peers Morgan interview. I want to assume good faith. I want to know, I want to believe it’s true.

I was a little bitter and I wanted to go okay, screw DC, screwed Warner Brothers. But then I understand the emotional burden that those people have. I mean, those people have a connection with Israel. I understand. Maybe the people who were in charge took that decision, looked at me and didn’t want to have me.

And maybe I understand. If I’m an Arab Muslim, I was the head of Warner Brothers, I wouldn’t want a pro Zionist or a pro Israel to be in my movie. If he attacked people, I understand. This is the thing we need to dissect. When I attack Israel, I attack its policy.

I’m not attacking Jewish people. A source close to the situation tells Deadline this is probably a case of he said, he said, who knows. If you want a new special to watch today, this one on OTT You can rent this one. It is Mary Basmajian’s funny Armenian girl. Mary’s living that old USA Network motto characters welcome, specifically the outspoken Bartouche.

Her take on the quintessential Armenian aunt. Bartousche is a large part of how Mary grew her online following. So we’ll naturally make an appearance on the special alongside more conventional stand up about online dating and Bonnie image. And that is your comedy news for today. Check out five Good News Stories.

I’m having a lot of fun hosting that one. Number five Good News Stories. That one comes out Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Today’s Tuesday. But it doesn’t mean the other episodes aren’t there. It’s not like you can only listen on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

And if you enjoy this program, tell a friend about it or share it with them or something like that, and I’ll see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m in a good mood. It just recorded a couple episodes of Five Good News Stories is the other podcast? I host five stories, all of the good number five Good News Stories, and it just put me in a great mood. It was just a fantastic story about a dinosaur.

Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Did you see Trump had multiple court appearances? Stephen Colbert said, it’s like any other political story. It’s all a horse race. But this horse race, one of the horses is old.

The other horse is old, has a hoof and mouth to seize and keeps quoting Horse Hitler. Fallon has said it’s never good when you’re summoned a court and you’re like, I can’t I have court Colbert, the only way to follow all the action was to have multiple TVs. That’s why I watched all the proceedings at a Buffalo Wild Wings Jimmy Kimmel. Between the one hundred and thirty thousand dollars to Stormy Daniels and the one hundred and fifty thousand of Karen McDowall, no one in history has ever paid this much for thirty five combined second of six. I’m an idiot.

I thought Shane Gillis was hosting SNL two days ago. Apparently they took two weeks off in a row. Usually they do three on one off Shane is this week. Well, that explains why there wasn’t any press. Johnny Mack, you dope.

But the good news for me is that means this week there will be pressing controversy, and I love controversy. So let’s all argue about Shane Gillis all week. Good for the downloads. George Santos has sued Jimmy Kimmel. Santos had received requests from individuals and businesses to his cameo.

Unbeknownst to Santos, Jimmy Kimmel submitted at least fourteen requests that used phony names and narratives. According to the complaint, the videos were played in a segment called will Santos Say It? In one of the clips, Santos offers congratulations to the purported winner of a beef eating contest, calling the feet of consuming six pounds of loose ground beef in under thirty minutes amazing and impressive. An attorney for Santos said, frankly Kimmel’s fake requests were funny, but what he did was clear violation of copyright law. Santos is seeking seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in damages for the five videos.

He also asks for other damages to be determined at trial. We’ll keep an eye on this one. I forget where I saw this one. I don’t know if I Twitter, ad or Facebook or something for it, but a comedy show for Robert F. Kennedy Junior’s campaign.

This from their website directly joined Tim Dillon, Bobby Lee, and Rob Schneider for an Unforgettable Night of Laughter with Robert F. Kennedy Junior and Cheryl Hines this week Wednesday at the Million Dollar Theater in Downtown LA. The copy tells us this is sure to be a hilarious knight that you won’t want to miss. The stunning and hysterical Cheryl Hines will mc the night, which will include the comic genius of Tim Dillon, Rob Schneider, Trey Stewart, Mike Binder, Erica Rhodes, Bobby Lee, D’s the Nava, Adam Carolla, and other surprise guests. If you want to go one hundred and fifty dollars get to the comedy show, one thousand dollars to get to the comedy show with preferred seating in the after party, fifteen hundred dollars for the comedy show with seating in the first few rows, and the after party.

They tell us the after party will be the place to be. Mingle with the candidate, Cheryl Hines, the comics and special guests enjoy a cool vibe, scrumptious bites, cocktails and more. Very interesting. Ellen DeGeneres coming back to stand up comedy. She did a surprise set in Los Angeles and said you’ll see it soon enough.

She jumped on the stage at Largo as part of Beth Stelling’s Beth and Pal’s show.

Also in that lineup, listen to the Pals Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman, Adie B…

I’m not familiar with Anthenya. This is all very contrived. Degenerus created some buzz. She shared on Instagram a video that happened to be shot where she jumped out of a car with wife Portia de Rossi. In the clip, the couple hops out of a car and Allan throws up her hands and yells, here we are.

We’re told some audience members even leaped from their seats. Yeah, they didn’t just like stand up quickly, they leaped from their seats. Interesting anyway, Ellen was a good stand up, so I’m happy to have her back. I’m catching up on my podcasts. I’m actually recording this on Sunday.

Usually I do the Monday show on Friday afternoon. I was listening to Craig Ferguson and weird Al this morning. I also want to finish off listening to Dusty Sleigh on Blocks, and I saw Neil Brannan’s Blox podcast. I mean, I got to get There’s a whole bunch of stuff there. He also had weird Al.

It’s a couple of Jimmy Carr episodes I want to check out. So I just need to sit down and play video games, listen to podcasts. I tried doing that on Saturday, and guess what got me. The sleepy chair. Do you know about the sleepy chair?

So this is this chair and if I sit in it, I will fall asleep one hundred percent of the time, one hundred percent every single time I fall asleep in the chair. And I know this is going to happen, but yesterday’s chair nap wasn’t the usual twenty minutes. It was two hours, so not much podcasting got listened to. I’ll see what happens today after I do some podcasting work. Anyway, shut up.

John Craig Ferguson had weird al on and I actually pulled two of the clips. I like this story he tells about here. I’ll just let him tell what would spoil it. The schools had also fame. I didn’t know either if I was talking to Vetnicole Brown about it.

Here’s this will annoy you as much as annoyed me. Vetnicole Brown went to the same school as our senior Holl. And their school has a Hall of Fame. And they have a hole, which, you know, like the gym, like the gymnasium is a hole, and they named the hall. Now remember our senior Hall went to this this.

I’m with you, Vet Nicole Brown hole. I’m like you, oh my god. And here’s another really funny anecdote from the Drew Carrey Show that I liked. I had my laser surgery, so I wasn’t doing the glasses and the mustache anymore, and the producers insisted that I have the glasses and the mustache otherwise, how are they gonna you know? They did the same with Drew Drew on that show.

He got lasix and he lost like forty pounds and they used to make wear a FATS really seasons. I was like, he’s coming in, Like I got on and put the glasses on, so they knew it was Drew carry but he had lost the way. I don’t feel so bad now. I also didn’t have to wear a FATS. I wasn’t English either.

I had to plan to be English. He was a mess. It’s a mess, you gotta do it. Yeah. I had the pleasure of working with Craig Ferguson.

He came up too serious to do something for Radio Classics. I’ll tell you in person that dude is handsome, good looking guy, very funny, very personable. We started doing something and he was really into the Radio Classics. He was so into it that he came back at the next day and did some improv stuff with one of our hosts that we turned into a special for the Radio Classics. He was just awesome to work with, really enjoyed.

Craig and I’ve shared before every time I think of weird Al. We were going to do weird Al Radio. My host Mark actually went out to I guess, Los Angeles and recorded with weird Al at weird Al’s house. Weird Alt recorded all these raps and we’re going to do a weekend station of weird Al Radio to promote Al’s album.

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And then the record company and the bosses were in some sort of disagreement …

It’s a shame that special never happened. And I don’t think any of us that were involved with that still work there, so I bet it’s long gone and lost to history. What a shame. Hey, Roy Wood Junior, you got to let it go. Man, they’re not giving you the daily show.

I don’t know how clear they can make that to you. I’m sorry you’re not getting it. Roy was on Mike Bury Bigley as Working It Out podcast Verbigly a joke that Roy planted the Hassan Minha story in The New Yorker. Roy said, that’s literally while everything fell apart, and laughed. As far as I was told Hassan was going to be the guy, would said his an initial reaction was okay, cool, So I’ll hang on here for the rest of the year.

We’ll see what Hassan wants to do, what his vision is, whether I fit in that. I’m still trying to sell my own Sitcom’m trying to write movies. There’s other stuff I want to do. But let’s see. The New York article comes out and there’s a buzz that there’s a shift in Comedy Central whether or not Hassan’s still going to be the guy, which eventually turned into he’s not going to be the guy.

I have not seen Life in Beth and I’m unlikely to watch it, but apparently Jimmy Buffett has a cameo on it, and I’m a big Jimmy fan. Amy said she listened to Jimmy Buffett’s music growing up. She said it just made me feel like everything was going to be okay. She was friends with Jimmy Interesting Juamer says, one time we were hanging out and I said, you know, we’re shooting in New Orleans. Oh my god, imagine if you were on the show Jimmy said I would do it.

Amy says I thought he’s just saying that, but he didn’t waiver. In the episode, Jimmy picks up an acoustic guitar and Kacky Schortz and sings, I will play for Gumbo from his album Beach House on the Moon. That is a good tune. Beth drops some money in his guitar case for his performance. A title card at the end of the episode reads and loving memory of Jimmy Buffett, who got his start busking on the streets of New Orleans.

Michael Sarah said a crowd formed across the street while they were shooting, and says, I don’t even think they knew it was Jimmy Buffett. Apparently folks like the Adam Saylor episode. On Saturday, Friend of the Show, Scott Beckett went to buy me a coffee dot com slash a Daily Comedy News me not one, not two, not three, not four, but five large iced coffees with caramel and milk. That’ll get me to like Wednesday afternoon to be going twice a day. Scott wrote, listen to the Sailor episode Wow Amazing.

I was unaware of the nuance of his particular. Ouvra more more more, with exclamation points after each more, Scott Man, you want me to say nice things about Adam Sandlor movies for another full episode. I’d rather go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Scott Beckett buy you five coffees than do that. But I’ll do this one for you. Johann or no.

Johan Rank is the director of the upcoming Adam Sandler Spaceman movie. He spoke to the Hollywood reporter, Johann said, Uh, it’s Johann. I could do that whole thing over, but you got I like to leave in the mistakes. I just I feel like it makes a connection. Do I clean up the show and edit out the stumbles.

Yeah, But when I do major stupid things like this, I like to leave it at just see you and I can connect, Johann Rank tells a Hollid reporter. When I look at this film now, and I look at Adam Sandler’s performance, it’s phenomenal. He was hanging there on wires, and he’s no spring chicken anymore. And he’s not a gymnast or a bodybuilder no way. And he’s hanging in midair acting against a tennis ball with me around the corner reading lines.

Then you look at the film and see the profound curiosity in his eyes, the bafflement, all these subtle details, all is acting against a tennis ball. I’d come home every day after the shoot feeling tremendously frustrated because I only had one half the movie. It took months and months as we created the creature, did the voice, everything. Through it all, what kept on baffling me was this tremendous strength in Adam Sailor’s performance. I love Adam.

He’s the best human being on the planet. He’s a tremendous actor, formidable and amazing. This film would not exist in any shape or form without him. Spaceman will be on Netflix March first. It is getting a eliminated theatrical release.

That way it qualifies for awards, a guess, So like I’m in New Jersey. There is a screening Thursday the twenty second at the Nighthawk Cinema Prospect Park in Brooklyn at seven fifteen to ten. If you can’t wait to say this thing, that’s the nearest one to me. So you know, Limited believes that way of quality. But it’s really a Netflix film.

And Scott, that’s probably the best I’m gonna be able to do anytime soon. But I didn’t say anything, Caddy there. I don’t think great. Okay, thank you for the coffee. I will I roll this next one.

I want to cancel this one before we even make it. It’s a caveman comedy called rock Bottom, and it stars the voices of Rob Schneider and Gabriel Iglesias. There’s No Way That’s good. Rock Bottom follows the story of Gung Go, an over confident air to the chieftain’s throne. After his banishment, he finds himself leading a motley cruve outcast to reclaim his rightful place and guide his tribe toward a prosperous future, learning lessons about unity, resilience, and the true meaning of strength along the way.

There’s no way this is good, a suit says, rock Bottom will be an exhilarating ride into a prehistoric world. This film isn’t just about laughs. It’s about challenging our perceptions of individuality, self worth, and what is the glue that makes a community thrive? Mmm Natural Comedy News for Today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it, or share it.

On social media, or I don’t know, tick your ear, but it’s in their ears while it’s already playing. No, you probably can’t do that, right, You can’t touch people, don’t do that. Play it loudly near them on your own speaker. All these are terrible ideas, John, Just shut up, all right, See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Chilly Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Pretty robust for a Sunday. I did the saidlor thing yesterday, so that bumps some of the stuff to today. I mentioned the end of Friday’s episode.

Some people thought Amy Schumer looked different. She has now addressed it on Instagram. Amy Schumer said, you’re right, it is puffy or than normal right now meeting her face. I have entremetriosis, an autoimmune disease that every woman should read about. There are some medical and hormonal things going on in my world right now, but I’m okay.

Thank you so much for everyone’s input about my face. I’ve enjoyed feedback and deliberation about my appearance, as all women do for almost twenty years. She goes on to say she doesn’t think she or any woman should have to explain their appearance, but that she wanted to take the opportunity to advocate for self love and acceptance of the skin you’re in like every other woman slash person. Some days I feel confident and good as hell, and others I want to put a bag over my head. But I feel strong and beauty and so proud of this TV show I created, wrote, start in and directed.

Maybe, just maybe we can focus on that for a little while. While she was making one of the appearances, this one on Jimmy Fallon, she said, it’s hard to go on the tour right now because who are we competing with? Who’s been filling up our feeds? Beyonce and Taylor Swift. She said she loves both of them and has seen them both in concert and jokes, I can’t compete with this.

Why can’t I have backup dancers? The Podcast Academy has announced one hundred and ninety two nominees across twenty seven categories, as well as a Governor’s Award and an Impact Award. As podcasting gets out of control, what are we even doing? Folks? These ceremonies will be March twenty six that the J W.

Marriott La Live, Los Angeles. The nominees for Best Comedy Podcast are Bad Dates, Conan O’Brien needs a friend, How did this get made? Let’s make a rom com Love it or leave it? The Big Flop and wait, wait, don’t tell me. For whatever it’s worth, if you go to Apple Podcasts, the comedy shows are Joe Rogan, John Stewart, call Her Daddy, Smortless Conan, Theo Vaughn, The Toast Giggly Squad with Hannah Berner, The Commercial Break and Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast with Shane Gillis, Andrews Santino and Bobby Lee at number eleven, Bert and De Sigora at twelve.

So obviously the podcast Awards have their pulse on what people are actually listening to. You know, what people are actually listening to. They’re listening to Neil Brennan’s Blocks at least Richard is, because he’s shot me a note in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group that was one hell of a segue, Johnny Man, you did that kind of nicolator, right, Richard knows I dig at Dusty Sleigh. So I ran it through my little transcription machine. I haven’t finished listening to it.

So what I do is when one of these comes up, I run it through the transcription, and then as I listened to it, I kind of keep notes of like, oh, yeah, thirty six minutes, you want to get the part where they said blah blah blah blah blah. But since I haven’t actually listened to it, just reading the transcript. I don’t know what to look for, but the part I listened to you explain that way too long, John, I know, I know they were discussing at Dusty’s catchphrase we’re having a good time, and how it works best when Dusty is bombing. He said, that’s where it came from. I was doing a show at a pizza place in New York City.

I want to know more about that. Why is there a comedy show at a pizza place in New York City? And to find pizza place, I’m from New York City. If you tell me pizza place, I’m picturing a a store front that has the shape of a shoe box, but you know, bigger, and I don’t know why you would have comedy there. You know, there’s probably on the wall of the ovens, there’s probably two tables, and on the other wall there’s four tables.

And they were made of that porcelain wipe down stuff you can get the pizza grease off. This Dusty Sleigh performing on a crate in the back corner. Like, what’s going on there? Anyway? He said, I was doing a show at a pizza place.

We used to use the term pizza parlor. Do people still say pizza parlor? Pizza place in New York City? And I was just not doing well, and I kept saying, we’re having a good time. And the more I said it, the more the people got into the show.

I just can’t get over there. I’m googling Dusty Slay Pizza, New York, and I want to see what comes up. Nothing came up. What if I google comedy pizza, New York? What comes up?

Nothing? All right? One more try Pizza Rhea Comedy show, New York. Well, there was something called comedy Night at Da Vinci Pizza back in September of twenty three? Could it have been?

There? Are we on a major tangent? Get back to the show? John, Okay, I was hearing a show at a pizza place of New York City. I was just doing it well.

And when I kept saying we’re having a good time where I said, the more people got of the show. Neil Brannan said. An old man named Dave Chappelle one said to me, you can tell how funny someone is by how they bomb and Dusty slid. I think that’s right. I never thought of that, but yeah, that’s right.

And I find if you move around awkwardly to such your glasses enough, your hat, your face, your nose. People will be like, this guy’s weird. But I’m into what he’s doing. I’m glad they brought that up because when I was watching Dusty’s special, currently the number one special of twenty twenty four, I noticed he was very twitchy. Dusty said, I watched videos of myself.

I think, oh, man, stop waving so much. But when I’m up there, it feels fun. I’m into it. Tag Nataro, we’ll have a special out on Amazon on Prime Video. March twenty sixth, they released a trailer.

I did my usual thing where I go to pull the audio and it took Tig. In the clip, they picked over a minute to get to the punchline, and I’m like, that’s just going to drag the podcast to a halt. So you can find it somewhere. It’s called Hello Again. You’ll find the clip on the interwebs.

We are told that Tig Nataro’s Hello Again is packed with delightfully awkward misunderstandings, health scares made hilarious, and family moments with her wife and children that are simultaneously side splitting and heartwarming. Nataro finds humor in situations ranging from the every day to the bizarre, A crafting comedy out of hallucinatory text messages, a botch meeting with a Hollywood heavyweight, and a late night encounter with a mustached fireman who has her questioning everything. M Tignazoro, Hello again, March twenty sixth on your Amazon Prime Video. John Mulaney two waited to all fans in Portland and Bangor. I’m sorry that Pete Davidson and I could not find a day to make those shows work.

But I’ll be through main soon. I hope to see then. If you haven’t already, please go to your point of purchase to receive a full refund. Thanks y’all. Bill Maher is on tour.

He’s calling his tour the WTF Tour, which I just find odd because when I see the letters WTF and I’m in a comedy mood, I think of Mark Maren. Why did you call your tour that? You have to know? Mark Maren calls his thing WTF. What a weird choice by Bill Mooh.

Bill recently revealed he has a two hour interview with Kanye West, but it will likely never be released. Bill said he found Kanye’s political views too quote problematic to share on the podcast. Bill didn’t specify what Kanye talked about, but he did refer to the rapper as a charming anti Semite. Hey, Kathy Griffin, what can we expect from your show? She tells the Cans in Okay.

First of all, my shows are highly improvisational. For example, when I got cancer, I was like, first of all, I don’t even smoke, but they’re started to come some comedy out of cancer. First of all, I thought, if you got cancer, everybody treat you really well and you can behave badly. So for example, I’ll use the cancer card like a beast. If I can’t get a reservation, no boo, I’ll call them and say it’s Kathy, my cancer’s back, which isn’t true.

But I’m not above playing the cancer card for a good table at a restaurant like that. And she addressed Dave Chappelle and said, I feel like for a comic, continue to punch up. I love Dave Chappelle. I think it’s genius. Why the f is he talking about trans people for the third fing special in a row.

I think Dave is a genius, But I also think it’s transphobic. I don’t think they’re mutually exclusive. You’re a black man punching down at a community that has the highest murder suicide rate in the world, so I kind of feel like you shouldn’t. That’s a simple rule for not getting canceled. Enjoy what I do here.

You can go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I will take your money and I will drive past the donuts chain. I’m on a smoothie kick. I’ll go into the smoothie place. They have this beach blast as it called.

I know, it’s like a raspberry thing with some dark chocolate. I tend against that, and that is a full four hundred fewer calories than the peanut butter chocolate one that I like. But Johnny Max, stop marathon training and the pans they’re coming back. You know what I’m saying, Why are you going to a smoothie place at all? It’s better than donuts.

Find me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. A Minnesota comedian is overcoming a disability and making a name for himself on the stand up circuit. That’s from Fox nine. He’s Sam Bondus. He says, when we mishear people, we have our go to phrases.

Because I’m deaf, I have two. The first one is that’s funny. Yeah. My poor mom, her hearing’s gone. She’ll ask me about my friends.

She’ll be like, how’s Mike in Cleveland? And if I say, oh, yeah, Mike and a frog rented a helicopter. They went to Hawaii and when skiing, she’ll go oh. Sam felt comfortable on stage at a young age. He tells a story where he was at a camp for the deaf and heart of hearing.

I made a whole bunch of my deaf peers laugh off one joke and I was like, Wow, that feels great. I want to do more of that. He does some crowd work. For example, he asked somebody in the audience what’s your name, and then respond to us if he can’t hear the answer. One challenge of performing sometimes his hearing aids give out.

He has to reboot them during a show. He helps to turn stand up into a career. He says, a lot of comedians want like a Netflix special All now, that’d be great, but I just want to do step one right now, make money off this. Sounds like a cool guy. And that is your comedy news for today.

Hey, if you like this show, why don’t you check out the other show I host. It’s called Five Good News Stories. Number five Good News Stories that comes out three times a week Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I tell you five stories that are either good news or just so silly that you have to laugh at them. Good News Stories wherever you get your shows more comedy.

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