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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I was just looking at the recent episodes that were a little longer. You know. Sometimes I finished these that I’m like, oh, it’s only like ten minutes, and then sometimes they’re like nineteen depends on how much news there is.

Media Height took a listen to the Joe Rogan podcast. I’m going to push back on their first four words here they wrote, comedy legend Bobby Lee has a new movie, or time out comedy legend Bobby Lee. Really, here’s what I want you to do. I want you to go outside right now and find one hundred people, and I want you to ask one hundred people who is Bobby Lee. Let me know how many people go, oh yeah, comedian comedy legend.

Bobby Lee has a new movie coming out, and he wanted to talk about it while he was on Joe Rogan’s podcast. If only Rogan would let him this for Media Height, Bobby and Rogan shared a bunch of stories about the comedy scene, how it’s change, how their politics have changed, and Rogan started ranting about COVID restrictions, the deep state, the two thousand election, the twenty twenty election. Meani I quotes Rogan is saying this one. I think, man, Okay, I think evil’s real, and I think evil exists in many forms, and it exists in callous disregard for loss of life or profit. That’s evil, right, And that’s the thing.

Like you could say evil is the devil. You could say evil is Satan and evil as demons, and evil is you know, exorcism and stuff. You know, look at that baby. But also evil is profit over human life, which is real evil as cobalt minds and the congo. When you watch pregnant women mining for cobalt getting toxic fumes in their lungs, whether some of them have babies on their back, that’s evil.

They’re living in dirt floors with no sanitation. It’s horrific conditions. And that’s in everybody’s cell phone. And everybody’s cell phone is the labor of essentially people so poor they don’t have to choose whether their slaves or not. They’re just there’s no other option for them to work Bobby Lee’s size.

A few times, Rogan continues, it’s not an obligation to pay attention to everything, Okay, but it’s something that I think would help people break out of the cult, because that cult it’s like, you think you’re a good person if you buy hook line and sink or everything that the left says. That’s crazy. These are the same people that want war. These are the same people that are encouraging censorship. These are the same people that are trying to silence descent.

That’s all solitarian stuff. And just because it’s done for trans kids, for Black Lives Matter, for any social cause he think is like undeniably worthy, it’s still the same thing. At the end of the day. The Patriot Acts still control people in a way that was never allowed before, and it did under the guys that we have to stop a terrorist attack. So even if they did do evil stuff to make these things happen, once these things happen, they take advantage by doing evil stuff and they enact control over the people that had never done before.

The redistribution of wealth was insane. We did redistribution. Well, it’s big corporations, companies. Oh my god, so many people did. Billions of dollars has moved.

Bobby Lee jumps in and goes, yeah, well, you want to talk about the movie That’s why I read all that. Bobby said, yeah, it stresses me out. You want to talk about the movie? Can we talk about the movie? I’m promoting?

Love It? Shannon Sharp recently had Kat Williams on his podcast. Did you hear about this? Sharp told the route I figured he’d go one or two minutes and get right to it. He goes with thirty minutes.

Now I gotta make a decision to I cut them off and get back to our normally scheduled programming. Do I let him go? I let him go. When it wrapped up, Shannon Sharp saw his producer is shaking his head, and Shannon said, wait, did I do something wrong? Producer said it was going to break the internet?

And I said, you really think so? And he said they’re gonna be talking about this all of twenty twenty four. Shannon, you don’t know what you just did. He was right. On day one, the interview had two and a half million views.

The next day it was at fourteen million. I asked him how many views you think it’ll do? He said fifty. I said fifty? What fifty million?

Shannon Sharp has gotten some criticism over his lax interviewing style. He said when I found out is you let people feel comfortable with you, they’ll share things they probably never shared or they haven’t shared a very long time, So your listener is probably gonna be hearing it for the first time. I’m sure there are a lot of people saying you should have DoD this, you should have done that, But they aren’t mad that I Letkat Williams go. They’re mad it’s in almost fifty five million views and it’s not on their platform. People stop me wherever I am.

People you think wouldn’t watch Club Shay Shay. I’m talking about older white men, older white women coming up to say, I just want to thank you. He says he feels zero pressure to replicate the success. Shannon says, I tell people I’m not gonna be Mike Jackson. This is my thriller.

Off the Wall was great, Bad was great, but what he wanted was another thriller, and that’s an anomaly. I’m gonna do the best work I can and do other great interviews, but I’m not gonna make myself sick trying to hunt down another guest to create another topic that I’ll do what this did. This happened organically. It was the perfect storm. The website Black Girl Nerds wondered is Kat Williams a top five Black comedian?

A Black Girl Nerds writes, while he is a comedic force to be reckoned with, does he really have a place on the mount rushmore comedians such as Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, and Chris Hucker. Well, it’s really challenging to put Kat Williams among the top five black comedians of all time, especially when we consider the breath and impact of people like prior Martin Lawrence. We’re not trying to diminish Williams’s talent or influence, rather to acknowledge the extraordinary achievement of his peers like Chappelle. So yeah, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, who again is just doing a Richard Pryor coveract, But did it really really well? Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock not mentioned by Black Girl ol Nerds, at least I didn’t notice them mention in Chris Rock.

I think you’d absolutely have to put Chris Rock in that category, which leaves the spot are you gonna pick Martin Lawrence? Chris Tucker? I’ll throw out the name Kevin Hart, we could look at some of the kings of comedy. Plenty of people we could consider for that fifth slot there.

Speaking of Kevin Hart, he was speaking with USA today and said, since his ne…

I feel you. I’ve been going to that smoothie place, those seven hundred extra calories. Who Johnny Mack needs to start running again. I’m doing a five k with my wife next weekend. This weekend, you can tell him prepared for it.

And I signed up for a fifteen k. That’s a nice distance. I think I’m done with the marathons now. My body. That last marathon let me know.

Hey, we’re not as young as we used to be, and half marathons even get a little bit long. I kind of like that fifteen k nine mile distance. It’s like a good run, but then you’re not wrecked the rest of the day. Anyway, Kevin Hart said, things got out of hand in Italy, the food in Italy. I gain a little weight.

There was a moment where I said, I gotta pull back a little bit because this is not gonna show up well on camera. I had that last week. I was at that industry conference and I stood next to my two friends and they’re both thinner than I am, and my friend Chris is a lot taller than I am, and I just looked like I don’t know the George Costanza of the group. I guess I remember I took a picture once with Bruce Campbell. Bruce is a handsome dude.

I look like such a droll next to him. Don’t take a picture with Bruce Campble. Kevin said, the way his character Cyrus started out when we were in Belfast is not the way he’s ending. When we were in Italy, there was a lot of pizza pasta, pasta, pizza, pizza pasta and wine. So making sure that he had dumbed it down and operated in doses, that was something I had to make a priority.

I’m having fun today. Pete Davidson is set to star in a film adaptation of I Slept with Joey Ramone. Bill Board reports Joey Ramone’s estate is seeking to block a release of the film. A lawsuit was filed by Johnny’s widow, Linda Ramone, who claims that Joey’s brother covertly developed an unapproved and unauthorized Ramones based biopick based on his own one sided recitation of the history of the Ramones. Apparently, Joey and Johnny’s estates have split ownership of the ip for the Ramones.

Therefore, Linda says the film can’t go forward without her permission. Matt Brager will be at the Mystic Theater on Saturday, and he wonders about imposter syndrome. He says, we all wonder if we’re going to be found out that this is stupid. It’s fear of the imposters syndrome. But the flip side of the fear is the feeling that you’re fooling everybody.

Sometimes you want to go in an alley and cackle like a villain. He loves comedians. His influences include Lenny Bruce, George carl and Richard Priory. Says, you have to be a fan. He can’t lose that some of us may fall into the trench of bitterness, but it’s comedy.

After COVID nineteen, he toured less. He said, one of the best things I ever did was to scale back touring. I found a way to make it work. My mental and physical health has improved immensely. He’s joined a growing ranks of comedians who don’t worry about red versus blue.

He says, people who follow me online know how I feel about the issues, but my job as a comedian is to illuminate my views, not seldom. I love it when anyone comes to my show. Sketch Fest is off today and the folks at the eight hundred pound Grill. I want to see Triumph last week early on Triumph, the insult comic dog says, anyone who’s offended, relax. All these jokes have been cleared by Dave Chappelle.

That’s great, Triumph continues, San Francisco is a great town for me to poop on and apparently also for humans to poop on. You guys make me feel so at home. On the way to the show, I saw so many people doing my act on the guest list, good list, and a good introduction by Triumph. On the guest list. Adam Savage from MythBusters Triumph said, tonight you’re busting the myth that you’re gainfully employed.

Rap Schneider. We’ve got a MythBuster and a myth spreader and weird Al Yankovic. So many people kept their virginity to your music the eightard pound Guerrilla Rights, one of the standouts of the show where the audio answers these were all weird Al parodies that weird Al never actually wrote, but instead we’re written by Smigel in the style of Al. Triumph enlisted some celebrity guests to come out and sing the hits, including Thomas Lennon, Dave Hill, and Amber Ruffin the Gorilla Rights, you have to admire just how much went into producing a show like that. The game show portion alone featured over forty questions and joke answers, which occasionally the contestants even got right.

Triumph would give points if the answer is meaner than what he intended for the question. In the state of California, anyone found guilty of anti trans hate speech is automatically given this. Weird Al said, what are tickets and backstage passes to a Rob Schneider show? I have four more stories, but I have learned get out on the good laugh. That’s it.

That’s your comedy news for today. I’ll save the rest for tomorrow. See y

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Pretty robust for a Sunday Late Night had some good jokes about Trump’s testimony on Thursday. Stephen Colbert said, we’re smack dab in the heart of primary season and Donald Trump is out there trying to win over the voters that matter most his juries. Colbert said that a judge limiting Donald Trump to yes or no answers is fitting because the whole trial is the result of Trump disregarding everything after no.

Kimmel said, everything went smoothly until the judge asked him to tell the truth, the whole truth, and everybody busted out laughing. Fallin said Trump only lasted about three minutes. Then Stormy Daniels was like, wow, minute longer than I expected. Love it. New topic at Jimmy Fallon, Well, Nicky Haley is refusing to drop out of the race and Trump is still furious about it.

Haley’s worried if she quits, she’ll be humiliated or worse Trump’s VP. Hey, I want to address my big comments from the end of yesterday’s show. I casually dropped that I get bagels from the National Donuts Chain, and I was like, bagel snobs are gonna be all over me for that. Okay, why do you do that, Johnny Mack? A couple of reasons.

There’s a fantastic bagel store in my town, and I’m from New York City. I know a good bagel. I know the difference between a good bagel and the bagels you get in the rest of the country. Totally get it. And the National Donuts Chain bagels are what you get in the rest of the country.

Totally get it. The bagel store in town, especially on a Sunday, the line is quite long. If I don’t get there before eight am, forget it. And sometimes I like to sleep in. The other thing is I go visit my mom every day, and my mom really likes a tea and a blueberry muffin from the Donuts Chain.

So I’m like, all right, I’ll just keep this minimum. I’m gonna get my coffee anyway, and I just get the National Don’t Chain bagel. That’s why. So I feel like Johnny Mac doesn’t know what do you think about bagels? I know about bagels.

I’m just too lazy. I opened up the Spotify app just to see what Joe Rogan was up to. He has had on Jim Norton and Ron White. I still didn’t the Jim Brewer episode. I just don’t use the Spotify app.

And I really wish Rogan was out there on every other app so I could listen to these things. I have to like plan to have like a Joe Rogan day every now and then. But Norton and Ron Wyite and I guess Brewer, they’re all there if you want to check up on that, all right. The estate of George Carlin is suing the makers of the AI George Carlin quote unquote special. That whole special verse hour thing came up on Facebook again.

But I think we can all agree AI George Carlin is definitely not a special. It’s not even a real thing, so I don’t know what we call it. The lawsuit calls the release a bastardization of Carlin’s real work in a piece of computer generated clickbait, which detracts from the value of Carlin’s comedic works and harms his reputation. The lawsuit accuses the defendants of seeking to capitalize on the name, reputation, and likeness of George Carlin. It says no one had permission to use Carlin’s likeness or copyrighted works.

Lawsuit adds, in addition to the immediate fact of infringement, it’s AI generated George Carland special may also deter young audiences who were unfamiliar with George Carlin from engaging with his real work and his legacy. Troto points out that Dudsey suggested a possible line of defense in the introduction to their special, in which they have the AI say in a Carlin voice, I just want to let you know very clearly that what you’re about to hear is not George Carlin. It’s my impersonation of George Carlin that I developed in the exact same way a human impressionist would. I listened to all of George Carland’s material. It did my best to imitate his voice, cadence, and attitude, as well as the subject matter I think would have interested him today.

So think of it like Andy Kaufman impersonating Elvis, or like Will Ferrell impersonating George W. Bush. So I am no lawyer. That makes me wonder if so if I dressed up like George Carlin and we went down on the chuckle hut and you guys filmed it and I threw up on YouTube and it’s me going. You ever noticed the bagels at the National Donut Chain ORNT as good as the ones at the regular store?

Can I do that? If I do it for thirty seconds? Is it okay? If I do it for eight minutes? Is it okay?

If I label it Johnny Max George Carlin impression? Is that better than if I go, here’s a George Caroland special. I don’t know, very interesting case here. The legal papers say the AI special has quote no comedic or creative value, absent its self proclaimed connection with George Carland. It does not, for example, satirize Carlin as a performer or offer an independent critique of society.

In short, defenders sought to capitalize on the name, reputation, likeness of George Carlin. Okay, so if I fall up on that again, I’m not a lawyer, me doing my really terrible BAGELD joke. I think there I would be selling my impressionist skills, and not that I am anywhere as good as George Carlin. It’s just me doing the same thing when I do like angry Jerry Seinfelder half asked Jeff Foxworthy. Kelly Corlin told the Hollywood Reporter, we have to draw a line in the sand.

This is going to be a fight on every front, with entertainment at the center. A lot of football today, Go Niners talk about them in a second. First up, it’s Chiefs Ravens. Kansas City dot Com covered the celebrity rivalries between the Chiefs and the raven On Ravens dot Com, the Ravens wrote, They’ve got Taylor Swift, We’ve got Stavey, meaning Stavros Halkias. As soon as Ravens fans knew that the team was facing the Chiefs in the AFC Championship, the battle of the celebrities begin.

It’s Taylor Swift versus Stavros Halkias. KC dot Com writes who. Ryan Mink is the editorial director for the Ravens, and he wrote, right now, there may be nobody that personifies Baltimore better than Stavros, and with the Swift show coming to town, fans are holding up stave like a badge of honor. Stavros told Mink, do you want a billionaire international pop star or do you want a fat, balding man who’s barely celebrity by the most charitable standards, and lives and dies with his team. Those are your options.

Here’s folks, Yeah, Taylor seems like you know how, Like people say Mark Zuckerberg is a robot who has studied how to be a human, Taylor looks like somebody who watched other people watching a football game and studied what they do. Like when the chief scorer is she goes way over the top. It all seems to me. Bring it on, Swifties, make sure you get the podcast name right, share it on your message boards. I don’t care.

I like her music a lot. Her concert was probably the best concert I’ve ever seen, but her football routing seems a little contrived. Sorry. KC dot com writes, Taylor’s a gene coume lately, compared to all the celebrities to cheer for the Chiefs, some for decades. That list includes Jason Sedeikis, Eric stone Street, Heidi Gardner, and Brad Pitt.

The longer list includes Henry Winkler, Mackpecker, Backstreet Boy, Kevin Richardson, Janelle Money, Miranda Lambert, and Melissa Etheridge, who recently appeared in a parody Hallmark Christmas movie about the playoffs. Taylor Swift took a list friends Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and Hugh Jackman of the Chiefs Jets game in New Jersey in October. Yes, see that seems fake. Hugh Jackman’s not a Chiefs fan. Get out of here.

Jenny Scullen is the founder of a Kansas City area Ravens fan group called the Midwest Nest. As she told The Star, the country might be watching Taylor Swift and we have a lot of respect for her, but her eyes will be on the fet this Sunday. Get it back to comedy. John Okay Ravens dot com. Right.

Stavros is Ravens threw and through. He was born in Baltimore and grew up in Greektown and Southeast Baltimore. He remembers vividly when the Ravens arrived in town in nineteen ninety six, when they stole the Cleveland Browns. Let’s not just closs over that, guys. Remembers the process of naming the team and attending a passpunt and kick competition to introduce kids to the players.

And I know you lost your team to Indianapolis. Yell at them not me. You stole the Browns. When I take over as commissioner, I’m putting all the teams back where they belong, and I guess the Cleveland will then have two teams, both named the Browns. The seven year old Stavros caught passes from Vinnie Testa Verdi and got kicking pointers from Matt Stover.

The love grew deeper when the Ravens won their first Super Bowl in two thousand. When Stavros was in sixth grade, he was, of course a big Tony Sirah Gusa fan, he said, as a chubby little Greek kid, to see a big, fat Italian guy. He’s charismatic at all over the place. He was my guy. I was one of the only white kids at my school.

If there’s a fat white celebrity, believe me. I got called that guy when we were playing pick up football those years, sixth grade seventh grade. Every but he called me goose. His claim to fame was getting a sack in the City Poly High school football game played at M and T Bank Stadium. At least that’s what the PA announcer said, except Stavros wasn’t even on the field.

He said, it’s only recently that I’ve admitted it. I’ve accomplished enough that I don’t have to use that to fuel my ego anymore. I can admit I didn’t actually get that sack. A couple of years ago, he started posting occasional YouTube videos as Ronnie reacting to Baltimore sports happenings. It took off, and for the past two seasons he’s done a reaction after every game.

He said, that wasn’t my end game. I was basically just blowing off a little steam making the videos. I never thought when I made an ignorant character sure of a Baltimore Radios fan, that that would be the thing that was like, Yeah, the organization’s gonna love this. Their credit. All the Ravens people have talked to you.

They have such a great sense of humor. It’d have been so cool to work with. Obviously, I can’t do the completely uncensored version, but it’s not like they’re trying to change the character. It’s like, how can we find a nice middle ground here that works for us while still being really funny. Sabby wants to challenge Jason Kelsey to a beard checking contest.

He was scheduled to perform last night, but was catching a six am flight to Baltimore to make today’s game jokes. You know how elections from the TV station have to offer equal time to each political party. All I want is CBS to let me get a shot, and then you have to go to Taylor.

Meanwhile, from the Monterey County Weekly, Kathleen Madigan heading up to Mo…

She too, wighed in on the NFL postseason. She has the forty nine ers going all the way in her bracket, but wouldn’t mind a Detroit win. She knows a lot of people there. She says, the forty nine ers for my gambling, Detroit for my friends, the Chiefs from Missouri, but everybody forgets about Baltimore. John Mulaney had to cancel a show.

This one was at the thunder Valley Casino Report near Lincoln, Nebraska, and he said, after hours of trying, I’m stranded one plane ride away and I’m not going to make it. My apologiz to everyone who had tickets. M’lani rescheduled the show for Friday, April nineteenth at sketch Fest. Today. We can start at eleven am with Moe Williams in the Storytime All Stars that’s sold out, Weird al w Camel Bell, Joela Trigli, Don’t s Sloan pretty good.

I won’t read all the shows. One o’clock Amber Ruffin, Three o’clock Doug Loves Movies. Five o’clock Dave Hill’s Caveman in a Spaceship. Seven o’clock Stupid Songs and Stories with Kevin McDonald, Benson, Movie Interruption, Fast X, and Triumph. At eight o’clock.

We’ll talk about Triumph tomorrow. Sketch Fest has a day off, and I like a good fight. I like this headline. Stand up comedian split the Internet after beefing on TikTok over a rude headliner, Katie Goes by Katie k Comedy. She was upset that the headliner, Mojo Brooks, roasted her.

According to Katie, she had a perfectly wonderful set, then went overtime when Mojo Brooks arrived late to his own show. She said, I didn’t bomb. I’m self aware person. I’ve been doing stand up for over eight years. If I bombed, I think I’d know.

But according to Katie, she was unfairly ripped into by Mojo Brooks. She said, he comes out, he doesn’t look me in the eye, doesn’t shake my hand, starts ripping me to shred, saying I’m so sorry that she was on the show. You didn’t rock up to the wrong building, and I’m sorry if you wanted a refund. Katie captioned her video, people like this give stand up comics a bad name. Yeah, that’s a bad look.

Don’t trash her opener. Brooks responded with his own video in which he denied arriving late to the show and claimed Katie did not bring the energy to his show. He included messages he’d received from fans to question where they were at the wrong show during her act, as well as clips to compare both sets. He said, for the record, I’m the biggest female comedy supporter. I’ve taken several on the road with me over my ten year career.

I requested a female feature that night. Just wasn’t her night that night, but I couldn’t ignore the elephant in the room. I even had the crowd clap it up for her. Wish are the best of your career, but ma’am be honest. Katie has responded, claiming that Brooks specifically used clips that would showcase him in a positive light to put them out at arrest.

Brooks posted a full clip from Katie Set to prove that he wasn’t using clips in his favor. I like a good fight. If you enjoy the show, tell afraid about it. They might like it to thank you so much for listening. The numbers were pretty big this week, which was real nice.

It’s fun doing this every day. I like talking to you guys. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Howdy, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Some good jokes from Late Night. Jimmy Kimmel pointed out that Trump beat Nicky Haley by double digits. He’s also leading Nicki Haley by double digits and Felony Jogers ninety one to zero.

You get mad at Jimmy Kimmel, not me. Colbert said, Trump defeated Nicky Hally fifty four to forty three. It’s the very first time he’s ever been happy to see a woman in her forties. Felon Trump cruise to victory, and just like most cruises, half the people partied while the other half felt really sick. Some more details about the Mark Norman thing I did in the Bonus episode on Thursday.

Quick recap if you missed it. Mark Norman was on stage. All of a sudden, somebody joins him on stage, Security grabs the guy escorts him out. Then we see Mark Norman escorted off stage like he’s the President of the United States. Apparently the whole thing was some sort of stunt.

This is just it’s so frustrating and annoying, and if you listen to the bonus episode Thursday. I said I had two theories, one of which was, yeah, this is some sort of hoax. My other theory was that maybe the man had a gun and this was a serious incident. But NOE seems to be some sort of stunt. If you go back and watch the video, you can hear the woman.

Let me play the audio here. She’s just not convincing. You can kind of tell just say, get up, just get out the teething. Yeah, I’m one of the producers of the show. Yeah, we’ve just seed everybody to get out please.

So I didn’t want to accuse this of being a hoax until I knew. But The New York Post reports Mark Norman put out a statement on Instagram. No one was harmed or injured during my performance last night at New York Comedy Club. The disruption was part of a planned surprise activity by show producers, and I’m not going to say the name of these producers. I had no prim knowledge this was going to happen, as Mark Norman, The New York Comedy Club said, we received a handful of inquiries regarding a viral clip of our club being evacuated last night.

First and foremost, nobody was harmed or were injured. Interesting to me that that’s the exact language from the Mark Norman statement. The disruption was part of a filming by Brand X, the producers that rented our venue for that night. British tabloid The Sun reports that brand X, again I’m not using their proper name, are the show’s producers. They currently have over four thousand Instagram followers and posted a series of Instagram stories documenting Mark norman show getting interrupted from various angles.

A few of their other Instagram stories highlights include Tyra Banks sitting courtside out of Brooklyn Nets game and that clip she’s surrounded by two furry costume strangers and they were eventually escorted away. This is just all kinds of wrong. I think you can hear my frustration I discussed here. I did find it curious that Mark Norman was at the New York Comedy Club. In the hierarchy of comedy clubs in New York, I would not have the New York Comedy Club at the top there.

And now maybe it’s picked up since Carolines went away, because I did notice Todd Barry’s there tonight. I’m not sure. A few years ago, Todd Barry would have played this club. And while I was on their website Monday night. You know who’s there, Sarah Cooper while she’s at the East Village location.

Also Matthew brisarda on that show That’s not bad, Josh Johnson, Mike Cannon, Sarah Cooper, Matthew Brissard. Anyway, to me, this whole thing is just terrible, disgusting, this move on. Did you know I didn’t know this that Chris Rock almost sort of almost hosted The Daily Show. Hollod Reporter has an article about behind the scenes of John Stewart’s return, and they wrote, when John Stewart left The Daily Show back in twenty fifteen, there had been conversations with a listters like Chris Rock to replace him. I know they had reached out to Mullaney.

Rock told the Hollywood Reporter, I wanted to do it up until the twenty sixteen ele and then say goodbye, but they wouldn’t let me do that. Doug Herzog, who oversaw Comedy Central at the time, confirms the story and said, I thought, and this is where the landscape has changed dramatically. We needed to find the person that could sit there every night, and I didn’t want to be doing this again in six months, but everything’s changed and people aren’t there every night anymore. Chris Rock Daily Show. Wow, I feel like that’d be a step down for him, Like if he wanted to do that kind of thing, wouldn’t he have like an HBO show.

I don’t know, Well, he didn’t do it anyway. Trevor Noah had Kevin Hart on his podcast Fantastic Listen, Please listen to it. Trevor and Kevin have tremendous chemistry. Kevin was talking about putting his tours together, and he said, when I feel like I’m at the peak of the set, when I’m at one hundred and sixty shows, Kevin said, my process starts comedy clubs, theaters, back to comedy clubs, back to theaters. Then I’ll go arenas.

Trevor said, wait, why are you going back? What happened? What went wrong? Kevin? Nothing went wrong, but you do it to make sure, like make sure I’m not jumping out of the gun too fast, because once you start killing in theaters, that means I should destroying a comedy.

There was a time when Dave Chappelle never used to want to do arenas. Obviously everybody wants to see him, so now he has to do bigger venues. But yeah, you definitely lose something, do you. Kevin Hart prefer arenas. Kevin said, if I got to be honest with you, man, I do.

But let me tell you why. Hear me out and here’s how I got Dave. It’s how I got Dave. Bit with the bug. I said, listen to me, Dave.

The beauty of doing the arenas when you’re a good comic, it’s turning the arenas into an intimate environment. Trevor says, keV, you can never turn it into that. The thing about arena is I always feel like the laughter is not happening in my section designed for the basketball game, whatever game’s supposed to play there, Whereas when you’re in a theater, I always feel like every single laugh is coming from every single person, no matter where you’re sitting. Kevin says, think about my production. I think about every aspect excessive.

I like the audience. That way, you can hear me on a microphone, you can hear the audience, you can hear the audience laughing. I’ll probably do like eight to ten mics so that you can hear the audience. Fun story from Yahoo. Melissa Rivers, daughter of Joan Rivers, who I worked with and knew.

Okay, wouldn’t say we were best friends, but I work with Joe long enough did I had to hit a lo on Joan, and this article tells us Joe Rivers would be sad no one lives in her old New York City apartment. I was in that apartment. It reminded me of Versailles. There was a lot going on there. If you look up pictures, there’s just stuff on every inch of the wall and chandeliers, very regal.

Joan lived there for twenty eight years. That apartment was so special and filled with such warmth, laughter and happiness that would make her really sad. Melissa knows a friend who lives across the street and says she’s only seen the lights on in the apartment a dozen times since Joan passed away. Joan’s former home features views of Central Park and the skyline. The space was designed in the Neo French Classic style and offers four bedrooms, five bathrooms, two terraces, five wood burning flyerplaces, and a ballroom.

As New York City apartments go this was sweet. I mean Fifth Avenue, dude. It was sold in twenty fifteen for twenty four million dollars, put back on the market in twenty twenty one for thirty eight million dollars. Again, this is for an apartment, not a house. Apparently, Joan Rivers thought the house was haunted.

She said a ghost named Missus Spencer, who is a former resident and the late niece of financier JP Morgan, haunts new residents. She said. Neighbors told her that they witnessed apparitions throughout the ballroom and grand staircase. Jones said she found an old portrait of Missus Spencer and hung in the lobby, causing the haunting to finally stop. Hey, great news, They’re making a sequel to Adam Sandler’s Leo.

You know, the pet lizard who grapples with an existential crisis and lungs for the world outside his classroom. It was such a hit that Netflix is making Leo two. The original Leo starred Adam Sandler, of course, Bill Burr, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider, and some of the finest, finest voice work actors in the business. They are Sonny Sandler, Sadie Sandler and Jackie Sandler can’t wait for LEO two and yes we are one week away from Johnny Mack does an entire episode saying nice things about Adam Sandler movies. That’ll be next Saturday.

If I actually put it together and she could sell, it’s going to be hard to do. I started making a list, and I was like, you know, I actually like the sketch Gay Robot, but then I realized that’s not a movie. That’s a sketch. I also like Adam Sandler’s bit was it Phone Wallet Keys? I think that one’s pretty good.

Also not an Adam Sandler movie, So we’ll see what I come up with. One week from today, Ramy Yousef will return to HBO with a new special title to Ramy Yousef More Feelings Interesting note here. It will return to HBO in March before it streams on Max. That’s Weird. Rommi will tape the special February second and third at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City at Sketch Fest Today.

We can kick it off at noon with Okay who did it? With Joe Firestone one o’clock. Paul Giamatti is taping his podcast Chris Gethard is the guest there. Four o’clock, Judge John Hodgman, you can have a full afternoon. It’s seven o’clock The Futurama twenty fifth Anniversary Spectacular.

Hmmm, I would have to go to that. I don’t even know what the other options are. I am not reading every show like I usually do. Sketch Fest has a zillion show. Zillion might be an exaggeration, but you get the idea.

Eight thirty Maria Bamford Jackie Kash looks like she’s opening nine thirty The Futurama twenty fifth Anniversary Spectacular. No, it doesn’t work that way. You can’t have two spectaculars. This is the first one, is the real one. This is the fake one because we just did it.

That’s not how it works, guys. And is a nine to forty five show called Derek and Simon and Bob and s F Sketchfest Tribute Celebration. Bob Odenkirk, Derek Waters and some others on there. If we were at sketch Fest, all right, so in the afternoon we could do Joe Firestone, then John Hodgman and we could have a real dinner. Then we’re hitting the seven o’clock Futurama, the real one late show.

Let’s see I want to do Dinosaur Improv. Paul Sheer is on that bill. Jason manzukis, Yeah, let’s do that at nine thirty. And there’s no late late shows like a lot of these festivals have, like an eleven o’clock show. Sketchfest doesn’t do that.

Meanwhile, it is the final day of the Last Word Comedy Festival in Williamsburg seven o’clock. Dude in the Improvised Murder Mystery. I would totally do that. If we do that, we’re going to miss the Improv Showcase number four, and we’re gonna miss stand Up Showcase number three. Then at nine o’clock it’s the Improv Headliners Showcase and stand Up Showcase number four.

Just one thing tomorrow, it’s Chicago’s Musical Improv Party Brunch at eleven a m. I can now close this tab because my computer’s out of memory. I have twenty six tabs open as I put this show together, so that’s why I close that one as soon as I could. I had missed this one. Mark Maron had talked about Joe Coy at the Golden Globes.

Maren said, so the Joe Coy thing. Look, I’m coming at this as a comic and I’m no stranger to enjoying shottenfreud. But this guy didn’t deserve It doesn’t matter when he took the gig or how soon he got the gig to host the Globes, and honestly, the Globes are a sham. They don’t efn matter much anyways. So Joe Cooy takes this gig and it’s a nice paying gig, and he’s a comicy season he knows what the f he’s doing, but nobody really knows who Joekoi is.

He does find out there’s a big comic, sells a lot of tickets. He is a community around him, the Asian community as well, and has been successful for many years. He’s not a household name. I say, most people I don’t know who he is, so right away that’s storing. I think the primary issue with Joe is not enough people knew who he was, so they decided to crap on him.

Who is this guy? Why him? Well, he’s completely capable of the job.

And then is your comedy news for today.

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I get a bagel with butter, So yeah, I’ll do that with your money. I’ll get a bagel with butter and a large ice coffee on Sunday morning. If you’re hip to podcasting two point zero and you’re on the Fountain app, you could throw some SATs my way is another way to support the show, and I will see you here tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with breaking comedy news. It’s about four in the afternoon on what’s today, Thursday. Apparently last night at the New York Comedy Club, Mark Normand was interrupted and something weird went down, and we don’t know too much about it. So what I’m going to do here is I’m going to play the audio off my phone so you can kind of hear it, but I’m watching the video of it that you’ll find on Twitter, and I’m going to talk over the video so I can kind of describe to you what’s going on.

Then I’ll recycle and play the video clean with good audio for you here. But let me hit play. Mark Normand is on stage, standard brick wall behind him, neon sign that says New York Comedy Club. Mark seems to be mid joke, all right. We now see a man who looks like a typical comedy fan.

The guys weren’t a yellow beanie. He’s jumped up on stage. Now there are two very large security guards who look like they would be ex n y p D. And they’ve pulled the guy to the They pulled the guy off the stage and right to the exit like immediately, like not messing around at all. You hear Norman vibing a little.

Now. Security has taken the mic from Mark Norman and they’re walking him off the stage like he’s the president. It’s really weird. So there goes Mark. The audience is quite confused right now.

You see a lot of cell phones out. Guys, everything’s fine. You just had a momentary. This woman who’s now taken the mic seems like she doesn’t know what to say. Yeah, here’s the producer and he’s saying, we just need everybody to go, and everybody’s getting up and leaving.

All right, let me play this audio for your clean now so you can hear what’s going on. Okay, all right, hey, hard what are we gonna here? Hey? What’s going on? Oh geez?

Everything all right? I want to make sure everybody’s good here. What’s going on? Oh? Oh boy?

Hey, anything can happened on the comedy show. That was kind of weird. Swimmer sex party think okay, somebody got tased? Oh boy, I really froze there. I went to mister McConnell.

Alright, okay, everything guys, everything’s fine, And we just had a momentary interruption just say get up, just get out the taping. Yeah. I’m one of the producers of the show. Yeah, we just need everybody to get out please. Everything’s fine, but any photos or video.

On Twitter on Thursday afternoon, Mark Norman has tweeted about other things. He has not addressed this. On Instagram, he wrote, some stuff went down tonight. My team is trying to put together the details. Sorry to the fans, and that’s all we know.

I don’t want to speculate. I have two ideas as to what went down here, and both of my ideas are very different, and I think it’s unfair of me to speculate about either. So we’ll keep an eye on this and that you’re breaking comedy needs for today. If you’re a casual listener. There was a full episode out earlier in the morning, and the next normal episode will be out at three oh one a m.

Eastern on Friday. See you then,

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Caloroga Shark Media, look at me. I actually noticed the mic wasn’t plugged in. Hi, it is plugged it now. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I like this joke from Late Night about the New Hampshire primaries.

I shouldn’t do it because I’m just going to annoy half of you, but it’s funny. Jimmy Fallon said it was a tense day for former President Trump. He spent all day wondering if he won New Hampshire or if the vote was rigged. All right, I sat down to watch TV. I watched two specials.

I watched Jacqueline Novak’s On Your Knees and I watched Kevin James irregardless, I’m going to talk about both of them. I’ll start with Jackie Novak. I feel like this is one of those specials that I’m supposed to like. I feel like the industry has decided, oh, this is important, and I gotta tell you I was done with it at a minute fifty five and the first minute of the special is Jackie walking on stage. I tried.

I was like, I gotta stay with this one. People are gonna get so mad at me. That I didn’t like it. I bailed at the four minute twenty mark I couldn’t. I’ll talk more about that in a second as we dive into the reviews.

So then I was like, all right, let me watch Kevin James. Irregardless. I kind of like the trailer. This one’s on Amazon Prime. I had to hunt for it, like they didn’t put it in front of me.

I had to go into search and type in k evn space J Before it even surfaced. Kevin comes out and does this weird dancing crap for a full two minutes, and I was like, WTF Without Mark Marin, what is going on? What are you doing? It just made me hostile towards the special, like get out and tell a joke. What are you doing?

Just awful? I was kind of playing on my phone. I made it to seven minutes and twenty seconds, but it’s just it’s lame, it’s hacky, it’s not trying. So just write that one off totally.

Let’s talk about Jackie Novak.

Tara Ariano writes for Cracked what If I Told You? Netflix also has a comedy special out this month that’s written, directed, and performed by women, and nearly entirely revolves around a matter of interest to women and others who sleep with men. It’s time for us to erase the sour memory of the Dreamer from Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervai’s Armageddon by making Jackie Novak Get on Your Knees the biggest comedy special in Netflix history. It’s certainly the most shockingly great debut I’ve seen in years. I’ll jump in here.

I suspect that women are going to like this special a lot more than I do, and that’s fine. All I could say about this is I’m me and ME didn’t enjoy it. It didn’t speak to me as for those other specials. Chappelle’s The Dreamer was terrible, Ricky’s Armageddon I liked. I got what he was trying to do.

I thought it was amusing. Tara writes, it diminishes Get on your Knees to compare it to any of Netflix’s worst special starring male comics. But good comedy on the platform only makes the bad comedy look worse. The Karen Craft evident in every frame of Nose makes me permanently pre sold for everything else Novak does between now and when one of us dies watch this show so she can make three dozen more or feeling that at least one more than Dave Chappelle. Yeah, I feel like already this is gonna be on everybody’s end of the year list.

And like I said, I just I’m not feeling it. I’m gonna read another review here from Sean McCarthy in Decider, who talks about one part of the special let just made me go, yeah, all right. Sean McCarthy on Decider writes, Novak is upfront about her presentation choices from the get go, and this is the part that I was like, what are we doing? Stopping to physically trace your steps back to the wings of the stage and then again to the microphone, comparing it to the moments during sex when a person moves down from the face past the torso to the pelvis bay, seeing even more attention on the phallic nature of the microphone and comedy the joke there, because the whole way there, everyone knows what you’re headed to do, but you’re not doing the thing. And I heard that choke and I was like, all right, this is what we’re doing here.

And that’s where she lost me when I said it. She lost me at the wooden Let me check my notes. What did I say? One fifty five? That’s when I was like eh, and I hung in there.

I just I’m not feeling this one. I’m sorry. I know people are going to get mad at me, Sean writes. Then there’s her stage presence, the way she handles the mic cord as she strides back and forth along the stage.

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And then Sean wrote this hack line about Chris Rock, almost like an early Chr…

Her delivery too, carries a breathless pacing, and she’s dressing a simple grade T shirt and jeans, so it’s not to distract her audience. Good joke here. I like to keep it moving on stage because I know, I know you people operate. I stand still too long. You see something you like, you take a mental snapshot.

Who knows what you’ll do with it later. So this is not me ranting about Sarah Cooper getting a Netflix special off pantomiming to Donald Trump videos. This is not that. This is not me going Adam Sandler movies are terrible, which they are. Oh, we’re going to talk about that a second.

We’ll talk about that in the second half. This is me going I didn’t like this special. That’s all this is. I’m continuing to monitor the biggest story in comedy, Natasha Lazio. I keep checking her Instagram and see if she posts a more photos.

Because she does, I want to be sure to tell you about them quickly. She did post that one. We’ve talked about that already and it got a lot of likes and thumbs up or whatever it is you do. On Instagram, Chelsea Handler wrote, this is an excellent update, Sarah Silverman wrote Queen. Margaret Chow wrote iconic in all caps.

Rachel Feinstein shared popping champagne bottles, otsko At Kotzka gave an appreciative ha ha ha, followed by a parade of applauding hands married to the salinger Alison Brie and Mary Lynn Rice Cup also shared their approval, So did Nick Thune, Rob Hubel and Mark normand Melissa via Signora said this rocks you rock. Rachel Brosnahan wrote funny way to propose, but yes. Beth Stelling wrote, you could always try to bang your opener and if they say no, unfollow them on social media. Madonna pulled Amy Schumer up on stage during nine two of the Celebration tour at Madison Square Garden. Amy helped the Madonna judge the performances of Madonna’s professional dancers.

Amy and Madonna sat on wooden seats facing the audience while Madonna’s scantily clad dancers showed off their skills. We are told that Amy and Madonna seemed more than impressed by the performances, holding up placards with ten printed on them. Some performers weren’t content just dancing, choosing to give them risque lap dances. What is going on with this podcast this week? We’ve got all kinds of situations.

Where’s there a story about Jim Gaffigan joking about toast? We’re told while Madonna wrapped her legs around one of the men, Amy Schumer was photographed in shock as a man wearing just a thong and knee high pants got up close and personal to you know, give her a show.

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Meanwhile, having nothing to do with comedy, but it’s interesting, two fans h…

In legal papers, fans are upset that Madonna started three shows at ten thirty, apparently despite promoters saying the show would begin at eight thirty. The fans claim due to the late start, it left them to struggle with work and family commit mints the following day. They are claiming false advertising, negligent misrepresentation, and unfair and deceptive trade practices. I hope they win. I hate when you go to a concert it starts absurdly late, and I’m with these people.

I got stuff to do tomorrow. I can’t be out to one am on a Tuesday night. If you tell me the show is going to start at ten thirty, I won’t buy a ticket. You say eight thirty, Let’s do eight thirty. Don’t make me sit there for two hours.

Team fans, Well, look at this. Finally somebody listened to me. I’m so excited about this headline. John Stewart to return to the Daily Show as a host and an executive producer. I suggested that I can’t believe they listened.

John Stewart will host the Daily Show on Mondays starting February twelfth, will also executive produce the show and work with a rotating lineup comedians who will help in the program the rest of the Week Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Chris McCarthy, the big suit over there, said, John Stewart is the voice of our generation and we are honored to have him return to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show to help us make sense of the insanity and division rule the country as we enter the election season. John is the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric and provide much needed clarity with his brilliant wit. John stopped hosting The Daily Show back in twenty fifteen. Matt Rife Wheels continued to come off from The Daily Mail. Scandal prone American comedian Matt Rife is slammed for unfinished Australian stand up show that left fans underwhelmed.

All right, what’s this? A woman who attended one of Matt Riffe’s shows in Australia posted a review on the Facebook gossip page tea Time, describing his set as unfinished and watered down. She says Rife was initially met with roars of enthusiasm, but fans quickly turned against him as he carried on with a set. She wrote, I’m unsure how comedians work if it’s new material, but this seemed unfinished or watered down. His jokes weren’t landing like usual.

The crowd was two thousand people and were overall pretty mellow. When the show ended, we were all walking out. People were not hyped. People were yelling out that it wasn’t good and what they thought it would be. That got some comments on comte, Well that’s your problem, you support Matt Rife.

Another wrote, I’d rather go and watch a use tampon be thrown against a wall a bunch of times than see that guy live. If I had a pit between those two, I would definitely go see Matt Rife. Now, if you said to me Adam Sandler movie or the other option, hmm, that’s a tough one. We’ll get to that. I touched upon this yesterday.

Hot ninety seven reports Kevin Hart is seeking a restraining order against blogger Tasha Kay. Hot ninety seven sources. The lawsuit is saying Tasha has an established history of posting defamatory and otherwise and proper content regarding celebrities. Art wrote, working in the entertainment industry, my livelihood depends in large part on my reputation in the public’s perception of me. That perception is of particular concern in the light of the fact that I’m involved in a number of family oriented projects such as the Jumanji franchise, Fatherhood, Captain Underpants, The Secret Life of Bets, and others.

I also endorse various national brands, and those endorsement deals depend in part on a public perception of my reputation, respectability, and character. The lawsuit claimed that Tasha attempted to blackmail Kevin Hart by saying an interview would not be released if he paid her two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I got a good chuckle when I woke up on Wednesday just checking my email and I saw that Liz m bought me five larged ice coffees. Thank you so much, Liz, and Liz writes, can’t wait to hear an entire episode of you saying nice things about Adam Sandler movies. Hmm.

I have decided to accept this challenge, as I wrote back to Liz, you gotta give me like a week here. I can’t just do this off the top of my head. I’m gonna have to prepare for this one, so I have right now in my editorial calendar. Saturday February third, I will do an entire episode saying nice things about Adam Sandler movies. Can’t wait, can you?

It’s gonna be amazing. So Liz, thank you for the coffees. If you’d like to support the show, you can go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I was thinking of Liz this morning as I drove and actually I’m still wearing and comb my hair and I throw on this running cap.

I’m still wearing it as I record the show today. But anyway, I got a large iceed coffee with caramel and milk and a coffee roll by the way. So when I went for my physical, the doc was like, hey, your cholesterol’s a little high. And I’m like, eh, I’ve been going to town on the coffee rolls. I’ll chill out.

And then I looked coffee rolls, according to the website, have zero cholesterol. Hmm. Now, I don’t know where this cholesterol is coming from, other than I’m just getting up there a little bit. A couple of new podcasts we’re doing. We have the Top eleven.

Every week we pick a subject and cant down the top eleven. This week, the Top eleven movie villains, So check out the top eleven where you get your shows if you want to follow along with the elections. We have a new show called Ballot, give you a quick overview so you can keep up while you’re talking to your coworkers or the family at the dinner table, or the proverbial water cooler, which we’re all on zoom now, so I don’t know how that works, but you know what I mean. That one’s called Ballot. And we also started the Weekly Mac, which is sometimes I throw out these ideas, and I was like, what if we did a podcast about McDonald’s, And my business partner Mark was like, yeah, let’s do it.

And Mark put it together, and the Weekly Mac just talking about McDonald’s fast food is amazingly stupid fun. So check that out.

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Also, while I’m plugging everything, five Good News Stories is doing really w…

I guess it was a good idea to do all those Christmas stories at Christmas time because then a lot of new listeners jumped on there. So the number five good News Stories Monday, Wednesday, Friday, that’s me telling you five stories and they’re all good news. The eight hundred bound Gorilla told us about Aaron McGuire. I’ll comment here. I haven’t seen it yet, but they wrote Aaron McGuire has her debut comedy special, Baseline Presentable out on YouTube.

I’ll come back to that, and I’ve shared it in a Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast Group. Unless you’re up at three oh one in the morning, I think I scheduled the post for like no, I scheduled the post for seven pm tonight. You’re gonna have to wait a minute. But this gets back to special versus hour. So I clicked on Aaron McGuire’s release and it’s shot in a small club in Queen’s single cam.

That’s an hour. That’s not a special. That’s not the same thing as Chris Rock Live on Netflix. That’s an hour. It doesn’t mean it’s not good, it doesn’t mean it’s not funny, but it’s just not the same thing.

Eight hundred pound Gorilla tells us Aaron McGuire is a New York City based stand up and podcast host who’s been featured on Gotham Live and some other things. So that’s Aaron McGuire’s Baseline presentable. I will check that out next time I’m in Comedy Hour. Special mode from Gossip Corner. Russell Peter is just trying to sell his mansion in Andsino, six bedrooms, seven and a half bath house.

He purchased in twenty twenty for five point six million. He had it on the market for seven million. He had to cut it now to six point two. I look at the pictures. Looks pretty nice.

It was previously owned by Robert Kardashian, you know, father to Courtney, Kim, Chloe and Rob. It includes a dining area with an eighty four bottle wine rack, a chef’s kitchen, a sub zero fridge, three dishwashers, three, a cappuccino maker, and a steam oven. Upstairs, two primary suites, each with a private balcony and views of the San Fernando Valley. Both suites include sitting areas with fireplaces, spot bathrooms, and spacious closets. The second story also has an entertainment room with a two hundred inch screen.

Not bad. Russell Peters in Williamsburg, Virginia at tonight the Last Word Comedy Festival. Tonight, just one show at seven o’clock, the College Improv Showcase. This one kicks into gear tomorrow at Sketch Fest in San Francisco a robust lineup seven o’clock. Aaron Chen is sold out, seven thirty Josh Johnson is sold out.

Clara o’caine will record an album with an opening set by Eugene Merman at seven thirty, Jennif Friedman’s Not Funny at seven thirty, Scott Thompson his buddy Cole and King also seven thirty, nine thirty The Edinburgh is Spotlight, and then nine forty five a tap of San Francisco’s Sketch Fest. So if we were out there, let’s see, hmm, well, I’ll definitely do Edinburgh. I would want to check that out. How about Jennif Friedman for our early show. We can grab a beverage in between.

And that is your comedy news for today. As previously mentioned, you can support the show by going to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News, or if you’re on the Fountain nap you can throw some sants my way. Meet you here to morrow. Thanks

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Seanni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m continuing to pay close attention to comedy’s biggest story. Natasha Lazerro was asked by a cameraman about taking her shirt off during her comedy set the other day. The cameraman told Natasha people were shocked by her show, to which she replied, is it because I have such huge breasts?

I clean that up a little bit. Most comedians don’t want to go shirtless, other than obviously bur Krasher. But she was trying to tell an important message to the crowd, she said. I was trying to make a point. Natasha’s husband, Mosha Kasher, fantastic comedian, joked, yeah, she’s not feeling her husband.

It’s a bigger story. Actually, I will continue to monitor that for any developments whatsoever. The Oscars announced their nominees. Nothing real comedy to tell you about. Jimmy Kimmel would be your host March tenth.

Oppenheimer thirteen nominations, Poor Things eleven, Killers of the Flower Moon ten, Barbie with eight, but the Razzies were announced. The nominees for Worst Picture of the Year expend four Bulls, The Exorcist Believer Mega to the Trench described as a fishy tail about a snarky shirk that flopped across all seven seas, Shazam, Fury of the Gods, and Winnie the Poop, Blood and Honey. PJ. Starr That’s a Website was paying attention to Shane Gillis, who recently played the Peoria Civic Center. It was quite cold there.

On Shane’s podcast, he said, I was in Peoria, Illinois, new number one on the power rankings of expletive town in the entire country. Peori, Illinois was That was hell, dude, Gillis said because of the weather, he had arrived a day early and had nothing to do. Just me and the bums were the only ones walking around outside minus four in Peoria. Sucks. Apparently a lot of people didn’t make the show.

Two inches of snow fell the night of his performance, adding to the eight inches already on the ground. After the show, Shane and his entourage walked around to Jim’s Steakhouse. Jim’s Facebook page posted Jim’s had the pleasure of hosting the comedian. Restaurant manager at Christen Comfort said Shane and his party arrived after the second show and enjoyed a leisurely meal, taking time to photos taken with staff members. She said the comedian was very kind, very polite, and we enjoyed having him.

Shane said he was pleased that Peoria had a restaurant like Jim’s. Long time listeners know that I’m now curious about the menu there, So let’s look fancy looking place there, Shane Gillis, whoa I’m not trust ride for this. Appetizers include shrimp cocktail, shrimpedy Jon, avocado burshetta, steak, Burschetta, Oyster’s half Shehell, Oyster’s, Rockefeller and kalamari, several steaks, kebab skewers, poultry, pasta salads. Entrees include your choice of baked potato, rice, oregano or green beans. And you know it’s a fancy place because they don’t have the prices on the menu.

Get back to the comedy John. Okay, you understand all the entertainment websites. We’re talking about the oscars right. They’re making a movie about the creation of Saturday Night Live. According to Deadline, gabriel LeBell you may know him from the Fablemans.

He’s going to play Lorne Michaels in Jason Wrightman’s upcoming film SNL nineteen seventy five, Based on a series of interviews conducted with all the remaining living members of the cast crew in Writer’s Room, the film will tell the story of the first ever episode on October eleventh, nineteen seventy five, from its conception to the precious minutes leading up to Chevy Chase’s inaugural Live from New York. It’s Saturday Nights. Cooper Hoffman will play Dick Eversoll or Rachel Senatz. She’s having a bit of a moment is playing Rosie Schuster. Eversall was NBC’s vice president of Late Nights.

Schuster was a writer on the show who was married to Laurn Michaels from nineteen seventy one to nineteen eighty. She also dated Dan Ackroyd around the same time. Wait what it is pointed out the actors are much younger than the characters they’re playing. Laurn Michaels was thirty one when SNL premiered LaBelle is twenty one in nineteen seventy five. Eversall was twenty eight.

Hoffman is twenty. That’s all weird Rachel sent out his twenty eight her character Schuster was twenty five All weird. Kenya Barris is working on the bio pick of Richard Pryor, but it’s no longer a bio pick. It is now a ten part limited biographical series that takes a look from cradle to grave, says ken You, following his earliest upbringing. He grew up in a house of ill repute and became a one point the biggest star in the world.

It’s my baby. I love it. He’s my comedy god, a super flawed guy. But with everything to this day, the comedy that we remember, even including Dave Chappelle, is derivative of what he started. I’ll jump in there.

That is so true. You can absolutely draw a line from Dave all the way back to Pryor and Eddie Murphy’s comedy is a complete lift. Ken You said that honest, reflecting, observational look at what the world is and the differences between us that actually make us more similar than we are. A part telling his story and letting people see things that they didn’t know about him is something and I’m super excited to bring to life. No idea yet who will play Richard Pryor.

Mike Epps has long expressed his desire to play Richard Pryor, and he did get to play Richard Pryor on the HBO series Winning Time. Now. If you remember that show from a few years back called I’m Dying up Here, it was about comedians in Los Angeles in the seventies. Andrew Santino was fantastic on that. They had Richard Pryor played by Brandon Ford Green, and I thought Brandon did a fantastic job as Richard Pryor.

As for Mike Apps, he’ll have a new special on Netflix on February twentieth. It’s his fourth special for Netflix. This one is called Ready to Sell Out. In it, he ponders where all of his money has gone in spite of a thriving career. There are also upcoming specials on Netflix, Jack Whitehall’s Settled Down on January thirtieth and Taylor Thomlinson’s Have It All.

February thirteenth, Golf News caught up with Steve Harvey. I don’t believe they asked Steve about Cat Williams. I’m not seeing the words cat nor Williams in the article. They did ask about Joe Coy, and Steve said, Joe Cooy is brilliant. He was outstanding at the Golden Globes.

Hollywood are the most arrogant popas people in the world. Sitting there, it’s all about them. They want to win, they want the spotlight on them. You can’t entertain celebrities. Hosting for Hollywood Awards ceremonies is the worst gig in the world.

You’re sitting there with a bunch of I mean, it’s all about me, and people have been clapping for them wherever they go. Now all of a sudden, they’re your audience, horrible audience. I’ve seen this guy, Joe Coy, He’s hands down one of the funniest people in the world today. I saw the Golden Globes thing and I knew what he was doing, but they weren’t going to get it because they’re not going to laugh at theirselves. They are celebrities.

A couple quick plugs if you want to follow the election cycle, We’ve got a new podcast called Batlets B A L l Ot wherever you get your shows. If the trivia guys are listening, I can’t make it tonight. I have to be on an industry panel. I actually have to be an adult tonight, so have fun without me. Trivia guys on Gossip Corner.

I’m not gonna do this item yet because I haven’t seen it from a major publication. But if you were to google the words Kevin Hart restraining order against it would turn up results. I’ll keep an eye on that story, and when I feel like I can go with it, I’ll go with it. But those are words you could google.

Meanwhile, and as Corner, Kate Berlant had a big time crowd on Sunday night a…

Some other people who attended Olivia Wilde, bri Laursen, Billy Eichner, Molly Shannon, John c Riley, Kamil Nan Gianni, Emily Gordon, Vanessa Bear, Bob Odenkirk, Chelsea Peretti, and Natasha Lazio. In the play, Kate explores the events of her life that have brought her to this moment, and bodying many characters in this tour de fource performance, she expertly morphs before our eyes and exposes the truth she has until now kept hidden. The show’s running through Febury eleventh, for Variety. Hannah Berner one of Variety’s ten Comics to Watch. She’s going to record her first comedy special for Netflix.

It’ll be taped in Philadelphia at the Fillmore on March twenty third. Berner tells Variety, this is probably the coolest thing that has ever happened to me. I’m in love with the hour that I’ve been touring with for a while now, and I’m honored that Netflix wants to showcase my silly bits. I’m excited for my stand up to reach a larger audience and to celebrate the community of badass women and scared boyfriend’s mother and zaddies that got me to this point. Why the film war, she says, I remember the film wore being beautiful and the laughter was amazing.

The crowds are passionate, smart, loud, and know how to have a good time. Rick and Morty news it won’t return for season eight until twenty twenty five. How come there was that writer strike and it delayed production. However, we’re getting Rick and Morty the anime. There’s a trailer.

I watched it. I would share it with you, but it’s in Japanese. And I’m gonna guess you don’t speak Japanese. If you do speak Japanese, please yell at me in the Facebook group Daily Coming News podcast group. Be like, yo, I speak Japanese, don’t profile me anyway.

I read the phrase Rick and Morty the anime and wanted to hate, and then I watched it and I went, oh, Okay, this is gonna be a lot of fun. The anime is ten episodes. It stands on its own as an original work. At sketch Fest tonight, ooh, canceled Emily Wilson’s Fixed, I wonder why it was canceled. Nott’s canceled Kids in the Hall scenes.

They wouldn’t let us do and a different show talking Simpsons. Out of those, I would pick kids in the hall scenes. They wouldn’t let us do things pick back up tomorrow with a whole bunch of shows. But we’ll talk about that tomorrow. If you enjoy the program, you can go to buy me a coffee.

Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I’ll take your money and I won’t do a hang with it tonight. I gotta be on that big time industry panel, huh. Or if you want to use the Fountain app. You can throw some SATs in my way.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, busy one Today, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Latasha Laziro got everyone’s attention. I’ll cut to the chase. She did a topless set.

She was at the improv Bert Kreischer was up. Bert takes a shirt off during his sets. The audience loved it. So Natasha gets up and says, if the boys can do it, why can’t the girls, And she joked, I’ve also been thinking about trying to bang my opener, so I watched the video to do proper research for the podcast. You’ll see Natasha doing a sexy dance in front of the audience.

They have no idea what’s about to happen. She takes off her jacket, then strips down to her overalls and then her shirt, and then completely exposes her top parts. One guy in the audience screams holy s word. Natasha then throws her jacket back on before diving into her comedy act. I source the story on ta if you’re curious to learn more about it, and I’m sure you will.

Yes, they have pictures Dave Chappelle taking a shot of Kat Williams. I love all this back and forth, even if Dave Chappelle does not. Dave was at the improv on the nineteenth. I’m going to share with you what Dave said. He uses a lot of N words, and rather than me say N word fifty times, I’m going to sub in the word fellas.

Okay, Dave said, what part of the game is this? He ethered Fellas. He didn’t say anything about any of these white boys. None of these white boys function like that. Kat is one of the best painters in the game, So why are you drawing ugly pictures of us?

Stop hurt people. Hurt people. But I’m a hurt person that never hurt people, and he does it all the time. Time out, mister Chappelle, you have definitely hurt some people. They have made it quite clear that you have heard them.

Time in, Chappelle jumps into a Cat Williams impression and says, F this one, F that one, F this one, and then adds, but Fellas, I didn’t hear anything that you did wrong. Cat didn’t do nothing wrong. Kat was talking about that stuff that Fellas did to other Fellas, about anything that Fellas did to him. If I told my story would break your heart. I lost everything and never ever told on anybody.

And this fella is the arbiter of truth. Kat listen, I f with Kat hard but d Ray and he’s talking to d Ray Davis, who opened What part of the game f’s up another fella’s paper? What part of the game is about telling on another fella? Dave rejected the premise that what Kat did was good for comedy. That was an argument that d Ray Davis tried to make on stage.

Chappelle’s take. You know why I disagree because I put a special out the same day. It was fine, and then this fella came out and said, I read six thousand books. What the f is you talking about? I’m at war with the Illuminati too, but what part is ethering?

Cedric the entertainer. I’m gonna dismantle the Illuminati, and I’m gonna start with Cedric the entertainer said’s a cool dude, he’s old, he’s fat, Leave him alone.

Meanwhile, on Saturday Night Live, they made fun of Kat’s appearance on the C…

Ego Nuotam played Kat williams Ago as Kat says, three things are true about me. I’m five to three. I’ve never told a lie and I’m six three. Look, Hollywood made Kevin Hardy. Everyone knows Kevin Hart was made the same Factor where they make Teddy Grams.

The Cat Williams character insists he wrote obamas slogan yes we can before me. He was saying probably, probably, I think we might.

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Meanwhile, Cant Williams has revealed that he’s working on a posthumous TUPAC…

Kat says there will be eight artists contributing to the project that only be the best of the best. No more details about that, all right, new topic. We’re waiting to hear what the Daily Show is going to do. Here’s the rumor. Nothing.

According to three people familiar with the thinkings inside Comedy Central, they’re just going to keep doing guest hosts. They’re going to rely on a team of correspondents to lead each night. Chris McCarthy, who’s the Paramount’s global president, is said to have informed talent representatives of the network’s decision. According to people familiar with the talks, Chris McCarthy is saying the Daily Show will rely more heavily on a newsroom concept, with a group of correspondents leading the program. Executives may keep an eye out for possible solo hosts in month to come, but don’t feel ready to choose one at this time.

Dudes, you’ve had a year and change, there’s an election coming in November. What are you doing? This is a terrible plan. So I’m keeping an eye on the bookings on Taylor Tomlinson’s new show Tonight Otsko at Kotska, Josh Johnson and Doug Benson. That’s pretty good.

Tomorrow Guy Brainham and Lisa Gilroy. Thursday, Natasha Lazarro and Mosha Kasher also actor John Daily, and then Friday is a repeat that was quick. Kevin James Irregardless is out today. That’s on Amazon Prime. Kevin James, Irregardless takes on parenting, marriage and getting older.

I had shared a clip from the trailer while back. It seemed like it was okay.

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Also out today on Netflix, Jackie Novak’s Get on Your Knees.

I notice she’s the guest on Mark Marin. I haven’t heard it yet. In the hour, Jackie Novak discusses activities you might do while on your knees. Think about it. Nate Berghatzy played the Prudential Center in Newark.

Over the weekend, Jimmy Fallon showed up to do some material Spies Say. The new material included a bit about his parents and his over protective Irish upbringing.

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He talked about a musical he wants to write called Death. The musical it follows a writer who’s diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A few years after writing it, Idle got his own cancer diagnosis. It was pancreatic cancer. Luckily he beat it.

I didn’t know that. Wow, that’s a hard one to beat. Good for you. He shared that he has survived the four Seas, COVID cancer, Crucifixion and Clees. Idol brought out Jeff B.

Davis. They did a few songs from Death to Musical. The rest of the show was a combination of sketches, songs, and clips, summarizing a lot of Idol’s career, a lot of python. Davis revealed his favorite sketch was Nudge Nudge. Eric Idle dismissed the idea of performing the sketch, which became a running joke.

Finally Idle did the sketch. There was a big tribute to the Ruddles. That’s the Beatles parody. I’m a huge fan of that. And the show ended with the signature song always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

Two and a half hours not bad. Today at sketch Fest seven point thirty two shows Ask a magician, but the one I would have us go to as Kids in the Hall unplugged. Come see your favorite five favorite kids in the Hall and a night of singing, storytelling and simple scenes. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, you can go to buy me a coffee.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Chenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Some good stuff from late Night last week. Seth Meyers said, a state lawmaker in Kentucky recently introduced a new bill and make it legal for person to have sex with a first cousin, while Alabama is making it mandatory. That’s good fallon a lawmaker in Kentucky, same set up, but later said it was a mistake, which can only mean one thing.

His cousin broke it off. Kevin Hart kind of sort of stuck up for Dave Chappelle. He told The Independent. We’re just at a time now where the microscope is significantly pointed in the direction of the comic and what the comic is saying. But you have the option of just not watching someone you don’t find funny or entertaining.

There’s something extremely simple that people are forgetting. As for himself, he says, I don’t feel like everyone should love me. I don’t feel like everybody should make him funny. It’s perfectly fine. Alana Blackstar, no joke.

Lately, you’re home for comedy news. They’ve been following the Club Shayshay podcast, which seems to be the hotspot for debating Catwey. Country Wayne is the latest comic to appear in Club Shay Shay Atlanta. Blackstar tells us that Country Wayne drags Faison Love for his alleged hates for other comedians. On an interview with DJ Vlad last October, Love Distwayne.

He was asked if he had seen Wayne’s Netflix special Country Wayne, A Woman’s Prayer. Love said I tried my eyelid said, come on, you got something else to do. Well. Country Wayne has shot back. He says Love has quote figured out the Internet.

He sounds stupid if I had his career and cry. If I’ve been doing comedy, comedy’s like a woman, it don’t want you. If you’ve been doing it that long, bro, it want you. Dog, also from Atlanta Blackstar, like I said, you’re home for comedy news. Lately, people are upset at Tracy Morgan.

Tracy was on the Connect the Dots podcast. He was asked how many children he really has. Tercy said me on the books are off. Everyone on the panel laught. Tracy said I got about thirty off the books and nobody said nothing to me.

No, I’m old school. I don’t pull out I’m like prison. When I come in, I come in, I make babies. So if you’re messing with me, talk to me, big chance you’re gonna get pregnant. And he said, I got Walmart money.

We’re good. Well. One person on social media said, this is not even funny creating multiple single parent homes and then you all sit here and throw insults at children who don’t have fathers, as if a child is control of not having a dad. But you got men out here doing this on purpose. A couple people responded, y’all can’t take a joke.

Relax people, He’s a comedian. Amy Schumer’s Life and Beth back for season two February sixteenth. That’s good news for this podcast because that means Amy will be doing press, and it means the Amy haters will be shooting at Amy and makes a nice circle of things because Amy doesn’t let it roll off her back the way say Kevin Hart does. She shoots back and then I get like five days of content out of this. I’m looking forward to Amy Schuber doing press again.

Good stuff for the pod. In season two, Beth and John begin to find their relationship growing more serious, while Beth begins to examine the possibilities of marriage and having a family as she and John seek answers for their communications problems. The show teases itself asking two questions. Is Beth’s traumatic history with men and people she trusted from her youth destined to repeat itself? And what is triggering her fears.

Beth does her best to keep her relationships alive while struggling in a sport, friends and family who are all facing their own problems while entering their fourth decade. Bill Burr has been working on the drums. Apparently it’s pretty good. There was recently a show at Avalon. It began with comedy sets from Dean Delray and Bill Burr.

Then it was followed by two hours of Bon Scott Era ac DC tunes. Wow, so not even like most of the ACDC that most people know. Bon Scott Era the Band, scott Ian from Anthrax, Dave Lombardo from Slayer, John Frees from Foo Fighters, Larry Laddon from Primus, Mike Inez from Alison Chain, Steve Gorman from The Black Crows, j Buchanan and Scott Holiday from Rival Sons, and Billy Rowe, Buckcherry and Bill Burr jumped on the drums pretty cool. Bob Marley spoke to the Rutland Herald. He says his show is inspired by his actual family.

As an endless supply material, he says, I just write stuff down. First started, I used to hide behind the material. I’d need a bit that was bulletproof, funny to the point where almost anybody could get up and do it and read it and they would get a laugh. But now I’m to the point where my act would be hard to steal because if you read it on paper, you’d be like, what is this? It doesn’t make any sense at all.

You need the characters and the voices. So that muscle really developed. He keeps notes on every show and that determines the upcoming shows. It always has the cast of characters, but it’s not the same show, he says, it’s my style. It’d be like saying, ah, I saw Bill Berr again and he’s still angry.

Well, that’s his act. Marley says years ago, comedians would travel around do the same set for years, and when I was living in la I’d come back to New England to do shows a lot, and I had to change my act all the time. So I developed that muscle now I changed the show every four months. Marley says, for up and comers, the most important thing in stand up it’s not the jokes, it’s what’s in between. It’s the connective tissue.

You need that novacane so they don’t even know that you’re switching topics. Sketch Fest is off today. We’ll pick up on that tomorrow. Gardenandgun dot com is a website. M I don’t even poke around it.

I just found this article about LeAnn Morgan, but now I’m curious what else is on Garden and Gun. Let’s see. The main article is the adoring Magic of the Angel oak Sidebar. Articles are five hotels that roll out the red carpet for the big Dogs, The Rules of fire Pit Season, a tour of Dolly Parton’s career spanning Closet, President Lincoln’s Cottage, The quietly powerful DC Museum. You might not have heard of Reed Drummonds Pickle Chicken Bites.

The Oklahoma Cooking Show host riffs on Chick fil A nuggets. This website’s pretty cool and a lot less guns than I was expecting. Oh, here we go. Sporting Life section, twelve international sporting lodges and a bird Dog, Trailblazer. Hunting’s not my thing, but it looks like a cool website and Magazina right anyway, they spoke to Leanne Morgan.

I like Leanne, but I feel like she’s giving the same interview over and over. Every interview seems to ask her about finding stardom in her fifties, and then she tells the same story. I’m not dissing her. I just feel like the interviewers need to ask her some different questions. She tells the story about selling jewelry for Mary Kay and she’d slip at big case and then she’d start talking about breastfeeding and hemorrhoids and people would laugh.

As for developing routine, she says, I feel like I’ve got natural timing, but it’s just storytelling. I’ll be running down the road or doing a load of wash and something come to me and I’ll think, oh, that’s funny, and now i have to write it down because of my age. But I’ve got to get out and live because if I go and do yoga, if I go to weight Watchers, things like that spark ideas. When I’m living in normal, everyday life, that’s when it’s the best. I agree.

A lot of times. I will quote unquote right when I’m out for a run, and I’ll come up with a lot of ideas. If I sit in front of the laptop and try to come up with ideas, I can’t. I have to free my mind up. There’s a great line in Madman where Don Draper says something like you have to let the creatives be uncreative until they’re ready.

And I really do believe in that. Leanne says, it’s never too late making it big of the fifties. I like that people see that in me and they want to see me win. It’s like, Okay, she’s us and she made it, she can do it. We can do it.

Dennis Leary now he’s part of that new Ray Romano show. It looks like he might be getting another show, a new single camera comedy series in the works. It’s titled Going Dutch. This is part of Dennis Leary’s development deal with Fox, which he signed in twenty twenty. I wonder if some executive inherited that and it’s like, why do we have this deal?

In Going Dutch, a decorated, hard ass colonel is tasked with running the least important US army base in the world located in the tulip hugging wine shugging Netherlands. Now I’m fifty four. How old is Dennis Leary sixty six? So he’s playing a sixty six year old colonel. Dennis could play a little younger, but this seems stretchy and uh well, let me know if it ever actually happens.

Apple TV has not renewed at Shmiga dun So that’s bad news for mac packer Keegan Michael Key. Although he gets plenty of work, He’ll be okay. Creator Sinkle Paul went on Instagram and said, I am sad to share that Apple will not be moving forward with season three of Schmigadoon. The season is written, including twenty five new songs, but fortunately we won’t be making it. Such as life, that’s your comedy news for today.

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Callaroga Shock Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Going to start with something different today. If you’ve been listening for years, you know that I gave Sarah Cooper a hard time. Anytime her name came up, I usually followed it with something like, you know the woman who pantomimes the Donald Trump videos on TikTok.

Well, Nichelle is a listener, and Michelle put a clip in front of me of Sarah Cooper doing actual stand up and you know what, this is really good. Let’s listen. I think I’m gonna just, you know, do things differently this time. I was in an interracial marriage. I’m black and my ex was a software engineer at Google.

He was white. He was hard h white. He was heartache, hardage quite. He was quite. His middle name is do Blanc.

And if you know French, you know what the blanc means. All lives matter. Good on you, Sarah, do that. Paul F. Tompkins spoke to the Last Laugh.

He’ll be live streaming his variety show riots Hopa on February tewod. Paul likes being on stage with a group. He says, if you bomb, you’re not alone. Part of the game is that you’re going to fail sometimes, and everyone understands that, and then of course there are the people that refuse to believe that improv is real. He talks about how people walk up and say, well, you must have written some of that, and he goes, no, that’s the whole point.

Paul says, there’s no one right way to do comedy. Paul F. Tompkins had an interesting quote about Patrese O’Neil saying someone had quoted Patrica’s saying a good joke leaves fifty percent of the audience laughing and fifty percent of the audience horrified. Paul said, what that’s insane. As for his own career, he said, when I was younger, I assume that success meant you’d be a household name, And then as I actually got into the business, I was like, oh no, there’s a whole other sort of middle class that you can be where you’re supporting yourself, doing what you’re loving and having a good time.

So I’m lucky that I enough of an audience that I can work. I can get enough work on TV to keep my health insurance, and I can be creatively free, which is all you can really ask for, and I’m not trying to be totally blithe about that. Of course, I’ve had moments of doubt and fear and buying into the invisible ladder of show business, like, oh no, I didn’t get to the next wrong. You know what, Actually it’s fine because I’m still here. It’s not like I lost my job as an entertainer.

Of course, there’s a lot of ego stuff that you have to go through. You have to deal with that. But I’m a middle aged dude and I’ve meted a lot, and I look around and realize I have a pretty great life. I’m also past the point where I have to worry about that kind of success. I’m at a certain age where it’s like, ah aah, I’m not gonna be the next shining bright face.

I’m into the second half now, so that’s kind of relief. And what I’m hoping for is that in ten to twenty years I’ll really come into my own as the funny old guy on a sitcom. That’s a fine life for me. The Miami New Times asked Samrell who influenced him coming up. He said, I love David Tell, I loved Greg Giraldo.

I loved Chris Rock, Louis C.K. Bill Burr, any of the obvious New York style people in terms of stand up, but you’re influence in other ways. Madam Saidler and Ronnie Dangerfield were my introduction to comedy, and I still love them both very much. Interesting tidbit that I don’t think i’d heard before. He said that Mark Norman and Sam are trying to make a movie.

Does he want to make a TV show? He says, I do, but I don’t want to be on NBC. I love Jerry Seinfeld and Ray Romano, but I’m not like them. To be true to me, it have to be more like my stand up, but have to be on an adult platform like Netflix or HBO. I emailed Louis C.K.

Two in the morning last night and I said, I’m rewatching Louis. It makes me so happy the show exists. Sam’s about to film a new special and he said, I think my style is changing. This hour is definitely more story heavy. They’re punchy, they’re not boring stories.

When you’re a brand new comic, you say whatever’s funny, even if it’s not completely you, because you’re like, well, I gotta laugh then, you get older and your type of humor is more like, Okay, this is something I would say to a guy to bar. Even if it’s still reminiscent of the style he started with, just feels more conversational. Joe Koy talked about his writing process when he’s on tour. He said, it’ll take me about a year to write an hour. But in that year, we’re talking about maybe one hundred something shows, maybe more one twenty five, and non stop working out and crafting it and just yelling at myself like why isn’t this coming together.

I love jokes I’ve been working on for like thirty shows, and I’m just like, ef it, bury it, and you give all your emotion and all your thoughts to a two minute joke just to be like, yeah, it’s not working.

And then there’s those nights where you stumble onto something and you’re lik…

Then you keep it and you work it and tighten it. Then there’s ideas where you say, oh, don’t do that again. That’s the process, and I love the process. It’s so crazy to me that people think this is easy. We all know the number one fear is public speaking, and that’s over skydiving, Like there’s people that would rather jump out of a plane with a nylon bag on their back than get in front of twenty five people in a coffee house and tell a joke.

Jay Leno tell The Hill he’s given up on touching politics in his comedy because it tends to suck the funny out of a stand up shows. He says, we live in an era now. I don’t do politics anymore. An audience is like an orchestra. You’re up there and you’re getting laughs.

Then you get into the political stuff and he goes, uh turns mean. They want to hear what the joke is, whether it’s about my guy or against my guy, but they’re not thinking of the joke. They’re thinking of the implications of the joke. So to me, I just don’t do it anymore. I just find it so annoying.

I find the audience likes it better. Hopefully they come to a comedy show to get away from politics. I think we get enough of everybody’s opinions. It’s nice to hear a singer just sing or comedian just be funny. Jay Leno is today’s item on Gossip Corner.

He stopped to grab a slice of pizza at a Safety Harbor pizzeria. Last Saturday, he went to the Nona Slice House right at noon. Owner Jimmy told the Patch, we had no idea it was coming by. It was actually at my house when my manager called and said jaylen was here. You need to get down here right away.

Other than it’s cool that jay Leto’s there, why do you need to get there? Like, we don’t know what to do. Jay Leno’s ordering pizza. What do we do right? J Probably just walked in and like, yeah, let me get slice.

It’s not that difficult. I just threw clothes on. I didn’t want to miss an opportunity. It was pretty cool. Jamie the manager tells us jay Leno was super super friendly.

It’s the last day of the last ever Snowjam Comedy Festival. That’s kind of sad. That was a cool festival. Five o’clock snow laughing matter ten comedians. If you want to get out and breathe the cold and see that, and then it’s seven o’clock, the last show ever at the snow Jam Comedy Festival ever.

Timmy Williams at Club at two twenty four. Your forecast for Soup falls South Dakota today a balmy high of twenty four at a low of seven. But it will be easy. That windshiw might be tough. Congratulations to Dan Bublets and the crew for putting on that festival all these years.

I’ve heard about this for a long time. I remember my assistant Rory at Serries telling me about it, so great job. I’m sorry to see that you guys aren’t continuing with it, but I get it.

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Meanwhile, today, at the San Francisco Sketch Fest at eleven o’clock Pacific …

I won’t read all the shows, Amber Ruffin at one o’clock, Doug Loves Movies at three, The pen Pals Podcast with Rory Scoville and Daniel van Kirk. At four, Thomas Lennon is a guest on that one. Five o’clock Dave Hills Caveman in a Spaceship, seven o’clock Stupid Songs with Kevin McDonald, the Benson Movie Interruption, Fast x Who. That’s a tough choice there, I’ll circle back at eight o’clock Triumph Hmm. Weird Al on that one too, all right, if we’re going to plan the day, obviously, at eleven o’clock we go see Moe Williams.

Then let’s hit Amber Rouffing at one o’clock. Might as well hit Doug Loves Movies at three o’clock seven o’clock. Do we do stupid songs on stories with Kevin McDonald or do we do more Doug Benson fast X That could be a lot of fun. I guess we’ll see how much fun the three o’clock Doug Benson was and make a decision there. Either way, we’re gonna leave one of those early because I want to see Triumph at eight o’clock.

No shows tomorrow at the Sketch Fest, but it picks up again on Tuesday. The Mary Sue writes few shows brought me the joy that the George Lucas Talk Show did at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Watching comedian Connor Ratleff run out every night to a David Bowie song, sitting down and saying I’m George Lucas was an experience I would not trade for the world. Have you ever watched this thing? It’s up on YouTube?

So much fun. The show was quirky, weird, often had people go into the box office asking where the actual George Lucas was. Well, there’s a documentary coming out. It’s titled I’m George Lucas, A Connor Ratliffe Story. It’s about the legacy that Ratliff and the show have left on the comedy scene.

It’s described as follows. For five years, comedian Connor Ratliffe has performed as filmmaker George Lucas and his monthly UCB New York cult comedy show, The George Lucas Talk Show. The show allows Connor to both exalt and poke fun at the vast world of Lucas, including Star Wars. However, Connor begins to question if the show should continue due to its ongoing stress with a little financial and career gain and sticking with Star Wars. Tarren Killheim spoke to a vultry about his time on SNL and they asked about the Undercover Boss sketch with Adam Driver as Kylo.

Wren. Terrence says, for whatever reason, all parties involved SNL lucasfilm filming side wanted that sketch to go as well as possible, so he’s wearing Kylo’s actual outfit that’s not a replica lucasfilm shipped out. I think mikey Day deserves the credit for the concept. That night, Bobby moynihan and I had already written a full sketch where we were the two maintenance guys working underneath the plankway where the dramatic Kylo Han scene takes place, and we’re mopping up the floor like, yeah, I don’t know, I’m hearing rumbles outside. I got time coming off, so you know.

Then you hear groan some and thud and Han Solo’s corpse lands in front of us. We’re freaking out, and then Kylo comes and checks on us and is saying, don’t tell anybody about this, nothing happen. You need to see anything. Mike was like, yeah, that’s pretty good. I think we can find something more fun for Adam to do, and then he pitched the one line undercover boss, start a stre They then segue to SNL’s upcoming fiftieth anniversary.

He says, my Eddie Murphy moment was pretty beautiful. There was a party of the night before at the top of the rock. I went from the Californian sketch rehearsal that we did that ended with David Spade doing his Bye Bye Guy. David and I went to the party together. As I was talking with him, We’re sitting at the top of the rock and he’s telling me of his experience of the look Mammy a Falling Star joke.

Then over his shoulder, Eddie Murphy walks in with Brett Ratner. I was like, dude, dude, dude. And the first person Eddie Murphy walked up to was David Spade. It was very gracious, a lovely exchange. Then I got to shake Eddie’s hand.

My first conscious memories of SNL are his best of tape. He is the best one to ever do it. The circumstances of what age he was, who he was, what he was capable of doing. The responsibility was on his shoulders as an ensemble member. Wow, that is a high praise and I won’t argue with the sentiment.

And that’s your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might enjoy it too. You never know. If you want to support the show, buy me a coffee, dot com slash Daily Comedy News, or use the fountain out there or some sets my way see you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello and Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and nice write up of Taylor, Thomlinson and Glamour in a really small font though it was on Glamor dot com and I had a hit control plus plus plus just to make the font legible. I’m old here anyway. Taylor’s having a good week of buzz and well deserved. And she said, look, the truth is, I couldn’t have done After Midnight four years ago, even three years ago.

What’s so interesting to me is when it came up, I was like, Oh, I think I’m at a place in my life where I could actually do that job, and I could do it well and I can enjoy it. Anyone in your twenties you don’t know who you are yet. It’s crazy how different I felt every year of my twenties. I feel like I’m finally stabilizing at thirty. I really do feel different.

Twenty nine was a really hard year, but also really good. None of that. I do feel like the best version of myself. Feels like things kind of locked into a place in a nice way. Taylor says being on the road is really fun, but it’s also really lonely.

Something that I talked about when I was interviewing for the job was I’d really love when I come back to LA to have a community. The idea of making something new every day with a group of people I really like sounds very fun and creatively fulfilling. Getting to see comedians more and getting to meet more comedians. She’s hoping she can create a fun comfort show for people at the end of the day. Always a good mission.

I agree with that. I’m excited to give stand up comedians a platform where they can be really funny and get these great clips that are not going to burn their material, which is why we’re all posting crowd work online. Really interesting twist there. She’ll probably do well if they let the comedians share the clips. That’d be smart to let them.

Paullie Shore is starring as Richard Simmons in a bio pic. The movie was going to premiere yesterday at the Sundance Film Festival. A trailer was auds. I went to pull some audio for it and it just wouldn’t work. In terms of this podcast, seems Polly listen to fan suggestions on his YouTube videos and social media, where people commented that he kind of looked like Richard Simmons, but according to Entertainment Weekly, Pauli Shore thinks the slimilarities are deeper.

He says, I am him. I like helping people. I like health, I like putting that energy out there. Through my mom and the comedy stores, she helped a lot of people, and it kind of got passed down to me. I helped comedians and people, So I really relate to Richard.

I’ve been going to the gym since I was a kid, and I think I’m a little over the top as well, So I feel like I connect with him. And I’ve known him for years. Back in the day I started in the nineties, I used to always see him, and I always giving him hugs and high fives and stuff. He says. In public, people would walk up to him and be like, Hey, what’s up.

I know you you’re Richard Simmons. Pauli says, that’s a compliment. By the way, he’s very handsome.

Also, his style and my style is very over the top.

It’s spontaneous, so that’s inherent in me. Already. All right, pay attention to this next part because it’s going to be important in a couple of minutes enter Timmy Weekly. He asked if he got to speak with Richard Pauli said. His people responded and they said that he loves me, and he loves my mom and the store and all that stuff, but at this time he just wants to lay low and not really be involved.

The film takes place in the early two thousands. Richard is getting ready to do the Yellen Show. There’s a bumbly kind of pa on the set and he’s a bit overweight and he’s kind of getting the way of everyone. Everyone’s yelling at him because Richard Simmons is there and it’s just very, very uncomfortable for him, and Richard sees this go down. Richard comes out and does his thing on Ellen.

Afterward, there’s this whole monologue that Richard has with his fumbling pa by the craft services table, where I shine some light on how beautiful he really is and how special he is and help him turn around a little bit. Kind of starts off fun, and then the last part is Richard’s message. As for Richard’s non involvement, my attitude is if we build it, he’ll come. That’s my hope. My hope is that he sees it.

It looks good, it feels good, it’s all right, and you might say I’m down. I’ll help you, guys. I’ll be part of it, and I’ll hold your hand now. Richard Simmons himself jumped on Facebook and wrote, Hi, everybody. You may have heard they’re doing a movie about me with Polly Shore.

I have never given my permission for this movie, so don’t believe everything you read. I no longer have a manager, and I no longer have a publicist. I just try to live a quiet life and be peaceful. Thank you for all your love and support. Dana Carvey has resumed podcasting again.

He addressed his family situation following the death of his son Dex. Dana said, it’s me and my wife and our son’s private journey. We’re all together and we do a lot of fun things. We hike, we go to church. We just want to make sure that you keep moving, he said.

Ge back in the swing of the podcast will be very healthy for me as I recover. I’m kind of on the pain train with about millions of other people on this planet, and you don’t know how long you’re going to be on it, or when it’ll stop, and when it will get better. But in the meantime, all this kind of stuff is very healthy. I thought about it over the holidays and decided to come back to the podcast because I think, you know, it’s a long day when you’re not working, you get in your head, and I think it’s going to be a great break, and I think it’s really cool to laugh doing this and riffing with you, David Spate is going to be very healthy for me as I recover, because I’m kind of on the pain train with millions of other people on this planet, and you don’t know how long you’re going to be on it, when it will stop, or when it’ll get better. But in the meantime, all this kind of stuff is very healthy.

The snow Jam Comedy Festival continues in Sioux Falls today. Oh. When I last looked, today’s low had been forecasted to be minus twenty one, but in the updated forecast just a low of minus twenty with a high of six, So it’s much better than yesterday. Congrats Dan Boublitz Junior and the crew at Snowjam. They have four events today starting at one o’clock.

It’s the munch Mic Come eat some delicious food while you watch from across the country, do new material, or maybe you sign up and try it out yourself. Five o’clock, It’s Hot Cocoa Comedy with two four five ten comics. Always good to see ten comics on a bill. Sean Jordan is your headliner. At seven o’clock, Shawn co hosts the popular podcast All Fantasy Everything.

And then at nine point thirty, it’s snow Time. Ten comics on the bill. Like I said, always good to see ten comics on the bill.

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Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Sketch Fest continues, and there are quite a bun…

I won’t read them all. Let’s say at noon the State Hits and Misses, David Wayne, Joel Thetruglio, Ken Marino and Gang. Four o’clock Celebrity Autobiography with Thomas Lennon Catches My Eye. Seven o’clock David Cross and Friends, The DESI Comedy Fest Sydney Washington’s had to Start a Fire.

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Also at seven, at eight o’clock, the Middle Aged Dad Jam Band with Ken Marino…

Also on that bill Thomas Lennon and Weird Owl Yanka Vic. That alone would get me there. We’ll say Sloan at nine thirty, Locals Only at nine forty five again I’m not reading them all. Oh, and also at nine forty five Exorcistic, the unauthorized rock musical parody of the Exorcist. All right.

If we were at Sketch Fest would hit the state at noon, then we would have several hours to have some beverages. Seven o’clock. I would want to see something different. I would go, let’s go see DESI Comedy FESTI And he’d be like, now, I don’t want to go see that, and I’d be like, come on, man, and then we would go and have a great time. Then for the late show, I’d make you go see Locals Only, and then you’d be like, oh, that was a lot of fun.

I’d be like, yeah, trust me, I know what I’m doing at comedy festivals. Another comedy festival coming up is coming to Williamsburg January twenty fifth through the twenty eighth. It is the Last Word at Comedy Festival. It includes improvised Jane Austen, The Ladies of improvised Jane Austin tell it Tale on the Spot, the style of the most beloved nineteen century authorists. That’s fun.

Hitch Cocktails creates a full length thriller in the style of Alfred Hitchcock while we’re taking in beverages. That’s Friday the twenty sixth. It’s the same night as the Jane Austin, though I hope those don’t overlap. Then on Saturday twenty seventh, Clued In. Inspired by the works of Agatha Christi and the cases of Sherlock Holmes, this is an improvised murder mystery.

Sunday the twenty eighth Riff Chicago’s improv music party. This show takes the fast paced games of whose line Is It Anyway as energized by a full band in a wild musical comedy showcase. You can find the full festival schedule at last Word Festival dot com and if you’re in Northern Ireland, put this one on the calendar. This sounds awesome. It’s the Comedian’s Darts Tournament Saturday, March ninth, Americans.

Have you ever watched the Dart Championships. It is tremendous fun. It is so fast paced. These guys go up there and they just go whap, whap wap, and then they grab their darts and the next guy’s already as fast as I’m telling this story, going wap wap wap. Next, I’m up, okay, cool, bang bang bang, And the announcers they’re like lightning quick.

I guess they do it so often that they’re like, okay, needs two eighteens and a four. They just have all the nomber combinations memorized or computers helping them. I don’t know. This thing moves so fast. So you have the darts.

Then there’s the drunk audience. Just picture the let’s make a deal audience, except they’re drunk, so it is so much fun. I saw this one guy, he needed like an eighteen to close it out, and he totally showboted. He must have been up by a lot. He goes up and he goes, ah, I just missed.

Then he just missed the eighteen throws another one like half half force, and ah, I just missed again, and then he goes bang and then basically dropped the mic, and I was like, I’m the King. The announcers are like, this guy’s peacocking darts is a lot of fun. Check it out. They’re on YouTube. Just go on YouTube and type in darts championship.

Trust me, so much fun. Anyway coming to Belfast Saturday, March ninth, Comedian Darts. The lineup includes the sharp tongued Colin Gettis, the hilariously insightful Andrew Ryan, the comedic Dynamo, Deona Dherty, the pun Master, Sean Haggerty, the Irreverend Dave Elliott, the uproarious Connor Keys, the hilarious Aaron Butler, and your referee James mckegney. Audiences can expect an evening filled with comedic brilliance, unexpected twists, and possibly some poor door throwing. And that is your comedy news for today.

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