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Featured: Larry David, Elmo, Mark Normand, Trevor Noah, Taylor Swift, Joe Coy, Roy Wood Jr., Matt Ruby, Phil Hanley

What’s in This Episode

• Larry David throws fake punch at Elmo on Today Show
• Mark Normand addresses viral New York Comedy Club evacuation hoax
• New York Post covers Mark Normand’s Beacon Theatre show
• Trevor Noah hosting Grammy Awards on Sunday
• Trevor Noah discusses challenges of award show hosting after Joe Coy Oscars incident
• Roy Wood Jr. discusses relationship-building in political comedy

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Caloroga Shark Media. Let’s get right to it. Larry David attacked Elmo. Hi, I’m Shooney Mack and all that. The voices you’re going to hear are the hosts of the Today Show, Larry David, Elmo and a character that apparently is Elmo’s father named Louis.

Louis is the one that says I’m going to sue him for assault. Let’s listen, all right, let’s go over to Alpha check of the weather. Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. Don’t you before ask permission? Ask permission before you touch people?

Larry talk about all right, you’ve gone too far this time that somebody have to do it. Anybody really surprised He’s gonna sue y’all for the teaser. I’m gonna suit him for that’s right, Louie. Oh alright, let’s shut show you what’s happening. Weatherwise.

Didn’t see that coming. If you watch the video, they cut back and forth. Apparently Larry was on the set next to the couch waiting to do his one on one, and he came over and threw a fake punch at Elmo. He deliberately missed. He clearly wasn’t trying to actually hit Elmo.

The Today Show host didn’t know how to react a few times, the cuts of al Broker standing in front of the weather map out didn’t know what to do, and the whole thing is insane, lots of fun.

Speaking of Larry David, he will be at the Paley Fest.

It is the annual television festival hosted by the Paley Center of Media. Mentioned this yesterday, but there’s some other cool things this year’s line up. April twelfth of The Morning Show, The Apple Thing, April thirteenth, Loki the fourteenth, Young Sheldon also on the fourteenth, Avatar, The Last Airbender on the fifteenth, Late Night with Seth Myers, eighteenth is Kurb and April nineteenth, Family Guy’s twenty fifth anniversary celebration. The New York Post apparently has decided to start covering comedy in a way different than what they did in the past. That they send somebody to Mark Norman show at the Beacon, and I believe this is the first time we’ve heard Mark Norman address the silly stunt.

Last week at New York Comedy Club, when the crowd was evacuated, Mark Norman said, I went viral for I don’t know thirteen hours, some bullsh and then he trailed off, says the Post. Eventually Britney Spears took a crap at a hotel lobby and it was all good. Now, what I think is new for the Post is they covered Mark Norman’s opening acts. Matt Ruby went up first. They quote one of his jokes, joking about lack of success with long term relationships.

Apparently Matt’s joke told much better than I. Well, the first six months are easy. Just feels like you’re on drugs right, like you’re on molly. After living together for years. It feels like you took molly and you’re stuck on the subway.

You’re like, how is this ecstasy? And oh my god, I feel trapped. Please let me out, all right? Next up, Phil Hanley talked about dating. He proposed the idea that a relationship is probably near over once you make a pros and cons list.

He said, I did that with my ex. I was like, pro, she’s by con polar. That’s a good joke. The Post writes people were already near choking on laughter by the time Mark Norman rat on the stage. The forty year old New Yorker’s notoriously nasally voice was enough to set the crowd into a rapture of enthusiasm.

Does Mark Norman have a notoriously nasally voice? I know he’s got a very noticeable delivery style, but I never thought about nasally voice from Mark Norman. I opened for Seinfeld here a couple of years ago. Now I’m headlining and he’s in the tunnels. He joked about Joe Biden worried about World War three.

Don’t be The president has military experience. He served in the Civil War. He then joked about environmental activist Greta Tuneberg, making an OnlyFans joke. It said, Dori, she’s twenty one years old. She’s of age.

It’s fine, man, I thought she was nine. The Post says what makes Mark Norman special is that he has cleverly evaded most cancible offenses while towing the line of decency. Sure are some things teeter on the offensive, but the reality is that Mark Norman is just as likely to dunk on one group of people as the other, and the net effect being that it’s near impossible to loathe him for political incorrectness. Yes, that is comedy in The New York Post says he’s just making jokes after all. Amen.

Then the Post adds with this weird tag to the article. They wrote, eager to find out what he thinks about Caitlyn Jenner, Governor Abbott, Nikki Haley, Leah Thomas, Gypsy Rose. No, not really, and then they wrote, well, you’ll have to buy tickets to his next show to find out. Thanks. New York Post.

Comedy writer Tremor Noah is hosting the Grammys on Sunday. He was on with Gail King on CBS. It seems now if you host an award show, they have to ask you about Joe Coy. Boy, Joe, I’m so sorry, dude, Taylor murdered you. All she had to do was smile.

Did you see Taylor ice the CBS cameras. I think I shared that in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group. When Taylor’s at the game on Sunday, the Fox camera switched to her and she just stared with that face she makes, and then finally mouthed what looked like please leave me alone or something like that. She murdered Jokoy. If she had smiled, everybody goes, oh, Joe Coy was okay, but now he’s the worst Awards show host ever.

I guess David Letterman feels like he’s off the hook. Anyway. They asked Trevor Noah about Joe Coy and he said, here’s the thing about Awards shows. Everybody loves the joke when it’s not about them, and your goal and your hope is to tell a joke about the person that they also think is funny. Say, for example, coverage of football games tends to show you on camera.

You could smile. It’s not about you, it’s just a joke. Smile. Bring it Swifties, Daily Comedy News, get it right. So it’s difficult, and I think every comedian understands this.

I think what makes the Grammys particularly nerve wracking for me is like these are superstars. Yeah, these are like I don’t want to get on the wrong side of Taylor Swift fans, see I kinda do. That’s Johnny Mac saying that, not Trevor Noah. So you’re trying to walk this fine line of being, you know, the comedian, but then also still being nice about the night. Joe Rogan still don’t accepted my challenge to fight in the ring Chicken.

Trevor says, there’s no guarantee every joke will strike gold. I never take it for granted. I’m never not nervous. Think of this a moment. Everybody’s there.

You have an idea of what you like to do. You never practiced this with them. Some people are having a good night, some people are not having a good night. You don’t know how it’ll go. And as the night progresses, the mood changes, and how does that mood affect the comedy.

You don’t know. Gail King asked Trevor, Noah, who are you rooting for? Trevor said, you know what I’m gonna say, I’m rooting for me. I think me has done a very good job with the Special Grammy Sunday Night, CBS eight Eastern. Roywood Junior was on the Audi Cornish Pod via CNN Really interesting interview.

Roy said, the best political comedy comes with steaks, and you can only hit those stakes if there’s a relationship. It’s no different than the correspondence dinner. The viewer has to know the host and see the host repeatedly and get a relationship and get a rhythm and then understand where you’re coming from. I’ll jump in, so yeah, John Stewart and the story and then you can do more daring stuff. You know, if you’re gonna use the news team, that’s gonna be great for the show in an election year because everybody knows them, everybody’s familiar with them, and you know, with guest hosts, it’s like it’s literally a different quarterback every week, and they may have a different comedic flavor and it’s great to play around with.

That’s some, but if comedy and new satsire flows through their host, you want a familiar face or as many familiar face as there are as possible. I think that is well said. I think they got to stop with the guest hosts. I’m glad John is back. I’m sorry John’s only doing one day a week.

They should pick somebody for the other four or three, right, it’s not on Friday other three. While he was like, you were frustrated by the process, you exited right, skipping ahead, Roy says it wasn’t frustration as much, it was fear. It was more fear like for my own career, like I don’t know what you’re gonna do. I don’t know how you’re gonna make moves, So let me start thinking about what’s next now while I still have a little bit of time and the strike was about to end. I was afraid of being a man without a country.

I was afraid of them hiring a new host that doesn’t want me. I’m afraid of not being in the plans. If you don’t know what the plans are and you’re looking at doing things, I have to hedge. Okay, let me take the time now before January and before February to start looking at other things and exploring other things and then creatively. I just didn’t think there was a way to do that and honor the position of correspondent appropriately and do the job right.

Am I in the mixed to host? I don’t know. I’ve always said if they call me and want me to come back as a host, that would be a conversation. I’d consider that. But in the meantime, we’re talking about the job of correspondent escaping head.

So now imagine you’re at a job and you’re not sure what the plan is for you to host or not or to continue as a correspondent next year, depending on what the do creative iteration is of the show. Let me jump in, Roy, love you man. Comedy Central’s kind of made it clear you’re not gonna host the show. I mean, I don’t know what they have to do to let you know you were not the choice. You were there.

If they wanted you, they would have picked you. Roy said, you know that your alternative is scripted film and TV, right, or are creating your own nonscripted show. Well, the best opportunity to create your own nonscripted show is at the end of a strike, after you killed at a correspondent’s dinner. So that’s option one. Option two is to try and do something scripted, to make films, which they’re making less of.

They’re not going to be throwing money at bench of TV shows there. You don’t make pilots the way they used to. You’re not even gonna have a cast a bunch of people anymore. This is really interesting, Like eight or nine people in a show a year ago, Bob Hart’s Abashola had I think seven series regulars. They cut the show to two series regulars and then made everybody else recurring For people that don’t know the difference, Like a series regular that’s someone in every single episode recurring as somebody who comes in like Newman and Seinfeld, who’s in like three or four episodes a year, and you don’t see them all the time, but they’re in the world.

You’re making less television than television you are making, you’re making for cheaper than that.

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All right, let’s try out that new segment I came up with yesterday, Seafood C…

I love it. This happened last August on Seafood Corner. Pete Davidson showed up with Bud’s Chicken and Seafood on the Dixie Highway in West Palm According to The Palm Beach Post, Pete Davidson ordered the chicken finger dinner and ate inside the restaurant. That’s Seafood Corner for you. World famous comedian Joey Gatso in the news again.

A remind you. If you ask one thousand people who’s Joey Gatto, nine hundred and ninety nine of them will go, I have no idea, and Mike and Cleveland will be like, dude, that’s the guy from Impractical Jokers. Well, apparently Mike in Cleveland works for AB six Philadelphia because they went with the headline comedian joe Gatto from Impractical Jokers performed at the met, but that’s not the exciting headline. The exciting headline is that met in Philadelphia helps consumers who couldn’t attend comedy show due to snow emergency. Yes, it is a world famous comedian Joe Gatto from Impractical Jokers controversy.

ABC six tells us the Action News Troubleshooters fielded nearly a dozen complaints from consumers demanding refunds for a Philadelphia comedy show that took place during a snow emergency, and they remind us comedian Joe Gatto is best known for staring in the television series and Practical Jokers, but fans also love his stand up. As a Christmas gift from their children, Nick and his wife received tickets for the show, but a heavy snowfall that day forced the area of snow emergency and closed schools and offices. Nick says the snow started to accumulate, the mayor issued a stern warning for drivers to stay off the roads. Nick is a rule follower, he said, especially being a new mayor, I wanted to be able to abide by her rules. That’s very kind of you, Nick.

So from one forty four pm in the afternoon that day until three pm, I continued to contact ticketmaster. He says he called the ticket master about five times to ask about a cancelation and a refund. He explained for the concern of driving for Bucks County down to the Met in the city. He says he also tried calling the Met. Many fans took to social media begging famous comedian Joey Gatto to cancel the concert.

Nick said, we have not been refunded the tickets or the money that my daughter in law and my son put out for the tickets themselves period and it’s a little over two hundred dollars. The Troubleshooters reached out too. World famous comedian Joey Gatto, known for hosting and Practical Jokers Live Nation and The Met. The met Philly tells ABC six we had a great show with the Met Philly with the vast majority of fans at attendants. We are proactively reaching out to fans who were unable to attend to offer tickets for them to come to a future show.

Nick says he’s very excited to choose a new show and ABC six leaves us with this wisdom for the future. Experts advise people to get insurance when buying tickets because you never know what might happen. I should get out there, but I’ve got a lot to tell you about today. Donald Glover has confirmed there is a script for a community. He said, I was told that the script was done.

I haven’t ready yet, but I was told it was done, So it’s really just a scheduling thing. I’m in. I’m all in. There’s a movie coming out. It’s a sequel to a movie about a ghost.

Wiring saying the title John because I don’t want to summon this particular spirit. But the title of the sequel to the original film. According to the instagram for the movie, the new title is Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. So you’re not tricking me into saying that a third time.

I don’t want that. Collider says. Chris Hardwick has a new gig. I’m a little confused by this one. Chris Wall host up for auction giving viewers previews of historic at Disney memorabilia before it’s auctioned off.

Okay, that’s fine. The series will air on the CW app so it’s not even on the CW. It’s on the cw app. What’s the viewership on the cw app less than this podcast? Possibly so for the four of you, I have five listeners for the four of you on the cw app.

Chris Hardwick will host Up for Auction February eighth. I’m sure he’s paid better than I am. Eight episodes on the cw app taking viewers to the Disney storage rooms to feast their eyes on iconic Disney history. By the way, right now, I’m having a good time hosting this again. I’m panicked that the audio sucked like it did yesterday.

Yesterday I felt like I had my good fastball and then that audio being rotten killed me. And I feel like I have my fastball again today. I hope this audio’s fine. Stupid zoom. The image is shared by Collider include shots of notable Disney memorabilia, including a vintage Dumbo ride car and an old timey Disney mapp.

Other items include a nineteen fifties Peter Pan ride vehicle, a nineteen seventies Haunted Mansion stretching portrait, and an animatronic from the It’s a Small World attraction. Holy O, how I got six stories left? We’re not doing six more sketch Fest. What you guys got first today? Oh my goodness, I forgot it’s a Friday.

There’s like nine billion shows. All right, we might be here for an hour. Gary Meself a soda, seven o’clock, The Ground Links, Improvised Shakespeare. That’s a different show. Facial Recognition comedy.

What’s this? Nationally touring stand up show featuring female identifying performers of Manasa, which is Middle Eastern, North African and South Asian descent. The show was created as a response to tokenism and underrepresentation and entertainment. That’s my kind of show. I like seeing different shows.

Also at seven Fake Ted Talks, Adam Savage, Amy Schneider, Guy Brainham, Jonathan Colton, Matt Bronger, and some others. That could be good. The Crossword Show with Zach Sher, when Mosha Casher’s on that one, Mario Toby with Paul F. Tompkins. That’s a lot of picks for seven will come back, nine thirty Asian af and there are there’s so many comedians I can’t count out loud.

It looks like fifteen, sixteen or seventeen comedians. I’m gonna make it go to that nine forty five Hot Sets with Sam Clark and Veronica kwai Kowski, Fake Ted Talks, and Riotopia with Paula Tompkins. All right, early show, let’s do facial recognition comedy, and then at nine point thirty, let’s do Asian af Right. So tonight we’re gonna see like twenty five comedians, none of whom we’ve seen before. And that’s my approach to a comedy festival.

If you’re in New Jersey, Ramy Yusef is taping his new special tonight, White Eagle Hall and Jersey City. This will eventually wind up on HBO Max Max Max, HBO Max Max, HBO, HBO Max, and then is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. You can follow the show for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or wherever you get your shows found in app.

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Featured: Trevor Noah, Shane Gillis, Sebastian Maniscalco, Larry David, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Wanda Sykes, Sarah Silverman

What’s in This Episode

• Trevor Noah hosting Grammy Awards for fourth time with Best Comedy Album nomination
• Grammy Awards Best Comedy Album category nominees and controversy
• Sebastian Maniscalco breaks MSG consecutive shows record with fifth night added
• Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 10 pop-up cafe at multiple California locations
• Larry David tour announcement with mystery moderator in Washington and Boston
• Shane Gillis and Bud Light partnership

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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

Oh my god, I’m so upset. Every time I do a zoom call, it resets the audio levels. Like I work to make this thing try and sound good. And I caught it before I recorded today, and I adjusted the levels.

And then as you hear, I’ll get into this big thing about pizza in the second …

So if the first fifteen minutes or so sounds a little wonky, that’s what happened. Then after the pizza story, I caught it. Ah, this is so annoying, but I have my good fastball today and I don’t want to redo the whole show. I hope you understand, all right, let’s hit it. Caloroga Shark Media.

Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your daily company news. There was obviously some sort of Trevor Noah news embargo. I prepped the show early on Wednesday because I had to do an airport run.

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And then I came back and I’m like, let me see if there’s anything new, And th…

At ten a m. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with Trevor. He’s hosting any Grammy Awards for the fourth time. He’s hosting it on Sunday. Back in twenty twenty, Trivor was not the host, but he was nominated for Best Comedy Album.

Again. Longtime listeners know this. Trevor Noah doesn’t have a comedy album. He has a comedy special that was released, but the Grammys and I how define albums differently. I wish they were a Trevor Noah comedy album.

I would play it on Live one, but there’s no such thing. Even though he got a nomination for her Best Comedy Album at the twenty twenty Grammys, we lost to Dave Chappelle’s Sticks and Stones, which really isn’t an album either. That one, at least Chappelle put out like nine copies on vinyl, so theoretically it was an album. This year, Trevor Noah is going up against Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage Special not an album, Wanda Sykes I’m an Entertainer Special not an album, Sarah Silverman’s Someone You Love special, not an album, Jenny Mack. What’s an album?

An album is something that’s preferably audio for, but at least has an version of it that I can buy, like on a CD or a cassette or vinyl or an MP three and just listen to it. These things don’t even get repurposed these days anyway. Trevor Noah says, I’m nominated alongside my heroes one of Psykes, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. I don’t ever take those moments for granted. I think to myself how crazy it is to even be in the same category as these people.

When I was thinking of doing comedy, Dave Chappelle was a ready and accomplished comedian. When I was thinking of starting to maybe tell somebody joke, Chris Rock was already one of the biggest comedians in the world, and I guess he realized, oh, I’d better say something about Wanda, and the same goes for Wanda Sykes. Nice save Trevor. So. I’ve never been somebody who’s in a rush to win or be thought of as the best at anything.

I’m really, really, really not even saying this just to be humble or anything. I’m really happy and grateful to just be in that company. Trevor is nominated for I Wish You Would, which is a special non album, while Dave Chappelle is nominated for What’s in a Name, which is a special not album. Trevor says, I’m glad it’s happening in my fourth year hosting the awards, because I think in my first year that would have been an emotional overload being nominated for a Grammy so ohm amentas that, I don’t know how you could focus on hosting a show at the same time, and hosting the show is so much stress. There’s so much that’s happening live that you don’t want to be distracted by this idea that you may or may not win an award.

This may be the perfect time for it to happen a lot more Trevor Noah over the next few days. Like I mentioned at the top, there’s a zillion articles all of a sudden. Rolling Stone says that they can exclusively reveal that Sebastian Maniscalco will break the record for most consecutive comedy shows at Madison Square Garden. He’s added a fifth night to his New York City stand. He sold out shows September eighteenth through the twenty first.

He has now added a fifth show September twenty second. There was a press release. I’ll get to split the press release here. All these quotes are attached to Sebastian Manuscalco. The first quote attached to Sebastian.

I think he might have said, I am sincerely humbled and filled with gratitude for the unwavering support of my fans granted me the extraordinary opportunity to perform five consecutive historic knights at the world’s most famous arena, New York City, especially MSG has shown me so much love. Maybe he said that I’ve worked on some presh releases in the past. I could see. Maybe a publicist wrote that in as Sebastian, Hey, you’re right with this quote and him going yeah, this next part, yeah. Maybe he said my only goal when I got into this business was to perform for a living, and since it’s taken me for ride, I’ve only dreamed of breaking my own personal record.

Here is not just a milestone, but a testament to Sebastian use the word testament, but a testament to the amazing connection we share and love for comedy. Thank you for the overwhelming support and making this journey unforgettable. All right, maybe he said that, But here I have in my show notes I wrote ridiculous quote. Are you ready for a ridiculous quote? This ridiculous quote is attributed to Sebastian Maniscalco, who supposedly said, quote, brace yourselves for an elevated comedy tour, a unique experience unlike anything I’ve embarked upon in the past.

From roasting today’s absurdities, non existent manners, wallet wincing prices, and the social media circus. We’ll all laugh at the wrongs in this shameless world. Nice that as he was giving a quote, he even used the press release rule of three. There come on, guys, the other thing that all of a sudden has a ton of press. Curb your enthusiasm.

Also back on Sunday, Larry David announced a short tour. He will join a Mystery Moderator in Washington on March twenty ninth and in Boston on April first. Tickets for a Conversation with Larry David and Mystery Moderator now on sale. Larry said, Hi everyone, it’s Larry. I’m really looking forward to seeing you all.

Just so you know, I’ve recently had plastic surgery on my face and the doctor, which everyone raved about, totally watched it, leaving me a devoid of all expressions. So if I seem more sour than usual, that’s the reason. But don’t let it stop you from having fun. Now, that’s a quote that sounds like Larry David actually said that, or at least wrote it. Larry will also headline a Palyfest on April eighteenth with the Curb Gang, including Jeff Garland, Suzy Smnd, Cheryl Hines, JB.

Smooth, Richard Lewis, and Ted Danson. And how about this Friday through Sunday, Max HBO Max HBBO Max Max Max HBO Max will stage a real life version of Latte Larry’s the Spike Store Cafe at the center of Season ten. I’ll give you the address in a second Get Out of Pen if you’re in California. Latze Larry’s will be serving up hot cups of spie and extra dry scones in Culver City twelve four to thirty Washington Avenue and Venice Beach fifty six Winward Friday through Sundays, seven am to four pm. The menu features vegan options, and stores will carry limit edition manates, carby Your Enthusiasm, collaborative t shirts and mugs, plus a special Blends signature roast of latte Larry’s Beans.

There’s a limit of one coffee and scone per customer while supplies last. That’s fun. Bill Simmons as Larry David on the newest edition of his podcast that I didn’t get to listen to it yet. I did pull the transcript, and for Today’s Daily Comedy News, I just pulled a part about the Jets because I’m a known Jets hater, and I’ll go through the transcript and pull some more stuff out tomorrow. I just didn’t have time to go through an hour of transcript that I haven’t actually heard.

When I’ve heard things, I make mental notes like, oh, go to the thirty six minute market, pull this part. But I haven’t listened to Simmons yet. Anyway, The topic is Larry David not watching Jets games live because he golfs on Sunday, and he says, I record the games and after the first of second week, everybody knows. Don’t text me, I’m gonna watch the game later on. So this goes on until I send a text out and go I don’t give a shoot anymore.

Just tell me what’s happening. You can text me during the game. It doesn’t matter. It’s over. So Bill Simmons was like, last year, what was that around Week thirteen?

Simmons says, it seemed like there was a moment last season where the Jets were gonna suck you back in, that they were lingering and maybe Aaron Rodgers would come back. Larry said, I never believe that for a second. That was ridiculous. The Street with the loaded headline bud Light partners with right wing comic fired for racist comments. The subheading the comedian lost his job at Saturday Night Line before he even started you know it is now and he also made homophobic comments and jokes.

Now, Annheuser Busch has leaned further into politics by partnering with right wing comedian Shane Gillis. Gillis and bud Light shared the news on Insta. Shane posted a picture of himself at a brewery saying excited to announce partnership with bud Light. Hashtag bud Light partner. The Street reminds us in a bit of a loaded way, while he’s not a household name.

Gillis became more famous for job he loss than any job he’s head. The comedian was hired in twenty nineteen to join USNL along with Bone Yang and Chloe Feineman. Just hours later, a video went viral on Twitter in which Gillis mocks Chinese people using several racial slurs during an episode of his podcast, and the now deleted YouTube video, Gillis and his co host shared a slew of racist to quote unquote jokes against Chinese Americans, mocking their accents and culture. I’ve never met Shane. I found his special last year pretty funny.

While I’ve listened to his podcast in modern times, I did not listen to it back then, so I’m not familiar with the bit. And it’s interesting that bud Light has now pivoted from Dylan mulvaney to Shane Gillis. I guess they won’t appeal to everyone, so we’ve been having fun all week with Remember, however, it was phrased renowned comic or world famous comic Bobby Lee, and then renowned comic or whatever he was Joey Gatto. So Fox Spokane wrote Tom Sagora, a widely known standup comedian. Tom Sagora, a widely known Stan up comedian, will be headlining seven unforgettable dates Calgary, Halifax, London, Ottawa, spoke Hanne, Vancouver, and Winnipeg.

It’s all part of the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival. Fox Spokane tells US is first time the festival will be making an appearance in the States. They’re using Spokane as a test market, joining Tom Sagora, widely known Sandwa comedian are Bobby Lee no qualification there because I guess they assume everybody knows who Bobby Lee is and hilariously relatable comedian Jessica Kerson. All right, I feel bad for Liz m I shot her a note on the side. She had bought me five coffees on buying me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News, and was looking forward to me saying nothing but good things about Adam Sandler movies.

Originally I said I was going to do this Saturday, but now I have all this Trevor Noah and kurb stuff, and just editorially, it doesn’t make sense for me to hand in a generic this weekend and the next week in at Super Bowl. So maybe on the seventeenth, I will do it. Liz, I hope you understand.

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If you’re a new listener, Hi, push that plus button on your Apple app there and follow the show. So, Liz, I hope you understand. And Liz’s kids be nice to mom. Will Yeah, your mom is pretty cool. On Gossip Corner, Joe Coy visits Benny’s Pizza in Beaumont.

Twelve News Now tells us Joe Coy was at the Parkdale Mall. He decided to visit several businesses inside the mall. The founder of Benny’s Pizza is Brandon. He was in for surprise when a celebrity showed up to his store. That celebrity Joe Coy.

Brandon says, I got a phone call from the store saying they needed to get inside of our showcase that a customer wanted to buy something. When I arrived to open up the showcase, it was him and I said, hey, Hey, that’s Joe Coy. Apparently, Brandon owns a place called Vault four O nine. In case you’re wondering why the Pizzeriha has a showcase, they don’t. I left that part out.

Let’s see what Vault four o nine is here him on the park Dale mal website. Vault four O nine is the best in caps fashioning for him in the four oh nine housing brands such as Liberty and Kicks, Supreme, Bape, Yeezy Jordan, and much more. So. It seems that mister Cooy was interested in sneakers or something. While I’m on the website, one of the taps says, eat so Joe Koy, he got pizza.

I’ll get back to the pizza, but let’s see what else he could have gotten. There’s a place called Seafood Corner that could be a segment on this podcast. Let’s hit Seafood Corner and see what’s going on. They don’t have a menu up, they don’t even have a logo. It’s just plain text Seafood Corner.

They’re open from eleven to seven and there were no deals at this time. Please check back later. Other places Joekoy chose not to eat LVA Ho Tony Mexican grill, Auntiani’s Pretzels always good choice are Taco McDonald’s. By the way, if you like McDonald’s, we’re doing a podcast called The Weekly Mac that’s about McDonald’s in fast food. It’s strangely amazing.

The Weekly Mac wa podcasts sense Japanese cuisine, Domino’s at a mall, Las Mocha heades. Another Mexican restaurant, the Mellow Mushroom with pizza in their logo. Let’s see what they got. Mellow Mushroom makes the best pizza in Beaumont. Old ingredient combinations on a homemade crust make Mellow Pies the most delicious around.

Now in the Moon for a pizza, order a calzone, hoky sandwich, burger or Mellow salad. See how care goes in every item on the menu. They’re open at eleven am every day. If you’re curious, No, I want to know why Joe Coid didn’t get his pizza there. Then there’s Benny’s Pizza, which we’re gonna come back to.

La Cantina Mexican Grill. A third Mexican option here at the Haarkdale Mall. Chinese Gourmet Nothing, Bunt Cakes, chat Cha Tea House, Taco Bell in case. The other three Mexican places weren’t doing it for you, Burger King, Buffalo Wild Wings. Benny says, they’re bringing the best pizza to the four oh nine, delivering specialty made pizzas, appetizers, and drinks you’ll not find in your average pizza shops.

Seems like there’s little pizza rivalry. These guys are open ten to eight, except Sundays they close at six. Anyway, when we last left, isn’t my podcast ridiculous? When we last left, owner of Brandon was opening the showcase at Vault four oh nine apparently, and before JOKOI left, Benny told him, you need to try a slice of Southeast Texas at Benny’s Pizza. I wanted to change from what the old pizzai had, add my crazy flavors like brisket, garlic, parmesan, shrimp, just a bunch of different flavors that the city probably hadn’t seen before.

Benny tells us he absolutely loved the pizza. He actually bought some for his whole team. He left well over four boxes of pizza. We sell whole pies, but he ended up buying eighteen slices for him and his team. Why would you buy eighteen slices.

Why wouldn’t you buy two pies and two slices? We’re told Joe Koy went traditional cheese slice, or as we call it in Queen’s Slice. I hate whant to go to a pizzeria. I’m just this isn’t green to me as a New Yorker. I’ll walk in and I’ll go slice.

And they asked me what I want? I said slice. Slice means just a plan cheese pie cut in an eate and give me one eighth of the pie. That’s what a slice is. Just slice, dude, Come on, Benny says, it’s an experience I’ll never forget.

So this is the part where the audio sounds the way it’s supposed to. That took the wind out of my sales. I was having so much fun with that pizza thing. There’s no way I can do that again. I’ll never do it as well.

Who’s its sketch Fest? That was awful. I knew the levels were wonky because of the stupid zoom. Leave my levels alone, will yeah, every time it resets them. Okay.

Sketch Fest Thursday, February first, seven o’clock the Bay Area pun Off sold out. That sounds like a good time. What is that? Some say it’s an affliction. We’re gonna go ahead and call it comedy.

Sketch Fest invites you to celebrate the contagious power of the pun, the lowest form of comedy, the highest form of intellect. Seven fifteen. Eight sketch Fest also sold out. Seven thirty The Bechdel Cast, Matt Bronger, Those Different shows Mortified with Jonason cool Ton, The Fast and the Furious and musical parody I’m making you go to that. There’s nothing that would be better than that South Asian af Boy.

That’s a great show. There’s a lot of comedians on this, so many tough choices. Eight o’clock Michael Shannon and Friends play Ram’s murmur That’s Weird. Eight fifteen. The wonderfully titled Comedians with Disabilities Act nine point thirty.

So say we all Vamp non Fiction showcase blend’s populist accessibility with an intense literary boot camp to produce polished multimedia performances of wild, absurd, poignant, and hilarious true tales. All right, if we were out there, I’d really like to see the puns? Can we do the puns? At seven and we’ll leave early and run across the town. I don’t know where these are.

Sketch Fest is pretty stretched out across San Francisco. It’s not like the Montreal Comedy Festival, where most things are within five blocks. If you hustle, you can get from one or the other. Seven o’clock is Puns. Seven thirty Fast and the Furious and musical parody.

I’m gonna have to blow off puns and make you go to Fast and the Furious. I love the Fast and the Furious. That’s like one of my favorite things in life. So I’ll drag you to that, and then for a late show. See, we’re also gonna miss Comedians with Disabilities act.

Do we do puns in that? I also want to see the South Asian Show though, Nope, We’re doing Fast and the Furious.

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And that is your comedy news for today. I’ve got two stories, but they can wait for tomorrow because I have no idea what kind of levels I’m getting out of my computer now. They look fine, but I’m so annoyed at that fifteen minute stretch there. I apologize. I will do a better job.

Adam Sailor is right, I make terrible podcasts. See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Dave Chappelle, 50 Cent, Bob Odenkirk, King Charles, Eliza Selessinger, David Letterman, Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Chris Rock, Dusty Slay

What’s in This Episode

• Dave Chappelle auctions off 50 Cent at charity event
• Bob Odenkirk discovers royal connection to King Charles on Finding Your Roots
• David Letterman praises Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce relationship
• Chris Rock to direct English language remake of Danish film Another Round
• Dusty Slay’s Netflix special gains recognition and hometown support

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News from Hip Hop DX. Dave Chappelle auctioned off fifty cents. What hip Hop DX rites? Fifty cent may have a reputation as one of the most feared men in the ramp game, but that has and stop Dave Chappelle from using him as fuel from his comedy AMMO.

They were at Reggie Jackson’s Mister October Foundation over the weekend and Chappelle jokingly auctioned off mister sent. Chappelle apparently compared the location, which was a Florida golf club. No, not that one, a different one, to a scene from the Jordan Peele film get Out, before joking to the largely white crowd that fifty was for sale. I’ve seen the clip myself. This really happened, Chappelle said, mister Jackson has transcended the odds of the black community and came all the way out here to the get Out resort.

Surprise Fellas, the auction begins right now. How much do you want for this big buck? Fifty apparently thought it was funny and a scene cracking up in the video. If you want to check it out for yourself. If you google it, it’ll come up.

Bob Odenkirk is related to King Charles, who knew Bob Odenkirk didn’t. He was on PBS’s Finding Your Roots. On Finding your Roots, host Henry Lewis Gates helped celebrities learn about their family history, Odenkirk learned that he and King Charles are eleventh cousins. I’m pretty sure you and I are eleventh cousins. Oden Kirk said, that is crazy.

Apparently, Bob Odenkirk’s father’s fifth grade grandfather was born out of Woodlock to Maria Katharia Bain and the Duke of Plum. Oden Kirk said, I’m an American. I’m not a monarchist. I don’t believe in ah that you know. I feel it’s a little twisted.

I understand why society built itself around monarchs and leaders and they passed them down through generations. I understand that goes through every society, every civilization. But I think that we’ve gotten a better place with democracy and we should just keep going down that road. Bob, you should just call Prince hang out with him.

Meanwhile, on that same show, Eliza Selessenger finds out that her great gran…

The brother was a textile dealer who was still in Poland when the Nazis showed up in September of nineteen thirty nine. Host Gates confirms that Slessinger’s family didn’t discuss Leipa’s story and asks her to relate Ester’s feelings towards her brother. Eliza said, I can’t beginning to imagine this. I don’t think I want to. He then shows her some pictures from the ghetto and asks her how seeing those images and learning that personal connection made her feel.

Eliza said, when you look at pictures from history atrocities committed against your own people in particular, there’s always that poll. But I never thought I had any actual connection because I didn’t know any of that history. All right, Johnny Mac, this is a lot of fun. How are you gonna pull this one out? Let me turn things over to David Letterman.

Taylor Swift. I don’t think in the history of show business, in the history of popular culture, we’ve ever witnessed anything like this tremendous. She fills stadiums around the world and puts on a three hour s Oh no, we live in a world now where all we hear is nonsense and ugliness, and the nonsense can’t be more nonsensical, and the ugliness, God hopes it can’t get any uglier. But that’s all we hear. That’s all we hear.

So now here’s Taylor Swift, who is a glowing bright light of goodness in the world. And she starts dating Kelsey Grammar and people, no, that’s not true. What yes, yeah, an interesting parent and people go crazy. And the Kelsey Grammar people say, oh, no, no, no, don’t bother us. We’re all caught up in football.

We don’t want Taylor in football. And the Taylor Swift people, the swifties, are saying, oh, we don’t want a footballer in here with Kelsey Grammar. And I’m saying, huh, Travis Kelsey, right, Travis Kelcey, and I say to both camps, this is such a lovely thing. Shut up. It’s good for the footballers, it’s good for Taylor Swift, and it’s something positive they’ve been happy for the world.

And also politically, Taylor Swift is a huge force and I think just wants to see people do the right thing, So God bless Taylor Swift and Kelsey Grammar. That’s all I have to The Danes are annoyed with Chris Rock from games Radar You’re Home for comedy news. Comedian Chris Rock has signed on to direct the English language remake of Another Round. Fans of the Danish original are not happy about it. The original centers on four teachers as they try to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the working week, having stumbled on a theory that it makes people more creative and successful.

One Danish fan tweeted American producers need to learn to keep their hands of themselves. Another said, great original stories. I’m very happy for Dusty Sligh. It seems that people watched that Netflix special and they’re now on team Johnny mach going, Yeah, Dusty Slay is really funny. Been telling you that for a while now.

Dusty’s special is still the only thing on the best of two only twenty four list. That’s it. The entire list is Dusty Sleigh. It’s almost February. Dusty told al as An Alabama dot com it’s an honor to even be on Netflix, but to be on there to know that people are actually watching it.

It’s like getting recognized by the industry but also by people in general, and that’s great. Dusty, described as a longed hair trekker hat sporting Opa Liga native, says, the mayor reached out and wants to meet me. I gotta tell you to get a little hometown recognition. Feels good. They have some bio here.

Since going full time as a stand up in twenty ten, leaving his job at a pesticide company, sometimes Dusty would drive two hundred and fifty miles to play a gig for two hundred and fifty bucks. On the road, he’d often eat tuna straight from the can. He stayed at dodgy motels where he feared for his life. That’s on Funny John Off the Road. He lived in a Nashville attic apartment with no insulation, freezing during the winter and in the summer sweating like hell, I didn’t know Dusty stayed any upstairs room in my house.

No, he doesn’t actually my house. He’s talking about the Nasville apartment. But you knew that already. There were plenty of unglamorous things. You’re working for years for basically no money, just hoping this turns into something one day.

Yeah, I’m just gonna remind Dusty I’m podcasting for the basement. I feel you. I don’t think my wife and kids would enjoy it if I were still making that kind of money. But for me at the time, I was like, this is what I want to be doing. I’m traveling in the country with my car with three hundred and seventeen thousand miles when I traded it in, zipping all over and leaking oil, and I loved it.

Dusty, where did you watch your specials premiere? He said? I was supposed to go to New York, but we had the snowstorm of the century in Nashville. My flight got canceled, so I went home. My neighbor was having a watch party with some of the other neighbors that took my kids and my wife.

We all went to the neighbor’s house and they put the special on. It felt like I was watching a comedian that I’m just very familiar with, and it’s fun. Gilda’s Laugh Fest is Back Baby March sixth to the tenth in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This year’s lineup Tammy Pascatelli, Josh Johnson, Piffed, the Magic Dragon and Dimitri Martin. That’s pretty good.

Tom Poppa also pretty good. We’ll be headlining the Gilda’s Club Annual Red Door Gala March fourteenth. Other events, it’s the Clean Comedy Showcase, LaughFest, Trivia Night of Stars, and The Dirty Show. Gilda’s Club is a nonprofit that provides free emotional healthcare to children, adults, families and friends on any kind of cancer journey, or those grieving the death of someone in their life due to any cause. The club is named after the iconic comedian and Detroit native Gilda Redner.

Johnny Mac has just realized he wanted to take the break there, But you have to take the break with something upbeat, So let me pull up a story. Kate McKinnon is going to be in a Super Bowl commercial. It’s for a famous mayonnaise company that can afford to buy advertising. She co stars with a cat known as Mayo Cat. The ad is to make viewers aware of food waste and how the company’s famous mayonnaise can help reduce the food waste.

Kate even spoke to Variety about this and said, I grew up on a house that was very environmentally minded and we never threw anything out, something that’s very deep in my heart. The suit from the Mayo company says, viewers want to be entertained. This is sort of a moment to entertain them. We take a very serious subjet like reducing food waste, and communicate it in a comedic way that is still relevant. All right.

What happens well in the spot, Kate McKinnon gets kitchen advice from Mayokat, who advises her to use Mayow Get It to make leftover food taste great. That’s terrible soon and this is where it becomes fun. The cat becomes famous enough to date Pete Davidson. Apparently Kate checked in with Pete to make sure that that joke would be okay, and it is.

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Meanwhile, on Gossip Corner, Madeline Kleine showed her support for Pete Davi…

Yahoo tells us Klein was photographed leaving with Pete Davidson on Sunday after he performed at Helium. She kept a low profile and a beige winder coat with a matching Tommy Hill figure baseball cap while Pete Davidson sported a black hoodie under a brown jacket and a dark green Bloomfield New Jersey cap. Hmm. I totally screwed up the order today. I could just edit this stuff, but I like to let you guys know what’s going on.

Let’s see what’s happening at Sketch Fests. Seven. Brett Gilman’s inappropriation canceled. Hmm. I wonder why, uh again, I’m speculating here.

I have googled Brett Gilman and maybe perhaps some of his opinions on current events are scaring people. Maybe maybe not pure speculation there. He could just have a cold. I don’t actually know anyway, canceled. Don’t head to that.

So your other choices at seven thirty are Killing my Lobster with Cam Wiley. Killing my Lobster has been SF’s premier sketch group comedy since nineteen ninety seven. Or at seven thirty we could hit Comedy Rodeo with Hayden Crystal one, two, three, four, five, six comedians are so there, and at eight o’clock the Red Room Orchestra plays the music of Twin Peaks. That’s it, let’s go to Killing my Lobster. We can’t even hit the Anchor Brewery because it closed.

Anchor was such a good beer, and hypothetically, we did Little Italy last night. I guess we’ll do little literally again. Mike from Cleveland chimed in. He said, you probably heard this already, but Joe Gatto is from Impractical Jokers. Well, Mike and Cleveland tell Joe Gatto to put that on his Wikipedia.

So if you ask a thousand people who Joe Gatto is, nine hundred and ninety nine are going to go. I have no idea, but Mike and Cleveland’s going to go. That’s the dude from a Practical Jokers. Well done, Mike. The only Times enjoyed Kate Berlance show they wrote a would be method actor.

Kate enters into a hall of mirrors, in which overwrought versions of her life are conjured in funhouse style. She remakes her biography as though it were as held by Charles Dickens, full of villainous ogres and scrapes with melodramatic disasters. For Lance, a gifted physical comic who whipsaws between over the top grandeur and abject awkwardness, introduces her situations with a wink, and even the winks are delivered in quotation works. Somebody had the thesaurus out or ran this through her website, because there’s some pretty five dollars words in this description here. Anyway, it seems like a good show.

A lot of people are talking about that. Glenn Close says that if Christopher Reeve were still around, Robin Williams would still be alive. I saw that headline in People, and I was like, hmm, yeah. Glenn explained their friendship. Their connection is the stuff of legend and not only endured, but became a life giving force of stating them both on Friday evenings, Chris would literally swoop in piloting his own plane, scoop Robin up, and away they would fly for the weekend.

On Sunday, late afternoon, Chris would swoop back in and deliver Robin back. I have to say a little worse for wear. They were living the kind of fast and crazy life that our business can hand to you if you become a wildly famous phenomenon, particularly overnight. The Hollywood Reporter has fifty reasons we love Hollywood. One of them is your comedy.

Headliner is our open mic. They write in between tours. The biggest names in comedy drop it to their home clubs in LA to workout material and stay sharp. Adam Sandler, John Mlaney, Nik Krol, Sarah Silverman, and Judd Apatow regularly hit Largo, while Mark Maron and Margaret Show were Comedy Store regular. Sebastian Manascalco and Kamil nan Gianni perform at the Hollywood Improv Deane Cook and Craig Robinson do sets of The Laugh Factory, and Ramy Yusef and Tignazaro.

I’ve had recent shows A Dynasty Typewriter. That’s nice. I think we could say the same thing about New York City. But whatever, Riba McIntyre, good news for my mom is getting a new sitcom, or at least a pilot anyway and as yet untitled multi caam project. Riba inherits her father’s restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she’s a new business partner and the half sister that she never knew she had.

What’s weird to me is this is for NBC. Doesn’t that sound like a CBS sitcom? My mom doesn’t know how to switch from Channel two to Channel four. She’s never gonna see this thing. Put this on CBS word Belongs and that’s your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. You could support the show at buy Me a Coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News. I didn’t forget about that Sandler thing. I got to actually write it.

I’m hoping to do it Saturday. We’ll see how my week goes. And if you’re hip to podcasting two point zero, you can use the Fountain app throw some SATs my way if you have no idea what I’m talking about. Sort of explaining the show notes see tomorrow

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Featured: Mark Normand, Donald Glover, Dave Chappelle, George Carlin, Will Sasso, Chad Culkin, Bowen Yang, Sarah Sherman, Bert Kreischer

What’s in This Episode

• Brand X hoax at Mark Normand show connected to Donald Glover’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith
• Dave Chappelle surprise appearance on SNL upsets cast members
• George Carlin lawsuit against Dudesy podcast special
• Bert Kreischer Netflix special deal announcement

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. I love a good controversy and I’ve got a few today. Get a load of this. Crack dot Com writes, is Donald Glover complicit in the completely lame hoax at Mark Norman’s stand up show?

Oh boy? So I’m not going to say the name of the company that is looking for publicity. I will just call them brand X. You may recall the story from last week where Mark Norman was on stage, a man jumped on stage. The man was escorted out, and Mark Norman was escorted off the stage as if he were the President of the United States.

Norman and the New York Comedy Club issued Instagram explanations for the incident. They said the show’s producers staged the disturbance, identifying the group as brand X. So cracked dove in. They say brand X has also taken responsibility for some other viral incidents, including the heist of custom sneakers at an art exhibition and a Tyra Banks furry sandwich thing at a NETS game. Their byline, would you risk it all to have it all cracked?

Rights? Brand X appear to be a stupid, pretentious attempt at going viral perpetrated by a bunch of wannabe influencers, and they add well. Judging by Donald Glover’s recent Instagram stories, Brand X is actually a stupid, pretentious attempt at going viral perpetrated by one of the most powerful maked corporations on the planet, Cracked Rights. The whole scheme is just a promotion for Donald Glover’s Amazon Prime video series Mister and Missus Smith. The series is built off the premise that Donald Glover and Mayra Erskine play wannabe spies recruited by a mysterious organization they call brand X, which they named after the greeting the entity sends the two.

Donald Glover reposted clips from the Brand X Instagram page on his own story. I know I’m barely hiding it right. You’re gonna be able to figure out the Amazon part, but I don’t want to help here. Including videos of the normal incident. That’s a weird thing for Donald Glover to do.

I mean, I guess I did it too, but yeah. Glover also shared the court side furries and the sneaker boosters. The eight hundred Pound Gorilla website says they have found a website built for the brand X account called join brand x dot com. But you know not that I’m hiding the name. Stereo Gum says that brand X recruited people to perform stunts and mishes for prizes, and Amazon is mentioned in the contest rules.

Wow. Uh talking about backfire. I’m curious what Mark Norman will say about this. If anything, I’m curious what Joe Rogan will say about this. Why Joe Rogan because he likes to talk about comedy.

All right, next controversy, Saturday Night Live. I haven’t seen it yet. There were these football games, Go Niners. We’ll get to that. So I haven’t watched SNL.

But apparently at the end of SNL, who showed up on stage. Dave Chappelle Davy Club didn’t pull their punches, they wrote. The divisive, transphobic comedian popped up on stage alongside host to Coda Johnson, musical guest Justin Tiberlake, and a slew of others celebrities, including Jimmy Fallon and the Shark Tanks Mark Cuban. During the Goodbye segment of this Past week Ads SNL seemingly to the surprise of the cast as much as the audience. The AV Club says, this writer is no body language expert, but it seems clear that certain cast members weren’t too thrilled, etc.

Etc. That didn’t make this prize any easier for repertory players Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman, who seemed visibly distraught when they realized Chappelle had joined the group on the other end of the stage. The AV Club reminds us of some of the details of Dave Specials. David’s hosted SNL three times. AV Club reminds us back in twenty twenty two, although Chappelle’s reps denied it.

Page six reported at the time that some of the show’s writers boycotted his episode because they did not agree with his views. In that particular episode, the AV Club noted that Yang, Sherman, and Molly Kearney were notably absent from that night’s goodbye segment. HM next one, George Carlin, you know that lawsuit against the AI thing, Well, it appears that there may have been a pivot. So now it seems that the AI Carlan thing, as it’s been described, was not actually AI spokeswoman Daniel Dell to The New York Times, it’s a fictional podcast character created by two human beings, Will Sasso and Chad Culkin. The YouTube video I’m Glad I’m Dead was completely written by Chad Culkin.

So it’s not an AI special NAWL, So what is it? Carlin estate lawyer Josh Schiller told The New York Times the lawsuit would move forward. He said, we don’t know what they’re saying to be true. What we will know is they’ll be deposed, They will produce documents, and there’ll be evidence that shows, one way or another how the show was created. Wired analyzed this and said, while the special doesn’t present images of video of Carlin AI generator or not, the YouTube thumbnail for the video shows an AI generated image of a comedian with Carlin’s signature gray ponytail, looking out over an audience.

The lawsuit also cites numerous social media posts where Carlin’s name and image used to promote the special or the Dudzy podcast. According to the lawsuit, that creates an association between the podcast and Carlin that is quote harmful to Carlin’s reputation, his legacy, and to the value of his real work. If not curtailed. Now, future AI models may incorrectly associate the Ducy Special with Carlan, ultimately folding defendants knockoff version in with Carland’s actual creative output. I use AI a lot, and my non expert opinion is, yeah, that’s the thing that could happen.

I’ve seen it make up facts. I’ve seen it get confusedive things. I’m a big Star Trek follower, and I’ve seen it make up Star Trek things already. Because things are out there, Wired writes. The lawsuit asks the courts of forced Dudecy to remove, takedown and destroy any video or audio copies of the George Carland Special wherever they may be located, as well as pay punitive damages.

So as I understand it, the Dudcy version is down. But I just jumped on YouTube and I found a copy of it, and that file appears to be fifty nine minutes and twenty seven seconds long. I have not played through the whole thing, but it looks like then it is a copy of it. And here I see an episode of the Dudecy video podcast on YouTube. The thumbnail includes the image of someone who looks a lot more like George Carland.

Then the person looks like me where it looks like Taylor Swift. But I’ll let a jury decide. I’m just here to tell you what’s going on. So I was curious what happens if you ask chet Gpt to write a Carland joke, And I picked the topic of bagels, which I talked about on yesterday’s podcast. I asked it to write a joke in the style of George Carlin, and here’s what I wrote.

And I’ll do my really quarter asked George Carland impression. Why is it every time I would buy a bagel that came out of Jim Brew for some reason? Why is it every time I buy a bagel there’s a hole in the middle. I mean, what kind of business model is that? Selling food with a missing part?

Next thing you know, they’ll be selling donuts as bagels with extra air and charging twice the price. All right, there’s no way Kelly’s gonna think I’m representing myself as George there. That was horrible. Leave it in, Johnny Mac. So that’s what AI came up with, is Carlin.

But I think that’s a generic joke because I’ll do it as half assed angry Jerry Seinfeld, why is I retired? Buy a bagel as a hole in the medal? I mean, what kind of business model is that? Selling food? Or the missing part?

Next thing you know they’ll be selling donuts. Is bag old extra churning twice the price? Right? So that worked? Who knows?

Sorry, I can’t get gravelly today. I don’t know why. Bert Krascher actual, Bert Krescher has a deal to do two more specials for Netflix. This will be his fourth and fifth. The first will be shot in Saint Petersburg, Florida, on July sixth.

In case you thought he was filming it in Saint Petersburg, Russia, He’s not well. Actually, with Bert Krescher, that wouldn’t be crazy, right, that would you could see that happening? He’s the machine. Nope, the Florida one, Saint Petersburg, Florida, July sixth. Krascher will executive produce the new special, also getting a producer credit.

LeAnn Krascher Adam Sandler would be proud. Did you listen to Trevor Noah’s interview with Kevin Hart, Because it’s really good. You should listen. There’s a funny moment where Trevor asked, Kevin, you’ve ever done a half empty arena? Right?

So that’s the setup, and then Kevin answers kind of quickly. I’m pointing that out in advance so that when you hear what Kevin says, you’ll get it. So Trevor goess, you ever done a half empty arena? By the way, I’ve done one? Kevin, No, Can I tell you?

I should have said that so fast? That sounded really Ask me that question again. So Trevor backs up, but they left all of a sudden key. Have you ever done an empty arena? Half empty?

Kevin goes, ah, let me think. Have I done an empty arena? I don’t know. I don’t know if I have. I loved the transparency there.

I mean, I’d have to think about it. I’m quite sure it’s probably been some I don’t know. If I don’t know, i’d have to think about that. Love it more controversy. You may recall Kat Williams recently did an interview.

In that interview, he asked why earthquake not in movies sounded cooler in Cat’s accent. He can’t read, and they found that out when they gave him a show and then put the cards in front of him. Earthquake was on Charlemagne’s show and asked about these comments. Earthquake said, personally speaking, me and him was cool, So I didn’t know where that came from. Certain things he said about me, half was true, half was a lie, but to each his own.

I don’t even getting into that part of it, because see, I’m the type of person where if I have a problem with you, Charlemagne, I’m gonna call you out. We’re either gonna talk it out, We’re gonna duke it out. We’re gonna handle it man to man. Today it’s a lame edition of Gossip Corner. The headline from WIBX nine to fifty dot com your home for comedy news.

They went with no joke. Renowned comedian stops for cup of Joe at CNY coffee shop right CNY Central, New York. Renowned comedian. So you’re wondering who is it. Maybe it was Dave Chappelle or Bert Kraser, maybe Jim Gaffigan, maybe Earthquake, Kat Williams maybe came by for some coffee.

It’s a renowned comedian. And they even had a thumbnail where they blotted out the comedian’s face so that they would get their click. Well, they got a click out of Johnny Mac. WIBX nine to fifty dot com got their click for this one. Unica Coffee seems to be one hotspot and here’s the reveal.

This is the renowned comedian. Comedian Joe Gatto also stopped in for a cup a few days ago. Who excuse me? What renowned comedian Joe Gatto? What we just got done with?

What was the term they used yesterday for Bobby Lee? World famous Bobby Lee? Why don’t you go ask a thousand people who Joe Gatto is. I don’t know if Joe is good or bad. It’s probably an awesome dude.

He’s probably hilarious, but renowned. I don’t know if he’s renowned. The Internet tells me. Joseph Anthony Gatto, Junior is an American improvisational comedian, actor, and producer from the New York City borough of Staten Island. He was formerly a member of the tender Loins, a comedy troupe consisting of Sal Volcano, James Murray, and Brian Quinn.

All Right, Sal is known a little bit maybe Tenderloin fans, right, now are throwing their phone across the room, going, how do you know who Joe Gatto is? I mentioned earlier I watched football on Sunday? Did you? Of course you did. I still can’t believe my Niners came back.

The entire time during the game, I was texting my friend Pat. He’s a Chiefs fan, I’m a Niners fan. So we were kind of rooting for each other’s teams because we want to face off on the Super Bowl, and we got our wish. So when the Lions scored with two minutes of the game, I wrote, remain calm, play the entire game, and I kept texting him that. In the first half halftime, I was a little nervous, and I said, going to get my lucky hat, which is a real thing.

I did. My son got me a Niners cap for Christmas, and I went up and I got it, and I kept texting, remain com play the entire game, lucky hat, and boy, the Niners pulled it off. Which is all along way too long set up to tell you that Bill Burr was not happy with the coaching strategy of the Lions. If you watch the game, the Lions were a little aggressive instead of kicking field goals. Bill Burr tweeted, what do analytics say about the momentum shift of not kicking a field goal, going for an on fourth down and turning the ball over versus the upside of making the first down anyway?

Two weeks of Taylor Swift Talk. Can’t wait. That’s going to be good for our podcast, Taylor Swift Today. We’ve got plenty to talk about In Taylor Land, Jay Leno is seeking to become conservator over wife Mavis Leno because she has dementia. Jay filed court documents on Friday to ask a family court judge to grant the conservator ship so he can structure a living trust on other estate plans to make sure that seventy seven year old Mavis has managed assets sufficient to provide for her care should he die before her.

The petition reads, Unfortunately, Mavis has been progressively losing capacity and orientation in the space and time for several years. Jay is fully capable of continuing support for Mavis’s physical and financial needs as he has throughout their marriage. The court document said she was being treated for dementia and mood disorder. They’ve been married for forty three years. Just three shows at sketch Fest Today seven thirty Exploration Live with Shirley Bartley and Natalie Roder Lateman.

Not sure what this is. It says the show’s moved to Cobb’s Comedy Club. I’m not sure if that’s a step up or step down. Not sure where it had been. The website tells us the world is confusing place full of mysteries to be probed and questions to be answered.

Still not sure what that show is? All right?

Also at seven thirty Battle of the Wizards, Magicians Versus Mentalists and t…

You know what we would do if we were at sketch Fest tonight, I’d take you out to dinner in Little Italy. Not sure. Comedy news for today, Shoddy Bexen is not impressed by those shows. If you enjoy the show, tell a friend about it. The numbers have been up.

And I love you all except Mike and Cleveland. I just like you as a friend. See you tomorrow,

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Featured: Bobby Lee, Joe Rogan, Katt Williams, Shannon Sharpe, Kevin Hart

What’s in This Episode

• Bobby Lee appears on Joe Rogan Experience to promote new movie
• Joe Rogan discusses COVID restrictions, deep state, and 2020 election
• Katt Williams interview on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay reaches 55 million views
• Debate over Katt Williams’ place among top 5 Black comedians of all time
• Kevin Hart gains weight filming movie in Italy

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac 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 Mac 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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Featured: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Joe Rogan, Jim Norton, Ron White, Jim Brewer, Taylor Swift, Stavros Halkias, George Carlin

What’s in This Episode

• Late night Trump trial jokes from Colbert, Kimmel, and Fallon
• Nikki Haley refusing to drop out of presidential race
• George Carlin estate sues over AI-generated special
• Celebrity rivalry: Taylor Swift vs. Stavros Halkias for Ravens-Chiefs AFC Championship
• Johnny Mac’s bagel preferences and National Donut Chain debate

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac 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 Mac? 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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Featured: Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Mark Normand, Chris Rock, Trevor Noah, Kevin Hart, Dave Chappelle, Joan Rivers, Melissa Rivers

What’s in This Episode

• Late night political jokes about Trump and Nikki Haley
• Mark Normand stage disruption revealed as planned stunt by producers
• Chris Rock almost hosted The Daily Show after Jon Stewart left in 2015
• Trevor Noah and Kevin Hart podcast discussion about comedy tour progression
• Joan Rivers’ former NYC apartment remains largely empty since her death

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Caloroga Shark Media. Howdy, I’m Johnny Mac 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 Mac 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.

If you enjoy the program, buy me a coffee dot com slash a Daily Comedy News. I’ll take your money, and it’s Saturday. I usually don’t get this movie on Saturday. Probably a nice coffee. Sunday, I load up at the Donuts chain.

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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Featured: Mark Normand

What’s in This Episode

• Mark Normand interrupted mid-set at New York Comedy Club
• Audience member jumped on stage during performance
• Security removed performer and evacuated venue
• Incident details unclear, speculation avoided

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac 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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Featured: Jon Stewart, Amy Schumer, Madonna, Jacqueline Novak, Kevin James, Jimmy Fallon, Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler

What’s in This Episode

• Jon Stewart to host The Daily Show again
• Amy Schumer joins Madonna on stage at Celebration Tour at MadisonSquare Garden
• Jacqueline Novak’s Netflix special ‘On Your Knees’ review
• Kevin James Amazon Prime special ‘Irregardless’ review
• Jimmy Fallon’s joke about New Hampshire primaries and Trump
• Natasha Lezie Instagram engagement and celebrity responses
• Madonna concert start time lawsuit from fans

Questions Answered in This Episode

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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 Mac 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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Featured: Shane Gillis, Natasha Lazarro, Moshe Kasher, Gabriel LaBelle, Lorne Michaels, Kenya Barris, Richard Pryor, Mike Epps, Steve Harvey, Joe Coy, Kate Berlant

What’s in This Episode

• Natasha Lazarro performs shirtless at comedy show
• Shane Gillis performs in freezing Peoria Illinois
• Oscars 2024 nominees announced with Jimmy Kimmel hosting
• SNL 1975 movie in development with Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels
• Richard Pryor limited series ordered with Kenya Barris
• Mike Epps new Netflix special Ready to Sell Out
• Kate Berlant opens one-woman play at Pasadena Playhouse

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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.

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