Ben Gleib YouTube Late Night Debut, Mulaney and Pete Davidson spill SNL Tea, and DHS Alert for Comedian Ben Palmer

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Featured: Ben Gleib, Pete Davidson, John Mulaney, Josh Johnson, Tom Segura, Bert Kreischer

What’s in This Episode

• Ben Gleib launches ‘Goodnight with Ben Gleib’ YouTube late night show
• Pete Davidson and John Mulaney discuss SNL hosting challenges at Netflix as a Joke Festival
• Josh Johnson releases first HBO comedy special ‘Symphony’
• Josh Johnson discusses weekly YouTube sets and hosting philosophy
• Tom Segura interviews about Two Bears Five K fitness event and training regimen

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News is tonight at the start of the new era of late night, It’s Goodnight with Ben Gleb making its YouTube premiere. I’m not sure this will have the same impact as say, a four day a week eleven thirty five network show, but who knows Goodnight with Ben glee will become the first late night type show launching on YouTube, made exclusively for YouTube, we are told Glebe’s weekly series is designed to evolve the traditional celebrity focus late nights base, offering chats with the usual suspects, while broadening in scope to include top thought leaders, creators, experts, entrepreneurs, wellness and financial experts, relationship coaches, AI futurists, and psychologists. Shows a tape of the night before as in Last Night, and we’ll debut on YouTube every Thursday at ten Eastern. Not sure why they pick that time.

There’s a live studio audience, a wall of screens showing the first global virtual studio audience. Bill Carter said. There will be a band, and each week we’ll also feature a post show after party episode where glebe dives deeper with his guests and additional curated invitees, often over drinks and candid conversation. All right, I come with an open mind. We’ll check that one out.

Pete Davidson and John Mulaney talked a little bit about how some people hosting Saturday Night Live aren’t that good during the Netflix as a Joke Festival, John Mulaney reflected on his time as a writer and he said, when I was twenty five, I’d tell Oscar winning host I’d right there monologue. I’d be like, yeah, I got to say all that, it’s got to go great, and then that tank eight times out of ten. Pete david said laughed and said he too would tell hosts they crushed it even when they didn’t. Lene said, they’ll have actor face. They sort of don’t get it because they’re just an actor and they’d be like, hey, was that good, and you’re like, no, do you have ears?

Pete said, it off and tell the hosts you’re really performing for the people at home. Lane added, play for the camera the audience. They’re just there to help you, but they’re not going to laugh a lot. Pete and I don’t always go their chores. They wait outside they try to win a lottery.

Half of them probably don’t even speak English. They do, they’re big fans of the show. They camp outside. Mlaney recalled an instance when a very big comedy star bombed, saying it was the comedy store’s own fault because it was very difficult writing the monologue. But when the famous comedy star checked in, when Mlaney, m’laney said, it’s bad acoustics, Melanie, that’s pointed out it’s famously one of the best Mike sound studios in the world that used to be the home to the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

Speaking of symphonies, Josh Johnson Symphony was I did this by accident. I just I didn’t plan this at all. These two stories is happen to be in this great back to back Josh Johnson Symphony his first ever HBO comedy special. He wanted it to be timeless, he told Emmy’s dot Com. No interesting that Emmys dot Com interviewed Josh Johnson.

HM keep an eye on that when the Emmy nominations come around. Josh told Emmys dot Com, I really want people to be able to look back and enjoy this thing I’ve done with HBO for years and years and years. That’s why I didn’t make any topical references. I’m just talking about things that feel particularly universal, at least to me. I haven’t gotten to it yet, as I’ve mentioned a couple times on the shows in London last week and now that they are Knicks games, and then four as a Horizon six came out and at James Bond video game, So you know, I haven’t really been in TV mood.

In Symphony, Josh comes out and he takes a moment to look at the audience. D Emmys were curious, what are you doing, Josh said, He’s trying to form a connection with them. It’s also taking a second to take stock of what’s happening. Let’s say you’re fully locked in. You could just run out there, start doing your first joke and be thinking about outlands, thinking about last per minute and everything, where you could take a quick second to stop and not just enjoy, but really respect the fact that these people are all here together for a reason.

I think it takes the moment of noticing to really make yourself present and fully respect everyone was there. Josh talked about his career. He’s been doing stand up since twenty twelve, but says I was pretty happy. We’re gking at the grocery store and doing stand up at night. In a sense, I couldn’t imagine doing what I’m doing now.

If you have a real love and curiosity for something, then you can’t help but give it a shot. When I moved to Chicago, I landed and almost immediately try to find an open mic pressure Billio’s in Chicago. That was the first open mic that I did. I had five minutes and I didn’t mention time well. I told two jokes in a story and then kind of finished.

I really want to respect the light. Because I was new, I didn’t want to make enemies or anything. Emmy’s was curious about the sets Josh puts out on YouTube every Tuesday. How do you handle that? Josh Johnson said, I’ve always written a lot, a lot, a lot a lot.

While some things can be very funny and topical, they’re just not gonna be relevant forever. To me, it makes the most sense to share those things so that those who couldn’t make it to the show get to enjoy it. It also helps build some community. There are people who tune into the live YouTube show every week and we chat in the chat and I’m very thankful to the people that made a ritual out of it. As for hosting the daily show, Josh has said in the past he compares a too boring of friend’s car.

You want to return it without any damage. Josh spoke more about that and said, I think it’s important to consistently feel that way. That’s not the way that anyone has made me feel. It’s the thing I do out of respect for what I get to do. I hope I don’t lose that feeling, not even for a little bit, because it’s what keeps me as intentional as possible.

Muscle and Fitness caught up with Tom Sigoura around the time of The Two Bears five K. Sigura said, what makes that event work is probably two middle aged fat guys not known for being fit decided to do this, and that inspired a lot of other people had never done it to try it. I wish we had started eight years earlier. Zagora admits that he takes the physical side of the event much differently than his partner Bert. Bert’s more of a winged guy.

I can’t do that, so I started getting my miles in months in advance. I kind of hate it, the running, but I slowly start to embrace it as it gets closer. I need to start up again. I’ve been really bad. It was also four degrees all winter, Sigora said.

I’ve made physical health a priority. It also makes me listen to my body in a way I never did before. I’m more into mobility and circuit training now more than ever. I don’t think about big lifts like when I was younger. It’s so mental.

We’re all capable of more, but you have to have the right mindset to prepare and go through with it. I wake up around six thirty seven and go to the gym most mornings to run a mile and have a workout that’s more circuit based lately, so I get cardio and resistance in. I take days off as I feel any of them. I don’t plan for them. That was the same way when I was running a lot.

Yeah, sometimes you just need that one day off and then you feel a lot better. Eating clean isn’t that hard, says s Agora. Sleep can be a real challenge with travel on the kids, but you can’t perform well in any physical activity if you don’t prioritize sleepe, don’t overthe g it, just get it done. It doesn’t have to look good for it to count. Do all the little min Dane stuff.

You think it’s a waste of time. It’s a difference between making a full recovery and having lingering issues on race day. I think we all want to beat each other. We’re also old enough to know we could hurt ourselves and after the race drinking poroso straight up then cold plunge. All right.

Bill Board put out the list of biggest comedy tours for April. Number five, Berg Kreischer twelve shows, twenty five nine hundred tickets, grows two point one million dollars. Not bad. Now. I don’t know what this one is.

It’s the We Them Ones Comedy Tour. They did three shows and gross two point three million. Apparently this tour is Mike Epps, Carlos Miller, DC, Young Fly, Chico Bean, Mojo Brooks, Tony Roberts, TK Kirkland, Just Nash, fab Munroe, Jski and Nev Green. They’ll be at the win Trest Arena in Chicago on Saturday. If you want to go, say how much tickets for this thing are?

Section two one row. J o’r on you ninety dollars eighty five cents. Number three. Peter Kay did five shows and gross to four million dollars. Matt Rie did ten shows and grossed at nine point one million.

And the King of the World and we’ll be talking about him a lot later this week because he’s got a movie coming out. Naprighatzy fifteen shows gross to eleven point two million dollars. Let me say that number again. He grossed eleven point two million dollars. That’s a gross.

It’s not net, but still eleven point two million dollars. Wow. From The Guardian, the Department of Homeland Security has circulated a be on the lookout alert to law enforcement nationwide. All right, who are they looking for? They’re looking for a comedian.

The subject of the alert is Ben Palmer, the national based standup comedian and prankster who has created a parody anti immigration tip website. I’ve shared some of his calls before. If you’re not hip to this, His revealing videos of calls with members of the public who thought they were reporting immigrants to US Immigration and Customs enforcement. You know them as ICE, have garnered millions of us on TikTok and YouTube. I made a website for reporting illegal immigrants, and sometimes people end up on the website thinking that it’s real.

And somebody wanted to report a man that they suspected to be an illegal immigrant that lives in their neighborhood. So I reached out to see if I could help. There is one person who comes and he’s non speaking, non English speaking, and he will come possibly, oh see, maybe maybe you’ll see him two weekends out of the month. And it’s not even for a complete weekend. It’s you’ll come Saturday like a thief in the night at ten, ten thirty, eleven thirty at night, and then leave Sunday and he’s gone.

Okay, it’s just very very suspicious while he is here. When he pulled into the driveway. Yeah, and the lights always on. They’re using electricity in the home, yes and yes, and that is definitely suspicious. Yes.

And they’re also using the the driveway right. And the light is always lit in the garage when he comes, light stays on. We cannot see the basement section from our kitchen window. We can only see that there’s a light lit, and that’s the garage window that we can see the light lit. Yeah, and so just not being able to not being able to see what the resident is doing inside their own home, that’s what raises the suspicions.

The bulletin was issued by the DHS Nashville Field Office in February, about a week before The Washington Post profiled Palmer after a kinderdgarten teacher reported one of her students’ parents to Palmer’s supposed tip page. And it looks like they have a child who was born in New York, which makes them an American citizen. Yeah, so we’re looking to deport the parents and leave the child. Right. Like I said, I don’t know if they’re here illegally.

I just think it’s odd. You know, it’s very odd. What did you say was odd? It’s just odd for them even me here. Like I’m a teacher at a school.

Schools. I know the whole law about schools. I mean, they seem like nice people or whatever. But I looked them up. In our files and I was like, oh, she.

Was born in Honduras and he’s born in Alzabad or so right there. It’s like, Okay, maybe I’m on the right path. You know, they drop off their kid every day. So their kid is their kid a student at your school? Yes?

Yeah, okay, so now you want to get his parents deported. Well, I’m just saying, if they’re taking up resources from our county not into illegal people being here. Then the be on the Lookout was shared by the Illinois State Police to a distribution list of state and local law enforcement agencies. The alert on Palmer was obtained by the nonprofit Injustice Watch. It’s not immediately clear how many other law enforcement departments around the US may have shared the federal alert to be on the lookout for Ben Palmer.

At the bottom of the Bee on the Lookout alert, the dh acknowledges that the comedian does not pose a danger. At this time. There appears to be no direct threat to life or infrastructure. A DHS spokesperson said there is no investigation into this individual. This document is an internal memo shared for awareness purposes only, adding that law enforcement and civilians should be aware of potential websites and individuals impersonating federal law enforcement.

Palmer said he found out about this from Injustice Watch. He called it a badge of honor to be honest. For me, it’s the best of both worlds. I don’t get arrested, but I still get to say that the Department of Homeland Security created a document about me, which is in my line of work. I was looking at these things more like certificates, badges of honor.

The government wastes a lot of time and SAX dollars for sure, but when you have your own little section on that, I kind of feel honored. HBO Max has confirmed the premier date of a new six episode Australian led comedy series called Make That Movie. I love the two people in this They are Sam Campbell and Aaron Chen. I recently played some clips from Aaron on this program and Sam Campbell you may know from Luk. Created by Sam Campbell, Make That Movie follows a chaotic, high concept premise.

A self assured filmmaker travels across the country searching for everyday people with ideas for future films, before attempting to bring those ideas to life in just three days. Sam Campbell starts as the fast talking director. Aaron chen plays Sebastian, an intimacy coordinator. They’re all fab I think that’ll be good. A partner Naturla talked to Joy sauce.

They were curious if she needs the audience’s approval. Apart I said, even if it feels like a one way conversation, it ends up being a dialogue. Some audiences may be more or less receptive. Whatever you’re bringing to them is fully in your control, and you can adjust your material based on what lands or whatd feedback you get. The best part of stand up comedy is you don’t have to fit someone’s version of how you need to show up.

You can show as much or as little of yourself as you’d like. Personally, I approach comedy from the inside out perspective versus outside. In her recent hour on Dropout called hopeful, Potato was informed by the break I took from stand up at a time spent writing my book, as well as the pandemic. Now I’m in my forty, he said, it’s a time when women start experiencing mental, emotional and physical shifts. It’s a reckoning with yourself and a second adolescence.

If you’re at a place where half your life is done and you’re lucky half lies ahead, what do you want to do with that time? And I will I ask myself that question every day, sometimes to take a four hour train ride to Scotland. Culture had caught up with BJ Novak, you know him as Ryan from the office. They did some rapid fire BJ. What’s something people get wrong about you?

He said? I have no idea what they think about me, and whatever it is, they might well be right. If anyone’s wrong about me, it’s probably me. I’m too close to it. When’s the last time you laughed hysterically, Bj Novak?

He said, The fact I can’t remember tells me I need to change my life, and for that I generally thank you. Cultured magazine questionnaire will keeps you up at night? Bj? The coffee I drag at three pm? And who do you call the most?

He said? Call my parents every Friday. Everyone else I text. And that is your comedy news for today. Follow the show on Spotify and click on that notifications badge so you don’t ever miss an episode.

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