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The Shark Deck. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The State of the Union is tonight. I asked the AI chatbots, I write some late night style jokes. They come up with this one.
I like it. President Biden stayed up late preparing for the State of the Union. I hope he didn’t forget to turn the oven off late night itself, the actual late night no robots involved, I don’t think so. They were talking about the documents again. Jimmy Fallon said, first they searched near Biden’s corvette.
Now they’re searching his beach house. I’m starting to think Biden created this whole scandal as a humble bragg Why don’t you check my infinity pool. Maybe there’s something behind the picasso. Jimmy Kimmels said, Biden’s attorneys found documents at his main house in Delaware, and the president has a beach house in Delaware. I don’t know.
How’s that a vacation. Can you vacation from Delaware to Delaware. They didn’t find anything classified, but they did find a nineteen eighty two Zenith TV and three boxes of part Cheesy. I love the joke. When is the last time you even thought about cheesy or played it.
If you’re of a certain age, you surely played it. I don’t think I’ve played it this century, have you. Jimmy Fallons beaking of Biden, the White House announced that he will get his annual physical on February sixteenth. It’s gonna be crazy after Biden’s colin oscopy when the doctor says, there’s no easy way to tell you this, but we found more classified documents. Regular listeners, No, I’ve been in the basement with the door closed and hanging out on only fans.
What do you do? And Johnny mac that sounds very suss Nope, I’m researching comedy, guys. I don’t know what you guys think I’m doing down here. Bert Kreisher is joining only Fans. Yeah.
The Roast of Bert Kreisher featuring Rachel Feinstein, Big Jay Oakerson, Donnel Rawlings, Tony Hinchcliff, Jim Norton, Tom Sagora, and the person they put first was Trevor Wallace. I’m not that familiar with mister Wallace. I thought it was odd that they put him first, because it doesn’t even make sense alphabetically anyway. The Roast of Bert Kreisher on Only Fans Free April First, I’ll be in the basement with the door closed. Jim Jefferies has a new special coming out Valentine’s Day.
It’s called A High End Dry with an N in the middle. I didn’t just slip into a queen’s accent there. In High and Dry, Jim Jeffreys talks about everything from stone koalas, his dad’s vasectomy, confusion, choosing between his hair and his sex drive, and more. Peacock has a special from Josh Johnson, which is a shame because it’s on Peacock, which means nobody is going to use it. Hey, guys, if you want to buy some ads, I’ll start pretending that everybody loves Peacock, but in the real world nobody has Peacock.
I’m sorry. However, Josh Johnson’s comedy is fantastic. I was prepping for the show this morning. I was playing some of his clips. He’s really, really good.
This one is called up Here Killing Myself. It’ll premiere February seventeenth. Josh Johnson, who is a writer on The Daily Show, transforms an hour of talk therapy about his relationships with money, his father, and a stalker into an hour of stand up the pressure, Lease says, and this shocked me. Josh Johnson is Comedy Central’s most watch comedian ever with forty million views. Well, he’s in the demo give him the day show?
What are you doing? Why are you wasting time? You’re ready rights for the thing? And if he’s super popular with your audience, why isn’t he hosting the show? Josh said via press release.
In my session that turned into the special, we talked about family, my feelings towards money, and just random thoughts that I didn’t feel like it could tell anyone else. The subject matter didn’t immediately jump out to me as funny. In fact, some of it was hard to make jokes about. I hope to take away from this piece is that you’re never alone. Everyone’s going through something and it’s important to be kind to one another because we never know what that something could be.
This is my way of opening up about my journey. Thanks to dr who shared this one on the Facebook group which is daily coming to this podcast group. Dan Ackroyd will be hosting a series on Fox Nation about drinking. Fox Nation First to Roseanne bar Special, Now a dan Ackroyd Show. What’s going on over there.
This one is called A History of the World in Six Glasses. Johnny mac, why are you mentioning this well? The guests are comedians Kevin Neil and John Lovitz, George Went and Jim Belushi. I’ve mentioned this before. Jim Belushi.
I know everybody goes, oh, Jim Belushi. Jim Belushi’s a cool guy. And I remember one time we were putting together a special for the Blues Brothers with Dan and Jim got to spend some time with both of them, and I was stupid. One morning. I thought I was calling Jim’s office and I called Jim’s cell phone, and also I forgot about time zones, so I called Jim’s cell phone at six thirty Pacific or wherever he was.
I clearly woke him up, and he was totally cool about it. I fell in my sort of oh my gosh, I’m such a jerk, and he was like, totally cool. But I still feel bad about that. Jim Belushi, cool guy. The History of the World in Six Classes will chronicle the history of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, soda and their respective impact on the world.
The Fox Nation president said, I laughed out loud watching every episode and learned so much about the cultural impact of these iconic beverages. So it’s already in the can, but it will premiere in January twenty twenty four. Why are we waiting eleven months to release this thing? Fox Nation? Very suspicious.
Dale Hugley hosted The Daily Show last week. He told Complex how the current landscape leads to uncomfortable yet necessary conversations. Deal said, we don’t like to be uncomfortable, and comedy is a way of informing and satiating a need for knowledge, but without making people feel attack. When you do it right, I think it’s the only time people listen. Comedy has always been the way to have conversations that people wouldn’t necessarily like to have in an open forum.
He commended Trevor Noah for stepping away when it felt right. Anytime someone has done what they can, it’s better to leave through the front door than the back. He left on a high. He felt like he’d contributed all he could and was leaving on his own terms. Anytime someone does something like that, you can’t help but be happy for them.
You gotta know when to walk away. You don’t want to be Tom Brady. You don’t want to stay too long. Trevor left after his Super Bowl, which is the way to go out on top. Roy Wood Junior he would like to host The Daily Show, but they’re making him wait while we turned through.
Chelsea Handler and saur Silverman again, wonderful comedians, but they’re too old for the demo that Comedy Central wants. I don’t see either one of them getting the show. Give it to Josh Johnson, give it a roy Wood Junior. Roy does have a gig. He’ll be the host of The White House Correspondence on April twenty ninth.
He said, it’s an honor to be part of a long running tradition of celebrating those members of the media who works so hard to uncover the truth and hold our governments accountable. It’ll be a great night that we’ll go down in the history books or not, depending on which state you live in. The presidents of the White House Correspondence Association said, roy Wood Junior brings a journalistic eye to his comedy. He’s hilarious, but we also make sure his audience are thinking as they laugh. If you want to support the show, a lot of things you can do one on Apple Podcast.
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Nathan had told me to listen to Howie Mandel with Weird Al I did. It was a really good episode, Nathan, thank you for putting that on my radar. How he’s a pretty good interviewer, and they got into a story. I guess everybody knows. It had never hit my radar, and I went back and I looked, this happened in April of two thousand and four.
So I just started at Serious Satellite Radio running comedy then. And I know the first six months at Serious, the entire comedy department was just me, and all I did was load CDs because there weren’t enough CDs in the system to really run comedy channels with any sort of depth. So that’s why I think I suspect we didn’t do anything about this other than I probably saw it, but I don’t remember the story at all. What are you talking about? Johnny Mack for The New York Times, April eleven, two thousand and four.
The parents of Weird Alankovic were found dead on Friday in their home, apparently victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. Al talked about this with Howie Nick. Yankevic was eighty six, Mary Yankovic was eighty one. They were found dead by relatives who were worried because they hadn’t seen the couple in a while. A wood fire had been set in the fireplace.
Local sheriff said the house was full of smoke when they opened the door. The relatives have found the flue to the fireplace closed awful. Al tells the story that he found this out and he still went on stage that night, and he explains like he didn’t want to let the audience down. It was a distraction for him. What else are you gonna do?
Oh my goodness, can you imagine going out especially you’re going out there to be funny and you’re doing parody songs after that? Wowow. So it’s a really good interview with Howie Mandel. Let me tell you what the podcast is properly called. It is called Howie Mandel Does Stuff.
So listen to the weird Al episode. At the time, Al put out a statement that said, going up on stage in front of thousands of supporter of fans is a cathartic and somewhat therapeutic experience for me right now. I don’t know if I could say that the concerts really take my mind off the tragedy, but at least they give me a break from sobbing all the time. Wow. Starred Tribune took a look at James Adomian.
He does a really good trump. James Austin Johnson kind of has the most famous trump right now thanks to SNL. But there was an album Trump Versus Bernie that I used to play a lot on the Slacker Radio Live one show that I host, which is called the Weekly Comedy Thing. Adomian is a really good impressionist. He had to cancel a couple of shows because Jimmy Kimmel needed him in LA to do his impression of Mike Lindell.
But James made it out to Minneapolis, showed up at the Acme Comedy Club and he did some impressions, one of them Jesse Ventura, and he explained how it’s like a typical Midwest accent that spend too much time in the oven. The Star Tribune rights one of the reasons James isn’t as well known as other impressionists is because he favors obscure celebrities. One of the highlights of Thursdays sold out show was his reimagination of a homophobic Sam Elliott being interviewed on Mark Marin’s podcast as Hounds Hilarious. He also did BBC narrator David Attenborough time out. That reminds me.
Speaking of David Attenborough, have you watched on Netflix Unk on Earth? Is that what it’s called? Yeah? Sorry, I forgot to put that in the notes. I was watching that late last week.
It’s if you like Eric Idol, and especially when Eric Idol would do the news reporter walking around and absurd things would happen behind him. Picture five hours of that. It’s basically the history of humanity going from cavemen to today, but done in that really dry British sarcastic style. Diane Morgan stars as Philamina. Kunk highly recommended Netflix put it right in front of me and I devoured it.
Not for everybody, but if you like dry British humor and if you like Python specifically, Kunk on Earth is for you anyway. James Adomian did David Natonborough Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Howell and the Munchkin corner from the Wizard of Oz. He also apparently does Tom Selleck. NBC has renewed Night Chord for a second season. Hey, it’s doing the numbers that the World series does, so why not an NBC You said, it’s so rewarding to have audiences respond and return to a show which they have such incredibly warm feelings.
And more broadly, it’s a testament to how broadcast is still a huge driver of communal viewing. No, it’s not. Lisa Cat’s president of scripted content, and you know it’s not. This is an outlier. Nobody’s watching network television.
Sorry, but hey, if you buy ADS and NBC Peacock, you’re the same company. I will sit here. I’m a shill. I’ll be like, oh my god, Peacock. It’s great if you listen regularly.
You know, I like deep diving on Overseas comedy. And I saw a headline on Indulge express dot com which was New Zealand comic Sam Wills makes his debut in India, and I’m like, that’s randomly random. Let me click on this. Sam Wills is better known by stage name tape Face. Am I bad that I didn’t know about tape Face?
Apparently tape Face was on America’s Got Talent in twenty sixteen, so a lot of you were like, dude, America’s Got Talent one of NBC’s fine shows, which you could probably find on Peacock. See I can shill anyway, tape Face was apparently on AGT Who knew I missed it. I know what I was doing. But he does silent comedy and he is tape over his mouth. He says.
I call it stand up without talking. I’m using all the normal stand up comedy writing styles but applying it to a silent character. The show involves everyday objects as I like the idea of getting audiences to see things differently. It sounds like a lot of fun. Hey, tape face, what are you looking forward to in India?
He said, I’ve always wanted to take the show to all parts of the world, and when India came up, I leapt at it. He’s looking forward to the food. I can’t wait to eat good Indian food. I can understand that I enjoy some good Indian food myself. All right, who are you inspired by?
At the beginning of my career, I really like comedians like Jimmy Carr and Joey Delaware. I don’t know Joey Delaware. But then once I started going down the silent comedy road, I discovered a whole new world of comedy sight gags. All right, what are we going to see in the show? He says.
I’ll bring back John Lennon, I’ll fight Darth Vader, and I’ll even have a shootout. That sounds cool. All right. What’s the best and worst thing that can happen during the tour. Best we sell out.
You guys have a good time. Worst thing, I get food poisoning or get attacked by bees. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free, Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. See you tomorrow.
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