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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s start on gossip corner. In the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro writes an opinion piece under the headline Bill burg goes full a Hole, Ben Wrights. I used to enjoy Bill Burr’s work on occasion.
I still do. He’s a comedian, which means he’s very hit or miss. Once upon a time, I was such a fan that actually bought tickets for me, my wife, and two of my friends to go see him. It turned out to be one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen in my life because Burr has become woke over time. I think he became embarrassed that many people on the right thought he was very funny, so he decided he was going to go woke.
The show I saw was so bad that he got frustrated with the audience. The audience was not laughing at his jokes because his jokes are basically about how Floridians were a bunch of anti gay racists, and Floridians reacted badly because that’s not true. He ended up cutting a show early and walking off the stage. This week, he explained that he’s perfectly fine with CEOs having to live with full time security because they fear they might be shot, because after all, they are murderers too. Burr openly cheered the murder of the United Healthcare executive because he says CEOs should live in fear if they don’t act in the way that he would have them act in a system that he has no fixes for.
By the way, Ben Shapiro in The Daily Wire rights Bill Burr’s blue collar class routine act is a bunch of horse hockey. The man is worth fourteen million dollars and he makes his money creating crap movies for Netflix. At this point, yeah, old Dads was pretty bad. Yeah. If we’re gonna have a functioning country, you just can’t justify the murder of people who run their business legally in many ways with which you disagree.
It’s one thing to disagree with executives, you can call them whatever you want. But to start justifying that they should live in fear, suggesting they should be murdered, what’s the limiting principle here. It’s not just Bill Burr, it’s also Jimmy Kimmel, who decided recently to devote an entire segment celebrating the good looks they alleged shooter. Hilarious hilarious stuff glorifying the alleged murder of the United Healthcare CEO. What a delight these people are.
My former coworker, Jamie Fox is recovering after getting stitches. The dude went out for his birthday and according to CMZ, he was allegedly involved in an altercation at Mister Chow in Beverly Hills. A spokesperson for Fox tells people that Jamie was hit with a glass during his birthday celebration. The spokesperson said, Jamie Fox was at his birthday dinner when somebody from another table through a glass that hit him in the mouth. He had to get stitches and is recovering.
The police were called and the matters now in law enforcement’s hands. Mister Chow and the Beverly Hills PD did not immediately respond to people’s requests for further information. TMZ initially reported that the police were called to the restaurant around ten pm local time regarding an alleged fight, adding that Fox was involved and was no longer present by the time the cops arrived. I wonder what that’s about. All right.
Meanwhile, Chris Rock hosted Saturday Night Live and didn’t really get good reviews. The monologue seemed like was okay, although the audience groaned at points. Let’s listen to the beginning. Saturday Night Lab and Rob. I want to congratulate Lord Michael’s on twenty five great years.
I’m side out live. It’s a lot going on in the news. My god, it’s so crazy out there. It’s so hard just getting in the building the night. So much security.
My god, my god, I had walked. By a bunch of baby oil sniffing dogs. Was insane. Everybody’s worried. Everybody’s worried.
I mean, we got Luigi. We got Luigi, you know, and that’s good. I really feel sorry for the family. I mean, everybody’s fixated on how good looking this guy looks. If you look like Jonah Hill, no one would care.
They’d already given him a chair, already be dead. Okay, I can’t play the entire monologue. I will get a note from NBC. Chris Rock continues, But he actually killed a man, a man, a man with his family, a man with his kids. I have real condolences for the healthcare CEO.
But you also got to know sometimes drug dealers get shot. Rock then talked about how some New Yorkers didn’t vote for Trump because he would be undignified. Dude, this is the United States presidency. Come on, man, this is not the most dignified job in the world. We’ve had president show up at the inauguration with pregnant slaves.
Okay, and I’m just talking about Bill Clinton. Great joke. You know what country we live in, you know the history of this country. You know how many rapists are in my wallet right now. A cup of coffee in America costs seven rapists.
Trump’s going to get it down A three good joke, Rock joke. Trump will be working with the richest African American in the world, Elon Musk. That’s right, He’s African American. Elon got more kids in the Cleveland Browns. Nobody knows how to get rid of people like a South African.
Also a good joke. He talked about the Hunter Biden pardon. Only an animal wouldn’t pardon their son. Every parent in the world would pardon their son, except the parents of the Menendez brothers. Late Nighter did not like the episode.
Their headline after three seasons and four hosting gigs. Chris Rock still isn’t at home at SNL. They write, Chris Rock is bad at live TV. He just is in his unhappy tenure as a Saturday Night Live cast member. The young Rock was a shaky live performer, prone to blowing lines out of apparent nervousness.
As one of this season’s endless parade of returning the lums, Rock blue lines out of a live skittishness that never went away, coupled with the sense that he’s not really into doing sketches. As for his monologue, the set was solid, if not his tightest. I got the sense he was plucking good lines from an hour long specialties workshopping rather than crafting a unified set. His transitions were pretty non existent. Still Rock can bring it.
Not so Chris Rock, the sketch performer, sadly reading Q cards as part of the host burden of bear. But for a guy with years of experience in this very same environment, Rock is egregiously reliant on them and not remotely good at hiding it. Whether it’s a case of a big star not taking things as seriously as he should, or someone simply not suited for live sketch work. Each sketch suffered Davy. It didn’t give a good review either, but they did tell us about a cameo.
In a sketch. Sarah Sherman plays Leslie, a nurse making repeated massive errors during surgery, then demanding to know if everyone’s mad at her spoilers. The patient wakes up and turns out to be played by Adam Sandler. People were more kind to jostin Shake. Joe said they found a note on Mangioni expressing angry corporate America.
Yet he went to Starbucks before the shooting and then was caught at MacDonald So perhaps his greatest crime was hipocrisy. Chay joked about Trump, saying Amazon is planning to donate a million dollars to Trump’s inauguration. It makes sense because American Trump both want to ship stuff out as fast as possible. A pretty interesting festival came out of nowhere out of Providence, Rhode Island, a brand new four day comedy festival March twenty seven through the thirtieth. The lineup includes Kevin Hart, Leslie Jones, The Not So Canceled Disease and Sorry, Christa Stefano, Hannah Burner, Michael Blaustein and Moore anchored at the Historic Veterans Memorial Auditorium and spilling over in a satellite venues four days.
Also includes Josh Johnson, Melissa Via Signors, Howne Bells, Sophie Buttle, Alec Flynn, Andy Woodhall. Additional acts will be announced. That’s no joke this festival. Daniel Schwartz is general manager of the Vets Auditorium and says this event isn’t just about comedy. It’s about creating a space where people from all walks of life can come together and share the joy of laughter.
Our lineup transcends generations, blending comedy icons like Kevin Hart with hilarious rising stars like Christa Stefano to sure there’s something for everyone. Well so far not kids, but we’ll get there. Sebastian Maniscalco’s show Bookie is back on Max. I enjoyed season one very much. You know, it’s one of those shows that knows what it is.
Don’t take it too seriously, don’t think about it, Sebastian says. Sometimes stage, Sebastian comes out a little bit. He enjoys working on his acting and likes that the crew laughs on the set and says it validates what I’m doing as funny because as a comedian, I like the laughter. I like to hear what I’m doing as funny through the laughs. I’m getting used to playing off other actors and learning a lot each day.
Joe McHale will host the Saturn Awards on February seconds. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror tell us this marks Joel’s third year as the host of the Saturn Awards. His clever edgie humor is consistently delivered with charismatic flare, and his ability to make light of both pop culture and everyday situations enhances the overall experience of the awards ceremony. Late Night reacted to Donald Trump being named Times Person of the Year. Jimmy Fallon said Trump is the first man in history to be Times Person of the Year and McDonald’s Employee of the Month.
Trump said the honored that feels just as exciting as the birth of his child, except he was present for the award. Dana Perino was guest hosting Guttfeld and said it’s the second sign Trump is held the honor, the first coming after his presidential win in twenty sixteen. That was the same week Hillary Clinton canceled her subscription and smashed her server with a hammer. Michael Costa, for the win on The Daily Show, said, once again, time has not been kind to Joe Biden. Johnny Mack, I feel like you’re stretching a little bit today.
Are the holidays coming now? Why do you ask? Adam Sandler tells us Eminem makes a cameo and Happy Gilmore too. Boy. I hope I didn’t spoil an Adam Sandler movie for you there.
I should have put a spoiler tag upfront. But the spoiler is that you’re going to see in Adam sandlor movie. Sandler says that Eminem is funny as hell. Apparently Eminem came by the set and shot a day’s worth of scenes. Eminem was cool, he came by, he was great.
I’ve known Eminem for a long time. He’s a great guy, and he came in. It was funny as hell. I think we just hung out for a day with Eminem and he just shot and shot and he was insane. He said a million things we could use and a million that we’re glad we have him on tape.
Mark Maren’s going to be in this Springsteen movie. This is the one starring Jeremy Alan White as Bruce Springsteen. It’ll probably win Oscar for Best Comedy because you know Jeremy Allen White the bear blah blah blah. Yeah. That it is called delivered Me from Nowhere, which I had a look is a pretty deep lyric for a Springsteen song.
You know, you could just call this thing born to Run, which might be a little hacky, but deliver Me from Nowhere is from the song State Trooper from the Nebraska album. Mark Maron plays Chuck Pluckin, the music producer who mastered Springsteen’s Nebraska album, turning his unprocessed cassette demos into a high quality recording. You’ll watch and John Mulaney was on Jimmy Fallon’s show and tell a story. I love Steely Nann. Some people don’t like Steely Dan.
It’s a very divisive band. When I had a son, I went great, fresh person, fresh ears. There’s one reason to have a baby, and so you can test Steely Dan out on them. I put on the Steely Dan song Hey nineteen because that’s fun. He looks over at Malcolm and he’s not dancing, so I had to change the song Gaucho from the album gaut show again he’s not dancing.
My son looks at me and goes Ei eio, and I go, oh, do you want to listen to Old McDonald? I turned on Old McDonald and he immediately starts dancing. M’LINI tags this story with so here’s what’s interesting about that story. He had never spoken before. That’s how much he hated Steely Dan.
He taught himself to sock. That’s your comedy news as it was sort of for today. My voices shot, oh, come back voice. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend, like on January tenth, that they check it out to when there’s comedy news again. They might like in the meantime, there might be a little bit of filler for these next few weeks.
Happens every year. It’s okay, that’s why I’m pre taping the top specials of the year. I’m waiting to watch Ronny Chieng’s special tomorrow night. Then I’m going to accord best specials of the year, the next best specials of the year, and things that aren’t the best specials of the year. Partly it’s like I can take a couple of days off, and partly because I’ve been doing this for a while and I know it’s not like people are going to announce stuff on December twenty sixth, So you know, you pre tape a couple it happens.
See you tomorrow,