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The Shark Deck. Yikes. Rough weekend for the comedy movies. I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, Sebastian Meniscalco, I got nothing but bad news for you. His film About My Father co starring Robert de Niro, By the way, four point two million dollars over the weekend, they estimated would make five point two million through Monday, the second lowest opening Memorial Day release in over two thousand theaters, ever lower than even nineteen ninety five’s Johnny Nemonic.
On the Tomato meter thirty one percent with critics. About My Father had a budget of twenty nine million dollars. If you need a comparison, Easter Sunday with Joe Koy, remember that happened last year. Even that made five point four million and finished with thirteen million. Yikes.
The news not much better for Bert Craisher The Machine four point nine million dollars over the weekend, estimated five point eight million dollars for the long weekend. Rotten Tomatoes points out it’s the fifth straight film that’s Sony has withheld nationwide from press in the States. In case you’re curious, the Little Mermaid won the weekend fast X sitting at number two, Guardians of the Galaxy sitting at number three, Super Mario Brothers still at number four, than The Machine in fifth That about my father. In sixth sebashion Maniskago did use a stunt butt in his movie. He told people, I’m very physical and in my comedy, the intention was for me to do the jet mooning.
My wife wants people to know that’s not his butt. Apparently that guy’s but doesn’t look like mine. Set Sebastian and my wife wanted to let the world know.
Meanwhile, finally saw a review of The Machine.
I haven’t had an opportunity to see the movie myself yet. Yeah, who says Byrd is certainly believable as quote unquote himself, but never feels quite like a lead. The movie excels when it leans into insane levels of action violence. It’s less effective when it relies on Chrysher’s comedy. Well that’s not good, They say.
He needs a movie that does for him what forty eight Hours did for Eddie Murphy. As his reactions to Danger his best moments. Mark Hamill is the MVP, continuing to deliver some of his best work as an older man when Hamel leaves the action for a spelled the energy leaves the movie. So I was thinking about these two films, and I will editorialize here. Sebastian Meniscalco, I think will be okay.
I can see Sebastian with a CBS sitcom, can’t you? If he dialed down the affectation he does in some of his stand up. He is a very stylized version of speaking. If he dropped that back down towards his normal voice, I could see him in a CBS sitcom for sure. Bert Kreisher, I’m not sure where we go from here.
I know Bert has legions of fans and I’ll probably all attack my podcast. But that last stand up special As I saw the reviews and I saw the chatter on the internet, I saw the churning of the Tide, and people didn’t really like that one as much. And I’m wondering if the Bert Kreisher No pun machine is starting to run out of steam. If you think about it, this was the big story, this was the big dream. Okay, we made a major motion picture around you.
It co stars Born Camel. The premise seems pretty good on paper, and nobody went to see it, so I’m wondering for Burt are we now on the downside of peak? Bert Kreisher time will tell that said he’s a machine when it comes to touring. Fast Company did a profile of Burton, talked about this summer’s Fully Loaded Comedy Festival, which the Krasher’s Burton wife Leanne, manage this summer. It features Mark Norman, Shane Gillis, Tiffany Hattish, David Tell, Lewis, Black and Moore and No Slouches, any of those playing sixteen ballparks and arenas around the US.
Bert says, Hollywood is changing, but I think we’re at the front of it, even with the Fully Loaded Festival. That used to be something you’d put in the hands of a promoter or management company, but we took control of that. We wanted to move faster than the pace it was traditionally moving. Lean said he’s always been at the forefront, even ahead of his agents and managers. When COVID hit, he was in New Orleans and wanted to find a way to keep touring.
It’s not just about him personally, but all the people connected to these shows and weren’t working. If he keeps working, that keeps others working he had the drive in movie theater. Idea called his agent and his agent wasn’t sure, but he made some calls and figures it out. So we did this thing that no one had done before. And he’s done that with his podcasting being so early into it, he knew podcast fan was a button the seat.
Bert says, I remember going on a meeting one time and bringing a list of my top fifty markets for the podcast, and they were like Bismark. Bismark is the capital of North Dakota with a population of seventy five thousand. Bert said, and I was like, yeah, I’m big there. It’s fascinating because there are places where I’m big today where a lot of comics just don’t go. Now, if you look at my tour, I’m littered in the Midwest where some comics don’t do shows.
I’m in Mississippi twice a year. It’s all based on metrics and going where the fans are. Ten thousand people that might not sound like a lot for a podcast, but that’s an arena. Burt admires Kevin Hart’s Heartbeat productions and says, what I love about what Kevin’s done is how we brought everything in house and said, I wanted to do business with you, but I want to be in charge of all the ancillary projects. I’d love to work with studios when we’re marketing movies, because we’ve taken steps in that direction.
It’s worked well. So the things were good at. I want to keep being good at and then create relationships with networks and studios through that. Tom Segura was at one of the previews of the Machine and he was asked what he’s up to. Tom said, I have a special coming out July fourth.
We knew that, and he added, and then Burt and I actually have a project together two. It hasn’t been announced yet. All right, we’ll keep an eye on that one. Today the ted Lasso finale. By the time you’re hearing this, it’s already out.
Apple. Please stop releasing things in the middle of the night. I’m going to have woken up this morning on Wednesday two spoilers, and that’s annoying. I’m not getting up at three am to watch ted Lasso, and I can’t watch it before breakfast. I watched TV at night like normal people do.
I don’t know if you noticed. Over the weekend, HBO released Succession at nine pm. It did quite well. It captured the cultural zeitgeist. People talked about it, and it wasn’t spoiled.
Had HBO released Succession at three am, we would have woken up to find out who quote unquote one in the end. I’m not even gonna spoil it for you four days later anyway, Ted Lasso. I’ll get to it tonight. Maybe I play volleyball on Wednesday. I’m don’t even get to it tonight because it’s gonna be ruined.
I hate the three am stuff and Casey, you can’t tell oh by the way, i’d see. I’m thinking now back to Friday with the cranky Johnny Mac jokes that the late Bot wrote Taylor Swift’s concert amazing three hours, forty minutes. I had such a good time and played Taylor on the car radio all week and long. It was so good. I’m not sure any concert’s worth twelve hundred dollars, but one hundred and twenty five that I paid face value to get in.
Oh my goodness, she’s fantastic anyway, Ted Lasso. The character Ted Lasso tweeted on Tuesday. A few years ago, I hopped on a plane with Coach Beard head into a little town in London. Tonight we play our final match. It’s like what I say about the films of David Lynch.
I can’t tell you what’s happening, but I sure as heck don’t want it to end. Co star and writer Brendan Hunts coach Beard told Entertainment Weekly back in twenty twenty one, to three season arc was Jason Sidekis’s idea. But even back in twenty one, Brendan said, even as committed to that idea as Jason may have been, none of us were prepared to the greet which people love the show. I think that could make hard hearted old Sadekas soften up a little bit. The solution seems to be spinoffs.
Sadekas himself has all but confirmed them, saying I think we’ve set the table for all sorts of folks to get to watch the further telling of these stories now. One of the problems with season three have been all the side stories. One person on Reddit wrote, I’m still waiting for season three of ted At to begin. In the meantime, I’m watching this odd spinoff show about a pr startup mixed with heavy handed moral public service announcements. Not the worst description in my opinion, and my wife shares the opinion.
When Ted Lasso’s about soccer, it’s so much more enjoyable. All they have to do is show some soccer, Let the coaches hang out a little bit. Repeat. I don’t need the other stuff. The Daily Beast asked some of the cast for their ideas for spinoffs.
Jeremy Swift, he plays Rebecca’s assistant Leslie, his idea Higgins and Coach Beard become detectives, but Beard is secretly corrupt and committing all the crimes himself. Higgins doesn’t know anything about it. I’d watch that. James Lands, who plays Trent Krim, said I’d be pretty interested to see what Will the Kitman is up to in his private life. Actor Charlie his Cock is a little superstar.
He’s funny as hell. I’d like to see him or Meanwhile, his Cock said he’d like to see Trent Krim on his next journey. Where does he go now now that he’s writing the book about the team, what happens next? But of course the best idea is to do The Roy Kent Show with Brett Goldstein, who’s been the breakout star of the series. What about a show about Roy and his niece Phoebe.
And the idea that’s not going to happen comes from Christo Fernandez, who plays Danny Rojas. He said, people have talked about a spinoff for Danny and that would be cool. Nobody’s talked about that. That’s not happening. If you enjoy what I do here, you go to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.
I wanted to thank the members. I was a little slacking during May and thanking the members in my personal life, May has been a bear. I don’t even want to bory with the details, but it’s been a crazy, crazy month. So Tommy and Andrea, and Gary and Shannon and Mike and Kenny, thank you so much for being members and supporting the show every single month. Again buying me at coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News.
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It means a lot to me. It’s not even the money or the coffee. It’s knowing that somebody actually gives a hoot about the podcast, and that is the most important thing. So thank you, thank you, thank you. Comedian Bobby Lee is suing WONDERYE for breach of contract.
This from the Hollywood Reporter. They are poor that Wondery allegedly canceled a multi year ad sales a distribution deal for Bobby Lee’s podcast, Tiger Belly. The complaint, filed in LA last Thursday on behalf of Lee’s Tiger Belly company, alleges that Wondery was under pressure to cut expenses and roll back its financial commitments and anticipation of a podcast market slowdown in twenty three. In the termination notice sent to Tiger Belly, Wondery also alleged Lee cited a moral’s clause and pointed to a twenty thirteen story that leads Old and Lee later said was made up for shock value about paying a young looking sex worker who had tears in her eyes and Tijuana. Remember that, Yeah, I told you that story.
So you know, I don’t know the specifically the deal here, but I have some expertise both in comedy and podcasting. I can tell you the ad market has indeed been soft in twenty twenty three. That’s no surprise. You’ll see that in every industry newsletter. As a podcast company giving a multimillion dollar deal for several years, there’s elite talent that you give that too, and there’s a talent that you don’t give multimillion dollar deals too.
You got to be mighty confident that you’re gonna get that money back. We’re seeing fewer and fewer of that type of deal, so who knows. That’s between wondery and tiger belly. And as for the morals clause advertisers, if you start playing on the shady side of the street, the advertisers don’t hang out there. So you can tell a joke story about a young looking sex worker who had tears in her eyes.
You can make up that story and get some laughs out of it. But I got news for you, A Coca Cola ain’t gonna be anywhere near that. Oh, we’ll keep an eye on that one. Did I say too much? Hi?
Graham Norton is going to fronts LLOL last one laughing Ireland told you about this one before. But I’ve got more details now. The competitors include Ashling b Who’s Fantastic, Amy Huberman, Katherine Bohart, David mc savage, Great Name, Deirdre O’Kane, Emman, Doran Jason Byrne, Martin Angelo, Paul’s Hylack, and Tony Cantwell last one. Laughing has done well in several countries, including Italy, France, and Germany. Trevor Noah’s going to host the South African version of it.
There is no American version of its. Rebel Wilson hosted the Australian edition. Jay Barrichell hosted the English Canadian version. Anyway, here is how it works, per the Wikipedia, ten comedians stay in a living room style studio with hidden cameras for a few hours usually six hours, okay. During that time, they have to make their opponents laugh in any way and by any means.
While not reacting to their competitors attempts to make them laugh. At the first laugh, the competitor is giving a yellow card. A second card eliminates the player from the game, a red card, you know, like football, Like soccer. However, large infractions may be given an automatic red card. Eliminated players join the host in the observation room, but may return as an external challenger to the remaining contestants.
The comedians can also be eliminated if they aren’t active enough. The only way to communicate with the outside is the telephone controlled by the host and Freevie is going to milk Jury Duty and then milk. It’s some more. Okay, Jury Duty is a fun show, did better than everybody thought. Well, they’re rereleasing it with commentary from the director and the guy that was tricked, Ronald will also get some commentary from the characters Noah, Vanessa and Nez and James Morriston as James Morriston.
They are also releasing merch, So if you’ve always wanted to wear a Dwarf T shirt, I think you’re going to be able to do so very soon. The merch will be out tomorrow. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, podcast, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. The Sea tomorrow