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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac. This is a bonus episode. This episode’s going to be a very very loose Uncle Floyd. Floyd Vivino has passed away to age seventy four, So to a large portion of view you’re like, who’s that.

But if you’re from the Tri state New York area, you’re going to feel this one. I’ll share my experiences later in the episode because I don’t want to at all make this about me, but I worked with Floyd and new Floyd. Floyd’s numbers in my phone, but to. Catch everybody else up a late night er, I think may have done the best obituary of them all. They explain.

Floyd Vivino debuted the Uncle Floyd Show on local cable TV in New Jersey in nineteen seventy four, launching the program at his own expense. So I’ll jump in there. Just picture a bear bones TV show, A guy sitting at a desk wearing a colorful jacket and a mismat colorful hat, and he’s got a puppet. The puppet is Ugie, and Floyd would stick his hand through the puppet shirt, so the puppet’s right hand was really Floyd’s right hand, but it totally worked. It just looked like he was kind of snuggling with the puppet, and the puppet would speak in a falsetto that also had a thick New Jersey accent.

Ridiculous. So I thought about pulling clips, but any clip I pull, You’re gonna be like, what the heck was that? That was crazy? But the charm of the show was how low budget it was. It wasn’t trying too hard.

And these are just guys from New Jersey banging this stuff out every day and kids like me are watching it. Hi, boys and girls, I’m Uncle Floyd. Then this is my partner, Ugie. Now before we start the show, I should apologize to everyone. Ugi is gonna be very upset today.

You could tell by his face. Look at that face, look like, don’t start telling everybody. I’m fed up. But I’m tired. I’m gone again.

Get paid around here. I want to get paid for my contribution to the show. I want my money putting the bank for me. I want it putting a trust fund. Why a trust fund?

Because I don’t trust you? Love So The Uncle Floyd Show debuted in nineteen seventy four, late Night, it writes. The variety show, which was formatted as a children’s show but often appealed to an adult audience with its absurdist humor, featured vivino and sketches, musical numbers, puppetry skits, and viewer interaction segments, and then the show also featured musical guests. Now, some of the musical guests who came on included the Ramones, Blondie and Elvis Costello. So where did you find the show?

I grew up in Queens, New York City. We didn’t get cable until I think it was nineteen eighty seven. We definitely didn’t have cable in nineteen eighty six when the Mets won the World Series, which as a kid who could see Shay Stadium, Home of the Mets out my bedroom window, was incredibly frustrating. Here they are the Met’s playing a mile away, and I can’t watch seventy five of the games. But I digress.

So as a kid, I would sit there and play with the UACHF button. You know, in the seventies you had in New York City two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen, and then whatever you found on UACHF. So you know, One night i’m dialing around, I put on channel thirteen. I discovered Monty Python. One night I’m playing with the other dial and I think it was channel twenty one, the PBS station from Long Island.

I find Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

And then on channel sixty eight there was the Uncle Floyd Show.

Now I don’t remember being honest here Chicken or the egg for Channel sixty eight total side by here. In the days before cable in Queens, you could get HBO the HBO man. I’m not still sure how this would work. The HBO man would come and they would hook some kind of antenna up on the apartment building where I lived, and on channel six you could subscribe to HBO. But if you slipped the cable guy or the HBO guy a couple bucks, you would have HBO forever.

So my dad may have done that. So we had HBO, but other people had something called WHT with mech go Home Theater. But the thing about WHT is they would show nazy films after midnight. Okay, but how did WHT work? I’m going somewhere.

Channel sixty eight during the daytime was a normal channel. Then at some point they would scramble the signal, so you had to have a box and the box would de scramble the signal so that you could watch movies on WHT and they had real movies. It was like an HBO equivalent, except on WHT you had the naughty stuff at midnight, but it was still over the air, just scrambled. So if you were up around midnight and you put on U sixty eight, it was scrambled. But if you were a young man, occasionally you might see, you know, a little scrambled nudity, which was very exciting.

So I can’t remember if I came to channel sixty eight for Floyd or if I came to channel sixty eight for the you know, the scramble. And I’m not the only one. You all know the deal anyway, Uncle Floyd was on at six o’clock after s speed Racer. I hated speed Racer. Speed Racer sucks, but speed Racer was the thing I would stare at killing Thomas six o’clock and then Uncle Floyd come on Channel sixty eight for half an hour back to late nighter, reaching viewers in the New Jersey and New York areas.

The Uncle Floyd Show became an underground favorite throughout the seventies and eighties. In nineteen eighty two, and I’ve mentioned this too much, Chisholm from The Letterman Show, this is the thing that happened. In nineteen eighty two, the show expanded its reach around the country with a seventeen city syndication deal. In New York, it became part of WNBC’s late night programming following Saturday Night Live. That deal only lasted a year.

The Uncle Floyd Show kept going in the Tri State area on various cable UHF and VHF channels. I don’t remember any VHF channels, but I won’t argue with Late Nighter. The Uncle Floyd Show continued into the nineties, the final new episodes in nineteen ninety eight. Floyd’s brother Jerry posted on Instagram early Friday with a heavy heart, I’m sad to announce the passing of my brother and everybody’s favorite Uncle Floyd Vivino. After two and a half year battle with ongoing health issues.

His curtain peacefully closed at six oh five pm on Thursday in January twenty second. Floyd was born in Patterson grew up in multiple towns in New Jersey, including Glen Rock, where he went to high school. One of his fans, David Bowie, said, back in the late seventies, everyone that I knew woul rush home at a certain point in the afternoon to catch the Uncle Floyd show. He was on UHF Channel sixty eight. The show looked like it was done out of his living room in New Jersey.

All his pals were involved in. It was a hoot. It had that soupy sales kind of appeal and that ostensibly aimed to kids. I knew so many people my age who just wouldn’t miss it. Would be on the floor.

It was so funny. I loved that show. David Bowie said it may have been John Lennon who introduced David Bowie to the show. Bowie has a song, slip Away, released in two thousand and two. Some of the lyrics to slip Away include Oogie waits for just Another Day, Oogie is the puppet that I referred to earlier, the chorus sailing over Coney Island, twinkled twinkle, Uncle Floyd, We were dumb, but you were fun boy.

How I wonder, How I wonder where you are? Oogie Waite for just enough day, Dred Speones. To see the Yay kids play. Now, I’ve been doing this. My daughter got me into this song of the day thing.

You just add a song every day to your playlist. That’s going on my playlist today. All right. Cripping from Wikipedia here they talk about some of the cast. Now, as a kid, we always liked the cast members.

There was Scott Gordon, but then the other guys had names like Muggsy and Netto and Loony Skip Rooney, so it was all characters. Floyd would come out, he would do the opening bit with oogie, and he would sometimes sing these like old timey songs, and some of them were naughty. I pulled one and this is a song called shaving Cream. And let’s let uncle Floyd take the first verse. I have a sad story to tell you.

It may hurt your ears just a bit. Last night, as I walked in my bathroom, I. Stepped in a big pile of shaving cream. Be nice and clean, shave every day and you’ll always be. In later days.

From nineteen eighty seven to twenty thirteen, Floyd Vivino broadcast on WVIPFM from Newrochelle, New York, where he played a wide range of Italian music on a Sunday afternoon program, The Italian American Serenade, and that will become relevant to my own career in a bit. Floyd claimed to have the largest collection of Italian records in the world. In twenty thirteen, Uncle Floyd’s Garage Sale Music began on WVOX fourteen sixty. That show featured an eclectic variety of records from Floyd’s large personal collection, most of which he found in thrift shops, yard sales, and curbside garage piles. In twenty thirteen, Floyd began the internet based radio program The Uncle Floyd Radio Show, which I did not know existed and was streamed twice a week.

I just found five episodes of what I Think is that on Spotify, so you can look that up. Let me get the break in. What’s talk a little more about Uncle Floyd. So I knew Uncle Floyd a little bit. I’ve told you a lot of his career and I had a few years where we cross paths.

So I’m it’s serious. And I get tagged to work with Stephen van Zandt on something called The Wise Guy Show. This was right in the middle of Sopranos Mania, and Steven van zandt as you know, was on The Sopranos. So Steven had the idea, all right, what if we created a radio show that just sounded like the Fellas hanging out at the botta, being that was the premise of the show. So I worked with Stephen Vinnie Pastor, who was Big Pussy on The Sopranos.

He was the star of the Wise Guys show h New York City DJ Joe Causey, who’s a great guy. He was brought in to be, you know, keep the trains on time, try and make this an actual radio show, because it was Joe the radio professional, and a bunch of people who were not radio professionals. So Joe would keep the trains on time, you hat, Vinnie and then a bunch of other character actors, including a guy that went by the name Cha Cha who appears in the later episodes of The Sopranos, Vinnie Vella Giorgano. A lot of the like secondary characters on this Pranos would come up and do guest spots. So I spent a little bit of time just immersed in that world.

In all ways, I could tell you some stories some other day. But at one point I suggested to Steven that we bring in uncle Floyd. Now I loved working with Steven van Zanda. I’m a big Springsteen fan, but when you work with me, I’m also a professional. And I was just saying to my wife last night, I don’t know why, for some reason, Steven’s name came up, and I said, I think it was five years before I said anything like Bruce or Springsteen.

It’s not why we were there, you know. Our relationship was he was Steven, and it was his show and his vision, and I was the guy producing it, and we just had that relationship. Good guy to work with. And I went to him and I go, why don’t we bring it Floyd? And he was like Floyd, And I explained him that Floyd was doing the Italian American show and that Floyd could play piano and could bring it in a little more entertainment to the show and bring in some more laughs because the show was airing on one of the comedy channels, and just make the show just a touch bit lighter without totally telling the original BOTA being premise in.

So we brought in Floyd and he fit like a glove, because the guys would still sit at the table and do their thing, and Floyd would sit at the piano, and then Vinnie Pastor could throw it to Floyd, who just knew how to play all these songs off the top of his head, and he could do these really wonderful short bursts. And you know, Floyd being a pro, new one to get in and new one to get out, and knew his role. On any radio show, you want to know your role, so he knew what he was there to do, would do it and execute flawlessley and then throw the ball back to Joe Causey and Vinnie Pasteur. And he was able to hang with those guys, and when they were getting a little rough and tumble, some of them were character actors who may have been more characters than actors, if you know what I mean, Floyd could hang with them, and then Floyd could sit at the piano. A late night er, UH dusted off an interview they did with Chris Gethard, also a Jersey guy, who said, Uncle Floyd is probably, in my mind, the most underappreciated entertainer of recent memory.

He was huge for me. He’s kind of cut from a different cloth. He’s very versatile. He’s absolutely a genius. There’s a number of people in comedy, especially if they grew up in the Northeast, who really obsess over Uncle Floyd.

A lot of people who think differently point to Floyd to someone who was doing stuff that was really original, really hilarious, and really pure, like really cracked open from his own brain and it didn’t always make sense, but boy, it was effing awesome. So if you’re from the New York City ish New Jersey area, you get it. And if you’re not from around here, this is the first time you’re hearing of this guy. I hope I was able to bring a little bit of how awesome Floyd was to you. There are clips on YouTube, but it’s one of those things that you had to be there, and if you were there, it was awesome.

Uncle Floyd’s gonna take us out here. Rest in peace, Floyd Vivino. Uncle Floyd and the crazy hissing you hear is, of course an inflatable dinosaur. Boys and Girls. This is my last show here on New Jersey Network, and that’s.

All there is. There is no more. My contract has not been renewed here at New Jersey Network. I thank everybody for so many nice times. But we’ll meet again, as we always say whenever we’re going, will meet again.

Don’t know where, don’t know when, but. I know will meet again some nonny days. Keep smiling through, just like you always do, till the blue skies chase the dark clouds so far away. So won’t you please say hello to the folks that I know. Tell them I won’t be long.

They’ll be happy to know that. As you saw me go, I was singing this song. Will need again, Don’t know where, don’t know when. That I know will need again. So see you day M hm

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, A daily briefing on stand up comedians in the comedy industry, a freeze that will boost your Spotify numbers by twenty percent. But I can’t bog down on that right now, because the folks at the Hollywood Reporter they watched Free Bert on Netflix, and uh yeah, sounds like pretty much what I thought it was gonna be their headline. Bert Kraser strips away the shirtless party boy persona, but also the laughs. Uh oh.

They have compared this to his often partner Tom Sagora, The Hollywood Reporter, right, Sigora used his opportunity to deliver twenty twenty five’s Bad Thoughts, a vig yet driven sketch show that steered into everything that is amiably off putting and in your face about sigora stand up slash podcast persona. Bad Thoughts might be a show primarily for established Toom Sagora fans, but man, if you’re a Tompsagora fan, it’s on brand. On the surface, it appears that Krasier’s Free Bird aspires to something more like what Dave did for Dave Little Dicky Bird or buck Gist did for Pete Davidson? Did bub GISs do anything for Pete Davidson? Pete Walked Away Man, wherein it takes a comic with a specific and established persona and says, what if we show you the human behind the stick?

Or perhaps what Krascher is doing with free Bert is almost a parody of that genre. It’s hard to tell for sure, because although Free Bird is successful on some level, it’s not especially funny, and when free Bert is funny, it’s actually funny because of the three teenage girls who were Krascher’s co stars. The article that then gets into plot spoilers and they tag it with free Bert proves there’s more to Bird. Krascher. I’m just not sure this is the best vehicle for it, so I haven’t seen it yet as I record this Thursday at three pm in the afternoon.

It’s on my list of things to watch last night in your Universe. But this was the question I had off the trailer. Who is this for? It seems dumbed down for the Bird audience, but too naughty for the non Bird audience, so I don’t know who the show is for. Bert also got the Big Wax Job interview from The Hollywood Reporter.

They’re curious how did this project come to be? Bert Kreischer said, here’s genesis. I was fired from the Travel Channel. Everything was going away for me and I had to refigure out who I was, and I was having an identity crisis. At the same time, we were at a school for my daughters where it felt like everyone I had money, everyone had nice cars, everyone had big houses.

Our house was eleven hundred square feet and it was right by Jack in the Box. We felt like we were the Beverly Hillbillies. So I was trying to encapsulate that time, and the quickest way to get to the identity crisis was pulled for my life. And the comments I get, which are like, oh, well he is is the fat guy that takes his shirt off. Bert says, I got hired for a private party.

One time I tried doing material on. The guy goes, hey, man, put the shirt on and take it off again and just tell the machine. I was like what, and he goes, we don’t want to hear the other stuff. Just do the shirt rip off one more time, tell the machine. Then let’s go party.

Bert says it was twenty five thousand dollars and I did it. Yikes. Lying in bed that night in Vale, Colorado, I thought to myself, I just got paid twenty five thousand dollars to take my shirt off and tell one story twenty five thousand dollars. I was like, what if that’s my life? So we had that scene in the show, and then we infuse the identity crisis that happens when you go to a new school and you’re trying to fit in.

And just did Netflix go to bird It? Did Bert go to Netflix? He said, I brought it to them. They were obviously up for hearing a pitch. But My White Whal has always been a sitcom, a TV show about my family.

There was an Artie Lang sighting from the National Inquirer. A new photo suggests that Artie Lang is doing well. He’s now fifty eight. He was spotted in a photo taken at Davittel’s birthday dinner. We’re told in the photo, Arti Lang is wearing a backwards baseball cap, sporting a mustache and beard, and had his right hand in the air, acknowledging the camera.

A tell caps on the post, what a birthday? Thank you? For all things of me see down the road at a club sometime soon. I worked with Lady several times during my years. It’s serious, good guy, exactly who you think.

He is. Friendly as heck. If we invited him to come down the hall to the comedy stations to do some sort of stunt, he always did, very very friendly. I wish him the best. But I can also tell you I’ve been in the audience.

I remember one night at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival watching Already on stage, and I said to one of my coworkers, if we wake up tomorrow and he’s dead, I’m not going to be shocked. I didn’t say that dismissively. You could just tell that Already had demons. He’s quite open about his demons, and they were on stage that night. So I’m really glad already Lang appears to be doing well.

Good guy. I wish the best. Forum Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday Night suggested that the FCC has him and his crosshairs. On Wednesday, the FCC clarified its guidance on the equal time rule. That rule suggests that broadcast stations must afford equal airtime to competing politicians.

Talk shows have been exempt from the rule since jay Leno fought against it in one in nineteen ninety six. Jay Leno’s team argued that he was conducting interviews that qualified for the same carve out granted to news programming. The FCC, in a ruling, said, importantly, the FCC has not been presented with any evidence that the interview portion of any late night or daytime television talk show program on air presently would qualify for the bonafide news exemption. Moreover, a program that is motivated by partisan purposes, for example, would not be entitled to an exemption under long standing FCC President. Kimmel said, we’re once again threatened by the FCC.

I might need your help again. So I’m not expert in this. So say Jimmy Kimmel had on Gavin Newsom, He has Gavin neusim on? Does kim all? Then now have to have someone else?

And what’s the equivalent of Gavin Ussom? So you have to have the Republican gubernatorial candidate on? Like, how does this even work? And like I get what it’s trying to do, and part of me, I’m I rolling that because I get what it’s trying to do. But putting my cynicism away, if you’re like, oh, I wouldn’t it be good to have both sides on things?

Because there are some things you can’t both side. All right, I’m not gonna get political here. Let me just use a ridiculous example. Say I talked about Adam Sandler comedies. There’s no both siding that.

I’m not going to have a guest on telling us that Adam Sandler movies are funny, right, that would be ridiculous, and that’s not how this show goes. This show makes fun of Adam Sandler comedies. So if you told me I had to have somebody on to be pro Adam Sandler comedy, I just wouldn’t do the Adam Sandler segment. Now I’m being very facetious here, But now apply that to politics. So now you look at it and go, eh, maybe we shouldn’t have Gavin Usiman, We’ll have nobody on.

We won’t talk about issues at all. And they get back to me, eye rolling, going, I see what they’re trying to do here. Now who do you side with here? Bill Maher has detested Stephen Colbert for years now. If I had to weigh in, if you said, Johnny Mack, you got to pick here because Bill Maher is fighting with Stephen Colbert?

Which side you pick? I’d be like, has Bill Maher been on Kurtzman Star Trek? And you would say no, And I’d go, I’m picking Bill Maher. I’ll hold my nose and pick team mar because he hasn’t ruined Star Trek. All right, what’s the issue here?

Bill Maher was on The Late Show in twenty fifteen. During the interview, Stephen Colbert, a devout Catholic and Star Trek ruiner, challenged Bill Maher on his atheism. The conversation got tense. During the interview, Colbert referred to Mar as dull. Mar fired back and called the host Steve.

Colbert said, who the f is? Steve? Are you my third grade teacher? Right? Relaxed, dude, relax.

Apparently there’s still a source, says Steven thinks Bill is pumped, and Bill thinks he’s a smart alec people that gets an act. But these guys really don’t like each other. Even a little more has explained. Yeah, but the good part is we don’t hide it, like he doesn’t like me and I don’t like him, and we don’t deny it. Maybe we’ll become friends one day, said Bill Moore.

I’ve had that happen before with people. You know, you get off on the wrong foot. I mean, there’s no reason why two comics we have a lot of common. But you know, I’ll say it now. I think I did the show twice.

You could tell it’s on screen. It’s okay. It’s not like we effing fought each other. Craig ferguson not coming back to late night. Craig told Variety, this is the truth of me and late night television.

I didn’t really watch late night television before I did it, and then I certainly didn’t watch it while I was doing it, and then afterwards I don’t really watch it. So it’s not something I feel qualified to really either predict or coming on to be honest. I mean, I did my thing, but I don’t know that my thing was ever really part of that thing, you know what I mean. Craig hosted The Late Late Show from two thousand and five to the end of twenty fourteen, back when twelve thirty was great again again. I encourage the president to make late night great again.

We’ve got Seth Myers I don’t know what’s going on there at twelve thirty. At eleven thirty, we’ve got Stephen Colbert helping to ruin Star Trek. That show has to go with the news that Colbert Show was ending. Some people were like, bring back Craig Ferguson, who says, that’s not something I’m into. You only do it two days in shawshank Right, first day and last day.

I’m very proud of that talk show I did. I’m really glad I did it. I think we hit the ball more often than we missed, but I don’t feel I need to do it again. It would almost make it not as valuable to me if I started doing it again. Variety points out Ferguson’s late Late show clips live on via bootleg Clips.

Creig explains it’s weird because I think I’m probably less connected to that old show than people who watched it. A lot that was then and now is now. I’m glad I did it. I’m very proud of it, but I haven’t lived with it on a day to day basis for a long time. Craig is now hosting Scrabble.

He says, I’ve been playing scrabble since I was a kid. I suspect it’s the reason I can actually read, given the way that my education went. So it’s very keen that we got a TV version of Scrabble that I thought did justice of the game. What I did notice is how competitive scrabble players are. I used to think I was good at scrabble, but these people are great at Scrabble.

Craig likes hosting game shows because there’s no prep. I go in, I play the game of the contestants, and that’s the only information I have, the contestants’ names and how to pronounce them correctly. He says. The tapings have been going long a TV hours, around forty four minutes before commercials, and it takes us easily double that with me talking smack and bs about this, that and the next thing. I just play and then whatever has to be taken out in order for the game it’s ordered.

I suspect there’ll be a lot of b rolling out takes that will become available pretty soon once the show starts airing. If you are enjoying Daily Comedy News, one way to support the show is get the ad free version. What do I do, Johnny Mac? That sounds cool? Well, what you do, friend, is you open up the Apple podcast app.

You’ll find a banner it says uninterrupted listening. You click on that, and then you’ll be part of a thirty day free trial. We get this show and a bunch of others on the channel ad free. Then after the thirty days, it’s no longer a free trial. Then you’re in and it’s four ninety nine a month, and all the ads go a way great way to support the show.

Take it away, Burt Reynolds, Comedy stock Markets. I don’t have a lot for you this week on the comedy stock market. I have zero buy recommendations. I don’t think anybody had an awesome week where I’m like, oh, I gotta buy that. I mean, I do want to suggest you buy the Netflix Comedy Festival, but you can actually buy stock in Netflix, so I don’t want to start giving stock recommendations.

You do what you want with an actual stock, so I’m not saying to do that. This is comedy stock market where you can’t actually buy or sell stocking comedians. Well, you probably can on one of those. I’m sure you’re watching the same TV im where it seems like you could bet on anything. Now there probably is a comedy stock market who knows, but I don’t have any buys.

I have two cells. First sell Burt Kreischer, same note as last week, same note as the first half of today’s podcast. I don’t know who the show’s for, so let’s seller Burt Krescher. The other sell is Michael Rapaport. Do you watch The Traders?

I started to watch this season of The Traders, and I found Michael rapp reports so annoying. I decided I’m not gonna watch this season, and I’m on comedy threads and apparently I’m not the only one. Apparently people do not enjoy him, and not in like he’s a good reality show villain kind of way. He’s just annoying. And I’ve talked about this in the past.

There are some people that anytime their name comes up, it’s never like Michael Rappaport was outside eating an ice cream cone and he pad a Golden Retriever and had a nice day. That’s never why Michael Rappaport comes up in the news. There’s always something stupid, like you said he was running for mayor four years from now. A trader. He’s just annoying.

So if we had any Michael Rappaport stock Let’s sell it. Sorry, I don’t have a deep comedy stock market fee this week, but I don’t at Jeff Foxworthy’s gonna take a new comedy special at Gwynett’s Gas South Theater April fifteenth and sixteenth. Looking forward to that. Jeff’s a great guy. If you’re in Cleveland tomorrow night, Justy Slay as at the Agora.

Justy’s recent special was called wet Heat, which is not at all what many of us east of Thessippi you’re having this weekend. Burr again. That’s why I interrupted the show the other day to get the boiler guy to come into My ass is nice and warm today, Thank you, boiler Guy. Dusty Slay says, my relationship with the heats always changes. I thought the heat was great.

But if you’re out in the yard trying to plant fruit trees like I like to do, write that down. Now we know something about Dusty Slay. He likes to plant fruit trees. He can really beat you down. I nearly gave myself a heat stroke last year.

I just feel like my body’s not reacting as well to heat these days. His current set is regular everyday stuff, but with a unique twist. I had someone say the other night I have an ability to make things relatable even when they’re not, like planting fruit trees. Anyone who knows me knows I have a difficult relationship with dogs. I talk about dogs all the time on my podcast, and some people have gotten really mad at me.

But other people have some emails with similar stories. It’s like people are afraid to say that they’re not into dogs. It’s kind of my thing. I grew up in the country with a lot of dogs. If you go stay with a relative with a dog and you’re not used to having indoor pets, then you can’t breathe the next day.

I think that’s what’s wrong with everybody’s sinned us is they’re all sleeping with dogs out there. Dusty says, people are loving the dog bit. I found a good way to do these dog jokes without offending anyone. I really try to work on finding material that anybody can enjoy. You just gotta come in and sit down, laugh for an hour and a half without having to think.

I don’t want people worried about stuff. I want them to be relaxed during the show. Go see Dusty Slay. If you’re in Cleveland, seven o’clock at the Agora five thousand and one Prospect Avenue, thirty five bucks to get you in. TBS for some reason, has greenlit sixteen half hour episodes of hidden camera comedy series Foul Play with Anthony Davis.

That’s right, Anthony Davis from the Dallas Mavericks has a hidden camera show for some reason. I don’t know why. We’re told the unscripted series pairs elite athletes with elaborate pranks, giving them one chance to pull off their mischievous plans or foul out. Trying see Basketball is see and it goes. The show debuted as a half hour special last winter.

Guest stars included Mookie Betts, He’s from the Dodgers, and TBS is making sixteen of these Foul Play with Anthony Davis. TBS president Jason Salernis said in a prepared statement, Anthony Davis brings the same position in swagger to comedy that he does to the court. At TBS, we love a show that knows how to have fun and foul plays exactly that. We’re excited for our viewers to have as much fun watching it as Anthony and the other athletes had filming it. Now, as much as I’m making fun of this thing, the premiere got over three million viewers.

That’s a lot, So get out your calendar, write this down. The first batch of episodes will premiere Monday, April sixth, immediately following the NCAA National Championship basketball game, and then it’ll be on every Monday at eight o’clock. So that means when you’re watching the basketball tournament, they’re gonna have you ever seen TBS promote something? TBS promoting something during sports? They are relentless.

You’re gonna be sick of this thing before it even airs. Foul play with Anthony Davis. Stay warm this weekend, and depending where you live, you’re getting between two and two thousand inches of snow. I don’t know if you’ve been following the weather reports, big snow or no snow. Who knows.

You might get snow and you might get a lot of snow. So when you’re stuck in the house, what you want to do before the power goes out, is you want to download Daily Comedy News Tomorrow on the program a longer episode. Mike Chisholm from The Letterman podcast, and I we tape some stuff in early January, maybe was still late December, and we kind of bs about comedy for like a half an hour or so. So that’ll keep you entertained until the lights come back on. Then Sunday, on this very program, a normal show, I’ve got some industry stuff through a couple deeper dives on the comedy industry and how it all works.

So we’ll do that in the second half of Sunday’s podcast, normal episode Monday morning, and then Monday at noon Comedy Survivor Week three results. Okay, have an awesome weekend. Appreciate you all. New listeners, welcome aboard. See you all tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. That’s a sentence. The Spotify algorithm likes Bert Kraser’s show Free Bert is out today on Netflix. The only press I’ve seen him do so far was on Gail King on CBS, and I went to pull the audio and the interview was very CBS this morning, Gail kingy and not interesting at all, So I’m like, forget it.

I’ll just tell them that it’s out today. We’ll see if Bert does any more. Press from lad Bible Comedians speaks out over allegations Ricky Gervay’s stole his joke? Okay, did Ricky Gervas steal a joke? I’m gonna have to do a lot of paraphrasing here as I try to keep it clean.

During his Golden Globe Award winning special, Ricky Gervas started joking about the Exorcist cleaning up Ricky’s joke. He said something like, if scientists actually found the devil, I’d want to meet him, and I’d meet the devil. And he tried to hurt my feelings, and he went, your mother does a whole bunch of things with her mouth in hell, and Ricky’s tag is, I don’t care once she’s dead too, she was heterosexual, and then he goes on to have some fun with that premise. Some comedy fans claim that it was a cut and paste of a joke made by Andy Field back in twenty twenty during BBC’s stand up for Live Comedy. Field’s version, which I’ll also clean up.

Has anyone seen The Exorcist? Your mother, uh does things with her mouth in hell? And you’re supposed to go, oh no, that sounds awful, But I don’t know. I think it sounds fine. It’s hell, isn’t it.

It’s where the most imaginable things happen. There’s a million people burning fraternity in a like a fire, constantly blistering and angity. My mom’s down there doing stuff. Who’s having stuff done to them in hell? Anyway?

That seems like a really positive thing to be happening. Boy, that sounds extremely similar. So Field heard that Gervase might be copying his joke. Field shared a video on social media explaining his opinion. Field splice clips of both are sets together to highlight the similarities and pointed out they’re pretty close.

But the idea that there’s so many bits that are so close is kind of weird, isn’t it. If I’m honest, I think what happens is that Ricky Gervas had the same idea as me, independently on his own at a different time. People love a bit of drama, love a bit of jokestealing Johnny Max guilty. Then I don’t think that’s what happened here. Most likely, Field says, we’ve never met.

I know I did that bit on BBC one, but no one watched it. And I had that idea ten years ago. Ricky Gervas had it quite recently. I don’t think he stole my bit. I think we just have very similar bits, very similar He’s doing a lot of work.

In that sentence, Field took the opportunity to highlight how many talented people there are out there. Lots of people, myself included, can make stand up with that level. There’s not space in the public consciousness for that many successful comedians, but there are that many talented people out there. All right, well played, he got his message across the court of public opinion. Can decide.

Pole Star posted a big, long discussion between Jerry Seinfeld and Nate bergatzi, It’ll take me days to go through this, but let’s start picking away at it. Jerry said, let’s start here with what’s on my mind? What do you have to do with this business that people stop trying to make you laugh? You get these guys and then you say something and you go, I’m kidding. What makes people think I’m gonna riff with Nate a little bit?

I’m as accountant Nate forgets, he said. I get a lot of stories, and I’ll be honest, I enjoyed telling them why their story is not good and what I would do with it. The problem is they get to the punchline almost immediately, and then they don’t know how to get out of it. So then that’s the fun part. I got hit by a car and then it’s like, yo, man, you gotta save that car thing and build up a little bit.

In the middle, they start talking about their wives. Jerry Seinfeld said, my wife’s extremely funny also, but when she’s telling a story, I just keep thinking tighter, just tighter. Nate says, oh, yeah, everything’s tighter. Nothing should be long. The idea of the elevator pitch.

You should think about that all the time, Jerry said, it’s not important for them. It doesn’t matter if it works at dinner or not. Really new topic, Nate said, I was talking to a younger comic like six months in, just recently, and he’s going on and on about his Set’s a bad show he did, and You’re like, I don’t care, man, you’re six months in. Then he stopped and came back to it, and I was like, why don’t you tell it story again one more time. Let’s see how this one ends.

They don’t even realize it because they’re six months in a comedy. Plenty more from those too, you’ll find it on Pollstar. Now, if you listen every day, you know that the President and I don’t see eye to eye on all the issues. Some of them we do like making Late Night great again. Some of them we don’t.

I won’t make that list right now, but we do agree that we have a problem a twelve thirty for sure, and I’m aligned with the President that Stephen Colbert has to go. Now. We have different reasons for that. Mine is Stephen Colbert is one of the comedians helping to absolutely destroy Star Trek. So I have no patience for Stephen Colbert tak Natoro gini yshir or paton oswaldug the Vulcan.

So I’m not at all excited that Stephen Colbert is going to make an appearance on SETH Myers. Why not just yell out the window, Stephen? Why not come on this show? The audience isn’t all that much different. Why would you go on SETH Myers Late Nighter got into the logistics of all this.

Colbert will walk the five blocks from his offices to the Ed Sullivan Theater. I’m pretty sure he’ll be in a town corp of some sort. Anyway, he will somehow travel five blocks on Monday, although right now the forecast for New York City on Monday is somewhere between a nice day and forty thousand inches of snow. Most of you who lives somewhere east of the Mississippi have a similar forecast for this weekend. Are we getting two inches?

Four thousand inches? Who knows? But let’s say there was no snow. Steve Colbert would somehow, maybe by sled, travel five blocks. But John, you just said there was no snow.

Why would he travel by sled if there’s no snow. Your whole premise is busting apart. This is why I need Seinfeld and Nate to tell me how to tell a story. I digress. Colbert somehow don’t worry about the weather.

Somehow he’s gonna go five blocks. You really should edit this, John, but that’s not fun. Colbert will somehow go five blocks from the Ed Sullivan Theater to thirty Rock. At thirty Rock, he will pre tape his appearance to the ninety people who watch Late Night with Seth Myers, and then go back to record his own number one rated late night canceled talk show, The Late Show now Late Nighter points out on Mondays, Seth Myers tapes two episodes covering both Monday and Tuesday, which I’ve discussed in the past on this program. I find it curious the Colbert people didn’t take that option.

You know, maybe stop off at some budget cuts before we cancel the thing entirely. But maybe it’s for the best because Stephen Colbert is helping to ruin Star Trek. But I digress. Sarah Silverman shared a not Safe for Work anecdote from her days on Saturday Night Live. Sarah went on Late Night with Seth Myers.

Why are people doing this program? You think I’m being mean? Here here’s from Late Night or October fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Here are final late night ratings for Q three. Late Night with Seth Myers average nine hundred and twenty three thousand total viewers and one hundred and nine thousand in the eighteen to forty nine s Stephen Colbert and Sarah Silverman could actually stand on a box in Times Square and reach more people.

That is not at all a joke. Make Late Night great again. Come on, President Trump, You’re focusing on the wrong issues. You’re totally distracted all week. You’ve been totally distracted with crazy things.

You need to focus on this late night issue. Sarah Silverman said she was there at SNL fifty with John Lovett’s Paul McCartney was about to perform. Sarah said she and Lovitz made a bet before Paul began his set. She said, John Lovetts leans over and he goes, if I can guess what song he’s going to sing, will you show me a picture of your privates? He used a different word, but not as bad as you think.

The one with the V he used that word, or at least that’s the version Sarah tells. Who knows what he actually said. Sarah told the seven people that watched Seth Myers absolutely deal love its correctly guessed Golden Slumbers. Sarah did not say whether she made good on the bet. Hey BET’s a bet.

Keenan Thompson is getting back together with Kel Mitchell. They’re making yet another movie. It’s not Good Burger three. Oh No, They’re making a horror comedy. Keenan and Kel meet Frankenstein, which makes me wonder, why doesn’t Sandler do that?

Why are we doing Adam Sandler meets Frankenstein? Adam Sandler meets the Mummy? Why is Sanlor not doing ten of those? That’s kind of comedian Adam Sandler’s destiny, right do whatever Adam did accept, it’s Adam Sandler. Let me look those up.

Ma’s a little loose today, you know, I’m looking here at the IMDb. Sailor could remake all kinds of movies. Could you see Adam Sandler in a remake of Buck Privates? Adam Sandler could play a sidewalk salesman enlisting in the army to avoid jail, only to find that his drill instructor is the police officer who had him imprisoned. You could see that?

Could you see? Adam Sandlor in hold that Ghost? After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, a dim witted service station attendant finds himself stranded in a haunted house. Does that not scream? Adam Sandler?

Here come the co Eds. A bumbler played by Adam Sandler could become the caretaker at an all girls college. During his misadventures, he raises money to free the school from its traditionally minded landlord. Could you not see that? Adam Sandler meets Frankenstein.

The Wolfman tries to warn a dim witted porter that Dracula wants his brain for frankenstein Monster’s body. I mean, does that not scream? Adam Sandlor? Movie? Adam Sandler in The Foreign Legion.

In this Abbot and Constella remake, a Brooklyn wrestling promoter ghost of French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler, but accidentally ends up in the French Foreign Legion. Could you not see that? Could you not see? Adam Sandler meets the Invisible Man? How about Adam Sandler and the Beanstalk in this app and Costello remaking a story about Adam Sandler who trades the family cow for magic beans.

I think I’ve made my point. Move on, although I am distracted by Adam Sandler goes to Mars and Adam Sandlor meets Captain Kid, Adam Sandler meets Doctor Jekyl and mister Hyde. Adam Sailor meets the Mummy. Where were we? Oh?

Keenan Thompson was making a movie. I try not to hand in the same show every day. Guce. Keenan Thompson was making a movie. This is called Keenan and Kel Meet Frankenstein.

Keenan said, Kell and I have always loved finding new ways to work together, and this project felt like the perfect mix of nostalgia, comedy and something completely unexpected. We’re excited to bring a fresh take on a classic monster story and have some fun doing it. There’s more Podcasting Awards, which is something I could say every single day. There’s so many podcasts awards. These are the Ambies presented by the Podcast Academy, which sounds really fancy.

Thirty three categories Best Comedy Podcast. The nominees are Conan O’Brien needs a friend, be not so canceled, Last Culturistas, something called Murder at the Pateel Motel, SmartLess, The Bald and the Beautiful, The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr, which is not a good podcast, and I like Jimmy Carr despite the whole odd thing that is not a good podcast. And Wisecrack. I don’t know what wisecrack is and I don’t care now. Podcast of the Year, Real Quick Call Her, Daddy, Crime Junkie, Pablo Tory, Podsave America, Question Everything, Reveals, SmartLess, the last invention of the Mel Robins podcast, and Wisecrack once again, must be a good show.

I’d better look this up now now if it’s nominated for everything? What is Wyse Crack Wise Crack from Tenderfoot? Now? I know the Tenderfoot guys. They are good people.

I know Donald and Donald hands in good work. Okay, this is just off my radar because I don’t work with them anymore. You can check my resume. I work with them. He left home as the chubby kid with a dream.

A decade later, he’s a touring comic with a killer set.

All right, let’s give it to that because I like Donald Anyway, you may be not…

She just won the Golden Globe for Best Podcast. She’s not even nominated. What’s the deal with that. Entertainment Weekly looked into it and apparently they confirmed with a source at Spotify that Spotify historically does not submit for awards. If you’re enjoying this program today, God bless you, and you would like it without commercials.

What thing you can do? You open up your Apple podcast app. I’ll do it with you. I got my phone right here. Okay, I’m gonna swipe up and I’m gonna find the podcast app after I enter my code.

I’m not telling you what my code is. Podcast app. So I go to shows, Daily, Comedy News. There it is, and then there’s this banner. It says uninterrupted listening for ninety nine a month or forty nine ninety nine for a year after trial try free.

Now, if I were to click that, I would find that there are forty six shows on the callirog Shark Network, and I would get them all ad free for five a month. Actually there’s more than forty six. We don’t have everything on the ad free tier. For reasons, there are forty six and they add free tier. So if you’re like, hey, I heard John also host good news stories, I’d like that without commercials.

That would be part of your five bucks. And the best part thirty day free trial. So for thirty days you could just try it out, and then on day thirty one when Apple’s like, hey, we build you five bucks, you’d be like, damn. John told me that on January twenty second, and I forgot, and I’ll be like, I don’t know. I don’t want to tell you it was thirty day free trial.

I never said it was more than thirty day free trial. After thirty days, it’s five bucks a month, all right? Apple Podcasts Uninterrupted Listening, you click, you know what to do. Today’s the last day to vote for a week three of Comedy Survivor. Last time I checked, it looked like either Tig Nataro or Joe Koy was going to go home.

I don’t weigh on these things. You know, one host of the Golden Globes one time until a horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. The other is destroying Star Trek. I don’t get to vote. I only get to tell you the results.

So vote and then sometime tomorrow I will record the episode, and then you’ll get the episode on Monday, hopefully at noon. Now, last week, some idiot named Johnny mack forgot to schedule it for noon, and out of habit scheduled it for three oh five Eastern, So you got the results a little early, doesn’t really matter. I did want to apologize for running out the door on you guys yesterday. That was a true story. The boiler Guy did show up.

We’ve been having if you’ve been listening every day, we’ve been having all kinds of problems with the heat this winter. And the boiler Guy was coming. And I knew what the forecast was. I mean, I woke up this morning it was four degrees where I lived. That is not a joke.

It is twenty six right now, and here are the lows for the upcoming week. Now, tomorrow’s low is twenty one, not too bad, but then eight, nine, five, five, nine, ten, and twelve. So I wanted to make sure the boiler was working. So as much as I wanted to tell you about Martin Schwort’s new documentary, I was like, they can wait till tomorrow, no offense. I can’t do this if I freeze to death, so let me go a little more slowly today.

That documentary is called Marty Life Is Short. It’ll be out on Netflix in May. Directed by Lawrence Casten, the documentary includes never before seen archive footage as well as interviews with some of the most established and beloved stars. Martin Short has no plans to retire. He till the Hollywood Quarterback in June.

I’m not a believer in retirement just based on a number. It’s designed for people who don’t really like their job and they want to relax, so they’re tired, or they just want to do something else. But I like my job. That’s a good attitude.

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Also, when the boiler guy came, I didn’t get to tell you about Russell Brand.

His case was heard at the Westminster Magistrate’s Court. Brand was facing two new counts, one of rape and one of sexual assault. Russell appeared via video link from the United States. He was granted bail in December. A detective chief over at the Metropolitan Police said the women who have made reports, including those connected to the two new charges, continued to receive support from especially trained officers The METS investigation remains ongoing, and detectives urge anyone affected by this case, or anyone with information to come forward and speak with police.

Separate from that, Russell Brand is facing allegations of sexual offenses against four other women, the trials coming up in June. Oh, here’s an awful segue. Out today on the eight hundred pound Gerrilla, Cameron sp Bosito has a new special. You go watch it and when you see the name of the special you be You’ll see why I’m just choosing not to tell you the name of the special year. Cameron Esposito’s new special on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla.

Also out today, Janet McNamara will release her debut comedy album, Not Smart Enough via PGF Records. We’re told Janet’s idiosyncratic perspective and finely tuned joke writing have distinguished her as a captivating headlining act, a fantastic comic with an amazing delivery and enviable timing of very unique people. Bill Burr has shared clips of Janet’s stand up online for her debut album, Janet hit the stage at the Gutter in Brooklyn to discuss workplace annoyances. Why sex is stupid, and how various health professionals have suggested she get tested for autism. Coming out in February, Troy Walker, a longtime writer for Jimmy kimmellive he’ll have his debut comedy album Esquire.

That’ll be via Blonde Medicine February twentieth. Walker has been doing stand up for twenty years and has compiled his favorite bits into his debut album, recorded at Comedy Works Denver. On Esquire, Troy Walker touches on everything from racist magazines and peign bot lines to old school drink names, dating rules, and culture. Shock in Paris uses anecdotes, a accents, and honesty to build an album that tells the story of growing up in Denver, the land of legal everything, and moving to la the land of mandatory therapy. And one more.

Comedian and classical musician Isabelle Hagen will unveil her first hour long special, this one called Isabelle Hagen at the Bitter End. This will be on Veeps January twenty eighth. We’re told Isabelle Hagen at the Bitter End features Hagen’s sharp joke writing and offbeat point of view mixed with classical viola playing and original songs drawing from her life as a working classical musician with anxiety. She blends existential humor and raunchy anecdotes with Bach and Mozart. That’s different, I like different.

Bart Coleman is viep’s head of comedy, and Bart Coleman said, Isabelle is a singular talent who perfectly embodies the intersection of world class comedy and live music. At VEEPS, we’re always looking for specials that feel at home alongside our concert programming, and the way Isabelle weaves her viola mastery into her stand up is both seamless and incredibly fresh. One more thing I wanted to observe because I ran out the door yesterday because the Boiler Guy game. Aside from the Netflix Festival just being incredibly huge and having all the big names, what really impressed me was how they got all the comedians social media to coordinate during the noon hour the other day, all the comedians were like, Hey, I’m gonna be the Netflix Festival. Have you ever worked with a comedian?

You know how hard it is to get them to do anything like that. Now. I know they have people, but just to get the comedian to agree to anything. I’m really impressed. Like this was really, really, really well coordinated by the Netflix PR team, so nice job all around.

All Right, that’s enough for today. See I have heat, so I don’t mind talking to you guys for half an hour. That’s your comedy news for today. Go vote Comedy Survivor. I almost tried to steer you one way or another, but you do you.

I’m gonna edit the show and upload it and maybe go watch Star Trek if you know what I mean.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy and he was a daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. A phrase that will goose the Spotify algorithm. But I don’t have time for that, because Netflix Is a Joke is returning in twenty twenty six with just a huge festival. You’re gonna be blown away by this lineup.

I’m gonna tell you all about it. But before we do that, I have to make fun of the headline from Late Nighter. And I love Latenighter dot com, but this was their headline. Letterman Kimmel, Stuart, Marcelo Hernandez amongst stars bound for Netflix as a Joke Festival again, Letterman Kimmel Stewart Marcelo Hernandez. I get that they’re doing it through a focus of Late Night, but that’s like saying Kirk Picard and Michael Burnham to attend Star Trek thing like just no, no, no, no no no, you’re missing the point there, Late Nighter and I love you guys, all right.

The Netflix Is a Joke Festival May fourth through the tenth in Los Angeles, three hundred and fifty live events. We’ll start with the boiler plate. Kevin Hart hosts Funny af, a live competition in search of the world’s next to funniest comedian. John Mulaney returns to the Hollywood Bowl. Although I will point out nowhere in this release did it mention the return of John Malini’s talk show there on Netflix.

Maybe they’re saving that bullet who knows Seth Rogan gets the three spot. I don’t know about that either. Headlines the Greek Theater, Marcelo Hernandez, Superstar, leads the largest Spanish language comedy show ever at the ball Cat Williams plays The Into a Dome and Flight of the Concords Reunite, plus performances from Shane Gillis, Nikki Glaser, John Stewart, Sarah Silverman, Steve Carell, Tiffany Hattish, Matt Riyfe, Bob Odenkirk, Ali Wong, Jimmy Kimmel, Conan and Bryan and Moore, Marcelo Hernandez and the lead paragraph I’m obviously just living on some other planet where he’s not a comedy superstar. Between this headline and the New York Times, I don’t know what’s going on. Are there two Marcelo Hernandez’s and I’m following the one that’s on Saturday Night Live that does one thing?

It does one thing well, like, is there a second Marcelo Hernandez who’s a comedy I digress. Let’s get back to the festival, John Okay. Festival exclusive events include Nights of Too Many Stars, hosted by John Stewart. Talent includes Bill Burr, So you don’t have to go to Riot to see Bill Burr. You can just go to La Conan O’Brien, Steve Carell, Ron Funches, Nikki Glaser, Tiffany Hattish, Jimmy Kimmel, Leanne Morgan, John Mulaney, Bob Odenkirk, Matt Rife, Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman, Ali Wong, Noah Wiley you know him from the Pit, and many more.

The Special Evening of Laughter is presented by event founders Robert Michelle Smigel to benefit Next for Autism. What a great event, all right. We talked about Funny af with Kevin Hart, the search for the World’s Next Funniest Comedian that’s also going to stream on Netflix beginning April twentieth. Those will be taped episodes, but the live semi finals and finale will air May fourth and fifth. Wow.

Nate Berghatsi He’ll be taping a special. He’s doing two nights at the Intuit Dome that will be a Netflix special later this year. Shane Gillison Friends Shane headlines the Hollywood Bowl. John Mulaney’s Mister Whatever.

Also at the Hollywood Bowl Marcelo Hernandez as part of the largest Spanish l…

Seth Goes Greek is a massive night of music and comedy hosted by Seth Rogan, featuring Eric Andre, Nikki Glaser, Stavros Haukis, Nick Krol, Sarah Silverman, Taylor Thomlinson with huge surprise guests and musical acts that all supports Hilarity for Charity. Jerry Seinfeld at the Greek Leanne Morgan part of that show. The Beautifully Broken Comedy Night hosted by Jelly Roll, headlined by Andrew Schultz. Lizzo is hosting a night of comedy and music. Sure Lizzo.

That’s with Eric Andre, Nicky Glazer, Dulce Sloan, Meg Statler and Moore. And I’ve Got a Lot to do here, But I just want to remind you there was a reason I made fun of that Late Night or headline. Remember it was Letterman, Kimmel, Stewart, Marcelo Hernandez among stars. They kind of left some names out and again I get it, but just it’s a ridiculous headline. Love you guys, but it’s ridiculous headline.

I mean, if you’re going through a late night lens, you could have included m’laney unless his show’s over. Is that over? Maybe it’s over. A tribute to Peewee Herman celebrates forty years of Peewee’s Playhouse, a once in a lifetime variety show with music and comedy performances from listen to this random list of people. Ready the B fifty two’s Devo, Fred Armison, Sheng Weang, Bob the Drag Queen, Julio Torres, Cherryo, Terry, Natasha Leone and that’s all hosted by star Trek destroyer Patton Oswalt you may know him as Dug.

The Vulcan Flight of the Concords getting back together, first time in LA since twenty sixteen, their first live show in eight years. That’s awesome. Kat Williams is back in this time at the Intuit Dome. How about Dodgers Comedy Night. Yeah, Join your favorite Dodgers players for a night of live comedy and surprises, presented by Will Smith.

Note not the guy that slaps Chris Rock. The Will Smith. We all like the all star catcher of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Dodgers Comedy Night is hosted by Ken Jung. For some reason, a documentary about Martin Short, but we’ll talk about that later.

That’s its own item. Today, Cole will host comedy for the community supporting Altadena, eaton Fire Relief, the Best in Show at the Dolby, or some individual shows from some of the top touring acts in comedy. Those include Michelle Buteau, Jim Gaffigan, Hasan Minhaj plus Ronny Chieng That’s One Big Show, and Wanda Sykes. Bob Odenkirk will be there with the Not Inappropriate Show. They’ll be The Two Bears five K hosted by Bert Kreischer and Tom Sigora.

They’ll be joined by Jelly Roll Go Out for a fun, untimed run at the Rose Bowl. No pressure, just beer, laughs, and fitness Stamptown screenings of the Princess Bride. Nick Cannon presents Wilden Out Live podcasts include This Better Be Funny with David Letterman. Letterman won’t be at the Mantelbon. He’ll be interviewing Martin Short and John Mulaney over two nights.

Interesting that this is now called This Better Be Funny with David Letterman. Is that what they’ve called in the past. I’ll have to ask Mike chishol form the Letterman Podcast about that. Bill Simmons will be doing his podcast there. He’ll have the creators of Tires, including Shane Gillis on McKiever and Steve Gerbin Kill.

Tony going to be at the festival. Theo Vaughn will do his podcast and Mike Tyson The Pete Davison Show, which Netflix thinks is a podcast that clearly isn’t. It’s a low budget television show that’ll be there. Bad Friends with Bobby Lee and Andrews Santino, Fly on the Wall with Carvey and Spade, not to be confused with Comedy on the Fly with d Wade and Chris Spencer. Tim Dillon is going to be there.

All right. Let me take a breath here, because I’m gonna read you the entire list of performers so far, so you can get a full scope of how impressive this thing is. You ready, Malan Ackerman, Eric Andre, Jeffer Curry, Fred Ormison, Maria Bamford, Ralph Barbosa, Nate Berghatzy, Hannah Burner, Mike Berbiglia, Rachel Bloom, Joel Kim Booster, Bill Burr, Michelle Buteau, Nick Cannon, Jord Carmichael, Steve Carell, Dana Carvey, Ronnie Ching, Margaret Show, Dion Cole, Larry David Pete, Davidson, Page Desorbo, Tim Dillon. We’re only up to d earthquake, Alex Edelman, Danny Elfman, franco Eskamia, Fortune, Femester, Flight of the Concords, Ben Folds, Jim Gaffickins, Zarna Gorg, Moe Gilligan, Shane Gillis, Nikki Glaser, a Lot of Glazer, Brett Goldstein, starvros Halkist, Chelsea Hndler, Kevin Hart, Patty Harrison, Marcelo Hernandez, Jeff Hiller, Tony Hinchcliff, Robbie Hoffman, oh Kate Hudson, Nate Jackson, Jamila Jamil Sam Jay, Jim Jeffries, Ken Jung, Anthony Jess, Nick Meany, Kaylaine, Jimmy Kimmel. This is sick, This is just insane.

Burke Krascher, Nick Kroll, Bobby Lee, David Letterman, Lizzo Lunel, Natasha Leone, Mae Martin, Heather McMahon, Hasan Minhaj, Diane Morgan, Leanne Morgan, Sam Mourel, John Mulany, Mark Norman, tig Nataro good keeper off the Star Treks. That’s Ego Nuotum, Conan O’Brien, Bob Odenkirk Otsko, At Kotzka, Patton Oswalt, keep him away from Star Trek two, Tom Pappa, Miss pat Tricia Petis, Edie Patterson, Matt riif Seth Rogen, Jelly Roll, the Great dramatic Actor, Adam Sandler, Andrew Santino, Kristin Schall, Andrew Schultz, Eliza Selessener, Tomson gore At, Jerry Seinfeld. By the way, this is why you hold it in Los Angeles, because if you hold it in Montreal, all these people have to go to Montreal. If you hold it in Los Angeles, you could just be like, uh, hey, I don’t know. Andrew Santino you mind coming over for an hour, and he goes, yeah, okay.

Much easier to book, much much easier to book. Jerry Seinfeld, Shack, I assume Shaq is Shaquille O’Neal. It just says Shack. Britney Snow, Martin Short, Sarah Silverman, Bill Simmons not a comedian, Will Smith from The Dodgers. Not a guy that slaps people, David Spade some more, Brenda Song, Meg Statler, John Stewart, Wanda Sykes, Bob the Drag Queen, Taylor, Thomason Kill, Tony Kill.

Tony’s not a guy that that’s a show. Julio Taurus, Trixie and Katya, Mike Tyson who I think he has actually done a little stand up comedy, Jonathan Vaness, Nick vil Theolvaughan, Dwayne Wade, not a comedian, Shang Wang, He’s great, kat Williams, Justin Willman, Ali Wong, Jimmy O Yang, and Romi Usef who. Tracy Pecosta is the Netflix VP of Comedy Series and says, what makes this fest so special is the sense of community. It’s a rare moment where the comedy industry and the fans come together in one place. We’re not just putting on shows.

We’re creating one of a kind experiences that celebrate the range, depth, and sheer brilliance of the comedy world right now. Robbie Prawn, Netflix VP of Stand Up in Comedy Format said, in just four years, Netflix Is a Joke Fest has grown into the world’s biggest celebration of comedy. This year, we’re bringing together legends, trailblazers, and the next generation of voices for an entire week of unforgettable moments across Los Angeles. Tickets go on sale ten am Pacific on the twenty third. Just wow, just wow.

So clearly the lead story today, blowing out what I thought was going to be the lead story about David Letterman returning to Canada. Dave’s going to make his Just for Last festival premiere in Vancouver on February eighteenth. I looked into going it’s you know, it’s kind of far from where I live, and it’s a Wednesday night, and I was like, Eh, Dave’s going to be interviewing zach Alifanakis. You know he’s excited about this. Is Mike from the Letterman podcast because he kind of lives sort of near that theater.

Conny, he could throw a frisbee and it would hit theater. Nick Berzo is the VP of programming for Just for Laughs. He said, we couldn’t be more excited to welcome David Letterman Just for Last Vancouver. He’s one of the defining voices in comedy history, and to be able to pair him with Zach for show like this is incredibly special for us and for comedy fans in Vancouver. It is a great booking.

I just feel bad that it got totally blown out of the comedy news cycle. Letterman lasted a stand up routine before an interview on the Variety show Ninety Minutes Live in February nineteen seventy eight on the CBC. At the time, David Letterman said, I was advised by the staff here to speak very slowly on behalf of the viewers in Brandon, Manitoba, which is some sort of hilarious local humor that we’ll have to have. Mike from the Letterman Podcast explained to us, we do a bunch of quick things. Tig Nataro, now you may know her from Ruining Star Trek.

She’s also a comedian and I didn’t know that people were saying this. Apparently this is a thing. I didn’t know about this, but once it was pointed out to me, I can’t unsee it. Did you realize because I didn’t. Did you realize tig Nataro looks like Tom Cruise.

I know you’re like Johnny Mack, that’s insane. Look at a picture of the two of them together and I was like, oh, I cannot unsee it now. Well sig met Tom Cruise. She posted on social media. Well it finally happened.

Partied all night at the Governor Awards with my long lost twin brother Tommy. Never imagined the documentary Come See Me in the Good Light would have made all this possible. Anyone see the resemblance Where’s Our Sibling? Action film? Johnnie Mack just bumped four stories to tomorrow.

But I’ll tell you about John Stewart. He was on Instagram. He apparently is running for president because he wants to annex foreign territories. On Instagram, John Stewart said, we want Belgium. Why should Belgium have all the Belgium we want it.

John Stewart says the US cannot take the risk of China and Russia getting their hands on their delicious prelines and threatens if you do not give us Belgium, we were no longer let the Jacksonville Jaguars play football in Germany. You have forty eight hours. If you’re enjoying Daily Comedy News, you will love the ad free version new commercials. So what do you do? You open up the Apple podcast app.

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So I’m gonna wrap this someone up a little more quickly than I thought. Hey, you got a good first half out today on the eight hundred pound Gorilla, Rosie Jones triple Threat, and I did tease. The Martin short documentary It’ll be on Netflix in May. Directed by Lawrence cast In, the documentary includes never before seeing archive footage as well as interviews with some of the most established and beloved stars. The film is set to debut on Netflix on May twelfth, but I gotta go.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News at daily briefing on stand up comedy comedians in the comedy industry. And you might be like, John, does that actually goosey Spotify algorithms saying that phrase? It does? But I don’t have time for that because Ricky Gervais is surrounding himself with a security ring of steel.

We’re told as Ricky has been trying out quote unquote offensive gags for his next stand up special, including a joke about quote unquote mongols. Sources tell Radar Online that Ricky Gervais described as a quote spineless stand up that Ricky is petrified of getting a Will Smith style smack from an outraged audience member. Oh no, Ricky was flanked by You’ll never guess how many security guards. I’ll give you a second to guess by x amount of security guards as he tried out some new material at a small theater in London. Are you ready for the number?

You guessed too low? Whatever you guessed you gets too low. One audience member said there were five security on both sides of the theater, and you’re like, okay, John, I guess five, no, no, no, no, no no. There were five security on both sides of the theater, plus more at the bar and at the front. There were about fifteen bodyguards in there.

It looked ridiculous. And the place is known as the Comedian’s Comedy Theater and there’s usually no security there no matter how big the act. It was all just a bit ridiculous, as this place caters for hardcore comedy fans who see all sorts of extreme stand up, and there’s virtually no chance of him being attacked there for an edgy joke. Another source said that the security was constantly scanning the audience for signs that they were using their phones to record. That person said it was like being at some kind of paranoid a list evin.

These heavies kept looking at everyone and looked ready to grab any phones that were out. Ricky should be embarrassed over bringing this level of security of this type of gig, a source said. Ricky Gervais struggled to get laughs at his first gig and filled the show with boasts about his career, adding he did a long bit about a dwarf woman coming up to him after another of his gigs Ricky said that she told me it offended her by using the M word. He said, all I could think was that I had called her amongoloid when she was actually referring to his use of the term. I won’t use it.

The M word that has fallen out of fashion. They added, Ricky was basically making fun of those people and what he’d joke as spastics, but a lot of it wasn’t getting laughs. It wasn’t funny or clever. The crowd here more fans that likes of Stewart Lee in comedy with some nuance. Ricky just came across like a pratt with his deliberately anti woke material in his Hollywood style security that all sounds awful, Like I think, Ricky, you need to move on from that just being the entire act every time, like you’re not really good about it on another Netflix special and the whole thing’s going to be Like I said this, I can’t believe people are offended.

Like it’s tired. You gotta do something else now, dude, Sore said. Ricky also bragged to the audience he had barely prepared for the gig and they were getting cheap tickets. Around twenty five dollars to pop in to see him try out and material. All right, that’s just having fun with the whole stitch.

Meanwhile, from Fox News, Chris Deliah is blasting the comedy world that he says deserted him. Chris apparently was on the Trying Not to Die Pop podcast and said he was blindsided by how quickly people he’d known for years distanced themselves after a scandal in twenty twenty. In an article from May sixteenth, twenty twenty three, The La Times said multiple women came ford Tuesday to accuse Chris Daalia of sexual assault, harassment, and abuse, three years after the comedian and podcast host was hit with a wave of misconduct allegations. The twenty twenty three article rights in interviews with Rolling Stone, ten women accused de Leia of predatory behavior, and four of the women claimed they were teenagers when the comic allegedly preyed on them. Skipping down.

The La Times in twenty twenty three wrote de Lea faced allegations of sexual misconduct in twenty twenty when a number of women accused the comedian of making sexual demands online. In the immediate aftermath, Delia was dropped by his talent agents. Some of his famous friends and colleagues publicly turned against him. Chris said, it blew my mind kind of because like, comedians are so community. I thought what was mattered, But comedians are just so Most comedians are just pretty spineless, you know, their whole life, they’ve been the outcast and they finally get some recognition because of laughter.

And it’s like, I’m not letting go of that and f that I’m not. If that’s what a comedian is, then I’ll do something else. I’ll be something else. I’ll be on stage making people leaf. But don’t call me that, because that’s weird to me.

Just reading the transcript here, I was surprised by a few people. But you know, it’s interesting because you really realize that people can’t effing wait to hate you. It blew my mind and it still kind of blows my mind. And that’s how people are, and particularly you know, I can say people at least that I know, like in comedians and in the arts, but like you know, everyone else, they’re cool, Osborne said. And other addictions, whether it’s you know, gambling or whatever.

In sex, you’re considered the worst of the worst of the worst Deliah said, yeah, it’s weird. Look, twenty twenty was the craziest time period when it all started with COVID and then George Floyd and then everything, and then people were afraid to say anything wrong, and that’s when the whole thing went down, and then everyone’s afraid to say anything wrong. I was an effing liar and I would use sex. Looking back now, I think also age has a lot to do with it. Now that I’m forty five, thinkuring about how I didn’t think the other shoe was going to drop.

Now that I think about that, I’m like, oh, I was crazy. I was delusional. What the f why would that not happen? So, as you know, yeah, I take my Star Trek very seriously. Did you watch this Starfleet Academy show.

I had to watch it because I need to know about it so that I can hate on it appropriately. I just want the audience to know I’ve been radicalized against Stephen Colbert. He is complicit in the destruction of Star Trek, along with Tig Nataro, Patton Oswalt, Genius Year. You’re all guilty of destroying Star Trek. Stephen Colbert plays like the PA announcer he’s making witty announcements during Starfleet Academy.

So I stand with the President when it is time for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert to come to an end, if for no other reason for destroying Star Trek. Now, the President and I don’t agree on all the issues, you know, but for this one, I think we do. John Stewart was asked if he would run for president. This happened during a Q and A with the Daily Show audience. The clip was posted to YouTube on Sunday.

Stewart said, I think you should be president as the line that comes right after Effitt, because most people go like, I’m watching this and doing this. These guys aren’t doing that. You know what ef it? That guy should he’s on TV. Stuart added, this is a question that comes up a lot, and I think it speaks to if I may and I don’t, or the motivation.

It speaks to this desperation and dissatisfaction that we have with the status quo. Stuart said, it’s because you see somebody on television who’s saying some of the things that resonate with you. It’s almost like you’re cursing me with like a twilight zone, like make him. I so understand the feeling. I think what’s happening right now with all of us, myself included, because having the ability to have a Catharsis or talk about it or work with people every day is emotionally sustaining.

Some people observed none of that was a no no. I previously had supported the candidacy of Stephen Colbert, but I can no longer do that in good conscious. I cannot have a president of the United States who would destroy Star Trek. I mean, that is where I draw the line. But to John Stuart candidacy, I’ll hear you out.

Stuart said, Trump’s policies ain’t flying. In a lot of places where you might think it might be flying. People keep saying, Oh, this guy’s Hitler. No he’s not. And I’ll tell you why he’s not.

Hitler was popular. This guy’s not. Wow wow, wow wow. Send your letters to John Stuart. I may have to send a letter to Jason Zenniman in front of the show writer for the New York Times.

Tell you why in a second a late night er, let us know that Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing and one thing well, has now been in guess how many sketches on Saturday Night Live? Take a guess? Did you guess? The answer is two hundred? What Marcelo Hernandez has been in two hundred sketches?

So what four Domingos and one hundred and ninety six where he played guy on the couch in the background. There’s no way he’s been in two hundred sketches doing what here? And there was just an episode this weekend. Name a sketch other than Domingo that Marcelo Hernandez has been in. I’ll wait, Should I just leave, like an eighteen minute pause here in the file?

Two hundred? What has he done?

Meanwhile?

Friend of the Show Jason Zinneman in The New York Times, he wrote a piece titled SNL hasn’t produced a superstar in a while? Could it be Marcelo Hernandez. I’ll answer Jason no, But I respect Jason. Jason’s one of other people that knows a lot more about comedy than I do. And I just sit in the basement all day and pop off where he actually goes to shows.

So we should trust Jason Zinnim in Front of the Show from the New York Times, he writes the comics. New special American Boy shows that he is the leading man charisma and hunger. His career will be interesting to watch. The guy definitely has charisma, Definitely, definitely, Jason writes, you can see a fierceness underneath the megawatts smile. Hernandez has just started his career outside SNL, and he’s flexing different muscles.

I’ve seen him perform stand up in New York. That suggests he ruthless in getting heart laughs as he is making you like him. Will he follow in the footsteps of SNL stars like Murphy, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey. Tap the brakes, Jason, Jason, Jason love you tap the breaks with that sentence, I could see it. But that kind of success requires luck as well as talent and drive.

One thing I’m sure of this, he will be back again. I’m a guy in a basement. Jason actually goes and sees the shows, so respect him over me. Maybe Marcello Hernandez is a great dramatic actor. Now, now that could be if you want to make an Adam Sandler comp there, If Marcello wants to just stop doing the Domingo thing and be a charismatic good looking dramatic actor.

I would support that. Got another opinion piece for you from Emma Camp and the Wall Street Journal. Emma Rights never apologized to the mob this about the whole Bowen Yang backlash? Was that only a week ago? I guess it’s two weeks at this point.

I was worried there. I thought just times were getting insane, or it’s two weeks ago at this point. You may recall the culturistas had some opinions on donating to Jasmin Crockett’s campaign. People on the internets did not like that. Emma Camp Rights, they should have waited for the online charter to pass.

It isn’t twenty twenty anymore, and nonsensical claims of racism no longer have unchecked power to unravel reputations. More than a few online progressives even defended the pair by pointing out their observations were on the mark, skipping ahead. Unsurprisingly, rather than calm the outrage, the apologies have driven another cycle of criticism also from the Wall Street Journal. They remember last week I said Joe Rogan had a cronk Heite moment. The Wall Street Journal has a whole article on that premise, and they even mentioned the Kronkite piece of the Joe Rogan.

Yeah, the Wall Street Journal they led with in February nineteen sixty eight, p sident Lynda B. Johnson famously lost Walt to Cronkite et cetera, et cetera and a Joe Rogan piece. You don’t suppose somebody at the Wall Street Journal listens to the show, do you? I know somebody at the New York Times used to until about two minutes ago. Haha, he won’t get mad at me.

Another opinion piece from giant Freaking Robot, Robert Scucci writes New thomsigor Netflix special is complete trash. I’ll come up with an appropriate headline once I calm down, But that’s my kind of headline. I like that. I think Robert’s right here he talks with the special. He says it points to a larger problem and stand up comedy designed for mass consumption through streaming.

It doesn’t feel like a new hour. The most common complaint about Teacher That’s the Special is that many of the anecdotes can be traced back to interviews in podcast episodes. That’s become standard practice now that most high profile comedians rely on podcasting to stay visible and generat income when they’re not touring. The unintentional side effect is that when comedians spend hours casually talking shop with other comedians, they’re essentially workshopping their next hour in front of millions of listeners. By the time those jokes are fined tour and eventually filmed for a special, it doesn’t feel like fresh material.

Robert adds, my biggest issue with Teacher is that the storytelling element that originally drew me Sigora a stand up is almost completely gone. Instead, the special plays like a loose collection of unrelated anecdotes, bouncing from family life to documentaries about Hitler’s stimulant abuse. Teacher feels like an obligation rather than a passion project. I don’t think any of that is crazy, but let me throw out another notion to everyone. At some point, a lot of comedians hit the wall, and you’re like, been there, done that, seen this.

I think we’re about to see Bert Krascher’s wall. His sitcom is out this week and then he’s got the Daytona thing. But I feel like Chrayser fatigue is about to set in. Maybe Sigourrea fatigue is about to set in. I think Burrh’s a little past prime, starting to worry if we gaff again.

We were at the okay, got it stage. You get deeper into these careers and it’s like okay, yep, And like I talked about on the Issue Show, then you’ve got a George Carlin who reinvented himself a few times, including that final Act which I hate at the time, And as I said yesterday, he’s the true prof of the twenty first century. So who knows, but I don’t think this is crazy talk about Tom Sagura. If you like Daily Comedy News, you’ll love the ad free version, no commercials. Just go to Apple Podcasts.

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That’s on you. Some stuff to listen to. Trevor Noah is a podcast episode with John Oliver, very very very good. It’s long and it’s very good.

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Also Joe Rogan with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck that got a lot of pick up over…

Did you watch the movie on Netflix with Matt and Ben? What’s it called? The Rip? The Rip was very good. Not to be confused with The Pit, which is a TV show on HBO Max.

Also very good. Forty nine ers came this weekend. Not very good anyway, Listen to check out Rogan, check out Trevor Noah. Voting is open for Week three of Comedy Survivor. A couple early votes for Joe Coy there.

He could be in trouble. You know. Joe Cooy hosts the Golden Globes before Nikki Glaser, But don’t have time for that today. Feel eight Nighter. Chris Redd has cleaned up some statements.

Remember he kind of sore to imply that he was maybe dealing at SNL. Chris Red had in a six minute video said, while I was at SNL, I had some pill issues. I had some pill problems. I was even selling some to some of my cast mates. Seems pretty clear.

While TMZ caught up with Chris Red Who’s like, oh no, no, no, no, no no. He cleared it up and said, I was on adderall on xen X, and I was getting it the illegal way because I was scared to go to the doctor and have them sam crazy. I was being facetious about the drug dealing thing. I wasn’t drug dealing to my cast I wasn’t Walter Whiting. I was trying to make light of it because I felt super vulnerable and raw at the time.

I was not selling. I had a full time job as a comic. Okay, So when he said I was even selling some to some of my cast mates, he was not. I don’t know how you got confused there and thought he was. We’re long today.

I thought I had nothing. All right, good fun show out today on the eight hundred pound Gerriilla Michael Blaustein’s Silly Goose Eugene Merman, who claims to star in something called Bob’s Burger’s two quick questions. Have you ever seen bobs Burgers? No, of course not. Have you ever met anyone who’s seen bobs Burgers?

Of course not one of the great hoaxes of our time. And prankster Eugene Merman will release his sixth comedy album, Here Comes the Whimsy, on February fifth. That same day premiere as a special on VEEPS. Recorded live in Somerville, Massachusetts, Eugene Merman took the stage with his trademark Playful Spirit to reveal a series of mild grievances through anecdotes from fatherhood, insights from travel, dress code trauma, rental car disputes, and more. Can also catch Eugene Memerman its sketch fest on the twenty third and twenty fourth comedy debate show Abolish Everything got a season two.

The trailers out in the new season will be available on the twenty ninth. New York Times called it the silliest verbal sporing you’ll likely ever hear. Unabolish Everything, comedian abolitionists roast a pet peeve they want banned from society, while hilarious panel dubbed the political establishment improvides counter arguments on behalf of the status quo. That’s fun. The audience crowns and abolitionists.

The champion of each episode, Chandler Dean is your ringleader here and the season two will premiere on Nebula. I was unfamiliar with Nebula. Good thing they put out a purse release, says here, Premium streaming from independent creators. Enjoy exclusive originals, bonus materials and early releases. Let’s explore.

Let’s see what’s on here. This is fun. Oh, the riff tracks guys are on here. You know, rifftracks, Mystery Science Theater three thousand, kind disorder. And we got some news coming out of the Milan Courtina Winter Olympics.

If you are a fan of Italian comedian Massimo Boldie, well, Masimo has been removed from the list of torch bearers. The Milano Quartino twenty twenty six organizing committee decided to ban Massimo Boldie after he boasted being a champion of I can’t even say it, a vulgar Italian slang term for female Genitalia. He’s the champion of that, at least he says he is. The organizing committee deemed Boldie’s remarks incompatible with Olympic values, noting that carrying the Olympic flame represents a privilege and a responsibility, and requires that those selected embody and promote the values of respect, unity and inclusion. Boldie has apologized and said I made a joke that was meant to be lighthearted and ironic, but it turned out to be inappropriate and offensive towards women and not in line with the principles of respect and inclusion that inspire the Olympic movement.

Extended an apology to the organizing committee and to all those who felt hurt. And that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Callaroga, Shark, Media outbit Outlaugh Outlast. This is Comedy Survivor and I’m Johnny Mack. Welcome to the Comedy Survivor Elimination Show. We are wrapping up week two to find out which comedian will be voted off the island. Our maining contestants are Adam Sandler, Jay Leno, Joe Coy, Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Otsko at Katska, Sebastian Maniscalco, Tig Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, and Bert Krascher.

The listeners went to the Daily Comedy News podcast group on Facebook and let us know who they would like vot it out. It’s time to tell you the votes. Andrea votes for Bert Krascher. Cheryl votes for Burt Krescher. That’s two votes for Bert Krascher.

Mary votes for Adam Sandler, Andy votes for Leslie Jones, Mike votes for Seth Myers, Dylan votes for Adam Sandler. That’s two votes for Adam Sandler, two for Burt Krascher. Matt votes for Adam Sandler, three votes for Adam Sandler, two for Burt Krascher. Michelle votes for Joe Coy, Aaron votes for Joe Coy, three votes Adam Sandler, two votes for Joe Coy, two for Burt Kraser, Barb votes for Jay Leno, Mike votes for Adam Sandler. That’s four votes for Adam Sandler.

The Vaughan votes for otsco at Cotska, Dan votes for Joe Coy, four votes for Adam Sandler, three for Joe Coy, and our final vote from Lee Lee votes for Tig Nataro Adam Sandler. The Facebook group has spoken, We’ll take the break, we’ll come back, We’ll do some analysis with the AI. Well, a sad result for the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler. At least now he can get back to making good movies and he won’t have to worry about Comedy Survivor, and maybe he can win Dramatic Actor Survivor. The AI has analyzed the votes, and the AI tells me this group is not afraid to take out giants.

Adam Sandler going out in week two is huge. The group is playing aggressively, they are not sentimental, and they’re willing to burn legends early. The AI points out momentum matters more than logic. Last week, Sandler had three votes. This week it became four.

Once your name appears, it sticks, which means Joe Coy is now officially in danger. A course to be voted out next week is Jay Leno. The AI thinks the following comedians look safe for now. The safe group is Jim Gaffigan, John Mulaney, Nikki Glaser, Sarah Silverman, and Ron White. They have had no votes whatsoever.

Voting is now open for week three. Your remaining survivors are Jay Leno, Joe Coy, Jim Gaffigan, Nikki Glaser, Seth Myers, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, otsco, At Kotzka, Sebastian Manaskalgo, Tig Nataro, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones, Ron White, and Bert Krascher. Here’s how you vote. You go to the Daily Comedy News podcast group on Facebook. You’re going to find a cartoon image of me and Adam Sandler in that thread.

Write down a name. Make it clear, don’t make me think if you’re voting or not, Just write the name. If you’re voting off, say Joe Schmoe, Just write Joe Schmoe. Now remember you can vote one person per week. Campaigning is allowed.

Alliances are allowed. I think alliances are fun. If some of you want to team up, that’s great. If you want to explain your vote, great, If you don’t, that’s great. Chaos encouraged.

Voting is open now until end of day Thursday. Then I can record these things on Friday and put them out Mondays at noon. Adam Sandler, the Facebook group has spoken back in the morning with a normal episode. This is fun.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Thanks to Nichelle for sending this my way. Or you know Camp Patterson, the guy from Saturday Night Live that I think is one and done. Oh, he’s gonna be one and done several media reports.

I’m cripping here from Deadline. On the recent kill Tony Once Upon a Time in Texas, which you’ll find on Netflix, Cam Patterson talked about Saturday Night Live. Now, I understand he’s a comedian and he’s on stage doing time. However, I don’t know if this was the smartest career move. I will clean this up a little, Camp Patterson said, I’m gonna be honest.

I’m gonna keep it one hundred percent with y’all in the nicest way possible. It’s gay. It’s really gay. Dog, it’s gay. As f understand something.

I was on national television doing this. He then reenacted an animated hand gesture. Cam said, I’ve shot at somebody before. You understand me. You understand how great said that change in life is.

You know what’s crazy. I think people are more excited for me than I am for myself. Though people keep saying congratulations, good job, and that’s dope. But understand something, bro, I’m twenty six and I’m black. I’ve never seen the show.

I have no idea what the f I signed up for. Dog. I’m just kind of there and listen, this stuff is not for me. It’s for white people. Really.

They have on celebrities I’ve never heard of in my life. We had on Glenn Palett one point. I was like, who’s that and they were like, he’s in Top Gun. I was like, never seen it.

And then we had on Miles Teller and I was like, who’s that and they were like…

I was like, I’m on to you, fellas. So we’ll see how well that goes out. With Lorde Michaels. I mean, it’s not the worst thing anybody ever said. But you know, career wise, if you have to pick between Lorne Michaels, even at eighty years old, Lorne Michaels and Tony Hinchcliff, depending on what you want to do with your life, you probably pick Lauren there.

John Oliver was the guest on Trevor Noah’s podcast. The discussion went to Who’s going to buy Warner Brothers? John told Trevor, I think mergers are generally bad. I think you’re always hoping for the least bad option. I think the key thing for us is to act with enough aggression or confidence.

I will act assuming nothing’s going to happen. We’re not going to change, right. We’ve been behaving the way we’ve been beaving for long enough that you can’t really reason with us, so there’s no point doing that. Oliver continued, there’s gonna be question marks in all of this, right, because it’s very hard to justify this legally. Now, whether that makes it impossible for it to happen, that’s an open question.

I thought this was really interesting. This isn’t really news because this is from two thousand and eight, and the man who said it is long dead, but vice resurfaced this back in two thousand and eight. George Carlin said whenever someone would tell him about the latest must see comedian, George would get a little nervous, but then check them out. He had one of two reactions. One reaction was no threat there, but the other was I got to get back to work.

And one of that I got to get back to work. Comedians to George Carlin was Sam Kennison. George Carlin said, Sam Kennison, because he raised his voice literally to such an extent, it taught me something at the time, and it had helped fuel a slight change or a significant change in what I was doing. I said, oh, you have to raise your voice, and I meant it figuratively. He did it literally, but figuratively.

The culture was getting noisy. There was a din there was a lot of competition for people’s attention, and somehow that translated to me as I have to raise the stakes a little bit. You know. I talked to Kelly Carlin about this couple years back. Maybe I’ll pull that and tag it at the end of today’s episode Gardon and Gunn, which is just a wonderfully fascinating title for a website.

They profiled Nate Bergatzy’s Company. Nate told them, as a comedian, you’re afraid to take time off, at least for me, I very much believe I’m not owed this. The audience doesn’t know it to me to come, so it’s something I’ve got to go earn every single show. Every day. It gets exhausting.

Some days you can sleep on the bus and some days you’re riding in the middle of nowhere. And you know, my bus driver’s an amazing driver. But the roads of the roads, right, Nate said of the audience, I see the audience and it’s all different. You see different religions out there, you see different political like, whatever it is, it doesn’t matter. I want families to laugh at me.

I want them to feel safe when they go there and can all be together. You should be able to trust that I’m going to be that relief for whatever you need, Nate explanned. Nateland he wants to help younger comics get started. I want everybody to be involved on the road. It’s like, we should all be friends.

You know. We joke we got a couple guys. They’re younger, but they’re really big into anime. They wanted to watch an anime and the rest of us were like, I’m not watching it. But one day I needed to watch anime with them, just because Lucy Sinsheimer is the talent book of for Zenies in Nashville.

Lucy said most people at the highest level might be like, I don’t want to bother with being around lower level comedians. When he’s here, he’s generous with his time and his kindness for open micers and up and coming comics. Recently, we were doing a clinic with a bunch of comics and he happened to be recording the podcast next door. He came and talked to everybody for twenty five minutes, just giving advice. Psychology Today caught up with Kathleen Madigan.

They were curious. Kathleen once told a story to Jerry Seinfeld on Comedians and Cars where Kathleen’s parents said, we’re gonna watch this part of your show and then we’re gonna leave. Kathleen explained, Yeah, my dad asked, could you just put your new jokes at the beginning of your act? And she said, no, Dad, that’s not how it works. I can’t rearrange my whole act for you hooligans.

I don’t care if you’ve ever seen my act, you know. I’ll do it in the car fee on the way home.

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And then he says to my mom, well you want to go, and my mom says, well, kind …

We’ll just come at the end. Pete Corielli the Gator describes himself as a beer and peanut guy. He’s returning to Long Island on January thirtieth for a show The Gator says, I’m not a fan of comedians to perform at you. I like being a version of myself on stage. I never wanted to be stuck in a character.

I just tried to be true to who I am. I always felt most funny when I was hanging out. That’s a trade I got from my father growing up in Long Island. He’s an everyday guy who made people laugh with the stories. I always latched onto that.

I worked with Pete for the better part of a decade when he was the number two chair on the Jim Brewer radio show back in the serious days. Corioli talked about getting into comedy at Hamburger harry Is in Midtown Manhattan in ninety four. After exploring acting, Pete joined an improv group. I did not know that. I cannot imagine Pete Coriolly having the patience for an improv group.

Wow, I can’t even fathom that. Pete explained, I went to an open mic that Jim Gaffigan and Judah Friedlander we’re at. I was listening to them talk about their bits, and it was love at first sight. From there, I never looked back. Pete says, I truly feel now there’s a comic of anything worth listening to until at least forty five.

Once you get older, you have a lifetime experience to look back on. Pete is the co host of Pete and Sebastian of Sebastian Madiscalco. He says, we have incredible similarities and drastic differences. Once we get on the cast, we just make sure we make each other laugh because we have the same sense of humor. But we’re like Felix Hunger and Oscar Madison from The Odd Couple.

I drive a Jeep Wrangler and he drives a Portie. He gets manicures, and I don’t. I wonder if that’s a new Jeep Wrangler, because Pete had a Jeep twenty years ago. Remember they stole his top. One day, Jimmy Carr said that being a vegan is the right thing to do.

Jimmy was feeling questions from the audience. One asked, Hey, Jimmy, you’re a progressive and thoughtful guy. How come you’ve knock one vegan yet. Car said, I was vegan forbit, and I know it’s the right thing to do, but also it’s just a fun fact that you might want to know that it’s possible to have a vegan diet, to eat vegan, and to shut the f up. That’s hilarious.

He tagged it with I’m not going to make jokes about vegans. It would be tasteless. Jimmy Carr is very funny. If you’re ever in Riodd sometimes he plays the comedy Festival over there. He should go see him.

Now that fascism is over and we can actually watch Scrubs on Hulu and ABC without having to go upstairs and get the DVDs, Scrubs is coming back a little over a month away. Now. People are curious, Hey, in all these promos, we haven’t seen Doctor Kelso or the Janitor. Now, I’ll point out to everybody that Ken Jenkins, who plays Doctor Kelso, is like eighty five years old, so aside from getting him to do the work, it really doesn’t make sense that Doctor Kelso would be around. So, if you’re curious what happens to these two characters, spoilers coming up at a second, Zach Braff says there are currently no plans for either to appear during season ten.

Zach says, the true answer is if we’re blessed to have a second season. Absolutely. The real answer for season one is we’re not really sure yet. Episodes eight and nine of the nine episode order are still being written. They’re both interested in doing it.

Do we have the band with in the first nine episodes to get to it all and surface the story that would be worthy of Ken and Neil? That might come true? At this point, I can’t tell you the answer, but most definitely, if we’re lucky enough to get a season two, that’s something we want to do. Jimmy Kimmel made an offer to Donald Trump he will give one of his awards to President Trump if the President pulls Ice out of Minneapolis. May have seen late last week that the woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize handed over the award to President Trump for some reason.

As others have pointed out, if Lebron James hands me over an MVP trophy, it doesn’t make me the best player in the NBA, Kimmell said Trump loves awards. Giving him an award is the only way to get him to do anything. And with that said, mister President, I have an offer I think you’re gonna find difficult to refuse. If you and only if you agree to pull ice out of Minneapolis and put them back at the borders where they belong. Kimmel then showed some of his own trophies, including a Daytime Emmy, a Cleo Award, a Writer’s Guild of America Award.

He tagged it with, or best of all, I’m willing to hand over my twenty fifteen Soule Train Award for White Person of the Year. The choice is yours. I personally deliver any or even all of these to the Oval Office in exchange for leaving the people of Minneapolis alone. We’ll go into the break here. Jonathan Kite does this wonderful, wonderful Anthony Bourdain impression.

I can’t get enough of this week. Anthony Boardaine went to the BUCkies, and here’s a little taste of that. No pun pickles produce pastries, sauces, snacks. If you didn’t gas up outside, you will in here. Behold the Jerky wall, a carnivorous curtain of beef, the only wall in Texas everyone can agree on.

At noon Eastern today, the reveal for who was eliminated for Week two of Comedy Survivor. There’s a dramatic exit in this week’s show at noon Eastern. You can start voting for next week in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, and in this very feed you will hear the week two elimination show Comedy Survivor Facebook group t O Sketch Fest, the Toronto Sketch They’re coming back. It’s their largest lineup to date, over seventy high energy showcases by more than seventy five comedy troops. I was texting the other day with Mike from The Letterman podcast.

Now I live in the United States and Mike lives in Canada, and we were talking about getting together and I’m like, I don’t know, man, if we invade Greenland, the border might be closed. I might not be able to hang out with Mike or go to the Toronto Sketch Fest. So some of the sketch troops, there’s a lot here. I’m not going to read them all, but let’s see some names that seem funny too. Draculus twenty four double B Sketch Troop names are always funny.

Bicycle jousting, big chick Energy, I like that, breen Frogs, Firecracker, department, grease trap, no vowels. That’s funny out of a whit. It’s funny, but it’s funny. Sketchy Broads, that’s a good one. That’s a good name.

And the Red Hot Silly Peppers Love It. Toronto Sketch Fest coming up in March. Tick Natara, she’s one of these people ruining Star Trek, but I guess not. Everything Tignataro does is horrible. She’s joining Mattel Lane to headline the Lambda Legals Stand Up for Equality Benefit, an event dedicated to protecting the rights of LGBTQ people and everyone living with HIV.

This is March fourth at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills. Stand Up for Qualities Designed is a moment of cultural unity, blending stand up performances, musical moments, and celebrity presenters into a shared space for laughter and advocacy. There are no plans for Dave Chappelle to appear at this time. Chris Red he wants to. I don’t know what’s going on with Chris Redd.

He’s sparing his soul lately, but he wants to make sure that when he had a fight back in twenty twenty two, it was not with Keenan Thompson. Okay, what’s the story. Johnny Mack TMZ published a clip from Chris Red that said that Keenan Thompson was not the person who punched Chris Red in the face outside of a Manhattan comedy club in twenty twenty two. Chris Redd said, no, Keenan did not hit me. People took it like Keenan hit me.

He didn’t hit me. No, a probe is still ongoing. No one has been taken into custody and connection with the attack on the comedian. According to the NYPD. Okay, listen, a probe is not still ongoing.

No one is looking at this. This is New York City. You think anybody at the NYPD is investigating the Chris Red punch in the face from four years ago. There’s zero percent chance that that’s happening. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to New York City.

I’m from New York City. Zero percent chance the NYPD is busy. Back in twenty twenty two, Keenan Thompson and wife Evangeline got divorced. Benjeline then was friendly with Chris Red. But Keenan definitely didn’t punch him in the nose.

And let me get the LIFs out of my voice because I’m serious here. I’m not doing the bit. This from the Daily Mail. Jay Leno last week in La appeared to have a swollen left cheek and a bruised fingernail while out and about in La. Daily Mail reported Jay was out grabbing lunch.

On the left side of his face appeared puffy, his middle finger seemed to have some redness to it, and a black nail was visible as he clutched a beverage. Now some people start joking that, you know, the mob is out to get Jay again. Remember he fell down the hill and burned his face with the motorcycle. And I had a couple like weird things going on. But much more seriously, I saw some people and I’m not saying this happened, but some people who are involved with Alzheimer’s said that sometimes people who suffer from Alzheimer’s can get physical, and that was one theory of what might have happened.

Again, no, little to my voice, not making joke here and being very serious, I’m not saying that happened. I have no expertise in Alzheimer’s, but I’m just sharing an alternate theory that I heard other than the mob is out to get Jay Leno. Don’t know what happened, just telling you what the Daily News reported, and that is your comedy news for today again coming up at newon Eastern today and this very feed Comedy Survivor Week two elimination show.

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And then assuming I found it, the next thing you’re gonna hear is me talking …

See you tomorrow, Oh no, see at noon, then see you tomorrow. I was one of those yahoos at the turn of the century who listened to the I guess the last two albums is like George sounds angry and I have done a complete one eighty on that, and he is the great prof of the twenty first century. That stuff has aged so well. I go back and listen to it. Just prepping for today.

I was going back and listening to It’s the last bit on It’s Bad for You. It’s Coast to Coast emergency, and it sounds like you recorded it this morning. Yeah, no one wanted to hear it, including me. John was like, God, Dad, get over it. Can you do some bart jokes or something?

Please be goofy again, as he said, you scratch a cynic. Underneath it you get a broken hearted idealist. Yeah. He was a man who I think was just ringing the bell so loudly and saw what was coming, saw the writing on the wall, and nobody wants to hear that. While the writings, while the walls still look fine.

Ah so everything seems fine, but boy boy, did he see it all coming, even stuff thirty years old. He saw it coming. It’s just it’s amazing.

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Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny back and if you listen to yesterday’s episode was a crossover episode with The Letterman Podcast. Mike Chisholm, who hosts The Letterman Podcast, made a list of the top ten late night hosts of all time, and we made it all the way through number seven. We got a little chatty in case you missed it, Number ten with Steve Allen, nine, Orsennil Hall eight, Craig ferguson number seven, the Worst Guy who Ever lived, Jay Leno, and we did twenty minutes on Jay Leno at the end of yesterday’s episode, which made the episode kind along, so I had to split it in two. So if you missed it, go back and listen to yesterday.

And here is the rest of the list. I’m glad we spend as much time on Jay as we as we did. We’re gonna move to number six now, and this is the first one where it comes with somebody sort of attached to it. There’s two of them here or three of them here maybe that have somebody attached to them. Number six is John Stewart.

I’m gonna just say this flat out. In the last five Stephen Colbert is not one of them. But with well, okay, so right there, that’s the result. But but but we’re sint Colbert off the air? What is wrong with you?

Mike there? Taking him off and right and a lot of show and he kept the late show franchise going and and whoa not on the list? Very see this is exactly why I don’t want to see your list. Great example. You should teach that to the what do you what do you teach?

By the way, In the fall, I teach introduction, Well, it was introduction of radio, and I went to the university. I’m like, you got me teaching introduction of horse and buggy. We got to rebrand this. Uh so now it’s radio podcast of streaming good And I teach a management course of that in the spring.

And then at the other university, I teach podcasting production, which isn’t …

I’ll do a lot of weeks about out. Here’s how we approach the content, here’s what we’re trying to do, here’s why we do these things, and how you approach the creative before we even try and hit record. Oh that’s great, you know it talks about the Testament to communication. It was intro to radio, and then it became intro to what’s the name of it now? I think it’s right now.

I think it’s radio, streaming and media, sorry, and podcasting, which it’s unofficially been for about five years. Don’t tell anybody. I’m like, you know, if you want me to teach you about how an AM transmitter works, I can. I don’t know what you’re gonna do with the information. I know how to edit with a razor blade.

I’ve done it. I was pretty good at it. But let me show you pro tools. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, just the name of the course though, you’re gonna get a lineup versus crickets on the other side like calling it streaming podcasting it like, that’s yeah, it’s a no brainer.

Alex Bennett and I talk about this all the time. I use the word broadcasting all the time, and it drives Alex up the wall because he’s just left broadcasting is this and it’s this? Is it? Just you know, has the line of what broadcast? This is not broadcasting, streaming is not broadcasting.

I’m like, yeah, but it’s the it’s the I I appreciate that. I appreciate that broadcasting does have, you know, some finite rules, you know, But at the end of the day, what are we doing here? I mean, it’s all it is all broadcasting for that, That’s what it’s for, right. It’s not the it’s not the tools that make it happen. It’s the fact that it’s happening at all.

That’s why we’re doing it right. Well, the podcasting industry right now, what is a podcast? Like, is this a podcast? Well, there’s cameras on so yes and no, and the video version might be. The audio version definitely is.

And if I put Bill Simmons on Netflix, is that a podcast? TikTok started live streaming things and using the word podcast. Now I’ll Alex Bennett that and be like, hey, live stream on TikTok is not a podcast. I’m sorry, yep. But then I’ll also come back to it and say it doesn’t matter whatever the audience thinks.

As a podcast, that’s what a podcast is. So if you call this thing the Letterman podcast and Sunset the audio version and Netflix, there’s your money and it’s there and people stare at this conversation, that’s a podcast because. You said it where you go, that’s you said what sense orright?

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And also at that point you’ll have to come up with a different name, because …

Or so you got a Netflix deal, so you you’ll have to call it like d Lman. Pod Fantasies like that are really funny. Yeah, John Stewart is number six, So John Stewart, And to me, John Stewart gets the nod and and he comes with him a contingent of people. Cool Bear is one of them. But to me, there’s a guy who you talk about, a guy who changed Late Night and really at the end of the day, I mean, so many people would watch Saturday Night Live back in the day for Demis Miller or for Norm McDonald or for what we came up to.

It has always been such a powerful you know, not necessarily the news, all of these different well, the idea that Madeline Smithberg those people could come up and and and and put the the rocket onto John Stewart and created a version of the Daily Show that would become iconic. And and and not only that he is a king, but he’s also a king maker in Colbert and and other people of course, John Oliver, and and and and and the idea that John Stuart you know, he I don’t, I don’t. I think he’s getting the reverence that he deserves. The comeback this year has really shown that he does have a reverence out there, and he is one of those guys he’s kind of transcending. Conan’s transcending as well.

You’re seeing it start to happen with Jimmy where they were were where where they become more than just a late night talk show host, but that becomes something else. Dave of course did it years ago. John Stewart’s at that place right now. Colbert is gonna be at that place after he retires, and probably if we did this list next year as a result of when he does retire and all the the the the the Gaga and the Bally Whu that’s gonna surround that. But right now he’s gonna John’s it’s going to be the guy at number six on the top ten late night hosts of all time.

John Stewart, New York guy. You’re a New York guy. You cross paths with him very often in your career. No, I’ve never run into John either. So I’m struggling with this one, much like what is a podcast?

When you say to me late night, my brain goes to the Steve Allen template. There there’s a desk in a city scape behind it. It kind of looks like you were set up there, and we do a monologue and some guests come out and we go home, and John Stewart’s not doing that. Is he in the hall of fame of whatever hall of fame we’re making? Absolutely?

Is he a king maker? Absolutely? Is he hilarious? Absolutely? Is he influential on culture?

Absolutely? What else can I say about him? Is awesome? Does he walk the talk? Yeah, you know the stuff he’s done for veterans.

Wow, what an awesome dude. And yes, yes, yes, yes yes. But in my small brain he’s in a different filing cabinet than Jay Leno and Steve Allen that he’s doing something else. He’s over here with John Oliver. And you mentioned not necessarily the News, which is not a late night show, But why is the Daily Show a late night show?

And not necessarily News isn’t And I don’t know, and I don’t care, So I’m not gonna like throw tomatoes at my screen and be like, this list is outrageous. I just you know, let’s make some other list and put him at number one. He’s awesome. I just feel like it’s for me something in a different category. Yeah.

Well, okay, so I used to feel the same way that you did. So this is just a testament to way that when we zone in on this stuff, those of us who are nerds for this stuff, that’s the way that our brain kind of works. I was actually convinced the other way. And I listened to it, and I’ll name drop her for sure. Madeline Suithberg and I we we chat, you know, I would say frequently, Yeah, frequently, moderate, moderately, frequently, Madeline Suthberg and I will chat, and she’s gonna come on the show here at some point.

But I asked that question. I asked her that question. I said, okay, well, is the Daily Show a late night show? And she convinced me of it. It was?

It was? It was what because the desk comes out early, it’s not a late night show? What because? And I mean that’s not something that she said. She was far more elo eloquent in what she said.

But but I am now back on board where Yeah, no, I believe Daily Show is a late night show. It’s it’s you know, it’s nightly. They have guests, they you know. To me, I think the Daily Show actually changed late night. I was having this conversation with Scott Ryan, who wrote Last Days of Letterman.

We were talking about this. We were wondering when the first time, Like, I don’t think Dave ever did a monologue where a screen showed up beside him and there was like, you know, graphics that were enhancing the jokes. But he did definitely throw to video packages within the monologue, like like famously the very last Late Show. One of the things that he said in the middle of the monologue, okay now it’s on for a new segment comedy we would have done tomorrow. There are a bunch of jokes that were still topic.

It’s just very good, very very yeah nice. When did Dave add that to the monologue? Well, it was certainly after the Daily Show showed up. Never mind the fact that you had, you know, other hosts at other desks who had the graphic and was being helped. Well, now they’re really merging into two like and so anyway, I’m convinced that The Daily Show is a late night show, and that’s why John’s on the list.

But yeah, powerful powerful force in nature in late night nature. There’s no question about that. Absolutely. Number five, we’re going to the imitator, the guy who wants to be David Letterman, and that is Jimmy Kimmel. I think if September this of twenty twenty five hadn’t happened, he would have been further up the list.

He might not have made the list. But I said earlier that I think that Jimmy is transcending and he’s going past this place of into the next zone, whatever that is. Who knows how long he’s gonna do it for, but he has certainly, you know, got all. He deserves to be on this list because ABC never had a late night show for the same reason that that that Letterman gets all the accolades for giving CBS their late night show. Jimmy Kimmel did it for ABC.

You talk about it network. That gave a guy time to find his voice and become something. My gosh, remember the original It’s called Jimmy Kimmel Live because they were live. They were all live at first, and he couldn’t get guests and the audience could drink, and there was all sorts of crazy stuff that this play started with and what it’s evolved into, it’s evolved into David Letterman light. But at the same time, he is the combination of Jay Leno and David Letterman, because you’ve got this guy who works for ABC.

Well, he happens to be a Star Wars fan, he happens to be a Marvel Comics fan, he happens to be a fan of of of the network that owns him and all of their properties, and so every time one of these new projects comes out, he can do a collab with them, and he can do well. This is the stuff that len I loved about the Tonight Show and the stuff that Dave. Dave hated, He didn’t like doing that stuff at all. You know, Jimmy has embraced that and has done a phenomenal job at that. Then you’ve got the fact that he’s hosted the Oscars and done all sorts of things that Johnny Carson did back in the day and did very very well at it.

To me, Jimmy Kimmel is absolutely worthy of being number five on the top ten late night hosts of all time. What do you think about that? I feel you have him too high. I am favorable towards Jimmy Kimmel. I think if we think in terms of two things, skin of mind.

In terms of baseball, for my beloved eighty six Mets, he had Twin Good and doctor k with the incredible not just the fastball and striking people out, he had this incredible curve ball. He’s David Letterman.

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And then behind him you had Ron Darling quily going about his business winnin…

And I feel like Kimmel on his walk to the Hall of Fame. And we’ll see what this final act is, however long it is, whether it is another year and a half for longer. Is accumulating innings and they’re nice, solid innings. But he’s definitely not making Mount Rushmore right, which doesn’t mean bad. Not everyone makes Mount Rushmore Yep.

I just feel like it’s high. I have to look at the final list and and does he make it? Why is it? Why is he making it? Over?

Stephen Colbert, can we have that discussion or is that for later? Absolute? No, you know the discussion right now? Absolutely? Yeah, Colbert didn’t make the list because as far as he’s in the he’s in that Stuart category and and and so he gets that’s where his that’s where his sort of honorable mention comes in.

So I cheated a little bit, okay, you know, because uh, he was the he was the king that that that Stuart made. But again this time next year, when we see how he leaves Late Show or the Late Show and what happens, you know, we might be a different list next year. But yeah, Kimmel, to me, this was this was a debate that I had in my head, and I’m like, well, it’s not that I’m not going to mention him, but but Kimmel, the fact that he got brought back the way that he did, and thank goodness, you don’t have to boycott this stuff anymore. I’m so grateful for that, the fact that he got brought back the way that he did and whatnot. Just this year here, it just showed that he is He’s one of those guys and I just feel like he is transcending out of and he’s becoming bigger than what it is that he does.

I just feel like Kimmel’s making that transformation right now. So while we’re touching on Colbert, how do you how do you walk off? Is the right move? Just hey, let’s book every a level star. Like.

I don’t feel like that’s the right move for Colbert. I feel like his walk off needs to be more thoughtful and say something. So I don’t need Tom Cruise coming by to promote Mission Impossible ten. I need him to do something with some weight and speak to the nation and speak to the moment. And I don’t know what that is, but it’s not just Sebastian Maniscalko coming on doing his stand.

Yeah, you know, I feel like when Dave, like again, I’ve said that the greatest six weeks of entertainment in my entire life was the last six weeks of Late Show with David Letterman. They threw the kitchen sink at it. But the kitchen sink that they threw was a version of Johnny Carson’s kitchen sink. Yeah, you know, it was laid out very similarly. There would be lots of clips of things that happened over the years, and when you have a wits and breadth of body of work, you can do that.

Well. Colbert doesn’t have that Colbert’s got ten years unless you start bringing in the Comedy Central stuff. And if you start bringing in the Comedy Central stuff from the rapport, okay, you can do that, and there might be a unique version of that kitchen sink that can be done. And like you said earlier, they combine it with bringing back a bringing a list stars, but of course bringing back friends of the show. If there’s an ingredient that needs to be included with Colbert’s exit, I firmly believe that whoever are considered friends of his show need to be deeply involved in it.

And of course the top of that list is of course John Stewart, right, So I think there are ways that you could customize, you know, what the ending is going to look like, but it’s gonna have to do with the friends of the show. He’s got a lot more political friends than Letterman or Carson ever did, so, so that that’s gonna be an interesting element to it as well, because his show is very political. It’s a political show, so I think it does need to be different though, because it is such a different show than what Letterman and Carson did. Boy, weird shit, it’s time to get some business in here. We’ll take a break, we’ll come back.

We’ll talk a little bit more with Mike Chisholm about the top ten late night hosts of all time. Mike Chisholm hosts The Letterman Podcast. He is today’s guest, and we’re discussing his list of the top ten late night hosts of all time? And how many do we have left? I’m playing along.

I don’t want to spoil the show. I have five head that you could throw out, you know, so there’s very obvious there’s four left, and I have four life names. Like exactly, and I think I know what I want to do. Okay, I don’t want to throw names out and ruin it for the audience, but I would imagine people can guess it at least three of them. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Number four is our boy, Conan O’Brien, And you know that’s one of the names for sure. There’s no question Conan. How do you follow David Letterman? You know? And Conan not only did it, but did it right.

He did a phenomenal job taking over the mantle of late night. He was so resilient as late night became similar to the Letterman Carson thing, you know, when Letterman was on at twelve thirty, there was a point where his show was the hip Show and the Tonight Show was the anchor that the Hip Show was kind of, you know, attached to the same thing happened with Conan and Leno. You know, there was a point where where Conan was the hip guy. He was the guy that was they were getting to host the Emmy’s just like Dave. He was the guy that was knocking the ball out of the park, creating new types of of the way to present the show, his travel shows, you know, and then of course the resilience of weathering the storms, and he had a lot of them at the beginning, of course, during the Late Night years.

You know, of course, how do you react to having the Tonight Show taken from you after it was promised to you for five years? You know. And and Conan, you know, leaving Late Night. The deal that he signed was serious, the podcast, all the relevance that Conan has in life, and right now, at this time, I just want to throw a shout out to he and his family and all the stuff that they’re going through right now. They are just Oh what a way that they’re in it right now.

You know, the most unpredictable kind of thing. You know, we just have so much love for Conan and respect for him, and of course he’s going to be on this list, and he’s going to be really high up on this list. So that’s why he’s at number four, you. Know, not to bring the showdown, but one of the things as a producer, I try and look ahead to the stories of the next six months or the next year. I fear we’re going to have a major celebrity trial where lawyers are going to want to ask Conan O’Brien what happened at that party?

And I could see a defense attorney saying, well, why didn’t you call nine one one? When people said, like, I fear Conan’s going to be in the news for reasons no one deserves to be in the news. What a horrible tragedy, obviously, but I just want to, you know, put that out there into the universe that I think we’re going to see Conan’s name in the news in twenty twenty six. Yeah, I I absolutely, absolutely, and and and I just but you know that stuff is going to work itself out, you know, you know that stuff is you know, hindsight is twenty twenty. Could I have done something different?

Okay, there’s there, there’s that, But then there’s also the the heart part. And I mean, I know that they’re all I’ve heard a couple of grape vine things, and there’s a lot of people that are really sad right now, and and and and really just hurt, and and and and and and devastated in fact, and and and I just feel so bad for that part of it as well. That the course, you’re right, it’s gonna be if this trial is public, it’s going to be, in my opinion, it’s going to be like the OJ trial. It’s going to be. It’ll be a circus.

Hopefully that can be circumvented somehow. I don’t know if there’s what the laws are and if there’s special circumstances if if that then seals things, I don’t know if that would happen. But yeah, I think you’re I think you’re right. I think it’s going to become a circus. But at the end of the day, when a circus is happening and people are genuinely hurt and there’s all this stuff going on around them, like that’s the part where I’m just like just just everybody who’s involved in that situation know that there are people out there in public who are just pulling for you and we’re thinking about yeah, yeah, you know.

I say none of this flippantly, just as someone who analyzes things. This makes Conan’s bio it oh bit. It might be one sentence in the seventh paragraph, but it’s going to make his obituary and again a horrible situation. I don’t mean to be the least bit flippant about this situation, and I hope I’m not coming across that way, but just just just factually, Conan’s going to be in the news as there are some other famous people. Absolutely, now that being said, the reason that he is in the news the way he is, the giant he has become.

And you talk about Smigel and I think about them, and I think about, you know, the camaraderie that they had back in the SNL days, and if they either of them, could have ever, ever, ever fathomed that this would happen to them and they would become the cultural icons that they are. Conan of course being the public one, Smigel, you know, being the genius, the creative genius behind the scenes, but you think about Conan and do you think even in his wildest dreams he takes over for David Letterman, that he would end up becoming who he has become. No, I can’t, right, because if you just go back, it’s wait, Lauren says, I can host twelve thirty, Okay, And. How long are you think? Are you thinking you’re going to do that for fourteen years?

Are you hoping it lasts a year? Three years?

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And then you go do what?

And then and then hey, do you want to host the Tonight Show? Well, of course everyone wants to host the Tonight Show? Who doesn’t want to host the Tonight Show?

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And then that rug gets pulled out of you?

And then I know we have different opinions on the TBS years, you know, a little I mean less visible, Right, it’s not this Tonight Show, It’s TBS. But then this more recent act of both the podcast and then the great appearance as an Oscar host, the more Chwin Awards, he’ll be back as the Oscars host. Now the Oscars itself is interesting because is it two years of Conan?

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And then because the Oscar’s destiny is YouTube, and YouTube will want to put…

And have he it’s the whatever one hundred and second Oscars with your host, mister beast. You know. So Conan’s not about to host the Oscars for the next ten years. He might do two or three. Do they go back to Kimmel one last time in ABC?

And this gets me back to the if Jimmy Kimmel retires, you’re my age, what are you gonna do for the next fifteen twenty years? I know you have money, but you need something to do. You have to have a project, even if it’s hosting Strike Force five. But like I don’t see Jimmy Kimmel at you know, fifty five ish, just going home and doing nothing for twenty years. He needs something to do.

Even David Letterman apparently needs something to do. Right, Hey, there’s there’s there’s the name for the next the next Netflix show. David Letterman needs something to do. It would be not far off the mark. Yeah, I mean Conan is a giant.

Him hosting the Oscars was again, yeah, cherry on top and in so many ways, and it’s gonna be great to see him do it again. I look forward to everything that he’s doing. We got three left, and you got four names I think three is going to combine two of those names. Okay, Now I’m a little biased with this one here, I fully admit it, but I still stand by it. The number three, uh you know, talk show host, the top ten talk show host of all time.

Number three for me is Dick Cabot. Oh yes, yes, yes. Now with me. Dick Cabot comes with somebody and it comes, he comes with his mentor, he comes with Jack Parr and I and and I want to talk about them at the same time because I believe again this list here has a whole bunch of people who are you know, kings or king makers whatnot. The last two are both combined.

But but when you look at when you look at what Dick did, you know, he did compete against Johnny Carson number one, so he was an outstanding talk show host in his own his own you know respect. But he also was such a part of Jack Parr’s show and was influenced so much by Jack Parr. And and and when you look at you know, his his reverence for Jack is just second to none. And I look at what Dick did and the combination of broadcaster intelligence stand up as well, he is absolutely a phenomenal player and carries on the spirit of Jack Parr. That’s why I put Dick Cabot at number three.

I know that there might be some people who want to start throwing stones at me with that one, but that’s that’s that’s this is my list. It has nothing to do with the fact that Dick told me he liked me, nothing to do with that at all. But yeah, he’s my number three. No, not absurd at all. Those were the two names.

I was wondering which one you’re going to lead leave off. Those were the two that were out there. Cavot, you know, in many ways a podcaster, right, the same conversation that we’ve had. I can’t argue with it. It is Cavit show whacky.

No, not at all, not at all. Nope, No, it had no wackiness to it. It was it was intelligent humor to be sure. Oh wait, I just realized, unless you’ve totally lost your mind, with two slots left, you have left Tom Snyder off your list. I did.

Tom Snader is one of the honorable mentions. He’s he’s he just it was him, you know, And I mean I look at I look at him, I look at Charlie and it’s the long form late night that I love that Dave does right now, but yet it is it is awful list. And Tom’s one of those guys who who who? I just he was one of Dave’s influences, and I think it’s very obvious that he’s one of Dave’s influences. But yeah, he uh, Hey, there’s only there’s only ten slots, and you can’t have everybody.

Uh, you can’t have everybody represented. Tom’s one of the people that did not make the list. Now I’m hoping you’re going for the clicks here and one of the last two slots is going to Magic Johnson or Cheffy Chase or and the Pat Say Jack and you know, the two left of Letterman and Pat say Jack, and then we can all hate on your list. Huh that’s right, say Jack. I just uh, it’s just the best punch line of all times.

Pat Say Jack. I just love it. That show wasn’t that bad. It just wasn’t reason to exist. But it wasn’t awful.

Oh he was fine, but he you know, you talk about a guy who didn’t connect. He didn’t feel like he was connecting with it the way that that that that the hosts that we love connect with us so much like look at God. At Craig Ferguson, I felt a genuine connection with him. I felt that he was genuinely connecting with his guests. He had a genuine connection with the robot skeleton on the other side of the room.

You look at Pat, say Jack, and I didn’t feel that connection at all. The other honorable mention, by the way, of course, is mister Allan Thick, Canadian hero, mister Allen Thick for Thick of the Night. You know, he gets he gets an honorable mention. But yeah, No. Number two is Johnny number two, Johnny Carson yep.

On the Letterman Podcast. Johnny Carson is only number two. That’s wow, that’s shocking. Most people who are who are who are enthusiasts of David Letterman, they say Johnny’s number one. I I don’t.

But it’s the same way that uh, you know again, I’ve used this example so many times the Godfather. You know, some people like Veto, some people like Michael Well, Michael took the thing and he carried it down the field farther and and and and was even more successful, you know, and and to me, Johnny Carson, he did that, and then the guy who makes number one went and did that, so so so Johnny took the ball, Johnny Carson. I mean, oh, by the way, let’s uh, let’s give a little love to my boy, Mark Malcoff. I’m seeing stories every day online where like the Daily Mirror or US Weekly or whatever, Will will will tell an old Johnny Carson story. It’s happening every day on the news, right.

I love I love seeing this and it’s all as a result of Mark’s book being released, and they’re seeing a newly released book, but our Mark Malcoff and telling a Johnny Carson Joonan River story or something like that. I could not be happier that we are in twenty twenty five and Johnny Carson is still getting buzz. It is such a beautiful, beautiful thing. Did you love Johnny growing up? So?

Johnny was the thing I stared at killing time until twelve thirty. Right, So I come into Johnny backward because my godmother hasn’t gotten me the VCR yet and I don’t have cable TV, so what am I gonna do? So you start watching this Johnny Carson guy, and over time, you come to appreciate it, and I was really in on the end. Then as time goes on and you become older and more mature, and you go back and you just study the work because you’re into these things, and you see the clips.

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And then when the metvs of the world were airing the older shows and you read…

Obviously I love Dave where we wouldn’t even be friends. But for me, you know, there’s a nuclear emergency and we got to wake somebody up at three fifteen in the morning and go, dude, sorry to wake you. There’s a set and you got to interview Mary Lou Henter and band, and I wrote a monologue for you, and just you got to execute a late night show. Right now, I would hand the ball to Johnny and know that I’m going to get a funny hour, whereas Dave I’d be on roller skates the entire time. Oh, that’s a great analogy.

That’s a great analogy. Yes, yeah, that’s a Yeah. You could set your watch to Johnny. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, you really could, and he’s just yeah, it’s it’s cool reading the book actually because it came out, it’s so weird that a book in twenty twenty five would be the perfect time to come out about Johnny Carson. But it really really is when you look at the perspective of what’s happening in late night right now, and you read some of the stuff that Johnny went through, and late night is a show, but late night, late night is a genre.

When you look at it, you know, there’s these crazy quotes that come out of him, Johnny Carson that are in this book that are prophetic, you know, talking about how it’s gonna expand and it’s gonna have to contract and and and and Yeah. It’s really I mean, Johnny Carson is the he is I want to say he’s the goat, but he’s the goat that that that that created the goat. Number one, of course, it’s the Letterman podcast. I did. I did want to look at maybe looking at someone else, but there was just nobody other than Johnny who could have could have ever taken this spot.

He is the number one, uh, in my opinion, broadcaster of all time. It’s not even just a talk show host. In my opinion, David Letterman is the number one broadcaster of all time. And uh, you can go from every genre from the most ridiculous of the ridiculous, throwing stuff off the tower, to having phenomenal short and long form conversations with heads of state of the world and and everything in between. Uh.

Dave’s the guy. You know, the fact that he inspired some Canadian uh you know, to out of his basement, Uh, you know, create a show in his name, who has no business in doing something like that. That’s the inspiration. That’s the kind of reach that Dave has. And it’s still doing it.

And he didn’t he didn’t stop. Johnny stopped and he and he kind of left the limelight. Dave hasn’t done that. In fact, he has introduced so many people to so many different things because of who he is and where he is in this time and place in history. So David Letterman is, of course number one.

He’s clearly my favorite. You can’t argue with it. You’re putting a thought in my head about the walk Off by Johnny Carson, that we don’t have the Johnny Carson Netflix series where he interviewed Andie Dickinson. You know, we don’t have that, whereas we do have elder statesman Letterman. Now I’m really digging the openly political David Letterman.

I think that’s really really interesting. And again, oh, late night shows, late night knows, can’t people go? Sure they can, absolutely they can, and they should be. I get the playing down the middle, I get it, but I also like to know what somebody is thinking. Not that you want to lose half the audience.

I understand that argument. But this version of David Letterman where I don’t care, I’ll walk away from the table and leave my chips there, don’t need him, don’t care, and he can speak his mind to the current states of things. I absolutely love it. But back to the walk off, you just did a mental exercise for me. If I don’t know, Dave goes, well, I’m not getting the Tonight show.

That’s it. Eddie just becomes a total recluse. And all I have in my mind are eleven seasons of a guy throwing watermelons off the tower. It would probably be like Eddie Murphy’s comedy career that if you told me like, hey, Letterman’s coming back and he’s hosting on Netflix, I’d be like, oh my god, that’s going to be the most amazing thing ever.

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And then a guy with a white beer shows up and does a serious interview with A…

It would be like, if Eddie Murphy ever returns to the stand up, it cannot possibly live up to what my mind needs the Beatles reunion to be. So maybe if Dave does do eleven and done, I’d be like, oh my god, did you see this show? It’s the most amazing thing that ever happened.

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And then he walked away.

Mm hmm. Yeah. I think it’s funny. As you said that, I think about when Craig Ferguson left and it’s almost similar to, okay, yeah, Craig Ferguson decides he doesn’t you know, he left late night. It’s it’s very similar to that, and uh oh yeah that’s got me thinking too that, Yeah, that’s that’s a fantastic analogy.

That’s exactly right. If Dave would have done that, it’s funny, like like I’m trying to remember who oh. Senator Al Franken in the last month, the last six weeks, else El Franken was on and he was a senator at the time, and he said to Dave, he said, he said, before you go off and become an eccentric recluse. And I think a lot of people thought that that’s exactly what Dave was gonna do, and and and it’s funny like I I’m into Billie Eilish. The reason I’m into Billy Eilish is because she was on Dave’s My Next Guest show.

You know, But people ask me what my favorite next guest uh is of all time? And until I saw Bateman, I had an answer, and then Bateman kind of Bateman might be my number one of all time. But then I went and saw Dave Chapelle’s special, and the guy who Bateman replaced went back up, and Dave Chappelle is my favorite letterman of all time, and and and and uh my next guest, I should say, of all time. And part of it, I think is because when Dave does start talking to people with opinions about things he we start to get glimpses of what Dave’s opinion on the same subject are. And we always liked that.

We always liked when a guest back in the day would say something to Dave and make him answer a personal question, and we the audience loved that right because it didn’t happen very often because of how private he is. And in this way, I think my next guest does it as well. It brings out some of those political things. To me, Dave is always a common sense guy. His barometer for make making fun of a politician or something like that didn’t go off until the common sense part.

As soon as the common sense part went into the red now it’s like, okay, we’re just gonna open it up. But yeah, that’s a good point that you made about that. I really love that now. And there’s something too walking off. I think when Howard Stern’s career is said and done, there’s gonna be a strong argument for whatever Day already lang and needed to leave the show should have been the last episode of the Howard Stern Show.

I’m not sure that this this late period Howard stuff is doing justice to the Howard Stern legacy. I know, man like, like he just signed up for is it three years? Another three years? Yeah? Yeah, so he’s not retiring essentially.

That’s what that tells me is that he’s just not gonna retire. He’s just gonna keep going and doing it because it’s what he knows, what he loves. I think he still loves it. I don’t know. I’ve I haven’t listened to a ton of the current stuff.

It seems like he enjoy having thoughtful conversations with people. But when you think back to what brought him to the dance and how you know, I’ll you know, oh, I see these two girls, you know, I want to bang them both. Like that was that was That was the stuff he used to say every single day, and that’s what brought him to it, And his evolution is very interesting. Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t know, Like, like, is it comforting?

Is it comfort food? Da’ve talked about Johnny, how Johnny would tuck people in every night and it was just one of those things. Is Howard stirned comfort food to a lot of people? Is that that part of it? I don’t think so, because I think those of us that grew up on Howard that Howard’s gone, Johnny was still Johnny.

You know, you could swap out an episode from nineteen eighty six with one from nineteen seventy four. Yep, and maybe it was a half hour shorter, but it was the same show. Yeah, that looked a little newer, that was it. It was the same show, whereas what Howard’s doing now has you know, Robin and Fred are there, but other than that, it’s not really the same show from you know, pick a Day in nineteen ninety three. Yeah.

I love when Dave and Howard have conversations, like, I love there’s an episode of I would love to hear hear Dave and Howard have another conversation, a current one. I don’t think they’ve talked in a while, in a year anyway, something like that. I love. I love when they talk. One of the things that those two both have in common is they have the ability to get people to start talking about things that they don’t want to talk about.

Both of them have that ability. What do you think that is? Like you’ve been in radio for a long time, Like when you have a host, Alex Bena, I can do the same thing. Actually, when you have a host who has the ability to start eliciting stuff that the person that they’re talking to didn’t necessarily intend on talking about. What is that causes that.

So it’s a combination of charisma, prep, doing the prep and taking the time to get the guest in a place where they’re comfortable. So if I have you on to come out Gangbusters and go my host the Letterman podcast, you have Johnny Carson at number two, that’s ridiculous. You know, I’ve started off from an antagonistic point of view, whereas if I hang out with you for forty minutes, and especially if I can talk to you about the thing you’re very passionate about, that’s not this. So hey, Mikeaul’s on your Facebook page yesterday I saw you out with your granddaughter. Yeah, you know, you know, what were you guys up to?

What was that like? And you know I could just tell from your Facebook posts, you know this is something that’s This is someone who is tremendously important to you. And so I could talk to you about her for twenty minutes and get you to open up.

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And now our body language has gone from this to kind of leaning back in the c…

But but it’s not my opener. And that’s what Howard’s good at. And this is why he has guests on for an hour and you sit in the comfy sofa and you get a little comfortable with the gang and it’s not a threatening thing. And you know, but that plus charisma, plus the repuds of the show, and he is a very good interviewer. It’s just not the reason those of us who bought Howard stern stock in nineteen eighty five bought it.

Right now, that makes a lot of sense. So that’s the list. That’s the list list, not too not too controversial, right, a good list. Zone Rivers gets an honorable mention, So DOA’s Tom he gets an honorable mention of course as well. Yeah, but anyway, that was it.

Yeah, it was hard not to get. The hardest part was was shoe warning. How can I talk about Colbert and how can I talk about Parr? But like having both Alan and Parr on and Carson on and Jay on, you know, that was just it was it was just it was it was a bridge that was just it was too it was too heavy on the bridge. So one of them, one of them had to But three Tonight Show lists on the top ten list, there’s three who goes to the Tonight Show?

So but yeah, I uh, I can’t wait till you watch the Sandler episode. There’s four four, who’s a I want to know Brian host? How dare you? Sir? How dare you?

You? Unbelievable? I said that too. It was like something felt weird when I said it. Oh my god, that’s the.

Jay Leno of podcasters. That’s who you are cutting it there. Mike laughed at that line there at the end, and we moved on to some other topics. But I’m I’m saving that part of the conversation for a completely different episode on one of these January weekends. I hope you’re enjoying these conversations with Mike.

We’re hoping to do a bunch of these. Enjoy talking to him, and we can talk forever. This raw session was two and a half hours. Anytime we’re together, we just go and go and go. So he’s Mike Chisseingy hosts a Letterman podcast.

Mike you, Mike, thank you for your time, and I’ll meet everybody back here tomorrow.

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Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Today crossover episode with The Letterman Podcast. Mike Chisholm is the host of The Letterman Podcast, and he had seen a list of the top ten late night host of all time and he didn’t like the list, so he made his own and he wanted me to react to it. So over the Christmas break he was like, Hey’m going to send you a list. I’m like, don’t send me the list.

I don’t want to see your list. I’ll just react to it. So that’s what you’re going to hear right now. We’ve talked a little bit about your reaction to the Billboard Top twenty five Comedians of the Century. Well, there’s been a few late night ones as well.

One particular late night list came out, the top ten late night Hosts of All Time list, which I appreciated. It’s hard when it’s a mount rushmore when you got to pick four. It’s hard when it’s ten. You’ve got a little bit more breathing room and you can talk about things. I did not like the list that came out.

I don’t even want to, you know, I don’t wanna. I wasn’t a fan of the list that came out, and and and so I decided to pend my own top ten list, and I find I think that I did a pretty good job. I have not made this list public to anybody. You’re the first person that’s going to hear it. And the whole premise of the show was you reacting to what I think is the definitive top ten late night hosts in history list.

So that got this up, you gotta say. From the home office in Vancouver, it’s the top ten late night hosts of all time, topka late night hosts of all time, number ten. Okay, I got that, I got that in I got that in my head. And so what we’re gonna do? Okay, from the home office in Lumbee, British Columbia, the top ten late night television hosts in history.

For me, the top ten late night host it has to be started by Steve Allen. Number ten is Steve Allen. And this list is is I like this list because there’s a couple that are sort of combined with each other. There are a couple that are kind of group together. But I start the list with Steve Allen because as far as I’m concerned, this is the guy that set the blueprint.

You do talk about a blueprint that even in twenty twenty five, the format is the same for the most part, the desk, the monologue, the guests, the panel, the way that they’re set up. This is the guy that basically said this is how it’s gonna be. Yes, there were shows before him, there were stuff that came along before him, but Steve Allen is the guy that actually set the tone, and all these years later, you know that blueprint is still being followed. So to me, you start the list with Steve Allen, you know, not because he was the first to do it. You make him number one, but you say, okay, you’re the guy.

You’re the guy that’s going to start the list, just like you’re the guy that started the genre. That’s why I positioned him at number ten. Oh absolutely. If we had a magic wand and you could take Steve Allen in his prime and say, you know, we’re going to use doctor Who technology here, Steve Allen in your prime, right now, I need you to host. I need you to fill in for Johnny Carson on a Tuesday night in nineteen seventy six.

Done. I need you to fill in on Late Night with David Letterman on a Monday in nineteen eighty five. No problem, where’s the Alka Seltzer suit. I got this same note on Conan Hey, John Stewart’s throwing up in the bathroom. You think you can wing the Daily Show for us?

Absolutely? Jimmy Kimmel doesn’t want to do it anymore. You want to show on ABC in twenty twenty eight, Sure, so on Steve Allen one. There we go, and and and the cool thing about Steve and not just Steve, but some of the other the other you know, pioneers of of of of this genre. If you go onto Don Giller’s David Letterman YouTube channel, if you go to Don Giller’s YouTube channel, there’s the talk show host compilation.

And I’ve talked about this one a lot. I don’t know if there’s any series. And this is a this is a big commitment because it’s like there’s seven parts to it, and I think they’re all an hour each something like that. But it’s in order every single talk show host appearance on one of David Letterman shows, and Steve Allen appeared on Late Night. I think you’ve appeared on the Morning Show too.

Now I think about it the Morning Show and Late Night and it’s it’s it’s really cool watching Steve. His influence on Dave is obvious in the first couple interactions. There’s a nervousness that Dave has, and I love that about early Dave. You know, it’s the exact opposite of where he is right now. He’s not the elder statesman that can that can communicate with anybody.

He is really nervous and UH. And and to watch Steve come in and and and and im part some wisdom and grace in doing so and even doing the show is such a cool thing. And and so I highly recommend that for people who love this stuff, highly recommend going and watching that compilation. UH number nine another trailblazer in his own right. Arcinio Hall and I have our studio here at number nine because, of course UH the first talk show host of of UH of color who has his own full time show.

Johnny of course had guest hosts of color for the Tonight Show, but this is the first one that it’s really helmed his own deal, and not just helmed his own deal, but was he was a culture, a significant person in culture, all culture. I was a huge hip hop fan growing up, and I love the music on late night. I love the music that would show up on late night. There was but but to be perfectly frank, the bullseye for me when it came to music on any late night talk show of me growing up, it was our Senio Hall, our senior Hall. Had phenomenal music, he had phenomenal guests.

He had a different vibe to things, of course, and I thought, uh, just the way that he I mean, he’s the guy that many people said, oh yeah, Carson’s in trouble because this new hip person is coming in. And he was a cultural phenomenon as well. Obviously didn’t have the lasting power, but at the same time significant enough to make it to the top ten. Oh absolutely. If you think of a lot of people that took on the Johnny timeslot, if not Johnny specifically, they were all playing on Johnny’s corner, Let’s do something similar like if you looking like Pat, say, Jack Show, what is that?

It’s you know, it’s the Tonight show without being the Tonight show, Like what are we doing? Whereas Arsenio did something different for a different audience. And there was a lot of different audience out there and both shows could coexist. You you are reminding me of the Carsenio sketch. Now, yes, I’m trying to remember.

I’ve read several Carson books, and I can’t remember where the experts have landed if that sketch actually bothered Johnny or not. But the Carsenio sketch, for people who have not seen it, it’s on YouTube. It’s a must watch, and it really speaks to that particular moment. It does and from where I from what I have heard, let me ask Mark Malkoff about it. But but yeah, Johnny, one of the things that gave Johnny pause in his entire career was Arcinio.

But also Carcinio, the idea of of of of being able to, you know, maybe get maybe not a full on gut shot, but a grazing bullet to the bulletproof man. I think is something that happened there. And apparently Arsenio gave Johnny pause saying well, maybe it is time to hang it up. So I mean, that’s that’s significant in itself. Yeah.

I mean, you know, we all age, and I increasingly feel my own age, and I love doing my podcast. I’m like, you know, at some point in the not crazy future, it’s gonna be like, Okay, seventy year old man talking about Dane Cook. What David Letterman? That show aired sixty years ago, old timer, what are you talking about? You know, I do sort of have an unofficial line.

I’ve never really pondered where it is. But there are comedic things that I don’t talk about because it’s like speaking a different language. I self possess profess to live on Old Man Mountain, and at some point it’s just it’s just not my thing. Somebody’s doing something on TikTok. It’s wonderful, it’s great, people love it.

I don’t get it if you ever want to feel old. Every now and then Variety will do a top twenty, like you know, next gen Superstars of Media thing, and you go down the list you mentioned before, not being familiar with mister Beast, never mind mister Beast. You go down their top twenty listen and you’re like, I don’t know any of these people, which is fine, Which is fine. You know, I could say to my kids, Hey, there was this guy Dave, and he threw watermelons off a tower and they’ll be like, yeah, okay, Boomer, Yeah. I keep saying that to my granddaughter, she’s seven.

I’m putting all this pressure on her, saying, you’re the one that’s got to keep me cool. You make sure you only like cool things. Okay, you see, there’s no window here. So when he throws the card and it’s a sound effect, and that’s funny. It’s funny because there’s no window.

Kids, it’s really funny. What that being said? She and I because I mean, I’m playing he out the idea of her, of her doing some reaction videos to some of the stuff Dave did. When I put on Dave’s stuff where he’s throwing stuff off a tower, she absolutely to this day. Twenty in twenty twenty five, a seven year old girl laughs her little off when she sees him throwing stuff off the tower or running things over with the steamroller.

She loved the running scens over with the steamroller. But oh, she asks to watch it. She’s seven, So that gives me hope for that generation. Right, But like, what’s funny about Larry Budd Melman not being able to really hear what Dave’s saying. All the timing’s wrong.

The guy is not really delivering the lines. Well, like why is that funny? It just is? But like, hey, kids want to watch Larry Budd Melman. What?

Yeah, I don’t know. Okay, now you go. Now I’ve got it. Now I’ve got an assignment. Lara needs to see Larry Budd Melman and we’ll have to find out.

Number eight Craig Ferguson. The people that made this list are ones who definitely changed, who added something to the game. Maybe it didn’t change the game, but they added something to me. Ferguson, you know, I loved him. My golden age in watching late night television, h was when I could watch late show Conan’s Show on TBS and Craig Ferguson.

I know that that is not necessarily popular to a lot of the purest. As far as I’m concerned, Conan and Ferguson are two that were influenced by guys like Dave and and some of this stuff that’s out there that the esoteric stuff perhaps or you know, just the plain weird, uh, you know, and and the idea that he evolved his show to a place where he had a robot skeleton for a sidekick and they had a you know, two guys in a in a two man horse costume that would come in every single night, and the audience not only bought it, but they yearned for it when Secretariat would come in. You know, he had a he had a cult following. I really appreciate his sensibility, but he also brought some seriousness to the zaniness. You know, when he had Desmond tutu on as a guest or some of these other people that Craig ferguson to me, moved the ball up the field and did it in a very very compelling way.

That’s why he makes the list in the top ten. Did you did you ever? You know he started as a stand up I don’t know if you guys his past ever would have crossed the curious thing? You must have? You must have?

Yes, I got to work with Craig a handful of times. He came up, maybe to just do a guest appearance, and we asked him to do some vo for the Radio Classics channel, and he started improving and we’re like, wait, there’s something here, and he agreed to come back the next day. We grabbed this guy Ghosty, who was on the staff who could do voices and improv, you know, well enough to keep up with Craig Ferguson. And they came back and just rift and I forget what we even did with it, but it was just one of those magical things of like, oh, this is fun. I get to do this today.

I’m going to just hang out in the studio and watch Craig Ferguson improv and really super nice guy. I’ve always said, not that he’s a troll on TV, but he’s in person. He’s super handsome, Like, he’s a really good looking dude. YEA. Loved working with him, would love to run into him again.

I’ve got to see him just as a fan, you know, not going hey, can we meet you? Back to say, it’s just like I’m going to buy tickets, go to a show and go home. Really fantastic. It’s a shame he didn’t stay with Late Night because he would have had a thirty year run at it. You know, boy, don’t you wish you could put him on at twelve thirty tonight and he was on.

He’s fantastic. I would put him on any like. I listened to his podcast now and it’s fun to the one thing that you mentioned there when you the idea of bringing him back to do some work with Ghosty. The thing that Craig brings to the table is something similar that Dave has, where his reactions are very good and very funny and very out out of left field. And when he has somebody like Josh Robert Thompson who did the voice for Jeffrey Pretyson, and then of course Morgan Freeman and all these other stuff.

Josh is amazing. Josh has been on this show and we had a marathon. I think it was a two hour conversation with Josh two and a half hours on here. And the idea that there’s this guy that is so good that he is actually the voice of Morgan Freeman when they want to edit and make the safe for TV movies and they edit his dialogue. He’s the guy that does not just Morgan, but other people’s voices, and yet he’s crazy as as I’ll get out.

And then Craig can react to that. I love that Craig can react to that. Craig was so he would take the blue cart of what the segment producer had prepared for him for who his upcoming guest was, and he would tear it up beforehand because he wanted to have a spontaneous conversation with people. That is playing with a net, like being able to rely on your rap year like wit and and and react, and that be the source of the entertainment. Even the monologue was loose.

The monologue was on bullet points and the idea that he would just come out and start talking and and not just be able to sustain an audience. But like you said, if he chose to, could have gone on a run that would put him up there, you know, with the greats. But his sensibility was I don’t want to be part of this late night club. And and that was fun too. He’s a little punk rock, He’s a lot punk rock in fact, when you look at Craig’s history.

So yeah, to me, he’s a guy that that certainly deserves to be on the last Sorry to cut you please. Is that is that. Part of the magic that I don’t want to be part of this club. Now I can break that apart because Jimmy Kimmel wants to be David Letterman. David Letterman wanted to be Johnny Carson but wasn’t allowed to be Johnny Carson twice and that sort of created David Letterman.

Yep, Conan O’Brien, some random writer in the game who. Has the who are you giving the show too? What are you saying? So? Like?

Is that part of the magic of not wanting to do the show? And conversely, is that part of the problem people have with Jimmy Fallon who I respect Jimmy’s game. Jimmy understands what the Tonight show is and he runs he runs the playbook. Is it cool? It is not cool?

Nope, But he runs the playbook the way he’s asked to run it. He runs it very well, and he’s going to wind up being the last eleven thirty show standing. It sounds like, but you know, is there something to be said to I don’t actually want to do this? Well, this is okay, John, Jimmy Kimmel one more year. I’m gonna sign on a one year contract.

And I mean some people look at it and go, okay, Yeah. He doesn’t want to get in the way of the Colbert because Colbert is gonna have his big send off, Like, I mean, we’re about to enter an era here, you know, I remember the last six weeks of Dave. There’s gonna be an era here where Colbert is ramping up to his leaving. I can see why Kimmel didn’t want to be a part of that. But there’s also a part of me that goes, it’d be cool to see Jimmy Kimmel do this for year to year, for the next five years.

Because he’s walking on the knife’s edge. He’s like, Okay, am I going to keep doing it? Am I not going to keep doing it? And to me that adds an element of freshness, just like the hesitation, I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to be that guy.

Ferguson, you know, for a long time wasn’t wearing a tie, and then he went and started wearing vests and he started doing different things to try and because he was uncomfortable with conformity and the idea of wanting to break out of that. Somehow, I think absolutely is part of the magic. A hesitation I’m doing this, but I don’t really want to be here kind of an attitude. Oh we love that stuff. But again, it’s the same example that Bill Carter used in his in his book talking about in Late Shift, talking about the difference between Dave and j you know, it’s it’s it’s it’s pop music versus Pink Floyd.

You know, they’re different atmospheres, they’re different people, they’re different everything. There’s a big group of people that love Jimmy Fallon and it’s it’s a pop music group, whereas some people who are more like aficionados like us, are like, well, yeah, it’s just that that was my thing with Dave and j And by the way, number seven on the list of the top ten greatest late night hosts in history, Number seven is Jay Leno. Jay Leno, that guy’s the worst. Okay, we’ll take the break here and we’ll come back and talk about the most hated man in the world, Jay Leno. We continue with a look at Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast’s Top ten Greatest late night Hosts of All Time and apparently this next guy who.

On the list of the top ten greatest late night hosts in history, number seven is Jay Leno. Oh the list the worst guy whoever? Let this guy, this guy, Jay Leno, He’s the worst. The way he will have opinions about late night television as if he knows anything about it. Did you see during the summer they asked him about Colbert and he weighed in on it.

What a hirk? What does he know? He’s hosted what twenty two years of The Tonight Show, more episodes than anybody, including Johnny Carson. As if jay Leno has any expertise in Late Night The worst guy plus the way you know his poor wife has dementia and he takes care of her and cares in the bathroom. This guy’s the worst.

I can understand why people can’t stand Jay Leno. He just seems like an awful guy, doesn’t he? Oh, I was so hoping you would do that. Let’s I want to talk about that a little bit, because this is this is the thing on your show whatever, somebody whatever jay Leto seems to pipe up about something, somebody seems to have a problem with it, and it makes the news and and is it just? Is it?

You know, a generation of people who were in their formative years, they saw what happened during the Cone thing, and they’ve now just labeled him. Is that what’s going wrong with Jay Leno? Yeah, it’s yes, it’s we’re backing Conan because it’s the same sensibility. Leno was the establishment candidate. Yep, and Conan was the scrappy up and comer who’s only been in Late night for fourteen years himself.

You know this poor struggling artist. Did Conan get a short run to shows? Need time to find her legs? Of course? And of course yep was when they pulled the chair back out for Jay Leno and he says, no, I’ve brought this up on your show before.

What happens then? Do they just keep Conan on ago w hoope this works out? Or do they pull out the Jimmy Fallon chair kind of quickly and now we all hate Jimmy Fallon because he stole Conan’s job. I I don’t know, putting aside that I might understand why you’re on team Conan and and are mad at j Us Letteran. People got over it.

I’m not mad at Jay. You know back in the original Late Night Wars that I want Dave to get the Tonight show. I did, absolutely, But I don’t go around kicking a box. All day going. I can’t believe Jay Leno got the Tonight show.

What does he know about late night comedy? You know it, It’s okay, It’s okay, guys. But putting aside the the horrible sin of taking the Tonight’s Show back. I just don’t understand why people hate Jay Leno. Yeah, me too.

I I mean this is this is one of the greatest joke writers in history. And I mean, you know, you look at you look at the hosts of the Tonight Show, how many of them were stand ups? You know, really, at the end of the day, Jay is really the only one like Fallon was as well. Fallon definitely definitely was a stand up, but he was more an actor and an impressionist and things like that. He had a different he had a very different stand up aact than than than Jay.

That’s for sure. Jay is a pure joke writer. He is a pure stand up. Not only when you talk about you know, he’s an influential one. You got guys like David Letterman himself, Jerry Seinfeld who called Jay, you know, the greatest joke writer ever, and and and when you look at what he wanted to add to the Tonight Show, you know, he has this huge, huge like the fact that somebody followed Johnny and they stayed the job is nuts.

And this goes back to what you were saying about giving time for shows to find their feet. You know, he for a year and a half letterman handed him his lunch, and Leno, to his credit, was a tactician and did everything he possibly could to rough the edges off the Tonight Show. So it was a perfect, you know, gleaming shine that you could see yourself in and every little detail counted and became a tactician. Whereas again you look at Dave. Yes, everybody was working their asses off, but they came across as a product that you know, isn’t like that.

It’s not shiny, it is a little bit more clunky, and that’s kind of their identity. Leno went the exactly other way. It said, no, no, no, no, we need a monologue where I have to do credit to what is considered one of the greatest pieces of television content of all time, which is Johnny Carson’s monologue, and I have to do that justice. So I mean, of course it’s gonna take him time to adjust and to grow. That’s where I have the little problem with.

You know, he talks about Conan and Conan’s numbers with the Tonight Show, and you know, we’re in a diminishing market and there’s all these sorts of things and he says, Oh, the numbers are the numbers, you know, you know, that’s what happens. Yeah, but you were given that time. And to answer your question what you said earlier. If Conan was given the time with the Tonight Show, hindsight is twenty twenty, look at what Conan has become since then. Now, he wouldn’t have had the bump of the of the of the robbery, you know, and people getting you know, that culmination point of people getting excited or whatever and all coming together and creating Team Coco.

That might not have happened if he was given that eighteen months to run the Tonight Show and do it the way he wanted to do it and give time people, give people time to get used to it. I I think Conan would have been just fine in the Tonight Show chair. But NBC had a whole bunch of things going on and Jay took the brunt of it. The fact that Jay had this contract, this pay and play contract. You know, why aren’t people up in arms about NBC creating this impossible scenario for you know, for for themselves.

So there’s a lot more to it. But the idea that Jay Leno isn’t revered today. Even if he’s not your cup of tea, it is asinine to me twenty two years on the Tonight Show, Are you kidding Me? And and and yeah, so so Leno is to me? Leno is formidable.

You heard it here first on the Letterman podcast. But he’s formal at number seven on the top ten list all time. So two things about Jay, and I imagine your audience, of course, is familiar with Jay’s appearances on Late Night with David Letterman. Yes, thank you for watching. Watch those you’ll see a different Edgier.

You know, maybe he’s not a Dice Clay, but he’s it’s an edgier Jay Leno. I’m also brilliantly parried parodied by Chris Elliott, who came out just as Jay Leno. One Night had a classic schedule. I’d probably watched once a week, and you know you have that version of Jay Leno. I also think the NBC ten pm idea was the right idea, maybe a little too early.

And as we’ve seen TV budgets evolve, if you told me I could have Stephen Colbert at ten pm, uh, you know, a paired down. Hey, we’re gonna put two chairs on a stage and I need you to talk to somebody for an hour, four nights a week. That’s probably pretty budget friendly. And I would welcome that on my network lineup if I could get it. Absolutely absolutely.

And if you look at guys like Charlie Rose and and and Steve alor Tom Snyder. Uh, you look at these long for there’s always been a hunger for for for for the long form and uh and and this we’re podcasting is right now you know the reason why. Sorry Snyder was upon podcast. Yeah, and now we’re putting podcasts on Netflix and every everything’s come all the way around again. You know, if I could get you Tom Snyder in his prime and go, hey, he’s going to do it an hour and a half once a week deep dive podcast and we’ll shoot it and throw it on Netflix.

Yeah, okay, great, sign them up. Yep. Absolutely. By the way, Jay Leno also, I don’t think he did the way Dave did. Jay Leno did evolve as a as a as a talk show host, you know, the stand up comedian.

I mean, yes, he was phenomenal. That was his That was what brought him to the dance as a stand up and as a joke machine and whatnot. But he did get better at communicating with people, not even close to where Dave is, of course, But but but the thing that differentiates to me people ask me that sometimes about their their their interview skills as at their best. This is something Shecky told me from the very beginning in fact CHECKI even said this to me that the day that I got my picture, my letter and picture signed and whatnot, there was a there was a small window opportunity where I could have met him, And Shecky said this to me. He goes, if Dave’s curious about you, it’s gonna be great.

And and Dave had this way when he had people across from him that he was having conversations with, a curiosity would come out. And I think there was an everyman curiosity that came out where when it was Jay, it felt manufactured. It felt like he was asking questions off of a card as opposed to a genuine curiosity connection that was created. So that’s in my mind, that’s something I’ve wanted to say on the show for a long time because people ask me about that all the time. I think that’s a major major difference between the two.

Did you ever encounter j back in the day. No, I’ve never met Jay. I would love to get him on the podcast. It’s funny if you asked me, like, you know, who do like if Dave Chappelle were available, of course I’m gonna say yes to Dave Chappelle, you know, any of. The big comedians.

But for the people who I really want to talk to, I think right now I would love to talk to Jay Leno and do a version of my bit and just break that whole thing down with him. Oh god, it would be so good. It would be so good because the guy does deserve credit, like like like, and it’s it’s his generosity as well. Is just it’s crazy, his generosity, you know, he’s He’s accused sometimes of being self aggrandizing. I think sometimes when you do as many good things as as as as you do, and if you’re not careful and not saying that there might not be some you know, some marketing involved or whatever to promote things that that could be there.

But that being said, when you do so many good things, many times you might get tagged with that. But every single person that I’ve ever talked to who have ever said something about Jay Leno’s generosity, and it’s I don’t know, more than more than ten. They talk about him being this kind, giving but very high level. You know, he plays at a high level when it comes to writing jokes and making jokes and things. But the man himself, you know, very very he’s he’s he’s an amazing American.

And uh, you know, I’m glad, I’m so, I’m glad you’re poking fun at this and bringing it to people’s attention. But yeah, people shitting on Jay Leno at this day and age, I don’t know if there’s a huge need to it. Making fun that’s completely different making fun of him, But people who come across with anger that’s not cool. Well sure, and as a comedian, he would appreciate you making fun of him, you know. And again, you know, for some reason I got on this raidar Hey, this guy is making fun of you, saying you’re the worst person who ever lived, and then you actually listen to the bit I’m doing.

Yeah, you know, I’m clearly not saying he’s a horrible, horrible person. Now, the other white whale guest I would like to get is Robert Smigel, who I think it’s quietly been the influence in comedy in the last thirty years. He’s not really in front of the camera. But boy, you look at the stuff that guy’s attached to, and there’s a Hall of Fame career. Absolutely.

Yeah, that guy might be you know, and it might be by design. Maybe he does like flying under the radar a little bit, you know, for being someone as big as he is. You know, the guy’s a legend. The guy is an absolute you know. I was watching The Downy Dock and I mean, you’ve got some of these people who come along who are just they transcend, you know.

They the people who create new things and the people who imitate those things that have just been created that people love, but they just do a little bit of a different thing, you know, to it. Smigle’s a guy that actually kicked the ball down the field. I was watching Christmas Time for the Jews the Darlene Love So and I said, no Christmas Special, and I just like his cartoons, like like that is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. And my wife walked in the room while it was on, and she heard the she heard the hook, and she heard Darlene say Christmas Time for the Jews and she started. She just sat there and she started looking at it.

And I don’t know if Candy had seen it before or not, but she doesn’t love comedy the way that I do. And she just looks at it and goes, what year was this maid? And I told her, geez, like, how do you come up with that? Like? How does Robert Smiel come up with some of the crazy things and the tonnage of it?

Like there’s just that’s just the way that he thinks and it. Yeah, that’s a great that’s a great poll. I’m glad you brought that up. You ready for Are you ready for? Number?

Okay? So are we done with? Oh? No? One of the thing with Leno Adam Sandler.

One of the things that Adam Sandler did that I loved because it goes back to Adam Sandler. I watched Adam Sandler’s last special, his most recent special. Okay now, in it, he does a song. Can you believe that he does a song? He actually does a song.

Oh. The song is a tribute to comedy and the things that influenced his life and his you know, it’s all it’s all comedians and stuff. And as I was watching and I’m like, Oh, I forget where he talks about because I know Letterman’s in there for him, because Letterman’s a huge influence, and he’s going through the song and he’s going through these people, all of these things, and it’s so clever the way that he puts those guys in it. He the line is Leno on Letterman. And there’s a picture that shows up and it’s exactly what you’re referring to.

It’s Jay on panel with Dave on Late Night. And that’s the way that Sandler tributes them that it’s Leno on Letterman, and that’s the that’s the thing. It’s not the twenty two years the guy who succeeded Johnny Carson, but he did that. He did that. And for those who want to say I like Dave over j that’s fine, but don’t take the respect away.

The guy followed Carson and did it for decades, well done, Jay Leno. But it also has a panel guest uh yep, talk show hosts, radio hosts, Jerk’s doing a podcast in their basement. Hate when you ask a question and somebody goes into their bit. Now, clearly you just teed me up to do the Letterman bit. So I’m guilty.

The leto get I’m guilty, but we’re having a real conversation here, right, I’m not just doing material. But Jay on let did material. You know, it would be like, hey, Jay, what’s going on? Jave, let me tell you what’s going on?

And then wouldn’t just go into the act.

But somehow kept Letterman engaged. Dave didn’t just check out and be like, Okay, he’s doing his four minutes, what’s my beef? And uh it was fantastic again to Chris Elliott version of it. I just pick nails the. Essence of it with Dave though it’s the curveballs because yeah, he was staying curious and staying because he might throw a curveball at Git in the middle of it, and you didn’t know how much of it.

Like that’s the thing, oh, I And the segment it’s so crazy, John, like like like the segment producers are the most secretive of all the people I’ve talked to so far, Like some of them I’ve talked to in the background but won’t even come on the show. And and but whatever I asked the questions, Okay, so like what lines did you give to you know this starlet who comes out and and and and Dave tees up a perfect question and she answers it and it gets a huge laugh. Well, guess what many times that starlet did not come up with that clever, clever line. It was a segment producer, you know before who did it. And I love talking about they don’t.

A lot of them are like magicians. They do not want to reveal. They don’t want to reveal what lines they gave away or how they don’t want to break down the mechanics of how things work. The Leno Letterman ones, to me, were astounding because you don’t know where the material ends. And the banter, the real banter begins with those two.

And there’s only a few guests where you can say that for and Jay is probably the top of the heap. You know, you’re reminded this is a total tangent, but you just when you talked about the magic behind a curtain. If you’ve ever seen Jackie Gleason on sixty minutes, I think it’s with Morley Safer and he’s talking about, oh you got to watch this, dude. Yeah, he starts talking about why. The Honeymooners is revered and Jackie talks about the characters and tells a story where they’re in rehearsal and the sketch that they’re gonna do just isn’t flying, and Carney says, how about this, I’ll walk in, I’ll call you fat, you throw me out of the apartment, and they were like, let’s just do that, and they sort of improved.

Maybe not a full honeymoon Er his episode from the classic thirty nine, but one of the sketches and just like, okay, we all know what to do here, we all know who these characters are. Let’s just do it. It’s a wonderful episode of sixty minutes you’ll find online. Yeah, well that’s okay. And that’s Dave in his testament to his longevity, because you know, after he stopped doing rehearsals, after he stopped, you know, you know, he starts slowing down a little bit, but the show must go on.

His last years of Late Show, they were relying on the whimsy of what happens in the moment. They were relying on the on the inspiration. Now again, you know, we were talking about, you know, a guy with one of the greatest wits of all time. But it’s like, no, let’s rely on it as opposed to overproducing things, right, And they did. They let things get looser.

Well, before you hit record, you started to tell me something and I said save it for the air. And that comes out of my radio training. Especially if you do a morning show. You don’t want to do the show in the hall at four forty five am. So did you see the super Bowl?

Up? We’ll talk about it on the air like you You can’t because the second time you do it is never as natural. I openly talk about on my podcast anytime there’s a you know, top ten late night hosts. You didn’t send me the list. I don’t want to see the list.

I want to react to it as we go along because I don’t you know, I have a guess who you think number one is, but maybe you don’t. And when you’re like number four, David Letterman, I want to go, whoa, you. Haven’t number four? Oh my god? All right, who’s left on the list?

Or right, it’s gonna be Johnny and wow, you don’t have quote part number two? Like I want to be able to do that. Where so if you send me the list, I look at it and go okay. When he talks about going in I’ll say this. Yep, there you go, and and and that’s the best.

Like I I say that about with pre interviews, you know, with many the many of the guests who come on, I can just say, Okay, is there anything you want me to avoid? Is there anything you want me to make sure I hit?

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All right, let’s go and uh.

And it’s a lot of fun doing that. Boy, we’re just flying through this list. Huh. We got so chatty. I gotta cut this in two, so we’ll come back tomorrow with the rest of the list.

I’ll see you then.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Yesterday was a little angsty, but Johnny Mack is here to bring the fun back. And who’s more fun than Joe Cooy. That’s right, Joe Cooy is recording a Netflix special this weekend.

That’s pretty cool. Two shows tonight somewhere at eight o’clock at the Adventist Health Arena in Stockton. Jason Perry is the general manager, and he said, to have a globally recognized comedian and choose our arena in our community for a project of this scale speaks volumes about the market, the fans, and the experience we deliver. Now, if you’re saying to yourself, Johnny Mack, Joe Koy, that name sounds familiar. Who’s he again?

Can you remind us? So? Sure, I’ll remind you. Joe Coy hosted the Golden Globes for one year, and when he did, he just told this horrible, mean joke about Taylor Swift. She did not appreciate this vicious, horrible joke at all.

She made a stoneface, didn’t laugh the way Leo DiCaprio did it jokes about him. No, she let Joe cooin O, this is not funny. As you know. We came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL.

On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift. I saw this on threads. Somebody posted Bill Burr’s audience is still roasting him NonStop in his YouTube comments over that comedy show in Saudi Arabia. His videos get about four times as many dislikes as likes now and I was curious about this, So let’s start with the comments. I’m here on YouTube.

It is Bill Burr’s episode titled Siantle EarPods Drugs from one nine to twenty six. One commenter wrote, damn lost thirty thousand viewers l L. Another wrote Bill thinks he’s George Carlin, but he’s really George Costanza. Another bill never forgot what was like to be on the streets because whenever he moves up a floor, he buys a stronger telescope. Another comment one point five million dollars from Trump and Bill will be performing for the oil rig workers in Venezuela in no time.

Wow, Bill Burr is everything he made for one of ten years ago. Total lack of self awareness. Next, Old Billy, Keep ignoring it and it’ll go away, Burr. Next one, This is brutal every time. Just address it and move on.

Next, Bill, stop acting like you’re a blue collar person. You get the idea. So I looked at the numbers again. The premise of the Threads post is that his numbers are quite down, so I went back. Now, understand that a video will have a long tail, right, so the longer that it’s up, people will discover it more and more over time, So it makes sense that an older episode has more views than a newer episode, and these are YouTube views.

Probably know on the audio side, Bill Burr’s podcast numbers are way up. They could be ten times up. We have no way of knowing that, but I just randomly needle dropped on a few episodes from February twentieth, twenty twenty five. That video has sixty three thousand views. One from June ninth has forty two thousand, one from November seventh, which should have a long tail by now, has twenty two thousand, and the January ninth video had twenty thousand and change.

So make of that what you will. I was curious how other podcasts do Again, the January nine Bilburg has twenty thousand, and I was like, how does Nateland do. The nate Land podcast from January fourteenth has thirteen, eight hundred and seventy five yews, which is not a lot, like really really not a lot. But as part of that I found out maybe everybody else knew this already. I somehow missed this.

The Nateland podcast is ending. Nate Burghetzi is stepping away from the Nateland Podcast. He told listeners that after roughly five years and nearly three hundred episodes, it’s time to focus on his next act movies, TV, and yes, the theme park. I think Nate is crazy, but you know, I’m doing this in the basement and he’s building a theme park, so maybe I’m the crazy one. Nate says, everything I’m trying to do going forward is I want you to be able to do it with your family.

As I record this, there should be one more Nateland with Nate coming and then the rest of the gang I think is going to continue on the same feed, but with a new name on the podcast.

Speaking of podcasting, ego Nuotam Will host the twenty twenty six iHeart Pod…

Yes, once again celebrities will take over podcasting. People are still all I rate that Amy Pohler won the Golden Globe when now it’s the iHeart Podcast Award. Nominees for Podcast of the Year include Amy Poehler, The Reakfast Club, The Mel Robins Podcast, and Pablo Torri finds out The Daily The Rest is History this past weekend with Theo Vaughn call Her Daddy, Heavyweight, and Giggly Squad. I’m going to root for. Pablo Tory finds out the best Comedy Podcast.

The nominees are good hang with Amy Poehler, The Toast, Handsome, The Basement Yard, and something called Distractable. Now, if the rest of you were like, yeah, John, we all know distractable. What is wrong with you? I had to look it up and I’ll remind you as much as I suck. I host this every day, and I work in podcasting and blog and write and consu and everything about podcasting all day long when I’m not doing this, And I was like, what is distractable?

And apparently it is a comedy podcast with guy’s name Mark, Wade and Bob and it’s a space to have thoughtful discussions about funny out there or otherwise interesting stories from everyday life. They’ve got almost a million followers on YouTube. Let’s see how they’re doing versus Bill Burr. Okay, their most recent episode from six days ago has one hundred and thirty four thousand views. One from three weeks ago has one hundred and seventy thousand views.

So distractable is I don’t know. Somebody do the math? Seven times as popular as Bill Burr right now? Is that what we’re saying? Anyway, Congratulations to those guys on both being successful and somehow never coming up once in seven years of show prep on this show.

There were a lot of shows out there. I’m gonna root for them. Hope they win Best Comedy, Best Ad Read nominees Conan Call Her, Daddy, my Brother, my Brother, and Me, Dudes on Dudes, and Distractable, Okay, Best Host, Amy Poehler, Pablo Torri, Alex Cooper, Emma Chamberlain, Caleb Hron, Yougo, Pablo XXL caught up with Josh Johnson. They were curious how hip hop influences the comedy world. Josh said, a lot of comics wish that they were rappers.

Even the trouble you see comics getting into. Sometimes you’ll like, you’re trying to be a rapper, that’s what’s happening. There’s no reason for a comedian to get shot. Their comedian is getting caught up like they’re really about that life and they’re like, why you do jokes? How are you moving that you ended up getting shot in the thigh?

I mean, that’s not funn Why are you laughing, Johnny Mackle, someone got shot in the thigh and you’re laughing. You’re a jerk. Johnny Mack’s the worst. He’s no Jay Leno, but he’s pretty bad. XXL asked Josh.

What about hip hop inspires your approach to comedy. Josh said, I approach comedy the way I imagine a lot of rappers approach hip hop. It’s a very narcissistic endeavor to get up on stage and feel like you have the most to say and you really deserve to be there. You have to believe it’s true. Even if you have a humble approach to the craft, you have to believe that you’re one of the best to do it and then put that belief into your work.

As for rappers that you think would make good stand up comics, Eminem for timing, he’s good at timing, fifty cent for content. The way he roast, it’s like it’s coming from a place that’s so deeply funny. When he goes in on somebody, it’ll be like, Wow, this is crazy, this is what a comic would do. Good interview there, Dan Soder. He’s friends with former Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, and Dan Soder is really upset at Troy Aikman.

Soder was on the Soder podcast Let’s see how that’s doing all right? The Dan Soder podcast, episode one fourteen, posted two days ago, has one hundred and seventy one thousand views. So back to the original premise of Bill Burr Wow, or maybe people just don’t like Bill Burr’s podcast. I don’t know something’s going on. Everybody else has numbers way bigger than Bill Burr.

Right now, I digress. Dan Soder was on the Soder podcast Good Booking, and he ripped Dolphin’s owner Stephen Ross, calling mister Ross an old F word and claimed that Troy Aikman, who’s been brought in as an unpaid advisor for Miami’s GM search was behind Mike McDaniel’s firing. Soder said of his friend McDaniel, in fact, I think he’s better off because I think it’s a crappy organization. He said. McDaniel has been his buddy since the seventh grade.

As for the Dolphins, I think it’s ran by an old f that stabbed Mike in the back after he told him he was gonna be right for another season and f the Dolphins. Mike McDaniel coached the Dolphins for four years. He went thirty five and thirty four, did not win any playoff games. He was fired sixteen months after he signed a three year extension. He’ll be okay financially.

I guess wonder how much money made. Let’s look that up Sports Illustrated reports. While exact figures are unknown, it’s estimated to be at three and a half to four and a half million dollars, with some reports saying eighteen million dollars. As part of his extension internet account. ML Football broke it down and according to them, Mike McDaniel will make thirty plus thousand dollars per day to not coach football games.

They broke it down again. I don’t have then and trusting these guys per month nine hundred and sixteen grand per minute, twenty dollars and ninety three cents. So while you’re listening to this podcast today, Mike McDaniel made a couple hundred bucks, so he’ll be all right, Dan Soder, you gotta let this one go. Now, how is Troy Aikman to blame for all this? Soder said, when you watch football as a fan, you notice when broadcasters are slanted for or against you.

Having a friend that’s an NFL coach, you listen more and people talk about your friend, and Troy Aikman craps on McDaniel in a way that’s like he doesn’t like Mike. Now, apparently Troy Aikman was critical of the Dolphins strategy during a recent Monday night football loss to the Steelers. The Dolphins lost that game at twenty eight to fifteen as they trailed Haul of Famer. Troy Aikman, who has won three Super Bowls themselves, said this is just a bizarre last few series. They don’t go hurry up.

Now they’re going hurry up and calling timeouts. It’s hard to understand exactly what the philosophy is or what they’re trying to do. Late Night are caught up with Rob Burnett. You may know Rob from being the head writer and executive producer on David Letterman’s late show. Night Or asked Rob, if Letterman was still at it during Trump two point zero, what would Dave be up to?

Rob said, I think Dave would be part of the conversation. He’s always been a person to speak his mind. When we weren’t doing political comedy a lot, I don’t think it was necessary. I don’t think politics occupied the consciousness of America the way it does now. Interesting here that Letterman learned a lesson when he tried to steer away from what America was talking about.

Burnett said, Dave didn’t make OJ jokes. Dave thought, I’m not going to make fun of a murder, but it was what the country was interested in. It hurt the show, and he started to make OJ jokes. Nowadays, it’s obvious what the country is interested in. Burnett said, I don’t know if I would be equipped to write a Colbert Kimmel Stewart monologue, but someone would, and I think Dave would be doing that.

We’ll come back to OJ jokes in a second. But Late Nights commented on did you see President Trump flipped the guy the bird the other day? Yeah, the President was visiting a Ford factory and flipped the middle figure at an auto worker who called the president a pedophile protector. Steve on Colbert and his writers with some grit eat stuff here. Colbert said, the man could have shouted pedophile, but until the full Epstein files released, that’s just an unverified claim, whereas pedophile protector is fairly in evidence at this point.

And that’s the kind of attention to detail you can expect in your f one fifty. Great, great joke, it’s a funny tag. The premise is great solid. That is a fantastic piece of material. Colbert also said, we were told there would be Epstein files.

In fact, you Trump presumably signed a law mandating that you’d have to release the Epstein files by the middle of last month, but you still haven’t. It kind of makes you seem like, what’s the phrase a pedophile protector? Back to OJ jokes, Remember Jay Leno, He used to make a lot of OJ jokes, and that guy’s the worst. No, I don’t mean OJ, I mean Jay Leno. I mean the way he comments on late nights sometimes until Jo just bringing the fun back today did.

And this guy the way he just he talks about late night comedy and takes care of his wife, Mavis. They’ve been married for forty five years and she battles dementia. This guy, he’s the worst. Jay Leno told Maria Shreiver. You take a vow when you get married, and people are stunned, they’re shocked when you live up to it.

My favorite thing. This is the most Hollywood thing. Guy said to me, So you’re gonna get a girlfriend now, and Leno said, no, I have a girlfriend. I’m married. We’ve been married forty five years.

You know what I mean. We’re kind of in this together. You can’t go, honey, I’ll be with my girlfriend. I’ll be back, Leader Leno till driver. He’s just doing the right thing because you’re supposed to.

That kind of used to be the norm.

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And then when he strayed, that was the out of the whack part.

Now, the out of the whack part is fairly common, and staying and doing what you’re supposed to do is stunning to people. Why don’t you do that? Well, we kind of made a deal. Jay shrugged off the quote unquote toll that people assume it takes on Jay, he explained, I really haven’t been tested in my life. I wasn’t in the army.

I didn’t have to shoot anybody. So this is that thing. I’m glad of passing the test because you never quite know what you’re gonna do in that situation or any situation. So I’d like to think I made the right decision. As for Mavis, she’s not forgetting me.

That hasn’t happened yet. She seems extremely comfortable now, and she seems happy, and she seems contented. It’s actually okay. It’s good. I enjoy taking care of her.

Jay Leno the worst this weekend. On this the very program, Mike Chisholm from The Letterman Podcast drops by Mike had a list of the top ten late night hosts of all time, and they wanted me to react to it, and I reacted to it so much we wound up talking for like two hours. So we’ll split those conversations in half. I can tell you how long the episodes are. They’re already loaded.

Looks like you’re getting about thirty eight minutes on Saturday and forty minutes on Sunday, plus commercials now. I always forget to do this. If you want the commercials to go away, here’s what we do. You on Apple Podcasts and it’ll say uninterrupted listening, and you click that banner and then for five bucks a month, no commercials. Great way to sport the show and the commercials go away.

You do have to use the Apple podcast hap, but that’s a great way to do it and even more transparent. I can’t auto set that. It’s the bane of my existence. My host and company refuses to set this up the way some other hosts. Habita tries movie nanas.

So the show normally comes out of three oh five Eastern every day, but for the commercial free version, I have to make annually do that. So when I get up in the morning, the first thing I think is, oh, I got to upload the show. My wife tries to talk to me, and I go, I have to upload the show, and normally it’s there by like seven fifteen am Easter in the commercial free versions anyway, So if you don’t want any commercials, do that Apple Podcasts click uninterrupted listening. Great way to support the show. So this weekend, Mike and I talk about his top ten late night hosts of all time.

Monday morning Normal episode, and then Monday at noon Eastern Time, the Comedy Survivor results. Voting is now closed for this week.

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And now let’s check in with Burt Reynolds and the Comedy stock Market.

Comedy stock Markets. I’ve got some new listeners to the show, so let me just explain this once one more time. Here what we do, so every week we buy and sell stock in comedians. Now, this is not saying somebody is good or bad. The idea of the comedy stock market is to make a profit.

Sell high, buy low. So that’s why we’re going to sell Nikki Glaser. Oh she’s fantastic, she’s at peak right now. But you sell hih and you buy low. Let’s get out on Nikki Glaser.

Cash in our money, go buy a beach house with her Nikki Glaser money. We did really well there, but it’s time to sell Nikki Glaser. Now we’ll take some of that money and let’s buy some Trevor Noah, the Grammys are coming up. People haven’t really noticed that Trevor Noahs about to resurface. He’s very charismatic.

He always does a great job. So let’s buy a little Trevor Noah. Let’s sell bow and Yang. Do we even have any Bowen Yang stock left? If we do, let’s sell it.

I am not sure at all what his post SNL career is going to be. I’m struggling to figure out what it is. He’s got lost culturistas. He had a bad week earlier in the week when people tried to cancel him. I’m just not sure where we were heading with Bowen Yang.

So let’s just sell out. Let’s also sell Pete Davidson. Yes, I’m upset that they’re calling that thing a podcast. It’s not a podcast. It is a television show that you watch on Netflix.

In no way whatsoever is that a podcast. But that beside the point. I don’t trust Pete day Davidson. I feel like Pete Davidson goes, hey, look at me, and then everybody looks at him, and then he walks away from things. I understand he struggles with mental health.

I wish the man well, but I don’t trust that Pete Davidson’s about to host one hundred episodes of this television show. So I want no part of it. Let’s sell our Pete Davidson, Let’s sell our Tignataro. She’s one of the comedians, along with Genias Sheer and Patton Oswalt, who have helped to destroy the Star Trek brand. Tignatario is on this horrible, horrible, horrible Starfleet Academy show.

You think I’m kidding about how goofed up that brand? Is? I just looked they put the premiere episode up on YouTube. It’s got twenty thousand views, twenty thousand for Star Trek? Are you kidding me?

So, Tignatario, you’re part of the problem. We’ll sell our Tignataro. And you know who we’re gonna buy, Joe Rogan. I feel like Joe Rogan has come around and he sees what’s going on, and he’s realizing it’s all insane. And Joe Rogan’s got a big enough platform to say something about it.

Whatever you think of Rogan or not, he’s got a big platform. And I feel like Joe has seen the light. So we’re gonna sell Nikki, sell Bowen, sell Pete Davidson, sell Tignazaro by Trevor by Rogan speaking of Tignatarro Out Magazine talk to her about the horrible Starfleet Academy show. I guess Tig is now a coach. She was an engineer in the Discovery episodes that she was actually in, and then there’d be some weeks her character, who is the chief engineer, just like wouldn’t be in it for some reason, conspiciously absent.

I don’t know what was going on there. I guess she’s a touring comedian. Apparently she teaches it Starfleet Academy now and Out magazine was curious how far is the particular role of coach from the real Tignazarro. Tig said, I always joked that I’m just tigging space. Oh, by the way, she was on Kimmel the other day and she did the Vulcan hand salute and she said she didn’t know what it was called, and I wanted to just smash my television.

Did Johnny mack takes his Star Trek very very seriously? Tignataris said, I always joked I’m just taking space. But the reality is I don’t really like loud noises, so whistle is out ALMOSTO a high school dropout, So I think my teaching skills might be terribly lacking. Well, I love the idea of being this confident, whistleblowing, clipboard holding tough guy. Real life Meat would probably be like, yeah, you’re all doing great.

I assume jet Reno her character has real authority. I have quiet and dry observations. So same tig at different galaxy, wildly different comfort level with sports equipment. Tracy Morgan fans, pay attention. NBC woke up out of bed and decided, you know what, let’s do a special early premiere of Tracy Morgan’s new comedy, The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins.

Yes, a hilarious new comedy will make its debut Sunday at ten Eastern or so, following coverage of the playoff game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Bears. Then when you’re all excited about that show, you’ll have to wait till Monday, February twenty third, when they’ll rerun that episode and then follow it up with a new episode of The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins. And that is your comedy news for today. All right, Tomorrow, Mike and I talk of Late Night ho that was a normal episode on Monday you have an awesome weekend. I’ll see around