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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily Come News. Can I tell you President Trump is right? Stephen Colbert should be taking off television and never allowed on television again. Now what is making you say this, Johnny Mack?

Is this some sort of political stance? No, Stephen Colbert has signed up with the new Star Trek series Starfleet Academy. Have you seen this trailer? Complete garbage? Why do comedians insist on destroying Star Trek?

I’m looking at you, Tig Nataro, I’m looking at you. Patton Oswalt has dug the Vulcan and now Stephen Colbert has sold out to Alex Kurtzman and this horrible, horrible, horrible crap that they call Star Trek. I love my Star Trek. You’ve heard me rant about this, Steven, What are you doing to me? Why did you do this?

Stephen Colbert will voice Starfleet Academy’s digital Dean of students. According to the press release, He’ll begin having daily announcements to the students and alerting them of anything that needs their immediate attention. President Trump, get this guy off TV now, thank you for your attention. Let me just before I tell you this next story. Let me do a quick google of Bill Burr.

We got to talk about Bill Burr again. Okay, it is twelve fifty on Monday. I’ve been looking for updates on this story. But before I took the weekend off there I saw fans had said that Bill Burr had canceled a plan to tape an episode of the Monday Morning Podcast that would have been taped in front of a live audience on Saturday. Burr was supposed to tape a live episode of Monday Morning Podcast at the Gordina Cinema in Los Angeles.

I was in Los Angeles this week and I could have gone. So the venue had posted the cancelation for about forty five minutes. Then, as I understand things, they took it down. The speculation is that they caught some negative comments about mister Burr, so they were just like, ah, let’s have it. But fans and the Bill Burr subreddit noticed it.

One fin asked why postpone the show? Bill? Another said, but I thought Billy blood Money said it was bots. How can they come to a show if they’re bots? Now, I just looked when I said, let me google Bill Burr at twelve fifty on Monday, there was no episode of the Monday Podcast.

So first of all, I hope Bill is okay and everything’s okay with his family and he’s healthy. We can disagree on ideas. We don’t wish anything negative on anyone except Stephen Colbert, who should be taken off television immediately for signing up with the Star Trek people. So hopefully all is okay with the Burrs, but just interesting that he canceled the taping and there’s no episode on Monday. Omid Jee Lily wrote a piece for The Guardian.

Omid writes, after fifteen years of turning down offers to perform stand up comedy in Saudi Arabia do to the country’s human rights record, this time it took the gig. Why there’s a push for change in Saudi and signs are discernible, yet many from the outside world would rather comedians in the West state away skipping ahead. I am no stranger to cancel culture. I was canceled after nine to eleven simply for being Middle Eastern, as Arab terrorists were behind the attack on the Twin Towers. This is despite the fact that I am not Arab nor am I, contrary to popular opinion, a terrorist.

In certain circles there have been caused to boycott my UK tword Manamastay, a show in which I try to explore their nuances of the complex geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. After explaining the restrictions on performing in Saudi were exactly the same as in Dubai, basically no jokes about the royal family, no disrespecting Islam and no humiliation of the government, a concern friend texted me, I think you’re at risk of invalidting You’re right to make jokes about anything important. My show in Riod had a lot of material about the Saudis themselves. The perception that we as comedians were all being paid to be silent was as laughable as the idea that Dave Chappelle, a hugely successful comic with an estimated worth of seventy million dollars, was doing his show and Riod for the money skimming ahead julily writes the comedy guide Shortal erroneously reported that the pay was between three seventy five and one point six million for those doing solo shows. One thing East and West can agree on is you don’t talk about your fee publicly because it is likely to cause consternation among the other performers, most of whom rereceived a significantly smaller amount than the American podcaster was purportedly set to receive.

I assume that means Tim Dillon, which is where the three seventy five number comes from. Again, skipping ahead here, Julily writes, if I had an inkling that changes similar to those emerging in Saudi Arabia right now where are happening inside Iran? And a comedy festival were taking place in Tehran and pigs were flying. He adds, I can assure you I would be on the first pig over long piece here in the Guardian. Let me just wrap up here where he rates.

And the gigs were great, packed houses, young crowds, popcorn, standing, ovations, even heckling. About eighty percent of the audiences were locals, many of whom had never seen a live comedy gig. Whitney Cummings on her podcast said, by the way, any comic that has ever worked with live nation, which is all of them, has taken Saudi money. But keep up with your little rants when you get a second Google Saudi Arabia Live Nations, so you can be informed on the fact that anyone who has worked with Live Nation, every stand up comic has taken Saudi money or bought a ticket through Live Nation, went to a Live Nation event. All the actors who were represented by William Morris Agency, which is all of them if you want to send them notes too.

All right, let’s google Saudi Arabia Live Nation. I had this. I’m doing this real in real time. I haven’t done this before. The first thing that comes up is from Music Business Worldwide, which as Saudi Wealth Fund exits Live Nation steak.

The second story, also from twenty twenty four, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund sells Live Nation steak, and scrolling down from April twenty twenty, Forbes reported Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund buys five hundred million dollars steak. Her point may be valid between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, but it doesn’t seem to be presently valid or a valid prior to it. And I’ll remind you there was a pandemic in twenty twenty, so I don’t know how many comedy tickets you bought in twenty twenty or twenty twenty one. You may not be as guilty as Whitney Cummings says. She said, though I’m trying to help you sound less racist.

She then discussed napple babies. People whose dads have points on huge television shows are like, I have a backup plan, a huge trust fund. You’re a sellout for making money, And then I have a major, major problem with this next thing. She said. The same people who were like, if they found out a Fox journalist was murdered, they would truly throw a party.

That is not cool, Whitney, that is not true that you’re a jerk hole for saying that. I really don’t think any comedian would be like, oh cool, a Fox journalist was murdered. That’s just terrible.

Also, the same people who are like, if they found out a Fox journalist was mu…

How dare you? John Marcos Serresi spoke to Current Affairs dot org and said, the numbers that I’ve heard floid at the top were like one point six million, and I would imagine easily that if not more. I don’t think George Carlin would have ever performed at the REDD Comedy Festival, but he was also never asked. These comedians used to not enter the sphere of influence, and now because of podcasting, the fact that comedians were kind of on the front end of that and social media has allowed our voices to expand their new questions. What are we?

What is our role in America, let alone globally. It’s complicated. I performed in places whose governments I did in align with. However, I do think you can make distinctions, and the distinction should be made at the gouvern is funding this a government that you know has this history of human rights abuses. It’s easy for me to stand hi because I wasn’t invited to Riod Trump didn’t ask to go on my podcast, neither did Kamalaw.

But I think we need to re establish what our expectation is. If a comedian like Theo Vaughn is going to go on his podcast and cried tears over Palestinian suffering and then two weeks later have JD vance on and joke about how he’s going to go hang out at his poolhouse. I hope that we cultivate an audience that goes, Hey, THEO, what the F that’s bs, I don’t buy this. I hope that the stinkedestri Odd Comedy Festival is great enough that some comedians are forced to confront where they stand and what the responsibility is to themselves and to their audiences. Hopefully we can move on from this subject.

I didn’t want to talk about it today, but there were all those stories I just told you about what should have been the lead is. Mark Maron wrapped up his podcast his final guest on Monday, former President Obama. Maren was asked why Obama for the final guest. Mark Maren said, the first time was an important turning point, certainly for me personally. For sitting president to come to my little garage at my house was a big deal, and I think it was a big game changing episode for podcasting in general in terms of the attention it brought to the medium.

I was happy to see him again and talk about the current administration and the world we’re living in now, but also, you know, to honor my show. The Times was curious any conditions for the interview. No, neither time. There were no conditions, no vetting of questions, and no request for a pre edit. Mark anythink it went last time?

There was a morticaid, a secret service in many staff involved, and he was still disarming and grounded and present. This time it was more casual, just me and him in his office, so I know it would be even better, and that turned out to be true. He was very aware that he was our last guest and the last episode meant something to me, and culturally, I guess at some point in September and October, this podcast or reached a point where I just can’t avoid the politics of it all. So jump in the pool here. Obama said, if you decide not to vote, that’s a consequence.

Let me start right there. Please vote whoever you vote for. Whoever you vote for, that’s up to you. But please vote. Obama said, if you decide not to vote, that’s a consequence.

If you’re a Hispanic man and you’re frustrated inflation, and so he decided, you know what, all that rhetoric about Trump doesn’t matter. I’m just mad about inflation.

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And now your sons are being stopped in LA because they look at Latino and may…

Well, that’s a test. It’d be great if we weren’t tested. This way, but you know what, we probably need to be shaken out of our complacency. Maren used the line he used in a special We’ve annoyed the average American into fascism. Obama responded, you just can’t be a scold all the time.

You can’t constantly lecture people without acknowledging that you’ve got some blind spots too. And life’s messy. I listened to about a third of it this morning. I was founded very compelling. I just had to get to work and didn’t have time and to listen to more of it.

But that’s it. That’s a rap. And at the end of the program, he thanked a few people and said that his Thursday show was actually the goodbye episode. But that’s a wrap on Mark Maren for now. Anyway.

I have not yet seen Saturday Night Live, but the Department of Homeland Security did any cold open. Amy Poehler reunited with Tina Fay to play Attorney General Pam Bom and Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Noam. Tina Faye’s character said, I’m here to tell you this Democrat government shutdown needs to end now. By the way, you know what, I don’t care I’m telling you this because this blew my mind. So I was out in California on the weekend and there was a National forest and I wanted to check it out, and I wanted to know, like, do I have to pay it and get in the forest.

This is for real. You can look at this right now. This is on the US Forest Service web page. This is the phrasing. Again, what if your politics your politics, But here’s the phrasing on a government website, the radical left Democrats shut down the government.

This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse from mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed fuel and clothed the American people. I mean, just at a government website has the phrase the radical left Democrats.

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And now maybe you think the Democrats are the radical left.

Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. It’s not why we’re here. My point is, I can’t believe we’re using language like that. I digress. In a statement shared with Edgyentertainment Weekly, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said, SNL’s absolutely right, the Democrats shutdown does need to end gossip.

Conna Spoons in the Street, Gossip Connor, Bobby Bobby Gossip Conna, where the meeting with Johnny mag It’s only the Trees. On Gossip Corner. Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Skeens and girlfriend Libby Dunn were at LSU attending the football game. They were seen hanging out with famous comedian Theo Vaughn Levy. Dunn posted a picture of the three of them on her Instagram story.

Out today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla YouTube channel, It’s Jessica Curson’s No Material crowd Work special. Jessica has been in the news lately. I don’t know if you heard about this. She was recently at the ri Odd Comedy Festival. Jessica said, I hope that this festival could help LGBTQ plus people in Saudi Arabia feel seen and valued.

I’m grateful that I was able to do precisely that, to my knowledge, on the first openly gay comic to talk about it on stage in Saudi Arabia. Received messages from attendees sharing how much event to them. To participate in the gayffirming event. At the same time, I deeply regret participating under the auspices of the Saudi government. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed with two sources that the Human Rights Coalition has received the entirety of Jessica’s fee.

Anyway, if you enjoy Jessica’s comedy, the No Material CrowdWork Special is out on the eight hundred pound Grilla YouTube channel. Today, Jimmy Kimmel won the September ratings, the first time he’s actually won the time slot. Apparently, according to Late Night or if I read the story correctly, Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel is teaming up with Jimmy Fallon. It’s that TV show on Brand with Jimmy Fallon. It apparently is some sort of football season marketing challenge involving Captain Morgan.

On on Brand, we see Fallon and Kimmel introducing contestants to the episode’s task, developing an ad campaign built around bringing crews together on and off the field. Are you familiar with the British teen comedies sitcom The in Betweeners? A fantastic show that, oh, it’s probably fifteen twenty years ago. I found this thing on cable whatever. It’s fantastic.

There was an American remake that was okay, but the British version is fantastic. The show’s creators have a deal to bring it back. Is unclear how it will come back or where are you going to be able to watch it? Is it a reboot? Is it a retake?

It is believed it revolves around the original characters, who’ve got to be at least in their forties now, I would guess. The in Betweeners originally was broadcast on E four in the UK between twenty eight and twenty nineteen. It followed the misadventures of suburban teenager Will McKenzie and his friends Simon Cooper, Neil Sutherland and Jay Cartwright as they navigated school life, friendship, mail bonding, lad culture and failed sexual encounters. Two hit movies followed in twenty eleven and twenty fourteen. I Welcome That Back, I Will Watch That and The Jone Rivers Estate has auctioned off over three hundred pieces of memorabilia once owned by Joan Rivers.

They included some of her wigs, X rays of her dogs, Spikes, Thorax, and some royal family related keepsakes. Melissa Rivers, Jones’s daughter said the timing felt right. I’m finally emotionally ready to let go Joan passed away. In twenty fourteen, two X rays of Spikes Thorax went for five hundred and seventy six dollars. They came with a manila envelope from Spike’s VET.

A copy of the May twenty six, nineteen eighty six issue of People with John Rivers and Spike on the cover sold for nineteen hundred and twenty dollars. Two of the wigs sold for fifty seven sixty and twenty eight eighty two Voodoo dollars went for for forty eight And that is your comedy use for today, right listen? It was fun at the end. I know I got a little feisty in the middle. And Stephen Colbert must be removed from television immediately.

President Trump, what are you doing? If you can create piece in the Middle East? Certainly you could save Star Trek? Can you do that? Can we make Star Trek right again?

You want to impress me? Do that? See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. He was back in nineteen ninety seven, Rolling Stone called Bert Krescher, a sixty year undergraduate, the top partier at the number one party school in the country, which was Florida State University. Now Bert Kraser, three decades later, tells USA Today he’s still partying hard. Bert says, I’d argue it’s probably even worse.

My game hasn’t changed much, but I take bigger stints of sobriety now and I’m healthier now. I work out every day, I get hydrating ivs probably twice a week, I drink water, and I’m more cognizant of my sleep and my recovery. Now. What makes the Bert Krescher tour bus, He says, A ton of vodka, which is his own brand, because all comedians have to have some sort of sidehouso these days for some reason, water, snacks, and a full gym which is stowed in the bus bay. During his twenty twenty three tour, Bert Krescher packed three semi trucks with even more workout equipment.

Boy, you’ve got some budget, dude. Bert said, we had five electric bikes, a cold plunge of sauna, a full gymnasium with rowers and assault bikes, compression boots with recliners. How much money is this dude making? He lost forty five pounds on the tour and said, I’m so much healthier when I’m on the road, without a doubt. Dusty Sleigh has been sober for over a decade.

He told Fox. I like to party. I like to get into it, and so every night comedy became a party, and it’s not sustainable. I just wasn’t feeling good. I wouldn’t remember my jokes.

Getting sober changed my whole life. More than just comedy, but changed my life. He wondered, will I still be funny without the booze? When I quit drinking? I thought I might quit comedy because all my jokes are about drinking.

I’m much better at comedy now now I have all these ideas. My brain’s not constantly clogging flooded with poison. You know, Dusty said, I don’t care if people drink, but for me, it changed my life and made everything better for me. I’d be a total wreck. I wouldn’t be sitting here, and if I was, I’d be sweating, even though it’s heavily air conditioned.

I’d sweat and you’d think, have you been drinking? And I probably would have been I’ve had a beer before I’d go. You guys got any beers around here, and you guys would be like, this is a news station buddy who tells us George Clooney has achieved the impossible. He got Adam Sandlor to dress better. Nice job, George Clooney, although I kind of liked knowing that Adam Sandler is the one person in the world who dresses worse than I do.

If you think I’m wearing some sort of ratty sweatshirt and some sweatpants and a baseball cap right now, you’re right. But even that is probably better than the baggy basketball shorts look Sandler normally goes for. But now he’s all George Clooney fancy pants. Colooney told people, I’ve actually been making Adam wear suits. Don’t you think he looks nicer instead of those big, baggy shorts, Pony said, Adam Sandler, a great dramatic actor, is the sweetest man in the world.

I love him. He’s a dear friend. And the fact I got to work with him again is great. Sandler says he doesn’t really think about his traditional baggy look. He says, it’s as funny as hell.

Whatever one of my kids or their friends talk to me about it. My wife’s like, what are we talking about right now? How did that happen? Even when we were younger, others would say, would you put on something better than that? Your wife’s dressed so beautifully.

My wife would say, he’s comfortable like that. Let him do that. Leave him alone. Yeah, She’s like, dude’s making five hundred million dollars a year. Leave him alone.

He can wear Peggy Shortz. Shut up. Jay Kelly opens in Select theater is November fourteenth, will stream on Netflix December fifth, People saying it’s an Oscar worthy performance by the great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, So I’m looking forward to that one. Hopefully it’s in the pantheon of Sandler movies, the great movies like uncut Gems, Space Movie, Basketball one and the two with Drew Barrymore, everything else complete garbage, but hopefully this one is up in that top tier. I saw this as part of my Adam Sandler googling.

Far Out Magazine writes even though an alarming percentage of his filmography is made up of awful, awful comedies. Adam Sandler seems like a nice guy. I agree with everything in that sentence. It is made up of awful, awful comedies, and he does seem like a nice guy. And most of the people who know are of work with him think the same thing too.

The most annoying thing about Sandler, apart from some of the characters he played, is that he knows he’s been coasting for years, if not decades. Every now and then he’ll show up in something like Punch Love, Uncut Gems or Hustled or Mine everyone he’s actually a great actor. Then it’s back to mugging for the camera and happy goomore sequels. Did I write this? Maybe I wrote this and I forgot I wrote this.

Anyway, the point of this article is to spotlight Andy Kindler, who has added himself to the list of people who believe that Sandler squandered his potential by becoming inordinately wealthy. Kindler, it’s old last I’ve been making fun of him for years just for the fact that his movies are never reviewed. He doesn’t even put them out to be reviewed, and just consider the Pixels movie. It doesn’t sound like you listen to the whole pitch. Kindler then talked about The Ridiculous Six, saying, basically, I said that Native Americans who walked off the set of the movie said they’d prefer another genocide.

They’d prefer once again to be slaughtered by the white man in the stay on this movie. I don’t know if it’s that bad. It’s close. What bugs Andy Kindler is? He used to be a huge Adam Sandler fan until Adam became a movie star, which left him feeling that Adam Sandler could be doing better, but for some reason decided to go with the money.

I wonder why he decided to go with the money. Is it? Let me think? Is it the money? Look?

He puts out terrible comedies, But was Adam Sandler the re Odd Comedy Festival? He was not. At least he’s like putting in the work to make happy gilmore too, So I’ll give him that. He hooks up his friends. His daughters are some of the best actresses in Hollywood, so he’s lucky enough that he knows them that he can cast them in the film.

Is it terrible? Of course, it’s terrible, but it’s not the reodd comedy Festival. Am I becoming an Adam Sandler fan? Hmmm. Valcher spoke with David Letterman.

Hey, Dave, any specific memories of the first episode of Late Night with David Letterman. Dave said, well, we had several first shows, the first show on the daytime show, the first show on the NBC show, on the first show on the CBS show, and it’s always like you’re getting ready for the Rose Parade. You have the Rose Parade, and then it’s so, geez, what are we doing tomorrow? I think that was typical of the daytime show, the late night show, and then the late show. After all of the effort, all the energy goes on that first show, now what do we do.

It’s not until about a month and a half to establish a rhythm and production that will hold you, that’ll prop you up for the rest of the run. But until you’re comfortable with that, and it’s going to be a struggle. Vulture asked about Johnny Carson’s involvements, and Johnny was a producer of a Late Night with David Letterman at the beginning there, so that made the man you idolized your boss, or at least your partner. Was he a silent partner or did he chime in? Dave said, to my memory, Johnny couldn’t have cared less except whatever the cut of the budget he got.

We’re of no threat to him. He was still the king of the heap. To him, we were just all right, call me when they’re canceled. He was always very nice. He’d have me on from time to time we would promote the show.

I think he found it amusing, and who knows. I never really asked him what he thought of the show, but always felt like, if you’re not as good as Johnny, really, is there any point in leaving Indiana. But if you look at Johnny’s work, now, my god, it was just solid. Pick one night of the week the first year of the eighth year, of the twentieth year. He’s just rock solid.

He’s like the very best home healthcare person you could afford. He’s constant, doesn’t miss a beat, doesn’t get you worried. I mean that, let me jump in there. Dave’s so right about Carson. Doesn’t get you worried again.

It’s another mark of a great host of just steady in the chair driving the train, not going to go off the rails, not going to get the network canceled. Dave said, I always felt like I felt short of that. I feel like everybody else feels short of doing it. The only person I think didn’t fall short of that was Regis Philbin. Regis was, you know, get on him when we hit your stop, because I’m gonna keep going.

He was fantastic, and Johnny the best since Regis came up. I’ll tell a quick readis story. I’ve told it before. So I worked with Regis a few years. He would come into Serious and host bing Crosby Christmas Radio.

He’s a big fan of being Crosby and we wanted to have a cool celebrity host it. So Regis would come in and one year somebody on the serious end forgot to order a car for mister Philbin, and he was standing in front of the building waiting for a car that didn’t come. He eventually got a car himself. He comes in and he’s all Regis Philbin and he’s churning it on. He’s doing ninety percent the act ten percent letting me know that he’s annoyed, and he’s right, we’re we’re totally in the wrong here.

We didn’t order m car. He’s out in the cold. We’re wrong, we’re wrong, wrong, wrong, We’re wrong. Johnny Max’s wrong. Staff is wrong.

We’re wrong. But so it’s like ninety percent the fun ten percent give me the business. And he’s like yeah, and you know, and I had to pay for my own car to get here. Now I don’t know what made me do this, but I took out one hundred dollar bill for some reason. I had one hundred dollars bill and I put it on the counter and I looked him the eye and I smiled, Ago, we good, and he laughed and he goes, okay, he didn’t take my money, of course, but he’s just just like all right.

I think we had an irish thing going on. Anyway. I loved working with Regis Philbin, a pros pro. One of the things I love working with people who are professional and understand, hey, we’re here to do a job. Let’s knock this out professionally.

People that can hit their marks, people that can read a script, people that can do things in one or two takes. I love it. Now, Jay Leno, you know this guy, he’s the kind of guy that like, weighs in on late night television as if he has any expertise on the subject, and you know, when he’s not out doing charity work, he’s just the worst. I saw this story here from Late Night Er. I guess.

According to Bill Carter’s book The War for Late Night, jay Leno could spend five hours straight choosing material for each evening’s program, pouring over jokes until someone dragged him to a rehearsal. Jay Leno hated vacations and really went to parties. Listen to this guy working on the show. Between seasons, he spent his time off working the comedy club circuit, Bill Carter wrote, some might call him a robot with no apparent inner life, for all didn’t care in or did it even seem to disagree all that much. Guy seems like the worst OT’s called Costco, who did not play the Rioda Comedy Festival.

In fact, went out of her way to make sure we knew she didn’t. She’s figured out another way to make money. She’s teamed up with PF Changs. She’s using her social media to introduce items from PF Chang’s revamped menus, such as the return of the chain’s popular grolic noodles. She’s promoting their new eight to ninety nine cocktail options like the Laichi Martini, which she says gives elegance and mystery sounds like me not me not Johnny Mack sounds like Otsgo Go tells us the Jade Margarita is rich with flavor and vacation vibes, and aunces that the grolic noodles have flavor boulder than my wardrobe and my personality.

Again, nothing bold about my walterrobe or my personality. She’s speaking about herself. The new menu include sushi roles like Spicy Tuna, Kung Pow Dragon roll, and chimped Ti, and entres like Kung Poun chicken. Customers can now either select medium or traditional entrees sizes. The eight ninety nine cocktail collection also includes seasonal specials like the Blood Orange Margarita and the par Teeny And On The Guardian, George Francis Lee wants The Simpsons to end.

Lee wrights the Simpsons hasn’t been good since nineteen ninety seven, which means the show has been in decline for as long as I’ve been alive. Now we’re beset with season after season of awful awful episodes. Ironically, the show is already lampooting the growing difficulty in keeping itself fresh all the way back in ninety five. As Troy McClure said in The Simpsons one hundred and thirty eighth episode Spectacular, who knows what adventures they’ll hat between now in the time the show becomes unprofitable. Boy that was a good episode, and boy that episode was thirty years ago.

The yikes that went fast. Lee writes, it’s impossible to explain succinctly why modern Simpsons doesn’t work. It’s not funny, sure, but Springfield the ends are now oversimplified characteratures of themselves, something so in ned Flanders transition from a well meeting and church attending neighbor to a relentless Christian fundamentalist that it’s spawned the term flanderization. Recently, the Simpsons has suffered more by the loss of some of its iconic voice talent. The voice of Miss Croboppol passed away in twenty thirteen, the voice of Martin the Bully passed away, and the voice of Millhouse retired last year.

Then there’s the declining voice quality of actor Julie Kavner, whose voice for Marge now sounds as pleasant of polyp surgery. That’s harsh, and Harry Shearer when he voices characters like mister Burns and Ned Flanders, he comes off like he’s doing a bad impression. How long until Ai is used to skirt the limitations of actor mortality. Hank Azaria, the voice behind Bartender Moe and the ax Up, who has already written an op ed predicting that very outcome. Now they’re making another Simpsons movie, I’m paraphrasing here.

Not only that, but Fox has commissioned four more seasons, meaning that when it hit season forty and twenty twenty eight, the Simpsons will be the same age as Homer is in the show. When the doughnuts start to go stale, you don’t keep them around for another twenty seven years. You chuck them out. That is your comedy news on a Monday. Have a great day.

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Kalaroka, Shock Media, Hi there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Company News. Mark Norman talked about cancel culture with al dot com and said, obviously, like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby and Jeffrey Epstein and or Kelly and list goes on, these are people that should have been taken down years ago, and these are criminals. He should be in jail. So I get all that, But some people, no one ever brings us up. Some people were using cancel culture like get their way.

It wasn’t about justice or doing what was right. Was about, oh, I can use this and call this person a racist, then they’ll get fired and I could take their job or whatever. People started using it for their own benefit and it wasn’t about doing what was morally. Just was about, hey, let me spind this, I get what I want. That’s really when it got ugly.

And I know a lot of examples of that, But to me, I think we’re kind of pasted it, we’re kind of over it, and you just ignored. Tends to kind of be okay, But yeah, that was a dark time. I mean then we did that weird thing we were like, look at Shane Gillis, he got canceled. Now he’s huge. I’m like, yeah, but he’s also talented.

Let’s not act like him getting canceled was the best thing that ever happened to him. That’s like saying, hey, your mom got stabs and now you’re all over the news. So yeah, I don’t worry about it. I think just as long as you tell jokes, you’re fine. If you’re going up there to saying the N word and yeah, maybe that’s a problem, but maybe you don’t have an act.

You’re just trying to be edgy. Yeah, but I talk about everything. I have dicey topics and quote unquote edgy stuff, you know, but it’s all jokes, and it’s all in jest. Mark Norman’s best to come back to a heckler. Mark said, one of my best counterpunches was a big fat lady who for some reason hated me, and she just yelled out boo, and I said, are you saying boo or moo?

And the place went nuts and she hated me more than she left, So that was a real wind. Shang Wang with Cleveland Scene. They were curious about his hair. What made you grow out your hair? Shang said, it wasn’t really a choice.

I canceled my haircut appointment on More to thirteenth, twenty twenty. Was the pandemic. At one point my currey I tried to grow it out. When it was between short and long, I cut it and never gave it a chance. People started complimenting me on my hair.

I thought it might not make sense of cut it now it matches the vibe of the comedy and writing. For now it really works. It’s all an accident. Remember that, did you cut your own hair? Or the pandemic?

At one point I had to take out the I let this hop grow out, but the sides just my hair gets really wide. I had to take out the razor and just be like, all right, let’s hope for the best. Here. It was okay, you know, it was like pandemic. Okay.

I wasn’t leaving the house anyway. Shane jokes the best part of an office job is being able to print for free. Did he ever actually have an office job? Oh yeah, I still have to have different jobs. I had some temp jobs and was always so blown away by how much printing and trash comes out, going from printing at home to printing out an office.

I remember the warmth of fresh printed paper that’s stuck with me. It’s based on real life office experience as a comedian. You going to an office with fresh eyes, and everything feels so alienating and interesting next to I have asked Brian Reagan about performing clean. That seems to be like, if you ever meet Brian Reagan, you have to be like, hello, you’re Brian Reagan. Yes I am.

You were clean? I mean it’s every interview, but okay, it’s the weekend. Brian said, Well, I was always mostly clean even when I started, just because that’s how my brain works, at least comedically. When I’m with my friends hanging out, I could be as filthy as anyone else on stage. Hey, just the kind of stuff I like to do is conceptual and doesn’t normally go in that four letter word direction.

But it wasn’t completely clean when I first started. Maybe about five percent was dirty. When I first went out on the road, AD a handful of jokes that were attention getters. When you’re playing a rough room like a bar that does a comedy, it’s aequila night out of jokes that would hopefully get their attention, and I try to slide to stuff that I like, but then I got to the point where it’s more about being meticulous than wholesome. You know, people got the wrong idea of why I like to work clean.

I like to work clean just because I like the idea of seeing if I could be one hundred percent of something. I see this a personal challenge. How well can I do how hard can I get people laughing without hitting certain buzzwords or topics that can disproportionately work in front of audiences. I started going one hundred percent clean just for the challenge of it, and along the way I found there’s a following for that. I didn’t do it for that reason.

I did it for my own reasons. IPM Newsroom asked Bob Odenkirk about the role of the Midwest in his comedy. Bob said, the Second City is the name for a theater, and it’s a name that was borrowed from a name for Chicago. The Second City. It’s like you’re the underdog, and as a result, you have a suspicious chip on your shoulder towards all that whatever’s happening, whatever’s hype and happening.

That’s good for comedy because that’s what comedy does. Comedy undermines. Growing up here lends itself to that perspective on the world that wants to poke with the world and doesn’t take things seriously. As long as there are irritating things in the world, there’s comedy, So please keep irritating us. You know, nobody quits show business.

Stavros Halki has spoke with GQ about his current views on wellness and said, early on in my career was like, oh, this is fun. Let me get as messed up as possible. Let me get good at something so I get attention from women, and let me get drunk and have sex with any girl that will let me, and eat like garbage to reward myself. Clean that up a little. There’s also a little bit of nihilism, like living like nothing matters around the path to a coward suicide, where it’s like, I don’t want to take care of myself.

Who cares? I’m not going to be around forever.

And then my life’s gone pretty good.

I got a nephew, My best friends have been kids, and I’m like, oh, I’ve gotten successful. There’s people that care about I guess I want to live. So I’ve been trying over these last five years to lose a little weight. I did really well during the pandemic, and then I started working got fat as f again. I just do whatever takes the stick around with the ultimate goal of being I never want to get skinny, but I want to be strong.

On the road, especially on tour, I just start walking. I like to call myself the twenty thousand step bastard. Every day on the road, i’d walk like eight miles. I’d walk into my feet hurt, and then over time my feet stopped hurting. I could walk.

The thing that’s helped me is to be completely honest with yourself and slowly build from there. The theme of this interview is masculinity. I think this is an interesting answer. I definitely see myself in a lineage of those fat guys that are really up to even as a kid. We’re talking Farley, John Candy, Jack Black.

I don’t think anybody would look at me and say that guy’s feminine. I don’t think I’m getting that, but I guess I’m just trying to say for people who feel like they’re not masculine, there’s a version of them that is. You could be a mix of masculine and feminine. If you want to be masculine, you don’t feel it, there’s a path for you to project that. I think for me it was when I unlocked, Oh, women don’t actually care that much if they like you as a person, if you can show what’s good about you.

A lot of my body in security kind of stem from just general insecurity about relationships and getting attention from girls. But I think for me it was when I unlocked Ouh, women actually don’t care that much if they like you as a person, if you could show what’s good about you. When I was confident myself in all these other ways, when I felt like I’m doing what I need to do. I have a nice life plan, I feel confident in my abilities. That inner confidence sort of projected.

I’ve been enjoying these He’s really in touch with himself. This is good stuff. What does he look for in a relationship, he said, I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I think it’s cool to be a provider or whatever. But I’m also very attracted to ambition.

I like somebody who’s doing their own thing. I like talking to somebody about their long term goals. I have to think strategically about my career. I like having those long discussions with somebody. As much as I love stand up, essentially I’m running my own business.

I’ve been overdoing it because once you get a shot in entertainment, you kind of have to take it. I remember thinking, oh, I’m so tired to be cool. If I got home and the place was clean and maybe there was food, I don’t want to order food. I was like, what if I was dating somebody would just be here. It’d be cool if she lived here and then took care of stuff.

I’m doing so well, she wouldn’t even need a job. I backwards invented the concept of a traditional housewife. A little more from that Gutfeld thing I told you about yesterday, he talked about the whole King of Late Night thing and explained, I think I’m trying to think where the King came from, and I think after credit Dave Rubin. I think Rubin was on dur in the first week of the show and said something like, you’re gonna be the King of Late Night. You’re gonna be number one.

I don’t like saying stuff like that because then it’ll just be thrown back in your face, but he was right. Then, of course I had to put it on my book cover. I don’t even have that I happened, but putting it on the cover of my book was like this audacious and ridiculous thing. He was asked what late night even means anymore? Like whatever you watch, you’re choosing a side.

Greg Guttfeld said, yeah, it kind of became defined as maybe a person who wanted to go to bed angry with somebody who wanted to go to bed happy. One thing I always want to do is not send people to bed and reached. Sure, maybe you’re sad that Biden lost, but we’re gonna have so much fun. This is gonna be great.

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And then Trump wins, this is gonna be so much fun.

It’s gonna be great. So we’re gonna have fun and things are gonna be great no matter who wins or loses. I’m not gonna let that impact the time that we have. I think doing a late night show that makes everyone feel bad is a disservice. I don’t understand that.

That’s when you have people switching the channel to come to us. They didn’t even know he existed until then again, we’re comparing red apples and yellow apples. Gutfeld is on at ten Eastern, but he’s on at seven Pacific and eleven thirty five pm Pacific, or not at all the same thing. Greg said, there was literally free money on the table, and so I took it, and I showed mainstream media that they don’t own the culture. I think it’s not just about late night, it’s about all of culture.

It’s about the ability to tell people you aren’t the cool kids at the table anymore. You’d took people for granted, you insulted everybody else. We’re the ones now we’re having fun for your OZ told Variety. I don’t think comedians speak truth to power, you know. I think journalists speak to power ideally, but I think comedians speak to a tiny voice in the back of your head, and perhaps over time we’ve forgotten how powerful that voice is.

I also don’t think you can predict whatever is going to get you into trouble. It’s the thing you really thought of, this thing. You never imagine that it’s going to be the complaint that gets filed, and it’s a thing you thought that, oh, this is going to hurt people. It never hurts people at all. So your best bet is just to say it and deal with it.

When the time comes, and that is your company news for today, see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bert Krascher told USA Today, my wife never parties. But if we’re out to breakfast in Hawaii and she goes, what’s this kolua coffee thing? This sounds good.

It might be eight am and I have no plans for drinking, and now I’m like, all right, we’re getting wasted today. It’s the energy that I love about partying, the spontaneousness of it. And every friend group has that one teetotaler who never wants to go out or have fun. And the second you break their spirit, you have permission to party, which happens to be the name of his tour. Funny how that worked out.

It’s the permission to Party tour, and Sure says he will continue to make fun of his wife, Leanne. I love my wife, but if I have a good joke where I can trash her, I do it happily. We have a rule in our relationship. If it’s funny, it plays. Gary Goleman talked to you Third Coast Review about the old NBC series Last Comic Standing.

I used to hate that show because I was running comedy. It’s serious and people would watch it and be like, Hey, how come you never play anything by the guy that has eight seconds of material that I saw on TV last night? And the answer would be, because he has eight seconds of material, Golman, Who’s got more than eight seconds? And I just remember I was feeling pretty good at the time, and I really had nothing going on in terms of my career. I couldn’t get any roadwork.

And this sounds like an exaggeration, but I don’t think I had three hundred dollars on the bank when it started. I just remember I went into more credit card debt to buy clothes so that I could look good on TV.

And then I just kept getting passed further along and it was really exciting.

It was interesting because it gave me a touring career for about a year and a half, and then it was back to where it was. I felt like it was going back to the beginning. It was a little frustrating. I mean, most people never get to have that kind of exposure, so I was grateful for it, but it was also like, oh, it didn’t set you up for the rest of the life in terms of touring. Whereas it turns out, it was an appearance on Conan that kind of set me up for that.

Specifically, Paton Oswald shared my appearance on Conan where I talked about abbreviating the fifty States, and that gave me a foundation that I feel like has grown. But it was strong enough just on that that I could tour the country and pay my rent every month, which is really as you know, all we want is a comedian to be able to give it our all, not have to split our energy and brain power the day job all the time, so that was really helpful. Gary talked about his current sure Grand Delinquent, saying it’s a little bit of a prequel to the Great Depression, but it’s a little more theatrical, and that it’s not all hilarious stand up. This is some stories that are real bummers, so it’s more of a challenge to perform it because our oxygen as comedians is laughter. And there’s a part where it’s hard to say where the audience is enjoying themselves because it’s not a very funny story.

It’s sad and it’s just straight information rather than a joke or would you comment. So it was challenging, but not so challenging that it was overwhelmed. I felt over my head when we were rehearsing it, and that’s a really good place to be as an artist, or an athlete, or really anything. You should give yourself enough of a challenge where you wonder whether you’re equipped or whether you’ll be able to rise to the occasion. So I think the show’s really fulfilling.

I mean, it was critically acclaim but I think more importantly, it was a little bit out of my comfort zone. My comfort zone is saying funny things, and this involved me not being funny for part of it. It’s still a comedy show, but there’s a lengthy story about a half an hour where people gasp about and really take it away with them. I think it’s sort of a gradual evolution as a performer and writer. Just start doing these observational jokes and then do something very personal with the great depression.

Then do this, which is personal. I’m also out of my comfort zone in terms of acting and performing. Starvaros Halgi has caught up with GQ about masculinity and Starvarro said, I definitely have a glaring difference from the traditional idea of what a masculine man is I’ve been fat my whole life. I received the scorn of traditional masculinity. I definitely felt that growing up.

I’m pretty lucky that the funny fat guy’s an archetype. Every crew of bullies is a fat, wise cracking guy. That’s there. I played football, I was athletic, whatever, but that was also me trying to fit in a way that sometimes probably wasn’t that good for me. I was in school plays my whole life, and then something shifted in seventh grade.

I remember getting an offered a part, and I think it was you’re a good man, Charlie Brown or something, but I wasn’t Charlie. I got offered some other part, and I was like, theater is gay, dude. I was like, our theater teacher’s gay. I don’t want to be around that guy. It was afft up.

It was pure sour grapes, the fact that I wanted to be Charlie Brown. Then I was like, I’m thirteen, it’s time to get strong, it’s time to be a football player. I certainly would have been better off in the long run for my life i’d stuck with theater. I would have still played sports. Don’t get me wrong, but I just admitted I wasn’t good enough to get the part, and I should have worked her bounce my life out that way instead of pretending like that’s stuff’s not for me when I got my feelings hurt and lashing out in a very traditionally negative way.

That is a fantastic answer. That’s somebody who understands themselves. I like that answer a lot, he continued. I think about with myself. When I was fourteen fifteen, I was a loser.

I was nervous to talk to girls. I didn’t feel comfortable in my body, was getting attacked for being fat. Luckily, I was going to make fun of people. But if there’s some ripped dude who’s good at beating people up, was like, and I had to get chicks. All you have to do is control women and treat them poorly.

If they shot me with that, Andrew Tait ray when I was fourteen, stuff might have been bad for me. All we had was Dane COOKSDS Mark Norman caught up with al dot com. They were curious about one of Mark’s jokes and how Mark Norman found out how Werner von Brown and other rocket scientists who helped the US reach the moon were Nazis. Mark said, for me, he was just driving around Huntsville and seeing all the von Braun signs everywhere. Then I googled it.

I was like, who the hell’s von Braun? How do I not know this guy?

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And then the rest is his.

I was blown away. And plus, when you do a gig somewhere, you need some local stuff to riff on. So that’s all it was. And I said, this is perfect. It killed.

You can’t go wrong with Nazis. I was cooking with gas Chamber and everybody liked it. Wow.

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And then you know, Huntsville is such an anomaly because like, I’m from Louis…

And you’ve got the smartest people on the planet as well, so it’s a nice economy. Mark self spoiled about his current tour and said, I’ve got a whole chunk on a zimpic. I’ve got a whole chunk on AI new advances to technology and chat GPT and all this stuff. And I’m also trying to go more personal. I just had a baby, so I’m doing a bunch of baby stuff.

But then you also don’t want to be the baby guy, so I’m always tweaking and tinkering. Let’s go at Cosca cut up with Philippines Vogue. She’s writing her third stand up special and it is taking a different approach. She explains, for the first two stand up specials, I always chase the joke, but now I’m trying to do this thing where maybe I service the whole story first. She finds that writing jokes first can be limiting.

She explains, sometimes she’ll go, oh wait, that joke about dogs doesn’t fit into this hour of themes. You have to take that out and you do with that joke. You have to live in the drama first for it to become funny. Eventually, Greg Guttfeld got up at the LA Times. He was gloating about being number one.

Of course, his show was on at ten pm Eastern, not eleven thirty five pm Eastern, a fact that the Gutfeld camp loves to ignore, and also on the West Coast, Fallon and Colbert and Kimmel air at eleven thirty five and Gutfeld airs at seven pm. Anyway, Gutfeld is number one in the ten pm time slot and says, I get ratings every single day, so I was able to watch us win. I guess it wasn’t that surprised by it. I just knew there was going to take time. I thought, yeah, maybe in a couple of years, but it was like in a matter of months.

He talked about the difference between Red Eye and the current show. Red Eye was operating on the assumption that you really had a select group of people awake at two or three in the morning. It wasn’t trying to be a cult like pleasure. It just happened to be that way. We did want it to be for everyone.

Though now we have ten times the viewers and we’re number one, So on my mind, I’m going I want the same sensibility, but I don’t want to completely confuse the viewers. I realized that my humor on Red Eye was deliberate, up tuse in some ways, and not really deliberately. It was just surreal and bizarre, and maybe that one fly in primetime or late night. But like Red Eye, our shows now is interesting and unpredictable as that show was. And that’s ninety percent of the fight.

Now, this next section here, I’ve sat on this story for weeks. I don’t know if you noticed. It was busy. But all this happened before the Kimmel gait, but I think it happened after Colbert Gate. Gottfeldt said, I think the key is that nothing you should say should warrant an apology, Meaning if I were to insult you, you’re not going to demand an apology for me.

When somebody wants an apology for comment, I always ask them, how would that apology sound? I’m sorry that the jokes I made hurt your feelings? How insulting is that to the person you’re apologizing to. I’m sorry I hurt your feelings with this insult. It’s like the people that are demanding an apology don’t even see how absolutely insulting it is that they’re asking for it.

Santem Johnson is one of vulturous comedians You should and will know or whatever that thing is called. Anyway, I like it a lot, even though I can never remember what they call it. That’s funny. I mean, she’s been around for a minutes. She was on last Comic Standing in twenty fourteen was a just for laughs new face.

That same year, Welter asked, what was your worst show ever? The answer. Probably the first time I did a main spot at the Comedy Store. It was year one and I was ambitious. I’ve been doing five minute spots to warm up the show, and I thought, now that I’m doing a main spot, which is fifteen minutes, I needed all new material.

I went up after Gerrod Carmichael, and I watched him turn a bomb in a win, so I thought I’d have the same luck. Nope, they didn’t boo, but the silence was deafening. The friends in the audience who came out to support me were confused and embarrassed. I was literally because I clearly didn’t have the confidence or experience to get through the bombs. I think the audience had said good night.

When I tried leaving the stage, the host was nowhere to be found, so I had to stand there an awkward failure. Ooh, that’s brutal. What’s your biggest financial hurdle you’ve encountered since becoming a comedian? Interesting answer here. I was under the impression that if you tell me you’re gonna pay me, you’ll just do it.

But I learned very early that if you don’t speak up, people won’t offer it to you. The Toronto Guardian caught up with Toronto comedian Brady Coyle. Brady’s favorite comedian growing up George Carlin. I listened to his albums, particularly Complaints and Grievances and Jamming in New York saw I’m Live when I was fourteen. I was the only one in the crowd under fifty.

I love Carlin’s ability and willingness to analyze politics, dissect the English language, comment on human behavior, extrapolate where societal trans will lead us, and then also make sure to spend five minutes on for jokes. Ah, who are your favorite comedians right now? Brady Coyle, I’m a big fan of John Mulaney, Dave Chappelle, Pete Holmes, Apergetzi, Luis k Dean Cole, and Tom Poppa. Mike Birbigley is probably my favorite. He’s a hilarious and captivating storyteller.

To find new comics, Brady says, nothing beats seeing comedy live at the venue in person. Alternatively, I like watching full specials because it allows the viewer to get a sense of who comedian is and you get to see jokes they crafted over a long period of time, and that it’s your comedy news for today, see you tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Busy One again Helone Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Trevor Noah has weighed in on the Riod Comedy Festival. There’s a long pause at the top here. I thought about taking it out, but I want to leave it in to respect Trevor’s pacing, as he was performing this as part of a comedy set, and pacing, of course helps inform the intent here, So I’m going to leave the long pause in.

This is a lengthy clip and there is I think one use of salty language here, but here’s Trevor Noah. I don’t know. It’s it’s it’s an interesting one. I’ll start with this like when you know what what Saudi Arabia is all about. It’s weird to go to a comedy festival that is paid for by Saudi Arabia.

You know what I mean? And this is what I mean. There’s a there’s a difference. I’m all for going anywhere to perform for anyone, because there are people who live in countries that don’t agree with what their countries are doing. So I don’t assume that everybody who lives in a country is the same as the people running the country, Right, that’s the first thing.

But but when the government is paying you to come, that’s like a direct relationship. That’s different. Does that make sense? Like it changes up and I don’t know, man, like Saudi Arabia, You’re like, damn, just you just do a cursory search. You don’t even have to like dig do you don’t have to go do your research or it just the things that Saudi Arabia does, you know what I mean, Like you see all the comedians who have it’s like Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Bill Burr, Louis C.K.

Like it was like a whole as He’s I’m sorry, you know, I mean, I’m friends with all of these guys. Like I’m just like, but they went to Saudi, and I’m like, if you search Saudi, you see the things that happened there. Right. Government is on some like almost dictator level shit. Right, Like you you say the wrong thing, you get disappeared in a moment.

Like it just like one minute your family knows where you are, and then they don’t. Women like don’t have control over their own bodies. Oh, free speech is limited. Violence is the order of the day. I don’t know, man, at like, I don’t think I’d ever perform in Saudi Arabia.

I would only perform in the United States because that would never happen here. Will that would never happen here? Could you imagine what would happen if America announced that they were just like like scooping people up and just like disappearing their kids. Sow out of that, he transitioned into a routine and paraphrasing here, And you know, at some point I can’t just play the guy’s entire act, but he transitioned into a bit that was some commentary about ICE. If you would like to hear the routine, I did share it in the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, and you’ll find it there.

But I do want to flag that Trevor was both commenting on RIAD and also making a larger point. He also made some headlines for a Charlie Kirk joke. Trevor Noah was tying his commentary about riodd to America’s crackdown on free speech and the bad taste jokes after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Trevor said, this is the same country where hundreds of people have been fired for saying anything about Charlie Kirk. This is the same country where people make jokes about Ibraham Lincoln being shot, which I think like ranks higher.

Trevor pushed back on the insistence that nothing funny can ever be said about things. He said, there’s nothing funny about most things in our lives. Nothing funny about death, nothing funny about life, nothing funny about struggling. The whole point of it is to find a moment of solace. Comedians don’t have the latitude that leaders have.

I’ve seen these comedians will tell a joke and people are like, don’t you dare And then the President of the United States literally said maybe I’ll go for a third term. Then people said Trump was joking, and Trevor said, oh, so he can president jokes. Yeah, comedian, No. I would hope that we just learned to focus on not the thing that everyone’s showing us, but the thing that’s actually happening. Comedians are not going to make or break Saudi Arabian what’s happening there, but the thing that’s making or breaking what comedians can or cannot say in America, that’s a real thing that’s happening At a different point, Trevor Noah talked about growing up in South Africa and said, you can’t just say whatever you wanted.

There was no stand up comedy in South Africa because you’d go to jail. One of the first things you lose, funny enough, in an Athloratorian regime is comedy. This crazy trend that you can follow throughout time. Go to Russia, South Africa. Know it’s told the crowd in a weird way.

I almost feel like Saudi Arabia is moving in the right direction by allowing comedy shows. Now, I want to be fair to Trevor here again, I can’t just endlessly play his clips. And I want you to understand this is the difference between John reading what Trevor Noah said and Trevor Noah actually performed in the material as part of a complete set. Okay, so just remember here everything Trevor said was in context in a flowing set with the rhythm and the body language and the into nation. But I do want to from a new standpoint, sure that he did address Charlie Kirk.

Trevor said, now you tested me. I mean, there’s nothing funny about it. Don’t say that because then I’ll be like, I’m sure there’s something funny about it, quoting Trevor Noah. Here, the guy was shot while the funding guns. Do you understand I’m not even writing that as a joke.

As a human, you have to admit that’s an incongruous, funny thing that happened. That would be like if the captain of the Titanic was given an impassionate speech about icebergs right before it happened. Trevor was clear, I don’t think there’s anything funny about Kirk’s death, but that’s literally what comedians do. That’s the whole point of it. There’s nothing funny about most things in our lives.

Nothing funny about death, nothing funny about life, nothing funny about struggling. Nope, the whole point of it is to find a moment of solace. It’s pretty crazy that America’s response to the guy getting shot was to limit speech instead of limiting the thing that ended his life. What happened to Charlie Kirk? He got shot?

All right, tell people to shut up. We got to get some word control out in these streets. Let me tell you something, jokes will never kill you, never again. The entire set is shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group. My apologies to Trevor Noah for me buther suuring his material and my intention was not to take any of it out of context.

Hopefully I did that story correctly. The Human Rights Watch has posted they wrote during and October sixth appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live as He’s I’m Sorry, said that part of the fee from the festival should go to support causes that support free press and human rights, and that he shares the concerns that people have brought up. He named Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch. Jessica Kerson, another comedian who performed at the festival, said she was donating her entire performance fees to a human rights organization. Human Rights Watch is unable to accept the donation.

They add the ri Odd Comedy Festival as part of the Saudi government strategy to whitewash its poor human rights record, and participating comedians have responsibility to avoid laundering the government’s reputation. On September nineteenth, Human Rights Watch wrote to the representatives and management of a group of announced participating comedians to request a meeting about Saudi Arabia’s human rights crisis. The representatives and management did not reply. Captip to Jason Zinnemann for sharing that in his threads feed, which is how I sought. Bill Burr continues to get a lot of negative reaction to his defensive stance or defiant stance, however you want to look at that, but Burr not having a good week.

Jason Zenniman in The New York Times wrote, if the comics used their sets or even their interviews back home to look squarely at the critique of the Saudi government, that would be one thing. But I see zero evidence that they’re defending or even showing respect for actual dissent. It’s giving ahead. Zinneman rights Burr, Luis c K and I’m sorry are arguing for the impact of comedians and the power of jokes. But that’s precisely the opposite.

Lesson to take away from the comedian Tim Dillon’s experience with the festival, when he criticized the Saudi government weeks before the event, he was disinvited. The comics were made on the bill, were paid not just to perform, but also to shut up about certain topics, and they complied Jason Zinneman in The New York Times points out, imagine if similar conditions were put on comics in this country. What if a stand up was told they couldn’t mock the president at the White House Correspondence Association dinner, they wouldn’t perform. What if Andrew Schultz, who performed in Saudi Arabia, was told by an American producer that he couldn’t insult the government, he would surely exploit this, ending himself as the victim of cancel culture. In The Guardian again, Jonathan lu this time writes how much of this laughter truly escapes the walls of the theater, beyond the brightly elit plazas of Boulevard City, into the degradation and exploitation behind.

What kind of social transformation is possible when only a proviage few were in on the joke. The American comedian Sinbad once famly observed that comedians are funnier when they’re riding the bus, and perhaps Saudi Arabian it’s hired entertainers are laboring under a kind of convenient delusion, the naivete of the Saudi government imagining that comedy can whitewash its many crimes, is matched only by the naivete of the comedians, some of whom genuinely believe their presence is kind of a cultural bridge, a force for a positive change. Of course, art can change minds, change worlds, but only if the will to do so truly exists, or as a world renowned stand up comic almost put it, I stand up for your right to do stand up comedy in a medieval autocracy. But please know that you’re wrong. You’re living in a fantasy land.

After you leave, nothing happens, So you know, stop being an effing child. So I’ll ask you has anyone else actually hurt their career doing the Riod Comedy Festival. Forbes published this on October eighth, Drinking Manhattan’s with comedian Sebastian Maniscalco. Here’s the top aerographs on stage. The comedian will make fun of your table manners, wardrobe with the way you’re raising your kids, But meeting him in person, he just wants you to be yourself.

The judgment comes later between his successful comedy specials has sold out five night run at Madison Square Garden and having Robert de Niro as his co star in his first major film, Sebastian Maniscalco has become one of today’s biggest comedians. He recently completed an eighth show residency at the Ocean City Resort in Atlantic City, where he brought his observations about growing up in an Italian family, people’s manners and life is a father’s to Evation hall I met with Madiscalco at the hotel’s Italian restaurant, Linguini by the Sea. We’re over some great Manhattans, as well as homemade meatballs, eggplant rollatini and chicken Marsella from Chief Ye and Wilson. We discussed his favorite drink, why he’s much more social than he seems on stage, and how Jerry snide Felt taught him the best way to end a meal where we are That came out on October eighth, today’s October tenth. So it doesn’t seem like Forbes is too upset with Sebastian Maniscalco.

I’m sure he’ll continue to sell plenty of tickets. And to be fair, I’m going to cover that article that I just skimmed. I’m going to do it next week. I’m just as bad. I took a second to think about this.

What am I to do. Am I to take a moral stand and say, you know what, Sebastian Maniscalco, he’s dead to this program. I’m never going to mention him again. And am I never going to mention Burr and Chappelle and so like? I don’t know, I’m just as bad?

Or do I pick my spots and I only do negative Sebastian Maniscalco, negative Ck, negative Bill Burr, And I don’t tell you if they do anything fun or interesting or non controversial. So I might just be as bad as the Forbes article. I don’t know. But back to my question, has this actually hurt anyone’s career? The San Francisco Chronicle reports Louis C.K.

Has sold out his show December ninth at the Masonic Theater. It’s part of his Ridiculous World tour. In a recent email to fans, K described the or is a gargantoin amount of shows, with more than seventy five dates. I bet they’ll mostly sell out, if not completely sell out. Did c K hurt his career going to riodd?

I don’t think so. Perhaps related, perhaps not, Probably not, because Kevin Hart often cancels gigs for various reasons. He’ll pick up other work, but Saturday nights Kevin Hart show at the Santa Nez Chumash Casino Resort Somala Showroom has been canceled, with no further details provided. Arts team released an official statement simply stating that tickets would be refunded from point of purchase, so usually those get rescheduled. This is a cancel again.

It might just be somebody offered him a movie, or he’s got a cold. I don’t know, just sharing because it’s interesting. Let me catch my breath here for a second. This show has been going hard. I want to make this about me.

The show’s been going hard. Right if we go back to Kimilgate and all the bonus episodes and all this red stuff, the show’s been going hard. I’m having more fun doing this the last three weeks than I’ve had the entire run. The shows have been strong, The numbers are up by a full third. People are sticking around, new listeners.

Appreciate you. Hope you continue to stick around. The reason I’m sharing all this, especially for the new people. I pre tape this weekend, So if you listen Saturday, Sunday or Monday and you’re like, how come he’s not talking about. Sometimes I tape the weekend.

I’m spending some time with my family this weekend, so to accommodate my schedule, I tape the weekend. I had all these extra stories. That’s what happens. You know. You think you’re going to do one thing every day.

I bounce stuff, and I’ll often pre tape the weekends. I have not pre taped the weekends the last few weeks. In fact, I’ve been doing them almost in real time, which is not normally how I produce the show. But I’m just sharing this. So the people have been around for seven years, you get it.

You know how the weekend shows go. But in case you’re relatively new and you’re like, huh, I thought this show was really good. Today seems a little lesser. Are the shows a little lesser? Yeah?

They probably are. They’re not bad, but they’re not like, like today’s show, I’m throwing nothing but fastballs. Right. The weekend shows are just more like, hey, this comedian is doing this, this comedans doing that, and then I’ll jump back in Tuesday will go hard. So I just want to tell you all that because I did pre tape the weekend earlier in the week when I had a minute, let’s do the late night jokes today the government shut down the topic.

Jimmy Fallon said, We’re almost a week into the government shutdown, and airports across the country are already starting to report a shortage of air traffic controllers. Now pilots are chased with the choice of waiting in a long line or using the self checkout tarmac. I like that joke, Jimmy Kimmel. Soon when we fly, we’ll have the same number of air traffic controllers the Wright brothers had back to Fellon And if you want to know how long eight days of a shutdown is, just think eight days ago. We had no idea what kind of tree.

Travis Kelsey was like. Kimmel was at a screen time event. He said the night he returned, he did not script his monologue. It was something that really had to come from inside me and had to be truthful, and I had to lay it all out there and to be honest with what I was feeling. He said he would not invite FCC chairperson car on the show, but he would ask Donald Trump to be a guest.

Kimmel said, low ratings for the shows that air before his have cut into his viewership. The availability of clips on YouTube has also hurt. He does not believe the shows like his and Colbert’s are losing tens of millions of dollars. He says those numbers don’t include other revenues the shows generate, such as fees from local stations. David Letterman now originally today, So this is an example of meat bumping stuff.

Today is ten to ten, and I’ve been sitting on this story that Vulture did, the oral history of the Top ten list. Top ten has a ten in it. I’m like, oh, I’ll do that on ten ten. We’re almost nearly twenty minutes in today’s show. I don’t have time to do the top ten list.

So that’s an example of something that someday will become weekend filler. So for the new people, that’s what weekend filler is like. So if I were to come on tomorrow, it’s not in tomorrow show, but some weekend and you’re like, oh, David Letterman, top ten list, this is fun. That’s what you get on the weekend timely. David Letterman news he will induct Warren Zevon into the Rock Hall of Fame.

Zevon, passed away in two thousand and two, was a recurring guest on The Late show. Mark Maron on his Thursday podcast said that was the last one recorded in the garage. That Monday’s show, which is the final episode, is not recorded in the garage, so at some point we’re going to hear there was a big shiny guest on Monday’s show. Robin Williams daughter Zelda has asked fans to chill out with the AI stuff. She asked people to stop sending me AI videos of Dad Robin Williams, stop believing I want to see it, or that I’ll understand.

I don’t and I won’t if you’re just trying to troll me. I’ve seen way worse. I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and made and everyone, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s not what he’d want.

Zelda Williams continued to watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to this vaguely looks and sounds like them. So that’s enough, just so other people can turn out horrible TikTok slop is maddening. You’re not making art, You’re making disgusting overprocessed hot dogs out of the lives of human beings. I actually saw a clip one of Martin Luther King Junior’s descendants, it might have been one of his kids that may have been the next generation, tagged onto the Zelda Williams conversations like can you just stop? And in that there was an image shared of what sort of kind of look like MLK Junior at a UFC event, So yeah, just stop.

A Zelda said, you’re not making art. You’re making disgusting overprocessed hot dogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross. Comedy Stock marketsine every Friday. We take a look at the comedians.

We buy some stock, and we sell some stock, and I make some recommendations. And honestly, I almost didn’t do the segment this week because it’s been such an angsty period and I wish I had some buy recommendations for you, but I just don’t this week. So here are my cells as he’s and sorry, let’s get the hell out. Did you watch the Camel piece. I’m not buying a disease and if you listen to the show, I don’t like disease to begin with.

I just. I have my issues with disease. Sell asease and sorry, Bill Burr, he’s just digging himself a hole and the hole is getting bigger and bigger. So let’s sell our Bill Burr. And I think we got to sell a little on Conan O’Brien.

I know set Conan has had a great year, but I feel like once the Conan O’Brien needs a friend, episode gets out from behind the paywall and more people hear it. I’m seeing some conversation on Reddit that Conan has sort of let Burr off the hook there, and I think Conan gets some slap back. So let’s sell a little Conan stock, not all of it, but a little. Let’s also sell Cam Patterson. Now this is probably unfair, but based on the one appearance on SNL, I’m like, hm, I feel like he’s going to be one and done, So let’s sell Cam Patterson stock.

And we are trying conceptually to make money here. Let’s sell high on Maren. We’re at peak Maren, and you always sell high and buy low. This is as high as Maren’s going to get into this Monday episode. So let’s cash out on Mark Maren.

Good luck to you, sir, Thank you for all your service, thank you for what you do, thank you for your podcast. But we’re going to make hypothetical money. Let’s sell high on Mark Maren, Sell Bill Burr, sell Little Conan, sell Cam Patterson, and sell the hell out of disease and sorry, and that’s your comedy stock market. I’m exhausted. I don’t know about you.

All right, let’s do gossip corner. Caitlyn Clark hanging out with Adam Sandler, the great dramatic actor, was in town. Adam Sailor posted on what is this? This is Twitter? Sandler posted Indiana, Holy cow.

Great Monday, Hank can’t wait for the next one scene there with Caitlyn Clark. Taylor Swift was spotted out for dinner on Tuesday night. She was there with her longtime friend, comedian Gerrod Carmichael. Jord Carmichael and Taylor Swift are longtime friends. Did everyone else know this?

I didn’t know this anyway, that’s who she went to dinner with. Okay, Tonight’s Jimmy Fallon is airing the extended cut of Taylor swift Tonight Show appearance from earlier in the week. It is called The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon colon Taylor Swift parentheses extended cut now. Taylor also went on Seth Meyer’s show for some reason. And for those of you that think I’m unfair to Seth my my premises nobody cares.

Here’s the degree to which nobody cares. Okay, Seth Myers had on Taylor Swift, and I went on Latenighter dot com. Dy did it even cover it? Seth Myers had Taylor Swift and Late Nighter didn’t even bother to mention it on Thursday when I looked here, I’m gonna look again. It’s four twenty two pm Eastern up typing in Latenighter dot Com.

And I love the site. I source it almost every single day. It’s fantastic. I’m on The main page features SNL’s fifty greatest episodes, as voted by fans. One hour ago.

Suddenly, Jimp downies everywhere news, kim Old turns Trump’s warzone talking to a viral challenge. News Watch Jimmy Kimmel Talk, Disney News, Taylor Swift’s Tonight Show visit expands with extended cut airing Friday News or Samuel hall Ready’s new memoir, News David Letterman to induct Warren Zevon News. Amy Poler, Oh, Yeah, Amy Polers hosting SNL look at That eventually on Tuesday features SNL screen Time Report Use and Tene TV plans Tonight Show party for Johnny Carson’s one hundredth birthday. None of that is Seth Myers who had Taylor Swift. Why did she do Late Night with Seth Myers?

Why? I don’t understand. Luckily, people who apparently stayed up later taped it or whatever they did. Seth said to Taylor Swift, congratulations on your engagement. There are two things I’m worried about in your behalf.

Taylor Swift said, only two. Seth said, I think you’ve got everything else under control. I’m worried about the invitations, just the invitations alone, because I feel like everybody you know has an expectation that you’re gonna put a lot of thought into it, and I feel like I just give you permission to send an evite. I’m exhausted. Check the run time on this episode.

What can I not bump? I cannot bump that this week? And it’s the Because They’re Funny DC Comedy Festival. It’s back for its third year at the Wharf. This year’s lineup features some More and Jay Farrow.

They’ll also be the Breakout Comedian of the Year competition, hosted by Jay Farrow. National finalists compete for a ten thousand dollars grand prize and a shot at Hollywood representation. That it’s your comedy news today, all right, Johnny Max, take it a couple of days off. There’ll be shows in your feed and we’ll jump back in live on Tuesday. Thank you to everyone.

Thank you Clifford. Clifford became a new supporter of the show. Appreciate you Clifford who wrote, You’re doing great job. Your listeners love your content. Keep it going.

Thank you, and thanks for everybody who buys me a coffee or is in the two dollars club. You can check all that stuff out on buying mycoffee dot com. My voice is shot, I’m out of energy. It’s the weekend. Have a good one.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, massive Bill Burr story again today. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. But I do want to lead off with Mark Maron because this one kind of gut punched me. This from Mark Maren’s blog on Markmeron dot com, and we knew this was coming, but this, like I said, this was a gut punch.

Maren wrote, almost done, folks. I’m excited, but I’m also sorry to leave you people. I’ll save the week, be goodbye for next week, and stay strong this week. Well, actually, this Thursday show is all me talking about how I feel, and then Monday we are the final episode, so I’ll leave it at that. You can listen.

I don’t want to spoil it by writing everything I say, So Today’s show on WTF with Mark Maron is Mark solo, and then Monday is whatever the final episode is. Okay, Bill Bird did Conan O’Brien’s podcast. It’s not publicly available yet, but the private feed for subscribers is out, and both GIBA and The Hollywood Reporter have covered this. Now. If you’re a relatively new listener, I will sometimes do what I call a half ass impression I’m not trying to do an impression of someone, but I’ll sometimes change my normal speech pattern to try and mimic ish the way somebody else speaks.

I’m going to do that with Burr here because I don’t have the audio for you anyway, Conan was taping Conan O’Brien needs a friend, Bill Burr showed up. Pajeeba wrote of those who attended and reported on a Reddit thread, all were disappointed in Bill Burr’s self righteous rant. Based on their accounts, Burr repeated many of the talking points he’s already delivered on his own podcast Freedom, and you can hear those comments on Wednesday’s version of this very podcast. But Pajiba says the real disappointment from those who chimed in was Conan O’Brien himself, who didn’t push back. At least Jimmy Kimmel reminded his ease.

I’m sorry that the Saudi Royals are very bad people. We will get to that after the bur stuff, And at one point, Conan even compared what Burr did in Saudi Arabia to his own travel show. Conan O’Brien must go right, so the Hollywood Reporter pulled something that looks at least transcript esh from the Hard Reporter review, Bill Burr said, and I’ll clean it up that Burr doesn’t give an F what all these phony f and people are saying. I don’t really giving f Conan, and it affects my career. I’ve been lax enough of my life.

I’ll have f it sit home for a little bit. I’ll actually tell you lax is slightly Saturday in Saudi Arabia. I’ve been going through this BS the whole week. My agent never even call me. He’s been under his f and desk hearing me on the podcast saying what I said here that a good time and it was a positive thing.

So he thought that was the mindset that I was in through the week. One of my favorite things is the scumbag club owner texting my tour manager because he heard I was over there. He goes, bring back a burke in a sweatshirt and size oppression. That was his jokes. I wrote back to him, why don’t you concentrate in not ripping off comedians?

You f and piece of s And he never wrote back. Bird tells Conan that events like the Riodd Comedy festival have to happen in order to push progress forward. It was necessary. It felt right afterward a vibe with them and f they were funny, f and people. I don’t know what to tell you.

I had a good time. I love to do with the podcast. Man, I appreciate having me on, especially during all this BF. Your real friend, dude, Pagieba said. What was most disappointing was Conan acting as a yes man the whole time.

After realizing no one on that stage was going to try and have an honest conversation with Bill, we were hoping it would move on, but after a while didn’t seem like Bill want to talk about anything else, so we just left Pageeba says. Another part of the conversation, Bill Burst said that it wouldn’t be very different if he took money from the English or the London government since they have such a bloody past, or our own American government. So the episode’s out now. If you want to be a paid subscriber, it will be available for free on October fifteenth. Before we get to the easeas and sorry thing, I’ve been thinking about this.

Here’s what’s going to happen here, Everyone including me we’re all outraged this week, and you know what, Bill Burr’s going to announce, He’s playing the Garden. He’s going to sell out in two seconds. And Dave Chappelle’s going to sell out the Garden two seconds, and Louis C.K. Is going to sell out the Garden two seconds, and Tom Sigore is going to sell out the Garden in two seconds. These guys may have added one sentence to their obituary, depending on how long that obituary is.

Some comedians like Jessica Curson I think are going to get the forever eye roll. I don’t think Bill Burr is helping himself here, but I think somebody like Tom Sagora, somebody like Sebastian Maniscalco, I think they’re just gonna say, at long, just fine, and no one’s gonna care be not so canceled disease and sorry. You may recall he was canceled a few years ago. Well he’s back and he was on with Jimmy Kimmel who asked him about the Riod Comedy Festival. I watched these clips.

Zesu’s body language is very nervous. He’s looking down in a way a lot. I’m not sure his body believes the words that his mind is saying. I want to ask you about this comedy festival over in Saudi Arabia that you were part of. Was that this weekend of that went on?

It’s going on now and oh it’s still going on, right, I think so. I’m not sure, but this. Is obviously this is something that’s become a big part of the news because people, a lot of comedians especially, are very upset because this is the people who paid the comedians to come to the This are not good people. They are It’s a pretty brutal regime. They’ve done a lot of horrible, horrible things, and so people are questioning why you would go over there and take their money to perform in front of these people.

And I’m just curious because you were there, you made this decision. I’m curious as to why you decided to do that. Yeah. No, I’m glad you asked, because you know, it’s something I put a lot of thought into. And you know, I have an aunt that lived there for a while and I talked to her about this, and she said, you know, there’s people over there that don’t agree with the stuff the government’s doing, and to ascribe like the worst behavior of the government onto those people.

It’s not fair, just like there’s people in America that don’t agree with the things that government right. Yeah, Kima wasn’t buying any of that. And follow it up, the government over there is arresting people for peaceful protes I mean, I know, yeah, we’re doing horrible things over here, but they murdered a journalist. I mean it’s like, you know, it’s these are not good people over there, so are the You did you deal with those people specifically? No, I was just there to do a show for the people.

And you know, I talked to my wife about this, you know, before I went, and she said, you know, whenever there’s repressive societies like this, they try to keep things out, whether it’s rock and roll music or you know, blue jeans, because it makes people curious about outside ideas, outside values. And this is a very young country. Half the countries under the age of twenty five, and things can really change. And to me, like a comedy festival felt like something that’s pushing things to be more open and to push a dialogue. And you kind of have to make a choice of whether you’re going to isolate or engage.

And for me, especially being me and looking the way I do and being from a Muslim background, it felt like something I should be a part of and I hope it pushes things in a posta direction. Kimmeill was a very good follow up here. Did you have these concerns when you performed in India many years ago? Yeah, I mean there’s stuff there that you know, I don’t feel great about, and and I did it, and you know, I’m Indian and it was an important experience for me. And you know, comedy in India is really thriving, and people are are talking about things that are happening there and some of them are even you know, go to jail and things.

But for this re odd thing, you know, it was something I really thought about, and even before I went, I said, you know, I’m going to do this and and I hope it’s positive. And you know, if I’m going to do this, I share the concerns that people have brought up and it’s all valid. And I said to myself and my team, I said, if we do this, part of the fee should go to support causes that support uh, you know, free press and human rights and. Which causes specifically, or you think I think I read about Reporters without Borders, which I think, and and Human Rights Watch as well, and you know it’s a complicated issue, but you know, I felt like it was it was something that’s pushing things in the right I hope.

And then one more clip from the Not So Cancel Disease.

Sorry again, his body language is very defensive in this segment. You felt that it was that in the long term, this will be a positive people seeing comedy and American comedy and Freeze. Yeah. I mean, so many people were there talking about stuff, and I hope people see that and they go, wow, this was really great and I want more of this, not just in comedy but in everything, to push things to be more open and to have the ability to say what we want and to have dissent and all this stuff, and hopefully it’s a step in that direction. Nice job, Jimmy Kimmel.

Tom Sagora posted last night we went to the only comedy club in Riot and had an amazing time. The comics were so warm and welcoming and the crowd was incredible. We did the exact same sets we were doing the States, and they were acted just like a crowd at home would well minus the bit on pickleball. So glad we went, and tonight we’ll do the arena. Lots of love to all the comics we met and to the crowd that came out.

The comments on Segora’s a social media post did not go so well, but again, he’ll sell out the garden to seconds at the Redd Comedy Festival tonight. Andrew Schultz. We’re told Andrew Schultz always comes close to the line with his jokes. He’s quick witted, fearless, and has made a name for himself on social media. Let’s find out how fearless you are, Andrew, go for it.

A Daria go for It. British magician Ben Hort brings sleek showmanship and mind bending allusions to the Reod Comedy Festival. You may know him from Britain’s Got Talent. Hannibal Buris brings his dry wit and deceptively laid back delivery to the Read Comedy Festival, promising a set that blends sharp observational beats with off kilter asides. I love the copy here, like whoever wrote this the choices of words.

I don’t know if this is accidental A subconscious somebody screaming for help. I’ve been getting these from factmagazines, dot com, and I don’t know where they pulled them from. Here’s what I’m zerving in on. In the Hannibal Buris description, we’re told he slides from observed life hacks to pop culture de tours with effortless timing. And I’ve noticed all these description will have words like hacks or sharpened.

I don’t know there’s some subtle commentary there. Sebastian Manascalco, we’re told he’s influenced by greats like George Carlin and Jerry Seinfeld. That’s it. No description of his comedy. I love it all.

This Ria talk is distracting us from what should be the major comedy topic this week, which is, of course, Jim Gaffigan’s Bourbon set. Tonight is the super cool after party. I think tickets are still available if you want to go. You can’t just go to the after party. You must have attended Jim’s bourbon comedy show.

They remind us, don’t forget to show your ticket, and they hope to see you there. Hashtag Louisville, hashtag Bourbon, hashtag Kentucky hashtag father Time hashtag October and there’s big bourbon news. Jim Gaffigan has partnered with Buzzard’s Roost Distillery on a one of a kind, single barrel bourbon selection. That’s right, a special release six year old whiskey featuring a mash bill of seventy five percent corn, twenty one percent rye and four percent malted barley. Buzzards Rus will be pouring samples at the Really Cool after party tonight, which is at the Last Refuge six hunderd East Market Street, you know the place, and bottles will be available exclusively at Buzzard’s Roost Distillery and Tasting Room on six twenty four West Main.

The retail price per bottle, which features a commemorative Jim Gaffigan label, is one hundred and twenty five dollars. Late Nighter says if you’ve seen headlines about Jimmy Kimmel losing half its audience, it hasn’t. Are the numbers down from when he came right back, of course they are, but Late Nighter says if you compare Kimmel’s numbers last week to two weeks earlier, he was actually up forty five percent in total viewers and fifty two percent among younger adults. He won the eleven thirty five slot for the second consecutive week. We’ll see if he wins this week.

Jimmy Fallon had on Taylor Swift. Late Nighter says, yes, Greg Guttfeld still drew more total viewers, but they remind us at airs at ten eastern seven Pacific, and maybe, perhaps possibly you could convince me ten o’clock is a late night show, even though it’s clearly not seven o’clock Pacific definitely is not. But Late Nighter says Kim Will got the most eighteen to forty nine’s, even including Gutfield. All right, Jimmy Fallon, he’s a survivor. He’s working on a game show adaptation of Wordle for NBC.

Savannah Guthrie would host the show. Fallon would get some producer credit for some reason. Who knows. I don’t know how this all works. Somebody’s got a good agent, Taylor Tomlinson, who may have accidentally killed off the Late Show.

I’ve explained this before. I’ll go quick here. So Taylor Thompson had been renewed to twelve thirty and then she decides to walk away, so they decide to get rid of twelve thirty. Then later on they decided to get rid of eleven thirty, saying, oh that was always the plan.

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Now here’s my question.

Why did your new twelve thirty were You’re not gonna have an eleven thirty show? Were you going to move Taylor up to eleven thirty? Perhaps? Possibly? Maybe?

My theory is that once Taylor went you know what, nah, that made people go do we even need twelve thirty? And the answer was no?

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And then somebody went do we even need eleven thirty?

And apparently the answer was no. I’m not blaming Taylor Thomlinson. I just think she’s accidentally created a bitterfly effect. She told the Cap Times. I’m sure anyone who looks at my schedule right now must be a little concerned for me.

She’s in Madison tonight and tomorrow and says I’ve been on the road every single weekend. That’s what you got to do to get an hour ready. Cap Sadie was curious if she has any rituals on the road. Taylor Tomlinson said, I don’t know if you’d even called a routine. I have stuff I do in every city.

I need to find a good Macha latte somewhere, and then I feel strongly about breakfast. Then I need to go find a bookstore, a victed shop, we’re both preferably, and I need to walk a lot during the day.

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And now we’re doing crowd confessions at the end of show, so we’re going thro…

I think that’s also helped get my head in it and get me in a very I’m connected to this audience space. They asked her comedians have been in the news lately, Kimmel’s suspension, Colbert’s show. What do you think is missing from those conversations? Taylors said, I think probably the biggest issue is people tuning out because they’re so overwhelmed with horrific news every day, which I completely understand. I think it’s all pretty clear and blatant at this point.

I get it, but I’m much more scared of checking out, putting my head in the sand, and being overwhelmed. What does she miss about after midnight? She says, I miss the people working with comedians every day and miss watching people be so funny many different ways. The thing I won’t miss is the schedule. I was so disappointed they didn’t replace me as the host because I was like, man, somebody just wanted to stay in LA and not be on the road do local spots.

A comedy could still do that, but if it was your whole job. It was a dream schedule. But I was flying out every Thursday after doing two shows Wednesday, and my voice was always gone. I kept going to an E and C was like, you need to do vocal rest, and I was like, I literally can’t. And that is your comedy news for today.

Hopefully things will calm down with Riod, although my spidey sense is that Conan’s gonna get some blow back now. We will see and we’ll catch up again tomorrow. Thank you for listening. Bye,

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Caloroga Shock Media. Bill Burr has forced my hand. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m kind of talking about the riog Comedy Festival, but Bill Burr addressed it on this week’s Bill Burr podcast, and let’s hear what Bill has to say. As always, I’m clipping for f bombs and sometimes for pacing.

But here’s Bill Burr. You guys are asking me obviously a ton of questions about the absolute controverty.

All right, here’s the deal.

I would love I have no problem answering any of them. The problem I have is after I answer them, it all gets clipped.

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And then once it gets clipped, then the lies start getting told, or they star…

So all I’m doing is just throwing another log on the fire and then they can make more money. No I’m sorry, well oh no, no, no, no, because they care so much. That’s right, Sorry now, because they’re just making money. Not to be fair to Bill Burr, I am indeed editing these. I considered leaving the clips alone, but he drops more than f bombs than I want to do on this podcast, and sometimes I need to pick up the pacing a little bit and not just play a ten minute clip that said, I welcome Bill burd a challenge if I’ve changed the intent of his words in any way.

But yes, I’ve edited them for language and pacing and taken out the F bombs, But the intent of his words are intact. So like these these stories of like there was no women there, he just performed to the royals. By the time they had done with this shit, they’re gonna say, I went over there and did a one on one show and a tent staring at my toes, and then I left for the head’s guy, whoever the hell it is over there? Right, once again, I performed in an arena over there in the round. There was eight thousand people at the show, okay, it was citizens, And then they had diplomats sitting down front in a nerve wracking way for the performer to make sure that, you know, you didn’t talk about the two or three things that they said that they negotiated down to not talk about.

Once again, as I said before, whoever put together the comedy festival and everything, what it did for freedom of speech over there, because like before it started, you couldn’t talk about all of this stuff, and then they whittled it down to just that. And that is how you know if you truly care about stuff like that, you gradually moved towards something more positive. Okay, Bill Burke, clearly for you, this is a freedom of speech thing and not at all about the money. In this next section, he compliments a fellow comedian who, by all context clues must be Jessica Curson. I don’t know who else this could possibly be.

From the clues, I did leave some s words in here, so if you don’t like salty language, some salty language coming up, edit out f. Words all of this sanctimonioushit out there. I’m gonna tell you something right now. I saw in thirty three years a stand up. I’ve never seen anybody with bigger balls.

And I’m not gonna say the name of the comedian, even though you’re gonna figure it out. But I’m just trying not to get anybody else. This shit coming at him went on over there openly gay. In the middle of the set, two of the diplomats got up to go to the bathroom, and this person said, Hey, where are you going? Are you gonna?

Are you going to go on grinder. I mean, I’ve seen them all. I’ve never seen anybody. It’s like, I don’t have the balls to say that. And the fact that her own people came at her and all of that, it’s just it’s disgusting, it really is.

That’s what they’re gonna clip. That’s what they’re gonna clip. Bill says. The reaction to Da Da Da is just And I’ll tell what else is amazing and really confusing to me is what we did over there wasn’t even on TV. However, what everybody’s complaining about was on TV the week before, on a different event, and nobody said anything, so, you know, and that’s the difference between being a billion dollar conglomerate and being an independent contractor.

Now, I’m not sure what he means there. Does he mean Kimmel? Is he talking about something with Israel? Does he think nobody talked about Kimmel? Is that what he means, because I can assure you it was talked about.

I checked. I personally did at least fifteen episodes with Jimmy Kimmel. I just went back through my catalog and I saw fifteen episodes in a cluster with Jimmy Kimmel. In the title. Now I concede this is not the biggest platform in the world.

All ears and eyes are not on this podcast. I get it. But I didn’t just monologue free thoughts for fifteen episodes. I was clearly sourcing other people. I had some guests on for fifteen episodes worth of shows, and that’s just me.

So somebody talked about Jimmy Kimmel, or maybe that’s not who Bill Burr meant. I’m not sure. Bill’s Instagram post about the podcast did not go so well. One person wrote, your legacy is now re Odd. That’s it.

The re Odd Comedy Festival does continue today. Some of your favorite comedians are there. Sam Morrell brings his cool, clinical delivery to the re Odd Comedy Festival. Expect brisk pacing, sharp turns, and a touch of crowd work with jokes that build and pay off fast. Tom Sagora, Yes, I said, Tom Sigora, write that down.

Tom Sagora s E g u r a one of comedy sharpest voices. Tom Sagora. He’s at the Real Comedy Festival tonight. Tonight would have been when Tim Dillon was going to perform, but he was disinvited and also appearing. It’s a big, big night at the Red Comedy Festival, Joe Coy, He’ll be at the Real Comedy Festival.

Now. Interestingly enough, this isn’t even the worst thing Joe Coy has ever done in his career. Oh no, no, no, one time he holds that the Golden Globe and dared to insult Taylor Swift with this horrible, horrible, mean joke. Let’s listen. 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 camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear it was just where to go to here? Sorry about that? Ooh brutal, No wonder Taylor Swift, who had walked through the room in the middle of the live show so that everybody saw her across the room.

No wonder, Taylor Swift sat there offended, giving Joe Cooy an icy stare and killing the mood in the room, rather than just doing a smile and be like ha ha, no, Joe Cooy, that mean, mean, mean joke. That is the worst thing you ever did in your career. Never mind the riad Comedy Festival. You made a joke about Taylor Swift. Now, somebody who knows better is Jimmy Fallon.

He had Taylor Swift on Monday Night. It was her seventh time on The Tonight Show. So Taylor knows. Jimmy Fallon’s not gonna make some mean joke about Taylor and cameras in the NFL. No, he’s not going to do that.

She did three full segments with Fallon guests often Get two. She talked about her engagement to Travis Kelcey and the song would The less said about that song the better. It is cringe with a capital see says the old man in the basement recording a podcast. But it is cringe. Casey haven’t listened to the song.

Some of the lyrics include the words wood, redwood, tree, cocky, and it’s about Travis Kelcey. You could figure it out. Jimmy Fallon his monologue said, this is the hottest ticket in town today. I was on the phone with Pope Leo and I said, I’m sorry, your holiness, there’s no more room. Boy.

That’s hilarious, even though it sucked, and Jimmy told it better. Of course, even though it’s October like everyone else, I spent the weekend looking for Easter eggs. I listen to the album so many times this weekend. I think I’m in love with Travis. Fallon asked some rapid fire questions.

These are probing, really difficult questions of Taylor Swift, the last person who texted Selena meaning Gomez, the last movie you saw, one battle after another. We’re so lucky to be alive. At the same time as Paul Thomas Anderson last fall related activity you did, I make cinnamon Rolls the other day. With a material like this, I don’t think Fallon has to worry about Trump and people or the FCC coming after him. If we’re gonna ask Taylor Swift about cinnamon rolls.

This is not exactly a biting satire here now tonight. For some reason that I can’t explain. Taylor Swift superstar, megastar, huge star. Whatever you think of the song would and the cringiness of it, there’s no avoid she’s a huge star. Tonight for some reason, she’s going on Late Night with Seth Myers to reach his what twenty three thousand viewers?

How many viewers does he have? I lost my notes it’s some number like that. Why she’s going on Seth Myers of all things, like anybody would take her and she’s doing Seth Myers the twelve thirty show. I mean, sure, the clipsical viral. Sure, I’m going to talk about it, but really that okay on the View, which you know is a show Taylor Swift could do.

Sherry Sheppard is concerned about Saturday Night Live. Sherry said, when I watched SNL this weekend, I did notice something was missing. Ego n Wotam left the show and she was their only black female cast member. So now there are no black women on SNL. So what do I say to SNL.

You all got to hurry up and you gotta find somebody. This is a break glass in case of emergency. It’s an emergency. We got to have representation on that show. She noted SNL does not have the best track record in hiring black female talent, and noted that Keenan Thompson would often have to dress in drag to do impressions of black women in pop culture.

Shepard said there was no black woman even play Whoopy Goldberg. Keenan Thompson would play Whoopy at the table when they spoofed us in two thousand and nine, Tracy Morgan played Shepard. She said they had the nerve when Tracy Morgan guests hosted Tracy Morgan played me on the dog On Show. They had Tracy Morgan in that old tired shake and go wig looking like he SAIDs Third Road Church and serves the dinner after service. He’s even still got a five o’clock shadow.

I don’t think this controversy is unwarranted in terms of having a cast that is diverse in all ways, so that you have someone who can realistically portray a character. I don’t think this is absurd at all. Shepherd said. What I don’t like hearing is we can can’t find anybody. There are lots of talented black female comics you can cast on SNL.

If you go to any comedy club or improv place, they’re out there waiting for this opportunity, getting ready for this very opportunity. Yeah, that is that is that makes a lot of sense to me. Yep. Apparently, the cast of SNL gathered at a farewell party on October third, and they met with the cast members who left the show. Devin Walker and Emil Wakeem were there as well as alumni Chloe Trost and Punky Johnson.

Trost and Johnson spoke to people about the realities of being fired from SNL. Trost said, you don’t get a cushion when you fall. Even before the show, they were the ones that were guiding light and so that’s what I looked to after and I feel like without that, I don’t know where i’d be one year out. To be honest, Punky Johnson said, you can’t leave SNL and then go do the same things you were doing before. It just puts pressure on you because everybody’s always like, yo, what’s next, So have to go do the next big thing.

I had to figure out how to understand the difference between all right, cool, he did something really great and now it’s okay for you to just go through motions and not rush and figure out what’s next for you. It’s okay for you to figure that out. It’s very hard to stand a place like that. They just throw you in the water. You better know how to swim.

They don’t give you a life jacket. Out Today, on the Comedy Exports YouTube channel, It’s reached James spilt Milk. Fred Armison has a new sound effects record, and he told NPR sound effects record is something I felt like was missing in my life if I didn’t hear any new releases of sound effect records. And I just remember in my life, you know, there would be like a Halloween record that would come out, or sound effects CDs that would come out, and it was just fun looking through all the titles and everything and then just you know, sampling some of them and it was like a feeling of whatever happened to those and then occurred to me. I was like, I’ll make one.

I think when I’ve listened to sound effect records, wherever there are audience sound effects, you know, booing, clapping, cheering, those are always the first ones I went to, mostly because I was like, wow, they really got a group together do applause and laughing. So I thought, what about expanding on that? What about somewhere that are a little more detailed, like supportive booing. He helps people play it for their friends, like hey, did you hear this? And they play a couple of tracks and they go on with their day.

But I’m hoping in like ten years, someone does reach for it in a way that I feel like, hey, I actually really need the sound of breaking glass. Lost in the Kimmel and Riot of it All was an article in The New York Times in Austin, a comedy scene that speaks to political mavericks. This was a good piece. It talks about the explosion of the Austin comedy scene in the past five years. More than a half dozen new comedy clubs of open, including The Creek in the Cave, which moved from Queens, Black Rabbit Comedy, The Vulcan Gas Company, ros Coos, and East Austin Comedy Club.

So so that Joe Rogan won down there. Roza Jeoffrey is the co owner of East Austin Comedy Club. He told The Times it’s fair to have critiques of different elements within the scene, but it’s impossible to say with a straight face that it hasn’t created something really interesting and special. Comedian Liz Splatt talked about the Rogan of it All. Last year she won the annual Funniest Person in Austin contest.

She was backstage at The Creek in the Cave and said, I’m the opposite of anything those guys, meaning the Rogan Easts are talking about, and they still support me. Heavily. That’s why I think this is such a great place Austin to practice my art. You can get the liberal people, but you can also get the people on the other side. We have a mash up of both.

Jeffrey to tell the story about being at Rogan’s place. Comic was setting up a joke about trans people and was getting clapter and he explains clapters proven collapse before you get to the punchline. He had prepared the line to try and win them over, like wait, wait, hear me out, because he was expecting pushback, but he was getting ovations. It’s like at that point, all you’re really doing is pandering. And that is your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. As i’m recording, I’m texting back and forth with Mike Chisholm from The Letterman podcast. He apparently liked the al Michaels bit and it just got me thinking about how much I do like al Michaels. I defend him on Twitter every Thursday.

People are like, he’s so old. I’m like, no, no, no, no, no, he’s great. He knows how to call football. You’re watching the game. You don’t need somebody yelling and screaming.

Do you watch Kevin Horland, who’s great at basketball and I love him on NBA two K Do you watch Kevin Horland call football game and only does his yell and scream, whereas al Michaels is just in the zone. I know this isn’t why you’re here, and I’m bringing all the rules. I’m gonna tell about him Gafkins Bourbon set in a second. But al Michaels remember the oj Knight and Captain Jenks called in and pranked Peter Jennings. I can never think of that and not laugh.

So if you’re not familiar with the story, Peter Jennings is there, and he says, okay, we have we have a eyewitness on the scene across from oj Simpson’s house. That’s say, mister Robert Higgins, mister Higgins, what do you see now? Captain Jenks went into a character that I don’t want to get canceled, so I’m not going to do here. I’m just gonna ask everybody to be quiet for a moment. We have on the phone with us as well, Robert Higgins, who lives in the neighborhood and is on the ground and can see inside the van.

Mister Higgins, Oh, yes, how are you? But I’m watching this at home thinking how does Peter Jennings, the ABC anchor, not know what is happening? Then and then all of a sudden, you hear the voice of God here, Peter, this is al Michaels. Lest anyone think that is a real name. I forget exactly what he said.

That was a completely farcical call. Now, as the years went on, al Michaels would go on Howard Stern, Billy West would do al Michaels saying, that’s a completely forcical call. Al Michaels said, I’ve never used the word farcicle in my life, but I know what was going on there. The driveway of Oj Simpson’s home in Redwood, clearly an effort being made to him come out of the vehicle in the doorway of the house. His friend Al Cowling Peter.

By the way, just for the record, this is Al Michaels. So that was a totally farcical call. Lest anybody think that that was somebody who was truly across the street that was not. He said something in code at the end that’s indicative of the mentioning of the name of a certain radio talk show. Host as a producer.

I just imagine myself in the control room and the hotline ring. So the hot line is a phone that you only use when you really need to get through. Like you don’t use the hotline to be like, hey, what should we get for lunch? The hot line is hey, there’s a fake call on the air, get it off now. It’s used for that kind of thing.

It’s the batphone. So I’m just picturing you’re in the control room and Al Michael’s calls and he’s like, you gotta put me on the air right now, and you’re like, what did you not just see the ojchase? Why does al Michaels have to be on the air right now? Anyway, I have totally degressed and broken all the rules and put a two and a half minute roadblock at the top of the show. You’re not supposed to do.

Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Yeah, boy, Jim Gaffigan, it’s today the Bourbon set. We’ve been looking forward to this four months, over four shows, Jim Gaffigan will debut an all new set of Bourbon and whiskey inspire stand up. You might still be able to get in because on Monday morning, Jim Gaffigan post it on Threads the tickets were still available. So I don’t know if the bourbon demand is quite there for Jim Gaffigan bourbon theme sets, but he’s doing four of them to tonight two Thursday, seven and nine thirty.

It’s at the Kentucky Center baum Hart Theater, you know, the one on five oh one West Main Street. Yeah. Now, what he’s really pushing is this really cool after party on Thursday. That’s right. If you’ve got tickets to the nine to thirty show, not only do you get a Jim Gaffigan bourbon themed comedy set.

You get exclusive access to the official after party. The party will feature sponsored bourbon pores, light bites, and of course, Jim Gaffigan. That after party doesn’t starts eleven pm. So as much as I love Jim Gaffigan bourbon jokes and bourbon, I mean you want me to start a party at eleven o’clock on a school night? Are you crazy?

So? Uh, this next part here, I’m not doing a bit, okay, So let me get the little out of my voice. I’m just trying to have a fun. It’s just a fun little podcast. But let me get to us for a second.

Over the weekend, John Marcos Saraisi posted a picture with Jim Gaffigan. Now, I would describe John Marcos Sarraisi as wiry. If you’ve seen his comedy special, you know he’s not a big, fat, stocky guy like me. He’s wiry. Anyway, He’s in a picture with Jim Gaffigan, who has said he lost weight using joo.

Jim’s looking really thit not like, hey, you lost a lot of weight, You look good like he’s past that. Now. I hope he’s okay. I’m not doing a bit. I’m not trying to be a jerk hole.

But when You’re standing next to John Marco and I’m like you look really thin, I go, huh, so, I hope everything’s okay. There stories I hadn’t got to Nate Brigetzie. Remember the Emmys and then Jimmy Kimmel got suspended and then we all went to the Riod Comedy Festival wholl All. Before that, the story was Naperghetzy tanked on the Emmys. Remember that bit.

Nate on his podcast said he wasn’t trying to put anybody on the spot. I was trying to have a very giving night. He said he had no ill intent while planning it out. Well, then, dude, you didn’t think about this at all, Nate said. Reviews did not like the boys and Girls Club thing, despite it coming from a real place of heart.

In my head, I wasn’t trying to put anybody in spot. I wasn’t trying to make someone donate money. But in my head I kind of thought, like, make it fun. We’re not using the charities a tool. They asked you to come up with a way to make everybody go shorter on their speeches.

First of all, why are we trying to go shorter on their speeches? Like what are we trying to get to at this point the Sunday night eleven o’clock news. Who cares? We all have phones? Like what is the race?

Or start the show earlier if you’re worried about it going too late, Nate said, comics, I don’t think I’ll get to ask that going shorter, because I’ll try to find a solution. He said, CBS was very happy with the bit. I think people at home were very happy they watched it. No, we weren’t. I wasn’t trying to overshadow any of their speeches, but yeah, you know some of these people, well, you work your whole career, you finally get recognized.

You just want to thank your family and the people you worked with hard, and like, why are we running a clock? I get we don’t want the seven minutes speeches about issues of the day. I get that. But if you’re up there and you’re like, hey, I just want to think my wife’s just been really great these last thirty years, and my kids are fantastic, and you know the rest of the crew here, let people do that. Nate explained on his podcast, he thought that the shows that won, or Netflix or Apple would donate the money.

It’s not like I was expecting that kid, meaning adolescent star Owen Cooper, who was fantastic in his speech. I think he’s fifteen. I mean that show was great. He’s great, but his speech was fantastic. I wasn’t expecting that kid to give money.

In my head, I pictured as they could speak long but then be a hero, so it was a win win. Then the night becomes about love and you’re giving to these kids that are there and all the stuff. I don’t know if I just didn’t explain enough in the room. I had it in my head one way, it came out another way. But the reasoning was there.

I wasn’t gonna give that money at the end. I wasn’t thinking I was going to have it, But the way it went, it was like, I can’t. I wonder if they’ll have him back. So friend of the show Jason Zinniman pointed out the ratings were up, but I don’t know. I feel like that’s a jokoy one and done.

I can’t see rolling him back out. David Letterman, Yes, I’m finally getting to a David Letterman story. Because all the crazy news has calmed down, he has announced his next guest on My Next Guest needs no introduction. He’s already taped it at New York University. It is with the great, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, hopefully.

Letterman asked him a lot of questions about Adam’s fine dramatic films, Uncut, Gems, Space movie one about basketball, and this upcoming Ja Kelly won that apparently Adam Sandler dramatic actor is fantastica and I’m looking forward to hearing Dave interview Adam Sandler about dramatic acting. No date yet for that. It’s scheduled to air later this year. Let me guess Jay Kelly comes out December fifth, maybe around then. There is a lot of Oscar buzz around dramatic actor Adam Sandler.

Sandler told people that’s real cool. Nice of everybody to say. I’m just happy I got to be in it. Sandler’s seems like a pretty cool guy. I mean, he addresses worse than I do, and his attempts at comedy are terrible, but he does seem like a really cool guy.

Jimmie Fallon had Taylor Swift on last night, we’ll talk about that. I did talk about Taylor Swift’s new album on the DCN eight bonus podcast on the feed on Apple Podcasts. So I haven’t done a DCN eight in a few weeks because of all the regular bonus episodes. But anyway, if you were a paid subscriber, and you can become a paid subscriber by opening up the Apple podcast app and clicking Uninterrupted Listening, and then for five bucks a month, you’ll get this show and then just about everything else on the network commercial free. So you get five good news stories which I host, you get that commercial free.

In Palace Intrigue and all the other stuff, the trivia show, you get all that without ads. But also to show my appreciation and to get some things out of my system, I started this thing called DCN eight where it’s me, but I’m not talking about comedy, and I’m not putting any rules on that. I’m not saying how long it is, I’m not saying how often it comes out. Just if you’re pay subscriber, every now and then you get a DC and eight, And there’s a DC and eight in the feed right now. Fallon was catching some crap last week because he said he’s keeping his head down during all this political stuff.

Fallon told CNBC, our show’s never really been that political. We hit both size equally. We try to make everybody laugh. Our monologue has been the same in doing since Johnny Carson was doing this night show. So I really just keep my head down to make sure the jokes aren’t funny.

We’re trying to make the best show we possibly can and entertain everybody. Fallon also has that new show On Brand with Jimmy Fallon, a reality competition series that puts ten creative minds of the test as they craft real campaigns for real brands. Jimmy Fallon said, we wanted everybody to get in on the action, so NBC’s doing cool thing. They’re going to hold a contest where you get to create an original design for an on brand billboard. We’ve teamed up with Canva to do this, so anyone can enter.

The winner will get their billboard on Sunset Boulevard in LA and win a trip to New York City and two tickets to see the Tonight Show. What if I win, I live in New Jersey, I get a trip to New York City. I try to avoid going to New York City, just like I’ve tried to avoid talking about the Riodd Comedy Festival for ten minutes or so, but times up. Bill Maher criticized Dave Chappelle for Dave Chappelle’s comments downplaying free speech in America. This happened on Real Time with Bill Maher.

That was the episode Louis C.K. Was on. Bill Moore told c K Dave Chappelle was in the press today saying you can speak more freely over here than in America. C K said, I don’t know if that’s true. Mar said, oh, it’s not true.

At the Read Comedy Festival today, Jack Whitehall brings Polish, British banterer and gleeful self mockery, sharpening stories with a quick snap. He’s honed on arena tours. Moa Maher is there. He’ll discuss fatherhood, fame, and identity with the same candid, culturally charged storytelling that made him a household name. Expect brutally honest observations, unexpected tenderness, and explosive punchlines delivered with charisma and bite.

Interesting copy. There and Wayne Brady, he brings quick fire improv and music Comedy to the Rio Comedy Festival, challenging the fearless energy that made him a multi hyphenate star. On whose line is it anyway? Broadway and TV expect genre hopping riffs and the kind of on the spots songcraft that turn suggestions into showstoppers. Be careful, Wayne.

So as I put the show together today, I actually excluded a few things. There’s one comedian on Instagram showing off their weight loss, and I’m like, you know what, I just don’t want to talk about that. And it’s just comedy thinking. Everything’s just been so angsty ltely and it’s starting to make me like, not like some of these people that we talk about all the time. I feel like comedy has become a business with a capital B, and it’s all feeling icky.

And I don’t just mean re odd. I feel like you can just see the industry, meaning Hollywood and the two big agencies going, here’s who we’re pushing now, here’s who the hot comedian is right now, and let’s get as much press out there, and let’s get them big TV gigs and let’s put them in front of everybody. We’re going to make this person a star and there are at least two people have done that with this year, and it’s all just feeling like icky to me right now. I’d prefer to talk about fun things like this whole thing with Paddington Bear. Studio Canal which produces the Paddington movies, and Paddington Bear’s holders are suing Avalon.

They didn’t like the recent episode of Spitting Image. That episode depicted Paddington as a foul mouthed podcast host. In the sketch, Paddington said, I don’t really talk like Ben Wishlaw. I’m from Peru. M Effers, I am Paddington Bear from Peru.

During a sketch Prince Harry and Paddington interview Elon Musk, they also read ads for guns and robot sex dolls. Scrubs revival looks like everybody’s back. Over the weekend, I started watching Scrubs again from season one, episode one. Boy, that show has aged well. I was laughing out loud.

It’s on Hulu. Oh wait, no, I mean I was watching my dvdsuse so if I watched Hulu that would mean I support fascism. Now, I of course canceled Disney Plus and Hulu and don’t watch anything on ABC because I support Jimmy Kimmel and free speech, just like you canceled all that stuff too. So I misspoke there. I was not watching it on Hulu.

I would not do that. I do not support fascism. I went upstairs and got my DVDs, which are real things I own. I’ll post a picture of me with a DVD to prove it, and I am going to do that on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group after I shower. See this is why I hate the video podcast.

You know, it’s midday on Monday, and I might still be wearing a hat and last night’s clothes. That’s the beauty of being an audio podcaster. But once I like shower and shave, you’ll see me with my scrubs DVDs. I wasn’t watching Hulu. I don’t support fascism.

ABC has added nine guest starring cast members. The new interns include Ava Bonnis Serena, Jacob Dudman as Asher, David Gridley is Blake, Leila Mouhammadi as Amara, and Amanda Morrow as Dashana. They joined Zach Raft, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalk as the three leads Judy Reis is back as Carla, John C. McGinley as Doctor Cox. I can’t get enough of Doctor Cox ever, I would watch a Doctor Cox spin off.

All right, here’s the description. J D and Turk scrub in together for the first time in a long time. Medicine has changed, in turns have changed, but their romance has stood the test of time. Characters new and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter heart and some surprises along the way. I’m still curious if you watch season nine and I have the DVDs, I don’t support fascism.

The original Sacred Heart Hospital was gone. They were the new ones. So does the new scrubs take place at the new Sacred Heart, which at this point is like twenty years old. I don’t know. I remember I saw somewhere over the weekend the Todd is back as well, which is good news.

The only person I haven’t seen is if Neil Flynn is coming back as the janitor new topic. For some reason, FX Wait, who owns fx FX is Hulu? Oh, we’re gonna have to support fascism again. Boy, Well, if you do suppor fascism, FX is for some reason making very young Frankenstein This based on mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, Zach Galifanakis, Dontlly Well, Spencer House, Nikki Crawford, come ol On Jeohnny and Carrie Elwis a star on the pilot. It’s some sort of prequel I assume from the title why we’re making this I don’t know.

And kicking off today the Milwaukee Comedy Festival celebrating twenty years presenting live comedy today through the twelfth more than thirty comedians performing across nine shows at different venues. Comedians in Clue, The Very Funny, Aparna Nurla, The Very Funny, Sean Patten, Patton Oswalt who ruined, Star Trek Has, Doug the Vulcan, and Punky Johnson. That’s a pretty good lineup. You should go hackle Patton Oswalt and be like, why did you play Doug the Vulcan seven o’clock tonight at Parna and some others are at the Lakefront Brewery. Sean Patten tomorrow at seven thirty.

Patten Thursday night if you want to heckle him, Punky Johnson on Friday, and a bunch of other shows. Looks like at Nice Festival. And that is your comedy News for Today. Become a premium subscriber, get the show, add free five bucks a month, first months free, and you know what I always say. You click on it, you enjoy the free trial, and then day thirty one you’re like, ah, Johnny Mac beat me out of five bucks.

I forgot to cancel, and then I go I worked. You also got the Dcnaight to Botus episode there. All right, I’m punching today, see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. So I’m prepping the show and I see a headline comedy superstar known for going topless, and I’m like, hey, I better click on this story and check it out. It was about Bert Kraser. Not what I was looking for at all. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

If you miss Sunday, it was a very robust episode. You want to go back and hear the Ovonne stuff if nothing else. Saturday Night Live, I don’t know. Man started okay and then fell off a cliff, no teeth at all, not sure. SNL met the moment open with a decent sketch Colin jo just getting some run.

He got to play Pete. Hegseth and did a nice job in character before getting interrupted by James Austin Johnson’s increasingly drifting Donald Trump impression. The Trump character then got met us saying SNL fifty one off to a rough start, seventeen new cast members and I got the update guy doing the open, which I thought was a good observation. I was thinking the same thing myself that Jost got the open Johnson, as Trump said, I thought Jose would be with his friends at the Rion Comedy Festival, Joe saying he didn’t get an offer. Then onto the credits, and I’m watching the credits, and the credits are high energy, and I’m looking at it and I’m like, this is a pretty strong cast because all the major players returned, and I’m like, Okay, here we go.

And then Bad Bunny came out and his monologue killed it. There’s obviously the language challenge there, but also his timing, so you know that takes the air out of the balloon. First sketch a Jeopardy sketch that just never flew. Other notes, I wrote down Marcelo Hernandez in a sketch about chat cheap pto, so like a a Hispanic version of chat cheapt Marcelo Hernandez. He does one thing.

He does it really well, but it’s the only thing he does, and he did it three different sketches. On Saturday. Come on, man, there was a K Pop what is a Demon Hunter sketch that spotlighted why Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman are special performers. I wrote down Jojah Cat lip syncing, like what are we doing? Just don’t have it?

Just the show’s called Saturday Night Live, not Saturday Night lip Sync. Kind of lame. Cam Patterson was on Update. He’s got tons of charisma, but he can’t perform. He was obviously reading the teleprompter and he’s not good at that, and he’s not good at delivering a material in that form.

What a really, really really unfair early prediction. Cam Patterson won and done. Write that one down. We’ll check back in May. Taylor Swift did not appear on a pretty weak Saturday Night Live.

Speaking of Taylor Swift, she’s the guest on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Tonight Late Night Wars heating back up. Fallon has been catching a lot of grief. He had done an interview recently with Newsweek talking about how he’s not going to make the show political. Jimmy said, our show’s never really been that political.

You know, we hit both sizukhle. We trying to make everybody laugh, and that’s really the way our show works. Our monologues are kind of the same we’ve been doing since Johnny Carson was doing The Tonight Show. So really, I just keep my head down and make sure the jokes are funny. I have great writers, clever smart writers, and we’re just trying to make the best show we possibly can and entertain everybody.

People got very upset at this. I’ll continue to defend Jimmy Fallen that he understands what the Tonight Show is and he executes the mission. I think he’s got more in his tool belt than he does as host of the Tonight Show, but I think he understands what hosting the Tonight Show is. On social media, film Bart said, Look, I’ve enjoyed taking pot shots at Fallon from the cheap seats, but his utter failure to meet this cultural moment comedically is pretty staggering. His public persona is a complete and total void chilling.

I wonder what film Bart thought of SNL Mister b Direct said, Fallon is an empty vessel puppeteered by the industry and mega corpse always has been, but it’s never been more obvious. Hilariously, he will get taken out by the Trump administration as quickly as the rest of Late Night at the ri Odd Comedy Festival tonight, Jimmy Carr and Louis C.K. If you miss Sunday’s episode, I recapped K with Bill Moore. I also listen tok on Theovaugh’s podcast. I couldn’t make it all the way to the end.

They got into conversation about their sexual addictions, and I just punched out on it. Matt Bronger on his Substack Rights. I’ll start by saying I wasn’t invited, and also thank god for that. If I was offered half of what the comics who went were offered, boy, it’d be tough to say no, but I think I would have. I’m not here to jump on my fellow comics, my brothers and sisters who stand alone on the stage and talk about their genitals for laughs.

However, I will say, what the eff are you doing? We can talk about the expanding relationships between our country and theirs, and now their people deserve to be entertained. And the end of the day, you gotta face the fact that A they have slaves three exclamation points. B. The guy who ministered the entertainment has an entire wing of a prison where they torture people have spoken out or tweeted about the Kingdom’s oppressions named after him.

See they allegedly funded slash did nine to eleven D. They killed journalists. Matt observes comics play Russian next and e Hey, Kevin Hart, the Kevin Hart of Saudi Arabia’s wife was taken and disappeared for driving a car. Matt Bronger then got into some other reactions from some other folks, but I’ll skip head to his reaction to Bill Burr’s take. Matt writes, this one’s stung because ye s dude, you’re the guy, maybe the closest big performer we have to a modern George Carlin, the zigger in a field of zaggers.

Remember when Louis C.K. Was the new George Carlan. Nobody says that anymore. That was the thing that was said. Matt wraps up with I’m still a fan of all these guys in most of the comics who played the festival, But to me, the check wasn’t worth the handshake and applies thanks for reading for Pajiba.

Dustin Rolls rights that defense is not gonna fly Bill Burr. Dustin says, here’s the problem with Burr’s defense. The problem was never the Saudi people. The problem with the Iranian regime is not the Iranian people. The problem with the net In Yahoo government is not the Israelis, and The problem with America is not the people who didn’t vote for this authoritarian regime.

The problem is the Saudi government, and it’s the Saudi government the back to truck full of money to Burr’s house. Burn might argue that he was simply bringing comedy to people who deserve to laugh, and on the surface that sounds noble, but that’s not what’s happening here. Bill Burr is giving the Saudi government exactly what it wanted, a positive portrait of Saudi Arabia. Yes, the Saudi people who are know different than the rest of us. They eat at Chilis too, But Saudi journalists are getting killed by their government, which is David Cross noted, has slaves.

The Saudi people are victims of the very government that paid Bird to go home and tell the rest of the world that Saudi Arabia is a great place with great people, and that performing for the Saudi royals was one of the three best experiences of his life. So, no Bert, that’s not gonna fly. And somehow I’ve lost even more respect for him because he apparently doesn’t even realize he’s become a tool for the Saudi royal family. Gabe Iglesias performed on Thursday night at the Riodd Comedy Festival. He shared a video of himself signing a poster showing the stack lineup.

He captured it, thank you to everyone it came out to my event last night in Riod. I will be posting more highlight videos and pictures soon. Unity through laughter. The New York Times wrote, the festival has been held at Boulevard City, a sprawling entertainment complex with a quarter designed to resemble Times Square. Young Saudi has gathered in gender mixed spaces beneath the glare of giant screens, rather than the watchful gaze of the once feared religious police, whose powers were stripped down by the Crown Prince as part of his reform drive.

Still, societal t insformation has its limits. Political humor was warmly received. The sex jokes not so much. Sipha Sounds started a gag about men air dropping photos of their genitals. Uncomfortable laughter rippled through the arena.

Seipha Sounds said, Oh, sex jokes don’t land, and Riod got it in the nation. Ben Schwartz writes the list of massive ironic cell phones, these comics just racked up and riot is impressive. Burr himself once went off on Beyonce as a woman who embraces feminism yet flew to Libyate to perform for Momar O Gaddafi. Shabelle has criticized Israel and Gaza, but just took money from a country that backed to civil war and Yemen that caused the femine debts of at least eighty five thousand children and killed hundreds of thousand more Yemeni civilians. In twenty fourteen, Annibal Burst went after Bill Cosby and said out loud what many knew but were afraid to say about Bill Cosby.

Journalism was limited what it could say about Cosby because that his rules. Law enforcement was limited in what it could do because it is rules comedians don’t and Bursu’s takedown kickstarted Cosby’s ultimate downfall. The Riad Court period won’t mean much to the careers of most of these comics. No one’s going to lose a Hollywood deal for a movie or a show, and with Saudi money in Hollywood, something might come home to new deals. All this is distracting us from the big story of the week, which is Jim Gaffigan bending the knee to the bourbon industry.

Jim Gaffigan has sold out to Big Bourbon. Jim Gaffigan will do a live podcast recording at Pursuit Spirits on Whiskey Row. We’re told it’s a special live podcast experience at the brand new Bourbon Pursuit podcast studio and tasting room, and he’s doing that today at twelve thirty in the afternoon. The Golden Globes, which would be hosted by Nicky Glazer, has announced the twenty five podcast eligible four Golden Globes now quite notably here, stunningly to me here, I can’t explain this at all. Not on the list of twenty five, which I’ll read, not on the list.

Conan O’Brien, how is that possible? James Cridlin, who writes the pod News, pointed out that the twenty five podcasts is pretty close to the top twenty five podcasts on the charts. Nominated are fort eight Hours, Dak Shepard, Call Her Daddy, Candice Owens, Crime Junkie, Dateline, Amy Pohlar, Morbid, Mister Ballin, Pardon My Take, Pod Save America, Rotten Mango, Sean Ryan Smortless, stuff you should know. Ben Shapiro, Bill Simmons, The Daily, Rogan, Megan Kelly, Mel Robbins, Tucker Carlson, THEO, Vaughn n p R. Now, The Golden Globes is a showbiz show.

I’m stunned that Conan’s not on this list and just going to win, because don’t you want to put on a show like you’re gonna go ladies and gentlemen. Here’s crime junkie. Yay. I mean it’s popular, but that’s not showbiz. Ladies and gentlemen.

The winner. Best podcast goes to stuff you should know again, perfectly fine podcast, but yay, here’s the guys from The Daily yay. I mean they’re not gonna give it a Rogan. If you give it to somebody like Megan Kelly or Tucker Carlson, you’re making a statement. I don’t know who’s gonna get it here.

Do you just give it to I guess you just give it to Amy Pohlar, Right, do you just give it? Amy comes out, she smiles, everybody’s happy, she’s industry, she’s Golden Globes friendly because she’s hosted a thing. So yeah, just give it Amy Poehler and we’re done. If I wrote my notes down correctly. There’s a podcast called The Idiot Box with Alison Lips the topic, Jay Leno and the Late night Stuff, and I’m the guest.

I believe that is out today, So if you want to hear me talk even more, I’m the guest. We recorded that before Kimmelgate, if I recall, so some of it might be not quite timely, but it is a really good conversation for about an hour. John Stewart was asked on The Weekly Show why Trump hasn’t tried to cancel him the way Trump has tried to cancel Colbert, kim ol Seth and Felon. John Stewart said, there’s no question. It’s a function of relevance.

I don’t think we’re on the radar, you know. I think he’s right. It’s a cable show, and I don’t think the president watches that sort of TV other than Fox. He’s a network guy. He’s an old school He’s from the twentieth century, like me.

Makes sense. Beth Stelling spoke to Girl Talk HQ about her special, The Landlord Special, which you’ll find on v Pops. That said, I usually know amana something stand up wise when my mom says she wants to hear more for this special, I was dealing with a very noisy, combustible land lady who seemed hell bount in getting me to move so she could raise the rent. But for years I was more stubborn than I was exasperated. I’d call my mom immediately after many of the interactions.

On those calls, my mom was typically shocked and trying to advise me as best she could from afar, But at times it took a toll on my mental health to feel trapped in a place, especially during the pandemonium, I felt unwelcome and under surveillance. This story Heavy Special was born from severe frustration, but turning that in the stand up comedy for laughs is historically how I process and work through any bad, powerless, painful, or uncomfortable things I’ve experienced. Inspirations that says a renowned New York Times critic once referred to my voice as Bamfordian, a reference to Maria Bamford, who is one of the great stand ups of our time. I think any comic that is sharing themselves in a true and honest way is inspiring to me. I prefer to watch well wooden jokes and stories rooted inauthenticity.

I have an aversion of what I call word math. I also category as comics as not helping when they strive to shock audience members in the pursuit of challenge. I believe they’re hacky and often lack life experience and empathy. And that is your comedy news for today. We’re off to an interesting start this week.

Gaffigan’s got some bourbon stuff coming up. I got a bunch of stories that haven’t been able to get to. These episodes have been quite robust, and we’ll see what kind of strife this week brings. Appreciate you listening. Still a lot of new listeners hanging around discover the show during Kimmel Gate and Riodd so appreciate you back here in the morning see and then

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Caloroga Shark Media Super Robust Sunday. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m actually recording this after six pm on a Saturday night, which I don’t know if I’ve ever done that, except maybe like some comedian died or something crazy happened. But I normally don’t record Sunday on Saturday night. I usually pretape the Sundays.

But it was beautiful out sat in the yard all day. I’ll be out in the yard again today. It’s supposed to be eighty five degrees. I’ll be watching football on the back deck. But that’s not why you’re here.

I will catch up on Saturday Night Live tomorrow, but let’s do the late night jokes. Didn’t get to them because there’s so much going on. Ronny Chieng talked about that meeting of all the generals the other night and said, look, I get that the military needs to be fit, but in defense, fat generals they’re kind of like coaches, right. Coaches don’t need to be fit enough to play the sport. They just have to be fit enough to day a twenty four year old.

That’s a good Bill Belichie joke. And by the way Bill did not have a good Saturday of college football. Jimmy Fallon said, yep, this would be the first government shutdown since twenty eighteen. Not including Joe Biden at the debate, they’re paying attention to President Trump. That’s a Joe Biden joke.

Did you write that one down? Jimmy Fallon makes fun of both sides. Don’t cancel him, Jimmy Kimmel said in Trump is threatening to make irreversible cuts if there’s a shutdown, which you know what. I was recently the victim of a government shutdown. They are reversible.

I’ll tell you that. That’s a good joke. Fallon said, No one has any idea how long it all last. People are calling it the Gree’s anatomy of government shutdowns. That’s all right.

Ronny Chieng said, it’s day two of the shutdown and only the most essential services are still operating, Social Security, medicare. In that department that makes up causes for autism, Bill Maher said, James Comey, our former FBI director, was indicted by the Trump administration. I didn’t even know he had a talk show. That’s a good joke. Colbert tapped in, if Trump can indict a former FBI director, anyone who’s ever stood up to Trump as to worry about being thrown in jail.

And I will fight that with every fiber of my where my name is not Jimmy Fallon fa ll o N. And here’s one from Greg Guttfeld. I’m sure he told it better. I’m sure it was in context. But explain to me how this is funny.

Greg Guttfeld said, to raise some extra cash, the Secret Service is using Joe Biden’s car as an uber. Okay. Greg louie Ck was on Bill Moore’s show, I Know Who. I told you. I would tell you about that on Monday, but I decided not to pre tape Sunday show, so Hi, you get to hear about it today.

C K will be at the Rion Comedy Festival this weekend. Told Bill Moore he has mixed feelings about participating in the controversial festival, but has come to see it as a positive thing. He’s been talking to the comedians who’ve been over there and said, I’ve been talking to them, the comedians who have been there and have been really surprised by what’s going on. There’s a woman who’s a lesbian and Jewish who did a show there and she got a standing ovation. I assume the woman who’s a lesbian and Jewish is Jessica Curson, who will get to and she got of standing ovations.

So there’s stuff going on that’s unexpected in this thing. C K explains. People have been playing Saudi Arabia for years. Comedians have been going and playing Arab countries. There was a film festival there recently it’s kind of opened up.

But I’ve always said no to Arab countries. I do shows everywhere. And with this came up. They said, there’s only two restrictions their religion and their government, and I don’t have jokes about those two things. Time out.

Didn’t we all just make a BFD in this country about joking about the government. Wasn’t everybody like two weeks ago, like comedians should be able to say whatever they want to say and be able to make fun of the government. Wasn’t that like a thing? I remember that being in the news. Didn’t some guy with a show get taken off the air something?

Anyway? C K said, there’s only two restrictions their religion and their government. You know what, I got it all right? So hypothetically, say someone passed a law saying you couldn’t make fun of the leader of a country. Hypothetically, say someone passed a law saying you can’t make fun of the Republican Party, you can’t make fun of Christianity.

Seek’s cool with that, right, just checking. There’s only two restrictions, their religion and their government, and I don’t have jokes about those two things. It used to be when I got offers from places like that, there’d be a long list and I’d say, no, I don’t need that. But when I heard it’s opening, I thought, that’s awfully interesting. This just feels like a good opportunity, and I just feel like comedy is a great way to get in and start talking.

Seek says he plans to go to a comedy club his first night in Saudi Arabia and meet local comedians. That’s actually cool. I love stand up comedy and I love comedians. So the fact that it’s starting to open up and starting to but I want to see it, I want to be part of it. I think that’s a positive thing.

I think the whole discussion is worthy. I’m glad these guys brought this stuff up. I’m glad that people are challenging this thing, because you shouldn’t just pretend it’s something it’s not. I had mixed feelings about it too. I struggled about going once I heard what everybody was saying.

There’s some good in it, maybe some bad in it, but for me, I think it cuts towards going. That’s my decision, and I know where it’s coming from because I can see right inside myself. Jessica Curson making headlines, she put out a statement expressing sincere or regret. Kerson shared a statement with the Hollywood Reporter as one does, and said she was surprised to be asked to perform at the Reod Comedy Festival. She even went so far as to request a guarantee that she could be openly out as a lesbian on stage and perform gay material as is common in her act.

The statement, I’ll read it verbatim. I hope that this could help LGBTQ plus people in Saudi Arabia feel seen and valued. I am grateful that I was able to do precisely that. To my knowledge, I am the first openly gay comic to talk about it on stage in Saudi Arabia. I received messages from attendees sharing how much it meant to them to participate in a gay affirming event.

At the same time, I deeply regret participating under the auspices of the Saudi government. Kerson said she is deeply sorry to all the fans and followers hurt or disappointed by her decision to perform in Riod quote. I have a special relationship with my fans because of the vulnerable nature of my comedy and the trust they place in me as part of the queer community. To my fans, I see you, I hear you. Your voice matters to me.

I love you all, and I’m genuinely sorry for making a poor decision that had repercussions I didn’t fully consider. I will take full responsibility for my actions and dedicate myself to making amends so that my words and choices reflect the respect and care you deserve. She was responding to some fans on social media. One wrote, you really sold out like I’m super sad about this. Another wrote, still waiting for the explanation behind your terrible decision accept money from a horrible regime?

Do you care so little you think it’ll all blow over? Jessica’s statement says, I have donated the entirety of what I was paid to perform there to a human rights organization. I made this decision because I want that money to go to an organization that can help combat these severe issues. I respect my fellow comics who have spoken out against the festival, and we should all be able to share our perspectives. I recognize the concerns and criticism this has raised.

I hope that this moment sparks dialogue about how we can use our platforms for good, to support people without a voice, and to find ways to be less divided. In the past, I faced criticism for choices I’ve made, both on and off stage, and I rarely responded. This time, I felt like I needed to speak up. I could not remain silent. Ari Spears at the Reodd Comedy Festival Today.

Spears brings heavyweight charisma and rapid fire impressions to the Reodd Comedy Festival, trading on the sharp timing that made him a breakout on Mad TV theo Vaughn in the News, He said on this past weekend that his performance at his comedy show was shoppy and messier than previous ones, and that he had been feeling mildly manic in the lead up to the special. He said it wasn’t perfect, man. I’ll agree to that. I eat failure for breakfast, brother, and that’s okay, man, It’s part of the job. The first ten years of doing comedy’s failure.

So much of my life. The best things that have ever happened in my life have been on the other side of failure. He also wanted to make it clear to his followers. I would never take my own life. I had shared earlier in the week a story where he had said something that scared people on stage.

THEO said, I’m grateful to God for his grace in my life. I love my siblings. I have so many friends and people that love me, and people that don’t want to see their children grow up. I’m hopeful that I get to have a wife and meet my own children one day. Like there’s a ton of things in my life that keep me alive and hopeful.

Right I want to be able to have an impact in the world. THEO was on college game Day on Saturday, Alabama was hosting Vanderbilt. THEO picked Vanderbilt. That game was tied at halftime. Last I checked it’s probably now final by the time you’re hearing this.

THEO said, they’re my ride home. I’m not joking. Host Rhys Davis fielded questions from reporters on October third, asking why he picked Theovonn to be on the show. David said, he’s hilarious. He’s been on the show before.

I mean, I understand that schools like to have their legends, and we did that a lot. We’ve had Joe Namathier, if memory serves, we’ve invited Ozzie Newsome here. When you have someone who sort of transcends the game and expands your reach, and he’s also awesome, like Theovonn, I mean, Theovon’s like an easy yes? Or is he an easy yes? Because listen to this clip, people are wondering if Jess Simms shot down a Theo vonn advance live on national television.

Okay, I’m gonna play a clip here of THEO on the broadcast. Pay close attention to the end. You are such a dandy fan that you actually bought former head coach Derek Mason’s house. You live in his house. Curse Derek Mason’s old that’s true.

Did he leave anything at Eric, give him a break. He went. I think he went in sixteen. I’m not joking. Bless him, bless your Garrett.

Yeah he did. He left some trophies in there. I gotta get back home. Had a ponder too. Actually, well, well we’ll talk about that later.

Well, the guys are ready for your secondmount of pixel Go ahead, right up there. I’m already gone. You’re already going to see you later, see you again? No, I hope what does I hope not need? This is brutal.

Let’s see Nate brighetsy story. He’s at Louisville doing his show at the KFC Youm Center. Can we stop naming these buildings ridiculous things? During the week leading up to the show, some enormous googly eyes were spotted on several statues and objects all over the Derby City. Did you know that Louisville is the Derby City?

I did not, That’s right. Nate Berghetsie’s big dumb eyes were seen on the statue of David the twenty one Sea Museum Limo, the Troll statue outside the Troll Pub, under the Bridge bar on a Muhammad Ali mural, the Rosy Riveter statue, across the Ohio River in Clarksville, the Lincoln Memorial Sculpture on the waterfront, and at least one of the many painted horse statues. At last check, tickets were still available. All right, I got a bunch of stuff that I bumped from yesterday. We just got a clear out here.

Cameraon Esposito in Chicago. This weekend, she was asked by Axios to describe her best day ever in Chicago. Oh, can I go? All right? My best day ever would be, let’s see, I like a Friday day game Wrigley Field, So I would do that, and then I would hang out in Rigvyville for a little bit.

Then I went head over to the aquarium and then forget that the aquarium closes and I would be disappointed. But I have some sort of fantasy where I can both do the day game and the aquarium. No, okay, Cameron Esposito for breakfast, she says, located right below the California Blue Line stop, Cozy Corner is the classic diner you need to start your She says, coffee, eggs over easy and toast on the side of slice tomatoes. That sounds good. Then she wants to over to the Lincoln Park Conservatory.

She says it’s legit cool. People don’t talk about enough for lunch, farm to table, American restaurant, Lula Cafe, Dinner El sid On Kedzie. She says she used to eat at the end of the block and has eaten everything on the menu. At night, she says, it’s the WNBA playoffs, So you got to hit the newly opened women’s sports bar Babes in Logan Square. That’s where you go to watch women’s sports.

Okay, I didn’t get to tell you. Ryan Hamilton was taping a Netflix special last night. Now, if you’re a longtime listener, you of course know Ryan Hamilton is from Idaho and not whatever Johnny Mack misspoke three four years ago and said, Ohio or Canada or Iowa, whatever the heck I said. And I heard from a lot of you he’s from Idaho. I got it.

I wrote it down. It’s etched from my memory. He’s really fantastic. He filmed his Netflix special last night in Seattle. Kamail nan Gianni has unveiled the title and premiere date for his special on Hulu.

It is titled Kamail nan Jianni supports fascism because he didn’t cancel Hulu and Disney Plus to support Jimmy Kimmel. That’s actually not what it’s called, but as he supports fascism and Hilarius, it is called Kameil Najianny Night thoughts. It is Kameil nan Jiohnny’s second special in more than a decade, December nineteenth. So, uh, you know, that’s probably right about when most people, actually most people will be done with their end of the year list by then, and I’ll almost be done. I gotta see how the calendar falls, because candidly that’ll be like, let me pre tape one here, We’re three out of the calendars fall this year.

Let’s look, when’s Christmas. I know it’s December twenty fifth, you Wisenheimer, all right, so we have a Wednesday Christmas Eve and we have a Thursday Christmas, which means we have a Wednesday New Year’s Eve and a Thursday January first, And usually the best specials of the year I can drag out to be three episodes. So I would be surprised if you get that, say the thirtieth, thirty first and first. I could see that happening. Can’t you told me out a lot for a Sunday, All right, Jitney Books went to see Tony hinch They say they were in the upper balconies and Tony call all the people up there, the well behaved poores.

Jitny Book says the opener was David Lucas, who I usually like and killed Sony, but he fell flat with mostly sexually graphic material have failed to land with Tony’s more conservative fan base, including this embarrassed dad. Does Tony Inchcliffe have a conservative fan base? Hmm? I never thought of him that way, Like I know, I know he did the thing in the garden and told the joke I remember, but I don’t know. I don’t know if I think of him as conservative comedian anyway.

Jenny Books tells us Timmy No Breaks was a pleasant surprise to the lineup of three total comics for the night. He does a character that seems one part Andrew dice Clay and one part Andrew dice Clay imitating Andrew dice Clay. Timmy did some amazingly entertaining crowd work. All right. Tony Inchcliffe comes out early in his act.

He says, it’s crazy times people were going to talk all about it. He joked about buying a gun after moving to Texas and said it’s like having a second D word. I don’t know to clean it up. The first thing I did when I got home was I put it in my mouth. I see he shredded Amy Schumer, saying it was cool to see Brendan Fraser when an oscar.

He then puts the microphone on top of his barstool scrapes it across the stage. The fan says it sounded like a deep sea audio recording. The joke. That’s Amy Schumer communicating with her family. Wow.

Brutal Tony apparently discussed Charlie Kirk, saying among the best people I have ever met, A good friend. I parted with him at the inauguration. We had a good time. He was nothing but nice. A lot of these people at the time were shying away.

I didn’t know whether they could hang out with me or whatever. He was the total opposite, absolutely nothing but welcoming and hung out with me and kit Rock. We had the best time. He then told a Charlie Kirk joke that I made an edit here. I made an attempt to do it, and then I don’t know how to clean it up, and I don’t come to offend, but the gist of the joke is, can you imagine the shock of the father finding out who the assassin was in a relationship with?

And then some crude jokes there. This is from jitneybooks dot com if you want to see what Tony said there, but I’m not going there. And Tony said Football’s back so great, so many athletes. I don’t know about you, guys, but I think that Travis Kelcey might be the next O. J.

Simpson, Tony Hinchcliffe everybody. And that is your comedy news on a very very busy Sunday. All right, football starts at nine thirty Eastern today, so I’ll be watching football for the next zillion hours. Like I said, it’s gonna be eighty five in New Jersey today. I’ll be outside.

See you tomorrow.