Category: Uncategorized

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. This is a bonus episode. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. It’s a little after three pm Eastern on Thursday, and the topic is Jimmy Kimmel, Massive, massive news story, even beyond the comedy aspect of it, even beyond the late night aspect. There’s a lot here, So I’m going to take my time and go slow.

Before I dive in, let me just tell you what to expect on the feed. Obviously. This. The next thing you’re going to hear on the feed is a crossover episode with the Letterman podcast. I just finished recording an hour with Mike Chisholm where we talked about what is happening, so I’ll do a rap on that, so that’ll be coming out a few hours after this one.

On Friday morning, you will get the already recorded normal Friday episode where I don’t talk about this at all. I had pre taped that to accommodate my schedule. My schedule now thrown out the window.

And then on Friday afternoon, I will do another Jimmy Kimmel bonus episode.

So that’s what’s coming. Let’s catch up where we are a little after three on Thursday to recap the story. ABC announced on Wednesday evening that was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s Late night show quote indefinitely, after conservatives had accused Jimmy Kimmel of inaccurately describing the politics of the man who’s accused of killing Charlie Kirk. ABC aired Celebrity Family Feud last night. The network did not explain its decision at the time, but there was a sequence of events that I will break down for you, But I thought the first thing we should do is, let’s listen to what Jimmy Kimmel actually said.

Here’s the clip. We hit some new lows over the weekend with the Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and everything they can to score political points from. And in between the finger pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the President is taking this. I’ve been dun’t without a loftier friend.

Charlie Kirk asked, sir personally, how are you holding up? For the last day and a half, sir, I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the Trumps. They’ve just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they’ve been trying to get, as you know, for about one hundred and fifty years, and it’s going to be a beauty. Yes, he’s at the fourth stage of grief construction, the demolition.

Construction. This is not how an adult grief’s the murder of somebody called a friend. This is how a four year old mourns a goldfish. A spokesperson for ABC said in a statement on Wednesday, Jimmy Kimmel will be preempted indefinitely. President Trump was in the United Kingdom of the past few days.

He was asked by ITV’s Robert Preston about this. Trump said, Kimmel quote said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk, and Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings and they should have fired him a long time ago. So you know, you can call that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent.

FCC commissioned Chairman Brendan Carr, who had made some comments on Wednesday that I addressed in the Last Night’s Bonus episode. On Thursday, Commissioner Carr said that Jimmy Kimmel appeared to quote mislead the American public about facts regarding Charlie Kirk’s killing. Carr was on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street and said, quote, We’re not done yet with the changes in the quote the media ecosystem. Carr said, the issue that arose here, where lots and lots of people were upset, was not a joke. It was not making fun.

It was appearing to directly mislead the American public about a significant fact that probably one of the most significant political events we’ve had in a long time, for the most significant political assassination we’ve seen in a long time. The CNBC host asked a follow up, what does that mean when you say you’re not done yet? I mean we only be pleased when none of these comedians have a show on broadcast television. Car replied, No, it’s not any particular show or any particular person. It’s just we’re in the midst of a very disruptive moment right now, and I just frankly expect that we’re going and continue to see changes in the media ecosystem.

One of the largest operators of TV affiliates in the United States is Sinclair Broadcasting. They said in a press release that ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel was not enough. The company said Sinclair will not lift the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live on our stations until former discussions are held with ABC regarding the network’s commitment to professionalism and accountability. They listed demands for Jimmy Kimmel’s return, including that Jimmy Kimmel should offer a direct apology to Kirk’s family. Furthermore, we ask mister Kimmel to make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk family and Turning Point USA.

Regardless of ABC’s plans for the future of the program, Sinclair intends not to return Jimmy Kimmelive to our air until we’re conf that appropriate steps have been taken to upol the standards expected of a national broadcast platform. Sinclair said in Kimmel’s timeslot on Friday, they would air a special remembrance of Charlie Kirk. Rolling Stone on social media wrote In the hours leading up to the decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel, two sources familiar with the matter say senior executives at its owner, Disney and Affiliates, convened emergency meetings to figure out how to minimize the damage. Multiple executives felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed. Hitting the wires at two forty six pm on Thursday, some more comments for President Trump.

He suggested that the federal government might revoke the licenses of broadcast television networks that are quote against me, there’s a license. I’ll give you an example. I’ve read someplace that the networks were ninety seven percent against me. Again, ninety seven percent negative, and yet I won and easily all seven swing states. They’re ninety seven percent against They give me only bad press.

They’re getting a license. I would think maybe their licence and should be taken away. I think Brendan Carr is outstanding. He loves our country. He’s a tough guy.

So we’ll have to see. So the next thing in the feed is that crossover episode with Mike Chisholm. His lead off question was asking me about the FCC, and I explained licensing all that. So rather than do that here, give me two hours maybe, and you’ll hear that next on the feed, and I’ll explain all that. CNN reported as news was breaking of Kimmel’s show being suspended, guests booked on Wednesday’s episode We’re ready on their way to the theater, CNN reports, According to a source with knowledge of the events, Kimmel’s staff members had been working as usual on Wednesday afternoon, holding calls with talent publicists regarding upcoming episodes.

Just before the decision was announced. One celebrity publicist told CNN, We’re all shell shocked. Another said, I can’t believe this is real life. This story is moving so quickly. I haven’t actually had a minute since it broke to sit down and do a full prep.

I’m actually working off partial notes as we do this. Mark Marin shared the following on TikTok. It’s happening. Jimmy Kimmel has been muzzled and taken off the air by his network ABC, who are buckling to and trying to appease the next our media conglomerate who have a lot of affiliates and they threaten to preempt him at the suggestion of the SEC chair. This is government censorship.

This is the Trump administration coming after people who speak out against him. This is the end of it. If you have any concern or belief in real freedom or the Constitution and free speech, this is it. This is the deciding moment. This is what authoritarianism looks like right now in this country.

It’s happening. So if you’re a free speech warrior or you really talk to talk about protecting free speech, this isn’t about saying the R wor the T word or any of that. This is government censorship. This isn’t Twitter. This isn’t people getting canceled because of a cultural pylon.

This is the United States government silencing voices that they disagree with. FCC Chair car put this out. This is his directive. This is the US government. Look, if they can come for Kimmel, they can come for anybody.

This is happening. It’s time to act, figure it out, find a way, come together, push back because if this goes, it’s over. It’s over. Barack Obama on Twitter wrote, after years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commenters it doesn’t like on truth Social Donald Trump wrote, great news for America. The ratings Channell Jimmy Kimmel Show is canceled all caps canceled.

Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has zero talent, worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth two total losers on fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do at NBC President DJT not leave that there for now, and that is a bonus episode of Daily Comedy News.

The next thing in the feed will be the crossover episode with Mike Chishom from The Letterman Podcast. Friday Morning’s episode is normal. I would do another Kimmel bonus episode Friday afternoon, and they’ll probably be bonus episodes throughout the weekend as this is a huge story. And I’ll leave you with this. These are the words of Edward R.

Murrow from October fifteenth, nineteen fifty eight. Murrow said, sometimes there’s a clash between the public interest and the corporate interest. A telephone call or a letter from the proper quarter in Washington is treated rather more seriously than a communication from an irate but not politically potent viewer. It is tempting enough to give away a little air time for frequently irresponsible and unwarranted utterances in an effort to temper the wind of criticism upon occasion. Economics and editorial judgment are in conflict, and there is no law which says that dollars will be defeated by duty.

What, then, is the answer. Do we merely stay in our comfortable ness, concluding that the obligation of these instruments has been discharged when we work at the job of informing the public for a minimum of time, or do we believe that the preservation of the republic is a seven day week job demanding more awareness, better skills, and more perseverance than we have yet contemplated

---

Full Transcript

Hey guys, it’s John So let me do you straight here. I teach a class on Thursday morning. I’m out the door at six thirty in the morning, so I obviously already recorded Thursday’s episode. Now. Last night, around seven pm Eastern, the Jimmy Kimmel story broke.

In case you missed it, the episode before this one in the feed is a bonus episode of me reacting to the Kimmel news in the episode you’re about to hear now, no Kimmel at all, I don’t think, but definitely nothing about this story as it was already recorded, and candidly, I had already recorded Friday as well because Thursday is teaching day. But I will come back this afternoon Thursday afternoon with a bonus episode and catch up on the Kimmel News. But in the meantime, here’s this Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ll see if my voice holds out.

I just recorded over an hour of the other show. I host Five Good News Stories, and this weekend we start five Good News Christmas Stories. I know it’s September, but five Good News Christmas Stories does really well, so if you’re not hip to that, I host to show five good news stories. It’s five stories, all of them. Good news comes out four times a week, and as we’re closer to Christmas, more and more Christmas stories if you want to check that out.

It is a very busy week for comedy. So I had mixed emotions when Vulture released their twenty twenty five list of comedians you should and will know. This is a very important list, and candidly I get a lot of content from it, but I don’t need the content this week. So I’m just going to tell you that this exists and start to talk about it, and I’ll dive in as the days go on. Vulture writes this year’s list features comedians who approach their craft from a wide variety of perspectives, Originally hailing from places as disparate as Lebanon and Estonia to various US cities.

They specialize in musical comedy, clowning, which is very underrated and I’m not being sarcastic there, pitch perfect parodies of nuances of TikTok, and interrogating politicians. Vulture explains to make the list, they reached out to over two hundred of the top taste makers and gatekeepers in the country, including comedy club bookers, production company executives, major network talent scouts, streaming service curators, comedy record label owners, and they asked them what comedians make them excited about going to work each morning. This is always a great list. It’s always on point, and I’m recording a podcast in the basement. But you know, I did spend a decade plus as serious.

I never ran into anyone who was part of this list, so I don’t know who the two hundred taste makers are. That’s not a shot at Vulture. I’m just like, I’ve never met anyone who’s been part of this list, just mathematically I should have. And again, that’s not a digd Vulture because the list is really good. This year’s comedians are Natalie Alcar, Tessa Bell, Comedian CP, Rachel Coster, Esther Fhallck, Jimmy Falley, and Kira O’Sullivan as One, comedian, Adam Friedland, Adam Gilbert, Zanab Johnson, ray lao, Ismail Lufti, Juliette Massley, Taylor Ortega, Eric Rayhill, and Meets a Raw, Paris Sasche, Saheb Singh, Derek Stroup, Joe Sunday, and Jacob Boisak.

Now what’s interesting is some of these folks have been around for a while. When I saw the list, it was like, oh, I will spotlight this on the show I host on the Live One app, which is called the Weekly Comedy Thing, And the app is Live one. The app is free, the show is free. It’s like this, except I can actually play clips from comedians because of you know, how royalties work. I can’t really do that on the podcast.

But like somebody like Paris Sachet has been around for ten years. She’s got an album in the system for twenty sixteen. But most of these people did not have anything released on digital that was available for play. I just found that curious. So they’re really new faces, which is great and a great job out of Vulture there.

Variety had done that big piece with Andrew Santino, a lot of interesting stuff in there, and just you know, with the Emmys and everything, there was other stuff to talk about it for a couple of days, but we learn learned that the sitcom Dave, which started Little Dicky, is not coming back. Santino said, that’s not on pause. That thing is gone. I don’t even know why the narrative is out there. It’s not true.

We’re not doing the show. I think people said it was on pause to protect the relationship of the show. Well that’s all nonsense. The show’s done. We’re all going on our own way and doing our own thing.

It was a great run and we all enjoyed it very much. It ran its beautiful little course and that was a wonderful moment in time. I’m happy I was part of it. But no, world, do I think the show would ever come back. Sounds a little feisty there.

I wonder what’s going on behind the scenes. So he was asked, was it FX’s decision to end it? Now, listen to this answer. I was a hired gun that was between Dave Birrd Jeff Schaffer in FX. I had no power over what was happening.

I kind of found out when everybody else went out that it wasn’t coming back. But people saying, perhaps will pause it and come back. I know better. Dad left to get cigarettes. He’s not coming home.

Sounds like it sounds like there was strife or he’s annoyed or something sideways there, right, GQ did that profile at Stavros Halkias, where the whole thing was about like being manly man and man and man stuff and man and being a man and be a man and manly. Such a q aske Stavros, What are the most important things we need to teach young men in these formative years? Stavros said, I guess the lessons are twofold. First of all, you’re not a piece of crap for laughing at messed up stuff. I quite cleaned that sentence up.

Those things are funny. We’re not going to pretend they’re not funny, but understand they’re just jokes and it shouldn’t be the way you treat other people in society.

And then become the best version of yourself.

For me, that’s really the biggest lesson, right. It sounds so boring to say, be yourself, but guess what. Some of you aren’t gonna get jacked, some of you aren’t gonna be crypto billionaires. They dropped a couple f’s in that sentence. The way out of being an incel is understanding you can be a loser.

You don’t have to be the exact ideal, be the ideal version of you, even at your worst there’s more people in the world that would want to have sex with you than you’ll ever be able to have sex with. I’m quite cleaning this up. Truly, they’re out there, you just have to find them. The quickest way out of being an inceel being a nice, good hang that cares about other people, is empathetic. I promise you in the long run, you’ll have better results that way, by being yourself and being nice and putting yourself out there.

That’s pretty good advice. He goes on to say the time I had the most successful with women, I was five seven, three hundred and fifty pounds. You know what I mean. I was in horrible shape, but I did believe in myself, and now I’m trying to get that together. It’s about constant growth and it’s about always improving yourself.

But that’s the way out of being an incel. You do have to hold yourself accountable, but don’t blame other people. Don’t complain if you’re not trying to find a solution. I think that’s literally an Ornold Schwarzenegger thing. I think that’s the lesson I would give to them, because if I can do it, brother, you can do it too.

I was twenty two, I’d hooked up with one girl as fat, bald, broke, living at all with my parents, and I turned it all around. You can turn it around too. Giqi was curious they couldn’t just let this go? Who tell you that? Who tell you how to be a man?

Starfro said, I said it, but bleeping Arnold Schwarzenegger. Action movies, sports movies. You know what I mean? As corney as it sounds, sports are big for me, Rocky the Underdog Story. Obviously my father had male role models or whatever.

But I think sometimes their dads can give these incomplete versions of what it means to be a guy, and maybe sometimes you can learn off their mistakes a lot lot more there. All right, we gotta talk about the Emmys a little bit more. Remember the other night, Hannah Einbinder said, f ice and free Palestine. Well. On Twitter, Ricky Gervase posted a throwback to his Golden Globes monologue back in twenty twenty.

He made some comments. Jervase had said back then, if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a political platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture of the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Tunberg.

Well, Ricky has removed that from his Twitter account. Critics claimed he had rethought his intervention in the context of the War of Gaza. Jervase also unshared a post that directly commented on Einbinder’s remarks. So what happened was during a backstage Emmy’s press conference. Einbinder said she had an obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel.

Responding to a video of the comments posted by Variety, one Twitter user cited another quote from Ricky Gervais’s monologue, in which Jervase had said it back in twenty twenty, if Isis started a streaming service, you’d call your agent, wouldn’t you. Gervais retweeted the comment, but on Tuesday remove the tweet. He has, however, shared old bost about his Globes monologue, including a video clip posted in August that contains the don’t use it as a political platform to make a political speech rant. We’ll see if Ricky comments some more about what is in the spirit of his social media actions. This week, Vulture wrote about Nate Brighetzi and said, reference award show host is not a natural position for a comic with Nates everyman persona.

He’s the type of comic who jokes about loving McDonald’s and Walmart, and his down earth affect clashes with the unrelatability and self indulgence of an award show. Even if he were to uncritically lord over the proceedings, he’s incapable of communicating a genuine belief that award recipients are deserving of all this pomp and circumstance. Another comedian Burghatzy’s position might embrace this that use their outsider status to their advantage to deliver monologue jokes that poke at the ceremonies artifice, or make political jokes that can textualize its insular nature. But these also aren’t Burghetzi strengths in his stand up the closest he gets to compativeness on stage by recounting confusing interactions he’s had with his wife for customer service people he doesn’t even curse. He avoids talking politics unless it’s a joke about how little he understands it, and his jokes rarely take the form of traditional setup punchline one liners, so where his opening sketch might have traditionally given way to stand up monologue burgets, he opted to forgo it and cut straight to his logistical duties as master of Ceremonies.

He devised a plan to keep the show running on time. We’ve discussed that, Vultre says. Every time the show cut back to Nata’s host, he made a point to crack a joka too about the current donation total, which quickly grew one note. Even the jokes forgets he made to introduce presenters, some of which were well crafted, like when he put on a denim tuxedo and pretended to forget why then introduced Sidney Sweeney, failed to land because the donation total bit sucked up so much airtime I was watching. I noted that he was wearing a denim tuxedo, I heard him talk about it, and then I didn’t even make the connection to the Sydney Sweeney thing.

I don’t think he nailed that at all. I mean, seems like a nice guy, but not a good job as Emmy’s host. Sorry. John Oliver was the guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live. They were both happy that Stephen Colbert won.

Oliver told Kimmel, it was great. We’re all very happy. You know. We wanted him to win. The right thing to happen was for him to win.

But the funniest thing to happen would have been if you, Jimmy Kimmel had won. Kimmel laughed and said right. Oliver continued, most of me wanted him to win. A part of me, the part of me that I like more, just wanted to see your face go oh no. Kimmel revealed there was a moment when he thought that it was possible.

He said one of the drivers for one of the writers wasn’t watching the show and went on Chat GPT or something and said who won the talk show Emmy, And for whatever reason, Chat said we won, and they texted it to us and I’m like, this is not right obviously, and then I was like, oh no, do they know something? And I was like, oh, shoot, if we win, this is a disaster. Oliver found that funny going. You would have been so bleaped. He had his whole staff there with him.

You would have been booed onto the stage, maybe stoned. Why do you have to ruin everything. The first ever cut away and the winner is Jimmy Kimmel. No Oh, that’s funny. Gossip Conna, Spoons in the street, Gossip Conna, Bobby, Bobby, Gossip Conna where them is meeting with Johnny Mac.

It’s ay’s a tree. Let’s enjoy Gossip Corner and the fun song. Because the podcast after these next two stories is going to get a little serious, so we’ll start with Nick Kroll. He’s on Instagram. He’s out for Vietnamese food in Vancouver.

He’s a lunch lady, and he shared a photo. He wrote, such a fun night and a great show at the Outdoor Comedy Festival in Vancouver. Jason and Zach were in town for a Greek festival, so I was glad I was able to meet up with them. He posted a picture. It’s Nick Kroll, Zach Alfanakis, Mike Probiglia, John Mulaney, Fred Ormison, and Jason Minzukis.

Yes, the restaurant starves up Vietnamese street food, inspired by the late famed lunch Lady of Saigon.

---

Meanwhile, the quarterback of the Vanderbilt Commodores apparently has promis…

Yes, Theovonn has revealed that Diego Pavia has promised him a date with his mom. If Vanderbilt beat South Carolina. Theovonn said, yeah, it’s true. She’s a nurse, and my goal is that I’d like to marry a nurse one day. So that’s why he was thinking about it.

I’d like to be his friend, not end up being like a stepdad, you know. So we’ll see what happens. Well. Vanderbilt thirty one, South Carolina seven. All right, we’re on to the increasingly serious stuff.

We’ll start with this weird one. I saw this on Yahoo. They’re answering the question did Adam Sandler share final text messages from Charlie Kirk. The short answer is no. This is a total Internet hoax.

But as the hoax goes, people were circulating a post on social media saying Adam Sandler got the final text from Charlie Kirk. The not at all true Texas part of the hoax would have said, they’re watching me. If I fall, don’t let my voice die. Why he would send that to Adam Sandler is unclear. As part of the hoax, other clickbait articles show the same thing, but instead of Adam Sandler will sub in people like Chiefs Kicker, Harrison Bucker, Bruce Springsteen, Kelly Clarkson and Alice Cooper.

People are strange, increasingly serious. British comedian Gina Yasher has sparked outrage after posting a rant about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, apparently on Instagram. She wrote that Charlie Kirk was xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, racist, misogynists and sexist. That hate directly affected people. That is in political difference.

If you’re preaching something that is directly going to get me eradicated on the streets, that is in political difference. As far as I’m concerned, that’s terrorism. Gina added, Charlie Kirk got what Charlie Kirk advocated for. He wanted more guns on the streets. He didn’t mind a few kids being shot to death in their classrooms or the odd democrat being murdered in their home.

I don’t believe in heaven and hell, but just in case there is, Charlie Kirk is going down there, and if he does, I hope he gets dropped off by a black pilot. I think at this point, it might be helpful that you observe that Gina is black in case you’re not familiar with her. I’ll also add my point of view, which is no one should be murdered. Jamie Lee Curtis was on Mark Marin’s podcast. She said, I’m going to bring up something with you, just because it’s front of mind.

She misspoke and referred to Charlie crist meaning Charlie Kirk. She said that was a slip of a tongue due to Kirk’s deep, deep belief in religion. Jamie Lee Curtis fought through tears, telling Mark Marron I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say. But I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died that he felt connected with his faith even though his ideas were born to me. I still believe he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith, and I hope whatever connection to God means that he felt it.

She talked about the circulation of the video and said, we don’t know enough psychologically about what that does. What does that do? I don’t ever want to see this footage of this man being Yeah. I don’t know if you saw it. I saw it, just I’m on the internet all day and wow, if you haven’t seen it, you don’t need to see it.

A couple other things haven’t been able to get to you. During the week, Drew Lynch praised his Spokane audience for saving a man and the man at the show had suffered a heart attack. Audience members performed life saving measures until paramedics arrived. Lynch said, I got to experience a group of people coming together to revive someone, to give back someone their life. It was a beautiful thing to witness because it restored hope for whatever is going on in the crazy of this world.

You know what, I think. I’m gonna wrap there and get out. On that note, the Toronto Comedy Festival kicks off tonight, but I can talk about that tomorrow. See you then,

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Holy cow, wow wow wow wow. Hi. I’m Johnny mack Hits an emergency bonus breaking news episode. So let me deal you straight here.

I have not prepped this at all. I’m going to read these articles cold. I’m just going to react to them. So what happened in my life is I went out a little before seven pm Eastern. My nephew needed a ride from the train, so I went to pick him up.

I’m sitting in the parking lot. I’m playing on my phone and I see, Holy col ABC is pulling Jimmy Kimmel live from the air. What what? And my mind starts spinning. As I drove my nephew home, my phone started blowing up.

I’m hearing from all sorts of people asking me for my take. I haven’t even read the story yet. I just got home, came straight downstairs to the studio, and I’m opening up my email from Entertainment Weekly. I have not read this. ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live from air indefinitely.

Following hosts. Charlie Kirk comments, Oh my goodness. So I had seen this story broke so fast that when I was on the parking lot. The first story I saw was that the news came in the wake of some ABC affiliates owned by Nextstar Media announcing they were going to preempt Jimmy Kimmel’s show, and by the time I dropped My Nephew off, ABC had pulled the show. Representatives for Kimmel have not responded to EW’s request for comments.

It is seven forty five pm Eastern Time as I record this. In a press release, Next Star strongly objects to recent comments made by mister Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC affiliated markets. Now, honestly, I had seen a story about this earlier in the day. Newsweek had touched upon this and some people being upset with Kimmel’s comments, and I didn’t even include it in the main body of the show. I just thought it was the normal back in discourse we have in this country.

In twenty twenty five, Entertainment Weekly points out on Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy said of alleged killer Tyler Robinson, quoting Jimmy Kimmel, here, we had some new lows over the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and with everything they can score political points from it. Andrew Alfred is the president of Nexstar’s broadcasting division. He called Kimmel’s comments offensive and insensitive in a press release. Alfred said, we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located. Continuing to give mister Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we’ve made the difficult decision to preempt the show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move towards the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue.

Wow, let me throw Kimmel into Google again. I am doing this cold, no prep. I just want to react. My head is spinning. Let’s head on over to Late Night or so.

It looks like next Door made the announcements and then an hour later or so ABC pulled the show. So I’m doing a time here. So that would have been more or less six thirty Eastern, so three thirty Pacific, so they probably hadn’t taped Wednesday’s show yet. Now part of this story, FCC chair Brendan Carr was on Benny Johnson’s podcast on Wednesday afternoon. Car said, now, listen to this quote.

The FCC chairman, Brendan Carr said, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action frankly on Kimmel where there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead. Wow, I don’t know how to react to that. That. Uh, I’m trying not to use a word here that rhymes with brett.

Late Night writes. Cars suggested that Disney should address Kimmel’s comments before the FCC gets involved, suggesting Kimmel could be suspended. Car said, you certainly could see a path forward for suspension over this. Frankly, I think it’s pastime that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves pushed back on Comcast and Disney and say we’re gonna preempt We’re not gonna run Kimmel anymore until you straighten this out. It’s time for them to step up and say this garbage to the extent that what comes down in the pipe in the future isn’t something that serves the needs of our local communities.

This is absolutely stunning, and I wonder if Jimmy will just walk now. I mean, I’ve said many times on this podcast that I don’t think he was gonna retire, but he has at least floated the idea. I could see Jimmy Kimmel, with his personality, telling ABC, you know what, I’m out, this is a thing. Wow, you know I’m scrolling through threads here. Someone bringing up that after Colbert’s show was canceled, the President of the United States did say I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next, so you know clearly lot here.

I reached out to Mike Chisholm, host of The Letterman podcast. I texted him from the car, Hey, you don’t happen to be home. He’s not home. He does other things. He’s not on my beck and call.

Plus we’re on different coasts, some of the East Coast, he’s on the West coast. He offered to record something with me later tonight. But the reality and I’m dealing with straight here. I teach a class on Thursday morning. I’m out the door early Thursday, and I’ve already recorded Thursday’s episode, so you’re not gonna hear me mention this at all on Thursday, although I’m going to put a new top on the episode.

So I’ll get back from my class and I’ll google Jimmy Kimmel and I’ll probably do another bonus episode on Thursday night. But my head is spinning. My quick take here is, wow, this went nuclear quickly and pulling Jimmy Kimmel. I mean, I’ve worked in companies. Usually the bosses you back your challenge, you take your lumps.

I had a boss once give me advice, which is, when you’re in a deal, live up to the deal all the way, and if you can’t live with it anymore, don’t renew it. But when you’re in the deal, live with the deal. He taught me, you back your talent all the way. And ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel over the comments just absolutely stunning. The show is pulled indefinitely, So there you go.

There’s a bonus episode of Daily Comedy News Normal episode Thursday morning. I will check in with you on Thursday afternoon. I am just absolutely stunned by this

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media man. You know who can keep a secret is Andrew or Santino. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Santino has revealed that Travis Kelsey told him months in advance that Travis was going to propose to Taylor Swift Boy. He can keep a secret, huh, Santino told parton My Take, We had golf together in like April or May, and yeah, he said he was doing it, but he didn’t say when.

But I don’t pray. We didn’t talk about it. He brought something up about it, and then I never asked again. That’s just how dudes are, though, like, hey, I might ask Taylor to get married. Oh that’s cool, and then you’d go back to talking about the Jets or something.

Santino said he contacted Travis and Taylor to congratulate them on the engagement, although it happened quote much earlier. Hmmm, Santino said, we just facetimed them to say congrats. Santino does not think he’ll be invited to the wedding because Taylor as the final sayn who attends. Santino said, I doubt it. I don’t think I got that invite.

You know she’s controlling that guest list. I’m not on that list. Travis’s my boy, I love him to death, but I highly doubt it. Look, I’ll say this. I played with my old man golf two days ago and we faced Tom Travis to sak congrats.

Maybe I’ll catch a bachelor party invite. You could do bachelor not wedding. In fact, i’d prefer it. I’d rather do bachelor, no wedding. I don’t want to do weddings in journal anymore, so you can give me the bachelor party without the wedding.

Saw this one over the weekend, but we had to talk about the Emmys there for a couple days. The worst person who ever lived Jay Leno, talked about being the caretaker of his wife Mavis, with advanced dementia. Jay Leno, who once had the nerve to comment on Late night TV, said, my wife’s got some problems, so it’s just her and I. But it’s always been her and I for the last forty five years anyway, so it’s fine. I enjoy taking care of her.

It’s fun. I mean, I do enjoy it. People think, oh, it must be horrible. No, because She’s not in any pain. She’s not suffering.

It’s not like tumor or cancer. It’s just a confusion that comes with Alzheimer’s dementia. And that’s okay. I enjoy being her. Rock makes you feel wanted.

You’ve got a purpose now, so it’s good. He shared a story that Mavis and Jay were recently watching an old Hawaii five oho from the sixties. Jay explained, we watched the episode where Stanley Halloway plays a genetic scientist who gets kidnapped. So mcgarrett goes as he has daughter. He’s like forty and says, what kind of genetic engineering does your husband do?

And she says, well, I’m just a woman. I don’t understand such things. That comment did not go over well with Mavis. Leno said, my wife was real involved with women’s issues. My wife’s like making growling noises.

She’s just yelling at the TV. She’s still got the fire. It made me laugh, just screaming at mcgarrett, but it made me laugh. Jay says, even when he travels for work, he makes sure he gets home that night. I come home every day.

I went to Puerto Rico for the day and then the plane waited and I came right back. That’s what I do. I try to be home every night, so that’s kind of what I do. You could see how he is clearly the worst person who ever lived. According to the media, Ricky Gervais is going to play a fat, lazy, rude, opinionated creature with things who’s not as smart or brave as he thinks he is.

That’s right. Ricky Gervais will star in the Netflix adult animated comedy series Allie Katz. Ricky called his role as a fat, lazy, opinionated creature with fangs who’s not as brave as he thinks as he is quite a stretch. Alli Kats is a slacker sitcom that follows the trials and tribulations of a group of feral British cats who seek companionship while ruminating about the struggles of everyday life. GQ did a big profile of Stavo’s Halkias.

They met up at a Greek restaurant in Astoria. Stavros had a big suitcase with him. He was asked if he was headed to the airport and he says no. He said it to the photoshoot for this GQ story, and he says, when you’re a bigger guy, it turns out they make you bring your own clothes. The topic of this profile what does being a man mean to you?

Stavros Alkias said, I mean being a man in particular. I don’t think about it that much. I think that’s one of the advantages of being a white guy. You’re the default in society. Unfortunately, you don’t ever consider your identity because everything is shaped towards your identity from the time you’re younger.

I think that’s also why people are mad about some of that being under scrutiny. There’s definitely elements of being a man that I think are cool. I still like hanging out with the fellas. I do love the team atmosphere. I grew up playing sports.

I had nothing but brothers. My dad was a contractor. I spent summers going to work with him, going to Greek coffee shops where it’s just a bunch of dudes rillying each other up, just gambling illegally looking at porno together. You know what I mean. That’s fun to me.

He then talked about being in shape. He said, getting jacked is cool. I’m trying to get jacked. I’ll probably be one of those guys on steroids in his fifties. That stuff’s awesome.

Being a provider in theory, that’s cool. The thing I’m really proud of is that I grew up poor. I’ve been successful. I’m proud that I could take care of my family. These traditional things, they’re not bad.

What’s bad is making it a zero sum. In my head, I don’t see them being in odds Masculinity in progress. You’re not stripping anything from men by asking them to do some of that. You’re not stripping anything from men by using some of those advantages to help other people. The rhetorica around this is bizarre because a lot of guys pretend we’re going to go back to a hunter gatherer lifestyle.

You don’t have to be that masculine if you don’t want to be masculine. Like I said, I like the camaraderie of it. I like taking care of my family. I have that competitiveness. I want to do the best I can.

I’ve had to balance this one. There’s been so much news, but I do want to salute Mark Marin. He will be going on ABC’s a celebrity who wants to be a millionaire. He announced if he wins his prize, money will be donated to the Carolina Tiger Rescue in Pittsburgh. That animal sanctuary on Instagram wrote, we are incredibly grateful that Mark has chosen Carolina Tiger Rescue is his charity of choice for the episode.

His generous support will make a real impact for the Tigers, big Cats, and other rescues in our care. Maren will be on the show September twenty fifth, and Maren will be taking on Sarah Silverman. Carolina Tiger Rescue is a nonprofit organization that cares for animals from various sources, such as wild animals that were previously pets are housed in less reputable sanctuaries. Four of the big cats from Tiger King were given to Carolina Tiger Rescue. Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel September twenty fifth, eight Eastern on ABC, Wanda Syke said when her kids were in middle school, they said, hey, can you not talk about us because our friends, you know, their parents let them see things that you do and they joke on us. Wanda said, well, their parents shouldn’t let them watch things. But the kids were like, well, we really wish you wouldn’t, And Wanda said, I’m like, well you want a car, right, Mom has got to buy that car. We had a nice reunion at the Emmys the other night. Ray Romano and Brad Garrett, who played brothers on Everybody Loves Raymond, they were back together on stage.

Ray said, for Brad and I, it’s an honor to present the Best Comedy Series. We were lucky enough to be on a show that won this award twenty years ago this month. It’s a long time ago. Boy, That one quick Brad Garrett with some good advice. He was joking, but this is true.

Brad said, I thought I would have been back here sooner in some capacity. I thought I would have worked more. Don’t think if you win tonight your life is going to change. Johnny Mack’s advice never leave a hit show. Keep going.

If it’s working, keep doing it. Brad Garrett asked if someday he will make the Emmys. In memoriam segment, Ray Vermonald said, if it’s a slow year, no doubt, no question. That’s really funny. If you’re hoping for a reboot, forget it.

Earlier in the year, there was a thirty year celebration of Everybody Loves Raymond, and ray said, Nope, there won’t be a reboot. The obvious answer is Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts and one of the kids they’re no longer with us. We’re all heartbroken. They’re a big part of the show. Patricia Heaton agreed, saying to try to do it again without the cast members that we’ve lost would be a disservice to the show.

Local News paying more attention to the Jerry Seinfeld story from last week. The News observed Rode Seinfeld, who studied communication in theater at Queen’s College, has family ties to Duke. He and his wife Jessica are the parents of three Blue Devils. The couple last year co chaired the Duke Parents Committee. And I’ve been spotted around Durham during move ins, at local restaurants and courtside at men’s basketball games.

As I keep saying, We’re not going to solve Palestine on this program, but I’m seeing more and more stories about it, we will see. Jimmy Fallon said he’d like to host the tonight show until people stop caring and says there’s no plan for an exit. I’ll just keep my head down, work cart and trying to make people happy. He has signed it through twenty twenty eight. He said it of Colbert, it’s weird.

The landscape’s gonna change come May. I just know that I’m gonna miss him, and I’m gonna miss playing with him in that class. It just keeps getting smaller. Adweek reports that Fallon’s advertiser coveted family friendly brand commands up to twenty five percent higher ad rates than other shows. Jimmy understands the game, says Johnny Mack, and I will keep saying that.

Fallon says he’s open to experimenting with other ways to capture eyeballs. Jimmy said, there’s nothing that says we can’t do the show live. I’d do it booking. It would be tougher, but we could at least do a special week or something. The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon has done live shows before Late Night.

It reminds us one time after the super Bowl in twenty fifteen, and again in twenty eighteen, and then in twenty nineteen, Follin was live after the Democratic presidential primary debates and did it again for a week. In September of twenty nineteen, Steve Allen started the show as a live show. It continued to be live into Jack Parr’s tenure. Verdaz has announced a two hour long comedy special entirely about India. He went on Twitter and said, hey folks, so five years ago I began to write a show about India, something I dreamed of writing for like a decade, a show that attempted to capture our existence with relentless spread and peace.

Then he got involved with that controversy, explaining then a video about India on my YouTube made sure there was no chance in hell I could talk about the country or even tour it properly truthfully. Controversy’s misk of risk, hate, attention, cursy, but also basic guilt. I felt I had lost the right to do an exploration of India. So I did global work and focused really hard on it. This idea kept coming back.

Six months ago, I scrapped the old jokes and wrote the show I’ve dreamt about for a decade. It’s finally complete. It’s close to two hours of new comedy. It’s entirely about India. Can’t wait to share with you.

No date yet out today Sarah Mellikan’s Home Bird. You can catch the premiere on Comedy Exports YouTube channel at nine a m. Central Time, three pm British time.

Speaking of British people, Michael Palin has a new show out in the UK this w…

He told a story about being held at gunboyt while filming his latest travel show in Venezuela. He told The Mirror he and his crew were stopped by police while in Venezuela, but it turned into something bigger, with the National Guard and men with rifles, bulletproof and helmets showing up. Palin said was the kind of thing it expects encounter if an embassy was being bombed. They were into the headquarters of the National Intelligence Agency. Agents there googled Michael Palin and started watching old clips, including an interview of him talking about the Life of Brian.

He told The Independent. They watched it and decided I wasn’t very funny. Eventually they got onto Monty Python clips and they watched the fish slapping dance, which is always a good thing to show people. Nearly everyone in the world from North Korea, Venezuela cracks up when they see that, and so they let him go. Michael Palin in Venezuela, airing on TV in the UK this week.

And that is your comedy news for today. If you’d like to purr without commercial interruption, you’re on Apple podcast Click the Matter, it says, uninterrupted listening five bucks a month while this goes away, first months of free trial. See you tomorrow.

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m still bothered by the Emmys, and I’m particularly bothered because they just prepped this podcast and read all the Emmy recaps. It seems like I’m not wrong. A writer, Michael Markowitz on Threads posted for the Emmy writers to keep sending Naperghatzy out there with nothing but a tote board is WGA malpractice Writers Guild.

The sitcom writer slang term for this is a knackamoora. The story is that The Bob Newhart Show had a joke about a Knockamora tape recorder that died, and the writers knew that there were a lot of Knockamora jokes to come and they would surely die too. You don’t go all in like this, It’s unprofessional. I kept thinking about how Nate did arena shows over the weekend. No, normally we hear that whoever’s hosting the Awards shows usually does like a couple of club sets on the down low and works out the material for the week.

But Nate didn’t even do a monologue. The whole thing was weird. Paul Shecher posted why are we so obsessed with cutting off award speeches? Nobody’s at home going. Oh, get back to the presentations and montages.

Less of the humans. I like having a genuine moment, well, said Paul Sheer Variety’s review. The Emmy’s exciting winds were overshadowed by an uninspiring host and countdown clock gimmick. Yeah, I had recommended that we hold our innate berghatzy stock. Now I’m wishing we had sold on Friday.

We’re definitely selling this week. I’ll tell you that, Variety rights. From his opening monologue, Burghetzi said an almost lackadaisical a political tone for the evening. He lacked the enthusiasm and gumption needed to lead a three hour long award program, and often seemed stunned to be in the spotlight. Well that’s kind of his act.

At one point, he even done a dreadful Canadian tuxedo which was like made out of denim and like I didn’t get the joke until somebody pointed out, which may have been a nod to Sidney Sweeney’s controversial genes ads. He was wearing that to introduce Sidney Sweeney. I didn’t even put that together Friday Ads. It would have been nice if this and many of Bargatzie’s other jokes lended more clearly. Then they get into the timer thing that we talked about yesterday.

Winner seemed flustered and rushed, almost racing through their big moment instead of being allowed to bask in something they’ve worked so hard to obtain. Amen. Brother. This misstep became glaringly obvious as presenters droned on and on, eating up the time that could have been given to the winners. There was also the random caveat of Burgatzy enlisting JB.

Smooth and four adorable children to represent the Boys and Girls Clubs, which lets you obviously confuse children coming out each time to help escort presenters and winners off the stage. Yeah, did you catch that? The kids were like, what do we do? It like? It just didn’t work, and in the end, Burghetzie announced the whole thing donation Frenzy had been a bad joke.

Of course, he and CBS were donating three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the Boys and Girls Club after all, even though the speech club was very much in the red. If they wanted to look at wasted time. The call was coming from inside the house. Now many things can be true at once. One three hundred and fifty thousand dollars is a very generous donation.

You know, no one made the make so it’s very generous too. How much was an add on the Emmys. I tried looking that up. I couldn’t find anything, so I won’t speculate. The big winner of the night Stephen Colbert.

Early on he got a standing ovation, standing center stage in a tuxedo when he looked all the part of the host.

And then there were the nominees for Outstanding Talk Series.

The winner Stephen Colbert. He gave a great speech, Let’s listen. May you to children, May you children, thank you, thank you, thank you for this honor. I want to thank CBS for giving us the privilege to be part of the late night tradition, which I hope continues long after we’re no longer doing this show. I gotta thank that these people, those people up there, the two hundred incredible professionals.

You are the pros from Dover. And I’m so proud to be one of you. We got to thank the people who’ve supported us for the last twenty years Carrie By, like James baby Doll Dixon personally. Personally, I want to thank my beautiful, brilliant wife, Evvy, who’s the real brains of the outfit, my three children, Matteline, Peter and John. I’m going to dedicate this to my mom and dad, her mom and dad, and a young woman who should be here tonight, Amy Cole’s.

Ten years ago, in September of twenty fifteen, Spike Jones stopped by my office and said, Hey, what do you want this show to be about? And I said, Ah, Spike, I don’t know how you could do it, but I kind of like to do a late night show, you know, a late night comedy show that was about love. And I don’t know if I ever figured that out, but at a certain point, and you can guess what that point was, I realized that in some ways we were doing a late night comedy show about loss, and that’s related to love, because sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. Ten years later, in September of twenty twenty five, my friends, I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America, Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor.

Whoa Democrats? You should call him now. If you’re curious, who was Amy Cole that was referenced in the speech. Amy Cole was Colbert’s executive assistant for many years. She passed away in March twenty twenty five.

Her obituary red working with Colbert for sixteen years was more than a job to Amy. He gave her a purpose and provided an opportunity to showcase herself as an incredible teammates everyone involved. She was adored by her entire late show work family, and she will be greatly missed. Her cause of death was not publicly shared. However, one of the producers from the show had posted on Twitter at that time f cancer.

John Oliver during his unnecessarily rushed speech was bleeped out. We have found out what he said. John said, thanks to h especially thanks to Casey and Elena. Thank you to our staff especially. He then said, f you, Nate Brigetzi, this is a lot of money for you.

You can add enough to the swear jar as well. That’s got to be enough. Thank you. Goodbye, and then rushed off the stage unnecessarily website. The playlist did their best and worst.

Under worst, they have the Boys and Girls Club embarrassment. I know I’m beating the dead horse here, but I this annoyed me. In case you can’t tell, they write this is spaghetti stick to play with the donation clock all night long? And why did we waste time with JB. Smooth propping up kids from the club when speeches are being cut?

And who thought having the ticket displayed on screen next to the talent when they went over was a good idea? Listen, giving the charity is a great idea, but this was a passive, aggressive bit that disrespected not only the charity but the winners in their one moment in the spotlight. And it just got worse and worse as the night went on. They also added under their worst Nateprigetzi, a super popular stand up comedian Forgetsie, was always a questionable choice to host. He’s not industry enough to even throw out the casual jokes regular viewers would chuckle at, and he’s never demonstrated consistent acting talent.

Shockingly, his opening monologue was almost entirely setting up the aforementioned bit either, which here the producers thought would get winners to keep their speech a short. As it started to fail, he began to flounder. At one point he even joked had never been doing this again, that is true. Honestly, we had sympathy for Baghetzie until we realized the ind of production had no intention of giving up the penalty clock bit. He almost seemed embarrassed, and not in a comedic way, that it was going so badly.

The l eight Times was more generous. They wrote, If your goal was to avoid insulted celebrities, social media outrage, or petulant notes from the White House, you could have done no better than the higher Baghetti. His appeal is not so much mainstream, which is to say, soft edge, as it is broad, something for everybody. However, the state of the world was addressed presenter Julianne Nicholson. Instead of living in a post apocalyptic bunker in Paradise, great show if you’ve never watched it.

She compared that show to current headlines as positive, feel good TV. Again in the Apocalypse If Hiller, who won Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, thank the writers for writing a show of connection. And love in this time when compassion is seen as a weakness. Last week Tonight writer Daniel O’Brien dedicated the award to all writers of political comedy while that is still a type of show that’s allowed to exist. Gene Smart ended her speech saying, let’s be good to each other.

Let’s just be good to each other, and Hannah ein Bender finished with I just want to say go birds, f ice and free Palestine. Time magazine’s review was naperghets he might be stand Up’s biggest star, but he blew it at the twenty twenty five Emmys. They made the same point most other articles did. My favorite review comes from my favorite reviewer, Daniel Feinberg and The Hollywood Reporter. He writes, given that I live in Los Angeles and work for an entertainment industry trade publication, I’m not supposed to admit this, but most of the country, not most, but probably more than some, has a particular perception about Hollywood writers and directors and producers and movie stars.

You sometimes hear live in a liberal bubble and emerge only for the occasional awards shows. Gallus dedicated to famous people patting themselves on the collective butt, espousing left wing talking points and generally ignoring the possibility of the whole whole industry is having a corrosive effect on society, especially young people. I’ll jump in there, the padding themselves on the back thing. Yeah, no surprise that the studio won a lot of awards. I find that show very overrated.

Daniel wriits very few minds will likely to have been changed by the emmes. He then gets into the forty five second bit. Instead, it was left to CBS, a network perceived as churning over its ideological keys, to Donald Trump to donate one hundred thousand dollars, and Brigetzie, a compulsively wholesome comic from Tennessee, to donate two hundred fifty thousand dollars. So the Boys and Girls Clubs of America ended up big winners on Sunday thanks to a network eager to befriend the administration and to a red state comic, and no thanks to the Hollywood elite. Was that a narrative the producers or CBS or Baghettie not a political comic in any way intended to build a show around or just want to happen hard to tell.

But if you asked me to summarize the plot of Sunday’s Emmys, that’s the plot let. It never be said the Burghetzie and the producers didn’t have a tough job, made even tougher by the precariously polarized nature of our country, perhaps more this week than ever before. They failed completely, But I’m not really sure what success would have looked like. Now I don’t agree with this next sentence. Don’t worry, Joe Coy.

You still hold the distinction of being the worst host in my not insignificant memory. That’s taylor’sw’s fault. Joe Coy was way better than Nate. Come on, way better. I’m not saying better, I’m saying way better, Dander says of the Emmys.

It was an ill conceived mess, punctuated by well deserved winds and emotional and effective speeches, but rarely helped by Burghetzie’s consistently uneasy performance. I figured he was more likely to deliver a low key charm, keep everybody comfortable, and spend very little time in the spotlight. Instead, he decided to make everybody uncomfortable, sometimes as a choice and sometimes just as a matter of course, Burgetzy bungled the names of people and shows, rarely looked at home finding and addressing the correct camera, and somehow was given only one recurring piece of business, that tally of how much money Hollywood stars were trying to steal from kids. Wow. The only thing saving Burghetzy and the show from its natter status is that there was no sense of hostility in the room, which could not be said when Joe Coy was bombing at the Globes and decided to turn on his writers and then basically vanish from the show.

Structurally, brigets He’s hosting was strange. There was no monologue, and Steady repurposed his extremely funny George Washington’s sketches, et cetera, et cetera. It has to be said nobody was played off. So if that’s among your criteria, it was a success. Well.

If there’s anything Hollywood loves more than patting itself on the butt, it’s taking money from children. Outstanding Comedy Series Winner of the Studio, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, seth Rogen the Studio, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Gene Smart Hacks, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Jeff Hiller Somebody Somewhere, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Hannah Einbinder hacks Outstanding Writing for Comedy Series The Late Show with Stephen Colbert beating out The Daily Show and Kimmel. Outstanding Variety Special Live SNL fifty The Anniversary Special beating out Beyonce Bull, The Oscars, the Super Bowl Halftime, and SNL’s Homecoming Concert. Many people think the home comedy concert was actually better than a special.

I kind of agree. Outstanding Scripted Variety Series, John Oliver beats out SNL. Outstanding Writer for a Variety Series, John Oliver’s team beats out The Daily Show in SNL On the Red Carpet, Lauren Michaels talked about the cast changes at SNL and said the show has always brought people in from new different ages and different generations, and it’s how it revives itself. It’s always hard when people leave, but there’s a time for that. Our audience always stayed relatively young, and more so now with TikTok.

Change is good and the people were bringing in. I’m really excited about it. Chloe Fyneman said, when I saw how Young. The new cast was I immediately got a laser. She might get a forever thirty five facelift, she joked.

Bo and Yang told people to show up over the weekend. Lauren Michaels encouraged him to stay. Bowen said, I’ve always gone by the instinct of do I have more to do? And I feel like I do. Even Lauren and I talked about it.

Lauren was like, you have more to do and that means a lot, because even I confessed him, I feel like maybe the audience is getting sick of me, and he was like, that’s not true. There’s more for you to do. I need you. He expressed his gratitude towards Lorne Michael, saying that man has changed my life and I will a lot of my life to that show. So I love working there.

The people are the best. I really love each of them so much. What I’ve always thought, what I think everybody knows, is that SNL is this boot camp, and that implies there’s a next phase for you to train for something else. It’s always a transitional place, and I think it’s a launching pad, even for people who stay on the show like Keenan. He’s used that show to help expand his possibilities.

I think that’s going to be true for all the people who aren’t coming back. I’m so excited to see what they do, and I’m excited for the new cast. A couple of releases out today, Blonde Medicine and Ben Katzner Please to announce the release of his debut comedy special album, both titled Supple Harlot. You’ll find the video version on Ben’s YouTube channel. Ben Katzner uses biting, observational humor and skilled storytelling to discuss everything from his own adoption to reading romance novels and a desperate attempt to connect with and understand the world around him.

Fellow comedian James Stanley summarizes the theme of Supple Harlot in three words, Fat Black Adopted, which, according to Ben, honestly nails it out. Today on the eight hundred pound gerrilla Is YouTube channel, Craig ferguson I’m so happy CBS News who has noticed that major US comedians are set to perform in Saudi Arabia. CBS says they’ve been urged to speak out against the country’s human rights abuses and not to be quote complicit in covering up the abuses of a repressive regime. Saudi Arabia will host the Riodd Comedy Festival, which organizers say will be the world’s largest comedy festival, September twenty six to October ninth. I’ve talked about this in the past, and I think we’re going to be talking about this one a lot as people start to notice many big name comedians appearing.

CBS has focused on Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, and Bill Burr. Human Rights Watch researcher Joey Shay told CBS News the Saudi government has invested billions into high profile and entertainment events like these in a deliberate effort to whitewash the country’s human rights record and deflect from the egregious abuses that continue to happen inside the country. Those investments are part of the broader strategy to have people thinking about a comedy event, for example, rather than the soaring number of executions that are happening inside of the country. Tim Dillon has claimed on his podcast he’s being paid three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars for single show, and that some of his more famous colleagues would receive around one point six million dollars for their appearances right CBS. CBS has contacted the publicists representing Bill attendees, Bill Burr, Mark normand Kevin Hart, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.

K Whitney Cummings, Tom Sigora, Andrew Schultz, and Jim Jeffries, but has received no comment from any of them regarding their expected appearances in Saudi Arabia. W Camal Bell on Substack says he has no compassion for Charlie Kirk’s death. Kirk would be fine with my lack of empathy for him, not that I needed his permission that Substack is titled Charlie Kirk said, I can’t stand empathy. Well, if he insists, Bell wrote, deep breath, everybody, we’re now in deeper crap than we already were as a country. I certainly won’t be gas light into performatively pretending that Charlie Kirk was some sort of saint death when it’s actually just a truly awful person in life.

I know what it’s like to feel you are personally in danger for what you have said or done. I know what it is to be targeted by the people you disagree with. I also know what it’s like when being surrounded by hostility is part of your job. When I see Charlie Kirk getting shot and killed, presumably for his beliefs, I’m reminded that I’ve imagined myself in that same position many times. Charlie Kirk was like a used car salesman.

At the end of the fiscal year. He was literally giving the hatred away. A slogan might as well have been and come through, have got hatred for you. Charlie Kirk was a bad faith actor who spent all this time coming up with new ways to create more bad faith. He did it for money, for clicks, for giggles, for clout, and worst of all, he did it for his dear leader, Donald Trump.

Bell says the best way to honor Kirk is for politicians to enact gun legislation and says, ironically, Charlie Kirk would hate that. You’ll find that piece on w comout Bell’s substack, and that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. I just called an audible. It’s nine point thirty and the Emmys are actually making me like angry. It’s just a terrible, terrible telecast, poorly produced for reasons we’ll get into. And I hopes for this episode, and the episode’s good.

I’ve got stuff because I ready recorded the second half earlier in the day. But I was like, all right, Nate will be pretty good. We’ll see what happens with the late night guys. And the show is just dragging and not interesting. And one of the big problems is Nate Berghatzi is not up to the task of being the host.

The thing is misproduced from the start. So they begin with a variant on the George Washington sketch where Nate played the inventor of television. He was joined by Bowen Yang, mikey Day, and James Austin Johnson. I’m sure it played well to Middle America, but you know we’ve done this already, Nate. You got to show us something else.

You can’t just keep doing this bit over and over. So that dragged, and then the next thing that’s misproduced is the very first presenter is Stephen Colbert and I wrote on the Facebook group, I’m like, Colbert is just gonna you know, is Nate gonna be able to escape his shadow? The answer is no. Stephen Colbert comes out, gets a standing ovation chance of Steve and Stephen Stephen, he makes a joke while I have everyone’s attention, is anyone hiring? So now we’re several minutes into the show.

Nate hasn’t done a monolog yet, but Stephen Colbert has stood at center stage, I think in a tuxedo if my memory hasn’t failed me, and kind of looks the part of a host where Nate doesn’t. Then Nate comes out and explains to America the thing I told you about where he was putting one hundred thousand dollars in the pot and gonna dock everybody a thousand dollars for every minute they went over. Boy, that does not work. When somebody is up there thanking their family and they finally had their big moment and they’ve worked their whole career, they’re finally winning this award, and the clock comes on and starts counting down. It actually makes me angry.

I Einbinder’s up there giving a speech and this clock comes on. It’s just ticking down, Tony Gilroy thanking his crew and his family and the clock comes on. It’s just it was really obnoxious because it puts the winners in a bad position. Why would you do that as a producer? And it kinda puts some stink on Nate for being a bad guy.

So I’m just really really annoyed at the Emmys, and I can’t be bothered to stay up till eleven o’clock to find out the rest of the winners, because we’ll just do that. On Tuesday, Vulture wrote this acceptance speech Timer is ghoulish. It’s that thing where a guy puts twenty dollars on the table and makes the server work for it. Servers hate that guy. Joe Reid, I forget if this was Vulture or The Times.

Joe wrote, I want all the winners to go extra long and have the audience chant the money total as it approaches zero. John Oliver gets up there. He raced through his speech to put some money back on the clock, which is kind of funny. But shouldn’t John Oliver get to give a proper speech? I mean, what are we doing.

There’s another segment where Nate came out and started talking about the how many award winners and he finds out from the staff announcer. I found out from the staff announcer. Apparently they gave this out during the week. I had no idea I would have mentioned it. And again maybe I’m terrible at what I do.

I do read every entertainment website and I google a words like comedy and comedian. I didn’t know. But apparently Conan O’Brien won the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special pre recorded for the Mark Twain Prize, which is the right answer, but like, I don’t know, where did that go? So the staff announcer was telling Nate live on the air that Nate didn’t win, as if Nate didn’t know, and that felt flat two. So you can just hear the frustration of my voice.

This thing just annoyed me tonight. Some other stuff I scribbled in. They tapped JB. Smooth to try and explain the money bit. He ate it.

Leanne Morgan did her thing, but I was wondering, as a presenter, does America even know who that is? I don’t know. So the winners in the first ninety minutes anyway, lead Actress in a comedy Gene Smart for Hacks. I like that pick. Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Hannah Einbinder.

During her speech, she said free Palestine and f ice. Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy went to Jeff Hiller for Somebody Somewhere. Seth Rogan has won a couple already because, as I said in my preview, the industry loves celebrating itself. So no surprise there, and that’s the Emmys. I’m just kind of disappointed, and I’m sorry.

I’m in a bad mood, but the show put me in a bad mood, so let’s switch to stuff that makes me laugh. Jim Gaffigan went to the Krueger on Shelbyville Road. He was signing bottles of father Time bourbon for hundreds of fans that line up outside. As William Shanner one said, get a life. Gaffigan said, while comedy is a gift and of passion, so is his love of Kentucky bourbon.

It’s a beautiful thing, the whole bourbon journey. But also I think it’s important for marriages too. You want your husband to be interested in bourbon, then they’re not going to have an affair. So he’s reusing that joke, right, because I told you yesterday that he had told the joke that Jeanie likes he’s doing bourbon because she’s happy he’s not having an affair. Oh, Jim, Hey very busy Monday.

Aside from the Emmy Awards. Adam sand is at Madison Square Garden tonight. I can’t go. I have to teach on Monday nights. Otherwise I’d be at the garden.

I mean, Adam Sandler are doing a comedy show. Sounds amazing, doesn’t it? A couple serious topics. Jay Lenno weighed in on the killing of Charlie Kirk. I won’t do the Jay little bit here because this is a serious topic.

Leno called into the Tim Conway Junior Show, and here’s what Jay had to say. It’s not a random shooting. I mean it’s a death of free speech. I think that you are so illiterate and so stupid you can’t answer verbally and you have to shoot somebody with a gun to quote win the argument. Tim Dillon also uncharacteristically serious.

He opened up his podcast I listen to that Walking the Dog Sunday morning, and Tim was very serious. I have made a few edits here for pacing, but let’s listen to Tim Dillon. You know, that was one of the most disturbing things I had ever seen in my life. The man is a husband of father, even if he wasn’t, he’s a human being. He’s sitting there, he’s engaging in converse with people, and he was brutally murdered in front of his wife and children.

I’m not a sanctimonious guy. I dressed up as a dead healthcare ceo on Netflix. I’m not someone who is out there being a purveyor of good taste. But I just don’t understand how after witnessing that murder you could be gleefully celebrating this attack. I think you’re in a very bad place spiritually in your life if you’re celebrating the murder.

If that’s the first reaction you have to that video is to celebrate this, or I mean, you can’t be doing great.

Meanwhile, Jerry Seinfeld’s controversial comments from last week, someone fr…

So I’m not going to say the writer’s name, as that person may not be his experience in the ways of the modern media say I am so. I’m not here to beat up on the person, but I thought the article warranted to mention that person wrote Tuesday’s demonstration continue to prove the outsized poll that Seinfeld has with Duke, which allows him to get free press at the university whenever he feels like it. Seinfeld’s combination of familial ties and fame, it seems it entitles him to walk into Duke as he pleases and be given a mantle which espouse Ludcro’s views as if he represents the university or its student body. His remarks prove the urgency in which we must divorce ourselves from this pattern and him. There are many reasons outside of Tuesday’s comments for this, like the fact he dated a seventeen year old high school girl when he was thirty eight years old, or perhaps the greatest sin of all, which is the fact that he isn’t funny.

His recent comments, though, are what demand attention and then a breakdown of the issues at the core of the Seinfeld comments. Again, we are not going to solve that on the Daily Comedy News podcast. By the way, if you downloaded Sunday’s episode, early in the morning before nine thirty Eastern, I messed up and I had double loaded Saturday show. Sunday’s episode was pretty good, so if you missed it or you were like, I heard this one already, there’s one in there that you might have missed. Now.

I was extra frustrated because almost always, if you’re a long time listening, you know, I get up in the morning and to go get coffee. But for reasons, I chose not to go get coffee and then didn’t listen back to the show until nine thirty when I walked the dog and then I heard the reru and I was like, gosh, darn, because normally I would have caught that at seven am and fixed it. So you might have missed one there. Rain Wilson was in the headlines. Last week.

I had shared the story where Rain had made some comments about the office. Rain went out of his way on Sunday morning to speak about what he actually said, and let’s let Rain take it from here, as he makes himself very very clear. So while promoting this movie, Code three, I had a number of conversations, some podcasts, some interview shows. I did a perfectly nice interview with the gentleman who was asking about whether the Office could be made today, and we had very long, nuanced conversation about how, in some ways the Office could have some you know, unpc tendencies, some racist tendencies, because the buffoon leads of the show, Michael and Andy and Dwight, were pretty clueless, and you know, could you do that today. There’s a great source of humor there, but it’s a it’s a very delicate balance.

The interview is very nuanced, the headlines are not. And this is one of the reasons people hate mainstream media because now it’s not printed on newspapers. It’s all about clickbait. There’s headlines that say, Rain Wilson, the Office was racist, exclamation point, click on me. Look at the banner ads coming up alongside subscribe, pay get behind our paywall.

It’s really gross. And obscene, and the media is adding to this land dscape of hatred, distrust, inflammatory statements, outrage right and left. So I certainly didn’t mean to cause outrage. I don’t think the Office was racist. Folks, listen to the actual interview.

Look at what I actually said. That’s all. It breaks my heart, and that showbiz. That is your comedy news on a pretty busy, robust Monday, I’ve got plenty for tomorrow. I almost wish the Emmys weren’t last night, because there was a lot of good stuff today.

But you know, we got another show tomorrow, so i’ll see then

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media very busy Saturday, and I should start with the real news. But as I sat down a record, I heard from a friend of the show, Scott Beckett, live from American Airlines flight ten twenty one. He is telling me that the airline is in on the Bob’s Burgers host. Now, if you’re a new listener, I have two questions for you. One, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers?

The answer is no, no one has. And two, and this is the real good part of the conspiracy. Have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers? The answer is also no. I get that the artwork exists, and Scott has sent me American Airlines is posting the artwork for Bob’s Burgers, but as we know, there’s no such show.

It’s just something Kevin Burkhardt promotes on Sundays.

Speaking of football, I had the Vikings Thursday night and mine was a sixteen…

I’m in fifty sixth place, but I’m not letting him catch me. He also said he was listening to Daily Comedy News on the flight, as one does, and apparently my patent Oswalt Star Trek commentary made him chuckle, and his flight neighbor and his seat mate said, you seem to have liked that. Thank you, Scott. All Right, I diggress. Where should we start.

Let’s start with Late Night because I didn’t do it yesterday. As you could tell, today is a much happier show than yesterday. Catching up from during the week. Did you see when the President went out for seafood the other night and the National Guards out in DC? Will Seth Meyers said, President Trump dined with several members of his cabinet at Joe Seafood while RFK just ate something they hit on the drive over.

It’s hilarious. Kimmel said, there are hundreds of troops on the state and somehow they led a thirty four time convicted fellon Walton to or a restaurant. No questions asked at all. Sharp commentary there, Jimmy Kimmel. Michael Costa said, Hey, nothing says I feel safe like driving one block from the White House surrounded by a fleet of armored cars and countless Secret Service agents.

Kim Lill again, kim Old talked about that drawing that Jeffrey Epstein apparently had Kimmell said, I know how you get him meeting the president to admit that he did this. All you have to do is say that drawing is great, and he’ll immediately take credit for it. Colbert said, And you know what they say, if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, that duck shouldn’t be allowed within three hundred yards of a school. Late, I was good this week, Fallon had commented on the White House renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War. Fallon said, when they heard about the big change, the owner of Cracker Bear was like, Eh, maybe take a minute and think about it.

You know what I’ve been thinking about Jerry Seinfeld. The horrible Charlie Kirk story has given mister Seinfeld a lot of cover. I noticed on Friday the mainstream media was starting to notice the Seinfeld’s comments. The weekend may help save mister Seinfeld, but I’m not sure that story is going away. College football today, Notre Dame takes on Texas A and M at seven point thirty.

There are a few articles during the week about Shane Gillis’s love of Notre Dame. It even made the New York Times, they write Notre Dame limits sideline passes for home football games to coach his family members. So Tommy Reese discovered a long lost cousin. That’s how Shane Rees ended up on the sidelines. Coach Rees, who was the quarterback for the Irish from twenty ten to twenty thirteen, said, the students blew their cover they noticed that cousin Shane was a famous comedian.

Coach Rees says, the students were going nuts. Our cover was blown. Now. Last weekend, Shane Gillis opened for Zach Bryan at Zach’s Notre Dame concert. I saw Zach during the summer.

Fantastic, and he sounds way better live than he does on the records, and he sounds really good on the records. Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman said, you know, Shane’s an awesome human, right, He’s got a lot of notoriety just because of who he is and the way he really performs his craft. We appreciate him and the sport he gives our program makes us kind of cool. I guess. For the team season opener against Miami, Notre Dame listed Shane Gillis on the injury report as out because of tailgating.

Last year, during the first round of the College Football Playoff, the jumbo screen showed Shane Gillis. Fans went nuts, the camera shifted off Shane, the crowd bowed. The New York Times rights back on Gillis, cheers, back off Gillis booze. Shane said, it makes me slightly uncomfortable because people were like, who the hell is this guy? But I think I represent a good note.

Youre dame fan. I never went to school there. Of everything, I’ve been lucky enough to have happened to me, and this is probably easily the coolest that. It’s definitely the coolest with my family. During the concert last weekend, Shane Gillis exited the stage.

He high five fans and shouted f Michigan. Oh there’s more, Brady Quinn said, every single night in Ireland we hung out. There were some stories. Gillis invited former quarterback Ian Book to a show in Sacramento. The night edited at three am at a blackjack table with Books, high school friends, Shane Gillis and UFC fighter Nate Diaz and his aunt Dearage.

You know, I used to have nights like that when I worked at Sirius and I’m not just trying to be cool like that. We would go to Vegas. One of my high school friends, Matt, lives in Las Vegas, and we would go out and it’d be someone that was, you know, Shane Gillis level famous and their friends and you’d wind up at the blackjack table three am. I could relate to this, believe it or not, as lame as I am doing a podcast in the base. I wasn’t always this old.

Former Gord Chris Watt said, Shane’s almost reserved down to earth. He could probably name all the Notre Dame quarterbacks I played with and actually did know them all. You never know these days how big fans some people are. He truly grew up living the team. What a great profile in the Times, right.

This is good for everybody and so much more fun than yesterday’s podcast. I’m just gonna point out.

---

Meanwhile, Bert Kraser spoke about Bert’s viral Florida State pregame speech.

Who’s Florida stak got today? We should know this? They’re off today? Well that lever Ruin is my show? What are you doing?

They play Kent State and on the twentieth. If you can wait, come on, Florida State schedule makers. I had this all lined up. I should have checked before anyway. Bert Kraser opened up about his viral Florida State pregame speech.

Bert told Ridge Eyes and Florida State called me and said, would you give a pump up speech before the game? And I was like, yes, but you gotta give me the parameters. I literally scraped everything they wrote for me. I walked out with no script, and I gave what I would argue is my best. What did he say?

Much funnier than I will read to you? Bert said, my name is Bert Kreischer. I spent six and a half years at this beautiful institution. I’m not even sure if I have a degree. I was baptized in nineteen ninety one in that end zone when there were still wooden bleachers, and when that spear went into the fifty yard line, tears streamed down my eyes.

So those tears were gorn it in Gold Alabama thinks they’re going to come in and roll all over us. They don’t know where they are. I only have two words to say to you, go knowles. Bert said, ninety thousand people pop up. I’m crying, tears are coming down, my shirt comes off.

Tom Sigor is crying. The athletic director was like, that was amazing. Coach Norville is pumping his arms. They go, do you want to see the spear drop? And I go yeah, and they take us.

I’m shirtless to the fifty yard line. I look at Tommy, He’s crying. I’m crying. It’s the best day of our lives. That’s what the Alabama game was for US.

Florida State thirty one, University of Alabama seventeen. More sports dramatic actor Adam Sandler, he stopped by the University of South Carolina. He was at the Carolina Coliseum and he played basketball with the men’s basketball team on Wednesday afternoon before doing a concert at the Colonial Life for Reas Saandler said, shout out to the game Cocks. I got to meet the coach a lot of the players that were nice enough not to swat off all my shots. See, this is so much more fun today.

If you listen to Friday Show, Friday Show is a little serious. The news was a little serious. This is fun. This is what I want to do some SNL news. Another cast member has left.

Who is it, Johnny Mack? It is Eggo Nuotam, who joined the show in twenty eighteen. She said, the hardest part of a great party is knowing when to say goodnight. This is on Instagram and she said, I am immensely grateful to Loren for the opportunity, to my castmates, the writers, and the crew for their brilliant support and friendship week after week on that stage taught me more than I could have ever imagined, and it will carry those memories on that laughter with me always. Now invite me to your weddings.

Please. During the week, Jimmy Kimmel talked about retiring. I’ll go first. You’re not retiring. Why would you retire.

It’s a great gig. You have the summers off. As I’ve said in the past, just tell it. If you want to work less, just tell ABC. I want a longer winter break.

I want to not do a show at all. On Fridays. You guys can show Friday Night videos or something. We’ll tape two on Wednesday, we’ll do four week You’re not walking away from the show, Jimmy, It’d be insane. It’s a good gig and you’re like my age what are you going to do record a podcast in the basement.

Kimmel’s answer, I’m not prepared to answer that question. Something I think about a lot. Things have changed over the last few years, the last nine years. Every day is a new adventure and I kind of take them as they come. So much press about the Spinal Taps.

Everything about the Spinal Tap two has been in character in universe. So The Guardian went with the bit and said almost all the Spinal Taps catalog has been unavailable since release. At one point, their then label, Megaphone, took legal action to prevent them from making any music at all. From nineteen sixty seven’s Spinal Tap Sings to nineteen eighty two Smell the Glove, the band made eleven studio albums plus four rumored unreleased records, two live albums, as well as Nigel Toughnell’s solo project Clam Caravan. Yet since nineteen eighty four, all that’s been available has been the soundtrack to the film, featuring a selection of songs from those albums.

Then the band put out nineteen ninety two s Break Like the Wind, a mixture of new tracks and re recordings, and then a similar compilation on two thousand and nine’s Back from the Dead, the Guardian tells us the problem is that, for nearly fifty years, ownership of spinal TAP’s catalog has been scattered. At one point it was owned by shadowy Iranian operatives before Ian Faith faked his own death and distributed the songs around assorted fated celebrities like Mario Andretti and Billy Jean King. Now, even if spinal Tap wanted to re release the catalog, they couldn’t find it to buy it back. And that is a fun Saturday episode of Daily Comedy News. Tomorrow show will be good too.

I got a lot in the script and I bounced like seven things today, so we got plenty to talk about. And I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media very busy Saturday, and I should start with the real news. But as I sat down a record, I heard from a friend of the show, Scott Beckett, live from American Airlines flight ten twenty one. He is telling me that the airline is in on the Bob’s Burgers host. Now, if you’re a new listener, I have two questions for you. One, have you ever seen Bob’s Burgers?

The answers no, no one has. And two, and this is the real good part of the conspiracy. Have you ever met anyone who has seen Bob’s Burgers? The answer is also no. I get that the artwork exists, and Scott has sent me American Airlines is posting the artwork for Bob’s Burgers, but as we know, there’s no such show.

It’s just something Kevin Burkhardt promotes on Sundays.

Speaking of football, I had the Vikings Thursday night and mine was a sixteen…

I’m in fifty sixth place, but I’m not letting him catch me. He also said he was listening to Daily Comedy News on the flight, as one does, and apparently my patent Oswalt Star Trek commentary made him chuckle, and his flight neighbor and his seat mate said, you seem to have liked that. Thank you, Scott. All Right, I diggress. Where should we start.

Let’s start with Late Night because I didn’t do it yesterday. As you could tell, today is a much happier show than yesterday. Catching up from during the week. Did you see when the President went out for seafood the other night and the National Guards out in DC? Will Seth Meyers said, President Trump dined with several members of his cabinet at Joe Seafood while RFK just ate something they hit on the drive over.

It’s hilarious. Kimmel said, there are hundreds of troops on the state and somehow they led a thirty four time convicted fellon Walton to or a restaurant. No questions asked at all. Sharp commentary there, Jimmy Kimmel. Michael Costa said, Hey, nothing says I feel safe like driving one block from the White House surrounded by a fleet of armored cars and countless Secret Service agents.

Kim Lill again, kim Old talked about that drawing that Jeffrey Epstein apparently had Kimmell said, I know how you get him meeting the president to admit that he did this. All you have to do is say that drawing is great, and he’ll immediately take credit for it. Colbert said, And you know what they say, if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, that duck shouldn’t be allowed within three hundred yards of a school. Late, I was good this week, Fallon had commented on the White House renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War. Fallon said, when they heard about the big change, the owner of Cracker Bear was like, Eh, maybe take a minute and think about it.

You know what I’ve been thinking about Jerry Seinfeld. The horrible Charlie Kirk story has given mister Seinfeld a lot of cover. I noticed on Friday the mainstream media was starting to notice the Seinfeld’s comments. The weekend may help save mister Seinfeld, but I’m not sure that story is going away. College football today, Notre Dame takes on Texas A and M at seven point thirty.

There are a few articles during the week about Shane Gillis’s love of Notre Dame. It even made the New York Times, they write Notre Dame limits sideline passes for home football games to coach his family members. So Tommy Reese discovered a long lost cousin. That’s how Shane Rees ended up on the sidelines. Coach Rees, who was the quarterback for the Irish from twenty ten to twenty thirteen, said, the students blew their cover they noticed that cousin Shane was a famous comedian.

Coach Rees says, the students were going nuts. Our cover was blown. Now. Last weekend, Shane Gillis opened for Zack Bryan at Zach’s Notre Dame concert. I saw Zach during the summer.

Fantastic, and he sounds way better live than he does on the records, and he sounds really good on the records. Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman said, you know, Shane’s an awesome human, right, He’s got a lot of notoriety just because of who he is and the way he really performs his craft. We appreciate him and the sport he gives our program makes us kind of cool. I guess. For the team season opener against Miami, Notre Dame listed Shane Gillis on the injury report as out because of tailgating.

Last year, during the first round of the College Football Playoff, the jumbo screen showed Shane Gillis. Fans went nuts, the camera shifted off Shane, the crowd booed. The New York Times rights back on Gillis, cheers back off Gillis booze. Shane said, it makes me slightly uncomfortable because people were like, who the hell is this guy? But I think I represent a good notere dame fan.

I never went to school there. Of everything, I’ve been lucky enough to have happened to me, and this is probably easily the coolest that. It’s definitely the coolest with my family. During the concert last weekend, Shane Gillis exited the stage. He high five fans and shouted f Michigan.

Oh there’s more, Brady Quinn said, every single night in Ireland we hung out. There were some stories. Gillis invited former quarterback Ian Book to a show in Sacramento. The night edited at three am at a blackjack table with Books, high school friends, Shane Gillis and UFC fighter Nate Diaz and his aunt Dearage. You know, I used to have nights like that.

When I worked at Sirius and I’m not just trying to be cool like that. We would go to Vegas. One of my high school friends, Matt, lives in Las Vegas, and we would go out and it’d be someone that was, you know, Shane Gillis level famous and their friends and you’d wind up at the blackjack table three am. I could relate to this, believe it or not, as lame as I am doing a podcast in the base. I wasn’t always this old.

Former Gord Chris Watt said, Chaine’s almost reserved, down to earth. He could probably name all the Notre Dame quarterbacks I played with and actually did know them all. You never know these days how big fans some people are. He truly grew up living the team. What a great profile in the Times, right.

This is good for everybody and so much more fun than yesterday’s podcast. I’m just gonna point out.

---

Meanwhile, Bert Kraser spoke about Bert’s viral Florida State pregame speech.

Who’s Florida State got today? We should know this? They’re off today? Well that lever Ruin is my show? What are you doing?

They play Kent State and on the twentieth. If you can wait, come on, Florida State schedule makers. I had this all lined up. I should have checked before anyway. Bert Kraser opened up about his viral Florida State pregame speech.

Bert told Ridge Eyes and Florida State called me and said, would you give a pump up speech before the game? And I was like, yes, but you gotta give me the parameters. I literally scraped everything they wrote for me. I walked out with no script, and I gave what I would argue is my best. What did he say?

Much funnier than I will read to you? Bert said, my name is Bert Kreischer. I spent six and a half years at this beautiful institution. I’m not even sure if I have a degree. I was baptized in nineteen ninety one in that end zone when there were still wooden bleachers, and when that spear went into the fifty yard line, tears streamed down my eyes.

So those tears were gorn it in Gold Alabama thinks they’re going to come in and roll all over us. They don’t know where they are. I only have two words to say to you, go knowles, Bert said, ninety thousand people pop up I’m crying, tears are coming down. My shirt comes off. Tom Sigor is crying.

The athletic director was like, that was amazing. Coach Norville is pumping his arms. They go, do you want to see the spear drop? And I go yeah, and they take it. I’m shirtless to the fifty yard line.

I look at Tommy. He’s crying. I’m crying. It’s the best day of our lives. That’s what the Alabama game was for US Florida State thirty one, University of Alabama seventeen.

More sports dramatic actor Adam Sandler. He stopped by the University of South Carolina. He was at the Carolina Coliseum and he played basketball with the men’s basketball team on Wednesday afternoon before doing a concert at the Colonial Life for Reas Saandler said, shout out to the game Cocks. I got to meet the coach a lot of the players that were nice enough not to swat off all my shots. See, this is so much more fun today.

If you listen to Friday Show, Friday Show is a little serious. The news was a little serious. This is fun. This is what I want to do some SNL news. Another cast member has left who is it, Johnny Mack.

It is Eggo Nuotam, who joined the show in twenty eighteen. She said, the hardest part of a great party is knowing when to say goodnight. This is on Instagram and she said, I am immensely grateful to Loren for the opportunity, to my castmates, the writers, and the crew for their brilliant support and friendship week after week on that stage taught me more than I could have ever imagined, and it will carry those memories and that laughter with me always. Now invite me to your weddings. Please.

During the week, Jimmy Kimmel talked about retiring. I’ll go first. You’re not retiring. Why would you retire. It’s a great gig.

You have the summers off. As I’ve said in the past, just tell it. If you want to work less, just tell ABC. I want a longer winter break. I want to not do a show at all on Fridays.

You guys can show Friday night videos or something. We’ll tape two on Wednesday, will do four week. You’re not walking away from the show, Jimmy. It’d be insane. It’s a good gig and you’re like my age, what are you going to do record a podcast in the basement.

Kimmel’s answer, I’m not prepared to answer that question. Something I think about a lot. Things have changed over the last few years, the last nine years. Every day is a new adventure and I kind of take them as they come. So much press about the Spinal Taps.

Everything about the Spinal Tap two has been in character in universe. So The Guardian went with the bit and said almost all the Spinal Taps catalog has been unavailable since release. At one point, their then label, Megaphone, took legal action to prevent them from making any music at all. From nineteen sixty seven’s Spinal Tap Sings to nineteen eighty two Smell the Glove, the band made eleven studio albums plus four rumored unreleased records, two live albums, as well as Nigel Toughnell’s solo project Clam Caravan. Yet since nineteen eighty four, all that’s been available has been the soundtrack to the film, featuring a selection of songs from those albums.

Then the band put out nineteen ninety two s Break Like the Wind, a mixture of new tracks and re recordings, and then a similar compilation on two thousand and nine’s Back from the Dead, The Guardian tells us. The problem is that, for nearly fifty years, ownership of spinal TAP’s catalog has been scattered. At one point it was owned by shadowy Iranian operatives before Ian Faith faked his own death and distributed the songs around assorted fated celebrities like Mario Andretti and Billy Jean King. Now, even if spinal Tap wanted to re release the catalog, they couldn’t find it to buy it back. And that is a fun Saturday episode of Daily Comedy News.

Tomorrow show will be good too. I got a lot in the script and I bounced like seven things today, so we got plenty to talk about. And I’ll meet you back here tomorrow

---

Full Transcript

Callaroga, Shark Media. Hey, and Johnny Mack’s Today’s Daily Comedy News. I struggled putting it together Today’s show. I want the show to be fun, like I like yesterday. You know, we’re just goofing on Jim Gaffigan doing a supermarket signing, like That’s what I want the show to be light and fun.

And you don’t come here for politics. You don’t come here for heavy topics. But there are d’s where we just we got to talk about stuff, and maybe we do have to get a little political. And there are at least well those two major political stories. There are three things that normally would be the lead story on this podcast.

So there’s a lot to get to. Let’s begin with Stephen Colbert, he tagged on a pre taped segment that aired before the opening credits of his program on Wednesday night. And let’s let Steven take it from here. Good evening, everybody. After our scripts for tonight’s show were finished this afternoon, we here at the Late Show learned that Charlie Kirk, a prominent right wing activist, was killed at a speaking engagement in Utah.

Our condolences go out to his family and all of his loved ones. I’m old enough to personally remember the political violence of the nineteen sixties, and I hope it is obvious to everyone in America. The political violence does not solve any of our political differences. Political violence only leads to more political violence. And I pray with all my heart that this is the aberent action of a madman and not a sign of things to come.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the show that we had prepared for you. I find Colbert to be really well spoken. I’ve said on this podcast before. Whatever your politics are, I think that Democrats should take a look at Stephen Colbert because the man can speak, and he’s twenty years younger than who they usually run. I think he’d be an interesting candidate.

Jimmy Kimmel went on Instagram to demand and end it to the angry finger point. Kilmill wrote, can we just for one day agree that it’s horrible and monstrous to shoot another human on behalf of my family? We send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents, innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence. On that same day, there was a high school shooting barely got any media coverage. So I’ll do the late night recaps to more like I just don’t want to go right into like, hey, Jimmy Fallon said, I can’t do that right now.

On the same theme, the South Park episode making fun of Charlie Kirk has been pulled from Comedy Central. At the time of this recording, which is four thirty PM on Thursday, a lot later than I normally record. I believe that Charlie Kirk episode is still available on Paramount Plus. Per News reports, the episode premiered on August sixth That episode shows the character Clyde Donovan launch a podcast that character said some things I don’t want to repeat. He then sets up a table at south Park Elementary to quote destroy woke liberal students, inviting his classmates to step forward with a microphone and prove him wrong, similar to the format of the event that Charlie Kirk was hosting on Wednesday, Cartman gets jealous of character Clyde donovan success.

Later in that episode, Clyde is awarded the Charlie Kirk Award for Young Master Debaters. Charlie Kirk had reacted to that episode back in July, saying, honestly, my first reaction was I kind of laughed. It’s kind of funny, and it goes to show the cultural impact and the residence that our movement has been able to achieve. I took this as a badge of honor. We as conservatives need to be able to take a joke.

We shouldn’t take ourselves so seriously. Anyway, the episode is down. Other thing that could have been the lead today, Jerry Seinfeld made an appearance at Duke University on Tuesday. I’m good to read the quote from Jerry Seinfeld verbatim, and I’m going to read it flat. I don’t want to load it.

These are the words of Jerry Seinfeld. Free Palestine is to me just you’re free to say you don’t like Jews. Just say you don’t like Jews. By saying free Palestine, you’re not admitting to what you really think. So it’s actually compared to the Ku Klux Klan.

I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here because they can come right out and say we don’t like blacks, we don’t like Jews. Okay, that’s honest. Those are the words of Jerry Seinfeld at Duke University on Tuesday. Again, I’m struggling with today’s show. We are not going to solve gun control.

We’re not going to solve Palestine. I just want to make fun of Jim Gaffigan doing a supermarket signing A spokesperson for Duke University till the Chronicle Duke does not preview the remarks of speakers who were invited to campus, and the invitation of speakers to campus does not imply any endorsement of the remarks. I think there would be a different news cycle without the Charlie Kirk story, where Seinfeld would be quite talked about. I think this got a little bit buried. We’ll see if it bubbles back up onto more fun things.

Andrew Santino has a special out on Hulu today. It is called White Noise. It is his third stand up special, his first for Hulu. I like Andrew a lot. I also have been thinking about him.

He’s a good dramatic actor. I’ll get into next week. I’ve had to just bounce a bunch of stories. But the FX show Dave, on which Santino appeared, that has apparently ended. And I forget what was called the one that took place in the seventies where it was like not quite the Comedy Store like that show.

He was a comedian on that. He was really good on that, but Santino making the headlines, and usually this would be the top story the headline. Disney had Santino change the jokes. First, he talked about the title of the special, White Noise, and said, people are gonna feel a little uncomfortable or confused if they’re supposed to laugh, or if that’s okay to say that to me is the kind of point of comedy. If you string the audience along with love and they know they’re in on the joke with you, they’ll find nothing hateful.

Apparently White Noise has something to do with one of the chunks in the special. I didn’t think twice about the title until he brought it up. The minorist of spoilers for the special. We joined the special mid set. Santino said, I didn’t want to do the traditional kill time up top thing, which I’ve done in the past.

I probably did ten minutes of material before what you see. I just wanted to start the special with something fun and quick and snappy, and the phrase is it racist is a good hook. Anyway. During the special, he makes fun of Disney Adults the specials on Hulu, which is owned by Disney. Variety asked Santino, how soon after you sent in the cut of the special, Dijica a phone call from Disney.

Santino said, immediately. They couldn’t wait to trim the fat on those jokes. Candidly, we went back and forth and they didn’t really enjoy having that stuff in there. We found a happy medium and I was able to keep the jokes in there, but the jokes were manipulated. I’m not going to lie.

They definitely changed the jokes. I was not stoked about that. We got to a little bit of a war. They didn’t want those jokes in there. My argument was, I joke about a lot of other stuff in the special that’s controversial.

I don’t think joking about people who like Disney has grown ups is a controversial take. But they disagreed. Faridy said, you’re saying the joke was harsher before Santino. Yeah, it was funnier. It peeled open a little bit more than what you saw on people going to Disney without kids and adults who wear Disney clothing.

Okay, let’s take a major time out here. Andrew Santino is telling you that for a paycheck he changed his material. I’m not making a judgment. I’m not saying that’s right or wrong. I’m just pointing out to you as you listen, Andrew Santino was telling us because of the paycheck, he changed his material quoting Santino.

But Disney’s a massive corporate conglomerate, and they were like, if you want it on here, this is how we want it. Otherwise we won’t be able to air the special. We have to cut the jokes. So we found a medium. We said we’d find a way to manipulate the jokes in the way that works for everybody.

Disney got kind of what they wanted, and I tried to get the best of what I wanted. This is the compromise in the modern world of media. Andrew Santino, Wow, quoting Santino morephrom variety. Typically we get free rein I see, I tell you, Normally this would be the top story, right. This is the first time I’ve experienced this in making specials, where they were afraid of the narrative I was putting out because it was a reflection on their company.

I reminded them multiple times that it was comedy and I was kidding, and it’s not real, and that’s the point of comedy, you’re not mocking reality. But they weren’t interested in it. So again we found a happy medium. But most of the time, comedians are unfiltered most of the time. That’s why we love the podcast world and why we’ve kind of gotten away from traditional forms of media.

We got sick of being told you were not supposed to say that. Quite frankly, it’s bs because that’s not how people think and talk in the real world. Nobody cares. People speak their mind all the time, and they love when comics are able to say the things people don’t talk about much because they’re afraid to. That’s our job to bring up the uncomfortable and talk about the topics.

We win set. That’s the best part of the business. We get to live in podcast land and live stand up which will never be filtered. So this was a challenge for me, but I made it work. I still love the special and I hope people enjoy it regardless of the tussling.

In my mind, there’s a lot more Santino Press out there. I will get to it. So so many stories coming in today and we’ve got the Emmys and Aperghazzy hosting it, and spinal taps out today. There’s a Letterman interview in Vulture that I just don’t even have time to read. So I’m moving stuff like well into next week, so don’t think the weekend is mailed.

In the weekend episodes are going to be really robust, and then Monday we’ll have the Emmys recap. So it’s just a lot going on right now, including out today Larry the Cable Guys special on Amazon Now. I had sent his manager, who’s my friend on the side, hey, congratulations on this, and she wrote back, Larry should do your show. I’ve been so busy covering comedy news and doing other stuff at the podcast company. I didn’t even have a second follow up on that.

And if you’ve listened to me over the years, you know Larry and I are friends. Anyway, Larry the Cable Guy his special It’s a Gift, is out on Amazon Prime Video today. In the hour long special, filmed in clearwoad Or, Florida, a Cable Guy delivers takes on everything from family life and aging to the everyday absurdities of modern living. I just mentioned Vulture has that interview with David Letterman. Letterman has expanded his content on his fast channel, Letterman TV, which you’ll find on Samsung TV Plus.

They now have the licensing rights to the entire eighteen hundred and nineteen episode run of Late Night with David Letterman The Good Show. Yes, I said it, Mike Chisholm from the Letterman Podcast, what are you Gonna do? Come down from Canada and fight me. You guys should listen to Letterman Podcast. I sent Mike the Vulture interview as soon as I saw it.

I haven’t even read it, and I’m like, you might want to read this, So hopefully on the Letterman Podcast today he’s talking about it, or maybe he’s on his way to come to New Jersey and beat me up of my mean comments about Late Show with David Letterman. But Late Night we know, Mike, you know, Mike, Mike, you know Late Night was where it’s at twelve thirty. Yeah, anyway. Letterman TV launched last year with highlights called from four thousand hours of content from the CBS era whatever. But now eighteen hundred episodes of Late Night with David Letterman just just mainline into my veins that is in my jam.

I’ll probably at some point put that on and then sit there for thirty six hours in between football games, because I gotta watch football. That guy Scott, he got me to the football pool. I was jacking with him earlier. Today I’m like, I got to make sure my picks are good this week. I am not letting you take fifty sixth place in this thing.

He could sit there in fifty ninth and look at my break lights as he tries to catch me. I might not win, but I’m not letting Scott pass me. I digress Letterman said, all the fun of NBC and me forty years ago? Were you kidding? The golden age of television?

And thanks to my old friend’s cough at NBC, joining my new Samsung TV plus friends, very very cool? All right out today, Spinal Tap two. The end continues the new film as cameos from folks like Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney. I saw a funny story where the Spinal Taps were trying to hit up King Charles for a potential knighthood. That made for a nice crossover story with our show Palace Intrigue, where we talk about the Royal family.

Prince Harry wasn’t down this week. Very busy week of palace intrigued. It’s another reason I didn’t get back to Gable Guy. Manager Jimmy Kimmel asked the Spinal Taps, have you been knighted? David Saint Hubbins said no.

Nigel Toughnel added not as and then trailed off with a no. Kimmel asked if they would want to be knighted. Derek Small’s said, from your mouth to King Charles’s ears. The New York Times has seen Spinal Tap two. No spoilers here, but their general vibe in their review is that they dig it.

The Times rowed, it’s almost always pleasant to hang out with old friends, particularly when no one overstays their welcome. The good news about Spinal Tap two is that everyone involved seems to have understood these, which makes for a genial eighty three minutes of soft jokes and gels. There’s nothing here that will make you gasp in convulsive laughter, despite some promising new material. Even so, nostalgia is a powerful drug. Rated R one hour twenty three minutes in theaters.

I like the Spinal Taps, but I can probably wait the X weeks till it shows up on streaming and then I’ll check it out. Then the Spinal Taps did a lot of press in character. USA. Today caught up with them and asked, what is it about groobies at your age? Nigel Toughnell said, they’re out there.

We call them the grands. They want you to put in their hearing aids. David Saint Hubbins said, I’ve noticed when a woman gets older a lot of her tattoos suddenly appear to be in italics. David was asked about getting a visit in the studio by Paul McCartney. McCartney offered some advice on the song and David Saint Hubbins didn’t say pleased.

David said, you could say that listen. I have a lot of respect for Paul McCartney. He struggled to make his way with a very specific talent, a certain amount of chops, as we say, and he’s got a decent voice, and he’s a fine songwriter and despite all he’s managed to be successful. That’s all I’ll say. Comedy stock Market, so same note from the beginning of the show.

I want this podcast to be fun and I’m not feeling the fun today. It’s very angsty with the news stories, but we have to do comedy stock market. Since it’s Friday, I don’t have a lot of picks for you. Maybe here on the fly, should we buy some Andrew Santino, even though he took a check and pulled his punch, but he’s very charismatic and he’s very funny. I haven’t seen this special yet, but let’s buy some Andrew Santino.

A lot of press going around about him. My big recommendation for the week is we’re going to hold our Nate Frigazzi stock because he’s hosting the Emmys and a lot of America’s be like, hey, I really like that guy. But I’m telling you now, one week from today, we are going to sell our Nate stock because we’re here to make money. We’re going to sell high in Nate Pergazzi. But for right now, hold we are going to sell our Jim Gaffigan stock, because despite me preaching about it, Jim is insistent on letting all the coolness suck out of him.

Not that he was like the Fonds to begin with, but dude, supermarket bottle signing, that is just not cool. Not in a like jerky way, but like it’s the opposite of cool. It’s lame, as we say in the streets. So let’s buy Samandrew Santino. We’ll hold her innate Berghatzy, and we’ll sell our Jim Gaffigan.

And that’s your comedy stock market for this week. The Last Laugh podcast caught up with Rain Wilson. You know him, He was dwite on The Office, You know that guy. Yeah, And I don’t know people are being so revisionist about the Office. Last Laugh is like there’s been some conversation over the past couple of years whether The Office could be released in the same way today with the same kinds of jokes.

Johnny mack will say, calm down, everybody, it’s the Office. Really, It’s not Dice Client, It’s the Office. Rain Wilson may not agree with Johnny Mackreen said, listen, you know the Benny a Christmas episode where Michael and Andy draw sharpie on one of the Asian women they brought back to the Christmas party. It’s jaw droppingly kind of horrific. It is, right.

I guess I just canceled myself. And it’s a tricky conversation. You know, they’re clueless, and in their cluelessness, they’re racist and insensitive, and they’re always saying the wrong thing. That’s what the show is, Rain said, And that’s Michael Dwight, Nandy and Kevin for that matter. So it’s a show based around clueless and sensitive, racist, sexist people that kind of mirrors the United States in a lot of ways.

So you want to encourage it because it’s funny as hell. You got to stop there. But it also skewer is a particular American sensibility, but it definitely goes pretty far if you dig deep. So you know, could it happen today? I think would have to be very very different if it were made in this environment, like, for example, the paper, which so far isn’t funny at all.

You want to make that go ahead. Rain talked about after Steve Carell left, did Rain ever consider leaving? And this is a smart answer, Rain Wilson said, Steve and I were in very, very different career situation when he left the office. He was going to star in movies that he was getting paid tens of millions of dollars for, and the movies I had tried had bombed. And I didn’t really have a way four In the film World Time Out, is it this story supposedly that NBC never asked Steve Carell if he was staying.

They just assumed he was leaving, so then they let him leave. That’s the version Steve Carell has been selling the last few years. Is that not accurate? Rain said, so, it was absolutely one hundred percent going to stay in the office as long as I could. Yes, that’s Johnny Max’s number one advice.

If you get a hit show, stay with it. Dennis Franz and YPD Blue smart Guy Kelsey Grammer cheers, Hey, you want to do Fraser, Yeah I do. Twenty years later he want to do more Fraser, Yeah I do. Rain said, there was an opportunity for Dwight to get to do more with Michael Gohann, and I got to do more. I didn’t immediately run the office, but there were different colors you saw from Dwight in those last couple of seasons.

That is true. We made a few episodes that were pretty mediocre. I would say, I don’t know we made any stinkers, but there were also some really damn funny episodes in the last couple of seasons, and then he talked about the backdoor pilot for the Farm, which was a stinker. So you rain you’re wrong there. Raen Wilson said, yeah, we kept talking about Fraser and Cheers, and what could argue that Fraser is a better show than Cheers.

Kelsey Grammer kind of took a minor character on Cheers and made him a really memorable comedic lead. But it was a big relief of like, oh good, I’m not gonna do many more seasons than twite. And especially because NBC at that time had a new regime that came in and they wanted to do big, bright, flashy, splashy shows that were multicams and go back to the friends kind of thing, and they weren’t interested in office spent us at that time. Had they taken the Farm, they probably have another billion dollars in the bank. Even now, all the people that have seen The Office twenty times, they’re going to watch The Farm at least once or twice.

Would have been as good as The Office, No, no way, not even close. Would have been good, would have been solid, would have been a good, solid comedy, Yeah, would have, and I would have done some really cool stuff I think they really really missed out. But the heirstay of the office in NBC is they never really got the show. And that is your comedy news for today again, real episodes tomorrow. I got most of the script written and there’s a lot of good stuff in there.

Sunday we’ve got Emmy stuff to talk about. Monday will be Emmy sodum blow off the weekend shows. You have a good rest of your day wherever you are, and I’ll try and make tomorrow more fun. See it then,

---

Full Transcript

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. If you are in Kentucky, you’re excited. It’s bourbon and beyond. Attendees can enjoy bourbon tastings, culinary demonstrations, and interactions with celebrity guests like Jim Gaffigan.

Oh yeah, this is a whole thing in Louisville today through the fourteenth not just Jim Gaffigan, but the lumineers who I’m a big fan of fish, not actual fish, you know, the Jam band, those guys. Terry Bradshaw’s gonna be there talking family cooking with no G. I didn’t drop the G there. That’s not the Queen’s accent. That’s Terry Bradshaw’s family cooking.

Jim Gaffigan told The Courier Journal, I’ve been completely sucked into the bourbon world. There’s something almost mystical about my affinity for bourbon, which goes beyond the taste. It’s also the history and the culture that fascinates me. Jim describes himself as a former beer guide turned bourbon NERD talked about his friend Stu. They were friends in college and since we’re both in the entertainment industry.

We’ve stayed in touch. I’ve been approaching a couple of times about doing a celebrity spirit, but I was worried about the quality, so I called Stu because I knew he was from Louisville. That makes sense, Jim. Besides the taste, I love the history and culture of bourbon. I discovered this whole nerdy bourbon world, and the more exposure I can get, the more I enjoy it.

Jim says, wife Jeanie is happy he’s doing this as a hobby. He jokes, She’s happy that I’m obsessing about bourbon rather than having an affair. My bourbon obsession is a productive use of my time. Well, Jim will be at the festival on Sunday at four to ten on the really cool Fork and Flask stage. Then in October, Jim is recording Jim Gaffigan a Bourbon set, four separate shows that will include content based on his observations of bourbon culture.

They’re going to cut those together and make a special out of it. Apparently, something called the Kentucky Entertainment Incentive Program is helping fund all that. Your tax dollars at work. I guess because I googled Kentucky Entertainment Incentive Program and they’ve got a dot gov email address. The purpose of the KI program is to encourage the film and entertainment industry to choose locations in the Commonwealth for the filming and production of entertainment productions.

Hey guys, I’ll sell out. I’ll do my podcast from Kentucky. Invite me down. I like money, Gaffigan said. My shows at the Kentucky Center are going to be a love letter to American whiskey.

It’s all a labor of love because learning more about bourbon is something I really enjoy. I hope others will enjoy the shows, but if not, I’ve really enjoy developing the material. Well, if you enjoy it so much and it’s a labor of love, why don’t you turn down the tax dollars. I’m just asking a question. Maybe there’s a reason why you don’t just asking It’s not like your easin.

Sorry, all right, there’s more stuff. Sunday one thirty pm. Jim is doing Listen to this. This is really cool. He’s at the Kruger.

He’s doing a bottle signing and a meet and greet at the Kruger Supermarket. So what can you do at this thing? You can purchase a bottle of father Time Bourbon while supplies last, they point out, and have it signed by Jim Gaffigan, and plus snap a photo together to remember the moment. Boy, that sounds cool. He’s at the Kruger on twelve five oh one Shelbyville Road, you know the one, then at four to ten on the really cool FOURK and Flask stage.

Told you about that already, And he’s got some more events coming up in October. Very exciting, seems. Triple H let the cat out of the bag. He was on the Pat McAfee show. They were curious why Triple H wasn’t at a recent WWE event.

HHH said, to be honest, I wasn’t there. I haven’t had a chance to watch the show yet. I did kill Tony last night. Oh shoot, I’m not supposed to say that. I forgot.

It was a secret that I’m on there until Monday. It was fun, So I guess that means he’s on the Monday kill Tony. We’ll find out. The Hollywood Reporter did one of those big cover stories about Nabrigazzy. Now trust me, on my resume.

I know about how these things get made for my time at Series XM, because this was like the holy grail of publicity in the certain offices in the building. This isn’t somebody waking up out of bed and going, you know, I think I gott write a story about n Abrigazzy. No, no, no, this was like the full on agency involved, PR team involved. Now the timing makes sense because Nate is hosting the Emmys on Sunday, but this was a big deal and I’m not sure this is the best look for Nate, and I think even he is aware of it. I’ll have some thoughts on a comedy stock market tomorrow, but I just I don’t know Nate.

I don’t know. I don’t know. I mean, Nate’s gonna have an awesome weekend, but I don’t know. Lacey Rose writes in The Hollywod Reporter. I noticed Nate Bergetzi’s car before I notice him.

The burnt orange Portia has just pulled up to the bustling Nashville restaurant where we’ve agreed to meet, and the valet is signaling for Bagetzi to park out front. Once he’s made his way inside. He’ll tell me that his primo spot is a perk of driving a stick shift. What he won’t say, and what he’d hate having to read here, is that it’s also a perk of being the most successful touring comedian in the world. At this stage, he could afford a whole fleet of them without noticing a dent Inis bank account.

But there’s also a genuine discomfort that comes with the spoils of success. Nate says, I’m grist. I hesitate to even talk about it because I don’t want anyone to think that I’m better than them. Lacey writes on The Hollywood Reporter, and Brigetzi has spent a fair share of his time lately grappling with concerns like this one in therapy, which is another thing that he’s embarrassed about. He’s terrified it’ll come off as some out of touch elitist and not the comfortably relatable Oafish dad that’s earned him legions of fans.

But he’s just come from his therapist office and he ate a good session and maybe a breakthrough, And once he starts talking about it, he can’t seem to stop skipping ahead. In his high school yearbook, students were asked what they thought they’d be doing in ten years. His response performing against Zani’s That’s the Big Club in national there, Nate says, I think it used to feel stupid for me to want to dream this big. I thought this tidbit was interesting. Even after his twenty twenty one Netflix special The Greatest Average American got a Grammy nomination.

Netflix is said to have encouraged Nates to explore other distributors for his next special. He went with Amazon. Netflix came around with a bigger offer, but he took Amazon instead. He was hurt, not surprised. Nate said, it wasn’t that I wasn’t doing well, but everybody started getting a little opinionated and was like, man, they’re getting all this industry love and they’re the coolest thing.

And when I’d get off stage, people would be like, Oh, he’s the funniest, but I wasn’t getting any of that, and it was really frustrating. Patt and Oswald too, I’m a fan of but I’m mad at him because he’s part of the people ruining Star Trek. He recently played Dug the Vulcan. Do you want to hear what it sounds like me throwing something across the room. Have me watch that episode.

And then he goes on Star trek dot com and the question what was your relationship with Star Trek Here I’ll go first, Are you kidding me? I started watching tv WPIX Channel eleven, New York City. They showed it six nights a week at six o’clock Monday to Saturday. Watched it seventy nine episodes, watch them over and over. As a kid, I figured out, oh, season one has these credit, Season two has these credit.

Season three has the blue credits. Season two the Enterprise flish from the side season when the Enterprise comes out of the middle. I watched this thing and I’m memorized. But Patton Oswalt to play Doug the Vulcan said, I was born in sixty nine, so it was always the thing in the background. I never sat down and watched the entire YA series from start to finish.

Some people did, but it wasn’t a big part of my life. What you’re like, the guy doing nerd comedy and you’ve never watched Star Trek tos and you’re playing Dug the Vulcan. Patton says, I remember really really loving the movies and certain episodes of the Next Generation it was the best of both worlds and other episodes that really just had amazing writing and directing. So there’s been that level of awareness, but it wasn’t a realm that I completely was into from the get go. He talked about playing Dug the Vulcan.

He said, everything was in the script. In true Star Trek fashion, They’re going to leave it open an interpretation. What was their background, how did they meet, how did they sustain this relationship. I’m going to leave that up to the viewers. It’s more fun that way, as you’re playing Doug with the vulcan ears and makeup.

He said, it was incredible. I’m in the chair. I’m doing what Leonard Nimoy has done, what Christy Ally did, what all these greats did. I’m not sure how many greats played vulcans. I digress.

It’s almost like it’s part of the Hollywood process, and they really have it down with science. I thought it was going to take hours. They’re actually very, very good at getting vulcan ears on very quickly. It’s not like it was in the sixties and seventies. Patton said, I did want to add lib they wrote my character very precisely.

He’s a vulcan. He’s not going to do ad lib things or have emotional reactions to anything. I love that part of it. This is someone who very boldly states what he thinks and feels, and I was happy to stick to that. I was interested where Spock realizes and comes to terms and accepts the fact that he’s an outsider and no matter where he is, he’s an outsider among all those humans, different species.

Then when his crew turned vulcan, Oh god, this show he’s an outsider among them as well, because he’s half fulcan, half human. When he ends up embracing his uniqueness, The unspoken thing about Doug is Doug loves the fact that Spock’s so unique. You can’t be so unique. You’re either unique or not unique. That’s what you really want, a friend, someone that actually likes the fact that you’re different than anyone else.

Are you guys still here? See I’ve told you on and off over the years. I’m very passionate about Star Trek. You heard the rage come out there, but you know, ostensibly that was a story about comedian Patton Oswalt, So thank you for the indulgence there. Spinal tap is out tomorrow.

They have done amazing amounts of press in character Nigel’s it’s no spoke to Guitar World, we learned. Nigel for the last fifteen years has been living on the border of Scotland. I’ve got a cheese shop there and we work together with his partner Mora. He still plays music, mostly with locals in the nearby pub and says, but it’s not for the public to hear. Well, it could happen, but as it so happens, it’s not.

It’s just for me. He makes cheese. He was asked if the pub sells any of his cheeses. He says pubs aren’t really known for their cheese, now are they. If you know what a pub is, it’s mostly people drinking side or a port or some sort of ale or lagger.

All right, here is a shocking development. I actually watched a comedy special. Yeah. My wife was like, oh, I’ll watch the paper with you. I’ll be down in like twenty minutes, so I had to kill some time.

I watched the entire Apple iPhone presentation, which was forty minutes long. She still wasn’t there, so I’m like, all right, let me see what’s on Netflix, and they stuck Jordan Jensen Special in front of me, and I hit play and I lasted one minute seven seconds. I think the material might have been okay, but Jordan, are you listening? Jordan and your people, are you guys listening? Stop adding fake laughter.

I mean it’s like, hello, Halla. I could not with this special. It actually made me angry, and I posted about it in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, and then one of the regulars over there, Dylan, made me laugh. I’m still laughing at this line. He wrote, this is the one you watch the day it comes out.

He’s so right, because I never watched them today they come out because I’m always doing something else. But yep, I watched Jordan Jensen minute seven. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but the laugh track is unacceptable. So I did not watch it, and I went out of my way to give it a thumbs down in the Netflix algorithm. That’s how angry Jordan Jensen’s special made me.

Apparently she went on Stoby’s World podcast and people are upset about that. Cracked wrote, and I’m just gonna mostly quote here because I’m not really sure what’s going on? But Cracked wrote these words her erratic behavior on the most recent episode of the Stobby’s World podcast, which dropped up yesterday morning, so that would be Tuesday morning. Barely two minutes into Jensen’s unteenth appearance on the show, made a point to mention that her next stop on the podcast press tour would be on The Joe Rogan Experience. Interesting, they say, the conversation steered towards her hot takes on such rogan Esque topics as the transgender identity LGBTQ issues in general, and how, in her opinion, feminism is dead.

At the same time, however, Jensen argued that the perceived failure of the feminist movement is linked to what she feels is an improper handling on the political debate over the rights of transgender women. They have a quote from Jensen there, and the quote reads, I think if you’re a feminist you also have to have issues with trans stuff. You have to because when a trans person goes now I’m a woman and they get giant fake boobs, you have to go Hey, I haven’t listened to it yet. I’ve added it to Mike Cue. I’ll let you know what I think so.

Anyway, my wife eventually showed up and we watched the paper, and as predicted, she made it to the first commercial break and then said it’s not for me, and she laughed. At least it didn’t take six months for us to watch it together. Boy, the first ten minutes of the paper is rough. Bro. I was sitting there using words like horrific, and the only reason I didn’t hit stop is because they hadn’t yet gotten to the lead guy.

So I’m like, all right, at least let me see what the show’s like when we get to the main character. But I watched two episodes on Goodwill. I want to like the show. It feels like comfort food because it feels like an episode of the Office, except for the parts where you laugh for like the characters. It’s not good.

Maybe it gets better. I am going to stick with it just because of the comfort food good Will brought into it. But it’s not good. At least through two episodes it’s not good, and the first ten minutes are horrific. I don’t know how that even got handed In the La Times caught up with Oscar Nuniez, so the actors Oscar Nuniez, the characters Oscar Martinez, that gets confusing times.

I personally I liked Oscar on the Office. I feel in the paper he’s really really overacting. Every time he comes on, I kind of cringe. The main guy’s very good, and the woman in the Jim Halpert role is pretty good, and everybody else’s vanilla, and then Oscar’s bad. How’s that for review?

And I’m in a good mood today actually, anyway, Oscar spoke to the La Times and said, I like this quote a lot. The best thing about Oscar Martinez is that I go home, I forget about the office and I’m just living. But we do these conventions once in a while, and there are kids, teenagers and young people in their twenties were like, hey man, I’m gay, and your character helped me come out of the closet. I like what Oscar said about Los Angeles. LA is a town where it’s very easy to just go to the beach, hang out with friends, but you’re not really concentrating on your career because everything’s kind of cool.

You’re cruising by. I have often wondered if I moved to the West Coast, would I get anything done? I did more work on Sunday than I did between May and Saturday, because it was a really, really nice summer in New Jersey. Once it heated up, but I got a lot to beach it and sat poolside and shortened some days.

And then you know, now it’s fifty nine degrees in reading and I’m productive …

So yeah, I could say where it would just be easy to go to the beach and hang out. The conversation turned to politics. Oscar said, America is a racist country. You can get pulled over and be shot by a cop. It also happens to be a place where you can come from another country at three years old end up with property and a family and a career.

Both things are true. That’s the schizophrenia of this country. Oscar was born in Cuba. Stay with this next quote. A documented pathological liar who’s afraid of the media and wants to throw critics in jail, who’s anti gay, anti science, anti intellectual.

Every time there’s a problem, he’s the victim. I’m talking, of course about Fidel Castro. That’s why my parents left Cuba and now to be here and going through this, it’s crazy. There are detentionent centers where we’re not allowed to go see what’s happening, and the people in there, that’s crazy, and everybody keeps talking about something else. The Ely Times says that reference was to Latino’s industry who have remained silent.

Oscar says, George Lopez speaks up, but there are many huge stars, millions and millions of followers where Mexican or Latino or quiet. If you’re quiet, you’re not helping your people. You’re helping Maga and you’re helping Ice and that ticks me off. While we’re in the office Verse Rain Wilson was forced to evacuate his home in Sisters, Oregon because of the flat fire. On Monday.

He posted on Instagram, this is his fourth evacuation in the last six years. Wilson got into the science of it all and said, the wet years are really wet, and tons of undergrowth grows. Then there’ll be two or three years that are super bone dry, and all that undergrowth provides excellent kindling. For God’s sake, for the planet’s sake, Let’s do something for our great great grandchildren. Simply limit CO two and other heat trapping gases.

In twenty twenty Rain Wilson hosted a YouTube series called An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change. Liz Meely has a new stand up special out. It’s called Space Camp. You’ll find it on Punch Up Live, recorded at the Billhouse in Brooklyn. Liz Meely hit the stage with her rapid fire story telling style to share tales of her boyfriend’s botch vasectomy, oh No, faking marriage, being a sly Princess, cat mishaps, and more.

If you’re in the New York City area, She’ll be doing a show in Brooklyn on September twenty first, Boston November sixth, and a bunch of other shows in between and Kicking off today is the San Francisco Comedy Competition that, over the year has launched some pretty big names, including Patton Oswalt, who has helped Ruin star Trek, Robin Williams, and Ellen DeGeneres. The San Francisco Comedy Competition is an annual multi week judge stand up comedy contest over thirty comedians out of one hundreds to apply performance shows held in comedy clubs, bars, restaurants, casinos, and theaters in SF and around the Bay. Contestants perform three to seven minute long sets in one of two preliminary weeks. The top five from each of those weeks meets in the semifinals. Then I have to do eight to twelve minute sets for another six shows.

Five from there moved to the finals. Then they do twelve to fifteen minute long sets, and then a winner is crowned. Doors open at six shows at seven to nine. Fifty bucks will get you in at the Center for the Arts three fourteen West Main in Grass Valley. And that is your comedy news for today.

I like today. Today is feisty and interesting and fun. See tomorrow.