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Featured: Jimmy Carr, Kat Williams, Kamel Bell, Jeremy Clarkson

What’s in This Episode

• Jimmy Carr considered to host Top Gear reboot
• Top Gear revival competing with Amazon’s Grand Tour
• Kamel Bell interview on unappreciated apps and map services
• Johnny Mac’s idea for highway ‘jerk detector’ app feature
• Kat Williams returning to golf as on-course correspondent for PGA Tour Championship

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That’s Challenger the Eagle. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with the afternoon Daily Comedy News update. Remember turn of the century, Challenger of the Eagle would be like Yankee playoff games. Well, they made a statue with him. A little beat up over the years, but that’s him there and he’s part of today’s b role for Daily Comedy News.

As I take you to my weekly beach volleyball game, We’re about to play a seven to thirty PM game. I recorded this last Wednesday when I went on over to beach volleyball. Jimmy Carr is being considered to be one of the hosts of a reboot of top Gear. Now, I love Jimmy Carr. If you ever get a chance to see Jimmy Carr, he is fantastic.

Don’t miss Jimmy Carr when he comes to your neighborhood. My initial reaction to this was Jimmy Carr top Gear. Aside from the obvious like car pun. Okay, that is kind of funny, But I was like, I don’t know Jimmy Carr hosting top Gear. Love Jimmy love top Gear.

Not sure the to mix well, but I texted had one of my friends who loves top Gear and he was all in on it. So we will see a source tells of the Sun newspaper, not the actual Sun, and you probably figure that out. Our production has their set sight on Jimmy. He’s the ideal host to take the show into a new era and revive top Gear. So that’s interesting as well because the Amazon Grand Tour series is coming out with a new cast and maybe top Gear feels like they can steal the thunderback from Jeremy Clarkson and friends.

We are told Jimmy Carr is a real car buff two so it would be a passion project and they’re looking to pair him up with a woman and quote unquote online celebrities and I don’t know, I don’t know. Three dudes and cars just do that? Who online celebrity? No, that just don’t don’t don’t hope.

Speaking of cars, The Verge caught up with w Comel Bell and asked him they di…

They asked Comel what is the most unappreciated app? He said, I probably use the map app every day. I wish map Quest app was better, so it didn’t have to use the Trump billionaire as guy’s apps. You know who I’m talking about, I actually know. I mean, are we talking about Apple Maps, Gooba Maps, wheez an they’re billionaire or something?

Trump Billionaires is map Quest some sort of like hippie free open world. I don’t know. Come out says the map apps that have the Gulf of Mexico listen is the Gulf of America. So embarrassing. Here’s my idea.

I was driving home over the weekend. If you use ways, you know, hell like, you can like help other drivers and push the button and say like, yeah, this is a speed trap there, or there’s traffic that kind of thing. We need a hole detector. So here’s what’s gonna happen. I’m this is a real thing.

I was on I eighty. I’m in the middle of lane, out of my own business, and one of those jerk holes comes up and passes me on the right and is doing, you know, three times the speed limit. What I want to be able to do is push a button that warns somebody half a mile ahead of me that there’s a jerk coming. We need this. I try and keep the show clean.

I have an idea for what to call it, but uh, you know, ahole detector is pretty close, So let me know if you like that idea. Kat Williams is getting back into golf. Cat will serve as the en course correspondent for the Thursday and Friday rounds of the PGA Tours Tour Championship but Atlanta East Lake Golf Club, the final event of the twenty twenty six fed Ex Playoffs. Gat Williams, who’s fifty four, said, I think I still have the ability of the age to still play professionally if I do get a few things taken care of. If that happens, then the rest of the world will open up for me pretty organically.

There’s no other sport where you could even dream of such a thing, you know, I don’t know. I know some old guys that play beach volleyball on Wednesday nights. Here, let’s look point for them. Cat said he took eight shots off his handicap. I was able to do that with just a couple adjustments.

I was trying to get as good as I could before I started taking lessons, which I guarantee you’re gonna get me better. PGA Tour Lie which features Kat Williams, he’s off on the ESPN app eleven Eastern Thursday and Friday, and that is your afternoon check in again. If you’re hearing this on the audio feed, these are quick YouTube videos I’ve been doing. This is week three of this little experiment. And if you’re staring at you right now, hi, And this is really an audio podcast and you can check out the audio feed there and they’re like twelve to twenty minute episodes every single morning, seven days a week.

So that’s it for now, see you tomorrow

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Featured: Tim Dillon, Jon Stewart, Bill Burr, Sam Tripoli, Adam Carolla, Bobby Lee, Andrew Santino, Dan Cummins, Jonathan Kite

What’s in This Episode

• Oxford Road Comedy Podcast Ad Performance Ranker study
• Top 15 performing comedy podcasts for advertisers
• Tim Dillon Show advertising efficiency despite poor ad reads
• Comedians using Instagram carousel posts instead of video clips
• Comic strip style social media strategy gaining traction
• Jonathan Kite’s Anthony Bourdain impression

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. And I’m actually gonna start with a couple of articles that I’ve been really interested in. This is not like filler stuff. This is the stuff that I’ve wanted to talk about and haven’t been able to really get into the full show.

The second one I talked about in the live episodes that have been putting out in the afternoon. But let’s start with this one. Oxford Road. They’re like, if you’re in the podcasting industry like me, they’re like, A, I don’t know. They stick up for advertising basically as their whole thing, and they put out a study about comedy podcasts.

They say comedy is a highly competitive category and as a result, our Orbit ranker for the category is always in flux. Old favorites are regularly displaced by new hits, while shows hosted by eight list comedians are largely absent from Orbit’s performance picture altogether. Even a some of the fifteen hit shows listed on their comedy ranker aren’t on your radar. They’ve earned their place on the list, says Oxford Road. Many are led by creators who’ve built up loyal audiences over a long period of time.

So this is a top fifteen performing comedy podcast. So what this is orbit normalizes performance across different advertiser goals, Orbit factors and what advertisers paid and what they were trying to achieve. Right, So this is for comedy podcasts that do well for advertisers. And as I like to remind everybody, sometimes my podcast industry gets little snobby. We’re trying to make money, like I’m trying to make money.

I like doing this. I have a lot of fun doing this. I hope it comes across. It also pays the bills for me. So the top of fifteen shows, Now this is interesting to me.

Let me know if you’ve heard of this first one, because I hadn’t, which you know, might not mean anything. I do host a comedy podcast every day for eight years, and I’m in the podcasting industry, and yet I haven’t heard of Crash Dummies podcast with Pat and Mike. Have you? Maybe I’m just stupid, Maybe I’m old, And I’m not saying it’s bad. I’m just saying I’ve never heard of it.

Patrick Johnson and Michael Asubio dive into current events and scenarios that probably will Never Happen seems to be one of those video podcasts that they talk about. Again, I don’t know that one, but apparently the advertisers love it, so good for those guys. That’s number one. Number two is The Foyle Hat with Sam Tripoli. Again Sam not a name that normally comes up on this show, but doing well.

Three is Adam Carolla. Four Ride with Benito Skinner and Mary Beth Burn. Five The Weekly Show with John Stewart. Six The Tim Dillon Show. Now that is stunning to me because Tim Dillon’s ad reads are atrocious, Like when you listen to it, you can tell he does not give an f about the ad at all.

I wow, I am stunned by that because I’m offended Sometimes when I hear his live reads, plus on the audio version, the commercials just drop in in the middle of nowhere, like no effort put in whatsoever. But the advertisers are happening with Tim Dillon, So what do I know? Number seven is The Toast. Eight was I in a cult nine Monday Morning podcast with Bill Burr, ten kill Tony eleven times stuck with Dan Cummins. Every time Dan’s name comes up, I think I bowled with Dan at the Montreal Comedy Festival, like twelve thirty in the morning, and I might have had a beverage or two.

I seem to remember that happening, and I seem to recall having a good time, and luckily the bowling alley was in the hotel where we were staying. I think I might have to check with former coworkers to see how much of that is accurate. Number twelve is something called Some More News. What’s that? Median Cody Johnston hosts this always fair, always well researched, but most importantly, always entertaining take on the topical news of the week.

Every Tuesday, Some More News dives into the world’s weekly the events. Wow, that has never ever hit my radar, and not saying it’s bad. I’m just saying it’s never hit my radar. And that is number twelve. Thirteen Bad Friends, that’s Bobby Lee and Andrews Santino, fourteen smash Mouth, and fifteen Jeff Lewis has issues and Jeff often goes on.

Rogan Oxford says only four shows from the November twenty twenty five Comedy Ranker are held on to their spots during the new round the takeaway when it comes to comedy buying, don’t just sit and forget. They say. Nearly half of the one hundred and twenty five at qualifying comedy shows tracked in orbit are proved to be efficient, but the genre as a whole lags. Why because the more efficient shows don’t get enough ad spend, spend sore money. You got guys in the basement.

Try to do a show by the pool. They need money. Chlorine is not free. Oxford Road tells this, Four of the five highest efficiency shows on this ranker cost under twenty five hundred dollars per episode. That means to advertise on you can get in this show a lot cheaper than that, just saying.

At the same time, household name shows command premium price points and deliver a massive reach, yet lag and efficiency. Remember when you need major results, you don’t need a big name or a big price. And just because you haven’t heard of a comedy podcast or doesn’t mean they don’t have a loyal audience. Exactly, support your local guy in a basement. Another article that interested me from the New York Times how comedians are using social media that instead of posting clip clips, they’re now doing comic strip style panels with captions.

Have you seen this? They use an example of Mike Kaplan doing three images, kind of like the old comic strips. If you’re old, remember comic strips in the newspaper. Some of you were like yeah, and some of the people are like, what are you talking about? But that whole one, two three beat the comic strips tend to have.

Comedian Eric Walsh said he started posting carousels in the spring and found he was reaching more Instagram users than he had with videos. He explains, and this makes sense. Some people just don’t want to watch clips at work and stuff like that, and so the fact they can just scroll through the pictures, it makes it easier to consume and distribute. Julian Brenny is a thirty six year old stand up comedian who said, sometimes you have a joke you love, but sometimes you get a tape and maybe the video’s not so good or the audio’s not so good, and the crowd didn’t love it, and so it takes a long time to get a really good tape of a joke, whereas with a carousel you can kind of do it straight away. Dtyes Shunkar is the thirty two oerd comedian and said the hook is much faster with these.

People are able to see the first punch line on the first page immediately, so there’s not even this ten second delay that you have with the videos. Younger generation, your breens are fried. Now. I’m somebody who’s on the internet sixteen hours a day and listens to podcasts at two point three speeds. So I don’t want to be holier than now.

But if you can’t wait ten seconds, I mean, what does this younger generation do? Says the old man in the basement. Regina Lutrell runs Syracuse University Center for the Creator Economy and said, there’s no sound to turn on, there’s no video to sit through, there’s no waiting for sort of a payoff. Geez, what are we doing people? I get it all right.

Let me indulge myself here. I keep forgetting to put this in the show. Jonathan Kite does this wonderful Anthony Boardine impression. It’s probably my favorite thing happening in comedy this year. Anyway.

Jonathan Kite’s Anthony Boardine went to Pizza Hut. Let’s listen in for a bit. Welcome to the reboot of the red roofed Rendezvous Pizza Hut, an old friend putting on its old face to remind us of simpler times when apps meant appetizers, the cloud meant weather, and everyone didn’t have a podcast, back when no one out pizza the hut. We begin with the salad bar, a terrarium of water logged iceberg, lettuce and bland accouterments. Top it off with French, Italian or Thousand Island exotic flavors from around the globe, all made in a windowless factory in Ohio, and shielding.

This garden of eton is a sneeze guard so useless it could only pass safety standards in a Wuhan lab. Next, a plate of piping hot breadsticks dusted with garlic and parmesan, served with a cup of marinera basically deconstructed pizza for people who would never use the word deconstructed. He’s Jonathan Kite. Follow him on Instagram. He regularly does those boarding bits and I love him.

From the OC Register. Gabriel Iglesias and Long Beach Chef collab for special menu at Yamava. That’s right, the Japanese Mexican fusion dishes will be available for a limited time at the Highland Casino. You see, Martin drove trucks for fifteen years before COVID took him off the road and put him behind a grill. He told the OC Register, I couldn’t find anything good to eat anywhere.

It could get a good pancake anymore because it didn’t taste authentics. I just put together what I could decide to start an eatery out of my own driveway, and it blew up. Jeff Martin opened Mexi Hanashibachi Grill in Long Beach in twenty twenty and expanded from a ghost kitchen to a full fledged eatery. He specializes in quickly roasting vegetables and meats over a flats up growth for Japanese Mexican fusion dishes, and considers it to be a hole in the wall. However, word got around, including to comedian and to actor Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias.

Now I like Gebe, and I’ve worked with Gabe specifically when we launched Comedy Central Radio. I don’t think of him as an actor. I know he does some voice work, but now I’m going to hop on his IMDb here and see what I’m forgetting. He plays Speedy Gonzales in the short Daffy season. He played Fluffy on Shifting Gears.

That’s like me playing Johnny Mac on a podcast. His acting credits include Kill Tony, and he was in one episode of the Neighborhood where he played Luis in twenty twenty three. Yeah, so I’m not sure I’m wrong about that actor and comedian thing. Here again, love the guy. But oh and here’s the credit Reond Comedy Festival.

That’s interesting. The chef said, I actually met Fluffy from a direct message. He congratulated me for opening my restaurant and for the billboard sign we had right off the four of five, which caught his attention. He told me he’d like to come by and try out the food, and he hasn’t stopped coming by since. To have a person like Fluffy coming to my establishment, it’s like a dream come true.

The chef tells us, Fluffy has his own shelf at our restaurant. Whatever he needs, it’s always there. We don’t have to scramble. It’s like a vip shell for him, and he appreciates it and we appreciate it. All right, John, Well, you got us hungry.

What are they serving? Well, you see, there was a secret menu that the chef said had only been tasted by Aglacias, but will now be available to you to your listener for a limited time at the Yamava Resort and Casino in Highland. It’ll be available through October thirty. First guests can order dishes inspired by the meals Gabe orders most often. The chef said, Fluffy would come in and do a regular fried rice, which has the choice to add chicken, shrimp, or beef to go with the fried rice if they like, which, by the way, reminds me, I’ve got leftover ty food.

So as soon as we’re done recording here, I’m in. One day, Fluffy came through the door and was like, Hey, I got this can a spam. You want to bake it up and throw it at the fried rice? I told him sure, and I went next order the pizza shop, grabbed a couple of cups of pineapple, threw them in the diced up spam, and we made it happen. Other tasty concoctions include the Beef Chow Maine top with Mongolian beef and vegetables and served over chop suey hibachi noodles.

Then there’s the fluffy Rito love It. That, of course is a burrito stuff with spam, fried rice, Mongolian beef, chop, suey noodles, and vegetables. I’m not sure that sounds good. The beef and Cheese Quesadia is one of Gabe’s other favorite orders, and that’s filled with guey Chihuahua cheese and Mongolian beef inside of flower tintia that’s crispy after a few flips on a flat iron grill. For dessert, Guess can enjoy the carrot cake, which weighs half a pound.

The chef said it was delicious enough to get Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias to give his favorite pastry chocolate cake a break. You know, I might have to start doing a bid here. I’ve got this Hannah Burner article that gets bumped every day. I might just tell you every single day it got bumped. But we are long into the break.

Leonard Woods he’s been around for a while. He’s releasing his long awaited debut comedy special, talk about Long Away to Day. He’s been on my radar for at least twelve years. It’s called lil some some l l s um n sumn lil sumsum. That’ll be out on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla.

The special is availed now on Gorilla Comedy Plus. It’ll be on Gorilla’s YouTube channel September tenth. It’s seventh Central. Leonard Hoitz says, you ever been a Texas roadhouse? Well, this is my cinnamon butter rolls while I finished cooking the main course.

It’s just little something, something to put on your stomach. I like it. Leonard is a large man, at least the last time I saw a photo of him. Growing up as a military brat in Chesapeake, Virginia, Leonard Oitz reflects on life with a navy father, living in Japan after nine to eleven, and navigating parents returning to college while raising him. He shares funny and heartfelt stories about family dynamics, including being bribe with McDonald’s to keep secrets, coping with loss of his mother before his father quickly remarried.

He mixes vulnerability, sharp commentary, and laid back charisma into a deeply funny hour of comedy. He is very funny. Out of Tel Aviv, a magistrate court has ordered stand up comedian Vova to Marken to pay three thousand dollars to a woman in the audience who he allegedly mocked over her wheat during a comedy performance. The judge ruled that the comedian’s comments went beyond what could reasonably be considered part of a stand up performance. The woman attended a Russian language stand up show.

According to the lawsuit, the comedian told her during the performance, buckle up here. If you think the tailor Swift joke that Joe Koy made was harsh, I should play that if you just to refresh your memory. The big difference between the Golden globes and the NFL. On the golden gloves, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift. Now, if you think that Joe Coy joke was harsh, listen to what the comedian said at a comedy show about the woman’s weight.

The comedian said, soon a man will come on stage who weighs as much as you. He’s been involved in boxing fights for eight years. Whoa dude at a comedy club back that down. She also claimed that the comedian said, now listen to this, Okay. I don’t know if anybody listen to this, you remind me of my cat.

You’re as fat as she is. Whoa at a comedy club? Are you kidding me? Can’t have crowd work like that. The comedian Who’s twenty two, deny making the statements.

However, he also argued that audience’s attending stand up comedy understand that the genre involves provocation, humor, and jokes at the expense of audience members, and that such interactions are part of the experience. He also disputed the woman’s account, claiming she had attributed statements made by other comedians to him. The judge, however, found the woman’s testimony credible, determining that Timarkan’s testimony was not equally reliable. The judge wrote, language used in standup performance is, to put it mildly, not clean, and participants who attend such performances should be aware of that. However, humiliation that goes beyond the boundaries of that unclean language should be avoided.

The judge ruled at the comments concerning the woman’s weight, including the references to a quote fat cat and a boxer, crossed the line of what could reasonably be expected at a comedy performance. The court rejected the woman’s full compensation demand amount of UH to do a currency conversion here, let me see what this is in dollars. She was asking for fifty thousand Israeli new shekels, and according to my exchange rate, that’s approximately sixteen thousand, six hundred and seventy nine dollars and seventy three cents. Again, she was compared to a boxer and called a fat cat and wanted sixteen thousand dollars, but the judge was like no, no, no, till Markan was ordered to pay ten thousand new Israeli shekels, including four thousand Nis toward the woman’s legal expenses. To Markin said, why I do my stand up My only goal is to make the audience happy with quality comedy.

I never go on stage with the intention of hurting anyone. But yes, although the court’s decision left a bad taste from this whole story from my career as a stand up comedian, gave me a serious boost and that’s obviously something I can’t help but be happy about. Dude, buy yourself a ticket to Austin and hope your name comes up in the hat. And that is your comedy news for today. This was a fun one.

I enjoyed this one. Say Tomorrow,

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Featured: Rosie O’Donnell, Jimmy Kimmel, Jerry Seinfeld, John Mulaney, Nate Bargatze, Dave Chappelle, Thomas Agora, Reggie Watts

What’s in This Episode

• Variety pitches Rosie O’Donnell late-night talk show after guest hosting Kimmel
• White House spokesperson criticizes Rosie O’Donnell over Trump remarks
• Rosie O’Donnell relocates to Ireland
• Nate Bargatze launches ‘No Pictures’ comedy brand for edgier content
• Nate Bargatze announces ‘Nateville’ animated series in development
• Fastball Comedy Festival announces Dave Chappelle and Thomas Agora as headliners in Mesa, Arizona

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I’m Johnny Mac with the Afternoon check In. There’s an article in Variety they want Rosie O’Donnell to get a late night show. All this because she did pretty well last week on Jimmy Kimmelive as the guest host. People seem to dig it. But come on, guys, we’re not giving Rosie O’Donnell a late night show in twenty twenty six or twenty twenty seven.

What would possibly be the market for sixty six year old Rosio Donald. Now, she had a very successful career, successful daytime television show. I could see her going back to the view, but we are not starting, you know, later at night with Rosie O’Donnell. In this day and age, I will remind you Netflix couldn’t get people to watch John Mulaney when the guests were the ilk of like Jerry Seinfeld. Okay, no one’s watching a ros o donald late night show.

Maybe for a week there’d be some curiosity, but you know, this is not an episode of Hacks. We’re not doing this. This is just not gonna happen. But Variety wrote that piece. The President of the United States had some thoughts about it.

A White House spokesperson what out of the way to put out this statevid. Listen to this Rosie O. Donald’s a nasty woman and a total slab whose brain has been completely destroyed by Trump drangement syndrome. You can send your letters to either Rosie or Trump, or whatever side you’re on. Now, the other thing I’m gonna point out here is Rosie left the United States and moved to Ireland.

And now I’ve been to Ireland. Ireland’s a fabulous place. I wouldn’t mind living in in Ireland. But when you’re leaving because of who’s in charge, you’re making a stayment. So you know, it’s just like coming home and hosting a late night show.

So I think this is a complete non starter. We also have some news about controversial MAGA comedian Naprighazzy. He’s back in the news and he’s getting edgier. And you see he went to a UFC fight on the White House lawn and now he’s into edgy material. He’s started a new company.

It is called No Pictures. He’s not getting rid of Nateland, and Nateland will be the family friendly one, but No Pictures is for quote unquote edgier content that’s right. We are told the name no Pictures comes from quote his daughter used to say. When she was little, she would tell Nate, no pictures please. I’m pretty sure we could figure it out that there was some kind of joke like that with the no Pictures.

We’ve also learned Nateland is in pre production on Nateville. This would be the naperghazzy version of King of the Hill, sort of kind of why why we already have King of the Hill. I’m not sure people are actually watching King of the Hill. I’ll put this in the Bob’s Burgers category if I understand. Fox has been promoting King of the Hill for a decade and a half, maybe two decades at this point.

I’m not sure it’s actually on. Have you seen it. We’re not gonna do the Bob’s Burgers bit today, but I don’t think we need like the napergazzy ripoff King of the Hill? Is that necessary? From Cobbs dot com, you’re home for comedy news.

They’ve announced the Fastball Comedy Festival. The headlineers are amazing, Dave Chappelle and thomps Agora. That’s a pretty good one too, to lead off your festival. It’ll be in Sloan Park in Mesa, Arizona, October seventeenth and eighteenth. That’s a Saturday and Sunday.

We’re told, turning one of baseball’s premiere spring training venues into a comedy destination. And we’re told that’s one of those phone of free events, so you’re gonna have to lock your phone away and a packet. And that is your quick update this afternoon. If you’re catching this in the audio feed, there’s quick videos I’m doing on YouTube and if you’re seeing me on YouTube, but this is really an audio podcast. On Tuesday morning, there’s a Reggie Watts story that’s like not fun at all that I didn’t want to get into here.

You know, this is kind of loosey goosey. I’m sitting poolside, I’m outside, you hear the birds. But again to the Reggie Watts stuff. Listen to the audio episode. It’s getting kind of hicky, all right, Catch in the morning,

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Featured: Zarna Garg, Nate Bargatze, Lawrence Gray, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Ritchson, Reggie Watts

What’s in This Episode

• Zarna Garg trapped in Hermès bathroom in Berlin for 90 minutes
• Nate Bargatze launches No Pictures production company for edgier content
• Lawrence Gray hired to oversee edgier Nateland projects
• Nateville adult animated series in development for Netflix
• Rolling Stone report on Reggie Watts and ex-girlfriend Katherine McCullough
• Comedy Bang Bang removes Reggie Watts theme song

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh my, Zorna Garg got stuck in the bathroom. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. That’s not even really why I’m laughing. I’ll do this story that I’ll tell you why I’m really laughing.

Okay, So there’s Zarna Garg and she went to an air Mas store in Berlin and ended up spending time in the bathroom. She was there at air Mez trying to secure one of the luxury brand’s famously elusive handbags. Zarna Garg said she was trapped inside the bathroom for about an hour and twenty minutes after its sliding door refused to open. Her team and her children documented the episode while they waited on the other side, which was later posted as an Instagram reel, which now has my hogwash detector going, why was your social media team with you shopping? Ya happened?

He gets stuck in the bathroom. I don’t know about this one. We are told that why locked in the bathrooms? Aren’t a Garg, who happened to have her social media team with her did what a stand up comedian might do. She turned the predicament into content.

Good thing the social media team happened to be there, She joked from inside the bathroom, played with paper towels and even fashioned the paper towels into origami. She wrote on Instagram. We started recording, thinking we’ll make a funny video about what you can do when locked in a bathroom. I made an origami village of paper towels and played games like guess how many towels I’m holding. It’s so funny that a place that is so persnickety about perfection, this is happening there.

According to zarn’t A, Garg, her team asked store managers to call the fire department when attempts to open the door failed, but the staff resisted because they wanted to protect the door, which I can understand. Garg said. She was eventually asked to push the door from inside as those outside the door worked on it with a crowbar. Firefighters ultimately did help free her. When the door opened, she appeared visibly shaken and said, thank God, there was no fire.

However, had there been a fire, there were firefighters there No. Yes, So here’s why I was laughing, because I know you’re like, hey, Johnny Mac, how did you know how to pronounce air mez. A guy like you probably would have said Hermes. Well, friends, I decided to check it and I found this wonderful video by this guy. Hi, I’m Simon Dunan.

Today I am preaching and teaching about pronunciation. Ready, air mez is pronounced air mez, sort of like I think you’re gonna say air mattress. Oh. You know who’s back in the news. Controversial mega comedian Naprighetzi, And now he’s moving away from the clean stuff and he’s getting edgy.

See what happens when you go to UFC fights You get all these crazy ideas. Nyperghetzi has launched No Pictures and he’s hired some guy named Lawrence Gray to oversee quote unquote edgier production alongside the family friendly Nateland Entertainment. Do you think he’ll open like an edgegear theme park? That would be fun. No Pictures will produce film and TVs shows that will delve into edgier genres and stories more suited for older audiences.

Why is it called No Pictures? Nate said he took inspiration from a family favorite quote from his daughter Harper, who when she was little would tell him no Pictures Please Nate Tull Deadline. Lawrence has developed some of the biggest movies in the world, so having him choose to come build Nateland and No Pictures with us is incredible. He’s operated at the highest level of this business, knows what it takes to turn a great idea into something that can reach millions. Bringing that kind of creative firepower into both Nateland and No Pictures changes what’s possible for us.

We’re already have some big things in motion, and I think everybody’s going to be surprised with what’s coming next. So let’s see what this guy has worked on. He began his career at Scott Root and Productions before moving to Fox Searchlight, where he shepherded acclaimed films like Thank You for Smoking, The Hills Have Eyes, and Sideways. Following his time at Fox, he went to Universal, where he shepherded the Sam Raimi horror fic Drag Me to Hell, before launching Gray Matter, where he produced a slate including Life Out, the launchromat Yes Day, Pain, Hustlers, and Family Switch Out. Of all those things I just mentioned to you, I think I know what two of them are.

More recently, Great produced the Man with the Bag. This is coming out on Prime Video December second. In The Man with the Bag, it stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Alan Richon. I’ll be curious to see if Alan Richan can act at all. I’ve been watching Reacher and I love the new season of Reacher.

But my dude has no range whatsoever. But I guess if you put him in a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, suddenly he’s Olivier. John, did you just drop a Laurence Olivier reference? And you’re wondering why younger people don’t listen to your show. Lawrence Olivier passed away on July eleventh, nineteen eighty nine.

Sean, maybe you get a little fresher with the reference. Is who am I supposed to say? He’s no? What? Leo com Hanks?

Who do you want me to reference? When it comes to Nateland, Gray now oversees a slate including the comedy Fantasy Camp, which also sold Amazon in a heated multi studio bidding war. That film follows a group of friends that at a make or break moment in their live I’ve had to Dwayne Wade’s Fantasy Camp in Miami to relive their basketball dreams. Did Kevin Hart and Marcello Hernanez pass on this film? What is that?

Oh? Wait? Listen to this? Currently, Nateland is in pre production on Nateville, an adult animated series for Netflix that sources have equated to being Naperghetzy’s King of the Hill. You think I’m making this up?

It’s there in deadline. Does anybody want that? We already have King of the Hill and already don’t watch it. I guess somebody watches it. I don’t know is it even on.

I’d put that in the bobs Burgers category of Fox claims it on. I’ve never checked. I don’t know if you’ve seen this story around Reggie Watts. I had been avoiding it. It seemed a little too gossipy and not at all fun, but it is now really touched into comedy.

Comedy. Bang Bang has removed the Reggie Watts created theme song, as upcoming music festivals have also removed Reggie Watts’s name from their lineups following a report in Rolling Stone on the comedian musician’s quote reckless behavior and the wake of his ex girlfriend’s death. We’ll talk about this song in a minute. The removals follow a lengthy report published by Rolling Stone on Thursday of last week, were loved ones of Reggie Watts’s late ex girlfriend, Katherine McCullough came forward to claim that Reggie Watts encourage mccullaugh to take a heavy array of drugs, particularly ketamine. Throughout the relationships.

Friends say they witnessed abusive aspects of the couple’s relationship, including financial dependence and Reggie Watts allegedly withholding emotional support from McCullough. One friend is quoted as saying Watts cultivated a dynamic and a relationship where she felt like she could only truly access intimacy, closeness and empathy from him if they were both using drugs together. Watts entered the relationship in October. McCullough died by suicide in March, so you can see why I haven’t been doing that one. I like fun Locked in the Bathroom Stories.

This is a comedy show. But now where this has crossed over into comedy is because of Comedy Bang Bang, which I will remind you of all the comedy shows I ever went to, especially in the series XM years, Comedy Bang Bang the only show I walked out of because it was bad. I remember looking at my host Mark and we both looked at each other and our Facebook said we’re wasting our time here and we left. It was the only show we ever left, That’s how bad it was. So I’m not a fan of that show.

I know a lot of people are. Comedy Bang Bang has removed the Reggie Wats theme. Fans who hit play on the podcast were greeted by a generic British woman’s voice stating the episode number on Monday, instead of the usual Reggie Wats improvisational beatboxing riff that has served as the show’s interest since twenty eleven. The show did not acknowledge the replacement. They also have not commented on the accusations against Watts.

We are told a representative for Comedy Bang Bang and host Scott Ackerman did not immediately reply to Rolling Stone’s request for comment. Watts was also scheduled at the Shambala and green Belt festivals in England. His name was removed from the website, so a representative for green Belt said Watts would no longer be appearing. Shambala did not respond to a request for clarification. Rolling Stone says and a screenshot reviewed by Rolling Stone.

A festival representative acknowledged that Watts was no longer part of the event. Over the weekend, a set of shows with frequent collaborator Capiac was canceled in Bristol, with no acknowledgment from the venue or any of the parties. Rolling Stone spoke with five women who previously dated Reggie Watts. Three claimed they also experienced Watts encouraging them to take drugs, including ketamine with him. To exes allege Watts blue past their boundaries to satisfy his own needs.

It’s unclear to me what that means. One woman claimed Watts recorded an explicit video of her that she had not consented to, and another claimed Watts initiated sex without her wearing a condom, despite an implicit agreement that they would always use production Due to Watts disclosing they had an STD Rolling Stone says through an attorney, Watts said any suggestion that he was an abusive boyfriend was false, but did not comment on the women’s accusations directly. Let’s not going to break on that. Let’s do something a little more fun. The White House had some thoughts about Rosie O’Donnell hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live last week.

They gave a statement to Entertainment Weekly. A White House spokesperson said, Rosie o’donald’s a nasty woman at a total slot whose brain has been completely destroyed by Trump derangement syndrome. Send your letters to I don’t know Rosio Domine or the White House up to you. This is interesting. Andy Wheel, who was Netflix’s VP of Comedy and the second longest serving program and executive, is leaving Netflix to join Amazon MGM Studios as head of Comedy.

His first day will be September fourteenth. We are told he is a well regarded comedy executive and had been at Netflix for more than eleven years. At Universal, he shepherded Boy Deadline, Likes the Word shepherded, He shepherded at Brooklyn ninety nine, and also worked on The MINDI Project and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. So we’ll see we’re getting more comedy out of Amazon, like I feel they’re in a lane now that’s like shows like Jack Ryan and Reacher. But we’ll see if they do more comedies or maybe we’ll get more and better stand up comedy on Amazon anyway, good luck, sir.

Apparently, one of Eddie Murphy’s kids did a set at the West Side Comedy Club in New York City on Saturday night. Miles Murphy got up. Club manager Gina Savage said he’s only been performing for less than a year. An insider says during the day, he’s a screenwriter performing comedy with something he’s always wanted to do, and he’s performed in several of the clubs in LA. We’re told that he was pretty good.

Would you like to hear the worst trailer of all time? I’m going to play for you the worst trailer of all time The News Stories. Comedian Jack Asidorian Junior, who goes by Jack Junior, has announced that his debut special Mexican Armenian, will premiere on YouTube on Thursday, September seventeenth at noon Pacific. In the special, Jack Junior explores the unexpected similarities between his Mexican and Armenian cultures. All right, it sounds like a good premise, but let’s listen to the entire trailer.

Okay, stay with me. This is the entire trailer. Haven’t touched it at all? What’s that down? My dad never hugged me.

The only time my dad hugged me was when you try to hate me, and he missed. I’m the Arminian. I’m not Mexican, I’m r mex I’m both money lies, Jack Junior, guys, thank you so much so one hack joke and you’re letting us know your Mexican Armenian. That’s the entire trailer. I mean, a hack joke and just a premise.

That is why it is the worst trailer of all time. Now, yesterday on the show we did cheesy jokes. Today I have for you the sixteen best one liners, crowned the best in Edinburgh. As always, they were told better by the comedians than some loser with a podcast in his basement. But I will try my best.

Andrew Maxwell said, I was going to sail around the globe in the world’s smallest ship, but I bottled it. Some of the other jokes, I’m not naming the comedian because I’m here on MSN dot com and they have pictures of the comedians who I don’t recognize, but not their names. But some of the other jokes. I started dating a zoo keeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah next, I try to steal spaghetti from the show up, but the female guards saw me and I couldn’t get pasta. I’m assuming he said pasta and not pasta, otherwise the joke wouldn’t work.

And this was in Scotland. I like this next one. I thought the word cesarean began with the letter S. When I looked in the dictionary, it was in the C section. Pretty good, we’re gonna get the job.

Center has to be a tench job, knowing that if you get fired you still have to come in the next day. That’s pretty good. That took me a minute. That’s very Hedbergian. I’m not a fan of the new pound coin.

But then again, I hate all change hedgehogs. Why can’t they just share the hedge? I like that one. I’ve just been on a once in a lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again.

I needed a password eight characters long, so I picked snow White and the Seven Dwarves. I heard a rumor that Cadbaret is bringing out an Oriental chocolate bar. Could be a Chinese wispa. I’ve decided to sell my hoover. Well, it’s just collecting dust.

I just deleted all the German aims off my phone. It’s hands free again. I think if I do it in my native accent, I would have said it’s hans free and doesn’t work as well. And one more, my dad has suggested that a register for a donor card. He’s a man after my own heart.

That your company news for today back in the afternoon with one of those short episodes that people will I don’t know, let me know. Tell me the Facebook grip. You like them, you hate them? They color the feed, they’re kind of fun. I don’t know.

I’m just trying stuff. See tomorrow, No, no, see in a couple hours.

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Featured: Dane Cook, Daryl McCauley Cook, Seth Meyers, Chris Fleming, Jay Leno, Weird Al Yankovic, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien

What’s in This Episode

• Dane Cook’s brother Daryl McCauley’s name confusion
• Seth Meyers taking seven weeks off and launching video podcast
• Jay Leno’s Vanguard Award and scheduling a comedy gig during the ceremony dinner
• Weird Al Yankovic’s NPR Tiny Desk concert performance

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This, friends, is why we do the show cool Side when we can, because sometimes it rains. I’m in a silly mood today. So I was putting together the regular audio show. I was doing the Dane Cook story and I noticed, like, his brother’s name is Daryl McCauley, and I was wondering, Hm, why is Dane Cook’s brother’s name McCaulay. I’m like, Dane Cook.

That sounds like a stage name, like Johnny Mac. Like maybe Dane is using a fake name. It show business. That works, So I asked Ai, Now this is where it gets fun. So AI says, yes, Dane Cook is his real name.

His full name is Dame Jeffrey Cook born March eighteenth, nineteen seventy two in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Okay, fair enough, So I said, why is his brother McCauley And AI said, because McCauley is his brother’s first name, not his last name. Huh, his name’s Daryl McCauley. So I asked, hey, hey, hi, and it said no, his full name is Daryl McCauley Cook. He went professionally by Daryl McCaulay, using his middle name as his surname.

And I went yeah, because that doesn’t make sense. Damee Cook’s name is Dane Cook, but Darryl Cook is going by Daryl McCauley. Why so I question that, I asked the AI. Is that right? Yeah?

I said, no, you Coby. This is a verbatim from the AI. No, you Coby. My previous answer was wrong. I checked it.

Why did you tell me that Deane Cook is Dan Jeffrey Cook. His older half brother is Darryl McCauley, oh icee, And then the I explained they have different fathers, oh Ice. They shared a mother, Donna Jean Ford, but McCauley had a different father, presumably mister McCauley. Now, regular listeners to the audio podcast know that I want to make twelve thirty great again. The President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues, but one issue we agree on is that twelve thirty could be better.

And in the great tradition of David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, I want twelve thirty on NBCD be hosted by Chris Fleming and not Seth Myers. Seth Myers is currently taking seven weeks off from his show, which isn’t insanely a long amount of time, and apparently Seth agrees because he has started a podcast. It’s a video podcast of the A Closer Look segment and you’ll find that on YouTube. I hope it takes off and Seth Myers becomes a YouTuber and then we can give twelve thirty to Chris Fleming. Funny Jay Leno story.

The guy likes to work, so he was given the Vanguard Award at the twenty twenty six at Burbank International Film Festival thingy. The plan was, okay, we’ll have a dinner for Jay Leno, and as one does it, at dinner, you eat dinner, and then we’ll do an hour presentation of Jay Leno’s career.

And then Jay said, hey, guys, I got a gig at seven thirty.

Could we do the presentation first, then the dinner. So Jay got his award and then they had salad and dinner afterwards. And this is true because Jay was doing a seven thirty show at Flappers, which just that Jay had a show at Flappers sounds like a Jay Lettle joke, but that’s an actual club in Burbank, I think, so, I hope you enjoyed your salad, and I gotta check this out. Weird that was on the NPR Tiny Desk podcast. When I saw it, I thought this was old news because he had been on in Let me check my notes here.

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Did you hear that in Acorn? Just hit my umbrella? Here Weird Owls on NPR, and there’s Augusted Wind. This is fun weird als on. I love this.

I’m so distracted right now. Let me shut the laptop before this stupid bit costs me two thousand dollars at a new MacBook. Weird Owls on the Tiny Desk concert in twenty ten, and from memory, let me tell you what he did. He did whatever his parody of the Backstreet Boys song is, and he did the saga begins, which is the Star Wars song from American Pie. So that’s it.

From under the Umbrella in the Pouring Rain, this is why we do the show pool Side on the nice days. But I guess we can also do the show pool Side in the Pouring Rain back in the morning with a regular episode. And let’s take a look at the rain as we check out here

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Featured: Dane Cook, Darryl McCauley, Chloe Fineman, Seth Meyers, Kathy Griffin, Rosie O’Donnell

What’s in This Episode

• Dane Cook’s ‘Funny Money’ movie about brother’s $12 million theft
• SNL Season 52 casting showcases and emerging talent
• Lack of Black female representation on SNL post-Ego Nwodim
• Seth Meyers launching podcast during summer hiatus
• Darryl McCauley’s embezzlement case and prison sentence

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Caloroga Shark Media. Be there. I’m Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Deane Cook movie coming out the headline all over the place. Dane Cook’s brother Darryl stole millions from him, hid cash in spaghetti sauce, and disappeared.

This was an exclusive from People, which is everywhere. Now there’s a trailer for the Dane Cook movie. Maybe we’ll just play that. It’s a little long, but I find it really compelling. It’s your owner.

I could hurt important SPI canvolved with something. What happened? What have you died? A person that spent so much time pretending to be something he wasn’t. From the moment he left that bank, my brother disappeared.

He was like, I want to be a stand up comedian. I was like, I want to be a stand up comedian. These people are fearless. I want to be fearless. Darryl was a major factor.

He became a corrections officer, enjoying your time here on the beach. There very much that time. It’s almost times money. Once he started going platinum, everything changed. He was like a rock star.

Daryl and I looked at each other and said, we’re in for a hell of a ride. He would handle every aspect of every penny that came in. Initially withdrolls for twenty thousand dollars, hecame withdrolls of fifty thousand dollars, wires of one hundred thousand dollars. I was starting to feel something that I couldn’t really identify with was he hiding it in different places? Stockpiling this money?

Darryl was traveling across the country. My pursuit would be to put his brother in jail. Done swung the door open, and piles upon piles of cash. I’m like, this is not normal. The last time I had seen it, there wasn’t nearly as much money in there.

The police officers, they believe that you were communicating with Daryl with coded messages. There were bricks of hundreds in all the spaghetti sauce and. The pasta sauce. Of course, where else would you put the money? This is blowing my mind.

Dude, Darrel’s a go getting was the point to just bury me alive? He seemed to disassociate himself from the whole thing. There was a good part of him somewhere that I grew up with. I do believe that there’s money out there. I believe there’s people that know more.

Where is he? What has he done? How does this end? Funny money? The Dane Cook Story will be available on streaming September twenty ninth.

People, writes. McCauley, who was Cook’s business manager from the nineties through two thousand and eight, handled every penny of Cook’s wealth, but paper trails showed he was withdrawing huge amounts, up to one hundred grand at a time, from his brother’s account. Dane said he began to feel something I couldn’t identify. By the way, are we learning here that Dane Cook’s name isn’t Dane Cook and it’s Dane McCauley. John, you have Google?

Why don’t you tell us you host the show? Okay? I will okay? I googled is Dane Cook his real name? And the Internet said yes.

And then I was like, huh, so why is his brother McCauley. So I asked chat GPT. Now this is a lot of fun. I typed in, is Dane Cook his real name? The AI said yes, Dane Cook is his real name.

His full name is Dane Jeffrey Cook born March eighteenth nineteen seventy two in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So, unlike a lot of comedians, Dane Cook isn’t a stage name. So I asked, so, then, why is his brother McCauley And the CHAT said no, No, pay attention. The CHAT said, because McCauley is his brother’s first name, not his last name, to which I went, huh. Dane’s brother is Daryl McCauley, full name Daryl McCauley Cook.

He generally went professionally by name as Daryl McCauley, using his middle name as his surname. And that read my hogwash detector. The AI is that right? And the AI said, no, you caught me. It actually says, no, you caught me.

My previous answer was wrong. I checked it. Well, well, why didn’t you just give me the right answer the first time? AI? So the AI is now sourcing Boston Magazine.

Take this with a grain of salt. I don’t doubt Boston Magazine, but I do doubt this AI. Dean Cook is Dean Jeffrey Cook. His older half brother is Daryl McCauley. Reliable contemporary coverage says the AI consistently identifies him as Darryl McCauley, not Daryl McCauley Cook.

You see, they’re half brothers. They shared a mother, Donna Jane Ford, but McCauley had a different father, presumably mister McCauley. But we digress because we have to talk about the movie Funny Money The Deane Cook Story, People tells us. McCauley, a former corrections officer, was ultimately arrested in two thousand and eight and charged with stealing twelve million dollars from Cook while acting as his business manager. Just curious and I’m trying to stay out of prison.

I wonder how that went for a former corrections officer. I don’t think I I want to know. McCauley pleaded guilty to larceny, embezzlement, and forgery and twenty ten says People, and was sentenced to five to six years in prison. He was also ordered to repay the twelve million dollars to Cook. His wife, Erica, was sentenced to two and a half years in connection to McCauley’s crimes.

Funny Money The Dane Cook Story On VOD September twenty ninth, Deadline apparently had some spies that the possible casting for Saturday Night Live season fifty two. SNL season fifty two had showcases across three cities. Deadline says those names are beginning to come in. Trenton, Mason, Inside Out, Bella, Osage, Hope, I got your name right. Deadline heard they generated buzz at their showcases.

They’re said to be on the list. Other names Deadline has heard include Claire Riffle, Grace Ryder, Devin Bachrath, Olivia Puckett, Ismael Lufti, Rachel Coster, Russelli Daniels, and Anna Fabrega. Reps from SNL did not return request for comment to Deadline. All we know about season fifty two at the time of this recording is that Chloe Feineman will not be back. I will still be stunned if Cam Patterson is part of the cast, Deadline tells us.

As his customary staffers hit three big markets, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. There was the character’s showcase in LA on August sixth. Chicago’s showcases were at the Annoyance Theater in the Io Theater on August tenth and eleventh, and on August seventeenth and eighteenth. There were showcases at New York’s UCB more standouts. Names that emerge from LA included Trenton Mason, Cabba, Hughes, Chase Rosenberg, and April Rock.

In Chicago, Peyton Reddy, who was one of the twenty twenty six Just for Laughs New Phases quote dominated in Chicago, Deadline says everyone in New York was raving quote unquote about Joey Welsh. Other New York talents that did well Alicia Edwards, Amber Singletary, and saida Bello Osagi. Deadline points out that Hughes, Rock, Edwards, Singletary, and Belo Osagi are all female performers of color. You may recall the people have been observing a lack of black female representation since Ego Nuotum departed after the twenty twenty five season. Deadline and says next up in the casting process are screen tests.

Keep your posting on that. Seth Myers, he’s off for seven weeks and for some reason, has launched a podcast. Yeah. Seth and Salgentille, who writes the popular A Closer Look segment, have teamed up during the hiatus to launch a video podcast called A Closer Lookout of Office to tackle the stories they’ve missed while they’ve been off. So my Caddy comments about Late Night with Seth Meyers aside, that’s pretty interesting, right that they are trying to get this stuff out there.

That suggests Seth didn’t want a seven week vacation. That makes me think even more that this is a bit of a budget thing. So this whole summer thing is interesting. Seth was off from June eighteenth to July thirteenth, did two weeks and then another seven week break. So that’s what nine ten eleven.

That’s like off eleven out of thirteen weeks. That sounds like a budget cut. Seth Myers joked, we had to cancel a family vacation. We were going to take the kids to the Straight Offore Moves and then the travel agent finally said, I just wouldn’t risk it. Obviously, you want to bring the kids when it’s open, you know.

Fo Seth enjoys YouTube and it’s super successful because then we can move him off twelve thirty. He can just be a YouTuber and then we can give twelve thirty to Chris Fleming and make twelve thirty grade again. Jay Leno used to have a late night show was called The Tonight show with Jay Leno. He recently was presented with the Vanguard Award at the twenty twenty six Burbank International Film Festivals Gallas ceremony. The original plan called for dinner followed by an hour long career retrospective with Jay Leno, but they moved everything around.

They put the stuff about Jay Leno at the beginning of the night. Here’s why. Jay asked for them to change it so he could leave so we could do a seven thirty set at Flappers. That sounds like a bit but no. Jay Leto had a seven thirty pm set at Flapper’s Comedy Club in downtown Burbank, so he asked the awards people, Hey, could you move it around?

So before the salad was served at the Marriott, jay Leno recorded the podcast, accepted his award and thank the crowd, and headed to Flappers. Oh my god, that’s fun. More Jay Leno news. Jay was granted a conservator ship for the estate of his seventy nine year old wife, Mavis. Jay, who had been granted a conservator ship over the estate of wife Mavis in twenty twenty four, is seeking to register said conservatorship in New Hampshire, so he can sell community property real estate there.

As you may know, Mavis has advanced Alzheimer’s disease that sometimes leaves her unaware of her birth date or who she’s even married to. Court papers fought on August fifth do not state what kind of real estate the couple own in New Hampshire or what part of the state. Jay was born in Massachusetts. He also owns real estate in Rhode Island. Anyway, for all the bits about Jay Leno being the worst guy who ever lived, seems like a pretty good guy to me.

Kathy Griffin. If you’re a longtime a listener to this program, you know anytime Kathy Griffin gets mentioned, it’s always something happy and good, like Kathy Griffin was petting a Golden Retriever puppy, or Kathy Griffin was smelling some flowers and said, what a beautiful day. It’s great to be alive. So it surprises me that she’s involved in a beef. Right.

Kathy said she’s really hurt that she wasn’t invited to appear on Rosie O’Donnell’s week guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show. Kathy, Kathy, listen to me even you self described as a Dalist celebrity. You had a show with d list in the title. Let’s see who Rosie even had on this from Interbridge dot com. Here’s the lineup for last week when Rosi o’donald guest hosted.

Monday, Hannah Wadding, m Ted Lasso, Sure and a guest ire The Linda Linda’s Bella Brown Tuesday, Gen Smart, Richard Gad Bella Brown again. Wednesday, Charlie Day, Yeah, it’s always Sunday it was out Janelle James, Ashley McBride, Thursday, Nick Offerman and Megan Malaly. Friday was a repeat. I mean, who do you want us to bump? Kathy Griffin on her podcast which is called Talk Your Head Off, Kathy Griffin said, I’m gonna be honest today.

I might cry. I’m asking for your pity. I love a good pity cry. I’m gonna be open and honest and hope you understand. And I’m trying to talk about something bigger than TV talk shows.

But you know, I talk a lot about Hollywood and I give you the inside scoop, et cetera. But this one’s really personal. I’m just gonna come out and say it are you ready. It’s embarrassing to say, but I have to tell you, guys, because we’re friends. My feelings are really hurt that I was not invited to go on Rosie’s Week with the Jimmy Kimmels Show.

Good pals. We’re like sisters, and everyone knows sisters fight. Sisters and brothers fight, best friends fight, relatives, coworkers fight, and we’re not even fighting. I don’t think I’ve ever had a fight with my best friend. I can’t recall one.

If we had one, it’s been a minute. I’m sure he’d have me on his show. Cathy said, I’m just being honest that when I found out that Rosie was gonna take over for the full week from my beloved Jimmy Kimmel, I love that, he said to the camera, and I’m doing it as a special treat to Donald Trump, and I thought, oh, fantastic. He’s leaning into it and his viewers are honestly leaning more to the left. Kathy then brought up her infamous photo from twenty seventeen.

I don’t need a visit from guys with sunglasses. Just google Kathy Griffin photo. It’ll come up. Kathy said, instead, in my own community of Hollywood of stand up comedy were you’re supposed to be edgy, You’re supposed to make political statements as well as be funny. My opinion, that’s what the greats do, That’s who the greats I admired did.

Did not go that way for me. Initially, Griffin said o’donald had made comments that were not supportive of said photo. On a recent podcast, The Upset Kathy Griffin, Kathy said, I mean, think about it. You’ve got these two women who shared this very unique thing in common, and well, what happened to me was much more extreme than what happened to Rosie. It’s pretty unusual that you’ve got these two women that have been so outspoken about Well, he wasn’t the president when she talked about him on the view, but he was the president when I talked about him.

And as I have spoken about before, most of Hollywood turned on me. Overnight. Rosie O’Donnell jumped on Kathy Griffin’s Instagram, posted the video and wrote, Kathy should have called me, honey, I didn’t choose the guests right out. Today on the eight hundred Pound Gorilla Gorilla Comedy Plus channel Beloved English actress and comedian Carry Goldman brings her critically acclaimed stand up comedy special Bandwidth to a wider audience with Gorilla Comedy Plus. Known for her regular appearances on TV shows like Mack of the Week and task Master, He’s also on Allie Kats with Ricky Gervais.

Carry Goldman is noted as one of the most celebrated performers in the UK. Carrie said, I had a total blast filming the special and I’m excited to share my stand up with the wider audience. I do hope you love it, or at least they’re sufficiently amused by it, but love would be preferable. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe it was the Cheese It Cheesiest Joke Award, award celebrates cheesy jokes. I love it.

Following more than one hundred and thirty entries, English stand up Phil Milton, Phil spells his first name fil Phil Milton emerged victorious and won the prize of one thousand British pounds with the following gag told much better by Phil Milton then I’ll tell it here, But the line is my brother convinced me to go on halves on a used funeral car. I can’t believe I was so easily coherst. That is terrible. It’s cheesy. Phil Milton said of winning, it’s a massive treat as a relatively new comedian doing my first show with the Fringe, having this award really helps get the word out about me and my show.

It’s really important to highlight individual jokes too. Sometimes a little one liner can get overlood or dismissed as a dad joke. They take a lot of effort and I’m really pleased Cheesse it have done it. He won from a public vote. There was a shortlist of five cheesy jokes.

Other finalists included this one from Martin Byrne told better by mister Burne. Give him man of Fish, He’ll lead for a day, teach a man OFFICI and will probably start a pod asked about fishing. We also had one from Carlin. No, not George Carlin, Brucken, Tiazac Carlin. This Carlin said, I’m looking for a new job.

I walked past a mirror shop the other day and thought, oh, I could see myself working there. I like that one. I would have voted for that one. Ruy frios Uk senior marketing manager Cheese had said, We’ve always celebrated not taking life too seriously and the inner cheesiness of everyone, so creating an award dedicated to the cheesiest jokes at the fringe felt like the perfect fit. The Trick comedy news for today right back at three o’clock with a casual short video in a normal episode in the morning See Then

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Featured: Rosie O’Donnell, Weird Al Yankovic, Ricky Gervais, Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Olivia Colman, Martin Freeman, Robin Williams

What’s in This Episode

• Rosie O’Donnell guest hosts Jimmy Kimmel, draws 1.87 million viewers
• Weird Al releases new NPR Tiny Desk Concert with parodies and original songs
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season premiere and show history
• Ricky Gervais plans to marry partner of 44 years for tax reasons
• Ricky Gervais discusses cancel culture, work ethic, and assisted dying
• Olivia Colman and Martin Freeman join Only Murders in the Building Season 6
• Robin Williams children announce plans to maintain his Instagram account

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Caloroga Shark Media Hither. I am Jennie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The President of the United States and I don’t agree on all the issues, but one thing we probably agree on is neither of us is interested in watching Rosie O’Donnell host Jimmy Kimmel live. But we might be in the minority. She drew one point eighty seven million total viewers on her first night out last Monday.

That was the biggest audience for any of Jimmy Kimmel’s guest hosts so far this summer. I’ve seen nothing but great buzz about Rosie. Again, not my cup of tea, but people seem to really like the job that she did. Last week, she beat out the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Rosie also won adults eighteen of forty nine, drawing two hundred and eighteen thousand viewers compared to Jimmy’s one hundred and fifty six thousand.

Late Night er tells us all this and they point out online Rosie’s monologue drew two point four million views on YouTube, probably more by the time you’re hearing this, and that was more than twice as many as the most watching monologue from any of Kimmel’s guest hosts this summer. That said, Kimmel’s own monologues routinely top three million views on YouTube, and his live plus same day audiences regularly surpassed two million viewers. Again, Rosie did one point eighty seven, not bad. In the middle of the summer, weird Al did an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Now, I was on the Internet and I saw somebody surface this and I’m like, Yeah, that’s been around forever.

Why is this a big deal? No, it’s a new one. NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert started in two thousand and eight. Al had an episode in twenty ten. Back then, the show was had a little more indie cred, so Al didn’t do parodies.

He did some original songs, but now as he returned, he did some old parodies. The new set, which is on NPR’s Various Socials, features There’s eBay, which is a parody of the Backstreet Boys I Want It that Way, and the Saga Begins, which is weird Al’s Star Wars song set to American Pie. It is observed that it is possible this is the first time that weird Al has performed the saga Begain in regular clothes, not a Jedi robe. Weird All also performed Emmy Losing closing credits blues rock Gym from his biopic Weird, the Al Yankovic Story, and his Weezer pastiche skipper Dan. I think over the years, I’ve come to like the pastiches better than his actual straight up parodies.

The New Yorker it took a look at It’s Always Sonny in Philadelphia. I watched the first two episodes of the new season. Thought they were pretty good. Episode one’s better than two, but I did like where they were. His table setting in episode two, and I think it’s going to go somewhere.

They looked back to the early days when they used Glenn Howarden and Charlie Day’s cheap digital cam quarders they were making their home demo then called It’s Always Sonny on tv Fax. Loved the show’s humor, but were worried at the show took place in LA because there were so many shows in LA at that time, so they decided to move into Philadelphia, where Rob Mcalenny now Rob Mack, had grown up. The characters would change from actors to nightlife industry colleagues aka bartenders, and that’s I never knew this. That’s why the show’s called It’s always Sonny in Philadelphia. It’s a joke since the show’s always shot in la except for the occasional episode and some b roll.

But you notice it’s always Sonny in Philadelphia. I love it. I never knew that. That’s a great little tidbit. The New Yorker reminded us.

An early episode featured a jab that Mac Direxit, Dennis and Charlie, which was a commentary about Hollywood’s inability to get Sonny. Max says in the episode, our problem is that we don’t stick to the basic format that gets us in a trouble. Dennis asked, so, what you’re saying is that by breaking that format, we’re actually limiting our ability to be a successful That’s hilarious. Another episode. I like this one a lot.

They were trying to win the award for Best Bar that was making fun of the show. Never winning an Emmy, it has only received three nominations, all for Outstanding Stunt Coordination for Comedy Program, and it didn’t win that. A few years back, Charlie Day was one of the presenters at the MBS and said, wait, hang on, have you guys been doing this every single year without us? Good show? I’m glad it’s still going all the so much like me, everybody just looks older now, so you put on an episode and it’s just during Unlike me, I haven’t had plastic surgery.

I’m not saying anyone on that show has had plastic surgery. I’m not saying that. I’m just saying when you look at the show, it looks like they had plastic surgery. Well done, John, well done. Ricky Gervais has vowed he will finally marry his partner of forty four years.

Ricky is now sixty five. He’s been in a relationship with Gene Fallon since nineteen eighty two. He had previously said there was no reason to marry before the eyes of God, as there is no God. Send your letters to Ricky Gervais. With that opinion, why would he get married now to reduce his inheritance tax Bill Ricky spoke to Saga magazine and said, that will be the reason I marry.

But if it wasn’t for that, why it’s mad? The inheritance tax is horrible, isn’t it. I got to get around to marrying before I die, He said of his own relationship, How more married can you be? We share all our money. We’ve been living together for forty years.

Some marriages don’t last a year. The conversation made its way to the notion of Ricky Gervas being on Celebrity Traders. Ricky said, no, it’s not that it’s beneath me. I’d love to play Traders, but I don’t want to be filmed playing What good could come of that? I like watching MMA, mix mortial arts.

Hey, he might want to hang out with a controversial mega comedian in Aperghanzy, who also likes mixed martial arts. There’s a controversial lineup. Ricky Gerva’s a Nate Berghansy watching fights, possibly on a white house lawn. I digress. Ricky said, I like watching MMA.

I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to be doing something I’m not in control of. I don’t want to be away from home playing a game with strangers. Will he wind down? No, He’s said.

My dad worked on a building site until he was seventy. That’s hard work. I just stand there talking. He did say that performing catches up with him. Comparing it to driving really fast for an hour and heavy traffic.

I feel you, Ricky. Sometimes I’ll drive up from the beaches down the Jersey Shore, which is like a two hour ride, and I get home and I’m just like toast. Jervis said, I know I should be pottering around my garden shed, but I don’t think I could sit around doing nothing. You work, say, have a reason to sit on the couch and watch Tilly every night. It was an interview with Ricky Gervais, so you had to talk about cancel culture, right, he said.

Everyone got stressed about cancel culture, including me, although I try to beat it head on, but it’s peaked. It’s sick like. Cancel culture was never really about the comedians that could sell millions of tickets. It was about teachers and nurses who were losing their jobs because of an ideology. They discussed the concept of assisted dying.

Ricky described himself as pro choice in that area, but for himself, he said, it would take quite a lot to get me there. I’d want every last breath. It’s only if every breath hurts. Olivia Coleman, who appears in an episode of the Office. By the Way, She’s been announced as the latest star joining the sixth season of Only Runners in the Building Martin Freeman, who’s also in the UK Office.

He’s in the season as well. Robin williams three children, Zach, Zelda and Cody Williams. Did he run out of Z’s I don’t know, just yeah whatever. They went on Instagram to share how they planned to maintain Robin Williams’s Instagram account as a way to keep his unique talent and humor alive. In a joint statement, the Williams children said, as we recognize what would be our dad’s seventy fifth year, we’re grateful to see new generations discovering his work, while longtime fans continue to celebrate the joy brought in other lives.

As technology evolves, we want this to be a safe, trusted place where the stories, photos, videos and memories shared reflect his legacy with authenticity, warmth, and care. He continues to inspire us and delight people all over the world. Robin Williams died by suicide on August eleventh, twenty fourteen, in San Francisco. He was sixty three. Hey look at me actually putting in the notes on a Sunday to remind you, I also host a show called The Weekly Comedy Thing.

You’ll find that on the Live one app. The app is free, the show is free. What’s the Weekly Comedy Thing? It’s kind of like this, except the way the royalties work. I can actually play the bits, So if I tell you a story about a comedian, I can play the bid from the comedian and they get paid.

See, so it works for everybody. So it’s kind of like this with less me more comedians. Sounds pretty awesome, doesn’t it. Yes, it’s the Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live one app. And I also host a show called Five Good News Stories that comes out four days a week.

One of the four days is Sunday. It’s five stories. They’re all good news. So check out five Good News Stories wherever you found this show. If you’re relatively new and by the way, a lot of new people jumped on board this week, welcome.

Thank you. Often on the weekend, specifically on Sunday, I tend to do some international stuff. I do it in the second half of the show. I know not everyone’s into the international stuff, but I am. But if British comedy does not interest you, you can check out for the day and I’ll catch you tomorrow.

The New York Times wrote a piece about the use of AI at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Has it always been Edinburgh Festival Fringe? I always knew it as the Fringe Festival, but I don’t know. The words seemed to have flipped this year. I don’t know Mendela effect.

Maybe I’m from a parallel universe. Who knows? The Times tells us Garrett Millerck created a digital replica of himself by talking at an AI for four months so he could take on his character and comic sensibility. His show We Tried It Your Way runs at Pleasant Courtyard through the thirtieth The avatar appears on screen as a shifty looking three D avatar. The Times caused it unervingly dead eyed, a computer version of the man himself, and proceeds to tell jokes.

Millerrick has named the bot g Dog two point zero, he imagines sending in on comedy podcasts instead of himself. He has generated a clip of the avatar performing at the Hammersmith Apollo. Millrek himself has not played there, but he points out a plausible looking Instagram reels worth almost as much as the real thing. Love it. Millerrek asks his avatar to generate a monologue on a theme chosen by the audience, and it falls flat.

Audience members connected to a computer via QR code can register the reactions in real time. One of the jokes got a big laugh, and Millrich said he felt jealous. A couple quick reviews from website entertainment dash now dot com, John Conahan has been hitting some shows. One of the shows he hit was Zoe Woolfield’s Dog Funeral. John writes, I needed ten minutes to calm down after feeling uncomfortably exhausted by the show.

I enjoyed it, believe it or not. He says. Zoe is completely unhinged in this performance, inviting the audience to her dog’s funeral while arriving in a Victorian morning gown paired with the ego of an entitled, psychotic three year old girl. The show starts with a slideshow of different activities she would do with her dog before it died, and she would later quizz you on it by aiming in your face a water gun. I’m leaving that laugh and stumble in because that was natural.

As I read this sentence. Zoe relies on the energy and heckling from the audience to keep the narrative flowing. Ian an audience member had to comfort her as she wept on the floor crying that her dog has died. She makes the audience members moan and weep for her dog, Otherwise she’ll throw a tantrum and leave the show, only returning when everyone shouts for her to come back. How is this fun?

Doesn’t sound fun? He gave it three stars, three stars out of how many, John, I don’t know either four or five. I can’t tell. There’s just three stars and no grading measurement thing. There’s probably a term for what I’m looking for, but grading measurement thing.

But it’s at least four because the same guy, John Conahan gave four stars to Lou Wall. Lou Wall’s Show is where all the tall Grandma’s John writes, The show is exactly what it said. From the first moment, you were fully captivated by the confidence and madness of Lou Wall, and furthermore stunned by her amazing impressive height of six’. FIVE i didn’t Know Lou wall was six.’ five lou takes us on a detailed journey to find the one and. Only truth where are all The?

Tall grandmas that is an. Interesting point she has carried out, investigative journalism interviewing, the public emailing, health organizations and Even Contacted joe. Rogan spoiler she then breaks in, a song rapping to a beat almost as Fast, as eminem explaining how and what she has done to find. The answer that sounds like a. Good time that was a Pretty strong.

Sunday, episode again a lot of. NEW listeners i often pretape of the, weekend episodes including, this One which i’m Recording on thursday because it’s pouring Out and, i’m like let me get a jump on. The weekend but this was pretty strong For, a sunday, All right and that is your comedy news On. A sunday. See tomorrow

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Featured: Robert Schimmel, Rodney Dangerfield, Howard Stern, Ralphie May, Brie Larson, Vicki Davis

What’s in This Episode

• Robert Schimmel’s confessional stand-up comedy style and personal life
• Schimmel’s son’s death from leukemia and cancer diagnosis
• Fox sitcom ‘Shimmel’ cancellation due to Schimmel’s stage three non-Hodgkins lymphoma diagnosis
• Schimmel’s 1986 HBO Young Comedian special appearance with Rodney Dangerfield endorsement
• Schimmel’s regular appearances on Howard Stern Show building loyal fanbase
• Schimmel’s death in 2010 car accident in Scottsdale, Arizona while awaiting liver transplant
• Deep dive series on early 2000s comedians who died young before YouTube and podcasting era

Questions Answered in This Episode

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Full Transcript

This transcript was automatically generated and may contain spelling and/or transcription errors.

Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mac, and we picked up a lot of new listeners this week. So what I’ve been doing on Saturday’s or deep dives on specific tomics, specific comedians. Last week I did Ralphie May. And my point here is I’m trying to highlight comedians from earlier this century who came along a little too early for modern YouTube or social media and podcasts, and these guys died young and would have been awesome.

One of them I would consider a friend Robert Shimmel, who I got to spend a decent amount of time with at serious exam early in my run there. So that’s what we’re doing today. A normal episode in the feed tomorrow. But today let’s talk about Robert Shimmel, who was fantastic and his life, his life story. If you made it up, you wouldn’t believe it.

There’s a thing that happens sometimes in stand up comedy where comedians life is so strange and so specifically pain that the material rights itself and the only question is where the comedian has the nerve and the craft to stand in front of a room and say it out loud. Most comedians who have access to that kind of material, find ways to soften it, keep something of a private, let the audience know it’s there without fully handing it over. Robert Schimmel was not most comedians. His son died of leukemia at eleven years old. Robert talked about it on stage.

Robert himself was diagnosed with stage three non Hodgkins lymphoma, and on the day the oncologist told him, in a room with his parents and his wife, he found the joke and the doctor’s explanation before it even left the office. I’m in my doctor’s office with my mom and dad. Mycologist comes in tells me that I have non Hodgkins lymphomi. He said, there’s Hopkins disease and non Hoskins and then he says, if you’re open minded, you might consider marijuana because it helps with the nausea and the appetite. And my parents are sitting there devastated with my diagnosis, and I’m thinking this is a dream come true.

I got a guy at Mayo clinic telling my parents I got smoke pot. Where were you? Twenty five years ago? Shimill married and divorce the same woman three times. During chemotherapy, he fell in love with his daughter’s best friend.

She came to visit him in the hospital and became his second wife. Robert was sixty years old and waiting for a liver transplant when his daughter was driving him through Scottsdale, Arizona. She swerved to avoid another car and the vehicle flipped. His son and daughter survived. Robert Schimmel died from the injuries ten days later, on September third, twenty ten.

It’s kind of like Sam Kinnison. If you had guessed how these people would go, you wouldn’t have guessed car accident. Chimmell had all kinds of cancer, and that it was a car is just crazy to me. I didn’t realize he was sixty. I thought he was younger.

Robert Schimmell turned every single piece of his life into colmy that made people laugh and feel and occasionally have to put their hand over their mouth because the laugh on the horror were arriving simultaneously. The actual skill was taking the most brutal and specific facts of one particular life and making them not just funny but generous, making an audience feel, by laughing at his pain, that their pain was survivable and laughable. Too. Robert shim Well, born in the Bronx, New York City in nineteen fifty, grew up there. His sister pushed him to do an open mic night.

How many times have we heard a version of that story Shimill did. It worked well enough that a club owner in LA offered him a regular spot. So he moved to LA and found that the club had burned down before he got there. That kind of bad luck where the universe appears to be personally invested in thwarting. You followed Robert Shimmell around for his entire life.

His big break came in nineteen eighty six when Rodney Dangerfield invited him to perform on the HBO Young Comedian special. There’s a guy. I don’t know where he’s from, and I don’t care. He really makes me laugh. All right, give it up for Robert Shimman.

Okay, Robert. Floyd, he gave a comedian. I used to work for the Drug Hotline. That’s a lot of fun. People call Real Stone to get to play with their heads.

Drug Hotline. I’m freaking out on LSD. Gee, I’m sorry the guy. Do you want to talk to? What was that?

Listen? You haven’t real scary hallucinations. Yeah, seeing like pigs eating your face. Now that you mention it, yes, you don’t worry. The spiders will kill them.

If you ever want to have fun with somebody that’s really stoned, all you gotta say is it me? Or is it getting hard to breathe? In? Here they go. Rodney Dangerfield’s taste was impeccable and his endorsement met something specific back in those days.

Appearing on that special put you in front of an industry that was paying close attention to who Rodney thought was worth watching. Shimmell made the most of it. He got some specials on Showtime Hardcore, in the Big Apple, Guilty is Charged, and became known what the industry calls a comics comic. That is high praise. That is the designation for someone who’s peers think is funnier than their public profiles.

Yes they should be, Shimill wrote for a Living Color he was on Howard Stern regularly, and then after two thousand and six, I think is the math there when Howard was up as serious that would bring Shimmel into the building, which is where I got to know him. Talking about that in a bit Shimmell was named stand Up of the Year at the American Comedy Awards. I remember those then. Fox Green lad a sitcom based on his life titled Shimmel whoa. Now you may feel a little pressure.

Yeah, on the roof of my mouth. Get it out. Let’s relax. Oh that’s beautiful. So who are you liking the playoffs?

What do you get the game on that thing? Doctor Rothman needs a consultation online. One that’s not what you think. Yeah, that’s what everybody says. Hey Phil, Oh yeah I can talk.

No he can’t. Ye, he’s very busy. Fell addrestment opportunity. I’m listening. Hmm, hold on a sick if you could buy boats online, would you ro just stick the phone up my ass and we can confidence.

His daughters were played by Vicki Davis and a young actress named Brie Larson. The pilot was shot, sets were built, marketing was being planned, and during the insurance physical for the production, doctors found stage three non Hodgkins lymphoma. Fox put the show on hiatus. The chemotherapy made production impossible. Fox eventually canceled the show.

So what did shim Will do? He put the cancer into the act. He talked about losing his hair, about the specific indignities of chemotherapy, about falling in love with his daughter’s best friend in a hospital because she visited and he was lying there with nothing to dow but noticed she was kind and funny and beautiful. When he married her, she was four years older than his daughter Jessica. Talked about all that on stage, including how weird it was and how much explain it all required.

The Howard Stern part is super important. Howard was a dominant force back in the early two thousands. Shimill worked on the show because he wasn’t trying to be transgressive. Stern show rewarded the thing Robert Shimmill was doing, which was telling the complete truth about his own life without editing on Stern. The more specific and the more honest and the more uncomfortable, the better.

And Robert Shimmell had a specific, honest, uncomfortable set of material than almost anyone Howard Stern ever put on the air. Because Robert’s actual life kept generating it faster than he could use it, their audiences overlapped in the years of regular Howard Stern appearances built Robert Shimmel a following that was unusually loyal, unusually mail, and unusually invested in his specific brand of confessional comedy. So I got too serious to run the comedy channels two thousand and four or so. And in those early days, Robert would come up frequently and come over and do the Raw Dog Channel. And I remember one particular story with Robert.

So at serious, a lot of stars would come through and, like any place, sometimes a lobby, because you know, I’m not gonna stand in the lobby waiting for Robert Shimmel to show up, So you know, you take the elevator up and you tell the receptionists you’re here to see John mcdermotter, whoever you’re here to see. So one day in the lobby, Robert Schimmel meets David Brenner. Younger listeners may not know. David Brenner, a great comedian who had his peak fame in the seventies and eighties and also a regular Howard Stern guest. Was also one of the primary guest hosts for The Tonight Show in the Johnny Carson era before Joan Rivers kind of took that gig anyway, So I’m there and my coworker Phil is there and Shimmel and David Brenner start swapping stories and we go, hold on, can we do this on the air?

And they both agree to come back the next day and swap stories. So we put them in the fish Bowl Studio, which is the big studio in the lobby which has all glass and that’s where you would do show off shows. And we set up two like old timey stand mics like what Bob Hope would use in the forties, and two stools, and Shimmel and David Brenner did an hour of radio just swapping stories. Now, when I left over a decade ago, the tape still existed. I hope whoever took over my office didn’t lose that tape because it was fantastic.

Let me see if that’s online. I don’t think it is, because that was pre like YouTube, Ron Dog Shimmel Brinner. No, there’s no video. I don’t even see the press release, but you can see this happened. I’m on Howard Stern dot com and on June seventeenth, two thousand and five, they posted Robert Shimmel stop by tosing in for the news, et cetera, et cetera.

Shimill said he was there to do a show with David Brinner. So it did happen in two thousand and five. You know what, I came up here? I forgot I did this apparently on February twenty sixth, twenty twenty two, I did an episode called Robert Shimmel’s Story. So when you’re done here, go back and listen to that one.

See what version of the story I told Maybe I’ll just tag that onto the Why don’t you just do that, John, I will tag that onto the end of this episode and save everybody some work since I obviously have the audio. Oh that’s funny. Did we learn doing this show? Where were we? Oh?

Yeah? So yeah. So Shimmel and Berner came up and swapped stories for an hour and it was fan fantastic. Shimmell’s a really good guy, always like super nice to work with, Like I like working with a pro who has like no attitude and it’s just there to do the work and like just no airs about him. And Robert Shimmel was a great guy.

His specials Unprotected in nineteen ninety nine. Life since then in two thousand and eight, Shimmel since he’d been gone in two thousand and nine. Are all documentaries of his actual life. He wrote a memoir called Cancer on five Dollars a Day and in parentheses chemo not included. That got him onto NPR’s Fresh Air.

Comedy Central named him one of the one hundred greatest stand up comedians of all time. We’ll have to revisit that list every now and then, but sure, why not? That puts Robert in a group of names that most people can recite from memory, and in a group of names that should come up more often than they do. The reason he comes up less often is the same reason and they were off he May conversation goes the same way. There is a specific kind of legacy that the comedy industry is better preserving than others.

The comedian who had the hit sitcom gets remembered through the sitcom. The comedian who with the viral special gets remembered through the algorithm. The comedian whose career was built on live rooms Robert Shimmel, Ralphie May and radio appearances and a confessional act. That comedian’s legacy depends on people actively arguing for it. There’s a clip of Shimmel and Conan from the nineties that gets passed around occasionally, and then people who find it for the first time say some version the same thing, which is why didn’t I know about this guy?

My next yes HBO special Unprotected, premieres this Saturday at ten o’clock PM. Please welcome a very funny guy, one of our favorites, Robert Shimmel. Thank you, thank you very much. My wife and I just had a brand new baby, and oh thanks, thank you. I’m very excited because for the whole pregnancy she didn’t want to have sex.

I mean every time I wanted to try it, and we’re in bed, you know, She’s like, well, I don’t feel attractive. I said, believe it or not, my penis has real poor vision. Actually he’s legally blind. Only women think. Like that, not guys.

I mean really, I mean I got with her and I go, come on, honey, you think tonight, And she goes, I’m too fat. What guy would be like that if your wife said, hey, tonight, you think you want to do it? Nah, I’m too fat to do it, honey. So I’m laying in bed with her, you know, I’m on the road a lot performing and she said she said, you know, can I ask you something? She said, you know, you’ve been on the road for like three weeks.

She said, have you been taking care of yourself? I said, yeah, I’m masturbated a couple of times. She said masturbate. I’m talking about eating right and exercising. Why is any more famous?

What happened? What happened is Robert Shimill never got the sitcom. Robert Shimmell. I would call him a friend. Again.

We weren’t best friends, but like good guy to work with. And here let me dust off that other episode from how many years ago? Now, I can’t do math four years ago? And let’s see what Johnny Mac said back in twenty twenty two. Here’s past me and I’ll see you tomorrow.

With a normal episode, Today’s episode is going to be a lot naughtier than usual. I won’t use any particularly sweary words, but the topics are going to be quite adult. So if you listen to the podcast on a daily business would say children or a nun or your mom, Why don’t you bail? On today’s episode, I’m going to talk about Robert George Shimmel, one of my favorite comedians and someone I knew personally. There’s a fantastic interview and a website called mister Media that I’m going to pick at.

I’ll do a lot from that on the back end, but a quick story up top here. Robert told mister Media. I went to go see Rodney Dangerfield in Vegas and my mom and dad were there, and I want him to my parents to meet Rodney because I thought, you know what, They’re gonna meet Rodney and they think he’s really funny. They’ve seen him on Ed Sullivan, on Tonight’s Show and on Mike Douglas, and they’re gonna really believe that I’m in show business for real. So we go to see a show.

My dad’s a real early bird. He goes to bed at like nine at night. So I go up to the dressing room with just my mom and I knock on the door and Rodney and where I’m not making this up. Rodney opens the door. He’s wearing a silk robe that has playing cards on it, with his stuff hanging out, no underwear just out of the crack of his robe.

He had a joint in one hand and a Miller light in the other, and he said, hey, you got to be Bob’s mom. I’m like, you gotta be kidding me. That’s not what I wanted my mom to see. And he started hitting on my mom. He said, where’s your husband?

She said, oh, he went to bed. Rodney goes, what are you doing later? Baby? From The Observer in nineteen ninety nine, Robert Schimmel was remembering the day that Barry Diller had resigned from twentieth Century Fox back in nineteen ninety two. A lot of set up there, But this will make sense to you, Robert said.

On that night, I did a big industry showcase in La, where you go in front of everybody, ABC, CBS, NBC, Disney, Sony, Warner, Fox, and my opening line was, I have such bad timing in this business. I blew Barry Diller last night. My agent came over to me and said, are you out of your effing mind? Shimo says, why. The agent says, because the guy can make a phone call and I won’t even be in show business anymore.

Blow someone else. If Dielor finds out, he’s gonna go nuts. Shimmel said, why would he go nuts? I’m blowing him at that sign. Back in ninety ninety then a forty nine year old Robert Shimmel was described as the guy where people go, hey, come here, you gotta hear this, and with the book said yeah, but where’s he going with that kind of material.

Shimmel, a man with a shaved head, cool suit and eyes that look like they’re channeling the collective disbelief of his native Bronx, told jokes that often work like defibllerator battles. When his wife wonders if Robert Shimmel is suffering from premature ejaculation, he replies, does it look like I’m suffering? Those aren’t tears on your belly? After getting nitrous oxide from his deaentist, mister Shimmel hears him say Robert, you’re gonna feel a little prick in your mouth, and Shimal says, I’m not that messed up yet. From that observer piece, Shimmel has a lot of heavyweight fans in the comedy business.

He’s been on Conan six times in two years. Steve Martin wrote the liner notes to Shimmel CD. If you buy the CD, I can get this car. Howard Stern, the comedian, on a number of times when Shimmell was on Stern around this time, he talked about the allergic reaction he had to a spermicide that his wife was using. He described it as like having intercourse with a calzone.

The observer continues. If actor Jason Alexander was not a fan before the October first Friars Club roost of Jerry Stiller, he must be one now. Alexander dies spit take. During Shimmel’s set, Shimmell had started off by saying mister Stiller had played Angela Lansbury’s sea word in murder, she wrote. Shimal then stopped and quickly corrected himself by saying he meant to say cousin.

Shimill said, Jason Alexander’s lawyer called me and told me that Jason had called him after the roast and said I had made him use his asthma spray. Yet, even though Shimmel killed, some even felt he should have closed the roast. His entire performance was cut out of the hour long version of the roast that aired on Comedy Central a few weeks later. Shimmell said he didn’t find this out until he had both of his parents over to watch the show. It’s a bizarre thing to be treated like that, he was cut because of the time restraints that.

Shimmel said, that’s the worst thing that happens to me. Then I’m in pretty good shape. Shimmell then went somewhere else in the interview. He says, the next time you go to a drug store, you gotta look at this on the box of the fleet enema. This shows you how stupid they think we really are.

It says caution in big broad letters, remove the orange tip off the bottle before inserting into the rectum, which means that somebody actually stuck that up their button, squeezed the bottle and shot the cap up into their spleen and had to go to the emergency room. Then Shimmell fired off a series of discussions he swore he’d had with celebrities. Shimmel said, I went up to Jane Fonda. I met her at some party with Ted Turner. I walked over her and said, Ms Fonda, I don’t want to bother you, but I just want to say that my wife’s favorite movie is Fried Green Tomatoes.

She said, I wasn’t in that. I said, I know, but that’s our favorite movie. She looked at me like, what is your problem. I love doing stuff like that because celebrities, when you mess with them like that, you’re always expecting to suck up, and when you don’t do it, they don’t know how to react. He talked about a time he was sitting at a table with Milton Burrell, Caesar Romero, and another actor who had play I Had a Doctor on a nineteen sixty sitcom.

The actor who played the doctor was with a young man who he introduced as his ward. Shimmel said, Ward, what are you, Bruce Wayne? Your ward? You mean the kid you’re having sex with? Anyone else here?

Have award? Tonight? At the awards dinner, they were sitting with Joseph Cotton, who won an award for Citizen Kane, pretty famous movie. Cotton comes by and Shimal says, mister Cotton, I know tonight’s your night, but I just want to tell you I’ve seen Citizen Kane like thirty five times and I don’t get it. The whole thing was about a sled man.

You’re lucky you made that movie then, because I’ll tell you today that crap wouldn’t fly. There’s no special effects, and it turns out to be a sled At the end, nobody’s getting laid I got to know Robert a little bit. He would come up too serious a lot in the early days of my run and there running Serious XM comedy. Really really nice guy. When he wasn’t performing, he was pretty low key, but you’d have a conversation with him, and in his natural delivery, he would just say things that were jokes and would take a second to react to, like, wait, did you just say the most absurd thing.

In two thousand and eight, he spoke to Terry Gross on NBR. He describes how he viewed the cancer. He said, it’s like Robert Schimmel, the person whoever’s in my head that part doesn’t have cancer, and it’s like I’m trapped in a body that’s betraying me. And I don’t feel sick in my head. You know, you don’t feel like you’re dying.

You don’t even look bad when you have cancer. It’s the treatment that makes you look bad. And I feel like my body’s the Titanic and it’s going down and I’m the captain of the ship and it’s gonna take me down with it. You can’t switch to another body. So back to that fantastic interview, Robert Shimmel did with mister Media.

Still on the topic of cancer, Robert said, there’s no way it could not be funny when you go to the doctor and he says you have open source in your mouth and down your throat, because that’s what happens with chemotherapy. That’s to avoid any kind of oral anal contact. And I’m thinking, first you tell me I have cancer, and now I can’t kiss anybody’s ass. When’s the punishment gonna stop? What did he think I was gonna be doing.

I could barely eat jello. You’re not supposed to have sex when you’re in chemotherapy because the chemotherapy in you comes out in all your bodily fluids. So actually it’s all that if I had a bathroom that I could use that my wife and daughters didn’t use, that would be the way to do it, because sometimes guys be on the seat and the girl sits on it, and if any of that gets in them, it could be dangerous.

And then he said you could take care of yourself.

Robert ads, well, it’s really hard to lay in bed and pray to God and say please let me get through this, and then be taking care of yourself in the same bed. Looking up the same ceiling. It’s impossible, just really is. And I prayed and I had a really hard time doing it. I’ll tell you why.

I think I’m more spiritual than religious. I’m laying in bed asking God to get me through this, and it felt like I had a friend. I hadn’t talked to him ten years. Now the blue, I’m calling him and ask him to lend me a thousand dollars. I don’t pray all the time, and here I am asking for the biggest thing you could ask for, which is not to die.

But I prayed to everybody. I pray to Buddha, pray to Jesus. If there’d been a Gi Joe in the room, I would have prayed to him anything and everything to get me through it. There’s a chaplain in the hospital. They do their rounds every day.

When the guy came in for the first time, he said, Hi, I’m the chaplain to you Christian. I said, no, I’m Jewish. He said, well, I’m sorry that I bothered you. And I said, where are you going? I don’t want you to leave.

He said, do you want to pray with me? I said yeah, let’s go. He said okay, but I’m going to be praying to Jesus, and I said, I’m going to be right there with you. I don’t want to die and get up there and have Jesus at the gate going you where do you think you’re going? I watched George Carlin talk completely in the opposite direction about religion, and it floors me.

He makes me laugh so much when he came out with the book When will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops or whatever it’s called. I bought it. I was laughing out loud reading it on an airplane, and the next radio show I did, I talked about how funny the book was. I get home, Carlin calls me and he goes, are you plugging my book on the radio? Yeah?

He said why? I said, it’s ef hysterical. He said, Shimmel, why would you buy my book? All you have to do is ask me and I’d give it to you. I said, I’m not going to ask you to give me your book.

I was on the road and I wanted to get it. Then like two hours later, a messenger knocked on my door and handed me a package. I opened it up. It was the same book from Carlin he had sent it over inside it says, Hey, Shimmel, go f yourself George Carlin, and I’ll finish up with a great story, as told by Robert Shimmel. I’m walking down Broadway.

Jackie Mason comes out of the State Deli. He’s with two friends. They’re walking up Broadway and the two friends stop and they’re talking to somebody else, and Jackie sees me, I’m completely bald. I have a little bit of hair under my lip, no eyebrows, no eyelashes, I’m wearing a baseball hat. Jackie Mason comes over and goes, oh my god, what happened to you?

He said, I just finished chemo therapy. And he said, cheme with therapy? He had cancer? What kind of you have? His two friends walk over and Jackie Mason says, I want you to meet a real funny guy, Howie Mandel.

He thought I was Howie Mandel. And his friend says, he doesn’t look like Howie Mandel. Jackie Mason says, of course, he doesn’t look like Howie Mandel. He just finished chemo therapy. He lost a lot of weight.

And Jackie says to me, what are you doing in town? Well, I’m doing Conan O’Brien tomorrow. Are you busy tonight? No, how’d you like to have dinner with me? At two intelligent comics have a nice dinner and a conversation together.

Shimill said, all right, where are you staying at the Parker Meridian. Mason asked under what name? I said, Robert Shimmel. He said, Robert Shimmel. How do you come up with that?

I said, that’s my real name. Jackie Mason said, Howie Mandel’s your stage name, and he felt so bad for Howie. I did done have the balls to tell him that I wasn’t him. He did go through with the dinner, and Jackie Mason starts telling people that Howie Mandel went through chemotherapy. Like a month later, I’m up in Montreal for the comedy Festival.

I’m checking into the Delta Hotel. That’s where everybody stays. I’ve stayed there, that is true. And the first person I run into the lobby is Howie Mandel and he comes over to me and says, so, how am I doing? Robert Shimmel one of the greats.

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Featured: Mark Maron, Conan O’Brien, Jordan Klepper, Sarah Sherman, Guillermo Rodriguez, Robert Schimmel

What’s in This Episode

• New York Comedy Festival announces 100 additional shows
• Conan O’Brien Must Go season 3 returns on HBO Max
• Guillermo Rodriguez launches salsa brand
• Forgotten comedians of early 2000s losing cultural relevance
• Pool robot fails to clean leaves effectively

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If you’re watching this on YouTube, these are the quick updates I do in the afternoon. This is really an audio podcast about twelve minute episodes come out seven days a week. If you’re listening to the RSS feed. What everybody else is staring at right now is my pool vacuum. This is a solar powered robot that is supposed to be skimming the top of the pool, and we’re looking at some leaves.

And I don’t really know what makes this thing decide to go into attack mode or not. It is solar powered and it does need to recharge, but I’m waiting patiently here. It’s pointed right at the leaves, and if we get lucky, it’ll go into attack mode and clean up the pool right here on exciting video. And this is this is what I’m talking about when I talk about the show about give Chris Fleming twelve thirty or the Letterman weirdness or the Conan weirdness. I understand that this is just dumb and we’re staring at a pool vack waiting for it to clean up some leaves.

But this is the kind of stupid stuff that I find funny. The Near Comedy Festival announced another one hundred shows. I’m still not blown away by this lineup. I mean, tell me who the headliner here is that? Mark Maren.

I mean love Mark, but if he’s the ace in past festivals, he would have been like the eighth best comic on the bill. Loved the New York Comedy Festival, but it’s just not drawing what it used to, especially when you compare to like what Netflix has been handing in the last few years. The new Editions joined previously announced headliners including Mark Maren, Alana Laser, Jordan Jensen, Jordan Klepper, Sarah Sherman, and Patty Harrison. That’s one show, Daniel Sloss, ze Way, Benbankis, Mojo Brooks, and a bunch of others. I mean, yeah, okay, are you gonna move to some salsa?

Guillermo from The Kimble Show is in the salsa business now. This makes me laugh. If you’re a long time listener to the audio podcast during the pandemic, I got a lot of time killing material when George Lopez opened George Lopez Taco is a business that I think was not as successful as George Lopez hoped.

And then there was of course Jim Gaffig and Bourbon, which I made a lot of fu…

So I don’t know what I’m talking about, so I’m not betting against Guillermo. Here, he told Food Businessnews dot net, your home for comedy news, I always wanted to have my own salsa, and I’m very happy. The sauce is so good. It’s fresh and authentic. Now, as you dive into this article, we find a guy, mister Kirby, who mister Kirby is the president of the company, and he said, quote, I made the salsa and sent it to Germo, and Garamo said, yep, this is good.

I’d put my name on this. So I don’t know. Are we just having Kirby salsa? And it’s with Ghermo’s name? Not the most important thing.

It’s a summer Friday before I forget tomorrow. On the audio podcast, the Deep Dive is about Robert Schimmel, who I got to work with a few times, more than a few times, when I was back at Sirius. What a great guy, A great comedian, Like a lot of the comedians from the beginning of this century, is starting to be forgotten. Richard Jenny is one of those. Ralphie May, John Pinnette, like a lot of really good comedians, and you don’t hear about them anymore.

I think they came along just a little before the whole podcasting boom or modern day YouTube or social media clips, and they’re getting lost in the shuffle. Dane obviously still around. He’s got the movie coming around. But you know, like Dane was a monster, and you don’t hear much about Dane these days. Conan O’Brien Must Go is out on HBO Max Today season three.

He caught up with Conde Nast and said, I was never a stand up comedian. I got started doing improvisational comedy and that’s where my comfort is. I love trying to make something happen. He talked about the fun of the show is when things go wrong or things are unexpected, and uh, you know, let’s check back in with poolbots. See what’s happening.

Hey, look, it woke up, but it’s going the wrong way. What are you doing? All right? I missed that one. No, I just brushed the pool.

So we’re going to see a cloud of green. That’s what we’re running into. But oh, okay, can you get this leaf let’s zoom in? Can you get this guy. Yeah, that is you.

Your comedy news for Poolside back in the morning on the audio feed with a deep dive onto the career of who are you doing tomorrow? Is Robert Schimmel, That’s who it is. So you want to see if we get this one more leave there’s a big one here again. We’re in the green zone here, I understand. I tell you about the vandals who got the algae in my pool.

I’m going for that little one got ’em. What happens when we crashed on the another one? Are you not entertained? See you tomorrow.

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Featured: Conan O’Brien, Chris Fleming, Marc Marin, Byron Allen, Seth Meyers, Eric Andre

What’s in This Episode

• Conan O’Brien Must Go Season 3 announced with India, Netherlands, Morocco, and Philippines episodes
• Conan discusses improvisational comedy approach and finding humor in travel mishaps
• Chris Fleming profiled in Harper’s Bazaar with Late Night hosting pitch
• Chris Fleming’s philosophy on stage performance and avoiding personality-driven comedy
• Byron Allen’s 2025 late-night success at 12:30 slot beating Seth Meyers
• Eric Andre airport settlement mentioned in episode title

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Caloroga Shark Media from Poolside, where it’s eighty two degrees, portly cloudy and a UV index of eight times. Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News out today on HBO Max. Isn’t what we’re calling it This week, Conan O’Brien Must Go Season three, four new episodes. Conan O’Brien Must Go to India, the Netherlands, Morocco, and the Philippines. Conde Nas said, Hey, Conan, you seem like you were having a blast making the show.

Conan said, it was a little bit of both. Let’s say we had a terrific fan was from Cleveland, Ohio. I wouldn’t go visit that fan because that isn’t kind of the travel I want to be doing. No knock on Cleveland. Good thing he cleared that up.

Cleveland’s gonna get mad. Deacon Mike lives in Cleveland. He’ll be throwing stuff across the room. You’re like, hey, that deacon. He seems pretty friendly.

Oh no, no, no, I’ve seen him throw. We used to work at a radio station together. I’ve seen him throw a reel to reel. I’ve seen it. Hi, Deacon Mike, I digress Conan’s not coming to see you, Deacon Mike Conan says, So sometimes I’ll find a great fan and realize, oh, there from Norway.

Wouldn’t I love to go to Norway? First, it looks great, but it’s also a great cultural contrast. I’m very techtile I insert myself into people’s personal space. The Norwegians don’t like that. So then to think, well, this could be a funny dynamic, and that makes us want to meet that fan even more.

Conan explains, you want a country to be visually interesting, you also want it to be a placed where maybe it’s customs and culture are going to provide a great setting for a Fish out of Water story. A lot of thought goes into each episode, but so much of what ends up happening is very Gorilla style. They were curious how much improv comedy happens in the show. Conan explained, I was never a stand up comedian. I got started doing improvisational comedy, and that’s really my comfort zone.

I love trying to make something happen. If I just met you on the street and we started talking, I’d probably try to make something fun happen in the moment, and those moments often yield good results. That’s part of my inspiration for doing the show Pool’s Eye, aside from its eighty two with a UV index of eight, and I don’t want to be inside do I hear the landscapers? Conan said, the people I met were so funny and had a real sense of irony. They were really good comedic partners.

I’ve never shtrung up to shoot comedy at strangers. I’m there to try and get a spark between us and see what happens. What I learned from doing comedy in front of an audience every night is you may go in with an idea of what you’re going to talk about, but the greatest thing in the world is an accident. If David Bowie’s on the show and something goes wrong, perhaps his coffee mug breaks accidentally because it was cracked. That’s not a disaster.

I’ll jump in here. That sounds like a very specific, made up scenario. I’m guessing that actually happened. Gonan says, when you travel, things don’t always go to plan. They just don’t.

And if you’re ready to find the humor in it and improvise and figure out another way, you’re gonna have a great trip. Making the show as a combination of preparing for something and then preparing for things to go another way completely. I’m at my happiest when things are a little off kilter. I don’t know why, but on all the years that I was doing my late night show, I was at my commas when things got chaotic. That’ll bring us in a few minutes to my Chris Fleming premise, make twelve thirty great again.

We’ll get there. Stay with me. We’re still in the Conin article Goen it said, I always remember there’s another audience, which is the camera, so that when I fail, I can turn to them and look slightly deflated, and they might understand, even in joy seeing things not necessarily going my way, if to remind myself that it’s not just me and this person who perhaps doesn’t know what I’m talking about. Harper’s bizarre profiled Chris Fleming. Now hear me out here.

I know some of you like Seth Myers a little more than I do, but the President and I are aligned on this issue. We need to make twelve thirty great again. I mean, Seth Myers is in the middle of a seven week vacation as anyone crying out going, Oh, I really miss Seth Myers. No, it is time to make twelve thirty weird again. In the great tradition of Late Night with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, I propose to you it is time for Late Night with Chris Fleming.

Let’s give him the slot. What are we going to do with Seth Myers Dunn? Oh, he can go on Peacock, don’t know, make twelve thirty great again? Harper’s bizarre rites. It’s not loud enough for Chris Fleming.

It’s a Tuesday night in June near West Hollywood, Nearly three ind fans that packed the Largo for Chris Fleming and Friends, a recurring variety show hosted by Chris Fleming. He opens the evening, performs between sets, and brings out a rotating lineup of surprise guests. He takes the stage a few minutes after eight, dressed in a vintage electric teal two piece, a sleeveless collar top and built bottom pants. That’s a little David Bowie with a hint of evil. Can evil exactly?

This is what we need? At twelve thirty on NBC, The crowd is howling, multiple people are in tears, and yet the laughter is not quite where Chris Fleming wants it to be. He thinks he’s losing people. After the show, Chris told the reporter, I don’t have a thing that a lot of comics have where there’s an unfillable void in me until it comes to the volume of laughter. It’s almost like you’re conducting.

I’m completely in their experience as well as my own, and I’m so in my own world. It’s brutal. I can’t not say what’s on my mind about how they’re not reacting. Mark Marin said Fleming really has an amazing freedom of mind on stage. A lot of the connections he’s making in terms of how he moves around the stage and the mannic seemingly stream of consciousness and method he’s chosen.

It’s a rare thing to be improvisationally that flexible. Fleming says, I’m just delivering the news. You never want yourself to be the thing people are obsessed with. You want your ideas to be the thing people are obsessed with. No one gives a hoot about me.

They want the product I’m working on. If you’re the personality You’re cooked. That last special on HBO was me firing at the height of my powers. He decided to become a comedian. He said, my mom was like, how do you think you’re going to get cash?

You need to write your own material. Old Chris Fleming began studying performers he considered singular that list. Let’s know this list, Richard Simmons, Robin Williams, Ricky Martin, Eddie Zord, Steve Martin, Michael Jackson, Maria Bamford, and Michael Flatley of Lord of the Dance. You know what do you throw all that in a blunder? I get it.

We are told. What united them was not a style as much as a totality, a commitment to physicality, spectacle, and a persona and tyler their own. We’ll keep it with Late Night for a while. There was a resurfaced interview from Byron Allen back in May when Colbert was rinding down. Apparently Byron Allen had a heated conversation with NPR journalist Alyssa Cheng, who kept asking Byron Allen if he was asked by CBS and Paramount not to do politics.

Sounds like she didn’t do her research it is well known. Maybe it’s just because I host a comedy podcast. I think it’s well known that Byron Allen has told people as he says it. I said twenty years ago, don’t do anything political, don’t do anything racist, sexist, any of that. Twenty years ago because the stuff ages and gets dated.

Now, this was when Byron’s show was still on at twelve thirty and said we won this since September. We’re beating Seth Myers, who’s been on way longer than eighteen months. I’d have to fact check that. But first of all, let me say loud and clear, never bet against Byron all The guy’s a billionaire for a reason. He is super smart.

If you’ve listened to interviews with him, that comes across, and he’s very, very likable when you listen to him. But if he was beating Seth Myers and we An, NBC should have Chris Fleming on. On Monday, Byron Allan said, now what’s happening. You have to look at this because we go by the numbers. Remember it’s a business show, not show business.

The repeats on political humor, when you do a show, the repeats are negative, negative fifty two percent the shows that are doing political humor, the repeats negative fifty two percent, the repeats on comics unleashed negative fourteen percent. Why because I’m not talking about something that happened eight weeks ago or twelve weeks ago. Alan said for a while he wanted to create comics on leash for his comedian buddies because he didn’t feel at that time twenty years ago, and there was a good form for diverse voices, and he wanted to be super clear. CBS does not give notes quotes. I want to be clear.

I have absolutely not had any conversations with anybody at CBS or parents about what to say or not to say. Politics are no boundaries. CBS has not given any notes, any feedback about don’t be political again, don’t bet against that man. The writers from Stephen Colbert’s show have a little bit of work. Risco hargatea who is this year’s Emmy host, has revealed that she’s working with the writers from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

She told Deadline, we’re at the beginning stages, so we’re throwing out a lot of different ideas. I’m working with an incredible team of writers. The writers from Colbert. We’ve been meeting a lot and discussing a lot and pitching a lot of ideas. We’re pitching so many ideas.

She sounds like Trump. There the greatest ideas. These are the best ideas from food business dot Net. You’re home for comedy news. Guillermo from Jimmy Kimmel.

His salsa brand, Guillermo’s, is going nationwide. Now, John, you probably want to make fun of this because you made a lot of fun of Jim Gaffigan bourbon and I know I’ve learned my lesson Jim Gaffigan Award winning bourbon maker. I could still make fun of George Lopez tacos, but I’m not going to bet against Guillermo. Here. Giermo said, I’ve always wanted to have my own salsa, and I’m very happy.

The salsa is so good. It’s fresh and authentic. The president of the company is a guy named Chris Kirby, who said Guillermo’s is not just a celebrity brand. That’s obviously what gets us a lot of attention, you think, but we really think the product is the star. Guillermo might get consumers to try the product once, but taste is what gets them to buy it again.

Now, despite what mister Kirby said, here’s this next quote. I made the salsa and sent it to Geirmo, and Girmo said, yep, this is good, and I would put my name on this. That’s all we needed. So it’s really Kirby Salsa with Giirmo’s face on it, dude. Girmo s also comes in mild, medium, and hot varieties, ingredients from micro Dice for consistent texture and taste.

Mister Kirby says, you’ll find that taste in every single bite. Sebastian Maniscalco was on the tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon. He talked about the Sebastian impression that Marcelo Hernandez does and told Fallon, I’m wondering how I get on the show. My dad’s upset. He’s like, what’s going on?

They’re imitating you and making all this money off and you’re not even there. But Sebastian said, it’s good, very flattering. I don’t even know if Harry Styles knew who I was. I think they probably had to show him a video and go, could you do this? You never know who knows and doesn’t.

Another reminder I do another show. It’s called five Good News Stories every day, five things that went right in the world. No politics, no outrage, just good news. It’s like five minutes long, comes out four days a week. Those days are Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

So if you listened to yesterday, you gotta wait till tomorrow. But anyway, follow the show where if you find this one and it is Friday, it is time for the Comedy stock Market. Take it away, Burt Reynolds, Comedy stock Market. I don’t want to force this as a segment. I don’t really have a lot of ideas.

A lot of the news this week was around people like Sheen Gillis, and we bought some Sheen Gillis stock last week, so if you want to buy more Shane Gillis, sure, buy more Sheen Gillis. I do think we should buy some stock in a landscaping company. With the amount of landscapers just surrounding my house, there’s apparently a lot of business in northern New Jersey. Maybe we open a landscaping company and forget about this podcasting nonsense. Let’s also buy some stock in Dean Cook.

If you called yesterday’s DCN Live. I talked a little bit about the new Deane Cook movie that is coming out in September. I will do a deeper peace about that on Monday’s audio podcast. But let’s buy some stock in Dane Cook and a landscaping company and maybe Sheen gillis no sells this week not feeling negative and that’s a pretty boring comedy stock market. On this Friday, we have a bunch of legal stories to go over.

Comedians Eric Andre and Clayton English have reached a settlement in a lawsuit that they had filed challenging a police program at the Atlanta Airport that they said used racial profiling and coercive searches just as airline passengers, particularly black passengers, were about to board their flights. The lawsuit, originally filed in twenty twenty two, alleged to the two men were racially profiled and illegally stopped at the airport in Atlanta. The men said officers at the airport had singled them out because they were black and grilled them about drugs while other passengers watched. In the lawsuit, eric Andre called the experience dehumanizing and demoralizing. Eric Andre said in a press release.

It’s a major victory that Clayton County has confirmed that it has ended this program and is now taking steps to prevent this type of abuse from happening in the future. English said in the release, what happened to me was wrong, and I wasn’t willing to let it happen to other people. The county Board of Commissioners authorized a payment of thirty thousand dollars, half goes to each comedian. The county also agreed to require police officers as sign of the airports who use body worn cameras and to undergo training on constitutional limits. Police records sided in the lawsuit showed that between August thirtieth, twenty twenty two April thirtieth, twenty twenty one, there were four hundred and two jet bridge stops.

Of the four hundred two, race was listed in three hundred and seventy eight of those stops. Of those three hundred and seventy eight passengers, two hundred and eleven, fifty six percent were black and people of color accounted for two hundred and fifty eight total stops, or sixty eight percent. The four hundred two stops also resulted in three reported drug seizures. The board here says that yielded more than one million dollars in cash on money orders from a total of twenty five passengers over at the Fringe Festival. A venue has accepted that it discriminated against a Jewish comedian when it canceled his show at last year’s Fringe.

Philip Simon was due to perform his show last year, but the venue scrapped at its short notice after it carried out quote routine unquote checks on a social media currently. Reports last year say that the venue told short all that Philip Simon’s views aligned with quote groups associated with humanitarian violations. Philip Simon suggested he had been canceled quote just for being Jewish. And in China, a stand up comedian considered one of China’s most influential cultural figures, has been placed under investigation and had some performances canceled. Wow Djang is China’s best known comic.

He was accused of violating public morals after he improvised his own lyrics to a famous Chinese revolutionary song. He was reported to the city’s Culture and Tourism Bureau by a complainant who said that the comedian had none not only distorted and vulgarized a classic revolutionary work, but also violated public morals and accepted standards of conduct. The song in question, playing My Beloved Pipa I Believe It’s pronounced, is said to capture the resilient spirit of communist gerilla forces fighting the Japanese during the Sino Japanese War. The original lyrics are quote the sun is about to set in the west, all is quiet on the Waishan Lake. The comedian switched the lyric to all is quiet in the Forbidden City.

The Wuhan Culture and Tourism Buro said the adapted portion performed by the comedian was not included in the material submitted for prior approval and is suspected of violating the Regulations on the Administration of Commercial Performances. Dave Chappelle, remember that story next time you’re claiming you’re canceled. And that is your comedy news for today tomorrow. The Deep Dive is about Robert Shimmel. I got to work with him a lot.

It’s like twenty years ago now. He was a good guy and a Greek comedian, and like a lot of comedians from the beginning of this century. Dean Cook on that list as well. Kind of been forgotten and oak shadowed by the bro podcaster YouTube era, but there were some great comics. I’m going to talk about John Pinnette in an upcoming week.

People seem to like the Ralphie May one from last Saturday, so tomorrow we’ll do Robert Shimmel. I think I may have said in the Facebook group that I was doing Pinnett, but Pinette is probably two weeks out, maybe three weeks out, because I do want to do some Jerry Lewis stuff for Labor Day weekend. I get to do the math on that. How that falls. No, that Labor Day is the seventh, so probably Shimmel and then John Pinnette.

Anyway, follow the show wherever you get your podcasts and download it tomorrow and you’ll see who I wound up talking about. Bye,

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