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Caloroga Shark Media from Montreal. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I just walked out of New Faces one and a much smaller theater than they’ve had in the past. It was filled, but I’ve been in much bigger venues for New Faces. But I’ve also been in smaller venues, like fifteen years ago.

It was in a pretty small room and then it got big. And this is the reconstituted festival. Your host for the show, John Marco Saraisi, and that had me thinking, uh, they used to have Pete Holmes. Well, Jamarco actually addressed. That and got some laughs out of the festival going bankrupt.

And now you don’t get Pete Homes, you get Jem Marco. He was really good. They made it quite clear it was a TV taping. Now. What was really really interesting to me.

They had us tape fake laughs. They had to stew a chuckle, a medium laugh, They had to stew a hoot and holler, so planning on adding laughs and they very well may have to. Did I just give away the lead here? Yeah? They also kept the lights up for the most part.

I was taking notes. I’ve got my notebook here in my left hand and could perfectly see, which kind of surprised me. I thought I was gonna have to use the red light on my Apple Watch. All right. So first up always tough spots, because you know you got to win the crowd over.

Alistair Ogden, he’s out of Toronto, came out, was kind of low energy and I was like, oh, this is gonna be tough. But you know what, he was best of the night of the ten. First up, the winner, Alistair Ogdo. I’m not supposed to say winter, sorry, Alistair Ogden, not the winner, just you know, best of the ten. Second up, out of Massachusetts, Maggie Crane.

I wrote a charismatic but she’s not ready. The materials not really there and one of two comics during the night. I hear a nikky Glazer Cadence creeping into comedy now. And Maggie’s out of Massachusetts, so it’s not a regional thing. She might be one to keep an eye on, but like I wrote, the material is not there yet.

Third, Devontrey Coleman. He might be a writer. The material is really good. The performance is a little too slow and he was reciting it, not performing it. If you know what I mean.

The crowd loved him though, and I’m an admitted comedy snob, so he had a pretty good night. Number four to the UK Chloe Pettis. I think it is I wrote Pets, but I believe it’s Pettis again. You hear the band behind me. I’m recording on the street.

Nice good set. She’s very likable. Nothing extraordinary but solid. Fifth up Bruce Gray out of California. This was to me surreal.

It was like every club comic all merged and became one person. It was like if you had a movie and you needed a guy to play the comic, you would hire Bruce Gray, and maybe that is his future. I actually looked over my shoulder to check the light. Oh, I meant to point out Alistair Ogden in the first spot he ran the light to the degree that they were flashing the spot to get him off. He was way over.

But during Bruce Gray, everybody doing supposedly six minute sets, I kept checking my shoulder, like is the light on? Yet? Is the light on? It? Not that it was bad, but it was just like okay, club comic.

It didn’t feel new facy to me. Olivia Stadler drew the sixth spot. She’s out of Toronto also had that. Nikki Glaser Kneson kept doing that, you know what I mean. So again, it’s not a regional thing.

She’s out of Toronto and Maggie Crane’s out of Massachusetts, so I don’t know what. I don’t know what’s going on that people are just doing that. She was kind of flat and the crowd was not into it. Probably the roughestraw of the night. John Marco came out after her set, and in between the others, he was just kind of going, next up out of New Jersey, here’s Johnny McK But after her set he actually did some material to kind of pull the crowd back.

In number seven out of Manchester, Dan Tiernan very stylized, and I always find the stylized comics to be shooting stars. He was up joking about his face and that got me wondering, Okay, but you’re gonna have a career making just jokes about your face. That’s a good ninety seconds. I wrote it here in my notebook, stylized can’t last, but I’ll tell you, and I’m a comedy snab. The crowd loved him.

He had a good, nice eight spot out of Queens, New York, where I’m from, Grace Johnson. I’m not in a bad mood at all, but I wrote it sounded like the idea of a comedy set. So like earlier where I said Devontre Coleman had the material but not the performance. She’s got the performance but not the material. Maybe they should team up.

Nine out of Philadelphia Connor Agenda. I wrote, he’s fine. I did check the light twice on him, and in the tense spot, Hey, Sue’s Subulvida out of Arizona. I was kind of excited when he came out, and I just had a feeling he was going to be good. My notes here a good performer, material not there.

So that’s New Face is one one out of ten. Usually it’s three or four out of ten. It is now nine to two pm, and I’m going to hit the nine thirty show, and I’m hoping that show will be better than New Faces one little subpar. Let me talk to you about the festival while we’re here. It feels normal to me walking around town.

It looks like the festival. The usual theaters have the usual shows. Personally, I have discovered neighborhoods that I hadn’t been over to in past festivals, including where I am tonight? What street are we on? Saint Dennis?

And apparently there’s a cool restaurant. Scene over here that usually in the past for the festival, We’ve been more over to the west. I think, if my geography is correct, more over towards Mount Royal, so we’re a little east. I think if I have the geography anyway, we’re more over in this direction. And it’s a cool part of town that I hadn’t been to before.

Got a bit of news here that I’m reading off my notepad again. Sorry, this first half year isn’t as polished as normally standing on a street. They are going to give the Podcast of the Year award here at the festival to the Handsome Podcast, which features Tichnitar of Fortune, Themester and May Martin. I know May is here. Fortune was hosting Kimmel, so I don’t know if the other two were here, but that will be awarded on Friday.

Ryan Reynolds will present the Generation Award to Rob Mack formerly known as Rob McIlhenny That’s so funny. Roy Would Junior will present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Amazon’s Clean Slate comedy co star George Wallace. Rising Comedy Star of the Year will go to Hannah Berner, and festival programmers have announced that Kat Cohen has joined the Awards show lineup as presenter, while Matthew Brissard, who’s been a guest on this program, will mc the prize giving event. Hey, let’s see if I can do a. Story from a web browser while standing on a corner from The Daily Mail, Comedian and podcaster Andrew Schultz as objected to Dave Portnoy’s criticism of New York mayor old candidate Zohann Donnie, not for political reasons, but because he sees Portnoy as a non New Yorker.

Andrew Schultz was on the internet show Breaking Points and said, if you’re not spending fifty one percent of your time in the city, you’re not committed. Schultz said, it’s like Portnoy. You just say you’re upset about the Israel stuff. You don’t live in New York. Stop acting like you care for a socialist communist runs New York.

You’re upset because he said globalize the infantata. Just make it about that. You’re allowed to make it about that Portnoy has apparently responded by revealing private text messages. That’s not cool that according to these texts, if they are real, show Schultz attacking the New York First candidate for his economic views. In response to Schultz calling Portnoy out saying he should stop acting, Portnoy wrote, if if anybody’s acting, it ain’t me.

The alleged chext Schultz allegedly wrote, I hate his policies. I think it wants to help, but he’s just wrong on the way he’s trying to help. All Right, we’ll take the break there here in Montreal. Today at one o’clock New Faces Writers, and then at three poin thirty New Faces Creators, five o’clock task Master of the Podcast, where Ed Gamble does a recording. Danny Boy at seven, Russell Howard at seven, brits Ish one of my faves at seven, Newface’s Characters.

That’s always a great show. That’s at seven o’clock. Celia Pacuola, I am as surprised as you. At seven o’clock, I don’t know, Celia, Jay Jorden at seven, Rees Darby at seven, Pack to Night tonight, huh Rachel Scanlon at seven I don’t know Rachel Best of the Fest seven thirty, Emil Joachim at eight thirty. Adam Ray is Doctor Phil Live at nine, with a lot of big people in town.

That could be a real winner. Nathan McIntosh at nine, Nick Mohammed at nine thirty, Brad Williams I Love is at nine thirty, New Faces Stand Ups at nine thirty, The Nasty Show at nine thirty, Joe Dombrowski at nine thirty, Best of the Fest nine to forty five, Frankie Canyonis at ten, Steph Tolev at eleven thirty. That’s fun. I’d never be able to stay awake that long midnight surprise at Night’s stamptown at Midnight’s Okay, let’s take a look at tonight’s lineup. Got the new phases at one and three point thirty, then maybe an early dinner and a couple of beverages.

Maybe brits Ish at seven. Hate to skip Brad Williams, but I think bet on Adam Ray at nine, and if you’ve got anything left in you, Steph Tolev’s not my cup of tea. I might walk you over to Steph Tolev and head off to bed. That’s a good Night of Comedy Now. The other day I gave you varieties list of the comics to watch.

B ET reacted to it. They actually reacted a full week ago. It’s been pretty busy. In case you haven’t noticed, they have the headline the Real Ones Black comedians and writers who actually shaped comedy this year, they wrote, while Variety played the diversity version of Where’s Waldough, we did what needed to be done. From Emmy winners to viral disruptors, here are the black comedic voices keeping the culture clever, cutting, and undeniably funny.

No tokenism required, bet Rights. When Variety released its Top Comics and Comedy Writers of twenty twenty five list, I’m not even gonna give them a link back, which was as diverse as a miracle whip sandwich. Accorded to them, Comedy in twenty twenty five is a white’s only party with maybe one or two brown guests who brought their own folding chairs. Not a single black comic made the cut, not one. This is just an oversight.

It’s eraser. It’s proof that black comic can sell out arenas, carry Emmy winning shows, break the internet with stand up clips, redefined satire, and still get left off the list unless they’re dead or hosting a reboot. So here’s our list. Quin To Brunson. Quent To made Abbot Elementary, a primetime juggernaut, proving that a sitcom led by a black woman about black teachers in a black Philly public school could be smart, funny, and award winning all at once.

Natasha Rothwell from Insecure to The White Lotus. Natasha doesn’t just play characters. She steals entire scenes, rewrites your expectations, and leaves you begging for more. Geord Carmichael. He’s the kind of comic who lets you laugh and rethink everything you thought you knew about what a stand up could be.

Sam Jay Her show Paused with Sam Jay bent the talk show format like a pretzel. Plus, she’s behind some of the sharpest sketches on SNL before she dip. Nicole Bayer actress, comedian, podcast host. She’s everywhere. Josh Johnson.

You know this is a very very strong list. Yes, Variety mentioned him barely. They lumped Josh in of the Daily Show’s news team trio like he didn’t have a whole successful stand up career, multiple specials and one of the most thoughtful comedic voices out Right Now. Langston Kerman a master of dry wit and absurdity. Langston balances stand up acting and two of the most underrated black comedies in recent history.

Bust Down on South Side. Janelle James forgets Scene Steeler, she ran away with Abbot Elementary. Her stand up is smart and salty, and her voice in comedy is only getting louder and more necessary. Ze Way is now canceled. Showtime series was cultural satire and a rhinestone glove.

She weaponized awkwardness, flip privilege in the punch lines and made interviewers nervous again. Chris read post SNL He’s thriving His HBO special WIME. I Like This was brutally funny and heartfelt. Dwayne Perkins, co writer and star of The Blackening, a horror spoof that was actually hilarious. Jessica Williams, once The Daily Show’s youngest correspondent, now doing layered comedy and shrink.

I You at a Berry from the famous comedy show The Bear. She’s nerdy, nervy, and a natural. Naomi ek peragid whether on Couple’s Therapy or myth the Quest, Naomi’s comedy always mixes heart and hella insight. Lacey Mosley scam Goddess, stays funny, fast and flawlessly black. Lacy brings comedy in a true crime and keeps it cute and criminal.

Jermaine Faller his underrated performance in Coming to American Voice work and BoJack Horseman show his range, his stand up slept on a sharp Amber ruffin Late Night’s Secret Weapon. They cite the Amber Ruffin show where her signature combo of bubbly energy and biting satshire proved you can be a storming and devastating in the same breath. Great list, and they write so while Variety keeps handing out gold stars in a whites only echo, Chamber will keep writing, performing, producing, and rewriting the rules. Very good list. As you know, I’ve left the country because of the release of Happy Gilmore Too.

I mean, with everything going on in the world, this was the final straw for me. If We’re going to make sequels to terrible Adam Sandler movies, I just can’t be part of it anymore. So that’s why I’ve moved here to Canada, where I’m just living in Montreal. Us Bank has teamed up with Netflix for a sponsorship deal. Quote a move designed to win over younger audiences with a blend of humor and nostalgia.

This from adweek. US Bank is the title sponsor for the fictional Tour Championship golf tournament in Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore Too, whis logo would be splashed across banners throughout the movie. It even appears on the bib of Happy’s caddy. I don’t want to tell you who will play the caddy. It’s an interesting choice, but I don’t want to spoil Happy Gilmore two for you.

Other brands in Happy Gilmore Too include Subway and Callaway. Can’t wait for that movie? Huh. Here in Canada, Steph Tolev talked to our national broadcaster, the CBC. Steph Tolev said, a lot of weird, gross things normally happen to me, especially in my sex life, Like I got choked in a basement, I fooled around with sixty five year old man.

Nothing is made up. She’s out to prove it’s okay for people, especially women, to talk about their bodies openly. Steph says, I think when women are together with themselves, they’re like this, I’m just trying to give voice to people so they can feel more comfortable. And I’m not saying anything that people don’t normally say or do, like I’m just talking out loud about bodily functions that we all do every day. Tolllev asked a woman in the audience the last time she fought in front of her husband.

The woman said it had been fifty years. Steph said, I was like, what is happening? How can you live like this? Steph says internet trolls can be cruel to female comedians. She says, personally, I’m not that confident.

I still read the comments and sometimes I cry because they’re so mean. But I think when I’m on stage, I just feel I don’t know different power, and I don’t feel self conscious when I’m up there, But the second I get off, I’m still a normal gal. When it comes to her own comedy and crowd work, I never make fun of anyone’s physical appearance because I don’t find that funny. If you’ve seen a clip of me where I’m coming at somebody kind of hard, it’s because they’ve done something, like they’ve heckled, or they’ve been rude to other comedians. I don’t want to upset anybody.

I’m tormented in a lot of ways, but I’m not mean. Roy Wood Junior told the San Francisco Chronicle that former mayor Willie Brown showed up at a show. However, would post it on Twitter. WILLI I do shut up to my sold out at San Francisco shows once and told the doorman Willy Brown on every list, he was not on my list. Still, they gave him a free ticket.

According to Wood, Brown said, you just met Willy Brown. You want a Pictureparently, mister Brown picked up a CD and took it without paying. Wood said, no date, no homeboys, no security detail, just the mayor out by himself, showing up for your show for free and stealing your stuff. He was so charming I couldn’t even be mad. A new feature documentary on the career of Joan Rivers is in production, selated for release in twenty twenty six.

Joan’s daughter Melissa, is part of the project untitled Joan Rivers. Project will draw from Joe Rivers’s personal archive, including newly unearthed home videos and hundreds of hours of previously unreleased comedy recordings and audio tapes. Melissa in a statement said now feels like the right time to look at why my mother’s voice still resonates today. Hers is not only the story of a trailblazer, but of a real woman trying to navigate the life of conflicting desires and how that shaped her hilarious view of the world. And that from Canada is your comedy news were today see tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack and this is the normal episode for Wednesday morning. In case you missed it, there was another bonus episode about Colbert dropped midday on Tuesday. In your Daily Comedy News from Deadline, Gabriel Iglesias lands the top stand up special on Netflix for the first half of twenty twenty five, and the overall performance of specials is down. Deadline says the news comes from going through Netflix’s bi annual What We Watched Report, which was unveiled about a week ago right before Colbert Gate.

Gabriel iglesias Legend of Fluffy ranked two hundred and tenth on the overall list of highest view TV programs, with seven point eight million views since its January sixth debut. Are you surprised Gabe is number one? He’s like quietly super popular. There’s a bunch of comedians like that that, you know, just aren’t in the mainstream comedy bro dude podcasting news cycle. You know, Gabe just goes about his business.

Second on the list, Nate Berghatzy came in at number two seventy five six point seven million views for Especially Your Friend Nateperghatzy. Deadline points out his ranking was affected by the fact that the special dropped December twenty fourth, so the first days of viewership were folded into the report for the back half of twenty four all right through that lens, it’s very possible that Nate actually had the top special. Third overall is Andrew Schultz with his pregnancy themed Life Andrew got six point six million views. Bert Kreischer’s Lucky fourth with four and a half million views. Shane Gillis Beautiful Dogs.

That’s the one from twenty twenty three fifth place, three point six million views. Pretty interesting that a year and a half old special is doing better than a bunch of other things they put out. Deadline points out, technically the Killed Tony special Kill or Be Killed from April is fifth with four million, but they are of the opinion and that’s not a fair one to one comarison with the other specials. Justin Willman’s Magic Lover, which I thought was fantastic two point six million views, and boy, this shocks me. Conan O’Brien’s Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor just two point four million views.

That is stunningly low for such a great special and all the buzz. Maybe I’m just drinking the kool light about Conan O’Brien in the mainstream again? Gabe seven point eight, Conan two point four Wow. Cat Williams Woke Folk from twenty twenty four racked up another two point one million views. Chelsea Handlers The Feeling also two point one million views.

Deadline points out the back half of twenty twenty four Jamie fox Is What had Happened Was got eleven point six million views. Dave Chappelle’s The Dreamer seventeen point four million, and that does not include that Chappelle’s special came out December thirty first, twenty twenty three, so the first night of data didn’t factor into that count. I watched it Near’s eve.

Speaking of Conan O’Brien, who maybe isn’t that popular?

He and Mark Maren remembered the time Donald Trump pulled out a condom. The conversation was about Maren’s frequent guest appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Maren said, I was the second guest after Trump. I remember it because I was in the hallway thirty rock in my dressing room and the producer came in and went, do you want to meet Trump? And I said, nah, I’m good.

Conan remembered the condom incident as well. It from December tenth, nineteen ninety seven. Trump was on the show to promote his book The Art of the Comeback. Conan recalls saying, say, you’re a billionaire. How much money do you carry on you had any one time?

And Trump said, I don’t know, I don’t know. Coenin staid, I reached over in his blazer pocket and felt something and he put his hand over my hand really quickly, like don’t pull that out. We had a quick tug of war, and I pulled it out and it was a condom, and he said, save sex, everybody. Was a real moment. Now, people who went back to watch the clip say Conan’s memory of the event is a little different from what actually happened.

But as Conan tells the story, then we go to commercial and he’s mad. He’s saying, I’m not haffing coming on the show again, and he told my producer you don’t reach into a guy’s pocket and stuff like that. Then cut to three months later, it’s ladies and gentlemen, Donald Trump. Maren then joked, why is Donald Trump carrying his own condoms? Don’t prostitutes usually have them?

And then tack that with’ll probably end up dead in the East River. So, as I predicted on the main show on Tuesday, as soon as I finished recording, Variety was like, oh he hit published. Okay, now let’s put out the Just for Laughs New Faces list. I probably would have saved it for today anyway, as the New Faces shows are tonight. New Faces started in nineteen ninety four.

Some of the folks who have been new Faces include Kevin Hort, Amy Schumer, Ali Wong, Joe Koy, camil A Gianni, and friend of the show, John Gianmarco Soresi Nick Briseo, head of programming for Just for Laughs. At each year, we sift through thousands of names from across the world to find the most original and promising comedic voices. This is always such an exciting time of the year. We can’t wait to share this year’s class of New Faces with the world. Now, as they are new faces, you probably won’t recognize the names.

I don’t recognize many of the names, so I’ll just go through it real quick. They are Alistair Ogden, Angelica Skanora or Estila, Bruce Gray, Chloe Pat’s, Chloe Radcliffe, Connor, Janda, Don Deval, Dan Rath, Dan Tierman, who’s been on My radar? Dean Stanfield, devontre Coleman, Dylan Adler on My radar, Grace Johnson, Hayden Johnson, James Mowara, Jezus s Plveda, Joe Sunday, Catherine Blandford, Laura Recote, Maggie Crane, Max Eddie, Olivia Carter, Olivia Stadler, Randy Neumeyer, Sam Berru, Steve Fury, Tom Murphy, Vittorio Angeloone is the uh? Is that the Irish guy of Italian ancestry? He’s been on my raider?

Is that who? That is? Yes, Irish Italian comedian he’s been on my radar. Okay good. I’m excited to see him and Willie Simon.

Those shows are tonight in Montreal. I will be there as I have fled the country to avoid Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore too. Of all the things happening in the world, that was the thing broke the camel’s back. I have moved out of the United States and I am now a resident of Montreal, Worriy of Comedy Festivals and no Adam Sailor Movies. It’s wonderful up here.

Newface’s Characters, which is on Thursday. I Believe Andre’s Parada, Austin Williams, Ava Bunn, Jess l Jean Leslie, Ashula Mimbi, Von Shack, Miranda Rosas, Tom Hearn. Newfaces Creators highlights emerging digital and social media comedy voices. They include Evan Mulrooney, Kel Kripe, Jazz Emu he Has Means Sheed. New Faces has now expanded to a fourth category, New Faces Writers, that includes writers from the Grand Affair Band to Apple’s Mason County Library and The Family Jewels.

Arriddi has also put out there Comedy Impact Report subheader haw COONa O’Brien, Sarah Silverman on The Daily Show News Team set the tone for what is funny in twenty twenty five. This came out right before Colbert Gate and separately from that, you’ll hear me talk later in the week about b e t has reacted to this list. Variety is celebrating the comedy voices that made the past year a little brighter. Here’s our round up, but the funniest folks who kept us laughing. Okay, First up, Brooke Averick and Connor Wood.

Thanks to you countless viral moments already, like the now iconic I have purse, Brooke and Connor make a podcast, Brook says. We used to really be focused on fitting into the mold of other podcasts. Now we have kind of just let go and say anything that comes into our heads. I don’t know this one. I know I’m a bad host, but aside from me being stupid, I do prep the show every day, and I do look at the podcast charts regularly, and this hasn’t come up.

Is this a video podcast? I have my app out here. I’m going to sample this. I’m not entirely crazy as I record this on Tuesday morning. On the Apple Podcast charts, they are number one thirty on the Society and Cultured chart, and here in Canada they’re number one fifty five on the same chart.

Next on the listening Berget say Okay, I think we know all about him. Catherine Cohen and Pat Reagan, the duo behind the hit comedy podcast Seek Treatment. Next up the comedy Gives Back charity and the founder Zoe Friedman, Amber Lawson and Jody Lieberman. The nonprofit is devoted to creating a safety net for comedians in need. In a statement, they say, this year we jumped into action, dedicating our January fundraiser Alt Comedy All Stars to support wildfire relief.

Laughter is more than a punchline. It’s primal today. It remains a vital force for healing, empathy, and belonging in dark times. Comedy doesn’t just entertaining units. Next up The Daily Show News Team Josh Johnson, Troy Awada, and Grace Kohlanschmidt.

The Deli Boys made the list. Did you watch that one? It’s pretty good. It is a Hulu crime comedy about first generation Pakistani immigrants in Philadelphia who become drug kingpins. That is a fun show.

Next up Andrew Deyung, writer and director of Friendship, the Young broad Sketch comedian and I Think You Should Leave star Tim Robinson too the big screen, bearing his unique brand of cringe comedy alongside Paul Rudd in the year’s most uncomfortable movie, Friendship. Amelia de Moldenberg is the creator and host of Chicken Shop Date. Chicken Shop Date has been going strong for over a decade without me ever hearing of it once and again saying I know everything, but I’ve never heard of this. In the past year alone, it dropped some of its biggest episodes yet, featuring stars like Andrew Garfield, Billie Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter. Seems to be a YouTube show the best dating show in the universe.

Okay, Totally, audam My Demo and Chicken Chop Date is a British YouTube interview show. Okay Nathan Fielder for the rehearsal Aaron Foster, creator, showrunner and executive producer of Nobody Wants This the Darling of rom Com Lovers when it debuted in September. Olivia Girk is a manager. She says it’s been gratifying to see people connect with Julio Taurus and Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers. She’s also the producer of Zorni Goarg’s Practical People Win.

Shane Gillis on the list. Well discussed Nikki Glaser on the list, Well discussed Brett Goldstein. Well discussed the three creators of Hacks are on the list. Caleb Huron, the host of the podcast So True. Richard Kind made the list.

Really Why performer on Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney and an actor on Poker Face. I mean, yeah, okay, WM agent, Samantha Korn Reps, people like Amy Poehler, Nick Kroll Again, I’m skipping. I know you don’t need me to tell you who Nick Kroll is if you listen to this podcast. The creators of Adults, Ben Cronin Gold and Rebecca Shaw, the Commedyatory Agent, Ethan Kurtzman, Ethan Reps, Jimmy o’yang, Matt McCusker, Jenny Slate, Nate Jackson, Chloe Fineman, and Caleb Heron We’re told Jimmy O Yang’s North American theater tour has grossed more than six million dollars, while Nate Jackson has so far taken in more than six and a half million. Oh, also, they buried the lead on his client list, Shane Gillis.

Kurtzman said of Shane, He’s worked his ass off, He’s made a lot of really cool things happen for himself, and in the process it’s kind of been a masterclass on how to develop talent outside the traditional system. Yes, but let’s not ignore the fact that Shane being named to Saturday Night Live for forty eight hours did up his profile. Let’s not put our head in the sand about that. Separately from that, Shane can be wonderfully talented. Shane has his own podcast, Shane has shot his own things.

But also many things can be true at once. The SNL thing did get him on everyone’s radar. Variety loves their agents. Jacob luff Glass is a UTA comedy touring agent and an ironminder on his list also major international names like India’s Secure Khan who’s going to headline MSG and Carlos Bayerta. Jacob says, the beauty is these comedians already have these audiences all over the world, and audiences many times are extra motivated by those tickets because there’s either less frequent tours or just a real demand for seeing something they don’t normally see it a live show.

Mark Maren on the list. You know who that is. Julianne Nicholson from Hacks has made the list. Conan O’Brien who’s then Okay, Tracy Pacosta and Robbie prov the Netflix VP of Comedy Original Series and the VP of Stand Up in Comedy Formats. If you listen to this program.

You’re familiar with them, Amy Poehler, the cast of their Righteous Gemstones. This list is just fascinating Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg because nobody likes the studio more than people in Hollywood. As a civilian, I don’t see people really talking about that show, but the Hollywood Trades, the Hollywood industry, everybody loves the studio. I’m not sure the civilians love it as much as the industry loves it. Both guys from Las Culturistas, Matt bow and Matt Rodgers, the folks from Running Point, which include Ike Baron Holtz, Kate Hudson, Minnie Kailing, and David Stassen.

Michael schr you know his resume. He worked on the Office Brooklyn nine nine A good place. We like him. This year for A Man on the Inside, which stars Ted Danson as an amateur private eye a retirement community. Not sure that cut through variety, but okay, Sarah Silverman, they liked her a special.

Benito Skinner, the creator, writer and actor of Over Compensating, Alan Tudick, the actor, producer director for Resident Alien. I’m not sure that cut through, but okay. Bowen Yang on the lad again separately from last culture easts. Okay, oh my goodness, I just checked the clock. But I have so many things to tell you about.

This might have to be one of the shows where I have to break more than once. All right, let me get a break in here. I’ll be right back now. The reason I did that long list today is because b Et reacted to that list, so I wanted to get the original list in before we got to be ET’s reaction to the list. If that makes sense.

All their news on a busy Wednesday. Josh Johnson is now in the rotation for hosting the Daily Show. He made his debut last night. Johnson has been a writer on the show since twenty seventeen, joined the team on air as a correspondent last year. Buzz on Him is huge.

His weekly Tuesday night YouTube sets regularly get millions of views on Instagram. Johnson wrote, it’s my first time hosting anywhere on TV. Ever, I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people.

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Now for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.

Congratulations sir, in a big week, even the Colbert News. Hey, you know how like Paramount is broke and can’t afford. Stephen Colbert. The Only Times reports the creators of south Park have reached a streaming deal with Paramount worth one point five billion dollars. Now, in case you’re curious, if you were to continue the Late Show for another thirty seven and a half years and lost forty million dollars a year producing it, that would add up over the course of thirty seven and a half that would add up to one point five billion dollars.

But you know, Paramount’s broke and can’t afford. Colbert. The Only Time says the creators of south Park reached a breakthrough in their tense negotiations over the streaming rights of south Park. Paramount, which has no money to pay. Stephen Colbert agreed to buy the global streaming rights for south Park to bring to the show to Paramount Plus for the first time in the US.

Now I just looked right. Now you can get Paramount Plus for thirteen dollars a month. So if I make up a unit called viewer months, So say you were to have Paramount Plus for a year, you would rack up twelve viewer months. You following me here, So to get back their one point five billion dollar investment on the global streaming rights for south Park, if I divide one point five billion dollars by thirteen dollars a month, you will need to get one hundred and fifteen million, three hundred and eighty four one thousand, six hundred and fifteen viewer months. Let me divide that by twelve again.

So if I’m doing this right, you’ll have to get nine million, six hundred and fifteen thousand, three hundred and eighty four viewers in one year to pay for that one point five billion. But it’s a five year deal. So let’s divide that again by five. So for this deal to make sense, if I’m doing this right, and I’m leaving out things like advertising, prestige of the service, all that, But if I divide one point five billion by thirteen, by twelve by five, I’ve reached the number one million, nine hundred and twenty three thousand and seventy six people. So if you believe south Park will bring in almost two million people who will stick around for five years, this is a great deal.

Or you can have Stephen Colbert for thirty seven and a half years. Your choice. Not my money, but the LA Time says the deal values the global streaming rights a thre hundred million dollars a year, according to two of the people close to the agreement, who could not discuss the matter publicly because the deal’s not final now. One of the reasons I have left the country is because of this Adam Sandlor movie. I just I can’t be part of this.

Sandler has been saying nice things about Kansas City Chief’s tight End and Taylorshift boyfriend Travis Kelcey, who has that podcast and who also makes a cameo in the film. Adam Standler said, Travis is such a gentle, nice guy. He’s like the guys I grew up with. When I’m with Travis reminds me of my buddies in high school, just being able to laugh and say the things you want to say. He called Travis Kelcey a great actor and a great human.

Larry the Cable Guy is the grand marshal for Nebraska’s Big Rodeo. In a post on Facebook, organizers ask people attending the one hundred and fourth Nebraska Big Rodeo to welcome Larry the Cable Guy to the community. The rodeo begins today and I don’t want to do the show without acknowledging the asking of Malcolm Jamal Warner, best known for his role on The Cosby Show. Warner passed away at age fifty four Sunday and a drowning accident while on vacation with his family in Costa Rica. He was pulled into a current.

Fellow beach goers tried to rescue him, first responders were unable to revive him. A representative of Bill Cosby, Andrew Wyatt, said the eighty eight year old Bill Cosby said the news was just as devastating to Cosby as when Cosby learned of his own son’s murder in nineteen ninety seven. Wyatt said Cosby spoke of his late son and Warner playing together as children, noting they were amazing together. You may recall Bill Cosby served nearly three years in prison for twenty eight convictions of aggravated indecent assault before those convictions were overturned in twenty twenty one. Someday on this show, but not yet, probably after mister Cosby has passed away, I will tell you a story or two.

I met mister Cosby several times, and I’ve got one hell of an interesting story for you, but not today. All right, As I’ve explained the past, I’ll get to take a second break here. I know it’s annoying with all the commercial breaks, but the way the back end works, if the show’s a certain length, if I don’t take another break, one will get dropped in mid sentence. So I would rather properly stop down and then come back. So we’ll take a break here and then we’ll talk about Montreal.

Here in Montreal, I’ll tell you what I’m doing. I’m going to New Faces one and New Faces two. Now I’m a little frustrated. I saw when they finally put their list out they’re doing New Faces three on Thursday, and unless my memory is faulty, was always two shows and twenty comedians. So they’ve added a third set, and it’s a little frustrating to me because I can’t be around for the third set.

I didn’t plan my life that way. So I’ll do the two tonight. I’ve got my notebook and a pen, going to take notes, and I’m planning on Thursday and Friday for the first half of the show to be my reaction to the New Faces. Tonight at the Festival five o’clock show Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things, Nick Mhemmet Is Mister Swallow Show, Pony at seven, brits Ish at seven, Culture Show at seven, Ivan Decker at seven, Amos Gill at seven, Irene two at seven, and New Faces one at seven. I mean so much to do there, but as I said, I’ll be at New Faces Best of the Fest seven thirty, Kay Trevor Wilson, I’m a big fan of his.

He’s at eight thirty, Nish Kumar at nine, Poddle’s Pitty Party at nine, Casey Rocket at nine, Danny Boy nine thirty, Rashid Baduri The Tale of Syrian Drag at nine thirty, Cat Cohen nine thirty, New Faces two, as Where You’ll Find Me at nine thirty, Best of the Fest nine forty five, A Sifa Lee at ten, Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine, My Straight Friends at eleven fifty nine, Stand Up on the Spot at eleven fifty nine. Stamptown at eleven fifty nine. Very very busy Wednesday here in Montreal, where we are free of the tyranny of Adam Sandler movies. The Montreal Gazette focused on the Tale of the Syrian Dragon that’s at Club Soda tonight. The three performers of Something in Common.

Their comedy is somewhat ba based on the immigrant culture shock experienced by them and their families. Rashid Baduri says, I’ve been almost everywhere in Quebec and I’ve been truly blessed. But on the English side, I’m just starting. I’m the one who’s actually humble to be included with these guys. They just might be the best English comics in the city.

They blow me away. They’re so talented and I’m so thankful though that just for laughs, is celebrating local talent. You can’t have the biggest comedy festival in the world and not have a special showcase for our local comics who’s so neat and deserve the opportunity. Reecee Derby is at the festival tomorrow. He doesn’t think AI will be able to do comedy and tells the CBC there’s nothing more human, I think than stripping down our humanity in front of each other’s eyes and revealing it, revealing the pain of the human condition in a humorous way.

He doesn’t think tech will ever be able to replicate the human body. On stage talking. AI will never be able to experience what it feels to be a living human with a heart beating and a soul. Most importantly, everything that we do, especially in the arts, is my arena. Comes from the soul, comes from the heart, comes from the inner self.

We can’t explain the consciousness. By the way, Rees Darby did a good job on Star trek Strange New world this week. Did you see it? I was watching Star Trek’s Strange New Worlds when Colbert Gate broke out, and since then I have been at a free moment. His new show is called The Legend Returns Again.

It’s at the Festival tomorrow night, and Rees says it’s me doing stand up and then it turns into essentially a one man play about me conquering the robots they’re taking over the world. It’s physical. I do a lot of sound effects that jump around on stage. I play about four or five different characters having conversations with each other. It’s the kind of stand up I’ve always done, but this time as an important message.

Now it’s probably a good thing Stephen Colbert was canceled. Otherwise we might be talking about this Kevin James movie that came out. Did you see this? Guns Up stars Kevin James. Other people in it include Luis Gusman Joey Diaz, who some people find to be the worst person on the planet.

Some people have called Joey Diaz the most horrible human being I’ve ever met. Melissa Leo is also in the movie. She’s fantastic for Mama’s Hot Life on the Street. One review for Guns Up is that it’s a pleasant, innocuous, be great action flick. Kevin James action flick, be great action flick, indubitably borrowing from countless other films about families who slay together, stay together.

Variety said, for a film with a name like Guns Up, they’re surprisingly little by way of armed shootouts until the final act. For a tale of a family man moonlighting as a mob enforcer, the story and action lack the urgency suggested by its one Last Job premise. The folks at Roger Eber dot Com said, while there are several problems with the film as a whole, I’ll add in first of all, the premise, so I’ll also add that it stars Kevin James. Perhaps the essential one is that there are long stretches where viewers are expected to take the concept at least somewhat seriously, which proves impossible. Yeah, you Americans down there have to get your comedy act together.

I mean Kevin James action film, Adam Sandler comedy sequels. What are you doing? Support Canadian comedy and a serious news story. A German comedian will appear in court. He was charged with making a joke about the assassination attempt of a very very very famous politician who tends to make the news a lot.

I don’t want to get a visit from anyone with sunglasses and suits, so I’m not going to say who the politician is, but your first guess will be correct. Sebastian Hats could face up to three years in prison for comparing the attempted shooting of that famous politician to trying to catch the last bus, quoting the comedian here, okay, guys with the sunglasses in the suits, I’m doing a news show and I’m telling you what somebody said the line, what’s the comedian appearing in court? Was you sadly just missed it? Referring to the bus. It’s then tagged it with I find it fantastic when fascist die.

Absolutely no one forces you to feel sorry for fascists. You can just not do it without the slightest consequence. Haunts was fired from his job at a public broadcaster and charged with condoning and rewarding criminal offenses. Gerd Berman is a right leaning comedian and said it is not okay that a saraenist is brought to court just because he said something. Everything he said is disgusting, but he must be allowed to say it.

And that is a very, very busy Wednesday for comedy news. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, if you’re on Apple podcast, click the banner that says uninterrupted listening. And if you’re not, I’m tired the raw clock here, it’ll get shorter when I cut this down. The raw clock here. I’ve been talking for forty straight minutes on this episode.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Yes it’s another Stephen Colbert based a bonus episode. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. On The Late Show Monday night, Stephen Colbert responded to Donald Trump. You may recall that Trump was happy that the Late Show was ending.

Colbert said, how dare you, sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical wisdom. Colbert then turned to a different camera labeled Eloquence Cam and declared, go f yourself. Oh, there were a lot of F bombs last night. We will get to that.

In his monologue, Stephen Colbert said, folks, so I’m gonna go ahead and say it. Cancer culture has gone too far. He then talked about how he can go scorched earth over the next ten months until the show ends and said, the gloves are off, I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump. Starting now. He looks into the camera and says, I don’t care for him.

Colbert thanked CBS for its support throughout the years, but then, but how could it be purely a financial decision? If the Late Show’s number one in ratings. It’s confusing. A lot of folks are asking that question, mainly my staff’s parents and spouses. He noted that CBS quote followed up their gracious press release with a gracious anonymous leak and then showed screenshots of sources telling The New York Post that the show loses between forty and fifty million dollars a year.

Colbert said, forty million’s a big number. I could see us losing twenty four million. But where would Paramount have possibly spent the other sixteen million With those numbers, I gotta say it makes sense would be canceled. I get it, guys, and thanks again, Okay, thanks to the network outcome. I guess weird.

Al Yankovic and Lin Manuel Miranda. They came out to play some cold play. Then the camera panned through the audience and caught various duos in the audience including C A NX, Anderson Cooper and Bravos, Andy Cohen, NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers, John Oliver with John Stewart, and Adam Sandler with Christopher MacDonald also in the audience. T I’m the insult comic Dog. Then any camera up and to a cartoon of Trump hugging the Paramount logo.

A producer hands Colbert a piece of paper. He says, stop playing. I’m sorry. I just got this note from corporate. Your song has been canceled.

It says here this is purely a financial decision. It says that since you started playing that song, the network has lost and I don’t know how this is possible forty to fifty million dollars. Miranda said, that’s impossible. That song was a number one song. Tell me this has nothing to do with who we just put a spotlight on.

Colbert said, there’s nothing here that mentions that Colbert told Lynn and weird Al. The note says some very nice things about you guys, performance, quality, stature, irreplaceable, signed yours truly the Paramount Family of Global Entertainment Properties and AI Weapons Systems. On The Daily Show, John Stewart said, I’m not giving in. I’m not going anywhere. I think.

Let’s listen to pieces of John’s monologue. I have absolutely trimmed this down. It does get a tad naughty at one point not too bad, and John increasingly dropped f bombs, which I trimmed of. You may or may not know. Stephen and I worked together on this very program.

Both of our shows reached an inflection point in twenty fifteen. Stephen chose to challenge himself by seeing if he could succeed the legendary David Letterman, and quite frankly, a much bigger pond than the one he and I had been swimming in. And I quit, I quit. I quit. Stephen challenged him, I passed away.

Stephen challenged his abilities in the biggest field you could, and I literally went to a farm upstate.

And now, and now Stephen has been canceled for purely financial reasons.

And by the way, not just Stephen’s show, CBS has canceled the entire of the late show franchise Gone now, I acknowledge losing money. Late night TV is a struggling financial model. We are all basically operating a blockbuster Kiosk inside of a Tower Records. But when your. Industry is faced with changes, you don’t just call it a day.

My god, when cens stopped selling, they didn’t just go, oh, well, music, it’s been a good run. The fact that CBS didn’t try to save their number one rated network late night franchise, that’s been on the air for over three decades. Is part of what’s making everybody wonder was this purely financial or maybe the path of least resistance for your eight billion dollar merger. Look, I understand the corporate fear. I understand the fear that you and your advertisers have with eight billion dollars at stake, but understand this truly, the shows that you now seek to cancel, censor in control, A not insignificant portion of that eight billion dollar value came from those shows.

That’s what made you that money. Shows that say something, shows that take a stand, shows that are unafraid and not to believe me. This is not a we speak truth to power. We don’t we speak opinions to television cameras, but we try every night. And if you believe, as corporations or as networks, you can make yourselves so innocuous that you can serve a gruel so flavorless that you will never again be on the Boy King’s radar A why will anyone watch you?

And you are wrong? David Letterman has weighed in on his own way. On Letterman’s YouTube account, he posted multiple Colbert and CBS related videos. He then put out a twenty minute super cut making fun of the network decaption you can’t spell CBS without BS. It’ll be interesting when Letterman actually speaks about this.

Jimmy Kimmel, who’s on family vacation, slamm Donald Trump. From said vacation. Kim Will shared a family photo from an anti Trump protest and referenced a two thousand and three letter that the president allegedly wrote to Jeffrey Epstein. Kimmell’s Instagram caption read, may every day be another wonderful secret, which references a line from the letter that Trump allegedly wrote, according to The Wall Street Journal. In the photo, Kimmel and wife Molly are pictured in anti Trump shirts, each member of the families holding a sign.

Phrases include don’t bend the knee, make America good again, and I wish we had a better president. Jimmy Fallon opened up his show saying, I am your host, well at least for tonight. I don’t like what’s going on one bit crazy times. In the monologue, fell in joke to Seebeest could lose millions of viewers plus tens of hundreds watching on Paramount. Plus Stephen has done years of incredibly smart and hilarious television, and he’s won ten Emmys.

Trump heard this and was like, big deal. Last week I won a FIFA World Cup trophy. More than eighty seven thousand people have signed a petition on move on dot org demanding the Late Show stay on the air. Eighty seven Thousand’s not going to do it. Late Nighter had some other numbers.

On Tuesday morning. They say, at last count, more than two dozen different petitions had sprung up on change dot org, collectively drawing over thirty six thousand signatures. That’s not going to do it. They add that a petition on the Progressive Change Campaign Committee has passed one hundred and twenty thousand signatures. All that adds up to roughly the two hundred thousand people in the eighteen to forty nine’s that were watching the show.

Many things can be true at once. We can all support Stephen Colbert, we can all have our spidy senses up about the merger stuff. But also, if the numbers are anywhere near accurate, there’s a lot of money to lose for two hundred thousand people in the eighteen to forty nine says the guy who’s older than that. Demo outside the ed Sullivan Theater on Monday afternoon, a group of protesters assembled, chanting Colbert stays Trump must go. They were organized by a group called Refuse Fascism.

One of the organizers told WCBS News, we are trying to wake up the people. Too many people accepting this and saying, you know, Colbert will miss you. Actually, we can’t accept this. This is illegitimate. Prior to the protest, they had circulated a flyer which said this has the pungent odor of appeasement to fascism, unconscionable.

Andy Cohen, I think is speaking truth and logic. He said, so suddenly, the show’s losing forty million dollars a year and they’re going to cancel it. Typically, what would happen if a show’s losing money that is also super important to the network. What they would probably do is say, listen, Steve In, your show’s losing x amount of money a year. There’s two things we could do.

We could cut the budget in half, maybe move out of the ed Sullivan Theater, do the show in a small studio. Cut down on staff. You have two hundred people working here. We needed to be one hundred or sixty. Instead of doing your show five days a week, we’re gonna do your show four days pre take your Thursday show, so you’re actually in production three days a week.

That’s a way right there, to cut the budget at least in half. I don’t know about half. I’d have to look at the numbers, but yeah, that doesn’t sound crazy to me. Cohen continued as opposed to saying out of nowhere, as Colbert portrayed it, they called him and said, your show’s losing money. We’re canceling it a year.

Instead, they’re turning the lights out completely at eleven thirty, which says to me, CBS is just cooked. I mean it’s cooked. They’re saying we’re done. Letterman’s old producer, Robert Nett till deadline when we started the Late Show in nineteen ninety three. We have the same goals.

Everyone doing talk shows has make people laugh and never threaten a corporate merger. If Colbert ad been number one at an Emmy two days prior, none of this would have happened for Night ads. While the financial landscape of Late Night has undeniably changed, I don’t think you dismissed a talent like Stephen Colbert in this manner, it just doesn’t make sense. Steven is as good as it gets. He’ll be heard from for many years to come.

They should choose their adversaries more wisely. That is your bonus episode today. If you missed it, there was a normal episode in the feed earlier today, and I’ll be back tomorrow morning with your regular Daily Comedy News. See then.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Incase you missed it. I dropped another Colber Bonus episode yesterday around noon. So much to catch up on.

It has been busy since Shane Gillis hosted the SPS and then Colbert Gate happened. Let’s catch up on THEO Vaughn, who called out Vice President j D. Vance for changing a stance on the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. THEO Vaughn first reposted a clip from his October podcast with Vance, in which Vance told listeners, quote, seriously, we need to release the Epstein list this is an important thing. In a separate post, Levon asked, yeah, what changed?

Mark Maron and talked about his beef with John Stewart, calling John Stewart his nemesis. Maren said, there was a jealousy to it, but it got consuming. But it went on a long time and he knew it. We’ve had confrontations about it and we are not friends. Apparently this goes back to the nineteen nineties when both Maren and John Stuart were trying to be the quote King of Politics, satsire or whatever.

A battle. Maren said, Stuart has won. When I was coming up as a comic, he had always thinks just because he had committed to a haircut and away presenting, but like he was just everywhere. John always represented to me while I was failing. So when I see him and act like he was peraxonentally destroying me.

In a two thousand and nine set, Mark Maron referred to John Stewart as quote Jewish pander monkey. Mark Maron is also Jewish, Maren said on Conan. Because of that, he doesn’t particularly like me. I don’t think it’s a daily thing, but I know it him to the point where that was a reality. Maren told NPR he invited John on WTF a few years ago to apologize on the air.

John Stewart told him, Hey, I don’t know if you remember, you know what a jerk faced d word you were to me back in the day. There’s no love here man. Maren apparently never made a second request. Maren told Rollingstone in twenty twelve he said, look, I always though you’re very creative, and I’m sure whatever you’re doing is nice, and if you want to have coffee, it might be willing to do that Maren said his behavior was resentment insecurity, jealousy, and he laughed that even Jon Stewart is a podcaster now over the act of it, the fact that he, like everybody landing with a podcast. That’s satisfying because I helped create it all right after I recorded like the entire weekend because I just wanted to go to the beach.

In between me doing that and Colbert Gate, Variety on a Thursday afternoon released ten Comics to Watch. Now, what’s weird about that is normally, like I record this podcast, you know, I do this seven days a week. Normally, anything you want that makes the trades comes out by ten am Eastern. So it was really weird that Variety released the ten Comics to Watch at twelve thirty or so Eastern time on Thursday. As I’m recording on late morning on Monday, I’m kind of frustrated that JFL hasn’t released the New Faces list yet because I want to tell you about that.

Anyway, Variety’s ten Comics to Watch. The honorees will be celebrated in Montreal a cocktail reception on the twenty fourth. I’m counting on my fingers, that’s Thursday, and they would do a showcase on Friday. The comics to watch include Mary Beth Baron. Bridy writes, for as long as Beron could remember, comedy’s always been a part of her life.

Quote, being funny was very highly valued in my family. My dad had great taste in comedy. Because my dad was older, he had vinyls of comedy albums. And he also introduced us to Monty Python and Spaceballs and Airplane and all those movies that I used to stay up late at night and watch I Love Lucy on Nick at Night. I was obsessed with I Love Lucy.

She started with a women’s open mic night at the UCB and said the jokes were so vulgar because when you first start, I think the instinct is just to be as blue as possible. Went really well. I was totally hooked. I really blew up my entire life to pursue as a job. Next up to watch Dion Mojo Brooks.

I’m not familiar, Brooks says. My first time in front of the full audience, it was an audience of four people. Two other people were my mom and dad. The other two people were my aunt and uncle. This past year he was on the We Them Ones comedy Tour hosted by Mike Epps.

Midway through my set, they started giving me a standing up. It was in that moment, in front of ten thousand people standing up, clapping and screaming, and it hit me, I’m doing this. Joe Dombrowski, he started in third grade. He said, I stole all my jokes from a magician that my parents hired from my first communion. The jokes were cheesy, but it killed and I was hooked.

He now runs an LA show at the Comedy Store called My Straight Friends and says, I’m talking about my marriage, building a family. Some my onits is now half teachers, half the gaze. I’m living my dream talking about my life. Next up, Robbie Hoffman. You know Robbie from Hacks.

Hoffman says, yeah, lots of people recognizing me now, and for good reason. I’m a silver screen sensation. What can I say? Influences include Howard Stern, Judge, Judy Simon, Campbell, her mother, brothers and sisters, Nate Jackson. I’ve seen a lot of buzz on.

Nate Brody says a master of crowd work, points out while every comic now does it for social media clips. He was doing it before that existed. I was panning for gold. I’m putting a bunch of gunk in a thing and shaking it around and weaving in what I’m thinking. When you do it right, it brings everybody in.

It makes the room smaller. He says. Many comedians use CrowdWork as filler. His crowd work has done methodically. I’m information seeking, and then from that, I’m developing a punchline, act outs and even callbacks to other stories from the night, or I’ll pair it with a story or joke I already have.

So it feels like a moment that aligns, like an epiphany. Morgan Jay on the list. Morgan started in comedy in two thousand and seven. He had studied piano and guitar and had choir experience ahead of studying theater and the classics at NYU. Before throwing himself in a comedy, Morgan said, I knew it was this or nothing Eradicating the safety net is really helpful to push you into those next steps of your evolution as a performer.

Also on the list, friend of the show John marco Ciresi. He’s been performing overseas and says, not everyone understands all the jokes and the laughter is more muted. That can mess up the timing along the way. It’s a good experience As an artist. I’ve learned to shift the musicality, like if you sing a song at a different temple for a remix, makes you more flexible, more nimble to live off the audience.

This fall, he’ll be in Rochester, West Des Moines and Richmond, Virginia. As my comedy’s going well, but going from Paris to Richmond, two equally cool cultural centers of the world as me wondering what of life I want to live and helps me create good art. Jay Ying Summers is on the list. Summers said, I struggled with trying to be likable, but I realized I’m not likable. I just have to be honest and specific about what affects me, and that made me find my voice.

Not to try to please everyone. Whenever someone books me in a club, I exhaust every resource to make sure it’s a sold out show for a good performance. I just want to make whoever books me money. I have so many tips I could give to comedians who want to see how to get their numbers up. On social media, promote a show, and have good relationship at a club, because those are business skills as artists.

Influences Joan Rivers, Don Rickles, Richard Pryor, Ricky Gervais, Steph tolev on the list, I feel like Steph has now broken through thanks to that recent Netflix special. The Variety Piece rehashes you know a lot of the recent articles the Bill Burr at All and to Kara Williams is a parent with kids ranging from age eleven to twenty four, and incorporates them into her material. One night, Choose booked to do three minutes at a comedy club in Harlem. The host stepped away and left her on stage for over twice as long. Williams said, I just talked about it.

Women break up differently than men break up, and the dynamic of breaking up. And people came up to me after and said, oh my god, girl, me too. I’m going through the same thing. And I realized it was healing and I’ve been doing it for over fifteen years. All right, we are getting along again.

Let’s see what else I could tell you about. Shane Gillish. Remember he hosted the SBS nine news cycles ago. The Ladies of the View didn’t like it. Whoopy Goldberg, who, to be fair, has hosted the Oscars four times so kind of knows what she’s talking about.

But said, you know, hosting an award show is a tough gig. So I’ll ask you you think you read that room correctly. Joy Behar, a comedian, said no, no, no, no. Basically, when you do an award show, they’re there to hear their name called. They’re not there to laugh.

Number One. Beehart said, stand up comedy is one of the hardest things people can do. I did it for thirty years. It’s so hard. It’s like a high wire act.

I always say, it’s like I’m on stage naked and everybody else has clothes. That’s how it feels. Bayhart didn’t like when Shane did that. I didn’t write that joke. Maneuver said, never do that.

Johnny Carson was on the air for I don’t know one hundred years. Never once did he say the writer wrote that bad joke that I just bombed with. That’s bad form. That’s a mistake. You have to know how to work the room.

I don’t know if he knows how to do that. Woop Goldberg wrapped it up with, I guess you have to know how to do the material. You can make a work without being offensive and terrible. But what do I know. I’m used to be yeike cause I just cut six stories.

There’s just so much going on. Gossip Corner. Rosie O’Donnell went up in Ireland and took shots at the president. Rosie was at the International Comedy Club in Dublin. She addressed Trump’s recent post in which Trump suggested he might revoke Rosie’s citizenship.

Rosie said, a really smart guy who works for the Democratic National Campaign texted me and said, are you okay? And I’m like, well, I’m kind of upset that Ireland is losing, but no, she said. The person she was talking to then sent her Trump’s post. Rosie said, so, all I saw is a post that said something absurd like Rosie o Donald’s a threat to humanity. Bye, I’m going to take away her American citizenship, which I know no one’s allowed to do in America.

If you’re born in America and your parents are American citizens, which I was, you have to renounce your citizenship in order to get rid of it. You can’t have it. Taken away from you by the government, but the Supreme Court has given him carte blanche to do whatever he wants. I read it and I kind of laughed, and I said, that’s funny, but it’s not real. Rosie then drafted her response to Trump and it went viral.

My response and people went crazy. And as my brother Eddie I said, when he pulled me up, he said that bastard. Does he know he’s going to make you more famous than you ever were? And when he finds out, he’s going to be upset. But you know, this is kind of the worst guy that I’ve ever met in my life.

I’m sixty three years old. He’s like one hundred and seven or one hundred and twenty years old. I knew about him my whole life, So I just told the truth of what I knew. And he went crazy and threatened to sue me. And it’s been twenty years that he’s been calling me fat, disgusting, gay, pervert, everything that he is.

That’s what happened. Abigail Jackson, spokeswoman for the White House, told Fox News Digital it’s sad to watch TDS, ridd and Rosie crash out like this, but at least she’s not in America while she’s having her big meltdown. God bless the Irish.

Also on Gossip Corner, Ellen DeGeneres has confirmed that Trump inspired her …

The BBC reports English broadcaster Richard Bacon asked Ellen whether reports that Trump played a role in the correct Ellen said yes. Ellen apparently said they got to the UK the day before the election and woke up to a lot of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, he got in and We’re like, we’re staying here. It’s absolutely beautiful. The villages and the towns and the architecture. Everything you see is charming, and it’s just a simpler way of life.

Everything here is just better. The way the animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here Out today on the eight hundred Pound Guerrilla YouTube channel, Trey Kennedy’s Grow Up and Let’s take a look at What’s happening in Montreal Tonight five pm, Ross Battel, Canada, seven o’clock Danny Boy Culture Show at seven brits Ish at seven. That’s usually one of my favorite things to happen when I can make it to that. Jang Summers one of the comedians to watch at seven o’clock, Live Sessions at seven.

Those are the album recordings usually Irene two at seven, Ross Battle Canada again at eight, John Dore at a thirty, Casey Rocket at nine, Nina Kunti whose face is it anyway? At Oh I’ve seen her on social She’s very funny, Okay, Nasty Show at nine thirty, Double Threat Matt O’Brien and Julia Headquitz at ten, Another roast Battle at ten thirty, Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine. All right, if we were up there, I would say, boy, I really want to see British but we should probably check out Jayan Summers if she’s on the buzz list. So we do that at seven and Nina Conti at nine thirty. All right, back in the morning unless there’s more Colbert news, you never know.

Checkday. Actually, there probably will be a one now that i’m thinking about it, because I’m probably gonna want to comment about whatever John Stewart said on Monday night, so there probably is going to be a bonus episode either way. Keep checking the feed. Appreciate you listening, See you as soon

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello again, I’m Johnny mag with a Stephen Colbert based bonus episode. There was a normal episode of Daily Comedy News in the feed earlier Monday. This is an episode for Monday Middle of the day. Let’s start with Friend of the Show John Marco SIRESI he was on MSNBC.

What do you make of his cancellation. I mean, give me your big takeaway pictures? Are you buying that it’s financial? Is it sad to see the end of such a kind of iconic brand in franchise? It could be financial, and you know, Epstein could have liked Trump for his drawings.

Anything’s possible. Interesting reporting from Variety, who said, I guess last week. The phrasing is earlier this week, but it’s Monday morning, so I guess. Last week, sky Dane’s chief David Ellison met with FCC chair Brendan Carr and others at the commission to lobby for the deal’s approval, and notably, Ellison promised that CBS’s editorial decision making reflects the varied ideot logical perspectives of American viewers. In a February seventh Fox News interview, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr commented on Trump’s lawsuit against CBS and said the president quote has been right on these media bias issues.

On Tuesday, January fifteenth, Ellison and his lawyer met with Carr. According to a letter posted in the FCC’s docket, Ellison and Brill Brill is Ellison’s lawyer, emphasized the public interest benefits of the sky Dance Paramount transaction end quote. We also urged the Media Bureau to promptly grant approval of the transfer of the CBS licenses to quote new Paramount. According to the filing quote. We made clear that mister Ellison will lead New Paramount with a talented team of executives focused on American storytelling.

A lot to unpack there. In Variety, Rob Schneider wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Rob Schneider writes, respectfully, Stephen Colbert has been doing nothing but wayfer thinly disguised democratic propaganda talking points for the last eight years plus. While I completely support mister Colbert’s freedom of speech, his utter disdain for half of America and every swing state greatly diminished his audience potential. I also respect Colbert’s direct criticism of his employer, CBS Paramount, and his opinion that they cave to President Trump when they settled their lawsuit against the sitting president.

That took guts. I’ll give him that. But Colbert, like ABC Late Night host Jimmy Kimmel, excluded conservatives completely from his show and limited parentheses prevented his audience from hearing opposing viewpoints. Colbert fed liberal slopped to his liberal minded Kamala supporters, and cared less about challenging them intellectually by actually appealing to their higher nature or engaging in thought provoking debate. Nah, just keep crapping on half the country that’s no longer afraid to say women don’t have penises and boys shouldn’t get to beat up girls in girls’ sports.

So, while I support mister Colbert’s First Amendment right for free speech, great point, Rob Schneider. Yeah. As for CBS Paramount, they are a private company and they have to pay the bills or used to, so they can fire anyone they want in Colbert, who under an estimated twenty million dollars salary, was reportedly losing the company forty million dollars per year. Several more paragraphs there than Rob ends with. I wish mister Colbert are much success in whatever he does next.

Show business is a tough business. Rob was on Fox and Friends. Colbert never had me on his show. Neither has Jimmy Kimmel or well, I guess I was on a couple of times early. But look, it’s here’s what happens.

Like Colbert already cut the pie. It’s a pizza. He already cut it in half. His potential audience. He cut it in half with it just by cutting out all conservatives at all, not caring about you know, the forty seven states that may have a different opinion than the Democratic Party of open borders, and women have junk between their legs.

We have to And so he had half the pie already gone, and then then he has to divide that pizza in three slices with Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon.

And then so he’s he’s he’s working for a third of a piece of pie, and that’s …

They have two hundred employees, and frankly, you know I have more more people will watch this on Twitter. Then you know, for his advertising group that everybody on TV seems to still think is important that eighteen to thirty five group, and it’s just that audience isn’t there anymore. It’s I mean, the late night show is a relic. But the thing about it which was special when I was a kid, you know, when we were you know, my family were all, you know, climbing mom and Dad’s bed and watching TV. Johnny Carson was he made the show for everybody.

He didn’t alienate anyone, and you never knew who he kind of thought that these guys all leaned left like most of the media, but you never knew one hundred percent. And that’s kind of a beautiful thing. And I hope it goes back to that. Rosie O’Donnell jumped on Instagram on Sunday and wrote, Hey, Tangerine Trump. First you said I should be stripped of my citizenship.

Now you’re publicly celebrating that Stephen Colbert lost his job. You’ve never understood the role of comedy or the role of truth. You think isolent seeing a comedian means you’ve won something you haven’t. Stephen said up to you like so many of us have. Not because it was easy, but because it was necessary.

He told the truth with wit and courage night after night. Well, you used your platform to spread fear, lies and hate. John Oliver was in Eerie, Pennsylvania. He was part of that stunt to rebrand the baseball team the Moon Mammoths. He was asked about Stephen Colbert.

John Oliver said, I love Steven, I love his staff, I love that show. It’s incredibly said. I’m partly excited to see what they’re going to do the next ten months. It’s terrible, terrible news for the world of comedy. Late night shows mean a lot to me, not just because I work in them, but because even growing up in England, I would watch Letterman Show, which of course was Stephen’s Show.

I think about what a glamorous world that was so to have got to be on Letterman Show, and Stephen’s Show has always been one of the most fun things. So it’s very very sad news. I look forward to seeing what he’s going to do next, because that man will not stop now. The Wall Street Journal jumped in again. I think many things can be true at once.

My spidy senses tingling with the timing here in the merger deal, but also the numbers and the financials. As you look at all this, it’s not crazy talk to end this show. Perhaps there’s a scenario where you could do some cost cutting or figure something out. But the Journal points out Colbert has two point four million viewers most nights, less than one percent of the country. It’s a tiny fraction of Johnny Carson’s viewership at a time when the nation was smaller.

The late show’s audience has fallen more than thirty percent in the past five years, and even more among the eighteen to forty nine s. Colbert’s operation reportedly costs north of one hundred million dollars annually and hemorrhaged forty million dollars last year, nearly half being the host salary. The Journal rights America depends on a shared sense of Wii boomers and gen X once found some of that on late night TV from millennials and gen Z. A fragmented media ecosystem that’s insufficiently popular to sustain a common culture presents real challenges. Any revolution would not be televised.

It would be streamed from one thousand angles across a million platforms. The New Yorker happens to have a piece by Stephen Colbert this week. It is titled Stephen Colbert and Kenneth Tynan’s Profile of Johnny Carson. Apparently there was a good profile of Carson in nineteen seventy eight. Colbert wrote that article is twenty thousand words.

It’s giving ahead. While I host a show in the same time slot and tradition as Carson, I am not Johnny. Neither was quote unquote Johnny, who is described as an eighth of Carson, the rest being hidden behind midwestern and professional recipitudes and protective sodality. A lot of big words here of producers, lawyers, and execs who pronounced Johnny a reformed drinker, loving son and husband, faithful to the point of celibacy. Two or false?

Do we care Johnny or Johnny? He was there every night like the tide, and we loved him. I have the Carson books, I’ve watched the Carson biles. I have a dear friendship with his old writer and pure Dick Cavitt. One disappointment.

Tynan presents no process. How did Johnny arrive at quote between sixteen and twenty two short fire jokes per monologue? What happened behind that rainbow curtain? I know the articles about the man, not the job, but were told the show is Johnny john is the show. You’ll find that in the print edition July twenty eighth, twenty twenty five issue of The New Yorker The Town podcast.

They did this asn’t aside. They were talking about the Colbert of it all. They said, Mullaney on Netflix was getting five hundred thousand viewers, five hundred thousand, five hundred thousand Formulaney. I don’t know if that thing’s coming back. Maybe just with the zeitgeist, they think people will rally behind Malani.

But like I said, when the show was airing season two, I didn’t think the show was working creatively and I didn’t think it was really capturing a buzz. And I may have been right. Friend of the show, Jason Zinneman in The New York Times right, it’s getting canceled may end up being the best thing that’s ever happened to Stephen Colbert. The same cannot be said for its impact on late night television. His quick, improv honed wit and intellectual depth could feel hamstrung by the show’s short segments, and sometimes when he got on a good riff or dug into an area of major interest.

You wondered if it would fit better on a podcast. Zinneman rights, late night television is not finished. In fact, you could say we’re reverting to the era before the early nineties, when NBC dominated and there were occasionally network alternatives. The loss of the late show is not the deathnell, but it is a deathnell. If video killed the radio star, who did in the network late night superstar.

The Internet is the primary suspect, increasing competition, shipping away at ad dollars, and transforming the time at which we watch these shows, making the term late night itself a misnomer all caps. Of course, money matters, but so does the climate which it’s allocated. Late night used to be, among other things, a prestige business. The hosts were some of the key phases of the network. On top of profits, the show’s generated press, attention, in house promotion, and buzz.

Now, media bosses seem more willing to cut a check for millions of dollars to make a political problem go away, rather than spend that money to keep their late night show. Yeah. I talked about this in one of the other bonuses. So at some point you have to ask the question, who are we Fox shows sports and animation. You know, maybe CBS is looking at that and going, all right, why don’t we just do our procedurals from E two eleven.

We’ll show some football during the fall, and why do we have a late night show? Not crazy? The Hollywood Reporter wondered what’s next for Colbert, and they pointed out while he lives in New Jersey, he’s from South Carolina and one of those states Senate seats is open next year. Colbert has joked about the idea of running for office for years. When asked directly about this in two thousand and seven, Larry King asked if Colbert would ever consider running for president, and again, that’s two thousand and seven, a lifetime ago in some ways, Colbert said, obviously, every boy’s thought of it.

And when you look at a field of candidates like this, so that’s the two thousand and eight campaign, you know, and trailed off. I thought about that a lot over the weekend. Stephen Colbert is sixty one, so he’d be sixty three sixty four when the next election rolls around. He’s nice looking, he’s telegenic, he’s good at the art of the media. He’s not eighty years old.

The people who don’t like him, Rob Schneider apparently already don’t like him, so there’s no loss there. If I’m the Democrats, I’m calling Stephen Colbert today. If you’re not alreaddy on the phone with him, you should be. I don’t know if he would want the gig, but if they rolled him out as a candidate, very interesting. The current holder of the office, among other things on his resume, hosted a show called The Apprentice and was really good at media and look at you head to you tonight Late Nighter points out, let’s pay a lot of attention to John Stewart tonight.

Colbert and Stewart are friends. John Stewart is an EP on The Late Show. They share the same manager, James baby Doll Dixon. We’ll see what John has to say. And that is a bonus episode back in the morning with a normal episode.

It was a very busy weekend. Just in case you haven’t caught everything. Going back Friday morning’s episode where I recapped Shane Gillis, I thought was strong, and then it’s just been bonus regular, bonus regular, bonus regular. I’ll be back in the morning. See then, thanks for listening,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. And if you’re paying attention on Friday, you heard me drop two good stories on the fly while I’ve moved them here to the top of Monday’s episode. Congratulations to the folks at the eight hundred Pound Gorilla. They’ve done a deal with Nate Brighetzy.

They will become the official audio and video distributor for the YouTube specials of Nateland Entertainment. The partnership with the eight hundred Pound Gorilla puts the Nateland Specials second window distribution of comedy specials from Aaron Weber, Nick Fohn, and Greg Warren. The Gorilla has similar deals with Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Network and All Things Comedy, which is Bill burn Almetricle’s company. One of the Gorilla suits said, with both of us calling Nashville our home base, teaming up with Nate Brighetze and Nate Land felt like the obvious move. Nate led the global comedy touring numbers last year, and he’s mapping out even bigger plans as Nate Land’s audience grows.

We’re excited to be partners and helping propel that growth. Amen, Nate, don’t give up the comedy, because I’m telling you, in about ten years, i’m gonna be doing a story. We’re gonna sit down, it’s gonna be daily coming news. I’m gonna be like, I can’t believe they made Happy Gilmore seven, and I’m gonna be like, uh yeah, Nate. Remember when Nate Pergetsy was gonna open a theme park.

Whatever happened to that, Remember that that’s coming, that story. You just got to wait a decade, all right. Website The National caught Bill Burr and Abu Dhabi. Now this was a week ago Saturday, and I bumped this a couple of times. I don’t know if you noticed.

Last week the episodes were quite long as it was, and I figured this could wait a minute. Spoilers if you’re planning on seeing Bill Burr overseas anyway. A lot of quotes from Burst set here that i’ll do in my again. It’s a it’s not at all intended to be a Bill ber impression. It’s what I call on the show, a half ass impression.

I’m not really trying to do Burr’s voice, but I’ll try and match his Cadence the best I can Burst said. Every four years, the billionaires in my cuntry figure out how to blame immigrants. You lose your job, you farm, you can’t buy a house, and I’ll tell you it’s because some guy float in on a mattress from Cuba. We always believe it because the white guy telling us. We think, oh, white guy, I’m a white guy, the same skin, same team.

But it’s not the same team, not the same team at all. Racists white people have to say, I don’t have a problem with immigrants as long as they come here the right way. Oh yeah, did we The immigrant should leave and come back in wooden ships and bring some COVID lace blankets. A bird then started talking about Donald Trump. Burr said that Burr does not understand what’s going on with the leadership of my country right now, and then started talking about Elon Musk and that salute of sorts that mister Musk did at one point, Remember that one.

Burr said, there’s a moment in America if you did a Kaitlyn jennichoke, you were taking your career in your hands. Five years later, the sky has Nerd salutes not once, but twice once to the front, once at the back. People try to play it off with something else, and he didn’t get in trouble. What’s happening. Burr then started talking about how the achievements of ancient Egypt are questioned in Western discourse.

Burr said white people could accept that somebody could do something they couldn’t. If the Pyramids had happened in Italy, they wouldn’t be confused. They would say, today, we’re gonna try and figure out who built the Royal Colisseum? Was it mermaids. Burr also discussed Jeff bezol thirty eight million dollar wedding to Lauren Sanchez.

Burr said, this guy’s sewing over his head. He spent thirty eight million dollars to get married. Dude, you could have gone to Vegas and got that for sixty nine bucks. You’re giving a starter lift ship thirty eight million dollars. It’s because he’s a nerd, never had a girlfriend, he didn’t play sports.

It was his an apartment playing on computers. He’s not an idiot. He’s just then experienced. What’s he going to get it for a birthday? He read that a whole city, all of Venice and if she even asked for that.

He probably wanted a Harry Potter theme leisure tag thing. She’s sitting there with her emotions looking out the window, saying I was thinking maybe we could have a destination wedding, and he’s like, what do you mean, like Florida. He’s gonna be hanging out with the truck drivers. He doesn’t pay enough on the Amazon loading dock, saying I can’t make this woman happy. Burr said he would like to go back, but says I’ll come back in the winter.

That’s when my wife will come. She’ll support me on the road, just not in July. That’s pretty good material, even with me half assed channeling it. You can tell that some really good writing that is obviously performed a trillion times better by Bill Burr. I’m just trying to host a podcast here, serious case you knew.

Not a stand up comedian, not claiming to be a stand up comedian. I’ve never tried to be a stand up comedian. I don’t want to be a stand up comedian. I’m not saying I’m funny. I’m a guy in a basement reading you comedy news headlines.

That’s all this is. Adam Sailor Happy Gilmour two out on a Friday. Boy, I might have to leave the country to avoid this whole thing. Adam Sandler spoke to E Online about working alongside famous Hollywood actress Sadie Sandler, who’s nineteen, and Sonny Sandler, who is sixteen. Adam told E News about the Sandler actresses, once they do it, well, nothing feels better.

As a parent. It must be like when you’re the parents of a baseball player and you’re at the game and they get a hit. You just go thank God, just so much relief. Acting is something the two kids love. My one daughter study it in school and my other daughter studies it while doing high school, and they love it.

They talk about it a lot, and he News tells us it’s not just storing in their dad’s movies that excite Sadie and Sonny. In fact, Jude Barrymore recounted a tender moment of walking in on one of her children and one of Adam’s daughters watching their two thousand’s rom com Fifth First Dates, which, as you know as a frequent listener, is one of the few good Adam Saylor movies. Drew said, I was like, why are you guys watching this? Don’t you get enough of me and your dad? The Texas Tribune Festival is coming to austin November thirteenth through the fifteenth.

I’m mentioning this because they announced influential voices who are joining them. One of the influential voices who will be at the Texas Tribune Festival in November John Mulaney, and the presser tells us mullany is a three time Emmy Award, Critics Choice Award, and WGA Award winning writer, comedian and actor. He’s also a constitutional law NERD. So congratulations asterisk to kill Tony. I saw the news media was picking up claiming that kill Tony is now the number one podcast.

Now they are saying this because kill Tony showed up at the top of the YouTube shorts and now this is a whole thing in the podcasting industry. The easiest thing to do is subscribe to the pod News newsletter and subscribe to my substack, and you can hear us going back and forth about this. So for us people who live on Old Man Mountain, a podcast is what I’m doing right now. It’s audio. There are other things, like an example, I’ll use is Andrew Schultz interviewing President Trump sitting on a couch and there’s fake plants and a four camera set up, and it’s lit properly, and all that YouTube thinks that’s a podcast.

And then somewhere between what Schultz does and what I do is the truth. Anyway, the YouTube charts include all kinds of things that US old people might not consider podcasts. Now, do I consider kill Tony podcasts? Yes, But in terms of audio podcasts, what you listen to on say Apple podcasts or listen to on your phone might be a better way to describe it. Please understand, Joe Rogan is light years ahead of everything else.

Sometimes you’ll see something show up at the top of the charts, but the charts have a recency bias based upon it’s a regression of subscriptions and listens within the last seventy two hours. So if you, sir, start a podcast today and get I don’t know, five thousand of your friends to listen to it in the next hour, you’ll shoot up the charts. You won’t stay there, but you’ll shoot up. So every now and then you’ll see something at the top of the charts. And I always tell people, Hey, when you number one, take a screen grab and tell everybody you’re number one.

So nobody questions these things. So tap the breaks on kil Tony having the number one podcast. If you’re seeing that as a headline, tap the breaks. He just might have had a good week on YouTube and it’s a good show. Don’t get me wrong.

This just for last Montreal Comedy Festival website is going to kill me. But things are picking up here. As I look at tonight’s lineup, looks like the French shows have cleared out. I’m seeing a bunch of things in English today. They include Ross Battle Canada at five o’clock, The Culture Show at seven, there is a French show at seven, the JFL Live Sessions, probably an album taping at seven, another Rose Battle Canada at eight, The Sketch Show hosted by Lou Lawrence at eight thirty, The Nasty Show at nine to thirty, Double Threat, Mark Little and Wally Barram at Tien at Ross Battle Canada at ten thirty, Midnight Surprise eleven fifty nine.

Okay, so if we were in Montreal and I may have to leave the country because of this Adam Sandler stuff, so this might be my life very soon. I would say, all right, at five o’clock, let’s do Roast Battle Canada. So that probably takes us to six thirty or so. As we play this mental exercise, we’ve seen the Culture Show ninety five times, so we don’t need to go see that. You know what, We should grab dinner and then hit the sketch show at eight thirty.

So we’ll grab dinner and a brew or two. Can I sidebar slide bar for a second. Almost got alcohol distracted. I’ll come back to that. All right, eight thirty.

Sketch Show, will do that, and then let’s see that’s at the Theater Saint Catherine. And so is the ten o’clock show at the Theater Saint Katherine, Double Threat, Mark Little and Wally Barram. So we’ll see the sketch show and then we’ll walk across the hall to see Double Threat.

And then at that point, I’ve been seeing comedy shows since five o’clock, and…

There you can go to midnight Surprise. I’m going to bed. So, speaking of alcohol, I forgot to share the story the other day. So volleyball on Wednesday, which why I didn’t watch the SP’s live. First of all, so I’m not that good at volleyball.

I play volleyball, but I’m not that good. But I can kind of serve. But one thing I do, and I nail this. I’m so happy with myself. I’m humble bragging here.

So Wednesday night, it’s game three. It’s twenty three twenty three. First team to twenty five wins, but you have to win by two, and my serve comes up. I do this thing where I make it look like I’m a lot better at serving than I am. I’m a good server, but I’m not like a Hall of Fame server.

What I do is I go up to the line and I really slow down the game. My teammates know I do this, and I look over and I just look down the other team, and I make it look like I’m going to place the ball exactly where I want.

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And then I serve it short.

And if I pull that off, even if they return it, that’s fine. But if I pull that off, now it looks like, oh, I did that on purpose.

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And then if I get the second point, I’m in their heads now and I do it again.

So I got the first point. So it’s twenty four to twenty three. And I got the second point. And what happens is because I hit the first one short, they start to move up, expecting me to soft serve because apparently that’s what I do. I took my time at the line and I did a hard serve and I hate it right where the pin is because if you hit it where the pin is, the ball doesn’t spin as much, and then when it does start spinning, it drops immediately.

And I went bam and it dropped right between the four of them. Walk off when felt good about myself. Then we went to the bar and I didn’t know BlackBerry cider is a thing. Why didn’t anyone tell me? BlackBerry sider is a thing.

I know about various siders, Irish American ances Stream. I’ve been drinking ciders for decades. I love a nice cider over ice. And the nice waitress was like, I was like, what kind of sider do you have? She’s like, we have a BlackBerry sider.

I’m like, BlackBerry sider, Okay, boys delicious. I had two of those and I digress a new special outs today on the eight hundred pound Gorilla. Paul Foot’s Dissolve is available for early access.

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Meanwhile, The Edinburgh News had a preview of Seaton Smith, who had been ope…

Seaton is going to the Edinburgh Fringe Fees and a lot of you know that. I host the Weekly Comedy Thing on the Live One app. The app is free, the show is free. The Weekly Comedy Thing is like this. I talk less and I play comedy bits in between, much shorter versus of the story.

I was playing some Seaton Smith stuff on this week’s show. Boy He is good. Let’s keep an eye on Seaton Smith. Like good, good Good. His show Trauma Bonding will be at the Pleasant Courtyard Spoilers.

The show opens with a wide lens from plane crashes to presidential politics. Seaton Smith dissects the news with a mix of sharp observation and wide eyed disbelief. But it’s not long before the spotlight turns inward. His chaotic childhood, complicated dating life, and a recent moped crash all tikes center stage. At one point, Spoilers even ends up in a hospital after trying to be Batman.

It’s a wild ride, but Smith knows what he’s doing. He weaves high energy punchlines through stories that take strange, sometimes emotional turns. One minute, he’s reliving a mountain biking accident, the next, he’s unpacking family trauma. Somehow it all holds together. Keep an eye on Seaton Smith.

Okay, that is your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi. There, I’m Jenny Mack with another bonus episode of Daily Comedy News, Quick house Keeping, going back to Friday, because I’ve dropped a lot of content. Friday Morning recapt Shing Gillis in the SP’s I really liked that episode, but it’s gotten buried in the Colbert of it all. There was a bonus episode about Colbert, initial reactions and some analysis for Friday afternoon in case you missed that.

Saturday there was a normal episode in the feed and a bonus episode about Colbert. And today on Sunday there was a normal episode that it went out earlier. Today this bonus episode that you’re listening to now, and then there’ll be a normal episode on Monday morning and from there we’ll see where the news is. In The Guardian, Jesse Hasinger writes CBS has ripped off a band age of the big three networks have been applying the similar wounds for years. Late night programming simply doesn’t mean as much as it used to.

With smaller network lead ins from primetime lineups and more audience choices for comedy, music or even the dopey celebrity games that Jimmy Fallon throws together. Saturday Night Live has retained some cultural cachet thanks to a combination of lower commitment twenty episodes a year and a night where many people don’t have to work the next day versus eight times as many, all airing on weeknights, legacy branding, and sketch comedy that travels well online these days is routinely one of the highest rated network shows of the week when it airs a new episode, offering an encouraging sign that old timeslot rules about viewership no longer apply. It’s also extremely expensive to produce difficult to replicate, which nonetheless looks more viable than the tired talk show format. I will jump in there. You know, all this conversation has people wondering about Saturday Night Live, post Lorne Michaels.

You know, we’re clearly getting a season fifty one, but that show is reportedly expensive to produce, and you know, maybe you don’t do twenty episodes, maybe do fewer episodes, Maybe the cast is smaller. Who knows what the future for that show is. The Guardian writes this could be a good thing for comic minds, including Colbert or Conan O’Brien. Some comedians seem unable to resist the siren call of late night talk shows, chasing the tonight show dream, even when the actual job are made out of reach. That Colbert can face cancelation anyway, should alongside Conan O’Brien losing his to night show gig years ago, the signals to newcomers that the rarefied era of the national late night talk show host is also getting pretty thin.

May be unbreathable, yet Trump has sucked up some of that oxygen too. Even with the challenges cited by CBS, it’s difficult to believe that vanquishing a long time issue of Trump mockery wasn’t at least considered a side benefit of canceling the Late Show. He’s giving ahead beyond Trump personally smuging up the balance sheets, He’s helping the hasten the demise of late night comedy simply by being himself. Seeming to provide the perfect target, a venal, dim witted perma celebrity with an army of devoted sikophants, but after two non consecutive administrations have flooded the zone with grotesquere ease, performing a lightly zinging monologu or sketches as warm up back for good natured interviews seems unlikely to entice either those craving anti Trump Catharsis or those desperate to believe in his strongman powers. Colbert took a somewhat less cutesy approach than his competitor, Fallon seemed to be all that was necessary to mark him as a troublemaker in the Atlantic David Graham Rights.

For much of the twentieth century, American broadcast television revolved around three networks, NBC, ABC, and CBS. The network was home to Edward R. Murrow, who brought World War II in Europe home to Americans on CBS Radio. After the war, Murrow’s reporting played a pivotal role in bringing down Senator Joseph McCarthy. Walter Cronkite dominated American evenings from his perch at the Evening News, and from the days of Mike Wallace to the more recent era of Leslie Stall and Scott Pelley.

Sixty minutes set the standard for long form television reporting. Yet CBS’s current ownership seems determined to demolish this legacy. The Atlantic, then Rights, Perhaps this is true but the network that once made Cronkite the most trusted man in America no longer gets the benefit of the doubt. CBS’s owners had made a series of decisions capitulating to President Donald Trump, and the surprise choice to allow Colbert, a consistent prominent Trump critic, to walk, seems like part of that pattern. In twenty twenty three, Sherry Redstone began seeking a buyer for the company, eventually striking a deal in twenty twenty four with Skydants.

The merger requires federal approval. The President now seems favorably disposed towards the merger. Last month he spoke highly of Skydant’s head David Ellison. Still, the deal has not yet been approved by the FCC. Journalism, along with Colbert’s program, makes up only a small portion of Paramount’s portfolio, and so business executives might view sacrificing them to preserve a deal as a prudent I cold blooded maneuver.

Daniel Feinberg, I’m a big fan of Daniel, he writes for The Hollywood Reporter. He says, I’m sure the Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s absolutely ending because of a financial decision against the challenging backdrop of Late Night, and it’s not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount. The official reasons for the cancelation or whatever they are, and who am I to question the co CEO of Paramount Global, the president of CBS Entertainment, and the president of CBS Studios. Nobody, that’s who. But official reasons and optics are two different things.

And if the folks in charge of CBS didn’t know what the optics were, they wouldn’t have released a statement saying that what we think we can see with our eyes and infer with our common sense definitely aren’t the truth. The optics here may not have any connection of facts, but man, the optics here suck, and they suck on a slew of levels that are all addressed in the statement as things that we’re not supposed to be thinking about but can’t help but think about. So it’s not related. It’s anything happening in Paramount. Good to know what could possibly be happening at Paramount.

A merger between CBS parent company, Paramount Gold and Skydad’s a massive deal that was seen as a major part of why CBS just settled a lawsuit. It’skid being ahead. Colbert isn’t going anywhere for ten months, and it’s hard to imagine him agreeing to stick around for a swan song in which his content is being restricted. So let’s assume that he’s going to spend a season lampooning Trump, even as a lame duck. It’s giving a head again.

They’re a less political talk show host. Jimmy Fallon plays his various games and goofs around with celebrities. You know what, this room for that, and I want nothing to do with it, but that’s okay too. And when Seth Myers isn’t taking closer looks, sometimes he’s just drinking with stars and making fun of his own errors, And you know what, there’s room for that. And if Netflix would renew Everybody’s Live with Malaney, I’d like to believe this room for doing a talk show episode blindfolded or fighting a trio of fourteen year old boys on live television.

At some point, the CBS might just air whatever procedural reality shows in the ten PM slot, kick it a local news, and then play the national anthem and go black, just like back in the good old days. The Hollor Reporter dusted off the Good One podcast. Seth Myers was on there about a month ago, and let’s revisit what Seth said. He had said, it’s helpful for us to cross pollinate the information we’re hearing from the people in charge of our networks, to make sure it’s all checking out with everybody else, and also to commiserate, because everybody who’s doing this to some degree obviously remembers a time when things are a little more flush. Seth was asked at that time, are we in the end era of late night TV?

Seth said, there’s always a chance that something turns around all of a sudden it’s on the upswing again, But I would certainly bet on there being fewer late night shows in the future now that one. Apparently Colbert’s staff didn’t find out about this much before the rest of us. Some members of the team went on social media. Writer Philippie A. Trus Medina called Stephen Colbert absolute the greatest and said, we got ten more months of this, so you better tune in because you know we’re about to go effing loco.

Producer director Jake Plunkett said was the run of a lifetime. So grateful for this job and the people I’ve met here. One thing I will say, Stephen Colbert is an insanely good man who treated us with a tremendous amount of love.

Also, he’s insanely funny.

I’ll run through a wall for him for the next ten months. You know, let’s stop there. You know Stephen Colbert, love him, good guy. Everybody loves Stephen Colbert. He’s going to be fine.

He’s made a lot of money. He’ll be able to work again if he wants to work again. Nothing else can do a podcast. But what about the two hundred people that work on the show. What’s going to happen to them?

Jake Plunkett said the fall of Late Night is so sad. I grew up loving Conan snl Ferguson Letterman. Writer Carly Moseley on Instagram said, I love the show. I love these people. I love these people in the show forever and ever.

Amen, see y’all till May. Writer Michael cruz Keene said the Late Show gig was the best job I could imagine. Producer and segment director Ballard C. Boyd said some unfortunate news from the home own office and pointed out the part of an av Club headline that said CBS executives bent over backward to deny that this was related to the trump of it all. Now, this is really interesting.

Deadline dusted this off in May of twenty twenty five. Check your calendar, not that long ago. George Cheeks, co CEO Paramount Global and President and chief executive of CBS, told Deadline that he really likes our hand. The day part is challenging from an ad sales perspective. I love our hand.

We have the number one personally for the last nine years, and we still do believe in the day part. But it is a challenge. A Late Night producer told Deadline the news was depressing and weird, and I feel like there’s more to this story. It is believed the Late Show costs slightly less than seventy five million dollars per year to produce before adding in Colbert’s salary. So let’s assume, just to keep this easy, Stephen Colbert’s salary is one dollar.

It’s probably not. Let’s just keep it easy. So if the show costs seventy five million dollars to produce, a Yesterday, I mentioned late shows a taken twenty twenty four was seventy point two million dollars. So you’re already losing five million dollars before you pay Steven Colbert. Again, my spidy sense is tingling about the conspiracy theory, but the financials?

Yeah? Now, is there goodwill to having the Late Show on? Is it a promotional vehicle? All that? Absolutely true?

There’s brand imaging. You know, there’s you know, who are we as CBS? Well we’re the home of sixty minutes and the Late Show, and you know you start picking away that, then you’re just the home of Oh yeah, I put that on sometimes to watch football. Some reports guess Colbert’s salaries between fifteen and twenty million. Let’s use the fifteen number.

So again, seventy five plus fifteen is ninety. You make seventy million in ads? Is it worth twenty million dollars? Is there a way to make that up? Could we do fewer shows?

Could we have less of a staff? Could we do fewer episodes? A place I used to work always love to ask hosts to do additional things. So you’d say, host Daily Comedy News, but also have to do a shift on the jazz station. That kind of stuff went on in a place that once worked.

So I don’t know. I think it’s terrible, But part of me is looking at this going why don’t we just air prices? Right? We run? Times have changed.

I don’t know, very mixed feelings. I am truly sad that this is ending, and it is absolutely stunning. I may have done what four bonus episodes about this single topic. Now, all right, and that is your bonus episode, like I said, and I’m back in the morning with a normal episode and then we’ll take it from there. Appreciate you listening.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Cat William was on the seven pm in Brooklyn podcast and started talking a little basketball. Cat said, in basketball, I’m five to five, so there’s a whole realm of basketball I can’t experience. I don’t have any of the above rim experience.

On the other hand, I’m not Angel Reese. I’m ninety nine percent of in my layups because I can’t afford to miss a layup. My layup is my dunk. Host Cormelo Anthony cracked a smile but knew it was a joke and would not affect his family’s relationship with the star of the Chicago Sky Angel Reese. Stick to sports, okay.

Tom Sigora says FSU’s title winning touchdown was better than fatherhood. Sigora was on the Glory Days DAZ podcast hosted by former quarterback Johnny Manziel. Remember that guy, Sigora said, this is one of those things that’s gonna get me in trouble in a few years. Bert Krascher, who’s an alum, was like, do you want to go to the National Championship Game? And I go, yeah.

We ended up sitting in different sections. He’s like, my ticket’s over here, yours is over there. So I’m just sitting next to some guy. When Kelvin Benjamin caught that pass, I grabbed the guy’s shirt and I started going, Ah, it’s one of those things where you go, that’s what you can’t get at home. In a previous interview, Sigore had told ESPN, I went to the game and the emotions just to go over.

I couldn’t control myself. Winston drives down the field and throws a touchdown. I punched three guys in the face. Punching people in the face is not funny, Johnny Mack, what are you laughing at? Stick to sports, okay.

Roywood Junior talked to GQ about the Cubs and some of his favorite Cubs memories. He said, there was Toughy Roads three homers on opening Day that always stands out. Remember that. I remember that. He’s like the Barry Bonds of Japan.

He’s the man. He doesn’t pay for anything in Japan. Over here, he’s main cabin, middle seat. No one cares. But if I get just watch one baseball home run over and over and over again, it would be the Joe Carter World Series home run.

GQ asked about the steroids era, how do we handle that? Royce said, I don’t know how you can completely discredit it. It’s interesting to see both of those guys post career. The guys in question are Barry Bonds and a Rod. I think what Barry started to figure out that A Rod figured out sooner is how much your attitude plays a role, not necessarily being likable, but just being accessible.

If I a vote, I would vote for Barry Bonds and a Rod Hall of Fame. I absolutely would. Okay, well you cheated, you got caught doing something you weren’t supposed to do. Fine, but how do we wipe everything off the books? That’s the part I think is very difficult to get into the Hall of Fame.

It’s not just solely statistics. There’s intangibles of likability, just being real. You can’t tell me that Barry Bonds and his relationship with the baseball writers over the course of his career will not play a role. The Hall of Fame is like the award shows, where they have a special category basically for the ones we got wrong at the time. I think Barry maybe ends up on that met him briefly.

By briefly, I mean twenty seconds in Birmingham last year at the Willie Mays game they did with the whole Negro League’s tribute. The fact that Barry was even paraphrasing talking with Derek Jeter and Big Poppy, Huge Barry made himself accessible and spoke with people, and I thought it was really cool. I felt like Barry was feeling the love. You can tell he’s still excited about the game. He still loves this game.

He gave it his heart and soul, and he give us a hell of a show for a long time. I think if you put on a show, there’s got to be a space for you somewhere in Cooperstown. Now, if we want to call it the special Wing over here, whatever you got in trouble for steroids a couple of times, put that on the plaque. Stick to Sports. Johnny Mack okay, Li’s a trigger, says her goal every summer is to find a body of water.

But I’m not a snob. I’ll public pool, i’ll hotel, I’ll pay for day pass, I’ll hang with a friend, I’ll bring something, I’ll pay for something. But that’s always my goal. That’s not sports, Johnny Mack, let me finish the story, Lisa said.

Also, I haven’t gone to a baseball game this summer.

That’s a goal as well. See, I know what I’m doing. It’s not my first Daily Comedy News gave Iglesias is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Gabe said, I spent my life entertaining on the road, not in Hollywood. I guess someone was watching.

This was never a goal or something I thought was possible. The Hollywood Walk of Fame was established in nineteen sixty and has awarded more than twenty eight hundred stars over the last sixty five years. Leanne Morgan is excited about her sitcom. She says it’s a throwback to the nineteen nineties style comedy things like Roseanne Barr Seinfeld, Tim Allen, Drew Carey Martin, Lawrence Ray Romano. Morgan says that was my goal being my age, coming up and stand up and loving television.

That was my dream Netflix Comedy had. Tracy Pecosta says, on the stand up side, we work with best in class comedians from all over that reach very different audiences, pointing out they’ve had success with Shane Gillis’s Tires and want of Sykes of the Upshaws, and the upcoming Bert Krascher sitcom Free Bert Tracy says, and as we all know from back in the day when these type of shows were more popular and resonated, when you find somebody that is a very specific, authentic voice and makes sense to lean in and leanne is absolutely one of those talents. Weird Al play the Gordon last weekend. I love weird Al, but like MSG is just too big for me to go. Weird Al is closing in on Billy Joel’s record of one hundred and fifty shows at Madison Square Garden.

Al told the crowd just one hundred and forty nine more and I’ll be all t side up with Billy Joel. Al got a little emotional, got serious, told the crowd, Oftentimes the really big moments in your life come and go so quickly you can’t really enjoy them when you’re in them. That is very, very true, Sir Consequence says. The Bigger and Weirder Tour feels like a victory lap. The first third featured only one parody, the opener Taki, along with style parodies.

So yeah, to break down weird al. There’s these straight up parodies, you know, eat it, beat it. There are the style parodies. My favorite is dogg Eat Dog, which is in the style of talking heads.

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And then there are the weird al originals, which are also great.

So let’s say the first third featured one parody, Tacky the opener, and then style parodies the Crosby Stills, Nash and Young style mission statement that’s good, and they might be giants styled everything you know is wrong? Oh yeah, pocas paulk is a fourth category of weirdowse sorry that he did a PoCA. Then Al dressed up as Kurt Cobaine for smells like Nirvana. The band put on yellow hazmat suits and red dome hats for deer to be stupid. A medley included party the cia O to a superhero, eat it and like a surgeon, word crimes and more.

Consequence talks about Al playing fat and writes something you could never write in twenty twenty five. Why not? Can we not make fun of anything? Here are the lyrics. Who’s offended?

Your butt is wide, well mine is too. Just watch your mouth or I’ll sit on you. The word is out better treat me right, because I’m the king of cellulite. Are you offended yet? Ham On, ham On, ham On whole wheat?

All right? My zipper’s bust, my buckles break. I’m too much man for you to take the pavement cracks when I fall down. I’ve got more chins than Chinatown. Is that the lyric we’re going to get offended by?

Well, I’ve never used a phone booth and I’ve never seen my toes. When I’m going to the movies to take up seven rows because I’m fat, Don’t you call me pudgy, portle or stout. Just tell me once again who’s fat? When I walk out to get my mail, it measures on the Richter scale down at the beach. I’m a lucky man.

I’m the only one who gets a ten. If I have one more pie ala mode, I’m gonna need my own zip code. When you’re only having seconds, I’m having twenty thirds. Personally, that’s my favorite weird al line of any weird oul line. When I go to get my shoes, shine, I got to take their word because I’m fat, really really fat.

A lot of lyrics to this, and my shadow weighs forty two pounds. Let me tell you once again, who’s fat? If you see me coming your way, bet it, give me plenty of space. If I tell you that I’m hungry, then won’t you feed my face? Because I’m fat?

When I sit around the house, I really sit around the house, you know, all by myself from a crowd. I’m me tell you once again, I’m fat, and the whole world knows I’m fat, and I’m proud. Just tell me once again, who’s fat? Who’s getting offended? There are people of Chinese ancestry getting offended at the Chinatown line.

Is that why we couldn’t write that? In twenty twenty five, Consequence writes with the lack of anything from UHF felt odd. There was the extra cover of Paul Simons you can call me Al, continuing Al’s recent tradition of sticking un ironic covers in the middle of his sets. Things closed out with eBay, White and Nerdy and Almash Paradise, the encore of We All Have Cell Phones sounds like it was a great show at the Montreal Comedy Festival Today. Three French language shows at three o’clock Wow, five o’clock Sunday night.

Improv also at five, Roast Battle Canada, the Nightly Culture Show at seven, JFL Live Sessions at seven. Usually those are album tapings. There’s a lot of stuff for Sunday. Roast Battle Canada again at eight o’clock, Derek Sageen at eight thirty. Life of leisures the name of that show, The Nightly Nasty Show at nine thirty, Roast Battle Canada again at ten thirty, and Midnight Surprise at midnights.

All right, if we were there, I guess we do improv at five, Derek Sagein at eight thirty, and we go to the late Roast Battle and then you can do the midnight show by yourself. Three shows is enough for me tonight and I will be looking for bid. Cameron Diaz is back into comedy. She’s a starring role in the upcoming action comedy Bad Day. Cameron Diaz will star as a single mom fighting to keep one little promise to her daughter on the absolute worst day of her life.

And since it’s a Sunday, I like doing quirky stuff. The LA Daily News looked at the six best things they ate at the Belly Laughs Comedy and Food Festival last weekend. During that fest, which featured over twenty restaurants showcasing some of the best Asian cuisine around La. This has nothing to do with comedy other than it was the comedy and Food festival. This is just food.

The comedians included Hasan Minhaj command On, Johnny and Marcaret show. The La Daily News liked Debriana Kabab House’s Chicken Tika Masala with rice and samosa. They tell us that chicken was marinated in a bright, creamy tomato sauce that was sweet but a spicy kick. Each bite paired perfectly with the rice. People apparently were buzzing about the Kanamwan Tai Gelato and Dessert Cafes Mango Sticky Rice Sunday.

The Sticky Rice Sunday is sold out within two hours on the first day. The La Daily News says the hype was well earned. They take a traditional mango sticky rice dessert with coconut sticky rice white rice with dork ripe mangoes and elevates it. They also liked the Bopo Mofo Cafes beef Noodle sandwich, which combines elements of beef noodle soup and a French dip. It consists of a homemade Chinese breezed beef shank stacked on a toasted with melted havardi and crispy green onions.

The La Daily News says, let me tell you it was love at first dip.

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Also getting a good review of the Hermanos empanadas, the Halapano cheese and…

One bite in and my eyes turned to cartoon hearts. The cheese was perfectly melted in the holopano added just the right amount of kick. Julian modern cay popcorn chicken had a crispy texture on the outside and didn’t lose its flavor in the deep fry once it into the outer coat. The chicken inside was juicy, reveal of even more flavor and chef to a Vietnamese tierram a sou. The bass layer was made of bisc off cookies combined with a pasteurized egg batter, condensed milk, lady fingers, soaked and slip Vietnamese coffee, and dusted with cocoa powder.

A decadent dessert heaven. That festival sounds really awesome. And that is your comedy and food news on a Sunday. See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack. This is a bonus episode for Saturday afternoon. Let me just do the housekeeping and then we’ll talk about Stephen Colbert in this bonus episode. All right, So if you go through the feed, Friday Mornings regular episode recapped Shane Gillison the SPS.

I was a big fan of that podcast episode. It’s got a little loss on the weeds with the Colbert bomb dropping. So that was Friday morning, Friday afternoon, kind of late around six pm Eastern, I dropped a bonus episode about Colbert with all the initial reaction and analysis. This morning was a normal episode. Then tomorrow morning in the feed, you’ll get a normal episode and I will drop a third Colbert bonus episode at noon on Sunday.

As I’ve thought about this, now, stay with me, don’t overreact to the first thing that I’m about to say. Don’t overreact. Let me finish the complete thought before you freak out to think about this. Did Taylor Tomlinson accidentally kill off late Night? Now, stay with me, don’t freak out.

I’m not blaming Taylor at all, but something Bill Carter pointed out CBS had renewed the twelve thirty show with Taylor Tomlinson, then it got unrenewed when Taylor was like, you know what, I kind of want a tour and I can’t do all this anymore. So when she decided not to continue, that’s when they revisited twelve thirty. So I’m wondering when they revisited twelve thirty, then did they start revisiting eleven thirty and wonder, hey, could we live without any of this after all? Because, as Carter points out, if you want to reject the conspiracy theory that this is related to the Trump lawsuit, if you just want to say this is pure financials okay, maybe perhaps possibly, So what would have been the plan We’re going to renew twelve thirty Taylor Tomlinson, and then if you’re killing off the Late show at eleven thirty, what were you going to do? Show Big Bang theory reruns until twelve thirty and then run after midnight?

Or was Taylor Tomlinson before midnight? Can he get eleven thirty? Like? What would have been the plan there? In a scenario where you can’t afford the Late show franchise as CBS suspending it so I’m wondering here, So that makes no sense.

So I’m wondering if Taylor walking away made the executives go, huh, do we really need any of this? I don’t know. And again, please, I’m not blaming Taylor Tomlinson, Okay, can I make that clear. I’m just wondering if this is a butterfly effect Late Night I wrote. Before Stephen Colbert began taping Thursday’s episode of The Late Show, he took time out for his usual audience Q and A.

One fan asked Colbert how he deals with carrying the weight of the show on his shoulders. Colbert deflected the question and said he pointed out that he shares the workload with two hundred of his best friends, acknowledging the staff and crew. The audience was not aware at the time how poignant those words from Colbert were on that particular night. It wasn’t until the end of the taping that Colbert did the reveal. Claire Descent was at the taping and said, they announced we’re going to tape an alternate cold open.

Fans were expecting another piece of comedy, right, so the whole show was in the can. Colbert had done a monologue, talked with guest Adam Schiff, he interviewed Anthony Carrigan, and then they taped this alternate cold open, which is the one we saw Late Nighter writes up until that point. The biggest drama to emerge during the taping was the fact that musician Noah Cyrus didn’t appear, despite being in the opening credits and Colbert touting her as a guest. Late Nighter says Cyrus had pre taped her appearance, a regular practice for the Late Show. Colbert did several retakes of the cold open, stumbling as he performed a turn toward the camera for a cheesy faux surprise.

Oh hey, everybody. After those false starts, writes Late Nighter, Colbert finally delivered the full cold open. Colbert recorded it only once. The audience member said it was complete shocked to everybody, even not as a regular watcher. I was getting emotional because it was so sad.

He could tell this. This is probably a huge shock for everybody. After that segment, Colbert got up and walked to his wife, Evie. Colbert hugged and kissed Evie, who was seen wiping away tears, and the audience left. I’m wondering what’s going to happen to the Ed Sullivan Theater.

I mean, it’s pretty nice theater. It’s not pretty nice real estate. What are what’s going to happen there?

All right, let’s look at the numbers.

Latenighter dot Com says Colbert had been winning the time slot with two point four one seven million listeners across forty one first run episodes, and that the Late Show was the only program to increase in the first quarter, with the show up one percent in the eighteen to forty nine demo. Okay, guys, it’s like again, if you heard the end of Friday’s bonus episode. I’m team Colbert and I really like Late Night, even though I don’t actually watch it, so you know, I’m part of the problem. In the eighteen to forty nine demo, Late Nighter says Colbert had two hundred and nineteen thousand viewers, So I’m assuming people under seventeen aren’t watching it. So of the two point four million and change two point two or fifty plus, they’re old people like me and as cool and hip as I am.

That’s not where the business is. Kimmel second place, one point seven to seven two million, however, beat Colbert in the demo with whopping two hundred and twenty thousand viewers. Again, old people watching this. The youths are not watching this stuff. The Tonight Show with Jimmy fallon third place, which is just crazy to think about one point one eight eight million, and even in the demo, you know, you think maybe Jimmy plays a little younger Jimmy one hundred and fifty seven thousand people between eighteen and forty nine.

I mean, that’s not I’m laughing because I work in podcasting. It’s not that many people. It’s not that many more than stupid Johnny Mackett. His basement is reaching. Honestly, Greg Guttfeld averages three point two eight nine million viewers and two hundred and thirty eight thousand in the Cool People demo.

Late Nighter says Guttfeld was up thirty one point five percent among total viewers and twenty four percent in the demo. Other numbers seth Myers. Yeah, he has a show at twelve thirty nine hund two thousand total viewers, one hundred and eleven thousand in the demo. Nightline, that’s right, Nightlines on ABC. Somehow totally forgot that existed eight hundred and ten thousand viewers one hundred and eight in the demo, and Taylor Thomason’s show was getting five hundred and ninety one thousand viewers and eighty nine thousand in the demo.

The Daily Show averaged nine hundred and ninety four thousand viewers and one hundred and ninety thousand in the demo. Variety says NBC continues to capture the majority of late night ad dollars third place, Fallon Learning thirty three percent or seventy nine million dollars, Seth Meyers eleven percent or twenty six point two million, according to Guideline, So the NBC sales department getting it done. Jimmy Fallon being advertiser friendly smart business Late Show was seventy point two million more than Kimmel, less than Fallon. Bridy writes there’s a feeling that some of Colbier’s commentary makes Late Show something some advertisers prefer to avoid. So what could the future look like?

Well, Jimmy Kimmel signed a new deal in twenty twenty two, is com instantly threatening to walk away. He’s contracted through the end of the twenty five twenty six broadcast seasons, so that would be May of twenty six, same as Colbert. Now, Jimmy and his agent they have what we call hand because if there is no Late Show on CBS, Kimmel would then have the number one show and the CBS audience, big or small as it is, they’re going to go somewhere. So I think Kimmel’s in a good place and that show will continue, would be my guess. Deadline understands that ABC has no plans to cancel the show, and Rob Mills, who oversees Late Night, has said ABC will back Jimmy Kimmel until he decides to clear out his desk.

Both Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers are signed through twenty twenty eight. On his podcast this week, John Stewart said, I believe the timing of this was after Colbert made his commentary on Monday, but before the news of the Late Show ending. John Stewart had said, Unfortunately, I haven’t heard anything from them. I believe that it’s a reference to Skydanants, the new owners. They haven’t called me and said, like, don’t get too comfortable in that office, Stuart, but let me tell you something.

I’ve been kicked out of crappier establishments than that. We’ll land on our feet. Stuart said he honestly doesn’t know if sky Dance would kill the Daily Show, which has been on the air since nineteen ninety six. He said, I’d like to believe without the Daily Show, I don’t know. Comedy Central is kind of like Muzak at this point.

I think we’re the only sort of life that exists on a current basis other than South Park, but it’s the only thing on there. I’d like to think we bring enough value to the property if they’re looking at it purely as a real estate transaction. I think we bring a lot of value, but that may not be their consideration. They may sell the whole effing place for ports. I don’t know.

We’ll deal with it when we do. John Stewart said good things about the staff, including the showrunner and Jordan klepperd as Alantic, Ronny Chieng, Michael Costa. He said, I’m so happy. I’m proud of everybody that works over there. They want to do that and knock themselves out.

As Jay Leno would say about Dorito’s go ahead crunch all you want, we’ll make more. We’ll figure that out when the time comes. That is your bonus episode again, a Sunday morning normal episode where I won’t talk about Colbert at all because I had already recorded that. Tomorrow, at noon Eastern time, I will drop another bonus episode about Colbert because I’ve got a lot more about this, all right, enjoy your Saturday

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. So I’ve been trying to get back in the habit on Fridays of recapping Late Night. Don’t worry you didn’t download the wrong episode. It’s Saturday Calm Down.

But I didn’t do it yesterday because we had so much Gene Gillis to get through. I really like yesterday’s episode. If you missed it, check that one out. So here are some of the better Late Night jokes from the week. One of the topics the Epstein Files.

Jimmy Fallon said, Trump said, everybody move on. It’s a minor issue. And people said, exactly, it’s a minor issue. Fallon again. A thief in Massachusetts stole more than one hundred thousand dollars worth of rare Pokemon cards.

Trust me, the last thing you want to tell your CELLMATEE is that you’re in prison for jacking a squirrel. That’s pretty edgy for Jimmy Fallon. But then I thought about it more and I could see Johnny Carson back in the day nailing that vaguely dirty punchline and mugging for the camera and getting a good life seth Meyers. A newdist group in Pittsburgh over the weekend held its annual Balls Out Bowling event where clothing is not allowed, much to the horror of Jimmy’s eighth birthday party. I like that twist there at the end, more of a straight up tag by Seth.

By the way, whose idea was this, We need an idea for the next nudist event. How about a sport we bend over in front of everyone. Fallin. They’re burning the mega hats. People in China were like, come on, we work so hard making them.

That’s very good. Is Jimmy Fallon quietly handing in great monologues because Colbert is not Oh, I did the prep and I didn’t pull any Colbert jokes. Fallin Again. The excuses are getting worse and worse. Today Trump was like a dog ate the Epstein files than people in Ohio ate the dog.

That is fantastic, Seth Myers. The dating app Bumble has announced plans to lay off about thirty percent of its staff, and it’s pretty cool how they’re doing it. No, no, yes, no Fallon. A woman in California said her home is being flooded with hundreds of unwanted Amazon packages. By the way, an unwanted Amazon package is how Lauren Sanchez described her honeymoon.

Also great Seth Myers. In honor of National hot Dog Day, the convenience store Circle K offered two roller grill hot dogs for a dollar because that’s what they used to cost back when they were first placed on the roller, but Jordan Klepper for the win. Lauren Bobert had suggested that Trump appoint Matt Gates special counsel for the whole Epstein business. Jordan Klepper slammed it with you want Matt Gates to investigate underage sex trafficking. I guess it makes sense in a game recognized game way, I caunes see Matt Gates pulling up to R.

Kelly’s house saying I’m putting together a team fantastic. Randomly, I saw a note that Jay Leno, according to NBC, hosted more than forty six hundred episodes of The Tonight Show, which was the most of any of the six hosts in the show’s history, and I was like, Leno hosted more than Johnny Carson, so I looked it up. Johnny apparently hosted quote unquote only thirty six hundred and fifty eight episodes. So I thought about it, and I think that’s probably lazy math. Leno hosted for twenty two years.

Let’s say he did forty eight weeks a year. He might have done fifty or more, but let’s call it forty eight. I don’t remember Jay taking a lot of time off. So if for twenty two years you did the show five days a week as opposed to four, you would make up one thousand and fifty six shows on Johnny Carson, who for a long while did four days and towards the end only did three days. Oh and now that I’m thinking about it more, I guess part of that would have been Jay Leno was the Monday guest host for a couple of years, you know, so that’s hosting the Tonight Show.

So okay, that math does make sense. But it was very surprising. GQ is a good interview with Mark Maron, and it was nice. Somebody asked Maren something different for a change. GQ asked Maren.

In the past, you’ve spoken about struggling to pick out a good outfit when you’re on stage filming a special. Do you feel like you dialed it in with this one Mark special’s on HBO August first. Maren said, yeah, I mean, that’s been a lifelong journey for me. I committed that shirt and those pants and those boots, and it was I’m quite a bit. Leading up the special, there was an issue with the shirt being a little snug when I sat down the gas between and the buttons would pop open, but like everything kind of fell into place.

I stretched it out when I got there. The wardrobe person, who was an employee at the theater solved that problem by putting snaps in between the buttons that you couldn’t see. So that was resolved. This part of my brain that seeks to be anxious and cost myself minor problems before I go in, because that’s just the way my brain works. That has to work against me in order for me to have a certain energy, I guess, but it wasn’t there that night, and I just didn’t have the usual habitual anxiety that I usually have heading into something like that.

I knew the stuff, I knew the work, I felt good about the outfit, felt good about the shirt, felt good about my hair. There was no weird, dumb stuff that happened that would spiral me out. I mean, it’s about time that that part of my brain stops trying to f with me. I’ve avoided medication for most of my life, but I’ve been taking something specifically for foundational anxiety and maybe it was working, I don’t know. But also that theater is a big part of the special.

Is whatever I did up there in that theater of the Bam Harvey. It’s not disrespair, but it’s frozen in a state of decay in a way. They didn’t distore it, thought it be what it is, but they maintain it. So it’s got a very interesting personality. To me.

Well looked like a rough go painting. And when I first saw the space, I’m like, there’s no way that wall is going to be as big a part of the special as I am. I can’t explain it exactly why, and the DP was like, yeah, I get it. And when he was first looking at it, he’s like, I’m thinking kinsugi. I’m like, I don’t know what that is, and then he told me and I looked it up.

That’s a Japanese order for storing broken ceramic pieces with gold. So he was able to work the lights around that. In the audience in the room and on the rug. Then it fades up during those last two heavier bits under the wall as sort of a reparative poetic implication. Mark Maren panicked August first on HBO, Taylor Tumlinson told The Times of London the hardest thing about being a woman in comedy he’s traveling alone on the road, and so you get to a certain level just more dangerous.

When I was twenty into these small towns and doing these weird gigs by myself, people would try to break into your hotel rooms because they know you’re a loon in the middle of nowhere. It’s scary. Yikes. The reporter was like, what Taylor said, Yeah, you know, we all have those stories. She says traveling for comedy can be isolating.

She’s hired her younger sibling to travel on the road with her, which has helped her a lot. Dating has fallen down the list of the stuff that she’s able to get to. Taylor says, the idea of oh it’s going to happen for you, I don’t know. We’re all on our phones. You might have to try a little bit.

I’m also on the fence about having kids. I don’t know how to feel about that. First things first, I’d like a partner, and I think if I focus the same level of caret attention on that, and it probably happened a little faster. Now that my career is in a place i’m happy with, I have to finish this tour, film the special, finish my book. Then next year I can focus on finding a partner.

I think she’s on the celebrity dating app Raya. Oh yeah, there’s a whole other world out there that you and I are not part of. She says, it stinks. I mean, my last relationship was from Raya, so it does work sometimes, but I think dating is just bad across the board. It can feel uneven because there’s so much information publicly available about me.

If I meet somebody who I don’t know anything about, it feels like they have the high ground. She talked about having more fame and money now, and she said, I’m very conscious of that. You can’t go out on stage and act like, oh, things are still really hard for me, still having a tough time at work. No, you’re not. You’re doing very well.

And I think you just have to come at it from a place of gratitude. It’s because of everybody who buys tickets. If you’re in Maui, you go see Shang Wang tonight. He’ll beat the Max Castle Theater. He told Maui News.

I’m always trying to pay attention. I’m almost trying to be present and just see what’s happening, then collecting little moments, little observations you notice that could be obviously hilarious, or it could just be something interesting that’s not obviously humorous but shared in a funny way. I love creating something that wasn’t here before, that wasn’t here yesterday. I love the process of craft. I love the idea.

It’s so open, it’s pretty free. It’s you, a microphone and an audience. It’s fine if you bomb, that’s say you get better. It’s always fun to do a good show, but having a good set isn’t that meaningful if you don’t try something new. The most rewarding thing is coming up with something new or making it better, and the process of just basically being okay with bombing.

I like the idea that people can now walk out of this show to their regular lives, see these little things and have a moment just a moment there to think where maybe they’re not an autopilot when they’re brushing their teeth. I like the idea that after this show, if people really enjoyed it, they can come across little points into lives where they’re not kind of glossed over or moving through without thinking. We can consider this moment a little bit to be present. Basically, Chang Wang Maccastle Theater tonight, seven o’clock MAUI all right, from Montclairlocal dot com. We are on gossip corner.

Montclair Local was wondering what was going on at Montclair High School the other day because there was a new sign. The school had apparently been renamed Aldrin High School. Now interesting, Buzz Aldrin is from Montclair, New Jersey, but he already has a school in town named in his honor. Susan is a Montclair resident. She was one of the first to spot the sign at around five forty five in the morning while dropping her son off at soccer practice.

She told Montclair Local, my first thought was, am I seeing things? My second thought was how did I not know about this? Have been living under a rock?

And then I thought we already have a Buzz Aldrin Middle school.

It turns out the sign was for Adam Sandler’s new movie Roommates. The film also stars famous actress Sonny Sandler. I may have to leave the country. I’m not gonna be able to take all the Sandler stuff.

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Speaking of leaving the country, it’s just for laughs.

Montreal taking a look at the English language programming tonight, the Cultural Show at seven, the JFL Live sessions at seven. Again if you heard me ran yesterday. This website is not awesome this year. In the past, the live sessions have been album taping, so I’m going to assume that that’s what that is. Eight thirty a show called and just like that, this is Me now an hour with Trana Wintur, The Nasty Show at nine thirty, and probably a good twenty French shows I didn’t tell you about, Oh ten o’clock, Dino Archie and Chris Robinson at ten, and Midnight Surprise at eleven fifty nine.

This will really start to pick up once we get into the week here. This is very typical Week two of the Montreal comedy festivals, always the stronger week. Don’t read anything into any of this. All right in Belleville, Ontario, a comedian today is hoping to set the world record for most garage sales in one day. Kyle Wolven said, I’d like to go to the higher ups in the city, all the well connected city council type people, and explain my idea.

And then it took one person to say that’s not a bad idea. We should try and do something like that. Well, today the community will aim to set a Guinness World Record for greatest number of yard sales. There does not appear to be an official record yet, but there’s an event in the US called the one twenty seven Yard Sale, which claims to be the world’s longest yard sale, crossing six states at six hundred and ninety miles. Well Wolven said, people can’t help but love yard sales.

If they see one, they get the surge to go and stop at it, even though most of the stuff there they don’t want or they have already at home. But when you see a yard sale, you go, oh, yeah, cool, come on, what do they have over there? You can look at their stuff and be like, oh my goodness, you bought like two of those singing bass fish that hang on the wall things. I’ll give you three fifty for those well, good luck with your record, sir, and that it’s your comedy news for today see tomorrow.