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Caloroga Shark Media. Johnny Mack, Yesterday, you promised us you were gonna lead off with a Tom Sagora story. This Tom Sagora story better be good. You talked about it a lot yesterday. Hello, I am Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News.

In case you missed it. I held back a story because I wanted to tape today and yesterday back to back, and it helps me to have an A level comedian story in the A bloc. So let me tell you that Tom Sagora is apparently going to make a lot of fun of Garth Brooks on his new TV series Bad Thoughts, coming to Netflix. In each of the six episodes of Bad Thoughts, Sagora is said to portray a dark character in quote unthinkable situations and fantasies. One such character, Garth Brooks, is a global country music superstar who kidnaps his own fans.

Sorry, the lawyers want to say, totally not Garth Brooks. This character is not Garth Brooks. I misspoke there, you miss on derstood me. It’s definitely not Garth Brooks. One such character is a global country music superstar who kidnaps his own fans and forces them into depressing situations to help inspire him to write new songs.

If you see the picture of who Tom Sagori is dressed up as I could see where, you might think it’s Garth Brooks, but it’s definitely not. Now if you’re not hip to this, so Goora has been goofing on Garth for years. You may occasionally see the internet comment where are the bodies Grth? This goes back to Tom Sigora and Christina p They’ve been joking about this since twenty eighteen. In twenty eighteen, Garth Brooks was previewing a big stadium tour, Sigora and Christina made fun of Garth Brooks for his everyman stick and always being awkward on social media.

Then, on the November twenty eighth, twenty eighteen episode of Your Mom’s House, episode four seventy six, if you want to go here it yourself, Sigora first alluded that he jokingly thought that maybe Garth Brooks was a serial killer. Sigura, way back then jokes, what he’s thinking about is all the bodies he’s got stacked in his craze in his yard. For sure, He’s probably killed two hundred to three hundred people in his life. Sigora once told Theo Vaughn that Brooks is well aware of Segura and the impact he’s had on his social media presence. He noted that the joke originally stemmed from the conspiracy theory that missing person cases would often align with many of Gorth Brooks’s tours.

Rolling Stone profile Tom Sigora back in twenty twenty three, and Sigura then said, I woulds like to point out that these are alleged accusations and that some very savvy detectives online have managed to point out the dots between these people have gone missing and his tour dates. I know there’s an FBI task force investigating this, that’s been confirmed, and I know he has a lot of land, so that would be such an arduous endeavor if they’re trying to find anything on his property. But I do think it’s right of him or his camp to at least address this. The fact that they don’t address this has been a huge mistake and it’s just gonna grow from there. The legal department here a Daily Comedy News wants us to remind you that this is all joke and parody, and of course Garth Brooks is not a serial killer.

That’s absurd. This is all just you know it was doing a bit speaking of Sgora today is the two Bears actually three bears five K in Florida, Bert Kreischer, Tom Sigora and Jelly Roll. All participants not only get the opportunity to party with the Bears, but will also receive a finisher medal, a beer and a shirt. And they add unless your Bert, we already know he won’t wear his so faques, can I walk? Is there a time cut off?

There is no official course cutoff, but participants should be aware that there may be road closures to accommodate the event that may reopen at a later date. So before I get into this next thing, I shared in the Facebook group the other day which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Please feel encouraged to join us there. I did share a video of Jimmy Fallon doing Jim Morrison from the Doors the Doors performing the reading Rainbow songs from a few years back. Fallon is super talented.

I mean everything about that bit. They captured the music of the Doors, They captured the way that Jim Morrison would start screaming as courses got repeated, and it’s a pretty good vocal impression of jim Morrison. I’ve met Jimmy twice found them to be cool. So I have good things to say about Jimmy Fallon, But this next thing a little cheesy, no pun. Jimmy is becoming a brand partner and investor in tortilla chips and salsa brand so Chill.

Now. I’m glad so Chill told me how to pronounce so chill because I would have never gotten this right. Let’s spell so Chill together. Are you ready? X?

You didn’t expect me to say X did you know? X O c h I t L. You can’t even remember that, so it’s so Chill again x O c H I t L. And I guess if you have a wacky brand name, you hire Jimmy Fallon, who explains it’s like so Chill or so Chill Media, so Chill Network, so Chill distortion. It gets easier the more you practice it.

I agree with that, Jimmy Fallon, So that’s my first job, and then once I get that out there, they’ll probably give me other assignments. On this slow news day, we are told so Chill is America’s largest independent tortilla chip brand. I’m trying to make a show here, folks, but it is still lesser known than your grocery staples on their tortilla chip shelf. As full national distribution, it’s looking to Jimmy Fallon for mainstream boost. Hey, you got super cool podcast influencers in their basement talking about so Chill chips.

I mean this is working. Matt Leeds is the chairman and says, as a brand looking to emphasize warmth, authenticity and shared experiences, Jimmy Fallon’s funny, approachable and family friendly persona aligns well with us and our brand strategy. That’s right. Fallon says, I’ve been offered my own whiskey, my own tequila, and all that stuff. I just don’t want to be out there boozing it up with the golf course selling bottles of stuff.

Yeah, you might look super uncool, like Sayin did last summer. I want to do that, Falan said, what am I doing? I don’t know anything about that, but this tortilla chips I can get behind. It’s on brand for me, and I have no problem selling this and standing behind it. Falon said.

The dude from so Chio called me up and I said, wait, I actually know what you’re talking about. I had no clue how it’s pronounced. He kind of gave me a rundown of where the business is, and I thought this sounded like a fun opportunity. I love business stories, I love marketing stuff, and I’d love to help see something grow and become giant. Financial details of the deal we’re not disclosed, but Falan said this has the chance an opportunity to really grow.

When a brand is already massive, then I’m just doing a commercial or something. It’s paid gig. It’s all good. You do the commercial and you hope it’s funny. But with this, I’m a partner and an investor, so if it works out, I might actually see some dividends.

I’ve got skin in the game. How much do you get paid hose to Tonight Show, let’s say fail and salary. Ay I says Jimmy is paid sixteen million dollars a year, which a different site breaks down he makes eighty two, nine hundred and one dollars and fifty five cents per episode of the Tonight Show. Not bad, but that doesn’t mean you can’t also invest in chips. I get it.

Jimmy says, one of my jobs at the Tonight Show is to always be selling everyone else’s stuff, which is great. I love it. It’s my favorite jobs and now I’m like, why not do it for myself? And I agree Jimmy and I think the important here. Let’s recap what we’ve covered on the show today.

So far, we’ve covered that Garth Brooks is definitely not a serial killer and Jimmy Fallon is selling tortilla chips. But if you check your watch, I somehow killed off half an episode with not much to talk about, so all things are good here. Let’s see what’s happening down in Australia at the Sydney Comedy Festival, which has been going on. I haven’t talked about it much yet because things were a little busy for a bit.

And also in past years they’ve posted a lot of clips of the people performing…

But I took a minute to put together the show and I found three. Let’s start with Cam Knight. Cam is performing on May seventh. Cam’s show is called Unbothered, Moist Eyed, Happy, in My Lane, Focused flourishing, the description of camp shows. We’re all doing our best to get everything turning in the right direction, usually around New Year’s but it’s momentary.

We might get halfway through a self help book like Atomic Habits. I think we’ve clocked it. We may even pay a lot of money to a Balinese bomb reader for some guidance, because it seemed to work for Julia Roberts. A few things have happened to us, and I plan on talking about them and my usually hilarious self deprecating fashion being one of those people who says everything’s fine, or this too shall pass. Let’s take a listen.

The Adelaide Advertiser gave it five stars out of five, and I have made some edits here for f bombs. We try not to do f bombs here on this podcast. Hello, how’s this for serendipity? On this day twelve months ago, I completely snapped my achilles tendon. Yum.

Oh. Most normal people who rupture their achilles do so taking part in high impact sport, you know, like sprints or squash perhaps for the adventurous little bit of park all. I did mine jogging towards a trampoline. I didn’t even get on the sweet tramp like I did it on Launch. I was at a playground with my eleven year old nephew.

I heard it go crack. I thought the little trip meet right, And there is nothing more emasculating than crumpling to the ground in front of your eleven year old nephew screaming, get your mom. It’s I couldn’t. I couldn’t run around with my kids for months, right, And so everyone, all my friends and family members ended up buying my kids heaps of toys to overcompversate. How’s that I’m the one injured?

They get the gifts right, It’s so spoiled. How’s this? My eldest last Christmas? He was given three kites, three of them? Like nobody needs that much Kaytrie in their life, do they?

Plus I’ve only got two kids. There’s a kite spare do the math? Look who’s go to get involved in the show? I don’t really like you know what caught flying is vagan fishing TI. So that’s gam knight.

He’s good. Let’s take a listen to Ben Hunter, who’s performing on May tenth and eleventh. Ben says, in this my sophomore stand up comedy Shelby speaking about how the world has gone totally mad, I maybe only fifteen or sixteen. I don’t know if that’s a joke or not. I think it’s a joke.

But I could put on a comedy show that is very least on part with my contemporary some of whom I’m told her up to double my age. So this clip is a bit of a slow burn. And I talked about this earlier in the week. I know my comedy tastes are different than the mainstream. I like the quirky alt stuff, so this takes a while to get going.

But as I watched it, I thought it was really funny. Now you’re probably gonna be like joining back. The clip was, I don’t get it, but I find this very funny. Here’s Ben Hunter. Hey all go.

Do you guys know Florido the rapper Florida? You know this guy apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur any bells. I won’t give away the whole song, but it wasn’t just some of the club looking at her. Let’s just put it that way. It’s the whole place, all right.

But you don’t know who I’m talking about? Really? WHOA Sometimes i’d get a good female. Yeah this guy gets it? Yeah?

Right, you could leave I guess I. Got that’s Ben Hunter. All right, I’ll play you something a little more traditional and faster paced. Dan rath show is called Tropical Depression. I like that’s how a lot.

Dan Rath performs at the Sydney Comedy Festival on May fifteenth. The description of this show is I can’t focus. I don’t know if it’s the microplastics long covid or because I pay five hundred dollars a week to live in a mold experiment. I went to a rally dressed as Boba Fett and was bashed by both police and protesters. I formed a parasocial relationship with a door dash chatbot.

I lost all my crypto trying to buy a Mermaid skeleton. Here’s Dan Rath. I have made edits here for both content. My psychiatrist said that anxiety can lead to depression. I wish it would hurry up anxieties.

Why worse. It’s like a sushi train, just different dishes every day. Shashimi, betrayal, Taraoky, Brian cancer. Me so I skit and you just. Up free in the morning, texting all your friends were cool.

Just depressions. Why better you’re in your pajamas, drinking Costad out of the box and a Xanax. It’s relaxing. Usually my care is tasing me by Naw’s she’s doing karaoke the bitch, but that’s her. She was asking if I wanted to go to an escape room.

I’m like, no, I can just eat buffalo wings without a napkin and try and turn a doornob. That’s Dan Wrath. This show is called Tropical Depression, and that, my friends, is how you kill off a Saturday when you got nothing. This was pretty good for nothing. This was pretty good.

All right, we’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle was at Lincoln Center. They were celebrating Duke Ellington’s one hundred and twenty fifth birthday. Now you might be like, why was Dave Chappelle there.

You may recall he attended Duke Ellington’s School of the Arts in Washington, d C. And they were honoring him a few years back. Chappelle said of Lincoln Center, man, you never thought you’d see me an event like this, But he talked about the school and said that school profoundly, profoundly, profoundly changed my life. Duke Ellington was a guy who traveled all around the world just based off his talent and his kids. We knew that it was possible, just because his energy was in the air.

The New York Times says Chappelle mostly stuck to the teleprompter, but threw in a few ad libs, including you can’t get one of the greatest comedians in the world to just read a teleprompter.

And then he talked about a certain politician and said, it’s up to us.

We got to keep this tradition alive. This is one of the best things we got going in America here saying I got to make jazz great again. To send your letters to Dave Chappelle. I’ve been mentioning a few times during this admittedly slow newsweek that Nikki Glaser is the gift who keeps on giving. If you need another story, you type Nikki Glaser into Google and you never know what shows up.

She weighed in on this whole Bill Belichick girlfriend thing, because of course she did. But what’s even stranger to me is she was responding to an Instagram post by the Dudes on Dudes podcast, which I didn’t know Nikki Glaser was a fan of the dudes From Dudes on Dudes are two guys that used to play for the Patriots, specifically Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski. Even if you’re a casual football fan, you’ve probably at least heard of Gronk. These are like some serious Patriots, so they would know Bill Belichick, Edelman said of Belichick’s girlfriend, she was jumping into that conversation during the interview, just like any PR person would jump in when there’s an unnecessary question that they probably didn’t go over in the pre production meeting, Gronkowski said, Yep, she’s become his rep on top of being a girlfriend. Nikki Glaser chimed in on the instagram in the comments and said one percent this she’s acting as his publicist.

Publicists do this during interviews. People are out for blood. A strange note from John Mulaney’s show has made the news. Have you seen this thing on social media all week? Could one hundred men fight one gorilla?

It’s been going around online, Mulaney said had prompted a debate and our writer’s room about whether three fourteen year old boys could beat up me John Mulaney. Mullanie has now vowed to fight three fourteen year old boys. On the season finale on May twenty eighth, Mlani asked, is this legal so far? We think so. It’s not assault.

We know that, and we’re vetting every step of it. I’ve been led to believe that it’s for TV. It’s a lawful practice. Now, Millennie doesn’t seem like the toughest guy in the world, but then again, he also didn’t seem like he had a drug problem, So maybe he’s secretly ripped and secretly tough. Now.

I don’t know if you’ve raised any suns. Three fourteen year old boys could be quite physically imposing. I’m going to bet a dollar on the three fourteen year old boys beating up John Mulaney if they actually do this thing. Sophie Buttle talked about writing monolog for Taylor Tomlinson’s show. During the audition process, they apparently told Sophie the monologu should be about a page, and if it takes you more than an hour or two to write a page, you’re wrong for the job.

Sophie said, I banged it out really fast, and Taylor and I went and hung out. As plan. The next morning, I flew out to a comedy festival. When I landed, my manager has scheduled a zoom. I got to the hotel and we had a meeting with the head writer, the EP some other folks.

They decided they wanted to hire me. I had to leave the comedy festival early so that I could start that Monday. She explained how long it takes to write a first draft. Technically, our day starts at eight thirty am. We get a research packet with a bunch of online trends and options to write jokes about, and I have to be done with the draft by ten.

On Wednesday, they taped two episodes. Hey, that’s the thing, people do. I know one guy who’s taping Friday and Saturday in this session right now. Wednesdays is our double tape day, so I have to do two monologue drafts between eight thirty and ten, and those are much harder. I use the full amount of time on single tape days, so it feels like a truly great feed of human willpower to get two done.

Nay Brighetzi told The New York Times, I don’t plan on touring doing stand up forever. I want to make movies. People can think if you get too big, are you’re gonna change? The audience is very much in mind with everything that I will make again, I try not to do it for me. It’s for you.

I want them, the audience, to be able to trust that keep coming and see that I’m trying to do something a little against the green right now. When I started in comedy, some comics would be like, well, I’m not for everybody, and I’d be like, well, why do you want to not be for everybody? Nate has been saying the next special will be on Netflix, and I could see maybe one more special after that. I don’t want to overstay my welcome. I also want to get out of the way.

I need to let the next wave comedians come up. I got this tour and then maybe one more. We’ll see. I’ll believe that when it happens. John Stuart, he’s in a band, and the Asbury Park Press said they play it on Monday night, Church and State TM is Rick Barry on vocals, Andy Bova on guzar, Jim Bova on bass and John Stewart on the drums.

Apparently they were at Georgie’s Bar on Monday night. Stuart joked from the stage, we know almost eight songs tonight you get to hear seven of them. John was also confused and said, you guys, don’t put the Daily Show on at eleven. I drove here straight from the show. This is embarrassing.

Tina Fay worries that people actually believe she’s remaking The Golden Girls with Amy Poehler and told those folks go to a hospital now, no offense. Tina fe and Amy Poehler, it’s actually a great idea. You guys would crush it. Can’t you make like eight of them? For Netflix, just do it and be done.

There’s a fake image floating around. It features Amy Pohler, Maya Rudolph, Lisa Kudro and Tina Fay as the Golden Girls. Tina told Entertainment Tonight, Oh, I didn’t know about this. I liked that it was fooling people like, why would we ever take a picture where Amy and Lusakudro in costume? But we are not.

If this fooled you, you might be a boomer. And if you’re gen X and this fooled you, go to a hospital. The Great American Comedy Festival comes to Norfolk, Nebraska, Friday, June thirteenth. They’ve announced the headliners River Butcher, David Perdue, Amy Shanker, Adam Tiller, and host Chip Chantry. Night will end with your headliner James Austin john And The festival began in two thousand and eight to honor Johnny Carson, who grew up in the area.

Meanwhile, the Dubai Comedy Festival is back, Baby, this one not until October. It’s his fifth year, featuring international and regional stand up stars at various venues including the Dubai Opera and the Coca Cola arena. So, who’s there, John, Tom Sagora? Who we’re going to talk about tomorrow fun store I’m sitting on. I needed a headline.

I told you I’m taping two. I told you I admitted it. So I saved the Tom Sagora story to Schoogle. Tom sigorat Garth Brooks. If you can’t wait, But that’s tomorrow’s leadoff store.

You know, you know tap of Friday and Saturday back to back. What do you want for me? Sigora will open the festival on October second, then on the fifth, ohmid Julily. On the seventh, it’s Irish comedian Joanne McNally, who previously appeared at the festival in twenty twenty three. Morgan Jay, La based comedian and musician Morgan Jay, who’s been coming up a little bit on the show lately, makes his Dubai debut on October sixth at Dubai Opera and your closer for the festival on October twelfth that Coca Cola Arena.

Indian comedian Zakir Khan Cohn is performing in Hindi. The festival overall will feature shows in several languages, including English, Arabic, and Hindi, as well as interactive experiences across the city. Out today a new comedy album, Simon Gibson’s The Wizard’s Boy, recorded live in Montana. Simon Gibson took the stage with high Kicks before sharing several hilarious personal stories, including his time working as a customer service rep, a fancy coffee artist, and deli server, plus his weight gain slash weight loss journey, his hobbyist dad’s homemade magic wands, and more. Simon Gibson is described as Chris Farley meets Sam Kinnison.

Love it. Simon Gibson’s The Wizard’s Boy out today from a Special Thing Records, And I’ve got one more John Clees thing that I saved because you know, you like like a little fun, kicker story at the end of the podcast, leave everybody with a smile. It’s kind of the format works, right. It’s the format is like big names at the front, then talk about like some comedy festival overseas, kind of in the middle. At the end, I try and leave it with a smile.

Let’s how this works. You’ve caught onto this, yes, John Cleese. It’s an old brade magazine. The Third Wife got two properties. One was in London and one was in New York, and we had to sell the other three.

What’s the difference between a famous singer and a famous comedian? About two hundred million dollars. If you lose your nest egg at seventy, there’s not much alternative to constantly working. I could have married somebody rich. And that is your comedy news for today.

Boy, I bet you can’t wait to hear that Tom Sigoris story. I know you can’t wait. Well, I’m about to read it, but you can’t hear it until tomorrow because I pre tape Saturday. See yep.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Tom Sigor is beginning to promote his new Netflix series Bad Thoughts, and he tells Variety Bad Thoughts as everything, prosthetic, genials can join, twins, deep fakes, and one horrified Peruvian mother. Sigora said, we had to watch a few episodes at a private screening room with hidden cameras. She told me, give the money back.

You can’t air this. I’ll never see my friends again. Bad Thoughts is six episodes. It starts May thirteenth, and it’s described as grotesque, stylized, and brazenly absurd. Variety describes it as black mirror by way of David Cronenberg, if Cronenberg were tripping on mushrooms.

Sgora tells Variety, I always wanted to make movies, and this felt like the first step. I’m trying to be Jordan Peel with penises. It’s interesting how this came together. It started as a few short films that Sigora wrote between tour stops. He pitched them to a director, They did an eleven day shooting.

Then they had enough material to convince Netflix to order the full series. Tom said, I told my wife what we were filming, and she goes, I’ve non here for twenty years and these have been in your head the whole time. The show was produced while Tom Sigora’s wife, Christina Pozitski, was battling cancer. Tom said she was diagnosed in June last year. I told her I’d pause production.

She said, no, go make your show. She was home recovering surgery while I was in full prosthetics acting like a sex crazed mutant. The only note they got from Netflix involved the N word. He also says in South Korea they may have to blur some of the penis shots. Apparently, if it looks too human, it’s a no go.

Brian Cranston almost joined, but Tom says he liked the script, but he didn’t work out. So I just played the part of myself. That’s show bizy, you know. Tom Sagora, Brian Cranston. Bad Thoughts will also compete at the Emmys for Outstanding Short Film, Comedy, Drama or Variety Program.

Bad Thoughts on Netflix May thirteenth, and it’s May already not too far away. This weekend, the Mark Twain Prize Conan O’Brien remember that was the thing that happened. Well, they released a trailer and it’s really strong. Let’s listen. Thank you all for coming, and shame on you for being here.

Conan was like, don’t be cynical, and then collected fifty million dollars. You are the richest underdog in this town. Can you prove that? Not only can you meet your heroes, but when you do, he’ll flirt with your mom. Look, I know this is your knight, but you look like an idiot right now.

You just look at him. You know, the poor bastard never had a chance. I’m a comedian because of you. So after this you’ll be facetiming my parents to apologize. We have five wings here, each hotter than the last.

Oh, this one really saw Yeah, he introduced us to a bear who masturbated through a nightmare. History will show this will have been the most intertaining gathering of the resistance ever. Dam me. David Letterman is still alive today. At four Eastern, Pete Davidson takes over the axe Instagram paid which Pete will host an Axe Me Anything.

I see what you did there? It is a Reddit style ask me Anything. This one focused on confidence and Underdog wins. Pete is also headlining a commercial four acts. It is called short Kings.

In the commercial, Pete Davidson gives a pep talk to a young man insecure about a relationship before spritzing him with his favorite axe sent Pete commented on dating apps, He’s like, it’s just like no, yes, no, it’s so rude, like you don’t even know the person you know. So I really feel bad for this crop of people because I have anxiety, and when I grew up was just flip phones. It was pretty awesome. But the kids today, I don’t even have a shot. So I just hope it changes and other people revert backwards a little bit.

Since Pete is out hawking deodorant, he was asked about deodoran and said, I mean in high school, Axe was a shower. I went to an all boys school and it could be awkward when you’re using the gym, and showering in a school when you’re growing up could be tough. So I always had axe and was just spray it all over and then shower when I got home. Reminds me of growing up and playing basketball outside and having a normal life. My fragrance was Phoenix.

It’s the blue one. I just remember vividly going to CVS with my mom every two to three weeks and getting new bottles. I hate to say this, but it’s kind of how like prime sports drinks are now. Where you collected it was cool to have like four of them on your dresser. There was just something reassuring about it, and you knew that even if you smelled like crap, you’ll be fine if you have it.

So it really brings me back to my childhood. Don’t miss the Axe Me anything. Today at four, Jordan Klepper will do another special for The Daily Show, this one with the really complicated title The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse Maga the Next Generation. Yes there are three colons in that title. In The Daily Show Presents Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse Maga the Next Generation.

Jordan Klepper will dive into the pocket of young voters who turned out for Trump during the election. Klepper’s travels take him everywhere from college campuses to MMA octagons. It is Jordan Clepper’s sixth Daily Show branded special. So you might be saying, well, why don’t they just give the Daily Show to Clupper and you are reminded. Oh yeah, remember he hosted the Opposition with Jordan Klepper, which was in the post Daily Show spot at one point.

So I don’t know if he’ll get another at bath there anyway. Clipper’s Mega the Next Generation special Monday May nineteenth, eleven thirty pm on Comedy Central will be on Paramount Plus and The Daily Show YouTube channel the next day. The Lost Culturista’s Awards are getting more serious this year. They’ll be on Bravo. These are the awards given out by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers.

The Lost Culturista’s Culture Awards recognized culture’s most iconic and consequential moments of the year through musical performances, special guests, and over one hundred award categories. The awards will be taped in La July seventeenth, will air on Bravo August fifth, I will stream the next day on Peacock. This next story is just fascinating. Dave Thomas from Second City Television remember him now stay with me here. He says that a close call with death in twenty twenty affected his worldview.

He told the Canadian press, I had sepsis and my arms and legs were twice their size. I was in the hospital, I was actually in hospice, and I thought I was basically done. I look back in my life at that time and I thought, you know what, I’ve got no regrets. I had a good run. But he got out and thought, what am I going to do with the rest of my life?

He is seventy five years old. How do I put some meaning into this life before I kick the bucket? So he has headed off to Ukraine. He’s creating a video campaign for the Ukrainian Freedom Fund, a Key based US registered charity run by one of his friends. The Ukrainian Freedom Fund aims to provide non lethal equipment to outgun Ukrainian forces.

Now I love this paragraph from the Canadian press. I’m going to read it verbatim deliberately because I can’t believe they put this all in the one paragraph. Okay, you ready quote. I looked at the situation the Ukraine and I thought, well, this is terrible and I should try to help, says Thomas, whose credits include nineteen ninety three’s Coneheads, the two thousand and one film Orre at Race, and ninety sitcom Grace under Fire. Why did you have to put his credits there?

Anyway? Dave says this might sound cornery, but I hope in some small way what I do might help raise money that I’ll least suffering, maybe remind people that one person can make a difference if you decide to. You can’t make a difference if you try. Let’s stop off on Gossip Corner. This from Entertainment Weekly.

I’m not sure. Chloe Feiyeman realizes what words came out of her mouth. Okay, there’s a TikTok video. Chloe Fineman says she was scolded by a rude restaurant manager in New York while exchanging pleasantries with Demi Moore and to me’s dog, pe Laff. Fineman says she walked into an Italian restaurant on Madison Avenue.

A server led to them the table right away. Fineman explains, there’s several empty tables and I sat down. Then I look up and there’s the dog and Demi Moore and I was like, oh, hi, we met once or twice, and I’ve held Peeloff because Peloff was backstage at an SNL show. Fineman’s sister says, and she said hi back.

Also, Chloe continues, the manager sees me, I don’t know, maybe I had no make…

Did I not look legitimate enough for this empty room at the restaurant? And the guy’s like, what are you doing here? Come with me? And I guess I didn’t realize you had to talk to another Italian guy to get a seat, even though there’s like a thousand empty tables. It’s very confused.

And here’s the part where I think she doesn’t realize what words came out of her mouth. Chloe Feineman said, I was a calm down. I’m not nobody. I’m on SNL. Dude, calm down.

Just because you’re on SNL, you’re not in some extra tier. Chloe says. He was like, I don’t care who you are. I treat everybody the same. Yes, good job, mister restaurant guy.

I don’t care that you’re on SNL. We have rules here at the restaurant. Follow the rules. You can be on SNL all you want. You don’t get special class.

Fineman recalled, and I was like, you’re being rude, and he’s like, you’re being rude anyway. I don’t want to get into details. Well, let’s say a personality of mine started to come up that I don’t love. I took myself out of the situation. You could call it a caring moment.

I also call it living in New York and everyone is rude as f somebody sounds a little entitled, but I wasn’t there. I don’t know. And in Philly, where people are even more friendly than they are in New York. It’s Variety Pack, a two weekend festival of Philadelphia’s weirdest all to comedy acts, not just stand up, not just improv, not just sketch, little bit of everything. It kicks off tonight through the third and then again May eighth through the tenth at the Drake Theater.

Producer Chaz Martin says, Philly is full of weirdos. We have incredible stand ups, brilliant improv in an emerging sketch comedy scene, but there’s been a void when it comes to truly wild, out of the box comedy. That space used to belong to the beloved Good Good Comedy, which closed in twenty twenty. Variety Pack is here to bring that spirit back. If you like your comedy weird and unpredictable.

This festival is for you. It kicks off tonight with Have You Seen My House? A Whirlwind cabaret featuring the songs of Patti Smith, Bette Midler, Dolly Parton and Moore. Other shows this week and include Cartoon Club, The Entire Effing Twilight Saga in sixty Minutes and clip Show, a live comedy show hosted by character actresses are Eric Thomas and Chris Newcomer. And yesterday I promised I’d finish off that John Clees article.

He spoke with the Hollywood Reporter. They were curious about the pythons fighting. They’ve seemed to always be fighting, and John said, if you look at the history of most groups, you’ll find there’s always quarrels at some I think we’ve done quite well. What people often don’t understand about a team is that a team is not composed of all people who do the same things well. It’s a group of people who do different things well.

Terry Gilliam, at an early stage, decided he just wanted to direct movies. Eric Iidel didn’t really come forward until the nineteen eighty three is in the Meaning of Life. Because Eric is very, very strong on music, and particularly on lyrics. Michael Palin, who always loved travel, did some travel programs. Terry Jones did all sorts of things.

Graham Chapman was two people. Really. He was Chapman sober, who was an extraordinary good writer and a really fine actor, and Chapman drunk, who wasn’t awfully good in anything and couldn’t remember his lines. Whereas I like comedy and I very much enjoy simple pleasure making audiences laugh, very different people, so inevitably, as we get older and become slightly more authentic, we go in different directions. And that’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Shane Gillis teaming up with NASCAR. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News, and boy, it has been beautiful in the Northeast and it’s volleyball night, so I am kind of sighted, all right. As for Shane Gillis, he’s going to be part of season two of Netflix’s Full Speed. For season two, they’re putting the drivers out in front, specifically Chase Brisco.

You know Chase from Joe Gibbs Racing. Brisco and Shane did a cross promotion between NASCAR and the Tires show. Netflix shared on Instagram at Sires and Full Speed the collab we’ve all been waiting for. Sire season two premiere’s June fifth. Full Speed season two premieres May seventh, only on Netflix.

Not too much is known yet other than a picture of the two. But that’s fun. Tires is a really good show. If you haven’t seen it, binge it six episodes in and out, fun, funny, Shane doing Shane things. It is perfect.

Love it. Tim Dillon spoke to Fox News and compared La and Austin. He thinks the politics of LA are terrible, but prefers checks ins over Californians. Tim explains, La has a lot of problems, but La is a massive, world class city like New York. Austin is a small college town.

There’s no comparison. Austin’s a growing city, but it doesn’t have the infrastructure. It’s an ugly place. It’s kind of brown, and the lake is green and it’s warm and gross. And you know, my job’s to be honest about things.

I don’t live in places because of the politics. I’d rather live in California and argue with people and tell them they’re wrong and try to save it. You know, Tim, Is there anything that would make you leave La? Tim said, no, I mean I have homes in New York and La. I’m rich.

I can live wherever I want. You know. I tend to just go not as rich as I should be. Watch the special John Clees was making the rounds. It was the fiftieth anniversary of The Holy Grail.

Clease told the Hollywood Reporter, we had no idea what we were doing. We were very lucky. There was some extremely funny material in The Holy Grail. We somehow got it together because Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam managed to co direct. It was the usual Python chaos, with one of them creeping down to the editing room and re editing something while the other one was asleep upstairs.

That kind of thing. Then it opened. It was a complete surprise hit. We were thrilled because it was the last thing we expected when we started Python. The general feeling was what on earth are these people doing?

ABBC type boss bumped into our director and elevator and said, is this show supposed to be funny? I think it’s awful, That was the head of the department. One consistent theme almost everything I’ve done is that eighty five percent of the people at the top have no idea what they’re doing. John said, Python, it’s quite well known, although I think the younger people don’t know about it really. The Hollyood reporter was curious why that might be, or it’s just because the years have gone by, and Clee said, I’d like to say it’s because American culture, not the individuals, but American culture has gotten more trivial.

It’s all about short attention span. In my day, there were many more good shows about good subjects. The subjects that people are now making movies and TV shows. They just astound me. It’s either people dressed in a cross between Star Trek and something medieval.

Add a few flying dragons, you know what I mean. It’s either that or it’s the most extraordinary, sordid stuff, which I know was. But why people would want to watch it on television, I don’t know. The recent thing had such a huge success. What’s it called, Single World about a boy who kills the girl?

The Hollywood porter said, adolescence. Clease, yes, adolescence. Tragic, absolutely tragic. But it amazes me that people would want to watch it. So my take on the Python thing.

I know how I got into a Monty Python because I grew up in the seventies and we had what seven channels in New York City, and I saw in the TV guide, remember TV Guide, there was something called circus. So I put on Channel thirteen expecting to see a circus because I’m a kid, and like, okay, what else am I going to watch? I’ll watch a circus And it turned out to be this other thing, you know, So we didn’t have that much stuff. There’s just a lot more media now. As I like to explain people like, you know, do you ever get bored I’m like, I have over seven hundred hours of Star Trek.

Now there’s twelve Star Wars movies. I’m never going to get bored at this point. But when I was a kid, there were only seventy nine episodes of Star Trek, so you had seen them all a zillion times, so we consumed monty Python. Now these kids, these days, there’s so many options. I don’t know why they’d watch a fifty year old series, even though it’s hilarious.

Clease said, I’m in the process of making three hours for television sort of Life of CLEAs with masses and masses of archives stuff, because I’ve got archive stuff coming out my ears. What I’m doing in the third of those shows is saying how sad it is there’s so little comedy, and what good effect comedy has on people. I go to these comic cons sometimes there are people coming up to me in large numbers saying thank you for helping me through difficult periods of my life, because when you laugh, you move your center of gravity to a place that can cope a bit better with the problems of life. Cleese does not love the ending to the Holy Grail. He explains, yeah, it stops being very funny towards the end, and the ending is the best we could come up with.

It’s a joke that’s so bad. I have a version of the ending, and as far as I can see, people like it better than the original one. It’s just spared down. The original one just takes too long to try and build up the tension. It would be much better if it had been edited, but I think for the first hour so the film is extraordinarily funny.

It tails off a little bit, but I’m delighted people like it so much. I’ll pick more at this tomorrow. I got to work with the Pythons on their fortieth anniversary. Yeah, that would make sense. We got to put together Monty Python Radio and worked with the guy.

So that’s one of the pleasures of my career. John Clees is eighty five years old now. Seth Meyer spoke to Deadline about the changing of Late Night. He says, for every exciting new edition, like what Malaney’s doing, it feels like one or two things fall off. He had very nice things to say about Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnight.

It always just sort of breaks my heart because this was such a cool destination for people in comedy, meaning the twelve thirty five slot. You know, I was lucky enough to have this obviously be the step for me after SNL. The cool thing that After Midnight was doing was not only did they have a host, it was really a nice place for three comedians to get to do their things. So it’s disappointing. It’s never good when comedy platforms go away.

Malaney. Tonight has Molly Shannon, Mark Marin, Ronny Chieng, and music from John Cale and Maggie Rogers. Let’s see if Ronny Chieng can bust through there. I think he has the personality type to do so. Molly Shannon, I think will thrive.

I could see Mark Marin sinking into the couch and not knowing how to handle all this. We’ll see tonight. I find myself increasingly thankful for Nikki Glaser because sometimes I need like one or two more stories and a Google Nikki Glaser, and something always comes up. She was named to the Time one hundred Most Influential People of twenty twenty five. Congratulations.

She then joked that her next step is to go to space, and then she backed off, saying just kidding, no, no, no, I don’t want to go to space, not only because of the backlash I will face, but I just have no interest in going to space. I want to enjoy the riches of my success. I think I’ve been trying to maintain it like don’t go away, and I haven’t really enjoyed any of it, like you’re just trying to keep it. I want to relax and let it in a bit. Rommy Yousef will be the speaker at Rutgers University’s Newark May twenty second commencement.

Rommy went to the school from twenty nine to twenty eleven and majored in polysci. He left before graduating to become an entertainer. That seems to have worked out, and there’s been a lot of Romy press lately. In a statement, he said, thirteen years ago, I took a break from Rutgers to pursue acting. That break is now over.

I’m honored to be giving this year’s commencement speech finally receive a college degree. Thank you Rutgers for this honor, for making my parents feel like the three semesters of tuition they paid for was actually worth it. Spotify said they paid more than one hundred million dollars to podcast publishers. Some of those podcasters include Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn. Rogan reportedly has a Spotify deal worth up to two hundred and fifty million dollars.

Meanwhile, Patreon said they paid out upwards of four hundred and seventy two million dollars to podcasters for more than six point seven million paid memberships in twenty twenty four. There’s a lot of money to be made in podcasting. For example, you could run a few commercials in the middle of your show. I feel like I do this next story. Every year the headline the cost of the Edinburgh Fringe means comedy is becoming more elitist.

This time it’s comedian Matt Ford who’s saying that Edinburgh is expensive to performat. We hear this every year. He says, the Edinburgh model is making it almost impossible to become a working class successful comedian in this country. Every year we hear stories of how you have to promote your own show. Oh, and it’s hard to find a place to stay, and people like sleeping in cars and bathroom tubss and tents and I don’t know for it’said a lot of comedy clubs.

The money’s gone backwards since when I first started gigging, the money has gotten worse. The La Times caught up with Brett Goldstein watch his special on Max if you haven’t. The Times was curious if there’s anything American stand ups can learn from British comedy. Brett said, it’s not what the stand ups could learn, it’s what the clubs could learn. In American clubs, it’s relentless.

There’s three hundred acts goes on for hours, and there’s table service and people getting up. It’s insane to me because there’s this constant distraction going on all the time. As for Brett’s specific I made it moment, he says after doing Sesame Street. I mean everything else is a bonus. That’s great.

There’s a new comedy stage show that will explore the rivalry between Oasis and Blur. It is titled The Battle. What’s this about? Nineteen ninety five was a time when music was deeply woven into the fabric of culture, dominating the news and end lines. Unlike today’s fragmented scene.

We aim to transport audiences back to that thrilling summer. Expect a show so packed with filthy language and razor sharp dialogue. The Battle Old Tour the UK before stint on London’s West End. The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York has announced a few things, a new session of How Comedy Gets Made, a National Comedy Center Online certificate course. The online program is designed for creatives, professional students, and comedy enthusiasts who want to explore the creative and business aspects of comedy, from writing and performance to production and distribution.

Seven and fifty bucks, but they got Bill Hayter and Paula Poundstone not too shabby. New York Times caught up with Mike Myers. He’s been a little political lately, you know, little US versus Canada. Mike said, I’m also an American citizen. I took my oath very seriously.

That’s what’s so crazy. Americans are the last people you’d think wuldever be a threat to us. Myers took Partner TV ad for the Liberal Party featuring Prime Minister Mark Karney. Myers wore a never fifty one Jersey. Meyer said he wanted the ads to reaffirm his own canadianess and endorsed mister Kearney.

Myers explained, I wanted to be like, I know, I don’t live there anymore, and let’s talk at that. I thought it would be funny if the Prime Minister of Canada ran an identity test on me. Bringing this back to comedy, Meyer says, fascism doesn’t like to be ridiculed, It likes to be feared. Satire is an important tool in the toolbox that says this is not normal, that the cuts he’s making are not normal. I believe that he there refers to a prominent American politician, Send your notes to Mike Myers.

Mike quotes Joni Mitchell saying, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. The possibility of it all being gone has raised our consciousness of how great we are. That is your comedy news for today, See tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A little bit of a weird one today. The stories are more doom and gloom than I usually present to you. Let’s start with Nathan Fielder.

He’s getting into it with Paramount Plus. He is upset that Plus has removed an episode of the Comedy Central series Nathan for You. Nathan complained about this during Sunday’s episode of HBO’s The Rehearsal. In the rehearsal, Fielder explains that one of his proudest achievements is creating the Summit Ice apparel brand, which he launched during season three, episode two of Nathan for You back in twenty fifteen. The point of the brand was to promote Holocaust awareness.

In the episode of the rehearsal, Nate says, in late twenty twenty three, I discovered that the episode of Nathan for You featuring the Summit Ice story mysteriously went missing from the Paramount Plus streaming service. Has this gone by for two years without any of us noticing? I don’t know. In the HBO series, Fielder recreates the moment he learned about the removal. He directs Alexander Lyce, who’s playing fake Nathan in the rehearsal, to retype his email correspondent to Paramount in a voiceover, real Nathan, Fielder says, this is so complicated.

I wrote an email to some contacts I had at Paramount asking them why the episode was removed. The thing that made this tricky was Paramount is currently airing a different series of Mind as scripted drama that hadn’t yet been renewed. How I spoke to them could have career repercussions. I remember wanting to convey how urgent this was for me. My email was extremely cordial, using phrases like forever grateful and happy Holidays.

The network confirmed in the response that it was taken down intentionally and gave me a one word explanation as to why the word was Sensitivities Entertainment Weekly dug on this, and they are reporting that they’ve learned Paramount Plus is not streaming the episode after a standards review, but it’s unclear which of the company’s standards the episode failed to meet. Fielder’s narration says. In late twenty twenty three, a decision was made by Paramount Plus Germany to remove the episode in their region after they became uncomfortable with what they called anything that touches on anti Semitism in the aftermath of the Israel Hamas attacks. Nathan claims the German decision caused other countries to remove the episode, quoting the narration, before long, the ideology of Paramount Plus Germany had spread to the entire globe, eliminating all Jewish content that made them uncomfortable. This is real, by the way.

Fielder then shared some stats about programming currently available in the US on Paramount Plus. According to Fielders narration, on the Paramount app, there are fifty results for Nazi, ten for Hitler, and zero for Judaism. We’ve been erased anyway. You will find the rehearsal on max if you want to check that out for yourself. Joe Cooi has commented on a tragedy at a recent Filipino Canadian street festival in Vancouver, where eleven people were killed dozens more injured a man drove a black suv through a crowd who had gathered for the festival.

On his Facebook page, Joe coy said, I am heartbroken here what took place at the Vancouver Filipino festival. This is supposed to be an event that honors and celebrates our beautiful culture, and now we’re mourning the loss of eleven lives that were taken too soon. My heart goes out to everyone who’s affected by this horrific event. I love you.

Meanwhile, Kevin Hart has canceled his tour of India, which was scheduled to …

The organizers posted a statement on Instagram saying important update. In light of the recent tragic events, we along with Kevin Hart’s team, have decided to cancel the upcoming Delhi show scheduled for April thirtieth. We are working closely with Kevin Hort’s team on a new schedule and we’ll share updates soon. While we were looking forward to gathering with all of you, we believe it’s important to pause and stand in solidarity with all those affected. This terror attack took place on April twenty second and claimed the lives of twenty six people.

Now there is no way to smoothly transition into the rest of the news. Those were three heavy stories to start the show, which is why at the beginning I told you your typical show. So let me just jump at the pool and tell you. Sebastian Maniscalco will start in Apple’s first original scripted podcast. This one is called Easy Money The Charles Ponzi Story eight part series premiering June twenty third.

It traces the rise and fall of the man who gave the Ponzi scheme his name. Ponzi was an Italian immigrant who in nineteen twenty defrauded the modern day equivalent of a quarter of a billion dollars. Now this is a I assume an audio podcast, but they showed mister Ponzi and Sebastian’s side by side. It’s good physical casting. Sebastian looks a lot more like mister Ponzie than say I do.

Man of Scalco said, Charles Ponzie was a larger than life character. He wasn’t just a con artist. He was the con artist. Stepping into his shoes and bringing this unbelievab story to life has been a wild ride. Easy Money The Charles Ponzie Story is a fascinating look at the man who wrote the playbook for modern scams, and Johnny Mack will comment that sentence clearly written by a publicist, There’s no way.

Sebastian just off the top of his head, phrased it easy money. The Charles Ponzie story is a fascinat look at the man who wrote the playbook for modern scams, a masterclass in term deception and the price of believing in something too good to be true. It’s always sunny. Season seventeen comes back, well not season seventeen, but the show comes back July ninth. This is the second half of the crossover with Abbott.

Elementary Charlie Day has indicated that he and Rob and Glenn are already working on season eighteen. That’s great. Charlie was on Andrew Santino’s golf podcast No Bad Lies, and Charlie explains, in this town, when you get the opportunity to do something, you take it. Plus it’s been great for me. I don’t know, it’s kept me in town.

I’m getting on the back half of raising his sun. I’ve been around. He knows who I am. There was a time when there were a lot of big comedy movies happening, and I thought maybe I was gonna be on the road more often, and those just kind of dried up. So I’m glad I didn’t quit my TV day job.

You know, here’s John’s advice. Never quit a hit show. Like say you’re Kelsey Grimmer and somebody says, hey, you want to be Fraser. You get I think he did eight seasons of Cheers, eleven more of Fraser and then two more of the other other Fraser. That’s a good gig.

Hey, Patrick Stewart, you want to be Captain Picard. Sure, I’ll be Captain McCard. And I’ve heard Patrick Stewart explain this. By being Captain McCard it gives him the money to do Shakespeare in the Park for free, which is what he really wants to do. So sure, I’ll do seven seasons of the Next Generation.

I’ll do three seasons of Picard. I’ll make four movies. Why not never quit a hit show. Jay Leno showing up in the news a lot lately. He did a podcast called In Depth with Graham and Bensinger.

I have downloaded it. I didn’t get a chance to listen to it yet. One of the stories Leno told was about when Jimmy Kimmel came on my show and humiliated me on my own show. I let it happen I didn’t edit it. It was my mistake.

I trusted somebody and went, ah, I made a mistake. Okay, I should pay the price. And it’s fine. I mean, we could have edited out of the show. Graham was curious why he didn’t make the edit.

Leno said, because it happened. It’s real, it happened. It’s my mistake. It’s how you learn. It’s not good TV for me because it started a whole thing that continues to this day.

Really, but it’s okay, it’s all right. He’s a comic. Gotta do what you gotta do. I mean, I wouldn’t have done it, but that’s okay, that’s all right. It is what it is.

You may recall back in twenty ten, Kimmel went on The Tonight Show and gave Leno the business for the whole Leno Conan Back to Leno thing. During the interview, Leno asked Kimmel about the best prank he ever pulled. Kimmel said, and this is both vicious and hilarious. I told the guy that five years from now, I’m going to give you my show.

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And then when the five years came, I gave it to him.

And then I took it back almost instantly. In twenty seventeen, Jimmy Kimmel told The Hollywood Reporter that the two comedians had made peace. This after Jimmy Sun underwent open heart surgery. Jay told the reporter, Jay and I have made peace. After my son had his operation.

He called me and he was very nice. However, after Conan hosted the Oscars, Kimmel Joe Conan did such a good job. The Oscars announced that next year they’re giving it to Jay Leno, which is just a joke. I don’t think he can get too angry about that one. Bert Kreischer was on The Jennifer Hudson Show, and the Internet is all a buzz because on the show’s Instagram we see that this is shocking.

You’re not gonna believe this. Bert Kreischer took his shirt off. That’s right, yes, so I’ve never heard of that before. Bert Krescher took off his shirt before making his way through Jennifer Hudson’s Spirit Tunnel as crew members saying Nelly’s it’s hot in here. The show even captured the clip on Instagram.

It’s getting hot in here with at Bert Krascher. So in a shocking development. It was Saturday night and I was awake at ten o’clock. That may have had something to do with Johnny Mack passed out in the chair playing MLB the show twenty five from like five point thirty to seven. It might have had something to do with that.

So at ten o’clock I was like, Oh, Brett Goldstein is on Max right now, I will watch it. I enjoyed it. I found it really nice company. Is it the most hilarious thing I’ve ever heard? No, but I just enjoyed spending the hour with Brett Goldstein.

The specials called second best Night of your Life, and I have added it to my best of twenty five list, which is very thin. Right now. I have in the top tier Krasier, Goldstein, and Tim Dillon in that order, and none of those will be number one. We’ll obviously bretton Tim won’t because they’re already two and three. But Bert should not be the best special of the year.

If it is, it’s been a pretty poor year. These will be in the top tier, but they should be at the bottom of the top tier if we have a typical twenty twenty five. I also have my middle tier of perfectly fine specials of Roy Wood, Ari Shafir and Gabe Iglesias, and I actually want to add one. I’ll do that right now. I’ve typed in the number four and I will tell you who number four is.

It’s Jessica Curson. Yeah, I put that on now. This is when I get into my It’s not comedy snobbery, but if you listen enough, you can tell I kind of like quirky things and alt things, and I definitely like British comedians. I’m aware of all those biases. I have.

Jessica’s show I think for a casual someone who’s sitting down and saying, hey, I just want to watch comedy special. I don’t know too much about stand up. If they hit play, they’re gonna go wow. That was really funny. I really like her and it is funny.

It reminded me a lot of the Bobby Slaton style of comedy. And it’s not my cup of tea, but it’s a perfectly fine comedy special. Does that makes sense? So not for me, but might be for you. Check out Jessica Curson.

In fact, I think the average person will prefer Jessica over Brett. But I really liked Brett. I just found it easy on the ears and enjoyed hanging out with Britt Goldstein four an hour on Saturday Night. It looks like comedian Benny Elbows did break the world record for the world’s longest stand up comedy set. The video has to be submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for official confirmation.

We’ll see what they wind up saying. In the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group, Aaron shared an article titled some SNL fans are worried about Colin Joe’s future on the show, and they could have a point. All right, So what’s going on here for the season finale? Scarlett Johansson is your host? Scarlett Johansson married to Colin Jost.

Also, somebody has done the math that episode will be Colin Jost’s two hundredth time doing weekend update. That has got the internet a buzz in two ways. One is Colin Jost leaving SNL and or is Colin Jost going to take over for Lorne Michaels. I think if you’re going to leave SNL, this is the year to get out. On fifty I don’t think you want to be part of season fifty one, unless you’re planning on sticking around for a while.

That said, did you listen to Johnny Mack earlier in the show? Don’t leave a hit show. It’s steady work. It’s a steady profile. Having a steady profile gets you other work.

Colin, you could just sit at that desk for another ten years. You probably should. As for Colin taking over for Lorne, I find that interesting. I never met Colin, but his public persona makes me think maybe he doesn’t have the right public persona to fight with the network. That takes a special skill.

I feel like something like Tina Fey might have more what I call hit points than a Colin Jost who just seems like a nice, cheerful guy who would come in and be like gerr NBC executives, I’m angry. Whereas I could see Tina’s pretty up there in the entertainment industry, and I feel like she could throw her weight around a little bit more like if things went sideways, Tina Fey steps down from SNL would be a major headline. Colin Joe steps down from SNL would be a headline, and then the next paragraph would be he will be succeeded by a person who’s taking over the show again. Not at dissent Colin, it’s just his public persona. Maybe he’s a total hard ass mini behind the scenes.

I don’t know, but that’s just my take. And I’m a guy who records a podcast in a basement, So what do I know. That is your comedy news for today, See you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media Hello. Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Variety was curious what dating advice Pete Davidson would give to young men today. Pete said, I think social media and the internet and the phone makes everything really difficult and can cause a lot of anxiety and get you doing bad. We’re not supposed to see everyone’s stuff all day. It used to be someone found out something, you’d either call in your house phone or you met up and be like, hey, jeer reve this.

Now you have this thing in your pocket all day. That’ll make you feel bad. So my advice would be to try and not let social media or this fictitious world that we’re all trying to have a profile on effect how you behave in everyday life. We’re not supposed to know everything all the time. That’s what dating is.

Get to know someone and fall in love, and that’s what’s so beautiful about it. So I think when it comes to dating, it should be more prehistoric and not on the phone or Instagram. Nikki Glaser was at the Time one hundred summit in New York last week. It has kicked up a story about the time Nicky cut a joke from the Roast of Caitlyn Jenner. Nicky didn’t tell the joke, but Variety reminds us that in twenty nineteen, Nicky shared the joke with Howard Stern.

The joke, Caitlyn Jenner, what a beautiful woman you killed with your car four years ago. You’re a woman who can’t men straight but still manages to have blood on her hands. There was an incident back in twenty fifteen. I’m here on NBC News, the headline Caitlyn Jenner won’t be charged in fatal February car accident. California prosecutor said there was insufficient evidence to charge Jenner in a fatal multi car accident on the Pacific Malibu Highway.

Glazer said she was nervous about performing material about the car crash and asked Comedy Central could she give Jenner a warning. The network was like, now, I don’t do that, she might back out. Jenner heard about the joke anyway, As Nicki tells it, Jenner said, if there’s a joke like that, I don’t want to be part of it. As soon as I heard that, I go, okay, I’ll take it out. I just needed to hear it from her glazer said she’ll gladly take out jokes that make subjects uncomfortable.

She got that advice from Jimmy Kimmel, who said, if you’re worried about a joke and how it’s going to go over, just ask them. Josh Johnson got a really nice profile from Rolling Stone. There’s a lot of good buzz on Josh and people are really digging what he’s doing, and he’s putting out a lot of material. Josh says, I’m hopefully showing enough range and building enough trust with the audience over time that I can talk about anything, even if I don’t get to everything. He’s got a busy week.

Mondays, he records The Josh Johnson Show, it’s his podcast. On Tuesdays, he uploads a timely set to YouTube, and he works on The Daily Show Monday through Thursday. In twenty nineteen, he opened for Trevor Noah. They spent three years on the road together. Josh says Trevor taught him how to balance a grueling day job with stand up.

His mentorship has really helped me in navigating the moment that I’m in and the moment that I’m expecting. Josh pushed back on the word breakout and said, a breakout is what George Carlin did when he went from hippie dippy Weatherman to George Garland. A breakout is when Richard Pryor Ditch to the suit in the tie and the fresh cut and the Tonight Show act. A breakout has to be deeply personal. It has to be you knowing for yourself that there’s a limit.

That was a ceiling, it is now a floor. Love it, Goosh. He is aiming for bigger and more spectacle like shows. He wants people to go home thinking I’d never seen somebody do that before. He’s also doing good when he’s out there.

During a recent stop in Cincinnati, five thousand dollars from ticket sales were donated to a nearby animal shelter. That’s awesome, Josh says. What I enjoy about doing the Daily Show is the collaborative aspect and stand up. You get to see my most raw feelings on a subject. On the Daily Show.

You see my efforts contributing to the larger effort of everyone that works there, both in front and behind the camera. With his own shows, there’s no way to know if he’s meeting the moment until he’s up there and taking his best shot. Are you in the UK go see Sarah Silverman. She’s at the Palladium tonight. She talked about her past and says her persona back then was consciously ignorant, arrogant, and that it’s less charming in the days when our president is that Send your letters to Sarah Silverman.

She has disavowed some jokes she made back then, including the notorious sketch on the Sarah Silverman Program that she performed in Blackface. Sarah explains some comics are like, never apologize, and my rule is always apologize when you’re sorry, and never apologize when you’re not so simple. I felt sorry. To be the same person creatively as you were twenty years ago doesn’t feel like success to me. I like being part of the world around me, learning new stuff and being changed by it.

Comics who were still doing that thing or voice of personality they had when they got famous, that’s such a bummer. She gives a lot of credit to Chris Rock, explaining how Rock helped her after she had to develop new material following her two thousand and five special Jesus’ Magic. I was scared, I didn’t want to bomb on stage again. I had a real identity crisis. Rock brave enough to go to the comedy seller where everyone’s gonna go bananas when he walks in and then fully disappoint them because he’s trying out new stuff.

You lose people, but hopefully you gain people and some people grow along with you. Some people are like, remember what she was funny, That’s none of my business. All I have is this one life, and I’m navigating it. Is I see fit now. I keep seeing these Bowen Yang interviews and I feel like he’s done with SNL.

But Bowen Yang was quite clear that he is not done with SNL. Bowen was talking with Amy Poehler and would like SNL to be able to say the S word an the F word, explaining SNF were so comedically powerful as words, I think it would help us. His premise is that SNL should be able to say the S word five times and the F word five times during a season, and that it would bring a sketch to the next level and make it so you’d be able to know this is the real world, not sketch reality. I’ll personally disagree, but he’s on SNL and I’m an idiot in the basement recording a podcast. Amy b liked the idea and she said, I think you can monetize this.

Why don’t you have a competition and people vote, like American idolist, which cast member it gets to say the S and the f Yang said that would work as a fundraiser for our fcc fins. Bowen was on the view and he talked about the headline quote I’m leaving the show at some point. Yang said, it’s like me saying that I might die someday, or Mike will get a coffee on a Wednesday. It’s so general. Someone asked me maybe trying to get a headline, and all I gave them was at some point, but then who’s very clear?

This is all to say, I will not be leaving anytime soon, so all good, don’t worry. Houston Public Media caught up with Tom Poppa and they were curious what he does with his downtime, and Tom says, it’s not that much time. After being on the road for so long, you realize five three hours on the ground, I can get a lot done. I’m not going to a museum, but I’ll find great food and coffee. That’s the real treat.

I’ll hit the ground and to start asking people, I’m the annoying guy in the airport, likes where do you eat? They were curious for Tom how comedy changed over the years. Tom said, I had this kind of fortunate timing when I started comedy. The comedy boom had busted. It was the nineties and all these clubs.

Everyone kept telling me, this is a horrible time to start comedy because the clubs are closing and the bottom fell out. But over the long haul, comedy has never been bigger and more popular and more wanted by the public than it is now. Public media said the worst time for being a stand up must have been the pandemic, and Tom said, yeah, I was very proud of comedians during that time because everything shut down. Touring came to a halt, but comedians were doing anything they could to perform. They were starting shows in parks, they were doing them on zoom, and then the clubs are starting to open.

They’d have half the audience they normally have. But it felt like an important time to do comedy because we were isolated, and the best thing about comedy is it makes you feel less alone. It makes you drive around and you think I am the only one that feels this way, or is just my own anxieties and my family’s driving me crazy? And am I the only one going through this?

And then when you’re in an audience in a comedy club and someone’s talking ab…

And during the pandemic that was so important and the spokesman caught up with Randy feld face. Do you know Randy feld Face? I love Randy feld Face. Randy’s current tour is First Banana, which explores the idea that global evolution should have stopped when the first Banana appeared ten thousand years ago. Randy says the show has changed a lot from last year’s version because he factors in the audience.

The audience will tell me what’s funny, what’s boring, and what’s unnecessary. It gets to the point where, like, what’s most entertaining for me? Because I want to enjoy doing the show every night. It’s a pretty tight sixty minute banana lecture with a lot of very silly side steps I’m lucky in that I’m unique looking, and you revel in the silliness of it all. There’s so much fun to be had at the moment.

I know this probably comes up a lot, but now is not the time for taking things too seriously. So if I can have an hour of mostly silliness, then I hope people are able to appreciate that and enjoy that given the times that we’re in. He says, it’s a double edged sword being a puppet. People can forget pretty quickly what I look like, and they don’t give me a halt pass. If I say something they find and pleasant or controversial, I think there’s definitely something in there that can maybe soften the message a bit.

But generally, if I say something creates waves, people let me know about it. That is your comedy news for today. If you’ve never seen Randy feld face, check out Randy feld Face. See tomor

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Jenny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The Wwees roast of WrestleMania has leaked online. The Sportster reports that various footage from the show has been leaked by those in attendance. I went looking for the clips.

They were pulled down by the time I got to them, But if you circulate the internet long enough, you’ll find a ten minute compilation of clips from the roost. It begins with Paul Hayman, who reportedly was the star of the show, laying into Tony Hinchcliff and then going after Gabe A Glacias. After Hayman gets done with a Glacias, Triple H shows up. It seems that Triple H cut off Tony Hinchcliff just as he made a joke about while logan Paul is allegedly banned from Japan. I don’t know what that reference means as someone else.

The first thing Triple H says once he’s on stage suggests that he came out to stop Tony from saying anything else. Now you never know, and I haven’t seen the clip. Is this a work? Is it a bit? Is that what really happened?

Who knows Triple H then makes some jokes about Nia Jackson Pat McAfee, claiming that he came out to rescue McAfee so he can sober up, before appearing on ESPN the next day. Some criticism of the Rose set. The whole point of a roast is to pick on people who were there so that they can fight back. Jacks did the opposite, going after Rick Flair, Cody Rhodes, and Michael Cole. None of them were in attendance.

Who knows. We’ll keep an eye on that. Hey, did John Mulaney take my notes? At the beginning of Wednesday’s show, there was a cairon that alluded to celebrities not knowing what to do when they’re on the show and not knowing what to talk. I thought mulanie’s episode Wednesday was far and away the best that he’s done because he went single guest with Conan and they were able to get into a rhythm.

I mean, that’s the way to do it, and that’s what I’ve been preaching about. Conan comes out, it’s just Conan and m’laney. They have some chemistry. They’re doing it. Then Io came out as the second guest, typical late night talk show dynamics.

There, everybody slides down the couch. We all know what to do, we know how to do this. The show worked much better for the callers, and I’ll talk about that in a second. I was wondering if the caller about dinosaurs was staged. If not, it was Comedy Gold.

Regardless, it was Comedy Gold. Consequence of Sound had somebody in the audience. They thought it was interesting that Malania went with Q cards rather than a teleprompter. Consequence ads it’s pretty staggering to see an hour’s worth of handwritten card stacked together. It’s much bulkier than you’d expect.

The Q Card team filed into the studio at around six fifty five pm Pacific time. As we know, the show starts at seven o’clock. Richard Kine took his position with forty five seconds to go. Consequence of Sound writes, the applause sign works hard all night, they write, sometimes, of course, in audience applause because they want to. But when filming live TV, you might need to nudge them a bit, say with a light up sign that flashes when the production team wants collapse.

What struck me most was that the applause sign flashed on what they felt like was a very planned way, and other times was operating what it seemed like it wanted to. That is not uncommon for an applause sign. I remember seeing Letterman who was forty years ago. Yeah, it’s forty years ago. Oh wow, I remember seeing Letterman that they had an applause signed back then.

The caller I alluded to before, doctor Jack Horner, who called in about the dinosaurs, was actually the technical adviser in the first five Jurassic Park movies. Consequence of Sound tells us the band Mets were so loud that they gave everyone ear plugs. Consequence Rights have been too many studio tapings before, but being handed earplugs before the show was a new one for me, and even sitting in the back row was grateful for them. We found out why Rita Moreno didn’t make her appearance. She has vertigo, a spokesperson told Entry to me Weekly.

Happy to report nothing serious, she’s bummed. Variety caught up with Pete Davidson the topic tattoos. What made you decide to remove those tattoos, Pete. Pete said, I started during COVID in twenty twenty, and it’s going to take me another ten years. My arms are pretty much gone.

On my hands meca gone, but instill my torso and back was really because I wasn’t taking care of myself. I used to be a drug addict and I was a sad person. I felt ugly and that I needed to be covered up. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with tattoos, but mine. When I look at them, I remember a sad person that was very unsure.

So I’m just removing them and starting fresh because I think that’s what works best for me in my brain. When I look in the mirror, I don’t want the reminder of, oh, yeah, you were a drug addict, like that’s why I have SpongeBob smoking a joint on your back. They should have meaning, not that it was just high watch a Game of Thrones. Pete explains it’s a six week healing process each time you get a tattoo removed. Each tattoo is ten to twelve sessions.

That’s sixty weeks of your life right there on just one tattoo to remove, So it’s pretty horrible. It’s like putting your arm on a grill and burning off the layer and then you got to do maintenance and let it heal properly, and it’s pretty tough. It sucks. I’m not gonna lie. They were curious how much money this is costing Pete Davidson.

He says, it’s a pretty uncomfortable amount of money to disclose. But I think one of the tabloids leaked it. I’ve already spent like two hundred grand that I’m like thirty percent done, So it’s gonna suck. Friday asked about the ferry that Pete ball with Colin Jost. What’s going on with that.

Pete says, we have one floor done out of the four and we’re holding events on the first floor and we’re partnering with a bunch of people to get a plan going, which is kind of a secret. But we’re gonna have a couple of restaurant. It’s a nice bar. I’m going to maintain the integrity of the ferry and have the old ferry stuff still be there, just be a little refurbished. People don’t understand this is like a five to ten year project.

People are like, I guess nothing’s happening with it. We don’t know anything about boats so we’re figuring it all out. It’s been really fun. We’re having a good time and it’s at a good place, and we have a couple of fun events planned for the summer. Brett Goldstein special came out on HBO last night.

He spoke to the La Times. He explained he’s been doing a version of this show, building off bits from the twenty eighteen Fringe show. He toured it for fourteen months around the States that at some point someone said you have to film this and stop doing it, and I said, okay. I think stand up keeps your brain sharp in a way that nothing else does, because you have so much pressure when you’re standing under the lights in front of a crowd. You have to come up with something in a way that you don’t when you’re in a writer’s room.

What I really love is that there’s no committee. I don’t have to discuss it with anyone. It’s amazing making TV and film, but it’s a huge thing that involves tunre people and you have to communicate everything to everyone. You have to compromise and deal with execs. And we do stand up.

It’s like, hey, here’s this idea. I thought of this afternoon and I’m saying it. Tonight, wcm out Bell visited Castle mind On High School in Oakland. Fresh off his win on Celebrity Jeopardy, Bell announced that the recipient of the one million dollar charity prize goes to donor’s choice. They are a fundraising platform similar to GoFundMe.

The teachers used to purchase stuff for their classrooms. Bell said, I feel like I was raised here in Oakland, California, so I hope it helps you. Brad Williams was at the NFL Draft. He pitched the commissioner on an idea to stop the tush push. You know, the tush push.

We all go up to the line and we meeting the Philadelphy Eagles and they all run forward and they get the first down like every time. Brad Williams, who if you don’t know, is a little person, told Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner. Obviously, one of the big hot topics over the season is the tush push. The brotherly chef Williams ask Goodell, my question is the late football coach Mike Leach. It was recently discovered that he had suggested putting a little person in the backfield and actually tossing him over the line for short yardage situations.

Everybody laughed. Goodell stood up and shook Brad’s hand and said, you’re in Brad’s I have a job. But you know what, that’s not a crazy idea. I mean it’s a crazy idea, but it would work. First down, Joe Rogan was happy with his meal.

It was fresh elk, he had fried it. He topped the elk with some fresh cheddar and some jalapennios. He went on Instagram to show it off. Joe said, one of my new favorite ways to cook elk sliced about half an inch thin, seasoned, fried in beef talow with a slice of cheddar on top, and sliced telipanio perfection. Rogan’s fans chimed in on social media.

One wrote this is nice. I cooked venison like this a while back. I folded strips of venison with cream, cheese and jalapenos, and some additionally wrapped in turkey bacon. Oh man. Another wrote, meat and cheese just go so well together.

The jalapenos would probably take it to the next level. And that is your comedy news for today on a Sunday. See you here tomorrow,

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, we are poolside once again. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m joined by the birds, the aeroplanes, the dogs and whatever else you think you hear. You’re not crazy, but it’s too nice to sit inside and record.

Brett Can has a special on HBO Slash Max tonight ten pm Eastern. They make you wait, make you stay up late. Come on, Johnny Mac likes to go to bed, well, not on Saturday. I’m go to bed before ten on Saturday. Let’s not be ridiculous.

It’s Brett Goldstein, The second Best Night of your life. Now a lot of people think this is just Roy Kent deciding to do stand up comedy to cash in. It’s actually the other way. He was a comedian slash writer. He wrote the character Roy Kent, and then he was like, can I audition for it?

And if my audition sucks, I’ll pretend I never auditioned, And he nailed a part, and that’s how he became Roy Kent. He’s also never done stand up on Late TV and told the Last Laugh that he generally has avoid filming his act in any way. He explains, I just like it live. I really believe in the room with the audience, that’s where you feel it. That’s where you try stuff.

The game of it and the fun is sort of this energy that happens live, and it’s really hard to capture that. The beauty of stand up is every time you’re trying something, you’re kind of saying, is this normal? Is this, Madam I insane? If they laugh, it means no, and I think that too, or you are insane, But it’s funny. Brett said, I had no idea what people were expecting when I went on tour, because I know that ninety nine percent of them hadn’t seen me do stand up because they only know me as Roy Kent.

I thought I was gonna have to address it. What I really didn’t want to do, but was prepared to if I had to, was be like, hey, you all know me as Roy can’t, but I’m more like this. I didn’t want to do that. I’d rather just present this thing. To be honest, I was surprised delighted that I never had to do that, and I suspect reality was their expectations were probably very low because they probably thought, ah, this is an actor trying stand up and they didn’t know that I actually have done stand up for a very long time.

The Wall Street Journal got a screener of it. They’ve already seen it. S Boilers would be a strong word here. It’s more of a vibe spoiler. But if you don’t want to know anything about the special, skip ahead.

But again, I’m not going to destroy it for you. The vibe spoiler from the Journal says the reasons why the special works or not has less to do with the material than with Goldstein’s lack of a well defined stage persona interesting. When his humorous insights on love, sex, manhood, and money are made from a perspective of cool observation, it works much better than when he resorts to being vulgar. The Journal says, Goldstein can clearly deliver a joke a viewers simply isn’t prepared for what direction it’s coming from. One Brett Goldstein can observe that it is native England.

The name Brett Goldstein is rather exotic, while in America everyone knows that Brett Goldstein, but another Brett Goldstein can go off on a tangent criticizing the architecture of public toilets in the US, and leave a listener wondering what in the world of entertimoty is talking about. Brett Goldstein The Second Best Night of Your Life tonight, ten pm HBO. Pete Davison told Indywier. I think I was very lucky to get my own video to the SNL fifty special. There’s a thousand cast members and hundreds that are more popular and did better work than I did when I was there.

I was just very grateful to be in a sketch and have a video and even be invited. It was very surreal to see. And I was there for almost a decade, but even when I came back and hosted, I was like, Wow, I do know all these guys. I know Lauren Michaels, most of the cast. It just hits different when you see like Meryl Streep doing a sketch.

Pete said of Lorne Michaels. Yeah, he’s like my dad kind of. He’s really really sweet, and he’s always been above and beyond understanding of my life and just supportive in all the right ways. I’m very lucky, Pete told John Bernthal’s podcast, when your own show pokes fun at you, I’d be sitting in the backwatching the Cold Open, and the Cold Open is topical, political humor, whatever’s in the culture. And they’re making fun of you.

Then you’ve got to walk out and do a sketch next and hit your mark. And the show just made fun of you. What are they gonna do? Laugh at you like they just dogged in front of everyone. You’re like, I’m a loser man.

Jay Leno is the conservator of his wife Mavis. She was diagnosed with dementia. Jay has been the conservator since April of twenty twenty four. Jay to people about it and says he stepped up for Mavis in her time of need. That’s what love is, and I’d rather be with her than doing something else.

When you first get married, you sort of take a vow. Well, I live up to this, or it’d be like a sleazy guy. If something happens to my wife, I’m out banging the cashier at the minimart. No, I didn’t. I enjoy the time with my wife.

I go home, I cook dinner for her, watch TV and it’s okay. It’s basically what we did before, except now I have to feed her and do all those things. But I like it. I like taking care of her. She’s a very independent woman, so I like that.

I’m needed. Jay explained that something he does with MAVs is they go through memories on flash cards, and he says that’s brought some laughs. Jay tells it it’s kind of fun. I go, honey, that’s President Obama. Remember we had dinner, And she’ll say, oh, not me, and I’ll say, yeah, honey, that was you.

But says there are challenges when you have to feed someone and change them and carry them to the bathroom and do all that kind of stuff every day. It’s a challenge, and not that I enjoy doing it, but I guess I enjoy doing it. I’m not just this person’s attractive and sexy and having sex with them and everything. At some point in my life, I’m going to be called upon to defend myself. And I think that’s what really defines a marriage.

It’s really what love is. It’s what you do. I mean, I’m glad I didn’t cut and run. I’m glad I didn’t run off with some woman half my age or and in that’s silly nonsense. I’d rather be with her than doing something else.

Totally switching gears Leslie Jones spoke to Seven Days Vermont about being comedian, said, ain’t hard. If you’re offing funny as a comic. You need to take that kind of stuff and say, I’m tired of these mfforts being depressed. I’m gonna make them laugh about this stuff. I’m getting older and I really don’t like to travel that much anymore.

I’d be down to do a late night show or maybe a sitcom something where i’d be working here in LA from my home. Doing the Daily Show is great, but it’s in New York and I don’t want to live in New York. Leslie continued, what’s wrong with everybody right now? They’re too scared to change, too scared to face their problems. You have to endure change.

Change doesn’t give a hoot about your feelings. Change is going to happen, and it’s either going to be painful or not painful, based on how honest you are with yourself. And right now our society is choosing the painful way because nobody wants to effing change. Things are dark, but I want to give people a reason to laugh instead of cried. At the end of the day.

It’s my job to cultivate people’s happiness and not go all in on their sadness. There’s no snl A this week, but they’ve announced the guests for the next few weeks. May third, Quin de Brunson hosts Benson Boone, a musical act. May tenth, Walton Goggins and Arcade Fire they’re still around really And May seventeenth, probably the season finale here Scarlett Joynson, so Michael Jay will have a good week with that one and Bad Bunny your musical guest, Kevin Neil until the post independent laughter is contagious, and I think it’s much easier to laugh when other people are laughing as opposed to sitting at home. I’m sure somebody’s done a psychological study that always kind of amuses me how joyful it is to laugh with other people and look at the other person when they’re laughing.

This people do, they laugh and they look at the other person. It really brings people together, feel it kind of makes them forget all the insanity in the world. Kevin is now seventy one. That seems impossible and explains my goals to just basically deliver the package so that they formulated in my head, which is the premise, the set up, the delivery, the punch line of that particular bit. It’s kind of like sending a package.

You put it all together, you tape it up, you put it in the mail, and the other person receives it. You go, yes, it worked. And British comedian Sarah Millicam is in Vancouver. The Vancouver’s Son I had some questions for her, which she fielded expertly. If you’re trying to appeal to Canadians, the question who are some of your favorite comics and why?

The answer, Some of the funniest people I’ve ever seen are Canadian comics debrah D Giovanni, Mike Wilmot, John Hastings, Steph tole Evan mark Ford. They all make me hoot with laughter and be jealous of their jokes. All right, Sarah, what do you like to eat when you’re in Vancouver? She said, I will try to get poutine and I don’t like cheese curds. I need to go somewhere where they won’t throw me out for asking for poutine without the cheese curds, which is essentially chips and gravy.

And also, you have my favorite type of food here, which is huge portions. Love it all right, Brett Goldstein tonight and that’s it from Poolside. I will see you tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. We’re about to find out if Nikki Glaser can take a punch. We’ll talk about that in a second, but let me set the scene here. It’s seventy five degrees and the humidity’s thirty four percent, and it’s Sonny out for the first time of month.

So if you’re like Johnny Mack, do I hear birds? You do? Do I hear planes? I do? Do I hear dogs?

You might? Because this, to my friends, is our first pool side edition of Daily Comedy News this year. It is too nice to sit in the basement, all right, let’s get to it. Nikki Glaser was at the time one hundred Summit on Wednesday. She said there was a joke she told during the Golden Globes that she worried went too far.

Niki explains, I didn’t say anything that was like calling anyone ugly or fat at roast you say really cruel things, that’s the job. She conceded. She was initially concerned about a joke aimed at Emilia Paris star Selena Gomez and her fiance Benny Blanco that she ended up texting Blanco to get his permission to go ahead with the joke. Quoting Nicki, I said that Selena Gomez is here because of Emilia Perez and Benny Blanco is here because of the genie who granted him that wish, and looking back, I’m like, that could seem mean, but everybody’s like he’s not attractive enough for her. For me, I’ve never looked at them and thought that.

I feel like she won too. I think he’s really cool. So because that joke didn’t actually come from a mean place, I felt like it was okay for me to say. If you pay a lot of attention to these Nikki Glaser interviews, there is definitely signs of mental struggles here. She’s pretty open about it, and you do worry about her.

Nicki said, I’m happier than I’ve ever been, but I’m not happy by any means. I’m so grateful, but i still have a lot of self loathing that’s almost getting boring to talk about. At this point, she spoke about her current hot streak. I know it. I’ll get taken away at some point because it has to.

That’s just the way things work. And when that part of my career happens. I don’t want to be sad about that, so I just don’t put too much worth in it. But I’m enjoying it now. None of that is the controversy that I alluded to at the beginning.

Nicki said she was more critical of Trump than usual at a recent show in Canada because she usually holds back in the US to not alienate fans who might disagree with her politics. But she told the audience at the time thing she got worried that she could get backlash. Oh my gosh, what if I said gets recorded and sent out. Maybe I couldn’t be let back into the country. There’s just no scenario where the headline is US government bans Nikki Glaser from re entering country.

I mean, that would just be such a massive scandal story. There’s no chance of that happening, Nikki said, I’m not trying to be an alarmist, but I definitely don’t think that I’m immune to having some kind of backlash. Look at the other places that have dictators. I have a friend Jennif Friedman, who posted on Instagram that she was performing in Vancouver and when she came back, customs asked her what she did. She said she was a comedian, and they asked her if she talked about politics had made fun of the president.

They let her go, but they asked, or I could be put on some kind of list because of some story I reposted. Look at other places that have dictators. You’re not allowed to say things about them. She then joked about being sexually attracted to Trump to get on his good side. I don’t know where you’re laughing about.

I’m one hundred percent real about this and it’ll save me when I’m on the gallows. Send your letters to Nikki Glaser. John Mulaney has come under fire for a quote very controversial joke. This from the British tabloids. The very controversial joke was about the deaths of Gene Hackman and Hackman’s wife.

The joke in question and told much better by John Mulaney. Scientists are now like, we believe dinosaurs were killed sixty six million years ago by an asteroid. Stop you don’t know that. We don’t even know how Gene Hackman and his wife died and we found their whole bodies with full clothes on one week after the event. How about that?

Santa Fe police Hello, Press conference number four hundred seventy. We now believe that a rat bit Missus Hackman turning her hands into mummy hands. Slow down. You don’t know what happened that again, told much better by John Mulaney. Is the very controversial joke?

Really okay? Very controversial? One Reddit user called the comments sickening and posted just me thinking that Gene Hackman bit was just a tad sickening. Another redditur wrote only John could get away with a Gene Hackman joke this soon really okay, guys. Late nighter watched the millenniy show.

I didn’t. I Wednesday night is volleyball night, and I made the mistake of I went for a run. Johnny Mack is out of shape, and I will cop to being out of shape when I’m out of shape. And I’m out of shape. So I went for a run Wednesday afternoon because the weather’s nice, and then I played volleyball and I was so gassed, so there was no chance of me watching a show from ten to eleven PM.

I went to bed. But Late Nighter they watch Mullenie’s show. They are very positive about the show, and it sounds like maybe, perhaps possibly Millenia has taken my notes. Late nighter, says Mullani waited until halfway through the show to explain that guest Rita Marino wasn’t there. Apparently Rita wasn’t feeling well, but he never addressed the other missing panelist, which was to be dinosaur expert doctor Luis Chiappe, who had been announced earlier this week.

Maybe John took my note that having seventy five people on it once doesn’t work. Who knows. Mllenie opened the show announcing the time and temperature sixty two degrees in LA while snow went past his studio windows. Mulaney explained this is his Christmas show since the show won’t be on in December, and he felt like it. See that’s funny, that’s like an old style Letterman inspired bit.

So was the Christmas Show, complete with twinking lights, tinsel, and a disheveled white beard. Hobo, one of the guests he did have on io at a Berry. She liked the craziness. She compared the show to Crack, but in a good way. Okay, we all know crack is bad.

Yes, we can all agree that crack is something bad, But consider this Crack gave us funk music. Crack gave us Tyren Bighams Crackavius Whitney Houston saying, first of all, let’s get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. The spirit of crack, one could argue, has also given us this show. John Mulaney Sober and a Father is basically spiritually on crack.

To be clear, I think this is a good thing. This man shows up dressed like a pentecostal deacon son headed to the twenty eighteen NBA draft all he’d end up a fifth round reject, and yet he puts out some of the sharpest comedy happening right now. She described Mlaney as a gift to comedy. He’s also maybe probably insane. But I think this is good and I think crack is bad.

Now what’s interesting is I did several googles of the term Malinie Conan. Not much came up. Jessica Kerson has a new special out on Hulu today. It is called I’m the Man. Now.

The Hulu publicist didn’t send me anything, but I will not be stopped. Hulu publicists, you keep your comedy special secret, and I’ll keep outing them, Jessica told The Daily beast. I’ve been doing stand up for over twenty years, and this special is truly special. My stand up has always stood out to the audience as I’ve performed for my fans, had especially in other comics. I’m the Man is me embracing everything I am, the crazy voices, the characters, and the fact that I’m fearless on stage.

Michelle Wolf had a surprise release, not really a special, a fifteen minute clip where she talked about her controversial twenty eighteen set at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The clip is called Dinner Time. It has premiered on punch Up Live, a digital platform for live comedy. You can watch it for free. Wolf explains there might not be a comedian at the Correspondent’s Dinner this year, but the good news is I have some leftovers.

I’ve been holding onto the set since twenty twenty two, and with everything going on, I felt like it was the right moment to share it exclusively on punch Up, a platform where comedians can release their own uncensored material without the constraints of any network or streamer. Drud Carmichael will have another stand up special for HBO. This one is called Don’t Be Gay. Nina Rosenstein is the executive vice president for HBO Programming. She says in a press release, this new special continues to build on the raw, intimate, and emotionally honest impact that his last special, Roathaniel and his recent series on the network at drud Carmichael Reality Show had no quote from Carmichael though.

Anyway. Don’t Be Gay on HBO Saturday, May twenty fourth, at ten pm. At Tomorrow’s Brett Goldstein Special. We’ll talk about that tomorrow. Good job by the birds giving me.

I hope you can hear the birds giving me some atmosphere as we do the show poolside today. Now it’s so weird putting the show together because when I put together Thursday Show, there was nothing. Now behind the scenes, I teach a college class on Thursday morning, so I often like to pretape Fridays, and as the week goes, Friday tends to be one of the lesser listen two days. I guess people get into weekend mode. So I often, when I’m teaching, will pre tape Friday show and I’ll you know, I’ll squirrel stuff away all week.

And there was just really nothing to fill Thursday show. So I had to pull. Boy, these birds are getting done. Thank you birds. I had to pull most of what was going to be today’s show into yesterday’s show just to get a show out, and it was a short show as it was now today.

Conversely, it took me two hours to put this together. There’s enough for three shows, and I’m probably gonna sit here at poolside recording the entire weekend because there’s so much. Let’s head on over to Gossip Corner. This is sad TMZ reporting Fortune Femster and her wife Jacqueline Smith recently separated and Fortune is planning a file for divorce. According to TMZ, it’s unclear what caused the split or when they separated.

TMZ thinks it’s pretty fresh. This is sad to me because wasn’t one of fortune special all about getting married to Jack’s. Wasn’t that like the whole cornerstone of it. So that’s kind of sad. They were married in October of twenty twenty.

Also on Gossip Corner, now, kids are listening to this with you. For some reason, it stopped. We don’t want the kids to listen to this next section. They’re just gonna have questions. So I’ll give you a second hero bebble.

Okay, kids are gone. Catherine Ryan has spoken out about more sexual misconduct in the comedy industry. She claimed one male comedian showed other cast mates intimate videos of himself having sex with women. Catherine explained the incident happened while backstage in the green room of a big show. She did not identify the comedian, but did say that he isn’t British.

She explained, I’ve been in green rooms were very famous male comedians. One male comedian in particular, I will say it’s not British. He was very famous, very rich, very powerful, and he was in a room on a big show. I was one of the few women on that bill, maybe three women, and there was a young female comedian who was starting out. It was next to him, and he was with all the lads showing pictures and videos on his phone that he had taken of himself having sex with women, so like really intimate photos, intimate videos, and he was showing them.

His junk was in a lot of these videos. She felt very uncomfortable about that, and she came to my dressing room to be like, oh, I didn’t like him showing me that, and she’s about to go on stage. She’s very new. I was even quite new at the time, but yeah, stuff like that, and being a minority in that situation which female comedians, especially when I was starting out, we’re always minorities in every green room, every dressing room. There are things we can’t do that the boys can do.

We can’t take a night bus, we can’t sleep on the floor with four other comedians starting out. A lot of times we have children that we have to look after, and then we get fans who could like kill us. She then talked about Nikki Glaser. Nikki Glaser, who’s doing amazing and American hosting the Golden Globes for the second year in a row. She’d make a joke of it on Instagram.

Should write, come kill me in Cincinnati at seven pm, Come kill me in San Diego at eight pm. We’d have to publish where we are at night, and we’re always alone. It’s a bit different. When I started doing television, male audience members could be weird with me. I had this following of very strange lone wolf men.

Before I had a tour manager that’d follow me onto the train and keep talking to me. I was trying to be polite and boundary, but some of those interactions were scary. I’ve been locking in part, I think because of the guys I came up with. Joe lystt, Rob Beckett and Ramesher Rag and Aathan are just really really good guys. Boy, this is all just terrible switching gears.

If you’re in Boston, Paul Reiser is at the Cabot in Beverly tonight. Paul says he doesn’t have to do stand up. I just love performing. I don’t love airports. I don’t love connecting flights.

I just tell my agent’s got to be direct flight, not too late, because I like to be in pajamas at nine to forty five if possible. Paul’s my kind of guy. I’ve been on Stranger Things, which is big and great to be in, but has nothing to do with me being on stage for an hour and a half. That’s the fun, that’s the joy. I love the order of stand up.

I love how ephemeral it is now. The goalposts are always moving and you never quite get it, and if you do get it, it’s gone the next day. It’s like, wow, what was that? Paul says it has a hard time watching his old stuff, but when I do see a glimpse of it, there are themes of things I’m still questioning. What’s also great is the audience now comes to see me.

It’s not nineteen seventy eight years greedy Number eleven Bull Riser. If people are coming and they bought a ticket and they came to see me, it’s because they know me from something probably man about you. It really does feel like getting together with old friends. The audience thinks, I know this guy who grew up together, and we got married around the same time, we had kids around the same time, and the same warmth that I think they bring I feel towards them. And maybe younger people come too, and they’re confused.

Wait, why is the doctor from Stranger Things trying to be funny? Save some more of that for the weekend. A Memphis comedian is going for a world record this weekend. Benny Elbows is working on a solo stand up show that could last forty plus hours to break the record for longest continuous solo comedy stand up routine in history. I think Bob Marley had that.

The comedian Bob Marlin had that record for a while we actually broadcast it live on serious if my memory holds, Benny Elbows says, for a while, it’s a tour guide. It did tours in Memphis. It was a ghost tour guide, like a haunted tour, not like a signed up for the tour. Never saw me again, that’s funny. The plan was for him to take the stage at six o’clock this morning at the High Tone Cafe on Cleveland Avenue.

He’s aiming to break the current record of forty hours eight minutes. His game plan. I think the most important thing is going to be caffeine. There are rules according to the Guinness World Record. I can repeat jokes, but only every four hours.

So right now I have a word document with like sixteen seventeen thousand words. It’s twenty six pages. Another big one is that we need ten people in the audience at all times. That’s hard. How will we make sure there are ten people in the audience.

He’s hoping that this press helps. Well, if you’re in Memphis, go help this guy out. Hopefully you download the podcast at three or five am when I dropped it, and you ran right over there to hook up that six am hour. All right, I know you’re curious, what about the bathroom, He explains, I can eat and drink on stage as long as it doesn’t disrupt the flow of the show. You get five minutes every hour you can use for whatever you want, say a bathroom break.

So I’m going to try to go as far as i can to the show before trying to take a nap and then finish strong. If everything goes well, he’ll break the record around ten thirty on Saturday night. And that is your comedy news for today, Poolside Edition. Have an awesome day.

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Caloroga Shark Media and there I’m Johnny Mack with you know, Today’s Dalley Comedy News. I’m honest with you guys, it is a slow news day. It was like nobody announced anything. Uh. Jim Gaffigan in the headlines on a slow news day.

He was recently on We Might Be Drunk with Samuerel and Mark Norman and Jim started talking about different audiences around the world, joking that Europeans are often a bit condescending, but Canadians were always there and had the US’s back, but things have changed recently, according to gaff Again, the Canadians were always like, we know, it’s not you, it’s your government. Now the Canadians are like, we hate you. They’re furious. Jim told a story he went out to get some bourbon out of Vancouver whiskey bar. Jim explains, I like bourbon, and so I’m like, all right, I’m going to get a bourbon.

They tell him, no bourbon. I go, this is a world whiskey bar and they’re like, nope, we’re not selling any American whiskey. And I go, so did you get rid of it? And they’re like, oh, it’s back there. We’re just not selling it.

Gaff again added when he returned to his hotel, which was owned by an American company, he was able to drink some bourbon there. While we’re being political, Tim Dillon was on CNN. He had some advice for the Democrats, saying, you can’t go to war with straight white men for four years and then ask why they didn’t vote for you. That seems crazy. I’ve made fun of Megan Markle a lot.

I can’t then go, why don’t you think Megan Markle’s watching my special? I think you just have to pick your fights in a better way. Dylan talked about having JD Vance on his podcast. Dylan joked it was actually the goal and why I started comedy. JD.

Vans I knew about him when I started out in twenty ten, and I had it all plotted out like a beautiful mind on the wall. Then he got more serious and said it was kind of fortuitous. We just have this podcast that’s big and people listen to it. Trump understands the two cultural forces that I’ve seen in my lifetime have changed the way people behaved reality television and social media. He understands social media and using it to communicate.

Now that we have phones, we’re all starring in our own reality TV shows. He understands that, and he was able to utilize that understanding to connect with people in a way that Kamala didn’t seem to understand. It felt like he just had the upper hand. W come Bell likes not having a boss and says, basically, nobody can fire me, so I feel free to say what I want to now. Having said that, maybe I won’t get hired by anybody again.

But there’s two things that are important. One making sure my family eats every day and has a place to sleep, and two make you sure I’m clear about which side of history I’m on. Send your letters to w cam Al Bell, Tim Dillon, and Jim Gaffigan. Digital Spy caught up with Jimmy Carr. Jimmy said pornography is to sex with clips of comedy, or to seeing a show.

You can watch something on TikTok and go no, that’s not very good, but he watched it with the sound down, reading subtitles while going to the bathroom, paraphrasing, you didn’t get the full effect Jimmy’s comedy inspirations. I always like wordplaying clever stuff. Culture lags behind technology. VHS was a huge thing for me. In the early eighties.

Would start to see tapes of Robin Williams, who’d be thin on more comitty. Suddenly he could see him live talking about his cocaine addiction, and as a kid, you’d go, who the f is this guy? Who does Jimmy Carr think is the goat of comedy? Think about it for a second. Interesting pick here, Jimmy Carr says, Chris Rock for me is the goat because if you look bigger and blacker, it all stands up.

Those routines don’t just stand up. They’re still edgy. Now it’s extraordinary. Most comedy rots. It goes back to the pot and that’s great, But every now and then someone just comes along and nails it.

Jimmy, what made you want to be a comic? I think a lot of people who suffer little from depressions self medicate with comedy. I was using it and decided to become a dealer. I like that, that’s funny. I often think of myself like a drug dealer.

You’re dealing in serotonin and dopamine. You experience it most when you’re in a group of other people. You’re laughing together, you laugh I think thirty times more. Jimmy talked about growing up. I look back at school and everyone was hilarious.

I didn’t stand out as being the funny kid. I could definitely hold my own, but everyone was fun Why else would you be friends with someone if they weren’t a laugh That was the currency, certainly in my home. There’s a lot of mysticism around comedy, like he’s just funny, he just gets up there and does it. No. When I watch Chris Rock do a special, I see one hundred jokes that work brilliantly.

But what I don’t see is the two thousand jokes that didn’t work that got him to those that did. He had to put the work in. You don’t have this in music. The Beatles aren’t any less magicable because you can write down the tunes and analyze the notes. I think we should teach comedy like we teach music.

A digital spy at a good follow up here, you do get musical prodigies. You could teach people to write songs, but you can’t teach them to be Paul McCartney. Jimmy Carr said that’s true, but he makes my point. He wasn’t a covers band with his friends the Quarrymen. They were fine.

Then he did ten thousand hours work in Hamburg and suddenly his facility with melody was revealed. And what joke do you wish you had written? Jimmy Carr said. Anthony Jesselnik has a routine about modern day slavery that I don’t think you should print, but it’s a remarkable piece of work. I’d really encourage people to check him out.

Shane Gillis is everyone’s discovery of the last twelve months. An extraordinary talented sketch and stand up Beth Stelling. I absolutely love and check out Neil Brennan special. Neil makes me want to be a better comic. Wow.

High praise from Jimmy Carr, who’s one of the top comedians out there today. Colin Jost was at Brown University. They had a panel and asked Jost about comedy, and Colin said, I hope it’s something you can improve that you get better at. I hope I get funnier. I don’t know.

Maybe we can all agree to meet here in ten years and I can report back on whether I feel like I’m funnier than I am now. Steve Martin and Martin Short had some of the best comedy careers in history. There’s some of the funniest people I’ve ever met, and they’re still worried about Am I still funny? Am I still making good work? If you’re a certain kind of person, whatever field you work in, that feeling never leaves you all right.

Some quick notes. The New York Times did a It’s not a profile of Theovon. They did an article about Theovon explaining to people who don’t know who Theovan is, who Theovon is. I don’t think THEO participated in it, but it’s a lengthy piece, so THEO will be on people’s rad art. Jimmy Kimmel will get a fourth season of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

It is the second time kim ol will host the show in front of a live studio audience. The first two seasons of the reboot were during COVID protocols. If you missed it. Andrew Santino has a new golf podcast. It’s called No Bad Lies.

That’s a good title. It includes encurse conversations and in studio interviews with professional golfers. Athletes, entertainers, and influencers. Santino said, I’m beyond excited to dive into all aspects of the game with no bad lies, from Live to the PGA and everything in between. There’s so much happening golf right now.

I can’t wait to explore the sport from every with the people who love this game as much as I do. Damon Walliams is one of the latest people to accuse Robin Williams of being a joke thief. I think that’s reasonably well known. Damon had been on Shannon Sharp’s podcast before the recent Shannon Sharp controversy. Can google that one on your own.

I don’t want to go there, and said Robin Williams was a notorious thief. I ain’t lying. His manager used to walk around with a check book and Robin would come off stage and a comedian be like, hey, he just took me, and he’d write him a check for seventy five dollars because he knew Robin was all stream of consciousness and he’d steal material. It was known. Comedians would go, I’m not going on because Robin’s here.

It happens. But I was look at comedy like this If this is not the last joke I’m ever going to tell, then I’m not going to treat it like that. Just a joke means I got to think of something else. For people to be up in arms about a joke, Really, what is the joke? Last year, Joe Rogan commented on Robin Williams and said, I think Robin wanted to kill more than he wanted to be ethical at any cost.

Part of that manic sort of style is this constant need have a bit about anything that you’re talking about. Ever, killing was more important. Feeling that hole inside of him was more important than anything. If you ask any of those comics were back then, there were always instances of Robin going on a talk show and doing your bit, speaking of joke thieves, stay with me. Sarah Silverman spoke to The Guardian and she tells the story.

My parents were dying. I was living in their apartment and taking care of them. So when I went back to stand up, the first material I tried out was stolen from my eulogy at my dad’s funeral. I thought there’s funny stuff in here. In her new material, she is working through the death of her parents and explains There was one night when I hit notes for myself all over the stage.

I’m a stoner, I don’t know have to remember what happens next, and I was in a pretty heavy part of the show looking down on my notes. It was taking a few seconds, so I said sorry to the audience, and they all started a plodding because they thought I was overcome with emotion and apologizing for it. I probably should have just gone with it, but I was like, oh no, I’m not crying. That’s your slow news day comedy news for today, see you tomorrow.