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Calarogas Shock Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Big shows were announced, including John Mulaney’s new stand up tour. It is called Mister Whatever, and he announced it from the backseat of his kidnappers car. Tickets for the shows go on sale today at ten am Local time.

The shows will feature guest appearances from John Stewart, Pete Davidson, Martin Short, and others. In a promo video teasing and Mister Whatever, John Mlaney can be seen blindfolded with his hands pounded in the back of a car as two men with blurred faces and distorted voices sit beside him. Let’s listen. Hey, it’s me John Mulaney, and I’ve got great news. I’m going on tour.

My new tour, Mister Whatever, is coming to a city near you. Pre sale starts April twenty third with the pre sale code mister and you can get tickets at John Mulaney dot com to see you at a show. Soda tell me them local time, you’re going to serve? What appreciate local time? What do you mean local time?

No matter where you are in said I. Am tonight on Netflix, John has Conan O’Brien, I you at a berry, Rita Marino, the curator of the Dinosaur Institute at the National History Museum, and music from Mets me Etz, not the baseball team that I root for. I was thinking more about mulaney’s show and I don’t want to just pile on. But one of the YouTube comments got me thinking about it. You know what it is, I think I finally zer it on this.

It’s that the guests don’t know what to do. The show is so chaotic. The guests don’t know should they just grab the reins and do their thing or should they hang back and let the other guests talk. That’s what the big problem is with the show and the way it’s formatted. I will reiterate my advice.

All you have to do tonight is go my first guest is Conan O’Brien, and then stop talking to the point where if you didn’t say another word, Conan would just fill the void and make a bit of it and probably host the show himself. Anyway, I like John A. Lott, I don’t want to just pile on.

Meanwhile, gab Iglacias and Joe Coy announced they will be headlining the fir…

They’re aim as to sell out to seventy thousand fans. If they hit that number, it would eclipse the current Guinness World Record holding comedy audience of sixty seven thousand, seven hundred and thirty three. You know who has that record wrong. It is German comedian Mario Barth. He did this at the Olympus Stadion in Berlin in two thousand and eight.

Gave Iglesias, who was co headlining with Joe Koy, joked for one day, the two of us will be Taylor Swift, which is pretty funny because you may remember Taylor Swift nearly destroyed Joe Coy’s career by giving the ice face to this joke. The big difference between the Golden Gloves and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor’s sweat. Apparently, Gabe and Joe are friends. They frequently pop up at each other’s shows, and they decided to do a co headlining appearance together one night.

Only. They’re doing their sets back to back. I wonder who opens and closes there. I would guess Joe opens for Gabe would be my guests. Especially in LA they promise special guest surprise moments and plenty of other hilarious interruptions.

Gabe said, I think every time that we crash each other’s shows, we see the reaction of the fans and people get excited. And the more we do that, the more we realize we have a lot of the same fans. We’ve always want to do shows together. Yeah, like trying to make it make sense. We have a date for David Spade’s Dandelion.

This will be on Amazon Prime May sixth. In Dandelion, David Spade tells us about the perils of flying charity auctions and the evolution of naughty movies. Nudge, Nudge. Kevin Hart never afraid to work, He’s got another gig. This time he’ll be hosting the b ET Awards Monday, June ninth on b ET.

Hart has hosted the awards before, back in twenty eleven be ET president Scott Mills. For over a decade, Kevin Hart has been a beloved part of the Beet family and we couldn’t be more excited to have him return to host the twenty fifth anniversary be ET Awards, it sounds like Bowen Yang is kind of done with SNL. The more interviews I read with Bowen, and he’s been doing a lot of them, I think he’s checked out. I think he’s laying the groundwork for exiting the show, and I would totally understand it. To me, I think, if you’re going to get out, now’s the time to get out.

In the fiftieth season, I could see fifty one being a total rebuild unless you just want to pull a Keenan, like, if you’re Jo Justin Chay, just sit at that news desk for another ten to fifteen years until Lauren’s replacement kicks you out. But you know, if you’re Bowen Yang, yeah it might be time to move on. Bowen says SNL’s just this moving, living, breathing thing, especially after the fiftieth them seeing what life after the show is like and how beautiful it is, and how many people, no matter how long they were at the show or just with their families and loving their lives and not letting the years take away any of that experience for them. He addressed the production schedule, saying, the new season of SNL, I’m just like, oh right, my time isn’t my own. And I tell my friends, I’m not really going to see you guy Unti June, and people that I’ve gone on a couple solid dates with, I’m like, hey, it’s not for lack of interest.

My time is really slipping away from me and I’m so sorry. And it’s not a youth thing, it’s a me thing. I think one of the best parts about working at SNL is whenever you’re not working on your own because you’re helping somebody else a cast. Remember, I execute on their vision. So they’re coming up to you being like you need to dress up as a drone, you need to dress up as a Chinese spy balloon and d blah blah blah, and you’re like, oh, yeah, sure, you get shot out of a cannon in so many of these situations that kind of breaks down all your hesitancies around doing anything that has only served me.

I mean, every now and then a lot of times it’ll be like egg on your face, you make an ass out of yourself, But I never ever weigh that against the wonderful things that I’ve gotten to do. The Webby Awards have announced the winners. Now the ceremonies not for another couple of weeks. I don’t understand how this works. The Webby Awards will be hosted by a Lot of Laser on May twelfth, but they’ve already announced the winners.

Okay. Marcelo Hernandez from SNL is receiving a special achievement award. It’s the Webby Outstanding Comedic Performance Award. The logic thing is The award recognizes his sharp, culturally resonant humor on SNL and his viral impact on the Internet, redefining digital comedy for a new generation. I mean, I like the guy, but he kind of does one thing over and over and over on SNL.

Anyway, if you want to give him an award, go ahead. The Webby’s called him one of the most electrifying new talents in digital comedy. They singled out Domingo. Yeah, everything he does is a variant on Domingo. SNL’s live show coverage on Instagram Stories scored two wins for Best Use of Stories, both the Official Webby and the fan voted People’s Voice Trophy.

The Daily Show got three wins of its own, including Best Social Trophy in the Comedy division and both the traditional Webby and the People’s Voice Award for Best Social in the News and Politics division. That Tonight’s show starring Jimmy Fallon won Best Use of Vertical Video for its nine x sixteen content What Are We Doing? Kimmel won Best Social for a Television Show or Film. People’s Voice winner in that same category went to Colbert.

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The Audio series Best Individual Episode from a TV Show or Film, Best Podcast Host went to Conan O’Brien. John Stewart named the People’s Voice winner for Best Host for the weekly show Bowen Yang and Matt Rodgers won Best Podcast Comedy for Las Culturistas. The People’s Voice Award for Best co Host went to The Lonely Island in Seth Myers the Webby Awards Can You wait? May twelfth, Let’s stop off on Gossip Corner. Friend of the show, Scott Beckett sent this to me via The Wall Street Journal.

A very seemingly complicated kerfluffle involving Kevin James is so complicated I had to ask chat gpt to summarize it for me because I didn’t understand it when I read it. According to Chat, Kevin James has found himself caught up in the bankruptcy proceedings of National Real Time The Investment Advisors, a real estate company that filed for Chapter eleven, and as CHET understands things, the company had sold Kevin James a mansion. However, that deal has turned into a legal battle. The mansion, initially purchased by National Realty Investment Advisors for seven point one million dollars in twenty seventeen, had a history of construction problems. Before James bought the house, two hundred and fifty grand was put in escrow for repairs.

However, after Kevin James bought the house for fourteen million dollars. If Chat GPT is understanding this correctly, he allegedly didn’t carry out the repairs and the escro funds weren’t used. An inspector later estimated the home needed one point four million dollars in repairs, far more than what was initially anticipated. That’s an understatement. Apparently, Kevin sold the property as is for twelve point seven million dollars in twenty twenty three, and there’s a legal battle going on and they’re fighting over the escro and I don’t know, but that’s what’s going on on gossip Corner.

Zach Zimmerman has a new special out on YouTube, Surprised Me. Zach explores the definition of love across evangelical family members, Romance gone wrong and doughnuts Done right. My kind of show in this sweet and salty I think that’s code magical stand up special. Surprise Me is also available as an album, So they’re right there. I like it.

I’m pro Grammy then. Via Eugene Merman’s Pretty Good Friend’s Comedy label, Zach’s also on tour you in New Orleans. Why don’t you stop by the Sports Drink Comedy Club on the twenty fifth and twenty sixth. That’s this weekend, all right. The Guardian caught one of the shows at the Sydney Comedy Festival.

They really liked Greg Larsen’s Greggy. They gave it four stars out of five. The setup here spoilers as if you were heading down to Sydney to see this show. Greg Larson has broke having his card declined at at McDonald’s drive through just weeks before. This year’s Melbourne Festival was a watershed moment for him.

He’s forty one, This, he says, is his last festival show. He’s done. Gegy is his swan song, a chaotic journey through his careers, highs and lows and the decisions that led him to that drive through. The show is a window into the reality of working as a comedian, from open mic gigs to glitzy award nights and the various day jobs that happen in between. It isn’t a glamorous story.

The theme of the show, if there is one, is money and the question of why Larsen doesn’t have any? And I feel like Johnny Mac, you don’t cover Australian comedy festivals enough. I know, but I have good news for you. The Brisbane Comedy Festival sixteenth edition kicks off today. Yeah, from today until May twenty fifth, five weeks, four venues, one hundred and thirty five acts.

Who do you go see if you’re down there? How about Granny Bingo? They are the nastiest nanas out there? How about the Aboriginal Comedy All Stars? How about s faced Shakespeare?

You know Shakespeare if you’ve had a few too many drinks. And there’s future science talks comedy addition, Anti Donna they’re not there, but two of the Anti Donnas are Broden Kelly. He’s probably the most recognizable of the Anti Donnas here in the States. He’s got a solo show and Zachary Roon t up with Alexi Toleopolis to do some sort of movie theme show. Some comedian names you may know, especially if you’ve listened to the show over the years, Rhese Derby, Sarah Pesco, Archborker, Ross Noble and Mark Watson.

It is the Brisbane Comedy Festival one of these years. I gotta you know, I could probably swing it money wise, you know, especially it would be a legit right off if I went down there. But you know the whole thing is I’m married, and you know who’s letting the dogs out. Hey, I’m going to Australia for four weeks to cover comedy fstls just not gonna fly. I’m going to LA for three days.

That flies. I’m going to Australia. What are you doing? I don’t know. I’m hosting a comedy podcast and that is your comedy news for today.

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You don’t need to make fun of my slide show. I get it. I’m an old dude in the basement. We’re all slaves the algorithm, so I gotta make my little slideshow here. What do you want from me?

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Caloroga Shark Media, Hey Aaron, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Wrestle Votes dot com it has some intel on what went down at the roast of WrestleMania, hosted by Tony Hinchcliff. They wrote two hours of jokes that included some sexual puns and f bombs. Paul Hayman stole the show triple h end of the night with a surprise appearance. Lenna McMahon was in attendance. Don’t hold your breath for this to ever make air.

Wrestlingnews dot Co said. Paul Hayman was incredible. Tony Hinchcliff had everybody rolling. This was so much fun. Cell phones were put in pouches for good reason.

Lol. I doubt this makes it to TV. Stuff was wild. The show took place after WrestleMania at Night two. Wrestle Votes says the show was two hours long.

The New York Times had a cover piece about Naperghetzi. Now I’m seeing here with Nate exactly what happened with Nikki Glaser last year. The really good support team, the prs out there. You know, we heard that Nate was gonna host the Emmys in parallel with that there’s this big thing with the New York Times. Now that didn’t just happen overnight, So the press machine is out for Nate.

I share the article in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. There’s also a podcast version of the interview if you’d like to listen to yourself. The New York Times asked Nate how he got so big. Nate said, talking about relatable things and authenticity. Not that I’m going out for authenticity, but you’re in a world where you have the Wickeds and Avengers movies, and that’s great, but there’s not a regular person on a screen anymore.

Movies used to be like planes, trains and automobiles and home alone. That’s a regular guy in the movie that you enjoy watching. It’s easy to take in and you don’t always want to be thought provoked. That’s something I’ve tried to stay clear of. I need you to be able to come and trust that you’re going to get the entertainment that I’m showing you.

That I’m selling you, and I’m talking about myself, and I’m making fun of myself with the materials written for you. I’m not doing it to make myself look good. I’m doing it to make you laugh. You can either laugh with me or at me. You relate to it or you think I’m an Either way, I’m here to entertain you.

As for his style, Nate said, most of the comics I was around were the complete opposite of everything I did. I had to learn how to do what I was doing in those rooms. But I didn’t want you to notice that I was clean, right. I talked about that on Saturday with Andy woodholl It’s one in the morning and these people are drunk, and how can I do this material that’s not sexual or whatever everybody else was doing. You learn how to hide it, because if he walked up and said I’m clean, it’s gonna be like, yeah, this guy’s not cool, exactly what Andy said.

The Times was curious about Nate’s evolving look in the last six or seven years. You’ve changed your look. You got a different haircut, you grew the beard, mustache, started dressing a little cooler, lost some weight. Nate said, yeah, kids, show business showed up and goes, hey Fatso if you want to make it, you better get your life together. No, no one asked me to do anything as a comic.

You’re you. You’re talking about yourself, so you’re going to be you. But I wanted to do it. I’m going through it right now. I do not have great eating habits.

I eat a lot of fast food and chain food didn’t get in the way. I stopped drinking in twenty eighteen because I knew if I wanted to get where I wanted as a comic, this was going to be the way. I’ve realized that with food too. So if I wanted to do stand up at this high level, possibly make movies, I have to put in the effort to handle all this touring and the mentality it takes to stay focused. I always say, I’m looking forward to the day you can’t see my nipples through my shirt.

That’s we’re all working towards amen. Brother Tim Dillon spoke to Fox News Digital. The premise from Fox News Digital that was comedy was moving to the right. Dylan said, you know, when people call it a right word shift. My pushback to that is, were these statements right word in twenty fifteen or two thousand and five?

When did they become right wing statements? When did it become a right wing statement to say I should have the bodily autonomy to not take an experimental vaccine. When did it become a right wing statement to say I don’t think the US should be in wars? I remember those were left wing statements. When did it become a right wing statement to say that the United States should look after the middle class and workers instead of importing cheap labor so that the profits on Wall Street could go up?

Those are right wing points. This is the craziest thing ever heard in my life. I think the parties flip, but I think they might flip again. You know, this could happen again, where the Republican Party becomes anti free speech and the Democratic Party becomes pro free speech. It could happen again, certainly flip.

During the last election cycle we’re in, the Democratic Party was the pro war, kind of anti speech, seemingly pro corporate party. But if we go to war with Iran start boarding people that wrote op ed’s critical of Israel, then you’ll see the Republican parties now the pro war, anti free speech party. So you actually have to just believe in principles, and you have to hold the people that you’ve elected to account. You can’t follow the people who’ve elected Otherwise you’re just in a personality cult. You’re not a free thinking person.

You have to say, I have a belief. The belief is we shouldn’t do this, and if we do that, whoever it is, Kamala Trump, Bernie whoever, you have to hold him to account and say, you know, I don’t think this is good for America. A lot of Tim Dillon press get some more stuff coming up from later in the week, but he is out there making the rounds, and apparently the cable news networks have discovered he’s a really good guest because he’s got that great mix of doing the talk show thing combined with great jokes. As I’ve said before, I loved Tim’s podcast, and then someday he is going to step on a land mine. I could see it coming, and then I’m going to deny that I ever told you that I liked this podcast.

I’m such a coward. I could be like Tim Dillon. Never heard of him. Michael Costa’s Toll The Last Laugh podcast that when we did the guest hosting thing on The Daily Show where every celebrity came in and hosted, we really learned that many celebrities can’t read a teleprompter. I mean, some were not treating it as we felt was a very important, funny, coveted position.

And by the way, nobody was like met or terrible. But you’re just going man. I grew up on the show, the show’s foundation of who I am. Don’t half ask this please. Thankfully the network finally said, you know, these correspondents really give ahoot about the show.

Canadian comedian James Mullinger has joined the list of comedians who won’t come to the United States. James has canceled a planned show in Maine next month. He told the CBC, I love my job, but not so much that to want to be locked up for two weeks, Although would probably make for good material, but my wife needs me at home. If I didn’t have people dependent on me, I’d possibly take the risk. Mullinger had the venue and date booked his paperwork in order, but says it seemed risky to make the trip to Maine.

It just felt like not the right time. I didn’t want to get swept up in either misinformation or propaganda or necessarily believing everything you hear. But it just seemed risky. Hearing the performers being locked up even though they’re there with the correct paperwork. Have I missed a story of their performers being locked up?

I’ve missed that. I kind of feel if a comedian were locked up, I probably would have mentioned it on the show. Maybe I’m forgetful. Wellinger said, Canadians need to support homegrown comedians. By the way, he’s a brit who moved to Canada.

Canadians can do their part this summer when they’re deciding what comedy shows to go to choose Canadian performers. There are Canadian comedy festivals booking solely American comedians. Let’s treat Canadian comedians the same way we treat Canadian food. Embrace them and support them. Big Jay Ogerson dropped a special on YouTube over the weekend.

It’s called Them They Decider. Caught up with Big Jay Decide or asked for somebody who has seen your work, what should they expect? Big Jay said, for me, as a comedian, I’d say it’s always going to be dirty. You can always expect it’s going to be dirty in some capacity. That was a comedy I was drawn to when I was younger.

So much. What I try to say is it’s palatable. Dirty when I first started being dirty when I was younger, it was definitely for shock, because you get a reaction out of people when you do dirty stuff, whether they like it or not. But over the years, because it was kind of the comedy that Ozo was drawn to myself, I was like, how could I do it? So there’s a strong chance that if you bring your six year old mother with you, she still likes it somehow.

This is a CrowdWork special, Jay said. I knew it was going to be no material in all crowd work, which if you tell the crowd that, the crowd knows what they were there for, so the crowds are much more forgiving. That was the easiest prep. There was nothing to do besides get the stage the way we wanted, the lighting and everything. But that was the beauty of it.

It doesn’t spend any of my material. I don’t have to write a new hour of stuff. I’ve learned that if you ask people enough questions, you find that everyone’s weird, and the people who are purposely weird to be noticed tend not to be the most interesting people. John Oliver hit the Mets game. Snytv’s field reporter Steve Gelbs started interviewing Sean Oliver.

Oliver’s excited about the Mets hot start telling Steve Gelbs, this is amazing. I can’t quite believe it’s happening. It doesn’t feel real. It doesn’t feel like we’re allowed to have this many nice things in one place. I hope everything’s going to stay like this forever, ideally.

Steve Gelbs asked John Oliver about the production cycle of the show. Oliver said, it’s change a little bit because in slower news times we can do that, slower cooking. We’re still trying to do that. But when things hypothetically speaking are happening like a president suggesting sending American citizens overseas to foreign gulags, yeah, that probably feels like something you need to address as soon as possible. So, yes, we’re working at two speeds right now, our regular speed and then crash shows.

Unfortunately, when Twitter user posted John Oliver a typical leftist AC with severe TDS who randomly has to bring up more lies on a Sunday afternoon on the Mets broadcast, two stories that I lightly mentioned yesterday and my voice was giving out, and I promised you i’d talk about them. Otsco at Cotska. We’ll have a special on Hulu on June thirteenth. The Specialist part of their super secretive Hilarious Comedy initiative that the publicists don’t want to tell comedy podcasts about, but we find out anyway. You cannot keep the truth from Daily Comedy News at Cotska will explore themes of adulthood, marriage, and the absurdity of everyday life in Father.

In Father, she deals with the reality is being an adult who’s still struggles with life’s basics, from skipping laundry for seven years to discovering that weddings require marriage licenses. I also had mentioned Tina Fay commented on the possibility of Tina Fey replacing Lauren Michaels as the head of SNL in twenty twenty four. Lauren said Tina could easily do the job herself. Tina Fey till the Hollywood Reporter. I was very nice of him to say, and I love him very much.

He’s irreplaceable. His set of gifts and skills are entirely unique. His eye for talent, He’s one of the last three people in show business who actually understand everything. I’ll leave it at that. Bo and Yang jumped in on the whole Amy lou Wood SNL controversy.

Remember Amy didn’t like Sarah Sherman’s portrayal of her. Yang told Extra, however, she reacted to the sketch is completely valid. With parody, you kind of forget the sort of human emotional cost that it sort of extols on someone. You need these reminders every now and then that parody can go too far sometimes and that we as comedians can take accountability for that instead of banging our foot and saying we should be allowed to say whatever we want. Everyone at SNL is just a fan of the show, obviously a fan of her.

We just think that she should be so proud of the work she put into this season. Brett Goldstein is comparing ted Lasso’s season four renewal to a dead cat. He told a story to NPR. I have a friend that I went to university with, and I think about this a lot. He had a cat that died.

He loved his cat. The cat was run over and they buried the cat. He was a child. They buried the cat in the garden and he lay in the bed so sad, upset and crying, and he prayed and prayed, and he wished that the cat would come back.

And then the cat did come back.

It turned out the cat they buried wasn’t their cat, And I think about that all the time. Brett added, and so I’m like, no, wonder this guy’ left in the head because he thinks death isn’t real. So of course he’s insane. He’s such a weird guy because he thinks he could bring things back from the dead. Aaron posted in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, feel encouraged to join us and participate.

I particularly welcomed this comment, as I wrote in the group, I woke up at one thirty in the morning. I had a nightmare, and like you know, when you have a nightmare, your system’s like racing and I needed to just play on my phone to calm the heck down. Aaron wrote more on the Abu Dhabi comedy season, it’s not a festival because it’s spread across several months and they’re all arena shows. Good point, she pointed out. You can also go see Toto the Band, not the Dog.

Aaron right, Chappelle isn’t on sale yet, but his best tickets are going for twelve hundred and fifty dirhams I think, and for reference, one hundred durhams is about twenty seven US dollars, so I’d have to multiply there. I’m too lazy to do that. I have Google. Let’s see. Right now, as I record this, Google is telling me that’s about three hundred and forty dollars to go see Dave Chappelle.

Wow. Aaron Wright’s I also know Joe Coy is using gadget free pouches, probably so no one can record any of his lame jokes and then beat them to death for two years. I particularly like that comment, but Aaron points out that, yeah, yonder pouches are annoying, But having intended a couple shows at the arena without pouches, I can confirm that audiences here are rude and shameless with their devices to the point of almost ruining shows. Aaron’s planning on grabbing our last minute tickets for Trevor Noah very cool. Thank you for checking in with that.

It is festival season. The Sydney Comedy Fest is underway. I’ll dive in on that a little bit more tomorrow. Being honest, here, I’m wiped out. I woke up on Monday and I saw the Pope had passed away.

And here at the company, we have a podcast series called White Smoke about the papal succession. So my morning I got up, it was about six twenty in the morning. Check my PHONEO saw that happen. But I was half out of it, and I’m like, let me make sure that actually happened. It wasn’t just a tweet.

You know, that’s not a mistake you want to make. So went on the New York Times website and they had it in like thirty six point font. Read the story when on Washington Post you want to confirm things in two sources, and they also had it in thirty six point font. So I’m like, okay, this is real. So I spent the morning.

We had some episodes scheduled. For example, they were going to canonize the Millennial Saint on this upcoming weekend, so I had to park that episode to make sure that doesn’t automatically run. Write a script for a new episode I scheduled. We already had in the can the Pope oh bit, So I turned that loose, wrote a new episode, wrote some promos, and trying to build a company, so I got to hit the trades tell him we’re up to all this. So that’s been an exhausting morning.

So Sydney Comedy Festival can wait. I’m trying to get back to Ireland. Maybe I can hit up the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival. It is Ireland’s longest running and best loved comedy festival. May twenty third to the twenty fifth Cat Laughs is coming to Belfast for the first time.

The Guardian calls it the best little comedy festival in the world. Your lineup Friday, May twenty third, Colin Murphy, Patty Raft, Mark McCarney, deetro Ocane, David o’derty. Some good solid Irish names there. Oh, then there’s an interval and then Gerald Faarley, Emma Duran, Alison Spidtele and Neil Delamere. On Saturday, Carl Spain, William Thompson, Susie McKay, Mike Rice, Colin Gettis, Sean Walsh, Deonna Doherty, flat Illitch.

That doesn’t sound like an Irish name at all, Vittorio Angeloni. What’s going on here? Sunday Andrew Ryan, Chris Kent, Kyla Cobbler, Ray Broadshaw and Scott Bennett. Not Scott Beckett, the guy that doesn’t like to Joe Cooy joke. This is a totally different person.

This is comedian Scott Bennett, who probably appreciates the humor behind the Joe Coy joke. Christopher MacArthur, Boyd, Shane Todd, Rich Hall and Patty MacDonell. John why did you do that story? Because I want to go back to Ireland. I felt like reading a bunch of Irish names.

I also would love to hit the Arctic Comedy Festival. This one is coming to Yellowknife on May seventeenth, Dawson City on May twenty first, and Whitehorse on May twenty third. You can go see Mary Walsh, one of Canada’s most memorable comedians. The festival tells us Walsh delivers in a unique and memori way that will leave you in tears. And one more story.

This is not a commercial. I just saw a press release on the newswires and I appreciate Pretzelized. I just like the copy they wrote. Pretzelize, the innovative snack brand known for combining pretzels with classic snacks like crackers and peda chips, launching a social first, fully produced sketch comedy series. It stars New York City comedians Eric Newman and Mark Gerber.

The series features two friends on opposite sides of the chip debate across four scripted, increasingly dramatic episodes. It’s not just a series, it’s your new favorite Internet debate, one that invites consumers to pick aside, take it way too seriously, and make their snack options known. That’s right, it’s pretzilized. Good job a copywriter. They invite us to join the pre solution.

That’s your comedy news for today. If you’re on YouTube, whatever you YouTube guys do. Look, I’m an old man in the basement. I’m trying to figure this out, so you know, like subscribe, bring to bell. I know it’s a slideshow.

What do you want to see a fifty five year old guy in his basement talking to a microphone. That’s boring. Enjoy my slide show. Appreciate it takes me a couple of minutes to make. See tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Man with your Daily Comedy News. If you missed yesterday’s podcast, it was a pretty good one. It was not Sunday filler. I had some good meat in there yesterday and including story about Shinge Gillis hitting up the Masters.

If you listened yesterday, you heard me kind of lose my voice a third of the way through the podcast. I don’t know what’s going on. I feel fine, but I am recording Sunday and Monday back to back. So what I’m doing here is I’m dialing it down a little. It reminds me of when I run.

You know, sometimes you get a little tight and you have to slow up a little. So I’m going to keep my energy a little more, even more even keeled than usual. Nate Berghatzy is stebbing up in class. He has been touted touted. Why did I say touted?

I could take that out. Nobody actually says that, right, He’s been touted. CBS has chosen, CBS has hired. CBS has picked Nate Bergetzy to host the seventy seventh ME Awards, held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on September fourteenth, Peacock Theater, CBS, That’s going to be awkward. Television Academy chair Chris Abrago sent a statement, Nate with one of the hottest comics in the business, with a remarkable and hilarious brand of comedy that deeply resonates with multi generational audiences around the globe.

We are thrilled to be able to leverage his one of a kind perspective to entertain TV fans watching this year’s Emmy telecast. In a statement, Nate said, it’s a huge honour to be asked to host such an iconic awards show, and I’m beyond excited to work with CBS to create a night that can be enjoyed by families around the world. The nominations will be announced on Tuesday, July fifteenth. The National Comedy Center announced who’s coming to the Comedy Festival this year in August. I got to get up there.

I’ve been talking about it for a few years, and I need an excuse for a long drive, and that’s a pretty part of the country. I think I might go up this year. John Stewart, Bill Murray, Mikey Day, Streeter Sidell, and Moore set to appear at the National Comedy Center’s Comedy Festival August seventh through the tenth, an evening with John Stewart’s Saturday August ninth on Sunday, a stand up showcase to be followed by a rock and blues concert featuring Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers. It’s an evening of comedy and music, a live blues and classic rock performance along with stand up by some of today’s top talent from around the country. Former guest on this podcast, Journey Gunderson said, John Stewart is one of the most influential comedic voices of our time.

That is true, providing his signature a social commentary at a pace responsive to the news cycle, while deeply thoughtful about our shared humanity. All that is true. That is a good quote. John Stewart said. I’ve said comedy is an iterative business and a grind, and the best amongst us just keep at it.

I’m glad there’s a museum, a national archive that drives on or that, and I look forward to seeing how the National Comedy Center tells the story of this great art form that survives every moment.

Also, the festival mighty day, SNL head writer Streeter Sidell, they will joi…

Their visit also commemorates the Washington’s dream Sketch Q cards being added to the museum. That’s fun. We found out a little bit more about that Office spin off. Oscar Nuniez has confirmed that he will reprise his role as Oscar Martinez on Office spin off. This is called The Paper I Believe, which will follow the same documentary crew that captured dunder Mifflin’s antics as they turned their focus to a Midwestern newspaper.

Ricky Gervasa’s wallet probably says thank you. Nunia says, they’re still editing and stuff. It’s very, very exciting. Oscar was talking with Angela Kinsey, who asked him, isn’t the understanding that you’re following the documentary crew to a new location and you happen to be there. Oscar Nuniaz said, that’s right.

More will be revealed, as my wife likes to say. Kinsey said she visited this set of the new show, and alongside Jenna Fisher, who you know as Pam. Jenna and I stopped by the set. Greg Daniels, the creator had invited us, and we showed up and not only was Oscar there, but our crew somebody in these wonderful peop Because the crew was our extended family. We’re still really close with them.

That was really moving to see. Steve Carell was asked about this show last year by The Holloway Reporter. He said, we’ll be watching, but I will not be showing up. It’s just a new thing and there’s really no reason for my character to show up in something like that. But I’m excited about it.

Sounds like a great conceit. I love the idea. I guess it’s set in a newspaper company. And I’ve worked with Domal Gleeson, who’s the star of this one. I did The Patient with him and he’s an excellent actor and a super nice guy.

So I think it’ll be great. Good quote from Steve Carell. There handled that properly. Season seventeen of its Always Sunny in Philadelphia will be on FXX July ninth and on Hulu the next day. The premiere will be the second half of the crossover with Abbott Elementary, there’s a clip teasing the new season.

We see the Gang volunteering at the elementary school, stealing kids brownies and auditioning them for a potential boy band. This is season seventeen, but it celebrates the show’s twentieth anniversary. We’re told season seventeen is dubbed The Gang Embraces the Arp and tells the story of how greed and the New American Dream have consumed Patty’s Pub. They’ll exploit cross network promotion to increase market share. They’ll scape goat one of their own to avoid a pr backlash.

They’ll risk everything for a handshake with the Saudi’s. They’ll bend the laws with side housles to pad their pockets, and they’ll change everything about themselves to appeal to a broader audience. According to the log line, and sure, like any corporate goon, the Gang craves money and parasitic social privileges. That’s been playing since two thousand and five, But they’re also human beings that crave love, respect, conditional freedom, constant adulation, histrionic amounts of attention, NonStop gratification, and unfiltered slap happy eroticism. There’s a pres lease for you.

I had to pause there and take a sip of my large iced coffee with pistachio. I don’t know what is going on with my voice. Maybe it’s the pollen is coming out. I feel fine. Tim Dillon was on News Nation the subject Robert F.

Kennedy. Now this interview took place before mister Kennedy’s comments on autism. We’re not going to get into that. Yllan had said he was all for Kennedy’s attempts to get Americans to eat healthier. News Nation rights.

In fact, he’d love to see Kennedy close fast food restaurants with armed soldiers. Tim said, I think it should go in too fast food restaurants with the military and shut them down. I think it should take people off the line at Chick fil at gunpoint. If we’re going to go to Taco Bell, but I knew that Rfka’d be there with the military, I might think twice about it. Dylan also talked about the Kevin Spacey thing.

In case you missed it, Kevin Spacey reprised his role as Frank Underwood to promote Dylan’s comedy special. Dylan says people are just tired of banishing people. People are imperfect, they’re flawed, they make mistakes, and he hopes that the pendulum has swung away from cancel culture. Tom Green told Vulture the number one thing people say to me when they find out that I’m Canadian is sorry about what’s going on right now. This isn’t our choice.

Green said, I don’t do a lot of political comedy, but I do have a joke I tell because the situation when right now I live in Canada, the fifty first state, the only state in the Union where nobody in it wants to be American except for Jordan Peterson, Wing Gretzky and the guy from Shirt Tank. Got it confuse laugh. Half the audience actually understands the full depth of the joke, and the other half is realizing for the first time that not everybody from every other country in the world dreams to being an American after being told you the greatest country in the world your entire life. Well, it’s a completely shocking statement. I haven’t told the joke in Kennedy yet, but I guarantee you when I tell it, people will be laughing.

For different reason. Canadians have always been a little more understated. American comedy is much more aggressive and on the nose. But our comedy is a silliness that’s just woven naturally into it, because there’s something of an insecurity, there, a humbleness that is masked in absurdity. We never say we’re the greatest country in the world.

We’re not screaming it from the rafters because it’s impolite. All right, my voice is giving out. I’m going to bounce two stories to tomorrow and take the break, but I will tell you here. The short version is otsco at Costka has got a special on Hulu and Tina Fey dodge some questions about Lord Michael’s job, but we’ll talk about that tomorrow.

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The show’s free, you know. On Gossip Corner. Craig Ferguson bought a new place two bedrooms in the East eighties, a block from the Tripolitan Museum of Arn’t in New York City. Ferguson and wife Megan have sold their castle in Scotland and picked up a classic co op for one point seventy nine million dollars. Now, I’ve never lived in a castle in Scotland, and I don’t know a condo in Manhattan.

Even if you’re overlooking Central Park, I don’t know. I think you traded down there. Craig Craig said, we’re very happy to be back in New York. And there’s a new box set with the Richard Pryor albums. This is getting a lot of pickup.

The pr people did a good job here. I’m a little confused because there have been at least two boxet said the Richard Pryor comedy albums. There’s definitely one, And I remember because when I started at Sirius, my boss asked me how come we didn’t play Richard Pryor And the answer was the records at that time sounded like crap and when he played them on an actual radio, you couldn’t really understand what Richard was saying.

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And then they remastered them.

There was this red box set. I remember the box set. So I don’t know why we’re making a big deal out of this. Maybe because it’s been twenty years, John, I guess anyway. The new box set is called I Hope I’m funny.

The Warner Albums nineteen seventy four to nineteen eighty three, out now via Rhino. The seven LP set features several albums. Now, I have a challenge. I’ll be honest here telling you in the story, mister Pryor titled his albums in a way that totally appropriated for mister Pryor to title his albums, but inappropriate for Johnny Mack to tell you the names of these albums here in twenty twenty five. So I’m gonna sub in the word Fella.

One of the albums, That Fella’s Crazy, was recently placed on Rolling Stone’s list of the seventy four best albums of nineteen seventy four. It was recorded at Don Cornelius’s Soul Trained nightclub in San Francisco. Chris Rock had once told Rolling Stone whenever they have a list of the one hundred greatest albums, Richard is never there. He’s not a musician, but Richard is one of the greatest recording artists ever. I’ll take that Fella’s Crazy over.

Frampton comes alive any day.

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Also in the set, Is It Something I Said nineteen seventy six is a bi centenni…

Not just his cadences or the vocal impressions. He does the outfit and I love Eddie Murphy. I’m fifty five years old. Do the math we loved, delirious and raw. But it’s a cover act.

Richard Pryor got there first and wore the same red outfit. We’re close enough. Opening today the Sydney Comedy Festival, I know you got a month of Melbourne and you got zero days in between. The Sydney Comedy Festival is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, featuring over three hundred performers today through Bay eighteenth. Daniel Sloss stars on the debut of the festival’s One Night Stands series, a Sydney exclusive performance April twenty fourth at the Sydney Opera House.

I Like this too. The Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawl attendees can explore the y C Cana I’ve been down there. I’m trying to remember what that’s stand for. I guess it doesn’t matter. The yck’s precinct bars in the CBD that Central Business District, each hosting unexpected lineups in various surprise venues.

The festival will also features a pioneering mentorship initiative hosting four up and coming comedians. They are Alan Fang, Frankie rous Thorne to be Barone, and Stella Wu to develop their acts with seasoned industry professionals. Locals include star of RuPaul’s Drag Race down Under Rhys Nicholson. International stars include Brazilian’s Fabio Rabine. He’ll be performing in Portuguese.

Malaysia’s comedy Elites Cavin Jay, Roisel Van Gazel and Poppy Zach. They are the Malaysian Comedy All Stars. The Theater Sports All Stars blend improvisers with new talents, miniature for the arts, jobs and tourism. John Graham said from Humble origins twenty years ago, the Sydney Comedy Festival has become a big highlight in our cities calendar, which is why we’re now backing it with event funding from Destination NSW New South Wales. Our government has been working hard to rebuild our nightlife after a decade of lockouts and lockdowns, which unfortunately were no joke.

I see what we had did their Minister Graham, Hey, minister Graham, why don’t you fly down like a world renowned podcaster. Hope you promote this thing. You know, if you’ve got funds, you should use them. All right, my voice is gone. Tomorrow show will be good.

I can tell you that because it’s already half written. Plus the five stories I didn’t do today. I try see tomorrow

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. People are not upset with Shane Gillis, but they’re kind of like, come on, dude. He went to the Masters last Sunday. Rory McElroy had his run there.

A lot of people were tuning in on the fly, a lot of casuals, myself included, put the golf on and on his podcast, Shane said, I don’t give enough about golf. I really wanted to. You couldn’t see a thing. Shane was there with his tires Co star Steve Gerbin. Steve had pleaded with Shane to use his celebrity power to gain entry into the exclusive Masters tournament, tagging along as their friend Chris O’Connor.

Shane says O’Connor was planning on not going, so he had already started drinking a little. He was prepared to lock down by himself at Hooters for the entire day, which I could have been more jealous of. Gillis admitted that the fairways of Augusta were like paradise and that everybody was friendly except for the bathrooms, which he compared to prison. People on social media are both jealous and kind of like, can you not appreciate it? I had an experienced once back when we did Blue Collar Radio.

I used to get hot passes for NASCAR events. So what a hot pass is is you can be in Pitt Road while the race is going on, while cars are coming in and they’re doing the tire changes and all that, and I’d be three feet from the car during a race. And every time I did it at the Daytona five hundred, I would be appreciative, but I was like, deep down, I know I don’t appreciate this. It would be like somebody else who doesn’t care sitting in the Mets dugout during a Mets World Series. That would be like my equivalent there for me.

And I’m like, this is amazing, but I’m not a NASCAR fan, and I know there’s somebody up there in the stands who would kill for this experience. Loved it, did it several times. Thought it was cool. NASCAR’s great, especially in person, really good time, but I knew, like, deep down, I don’t deserve to be here, or someone else does. I watched on Millenie Show with David Letterman and Hannibal burrus Nikki Glaser and John Mulaney’s He’s not good at hosting a talk show.

David Letterman tried to save the night, but the show it’s misproduced. Here’s some notes from somebody who’s produced a thing or two in thirty years. John’s fifteen minute story at the beginning too long. I started hitting fast forward. Part of the problem is I know that they’re going for this is different, and this is chaotic, and the zaniness and the weirdness is what makes it cool.

But it doesn’t work. You’ve got David Letterman there, but instead of just having Millennie and Letterman talk, you’ve got Leanne Morgan there. So then Milanie starts talking over Dave towards Leanne Morgan, who’s further down the couch. Dave makes a joke about how awkward it is, which was funny. Again, Dave tried to save it, but the format doesn’t work because Letterman or any guest Nikki Glaser, Hannibal Buris, they can’t get into groove because you’ve got too many people sitting there at once.

Richard Kind apparently has carte blanche to interrupt and throw the whole thing off. This show doesn’t work. I can’t understand how you have John Mulaney, David Letterman, Nikki Glaser, Hannibal Burs and Fine Leanne Morgan. And you can’t hand in something that’s entertaining. I didn’t make it to the end.

This show is not good. Conan O’Brien will be the guest on John Mulaney next week. Here’s a pro tip for the producers. Okay, you’re ready, here’s what you’re gonna do. It’s seven oh one in Los Angeles and fifty four degrees.

My first guest is Conan O’Brien. Conan, how you doing?

And then stop talking?

And then fifty nine minutes later ago, and that’s our show this week. See you guys next week. All right, write that down mlany or more importantly, write that down malleaney’s producers, says the guy hosting a podcast in his basement. The Sydney Morning Harold asked the question ken John Mulaney’s absurdist Netflix masterpiece save late night TV masterpiece. They use the word masterpiece.

The Sydney Morning Harold writes. When it works, it’s very good. However, there are some more awkward episodes. Cruise Ships, for example, didn’t end as a particularly interesting topic where everybody had good stories but getting fired. It’s alls about finding the right people.

Yeah, like so you had, I don’t know, David Letterman, hanniballe person, nickki Glazer. You could probably make a show out of that. It all has a frantic, somewhat cobbled together feeling that’s incongruous to the amount of money that’s clearly being spent on the show. And nobody seems more joyful about the chaos than Mlany. He told Bill Hayter, this is what it’s going to be like the entire time.

I have a whole new vibe. It’s very different. It might be a winning strategy, a way to save the format, but it feels less deliberate than that. Maybe it’s just a way generally a fun and beloved style of show for as long as they’re allowed to get away with it. Latenighter dot Com orroat Episode six of Everybody’s Live treats Letterman’s appearance with format breaking comic reverence, an unprecedented cold open with a mic toting Mullaney fainting towards a similarly unprecedented topical bit about the current constitutional crisis, give way to the frenzied backstage prep for the measure in they lined up people in size order.

It was a lettermanesque bit. Even Letterman said, that’s the kind of thing we used to do late night. A writs are running theme the season has been that even Mlanie doesn’t know what he’s actually doing here. His pronouncement here that his sort of late night show looks and sounds like it’s real, but it’s just kind of off is a more sucinct definition than any I’ve come up with. Letterman’s presence makes the call in segments even more of an afterthought than usual.

M’laney introduces Hannibal Verse and Nicky Glazers, two of his best stan up pals, while LeAnn Morgan’s ultra Southern stick gets tiresome, but none can compete with the legend nestled beside them on Malanie’s couch. That’s in line with my notes, ladies and gentlemen, my first guest is David Letterman. Hi, Dave, what’s going on? And stop talking? Good stuff from late night?

Or here they write for Dave himself. This sort of coded tribute is barely acknowledged even as the entire episode plays out. In one extended thank you. Rolling Stone interviewed Jimmy Kimmel. I shared that in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group, they were curious of Jimmy’s earliest comedy memories.

Kimmel said, I had an audio cassette recorder, and before Letterman came on, I would watch Carson. Same note. I was there for Dave and you just you watched Carson to get to twelve thirty with something to do. Kim Will says specifically, when Bill Cosby was hosting for Johnny, I tape the monolog and I transcribed it because I wanted to see what it looked like. But I didn’t have any intention of being comedian.

That never occurred to me. I had a late night license plate and had a late night birthday cake because I love Letterman so much, not that I thought I could do it someday. Rolling Stone was curious about the late night landscape, especially in light of After Midnight being canceled. Kimmel says, ABC pays me so ideally, in an ideal world, everybody would watch our show on ABC, but it’s not how it works. It’s very easy to watch it on YouTube.

People watch anything at a moment’s notice now and in late night, I find most of the people are watching me the next day. That’s the next day in the morning. But if you look at YouTube, you look at all the shows. More people are watching our late night television than ever were. And that’s what any comedian wants.

I don’t know, I might have to fact check that. Let me see what Carson was at his peak. Okay. AI overview on Google says Carson Show averaged nine million viewers nightly. A Facebook post says it averaged sixteen million people.

Here’s the LA time saying nine million. So let’s go with nine million. I guess if you added up two million here million there a millionaire in the social media. Maybe if we add everything together, it might get to nine million. Jimmy Kimmel.

Maybe, perhaps possibly, I’m too lazy to do the math. Jimmy retirement. Yes, no, Jimmy said, I realize there’s no point in talking about it. Obsess the people I work with. There are a lot of people who want of jobs when I retire.

That definitely weighs on me. But the reality is, I’m not gonna do this forever. At a certain point, it’s gonna have to end. I also know that there’s not one person who works here who would resent me for retiring. I think they know that when I’m done, I’ll feel like I’ve done this as long as it possibly can.

But you always feel like the band leader that when you step aside, everyone’s gonna have to find new jobs. Jimmy Fallon, whose Tonight Show is in third place? And I’ve been thinking about that since I said it on the podcast. I can’t imagine a universe in which the Tonight Show is the third most popular thing at eleven thirty? How is that possible?

And yeah, I get demos and the younger people like them and all that, but like, if you’re at NBC and the Tonight Show is in third are you like, hmm, what are we even doing? So? I don’t know, but like, if not Jimmy Fallon, who and what and why? Right? So fine?

Let Jimmy Fallon sit there for twenty years. Maybe it’s the marketing. Uh you know, maybe they should hire Milanie’s producer, just have Jimmy Fallon host a mess of a show. Who knows. Anyway, Jimmy’s got another show on NBC, so I guess they like him a lot He’s going to host the marketing competition series On Brand, which will also feature marketing exec Bezoma, Saint John and a number of big companies.

On Brand with Jimmy Fallon. We follow what happens when Jimmy Fallon starts a premier marketing agency and fills it with the most creative, clever and competitive go getters he can find. Boy, somebody in the NBC sales department is creaming their coffee over this one, because a host of national brands, including Captain Morgan, Duncan, KitchenAid, Marshall’s, Pillsbury, Samsung, Sonic Southwest and thorough Body, will be part of the show, serving as the agency’s clients and of course getting a good deal of screen time. All right, so there’s a show and it’s going to be all advertising. Oh boy, NBC se executives.

So just gotta love this. Jimmy Fallon said, I love branding, I love marketing. I love the world of advertising, and I think there are a lot of people out there who do as well. This show, let’s the audience that our contestants get a peek behind the curtain of how campaigns where some of the biggest brands come together and what goes into making them. Each episode will see the on brand agency, which reinforces the show’s title, working with one of the aforementioned brands on a major campaign that may involve commercials, jiggles in Pearson Experiences, or merchandise.

The judges will pick the best ideas, which then go on to become real world campaigns. What are we even doing in Cincinnati? Yesterday? Cant Williams got a street named after him. You may know it as Reading Road at the corner of Maple Avenue in Avondale.

Nope, it is now Cant Williams Way. Happy for twenty and Easter, but happy four twenty to those of you who observe. People who do observe today’s holiday are Cheach and Shong, and I believe from my original notes when I stashed this here months ago, Cheach and Shoong’s Last Movie I Think is out today. Euchen Chong’s Last Movie is a documentary offering a wildly imaginative take on genre convention, a true life tale till through a mix of animation and archival madness, all underscored by a classic cinematic road trip comedy. My Voice is already given out.

And while I’ll con see that often happens on the Sunday episodes. That’s usually because I usually record Friday, Saturday Sunday to give myself the week and off. But you know, I had the interview yesterday, so this is actually the first one in the sequence that I’m recording. And I don’t know why my voice is gone, because I want to do Monday too, because it was supposed to be nice out today and Johnny Mack wants to be doing something else. I love you guys, but you know, it’s Sunday, it’s Easter, it’s four twenty.

I’m not a four to twenty guy, but you know, if you are, that’s fine. But it’s Easter and it’s nice out and I want to go out anyway. The Mailburn Comedy Festival wraps up today. The Guardian gave Lou Wall’s show five stars. They write comedians frequently lie, but if the story is funny, doesn’t matter.

If the truth of a hit TV show is contested, do you enjoy it less? Lou Wall’s new show Breaking the Fifth One, was nominated for Best Show at Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The story is about Wall listing a bed for free on Facebook Marketplace and the unhinged interaction that follows with a woman named Eileen. It’s a fantastic bit, not least because it’s very believable. Anyone who’s listened something on Facebook Marketplace is familiar with the absolute gauntlet of humanities weirdness that you open yourself up to.

It starts with a straightforward story and it becomes something much more meta and much more complicated. Sounds like a fun show. I think I figured out how to. I’ve dropped my energy a little bit. I’ve stopped shouting, and I think if I talk at this level, I’ll be able to record today and tomorrow.

Let’s do one more. From expats dot cz, your home for comedy news, they caught up with Icelandic comedy star Ari l Jarn. You know him from Pardon My Icelandic Well. Ari is visiting Prague. Ari is known for his razor sharp impressions and deadpan takes on Nordic oddities.

Expats dot Cz was curious, have you been to Prague before? Ari said, yeah, once, about eight years ago. It’s beautiful. Raykovic has almost no old buildings left. We basically demolished everything ourselves after World War Two.

The oldest house where I live is from seventeen ninety in Prague. The pizzeria I went to was from fourteen ninety. It wasn’t even listed as a historical landmark. Who shaped your comedic style? Eddie Murphy was the biggest comic in the Nordic countries.

His specials Delirious and Raw were huge here. They were the first stand up specials most people saw. Later, I discovered Eddie Zard. Now my manager is Eddie’s tour manager. It’s been awesome learning from him.

Good question here. Your material is very eurocentric. Do you think it works outside Europe? Any jokes that didn’t land or? He says, by far.

I’ve heard the biggest reactions from the Nordic countries, especially Denmark and Finland, and also really works on Australia. Australians really get it. The US not so much. I’ve performed there much, but I think American audience is harder to crack. Mostly the Americans who make it to my shows are very Eurocentric.

They’re often the type of say, yeah, we’re from the stats, We’re sorry, We’re sorry. Good question here. You once said translating a material from English felt like a rebirth of the jokes. It’s exciting when you realize the joke, which he thought was completely local, can be made international. It’s a fun challenge because most of my material is so intertwined with Icelandic phrasing.

When I speak English, I tend to be less precise, more of an impression of an English speaker, which can lead to strange errors. Sometimes you don’t notice them, but doing it on the fly is a mind bending challenge. It’s almost like being an AI translator. And he shares that he’s fluent in English, semi fluent in Danish, and can also make himself understood in French, German, and Spanish and of course Icelandic. I assume he says, that’s five, but I’m counting six, assuming the Icelandic one.

That’s your comedy news for today. Oh boy, I gotta find a voice for Monday’s episode. Come back tomorrow you’ll see what happens.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna jump right in today. I’ve got a guest in the first half. Then we’ll take the break, and then i’ll tell you a couple things on the comedy front.

Andy Woodhole has a new album. It is called Beach Breen. It is his seventh comedy album. And here’s my conversation with Andy. I was checking out your podcast and I loved that you went all inside baseball on the recording of the album.

You told a great story about working in crowd laughter. I’ll lead you, but I’d love for you to tell that story to my audience because I’m increasingly suspect of what I hear as laughs in Netflix specials. I’ve got an ear for it. Short story on me. I programmed serious XM comedy for ten years, so I sat at a desk listening to comedy.

Rou Oh yeah, well, hey, thanks for playing me all those times. I’ll come back and we’ll talk about that a second. So for you know, ten years, I’m sitting there all day listening to the stuff, so I kind of know how audiences react, and I will hear stuff on some of these Netflix specials, and I’m like, no, no, no, no, So could you just tell the anecdote that I’m sharing from your podcast. Well, what I think you’re talking about is I did a recording called Live from Elkhart, which you can find, and I only had one shot at it. Sometimes you have multiple shots, so if you don’t get a joke right, you can pull it from the next set, but this one I had one shot at it, So any mistakes I did, I would just say, hey, I’m made a mistake.

I have to do that joke over. I hope you guys don’t mind.

And then so I flubbed this joke.

You know, I said a wrong word here, a wrong word there, left something out, and then I did it right, and the audience clapped like I had just finished playing Freeberg or something. It was an insane reaction.

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And then when we went to the editing, it doesn’t mean any sense that this jok…

That was a moment where I said, you have to take some of this laughing and clapping away because it seems fake. It doesn’t make sense. Are you running into clapter with audiences? I feel like that’s something that’s crept into the last ten years. There was one I don’t want to throw anybody on a bus, but I was watching one comedian who is fantastic and he did this whole chunk and the audience clapped, and I’m like, I don’t I don’t think that’s what you’re supposed.

To do there, folks. No, I don’t get a lot of it because I don’t think that I am writing that type of joke. And if there’s anyone that doesn’t know what you mean by clapter, it’s when a comedian will say something that the audience agrees with and they will clap. It’s more right then it’s funny, and it’s you know, it engages audiences, and I don’t know, I suppose has its place, but that’s not what I attempt to deal in. What made you decide to go within audio album?

I appreciate it, you know, in the year of the Netflix special, the YouTube special, and I still program comedy radio for Live one, it is great to have, you know, an old fashioned album. Sure, sure, well it’s not that. Let me give the most smart sounding decision. I guess, rather than everyone is putting out specials. There’s all these specials that look amazing, they’re highly produced, there’s million dollar budgets.

I am still basically a one man operation. Even though I did do this one with a comedy record label called Blonde Medicine, that are fantastic and they’re putting out great comics and you should check them out and listen to everyone whose album they produce. But a million dollar production buzz it wasn’t in the cards for me. So I thought to set my apart. I do something different.

I do the audio album, which is how people have been finding my comedy for the whole time I’ve been doing comedy is through things like Serious and Pandora and Spotify, And as far as the video, it’ll just be on YouTube and it’ll just be a straight shots of camera. It’s I didn’t want to go halfway, you know. I could have spent a lot of my own money and I had a higher production value, but it wouldn’t look as good as a Netflix special, and so I decided it is what it is. This is a side of the club, and if you want to see me doing it, you can see me doing it on YouTube, but otherwise it’s it’s audio. It’s so interesting to me that you say that as a comedian, because one of the things where you’ve been struggling with in podcasting is this whole Hey, you gotta be on YouTube, you gotta make a video podcast.

And I’ve struggled with it. Yeah, because for my audience who were watching this on YouTube, this is what the show looks like. This is what me recording the podcast looks like. It’s not very interesting. I’m fifty five years old.

I self describe him somewhere between Troll and George Clooney. You can pick, but you know, I’m not a sexy, hot chick in her twenties where everybody’s gon be like, oh, let me just randomly click on this thumbnail. It’s a guy with a dumb backdrop and doing comedy headlines. So you know, I love that. I don’t.

I don’t love, but I appreciate that you’re going through the same kind of struggle of I can’t keep it with a Netflix budget, like I explain, and I also teach a college class. If I’m Andrew Schultz and I have a big time politician, and I’ve got a couch set up and a three camera shoot and proper lighting and a PR team. Yeah, or videos awesome, but a guy in his basement it’s really hard. Sure. Yeah, low production as well.

YouTube was supposed to be. That’s what I think it was for a while. What it was supposed to be, and now it’s it’s great and those things are great, but now it’s no longer as much do it yourself unless you want to just watch someone’s AI edited video, which I I don’t. Yeah. Yeah.

For the album Beach Breen, I was intrigued by the cover. I’m a Beach Boys fan, and there’s definitely whoever put it together, and maybe you, hopefully you, because it’ll make a more interesting conversation. Definitely went for that nineteen sixties album cover Vibe. The fonts are right, the colors are right. Where the where did the album cover come from?

Well, I’ll take partial credit for the album cover. A lot of the credit goes towards the good folks over there at Blonde Medicine, because this is the seventh time I’ve put out an album and I have never had a photo of myself on the cover because I always felt like when the guy is on the cover of the comedy album. You know, he’s making a face. Like I hate that. Oh my god.

Yes, I didn’t know. You know, I never quite felt like what my face on a cover. So everyone I’ve done up until now has been an illustration, and I wanted to do an illustration again, and people at Blonde Medicine kind of pushed back a little bit, and they said, we think you’ve never had your face on the cover of an album. I think it’s time to put your face on the cover of an album, especially because things I’ve done in the past that have been really popular. I look much younger, I don’t have a beard.

You know, people have a hard time even recognizing me from my own self from ten years ago. So they convinced me to do that. So there was a photo shoot, which was uncomfortable because it’s in public. It’s not like you’re in a studio. Because I wanted to do it at the beach, so people are taking photos and I actually ran into this guy that I was just like a guy I casually say hi to walking my dog at the beach, and he saw the whole photo shoot and then asked me about it.

It was incredibly embarrassing and yeah, I don’t know. I had the idea to set on the beach. I wore the outfit because it’s an outfit my wife bought for me. I agree that I think it has a cool like beach boys vibe, But I can’t take credit for the outfit. That’s I just could rested by the woman that loves me at the time in my life, and I’m great with it.

I like living that life, and so she gets the credit for the outfit. They get the credit for deciding to do a photo shoot, and I believe they also have a graphic designer in house that did the final design. But the photo on the beach with the beach stuff was was my idea? Is that Santa Monica? It is Santa Monica.

Yeah, so you just. Walk out over there to a photo shooting, go. Yeah, that’s exactly what it was. I walked from our apartment to the beach. I did a photo shoot in public, like I’m an Instagram model, and I was spotted by an acquaintance and it was incredibly embarrassing.

And yeah, anyone that’s had to get their photo taken just knows it’s a little embarrassing to have, you know your photography, giant camera, they’re inches away from your face. They always seem way closer than they need to be, and it’s embarrassing in a studio. So I did mine publicly. The thing that caught my eye, and you can make fun of me in the schoolyard, and I know you agree to do this interview so that we could talk about the cover for twenty minutes. It is the Igloo cooler and I have one of those in red, but mine is from nineteen seventy six, and I know that because there’s a bi centennial sticker on it that either my mom or I put on in seventy six.

And as I was just thinking about this interview, I’m like, I’m hitting the beach with a forty nine year old cooler. But it works. Yeah, it’s a great cooler. I think my wife and I liked it because of that kind of retro design and Easter egg on the album cover. That cooler is the first thing we ever bought together as a couple.

We pitched in I think twenty dollars each and bought that forty dollars cooler. And if you zoom in tight, there’s a sticker of my older specials on the cooler. Oh nice, and you’re going to have. Century sings there? Yeah, I hope, so, I hope.

So. So you talked about the royalties from digital play, which is a nice thing. I’ll tell you a story is so, when I first started It’s serious, the initial reaction from the comedians was you’re stealing my material. Da da da da, And then people realized they were selling tickets off it. But then I was backstage with Ron White, who found out what I did for a living, and he was very happy to meet me because he had gotten a nice significant check with I think at least five zeros in it.

So that guy rid of a whole like you’re a stealing armt. Well that was because we had blue collar radios that we were playing every fifteen minutes. But you know that that money’s nice there. I wish more people would put out audio. Uh huh, yeah, well I think do people not always put out audio as well as video?

I would think that every Netflix special has an audio version? Is that not correct? So then the Netflix thing is one of my pet peeves that again on the Soapbox, I personally wish Grammys would go to audio things and not Netflix specials. I think we oh yeah, Emmys for a Netflix special. So what Netflix will often do is they’ll take something like Chappelle and they’ll put it on vinyl and they’ll sell it in the cool record store in Portland, and there’s one hundred copies of it.

But technically it’s an album. But you know something, if you wanted to get you know, Dave Chappelle’s most recent special on a CD to drive around in your car. That’s not a thing anymore. I don’t know if you can get anyone. I mean even this one that I made that’s audio only.

I don’t think you can get a CD anyway. Oh he lives along. I don’t know. I I don’t have a CD player in the car or the computer. I’ve probably got one in the back somewhere.

But I sold CDs for a little bit longer than I should have, probably because the reason I stopped selling it because this is an easy thing to sell. After the show CD and the amount of people that just want to tell me they didn’t have a CD player got to an amount where I decided to stop selling that. You don’t want to embarrass yourself and be like, hey, I’ll scan a QR code and it’ll download. Yeah, And then I did that for a little while. I did that.

I did do that for a while, and it wasn’t that it was embarrassing. I felt that I wasn’t giving people something. You know, it was like a paper and then I had like higher quality kind of plastic ones, but I still felt like, you know, if someone wants to buy something after a show, they want something, and the QR code, although it gets you to the album, and it works, and that’s how people do things because things like Spotify and Pandora and serious are so popular and those albums are available for free, especially you know, the streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music where you can click and listen to it straight through whenever you want. I think you just weren’t getting something when you did the QR codes, and I was sad to see the CDs go because now I have to lug around bags of T shirts to show after shows. And so.

You talked about your look changing over the years. Sometimes when I’m on the back end of stuff, I’ll pull up a Naperghetti album and I’m so used to him with the salt and pepper hair that when I see the younger version of him on an album cover. I’m like, oh, yeah, that’s what you look like. I mean, we all get older. You did one of his Nateland showcases.

How is he? How was that? How’s it working with that crew? They’re really Yeah, they’re very cool. I think they’re doing a neat thing in comedy because comedy has transitioned to this online model, you know.

I mean still like Netflix and Hulu now and other streaming services will be putting out specials and that’s great and people are finding comedy like that. But comedy used to be on Comedy Central and on late night TV spots, and that’s where you would find new comedians. And Comedy Central used to always have a show that would showcase people you haven’t heard of. I think there was Premium Blend, and then the one I did was called Live at Gotham, and I think there was one after that, like Adam Devine’s House Party or something like that, and it was this cool place where you could see a little taste of someone you’ve never seen before, and that person didn’t have to already have a million followers to be in that position, and that has gone away. The TV has gone away from that, and so I think the coolest thing that Bargatsy is doing is through his own record label, production company whatever, he has recreated that show where he’s introducing the world to comedians that are funny and otherwise don’t have a platform other than you know, the platform that we all have, or we can put things on our own.

But I think it’s cool that he kind of picked up that ball, that premium blend Lavigotham ball and is rolling with it. And that’s what Nyland it is, and of course it’s a Bargatsi products, so everything is squeaky clean over there too, if that’s what you’re into. And I think that makes a lot of sense. I’m no prude. I like my share of the swear words.

But I remember the first time I met Foxworthy and this is we’re putting together blue Collar Radio, and he was explaining to me. He said, I used to you know, work the same way as everybody else. And he held his hands like this kind of close together, and he said, and then I stopped cursing, and I picked up the kids and the grandmothers and he stretched his arms and that was his whole mindset. You know. I think the the art of working clean is if you don’t notice it, you’ve nailed it.

I totally agree. I don’t. I mean, I have been clean for several years now as far as my stand up, and I don’t necessarily like advertising the shows as clean shows because I think that comes with kind of a stigma of boring. If you tell me, do you want to watch this clean comedian? I don’t, but I will watch someone like Ryan Hamilton who is clean, and then you don’t.

It doesn’t even hate you tell somebody brings it up. Oh yeah, he didn’t curse. Oh yeah, And that’s what I hope people are saying after they listen to this new album or the last couple albums that I’ve made. And I think there’s an effect too if you were mostly clean and a well placed swear word, that can really just you know, punch a joke for affect, you know. Yeah, yeah, I totally agree with that too.

It really uh yeah, it’s fun to have one curse in the set. Yeah, nobody’s mad about one curse. You can curse once and people won’t say that it was filthy. I like your podcast. It’s nice and easy on the ears.

It appears to be an actual backyard and not a set because. You guys are cold, it is and we are cold. Sometimes it is. It’s Tommy Johnigan’s backyard and it’s comedians hanging out. We each bring different topics.

We have some recurring segments and honestly, my favorite thing is those are two of my best friends, Tommy and Alex Stone, and doing the podcast gives us a reason that we have to get together at least once a week, and it’s pretty great. Is everybody good about holding to the schedule, because that’s one of the pains of doing a podcast with somebody else, you know, Oh, I’m not around well. You know for sure? Yeah, for sure. There’ll be times when people are busy and we’ll have people fill in, or just two of us will do it when we can.

But I would say for the most part, we’re able to always get together and we usually record on Sunday or Monday, and we usually don’t decide until sometimes Sunday afternoon when it’s gonna. Be About two weeks ago, you did that Rhode Island, that Rhode Island Festival Roady I think it was called. Oh yeah, Little Roady Comedy Festival. There that looked like it was awesome. How was that?

It was very cool? You know, they put together such a cool, very cool festival, and it was great for the comics. My only regret is that I could go for the whole thing. I was just kind of in and out. I was only able to make it on the day for my show and then I left the next day.

But yeah, they put together amazing an amazing thing, and it is just so fun to be involved in something with people that care about comedy and love comedy, because you know I do. I love I love stand up. I love doing stand up. I feel so lucky to get to be doing stand up. And sometimes you do a show and it’s all about how many tickets did you sell?

What was it that? Why? Bye bye? I don’t know who even knows what I’m saying. And these people just genuinely love stand up and you can tell that by how they put the shows together and how they treated the comedians.

At a festival where we have more time, do you go see other people’s shows or is it more about hanging with the. Yeah, for sure, I are to do yeah, yeah, because somebody, you know, we’ve been doing comedy for a long time, so uh, you know, any given festival, you’re gonna know some people, be friends with some people. There’s gonna be some people that you will become friends with if you have a chance to hang out with them. And there’s usually hangs after the shows or like events during the day, and plenty of time for people to get together that are often on the road, and you know, just ships passing in the night. I guess you know you’ll see You’ll be at a club and you look at the poster like, oh, this month, they’re having three people that I love.

I wish that I could say hi to them, But you’re just not at the same place at the same time. You know, everybody’s got their favorite work friends, and when you’re a comedian, they’re usually spread across the entire country on any given night. So when you have a chance for people to be in the same place, it’s it is special. It’s very fun. How are you feeding the beast these days on social media and up burning material?

Are you doing crowd work or how you handling that nightmare? I will do. I mean, I do crowd work in my act, but it is not set. It is not like and now I’m getting my crowd work clip. I have.

You know, it’s organic. And I don’t always take the sets I wish that I did, because I often will have a moment where I think, oh my god, that was the most amazing moment. That would be such a good clip, but I didn’t record it, and then I have to convince myself that is my integrity of the art form that leads me to not record everything and to let some things live in the only place that they will ever be seen at that show, in that moment. It’s integrity. It’s not laziness.

That’s how I feel about it. And I don’t worry about burning material, not even a little bit, not even not even a little bit. I have this new special beach Brain. I’m going to put a clip of every joke that’s on it on the internet, on real, on TikTok. Every single part of it will be a clip.

At some point. I think I’ll probably repost them. It’s a numbers game. I think I’m not the first person to have this point of view. I don’t think, but I think Louis c.

K years and years ago, invented the I have to throw out this hour. I’m doing a new hour, and I think it makes sense if you are that level of famous where when you put something online, twenty million people see it. But for me, for a lot of people that are forcing themselves and making a big deal of not burning material, I think you can put jokes on the internet. Whoever sees it is going to see it, and then if they come to the show and they see you do the joke, I don’t think anyone’s going to be furious and demand their money back. In fact, more often than people telling me I already heard that joke on the internet, which has been never will complain that I didn’t do their favorite joke that they saw on the internet.

Are you running into helpful audience members who want to be the crowd work? And no, I’m not, no more than no more than before you know. I mean there’s always a rowdy audience member from time to time, and as far as yeah, I know you’re talking about, like some comedians are saying, these crowd work people are ruining comedy audiences because now comedy audiences want to be a part of the show and are trying to be a part of the show. And that’s that’s something I haven’t found to be drue. I think people still genuinely do not really want to be talked to during the show.

They want to hear jokes and laugh. It’s the reason why it’s hardest to see the front row at every comedy club because they don’t want to be talked to. There was just a big thing in the UK and a theater a pretty big comedian had to throw out two people from the same show because they would not interrupting and he had to full stop and get security. I mean, it’s it’s got to be hard to get the room back after that. Yes, yes, that would be.

I mean. The one thing that is good is that in the situations I’ve been in where people had to be kicked out, they were such a disturbance that by the time they do kick them out. The thing that’s not hard about recovering is people are happy because I’m if any if someone’s getting kicked out of my show, it’s not because they pissed me off and I’m like, get this person out of here. If someone is kicked out of my show, they are being such a disruption to the other people that paid the venue, is like, we need to remove these people or else. Twenty people are going to complain so often when someone is escorted out, there will be a huge round of applause and the comedian will be like, hey, aren’t you glad those jerks are gone?

And the show rolls up on. What’s coming up for you in the next couple months? What can we look forward to? Well, I am on the road for forever. I got lots of shows coming up.

You can see them all at andy Woodhall dot com. Please watch the new special Beach Brand on YouTube or listen to it wherever you want. The difference between I should say this is the difference between the YouTube version and the difference between the audio version, is the audio version is edited because things need to lead live and make sense as single jokes. If that If that makes sense. Sure, So when you edit a special together, I take any crowd work that happened out for the audio version, I take out mistakes, I take out this and that little things, and I thought a fun way to do the YouTube which would maybe hopefully set this apart from other people posting on YouTube is I don’t take any of that stuff out.

So it’s like seven minutes difference in time the audio version and the YouTube version of mistakes and references and crowd work and natural, organic moments that only happen when you see live comedy. That’s on the YouTube thing that’s not in the album version, because you know you programmed Serious, there’s not going to be a track of guy drops his glass. That’s a waste, you know, for no one that anyone that wasn’t there. That’s not additive to the show. So also pro tip for all comedians putting out audio albums, make your tracks about four and a half to five minutes long.

Those ninety second tracks, we don’t schedule those. Oh that is great tips that you could be giving out all those things that I have been told, Yeah, four to five minutes. What else? I think comedians listening would love to hear that, because I’ve been lucky enough to have gotten these tips from people like you, or maybe even directly from you through a third person, of what you need to be thinking about when you’re editing stuff together in hopes of getting play on Serious. So, yeah, so you want, as you alluded to, you want each track to be a complete Chunk’s not the right word, you know, I’m saying a complete thought.

So at a beginning and an ending to the individual track, Like I said, the ninety second, they’re too short. Anything over seven is too long. Because you want to keep things moving, having a clean version definitely helps. That was the thing when I first took over programming, the Clean Channel was way harder than the Naughty Channel because there just wasn’t the material and the stuff that was there was you know, lame or God’s Squad comedians that it just didn’t have the coolness factor. So we wound up playing a lot of New Heart and Cosby and you know, then the Cosby Library became something that you know that so if you’ve got a clean version of something, that’s very valuable.

And somebody told me once when I was recording albums, because I’ve always skewed clean, and there will be like one or two just you know, adult jokes on the album, maybe one or two curses, especially in my older albums. And you know, it was somebody in a position like yours that told me, you know, think about doing it all clean and you wouldn’t have to make a big difference because we get like ten to one submissions for the dirty channels versus the clean channels. Was it still about that ratio or is that totally off? I think I wish it were ten to one. I mean, like if you put out a clean alm or Nate puts out a clean Apple, Gaffigan puts out something that’s clean.

He has kind of at least on his album work. He cursed a little more on his early work, but I think the last few have been straight clean. That is just gold. Like you know, a listers, I can immediately schedule that’s exactly what you want. It’s interesting.

Last question for me, who’s out there that might be off the audience’s radar, Funny people that we should know about. Well, I don’t know if they’re off people’s radar or not, but I always well list my friends. Pat McGann is doing great. You can see if you’ve seen Sebastian Maniscalco in the last couple of years, you probably saw Pat McGann opening for him. He’s so funny.

I have a friend Mike Cronin who is very funny that’s opening for me this weekend. Check him out. He’s doing a YouTube series right now about making one lash push to become successful as a comedian, just like one last shot at it, which I think is pretty compelling and I’m jealous. I didn’t think of it, and I think, hands down the funniest comedian that I’ve never seen, not kill that. People maybe don’t know about a guy named Kevin Boseman out of Chicago, and he just is lights out funny.

You gotta see his live show. He never he always kills. He always kills, no matter the situation. And yeah, that’s that’s the guy I always say. You want me to name a comedian you should check out that’s not famous.

Check out Kevin Boseman. Super awesome. Ho’m glad we got to catch up today. Appreciate you coming on. Yeah, thanks for having me, John, and I appreciate it.

Thank you. And I don’t want to ignore the final night of the Moontower Comedy Festival. If I counted correctly, they have thirty nine shows on their website. I won’t mention them all. We’ll talk about headliners and some of the catch my eye.

Zarni Gark four o’clock show at the Paramount Theater. That might even be too early for me. I mean, I like to go to bed early, but would be done at five thirty. Big Jay Okerson special screening at the State Theater, also at four o’clock today. What is this clicks on link to read.

I assume this is a special screening of his upcoming crowd work special Them They, because that’s what the cover art says, and apparently Them They is out tomorrow on YouTube. You learn something new every day. Industry types might like the panel who books that at five pm. You’re invited to join us for a panel tailor to address the burning questions comedians often Pounder, We’ve assembled a dream team of industry experts. It does not tell us who these industry experts are.

John Kablakani’s back at five point fifteen, James Austin Johnson at the State Theater. At seven, David Nihill listed as a headliner. Shelf Help Thompson Theater at seven the Moon Tower, all stars are Saheb Singh, Austin Nassa and Amy Miller. At seven o’clock at cap City, A friend of the show, John Marco seven to fifteen, Creak in the Cave, Big Jay working today. At eight fifteen he’s at Vulcan doing and evening of crowd work.

Pete Holmes, He’s fantastic. If you’ve never seen Pete goc Pete live, there’s an opportunity if you can make it to Austin by nine thirty pm. He’s at the Paramount Theater doing the PG thirteen tour. Janine Garofolo haven’t seen her do comedy in a long time, stand up comedy. That is nine thirty at the Thompson Theater.

That’s pretty cool. And a bunch of other shows to round out the festival.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, I’m Johnny Mack. You’re with your Daily Comedy News if you’re in Minneapolis today. Sam Morrill is at the Pantagious Theater two nights the Minnesota Daily. He was curious, Hey Sam, what’s new about this new set?

And Sam said, well, the jokes are new. I have a lot of good new jokes. You don’t try and add to it every day. That’s kind of how I tour. I have the bass, and then you kind of add to it.

It’s like making a big pot of chili. Dis keep adding one thing.

All right, here’s one thing, there’s another thing, and by the end, hopefully…

They asked Sam about his whiskey company. I think to be a comedian in twenty twenty five, I’m pretty sure you have to own a whiskey company. I don’t know who put that law in to effect, but they all have one, including Sam and then Minnesota Daily. He was curious, Hey Sam, what makes a good whiskey? Sam said, well, you want it to be smooth.

I want a good whiskey that stands on its own, like if you drink it neat. It’s also great for cocktails. So I always like Manhattan’s with as opposed to bourbon. I just thought it was kind of a better match. Yeah, I’m a big fan of whiskey with a second liquor.

I like the old fashioned cocktail like in Manhattan Fro. I’m doing like maybe a martiniz and a groaning. I kind of like the old time he drinks. I think the classic for a reason. New topic, Sam, were you surprised you weren’t in Joker too?

Sam said, you know what, I was just grateful to be in the first one. I think Todd Phillips is a really cool guy, and he was really nice to meet always. And I mean the fact that I kept my name in the first one made no sense. It was just Todd being cool. One more time for Sam Morrell.

I think it’s hilarious that I exist in the DC universe. It is got it cool. Rolling Stone did a lifey and very good interview with Jimmy Kimmel. I shared this in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join us.

One thing we learn is that Jimmy Kimmel has a cardboard box full of worn ties that David Letterman sent him when Letterman retired, Kimmell said, I wore one, but they’re so long Rolling Stone. I hate to do this, but let’s start with Trump. Kim ol Donald Trump, who’s that? Yeah, it used to be when you think of me, you think of Guillermo or Matt Damon not getting on the show. Now it’s Trump.

I think most comedians have a strong sense of justice, and he violates that so frequently. I know we should be hard into it by now, but I’m not, and it’s shocking to me. He seems like the kind of character that would flame out after a few years, but the fact that he’s still with us is remarkable. A year ago, I would have said, I’m hoping to show people who aren’t paying attention to the news what’s actually going on and hoping to change things that way. Obviously that didn’t have enough impact before the elections, and now I see myself more as a place to scream Rolling Stone.

From a comedy point of view, there’s some advantages, right Kimmel. You don’t have to set the joke up because everybody knows everything about him, so you go right to the punchline. The problem is he’s somebody that a lot of people don’t like they don’t want to hear his name, but there’s always material. Some days he gives you so much that you’re throwing things away. That would have been the biggest event of the entire Bush presidency.

I try not to get too deep in the weeds after remind myself this is not an expose, it’s a comedy show. They were curious when Kimmel realized that Trump was for real. Kimill said, it was twenty sixteen. I had Hillary Clinton on. I said to Hillary during commercial breako Trump gets a nomination, I think it’d be a slam dunk for you, and she said, be careful what you wish for.

Maybe I’ll pick at this a little bit more tomorrow. I don’t want to get over political on the podcast there, but I did share in the Facebook group if you want to read this all right. Late Nighter had the final Late Night ratings for quarter one twenty twenty five. The Secret Giant Monster is Greg Gutfeld highest ratings ever, up fourteen percent, up nine percent in the eighteen to forty nine demo compared to Q four twenty twenty four. At eleven thirty five, Colbert is number one Kimmel is second in total viewers.

Fallon edged out Kimmel in the demo. All three shows saw decreases of minus seven and minus eight percent among total viewers. Fallin down minus fourteen, Colbert down seventeen, Kimmel down twenty four percent. Wow. Late Nighter says at twelve thirty, Seth, which I’ve never met anyone who watches that show, and I’m not doing the bobs Berger’s bit here.

I’ve really never met anyone who’s seen Seth Meyers show. But apparently it was number one in twelve thirty Nightline and Taylor Thomlins’ is now wrapping up show split second place. Nightline had more total viewers, Taylor had more viewers in the demo. The Daily Show and Q one down one percent. Total numbers shared here by Late Nighter.

Guttfeld does a seven point four to five share, averages three point six million viewers well at eleven thirty, Colbar with almost two point four million, Kimmel one point eight, Fallin one point two at twelve thirty, and it’s actually twelve thirty seven. Now they’ve let that creep that far, while Seth Meyers nine hundred and thirty eight, thousand people and Taylor Tomlinson’s After Midnight six hundred and forty seven thousand people. We may be getting closer and closer to the end of the late night era. We’ll see what happens when these folks step down the Tonight show in third place. I mean, that’s just stunning, right.

Brad Williams is in San Antonio tonight and he caught up with my san Antonio. Brad’s at the Majestic Theater. If you want to drop by. My san Antonio was curious, Hey, Texas et cetera, c eating Mexican food. Brad said, bro, this is the thing.

I tore a lot, and I’m married, so I’m not out there chasing tail. I’m out there chasing good meals. I’m chasing good food. But when I’m a place in Indiana, somebody would be like, Hey, we got this Mexican joint that’s really great, and I’m like, don’t even bring that to me. What are you talking about.

It’s like, if I’m out in the middle of the country, I’m not gonna get seafood. And I don’t mind tex mex either, put Queso on everything. My san Antonio said, you’re coming here a week too early. Fiesta starts a week later. Brad said, Oh, then I’m coming at the exact right time.

I’m aware of what my status is in life and or i am in terms of the priority to buy tickets. I’m always honored that anyone comes to see me. I’m gonna give you guys an amazing show, but I’m not trying to compete with Fiesta. I’m a dwarf tilling jokes. During Fiesta, You’re gonna have a lot of Mexicans who are not that much taller than me doing cool stuff.

It’d be like having a gig on the same night as the Lakers, whereas Kobe and Shaq playing a playoff game be in the audience. Brad says, I choose to be a political during my show. You could probably figure out my politics, but I want comedy to be that place where everyone can come together and laugh. For me, the sign of a truly great joke is when you tell a joke to somebody who disagrees with it and they still laugh and they still see the absurdity. Good question from myceanatnari here.

So when you say that you can empathize with trans people because you too, are part of a marginalized group. In case you’re unfamiliar with Brad or haven’t caught from the contextclues yet, he is a little person. Are you worried you might lose some of your audience because that subtle opinion can turn certain people away, Brad said, I know. The exact joke you’re talking about was in my last comedy special, Starfish. The joke was about the butt like controversy.

When I told it, I got a laugh from the audience, but I didn’t like where the laugh was coming from. It was like punching down. As a dwarf, you don’t really want to punch down, so I rewrote the joke. That’s the beautiful part of being in comedy. You have friends of every type of gender, sexual orientation, race, and religion who will tell me where the sweet spot is for a joke.

As a dwarf, I’ve been the butt of a lot of jokes, but I’m fine with them as long as they’re funny and as long as they’re creative. MSN caught up on a Vice Instagram clip that is doing well with the Indian American community. In it, Nimesh says, who even asked us to come here. Indians didn’t just show up in the seventies and eighties. Now, We’ve been around for over a century, since the eighteen hundreds.

To be precise, we were looking for Christopher Columbus. We heard he was looking for us. Are you in Miami? Go see Ti. He’s performing some comedy tonight at the Miami Improv Comedy Theater.

Ti says, it’s a freedom. It’s therapeutic in my music. I’m serious because it comes from a very serious part of my life. And that’s probably the scape that I get in comedy because their things are so serious and heavy in the music, and now I can get out until a whole other side of the same experiences. TI is working on a venture called in the Trap, which will feature up and coming acts similar to Comic Viewer def Comedy Jamti says, if you’re not making it to a Netflix special, there’s no really other place for comics to be seen at the Moontai or a comedy festival in Austin.

On the website listing, if I counted correctly, thirty four shows, I won’t reach all thirty four, but let’s just see what’s going on. Industry Showcase at the Creek in the cave at six o’clock. That’s the kind of thing I like to attend because that’ll give you a sense for who’s next. That John goblecon guy is back. He’s got these Sclar Brothers at six o’clock.

Whoh hanging with Doctor Z at the hideout at seven o’clock. You know about this. Dana Gould plays legally distinct Doctor Zais from Planet of the Apes. The official description eccentric nineteen seventies era talk show host Doctor Z played by Dana Gould interviews current celebrity guests as themselves, but set in a golden age of talk shows. Check that out on YouTube.

There’s several of those. That’s just fun. Nice Gimmick seven forty five at Vulcan, Big Jay Okerson, An evening of crowd work eight o’clock at Sunset, strip tag it. The lineup includes Sclar Brothers, not not writing the Sclar Brothers. It’s just Sclar Brothers.

Is that how they actually go? And I’ve worked with these guys and they’re cool, but I always refer to them as the Sclar Brothers. Yeah, their website says the Sclar Brothers.

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That’s speakeasy. Those are always good to go in at Antone’s at eleve o’clock Nightly Party, the Friday night Party at One More Day. And we’ll talk about that tomorrow on Hulu. Now they try to hide it from me, Hulu publicists. You could ignore me all you want, but I’m still gonna uncover your comedy specials Hulu today as Morgan Jay’s special Morgan Jay Live at the Village.

Morgan is having a big day, also doing two headline performances at the Wiltern in La today. Now this isn’t hilarious. This one apparently came to Hulu as part of a licensing deal, and the special has originally aired on YouTube. In twenty twenty three, Keith David talked about the Community movie he played Elroy in the final Underrated Season. Now, while this movie ever come out, I think it will.

And I say that because I lived long enough to see the Second Avenue subway built in New York City that seemed like a thing that was never going to happen. I lived long enough that they actually made more Star Wars movies. So I believe in the Community movie. Now. I might be eighty four years old when it comes out.

But Keith David said that he’s in quoting Keith just to show how rumor spread and lies. I never said anything like that when I asked whether to return a community. Of course, when asked, I will, and I’ve been told, you know, I will be invited to the party. However, it hasn’t fruitioned yet, and of course I would be there. It has not yet come up.

When it has come up, as I understand it, it could be a matter of schedules. There’s a lot of people to juggle around. It’s been a few years since we’ve done it. Seen I We’ll see. But let me dispel any rumor that I would not do it.

Of course I would. And The Daily Mail wrote about Benny Hill. If you are of a certain age, you remember Benny Hill fondly here in New York City. It aired on Channel nine, and those of us of a certain age watched it five days a week back in nineteen seventy one, Benny Hill was getting twenty one one million viewers and it was awarded the ITV Personality of the Year. But times change and now we look at Benny Hill and we’re like, hey, that’s racist and sexist and risque and vulgar, and we could never ever possibly make the Benny Hill Show today, even though I was nine years old and watching it, and I think I came out fine.

Apparently, over in the UK they did a TV special which weighed in on the question is it time to bring Benny Hill out of the comedy cold or should he stay canceled. Some gen Zers were shown a sketch which plays Benny Hill playing a talk show host speaking to a priest whose fly is undone. The talk show host tries to move a table with a vase of flowers to hide the priest wardrobe malfunction. One gen Zer said that was funny, and I think it was trying to cover it up with flower pad that was funny as well, just the awkwardness of it all. However, another clip, which showed a male office worker watching a young female colleague wearing a short skirt suspenders bending down open a drawer, was less popular at the beginning of the sketch, the mail worker is counting letters.

He’s up to number two thy forty four. However, after he’s distracted by his lecherous gazing at the secretary, he realizes he’s lost count has to start again. One of the gen zers said, the fact that that was on TV in prime time is insane. Another gen zer said, if that came up while you were watching TV with the family, it would definitely be weird. No, wouldn’t, really wouldn’t.

Journalist Nina Mascou said of the sketch, so this is purely a male fantasy of what a secretary is. Subservient, bent over when required, just so sleezy, just so sleazy. However, actress Nina Wadia said, it kind of works in that sketch. It works for me because the punchline is funny. Then they got into a character, Benny did.

The character’s name Chow Maine, and Chow Maine is from China. I do not recall this sketch. One of the gen zers said that wouldn’t fly today. I don’t think. Another said that caught me off guard.

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting that. The third said that act and him squinting his eyes, and that was really bad. One of the jokes chow Main makes is he is speaking, says the word election in a stereotypical accent, so the word comes out as erection. One of the gen zers said, so, the humor with the miscommunication I think was actually quite funny. But that the miscommunication was because of Reese is what made it unfunny.

You can’t have that both ways. Is it funny or not? Let me read that back. So the humor with the miscommunication, I think was actually quite funny. Towards the end of the Benny Hill Show run, they toned down the Hill’s angels.

Those were some attractive women who would appear on the show. Some critics thought that Benny Hill Show had lost its spark. By nineteen eighty four, it was canceled. Benny filmed an American show in nineteen ninety one, titled Benny Hill’s American World Tour, but his health was declining. In February nineteen ninety two, Benny Hill suffered a heart attack and was visited in the hospital by Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson apparently was a huge fan of the Benny Hill Show. Benny Hill was found dead in April of nineteen ninety two, sitting on his couch watching TV. He was sixty eight years old. That track comedy News for Today, See You Tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’m gonna start with a long clip. I usually don’t play a clip this long, but it is far and away the best thing out there today. Kevin Spacey has revived his House of Cards character Frank Underwood.

Why would he do that to promote Tim Dillon’s new comedy special makes a lot of sense to me. Let’s listen, you podcasters think you’ve inherited the kingdom. Hold on, I’m gonna have to call you back. Whispering in ears, swaying elections, spinning the truth like it was cotton candy, when in fact you owe nothing but a bunch of clowns, juggling Bonu pills and hair tonic. Frank Underwood, I thought you were dead.

I’m as dead as John McCain. He is dead. Excuse my ignorance. I meant Hermann k He’s also dead, Dean Kane. To be honest, I don’t know.

Well, it doesn’t matter anyway, because I’m back. And that’s why I need you to go on your little podcast and say this. I don’t do political endorsements. I think you’re going to do exactly as I ask, mister Dylan door dash orders made from inside a five stars steakhouse while at a hotel in Milwaukee in twenty twenty three. You called a taco bell just to talk.

And you once paid six thousand dollars to have a Carville ice cream cake overnighted to a theater in Norway and then returned it for a refund because it wasn’t cookie puss. Jesus Christ, Frank, I’ll read it, but first you gotta plug my comedy special. Oh Jesus, it’s good. I filmed it in Austin. I don’t care if you filmed it on Mars with Elon Musk.

I’m not here to help you. These photos you gave me, I’ve posted them all. I’m on the Internet. We don’t have blackmail, we have content world demons from hell, you son of a bitch. There is no limit to your duplicity, to your panderin, to your shameless and desperate desire to cling to relevance.

You are you are, I’m what my kind of bestard? You have my endorsement, mister Dylan, Well, I appreciate that, Franken. I read ads for Morgan and Morgan Law firm. I’m sure I can endorse the Daily Wires new musical. It’s really good.

Oh, by the way, which network is your comedy special? On Netflix? You found Lonesome, Evil Little Cockroach? But I love it. I made a few minor edits there for language.

I’m mad that I could have had this in yesterday’s show. I had seen Tim Dillon’s tweet, but the text of it was, hey, watch my new special, so I just assumed he shared the trailer. I didn’t click on it, and then I was like, oh, I missed out on this. What a fantastic job. Why Kevin Spacey did that?

I don’t know how Netflix is going to feel about it. I don’t know. And I say that because if you put on Netflix and they promote House of Cards, they never ever, ever, ever, never, never ever never show Kevin Spacey. They act like he wasn’t even on the show. I enjoyed Tim’s special.

It’s a perfectly nice, forty one minutes constant entertainment. At no point am I like, oh my god, this is a great special. Ever, But at no point was I bored either. It moves along for forty one minutes. It’s like Tim strung together a bunch of material he had sort of worked out on his podcast, which is great.

I like his podcast a lot, and it therefore makes my top tier of comedy specials of twenty twenty five. It’s already April seventeenth, and boy, it has not been a good year for comedy specials. Right now. The top tier is number one. Burt Kreischer is Lucky, and if Lucky is the best special of the year, that’s not gonna be a good year.

And then Tim Dillon’s I’m Your Mother is the number two special of the year so far. According to one idiot in his basement recording a podcast, I have in my middle tier Roy Wood, Ri Severe and Gabe Iglesias, and I have nothing else on the list yet. Fourth quarter tends to be when many of the bigger specials come out, so we’ll see. But a really slow start to twenty twenty five anyway. A recommendation from me on Tim dillon I’m Your Mother on Netflix, you should watch it.

OutKick went with this review headline comedian releases must watch offensive comedy special woke losers will hate. That’s a great headline, they point out, Tim Dillon will make fun of absolutely anything, and he’s a great example of what comedy’s supposed to be. Nothing should be off limits. Let’s say offensive jokes and don’t give Wokes a single inch. That’s the mindset that has made him a star.

And then tap the brakes on this next part. And his new special is a masterclass. His new special is fine. His new special is pretty good. It is not a masterclass.

Tap that breaks OutKick he resurrected just for laugh. SI is starting to announce some things. They announced Roast Battle Canada and the Galas have been renewed and will return to the twenty twenty five Just for Last Montreal Comedy Festival this year July sixteenth through the twenty seventh. I think I’m gonna go up there see if I get hassled at the border a little more than I have in the past. Usually they’re like, come on in, we’ll see Rose Battle Canada judges Russell Peters, Sabrina Jayley’s and Kay Trivor Wilson.

That’s a great lineup. The series brings together Canada’s edgiest comics for a showdown. The Galas will return. No names announced yet. We got a little information about the Roast of wrestle Mania, which is taking place Sunday.

Tony Hinchcliff part of that. Not many details known and it is not going to be televised supposedly, but they did announce Gabriel Iglesias is now part of the roast of WrestleMania. Let’s stop off at gossip Corner. THEO Vaughn was in Tuscaloosa. He was spotted at the Waysider restaurant.

The restaurant post that on Facebook Theovann at the Waysider. Y’all can check them out at the Amphitheater this weekend. Now this weekend is last weekend. THEO posted a photo of himself and several University of Alabama football players on Theo’s Instagram with a caption, thank you, Tuscaloosa. Jimmy Carr, one of my faves, is going to host Am I the a Hole, the game show based on that famous subreddit.

This will air on Comedy Central UK. But you know, some of us have our ways. I have a really really fast plane that allows me to watch British television and then I’m home two minutes later. Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean. Jimmy Carr’s AM I the a Hole invite members of the public to come before the host and a panel of two other comedians to ask controversial questions.

The series will be filmed late this spring will air later this year on Comedy Central UK. Jimmy Carr said, there’s an impressive number of a holes in our country and they’re finally getting the recognition they deserve on national television. Amy Lee Would has continued to speak about the SNL sketch that she didn’t enjoy. Hey, Amy, stop talk talking about and it’ll go away. We would have forgotten about this by Sunday afternoon if he didn’t keep talking about it.

You may recall she thought that the White Potests sketch was mean and unfunny because of Sarah Sherman’s interpretation of her character. According to Wood, Sarah Sherman has sent her flowers. Wood wrote on Instagram, thank you for the beautiful flowers and tagged Sarah Sherman and added the holding back tears emoji. However, TMZ is reporting SNL did not reach out to Amy with a formal apology. TMZ writes we’re told Amy may have spoken to someone she knows on the show, Perhaps Sarah Sherman, and they may have apologized, but no such apology came down from SNL in any official or formal capacity.

Sources tell TMZ that SNL wouldn’t feel compelled to apologize to Amy because the show makes fun of everyone’s appearance, for example, Donald Trump’s waste in the same sketch. Variety reporting that Seth Rogan had made a crack about Donald Trump during the Science Honoring break Through Prizes back on April fifth, but if you didn’t watch the live stream, they’ve now clipped out some of the material. The organization’s full upload of the ceremony and other official clips of Rogan’s appearance alongside Edward Norton have been edited to exclude a quip about attendees. Rogan had reportedly said in the since cut remark, it’s amazing that others in the room under electing a man who in the last week single handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with three hundred and twenty million dollars and Orfka Junior very fast.

The Breakthrough Prizes have confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that Rogan’s joke was one of several edits to the show. They’re reasoning I was made in order to meet the originally planned runtime. Yeah, because you know, this is the Internet. You know how long today’s podcast is. It’s however long it is.

That’s how the Internet works. Variety comments and on the originally planned runtime excuse and says this seems unlikely as the ceremony would not have had to conform to any broadcasting scheduling requirements as it was not aired on TV networks. Additionally, the standalone clip of Rogan and Norton’s on stage presentation seems unlikely to have had an originally planned run time. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Rommy Yusef has a new television show out today, Happy Family, USA, and an animated series.

You’ll find it on Amazon Prime. It takes place around nine to eleven. Rommie says to bring in the events of the early two thousands felt important in the sense that it’s something we talk about all the time. It’s part of what we’re currently experiencing. It’s never gone away.

And when I think about how long those themes have been directly part of my life and the lots of people that I know. To get to step into a period of time that I don’t think has escaped us in any way, unfortunately, And to do it in a style that’s familiar in terms of trotting on political things that can feel a little difficult and undercuts them and doesn’t make them feel so viatile. To give this kind of family that treatment is exciting, and to go at this through an unexpected and very silly lens. Maybe that’s where the hope feeling comes from. The Times pointed out there’s a title card at the top of every episode that warns that the character should not be taken as representation.

They asked Rami, yusef, why are you so uncomfortable with representation? Rommy said, when we put out Rami on Hulu, I remember seeing a headline that was like Muslims, here’s the show for you, and my heart sinking going no, no, no. We’re two billion people and a lot of them are not gonna like what I’m doing, and they shouldn’t because I’m a guy from New Jersey who thinks this type of thing is funny. Putting the representation warning was a cathartic thing of being like, listen, this is not speaking en mass at all. I know you guys didn’t elect me, and also to be like, hey, I agree with you.

This is not a slice of what it’s like for everybody. Good couplet of questions here from the time so they asked Rommi, does it feel like tinder comedy is harder to get made than caustic comedy? Good answer here. Bad news spreads faster than good news. No one’s like, hey, we recycled a lot.

It’s not really headline. Talk to any Netflix executive. Any Netflix execs secretly will be like, hey, can you throw a murder into your show? Can you throw some sexual assault in? But also people used to get together, watch public hangings.

We’re sick times caught up? Is that really a thing someone said to you? Can you throw a murder in there? Rommi said they’re not explicitly asking, but they would never moump. The Guardian also spoke with Rommy, who has a theory, the more effed up the climate, the stupid or television must be.

You need something dumb to cut through the tension for relief. The Guardian piece points out that Happy Family USA is a prime video production. Amazon donated a million dollars to the Trump Inauguration Fund. Does Robbie believe this show would be greenlit today. He says, this feels like a glitch.

Honestly, if I walked in pitch this today, they’d say, no, what are you talking about? They’d literally say, what the hell are you thinking? Would be told it’s too polarizing for now. Happy Family USA Prime Video. It is a big day at the moonte Er Comedy Festival, so I better get to it.

There are thirty one different shows listen on the website. I’m not going to go through all of them. At five o’clock The Goblin Happy Hour with John goblecan I recently mentioned I had never heard of this until I don’t know whenever I mentioned it on the show three four days ago last week. John GOBLECN is a beloved Internet sensation metal band frontman, insurance salesman, published author, and podcast host. As the lead singer of the band Necro goble Con, John has starred in several viral music videos, leading to sold out tours across North America, Europe and Australia.

Is philosophy be less mean, be more green, don’t be a troll, be a Goblin? All right? This seems like fun. Maybe I’m just late to this, and the rest of you were like, how do you not know what? John goble con is, I didn’t know, sorry, Friend of the show, John Marco SIRESI is doing his podcast.

At six o’clock. Let’s go on. Cotska at the Paramount at seven. She is fantastic, one of my faves. Maria Bamford at the Thompson Theater at seven.

A show at seven thirty called the Texans. I’m gonna guess what this is about, and I like the premise. If I’m correct, there’s no description. I’m going to guess it’s several comedians from Texas. Somebody could have written a paragraph.

Eight o’clock at Sunset strip Redband’s Secret Show with Brian Redband stars in Bars at an Tunes at nine Almetrical Data, Gould, Todd Berry among the line up there. That’s a good show. Nine forty five, what’s your effing deal? At the Vulcan Gas Company? Big Jay, Ian Bag, Chris Porter, Orny Adams, Josh Adam Myers.

Ten o’clock, tag It at Sunset Strips, Clark Brothers, Al Madrigal, Jackie Kation, li’sa Trigger, Dana Goule. That’s a nice lineup, and this thing stays strong through Saturday. Bill Maher got into it with a reporter who questioned Bill Moore meeting with Donald Trump. Bill Maher had said, you can ate me for it, but I’m not a liar. Trump was gracious and measured.

I don’t know, and I can’t answer, and it’s not my place to answer. Just telling you what I saw, and I wasn’t high. Washington Post columnist Josh Rogan said, I think you’ve fallen into the trap. And I think I represent ninety nine percent of the internet when I say this, You’ve played the game of proximity is principle. I’m not questioning your motivation.

I’m questioning Trump’s. Okay. Mar responded, you don’t have to patronize me, dude, I don’t know, you’ve never met you. Not everyone has to like it, That’s what we said. There are people who didn’t want it to happen.

You sound like one of them. It’s okay. Rogan tried to talk over more in response, and mar said, you what I just said. What’s the alternative to not talking? Just sit at your lunch table, don’t talk to anybody.

Rogan didn’t let up and said, I agree with the principle of engagement. I’m just saying from Trump’s perspective, all Americans know that for him, this was a PR stunt and in his view, you were a prop in that PR stunt. Piers Morgan jumped into this conversation, he was a guest on the same panel, and said, I don’t agree with that. If you go on social media for five minutes now and you just have this treble fury raging all day long, everyone’s got to be implacably there, implacably here. And actually most Americans and most Brits they’re not like this.

And then the idea that Bill Maher is now going to stop criticizing Donald Trump is preposterous. And let me do you an update on Kunal Camera. Remember he was accused of being a trader and got into some trouble over there in India. Well, the Bombay High Court has granted Canal Camra interim relief in the trader joke case. Doesn’t mean that he won’t be in future trouble, but for now they’re looking into it.

The comedian was under charges of public mischief and defamation and was later transferred to a Police Reports suggests that he didn’t actually name the politician, but some people in a different political party, if I understand this correctly, said that he referred to the politician as a trader. In response, a group of party workers vandalized habitat studio where the comedian had performed. Twelve individuals were arrested for that incident and granted bail. Comra said he also received death threats following the controversy. And that is your comedy news for today.

If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it to you. If you’re on YouTube, you know, do the YouTube stuff, subscribe, like ring the bell, all that stuff. You guys are doing it. The other YouTubers will tell you what that’s all about.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey Mandam, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Congratulations to Jerry Seinfeld. He has been added to forbes annual Billionaire Roundup. The twenty twenty five World Billionaires list features more than three thousand billionaires.

Two hundred and eighty eight of them, including Bruce Springsteen and Jerry Seinfeld, are new. Jerry’s net worth is valued at one point one billion dollars by Forbes, making him the two eight hundred and twenty eighth richest person in the world as of April third. Do you read Marvel comics? Some people think that the Rhino is living in the New York apartment that used to be the residents of the sitcom character Jerry Seinfeld. There are some scenes in the New Amazing Spider Man Number one.

One of them is reminiscent of Tom’s restaurant on the corner there, although it’s called something else in the comic, And then we see the rhinos apartment, which boy sure looks a lot like Jerry’s place with the couch and the kitchen. Spoilers for Spider Man Number one, you weren’t going to read it. The Rhino seems to be out of his mind. Peter Parker tracks down the Rhino in his East Harlem apartment for clues as to what is going on. I’m recording a little earlier than usual today.

I have not yet seen any reviews of Tim Dillon’s new special, which is odd. Did they not share screeners with anyone? I don’t know? On Netflix tonight, John Mulaney has David Letterman, Hannibal Urus, LeAnn Morgan, Nicky Glazer, and Randy Newman. As I have said in the past, if you spotted me David Letterman, Hannibal Buris, Nicky Glazer, had Randy Newman do a song and Lean Morgan’s there too, all I would have to do is be like, so, Dave, what’s going on?

And shut up?

And then Dave will say something and the nick he will jump in, and then an ho…

If this mullanie show is not good tonight, the Malleni Netflix experiment is never going to work. Not gonna have a better lineup than Letterman, Hannibal, Lean Morgan, Nikki Glaser, Randy Newman.

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Speaking of Letterman, I’m sure Mike from the Letterman Podcast is saving up …

Remember the time Letterman wore the Velcrow suit? That was on February twenty eighth, nineteen eighty four’s Late Night with David Letterman. Dave wore a suit made out of velcrow, jumped on a trampoline and landed on a wall. It is now part of an auction called channel Surfing, a broadcast to binge auction. The wonderful website Late nighter dot com has a lot of information about this.

The auction is selling over five hundred pieces of TV memorabilia. Late Nighter tells us designed by Letterman’s longtime costume designer, Susan Humm. The auctioneer says the one of a kind suit was acquired from Letterman at the request of Johnny Carson. The item’s listing tells us the Velcrow still works. Bidding starts at five thousand dollars Mike Chisseomost of The Letterman Podcast, although it’s expected to fetch anywhere from twenty thousand to thirty thousand dollars.

Some other stuff. Mike from The Letterman Bob Cast might want to bid on a skyscraper from the Late Night with David Letterman backdrop, a child sized Halloween costume of a McDonald’s grilled chicken. Cards from various desk bits. Maybe you can get one of those mic and wardrobe worn by Paul Shaffer. And when you think about it, who doesn’t want to wear Paul Shaffer’s clothes.

There’s also some Carson stuff, including studio lights, desk props, a set piece from the bandstand audience seats. Some SNL stuff include crew garments, including a jacket owned by Joe Piscopo, and if you want to pick up chicks, you’re gonna want to get that jacket, one of dan Ackroyd’s conehead prosthetics. That’s fun, one of the Killer b antennas worn by John Belushi. Channel Surfing a broadcast to Binge Auction May seven through eighth, more details on the Late Night or website. Fox News was listening to Theovan’s podcast and they noticed that Theovon is behind these tariffs.

Fox News writes comedio theovaugh Worn that not giving Trump’s tariffs a try could be a wrap for America’s economy, a quote theo as saying, on this comedy tour, we’ve probably been to the top two hundred cities size wise in America, maybe even more than that, and a lot of them there’s nothing there. It’s empty downtown, and so you start to be like, nothing’s gonna change, There’s nothing coming that’s gonna make that different. Michael Costa was on the Last Laugh podcast and explained, if I just say Trump is stupid, the audience is gonna clap. That’s not good comedy, that’s not unique. We’re not pointing out apocracy.

We’re not building an argument. So we have to be aware of that. And it could feel good as a comedian if you get the audience to clap or laugh, but that doesn’t mean you’re doing a good job at comedy. And there’s a part of me that wonders if we’re making jokes while the Titanic sinks while Hitler is invading Poland. There’s also part of me that can very optimistically appreciate that the Constitution is two hundred and seventy years old.

This is not the first egomaniac we’ve had as president. It doesn’t always feel like they’re working, but there are checks and balances. That’s the space we’re trying to live in. Send your letters to both Michael Costa and Theo Vaughn. Greg Gutfeld is going to host a game show.

Sure, that’s a great idea. It’s called What Did I Miss? A new game show that will quiz four uninformed contestants on the events of Trump’s term so far. According to Fox News, the contestants have been kept in complete isolation in upstate New York with no contact to the outside world since January twentieth. They had no phones, no internet, no TV, no social media, so these people just sat there reading books.

The contestants were released on April thirteenth on What Did I Miss? The contestants will have to identify real and fake headlines presented by Greg Guttfeld for grand prize of fifty thousand dollars fifty thousand dollars to sit in a room and read books for three months, I guess. The limited series is three episodes, Gutfeld said in a statement. For these four contestants learn what really happened while they were living in isolation, They’re gonna have to get through me first, Lucky them. The show is going to tape in front of a live studio audience and will drop on Fox Nation May twelfth through the fourteenth, Looking forward to that one.

Huh. Ricky Gervaise is a vodka brand. Dutch Born has launched the Spirits of Comedy stand up competition in the UK. The Spirit of Comedy aims to unearth and promote new talent to a global audience. There will be multiple regional rounds across the UK, the grand finale scheduled for October first in London.

Ricky Gervais said, as well as trying to make Dutchborn a billion dollar global brand, we thought we might as well try to find Britain’s second greatest comic. I liked that quote. That’s a good quote. The first rounds are in May and July and twenty UK towns and cities. A second round August.

In September, highlights of the show will be broadcast on the dutch Born YouTube channel. If you want to apply, submit a short clip on the brand’s website. The winner will receive five thousand pounds that’s around sixty six hundred US dollars and will be invited to open for Ricky at London’s Ovo Arena, Wembley on November fifteenth. Every guest attending a Spirit of Comedy event will be greeted with a complimentary Dutch born cocktail. Sean Patten’s got a special out.

It’s on the eight hundred pound Gorilla YouTube channel. In number one, Seawan shares his experience with obsessive compulsive disorder, a mayhem filled to childhood, and the complex enduring connections with his family. Now, I’m not sure if this special is new new or new to the Gorilla because Sean Patten has an album called Number one that was released on September twelfth, twenty twenty three. But anyway, it’s not like we’re all quoting that one left and right, so it might as well be new. Verdaz not happy with Air India.

He alleged that he got a broken table, broken leg rest and a seat stuck in a reclined position despite paying fifty thousand local currencies for the seat. I’m gonna have to have Google help me with this one. Let’s see, fifty thousand Indian rupees are right now as I record five hundred and eighty three dollars okay, so Verdaz paid five hundred and eighty three dollars for his flight and he’s upset it Air India. Daz posted on Twitter that his wife what a fractured foot, didn’t get a wheelchair even after pre booking the service. Air India says, hey, the crew offer to assist the guest, including d planing by using the ambul lift assigned to the aircraft.

They say the delay, not denial, in providing wheelchair assistance, was due to unusually high demand for wheelchairs and staff at the time. We empathize with the guests, especially giving the mobility concerned involved, and recognize that this experience fell short of expectations. Das post a Dear Air India, please reclaim your wheelchair. I’m a lifetime loyalist. I believe you’ve got the nicest cabin crew in the sky.

This post pains me to write. Broken table, broken leg rest, her seat is stuck, recline won’t strengthen fully. We’re told the flight is newly refurbished. Two hours late, we get off in Delhi and we’re told it’s a step ladder again. Wheelchair and meet and greet services at airports pre booked.

I asked the air hostesses at the front of the plane assist my wife while I carry four bags. Silence and a clueless look at each other. We step off the plane at the top of the ladder. I ask an Air India male ground staff member to help us, looks at me, shrugs and ignores me.

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Meanwhile, Joe Coy thanked the flight crew of an LA bound flight that made an…

The flight from the Philippines to LA was forced to make an emergency landing in Japan. It is not exactly clear why the plane was diverted. However, video taken by passengers shows smoke in the cabin. That would be a good hint. Joe Coy posted a video on his Instagram thanking the crew, saying the flight attendants were amazing, thank you for remaining comm in a situation that could have went south fast.

Three hundred and fifty five passengers were on board, nobody was injured. You may recall Joe Cooy once hosted The Golden Cloves where he made this joke about Taylor Swift. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer cambra shots of Taylor.

Swift, so this surprised me. Maybe I’m just dumb and misunderstood everything. I was expecting three Kiltny’s on Netflix in a row, but no, they’re apparently spread out. Kill Tony was just on YouTube on Monday night, not on Netflix, so I don’t know what’s going on there. The Free Press had a good take on the Netflix episode, saying the lesson of Netflix’s first Kill Tony and I can’t bring myself to watch another.

One of these says O the Free Press was that just because you have a popular podcast where you could be rambling, weird and sometimes very funny, it doesn’t mean you’ll translate well to a different medium. I’m gonna give that same note to John m’laney show. Hours long podcasts have built in slack the listeners with you for the ride, especially on Netflix, does not. Every frame needs to make a case to the viewer not to click away. I’ll jump in here.

As I said, I think they put a ten minute barrier. Tony came out and introduced the band. The first comic was flat. At minute eleven, Shane Gillis’s Trump comes out. That should have been the first thing that the casual Kill Tony sampler had been exposed to.

I don’t think the casuals got to minute eleven free press rights. The audience expects polish, and it’s unclear, though becoming clearer, whether the comedians who found themselves in the mainstream are up to the challenge of shining up. I’ve been mentioning I’m obsessed with Last One Laughing UK on Amazon. There’s only like six episodes, so I’m watching one a night, but I am loving it and it got me thinking, and I share this in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group. Feel encouraged to join us and join the conversation.

I wondered what Last One Laughing US might look like. My mind keeps going to Bert Kreischer. I could picture Bert Kreischer in that room, and if Bert’s there, I could see Sigura there. Another person I thought would play well in that room is Sarah Silverman, because she does like to work dirty, and some of the stuff from Lou Sanders in the UK version made me imagine Sarah coming up and whispering something very naughty in someone’s ear and getting a laugh. I started to think about who would be a good host for this.

My mind went to Conan O’Brien would be fantastic. However, you know, at some point there’s a budget, right, so if you put Conan on top, the show is really expensive to begin with. So I don’t know if this is really stick at all, but you know, you could probably get Sigren Kracher to do it for laugh Sarah seems like should be game. Aaron in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast group wrote, I think Sarah Sherman would kill She’s right, Sarah Sherman would be perfect for that show. Aaron also suggested Mark Marin, and I could see Mark Maron in the Richard ayoad A tough nut to crack roll.

Another name thrown out there, Tracy Morgan. I think Tracy would be really good in the room, and you could probably get Tracy anyway. Last one laughing us. Somebody make this, will you. I gotta tell you I’m really happy with today’s show, because I’ll be honest, at one point I thought I had nothing, and this is coming out really well.

Let’s head over to Moontower. Many shows tonight, Morgan Jay is your headliner at the Paramount Theater at seven. Morgan has a special on Hulu coming up on Friday. There’s actually too many shows for me to tell you about one that caught my eye.

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Also at seven o’clock at Antuon’s New York’s Finest Friend of the show, John …

That’s a nice lineup. Maria Bamford’s at the Thompson Theater also at seven, Todd Barry at the State Theater, also at seven. Interestingly, at seven point fifteen, a show called Cheers Queers also has Ian Finance on the lineup, So apparently he’s going to run from one show to the other. I’m not sure the distance between those two venues. The Moontower All Stars at the Cap City Company Club Main Room at eight o’clock features two former guests of this show, Matthew Bissarajar, Gianmarco Soresi and Ashima Franklin, who’s never been on the show.

A show at eight point thirty is called s word is Golden, so crap’s golden. What’s catching my eye here is that the cover art for the show looks like if you told chat gpt to make a cartoon of a very old Mark Maron with gray hair. And the person in question, who’s a cartoon who’s definitely not Mark Maron with here has a podcast microphone, so that’s interesting. Lisa triggers at the Creek in the Cave at nine point fifteen, and like ten other shows that didn’t tell you about, tomorrow is just as busy. And that’s your comedy news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy tax Day. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News out on Netflix today. Tim Dillon special. This one called I’m Your Mother.

Described as a no holds bared on, apologetic ride through today’s chaos. Tim Dillon tackles everything from his odd loyalty to the British royal family to roosting the world’s absurdities and more with no filter. There is a trailer. Let’s listen. It’s so funny what we find about in America.

We’re gonna ban TikTok or we’re not. I don’t know. I don’t care how you feel about that. At a certain age, you gotta shut up. Like I’m thirty nine years old and I have friends that are still They’re like, they can’t ban TikTok.

I’m like you, Ralph, sit out, Sit this out. They can’t ban that child’s dancy. Yep, Ralph, this looks terrible. Please stop. Where am I gonna watch children?

Dash? All right? Hey enough? This one was filmed at the comedy Mothership Joe Rogan’s place in Austin, Texas. It seems like it has better audio than his previous Netflix special.

A Real Hero did that one. The mix on that was just not good. I am a big fan of Tim Dillon’s podcast. I’m not sure his stand up is as good as his podcast is, but the podcast is top notch funny. Every single week, Loreale put out a press release to discuss their new relationship with Nicky Glazer.

My headline here, tap the breaks. I’m gonna pull out some of the language. I get it’s a press release, but guys, relax with this, Okay. Nicky has had a great what is it six months now since the Golden Globes. Not even Nicky’s had a good year going back to the Tom Brady Roast and the Golden Globes.

Get it. She’s kind of the it comedian right now. But we gotta tap the brakes with some of this language. I will read to you from the press release. Nikki Glaser partnering with Loreal.

Their shared commitment to pushing boundaries and bringing innovative ideas to life provided a natural alignment for an authentic partnership between Loreal Professional, Airlight Pro and Nikki Glaser. All that’s fine, All right, here’shere, I’m gonna start to push back. The Queen of Comedy shared her thoughts on the partnership the Queen of Comedy? Are we really going to call Nikki Glaser the Queen of comedy? I don’t know who the Queen of comedy is.

Maybe nobody should have the title right now, but are we really going to call Nikki Glaser the Queen of comedy? So all right, relax with the Queen of Comedy, who shared her thoughts on the partnership’s seamless synergy, noting comedy is all about timing, and so is great hair. I’m always on the go, and Airlight Pro let’s me get that perfect look for on and off camera performances quickly.

Also, it just feels elite.

I mean, the tech is next level. The infrared light the dryer is actually helping to dry your hair fast without damage. And as someone who highlights my hair and always experiences breakage, this is so important to me. I’m picky about my tools because I often get myself ready before shows without a full glam team, And honestly, I was so blown away by the Airlight Pro’s power and precision. It’s lightweight, powerful, and really easy to use with all the custom settings.

Nikki, did you actually write that sentence? Yourself. Did you sit down with your laptop and type the sentence. It’s lightweight, powerful and really easy to use with all the custom settings. Or you know, perhaps a publicist helps you with this and you just signed off on it.

Nikki Glaser continues. It’s also quiet, so I can work on jokes and talk to my friends backstage while I’m styling. I’ve never had a dryer like this. I’m obsessed. Partnering with a brand that’s as forward thinking and dedicated to innovation as I am in my own material just felt right.

Airlight Pro is defining the future of hairstyling, and I’m thrilled to be part of it. The general manager of Loreal said, Nikki Glaser is a major voice in comedy today. That’s true, she said, the forefront of the industry, just as Weird at the forefront of beauty tech. It’s a perfect match. Nicki’s authentic voice resonates with a huge audience, and like us, she doesn’t follow trends.

She sets them. Now, the other word I wanted to didpick was in the headline of this press release, comedy Trailblazer. Nikki Glaser Now she might be the queen of comedy. Maybe she is, but trailblazer here, I’m wanting to complete the sentence. Nikki Glaser walked so Blank could run.

Can you complete that sentence? You can’t? Can you complete the sentence? Joe Rivers walked so Nikki Glaser could run. That’s a trailblazer.

Okay, relax, I get you want to sell hair dryers. Dave Chappelle will be part of Toronto’s Departure Festival and conference. Now why this particularly caught my eye is I saw a tweet from Bruce Hills. Now, who’s Bruce Hills. Bruce Hills is the executive producer of Departure Comedy who’s putting this thing on?

But Bruce Hills used to be the big wig at Just for Laughs Montreal before they had their financial challenges a couple years ago when Bruce departed. So it’s great. Bruce is a good guy and it’s good to see Bruce running comedy things again. So with Bruce Hills and Dave Chappelle at attached to this thing, we should pay attention to what’s going on in Toronto. Toronto’s Departure Festival comedy programming features rising Canadian talent with homegrown comedians including Jesseme, Rena, Ivan Decker, Sophie Buddle, as On Phil’s and Ali Hassan.

Comedy showcases focusing on emerging talent will take place at the Comedy bart locations throughout Toronto, featuring breakout and next gen comedians. Bruce said having Dave Chapelle take part and Departure is a real honor for me the festival and an amazing treat for our audiences. Starting off the inaugural Departure Comedy Festival with somebody of Dave’s caliber and influence is incredibly exciting. The Departure Festival plus conference May sixth through eleventh in Toronto and again back to Bruce Hills used to be a big week at the Just for Laughs. They not only did Just for last Montreal.

There was JFL Toronto, which was a great festival in itself. So Bruce knows the city very very interesting development there. Will keep an eye on that. Conan O’Brien must go. We’ll be back for a whopping three episode ode season May eighth.

Conan will travel to New Zealand, Austria and Spain. In these episodes, Bow and Yang would like someone else to play JD Vans on SNL. He suggests please reach out to Zach Galfanakis. Bowen says, I do my best with him, but every time I have to play him, I go to Lauren and say, you can do a buyback. You don’t have to stick with me.

Please reach out to Zach Galifanakis. Please reach out to Taran kill him. Yeah, said I worked with an accent coach. We had to find the middle between Appalachian but Ohio, Like, we really had to find the right voice. And I was like, I don’t want to screw this up.

I have such an uphill battle here. Everyone in America is going to be like the Asian guy’s playing that guy. I was like, I really got to nail this down. I’m just telling you guys, I’m doing my best. Okay.

It was a good snl over the weekend, but there was a kerf fluffel. Did you see the sketch The White potis very very fun. I’m not sure it was hilarious, but the idea and the production values on the White Potus just nailed it. Maybe laugh or laugh. It wasn’t awesome, but the idea of it was amazing.

Amy leu Wood you know her from the White Lotus television show. She called out Sarah Sherman’s mean and unfunny impression of her character. Part of the sketch made fun of Wood’s character Chelsea Sarah Sherman was wearing buck teeth. Amy said, while in honest mode, I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny XO. She wrote this on Instagram.

At least get the accent right. Seriously, I respect accuracy, even if it’s mean. So to conclude today’s rant, HBO kind and supportive and never wrong me So leave them alone. NBCSNL mean such a shame because I had a great time watching it a couple weeks ago. That’s what the show’s about.

But there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way. According to Amy, she’s had apologies from SNL. I don’t recall SNL apologizing to anyone before I threw the phrase SNL issues apology into Google, and I see headlines using the phrase SNL makes rare apology being used several places. Website Media eight says, in nineteen nine to a Wings World sketch, made a remark about then teenage Chelsea Clinton and her appearance Lauren Michaels and Mike Myers apologized. In twenty eighteen, Pete Davidson mocked veteran and then GOP congressional candidate Dan Crenshaw’s eye patch.

Crenshaw were’s an eye patch because of a combat injury. Pete Davidson offered a sincere on air apology, with Crenshaw himself present. This has nothing to do with comedy, but while I have the floor, don’t park in handicap spots, you jerk? What set you off? Johnny Mack six fifty something.

This morning, I’m at the Donut Chain parking lot, doing my thing, get my iced coffee, and there’s just a jerk sitting in the handicap spot, windows down, radio blaring, and look, man, there’s another spot two feet away. I know you think you’re just running in for a second, but as somebody who had to drive around an elderly ailing parent, don’t use the handicap spots because the people who need those spots need those spots. Okay, don’t be a jerk over it, get back to comedy. Sure, here’s the highest recommend I have of twenty twenty five so far. Watch last one Laughing UK it’s on Amazon Prime.

It is the funniest thing of the year. So you’ve heard me talk about this in the past, but I’ll remind you. So they take ten comedians and they lock them in a stylized room TV studio set, and if you laugh, you get kicked out. Jimmy Carr is your host. He’s the Jeff Proops of this thing.

If you crack a smile, he can give you a yellow card. If you get two yellow cards, it’s red, just like soccer. And if you go straight to laugh, he can give you red and you’re out. It’s fun to play along at home and see if you can watch the show without laughing. I have failed every single time.

In fact, during episode two there’s one comedian that I wasn’t enjoying that comedian’s presence, and as the comedian did something, I kept thinking to myself, can’t stand you can’t stand, you can’t stand, you can’t stand you And that person made me laugh out loud, and I got kicked off my own couch. I guess I’m a particularly enjoying Richard Ayoad, who’s great in everything, and Lou Sanders quickly becoming a very very favorite of mine. It took me a minute to get used to Jimmy Carr’s current look. He has admittedly had a lot of plastic surgery. He kind of looks like Jimmy Carr now.

I’d also like to buy him a sandwich. He’s very thin, and the camera adds weight to you, so I can only imagine how thin Jimmy is in real life right now. But Jimmy is one of my favorites. So this show I recommend. Last one Laughing UK I checked earlier this morning.

They have all the other international ones. Some might be a little too far afield for us with American humor sensitivities, but I think after I finished the UK one, I might check out the Ireland one that they did also South Africa, which if I recall correctly, was hosted by Trevor Noah, so that’s probably good. I recommend watch that, and you can also watch Tim Dillanson A Good Night of comedy. Huh yeah. Community fans know about six seasons in a movie.

What if I said to you seven seasons in a movie? Joel McHale flowed to this one. Joel said, I think there are some of us that would love to keep going, And I would be like, great, If you guys want to do episodes, let us know. I think that’ll probably depend on the success of a movie, but I think if there’s enough of a demand to do more, I don’t know what look like, but obviously the movie would have to inform a lot of that. I’m game, and I know a few others a game.

I’m not going to tell you whom, but I would definitely do more. They’re always like, oh, a limited series. I’d totally be up for that. Okay. If we look at the cast of Community, here’s who I would guess would do it.

Joel McHale obviously, yes, Danny Pody, I mean he’s doing the Dennis Lyrics sitcom. He’s going to do it. Alison Breen, she’s got a bit of a career, but she also tends to show up in a lot of random things. I think she would do it. Gillian Jacobs, I think she would do it.

Donald Glover now he left the show. Originally he seems to be the hardest one to get. But what’s Glover been up to lately? I will answer that in a second. Jim Rash is the dean, Yes, absolutely.

Ken Jung likes to work and often works with Michale, So I think he would do it event Nicole Brown. I know she had some family concerns and she had to walk away from the show for a bit, so unclear and if she would do it now. Glover was quite hot for a little bit. If we go backwards here in his IMDb, let’s see, he was the voice of Simba in the recent Mufasa Lion King. All right, that’s a legit gig.

He was a star of Mister and Missus Smith. But I think they’re going to swap the cast out for the next season of that. But that was a good hit for him. Atlanta ended in twenty twenty two. A month ago, he canceled a Childish Gambino tour after a hospitalization and said I have surgery scheduled and need time out to heal.

Huh. And back in twenty twenty four, he told The New York Times he was retiring the moniker a Childish Gambino, saying it was really just like, oh, it’s done. It’s not fulfilling, and I just felt like I didn’t need to build it in this way anymore. So who knows. I don’t really have an answer for you.

Maybe you can get Donald, maybe not, but if he’s not touring because of surgery. The other hand of paychecks a paycheck, is it less work to you play Troy then to perform a concert. I would guess maybe I’m wrong, don’t know. We’ll see if the movie ever comes out. On the other hand, At Moontower tonight, Brad Williams at the Paramount Theater.

It’s the only show tonight. It picks back up tomorrow with quite a few shows. Looks like sixteen twenty shows tomorrow, so we’ll talk about Moontower tomorrow. The Age saw a bunch of shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. One show is by artist, says Sez.

The name of SES’s show is keeps Me Young. The Age tells us, if you only see one dyslexic bisexual musical comedian, and believe me, that’s a hard sentence to say. You say say with me, dyslexic bisexual musical comedian, say that five times fast, good luck. But if you only see one dyslexic bisexual musical comedis se him getting better? Because I’ve said it ninety times, you didn’t hear half the edits make it, says the comic and skating toilet critic is armed with a guitar, a stack of personal and wonderful cringy anecdotes, and a willingness to plunder her life for laughs.

She joked to the audience, I’m forcefully outing a lot of people tonight, The Age says. Says reads the room well by acknowledging that stories about stuff you might do with your hands, bird crap on windows, and Jeremy from the football club may come across as a bit much. Four stars. Zoe coombs Mars show is called the splash Zone. This one did not get a great review, only three stars.

The Age tells us the show relies on audience distractions and cultural references. Some of the punchlines are predictably daggy, but the fans lap them up. Daggy must be some ozzy slang that I’m not familiar with. Google time. Daggy is an informal adjective in Australia and New Zealand, slang primarily used to describe somewhat or something that is unfashionable, unstylish, or out of date.

I like it, daggy, and let’s do one more. Amy Gledhill’s show is called make Me Look Fit on the poster. The review here were barely two minutes to Amy’s show and the audience is already swinging underwear in the air. That’s fun. However, not every yarn sticks the landing.

A three minute speel about how much toilet paper she accumulates fizzles hard, and some of her references are too British to translate to an Australian crowd. Three stars, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you’re on YouTube, like and subscribe and all that stuff the YouTubers do you YouTube people know what to do?

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Now. Yesterday, Johnny Mack, you told us today was gonna be good because you said Sunday was a slow news day and you held some stories back. So there’s I expectations on this Monday show here, you better bring it pal okay challenge excepted. Tim Hidecker is making a full length Tony Hinchcliff parody called Kill Timmy.

I love this already. This is the greatest idea ever. Did you ever catch Tim Hidecker’s Rogan parody? He did a fake Joe Rogan experience where they just talked about nothing for and then he looped it. It was like something absurd, like twelve hours long.

It was fantastic. No, I didn’t listen to the whole twelve hours, but I listened to whatever they actually created before it looped. And if you didn’t pay attention, you didn’t notice it looped. It was about an hour or so. Look at that up.

It is fantastic. That’s Tim Hidecker. All right? What is Tim Hidecker working on? Cracked Reports?

After coming out in support of Tony Hinchcliff’s in your face f your race style of humor. Heidecker is now launching his own Austin, Texas live show, Kill Timmy in the surprisingly robust market for podcasts where millionaires emotionally abuse open micers. Cracks perfectly not loaded at all. Article explains direct quote here. In the days following Hinchcliffe’s inexplicable decision to go on stage at the most high profile arena in the world and insult black people Latino families in the entire island of Puerto Rico with f Tier two thousand and six four chan level punchlines, Hinchcliff defended his performance at the Trump rally is a defiant celebration of free speech.

Just days after the MSG debacle, Hidecker sarcastically supported Hinchcliff’s comedy on his own podcast, saying I love Rose comedy. Rose comedy is the highest form of entertainment, in the highest form of comedy. Highecker called Hinchcliff the king of Rose comedy, saying what a genius. He’s just funny and mean. If you can’t handle it, I’m sorry.

I don’t have time for that stuff. You gotta have testicles of brass if you want to get in the Hinchcliff Octagon, the idea that this was a roast. That’s what he does. He’s a roast master. He doesn’t bring up Rudy Giuliani, he doesn’t bring up Q and On, he doesn’t bring up Donald Trump.

High Decker had turned critical, saying like, aren’t you supposed to roast the people there? You’re telling me you can’t come up with a Rudy Giuliani joke. Well, if you go to Tim Hidecker’s YouTube page, there is a teaser for Kill Timmy. It looks like they’ve already filmed this thing. It just says coming soon.

I am not playing any audio for you because it’s just a music loop. On Instagram, the description says you snowflakes are not ready for Kill Timmy, but listen anyway at the Patreon.

Meanwhile, remember Tony was on WWE Raw last Monday.

He had made the comment about wrestler big E. The joke being the only thing stiffer than Michael Cole the announcer is big E’s neck. Biggie had responded to it in the post show. Biggee has not wrestled in some time due to a neck injury, although says, look, I’m not hurt. I’m good.

I want the discourse to be had without me. Honestly, I really had no desire to weigh on this. I didn’t sign up for this. It wasn’t where this he did, would he wanted to? People signed off on it.

It has nothing to do with me. Well, if you want to see the clip, it had been removed at the time of this recording from the replay of WWE Raw. The joke was replaced with silence until Pat McAfee says okay. It is unclear who made the decision to take out the joke. Was it WWE, was it Netflix?

Perhaps even Tony himself. It remains unclear. Thanks to Matthew for sticking this next one in the Facebook group, which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Feel encouraged to join us as my voice gives out. Pat McAfee had a big event in Pittsburgh the other night.

Twelve, five hundred and eighty two people attended this thing. Performers included Shane Gillis, Snoop Dogg, Michael Cole from The Wrestling Thing, The Wrestling Thing, It’s WWE. I don’t why I’ve fraiched it that way. Leave it in jelly roll and there were sumo wrestlers. Shane Gillis was the referee for the sumo.

That’s kind of fun.

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Speaking of Shaney recently shared an anecdote where he ran into Caitlin Clar…

Shane explains, before the show, we were in Indianapolis, and I was like, cou’d be sick and came to the show. That’d be nice. Then, as I was pacing back and forth between the show and the green room, Caitlyn Clark walked by. I was like, do you want to hang out in the green room and she was like, yeah, sure. And recently, on The Joe Rogan Experience, guest Douglas Murray challenged Joe Rogan over the types of guests he’s been featuring on the podcast.

I listened to this episode last week found it really compelling. Murray questioned Joe Rogan’s tendency to have figures on who just asked questions but may actually be spreading misinformation or speculation under the guise of curiosity. Murray said, there’s a point at which I’m just raising questions isn’t valid anymore. You’re not asking questions, you’re telling people something Rogan said, I don’t think about it that way. I just think i’d like to talk to that person.

Pretty good episode. You’ll find that in the feed. Anthony Anderson is calling out Kevin hard for taking credit for a prank from twenty years ago. Anderson was on Watch What Happens Live, where apparently they I say a lot of swear words. I’ll clean it up here.

Anderson said, we were filming scary movie three or four Simon Rex myself, Kevin Hart. Simon played a tricks. I wanted to get him back, so I shut off all the water in his trailer, and I took a number two in his toilet and I went outside and I just sat there and watched it baked all day.

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You know what’s fed up, Kevin Hart Fu because you took credit for my prank. I’m telling the world right now, I did it, and Kevin took credit for it. Dave Chappelle will be at the Abu Dhabi Comedy Festival. This thing runs from April to July. Can I tell my wife I have to go cover the Abu Dhabi Comedy Festival will be gone for three months.

Who’s letting the dogs out? I don’t know the answer. Big line up, Dave Chappelle, Trevor Noah Prank, credit stealer, Kevin Hart, Gabe Iglesias, Pete Davidson, and Bill Burr and Moore to be announced resale tomorrow if you want to go.

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Speaking of Bill Burr, he will not be winning a Best Performance by an Actor …

Deadline reports that all three leads, Karan Kulkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr are each being considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a featured role that is the Tony equivalent of a supporting actor Oscar. Deadline and theater enthusiasts were curious why the committee are not listing them as lead actors, considering they’re listed above the show title in the playbill. The committee does not discuss or explain its decisions. Deadline has reached out, I’ll let you know if they hear anything. Huh was that not a good first half?

I told you yesterday I held stuff back. My voice is shot, though I don’t know how long we’re hanging around here today. I’ll try and muddle through. Let’s see what’s happening at Moontower. At Moontower today, April fourteenth.

Nothing. Why do he edit that out, John, because that’s not fun, Sarah Silverman told the I News. I hate to say it, but Donald Trump has all the traits of a comedian. He’s all charisma. He’ll say anything it takes to please any crowd that’s in front of him, but he means none of it.

Those are the traits of a comedian who does well on the road. That’s why last time he was president he never stopped having rallies. He was on the circuit. I want to say, you don’t have to be president to throw a party for yourself, you know. Send your letters to Sarah Silverman.

All right. The age caught some shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, which reminds me. Dan Buobleich and I have actually been texting. I had an idea how we could pull off the Melbourne National Comedy Festival twenty twenty six, and I’m like, sleep on this and get back to me. He didn’t immediately throw pyes in my direction.

He’s like, you know what, that could actually work. So we’re thinking about it, so we will keep you posting on the Melbourne National Comedy Festival Melbourne, Florida National Comedy Festival, twenty twenty six.

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Meanwhile, at the Melbourne Australia International Comedy Festival going on …

One of the shows you could have seen had you flown down there, Haley Edwards, this is just a naughty word S bag. You know what the S stands for? Yeah? Why would you call you a show that? The Age says the title should set expectations of the raw material s bag is about literal s, metaphoric s, graphic s, but not gratuitous s.

The one person show is about being diagnosed with crous disease. I see what you did there. There’s rich material and how it feels to self advocate, fight for a diagnosis and face the unknown of a chronic illness. Four stars Bronwin cuss as a show at the Weston until April twentieth. It’s called I’ll Allow It.

The Age tells us Bronwin Cuss as the air of a born racintur. I remember playing Bronwin last year and enjoying her comedy The CanYa over here. At a party and wind up eavesdropping on For the next hour. She might be describing a horrific bus strip across the United States, or the day her temp job ended with death. But it all feels like an off the cuff anecdote.

You’re lucky enough to be let onon four stars, and I’ll do one more because my voice is shot. Scout Boxall’s show is God’s favorite at the Tower until April twentieth. Scott gets a few things out of the way early on. They are non binary, they are bipolar, and they are wearing an odd, dark, floor length garment they could probably describe as a cassock, although that’s not a word they I wouldn’t be like, Hey, that’s a cassock, right, What is a cassock? Like you’ve heard of it?

I feel like I don’t know what a cassock is. Let’s look it up. Kassick a full length garment of single color worn by certain Christian clergy, members of church, choirs, acolytes, and others having some particular officer role in a church. I would never use the word cassock. No, I disagree with your review.

The age boxel tells a single story about a week and away at a live action role playing wedding in the country, horribly marred by the fact that they forgot to take their medication along four stars. And that’s it. My voice is done. I gotta go, I gotta go have a drink. We had a good one today.

Yesterday, you know, yesterday was kind of Johnny Mack was just kind of filling up a day of punsta. But today, today, this was high quality comedy news. So therefore I’ll meet you back here tomorrow