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Callaroga, Shark Media. Be there, Trainy mat with the daily comedy views. Let’s start out in Los Angeles. Some comedy clubs had to close as the fires spread. The Comedy Store announced they would be closed, saying we prioritize the safety of our staff, performers and audience.

We’re working on rescheduling the shows for the dates and will provide an update soon. The Laugh Factory similarly closed, announcing on Instagram these shows had been canceled. All ticket holders will be refunded. On the TV side, Jimmy Kimmel Live has shut down production on his Tuesday monologue, which was taped at four thirty pm Pacific time, and Jimmy said he had no power at his house and joked that he might have to sleep over at Gillermo’s. Jimmy did get a joke in saying the wind is especially scary here in LA because of all the boatos.

We’re not used to seeing things move at all.

Also shut down.

The price is right. I’ll mention that because comedian Drew Carey HOSTSED and CBS’s After Midnight. The late night shows did discuss it, they treaded lightly. Seth Meyer said before Kick Things off. We just want to send our love to everybody in the LA area in California right now who are dealing with wildfires.

These scenes we’re seeing on television are obviously harrowing, and there are no real words so they can share other than we’re thinking about you and hoping for your safety. Jimmy Fallon said, I just want to say that a heart’s got to everyone in Los Angeles right now dealing with the massive wildfires out there. You just see the footage on TV. It’s surreal. We have so many friends who’ve been affected.

We just hope that everybody stay safe, including all the firefighters and everyone else trying to contain it. Stay safe. We love you, La. Stephen Gobert said, we know that people love Los Angeles are resourceful and kind, and they’re doing everything they can do to help one another. We want to send our love and concern to all the residents of Los Angeles who are facing what is being described as the most destructive fire in the city’s history.

Joe River’s daughter Melissa, shared that she had just a few minutes to save a couple items from her house, which was destroyed by the fire. She told CNN, I kind of had a mental checklist. I made sure that we got passports, birth certificates, medication, clothing. I was just out shopping for clothes. It started to hit me.

We literally just had what we had on our backs. I grab whatever was there in my personal situation. That’s it. That’s the end of everything that belonged to my family and the history of it. To be one hundred percent honest, I grabbed my mom’s Emmy, a photo of my dad and a drawing that my mother had done of me and my son.

Melissa shared that the Emmy is Jones’ Daytime Emmy Statute, which she won on behalf of the Joan Rivers Show in nineteen ninety for outstanding Talk slash Service. Show host Jean Smart’s start of Hacks has called on the networks to skip awards season. In her statement, Jean Smart said, with all due respect during Hollywood season of celebration, I hope any of the network’s televising the upcoming awards will seriously consider not televising them and donating the revenue they would have garnered to the victims of the fires and the firefighters. She labeled her post with the word attention in all caps at the start a nod at all. Convinced that that is something the networks are going to do.

The Awards shows will happen, in my opinion, shifting gears. Jim gaff again was on The Kelly Clarkson Show and asked Kelly, what is going on with the feet you see? He noticed that Kelly Clarkson was barefoot at the beginning of their interview. Kelly explained, I feel more grounded when I sing if I’m barefoot. Jim then speculated on why she might not have shoes on and did a high pitched voice, saying, I feel more grounded when I sing if I’m barefoot.

I can feel the ground. Nikki Glaser tells The Wall Street Journal she regrets her twenty eighteen season of Dancing with the Stars. She was the first contestant eliminated. Glazer said that was truly a low point in my life. I never thought I’d be in first place, but I thought it might last longer than the blind woman on the show.

Roywood Junior has a special coming out on January seventeenth. There is a trailer and I’m going to go first here. I think this material is hacky. I think the material is weak, and to my ears it sounds if perhaps possibly maybe conceivably the laughter is added in which you know happens in trailers. But this whole piece here not good.

Let’s listen. We ain’t gonna make it. What happened to the next shit, Let’s go. I was at the gun range and I saw somebody get bad service at the gun range? How are you gonna be rude to somebody who showed up to practice account security?

Questions? Are just us reminiscent about when life was better? Remember when you had a home field with love? What street was that house all? Before you get Paddy, got your auntie pregnant, and now you got a brother cousin.

Retail changed, They locked up everything, and then they mad at us because we need to keep The only time you see an employee at the grocery store is when you do self check out wrong. What you’ve done to the machine? Get your way up. You evern’t seen a couple so happy it ruined the date that you own. We get mad if the phone ranged double intended for talking.

Oh hell dog, you got to text me first. Hilarious Lonely Flowers. January seventeenth, moa mayor announced a new stand up comedy tour beginning in February titled Moha mayor also Palestino Spanish for the Palestinian Bear on the tour. US life family and his journey as a new dad in today’s political climate, will also shortly get season two, the final season of Netflix’s Mo A Good Show. If you want to go see Mo, He’s really good.

February thirteenth in Milwaukee is when the tour starts. I’m not going to read fifty dates to you, but it goes through May sixteenth in Washington, DC, the Kansas City Chiefs are getting into comedy for some reason. The Magic Number features Pete Holmes and total debut on the Chiefs websites on Tuesday. The Magic Number is an original, lighthearted, multi episode buddy style comedy series. It’ll be on Chiefs YouTube and Chief’s official social channels three pm Central Time Tuesday.

The Magic Number follows two fans on an adventurous quest for their third friend, hoping to bring the team good luck. By the way, to hear my voice going, this is what happens when you spend fifteen hours on a plane. My fellow passengers, Come on, guys, if you’re coughing wear a mask. I should have worn a mask. That’s on me.

The multi part series promises to deliver a mix of humor, heart and playful storytelling. The comedy’s voice by Chiefs fan Jason Sedakis. Key cast members include Pete Holmes. Pete said, I had so much fun with this Chiefs Playoffs campaign. The story celebrates the connection and companionship sports spring and I’m excited to share this adventure with all the fans.

The cast and the crew were amazing. Holly, David and I ruined a bunch of takes cracking each other up, and I love playing a part in this fun take on fandom. I’ve been doing this for a while. That was written by somebody in the publicity department and Pete signed off on it would be my guest, perhaps possibly maybe, And if the Chiefs make the Super Bowl, they might want to head over to fifty cents Super bowld Comedy block Party. That’ll be Saturday, February eighth, Although you know you might nitpick what they’re doing at a comedy show the night before the Super Bowl.

Fifty cents super Bold Comedy block Party features fifty cent Bill Bellamy, Chico Bean, and DC Young Fly Bad Money finally went in on Tony Hinchcliff’s Puerto Rico joke Bad Money till the New York Times. It was a real moment of frustration. Yeah, I know he’s a comedian, blah blah blah, but that wasn’t a stand up comedy show. Was supposed to be a political rally. He was in a suit.

I was like, Oh, he’s a politician. Then people told me, no, it’s a comedian. It wasn’t funny for a lot of reasons. I have a great sense of humor, and I like dark humor. But there’s places and their circumstances for that.

James Acaster turned forty yesterday and says it feels wild with the pandemic. Suddenly we were two years older. I feel like now I’m still thirty seven, or I when I turned thirty. I loved it, actually, because in my twenties I thought, oh, I’m an adult. Now he really needs to know stuff.

I need to understand the world. Then when I turned thirty, I realized, oh, I’m never going to understand anything, and that felt a lot better. Now I’m turning forty, We’ll see what the revelation is Ultimately, I guess I’m just lucky I’m still here. That’s good. Just got to focus on that.

Russell brand busted for speeding. He’s been fined after pleading guilty to speeding. Apparently, Russell was driving his Mini at ninety five miles an hour on the M four last June. He also was busted for driving the Mini at at thirty seven miles per hour and a thirty mile an hour zone. He did not attend the hearing.

He was handed three penalty points for the thirty seven mile per hour breach and five points for the ninety five mile an hour speeding, on top of the three points he already had on his license. That gives him a total of eleven. Drivers who get twelve or more points without a three year period face a band. The judge find him thirty four hundred and fifty seven pounds for the offenses. You know, Russell could probably afford a car service.

And Jim Norton has joined the exclusive club of people who worked at Series XM and got shown the door. Welcome to the club, Jim. After twenty years, Jim Norton is out. He had been hosting a show with Sam Roberts Jim announced his new podcast, Jim Norton Can’t Save You. On the podcast, he shared that he was expecting and received a low ball offered during the holidays.

Jim is a good guy. I’ve worked with him a few times. Really like Jim a lot. Best of luck with your podcast, and that is your comedy news for today. If you join the program, tell a friend about it.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny mack back Live. I’m back from Antarctica. No really, I was in Antarctica. I’ll talk about that after the break, but let’s catch up Nikki Glaser on the Golden Globes.

I thought she was fantastic. I really enjoyed her monologue. It was a nice traditional I called it Johnny Carson style monologue, where you just call out the people in the audience and say something funny about them. Be the equivalent of me going and Scott Beckett is here. Scott’s excited about the Golden Globes because it means I won’t play the Joe Coy joke anymore, you know, that kind of harmless spanter among friends.

I thought she was really, really good. Nicki shared some details with Howard Stern, saying I got paid pretty I’m good with that. There was a past host who said how much he got in his monologue, and I got less than that. I’ll come back to that, but that’s okay. I’ll get more next year.

I feel well paid for what I do. I’m all right. I like cause she’s assuming she’s hosting next year. That said, it should be a great choice. Obviously, The speculation is she’s referring to Gerard Carmichael, who hosted in twenty twenty three.

He disclosed on stage that was paid half a million dollars for his hosting gig. You may recall the Golden Globes had to rebuild the ceremony was canceled in twenty twenty two after the controversy surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s a lack of diversity. But I think even after last year with you know Who making the joke about you know Who, the Golden Globes are back. Baby, It’s a thing again. I think it’s a chair that people will want to host.

But Nikki Glaser did great and said if they’ll have me back for twenty twenty six, I’m all in the first time. You just want to prove yourself and I feel like I did that. She sure did. She shared with Howard some jokes cut from the monologue, some of them which she obviously would have told better. This is the last time all of you will be in the same room together until the Diddy trial.

That is a great joke, she explained. They had another Diddy mention that worked better, And you’re kind of accusing the people in the room of being involved in that, and they might turn on you. Another joke I loved conclave. It’s about choosing any poop. It was heartwarming.

It’ll touch you so much that the church will have to move to another theater. Hot tip. You don’t need ID to get into the conclave after party, She explained, we didn’t do that because there were Catholic joke pedophile jokes. We’ve all heard them. We don’t need more of that.

A tag to her joke about calling Adrian Brody a two time Holocaust survivor for his appearance in two Holocaust movies, The Pianist and the Brutalist, dropped from that joke was the tag if Adrian Brody could go back in time, he would thank Baby Hitler for his career. Nicki said, I love that one so much, but my assistant is gen Z and she was like, I don’t get it. Nicki explained, Oh, we’re gonna lose a whole generation on that joke, and then I’ve said Hitler for nothing. Another cut joke, only murders in the building is amazing. I think it’s so cool that legends like Steve Martin Martin short and Meryl Streeper all in it.

It just goes to show you you’re never too old to still need money. Why are you working so hard? What’s going on? Did you get caught up in the hawk to a crypto scheme? That’s a good joke.

Why don’t you cut that one? Glenn Powell’s nominated tonight for hit Man. Who would have thought you’d only be the second hottest hit man in America? This one probably a good cut. This is the only show where you can see the biggest stars in movies and TV joined together with a common goal getting out here tonight before Dak Sheppard asked them to do his podcast, another one good cut.

The Wild Robot is nominated tonight, and by that I mean Nicole Kidman after two white wines. Glazer interestingly said, I wish we could have done that. But if she makes a face. Yeah, you don’t want to make a joke about somebody and then they make a face. It could kill your career?

Or did it? We’ll talk about Joe Hooy on the weekend. Michael Keaton was so great and Beotle Juice and Alec Baldwin sadly did not come back to play a ghost because he was too busy making them. Wow, that’s a great joke, Nicky said, Please know that, I know it wasn’t nice. It’s such a great joke, but it’s just too mean.

Another great joke, here’s Ben Affleck. I can’t wait to see which Jennifer you try to ruin next. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the Golden Gloves producers. They asked why they thought Nicky was so successful and said, hard work. Putting in the work is very important.

And we’ve said it many many times. It sounds redundant, but she was doing literally four or five shows a night in la and other cities for three weeks to get ready for this, and she tested it out on a lot of the jokes and knew what worked and what didn’t work. And her team went to her and said, oh, that joke will work here. Maybe it’s too inside only of the people in the room. I get that the people at home won’t get it.

And she honed it down with the ones that work, and that’s why she did a great job.

And then she hit us with a couple of curveballs along the way, but that was f…

They wound up being funny like popular. So let me remind everybody Joe Cooy only got the job nine days before the Golden Globes. They didn’t have a host at all. So while we’re all killing Joe Koy for being the worst host ever, I mean he told that terrible joke about you know Who’m not going to go there today, Relax, Scott Beckett. He only had nine days.

Give the guy four months. You know, maybe somebody smiles at the joke. Who knows what happens. I still blame her. Bring it swifties.

The Golden Globes ratings were actually down. Initially, CBS reported that the ratings had jumped seven percent from last year’s show, claiming ten point one million viewers. However, Variety later released numbers from Nielsen that showed a dip of two percent in the ratings. With nine point three million viewers. Last year’s show, hosted by Joe Koy, was up fifty one percent from when the show aired on NBC in twenty twenty three.

That year got six point twenty five million viewers. Maybe Joe Koy should be the host after all? Catching up because I was in Antartica. We’ll talk about that after the break. Ali Wong.

Single Lady won Best Stand Up Special of the Year. The other nominees were Jimmie Fox, Nicky Seth Meyers, Adam Sandler, Rommie Yusef. Out of that group, I would have picked Adam Sandler, so that lets you know how bad the picks were. I don’t know who made those nominations, but I would have picked none of the above. And if I had to pick Adam Sandler.

People are mad a comedian Hannah Brenner for a joke Hannah made during that Netflix End of the Year special Thing Torching twenty twenty four. I have not seen it yet. I was in Antartica. Did I mention that Brenner joked she likes Luigi MANGIONI saying luigis so hot right now? Who knew besides Travis Kelcey you could become so popular with women by shooting loads into a billionaire.

That’s a naughty joke there when fan wrote not to be too woke, but that was wildly inappropriate. Relax everybody, It’s a joke. Kevin Nilan is getting a show on Fox Nation. His self produced talk show Hiking with Kevin will go to Fox News streaming thing Hiking with Kevin se’es Kevin Nielan joined by high profile celebrity guests including Nicky Glazer, Conan O’Brien, Rob Low, David Spade, Martin Short, and others as they hike through the canyons of La Malibu, Utah and elsewhere. I’ll let me jump in here.

I’m well aware of the fires. I hope everyone is okay. I don’t want to just flippantly make a reference about hiking through the canyons of La It is horrific what is happening out there. I hope everyone is safe. Clearly.

Neilan recorded this in the past. He said, when I hike with these people, they are really forthcoming. You’re outside, you don’t have an audience in front of you, you don’t have these bright lights, and you’re hiking. You become more casual and open and you have your endorphins going. Fox Nation has made ten episodes of Hiking with Kevin Availabel on a Fox Nation Hulk Hogan was booed in Los Angeles at WWE on Monday night they were making their debut on Netflix.

Gabriel Iglesias weighed in, saying it was a painful experience, but he thinks the WWE should have known better, given that the show was in LA and Hulk Hogan was a major Donald Trump presidential campaign supporter. Gabe said that was painful watching Hulk Hogan get booed. I’m like, yeah, wow, from great to hate that was ugly. That was ugly. But I mean, at the same time, they should have known better.

You know that Hulk Hogan’s been out there on this political train, trying to sell his beer and trying to be on the Trump train. So you take somebody like that and you put them in a blue state in LA, what else is going to happen? That might be the reaction? Hulk Hogan is out hawking a real American beer now an official partner of WWE. I have not yet seen Gabe’s new special.

I’m catching up on life. Did I mention I was in Antarctica? We’ll talk about that after the break. The Hollywood Reporter did a big profile of Gabe for this special. He said, I wanted to let everybody know, Hey, I’ve been around for a very long time, and I’ve seen a lot of things happen, and a lot of entertainers come and go, and if I’m still here after all these years, I shouldn’t have to deal with any of these issues that are amongst us right now about what you can and can’t say.

I’ve always felt, like I said, I’m coming from a good place. It should be okay. I’m trying to be diplomatic and cool about things, but also be like, come on, guys, I’m still gonna be here after this, so let’s just stop it already. In the special, he jokes about things like pronouns and says I’m leaning into it, but I’m not making an agenda to go out and just attack. I never attack.

I react. So it’s me sharing stories about going through certain experiences and how I to them, versus, hey, I want to talk about politics. The Hollood reporter was curious about, what do you mean. You’ve seen a lot of comics come and go. Is there a through line as to why many don’t make it?

And Gabe said, I think it’s pacing. There are a lot of entertainers out there that got the one thing that hits and next thing, you know, Gangham style man, and then you’re gone. I want to comment on that as somebody who’s been a comedy industry adjacent for two plus decades now. The people who last are what I call the brick wall comedians, the guys that tell jokes. The shooting stars are the gimmick comedians.

And I can go all the way back to somebody like Dice, these stylized comedians, you know, like Jim Gaffigan is standing in front of a brick wall telling jokes. Jim’s going to be around another thirty years. Then you’ll have other comedians. And I want to be positive today. I’m not going to pick on anybody, but like Dice had an act, and the act comedians tend to be shooting stars.

So that’s what means by Gangham style. Gabe said, it’s like, whoa, You’re on top of the world a minute ago. Where do you go? Being nice goes a long way. I think a lot of times people forget that and they start being a jerk.

He faces to people that eliminates people quickly and then being consistent with me, all the specials of branded everything is fluffy something you want to keep reminding people that that’s the brand. Sometimes people will say, well, that’s pretty excessive, and I go no, because all it takes is one or two years for them to start forgetting you. You have to constantly remind them and continue to put out what you’ve been putting out. I can’t just be doing a show that’s fun and friendly and then all of a sudden you go to this political rant about who you should vote for, because now you’re turning people off. The hollyd reporter was like, you refine this fluffy person over the years.

How’s he different from the real you? Gabe said, the guy on stage is just louder and talks more. So. Yeah, I went to Antarctica over the break. My daughter and I went flipping over all the cards here.

The last sixteen episodes of this podcast were pre taped. Now it was the holidays, so it’s a good time of year to be away. I can’t imagine another scenario where I would hand in two and a half weeks of pre taped shows because usually when I travel, I bring the laptop with me and just do the show from wherever I am. You know, I’m pretty open with you guys that’ll pretape a weekend or sometimes you know, wrap a weekend with a Monday pre tape. But for the most part, I do the show quote unquote live.

But yeah, it was a lot coming up with stuff for sixteen days of pretapes. Thank you Mike Chisholm for letting me rerun the interview on New Year’s Day, so that saved one. End of the year countdowns came in pretty handy in terms of the show. I want to pretape the weekend. I’ll give you quote unquote live shows through this weekend just to catch up.

I’m not gonna go back and do every story then I missed. You know, it’s Daily Comedy News, not daily comedy story. John didn’t get to two weeks ago, say John Mulaney on Broadway. We’ll just let the past be. I do need to catch up on my specials.

I didn’t see Nates, I haven’t seen Gabe, I didn’t see the End of the Year thing. I didn’t see Michelle Buteau and whatever else came out. But we’ll catch up here anyway. It is good to be back in the basement studio recording the podcast. But Antarctica, man, people are asking about it.

A typical day would be breakfast, You put on all your cold gear. You get in on a zodiac boat, which is like a big raft boat with a motorized engine, head over to the land, walk around, stare at penguins and seals. Come back, change out of your wet clothes, go eat lunch, go back to the room, put your wet clothes back on. Back to land again. Do that again for another two three hours.

Come back for dinner, pass out because you are exhausted. Repeat. It was amazing. It does take a minute to get there. On my way down, from leaving my home to JFKA Airport to actually checking into the hotel room was a thirty one hour trip.

So if you say to me right now, hey, you want to fly to Sydney, and I’m like, all I have to do is get on a plane in Los Angeles and watch moviees for sixteen hours, no problem, I’ll go. You may have heard of the Drake passage and the Drake shake. That is no joke. I was fine. My poor daughter has spent two days in bed twice.

It’s two days at sea before you get to Antarctica. And if you don’t like rocking boats, don’t go. But if you’re an adventurer, I highly recommend you go. I did an expedition cruise, so this wasn’t a big Disney cruise. This was one hundred passengers and forty crew on a boat probably maybe small than the Staten Island Ferry for New Yorkers, but definitely not a giant cruise ship.

And it rocked. But I had an awesome time. When I get some time, I’m going to make a podcast out of it, and I will share that with you when we get a little closer. All right, back to comedy. SNL is turning fifty.

Did you know that way? You should talk about that at some point. Will Ferralt, Tina fe and Andy Simberg are in a promo for Peacocks SNL fifty Beyond Saturday Night, which will celebrate the show’s fiftieth anniversary.

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Also appearing in the special Dana Carvey, Tracy Morgan, Amy Poehler, and Jim…

Andy Samberg says, my first audition I threw up. One of the four episodes centers on the more cow Bell Sketch, one of the Alzheimer’s. Another episode focuses on the problematic Season eleven that came close to getting the show canceled. Jimmy Fallon says, this is beyond my wildest dreams that you’re making a documentary about the cow Bell sketch. Some other specials coming out January twenty seventh, NBC’s Ladies and Gentlemen fifty Years of SNL Music, and a live primetime special will be on NBC in peacock A February sixteenth.

Also, we have to monetize everything, so live from Sacks Fifth Avenue is some limited edition SNL inspired merchandise. Fans of the show can visit a dedicated landing page on the Sacks website which features the items available to shop. Should we do this? We should do this. I’ve been away for two and a half weeks.

We can go long today. All right. It took a couple of clips, but I found it, and I don’t get it. If you really want, you can get a Favorite Daughter baseball cab that’ over a new forty eight dollars. You can get a Favorite Daughter SNL Sport and Spirit cotton tote bag that over a new fifty bucks.

You want favorite Daughter SNL Auto five pocket jeans, those are only two hundred and forty eight dollars, and a tote bag that says favorite Daughter SNL Live from New York. That one’s fifty dollars if you’re looking for a more Cowbell T shirt that might actually be fun. Nope. The president and chief commercial Officer of SACKS says, We’re excited to partner with Saturday Night. I’m bringing together two iconic brands out of shape culture and delighted our respective audiences for decades.

This is being spun as saying SAX and SNL have a long standing relationship. You see their flagship store is across from NBC’s A thirty Rockefeller Plaza headquarters. Yep, okay, uh huh. The trailer is out for Amy Schumer’s new Netflix comedy feature Kind of Pregnant. In Kind of Pregnant, Amy Schumer plays a lady who wears a fake baby bump while feeling jealous of her best friend’s pregnancy and ends up meeting a perfect guy.

In the trailer, Amy asked, did you ever feel like such a big lie you don’t know how to get out of it? Some of the comments on YouTube include, this trailer makes me want to sit on my TV and watch my couch. Is it too late to replace Amy Schumer with another actress? And it seems like Netflix took a look at what Taylor shared in has been doing by appealing to regular Americans who just want a fun time and said, yeah, let’s do the exact opposite of that.

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Caloroga Shark Media been there. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Jim Gaffing. Until the La Times that stand up has changed so much, to the notion that people are putting out multiple specials didn’t exist when I started stand up. But I think that people who consume a stand up comedian’s material, there’s a familiarity, but it’s like a friendship. You can’t have the exact same conversation.

Even though we all have friends where it’s like we’re having the same conversation about high school. It has to be different. You both have to challenge each other. So for me working on the special or working on this new hour that I’m working on now, it’s self assignment. So some of it.

Any creative person’s like, what can I talk about that is embarrassing or revealing. I think that people that have tracked me along the way in my stand up would be interested in my view and parenting. I’ve always had the view that I suck at it, but I have greater empathy for what all parents are dealing with, and I think also parents of this era, we’ve made mistakes and it doesn’t help. With social media and the apps and the screens. And that’s something that’s revealed in doing my stand up and in reading some of the parenting books.

Parents of teenagers have this perspective. Adults have an impression of what their teenage years were like, and I’m providing this point of view about what it’s like to live with these people. It’s kind of a cliche raising teenagers is like raising a mentally ill person. It sounds harsh. We know this is a natural separation process where teenagers challenge things.

But I love that I’ve gained this perspective of was my data jerkface? Or maybe I was a jerk face? He used the D word. Maybe it’s kind of basic, but that’s something that’s universal. We all went through being teenagers, and not necessarily the conflict, but the misunderstanding between the teenager and the parent, which I find fascinating.

Jim Jeffreys told Rolling Stone that he wants to act more. Name dropper Jim said, I texted Russell Crowe excuse me, and I said, Russell, I’ve got an acting job. Can I call you quickly for some tips? And I think he thought I just wanted acting tips, and I was asking him more about when you talk to a director, what do you do here? Is it too much for me to add a line here or there?

Do you not do that? In trauma? But Russell sent me a quote from Hamlet and told me to hold up a mirror to nature and I went, thanks, mate. Rolling Stone asked him if stand up could take a back seat to film. Jim said, that’s like saying, do you think you’ll have sex with more tractive women?

It’s not my decision, is it. They get to make the choice. Now. Obviously I’m joking, I’m a happily married man. Blah blah blah blah blah.

But you get what I’m saying. It’s up to the movie industry. It’s not up to me. I look at Sammy Davis Junior. I watched a documentary about him.

He was a really good singer, an amazing dancer, and outstanding impersonator and all that type of stuff. He was a ball of entertainment, and I’d like to be that. I like the idea that I can entertain at any time. So whether it be TV presenting or acting or doing stand up, I just consider myself to be an entertainer first and foremost. I don’t think I can because of my voice or whatever.

But I’d like to do a bit of musical theater or something like that. I’d give that a crack. I’m up for doing everything but juggling and mime. Anthony Jesson expoke to crack dot com about his influences Stephen Right, Ronnie Dangershfield, and Mitch Hedberg. They were curious where he discovered those guys.

Anthony said, it must have been late night TV as a kid, waiting for those last five minutes of Carson to see who would show up. I remember watching a lot of end of Carson’s waiting for Letterman to come on. They would usually have a comic at the end. I’m sure, well, Stephen writes HBO special at some point, but I must have been introduced through late night sets Hebburg. I didn’t find out about until i’d been doing comedy for about a year, but Stephen Wright was the first, and then Dangerfield was like, oh, I’m into this guy too.

But Stephen Wright to me was huge. Did Jessinic try and mimic, writs Cadence. He said, no, surprisingly not. You could say Christopher walk In for sure has had an impact on how I speak, even though my dad gets the same comparison, But Stephen Wright was almost too much of a departure from my character. Maybe there would have been a couple of years in college when I was smoking too much pot that I could have had a Hebburg kind of personality.

But I never had that burnout thing either, which just more of how did they think of? That? Crazy twist? Never really entered into my persona with my friends in the beginning. Has the Anthony Justinic character evolved over time, and he said, I think of the character as an aging punk rocker.

At this point. In the beginning, it was like, there are no lines. If everybody offend everybody, let’s go. And I’m glad I did that in my twenties and that helped me out a lot my idols who have softened as they get older. I find that to be interesting, and as the world changes, you find yourself going from the villain of the hero.

My past is my past, then I’ll never apologize for it or try to whitewash it. But I think I’ve gained a lot of wisdom, a lot of knowledge and life experience. I like that I’ve softened and that the act isn’t as hardcore as it used to be. I think that’s good, and I think that’s more interesting. I don’t think of the character evolving, but as I write, I’m reacting to what’s popular around me.

If the biggest comics in the world started getting real family friendly, maybe I would go darker and would go harder. There’s plenty of comics now that are just as dark and hardcore as I used to be. It’s next part too justting listen to this. I think they lack my writing talent now. I just see a lot of culture personality.

I think having a popular podcast is more important than having a good act. That’s how it dies with the podcasting. You don’t really have to do anything other than have a popular podcast to sell tickets, and you’ll have a great show because the audience loves it, and you’re never really testing anything out. That’s why I see all these podcasts put out a special. They’re immediately savage by critics and forgotten about to the point that people don’t even want to write about it, because there’s no point in writing a negative review of something that’s just friends hanging out, which is what comedy’s becoming.

He’s both not wrong and somewhat wrong. I mean, I get what he’s saying about things having less artistic reaching. But on the other hand, from the consumer point of view, Hey, I went out, I saw somebody I dig. I had a good time and laughed, and I went home hopefully, and I’m home by ten thirty because I’m old. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.

Not everything has to be art, and I know I sometimes argue that both ways, but I don’t know. If you go out and you have a good time, that’s fine. Like as I reviewed these specials, some of them are just fine. I can be a comedy snob, I admit it. Shang Wang, I like him a lot.

He spoke to The Texas Standard talked about his friendship with Ali Wang, who executive produced a special, and said, yeah, she’s a friend of mine. We met in the early days of doing stand up. We were both in the open mic scene in San Francisco in the early two thousands, and we’ve been friends ever since. I mean we got closer later on. We both moved to New York together around the same time.

She moved to LA to be a writer, and I followed her out there, And so I’ve been sort of following her footsteps and just kind of following her playbook in a way, so to speak. I kind of live in the ghost of Alley’s past. I have her old furniture, her old couch or old nightstand, and I might even tape my second special where she taped her second special. So I’m just kind of following the Alley Wong playbook in a weird way because it works. But I’m very grateful for our friendship and for all the sports she’s given me.

It’s pretty incredible to have a friend like that. I mean, she’s an incredibly talented person, but I think it’s also helpful to have a friend succeed to that level where you get a sense of like, this is a friend. This person also kind of looks like me, she’s an Asian American, and just makes it feel a little bit more accessible, like these things are possible. Of course, it helps when she produces a direction comedy special. JB.

Smooth as advice for aspiring comics, it is find who you are, constantly work on your style, matristylity of personality, say things that only you would say, and talk about what you know about. Don’t be stuck in one place. It’s great to have material, but you don’t want to be a robot. You want to be able to connect with people. If you can walk on stage and grab that microphone, you’re fifty percent there already fifty percent of what it takes is to get up there.

There’s rules, of course, you gotta have an intro, you gotta have a presence on stage, you gotta have a certain amount of last person minute. But you don’t have to go buy those rules. There’s something being offbeat and true to yourself and talking about what you know about, which is absolutely golden because you’re taking people on vacation, on a trip through your brain. Kevin Nielan said cancel culture has stifled some comedians. For someone like me, I don’t have a problem with it because I never really ventured in that area.

I may touch on something where someone’s like, hey man, you can’t do that, but some people get away with still. I don’t really have a problem with the woke stuff. Although my wife and son won’t come to see my shows because they’re afraid I’ll get canceled and be the last person to get canceled. People won’t even cancel my reservation if I don’t show up. I think a lot of comedians hopefully will evolve, like people do in their profession or whatever it is, They’ll find better ways of doing it.

I always try to be unique in my voice, because that’s what matters, That’s how you stand apart from other comedians. Now that we have zillions of comedians, it’s hard for comedians to become unique or be unique and also have something original say that isn’t about McDonald’s or whatever. A hard reporter I spoke to Matt Rife who said other comics have told me they miss not only the pace of stand up, but the level of control. Do you want to be an actor? Right?

Said? I don’t feel like I need control. I’m not a point now where I want to learn something new. I want to get better at something else. I mean, I’m getting so much better, so much faster at stand up, and I’m learning how to hopefully prepare for a lifetime of this, And now that I see that that’s achievable, I’m like, Okay, awesome.

What are some other skills that I can sharpen along the way that are only going to help everything else that I do. The better comedian I am, the more people are gonna want to watch the movies that I’m in, and the more movies I’m in, the more people are gonna want to see what I do live at a stand up show. Whose career mighty want to emulate? You have the Big Three Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, and Adam Sandler. Imagine Matt Riife doing Adam Sandler type movies.

I might have to quit the podcast. Those are the ones who did best, and I don’t know that anybody will ever do it at that level again, That’s my dream. Comedians who took their fan base into the theaters with their comedic talents and then they were able to transition over to different genres, especially dramas. I mean, my god, Robin Williams A Goodwill Hunting is one of my favorite acting performances of all time. Ryan Reynolds is my idol.

That’s who I’d love to work with more than anything, and he has this type of acting career that I’d love to try to emulate, and he’s done everything new top Egg Mett Rife, Who do you see is your core audience at this point? Young people, older women? Rife said, it’s a mix of everybody, which is so crazy and so cool. That’s a non answer. Nobody has everybody, most comedians, and this is exactly why you’d asked this question.

I have a relatively specific audience, whether it’s a specific race or gender or age range. But for us, it’s kind of everybody. There’s many people in their early twenties as there are fifty and up, just people who love comedy. What’s on your bucket list? I’d love to do more movies and TV, and I’d love to work with Ricky Gervais.

Adam Carolla and Jay Leno are getting ready to do a Comedy Fantasy Camp in La January twenty third through to twenty sixth. The four day camp offers workshops, Q and as and panels on all things comedy, from TV writing and podcasting to performing on stage. The Rap spoke with them. They pointed out that Adam’s from Southern California, Jay’s from Boston. Is there a difference between the comic sensibilities you know, Southern California vers East Coast?

Leto said, no, you know. Mark Twain said travel is the enemy of bigotry, and the fact is more you travel, the more you can pick things up and take them from other people. When I started to get popular in Boston and I left town because I was gonna wind up having a Boston base act. And I left and I said, I’m gonna go someplace else. But back in New England, I was a lazy guy.

I came here and suddenly I was the hardest working person because I didn’t have the southern California mentality. I didn’t go surfing in the daytime. So I think it’s good to travel around. If you got a joke that works in Texas and Anchorage, it’s gonna work everywhere. Awful things happen to you your first year you come here, you learn who’s a crook, whose agent is bad.

Second year you get a couple jobs. Takes three or four years before things clicked. This sounds horrible. You sort of learn who’s in town, who’s a real agent, who could really do something for you. You know, it takes a while.

It’s a lot of fun. It’s a great way to make a living. I mean, I figured I’d do it until I had to get a real job. I just never had to get a real job. It’s a job.

Don’t hang out with your pals at night. I mean I saw it at the comedy store. It became people just live there. You’re doing coke in the back. You have jokes about the thing on the wall the comedy store and about the window, and then you go to a real place and it doesn’t have those things.

Nobody knows what you’re talking about. I’d say that happen in Boston. Guys have twenty minutes on Kenmore Square. Then you go to Hartford and people go what. And that is your comment news for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. John Mulaney talked about how he put together his on stage persona and said, I consciously thought, what if he did Spuden Gray with the energy of Bernie Mack. What if what you were really saying was really confessional and had an edge to it. The language was specific and nuanced, it was personal and contradictory, dark, suicidal, whatever it was.

But he kept saying it with this big show, busy energy, how big can you sell weird and specific? John said he thought, I’m gonna see if you could do a nine minute story about this and just hit it as though you’re doing the best bit about dating ever. I’m gonna tell this long story about how my parents had a complicated relationship with the Clintons and how it sort of plays it and how me and my dad relate to each other, and I’m gonna go on stage and annihilate with it. That’s how he handled twenty Fifteen’s The Comeback Kid. Then for Baby Jay, he said, all right, this is the most confessional one, so it’s gonna be all jokes.

There’s no moment that isn’t supposed to be very entertaining. Michael ian Black told Inside Hook, there’s really only two things on my mind at any given moment, maybe three things, politics, UFO, and poker. Really the only three things I think about with any regularity, he said, is childhood. Interest in UFOs was reignited in twenty seventeen when The Times New York Times did an article about a secret Pentagon program dedicated to investigating UFOs. Michael Lean Black said, they’re like, yeah, we’ve been studying UFOs for decades.

You’re like, wait, you told us that you hadn’t been. You told us for decades that you hadn’t been, that there was nothing to it, and now you’re saying there is. So at the very least, that’s a very compelling story. The thing I find so fascinating about this whole topic is whatever the explanation is, even the most prosaic explanation, is going to be fascinating. Because the most prosaic explanation is that the US has somehow developed tech, or somebody’s developed tech that nobody else has and nobody else even understands.

That’s a fascinating story. Or we all are the US and globally the victims of some sort of bizarre global disinformation campaign, which in a way makes less sense than the alternative, because you have these reports everywhere in the world, Russia, China, Brazil, Mexico, all of Europe to US, Canada, everywhere, So like whatever the explanation, none of it makes sense. And to me, that’s what I love. I just love the mystery of it. In a way I don’t want to know.

Nikki Glaser loves her Tailor Swift. She likes being around Swifties and said, I just love her music so much and singing it with other people love it as much as I do. This is no slight to Tailor. It’s just to speak to the power of her music and her fandom. But it was much fun at a Taylor Swift sing a Long Night as I do it in Aras tour concert.

NICKI, do you have any goals, you know, a surprise song or something that you’re hoping for when you go see Taylor live. I never have any goals because I like all of her songs so much that I really can’t be disappointed. But being able to sing You’re on your own kid with her in the stadium was really special. There have been songs that at first I overlooked, but I fall in love with Like The Lucky Ones is so good because it’s about the way I feel about Hollywood, and you know you’re quickly disposed of, and how you kind of have an exit strategy for when they decide they don’t want you anymore. You have to learn to really like yourself and have other interests because your career could be taken away from you despite what you do, or what you put out or who you are, how talented you are.

I always felt the Tailor was in a good mood performing. Of course she can’t always be, but she never lets it show in her performances. It’s probably because of her performances that she is happy. Do you have a favorite era, Nikki Glaser? I’m always in the era that she’s in.

The Tortured Poets Department really helped me get through preparing for the Roast of Tom Brady when I was really feeling isolated, alone and unsure of myself, and really all I was doing was thinking about roast jokes. It was the greatest gift because it was a distraction. Reminded me I care about other things, that my life is full no matter what happens with the Roast. It really held my hand through that really stressful time in my life.

And then even after the Roast, that was a really tumultuous time for me, just…

But say Elane, I talked about putting together an hour of comedy and said, when I’m on the road, an hour’s worth of material, that’s at least a year’s worth of doing stand up every single night at the Comedy Seller, working out new jokes, redoing jokes over and over. People think I do stand up every once in a while. I do stand up every night. I’m at the Comedy Seller every single night. To write new material, I have to be in front of an audience.

I think in July I did fifty shows at the Seller. You could see it within a week. If I’ve done eighteen shows in a week and I start that joke on a Friday, the next Friday, it’s a different joke. Usually I take May through September to write a bunch of material, and then you work them out in little clubs, trying to piece the material together. Three List spoke to a partner, Ninturilla, about travel.

They asked her window, middle or aisle seat. Johnny Mack loves the window. A partner said, I’ve historically been a window seat person. That’s right, that’s the correct answer. I like being able to nestle into the road, having that wall you can nap against.

Now, because of in my weakening bladder, I think I may have to eventually accept that I’m gonna have to be an aile person because I’m too conflict averse staff to keep asking someone to get up so I can go to the bathroom. One hundred percent on every piece of that answer. Love it all right? Do you pack light or do you overpack? She says, I’m an overpacker.

Johnny Mack is not an overpacker. I went to Australia with a carry on. I can get it done. MacBook airs and I sent in to that helps. And you don’t need to bring a big USB mic with you.

You know, if a famous comedian dies when you’re on the road and you have your book with you, you can use the microphone in the laptop of your audience will understand. Parna says, I’m bringing things that don’t make sense. I think if I had a go bag, it’d be like a three piece set of suitcases. I was just gone for two weeks, and I brought maybe seven or eight outfits. I’d say probably were four of the Moner rotation.

The thing about being an overpacker is when you suddenly need one of those random objects like your old journal, You’ll be like, see, this is why I need this favorite way to pass time on a plane. I was hoping get some work done on a few times I have. I’m like, can I get credit for this? I feel like a shner in miles for this. No, don’t do work in a plane.

Planes are wonderful times. You listen to music you never get to listen to. You close your eyes, you listen to podcasts like don’t Do Work in a Plane. Wi Fi should be banned on planes, and oh man, if they start with the starlink and start people start making phone calls on planes again, no no no no no no no no no. But partner said, I used to be someone who could sleep on flights, but I seem not to have that ability much these days.

So I end up watching something or reading most of the time. Her biggest travel fear something going wrong with the plane. Obviously crashing is the endpoint of that fear, but then I think really bad turbulence almost feels worse to me. You don’t know whether it means you’re going to crash orf it’s just going to be scary for some unforeseeable amount of time. Favorite travel snack some sort of trail mix where you’re getting different bits in one bag and it’s not all one thing, like a pretzel mix or something.

Paula got I spoke to the South China Morning Post. He says I was born in Hawaii in nineteen sixty eight, in the early morning hours after Richard Nixon was elected president. My mother contemplated naming me Richard, but thankfully she was also a Beatles fan and ended up naming me Paul. I have one sibling, a brother who’s fourteen months older than me, which is the two of us in a small Japanese family. He was the eldest son, which meant I was out of luck.

He got all the love, attention and adoration because in Japanese culture, the first born son is treated exceptionally well. It explains how I ended up in comedy, the need for attention and approval. I was on the city championship basketball team when I was a kid, but then everybody kept growing, so I stayed indoors, listening to comedy albums. There’s a lot of truth in comedy. The first comedy album I listened to was Gilda Radner.

In Hawaii, we only had one stand up comedian, Andy Bumasai. I had all his albums and listening to him on repeat day and day out. I could recite them verbatim. I wanted to be like Andy. The opportunity to elicit approval, laughter, an applause with my version of the truth really spoke to me.

In Hawaii, there was only one comedy club and that closed down, so there was no place for me and my friends to perform. In ninety six, I had a very bad idea to open a comedy club in Waikiki. The Comedy Cow was open about a year. Me and my friends had a place to perform at. Robin Williams came through one night.

It was great while it last did, and my finances, hopes, and dreams burned down around me. I learned I’m a terrible business person. I ended up massive debt and shame. I read in the newspaper that one of the morning DJs got fired from the local radio station. I sent a letter to the GM and said, hey, I’m the kind of person that likes to capitalize on other people’s misfortunes, so please hire me to do your morning show.

That turned into two and a half years at the station. That’s what convinced me that I should devote my life to comedy. Morning radio was a great creative experience. You have to write three hours of material every day and then burn it down because you couldn’t do the same show the next day. It forced you to be creative, and I enjoy that.

I didn’t like the hours. I had to wake up at four am to get to the station at five point thirty, which was bad. I did a morning drive. It’s thirty years ago now. I lasted four months on that shift.

It was hell. The alarm would go off at three thirty three every morning or weekday mornings, which was the last possible second where I could shower and get into New York City. And again no interney yet. I had to go find actual newspapers and read them really quickly to do the show. Prep before the five AM morning show.

Anyway. The alarm would go off at three thirty three every morning, and the first thing I would say started with the word F hated it. I hated it. Tom Green caught up with US magazine. He’s living on a farm in Canada and says, after a hectic day, I decompressed by being outside in nature with my dog or writing my mule Fanny.

She’s a big mule, very large and majestic mare. He made a list of twenty five things you don’t know about Tom Green. I won’t read them all, but some of them. Miss Piggy from The Muppet Show was my celebrity crush growing up. His favorite movie is Jaws.

His favorite karaoke song is Space Oddity by David Bowie. His first job was working at Dairy Queen. He made the peanut butter part and said the trick is extra fudge. I collect old coins and I don’t know why. Norm MacDonald was always my favorite stand up comedian.

I discovered him live in the comedy club when he was young and before he was famous. It was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen and made me want to be a stand up comedian. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too, And I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I’ll catch up about the Golden Globes in a couple of days. I was traveling yesterday and again today. Jim Gaffigan spoke to The La Times about parenting, and Jim says, I would say I was a very good teen.

I was very hard working. I would say that my dad was unnecessarily annoyed by some of my behavior.

And now I’m kind of like, oh, I get it.

I totally get what his annoyance was. And these are your children and you do anything for them. But there is a baffo mint. I talk about it in my latest special, where you have this sweet twelve year old and then they change, And obviously I’m using hyperbole and exaggeration, but there is a shift. And what’s so great about touring with the material is that it’s a conversation.

So the feedback from the audience can prove your premise or your theory. So even older parents, empty nesters can say, oh, yeah, that’s true. The hyperbolic humor statement you’re making is only funny because it’s grounded in a shared experience. Sarah Silverman spoke to the Detroit Free Press about the feeling that many women have in midlife about being more self confident and less worried about pleasing others. Sarah said, not everybody grows with age, you know, but it’s kind of thrilling to be like, yeah, I’m not doing that anymore.

I’m not gonna put up with that anymore.

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Also, I’m in a relationship I’m so happy with, but I also know that I love be…

A relationship has to be pretty great for me not to want to be alone. I think that’s a great place to be, and it’s a place I don’t think I could be at a younger age. Sarah has been digging the TV show Detroitters, the twenty seventeen series from Comedy Central that’s been showing up on Netflix. My boyfriend and I are watching Detroiters again. God, I wish there were more than two seasons.

Anytime we order dinner, we throw in Detroiters. It’s such a beautiful comedy. It’s very tricky to do comedy that’s warm and loving but has hardcore funny jokes with Sarah want to do a similar series with one of her female peers. She says, there are so many brilliant women I would love to start with. She was blown away by Kristin Malodian the Penguin and said, I was like, please, can I play her young mom?

She’s so brilliant. Sarah’s out on tour through February first, and said, it’s funny merch this time, which I usually never have. I say in the show. I just really feel like my parents would want me to monetize this. It just kills me because my dad would have borne every single thing.

Ah, they would just love it. Kathy Griffin is increasingly happy with her voice and says I sound like me again, shouting and cursing or my love languages. I tend to yell at the audience, even though I love them. I haven’t lost my hustle. I love the stage.

It’s the only time of fully relaxed. It sounds corny, but I get anxiety attacks. I can’t stop vomiting. I was in a restaurant recently and had to go into a corner. I had flops weat.

I was hoping nobody would recognize me. I had to get it together and drive home. She said. Joan Rivers told her to keep on working and never leave a blank page on the calendar. I worked with Joan.

Joan’s days were packed. I worked with her around two thousand, well, not around two thousand, when it was the fall of two thousand and one, two thousand and two. She would go up to Toronto or Philadelphia and do QVC and walk into the studio at five to six or five to seven. I guess it was a seven o’clock show, sit down, knock out a two hour show, and then go do something else. She like to work Joe Rivers.

Kathy said, I’m cut from the same cloth. Unlike Ellen, Kathy Griffin has no plans to leave the country. I assume that’s election related. She says, I’m not moving. I own a house in Malibu.

I love I have four dogs. I’m gonna keep touring after the inauguration. I’m good at saving money. I have no debt. My house is paid off.

I work with famed financial advisor Suz Orman. She never steers me wrong. Weird Al look back on getting permission from Michael Jackson for Eat It and said, I was completely surprised that he gave me his blessing. My manager, I guess talked to Michael’s representatives and we heard back fairly quickly that he was okay with it. At the time, I was virtually unknown.

I had one album out that didn’t do that great. I couldn’t believe we even got his attention. There’s a contract somewhere in the world that is my signature next to Michael Jackson’s signature, saying you know we are the co writers have eat it. Prior to that, it was tough to get anybody’s permission because nobody knew who weird Awl was.

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And then after we got to eat it, we had that for ammunition.

We could say, well, you know, Michael Jackson was okay with it, why you give me a hard time. If anyone song changed my life, that one certainly did. Because, as I’ve said many times, the day they aided video went into rotation on MTV, you hear of overnight fame, and it’s sort of a myth in most cases, but it was really true for me because right after that video hit MTV, all of a sudden, people are staring at me in public, which you know, never happened before. Paul Reiser was on the Everything Fab four podcast discussing the Beatles and said, my older sister was into them, and I have a vivid recollection of being drawn to live TV. There was just this imprint of importance.

You didn’t know it was going to be the cultural touchdown that it is, but you knowew to watch it. The night in question February nineteen sixty four, the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Reiser said they made good on it with one album after another. Specific Beatle songs are imprinted on the moments of my life, all our lives. Really, the music is so good it seems silly to even give it an adjective.

Seth Meyers told Variety he is consistently writing down funny ideas in real life situations on his phone and can gauge what works by reading different nuances in the audience’s reaction. Seth says, it’s how you feel and telling it sometimes even the way people laugh. You invented it in your life. That’s my wife I’m talking about. But if it’s ever anything, I’m worried she wouldn’t love.

I tried it first, and if you can’t make it work, there’s no reason to have it brought to her. Only when it’s a feasible. Bit to her credit, if it works, She’s always very supportive. I love doing stand up because it’s so different, not just in format, but also in topics. There’s something so universal about my family and should be noticed that even though I bust on them pretty hard, I love talking about them.

They’re my favorite people. Sometimes with Late Night, which is the show I love doing, I spent a lot of time talking about people. I don’t have a great deal of affection for us, so it’s nice to be out there spending an hour sharing anecdotes and observations about my family, the best people on Earth. David Spade caught up with Southjersey dot Com about his podcast, He Does What Dana Carvey Spade said, I wanted to do a podcast, but I didn’t want to do it alone and it was too hard. It seems very easy, and that’s why there are three million podcasts.

I didn’t know who to do it with, and I was trying to think of people. I just get an unknown sidekick, but I felt there’s safety in numbers. I was casually seeing Dana more than usual. He lived near me after always being in San Francisco. I’d hit him up for dinners and would always crack up and then we realized that we always talked about SNL.

We have the same manager. We discussed it and thought maybe this would be a good way to start a podcast. We wanted to do it on video and they didn’t. After a while, they want to do a spinoff, and I said, I’ll do one if it’s on video. So now they do the spinoff called Superfly.

So it’s kind of the same thing. It’s just me and Dana. We get have people on if we want, but the core of it is just he and I. It’s like when you were on SNL, you’d always be kind of aware what’s going on. What feels like a story that’s going to stick around, So we’ll scribble headlines just stories that are funny to me, like when Kanye asked his wife if he could have sex with her mom.

Really that happened, yikes, And then we just talk about it. What would you tell your wife? How would she react? And we just riff on that for as long as we can, and we go to the next story, and then sometimes Dana talks about what it was like on SNL this week, and then I talk about my weekend on the road. It’s a little more fun than Fly on the wall because Dana and I just blabbed like we’re at a dinner.

Spade also talked about hosting the Fox game show Snake Oil. I said, I’m not right for a game show, and then the production company, owned by Will Arnett, said, we want a host where you’re almost annoyed with the game. We’re trying to find different angles on it. Spade said the fun part of Snake Oil, which was on Hulu, is that he had no idea which items were real and which weren’t. I said, don’t tell me which ones are real, and then when I’m playing the game, I’m trying to chime in, going like I have no idea.

I’m not allowed to steer them. But I’m like, I could fully tell you I will guess wrong on this one, because even when I’d watch a rerun, I’d go, I don’t remember if this is real. But that’s the fun of it for me. That’s the hook. I like someone out there is working on a Chris Farley bio pick and Spade said, I’ve talked to the writers and the director, and I think they’ve got a handle on it.

It’s a big, big story to tackle and it’s not my story to tell. It’s whoever’s doing a movie about it. But I’d hope it all goes right. I think everyone that’s involved seems pretty cool, and they’re doing the best they can. So we’ll cross our fingers and hope for the best.

The New York Times profiled Young me Meyer great opening sentence, the comedian Young me Meyer didn’t mean to bring a cockroach into a downtown Manhattan food hall. And maybe she didn’t, but when one scampered across her body, under the table and out in the while, she just assumed that she was it’s host. Quote. I’m like ninety nine percent sure that was in my coat the whole time. My apartment is so cockroach infested that they’re like my pets now.

I mean, I try to clean, but they just won’t go away. I’ve given up. They’re hanging out with me now, they’re coming in my interviews, Caleb Heren spoke to The Cut about growing up in the Midwest. His favorite part of the Midwest Midwest nice. I love it.

A lot of people are like, oh, they’re nice to your face and meet behind your back. It’s not been my experience. Midwestern people are genuinely nice. I love When I’m in Kansas City, people hold the door for you. They say, hey, how you doing.

They really mean it, they really do want to hear about your day. It’s part of the reason that I still have a home in Kansas City, because I literally need it, and I love that Midwestern people will put seven foods were straight up not supposed to eat on a platter and be like, this is dinner. A cast roll is such a messed up concoction. You shouldn’t even be doing stuff like that in the kitchen, and I actually need it to live. I love cheese where it doesn’t belong.

I love four kinds of meat where none are called for. I love an appetizer sampler. I love a big chili with a cinnamon roll. You ever heard of that chili with cinnamon roll that’s happening in the Midwest. The Midwest is our cultural capital of the United States.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News, the Golden Globes or tonight your host Nikki Glaser. No, she’s a Tailor Swift fan. Do you think she’ll make a joke about Taylor Swift? Because last year Joe Coy did that it didn’t go so well.

Nicky said, I’m absolutely thrilled to be hosting the Golden Globes. It’s one of my favorite nights of television. Now I get a front row seat. Actually, I think I have to host from the stage. The Golden Globes is not only a huge night for TV and film, but also for comedy.

It’s one of the few times that show business not only allows but encourages itself to be lovingly mocked. Except for Taylor Swift. Of course, it’s an excitingly challenging gig because it’s live, unpredictable, and in front of Hollywood’s biggest stars who might also be getting wasted wh’ll seated next to their recent exes. Some of my favorite jokes of all time have come from past Golden Globes opening monologues where Tina Amy or Rickey have said exactly what we all didn’t know. We desperately needed to hear.

I just hope to continue in that time on her tradition that might also get me canceled. Vulture writes, we hope, for Glazer’s sake, the Taylor Swift makes happier faces at this year’s set than she did at Joe Coy’s. Now, I feel like Johnny Mack, Why do you keep mentioning Joe Coy? What did he say about Taylor Swift? Here?

Let’s listen. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. I swear it’s just where to go to.

That could possibly be the last time I play that clip, you know, but it probably won’t be. Ted Danson will receive the Carol Burnett Award. The Globe has said dance and has entertained audiences for decades with his iconic performances that will forever be ingrained in television history. My wife was recently talking about Ted Danson and how he’s really good. You remember him as Sam Malone and then you see him in other roles where he’s not Sam Malone at all.

Great job there, I guess in terms of this program, the most interesting category for us will be Best Stand Up Comedian on Television. The nominees and these are all comedy specials. My former co worker Jamie Fox, what had happened? Was Nikki Glaser for Someday You’ll Die, Seth Meyer’s Dad Man Walking, Adam Sandler, Love You, Ali Wang Single, Lady romy USF’s More Feelings, Johnny mack is going with Adam Sandler. I know times have changed, right, or comedy’s gotten really terrible, probably the latter.

I mean, if you’re giving me a list and a picking Adam Sandler, what has happened? Josh Blue told CPR dot Org. No, that’s not you know, a website dedicated to resuscitating people. It’s public radio. And he told those guys what’s beautiful about stand up is I’ll never figure it out completely.

Every time I think I’ve got something pinned down, something new in the world happens, or my brain puts a new connection together. He says, I’ve never written anything down physically. It’s just kind of all off the top of my head. So it’s basically whatever happens in my life in that timeframe. CPR was like, wait, does that mean you’ve lost jokes?

Josh said, oh, I probably have three specials worth of lost jokes. They were curious. So they’re sacrifices for comedian who lives in Colorado, say New York, Chicago, LA, and I’ll throw in Austin there, Josh says. For me winning last Comic Standing in six I was living here and it just skyrocketed me onto the national scenes. I never had to go to LA or New York to get discovered, and then I just became a touring comic and I’ve been doing two hundred shows a year since I don’t drive, so LA is not good for a non driver.

What I did miss was getting to Rubebbels with a bunch of other headlining comics. I missed going out to the comedy store on a Monday, when all the comics come back from tour, just this comic jamboree of Who’s Who? So I missed out. I’m maybe getting on people’s podcast just because they don’t know me from that scene. But my kids are in school, I don’t really have the opportunity to go do that right now.

Maybe later in my career, once they’re off to college, I can go do more of that. But it’s not like they don’t know who I am. They just don’t think of me right away. When a TV sitcom comes up and they’re like, oh, we need a character, I’m just not on their radar. Nick Swartzen got a little serious.

He said, I hate that I can’t eat a lot of food. I wish I could have ten meals a day. When I was younger, I’d eat everything, chicken, wings and ice cream Sundays. Sounds like me watching football on Sunday. So one day when my friends Adam Saydlor asked me how old are you now?

And I said twenty seven. He goes, how you eat is all about to change, you told me when he was twenty seven, his metabolism shifted. He’s like, joy what you’re doing right now, because it’s not gonna last. And all of a sudden I looked up and I was like, do I have a gut? Now?

I can’t eat anything. I ended up getting diabetes, so I can’t have sure he drinks either. The Guardian took a look at people who impersonate famous people. Tim Oliver dresses up as David Brent from the UK Office Brent Surrell as Gareth Keenan, also from the UK Office. The Guardian writes, I’m waiting for David Brent outside a mall.

Suddenly there’s the star of the office, stretting through the exhibition center, suited, booted, goatet and ready to rock. Shoot, he says, while making a gun with his fingers before doing an awkward shuffle of his tie. Look closer, though, and it’s clear that this isn’t Brent as performed by Ricky Gervaiz, but by someone else entirely. Tim Oliver has been performing as David Brent for twenty years now. Before that, he ran an events business in Sussex, but his face was calling out for a new career.

Tim says, it took me a good eighteen months to come to terms with the fact that I looked like him, like this weird, awkward boss who just wanted to be loved. People started coming up to me all the time, so I just thought it’d be criminal not to do something with it. He took some photos, sent them to a lookalike agency and booked a gig. He said, I was there for about three hours. It’s just mucking him out.

I thought to myself, that was a lot of fun and the easiest money I’ve ever made. He’s hugely in demand for birthdays, bachelor parties, corporate events. He not only looks like David Brant, he has his mannerisms and lines, and his voice is pitched perfect. He explains, I ripped audio off the DVDs and played it in my car everywhere I went. I drummed it in to myself.

People that have never met me before are always ask is that your real voice? Sometimes it’s kind of like I’ve lost my own identity. Maybe I’m not Tim anymore. I’ve become David Brent. It’s kept me going for twenty years, and I’ve got four kids, a nice car, and nice house.

Fortunately, he is able to turn his other persona off. He says, when the ties on, I’m in Brint mode and ready to work. But a minute the tie comes off, I’m back to being Tim. When Brent, it’s like I’m wearing armor. It’s almost like a superhero suit.

If I make a mistake, it’s fine because that’s what Brent would do. He often gets booked and teamed up with Brett, who plays Gareth. If we get booked for a gig in a pub, it could take half an hour just to get through the room. Oh, this gets even more fun. Oliver says, I was asked to do a porno.

Someone wanted to make an office the porno film. He passed. That’s got to exist, right. I would look it up for you and tell you, But then my wife’s gonna be like, wait, what are you doing in the basement, And I’ll be like, I’m recording my comedy podcast, what do you think of doing?

And then I’ll have to explain why I googled office porn.

You can do your own research. Fake David Brent said, I did a wake once, which was my first and last. These young lads convinced me to do it for their maid who had died. My job was to go up to the DJ, grab the mic and sing free Love Freeway. So I go up in the family are just staring at me.

I took the mic off the DJ and went straight into pretty Girl in the Hood of a Cadillac Yeah, and started singing. Then I did a mic drop. It was horrible. I will never do another one. You’re at a wake, that’s not meant to be.

Wow, that’s amazing. Enjoy the Golden Globes and I’ll see you tomorrow.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with your Daily comedy, and he was. Jerry Seinfeld and Ronny Chieng had a discussion printed in Interview magazine, and Jerry said, my daughter is writing comedy and I’m teaching her wherever I can. But the main thing I teach is, in this life, you must always please the comedy gods. They dislike arrogance and ego.

They will smite you if you display too much arrogance, but they will also smite you quickly and seriously if you’re not bold when the opportunity to presents itself. I actually believe in this and we watch it happen every single day. Anytime you want somebody do a set, the gods right there to smack them. You don’t question them, you don’t argue with them. You accept their judgments.

If you don’t supply what they demand, which has laughs, they will make you sorry. It’s like a dog and food. Your dog is the most wonderful pet. Stop feeding them and see how long that lasts. New topic.

Ronnie said, your generation created the infrastructure of comedy, and in many ways, you guys were the pioneers of stand up comedy. Did you age into a different perspective. Does your audience age with you? Jerry, I’ve seen many comics girre oled, I mean, all the guys I love in the sixties. They were old, but ages a little different now than it was in those days.

Forty was pretty old. So it comes down again to what the comedy gods require. You. Love must be pure. Yeah, the money’s great, famous, great, but they’ll catch you at that if you try to pull that crap on them.

They’re the gods. They see everything. Ronnie, Are you trying to convert me to Judaism? Is that what this is? Jerry?

Sure, But Jews don’t look for converts. That’s why they’re so few of us. We sell everything else really well, Ronnie. Part of me loving stand up comedy is realizing that it’s separate from show business or Hollywood. At least I used to want Hollywood to give me flowers.

I wanted to be acknowledged that I had a good set, or I sawed out this venue. But the more I do comedy, the more I’m like, nah, I’m glad they don’t know what I just did. I’m surprised when people know that I do stand up comedy. I’m genuinely shocked, Jerry. That’s funny.

Stand up comedy is an island off the coast of show business. The money we got paid last night versus the money Netflix basis, it’s connected. I know it’s not amusing interesting how it happened, but it happened twenty fifteen when Chris Rock was offered a big chunk of dough to do an election stand up special. What she couldn’t do? That offers when everything flipped, Then all of a sudden, for the first time, it’s like, are we important, Ronnie?

You didn’t feel that way with the sattires like John Stewart. Jerry, No, you were still in exile. Who’s invited in a side dish that everybody likes? But it’s not important, Ronnie. But that’s what makes it cool, right.

It took me so long to realize that what makes stand up cool was being the side dish, being outside of it. Like you said in your famous award winning speech, we don’t want to win awards. We want to be in the back of the room making fun of people getting awards. Jerry, I would like to talk a little bit about some of the profanity you use. What’s your philosophy with that, Ronnie, I don’t want to rely on it.

Are we talking about swear words or just profane premises? Jerry profane premises. I don’t mind. I shouldn’t even be doing this in his interview. It’s only because your language skills are so exceptional.

This is my personal opinion. Feel free to reject it. But the reason we’re paying to see Ronny Chieng is because he talks better than us. Some comedians say, well, I like to use words to help people talk. If I want to hear people talk, I don’t need to pay for that.

I get his open the window. It does hit me sometimes when I see you use certain words, I go, Ronnie could get that same laugh without that word. Not because the words are offensive, because they’re not, but because it’s an opportunity to demonstrate your superior skill level. That’s the reason I bring it up, Ronnie. I appreciate that.

But you’ve given my mother fuel for the rest of her life. She’s been telling me you gotta be more like Seinfeld. He has unswear. Now Seinfeld is literally telling me to stop swearing. Jerry.

My mother wanted me to have more sexual material, Jane, are you serious? Jerry, I’m serious in her eighties and nineties should complain, why don’t you ever talk about sex? Isn’t that funny? Ronnie? Honestly, if your punchline is swearing, I think that’s when it gets a little lazy.

But pushing herself to not swear at all is a degree of difficulty. Sometimes the economy of words makes it so that it’s the easiest way to get across a certain emotion. But I hear you, Tom Papa has told WTP. When I was a kid, the first comedy albums I ever heard were George Coroland and Steve Martin. I was in like seventh grade and I heard Class Clown and Let’s Get Small.

In one week, my friend’s older brothers had these albums that it seemed mysterious, and we went in and heard these albums. I was always funny as a kid, but it dawn on me that week, Oh, there’s a job out there for grown ups to continue being funny. He launched his career in nineteen ninety three New York City, where he met Jerry Seinfeld. Tom says that was after his TV show when he came back to the clubs and he saw me on stage. I thought it was funny.

I just grabbed on his coattails and didn’t let go. Sabash in Maniscalco was about keeping the intimacy of a comedy show in a big arena. Sebastian said, I mean we grew up in a world where were always looking to screen. Anyway, I’ve noticed even in my own shows that people in the third row were looking up at the screen even though I’m right there. So screens are very important as well as lighting.

I’ve also tweaked the lighting where it brings a little bit more of a dramatic look to the stage, so it’s almost as if we’re shooting a special every night in terms of the way the arena is lit. Really took some time and trying to make this more an event than it’s been in the past. I like my shows in the past, and I’ve had pirotechnics and smoke when i come on stage. It’s not like I’m new to production. But this was looked at from a different angle.

So yeah, it’s been along road. It hasn’t been easy. You don’t become the CEO overnight. You got to work your way up. I started waiting tables at the four Seasons hotels for seven years when I was doing stand up comedy, and here we are playing Dilms twenty five years later.

I had some rat tat tat with weird Al from Interview magazine. Where do you dance? Aw only on stage when looking like an idiot? Is somewhat appropriate? Interview?

The world is Ending? What are you wearing? Al? Obviously not clean underwear? Interview?

What eighties fashioned tran? Do you want to make a comeback? Ol? Parachute pants? Interview?

What song is playing in Heaven? Al? Never Going to give You Up? By Rick Astley? Interview Do you have any rules for life?

Al? Do you want to others and then just keep doing it even if they beg you to stop. The Columbus Underground caught up with Mike Kaplan. They said they were listening to a set he did for dry Bar Live from the Universe. What struck them was my Champlan’s pacing.

There wasn’t a wasted moment. How do you purchase pacing, Mike Kamplan? Mike says, well, there’s a story attached to that particular set. I hope it doesn’t take anything away from your praise. Dry Bar is a company based in Utah.

The recordings are made of venue that doesn’t have alcohol. It’s in a bar. But the main deal about the esthetic is that it’s essentially clean comedy of a specific type. There were very specific guidelines and topics they prefer to avoid, if I remember correctly, they don’t even love it when comedians speak meanly about their spouses. I think we settled on about an hour’s worth of material that we felt was potentially perfect for it.

Out of the five hours of material we had, they only asked for half an hour. Over the course of the next month, I decided which half hour would be and essentially constructed it, so the whole piece was essentially like a cleanest and greatest hits on my past decade and a half of work. I decided, Okay, I think this joke would be a good ending, and I think this would be a good beginning, and then we group the other jokes. There may be a few vegan jokes, few jokes about relationships, few jokes about movies. It was a fun thing to put together in a different way than creating a new hour from scratch.

It was like old costumes that I was trying on again and being like, oh, I can stretch this one out again and find new youth in it. It’s really funny to revisit a joke I wrote fifteen years ago, because sometimes it seems like it was almost written by a different person in a way. With respect to how I achieved my cadence, I guess the simple answer is I don’t know. I did a show the other night in New York and it was a French name Matthew in the audience with a French accent. I asked him a question and I forget what I asked, and he said, if you want me to understand, please speak slower.

And I was like, this might not be for you then, not yet. I said that as a joke, but I probably think I kept in mind that he was there and it became a fun item to return to check in with him. I got a lot of notes early in my career to slow down, and I understand on different nights of different material for different crowds, I’m not always going at the same clip. I wasn’t the special. We’re talking about fascinating stuff there, right.

Aaron Chen was on Vulture’s list of the comedians You Should and Will Know Comedy Opinion You’ll die on. I really believe that the innovative creativity of TikTok and other more unconventional platforms and ways of entertaining should be just as valid as the conventional modes. Great comedy could be found anywhere. In the beginning of my TikTok journey, there were some people who suggest that I step out of my character for videos. I’m so glad I stuck to my gut and didn’t.

I’m so grateful that my platform is, for the most part, this totally fictional world for me to play in. Best advice was from my mom, who told me to keep pursuing comedy because, according to her, you have to be in comedy because you can’t help it be funny. That’s why I’ve been laughing you since you were little. Oh all right, fri end of the show. John Marco Cirezi was also on the list of the comedians who should and will know.

His answers were so long, I’ve split this up into like five of these. Check back in with John Marco. He says, what I’ve learned is nothing can replicate saying a joke, chunk story out loud in front of a full audience, even if I haven’t come up with an alternative line, even if it means I’m gonna bomb or worse, get a soft laugh, I just have to keep saying until something deep in my subconscious screams out a better version loudly enough for me to hear. Embarrassment is unfortunately one of the best tools for making comedy. I’ve also tried to fine tune the ability to go Okay, that might be funny, but who gives an f for?

Yeah, this joke is in his fine tune, but it’s clearly what you want to be talking about right now. I tend to write far more than I would ever actually need stand up wise, and I’m trying to be more purposeful in what I choose to spend my creative time on, because oftentimes writing a new joke is just an excuse to not finish the old one. They got a little bit into money, and he said I should mention that I really wish I could make money off Twitter. I know it wouldn’t be much, but boy, I want the ability to post long videos and make money off tweets. Let that speak to just how much I hate Elon Musk and how full of bleep I am acting like any of these other social media giants are not equally contributing to the downfall of civilization and meaningful art.

I don’t know what’s worse, trying to understand algorithms or having your entire career depending on whoever the hell book The Tonight Show starring Jenny Carson. I would imagine one’s opinion would entirely depend on if that guy liked you or not, Considering I haven’t gotten on the Tonight Show now, I’m fine with the former. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like to see.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Oh man, you’re excited. It’s Jason Kelsey’s Late Night Show debut tonight at one am, which technically is tomorrow, but ESPN doesn’t want you to talk about that. We’re gonna pretend it’s Friday night, not Saturday morning. Who cares, John, They call it Late Night begains its five week run Friday nights at one am Saturday on ESPN, taped in front of a live audience in Philadelphia.

Topics discuss will be mainly football and the weekend’s games. However, he plans to have guests from all walks of life. Whitney Cummings not wasting any time in the new year. The second leg of her Big Baby North American tour kicks off today in Austin. She will also play cities such as Tampa, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Napa, Milwaukee, Seattle, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Knoxville.

She’ll also do four cities at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival in Canada. Boy, they’re booking quite the lineup. Fans can expect her to take on the chaos of personal growth, owning her mistakes, and her reflections on raising a son Whitney told Deadline, I’m so psyched to add more cities to the Big Baby Tour, especially since my Big Baby loves to tour. I used to think having a kid would be the end of my comedy and touring career, so it’s been a miracle to see so many people coming out to hear what I have to say about motherhood and being so excited for me to finally grow up and start building a family after sharing so much about my crappy childhood and relationship mistakes.

Also, I’m trying to leave California, so each city I go to, I’m also audition…

Two shows tonight at Rogan’s Club, the comedy Mothership seven and ten, also two tomorrow, and an eight o’clock show on Sunday night. Jim Jeffrey spoke to Rolling Stone about his chunk about America’s need for gun control. Jim estimates that that sixteen minute chunk has been seen ten times more than anything else he’s ever done. Some people don’t appreciate the bit, and he’s gotten death threats. Jim says, yeah, you get those, But if someone’s going to kill you or they’re not going to send you a threat.

Every time I get a death threat, I feel a little safer, you know what I mean. Could there be a weaker action in this world than somebody on social media sending you a death threat. Hay then goes on to say, like, if insert famous people here haven’t been assassinated, why would I be first. I’ve got to be low on the list, Like you’re kidding me, right, They’re gonna go Gandhi, Martin Luther King, JFK, John Lennon, Jim Jeffries come on now. And he says, I do feel like I’m this comedian who’s both loved and hated by the left and the right.

Anthony Jelinik talks who cracked about cutting up clips so the way the younger comedians do, and he says, I understand why the clips are popular and why they help. YouTube used to be the thing. Now it really is TikTok and Instagram. Everybody says, I love your clips, and I think I’m uniquely suited to that format. Just through sheer luck, where you can use all my back catalog.

Even though I haven’t been doing anything but touring for the past two years, I’ve had a social media team that’s gotten me close to a million followers on those platforms, just through old things. I don’t know what i’d be doing if I was starting out today. I don’t know if I would try to get on more multimedia, maybe try to write more. Maybe I would have started my own podcast earlier on. I just always wanted to be a stand up and now it seems like the top thing you can do in stand up comedy isn’t stand up, it’s podcasting.

Podcasting is its own TV show. Now it’s gotten a little weird for my taste. It used to be we’re just hanging out fing around. Who’s listening to this? We have no idea.

Now it’s about money. Now it’s like, if I show up and I’m not in a good mood on your podcast, I’m costing you money. If I say something bad about your podcast, it’s affecting someone’s bag. I think that’s changed the art. I think talking trash about other comedians comics being like that joke sucks.

What’s what I can do. It’s like in hip hop, where everybody’s feuding all the time. It’s good for the art form, whereas in stand up now there’s so much money in podcasting. You can’t say anything otherwise you’re a hater or you’re jealous of someone’s Patreon, which is insane to me that that’s even a real thing. Boy, that’s a really interesting answer there, right, Justin and I gay.

If you told me that I’d become a stand up comedian, it would be my greatest dream. I don’t have a boss. I don’t have to listen to anyone, but if they’re like you better pay attention to what Joe Robin thinks and what he says, because Joe Rogan can really help your career. I’d be like, what are you talking about? Joe’s fine, but I don’t want to live my life in a way that I have to worry about what he thinks.

I’m sure is a bleep and not gonna move to the city he lives in. I’m embarrassed by what a lot of comedy has become. John Laney told you that when John first told his father want to be a comedian, a dad’s response was best case scenario. You’re like, what, Steve Martin? Is there something wrong with being Steve Martin?

Dude’s had a Hall of Fame career, Melani said. Dad has since chilled. I think he enjoyed seeing Oh It’s a thing people do respect, which was fun for me to watch. I didn’t need them to suddenly become stage parents will love everything I say or even think that comedy is important. I don’t need that, Ali said.

He talked to the Philly Tribune. He works out of Houston. He said, I’ve always been proactive and independent, which is why I chose to live in Houston. The entertainment industry here is not as robust as in other cities, so our artists are primarily independent. We have a strong do it yourself mentality among our R and B singers, actors, actresses, rappers, and entrepreneurs.

We do things ourselves because we know if we don’t, we’ll always be waiting for someone else to give us a chance. I’ve been a stand up comic for twenty seven years. I wasn’t initially involved in social media because I began my career before it became a major platform. Back then, comics focused on getting TV shows or finding someone else produced their specials. I did a network special with Comedy Central, but they owned it and controlled it.

They released it whenever they want, which felt like leaving my career in someone else’s hands. As I prepare the content for my special, I began saving money and setting it aside. Simultaneously. I appeared on various TV shows, but a strategically avoided burning the material I intended to use for the special. Instead, I carefully crafted my performance within the context of each show, ensuring I would retain ownership of the specific content.

I’m hearing more and more of that from comedians, and good for them, right, I mean, we have ways to distribute things. You could be some idiot and abasement talking about comedians and you can self distribute. It’s kind of cool. This is interesting, he says. In my early work, I used physicality, but I always wanted to express a story through movement.

As my artistic perspective evolved, I learned how important it was to understand the essence of my topics. Rather than focus on apparent similarities, I attempted to identify the distinguishing characteristics that set people apart. Take Richard Pryor, for example. Many people appreciate him for his profanity and frank comedy, but that isn’t the real meeting of his work. Prior is comedy delves deeper presenting perspectives on life and the transformational power of personal experience.

His debut film, Jojo n Answer, was a reflection of his personal life, while Paul Mooney and Des White brought their own narrative styles to the stage. I carefully consider the perspective from which I tell a story, the underlying message, and the reasons for sharing it when constructing it. For me, everything revolves around considering the responsibility I bear for something. Halfd dot Com spoke to Jim Brewer. Jim says his comedy really started in sixth grade.

That’s when it really started. I wrote sketch. We did a talent show, and I made everybody howl. He called it his first bug for show business. I started writing material and visualizing and following fellow Long Islander Eddie Murphy.

By the end of high school, he was the class clown. He says. Landing Saturday Night Live was painful for him, as he feels he wasn’t wanted by the show’s management, but by NBC executives at a time when the show was not spiking in the ratings. Once he was on SNL, he learned about the power of a great sketch, saying Molly Shannon did that sketch Mary Kathyn Gallagher, and she murdered. I never saw an audience react like that from a sketch.

That’s what I wanted to do, not just some half ass sketches. He says he found his foot on the show by accident. He was talking to an intern and Brewer says, Harry me messing around to doing my Joe peshe in the break room and the intern said, hey, dude, you gotta do Joe Peschi on update, and that led to the skit the Joe Peschi Show that my opinion, saved my job. That’s what saved me from that moment on Lauren Michaels told Brewer, you have to do something that people know you, so that they know it’s you doing Joe Peshi. When the SNL gig came to an end, Lauren told Brewer, you’re too nice for this industry.

If you ever need a producer, I’m your guy. As for the future, Jim says, even if he doesn’t do a full blown tour, he can’t see himself not going on a stage. Jim says, I got to see Richard Pryor shortly before he was a mobile from MS and it was inspiring in one of the most powerful comedic moments. I always looked for him, and I went to the comedy store one night, literally hoping he’d be there, after going there every night when he was in La. On the very last night, magic happened.

I was getting ready to leave, and all of a sudden they said, please welcome special guest, mister Richard Pryor. There was a whole bunch of people helping him walk, holding him up. They brought him onto the stage. He talked slowly, but he was so funny. I can remember his it was yesterday.

I was talking about the most painful stuff in his life, but he was putting it out there and was powerful and amazing. To this day. It was such a powerful moment. I want to do that pretty much right to the end. And that’s your comedy needs for today.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News Today on Netflix. Kunk on Life, I Love Phil and Meena Kunk as played by Diane Morgan. Kunk on Life, We’ll see Philamina tackle some of the most complex concepts have ever been discovered, including quantum physics, existentialism, nihilism, hedonism, and at least four other isms, as well as exploring subjects from the Big Bang to biology, morals to meditation, and art to artificial intelligence. In her search for answers, she’ll also examine some of history’s foremost thinkers and groundbreaking creatives, including whoever came up with those signs and kitchens that say Live, Laugh, Love.

Along the way, she’ll be meeting leading experts and academics and not letting them leave until she’s gotten to the bottom of such questions as what is life? Why are we bothering to find out? And when’s lunch. Morgan first introduced Kunk on Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, a British series in which there of Black Mirror delivered his comedic takes on the week’s news. On that program, she did Moments of Wonder segments tackling topics like time, philosophy, and art.

You may know her from The Wonderful Kunk on Earth, which was on Netflix.

Also out today, Dennis Leary’s going Dutch.

Everything about this just makes me go why, just why? But I guess someone will watch this. Dennis Leary stars as US Army Colonel Patrick Quinn, who’s tasked with reinstating discipline and professionalism among his group of military misfits. You see Colonel Quinn, after an unfiltered rant, is reassigned to the Netherlands, where he’s punished with a command position at the least important army base in the world. He now finds himself in charge of a base with no guns, weapons, or tactical purpose.

Instead, it has a Michelin star level commissary, a top notch bowling alley, a lavender infused laundry, and the best from Mangerie in the US Army Danny Pouty, who should just go to NBC and go to Dan Harmon and be like, can we just do an abed spin off? Because this guy is talented but nothing is landing for him. He’s in that Rob Mcalenny. What’s the Apple Show about? The video games?

I can’t quest it’s got a question. It’s not good. I mean, I love it’s always sunny. My son and I sit there trying to watch the mcal anything that Danny Pooty’s in, and it’s like it’s actually unwatchable. We get mad at exists.

We can’t even struggle through it. Well, Danny’s on this thing. He plays Executive Officer Major Abraham Shaw, the colonel’s executive officer and codependant right hand man. Oh.

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Also in this thing Catherine Tate.

Remember she showed up on the office and we didn’t like her. What does she play? Katscha Vanderhoff, a smart, attractive Dutch woman with a PhD and intersectional feminism, the head of the city’s Chamber of Commerce and the local brothel owner. Oh wait, and because it’s a sitcom, the base’s previous interim leader happens to be Dennis Leary’s character’s extrage daughter going Dutch on Fox tonight. Are you excited?

You can hear? How excited? I am? Conne asked asked Ronnie about his travel. What do you want in a vacation, Ronnie ching?

Ronnie says, when I go on vacation, I don’t like to do touristy things. I tend to go to places I’m somewhat familiar with, like Hawaii, where I feel like a local. There are Japan. My wife and I go almost every year, so we ever spots. Japan is such a great mental reset you can’t help but leave kind of refreshed.

I like to go to Singapore because my mom is there. I love the food and I know how to get around. I also feel like a local in Australia because I live there so long, and same with Malaysia. I just like to go at a slow pace. It’s Singapore.

He goes to his usual spots. I actually have a food guide on Apple Maps, so if people want to see it, they can log into that. I usually go to Tongue a Eating house and get the ted Tarik, which is a milte. It’s one of the few places in Singapore where you can still get it made from scratch. They have a really good Kaya toast, which is egg and coconut jam and coffee pork ribs.

For long flights, he makes sure he has something and download it to his phone. Something relaxing. It’ll literally beat Tibetan singing bowl music or Rainfall or Apple Sleep music, which is just relaxing brain music with no words. That’s my key to surviving travel, having that kind of stuff on your phone ready to go. I’ve been finding a lot of joy in getting a newspaper at the airport or bringing a physical book with me.

I’m very lucky. I’ve gotten back into reading. A couple months ago. I read Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, and that got me back into it. Reading a physical book really helps.

The other thing I do is download this video game emulator that looks like a mini game boy with all these video games when I was a kid that I never actually got to play, so Nintendo or Sega Games. And my wife got me in a Korean face mask. Putting a Korean face mask on while you’re flying as great inconsidered people, I mean that’s nothing new, but people feeling entitled when they’re traveling as my pet peeve, as though their problems supersede everyone else’s. People WI lack of consideration really irritate me. His favorite cities do stand up.

New York is obviously great. It always feels like a hometown crowd. San Francisco is greater Seattle. If you want the more unexpectedly great comedy cities. There’s Washington, d C.

Or Madison, Wisconsin, or Denver or Minneapolis. Nobody really knows why, but we all know which are the great comedy cities. It’s a combination of a comedy savvy crowd who loved to attend live performances and the venue is are they up for comedy? Do they get it? Some people think can just do comedy anywhere, but the venue is such an important part of it.

The height of the ceiling has to be low. It’s intimate. A high ceiling changes the dynamic of the gate completely. The culture and venues combined and it becomes a really cool comedy city and the word spreads and all the comedians love going through these cities. NPR asked Jimmy O Yang.

You know, because you’re interviewing Jimmio Yang, you can ask him anything. They asked him. Does the idea of an infinite universe excite or scare you? Yang says, Infinity scares me. If it’s something you put a number on, it could be a billion, trillion, whatever, it’s fine.

I can wrap my brain around it. Infinity is something I can’t wrap my brain around. And I think it’s why me and probably a lot of people are so afraid of death, because you’re gone forever. If you’re telling me I’m dead for a trillion billion million years and then I get to come back for one day, and then I’m dead again, and then I’m fine. But if I’m gone forever, very scary.

So infinite universe is a little scary. Anything infinite is scary. I look at the ocean at night, I get a little scared. It seems so vast and infinite. Yet people pay extra for ocean views.

I’ll pay extra to not look at the ocean. Give me the city view. I’ll look at your parking lot, your utility closet, you know. Give me a room with no winds. I’m not paying extra to see the cliff of my death into a vastness of infinity.

All right, one more, it’s light off the holiday. The La Times asked Jim Gaffigan, Hey, add jehone, your a comedic voice, and why do you think your brand of comedy is important these days? Jim said it joke is a surprise, and irreverence is kind of a short cut to that surprise. And by the way, we all love it. But I kind of nerd out when talking about the idea that there’s an aftertaste of comedy.

We have that really kind of bitchy friend that makes us laugh, that’s a little mean, but then afterward we feel a little guilty because you know, they went too far. He shouldn’t have laughed and what they said. I believe there’s an aftertaste, so you can take that short term approach. I think some comedians just do what they have to do. Irreverence is also something when it’s not in my wheelhouse.

Some comics are really good at it and that’s their thing. I believe you can be respectful and highlight some important stories and also present the humor of it. Jermarco Ciresi was on Vulture’s list of comedians you should and Will know. He spoke at length that I’ve had to cut this into like five different parts. But this time of year it’s been good for patting out episodes, and I’ve saved this for a rainy day, and it’s raining today.

What Comedy Opinion Hill, which ren Marco die on, He says it is simply bad manners if you’re not the host to do excessive crowd work on a showcase show. If magic strikes, go for it. All rules are meant to be broken, and that’s particularly true in comedy. But talking to the audience for a prolonged period of time changes the relationship between the audience and performer in a way that’s a disservice to the other comedians on the lineup. It’s not even a matter of this is bad comedy.

It’s just rude and breaks the presumably agreed upon premise that this is a venue for on stage joke telling. Gather your own audience if you want to farm for clips. Wow, he’s right. Oh that’s said comics complaining about comedians doing crowd work on their own shows. Can I don’t even know how to clean this up?

Buzz off? Let’s say, buzz off, I can’t even explain what he wanted you to do. He wanted you to eat something and know not that something else. No, I don’t think audience has become more trained to heckle or interact because of CrowdWork clips. If someone wants to ruin a comedy show, it can’t always be stopped.

It’s not Matt Reich’s wault. We’ve all seen street performers random crowds of people who aren’t even looking for a show into being an attentive audience. You certainly can do that while elevated on a stage with an amplification device. One more, we need to bring back bullying, not just random acts of cruelty, but like the story of Patresa Neal throwing a phone book on stage while Kevin Art was performing and saying something along the lines of find one person in there who thinks you’re funny. Obviously it can go too far, and the boys club nature of stand up led to bullying that was a sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, ablest, ETCeteras all articulated further, we need to cultivate inclusive bullying that holds comedians accountable for crappy work.

Art forms need filters, and anyone could look at the average quality of comedy spuscles right now to see that our filters have been turned off. And not because everyone’s nicer now, it’s because we all want to be followed back on Instagram. So crap talk criticized, call someone a hack, say some jokes so lazy. I don’t give an f if you’re going to be a piece of crap, at least do it in a way we haven’t seen before, because nobody is being made into a better artist. Buy in.

Everyone on our lineup was fire story post hoping they’ll reshare and I get a new follower out of it. Bs. The more I write this, the more I feel like I’m coming off like an a hole, and I am. But there was something I gained from working at LOL Comedy Club and occasionally having an older comic boom me from the back of the room where they’re looking out for me and trying to steer me in the right direction. Absolutely, not booming your coworker is psychotic behavior, but art is psychotic, and the pressure to not get booed made me nervous to get on stage on the right ways.

There’s still more to this. I’ll you pick away at it, and that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoin the program, please tell a friend about it. They’d like it too. If you would like the program without commercial interruption, there’s a link in the show notes to tell you how that works.

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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy to hear. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Recently, I was a guest on The Letterman podcast with Mike Chisholm. We talked about all kinds of things comedy and asked Mike, hey, can I repurpose the interview for my show so I can take January first off?

And Mike said sure. So today is a long one. I just want to get in front of something. The hosting company I use, I have to place a commercial break every twenty minutes or one will be automatically inserted, all right, And this entire thing raw was about an hour and twenty minute, so this is probably the longest episode of Daily Comedy News ever. But when you get around all the fourth commercial break and you’re like, John, what the heck?

Man? If I don’t put a marker, it’s going to get dropped in mid sentence. So at least I’m placing the commercials an hour and twenty of stuff today, with more commercials than you get in a ten minute episode, So I hope you can understand all that. Anyway, here’s my wonderful conversation with Mike Chisholm. John when I’m so glad that every once in a while, when something happens in comedy, you’ll just throw an email out to me and it’s, oh, yes, John and I got to connect, and it feels like two comic books doing the crossover thing when we do this.

I’m so glad that you’re back on the show. So much to talk about in the world of comedy, in the world of Late Night, in the world of Letterman. Lots of stuff this week, even when it comes to David Letterman, Thank you so much for coming back on the show. I really appreciate this, and I’m just looking forward to just conversing with you, my friend. Now, happy to be here.

I’ll tell you when you just sent me the link. My podcast, Daily Company News is just audio, so you’ve got the high pressure of video. So I’m like, oh, let me check my hair now. I’ve got the David Letterman Gulf of Mexico thing that he had in the eighties, so I got to make sure I moose it up otherwise I have that thing going. So I have that in common with Dave, but it hit him about twenty years earlier that it’s hit me.

The hair piece is securely in place. It looks fantastic. You’re doing very well, sir. There are days William Shatner and I have the same hair minus natural, but his current piece looks pretty good. Good Canadian boy, William Shatner.

One of the secrets that he said to life. People always ask him because he’s like freakishly elderly compared to how he looks. And don’t get me wrong, I want to I don’t want to be an ageist or anything like that. But he looks fantastic for his age, and somebody frequently has that. He’s been asked how he looks so good, and he says, every single year he puts five pounds on and that was his because I think the five pounds smooth out some of the things that would be wrinkles otherwise.

But now this is great. How’s Daily Comedy News Go? I love your podcast. I cannot endorse it enough for those of us out there who love this thing called comedy. The Daily Comedy News podcast is fantastic.

It’s a nice little bite where every day you get caught up with what’s going on in the world. There’s lots of little inside jokes if you listen to it along the way, like Letterman, there’s ongoing little jokes that that you put into this thing. It is such a great show. How’s it going for you have fourteen hundred episodes in something like that. Yeah, it probably five years or so.

I feel like it’s really in a groove that I have my creative voice and where I want the show to be. The show comes out to the same length every day without me checking the clock. It’s got a rhythm. In the A block, I do people you’ve heard of Chris Rock, and then then take a break and in the back end do a little more esoteric stuff. Like you said, there’s in jokes.

We have a joke that’s a year old now about Joe Coy, which my tailor’s hired. Yeah, the Taylor Swift joke. So, just to catch everybody up, if you saw the Gold Globes last year, Joe Coy made a joke about Taylor Swift, and I’ve just turned it into a recurring gag. I’ll set it up and the audience knows it’s coming, and I’ll be like, you know, I don’t know if you remember this one time Joe Coy made this joke about Taylor Swift. Yeah, let’s listen.

To it, and I had some audience members are like, will you stop, and other people areud on the joke. I actually have the jokes shaved down to it’s four seconds, but the four seconds sounds like an eternity because I’ve played it ninety times out of the last three sixty five. But it’s a good recurring bit. I like that kind of stuff. It’s silly, very much a Letterman.

From the beginning. He always had these sort of things, and even up to the very end. Somebody was I saw somebody commenting on one of Dave’s most recent it was either the YouTube, I think it was the on the YouTube, and he was talking about Letterman and drummers. And when you watch the end of Late Show, the run of the Late Sha the last few years, every other musical performance, as he would come out and thank the band after they were done, he would look at the drummer and say, hey, a, these are your drums. And it was just this thing that just kept going on and on, and people who I get people who ask me, hey, what’s up with the drum thing?

And it’s like that, And there’s so much of his humor that has permeated everything that gets done right now, And a lot of people have talked about the idea that, oh, it’s going to be lost, it won’t be credited back to Letterman. Maybe not so fast? See what I did there? See what I did there? With the not so fast, I almost missed it.

I’m glad you said did you see what I did there? That’s, by the way, should be stricken from the record completely. Did you see what I did there? Is one of those phrases that I think has been used enough that probably needs to be strict from the English language. Letterman launched a fast channel this week, and I thought that was really exciting news for me.

I don’t know, what did you have? You covered that on the show already? I heard it there yet it depends when we air this. Ah as we record this, No, but by the time people hear this, probably yes, travel So I’ll just explain that. Production wise, I tend to record the weekends in advance, and I think this story appears on a Sunday episode.

Gotcha. Look, I deal the audience straight. I don’t do this seven days a week. I do it four days a week. And it’s pretty predictable, and there are predictable events in comedy like Netflix specials come out every Tuesday or when he is New Year’s Eve this year, so you can pre tape some of these.

And as as a creator, if something I don’t want to jinx anybody, but if somebody of note passes away, I run down to the basement, I put out a bonus episode. And it’s appreciated. How you do it, I love it. And it’s a predictably unpredictable when it comes to that, because it does stay spontaneous with the time. It’s just like Letterman’s YouTube channel.

You can expect a clip every day. Sometimes those clips will be timed perfectly, like for example, when Wicked opened. Here’s the clip from when the cast of Wicked showed up and did a number at the Ed Sullivant Theater.

And then sometimes it’s just something that’s funny from the show, and someti…

And it’s interesting how the folks who run Letterman’s digital wing of Worldwide Pants really at the end of the day part of their job Walter and his team is obituaries. And you have that mantle as well, where the guard is changing. I think we talked about maybe we talked about this last time with Newhart. I know we did off camera. Anyway, when some of these people are passing away, it’s up to you to comment on it based on the brand that you’re building.

I’m talking about the changing of the guard, and this tees me up perfectly because I did want to talk about Jay Leno. So when Jay had his eepatch incidents. Yeah, I teach college class and I was asking the students and just talking about Jay Leno and one of my favorite students he sits in the front row. He asks who’s Jay Leno? And I looked at him and I said, you just murdered me.

And I stopped and I’m like, how do I explain to Jay Leno? Is he hosted the Tonight show before Jimmy Fallon? Was my best answer, So that brings me to it was just in the news, Lena was talking about why he stays in Hampton Inns and what went down, and he was pretty funny about it, explaining this was on Spike Thurston’s podcast, and Jay was explaining that no, the mafia didn’t come to Pennsylvania to find him and throw him down a hill, which once he pointed it out. I’m like, yeah, you probably if they wanted to get to him, they could get to him in LA he’s around. But I was thinking about this, so here you have a college student.

It was no idea who Jay Leno is. Now. Jay doesn’t have the most generic face the way say is Steve. If Stephen Colbert took off his glasses and passed me in the airport, I might not recognize him. Jay has more of a character’s face, definitely.

But that said, if he checks into a Hampton in at one am in nowhere, Pennsylvania, there’s a pretty decent chance that the person working is young and just goes, mister Lenno, you’re in room three thirty two, and he could probably check in as Jay Leno. Yep, absolutely, it’s We just did an episode. Actually, I still got it on the desk here. We just did a review episode. A couple we talk about Carson the Magnificent because the Zemi book just came out after all that time, and we’ve been talking about Johnny Carson, and it’s funny.

It’s almost like there’s not a day that goes by where I’m like, you know what, why we do this show. One of the reasons we do the show is because people are forgeting who Johnny Carson was and he was the biggest star in the world, and people look at me so quizzically. And even two years later after starting Letterman podcast, people will say to me sometimes they know I’m a financial planner by trade, and they’ll be, oh, yeah, but he’s got two podcasts too, and they’ll be like, oh, what kind of podcast do you host? And I’m like, yeah, I host Amend’s mental wellness podcast and the other one. And I ask this question now, I never used to do you know who David Letterman is?

Wow? And to me, that is absolutely baffling that I have to ask that question. And even more baffling are the answers I get back, because even it happened to me yesterday. Yeah, that’s I’m like, you know who? And I do the exact same thing that you do.

And I don’t even lead with Colbert. I say, do you know who Jimmy Fallon is? Because I feel that he’s the one that that of all the late night hosts, I believe he’s the one that speaks to the youngest demo at this point than any of them, even more than Taylor. I think even and oh yeah, I know Fallon Is. I said, okay, he has the Tonight Show, right, Letterman’s one of those guys.

Oh yeah, that’s what that is baffling to me. But at the same time, I believe that the Worldwide Pants they’re in a they’re in legacy mode in some respects. They’re combating that by creating this fast channel. I’m really excited about the fact if you’re a Samsung TV owner you can go to Samsung TV Plus and I think it’s channel one thousand. Yep is all Letterman all the time.

It seems to be curated. I’m trying to get some answers to see exactly what the hunks are going to look like when the hunks are going to change. It seems like most of the stuff on there right now is holidays, and I don’t know how that’s going to go. But it’s very cool that we have an opportunity, probably for the first time because Cavot and Carson and what Memurve Griffin, which has been focused on Murk Griffin the last couple of weeks here, a lot of their catalogs are inaccessible or completely erase. They’re gone.

Here, we have Letterman who owns all of his own stuff, and they’re gonna put it out there. It’s going to be very interesting to see how much of this new generation, who is a throwback generation, attach themselves and rediscovered Dave’s comedy. Yeah, I put it on during halftime of Thursday Night Football and they were doing chunks of either petricks or human tricks, and that they seem to be programmed in on a half hour blocks of compilations of that. And I have a Samsung TV. I rarely use the fast channels, and I’m sure I will now more, both because my provider just raised their hikes, their hike their prices, and a Letterman channel.

But as I was looking at it, same thing I talked about last time I was on. Some of the clips were nineteen eighty for my Dave and some were older Late Show Dave, and some spoke to me and some didn’t. But it’s interesting how do you curate that thirty year career and are things like Netflix part of it? And there’s the Late Night said stability and other than the first year and a half, the Late Show, grown up mature Dave sensibility, and they don’t always mix too well. No, and it’s funny.

Let’s throw Don Giller’s channel into this as a because he, in my opinion, has a very unique voice, and how he decided to take his massive collection and assemble it and give it to us, and the idea again, I went through MERV Griffin’s compilation not too long ago because it was boning up for the episode will be focused on him, and you look at Don Giller and how he would take chunks of one particular topic or guest and then go from the entire run, some of which being like mervh for example, that David Letterman show. The Morning Show was Mrv’s first appearance all the way up to irv’s last appearance on Late Show shortly fairly close to his passing. And you got to see if you watch the whole thing, you get to see the evolution of things, and that is a to me, that’s a beautiful progression. And there’s links there, but yeah, you’re right, it’s jarring when you see one clip from eighty four. Maybe something isoteric versus something that is created more for the masses, more pop music for the masses.

And Late Show certainly didn’t go as far as Leno did when it came to that, but he really did change the sensibility. Yeah, it’s gonna be interesting mixing it that way. I’m excited for the channel. I’m sure you recall there was it used to be a cable channel called Trio, and Trio at some point, was this the nineties or early aughts dusted off the late night shows and I think they were running them at ten pm Eastern And yeah, I would have had a tvo that now I’m dusting it off so early o its probably And I was like, wait, I can just watch nineteen eighty three Letterman episodes. This was amazing and I took them all in So I like that.

It’s there the random factor of if I tune in and I’m not into this, guest, it’s a little throwback. We’re here in the age of on demand and streaming so af fast channels, a little bit retro. But how great that all this content will be surfacing again. Yeah, I’m really excited for it, and I hope that I hope that the people who love this thing that we love so much, which is comedy, I hope that a lot of these people will dive into this and take a look at some of the architects of what we have that is mainstay right now, Dave being and the writers of course, and all the producers like it. Dave is the first to say that it wasn’t just him.

He was a tip of the spear, but the support system and the team that he assembled behind him, how they changed comedy. They really did. And yeah, so it’s great to see that love. I hope that we can see more of some of this old content that we might not have seen before and it gets utilized. But it’s so difficult because of the red tape that exists.

Right How many of these things that we loved so much have changed hands from a rights perspective because this conglomerate has swallowed up this conglomerate and now it becomes really difficult worldwide. Pants is in such a unique spot because Dave owned his show, he owned his content, and that that’s a Yeah, it’s a very unique spot that Dave has given himself. In the industry, a lot of this estate stuff gets tied up in an absence of rules. So, for example, if you wanted to license a clip of Steve Allen for use on a video podcast that you’re going to stream on YouTube, is there even a rule. Yeah, great point, great point, especially if you’re talking over it and you’re now repurposing it a little bit.

Is there a rule? Is there not a rule? And are they gonna Yeah, that’s and who gets paid? Yep, yep. That’s very complicated.

And as I talked about at the top, let me drop a commercial break in here so one doesn’t get dropped in on you be right back with more than Mike on Letterman Podcast. By the way, Dave won an Emmy. We haven’t talked about that. Isn’t that a neat thing? How his my next guest with John Mulaney won on Emmy.

His current offerings are still current enough that they’re being awarded things. I was very happy to see that. Yeah, it’s funny. It happens to everybody. You start out as the counterculture, and if you put in your thirty years, you’re the culture and there’s some new guy looking to take you down.

Yeah, it’s it was neat to see that. And it’s interesting because my next guest on Netflix and I wonder about the strategic value I was talking I had a conversation with Morning not too long ago, and we were talking about the strategic value of Okay, we’re gonna put out a season which is gonna have a few different episodes in it, but then we’ll put out a special one that is outside of the season, and it’s titled Differently even and the Millenney episode was specifically titled different It wasn’t in with the season with Miley and and the other one which it’s escaping me right now, but it was its own, like it was a special my next Guest with d because John Mulaney’s name was actually in the title of it as well, and that’s the one that won the Emmy. It was a powerful episode, really cool. He’s doing the thom Snyder thing and getting this stuff out of John, the dinner with his dad. It was just such a powerful episode.

I’m glad it was recognized. But then you got Dave on Neil Brennan giving an interview that one of the best interviews I’ve ever seen.

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And then recently, have you had a chance to watch the GQ story of David Lette…

It was a phenomenal outing. I thought, I read the article and I don’t want to take over your show and start dragging you around, but I do want to discuss the part where Letterman talked about not being able to live up to Carson and then talked about Today’s hosts and threw them a bone, as if I think he may have caught himself on the fly realizing like, oh, I’m going to say it sound like a jerk saying these Today’s hosts aren’t as good as Carson, which they’re not. Let’s all be real, No one is. Absolutely that was Letterman’s original part point, yes, but then he started talking about maybe some of them are as good as Carson. And I’m not here to be negative, but who could that even mean?

Like, clearly, Jimmy Fallon is not Johnny Carson. No, Colbert is doing something else and not trying to be Johnny Carson. So is Jimmy Kimmel Today’s Johnny Carson. I could maybe drag it up to Jimmy Kimmel’s Today’s David Letterman, but I don’t think Kimmel’s Today’s Johnny Carson. Yeah.

I heard that as well, and I think I don’t know he was talking about like when you think about somebody, because I listened to that as well, and I was thinking, Okay, that’s very interesting. Throwing them a bone is a fantastic way of putting it. But I thought about Johnny’s skillset, and I’ve been down that rabbit hole for the last month probably I’ve been watching a lot of Carson clips again with the Zemi book and talking about that. Carson had a skill set that Letterman never ever even tried to emulate when he did his show, Number one, because he wanted Late Night to be very different, and Late Night had to be very different than the Tonight Show. But also because again they just celebrate, celebrated.

I don’t know if that’s a high lighted on Dave’s YouTube channel on the Barber Games Show, just highlighted when Dave was on Mary’s Variety Show and how how much he hated the dance number and to the point where he didn’t only had to do it a couple of times and then they said, Okay, you don’t have to do this. Being on that variety show, Johnny Carson had a skill set that very few people had at that time, from the magician, the singer, a little bit of actor sketch, the sketch stuff he would do as well as the host game show stuff, and then broadcaster. All of these things won And as I heard that Dave talk about that, to me, I thought he was talking about Fallon from that perspective, because I look at Jimmy Fallon, like him, don’t like him. That dude can do a lot of stuff. He can get.

He is very I hear him sing Neil Young imitating other things, and I the fresh Prince of bel Air theme is the one that comes to mind. But he does these very interesting things. Whether you like him or don’t like you cannot dispute the talent that guy has and the enthusiasm he has, the little sparkle in his eye the way Johnny did. And when I heard that, I thought, oh, he’s talking about Fallon and his skill set. But it was interesting hearing Dave talk about that on that interview.

Also, his dad and Paul shaff are both organists. That’s one thing I took from that. That was an interesting story about his dad with the Organs. That was really compelling to me. Whenever Dave goes into his past and pulls out these little nuggets, there’s a story that Zach.

I don’t even know why it came up or how it came up, but Dave revealing a story about his dad, and maybe some comparison there, but it was a very good interview. I thought, let us be fair to Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Fallon’s job is to host the Tonight Show at eleven thirty on NBC. That’s a specific job. We are playing to Middle America.

For example, David Letterman at twelve thirty was I’ll just use the word weird. He goes to eleven thirty, puts on on Armani suit, and after a year, goes towards Middle America. You have Conan O’Brien being weird at twelve thirty. He comes to eleven thirty and tries to be weird, and we know what happened there. So you bring Jay Leno back and you play back to Middle America.

Now, you and I and fans of this podcast remember the young Jay Leno and a leather jacket that would show up on late night and be edgy. I would describe Jay Leno as edgy. Now some people might be like, Jay Leno edgy, You’re crazy. I’m telling you go back and watch the clips. They’re on the Fast Channel.

He’s there, he’s edgy. So Fallin he’s executing the tonight show. He has a lot more to his game, but that’s not what the job is. That is exactly right. I’m glad that you said it that way, because even people who sometimes sometimes watch this show, the dozens of fans that we have of the Letterman Podcast, a lot of them are still in that Team Day versus Team J camp.

But when you watch the two of them together and again on Don Giller’s channel, you can go and you can see the entire compilation, the entire evolution and run of when Dave and j used to play off each other and it You’re right, that’s exactly right. I wouldn’t necessarily compare him to Burr, but he might be that generation’s kind of comparison. There’s there’s some observance that was there that had bite to it. It had real bite to it compared to what we saw. And yeah, it’s just it’s a fascinating evolution watching this stuff, watching how there are so many late night hosts, and because of that, it’s had to be I hate to use the word homogenized.

I don’t know if that’s the right word, but it’s diluted. It certainly is diluted compared to what it was. Now, let me ask you a question. I’ve mental exercise. I’ve never actually done that, and I haven’t done it as I just thought of it thirty seconds ago.

It’s nineteen ninety two. Is that the year? Yeah, David Letterman takes over the Tonight Show, Jay Leno. Maybe he doesn’t get a show at all, maybe he gets CBS, maybe he gets Fox. But David Letterman is hosting the Tonight Show.

Yep, what do we actually get? Do we get the CBS version? Do we get a guy throwing pencils through a window? What do we get? And do you and I like it?

Yeah? And like I have, I said this to Bill Carter, I’ve said this to I think I said it to Zennaman and some of these other people too. I am so grateful that he didn’t get the Tonight Show. Obviously at the time, sometimes it’s one of those things, sometimes a blessing comes like a kick in the teeth. But I’m so glad that he didn’t get it, because again we’re talking about Carson here.

Carson was so powerful and he had evolved his place. He had worked the way into the seat that he was sitting and in the groove was so uniquely suited to him. He was so powerful that was his chair to the point where he had ownership, and Letterman walked literally into being able to leverage himself to move over to CBS. Got to take basically the blueprint of what Johnny had, the idea of owning his show, the idea of the next time slot, and his company being able to do that and continue it on for twenty some odd years. If he would have gotten the Tonight Show suddenly, ownership for the first time in well over a decade would have come back to NBC, which they were very excited to have.

And you think about the network executives and Dave’s relationship from Late Night at that point, how can Tate cantankerous? It was? Imagine what would have happened if he would have then moved into the big chair, with all these networks now trying to poke in prod that would have been I don’t know that we would have liked. I think personally if he would have been awarded the Tonight Show. From everything I’ve looked at and read, I don’t know that NBC was ready to bring the Tonight Show back to New York.

I feel like the way the Tea leaves have been written. I feel like Dave would have moved to Burbank. I feel like that’s what the what would have had to happen to me? New York City is a character in Dave’s show. I just I really think that that even.

The same factor the late show set is son of the late night set, And if you’re in Burdbank, you probably wind up with something that looks more like maybe not the purple j Leno set, but something more like that. Certainly lots of plants. Yeah, yeah, but all that stuff plays into it. I’ll just repeat myself. A guy in sneakers versus guy in an Armani suit, a guy sitting in front of a bridge silhouette versus a guy sitting on a set with a bunch of plants.

These things do matter, Yeah, they really do. And tone is everything. And Dave is interesting in that GQ interview too. Zach again, Zach is just incredible. I live vicariously.

I don’t know that I’m ever going to have the chance to have a conversation on camera with Dave, and I live vicariously through the people who do I know the questions I want to ask him, and the questions that these guys ask him that Neil Brennan and Zach just did. They’re asking him questions that I wouldn’t ask him, just out of respect. If I talked to him today, I’d want to talk about just current things that he sees. I wouldn’t want to go into the past because of the reputation of how he doesn’t like talking about that stuff. These guys of the Plum and the esteem that they’re able to talk about this stuff, And to me, Dave is a New Yorker, but he was talking about, Hey, Indianapolis, we’re here.

This is your hometown, right, And it’s interesting. One of the things I want to ask Dave is are you a New Yorker or are you a Hoser, a Hooser or is it a combination of both. Are you a new Hooser? It’s interesting to me that he’s doing press at all. Was the GQ to promote the Fast Channel or is that a coincidence?

No, they talked about it, and it was in November that they shot it, and they did talk about it near the end they did, so I assume it was to promote it. But also it feels like to me where they positioned Dave are in very specific spots. You think about Dax’s podcast that he was on, you think about Neil Brennan’s podcast The GQ. That’s a great to me. If Rolling Stone hadn’t gone through some of the I don’t know.

In my opinion, I don’t know, and maybe I’m way off on this. Rolling Stone isn’t what it was back in the day when Dave was gracing covers and doing a lot of these stories. With Rolling Stone, it’s a different it’s a different beast now, but GQ seems to still have that same I would say the same thing with Vanity Fair still seems to have that kind of tone and prestige. To me, that’s those are the spots that they’re putting Dave into to do press with occasional lighthearted appearances here and there. But to me, it was very classy the piece that they did.

There’s also with the legacy media, there’s a way you roll. So I’ve played in I’m doing I do a podcast in my basement. I’ve worked for Serier six M, I’ve been entertainment adjacent for thirty years. So if you do Rolling Stone GQ sixty minutes unless Mike Wallace is sitting around for you. You’re not going to get Dave, have you ever done crack?

That question is not going to happen. Letterman’s not going to do a random podcast because he doesn’t know that. I’m not going to say, Dave you ever do crack? Because what does he do with that question? He says no, and then the headline is David Letterman comments on whether he did crack, right, So they don’t want They don’t want to do that at all.

And I’m not at all suggesting Dave did crack. Let me be very clear, David Letton has never done crack. Point is he doesn’t know that. I’m not going to ask him that and an awkward question. Whereas the bigger brands, the legacy media, are more known, and it’s both sides.

You don’t even have to say, You’re not gonnask Dave about crack, right like you just know you invite somebody on your show. It’s a friendly environment. My point being a basement podcasters, we’re lesser known, so it’s just not going to happen. Now. I would imagine in your case, you probably do have enough Letterman whisperers who could tell him.

This guy’s are right. He’s not going to ask you if you let me change it up, eat Peter Butter and jelly for lunch. That’s why they haven’t had me killed up to this point. That’s exactly right. But celebrities have brands, and you control your brand, and you don’t want to overexpose if we look at this.

I reached out to you and went, oh my goodness, David Letterman actually did an interview. That’s why I reached out to you. And if he were on a podcast every third day, I wouldn’t have shot you a note. That’s right, And I don’t know that I’ve said this publicly. I’ve certainly talked about it with a few of my guests and a few people that are close to Dave, and it doesn’t seem to be It seems to be the shit.

Say the last person I talked to about this definitely inside but adjacent, but also very high up and inside, and he said, if you were in Dave’s camp, what would you have him do? He asked me that question. It was like literally throwing a softball down the plate to me, and it wasn’t recorded. But I’ll say this to you because I just to me, I know that you are certainly when you Joe Rogan is so big now we talk about Carson and who’s our current Carson. To me, there is no other answer than Joe Rogan.

The Rogan bump is crazy. You talk about Nikki Glaser a lot on your show. I believe a huge part of her ascension and people observing her talent cannot be understated. I want to be very clear about that. But the spotlight was certainly put on to her over the years by Rogan.

She has definitely been a recipient of the Rogan bump in many ways. Tony Hinchcliffe, same thing to me, the softball going down the plate. I’m like, if it’s me as a fan, and this is exactly how the person said to me, he goes, boy, you are answering that question as a fan. But to me, fan service in this day and age is not a bad thing. To me.

If you want to have a compelling, tying it up with a bow kind of a scenario, you have Dave go down to the Mothership. You have a Night at the Mothership in Austin, Texas, which is based on the Comedy Store, except let’s fix the comedy store and make it even better. If you look at the blueprint that Rogan has created at Mothership, the bar is called Mitzi’s and the dorm. They’ve taken that blueprint. Adam Egitt is there.

You take the you take Letterman there with guys like Drecent, guys like Altman, you get you bring out some of the people who are not doing as well health wise maybe and have one last little hurrah there a tribute to these things. You have Dave show up on Rogan’s podcast and then you do a my next guest on the stage of the Mothership with Joe Rogan, who like it or not, he is the And to me, that is, oh my gosh, what I love to see that. But I just don’t know if Rogan’s too polarizing because of exactly what you just said, how well Letterman’s positioned himself. I don’t know that whatever happened from a fan perspective, my god, that would be compelling. But so I love the idea of Dave going on Rogan.

I like listening to Rogan’s podcast for many reasons. I’d like to listen to podcasts as I’d drift off on Rogan’s audio. He doesn’t start screaming or get hyper. These are very deep conversations. Yep.

I am able, like I can with any conversation. I can take some of it and go I agree. I could take some and say I don’t agree. For example, if you said to me Patricks is better than a five story tower, I would vehemently disagree, but I wouldn’t like dislike you. I would just be like, oh, he’s wrong about that, and I would just move on with my day.

Yes, if you told me Dave went down there for three hours and twenty minutes and we got a long conversation that wasn’t so what was it like when you didn’t get the Tonight Show asked an answer, and he’s talked about it exactly. Rogan would ask him about He might ask him about drones, and then that tease it up for Letterman and be funny. And again, let me be clear, David Letterman has never done crack. But if Rogan not a guy in his basement, if Joe Rogan said do you ever do crack? That would get comedian Dave Letterman to snap too and answer that with a witty remark, and that wouldn’t be like an accusatory thing.

You would get the comedy there because it’s two people with a body of work who would have the respect of the language of comedy, and they are both celebrities, and it would just be different that if I randomly throughout that question, I would love that.

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And then the flip side of that, I think would make a lot of sense.

You also talked about what should Dave do these days? And I think doing hits on Mullaney’s thing is actually perfect. It allows him to be elder statesman, but it allows him to appear as the Dave that you and I fell in love with. So for seven minutes he can be goofy eighties Dave and let Mulaney be goofy eighties Dave turned Mulaney and do the weird o late night show, and Dave can show in, show up and do seven minutes and be fun and then go back to hanging out. Yeah, that’s exactly I think mullany show and twelve more.

He’s got twelve more coming? Is that the Yeah, we don’t know when or where or what it’s going to be called, but yes, twelve more at some point, and that’s going to be an event, right because the first six six ‘ eight whatever it was, we’re very well received. So that raises the bar. So Netflix has to book a little harder because all eyes are going to be it on this time. Now it’s not an experiment.

Now it’s John Mulaney’s a late night show. Have Dave back, because you know what Dave’s gonna do, and he’ll do it well for eight minutes, and then he can hang out further down the couch, which is just a wonderful phrase to say. Right, that’s very Carson moved down the couch and it’s great. We’re all gonna watch it. Yeah, and I think, okay, so Dave was on the first hunk, why put him on the second hunt?

No, because the idea of Friends of the Show, like, we’ve got a little segment called Friends of that you are one. You’re gonna be invited him one day. We’ll bring in a couple of letterman writers or people or whatever, and then a couple of friends of the show and we all just have a We did our first one a couple of weeks ago, and it was fantastic. The idea that mulany is building friends of the show. And one of the friends of the show happens to be the best of the guy who is the best ever at it.

I think you know again, I don’t. I don’t go the King, I go the Godfather. Okay, fine, Johnny was don Vito, Dave is Michael. But to have him have these friends of the show come back on and have some fun again, that’s old Carson, like you just said, like when Frank and Dean would come on and they would do this, or Rickles would come on. That I believe is something that John would certainly want to add as an ingredient to what he’s doing.

In my mind anyway, Yeah, you’re handing in an entertainment show. So whether it’s me booking you, you booking me, we know what each other is going to do. We didn’t prep it all for this. You just said, do you want to come on? I said, yeah.

We didn’t talk at all. I didn’t ask you what we’re going to talk about. Obviously, David Letterman is a subject on your podcast. I knew would be all over the place, like I’m dragging you all over the place. Good, but thank you.

Please, do you know what I’m going to do? I know what you’re gonna do if we go in the other direction. So if you book David Letterman, you know what he’s going to do. If I ever had John Mulaney on my podcast, I’d ask him a question like what are you up to, and then shut up while he told a six minute story, because I know m’laney tells six minute stories, and you don’t step on them and ruin the flow. You let him get to the punchline.

And that’s back too. And I teach this at my podcasting companies. I teach this to host and it’s called Johnny Carson theory. And when you have a good guest, shut up and let them tell their story. My o mind.

We’re having some fun now and we’re making money today when all these commercial breaks. Look, it’s a long episode. And as I told you the top, if I don’t do a break every twenty minutes, one gets dropped on your head mid sentence, and that’s worse than this. Hey, let me make a couple bucks and it’ll be right back. Carson was so perfect at letting somebody go on about something and then would come back with that razor sharp response that would take It was like a bow.

It was like that person was assembling a present for them, and Johnny just put the bow on it and made the present look so much better. He was so good at making his guests shine, whether they were at the pinnacle of entertainment, like a Frank Sinatra or the gal from nebra wherever it was Nebraska or the Midwest who had the potato chip collection. He was just so good at building these little moments with very little and listening being one of the paramount skills.

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And then we see in the GQ article where they brought up the abrasive David Le…

You might go on there to promote your movie and get attacked by this contankerous host who doesn’t want to do guests and just wants to throw stuff of a five story tower. He did evolve into a really good interviewer, but the early Dave almost had no time for celebrities and would rather have the wacky guest that showed up at one point fifteen. Yeah, and he was nervous. You watched them of the Morning Show clips and he’s nervous. And I love watching his interactions with Tom Snyder.

I really got into that earlier in the year we had Tom’s daughter on and so I went down that rabbit hole big time, and I’ve been down it many times before. But one of the things that Tom Snyder and is he would call people kid. And he used to call that to Dave. He say, oh, it’s okay kid. Watching Dave and Tom tok during the Morning Show era was very interesting because you could just see reverence but also nervousness that he had.

And then we have been able to This is the wonderful thing about these legacy the very very few legacy entertainers that we have seen, we’ve been able to see their evolution. Whereas now he turned he completely switched the volume switches. It used to be that the right equalizer was turned up all the way, the goofiness, the isoteric stuff, the observational with the twist stuff, and now it’s still there, but it’s turned down, and the interview was down. But now the interview he’s what’s Dave doing? Now he’s doing the Tom Snyder thing.

He’s doing the long form and making someone like me, who’s forty eight at the time it’s recording, give a damn about Billie Eilish and I do and my gateway I really I get it. I’m a music guy. I’m a huge music guy, and about I don’t know. A year and a half ago, I was listening to one of Billy’s songs. It just come on and instead of it just being in the background, I actually I get it.

I’m a fan. Yeah, I’m a huge fan of Billie Eilish now the way I was with some of the bands that I loved growing up, and the gateway to that was Dave introducing me to her. And it’s interesting watching that happen, and I’m so grateful he’s still doing I’m so grateful he views retirement completely different. I loved when Zach talked to him about that. Al Franken right before Dave retired, he came on for his last Senator.

Franken came on and said, before you go off and become an eccentric recluse. And I think we all thought that was gonna happen, and he’s done anything but that. And the Beard kind of screamed eccentric recluse. Talk about Tom Snyder. There’s a guy that if we had an alternate timeline with technology, Yep, the headline in nineteen eighty two would be Tom Snyder starting a podcast, and he would have been really good at it.

Let him talk to somebody for three twenty. Yep, yeah, oh good. That is a fantastic point. Because he took he would be able to take long form anywhere. Again, like you said, makes it a little makes it a little dangerous.

He wasn’t afraid to talk about anything. He was a big man. He was not afraid to talk to people, ask them the hard questions. Wasn’t afraid to say, hey, buddy. I disagree.

He wasn’t like Rogan in the sense where Rogan doesn’t he shows interest, he’s engaged, he’s very well read, but he doesn’t show a ton of emotion, where Tom brought that to the table. And I love that about him. I love the emotion that he would bring when he was talking to people. I think Cavitt would have been a great podcaster. Bob Costas would have been a great podcaster.

And they’re all doing shades of the same thing, long form deep interviews without a clock. It’s what people want. I understand the algorithm and what the algorithm wants to make technology sticky, to keep people looking at it and whatever and have them tune out. I understand that, but I think the reason that the biggest podcast in the world and many of the other runners up are long form. And Dave during the press conference when they brought tom over, one of the ways he introduced him was he said, I was one of those people that probably watched eighty to eighty five percent of all of the first run of The Tomorrow Show no VCRs back then.

He was so long form and radio of course, so your backgrounds radio as well. So yeah, I’m really glad that long form is I think, and not to get political, because I don’t have a dog in the fight. I’m Canadian, so all of my tidings and opinions have maple syrup flavor attached to them. I believe the last election had to do with long form versus sound bites down on the States. I really do believe that long form will win the day because it’s what people are craving.

People want this exchange where we are present and the conversation will win the day. It’s why stand up is so big. Right now, you have somebody who’s up on stage for an hour not being interrupted, and the beginning, middle and end of these presentations as leading to bucks it’s leading to commerce. It’s been a big year this year. We’re at the end of the year.

While we’re recording this thing, I want to ask you. I don’t know if you’ve actually released the list yet and when you’re going to release the list, but you constantly talk about on the Daily Comedy News what’s going to be in the top twenty, and I’m super curious how your list is forming. Is the year? Is the list done? Are you ready to go?

Is it close? The list starts on so this is the list of top comedy specials of the year. It starts on January first. I open up a new note and as I watch comedy specials, I rank them. So I was joking, somebody’s got one coming out like January eighth, and I’m like, that’s going to be the number one special of the year at that point, and then the next one is either higher or lower.

And I work the specials and I’m going to record it after Ronnie Ching comes out, because Jason Zinnemann from The New York Times, he has that as the number one special of the year. So if he’s got it at number one, I’m pretty confident it’s got to be in my Top twenty. But back to Zinnaman. So I’ve been talking about this a little bit. Yeap.

Now before I get letters, everybody, listen to what I’m saying. Before I get letters. Our audience actually throw darts. They don’t send letters. Our audience throws darts.

So anyway, continue, all right, everybody, I’ll say something and I’ll ramble for a second to let you think about it. Who is the comedian of the year? Everybody, Okay, who’s the comedian of the year. Now, I’ll let everybody think about that on all ramble for a second. I could make a case for Joe Rogan.

Some people think he helped win the election. I can make a case for Tony Hingecliff. Some people thought he had cost someone the election and killed. Tony’s pretty popular. I can make a case for Nate Brigetzi, who has a Christmas special out and a Netflix special December twenty fourth, before the end of the year, and everybody loves him and he sells out arenas.

So Jason Zenneman named Nikki Glaser. And this is where I fear the letters that, oh, you just ate women, and I don’t have two daughters. NICKI killed at The Roast, But I don’t think her. I don’t think her HBO special. The critics seem to like it, but I don’t see that it had a big impact.

I didn’t see buzz on it. Even the week after her special came out, people were talking about her on The Roast and she had probably the set of the year at the Roast. Yeah, and The Roast is probably going to be number one on my list, and I’ve been open about that unless Chang knocks it off. I have things like a Tell or way up there. But The Roast was just an amazing television anyway.

So Zennyman, who has Rodnie Chang as number one, maybe I won’t agree with him because he gave Nikki Glaser Comedian of the Year. As I’ve said on my show, Jason Zinneman knows more about comedy than I do. I dip my head in bow. To the supremacy of Zinnemann. Absolutely one hundred, but I personally am not feeling it.

And I would personally put Nate as number one this year. Oh and Malany is definitely in the conversation as well. Malaysia should be in the conversation. Gaffigan should be in the conversation. Yep.

Anyway, that was three minutes of me saying that I may not agree with Ronny Chieng. Why this is why you are a friend of the show. This is this. I love hearing your opinion on this stuff and being able to like the one thing about Bergazi. Okay, So when you say the comedian of the year, it’s such a subjective.

It’s a subjective topic anyway, because if you’re picking Glazer, you’re picking Hinchcliff. You’ve got people who have polarized. They’ve done what some of the comedians in the past that would have been called controversial in the eighties and nineties, there are controversial comedians that kind of came along. Was Sam Kinnison in his at the zenith of his career? Was he the comedian of the year?

If he was, and he very well may have been. At the height of when Kinnison was doing what he was doing, he was dividing a lot of people. He was not the family comedian. He was not the person that the whole family would sit around and watch or listen to a record of. And Tony and Nicky would certainly be in that category.

Where’s he got a guy like Nate who is literally for the whole family, but can kill just as hard. It’s like Norm MacDonald going on Communitians and cars getting coffee, actually saying to Jerry, you know what, being clean is the harder discipline. Now, I personally I love Jerry, always have. Norm MacDonald has such a special place in my heart. Do I let my six year old granddaughter watch Norm?

No? Not unless he’s on Letterman then maybe. So. I like Nate. I can see why you would say Nate, oh my gosh.

I think the worldwide appeal that he has. I think the I watched him that week when the roast happened. I was in La and I saw David Letterman interview Nate Bergazzi at the Ricardo Montabon Theater, which was laced with rich Corinthian leather by the way, and Nate is just He’s one of these guys who you can tell is so dedicated to his craft, partially because of the things he could say but doesn’t say because he wants to stay in that lane. He’s an extremely talented and the heart that he has. I can totally see why you’d say, Nate, that is a That’s a great answer for me.

For me, it’s probably Neil Brennan. Neil Brennan Special this year. I absolutely loved that special and I love what Neil is doing. He’s probably my personal favorite. But when you’re gonna go and say, Okay, who’s the community of the Year, Nate Bergazzi, I think is a phenomenal answer, that’s it.

And like you say, this is all subjective, Like I’m not looking to arm wrestle Jason Zinnemanner, You’re wrong, Nate. Neil Brennan’s not the Comedia of the It’s all subjective. Whatever you found funny, whatever somebody found funny, it’s all good. It’s just a list. I’m just pre taped an episode because I don’t want to work Christmas Day.

That’s all. This is love that you have the roastes number one, because would people necessarily gravitate to that towards a comedy special? And here it is something that that gives Michael j and Colin Joe’s a shot at the title with the show that they’re doing highlighting other comedians, which I love that the throwback kind of a deal where they’re showcasing like Rodney used to do back in the day. It’s a good. But one thing that I think that all of us will probably agree with it is a very good time to be a fan of comedy.

Oh yeah, distribution, ability to see people that we have all these Netflix specials, now Hulu’s jumped in, you have the HBO specials. Anyone can sell release on YouTube. And this is why I always advise my audience if you go to a comedy festival, go to the showcase shows, go to the local small club slash bar where they have six comics doing sets. Don’t go see Chris Rock. Do I like Chris Rock?

Yes? I at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival one time. I saw Seinfeld and Rock on back to back nights, and Seinfeld is justifiably at the top of his game and Rock was a very close number two. But if I went to I don’t know, the Toronto Comedy Festival, I’m not going to go see Chris Rock because I know what he can do and I can watch him on Netflix. I’ll go see ten people I’ve never heard of.

I get much more out of that discovering comedy because the big acts. Nate will come to your house on Christmas Eve. You don’t have to go see him anymore. And I’m not trying to not sell tickets for people. Don’t worry Nate and Jerry and Jim and they’re all going to sell out very well.

But for comedy fans, go see a smaller show. You never know who you’re going to see. I remember Chicago Comedy Festival. It was a rainy night and we were at it zanies and a guy named Hannibal Barrus got up and crashed, and I was like, oh, this is great. You think about how the phenomenon that has killed Tony and for these overnight successes, right, we all know that’s a bunch of bs that most of the time it’s not an overnight success.

There are people who have been busting their butt for so long in the small clubs and kill Tony who people would go see it, or they would watch it or listen to it, and they would say, this is the funniest thing that’s out there right now. And seventy five people are a part of it. Brian Redman and those guys. You got to whether you like them the concept whatever or don’t, you cannot deny the success that they’ve become. And it started as you’re talking about one of these showcase things, and it’s so much fun.

Just like a band when you discover the band that’s the next Beec’s thing before they become the next big thing. It’s a great feeling. Oh that’s great advice. You’re like a wealth of knowledge when it comes to the stuff. You’ve been doing this for a while.

Stop stop. I love kill Tony. I understand the comedy snobbery of it’s just a minute, and a minute is not a tight five, a tight eight, not an hour. I get it. I get it.

Kill Tony is a show. I’m a civilian. I just want to sit down and listen to something, watch something and be entertained. Somebody gets up for a minute. They’re funny.

Sometimes more often than not, they’re not. Tony comes in with a sleigh, rips them to shreds. We all laugh. One of the funniest of the year was Shane Gillis coming by in character as Trump and co hosting the show as Trump. Oh my goodness, was that hilarious?

Oh so good, so good, Shane Gillis there, you go. Okay, So we mentioned a whole bunch of killers here who were in the conversation. There’s a guy right there you talk about a guy who’s dealt with adversity, the public perception adversity in a way that just Chappelle same thing. People are apparently up in arms and just said, no, I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing. I’m gonna let my voice be heard.

And Shane gillis right now just a phenomenal talent. And yeah, that night where he came out as Donald Trump was fantastic. And even Lauren Michaels admitted he blew it and count out to NBC when they didn’t want Shane on the cast of SNL. You wish he had. Shane, here’s another reason why I love your show so much.

What I read one of the quotes, because I follow this stuff all the time and I see the stuff online and recently though, Lauren, he did the same thing. In my mind that what he did with Norm McDonald a little bit, he passed the buck over to the network and you caught it too, and you talked about it on your show. I love that you catch some of these things and throw that out there because he blamed it on NBC with Shane gillis. My old mentor, guy named David Bernstein taught me this many years ago. He was I was the assistant program director w or New York.

Dave was the program director, and he was teaching me the concept of Steinberner meaning George Steinberner. So anybody who is familiar with eighties letterman knows who George Steinberner is. I want to have to explain. And he said to me, you know, sometimes George calls you up and go, hey, I signed a player and he’s now the left fielder, and your job as the manager is to make that work.

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And then you can go back to your office and you can throw a rock against the …

But your job as the manager, you’re going to play this guy because the owner said so, even if you’re Lorne Michaels. Sometimes you got to play along with the network. We all have capital that we can use. Is this battle you want to fight or not? So is Lauren going to use his capital to defend a guy that had been announced on the cast two days earlier and take on the network for that as opposed to say, I don’t want to name names.

If somebody on the current cast did something yep, and I don’t know what they would have done, and ABC was like, oh, we should get rid of so and so. Maybe Lauren goes to bat for somebody who’s been on the show for several years, a little more than using the political capital against all Right, we announced this guy, nobody knows who he is. Whatever, We’ll just pick somebody else to be in the cast. Whatever. It wasn’t a big deal.

Shane Gillis wasn’t yet Shane Gillis. Yeah, Yeah, that’s a very good point. That’s where it differs from norm. This is the current this is the current anchor of Weekend Update, and this is happening where Shane at that time. Yeah, so that’s a very good point.

And let me drop another break in here, be right back with more with Mike Chishom on The Letterman Podcast.

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Let’s talk about Satura in life here for a second, because everybody seems to…

That is a recurring joke on my show, inspired by Letterman style humor. Did you hear SNL is turning fifty? Yeah? I did hear something. I still think about SNL forty.

I thought SNL forty was one of the greatest, even though it was some people say how long it was, Yeah, guess what, it’s forty years and it should be and let’s highlight everybody before they start passing on. And in that ten years a lot have So I will always voraciously defend SNL forty, but boy, SNL fifty has a lot to live up to because of that. And I can remember in high school when the SNL fifteen anniversary, the Prime Time fifteen anniversary happened, and how much I loved it, and how being just in high school and seeing some of the stuff from the Chris Guest Marty Short era that I hadn’t seen before because there were no VCRs at that point as an elementary school, and I didn’t My cast was the day in the Carvey cast. So seeing some of this stuff and these anniversary shows were incredible. And they’ve just gotten bigger and bigger and bigger.

SNL fifty is gonna be. It’s February, right comes up in February. I think I think it’s February that it’s coming out. And apparently they’re inviting everybody back again. Apparently they’re gonna do the same thing that they’ve done in the past.

What a high wire act Michael’s and company have. So I have questions for you. Let’s work work this through. Let’s start with the credits. Do you have Daryl Hammond do Don Pardo and announce two hundred names?

Like, how do you even handle the credits? How do you handle that? Who gets to say live from New York? Do you pick? Do you go across the eras so it’s somebody from the original cast and Eddie Murphy and Will Ferrell and Tina or somebody and Bowen Yang?

Like how do you handle that? Who gets to say it? Like? Where do you give the honor to one person? Do two hundred people come out on the stage and say?

Like, how do you even produce that show? It’s one thing to be like, Okay, Gary Krueger stand in the back. That’s fine, and we understand that part of it. But yeah, what a show that’s going to be and an absolute must watch. Absolutely, And Lauren, whether you don’t like, I think SNL is suffering from a little bit of what’s going on in the culture here.

I’ve jokingly called again the American election the bud Light election. Where you’ve got this sort of just like with bud Light, you’ve got a sort of silent majority that sits there and when something happens, they react. I think SNL has been trying to figure out its tone as to what should we be putting out there, and I think this season, because of me, you’re talking, it’s SNL fifty and the ratings are at a place where it’s okay, is the tone exactly what everyone is looking for because the ratings have been soft. I don’t think SNL fifty is going to be soft, by the way, and I don’t think SNL fifty is going to have a political tone or leaning. I think it’s going to be a historical look, which is why I think it’s going to be such an almost a refreshing show because it’s not going to be about social commentary in any way.

And I think that might be something that they’re wrestling with right now. I think that might be I didn’t want to call it a growing pin because they’re grown, but it might be a little bit of a struggle that they’re having right now. Yeah, I have found this season weird. So season forty nine was not good, ye, Season fifty has leaned into this weirdness I’m finding now again I’m a podcaster of the basement and LORDE. Michaels is Lord Michaels.

So again I bend the knee. Loren, you clearly know what you’re doing and I don’t, yep. But as a watcher, yeah, as the audience, and I think the audience has a this is why podcasting has blown up. The audience gets to speak back sometimes. What is the point in season fifty of Dana Carvey opening the show as.

The church lady? What is the point of that? He wasn’t the guest host, It was just and Dana Carvey’s sort of on the cast? Now, what is the point of having Jim Gaffigan play Governor Wallas? Was Jim Gaffigan good at it?

Absolutely? But is that such a complicated impression that nobody on the current cast could take that on? Like, I don’t understand the creative choices of not using the current cast because you’re not building stars. So a year from now it’s going to be SNL fifty one. Do you still have jostin Cha?

Do you still have Bowen Yang? And if you don’t have those guys, you’re in a rebuild year off the big celebration that could get ugly really quick. Yep. The breakout star next one might possibly perhaps be Marcelo Hernandez, but I also feel like he does a one note character and YE shows. Up that Marcelo’s funny.

But let’s see if it, if he can evolve or whatever else. What Sherman’s my girl? I love her. I think Sarah Sherman is fantastic, but so let’s put her in some sketches. Yeah, exactly.

You don’t want The last thing you want is to be on that show. Is that is the Chris Rock there for three or four years or whatever. And I love Chris when he was on the show. But then he goes and does the HBO thing. He does.

What was his big special? I was gonna say, row, that’s Eddie Murphy and Chris Rocks was bring the paint. Was to bring the paint. It was bigger and blacker. Yeah, and he leaves SNL and suddenly, oh my god, look at the guy.

And you don’t want to if you’re producing that show, you don’t want to have too many of those people. You want those people to pop like Eddie Murphy did while we are actually on the show. But yeah, it’s a fantastic time to be looking at all this stuff. Gosh, you and I could do this effortlessly, and I love that what happened we talked about what were some other things that we. Oh, we haven’t talked about David Letterman.

Isn’t this a David Letterman podcast? It was not. I have you ever seen a show? You would like it? I’ll check it out.

I’ll check it out. I said, I gotta go get a Samsung TV. Now. I wonder if because on the YouTube channel, I’ve had a couple of people reach out to me and say, hey, it seems like on YouTube they did this experiment a couple months ago. Or if you looked at the Letterman YouTube channel, there was a live tab and you could just click it and it was going through a lot of these clips, many of which hadn’t gone on.

I wonder if that was a test pattern or a test balloon. I should say for the Fast channel. It’s gonna be interesting to see if they put those back on YouTube again. I don’t know if it’s an exclusive thing with Samsung. I don’t know if some of these other could Roku now also say oh, Samsung did it we’re gonna sign a deal.

I don’t know if it’s exclusive. I didn’t see that word in any of the press releases this week, did you now? I didn’t you know that they gave it channel one thousand. Yeah, says something to me. I know when I was at Serious, what channel number you would get would be a massive discussion.

You have no idea what a big discussion is what channel number you get? Really? Notice, Howard is channel one hundred. One hundred and one to one Howard? Yeah, And I know that as a Canadian that doesn’t even have Serious and I know that.

Yeah, so that was a discussion as opposed to what’s the next available channel? Okay, Howard one thirty four? Yeah, so that was a thing. So that it’s channel one thousand makes me think that it’s some sort of showcase for the Samsung TV product. So I have a Samsung TV.

There’s a button on the remote that will take it to those channels. The only time I ever use it is when I accidentally hit the wrong button and that comes on and then I’m an old man. It takes me half an hour to figure how to get out of it. PlayStation damn it yeah, And last night I was trying to get to the Letterman channel and I got to it and I had trouble getting out of it. But they did have a showcased in their big advertising carousel, So maybe they’re trying to draw more attention to using those service because there is money in advertising.

I don’t know who sells for them, but as I tell my college students and my producers, the answer is always money, right. Yeah, I do agree with you that there’s a legacy point to this, because I’ve dealt with people in the Hope of State, the Cavita State, and those two cases. There are definitely legacy parts of let’s keep the name out of the carson A State as well. Yeahsolutely absolutely. And you and I’ve talked to all the same people we are referring to here, and it’s not a secret.

I’m not like, oh, don’t tell anyone who we were, but that’s not saying nobody knows who that is. We’ve talked to those guys. So I think there’s a legacy play here. But fast channels, you can’t skip the ads, so let’s make some money. I don’t know, but that it’s Channel one thousand isn’t an accident.

Yeah, I agree. I totally agree with that also, But before we finish too, and I know it’s an interesting kind of seguey back, but you think about Legacy, who also has a fast Channel as Conan O’Brien, he was there before hosting the Oscars this year. Really excited about that. But at the same time, that guy is he’s having a tough week, and I just want to throw a shout out to Conan O’Brien right now. I can’t even imagine what he’s going through, losing his parents this week and within days of each other, and I’m really glad that he’s hosting the Oscars.

I love Conan. I’ve always loved Conan unabashed lee, and I think it seems right to me that he’s going to host the Oscars. So we want to throw love out to him very much. So I know both of us feel that way. But Conan hosting the Oscars.

I love that Kimmel did it. I think it’s a car I love that Letterman did it, of course, unnaturally, love that Dave only did it once. Even though people say it was a disaster, it was not. It was actually really good. Then they started immediately creating the narrative that it was a disaster, which I think is charming and very Dave.

But I believe Conan. This is long overdue. He killed it at the Emmys before. I’m excited about Conan doing the Oscars. How about you?

Yeah, because unlike Dave, where it’s Dave’s unnatural element, Conan will put on a straw hat and perform at a live version of Mono Rail became the Sensen sketch and walk around and sing and dance, and if he’s awkward singing and dancing, doesn’t care, and he will do that. So I think as a performer he’ll do really well. I think the industry likes him. There aren’t anti Conan people. He’s someone that people root for.

He’s charming, He’s been around for thirty years.

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And then after the first fifteen minutes, unless something wacky happens invo…

Yeah, Kim Oll a couple of years ago came out and did a Trump joke on the fly, which was clearly written during the show. I’ll be very interested to see if Conan’s sitting there with Smigel and somehow, some way they can figure out a way to add and not necessarily political necessary, but something that would be very current in that moment and spontaneity which Conan is of course very good at. If you watch him in front of some of these crowd that he would perform. He he’d go to Comic Con every year and do a show there, and the spontaneity that would happen there obviously also very let him and ask let him and used to add spotan eighty to his programs. It would be very cool to add some of that to what could be a very dull show.

I’ve loved episodes of the Oscars. I have loathed episodes of the Oscars. I believe that the DAC is stacked for this to be a love. I would caution Conan and smile. I come at this.

I come at this as a strategist, not from a political angle. If we look at the recent election cycle, yep, factually Trump won. Yep, that’s just a fact. I may like him, you may like him, you may not. So somebody out there is a fan of Trump, generally profiling the stereotypical Hollywood celebrity, the stereotypical Hollywood celebrity.

I think if you walk down the street, most people would be like, oh, they’re Democrats. Okay, fine, Yes, So if you on the fly start making Trump jokes during the Oscars, yes, you’re playing to the room. You will kill in the room. Yeah, but do you kill at home?

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And then my question is a strategist on a celebration of the Academy Awards, …

Yeah? And that’s where I was talking about. I wasn’t talking about the topic so much. I was more I just really was impressed with when Kimmel came out and it was a it was something that was done kind of real time because he was responding to something that was happening in real time and you could tell it was spontaneous. And that’s more the spirit of what I’m talking about, exactly.

If it’s something about one of the biggest stars in the audience and something they’re wearing or something they’re doing, something that you can tell wasn’t canned. And Conan is very good at that, and I hope he does that when he does host the Oscars. That’s gonna be a lot of fun. I hope he’s parted at SSNL fifty as well. By the way, Yeah, when I say make a joke about Tom Cruse too, I don’t me say make a mean joke about Tom Cruise.

You’ll make a joke about his love of doing stunts, or how are you so handsome at sixty one sixty two? Or you have great hair? Or I love your smile. You make that kind of joke. This is not a roast.

This is not Ricky Gervai’s the Golden Globes. This is the Academy Awards. Go down the middle. Here are some films we all liked. Let’s celebrate them, Let’s do some light jokes.

Let’s get out of here. Yeah, and I love that we can do this, but maybe we finish on Nicki. I’m excited Nicki is hosting the Golden Globes. I hope that they let Nikki be Nicky the way they used to let Ricky be Ricky. That is what my hope is.

Watching the commercials for it and the promos for it, I’m just shaking my head, going, oh, I feel like they’re putting Nicki in a cage. I hope that they don’t do that for the actual broadcast, because the Golden Globes can be one of those shows that steals the show when it comes to awards, award banquets as well. I think a very big key there is the room. So she’s been doing comedy on Thursday night football to buy football announcers, and she sounds like she’s bombing. Whether or not the writing is good or she’s delivering it, she sounds like she’s bombing.

So back to my friend Joe Cooi. I’m not his friend, but back to Joe Cooy. In the recurring bit, Joe Koy told a joke that’s pretty good. The only difference between the NFL and the Golden Globes is we have fewer pictures of Taylor Swift. That’s the joke.

And then they cut to Taylor, who either could have went and I’m making for those listening on audio, I’m smiling and holding up a drake. She could have done this. Instead, she gave a stoneface and killed the room. Taylor Swift killed the room. Swifty’s come at me.

Taylor Swift killed the room. So if NICKI gets up there, and I’ve read some interviews with her, she is aware that America doesn’t know who she is, so she’s got to win America over quickly. She’s aware that she’s not one of them Hollywinterers, yep, so she’s got to win them over. So if she tells a joke and it lands and the room is loose and she’s getting laughs, I think she can crush. But if she runs into an audience like the Thursday night football crowd, it could be a challenge for the same reason it was a challenge for Joe.

Yeah, I think she’s gonna crush. Oh. I love hearing you say that. It gives me the goosebumps. I hope she does.

I hope it’s an elevation for her. I really do. Yes, I’m a Nikki Glaser fan. And when you know her story again, go back if you listen to any of the time she’s been on some of these shows, Rogan, I mean one of them. Her story is unbelievable, and to see her where she is now, it’s a lot of fun.

I’m a big fan of that. I’m a big fan of you. I’m really grateful that we’ve made this connection, and I hope that our paths cross more and more. I know they’re certainly going to I hope that also that we’re coming up to the ten year anniversary of Dave calling it quits on Late Show. That’s happening within the next six months.

The ten year anniversary is going to be happening. We’re doing some special stuff on this show to commemorate that. And again, you’re a friend of the show. So thank you so so much for coming on here again. John.

I appreciate that you’re in my life. Brother. Yeah, thanks for having me on again. Like I told you, I’ll be your Tony Randall. Anytime somebody cancels hit me up.

It’s going to be a lot more than that, although that is charming nonetheless, of course this has been great Daily Comedy News and not okay, hold on Daily Comedy News, but also you’ve got the Good News podcast as well, and the meditation one is what I love what you’re doing. You got your little podcast network there, deep podcast network.

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Let’s talk about that and promote that a little bit too.

Sure, so Daily Comedy News, I think we’ve covered what I might be doing on that one. I also host one called five Good News Stories. Yes, it’s inspired by what Krasinski did during the pandemic and also inspired by it was my wife’s idea. So it’s a short show. I do five new stories that are all good news or smile stories, or as we used to call them in radio, kicker stories.

So I’m not going to tell you about the horrible murder. I’m going to tell you about the wacky Guinness record and the dog that came home from four thousand miles away, and what the scientists are up to. And the format behind the scenes is the first and fifth story tend to be quirky, some science in the middle. I limited to one. I really could every episode could be and another dog found its way home, and then this other dog.

So I try to do one animal story, maybe one science, two quirky ones, and then whatever fits my mood. So number five, five good news stories is the name of that show. Off best. Yeah, we have all five Minutes of Gratitude, which is my Wednesday Friday and just a quick show. I don’t host that one, but my company produces it.

Five minutes of Gratitude and just get up and think about like, all right, things are okay, here’s something to be thoughtful about, and then go about your day. My men’s mental wellness podcast that I host very quickly, a couple of themes came up. We’re one hundred and I forget how many episodes, well over one hundred episodes in that thing, and a few themes came up with guys who are talking about their mental wellness and sometimes struggles and victories and all that sort of stuff. And one of the themes that very quickly came up is that the antidote for many of these things that we go through is anxiety and things like that is gratefulness. And the thing I love about your podcast unlike this one, really short, really sweet, You get the points immediately, and it really does affect the way that you’re viewing the day.

And I love that, whether it is talking about comedy, whether it is hearing these good news stories, because there’s a lot of good that goes on the world. Much of it, unfortunately, just doesn’t get publicize the way that it probably should, and gratefulness is a huge one. I wanted to ask you what was the so you guys produce it, what was the genesis? Where did it come from? I’ve wanted to ask you that for the last month.

The Gratitude podcast. Yeah, yeah, real answer, Yeah, we’re podcast business, yep. Five Good News Stories was doing really well, and we brainstormed and said, what else could we do that people might like? And candidly, we could make some money doing Sure, it’s the podcast business. Yep.

Like I tell my audience daily coming news. Look, I like talking about comedy. It’s fun. I also run commercials and it pays my mortgage. It’s that.

That’s why I do the show. Otherwise I would just email you and be like, hey, did you watch that? And get that out and get it out of my system. But yeah, we were just five Good News Stories started to do really well and we thought, okay, what’s been the same lane that we could do? And that’s where that came from.

Oh, there we go, and it’s awesome. It’s water in the desert for a lot of people, and I just I’m really excited and I’m grateful for your gratefulness podcast. We love it. I’ve talked about the same trust promotion. I would, oh would love to do that.

To do it well, email we won’t bore the listeners. Yeah, we’ll do that. I just appreciate you very much, thanks for coming on the Letterman podcast, and thank you for doing everything that you do. Thank you Mike Chisholm, host of The Letterman Podcast. Thank you so much for having me on.

That was a lot of fun to record, but we didn’t plan it at all. And at the end he hit stopped and I’m like, how long did we go? Like an hour and a half? And yes, an hour and a half. Anyway, happy to your normal episode tomorrow, See you then,