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Caloroga Shark Media very angsty today. It’s been a warning of distractions and aggravations of Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your daily comedy new So I’ve decided no politics today. We all need a break from the politics. Now. I can tell you tomorrow.
There’s already three stories with politics, but those can wait. Ben’s Diller comments. I saw him talk about that tomorrow. Let’s do happy things today, but first a controversy, and Johnny Mack does like a controversy. There seems to be some kurf fluffle with the Golden Globes.
I read several stories about it, and I didn’t really understand the story. So I asked AI to summarize this and explain it to me so I could explain it to you. So hopefully this information is correct. So the AI wrote, here’s where it gets messy. The Golden Globes are owned by Penske Media.
Penske Media owns Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Deadline. Penske also owns Lumini eight, which is the analytics company that supposedly created the list of the twenty five eligible podcasts for Golden Globes. Okay, so we’re going to give an award Illuminate made the list. They’re owned by Penske, And then there are the three main trades, Variety, Hollywood, Port, and Deadline, also all owned by Penske, which is a fun fact that most people don’t know. The AI wrote, the Globes had said an outside company would determine the list, and technically they weren’t lying.
It’s just that their outside company is another company they also own. But then came the real bombshell. Penske Media is reportedly selling marketing packages for up to seventy five grand, basically for your consideration, ads to help podcasts promote themselves to Globe voters. So if I’m understanding this right, you’re being encouraged by an ad in one of the three trades to promote yourself to Globe voters for an award controlled by the people who are selling you the ads, right, the AI wrote, So to recap, Penske owns the awards, owns the data company choosing Who’s eligible, owns the media outlets covering the wars, and is now allegedly selling ad packages to the very people who want to win those awards. As George Carlin said, it’s a big club and you ain’t in it.
One industry insider said, the Penske thing is out of control. They said an outside company would handle it. It’s all a racket. All right, We’ll keep an eye on that one. Let’s check it in with Dane Cook, who’s fifty three years old now.
He spoke to Cincinnati Magazine. I happen to reference Dane Cook in my college class on Monday night. None of them knew who Dane Cook was. It goes fast. I was doing it in context.
I was teaching them about how I program radio stations and what something in the A category would be. And there was a time when Dane Cook was it. He was the superstar in comedy and he was an a in your music programming library. Twenty something years later, the kids don’t know who he is, but he was a superstar for a while. Dane said, I think that anything goes in stand up comedy.
Part of stand up is the pinprick and the release of how everyone is feeling. Sometimes what they’re feeling might be uncouth, but the reality is everyone’s laughing at this one thing because we’re sort of feeling the same thing. That doesn’t mean it’s right. Sometimes we’re laughing at the most wrong thing possible. He says, there are limits if you don’t fel malice from a comedian all topics are in play.
You don’t get laughs when audience starts sensing the meanness. Dane said early in his career he learned how he could let the ship leave the shore even if his jokes went pretty far. I’d still have old ladies pinching my cheek after the show, and I’d say some pretty wild stuff, especially in my New York years, where I was like, let me see how far I can really go. I had this epiphany early on that I liked comics and performers who were brash. I don’t know what’s gonna make you laugh until we’re all laughings.
I love this idea of going on stage and expressing myself in fooliship, certain irreverent ways. He realized he’s a storyteller and not a set up punch comic. It’s not my strong suit because I have this physical element. I just happen to say something on stage a few months ago that you might say is a vintage set up with a punchline. I didn’t write it ahead of time just happened on stage.
It was like click, click, boom, set up punchline. I loved it. Maybe there’s more of that to come, he said. Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show taught him a comedian didn’t have to be one kind of funny. Johnny would have a terrible moment his monologue and you’d be talking about that the next day, and not one of the great jokes he landed, like when the Q cards fell on the floor and he didn’t know what to do.
Whenever something like that occurs and real I met Dane once in my travels, A cool guy. I remember going to the place we would get sandwiches to go get him some sun chips. I forget the particulars. I think that was just one of the requests that he had coming in and sure, I’ll go get you sunships. I probably expensed them.
Cat Williams going on tour. It’s the Golden Age Tour to kick off in January. January twenty third, Ontario, California. They’ll swing through the South Philadelphia in April, wrapping up in Chicago on May TEWI now I caught my eye on the press release was the about cant Williams boiler played paragraph Let’s check it Out. With a career spanning over twenty years, cant Williams has earned a worldwide reputation as one of today’s top entertainers, et cetera, et cetera.
In two thousand and two, Williams made his on screen debut as a guest star on NYPD Blue. Did we know this? I didn’t know that? Did you know? My dream?
As I wanted to be an extra on NYPD Blue. I wanted to be guy on other shift. Now when that show was on, I was in my early thirties, and you know, Irish American kid from New York City. I looked the part. I didn’t do anything about this.
This was just my dream. But you know, just imagine if I was in enough episodes, eventually they would let me say hey, Andy as I walked down the stairs while Sippowitz walked up the stairs. Didn’t happen. Didn’t do anything about it. I could have been in the episode in two thousand and two with Kat Williams, who subsequently landed his first feature film role as Muddy Mike Friday after next.
His extensive filmography includes notable roles. Here are some notable roles. Are you ready write this down? Notable roles, Kat Williams. Here are the notable roles, father Figures, Norbit, Scary Movie Five, Epic Movie, Bastards, The House next Door, Meet the Blacks, Cats and Dogs, The Revenge of Kitty Galore.
Oh yes, very notable, The Boondocks, Wilden Out, and a guest role on Atlanta, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. All right, that’s a good credit. The National Comedy Center announced that the National Comedy Center is now the home of the career archive of Stellar and Mira Ben’s parents. That’s cool. The archives bands more than five decades of creative collaboration, documenting the evolution and impact of one America’s most enduring comic partnerships.
What a coincidence. Ben Steeler’s new documentary about his parents’ lives and legacies debuts October twenty fourth on Apple TV. Throughout the film, materials from the archive or features he can check that out. Ben said, Knowing my parents’ body of work is preserved at the National Comedy Center means a great deal, because the material they left behind was not just to give for my family, but for anyone who wants to understand comedy’s creative process. That’s great.
The center’s doing really great work. I got to get up there. I like long drives. I got to get up to Jamestown. At some point.
Ben’s had some other things to say, but they involve politics, and we’re not doing that today. We’re just chilling out today. You hear in my tone today, I’m not ranting, and Raven were going easy. That’s what we’re doing today. Not tomorrow, totally different, but today taking it easy.
Friends. Tim Heidecker is going to store as a late night talk show host in the Comedy Hour. The Comedy Hour follows a beleaguered late night host forced to produce a show through femin and fire and play. The network saddles him with a robot co host. An audience start to like the sidekick more than the host.
The Comedy Hours written by Colby Day. Now Colby Day scripted Adam Sandler’s Spaceman movie, which, as you know, is one of the five good Adam Sandler films. So that’s some good pedigree there. Heidecker’s character is named Jimmy, which is fun. This next story gets from Jacobin dot com or Jacobin dot com not Trey pronounce that.
But Benjamin Fong asked the question, what is Tim Dlon doing? I agree, I am starting to lose interest in Dylan’s show. I prefer when he’s just solo and vamping on the news, Benjamin Fong writes, wavering between irony, outrage, and hallucination, the Tim Dillon Show presents the same question that any viewer of Mulholland Drive must ask, what am I watching? It’s right wing, but not straightforwardly so it’s ironic, but also strangely, sincere Dylan doesn’t leave much daylight between performance and intention, it’s easy to lump him in with most right media, either because he’s just that guy, or because he he’s irony poison himself into functionally participating in that sphere. I think that’s what happened.
The whole point of Dylan’s persona on the show is to be vile without remainder so self serving, cynical, and bleak that no rational nugget can be on Earth. After the La fires, he explained that he was lying about losing his home to get sympathy and money. Near the end of a recent episode, He claimed he would do a set at the Riodd Comedy Festival and the blood of someone who just got beheaded. Jamarco Siresi spoke to Current Affairs dot Org. He talked about performing overseas.
He said, honestly, being an American comedian and American comedians can’t complain to any other comedian in the world because our media is so shoved down everyone’s throat that I was able to make jokes about RFK and Milan. No Italian could come to a normal American audience and talk about Georgia Maloney. I went to Istanbul and I was like, what can I say in the booker said, you can say anything you want. And he said there’s going to be a Muslim call to prayer in the middle of your second show. And I said, can I joke about it?
And he said, yeah, joke about whatever you want. I was like, you’re saying I can say whatever I want and he said yes, and I did and it was great. Then I told him I was going to post a video and he was like, do not post a video. If you ever want to come back to Istanbul again. Jermarcus said, okay, I’m learning.
Basically, it’s okay in instant ball, it’s not okay outside. My girlfriend is always telling me please don’t go to jail for a joke. How we doing today? Kind of chill. I don’t even have my good voice today or my creative fastball, just very angsty day, and I don’t want to get angst into the show.
Chattanooga’s Lookout Comedy Festival is back at baby thirty plus comedians. Starts tonight, goes through the twenty fifth, officials said, with notable headlining performers from all over the country like Tricks with Two Exes Joe Zimmerman, Nick Murphy, and Casey Balsham. This year’s four day festival’s proof the Chattanoogas comedy scene is filled not only with fun, but burgeoning opportunities for comics and audiences alike. Out today on Comedy Exports YouTube channel. Sean Walsh back from the bed.
Celebrity Jeopardy is switching services. It’s moving from Amazon to Netflix. Colin Joe’s toasted the first season. It’s unclear if he will return. That reminds me I lost I had in the notes, say Colin Jost Ferry story.
Let me pull that up to be in the script The New York Times, so the major story the headline Colin Jose, Pete Davidson and the Staten Island Ferry Fiasco. Nearly four years after they bought an out of service ferry boat for two hundred and eighty one hundred dollars, their plans for a floating event space maybe running aground the Times Rights. When they looked at the twenty one hundred ton hunk of metal, they envisioned a floating event space with two restaurants, six bars, a concert venue and hotel rooms with private sun decks on a former Staten Island ferry. Josetas called the acquisition the dumbest and least thought through purchase I have ever made my life. Pete Davidson, who’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, described it as a lifelong problem for me and Colin.
No wonder Pete’s playing riot. He needs money. Launched in nineteen sixty five, the John F. Kennedy was the oldest vessel in the Staten Island Ferry fleet at the Times Rights and the auction listing the agency did nothing to sugarcoate at seaworthiness. The boat was in quote poor condition without a working engine, it had to be towed.
There were thirty zug boat companies in New York Harver which we’ll transport your ship for around seventeen hundred dollars an hour. Then they had to find a place to tow it too. That’s the best. April eleventh, twenty twenty two, the JFK was towed three miles. All right, so that’s five grand skimming down this very lengthy article.
Then we found there’s asbestos in the ship. The Times quotes a ship expert who says, the thing about as bestos is it’s not an issue until you go to take it out. It has to be done, and it has matt gear. You’re looking at salty numbers to do asbestos remediation. All right, Once they solve that, where do you put it?
The Times points out, you know a good place would be saying up here on the East River. Problem is those aren’t cheap. Another expert points out large boats block sunlight, which can damage marine ecosystems and kill aquatic life over time. All right, maybe we should scrap the thing. Tommy O’Toole is a partner at Compass Maritime that handles ship sales.
He did some math. If you wanted to scrap it, he said, let’s say something weigh two thousand tons. If it’s worth one hundred and fifty dollars a ton of scrap, that’s three hundred grand. If the tow cost you three hundred fifty thousand dollars, you’d have to pay someone fifty grands. Kevin Hennessy is the former captain of the JFK.
He told The Daily News in twenty twenty two that the boat had a serious cockroach problem. He said, this was an impulse buy with two guys with a lot of money who don’t know anything about maritime vessels. And that is your politics. Free comedy news for today, See tomorrow.