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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey my voice is back. Hello Johnnie Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Now I’m supposed to lead off with like whatever the biggest name is. That’s how this is supposed to work.
But I’m gonna indulge myself here because I’m really excited. Netflix has announced a January second premiere for Kunk on Life. I don’t know if you watched Kunk on Earth. It was my favorite thing last year. British comedian Diane Morgan is returning to Netflix in January with Kunk on Life, a new one off special I wish we were getting like ata Those centered on her comedic documentarian character Filimina Kunk.
The Specialties Kunk returned with her most ambitious quest to date, venturing right up to the universe and everything to examine life itself. The tagline what’s the point of it all? Is a question humans have been asking themselves since the dawn of time. But as we cling to our dying planet, working around the clock while we’re slowly being replaced by machines, Now that’s funny. Now, more than ever, people are desperately looking to make sense of their lives before or someone invents a computer that makes sense of it for them.
Seriously, if you haven’t watched Kunk on Life, it’s on Netflix. It is hilarious and there’s a recurring bit that just gets funnier and funnier and funnier. I loved Kunk on Earth. Conk on Life, we’ll see Fillamina tackle some of the most complex concepts to ever been discovered, including quantum physics, existentialism, nihilism, hedonism, and at least four other isms. I just learned there’s something called Kunk on Shakespeare.
I will have to find that on YouTube somewhere. There’s also Kunk on Britain or something like that that’s on YouTube that I’ve watched. Anyway, I’m a big fan and I’m excited to see that Kunk is coming back. SNL has announced two more hosts. Now this week you get Paul Meskel from Gladiator two.
We already knew that December fourteenth, Chris Rock will host for the fourth time. December twenty first, Martin Short not bad there. Nate Berghatsey announced a world tour which was just horrific. If you were trying to put together a comedy podcast today, were you to use Google and type in the word comedy or comedian. You were bombed by every headline being Nate Pergetzi to play the whatever arena.
It was very hard to get rid of all the Nate stuff today and find things to talk about. Geez, Nate’s pretty busy. He’s got his Lorne Michael’s produced a CBS Christmas special on December nineteenth. Your friend Nate Bergetzy’s coming out on Netflix December twenty fourth. Did we know that date there?
I feel like that’s news to me. Huh. Interesting. He’s also working on a film called The Breadwinner, and he’s got that book coming out next year. The tour is sixty six dates, including stops in North America, Europe, in the Middle East.
The tour opens in Oslo. Now I’m gonna check here. I’ve got a little document here. If I knew this, I would have placed it in the December twenty fourth folder. No, I don’t have it there.
Interesting is that news? I guess this has been out there from October ninth, right. I’m forgetful sometimes anyway, your friend Nate Bergetzi Christmas Eve. I got news for you, Nate, that’s not making the end of the year top whatever specials of the year, because Jenny Max’s pre taping that one. At least I’m waiting to like December twentieth or so.
A lot of these lists come out like December first. It’s like, hey, guys, we’re skipping a whole month here. Anyway, I digress. Joe Rogan, he’s making a lot of headlines lately. He weighed in on this old Jamie Fox conspiracy thing.
Did Jamie Fox accuse Diddy of poisoning Jamie causing Jamie’s health scare? Jamie apparently says this in his Netflix special, which is out next week. People at the taping think Jamie was joking. Joe Rogan on his podcast said, Jamie Fox just recently said, p did he poison him and that’s why he got that stroke? And Rogan back pedaled, it’s possible.
It’s totally possible, but it’s also possible he was explaining why he went to the hospital and hasn’t talked about it since. We won’t know until we see the actual Jamie Fox Netflix special. That’s right, Joe Rogan. Now, the rumors come from somebody on the internet named Big Homie. Big Hoomy said, I know Comb’s poisoned Jamie Fox, and Jamie Fox reported him to the FBI because of it.
Jamie Fox reported this man to the FBI because of this. Another source, videographer Choke No Joke, also made a similar claim. During an interview on Comedy Hype, Choke No Joke said, y’all can determine was he joking or not when you see the show, because to me, I’m a new comedian, right, I know when somebody’s setting up a punchline and I know when you’re serious. My personal take, I would assume mister Fox was joking. I mean, if you were going to accuse Diddy of such things, would a comedy special be the place where you would do this?
Would you not like come out and say it. So I think everybody is getting a little carried away here, but we’ll find out. Next Tuesday, we got an update on Pete Davidson and Colin Joe’s ferry. TMZ revealed that the ferry was used as a set for a horror flick called Screamboat. According to their report, production reportedly involved so much fake blood that producers needed to hire a special cleaning crew to get the ferry back to normal.
Now it’s interesting to me, and no coincidence that we’re getting ferry updates, because what do you know, Colin Jos has a new show out today. Wow, that’s weird. Suddenly we hear about the ferry and we’re getting Colin Joe’s press and what do you know, He’s got a new show out today. He is the host of pop Culture Jeopardy out today on Prime Video. The Ringer caught up with Colin Jost.
They asked, Colin, hey, you had your own game show and the works before pop Culture Jeopardy, right, I didn’t know that. That’s interesting. Joe said, yeah, Chay and I are develpming a game show with Michael Davies. And that’s how I met him, not knowing at all his involvement and millionaire and not knowing he was doing Jeopardy. Those were my reference points.
I wanted a game that had great trivia and was a serious trivia game. I don’t ever want to do a game show that failed gimmicky or two game based like physical games or anything. I wanted to have an intellectual component because that’s what I loved about watching Jeopardy. You hear my voice falling apart now, right, I’m trying, guys. I watch a bunch of old episodes from different eras and just got a sense of the flow of it.
What I realized even before coming in there is the game itself is really the star of the show. It’s constructed so well. You just want to get out of the way. You don’t interrupt gameplay too much, and you want to get right into the game as quickly as possible. And if you watch any regular episode of Jeopardy through the years, that’s what the host do really well.
The ringer asked if his sn L training helped it all. He said, one thing they told me is how they’ve had guest hosts that they’ve had some that are just not good at cold reading. You’re reading sixty one clues in a game, and then suddenly you have a lot of cold reading that you’re just doing. You see everything in advance, but you still never know what order it’s going to pop up in. So weirdly, a thing that prepared me very well was the joke swap that we do at SNL, because I’m also cold reading that and it’s live.
I weirdly had confidence from being forced to do that by Michael Jade gave me confidence. If you don’t want to read a clue, I was at least not going to be in racial Jeopardy. You talked about a quirk to the show. I found this interesting, saying an answer to a question is the Pixie song where is my Mind? If the answer itself is a question, then you don’t have to say what is where is my mind?
Interesting As a new host, you’re so trained by the Jeopardy rhythm, you want to say, no, what is where is my mind? And that’s not technically necessary. I had no idea. He also says they wrote all the clues not knowing who the host was going to be, so it was weird. There were times when it was funny.
There’d be things about my colleagues and my friends that came up and they’d be totally benign, which was just funny to see them. Or clues about my wife, Scarlet Johansen. At some point you’re almost like, I think they shouldn’t have some clue involving my wife in every episode. It was completely by chance. It turns out she’s in a lot of movies.
Let me take a sip in my ice coffee here to keep the voice going. One way to sports show is you’re gonna buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News. There a couple bucks in the tip chaar. I will go to the National Domes chain and get a large ice coffee.
I’m back on the butterper can, even though I know it causes Gidney’s dones, but I’ve been a little carameled out lately.
Also, it’s trivia night, so I’ll be at the brewery.
I can take your money and buy Glen half a beer. I had a skip trivia last week because I wasn’t feeling well. I’m looking forward to returning there tonight. We’ve been on a little stretch of finishing in second place. Got to keep that going.
We’re never actually gonna win. There’s this one team that, let’s see, how do I put this? Jamie Fox joked in his special that they cheat. There’s no way this one team knows the answers every week. There’s just no way.
So yeah, if you watch Jamie Fox’s special next week, he talks about this one team that’s a trivia every week and how they cheat. But you know, I think he’s kidding.
Moving on, Jimmy Fallon has a new special out today.
It is Jimmy Fallon’s Holiday seasoning Spectacular on the show Let’s See We Got JB. Smooth, The Jonas Brothers, Timberlake Ll and Weird. Now it’s on NBC at ten o’clock. It’ll be on Peacock tomorrow. Real New Yorkers hate the Christmas tree lighting because it’s a traffic nightmare.
On Gossip Corner, page six tells us, Tiffany Hattish commemorated the one year anniversary for Duy by joking about it. She was the Laugh Factory. She told the crowd, I’m so happy to see all of y’all. I’m not in jail tonight and I will not be tomorrow, I promise you. But I mean, if you’re gonna go to jail, Beverly Hills is the place to be.
There’s nothing like the Beverly Hills Police Station. It’s nice. Okay. You may recall last Thanksgiving, Tiffany performed the Laugh Factory just hours before being arrested for the Duy. DUI is no joke, but I do understand how comedy works.
And it’s a year later and making a joke about it, I understand it. Many things can be true at once. First, don’t drive under the influence. And two, when bad things happen in your life, you can make com you can make jokes about them. I get it.
Late Night reacted to the partning of Hunter Biden, John Stewart said, and I think John Nail did here. Biden’s an eighty two old man. He doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life visiting his son in prison. Stewart continued, hypocrisy isn’t illegal, nor is it particularly unusual in politics. It’s not like he’s ever gonna run again, so why not take airy kid?
Even if he said you weren’t going to I respect it. I don’t have a problem with it. The problem is the rest of the Democrats made Biden’s pledge not pardon Hunter the foundation of their defense of America. Jimmy Kimmel said, Biden did say he wasn’t going to pardon a Hunter, but to be fair, there’s a very good chance he doesn’t remember saying that. Kimill again, Now, I’m not a presidential historian, but I believe this is the first time a US president has pardoned both his son and a turkey in the same week.
Jimmy Fallon said Democrats are divided. Some of them are upset while others are. Hunter Biden and Jimmy Carr got involved with a controversy. He posted I’m in Macedonia, the homeland of Alexander the Great, who, fun fact, has the same middle name as Winnie the Pooh. Think about it.
That post led to heated comments. Gor did not engage with them. Then when Carr got to Serbia, he posted the same joke. It is unclear if he wanted to and the controversy or he was trying to address historical and accuracies. And that is your comedy news for today.
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