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Caloroga Shark Media. John marcos Areisi’s news special is terrific. We’ll talk about that in a second. Hi, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. This is the normal episode for Monday Morning.
I’ll continue to do Kimmel bonuses. There was one yesterday afternoon, and I know in light of the Jimmy Kimmel story, a lot of people are concerned about free speech and government overreached, and again I’ll cover that in bonus episodes. Totally separate topic. This week is the first ever ri Odd Comedy Festival. Let me tell you who’s heading to Saudi Arabia to perform at the Riodd Comedy Festival.
Bill Burr he’ll be there on the twenty sixth. Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee they’re there on the twenty sixth and twenty seventh. Whinney Cummings is there on the twenty sixth. Christa Stefano on the twenty seventh. Dave Chappelle he’s there on the twenty seventh.
The not so canceled Disease I’m Sorry on the twenty eighth, Kevin Hart on September twenty eighth, Mesh Pttel also on the twenty eighth. Jessica Curson September twenty ninth, Elisa Dick on the thirtieth, David galasiast on the first, Omid Jelly on the first, Chris Tucker October second, Jeff Ross the roast Master. He’ll be roasting, I guess at the three Odd Comedy Festival on October second. Russell Peters doing three shows on the second, third, and fourth. Zarna garg is heading over there on October second.
Mark Normand one of your favorite comedians. He’s there on October third. Pete Davidson, who tragically his father was killed on nine to eleven. His father was a New York City firefighter. I don’t know if you know that.
Pete Davidson is performing at the Odd Comedy Festival on October third. Darry Spears on October fifth, Jimmy Carr and Louis C.K. Together on October sixth. You know, if that was in New York City, I’d go see that. That’s a pretty good show.
Jack Whitehall on October seventh, Palestinian American comedian Moa. Mayer on October seventh. Wayne Brady, He’s there October seventh. Were doing some improv. Joe Cooy he’s there on October eight.
Maybe he’s going to make some jokes about Taylor Swift. You don’t know. Sam Murrill’s there October eighth. Dillon was going to be the October eighth, but he was disinvited for some he made some comments on his podcast. Tom Sagora He’s going to be there October eighth.
Andrew Schultz, he’s got a couple podcasts that are political. He’s there on October ninth. Hannibal Burris is there in a ninth. Sebastian Maniscalco is there on the ninth. So you can see what a big comedy festival this is coming to Riodd And by the way, did I promote I’m talking about the old Jimmy Kimmel free speech government depression thing.
I’m doing that as bonus episodes. I forget if I mentioned that at the top. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know what was happening in comedy festivals this week and where all your favorite comedians are heading. Now, I had that in the notes already because I like to let you know what’s happening in comedy festivals. But I saw Jason Zinnemann, friend of the show, wrote in The New York Times.
Starting next week, many of the most popular American stand up stars he mentioned Chappelle, Bill Burn, Kevin Harnt in parentheses, will perform at a huge new festival in riodd hosted by a government not exactly known for its openness to dissent. The optics were never great, but the timing is now especially awkward. The Hollywood Reporter had an article about the most trusted people in media. Some of it was focused on newscasters, but in terms of late night host, Jimmy Fallon is the host who gets most often labeled as the least political of the broadcast. Late Nighters has the highest trust, while John Stewart his trust rating is down a little bit.
Greg Gottfeld saw his credibility rise with Americans since the last time the survey was taken in twenty twenty four. Stephen Colbert’s trust numbers are down seven points. And I think this survey was taken before Jimmy Kimmel was removed from the airwaves. But at the time of the survey, forty eight percent of respondents in the Hollywood Porter Morning Consult poll described Jimmy Kimmel as having quote a very liberal or quote somewhat liberal lean, which was higher than all his other late night contemporaries. Stand Up four Heroes is coming back as part of the New York Comedy Festival.
It’s its nineteenth year. It’ll be November tenth at the David Geffenhall and Lincoln Center. Nice lineup including Mike Birbiglia, Alex Edelman, and Jim Gaffigan. Maybe he’ll try and sell you some bourbon, Tom Poppa, John Stewart and Moore. Stand Up for Heroes has raised one hundred and thirteen million dollars to day to help all veterans and military families have successful futures.
I did get to watch John Marcos Siresi’s new special on YouTube. It is fanastic, like really good. As I was watching it, I was thinking, Wow, the number of jokes per second is just incredible.
And then I remember Dane Cook had a laughs per metric thing that he used to d…
So I’m gonna quote Bob Hope theory, which was tell a joke like every six seconds, and some of them might land. I mean, John Marco is just joke after joke after joke, and so many of them land strongly. The special is really good. I also appreciate and other reviews have pointed out his physicality, and at first I was like, Oh, his physicalities helped selling those jokes. That’s interesting.
And then I took my eyes off the screen. I’m like, Nope, the physicality is just part of the entertainment. But the material is solid, solid, solid, Plus you get the physicality on top a really strong special. Jermark will tell the Post this was a real amalgamation of chunks from my first year, bigger stories that have been fine tuned over the years, and bits from the last six months. Some people are more familiar with my crowd work, and I think they’ll be pleasantly surprised that this is more of a joke special.
Basically, the idea was, if he didn’t know me, this is your intro to my taste, who I am, how I feel, and a good preview of what you’re gonna get if you ever see me live. Some of it got cut, he told the Post, Yeah, it was originally eighty minutes. We cut a lot. We cut a joke that I’ve been doing since my first year that I worried I’d put out too much. It’s about my father.
He’s Italian. We kiss each other goodbye. One day, my room had asked, do you kiss each other in public? And I said, yeah, it’d be weird if I only kissed him in private. That’s a great joke.
My girlfriend, who’s also my manager, is my guiding light into terms of telling me, I think that’s been done in a way that it would feel like an audience member might think I’ve already heard that part, so I left it out. You know. As I was watching the special, I was like, wait, I’ve heard this chunk. Where do I know this chunk from? And I was just confused, And then I realized, Oh, he had done a little bit of this material back in July up at Montreal, and I was like, oh, okay, okay, that’s where I know that from.
John Marcos says, I’m retiring all the material from this special. So right now I’m talking about AI and the ways it feels like AI and robotics have moved past helping human beings. I was just trying to see if I could get him on. I was talking with this publicist. We’re very friendly.
I’m very friendly with that camp. But John Marco’s running around, so this isn’t like one of those like, oh I can’t get to you know whatever comedian. I can’t get to Mark Marron. I would love to get to Mark Marin. I just can’t.
But I was thinking when I was watching it, I’m like, wow, John Marco here is just torching all his material. I was wondering what he had left. So it’s good to hear that answer. Gianmarco Soresi said, I try to paint my dad in a more positive light because I found out he’s been on Ashley Madison and a number of dating apps. Or woman reached out to me and she decided to not date my father partially because of my jokes.
So I had to try and readjust that. So I get a new step Bob. I will do more of that tomorrow. I’m recording this one on Sunday. I normally don’t record on Sunday because everyone’s home and oh my god, right now, both dogs are going at it.
I’ve gone up twice and been like, can you be quiet now? To be fair, this isn’t really a podcast studio. It’s the basement and my family’s allowed to live here. But it’s really hard to focus today, So I’ll save the John Marco stuff people as this thing with Michael Chay, and I’m having trouble understanding the story because the way they wrote it. Their opening paragraph is quoting Michael Chay in a new documentary in Whose Name, and the quote is Michael Chay asking Kanye West, I’m the black comedian that made a joke about Cosby.
That’s fed up? Why do you do that to me? It was backstage at SNL and Kanye West apparently said, you can’t always have every time you have black subject matter like Bill Cosby, that you have to have a black comedian talking about him. He motions to Michael Chay and said, you know what I mean. Kanye claimed he was bullied backstage for his Make America Great Again hat and was told don’t go out there with that hat on.
They bullied me backstage. They bullied me, and then they say, I’m in a sunken place. You want to see that sunken place. I’m going to put my Superman cap on. The documentary then cuts to Cha approaching West backstage, and then Chay says to West, good with me, for real?
That was eft up? So I don’t really understand what’s going on there. I guess i’d have to watch it. On Friday. I shared that thing with Guy Brainam on the airplane while TMZ says, guy says he’s going to bring the man to court.
TMZ happened to be at the airport when Guy Braindam got off a plane. The photographer asked Guy Branham about it. TMZ says, guys show them a bruise from the alleged elbow swing and said he’s going to file a police report and a lawsuit, telling the man you can’t hit somebody because you think they’re fat. Guy says Delta Airlines has called him back to talk about what happened. TMC says guy travels a lot for work and has some Delta status himself.
I want to know how he went up in a middle seat. I mean, it’s not that hard to not get in a middle seat, especially if you’re willing to spend a little money. I don’t know. Hey, here’s a shocker. Johnny Mack remembered to do the Toronto Comedy Festival today.
I almost forgot I’d started to go into the Steve Harvey story, which is the next thing in my script, and then I was like, oh, why don’t you actually do Toronto for one? So you have to get Johnny macbot out for the third day to row. Let’s see what’s happening in Toronto today. David Lynch’s Seinfeld at eight o’clock. What is this?
This sounds amazing. Now I have to actually google this. Since the new people took over at JFL, the websites aren’t as good. Just saying, all right, here’s a review from July. David Lynch’s Seinfeld was at the Toronto Fringe and Porton and Pearl reviewed it.
They wrote, imagine an episode of Seinfeld. Now imagine that there’s a frequently tall faceless man called the Tall Man watching Jerry Do stand up from the audience. That’s how David Lynch’s Seinfeld begins, an entirely original episode of Seinfeld with a lynche and twist. All right, that sounds like a lot of fun at eight o’clock, Matt writes Matre Day right Live nine thirty, another David Lynch Seinfeld also at nine thirty Wheel of Comedy, and then at midnight Madness at eleven thirty. So I’d say pretty quiet night, as mondays, tend to be at festivals.
If we were up there, I’d say, well, let’s definitely do Seinfeld at eight, and then I don’t know. We left comedy at nine thirty, Grab a couple of beers, go to bed. Steve Harvey explained why he has quitch stand up comedy, said it’s too hard to do right now. He’s got that nice family feud gig and apparently that’s what Arizon ABC at eleven thirty at night, so he might be pumping out a lot of more episodes soon. Steve said, I left stand up because I had so many shows.
I had built such a catalog of work. I was making money. I had to let something go, and if a tour on the weekends, I wouldn’t even have a family. So I let stand up go because I saw the change coming. You got to react to participate.
So my participation was to get it away from it because the cancel culture started becoming everywhere. Comedy is too hard to do right now, and all you got to do is look at the way cancel culture works. I believe he had said this before Kimmel Gates did it do this one over the weekend. I’ve recorded so many things I can’t remember. Steve Morton had to cancel the shows over the weekend.
He has COVID. He went on social said, dear Virginia Beach and Richmond sad laugh come down with COVID. I can’t possibly do the shows. He deserves some morning and I must cancel tonight and tomorrow. But we were churned under better circumstances.
Steve Morton is eighty years old, and I don’t think that people of Peoria are too happy with Liz Mealy As she released a video on Facebook and YouTube, Liz says she enjoys traveling, and then said she visited Peoria once and that was enough. We don’t need to do that again. If you’re like, hey, Liz, what’s in Peoria? Nothing? There’s nothing.
They had one coffee shop. It was open thirty five minutes and I never woke up in time. They didn’t have Uber. Everybody has a guy with a truck. How do you not have Uber?
I was losing my mind. I’m freaking out. I feels so isolated. I caught my little sister. She’s like described Peoria and I was like, all right, opening scene of Wally, I’m the robot.
Trash is everywhere, no one’s around. Back in November, Shane gillis Head coincidentally said, I was in Peoria, new number one on the power rankings of blanking town in the entire country. Peoria, Illinois was That was hell, dude, Just me and the bums were the only ones outside walking around minus four and Peoria sucks. That was hell. And that is your comedy news on a Monday.
I’m pretty sure there’ll be a Kimmel bonus episode, so I’ll see it a few hours and then back Tuesday with the normal episode to have a good one.