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Caloroga Shark Media been Aaron Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News and back off the road. I’ll talk about that in the second half. But some stuff I didn’t get to talk about that I want to talk about. You probably saw the White House Correspondence Dinner canceled Amber Ruffin’s appearance. So strange, So this year the White House Correspondents Dinner will not have a featured comedian.
In a statement email to its members on Saturday, the president of the WHCA said his organization’s board unanimously decided to go without a comedian. This after Amber Ruffin had been invited to host and was preparing. Eugene Daniels said, at this consequential moment for journalism, I want to ensure the focus is not on the politics of division, but entirely on awarding our colleagues for their outstanding work and providing scholarship and mentorship to the next generation of journalists. Time out, dude. We’ve been making fun of whoever is in the White House for years.
Previous comedians who have hosted included Trevornoa, Roywood Junior, and Colin Jost. To be fair, the host in twenty nineteen was historian Ron Cherno, not a comedian. The White House Dinner’s been going on since nineteen twenty one. US presidents usually attend. A recent president has chosen not to.
The WHCA manages the Presidential pool, that’s the group of journalists who regularly cover the president. So this to me looks like the WHCA doesn’t want to make a certain someone angry and they’re so they’re not having a comedian up. Oh boy, what is going on everybody? Amber Ruffin went on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Seth set up an unrelated joke about a man who robbed a bodega.
Ruffin interrupts and skull set saying, making a joke about the burglar could be divisive. Take it from me. If there’s one thing I learned from this weekend, it’s you have to be fair to both sides. Myers pushes back, telling Ruffin, when people are objectively terrible, we should be able to point it out on television. She shoots back, I thought that too on Friday, but today is Monday, and Monday’s Amber Ruffin knows that when bad people do bad things, you have to treat them fairly and respectfully.
Ruffin joke that we have a free press so that we could be nice to Republicans at fancy dinners. I thought, when people take away your rights, erase your history, and to port your friends, you’re supposed to call it out. But I was wrong. Glad to find that out now, because if they let me give that speech, oh baby, I wo had been so terrifically mean. White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor buda Witch had previously condemned Ruffin’s planned appearance.
The Deputy chief posted a clip on Twitter of Amber discussing the event. In a video, Ruffin had said she was told to be equal and make jokes about both sides, but she said there was no way she would do so. Buddawitch asked what kind of responsible, sensible journalist would attend something like this? More importantly, what kind of company would sponsor such hate filled and violence inspiring events. You may recall some people think this all gets back to Barack Obama appearing at the WHCA dinner and making a joke about out civilian Donald Trump.
I don’t know who to tell you send your letters to. I guess you’re sending them to me. I’m just telling you what’s going on. I personally believe in making fun of all sides, all right, SNL. I didn’t get to talk about this either.
You may have seen the clip of Morgan Wallen walking off after The Good Nights, which it’s just weird to me. It’s not like The Good Knights are ten minutes long, and you know, Morgan had performed his final song, so if he had to like pee or something, he probably had time to go to the bathroom. So I don’t know what was going on there, But can’t you just stand there and wave for seventy five seconds like everyone else has done for fifty years. Keenan Thompson has spoken out about this. Keenan told Entertainment Weekly, I don’t know what goes through people’s minds when they decide to do stuff like that.
I don’t know if he understood assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way. It’s definitely a spike in the norm. We’re so used to everybody just turning around and high fiving us. Everybody’s saying good job, good job. So when there’s a departure from that, it’s like, hmm, I wonder what that’s about.
Morgan Wallin had posted on Instagram heading back to God’s Country. Keenan said, the God’s Country of it all strange because it’s like, what are you trying to say. You’re trying to say, we’re not in God’s country, We’re not all in God’s country, We’re not all under God’s umbrella. That’s not necessarily my favorite, but whatever, moving on. You may recall back in twenty twenty, Morgan Wallen was supposed to host SNL.
There was this pandemic Did you hear about that? In the news. It had emerged that Morgan Wallen had broken the COVID guidelines, so he was rescheduled. In twenty twenty one, Morgan Wallen issued an apology after he was caught on camera using a racist slur to a friend after a night out. The Hollywood Reporter said Morgan Wallen was asked to perform in a sketch, the sketch Big Dumb Line.
We also learned that Morgan walked off during the dress rehearsal. A source tell’s The Hollywood Reporter that Wallin can be seen on stage starting the goodbyes, but after a quick cutaway, he’s gone. A sources at the time, no one thought much of it. Wallin’s team was very nice throughout the entire week. As for the sketch, Joe Jonas popped up on SNL to sing the Bridge on Big Dumb Line, a pre taped musical number about waiting in long New York City lines for viral Foods.
Waan was asked to do the part, and a source says he wasn’t available. Walland’s upcoming album, by the way, is titled I’m the Problem. Late Night of Reports the March twenty ninth episode drew an average of four point two million and change viewers ages two plus, the show’s lowest number in that measurement since December, when Chris Rock hosted. In the eighteen to forty nine demo, six hundred and ninety two thousand viewers, a new low for the show going back to nineteen ninety one, which is as far back as the numbers go. That’s down seven point seven percent from the LATEA Gaga episode and fourteen point one nine percent in the demo.
Industry watchers think this weekend we’ll do better host Jack Black, musical guest Elton John and Brandy Carlyle also Late Night of Reporting than in Iowa, Doctor is suing John Oliver for defamation. Last April, Oliver did a story about medicaid. Oliver then played audio from a doctor taken from a testimony from a hearing in twenty seventeen. In that testimony, the doctor apparently says people have bowel movements every day where they don’t completely clean themselves, and we don’t fuss over them. People allowed to be dirty, you know, not allow to be dirty for a couple of days.
Oliver reacts, when I first heard that, I thought that has to be taken out of context, so we got the full hearing. He said it, he meant it, and it made me want to punch a hole in the wall. Oliver then said, f that doctor with a rusty canoe. I hope he gets tetanus of the I’ll clean it up testicles. The doctor says the comments were taken out of context.
In Happier News, Shane gillis, Well, that’s going to annoy some people too, right, Like there’s just some people that you say the words Shane Gillison. It’s like if you said the words Joe and Rogan in the same sentence, people lose their mind. Or the new thing is complaining that kil Tony is going to exist on Netflix. People are ready I write about it. They probably don’t even know what the show is.
I’ve just seen people complaining about the cover art. Shane Gillis Tires season two June fifth, on Netflix. Tire Season one is very Funny. The official synopsis of Tires is, Will, the nervous and unqualified air to an auto repair chain, attempts to turn his father’s business around despite constant torture from his cousin and employee. Shane very funny show.
Netflix has announced a Tim Dillon special. This one will be April fifteenth, that’s just two weeks away. It is called I’m Your Mother. We’re told I’m Your Mother is a no holds bared on, apologetic ride through today’s chaos. Tim Dillon will tackle everything from his odd loyalty to the British royal family to roasting the world’s absurdities and more with no filter.
Filmed at the Comedy Mothership in Austin, Texas. Hopefully somebody miked it correctly this time. The audio on Tim Dillon’s first stand up special on Netflix was I don’t want to use the word horrific, but it was not great and Speaking of kill Tony, I get these like ticket alerts some on some mailing list that I don’t know how I got on, but I was like, oh, what’s this. Apparently kill Tony’s playing Madison Square Garden Saturday, August sixteenth. This pre sale today at ten am.
If you’re interested, use code at k T two and I bet you that winds up being two shows, just like last time, and we’ll see what happens there. But yeah, I was on threads and people are just complaining about the cover art for kill Tony. Relax, everybody, it’s a comedy show. Watch it or don’t.
Speaking of Netflix, I had told you in the April one episode, and I was not k…
I don’t see it. What’s going on? Your show’s bogus? You’re doing fake news? Was that in April fool’s joke that wasn’t funny?
No, here’s what happened. According to Variety, Netflix was set to release a licensed stand up special from Nimesh Patel on April first, that’s titled Instant Karma, but they decided, now, let’s not do that, and Netflix is going to produce a brand new hour to be tapped later this year. Patel said in a statement, my special that I self produced is being postponed, but in bigger and better news, Netflix is producing a brand new original special that I’ll be filming later this year. More soon, Patel will release some of the Insta Karma material on you tube. Weird, very very strange.
More stuff to catch up on. I don’t know if you know. John Mlanie’s got a late night talk show that with no buzz on it. Well. Last week, lew and l was getting friendly with Pete Davidson, and she apologized.
She told people, I admit I was tickling Pete’s leg during a segment of Everybody’s Live with John m’laney. However, I did not mean to make Pete uncomfortable. I sincerely apologize it was all done in jest. She hopes Pete Davidson will forgive her, and added, I’m still willing to go out on a date with him if he chooses, and I promise I won’t touch him again unless he wants me to. I am back.
I was out at a podcast convention in Chicago, which led me to taping a couple episodes this week, which is why I didn’t talk about everything that I talked about in the first half, so it’s nice to catch up. Heading forward, I have zero travel on my calendar for the first time I can remember now. I’m sure I will travel at some points during the year, especially one of my kids goes to school in a different city, so I’m sure at some point I will travel, but right now, no plans to go anywhere, so hopefully no pre tapes for a while. You know, I like being quote unquote live with you guys. I’m sure you enjoy the quote unquote live shows better than a pre tape.
I do my best try and make them topical to the day, but also from a work standpoint, I’ve had a bunch of big trips since October, and you know, you go to Ireland for a week, you got to tape an extra week’s worth of shows, and it’s like a lot of work to get this done. I know, poor me, nobody’s making me do this home. Poor John had to go to Ireland. I got it, I got it. But I’m just sharing.
I’m excited that I don’t have to do that and could just like do the podcast in the normal way, so I’m actually happy to not be traveling out At the podcast awards, the Ambies, they’re called Best Comedy Podcast. Went to Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and bone Yang. I did not attend the ceremony. I went out to dinner. Bone Yang did not attend the ceremony either, but Matt Rodgers did.
Tig Nataro was your host. I did not see Tig wandering around the hallway mingling with us regular role podcasters though. Let’s head on over to gossip Corner. Angela Johnson Reyis went to a BUCkies. She filmed some clips in the BUCkies, such as It’s clothing, the poo perie, the kitchen ware, and the Cowboy aesthetic blankets.
She also hung out with Bucky the Beaver. Got a whole bunch of festivals to tell you about. In Houston, where there’s probably a BUCkies. It’s the Riot Comedy Festival. Sam Talent is your headliner at seven o’clock, and it looks like nine to thirty on their little graph here.
Friday nights headliner is Chris red Oh. You know who else is there? Hans Kim. You know Hans from that Kill Tony show whose artwork is upsetting people who they’re going to be so mad in Nashville. It’s the Nashville Comedy Festival.
Seventy shows over eleven days. Wow, that’s great. Andrew Farwell is the vice president of Outback Presents, and he told News Channel five Jay Leno and Arsenio Hall are coming to the Ryman for the first time ever. We’ve got Nicky Glazer, host of the Golden Globe. She’s one of the hottest comedians right now.
It’s unbelievable. Tonight at the Ryman seven o’clock, Mark Norman over at Zany’s Veer Das at the Pinnacle, Rodney Carrington. We never talked about Rodney, but Rodney’s pretty big. Uh oh, you know what’s at the Bridgetone Arena on Friday night. People gonna be very upset kill Tony.
People gonna be so mad. I can’t believe kill Tony’s here. That’s not real comedy. That’s just people getting up and being pro dudes for a minute. It’s not funny at all.
Watch the show. It’s hilarious. Relax. Okay, what other comedy festivals you got? First?
John a multi day comedy festival is returning to Union Square. That’s New York City, one hundred and seventeen year old Paragon Sports. Yeah, that’s like a place you go to buy jerseys and stuff. They’re doing a three day event April thirtyeth through May second. It will feature twelve comedy shows over three nights, seventy five dollars a night.
Who’s performing, John That is a secret. It will not be announced in advance. Seventy five dollars to see comedy at Paragon Sports and he won’t tell me who’s playing. Yeah, that’s the thing you want me to do. Oh hey, last year if you just want to see, like, you know, what kind of comedians might be.
Last year’s event featured Christa Stefano and Marcelo Hernandez. But I think out of all these the comedy festival I think is the coolest. LA is going to host the Belly Laughs Comedy and Food Festival celebrating Asian American culture. What a great lineup here? This is in La at LA Live July twelfth and the thirteenth, stand up sets and appearances from thirty comedians and a sampling of more than twenty Asian restaurants.
I love this. The lineup includes Hasan Minhaj, Kamil Nan Gianni, Margaret Schow, Joe Kim Booster, Nimish Patel, who’s getting five mentions the show all of a sudden, Irene two who’s fantastic let’s say, Sabrina Wu Jinny Yang, Aaron Chen and others. But there’s also food. Restaurants include Boba Pop, Feng Mao, Good Alley, Hermanos empanadas doesn’t sound very Asian to me, but I don’t know. Holy Basil in the Riviera Seafood Club sounds like a really fun time in July, Oh when people are upset with Damon, Wayne’s junior.
He was supposed to be playing the Blue Room Comedy Club for a few shows. Apparently he canceled for the third time. Deborah spent two hundred dollars and bought three tickets. She said he looks just like his dad. I thought it’d be awesome to see him.
According to Deborah, Damon was supposed to play the club last summer, but it was rescheduled for the fall and then April. She’s a little annoyed now going just refund our money, quit telling us he’s going to be here. Eventually. Christopher is the owner of the Blue Room and says he hates it when this happens. It’s show business.
We don’t want any cancelations. We’re making this right by actively issuing refunds to all customers. Nice job there. Ticket Holders could also get credit to see another show of their choice and a food voucher, but Deborah said, I don’t want to go to other shows. I want to see Damon Waynes Junior.
I don’t want to tell you he won’t show up. And that’s your comedy news for today. That was a fun one, right, Good to be back. Seed to whorrow