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Caloroga Shark Media. Happy Halloween. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. A couple of things going on. I’m gonna say for the weekend.
Bilber still talking about the Riod Comedy Festival. He’s annoyed Withsten comedians. I’ll probably do that Sunday.
Also, Mark Marin is the guest on the Bullseye podcast.
I’m pulling some audio in the background from that. I’m running a transcript on it as I record this episode, so that’s not ready to bake yet. I’ll probably do that on Sunday as well. Wanda Sykes had a big profile piece in Variety. Did we know this?
One of Sykes worked a day job at the National Security Agency after college. Yeah, daytime at the NSA nights and weekends telling jokes. She eventually opened for Chris Rock. She was on Chris Rocks Bring the Pain Tour for one weekend in the nineties. She remembers Chris Rock saying you’re funny, I’m gonna look for you.
Soon after that, she got a career changing call, Wanda Set. Everything started for me with the Chris Rock Show. That led to the Wanda Sykes Show, which Fox canceled in twenty ten after one season. I don’t remember that existing, as she said, I don’t miss that. I had too much on my plate.
But she’s proud of it, saying I can’t think of anything that’s like, why did I do that? Maybe Pooty Tank, but people love Pooty Tank. In two thousand and nine, she headlined the White House Correspondence dinner and says, when I got the call, the first thing I said in my publicist was they know him gay, right, because they were doing a horrible job of vetting people in the Obama administration. I was like, he knows. She was like, yeah, everybody knows.
Writy writes. In a moment where several of Wanda’s contemporaries like Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Burr spot off hot takes about the industry and what can and cannot be done, Syke says, I’ve never been one to pontificate about comedy. When I hang around comedians and all they are really into talking about is comedy, I’m like, just go tell your jokes. I’m not a yapper. Wanda Sykes.
Do you interact much with Trump supporters? She says, I have friends who are I mean they’re Republican, but yeah, they voted for him, so I guess they’re Trump supporters. But it’s best not to talk. We don’t bring it up. Interestingly, Wanda was supposed to be on Kim All the night ABC pulled it.
What happened there, Wanda? She said, I was doing some last minute makeup. My publicist called and said he’d been preempted and they didn’t know when he’d be coming back. I was like, well, what did he say? I was texting with him.
Jim was like, I have a lot of people protect it was real. I don’t want to say a real wake up call, because we were aware of how bad things were, but this is crazy now. I still don’t see how what he said was outlandish or hurtful. Wanda? Does that make you think twice about things you say on stage about Trump?
Wanta Syke said, you can’t really censor yourself like that and give people a good show. I can’t, so I don’t now if you’re watching sports like me, and you’re sitting there half asleep in the comfy chair, I think this was me during Sunday night football. Maybe it was the baseball game. I think it was Sunday Night Football and a commercial came on for Call of Duty Black Ops seven and I’m like, isn’t that Nikki Glaser? And you know you’re like half a sleeping Like, why would Nikki Glaser be in a video game commercial?
Is that Nikki Glaser? Just a woman who kind of looks like what you think Nikki Glaser looks like? Nope, it’s Nikki Glaser. She is in the commercial with Terry Cruz. Niki Glazer plays one of the replacers who step into play the game when the original replacer gets into trouble, in this case during a celebrity filled space flight mission that goes awry.
Nicki’s agent getting it done, Eliza Slessinger had her proverbial car waxed by Variety. She got a big story, and Eliza said, you have to truly believe that what you have to say is so important that it warns a microphone that makes you louder than everyone else. And you have to believe that the way you look at things is so funny that people are going to want to stop and listen. It’s about feeling seen, especially as a woman. I think that that’s paramount, feeling seen and feeling heard and that’s the guiding light of my career.
Knowing that what I have to say is just as valid, if not more valid, than the male comic next to me, and deciding that I’m allowed to talk and it’s going to be pretty good. And twenty years in survey says what I have to say is pretty good. Eliza said, as you age in comedy, it’s okay to just tell superficial jokes. There’s nothing wrong with that. But I feel things very deeply as an artist.
I think comics in comedy get brushed off as ah, You’re just a comic at the end of the day. I’m not just some road dogs there to tell Penis jokes. I’m an artist, and I feel very deeply. I see that there’s a certain way, and I feel it’s my job to hold up a mirror to society and to call out things when I see them, especially for women, because we’re told that we’re crazy. I know a lot of other women who don’t have the voice to say to things that they want to say, So I just try to say the way I’m feeling, and I hope that other people feel the same way.
You talked about touring overseas and people having a hard time dealing with things that, by the grace of God, you or I don’t have to deal with the fact that people take the time out of their stresses and their lives to watch my stand up or buy a ticket. The fact that people give me their time is something that has never been lost on me. I’ve never taken it for granted. And they get to be part of people’s lives when they’re going through something horrible is actually energetically a very special thing. I think about that a lot.
Do not bother me. On Wednesday, February twenty fifth, why John Scrubs is back two episodes eight o’clock now. To watch this, you’re going to have to support fascism because this air on ABC, which is owned by Disney, and they’re the people that you know were mean to Jimmy Kimmel and we all canceled Hulu and Disney Plus. And that’s why I’ve been watching the Scrubs DVDs instead of just hitting click on my Roku remote where it says Hulu now I go upstairs and get the DVDs. I do not support fascism, but we all come to a point where we sell out.
Some people take money from the Rion Comedy Festival. Johnny Mack watches Monday Night football in Scrubs, say, February twenty fifth, I should probably edit that out because I’m trying to ask the ABC publicists for some Scrubs people. This is not going to help me. It’s a comedy show publicist, don’t you see in the notes where it says parody and commentary. George Clooney has been talking about the great, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler.
Now. The folks at far outmagazine dot co dot UK neil this entirely. They write, Sandler is an incredibly divisive figure. Once an untouchable superstar with a roster off it’s to his name, He’s now the archetypal Hollywood, has been an annoying hangover of a previous age, still coasting on his past glories. However, George Clooney doesn’t think so.
Clooney said, I thought Punch Drunk Love was amazing. Now perhaps George Clooney is insane. I don’t know. I’ve never met the man, and I’m often confused by him. People like, you look like George Clooney, but you dress like Adam Sandler, what’s with that combo?
I don’t know either, but the possibly insane George Clooney said of Punch Drug Love, that was the first time we’d seen Sandler do something where it wasn’t just a straight up comedy. I also have to say you were beautiful in the Myerwitz stories. I really love that. I thought you and Ben Stillar were great together. I felt like that movie got short shrift.
Somehow, it didn’t get the. Attention comedy stock markets. Every Friday I make some hypothetical stock picks for you in the comedy stock market. Now, remember the premise here. We’re not really saying that somebody is good or bad.
It’s not that it’s we’re trying to sell high or buy low. Like you know how you make money on the stock market. You’re familiar with this concept. Yes, So just because I say, hey, let’s sell our stock in somebody, doesn’t mean that I’m like, god, person’s the worst. That’s not what this is.
This is about making hypothetical money. So here’s my picks for this week. Let’s buy John Stewart. He’s at the height of his powers, but a little below the radar, possibly by now by between me recording this and you listening to it. He has renewed his deal with Comedy Central, and if not, that’ll put him on the free agent market.
So let’s buy some John Stewart right now. I think that’s a good buy. Let’s also ride along with the powers that be in Hollywood who have decided that Stavros hockeyist is going to be a superstar. Let’s go for that ride. Because if you walk down the street and you go to one hundred people, hey have you heard of this guy?
Unlet’s run into I don’t know one person, you might go zero for one hundred. And I’m not kidding, and that’s not a diss this is just comedy stock markets. Let’s load up on starv Ros for that same reason. Let’s buy Rachel Sinnott. A lot of you were like, I don’t know who that is.
You keep talking about her? John, who is that? I’ve never heard of her? Give it a month, two months. She’s about to have a show on HBO.
She’s about to be in your face. You’re about to see his zillion articles about her. Let’s load up on Rachel Sinnott. We’re buying low there and we are going to sell high in a couple of weeks. I want to sell if we have any left.
I do think we might have sold it all Nate Berghatzy stock, we might have sold after the Emmys. If we have any left, let’s sell it. This game show thing that I told you about in Thursday’s podcast just sounds like I don’t know. I can’t imagine Nate Pergatzy being a good game show host. I don’t think he has the skill set for that.
He’s too dry, He’s not an animated comic. I just I don’t see that working at all. So let’s sell our Nate, and let’s sell Andrew Schultz, who increasingly just seems tone deaf and doesn’t get it. And I get that he’s popular, but I just feel like everybody is looking at Andrew’s direction right now, going yeah, bro no, And I feel like there’s a Schultz backlash coming. All right?
Bye John by Stavros, Bye, Rachel Sell, Nate, sell Schultz. It is Halloween, and Entertainment Weekly caught up with Bobby moynihan. They talked about the famous SNL sketch. David S Pumpkins Boy said it was Halloween that week and Tom Hanks was there and we said, what can we right that’ll get in the Halloween special every year? And we started joking around and we’re like, I always play Santa.
Spent nine years playing Santa. I was the heaviest one on the show. And I was like, there’s no Santa for Halloween. Started joking around and saying, what if it was just a guy named David Pumpkins?
And then Mikey and I had another idea about these dancing things and we kind …
It was a fever dream and we were like, I don’t know, man, what are we doing. I guess we’re just writing this to be weird. Tom Hanks hated it and asked us to give it to somebody else and we said no.
And then in between dress rehearsal and air, Tom Hanks went like, I’m just go…
We got lucky South Park. It didn’t put out an episode Wednesday, they’re planning on releasing one today, a special Halloween episode titled The Woman in the Hat. We’re told the White House deals with a disruptive spirit from the East Wing, which in real life was destroyed as you do. While Stan worries that South Park has become too political, we’ll do some stories about Jim Gaffkin Berbon if you’re worried about that. Metal Insider caught up with John GOBLECN.
They explained to Embondie, John Goblican on stage is one thing. It’s cosplay with consequences, But to be John GOBLECN, the meme fueled talk show hosting ANTSI hero is something else entirely. David Spolly is both a human named Davis Spoley and John GOBLICN. Metal Insider asked Davis Spoley, do you ever feel like humans are jealous of goblins? Dave said, Oh, I know they are.
John’s life is pretty incredible, touring, interviewing celebrities, eating skin, living in a way mow, what a dream, Dave. You’re a comedian. How has comedy changed? Dave said, It’s constantly evolving. That’s what makes it enticing while also being the most frustrating art form of all.
When I first started, there was a very linear path. You did open mics that he had spots around town. You got into clubs, as a host and a feature than a headliner. Now, to be a comedian, you not only need a craft and act, you need to be a I gotta take a breath here so I can get this sentence in. You need to be a deep breath actor, podcaster, editor, social media manager, influencer, promoter who never stops making content because if you don’t feed the algorithm, you will cease to exist.
I wish I could stop. In fact, I need to take a break from writing this answer to make some more content. I am content, and content is life. What was the question they asked Dave? If you could replace every US senator with goblins, how would legislation improve or collapse?
Dave said, make America goblin again. Pretty sure someone stole that ACRONYMCMAGA sand network and that is almost all your comedy US For today, I’m gonna say goodbye and I’m gonna end on a clip. So this is the official goodbye part and I’ll be back tomorrow. You know, we do the seven days a week, but it is Halloween. Jonathan Kite has this amazing Anthony Boardaine impression that I can’t get enough of.
He’s been putting these clips on Instagram. He’s increasingly dressing up to look more and more like Anthony Boardine. Though he’s got the voice down, he’s got the style down. He’s just doing it dry. You either get it or you don’t.
I cannot get enough of this, ingest this into my veins, so I will leave you with Jonathan Kite. I’m not even gonna set up the clip. Kite will take it from here. See tomorrow. Spirit Halloween every September, a seasonal demon clause out of Hell possesses the concrete corpse of a failed store, then ghosts I November first, it’s gentrifurication.
What was once a bed bath and beyond is now bed bath and beyond the grave headboards are now headstones. Spirit Halloween a scarebnb for dead retail, So beware for when a lease grows cold, the bannered Boogeyman will soon be there. They almost got Jimmy Kimmel Studios. And after the latest government shutdown, don’t be shocked when a spirit penant covers the White House, the second most terrifying orange thing to ever haunt it until next time. Watch out for the tricks and enjoy the treats.