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Caloroga Shark Media. Man. I hope like today could be less feisty than yesterday. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Nicky Glazer stop by Late Night with Seth Myers, and I know you’re like, why didn’t she just yell out the window if she would have reached more people, I’ll explain to you why.
But while she was there, she told the story of her gen Z assistant calling Jenna bush Hager the most famous person George W. Bush is related to a Guess that makes sense now, As for why she popped on Late Night with Seth Myers, you know, did she think David Letterman was still hosting? Now, NICKI smarter than that. Did she think Conan was still there? No?
No, No, she’s smarter than that. You see she’s hosting Saturday Night Live tomorrow, so it’s part of an NBC tour. She probably was forced to be on Late Night with Seth Myers Make Late Night great again. President Trump, get on that travel and leisure caught up with John Mulaney. Now I stole this from somebody on threads.
The way you get into a John mullani half ass impression is you do Fred Schneider from the B fifty two’s you know the song love Shack. So if you’re like, I don’t know how to do with John m’llaney half ass impression, Johnny Mack, what do you do? You channel Fred Schneider and you go hop in my chryslileriates as big as a whale. See and now you have that big as a whale at the end, and then you go, oh, now I know how to do half asked. John Mulaney was asked by Travel and Leisure, you gotta go to hack for jet lag?
Laney said, never adapt to any time zone. Stay in the time zone you’re used to. John Mulani’s go to airline snack. He’s big into adding ritter Sport chocolate into trail mix. Millennie is impressed by New York’s LaGuardia Airport, which used to be a disaster and now has been renovated and is apparently fantabulous.
Millenie said, I went there a few weeks ago. It’s so nice you couldn’t period it. I was actually mad at it. This is an airport where were getting on fifteen minute plated rides to Boston and flights to JFK, which would be like a thirty second flight. This isn’t like a hanging out Forever airport.
We’re not arriving for four hours early for international flights to make us use the food court. It’s like having a parking lot hanging up beautiful artwork. Expert traveler John Laney says it’s not that he’s gotten packing down with science. I’ve gotten not caring down to science. There’s going to be a target.
So enough with the I don’t have soap, don’t have a charger. This is a great tip. Go to the hotel front desk and say I lost my charger. Can I look through the Lost and found and you’ll get five chargers. That’s great advice.
Jim Gaffigan. I’ve noticed about Jim gaffikin he only appears on social media when he wants to sell you something. There was that one night where he commented about the president and people got very mad about him. Since then, I only see Jim Gaffigan on social media when he wants to sell you something, usually a bourbon. But Jim wants you to know about his new tour, and I’m like, sure, I’ll let people know about Jim Gaffigan’s new tour.
Here’s Jim Gaffigan. Who really exciting is is My new shows are going on sale for twenty twenty six. Can you believe it? It’s so exciting tickets to my shows. I’m going to Chicago, santu As, DC Dead for a bunch of places out West.
I’m gonna be on our thoughts and I’m gonna enjoy it for the first couple of days. Now I’m gonna complain. Leslie Jones was on the Good One podcast. She is not a big fan of Tony Hinchcliff. People get very upset about this Tony Hinchcliffe fellow kill.
Tony just bothers people. It’s funny. I like it. I like it better as an audio podcast than actually staring at it. But I think part of that is because I listen at two point three x and if somebody’s boring, I go skip skip skippapipapips tip.
Leslie Jones said, I hate shock humor. It’s just dumb, like the Tony Hinchcliff And I’ll say it because f that. Now, this is a start out B dash A B star store, so I assume the B dot A is something along the lines of which butt. But what’s the B star star? I don’t know what she called Tony Hinchcliff.
Now this next part is interesting. I’m going to read it verbatim from Vulture. Now, remember Hinchcliff told a joke about Puerto Rico at the Trump rally at Madison Square. Guard. Remember that’s the thing that happened.
And here Leslie Jones is telling us she doesn’t like Tony Hinchcliff. So here’s what Vulture wrote from there. Jones didn’t hold back. She took aim at his trademark mustache, comparing it to a Puerto Rican porn store, before firing off a few more unprintable jabs. So Johnny Mack will ask the question, is it okay to make jokes about Puerto Rico or not?
Because you just made one. Leslie said about the shock style, it’s not comedy. It’s mean. It’s mean stuff. Comedy’s not supposed to be mean.
Comedy’s supposed to be relieving. Even when Don Rickles was at his hardest, he was still funny. Every time I see those comics befom, I’m like, go to therapy, you need some help. There’s a difference between take my wife, please, and f my wife please. Vanity Fair asked David Cross if he’s pessimistic or optimistic about the future.
I haven’t read this yet. Let’s guess nope, Cross said, Oh man, it changes hourly. I feel optimistic in the sense that I know that this is minority rule and if the full force of the people who are angry or concerned, if somebody was able to focus that, I feel optimistic. Yeah, Chuck Schumer’s going to figure that out any day now. He’s doing a great job.
There’s a lot of crazy damage that’s been done and it’ll take some time to heal that. I’m also optimistic in a personal sense and that I have money, all my concerns about my daughter. I live in Brooklyn, so I live in a very strong sense of community. People are accepting of everybody, and it’s very family oriented and that’s good. I would be curious what part of Brooklyn David Cross lives in.
You can have many different experiences in Brooklyn. I’m going to guess he’s close to the water and by the water, I mean the part where you can see Manhattan across that. I’ve had a bit of a head start because when the stuff goes down. It’s probably not going to be really really bad in New York for quite some time. So I’ve got my go backpacked passport’s ready to go, and I can leave.
I have dual citizenship. I can go to the UK and go to Canada. It’s all about my daughter. I’d be fine, i’d write it out, but I want to give her the best life she could possibly have. So I’m optimistic in that sense, but I’m pessimistic every time I read something that Joe Rogan said.
Can everybody relax with Joe Rogan? Do you not understand what Joe Rogan is. Joe Rogan is a guy that was an okay comedian who’s into the UFC. He likes to work out, he likes to shoot things. He does seem curious, might not be the most educated person in the world.
He’s not Mike Wallace. It’s just a show where he has conversations with people for three hours. I listen to it all the time. I like it. I know what it is.
I don’t come away going, yeah, I got to go shoot something and the aliens are real. It’s just a show. Everyone needs to calm down. I’m pessimistic every time I read something that Joe Rogan said, and the amount of gullible, anti intellectual people we’re getting all this misinformation from these people who just read something online. It’s crazy to me.
And that’s the third of America. All these bros who really want a trad wife, and if it takes a white nationalist, Christian nation to do that, then that’s what they want. They think women have too much power, that we’ve let women become too masculine, and vaccines cause autism and all that kind of stuff that gives me a reason to be hopeful. Then Cross continued, if I need to go, I can go. I can leave before it gets to that really, really bad place, and I don’t think it’ll get there again.
This guy’s not popular. Mike Johnson is not popular. Trump is not jd Vance is not popular. It’s classic authoritarianism versus the people’s stuff, David Cross. Everybody.
Actress Madeline Brewer has been doing press for the movie anniversary. To prepare for the role, Brewer studied a number of comics and read up on the reaction to Dave Chappelle’s jokes about the LGBTQ community. Brewer commented on Chappelle saying Chappelle would call that free speech in comedy. When you’re attacking community like the trans community, you’re not just being a comedian. You’re being an a hole in my opinion.
Rolling Stone asked Roy Wood Junior if he feels like CNN and have I got news for you? Is striking the balance he was looking for. Roy said, to a degree, CNN gives me a platform to present everything that happened that week. We get to exist in the silly stuff as well. It’s not just uh, the administration is going to take away at metagaid this week.
It’s also guess who this person was before Botox Comedy stock Market. Thank you, Bert Reynolds. You know I’m gonna add a name here on the fly. I’m just thinking about that David Cross story I just did. And you know, David is talking about how, you know, Joe Rogan might be a little unhinge.
My word’s not his cross. Where you’re going, you’re leaving the country. Why so let’s sell some David Cross just to you know. We’ll enter our bets there. Okay, how about our buys.
Let’s buy some Eddie Murphy ahead of this Netflix documentary anybody my age knows how great Eddie Murphy was, and hopefully this will get the young’ins to understand how amazing Eddie was at his peak. Although Johnny Mack will point out Eddie Murphy’s act as awesome as it was circa nineteen eighty three is a cover band version of Richard Pryor down to the Red Outfit. Watch Live on the Sunset Strip by Richard Pryor and then watch Eddie Specials and tell me it’s not a cover band. But regardless, we will buy Eddie Murphy again. As I explained last week, comedy stock market isn’t whether or not I think somebody’s good or bad.
It’s we’re trying to find value in the market, who’s on their way up, who’s on their way down, and make some hypothetical money. So let’s buy Eddie Murphy. Let’s also buy John Stewart because he now has the safety net. He’s been re signed. They’re not gonna kick him out the door.
He’s good, so that gives him a year to basically say whatever he wants. He’s been even more outspoken recently, and I imagine that will continue, so we’ll have a very confident John Stewart that’s always good for entertainment. So let’s buy some John Stewart, let’s sell Pete Davidson if we even have any left. The projects he’s picking just never look good. You never are like, Oh, Pete Davidson’s in that that looks like it’s gonna be awesome.
I think he may have blown his career when he walked away from Bupkis. Honestly, he looks lost to that movie I told you about the other day. That would be a good Adam Sandler movie. And I’m not kidding. I don’t think that’s gonna be good for Pete Davison.
Well, let’s sell Pete Davidson, and let’s sell Louis c. Care. I’m about to talk about CK. He’ll be at the New York Comedy Festival. I’m not sure he’s as welcome as some of the spin on the New York Comedy Festival is presenting Louis C.K.
I think people are still kind of done with CK. I might be wrong, but on the comedy stock market here, let’s sell some CK. Right, So we’re gonna sell David Cross by Eddie Murphy, by John Stewart, Sell Pete Davidson, sell Louis C.K. That is your comedy stock market for this week. The New York Comedy Festival does kick off tonight.
I have said this in the past, the people at the New York Comedy Festival have never been anything but great to me. However, New York City is so big, this disappears in the scheme of things. If you’re not It’s not like in other cities, You’ll go somewhere and like festivals will dominate, and this one, like Montreal, is a good example of that. This one just kind of disappears in the big apple of it all. And I do feel this year the names are not as huge as they were in the past.
Some of the names at the festival this year Louis C.K. Stephen Colbert, Okay, Amy sid Down, Chris Pete Holmes, but he was just at three point two what last night? Hannah Berner, Michael Blaxon, Margaret Show, Alex Adlman, Chris Fleming, Morgan, Jay Issmo, Ryan Long, Trevor Wallace. You like, is any of that like that exciting? I don’t think it is, Like where’s the Riod Crew, Where’s Chappelle, Sigora, Bill Burr?
Where are those guys Bert Kreischer, who did not go to the RIOC Comedy Fols, Where’s he? We’res Santino, like, why aren’t these guys at this? This just feels a little off to me. Founded by Caroline Hirsh in two thousand and four, the New York Comedy Festival features two hundred plus top comedians from around the globe across more than one hundred shows and all five boroughs. Venues include Carnegie Hall, The Beacon Theater, Madison Square Garden and Town Hall.
Caroline Hirsch, who owned the late Great Carolines Comedy Club and the organizer behind this thing, set any constantly shifting landscape. We stay committed to spotlighting new voices, championing fresh perspectives, breaking form, and shaping a festival that sets the standard both creatively and commercially. Some of the shows tonight, like I’m looking for the big names here to tell you about six point thirty at Second City Todd Glass, Ryan Long at seven at the Venue on Music Row, John Goble con He was also just at three to one to two at seven thirty at the Bell House Todd Glass again at nine o’clock. I know it’s just the first night. But anything I mentioned there are you like, oh wow, I gotta go see that.
Like then you know they’re all okay. Dan’s Papers dot Com caught up with Caroline, who said, for the first time, we’re headlining Alex Edelman and Chris Fleming at Carnegie Hall, and Louis C.K. Is back.
Now, let’s break that apart.
The idea that Chris Fleming, who I love, is at Carnegie Hall. That’s just amazing to me. Congratulations Chris Fleming, But really, can Chris Fleming sell out Carnegie Hall? That shocks me? And I like Chris Flemming a lot.
Dan’s Papers writes of c K he’s forgiven, public wants him back at Caroline Hirsch said it’s one hundred shows this year, two in her comics. Whenever we count them up, it’s always more than we think. It’s New York’s funniest Again. According to this piece, Hirsch didn’t mention c K all that much and seemed excited about Pete Holmes is at town Hall and we have a celebration of the twenty fifth aniversary of the cancelation of Strangers with Candy with Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris. A town Hall, looking forward to that, especially with what’s going on with Steven at this time.
So, as I said in the Comedy stock Market, I’m not sure that c K and I’m not sure he’s back, and I could be wrong. In Chicago at the three one to two Festival, Derek Streep at seven. Other shows at seven, Joe MATCHI, Justin Willman, Ralph Barbosa like this show at nine to fifteen at Zany’s Rosemond Stand Up throw Down Millennials versus Generation X. We’re gonna crush you guys, Barbosa again at ten at the Chicago Theater and Amber Autry at Zaney’s Downtown at eleven fifteen. Tomorrow at the three one to two Festival, Dusty Slay at the vic Theater at seven.
If I were in Chicago, I would absolutely go see him. Fortune Fieamsters at the Chicago Theater at eight. A lot going on this weekend. Tomorrow in Boston it’s Dennis Leary’s annual Comics Come Home. Some of the comics coming Home include Conan O’Brien and Sarah Silverman.
So right, there is more star power than New York has this year. This is the twenty DA ninth edition of the annual fundraising event. It supports the Cam Neely Foundation, a nonprofit founded by the Bruins president and former hockey star Cam Neely. The foundation helps cancer patients and their families as they undergo treatment. And that is your comedy news for today.
All right, I’ll see you tomorrow