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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Just looking ahead all week including Thanksgiving on the holiday weekend, normal episodes. There’s just so much news going on. I didn’t have to do like Holidy Filler, Adam Sandler’s fifteen Worst Movies and anything like that, all normal regular media episodes.
Among the things I haven’t been able to tell you about Ricky Gervays. His next stand up special will be on Netflix December thirtieth. Now, Johnny Mack’s not happy with that release date because I like to do the top twenty five specials of the yearless and if you wait till December thirtieth, it’s not gonna be on it. I got a hand in the homework to the I gotta make the shows. I gotta hand the stuff in for my substack and for the publicist.
I can’t wait till December thirtieth. Anyway. It’s called Mortality. It’s the hour. Ricky Gervase has been touring since twenty twenty four.
Filmed earlier this year at the London Palladium. It’s his fourth stand up special. The Lazy Netflix copywriter promises no topic is off limits on as Ricky closes out the year with his best show yet. The official log line is a little bitter written. It says Gervaise takes on his own mortality in a brutally honest and darkly funny stand up special about his life, death, and the state of the world.
Ricky said, I think Mortality is my most honest and confessional show so far, and also my favorite tour. I still can’t believe what a privilege it is to fly around the world making people laugh. Now that news made me realize. At some point, I had this Tom Sagora story in my little notebook here that I work with for the show, and it got dropped and I don’t know what happened to it, because I don’t think I’ve told you that Tom Sigora Teacher will be out on Netflix December twenty fourth. Yeah, Tom Sagora has got a new special and it’s called Teacher, and as I told you, it’ll be out December twenty fourth.
Also not good for year endlists or publicists or homework or substacks. Deadline says no word yet on what Sigora covers in the hour. It’s his fifth special for Netflix. Nate BRIGATSI. I still think he’s out of his mind.
He was at the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions Industry conference, the IAAPAXPO. Nate showed up at this thing and announced that his company is partnering with Storyland Studios, a SoCal based themed entertainment, architecture and design firm. Together, they will explore the concept and feasibility of a Napurghetsy theme park in Nashville. I’m telling you, if I’m still doing this podcast in ten years, I’m going to one day for holiday filler. Be like remember the time Naperghetzi was going to open a theme park.
Whatever happened to that. I mean, just do a bourbon or something. This is crazy. The feasibility study is set to be completed in the first quarter of twenty twenty six. Fall goes well, they’ll have a shovel on the ground in five to six years.
Hmmm. I don’t know anything about musement parks, but the word boondoggle just went into my brain. I don’t know what to do with the word boon doggle. I don’t know what kind of sentence to use the word boondoggle in. Maybe It has nothing to do with this story at all, but the word boondoggle did pop into my brain.
Here’s the plan. They want build a one hundred plus acre amusement park. Now I’m from New York City. I have no idea how big an acre is. Sounds pretty big, and one hundred of them sound huge, but I don’t know.
I’m a city boy. The amusement park will include amenities like retail, dining, and even a hotel. At Nateland. The project is being handled by the Experiences Division, which is also responsible for such things as a Nateland themed cruise setting sale via Norwegian Cruise Line early next year. Hey, you want to go on the themed cruise?
Dusty Slave’s going to be there. I don’t know for a fact Dusty’s going to be there. I’m doing a bit. I don’t even know that Nate’s going to be there. I’m finding this out as you do.
You think i’d pre read these stories? Are you crazy? Anyway? You want to go on the Nateland cruise? That sounds fun.
Other divisions at Nateland are focused on stand up movies, TV, merch, and an incubation lab for new talent. I look forward to the opening of Nateland many years from now, John Mulaney was in Texas. While in town, mullaney did a one on one with Austin based filmmaker Noah Hawley. You may know him from such things as Fargo, Legion and Alien in Earth. Mullaney said, the satisfaction of being on stage in Austin The audience can see me, but I’m not blown up on the screen, and I’m getting a laugh with the slightest shrug.
That’s a really powerful feeling. The festival mainly focuses on politics. One attendee ask John Mulaney, why are you here? Now? I’m picturing the attendee as KHN and the attendee going now, tell me why are you here?
Did you watch Star Trek two? Great film? Malleni said, went in a city. I like to see as many sides of it and take part and as much of it as I can. I was very lucky that this was happening at the same time the half assed Millennie’s coming along.
I’m working on it again. The key to it is you have to do the French Schneider. It’s as big as a whale, and that’s how you get into your half assed Millennium’m slightly zoning in on it, so you got the SCHNEIDERSM and then I realized mulleny over enunciates working on it again. Not an impression, it’s a half ass impression. The discussion went to Mulanie’s recent appearance at the Supreme Court hearing zone Revember fifth.
Mulleny recalled that Justice Alito seemed to get poor of his own hypotheticals and Justice Thomas looks like he struggles to stay awake. M’laney said they seem to get along with each other in a way you might not think there was a lot of collegiality. If you and nine co workers had to sit out a panel, you’d eventually lean over and do jokes to each other. Talked about the Austin comedy scene, saying a lot of comedians were moving to Austin, Texas and made it seem like this big move. I was like, Austin’s a huge city.
Go to Gavelston. I like my houses, like I like my chimpanzees on stilts. Then mulanie was asked, well, AI ever be funnier than a comedian? Millenney said, AI will never shrug and the shrug is the highest form of intelligence. Mlaney also spoke with The Texas Standard.
They were curious, what’s your takeaway of Texas. Milleniy said, I think of Texas as his father with like a bunch of different sons that are his cities. And you know, Dallas is trying to do everything right and run the family business and is responsible with money. In Houston does a good job, but it’s just boring as hell. Austin is more like the more emo kid at the end of the table.
It’s like, what did you do today, Austin. He’s like, I colored a sort of artistic libertarian son at the end of the table that does whatever he wants. As for Sayatonio, I love san Antonio. San Antonio is like the kid that just always fine but doesn’t visit a lot. On your TV tonights.
It is the thirtieth anniversary celebration of Everybody Loves Raymond. Are you feeling old yet? Yeah? CBS eight o’clock. Now you might be like, CBS, aren’t those the guys that eliminate the Late Show?
If I watch this thing, am I supporting fascism? That’s a great question. I’m gonna say no, because as you know, Colbert was canceled over budget reasons. It had nothing to do with fascism or anti fascism or pseudo fascism. It was all about budget.
So I’m gonna tell you you’re okay if you want to watch this thing tonight. Okay, just if you’re watching Scrubs, go get the DVDs. Don’t push that Hulu button on the rokop. You gotta stand strong support Jimmy Kimmel. But Colbert, that was all budget.
You can watch the Raymond special. It will feature appearances from Ray Romano, I would hope, so you know, you don’t want to do this thing without Ray, Brad Garrett, Patricia Heaton, and the others. It will include a tribute to late cast members Dors, Robert It’s and Peter Boyle, who played the Parents. Series creator Phil Rosenthal and Ray Romano sat down with tv Line. Phil said, I’ve been trying to get this done for ten years.
Ray said, he told me about it, and I said, I’m game. Then he took it to CBS and Phil says, I’d see other show’s doing reunions that think we have funny stories and we have nice remembrance. We want to do it. Ray said, people were asking about reboots. We agreed we would never do a reboot, so we’ll do a reunion.
We like reunions, but ten years ago CBS wasn’t into it. Five years ago they weren’t into it. This year knew people are there and they were into it, So here we go. TV Line points out, Hey, this is being built as the thirtieth anniversary. The show premiered in nineteen ninety six.
Technically this is your twenty ninth anniversary. What’s the story there? Phil was like, it’s technically the thirtieth anniversary since the show got going. We filmed the pilot in the spring of ninety six. We were on the air and fall in ninety six.
But Ray and I met in ninety five right for the special. They recreated the living room set hottson Field. Being on that set again, Ray said, first of all, the work they did to rebuild it was amazing. The only thing that was original was the couch, which I took home with me in two thousand and five and gave it back to them for the special. I love that Ray Romano had the couch for twenty years.
That’s amazing. You couldn’t tell the difference. If you told me this was the exact set, I’d believe it. It was emotional. I’ll say that.
Ray recently rewatched all nine seasons. He told TV Line. Which struck me the most was the acting. I mean, I knew it was good back then, but now I wasn’t as critical. I’m not saying I didn’t remember every show I did, but I remember what was going to happen next, and I saw little things that I appreciated more, the nuances of each actor, how good they were.
I think I just appreciated them, the cast, and the writing more. Back then, it was hard for me not to be critical of myself. What’s funny is I’d see myself without a shirt on in an episode then and be like, what the hell am I doing? What am I doing showing this to the world. When I watch it now, I was like, no, I was in shape back then.
Good question from TV lines, sitcoms, Off and Juggle, AB and C storylines, Raymond was always focused on one. Was that a rule? Phil said yes. I thought if a story’s worth telling, it’s worth telling for the twenty one minutes we have. Ray said yeah, But we didn’t perfectly say we can’t do that, because that’s a bet story.
It wasn’t the dynamic of the world we were in. Pat Oswalt was on the last last podcast. They start talking about Kimmelgate and the video Patten had sheared from the airport. I had played that in one of the bonus episodes. You know what was the deal with that?
Batton Oswald, who said, well, it was one of those moments when what was being done was so blatant and so petty, and it was just such an absolute misuse of power, and I wanted to get something out there. Not that I have any kind of massive platform or swam culture, but I could already fast forward to the way the pro Trump people were going to start to try and rationalize this. There’s now a scary legion of people out there whose job is to make the abnormal seem normal and reasonable. This from the guy who played Dug the Vulcan. All right, Patton, you want to talk about making something abnormal seem normal?
You played Dug the Vulcan as a trekkie. I’m still furious about this. You can hear the rage coming out during this podcast. Patton said, all of you people to keep saying Trump is bringing America back. Whatever he’s bringing back, it’s not America.
He’s bringing back twelve thirty. Patton Oswalt. The President and I are aligned. Make twelve thirty great again. Let’s get back to the golden age of Letterman and Conan and even Craig Ferguson.
We need better twelve th shows, Patton Oswalt said. But I think from the beginning of time there’s this overall mediocrity that wants a foothold in life. And it hates excellence. Oh, you’re teeing yourself up here, Paton. And it hates people that actually craft their job and care about their job.
They just want loud, sloppy spectacle. For example, the musical episode of Strange New Worlds, the Star Trek series on which you played Dug the Vulcan. Like that kind of nonsense, not going for greatness. Yeah, that Patton said, And it’ll even flow, and it’ll flare up and it’ll die down. Right now, we’re looking at a massive flare up.
We’ve got to be better about calling that stuff out when it’s happening. Yes, say somebody plays a crappy character on Star Trek Strange New Worlds, call that actor out and tell him, no, you are destroying Star Trek. Patton said, it’s very tempting to think there’s this big, loud, frightening guy. If you’re just nice to him and do what he says, I’ll make your life comfortable. Now, Luckily for us in this case, Trump doesn’t even know how to make his worshippers lives comfortable.
This does feel like a bad virus, bad flu, some kind of bacterial infection that we just have to write out. Then I used some language that I think doesn’t translate. Well, I’m not going to read it. I don’t want to a visit from men in sunglasses. I’m a line with the president.
Make twelve thirty great again. Okay, you calm down, Dug. The Vulcan Daniel Tosh was on his podcast announcing Tour d Eights for next year. He got to Toledo and said Toledo is a gem and then compared it to Tacoma, Washington by saying, why do you guys live here when there’s other great cities nearby? That’s how I feel about Toledo.
The other great cities are just slightly less crappy. Tosh continued, Toledo’s bad. You know it’s bad Toledo. And I’m not gonna sit here and act like it’s a great city and I want you to come out and support me. Okay, but the city’s bad.
Tosh clarified, the people could be fine. I’m talking about the city itself bad. Jim Gaffigan told people that he has lost fifty pounds now with the help of Munjaro, a drug used to treat type two diabetes. Jim told people, I feel good. I’m just grateful because it’s a better life.
Gaffigan said he had gotten up to two hundred and seventy pounds. Jim said, I had very low expectations because I didn’t know someone that had tried it and they were like, oh, I was nauseous for a week, and I thought my true joy of eating would overpower anything. That is your comedy news for today. I’ll see you tomorrow.