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Caloroga Shark Media. Jess. When I thought I was out, hey, pull me backing. Hello. Oh I’m Johnny Mack and I know that’s a hackey clip to play, but that’s how I feel.
Oh and welcome to today’s Daily Comedy News. You know, Thursday had a nice, normal show. Got to talk about some other stuff. But nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, We’ve got to talk about the Rion Comedy Festival and all the spill back and all of it. Let’s start with Joe Rogan.
His guest is Brian Callon. The discussion goes to Mark Maren because you remember Maren called some people out, and as we’re going to learn today, some comedians seem to have problems with Mark Maren. Alrighty, this first clip I have made edits for language and for pacing. I have left some s words in or the clip just won’t work. It’s just the way Joe Rogan speaks.
So if you’re offended by the S word, go do something else. But you’re probably a okay with it. Here’s Joe Rogan, Mark Marron, don’t say it. I mean, I don’t get it. You know, I’m like I don’t know.
I get it. He’s sad. He’s sad. He wants other people to hurt. That’s what it is.
It’s just not well. It’s also he’s patho logically jealous, like he’s been path he’s like literally mentally ill. Like do you understand Mark when he first started, when he was just first coming up, was friends with Mitch Hepburg, and then Mitch Hedberg hit and he couldn’t be friends with him anymore. Really, yep, stop being his friend. Same thing with Louis C.K.
Louis C.K. And him were tight. Louis blew up, Mark didn’t. He he had to hate him, and he turned on him, talked shit about him, talked about him openly, and then he became successful. And the years where Mark was successful were the best years of Mark because Mark was fun.
Like I’ve had ups and downs with Mark. I’ve gone through this with him, like three or four different times where we he gets upset at me and then we talk and then are we good. We’re good. Like he likes to do that. He likes to talk shit about you and then you confront him and he says, you’re right.
Joe, and then talked about when his own podcast began to take off. And with me, Mike, my relationship with him was really complicated because when I was an open micer, I was twenty one years old and I was just starting out. Mark gave me a compliment once that really helped me. He came up to me in gainsay, Man, you’re really funny. He just keep doing what you’re doing.
Don’t listen to anybody else, just keep doing what you’re doing. I was like, Wow, thank you. That’s his best side. That’s a good side, and. He’s not all bad.
And he was a young guy back then, right, so he was just being cool.
And then over time, obviously I became more famous than him and more successf…
He hates that. And the only time we were cool was Mark was number one. So Mark the podcast took off, and you got to realize it took off when he was deep into his forties, right, and it was the number one podcast in the country, and he was on Rolling Stone magazine, and you know, he had his own show on IFC, The Marin Show. And he was great. He was cool to hang with.
He was fun because he didn’t have to compare himself to anybody anymore because he was a success, like he could look at his own success. He was doing a television show, he had his podcast. Everything was great and we were cool, like we’re friends. And and Rogan got into the trump of it all. I started getting more successful, and then my podcast passed his.
Then my podcast became number one, and then the Spotify deal, and that’s when he started talking about me. So he started talking about me long before all this Trump stuff. This Trump stuff is just the most recent iteration of this bizarre thing that he does with people. And the first thing was he had decided that I was an asshole, like just because the podcast took off, but it was not a big deal. It was like I’d heard people say that he was saying things.
But then after the Spotify deal, the Spotify deal was a real problem, and that’s when he started coming after me. And it was about vaccines, Like so he was talking about me on stage about vaccines. Shout out to Dylan from the Facebook group which is Daily Comedy News podcast group. Please feel encouraged to join us. He let me know that.
Andrew Schultz talked about the Red Comedy Festival on The Flagrant podcast for about forty minutes. Now, I went to pull clips and boy, Dylan, I don’t know how you do it. I get that this show is popular, but I find these guys really really annoying to listen to.
And also, uh, Andrew and co host guy, could you please get through one senten…
You’re adults, learn how to speak. They discussed Bill Berg catching grief for playing the Reod Comedy Festival. Lots of edits here, all caps, lots of edits. So if Schultz and Frantz think this is an edited clip and I’m throwing them under the bus, I’m not throwing you under the bus. But yes, I made many edits to this clip because you guys can’t get through a sentence without an F bomb.
Well, that’s the reason why we don’t have any pushbag, barely any pushbag, is because we’ve never been the virtue signaling type. We’ve never been the ones out here like there are people that are getting pushed back and like based on some shit that they had said in the past. I kind of get it, Like I’ll be honest, you know, like Berger’s getting all his pushback and he’s like the first time I’ve seen his career, him not like aware of why it’s happening, like as I’m on Cone and again it’s a clip, so I don’t want to take clips out of contest. But he’s like, all these people are like sanctimonies. Bro, you did say that Beyonce sold out for blood money for going to like an oil state.
Yeah, and then you went to an old state. So like, now the criticism for that comes from other things. They’re just using this as as a as a tool of leverage against him because they’re upset at him for other things. But they’re not wrong. That is hypocritical to call Beyonce one thing and then you go do the same thing.
So at the end of that clip, though, he goes, but if I got the offer, maybe I’d do the same thing exactly. So that’s if they cut it out, Like oh really, yeah, I’m almost positive that’s the clip I heard. At the very end, he’s like, yeah, but who knows. If they gave me that, we’ll see. Then they too talked about Mark Marin.
Apparently they are not fans. Mark maren come on this pod, let me chop you up. You asked, you asked him, wud come on? But he would never come on, no. I asked him nicely.
Now come on, I’ll chop you up like you Jamalka. Come on, come to the embassy. Yeah. Yeah, if you’re intimidated by don’t worry. I got you.
That is. I know you’re probably not used to talking to people of color at your shows, but. Just come talk to one.
And then we’ll handle Mark Marin acting like he didn’t also have a president …
Oh but I’m sure he asked him about the y I’m sure he asked him about drawn strikes. All the con do fact check this. But I’ve heard Mark Maren hasn’t had a single trans person on this podcast. Oh my god, those people. He cares so deep.
But you’ve been doing this pod. Maren don’t care about nobody but himself, and anybody inside comedy knows this. It’s the people outside of comedy. They are like unaware of it. Yeah, but like the whole ship with John Stewart, oh yeah, they had.
Now let’s have fun, so it looks fun while we’re talking shit, because he’s been going on every pod talking shit. John Stuart to Mark Maron in New York decades ago were like comedy purists hated all kinds of shit, like they were like, we love stand up, we love this. Johnsward gets a job with MTV hosting a show. Mark Maron is like, fuck you like to his face, makes John feel so bad about it affects their relationship. John ends up leaving the show for whatever reason.
I don’t remember if it was a moral thing or he had not. You get the opportunity to do like I got a better opportunity to guess who takes over that show. No, Mark Maren not Mark the principles Oh, Mark the principled guy.
And then he tried to act like nothing happened with John.
John was like no, no, no, you don’t get to be my friend after that. Then decades later, they try to chop it up, or they try to patch it up, and John is like Marcus like, hey, I would love for you to come on the podcast and talk about this. John is like, look, if you want to mend the friendship, I’m moving to it, but I’m not doing it to give you podcast stuff like let’s just talk person and we’ll have it out. Mark Maron never contacts him again. Exactly, but it’s like, and I understand why outsiders wouldn’t know this about him, but like anybody on inside.
Knows, Amy Pohlar catching some grief, she had a z’s I’m sorry on her podcast. She apparently did not ask disease anything about the Reodd Comedy Festival. As I mentioned the other day, I have not listened to the episode. I have no plans to listen to it. But I searched the transcript for the word Riod, the word Saudi, and the word festival.
Only the word festival came up, but in context of a film festival. But that makes me think that my search was fair, and that Apple podcast transcript search was working, and that Amy did not ask Asease, I’m sorry about the Odd Comedy Festival. Amy shares her podcast on YouTube. One comment I wrote, man, you think a comedian would know a thing of two about signing. Many people said they would be skipping the unsorry episode.
If you google the words polar and a z’s as a combination, you’ll find all kinds of things. The Daily Mail called it Amy’s tone deaf. One comment I wrote, I’m going to assume this was recorded months ago for neither of you to have mentioned Saudi Arabia, but you should have at least done a quick insert at the start of the pod stating how you feel about it because you all should have known every one of the comments we’re going to be speaking about it. I understand that he’s your friend, but friends should be held accountable for their fops. Another wrote, love you, Amy, but having guests willing to take money from that saudy butcher is incredibly tone deaf.
Not watching this garbage. Cracked dot Com asks the question does Amy Poehler deserve blaam for not grilling Aseasin’m sorry? Subheader good hang will never be the place for tough questions? The not so canceled ase’s and sorry now he’s not so canceled twice now, just so we’re keeping track. And some people think he’s a douchebag.
You’ve heard me mention that on the podcast. Some people think of he’sin’ sorry’s a complete douchebag. He was on THEO Vaughan’s podcast again. I used Apple Podcasts transcript search. I searched for the words riod, Saudi, and festival.
Those turned up nothing. I searched for the word comedian to make sure search was working. That did show up. I did not listen to THEO yet and kind of burnt out on THEO. As I shared in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, this is Hollywood doing what they do.
It’s a big club. Like George Carlin said, it’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. The celebrities, they all take care of each other, go along to get along. If you take shots, you’re Mark Maron and you’re out there on Mark Maron Island, and he seems fine on Mark Maron Island, but you go along to get along. But these were all Hollywood people with the right agents.
Theovant slightly an outsider, but he’s in the club now. I did listen to Bill Burr’s appearance on Conan O’Brien once it went out from Beyond the pay Wall. Well discussed go back and listen to some previous episodes. But Bill Burr does sound very defensive and not very likable in the episode. I also have some production notes for Team Coco there one.
The audio was terrible for the first twenty minutes, I mean just unacceptable, Conan sounding hollow. There are ways to fix the audio. Send me a note if you need tips on that. I can tell you how to fix the audio. I don’t know how you guys put that out and to some producer needs to tell ConA next time you do a live event, you can’t have Sona on Mike.
She cackles during the entire bill segment. And it’s too much. It’s too much Sona and the other guy you know, in small doses during a live read. Sure, ConA needs to talk to somebody at the beginning of the end of an episode. Sure, but when you’ve got Bilburr there for half an hour and she says, cackling, that was misproduced.
Coming to Broadway All Out Comedy about Ambition by Simon Rich. It’ll be at the Neederlander Theater in New York City starting December twelfth. Much like they did last year, this will have rotating groups of comedians and others in groups of four over a twelve week limited run. The groups will read Simon Rich’s laugh out Loud stories, this time tackling ambition, ego, envy, greed, and, as the official press release jokes, basically just New York is in general.
All right, here’s who’s going to be doing this, Get out of pen.
You’re gonna know these names. First group Eric Andre, Abby Jacobson, John Stewart and Jim Gaffigan. They all start December twelfth. They exit at various times, so there’ll be some overlaps in different groups, but that’s the initial group Stewart, Abby Jacobson, Gaffigan and Eric Andre. Then some of the people that will sub in Ben Schwartz on December twenty second, Wayne Brady and Cecily Strong.
On the twenty ninth, boy Cecily and Wayne on stage together. That’s a great combo for Bigley on the thirteenth, Then on the twentieth, it looks like we got a full swap Heidi Gardner, Jason Manzukas, Craig Robinson, and Sarah Silverman. I kind of lost respect for Craig Robinson after that, I’m quitting comedy stunt.
And then February seventeenth, Nicholas Braun, Ashley Park and Ray Romano wil…
And it looks like this wraps up on March eighth, Comedy stock markens. Does it ever reveal to you who that voice is? Okay, I will tell you now. It is a fit licensed Ai Burt Reynolds. Yes, yes, so one of the services I use made Burt Reynolds available, I’m like, okay, I’ll use Burt Renolds.
That’s fun. On the comedy stock market. If you’re a new listener, what we do is we try and make some hypothetical money by selling high on comedians at their peak and buying low on comedians on their way up. And you know, we get some seals and some buys in the mix. Here this week, pay attention, we’re going to buy Tim Robinson.
Have you watched The Chair Company on HBO? Why don’t you hit pause right now on this podcast and go watch The Chair Company and then come back. I have a feeling that is going to be a very buzzy show. The first episode is fantastic. So we’re going to buy Tim Robinson.
We’re also going to make a long term buy here. We’re gonna start scooping up stock in the Sprubs reboot. I have been watching Scrubs, of course on DVDs. I don’t support fascism. I do not watch Disney Plus or Hulu.
I support Jimmy Kimmel. I’m against fascism. I go upstairs and I get the DVD and I put them in the PlayStation, and that’s how I consume my Scrubs anyway, they’re working on the reboot. It’s definitely happening. I’ve seen pictures of the cast at a table read, and I’ll tell you, for a comedy snob like me who has the Emperor of Rome syndrome where I don’t laugh, I’ve been laughing out loud at Scrubs.
It has aged fantastically. I cannot get enough of John c McGinley as Doctor Cox. Let’s buy some scrub stock, only one cell this week. We’re going to sell Whitney Cummings for her just tasteless, terrible. How dare you comment saying that some comedians would be happy if a Fox journalist were murdered?
Just how dare you, Whitney. I’m I’m truly I’m not doing a bit. I’m truly truly offended by her comment. Let’s sell all our Whitney Cummings stock and that is your comedy stock market for this week. The great dramatic actor Adam Sandler was in Columbus.
He stopped by the Jerome Schottenstein Center. Why to shoot some hoops, It’s what he does. He was there visiting Ohio State. He spent some time with the Buckeyes and their home Arena, took some photos with coach Diebler. He did a brief inter you with the local paper after his show, and he said, tell everybody I love them.
I love Columbus. Eric Idol has dropped one of Monty Python’s most controversial songs from his upcoming farewell tour. Idol said, sometimes I’ll ask my daughter or a goddaughter. I’ll say can I say these things? And they’ll say, yeah, that’s okay or not.
But I don’t worry about being canceled. I’m not saying terribly controversial things. I’m just trying to make them laugh. They don’t laugh, and that’s a failure. Eric Idol says, you can’t sing some of my songs now.
He points out particularly you can’t sing I Like Chinese. You can’t do that anymore. So there’s one or two songs. But I write new ones, which is quite a nice challenge. Now what do I do here?
Do I tell you what the offensive lyric is and get myself canceled? Or can I do this under the guise of news. I Like Chinese is from nineteen eighty and it contains a lyric pair I Like Chinese. They only come up to your knees. Eric Idol is no longer performing that song out today.
Audio version of Craig Ferguson’s I’m So Happy out today. Audio version of Luke Hegge’s Have That also out today. Audio version of Ki Humphrey’s Mischief also also out today. The hour long special, Downey wrote that on Peacock, Downey wrote that dives into the sketches, contributions, and enduring influence of one of the most impactful comedy writers in the history of Saturday Night Live, Jim Downey, described as the show’s behind the scenes comedic architect for over three decades. He was actually in the cast in nineteen eighty.
That’s the season Nobody talks about. Some folks in this special include Fred Ormison, Dana Carvey, Daryl Hammond, David Letterman, Lovett’s Seth Myers, Garrett Morris, John m’laney, Loraine Newman, Conan Odin, Kirk, Laurence O’Donnell. For some reason, Maya Rudolph Molly, Shannon Martin, Short, Smigel Spade, Ben Stiller, Keenan Thompson, and Lauren Michaels. He didn’t think this thing was happening without Lauren Michaels plussing, did you are you in Cincinnati? Why don’t you go hit?
Fun Filled the twenty four Hour Comedy Revival. It starts tonight at nine o’clock. It goes until tomorrow night at nine o’clock at the Hofner Pub. Fun Filled will showcase nearly two dozen local improv and entertainment acts like comedy, sports, smoke and queers, burlesque, and the members of Holy Canoli. They are hosting this and they were also the twenty twenty four winners of the Cincinnati Improv Competition.
So in last year’s competition, the group’s final surprise challenge was to perform until five thousand dollars was raised for charity, or for twenty four hours straight. Craig said, when we first did it, we had no time to plan with something. We were told like, last minute, this is what you’re doing. And we’ve been planning at this point, planning for like two months and we still have it months ago. So we were like, all right, what if we could do the twenty four hour challenge again, but at three months to actually really really make it something special.
Proceeds for the event will go to the Esperanza Latino Center. Sounds like a fun event. Tiffany Hatish announced a show at the Orpheum Theater in La Saturday, December sixth. We’re told it is the first program of its kind fusing live entertainment and impact. Echo Entertainment is proud to stand at the intersection of culture and climate action.
See that’s that’s interesting. I’m a big climatista, and that is your comedy news on a feisty Friday. Tomorrow is going to be a little political, some political stories and put them all together back to back to back. And I don’t know what Sunday is yet, but let’s meet back here in about twenty four hours after you listen to me, right now, come back around then and there’ll be an episode. See then,