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Calorouga, shark media, pull on Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. The stories came out for Conan O’Brien as he accepted the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. Some of those stories included Adam Sandler, John Mulaney, and Sarah Silverman. David Letterman was the one to hand the actual prize to Conan O’Brien, And let’s listen to what Conan had to say, and take one guess who he’s talking about here. Twain was suspicious of populism, jingoism, imperialism, the money obsessed many of the Gilded Age, and any expression of mindless American might or self importance.
Above all, Twain was a patriot in the best sense of the world. He loved America a bit new it was deeply flawed. Twain wrote, Patriotism is supporting your country all of the time and your government when it deserves it. All right, Conan, that’s all good and well, But how about the man. Some of you might be thinking, what does this have to do with comedy.
It has everything to do with comedy. Everything the comedy I have loved all my life, Comedy that is self critical, deflating, and dedicated to the proposition that we are all flawed, absurd, and wallowing in the mud together. Twain is funny and important today because his comedy is a hilarious celebration of our fears, our ineptitude, and the glorious mess of being human. When we celebrate Twain, truly see him for who he was, We acknowledge our commonality, and we move just a little closer together. A few weeks earlier, Donald Trump had ousted the longtime president Deborah Rutterer and board chairman David Rubinstein from the Kennidy Center.
Cohen and said, thanks for the people who invited me here a few months ago. Deborah and David. Honestly, I don’t know why they’re not here tonight, and I lost Wi FI in January. I guess they’re stuck in traffic. And a special thanks to all the beautiful people who have worked here at the Kennedy Center for years and who are worried about what the future might bring.
My eternal thanks for their selfless devotion to the arts that got a standing oh jumping around. John m’laney said, it’s an honor to be here at the Kennedy Center, or as it will be no next week. The Roy Cohne Pavilion for Big, Strong Men who Love Cats. M’laney tagged it with congratulations to my friend Conan O’Brien on receiving the twenty sixth and final Mark Twain Prize. Will Ferrell said the whole thing was a distraction because I’m supposed to be shutting down the Department of Education.
Stephen Colbert did a bit with spicy chicken wings and joked in light of the new leadership of the Kennedy Center, all of these are right wings, and a couple of them are truly insane. ConA never backs down. Case in point, when he accepted the More Twain Prize, this was a very different place. And today they announced two board members bacher A La Sad and Skeletor Asad is the former dictator of Syria and case shunot hip. On the cultural references there, I wasn’t David Letterman said, I’m not historian, but I believe history will show in the history for all time.
This will have been the most entertaining gathering of the resistance ever. Nikki Glaser, on the red carpet before the ceremony, said, I think it would be insane not to address the elephant in the room. It’s in the air tonight. This night is about Conan, but it can be both. It seems like Nicky has quite been accepted into the cool kids club right She’s at every event now.
I wonder who her agent is. She’s got the right people managing her career right now, and she’s nailing it visible but not too much. She needed to tap the brakes and did. Sarah Silverman said, I just really missed the days when you, Conan were America’s only orange A hole Martin short via video, There’s no more fitting recipient getting the last ever Twain Prize here at the Robert F. Kennedy Center.
The whole thing went two and a half hours layer on Netflix May fourth. It opened with a spoiler, the Masturbating Bear. Vulture observes that might have sent a message of resistance when Conan stepped down from the Tonight show. He was initially told he didn’t have the right time to the various characters creating during his NBC years, including the Masturbating Bear. The bear was followed up by Robert smigelas Triumph, declaring thanks so much for coming, and also shame on you for being here.
That should cover it. Yes, also appearing Bill Burr, who needs to disappear for a while. Andy Richter, Uh oh, yep, that’s it. The Mark Twain Prize is canceled because Andy Richter appeared one hundred percent. This was the last Mark Twain Prize.
Write it down. Andy Richter kills shows like ten Beginley in a Wet Dream, Tracy Morgan, Cameil Non Jehanny, and Reggie Watts. Non Gianni noted that Conan’s name is mentioned on the Internet ninety three percent of the time when people talk about Simpsons writers, even though Conan only has a writing credit on three out of the seven and eighty one episodes. Camille joked the names of the Simpson episodes the Conen wrote are March Versus the Mono Rail and two other episodes. Sandler talked about when Conan got twelve thirty, everyone was going, who’s gonna be Who’s gonna be?
Right When they said Conan, I swear to God, everyf and guy, every comedian, there was no jealousy. We were like, f yeah, he’s the best man. We love. You’re faster than all of us, You’re nicer, than all of us, and I’m so happy this life was yours, buddy. The night ended with Conan O’Brien singing Rocking in the Free World with Adam Sandler on guitar.
Sure why not? The UK Daily Mail used the headline Woke comedians target Trump as they roast Conan O’Brien at the Kennedy Center. I mean, I don’t know is David lettermand woke is Adam Sandler. Woke is Adam Sandler. Funny is Andy Richter.
Funny is Andy Richter? Woke Chelsea Handler is this week’s Netflix special. It is called The Feeling. I did sit down and watch Bert Kreischer’s special. I liked it a lot.
It’s just funny. It’s no great takeaway, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s just jokes. But I was laughing. I think part of it, especially his opener as a man in his mid fifties, I get it.
I know what you’re joking about there. So that was a lot of fun for me. It is currently softly the best comedy special of the year. It’s the first one all year, and it’s already more twenty fifth that I will put in the top tier. Really, really don’t have much yet.
My list right now is top tier Bert, nothing else of the middle tier, Roy Wood, Ari Shafir and gab Iglesias, and then my didn’t make It is quite long, including Schultz, rosebud Di, Stefano Lopez. It was just a horrific I might have to start a worst Specials of the Year list. Li’s a trigger, which was fine. Eliza and Bill Burr and I’ve talked about this recently. I think that is not so much me being a cranky.
I think it’s just people are on their fifth or sixth special and it’s a bit been there, done that, heard this before. We need some new voices in comedy. Bert went on Grace O’Malley’s podcast Disgraceful and told a story about how he went to text his daughter Georgia. The text wrote, I love you more than anyone will ever love you in this entire world. The problem he has two Georgia’s in his phone, his daughter Georgia and the host of my favorite murder, Georgia Heart’s Dark.
He explained, Georgia, my daughter has saved her name and my phone as Georgia, my favorite daughter Georgia Hardstark is saved on my phone as Georgia my favorite murder. I sent that text to Georgia Hartstark. She wrote back, Oh God, I’m reading this crying. Think it was for my dad. How sweet this is.
I have to tell you have the wrong number. Now. I don’t know if that story is the least bit true, but it is funny. Tomorrow on John Mulaney Show, Pete Davidson, Lunel mac Packer, Henry Winkler, a funeral director in music from the band Mannekin Pussy. But when Yang on his podcast was asked how much he was allowed to add lib on Wicked, Yang said, I was daunted by the biblical precision and just the passion everybody was bringing to it.
But we’re all in over our heads except for director John Chew. He was the only person that needed to be above water with it and steer the ship. The rest of us were out to sea. Yang thought she would prank him by asking him to improvise after scripture takes. Yang also talked about imposter syndrome on SNL, revealing it was only when he took LSD on vacation that he could imagine himself.
On the show, said I was like I don’t think I can do this me being on the show. What is that going to look like? That’s going to feel crazy. I was on the beach, That’s where I took the LSD, and then I got over that idea just by watching sketches on my phone of Bill Hayter’s Stephan. I hallucinated myself as Stephan.
I was like, Oh, I see it now, And I got to tell Bill that James Cordon’s neighbors are annoyed with him. Eighteen complaints have been filed about a proposed den that James wants to build at the bottom of his garden. The neighbors are worried that it might make the noise from Cordon’s property even worse. One neighbors said of the Cordon family, one of the plays that drums, which can often be heard in my terrace and occasionally inside my flat even with the windows closed. Bill Maher’s podcast had on Andrew Schultz really really good discussion there, good takes from both of them on the current state of politics as it put together the show today, the international crowd is really talking about an incident at a MAMAI comedy club.
A mob violently ransacked, said club, and the building has been partly demolished after one of India’s most prominent comedians did a satirical song about a local politician. The Guardian tells us Kunal Comra has a reputation for his cervic comedy. He often pokes fund at political figures. He was at the Habitat Comedy Club in Mumbai Friday night and did a parody song about Ekneth Shindey Hope I pronounced that correctly, the second most powerful figure in the local state government. The song referred to the Deputy Chief Minister as a guitar, which apparently means traitor that upset the leaders of one political party.
On Sunday night, about twenty members of that party went to the Habitat Comedy Club and began to smash it apart, throwing chairs, tearing down posters and breaking the lights. A few ers after the attack, Commra went on Instagram and posted a photo of himself holding up a copy of the Indian Constitution captioned the Only Way Forward. Some local ministers claimed that the comedy club was illegal. A demolition team from the local council arrived at the venue on Monday and began demolishing part of the building on the grounds that had been illegally constructed. In a statement Monday, Habitat said it was shocked, word and extremely broken by the recent acts eventandalism targeting us.
We’ve never been involved in the content performed by any artist. They are shutting down until quote, we figure out the best way to provide a platform for free expression while putting ourselves on our property in jeopardy. In Happier news, Saturday Night Live is teaming up with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It is an exhibition called SNL Ladies and Gentlemen Fifty Years of Music. The exhibit places visitors in a recreation of Studio eight h.
The experience mirrors the flow of the show, beginning with the cold open and moving into the home based stage where the host announced the musical guests. The exhibit also features costumes and props from SNL, including wardrobe from the Blues Brothers, The Famous in a Box Sketch, and the Sweeney Sisters. Musical guests wh would be represented include Blondie, Rundy mc mick Jagger, Miley Cyrus, Sabrina Carpenter, and Billie Eilish. The exhibit opens May twenty third at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. On Amy Poehler’s new podcast, she told a story about winning Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals Women of the Year title in twenty fifteen.
She said the ceremony consisted of sniveling eyes roasting me. One person said to Amy, you’re the poor man’s Tina Fey. The kid said it right before I went up. Amy said, I gave him the figure, which everybody was shocked about. And I don’t know if it was the right of me in a guess, but I go fu.
Kyle Mooney is now Kyle M. He’s moving on from that whole comedy business. He has a serious album. In a YouTube video, he says, I don’t want to be a clown anymore. I don’t feel like I’m a character.
I’m not a sketch. I think that’s what most people think I am, but I’m not. His debut album has every genre of Western music. Kyle M explains, I sing every song, played, every instrument. That’s all there, rock, country, R and B, dance.
I promised this is art that’s earnestly me. I promise there is nothing comedic about the Kyle m Project. He should deem up with Adam Sandler and out in La. Vulture Is Guaranteed is a new bi weekly comedy show at LA’s Lyric Hyperion Theater. Good lineup tonight.
Emily Knalano previous guest on this program, Naomik Peragin, Yes here Lester and Robin Tran. That’s a good show. Still catching up from the trip, Let’s see what I haven’t told about? Katherine Ryan announced she’s been diagnosed with skin cancer for the second time. She said in two thousand and four, she had what was described as a golf ball sized lump removed from her inner thigh.
This time, tess have confirmed her mold to be early melanoma. Ken Jung may return to sitcom world. This would be a sitcom inspired by former California Senator A. Barbara Boxer. Fox is developing How Can We Help?
It is set in the tenth District of Boston and follows newly elected congressman and local stain removal tycoon Jimmy Choi as he causes all kinds of messes for his intrepid staff, none of whom voted for him. Can I send you guys a note right now, don’t bother, don’t make that not a good idea. How’s that Dennis Leary show going, by the way, right? Whatever? Okay, you’re such a hater, Johnny Mack.
That’s it for today, see tomorrow.