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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News, a daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. Boy, it’s busy. I thought I’d lead off with Strikeforce five today, but nope, the roast is still the hot topic. We will get to Strikeforce five in a minute.
Starting with the roast. There were many many stories about jokes that were cut from the roast for one reason or another. I will do my best to share them with you. Variety caught up with writer Madison Sinclair, who was one of the writers hired to make jokes for the various actors, musicians, and comics who participated in the roast of Kevin Hart. Variety has these broken out by topics.
Is unclear who hypothetically would have said the joke about the subjects, so we’ll do it by subject. For a subject as Draymond Green, someone might have said, Draymond Green is a lot like Megan Feet Stallion. They’re famous for letting other people shoot, and he hasn’t been the same since Klay Thompson Laft. Draymond is so cute. He has that thing where his mouth is always a little open.
That’s one of the things he and Chelsea have in common. That’s pretty good. Actually. New topic. Lizzo Lizo broke barriers when she danced as a stripper and hustlers, mostly because they weren’t properly enforced.
That’s funny, funny. New topic Shane Gillis. Shane Gillis only lasted two weeks in basic training. The closest he’s come to becoming a veteran is his views on Asians. Now, that’s very funny, but it would assume general knowledge on the audience as to why that is funny if you don’t know.
Shane Gillis was hired to be on SNL and they dusted off some jokes from his podcast, and then he was unhired from SNL way back when another one not as good. Shane turned down doing the Rion Comedy Festival because he has integrity and he can’t go forty eight hours without a drink. New topic. Tony Inchcliff. Tony has the license plate I Roast, which is what we all hope for every time he gets behind the wheel.
Wow, Tony is like Milania. The only thing relevant about him is that he opened for Trump once. That’s a great joke. New topic, Chelsea Handler. You might know Chelsea for being on e for over a decade.
She also had a famous talk show for a while. See that’s good, that’s a nice harmless. That’s great, that’s a perfect joke. I like these. New topic.
Kevin Hart. Kevin is one of the few comedians without a single allegation. When he found out about the me too movement, he was shocked. He was like, people are saying no to things. Fantastic joke.
Did you know that Kevin actually has a nonprofit for organ donation called Heartless. That’s not true, but doesn’t that sound like some dumb stuff he would do. If Kevin can make a pun with the word heart in it, he’ll spend millions to develop a crappy business around it. Kevin, thank you so much for being here tonight. I know you have such a busy schedule with stand up movies sitting on that shelf every Christmas.
Kevin, I was so disappointed when you did the Rion Comedy Festival because on a human rights level, no one should be forced to listen to your comedy sober. I love these, Kevin. You are so talented, but you are the worst cheater with your bild. I assumed you’d be better at sneaking around. Kevin Hart is such a sellout, even his sex tape at commercial breaks, Kevin Hart is always on the worst platforms Quibi Toby, the ones he puts on when he argues with his wife.
Kevin said he was only joking what he said. He would throw a dollhouse at a gay child. But we invited Tony Chcliff here tonight just to make sure. Kevin, why are always hooking up with women in cars? If you wanted to cheat and get away with it, you should have gone somewhere desolate and no man’s land, somewhere no one would ever go by any means necessary, like Harthouse on Librea fantastic.
Let’s give a nice plug to Madison Sinclair, who will be at the Looney Bin in Tulsa on May fourteenth and May sixteenth at the Dallas Comedy Club. Now, a lot of people on the internet are upset about some of the jokes at the roost. I don’t think they understand what a roast is. On the Charlie Kirkshow, producer Blake Neff weighed in. He said on today’s show, we discussed Pete Davison’s joke about Charlie’s death while roasting Tony Inchcliff might take.
I didn’t like it, and I’m glad the audience wasn’t into it. But there were other jokes we’ve seen that are clearly a lot more hateful and intent than Pete’s, and a few bad taste jokes about Charlie. At the price we have to pay for how iconic he has become an American culture TMC. He reports the family and friends of George Floyd were upset at the Floyd joke that Tony Hinchcliffe made. TMZ says, George’s family and friends feel like Kevin Hart should have told Tony to stay off the topic of nothing else, and they’re baffled and disgusted by Tony’s apparent obsession with telling George Floyd jokes.
During the Tom Brady roast, Hinchcliff joke that Rob Gronkowski looked like the final Boss in George Floyd the video game, TMZ says quotes were told. George’s family and friends feel Tony is a quote racist comedian unquote double unquote, and they’re wondering how Kevin would feel about these jokes if one of his friends died instead of George. Cheryl Underwood was on TMZ Live. She defended the Rock’s use of the R word, arguing that Rose comedy has its own rules. She said the context brought the room together, especially given past discourse about the Rock’s identity.
She emphasized that political correctness doesn’t always fit in with comedy, noting roasts or spaces to tackle uncomfortable issues with humor. More about the roast tomorrow. All right, the Strike Force five guys. They are Sai Myers, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, and Stephen Colbert. They were all on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Steven said Late Night is in a bit of a weird spot right now spoiler alert, and people are questioning its future. He then asked the other host to make a case for Late Night. Jimmy Kimmel said, I would say, I look at the figures and the fact of the matter is more people are watching late night television now then, and I know everybody gets crazy than when Johnny Carson was on. Obviously, Johnny Carson had a lot of people watching one show, but we have a lot of shows with thirty thousand people watching each one. It adds up.
People watch us on YouTube now, and people have a lot of different opinions, and yet they still keep coming to us. Kimmel and John Oliver then asked why would that question even be asked. Kim Will asked, Colbert, like Ryan Seacrest doesn’t get asked about the Wheel of Fortune or whatever the hell he’s hosting. Oliver agreed and said I would actually like to hear Ryan SeaQuest defend Wheel of Fortune. If someone’s next to me saying defend Wheel of Fortune’s right to exist, I’m going to be leaning forward waiting for what he says.
Jimmy Fallon waited in and said Late Night is one of those things that’s been around our whole lives where it kind of is just part of our lives. I never thought it was a job when I was growing up. I just thought Johnny Carson came with the television set. People want to go to sleep, having a good laugh and go to bed happy. Kim Will jumped on that and said, but not before Seth Fellon agreed, wake back up for Seth’s show.
Then Seth Myers said, if I were making my case for Late Night, it would be that the leaders of the free world are watching it when it airs with all the hosts there, Colbert joke John Stewart is the designated survivor tonight someone asked to survive for the President to be mad at great joke, Colbert said, would it be great if John had to do all our eulogies? Some other jokes. Kim Will said, I figured out why you lost forty million dollars, Steve, and there’s too many in your band. Colbert wondered if he would get kicked out of the Strike Force five if he doesn’t have a show. Seth Meyer said, you’re out.
It’s Strikeforce four. It breaks our heart, but it’s like jerrymandering. Nobody likes it. But once the court’s rule. Kim Old tagged that with don’t worry, give me a few months and it’ll be Strikeforce three.
Kim Old talked about when he had his own troubles and said, I’ll tell you when I got knocked off the air for a few days, people canceled Disney Plus. He then turned to the audience and said, why are are you people canceling Paramount Plus? Oh? Because you didn’t have it in the first place. John Oliver stood up for his potential new bosses and said, Jimmy, until a deal goes through, I could just do a counter to that.
Paramount Plus might have some good programming, unless it doesn’t go through, in which case you can go f itself. There will be a new podcast episode of Strike Force five out today. I had to put the feedback on my phone. I had cleared that out. Episode thirteen will benefit Chef jose Andre’s World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit that provides meals in response to humanitarian, climate and community crisises around the world.
On Late Nighter dot Com, Bill Carter wrote, the affection among this group was on utterly convincing display Monday Night. The group long ago shattered the old Late Night President that competition had to resemble Game of Thrones. The banter was funny and charming, but a little concern about the future was always haunting the conversation, Bill Carter writes, And as these five talented men traded drives in stories like old college friends, drawing laughs from the audience and from one another, it only underscored how separate, sadly separate, Trump and his entourage are from some of the best time people can have watching television. Late night shows are entertaining. They always have been, They still are unless you literally can’t take a joke.
Send your letters to Bill Carter. Gossip Connor whispers in the street gossip con probably buppy gossip conn Aware the rumors meet with Johnny Mackett’s always a tree. Gossip Connor whispers this tree, gossip Corn probably gossip Cone. Where the rooms me with Johnny mactowy a tree? Real question?
Do you ever find yourself singing that? I find myself walking around the house with that stuck in my head. It is super catchy. On Gossip Corner? Is Carrie Underwood mad at Nikki Glaser?
People think there was tension on the set of American Idol when Nikki Glaser recently showed up. One person on social media said, Carrie, no matter how talns it, ever since I saw her on American Idol, I picked up a really cold vibe. Another person said the tension between Carrie and Nicki is killing me. Mary Underwood said there is no beef between the pair. She says, I think Nikki did such a great job because it’s not an easy thing to come sit behind that desk and try to think of constructive things to say.
And I don’t know. I feel like she did everything wonderfully. But no, there’s no beef. I have no beef. Johnny Mac, you never mentioned Kevin Hart.
I know Kevin Hart. This is going to shock you, guys. He’s got another gig. He’s making yet another movie. Famous director Mick Gee has teamed up with Kevin Hart for a high concept action comedy.
This will be for Netflix. In untitled project, two rival spies cross paths at a lama’s class as their wives become friends. With their double lives colliding in unexpectedly hilarious and dangerous ways, the two men are forced to reluctantly become confidants and partners on the roads of fatherhood. Are you looking forward to untitled movie? Yeah, well, there’s also a we’ll talk about this later in the week, another Kevin Hart Netflix movie, and that also stars Marcelo Hernandez, who does one thing.
Well. It’s called seventy two Hours. That’ll be on Netflix July twenty fourth. My friend Larry the Cable Guy’s got a new show. It’s called American Mayhem, a new first run syndicated series that will launch this fall.
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