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Featured: Dan Levy, Shane Gillis, Theo Von, Sebastian Maniscalco, Nate Bargatze, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Larry David, Nikki Glaser, Norm MacDonald
What’s in This Episode
- Dan Levy criticizes Shane Gillis’ SNL monologue about women at the gym
- Theo Von’s new Netflix special ‘I’m Doing Fine’ releasing October 20th
- Sebastian Maniscalco removes audience member during Las Vegas show
- SNL audience reception differences compared to stand-up comedy crowds
- Nate Bargatze discusses work ethic and sense of urgency in interview
Questions Answered in This Episode
What did Shane Gillis say on SNL that upset Dan Levy?
Shane Gillis made a joke saying he hadn’t been to the gym in so long and didn’t know women ‘just dress like whores now,’ which Dan Levy called misogynistic and criticized on Instagram for promoting objectification of women.
When is Theo Von’s new Netflix special coming out?
Theo Von’s new Netflix special ‘I’m Doing Fine’ will premiere on October 20th, 2026. It’s his third special and first in five years, featuring stories about his rural upbringing and acid-filled adventures.
Why did Sebastian Maniscalco have someone removed from his Wynn Las Vegas show?
A woman in a black outfit with glittery sleeves was escorted out for being chatty and disruptive in the audience during his performance, ruining the show for other patrons who paid to attend.
What is the difference between SNL audiences and stand-up comedy show audiences?
According to CinemaBlend analysis in this episode, the average SNL studio audience is different from typical stand-up comedy fans, making controversial jokes less likely to land well at SNL compared to sold-out comedy shows like Shane Gillis’s 70,000-person Eagles Stadium show.
What does Nate Bargatze say helped his career success?
Nate Bargatze credits his experience waiting tables and learning about having a ‘sense of urgency’ from his manager as something that stuck with him and translates to how he handles his current work and team communication.
Full Transcript
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Caloroga Shark Media. Hi, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Boy, Dan Levy is not happy with Shane Gillis’ monologue on Saturday Night Live. I played the clip on Monday’s show. I won’t play it today because YouTube took all the clips down.
It’s just too annoying to deal with. But Shane Gillis said, and told it better than I will, I haven’t been to the gym in so long. I didn’t know women just dress like whores now. Well, Dan Levy did not like that joke. He went on Instagram and posted this.
Women wearing short shorts to the gym does not make them whores. It makes the men calling them whores misogynists. There’s a difference there. By the way, I’ve seen more men’s nipples at the gym than I’ve ever seen women showing their bodies off. But I, I’m speechless that something like that can exist on live national television.
And to be perfectly honest, more men need to be standing up in opposition to it because it’s complacency that has created the environment with which women are sexually assaulted. And it’s a conversation as opposed to a crime. Men need to be defending women more. This is not a women’s issue. This is an everybody issue.
Because the more that men objectify women in the media, the more that other men see them as objects and treat them as objects. They are not objects. They are superior human beings to men, okay? And I’m sorry if this gets me in trouble with the Internet. Dan then had one more sentence, which I clipped into paraphrasing.
He said something like, I don’t want the entire Internet mad at me. Oh, F. And the reason I took it out was because of the F-bomb. In a previous Instagram story that also appeared to be inspired by Shane Gillis’s monologue, Levy bemoaned the vile, repugnant, disgusting trash that has been pouring out of people’s mouths lately, according to USA Today. Dan Levy is 43 years old.
CinemaBlend talked about previous SNL scandals. They reminded us that Nikki Glaser got gasped from the audience last year when she talked about her young nephew wanting to shower with her. Bill Burr got into trouble because he said we shouldn’t cancel people who are dead because God already canceled them. Dave Chappelle joked about Kanye and anti-Semitism. Larry David joked about flirting with women in concentration camps.
Some people didn’t like that. CinemaBlend writes, There’s a murderer’s row of stand-up comedians who’ve taken the stage at Studio 8H and have gotten mild applause at best. Their theory? The average person sitting in the Studio 8H audience, and even the average person at home, is not the same person who goes to stand-up comedy shows. Like the 70-something thousand that went to go see Shane Gillis at the Eagles Stadium?
Those people? Yeah. Cinema blend, right? Certainly they’re not the same people who would buy a ticket to go see Shane Gillis, so what he’s joking about and how he’s joking about it are probably not the sort of thing that the average person in the audience at SNL is predisposed to laugh about. It’s just easier for everyone to get on the same page and laugh about Debbie Downer than it is about Chris Rock’s thoughts about the Boston Marathon bombing.
Even Norm MacDonald’s return monologue, which is one of the most lauded openers ever, got a mixed response from the crowd. The legendary coach of the Chicago Bears, Mike Dicca, passed away last week. Some people wondered, would SNL do a tribute.. Robert Smigel posted on social media, I believe SNL had planned to run a brief superfans clip in tribute to Mike Ditka and ran out of time. He says he was contacted to suggest a favorite Ditka joke.
Theo Vaughn will have a new Netflix special. It is called I’m Doing Fine. It’ll be on Netflix October 20th. Hey, that’s next week. It’s Vaughn’s third special, his first in five years.
We find the freewheeling Theo Vaughn dishing on his rural upbringing and acid-filled adventures. There is a trailer. Now pay close attention here. I suspect, I don’t know, but I suspect we’re seeing some fake crowd work here or Theo Vaughn is the master of improv and took a throwaway line from somebody who seems to be in the first row or two and did a nice solid five minutes here. Here’s Theo Vaughn.
We have some characters in our area growing up, though. I know that. They just busted a dude in my hometown with a 30 pound bag of hamster bones on him. Oh yeah, they got him. How many hamsters do you think that is, big dog, right here?
If you had to guess, 100? Bro, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? 100 houses? You don’t know what a house is, bro? One of the Lord’s McNuggets, bro?
What? You think 100 hamsters have 30 pounds of bone in them? You got Galapagos hamsters? You got them rideable hamsters, yeah. Come on, Nibbles.
We late for the derby. No, bro, it’s about 2,000 hamsters, bro. Dang, boy. But good guess, pretty good guess overall. And for this area, great guest, buddy.
You started it. Enemy of the working class comedian Sebastian Maniscalco playing Las Vegas on Friday night. He said, this is my last weekend here at the Wynn. I’ve been performing here for six years, but I’m taking a break from performing here in Las Vegas. I didn’t want this to go down on my last week in here.
The this is not the whole kerfluffle from last week. The Las Vegas Review-Journal says a woman in a black outfit with glittery silver sleeves was escorted from the venue midway through the Sebastian Maniscalco show. Apparently the woman is enjoying herself and was a little chatty in the audience. Guests around her called security to her row. There was a brief conversation as Sebastian paused his act.
Then a few minutes later, Sebastian saw more commotion from that area. Then Sebastian summons security. Sebastian is quoted as saying, lady, just take a walk. It’s over. Take care.
Goodbye. I’m sorry that had happened, but you were ruining the show for everybody here. Maniscalco then told the crowd, get your phones out, guys. This is a good moment. Get this on social media.
You think we’re at a UFC fight? Now, that’s interesting because Sebastian also has a no social media policy at his win shows. As the woman was being escorted out, apparently she started shouting towards Sebastian Maniscalco. He then said, this whole section doesn’t like you, lady. I’m sorry.
I told you to stop at the beginning. I gave you a warning. I don’t like doing that. It was ruining the show for 1,400 people who paid good money to see some entertainment. So if you’re wondering why Sebastian doesn’t put the working class comedians back on, he says he needs time.
This is what he’s spending his time on. He doesn’t have time to just go, hey, can you reactivate the Z category? How would he do that? We are told the entire interruption lasted about five minutes that could have been spent. On changing the categories on his radio station, but Sebastian’s very busy.
We’re told he had been in the middle of his routine about his son’s soccer game when the team was losing 13-0 in the second half, but the scoreboard then showed 12-0 all the way down to 2-0, so the kids wouldn’t feel bad. Returning to the bit, Sebastian reset it, saying, OK, so the score’s now 2-0.
Meanwhile, controversial mega-comedian Nate Bergesi caught up with Fatherly.
They were curious, hey, what’s the most important thing you’ve learned about work in your life? Nate said, I always wanted to go back when I waited tables at one point, our manager there always talked about a sense of urgency. And that’s always stuck with me for some reason. I’m just going to a table and I have a sense of urgency. It goes a long way when you get to that table and they feel like they’re being taken care of.
I think I’ve kept that even as I’ve gone forward. If you respond to emails or my team is talking to you, I don’t want to be like, I’ll get to them next week. You just want to be like, no, let’s get to them and let’s make sure that we stay on top of it. Hey, maybe we should give the controversial mega comedian A. Pregazzi a radio station because it sounds like if somebody wanted him to tweak the rotations, he wouldn’t take a lot of days to do it.
He would just do it. He would see the urgency and pick up the phone and be like, hey guys, can you reactivate that stuff? And it would be done within a day. But you would have to ask Sebastian Maniscalco about all that. Chris Rock, it’s all the Breakfast Club.
Comedians have the hardest job in the world, okay? Because we always have to come up with new stuff. I wish I could go do the Bring the Pain tour and do the same joke over and over. Boy, there are days I can jump in here in the basement and knock out five of these.
And then there are days like today where I can’t go a sentence without stumbl…
If you watch the podcast on YouTube today, you will see the amount of jump cuts. You don’t hear it on the audio, but on the video, you’ll just see it. Oh, my goodness. I cannot get through a sentence. Now, if you’re like, hey, Johnny Mac, I’d like to make my own podcast.
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Hey, did you see Digger yet? I told you Digger’s the best picture. You need to go see it. We are now.. Learning that Digger is on track to lose $ 245 million.
Yikes. Then what’s going to happen is this thing’s going to show up on streaming and people are going to watch it and be like, oh my goodness, that was the greatest movie ever. So just go see it. It is a comedy, which allows me to talk about it. I just absolutely love it.
I am an evangelist for this movie. Go see Digger. It has the potential to wind up as the biggest flop of all time.
And then again, you’re going to watch it on streaming and it’s going to be a …
So just go see it now. Russell Brand’s rape and sexual assault trial has begun on Monday. He appeared in court to start this week’s trial on charges of rape, sexual assault and indecent assault. Russell Brand faces seven charges related to incidents that the prosecution say involve six women. In two previous hearings, Russell Brand pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
When entering the courtroom on Monday, Russell briefly knelt down as if in prayer and then took a seat in the glass box at the back of the room. On Sunday, Russell Brand published a video on his YouTube channel in which he discussed Jeffrey Epstein. At one point, Brand said that he himself was on trial for sexual allegations that I deny in the strongest possible terms. The trial is scheduled to last up to 10 weeks. If you would like daily coverage of this, we have a sister podcast, Daily Crime and Justice.
Daily Crime and Justice, they will be covering this trial. I’ll cover it as we go along because Russell Brand is a comedian, obviously not at all a fun topic, and I try and make this show fun, but we’ll cover that as need be. VoiceMag UK has been watching Taskmaster. They’re wondering why Richard Ayoade, who should be the new Doctor Who, by the way, is not that good at it. They say Ayoade has been a victim of timing.
There’s something that feels a little off about this Taskmaster series. The contestants don’t quite have the same level of shared dynamic as we’ve seen in recent series. Ayoade, more than anyone else, has clung tightly to his persona throughout filming. This in itself isn’t a problem. The issue is his long-held persona is an awkward fit within the world of Taskmaster.
The Ayoade character is always positioned at arm’s length from what he’s doing as if he’s better than it. He continued this approach when he recently appeared on the Taskmaster tie-in podcast, describing the show as a national service for comedians and claiming not to have enjoyed the experience at all. The real Ayoade might have had a ball making the show, but the persona is king and is set in stone. Taskmaster airs on Channel 4 in the UK every Thursday and on your local pirate ship. And that is your comedy news for today.
I will see you tomorrow.