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Caloroga Shark Media been air. I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Dave Chappelle is doing his hometown summer shows again. Dave Chappelle’s Summer Camp is a summer tradition. It’s back for its fifth year.
He’ll do three summer weekends at the Weird Pavilion weekend of July second to third and fifth, so no show on the fourth, and then August fourteen, fifteen sixteen, and August twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. The Hollywood Reporter put Chappelle and Moa. Mayer together for a conversation. Dave says, of Mo, we spent all the summer of twenty twenty together doing shows. The best comedians of the world flew in Ohio and we had a blast.
Moe recalls it was so nerve wracking because everything was so unsettling. It was COVID, it was civil unrest, it was my own personal stuff, and every one of my writers was juggling things emotionally. He was really overwhelming, But you, Dave, really saved my life. I’m sure that a lot of people fell that way because we weren’t working. You gave us an outlet so the story here.
Moe was invited to participate in Actors on Actors, and he suggested speaking with Dave Chappelle. Chappelle said, as you know, I notoriously don’t like to do press, but I wouldn’t have missed today because it’s used. So Dave flew from Ohio to LA and said, there’s an elephant in the room. You got a deal at Netflix to produce a show, and then Riser’s starting production on season two October seventh happened, and this is something that you’re going to have to address artistically or not. And I was curious about what’s the process of going through that.
By some weird accident, you found yourself being a solo Palestinian voice at a very critical time in human history. Moe explained. I started writing season two in April of twenty three. Then the writers Guild went on strike. We came back in October six days later.
All hell breaks loose, and particularly my writing room. Since the show centered around a Palestinian family and impacted it significantly, it caused us to have a tremendous amount of debate in the writing room itself. Chappelle was curious where the pressure comes from family, friends, bosses, most said more so from the fans of the public said I’m the only guy that’s Palestinian. It was a show that centered around the Palestinian family. The pressure around that was a minute.
There were so many phone calls and people pressuring me to speak right away. Literally October eighth, I noticed everybody was yelling at each other. No one was actually listening to one another. And I think it’s really important to understand what’s happening before you speak out. It’s really necessary to know what you’re talking about.
I’ve aween my art form as a refuge what it allows me to be myself and express myself. Outside of that, it feels unnatural to me at the moment. I had a long conversation there along those lines while we’re solving a peace in the Middle East here on Daily Comedy News, THEO Vaughn has also addressed Palestine on his podcast. He called it a genocide. There’s a clip going viral.
It’s from the May tenth episode of this past Weekend. In it, THEO says, feels to me like it’s a genocide that’s happening while we’re alive. You see all these photos of people just children, women, people body parts, just putting their kids back together. I just can’t believe we’re watching that and that more isn’t said about it. I didn’t set out today to wait into any of this.
As I put the show together and he could check the back catalog. Whoever the biggest comedian is, that’s who gets the first story. So when I went into the Chappelle thing and saw that THEO, who’s pretty big and would have been in the three spot today, was on the same subject, I put those two back to back. Had THEO spoken about something else, the number two story would have been this whole John Mulaney thing. Now, I had pointed out on this show, I’m getting up on my soapbox and doing the Hey, Johnny Mack told you I’m doing it.
Hey, remember I told you this. Remember a couple of weeks ago, Robbie pro the head of Netflix Comedy, was like, yeah, Mallenie, yeah yeah, but like never said it was actually coming back. Then last week Mulaney was on Mark Marion’s podcast and you know, said we’re working things out. Late Nighter poked at this. Robbie Pra told Late Nighter Robbie again is head of Netflix comedy Every Wednesday for the last twelve weeks has been my favorite Wednesday.
I think John is absolutely brilliant. That’s nice. My ex girlfriend from college has nice hair. That’s it. She’s nice hair.
So Late Nighter didn’t accept that dodge and asked it, you know, are we gonna get any more of this show? Robbie prot says, I have nothing to elaborate on at this time, which is not yeah, we’re working on season two right now, or yeah, twelve more episodes come out October twenty fourth, or yeah, we’re working it out. John’s touring this summer, which is trying to figure out the dates. You could have said any of that, but Prau said quote, I have nothing to elaborate on at this time. Prau also points out mulaney is an extremely, extremely busy man.
It sounds like everybody has figured out that that show didn’t work my opinion, and they’re laying the groundwork to everyone to get out gracefully. I could see a future in which it’s like, you know, working with John was great, but yeah, you know, he’s got this sixteen month tour coming up, but he’s got two young children and he’s in a lot of demand and he might host some awards show how about you know, we love him here at Netflix, and we always have the door open for an upcomings, you know, that kind of spin that’s coming. What’s incredible to me about John is how quickly we saw the evolution of the show. To put on a program that feels different from Show one to Show twelve. In the old world of late night, that would be what two and a half weeks.
I can’t really envision who else could pull that off the way John did. Well, that’s not really a fair comparison. You kick, pare twelve weekday shows to twelve weeks. You have to comp we are twelve weeks to twelve weeks, because if you’re doing a daily show, like all right, we’re done taving at six thirty and we have to get to work, and we have twenty three hours to put out another show, not one hundred and sixty seven hours to put out another show. So that’s not a fair comparison at all.
Robbie Prau, who I’ve worked with back at Just for Laughson, is a good guy. More from pra Vi e Late Night Er, which is a great website. I mean, we’re calling it late night, but it’s on streaming so it’s available all the time. So to me, it really seems like a hybrid. It’s a talk show.
Part of it feels snl E. No it doesn’t. I mean he wrestled fourteen year olds. That feels Andy KAUFMANI yes, he did the hype bit the night Letterman was on. That felt lettermany.
Yes it did. The fact that he was out there doing these ten to twelve minute not topical monologues and that they’re strong as they are is something mokes folks don’t understand the level of difference and specialness. You have to have to achieve that. Sure, but I will tell you this, Give Jay Leno a week to come up with twelve minutes, he’ll do it. But he did a show five days a week.
And let’s not pretend people don’t have writers for us as The idea of producing the show live around the world wasn’t necessarily a strategy to differ the show. To be honest, I don’t think it’s the thing that makes the show great personally. It’s certainly exciting that it’s live in the moment, but it really stands out as a great variety hour either way, That’s how a lot of our members engage with it. You may recall Jimmy Kimmel Live was called Jimmy Kimmel Live because Jimmy Kimmel was Stay It with Me Live. The Holly Reporter caught up with Seth Meyers, who somehow has been hosting Late Night for eleven years now without really having any impact on society.
They were curious, Seth, do you have a sense for what differentiates your show? Seth says, One thing I love hearing as I’ll come backstage for first time guests and they’ll say, everybody tells me this will be really fun, and that’s great. Defeedback, I think is people like doing the show because they feel like it’s a conversation. We don’t ask some of them. It’s just come and talk.
It’s a loose, good vibe. Host isn’t in a suit. We have a nice green room. Well, I mean, if that alone isn’t a reason to watch the show, they have a nice green room, says The one thing I was most wrong about is I thought politicians would be more interesting. I think it’s very interesting to talk about politics.
It’s less interesting to talk to politicians and We’ve built a show where if the conversation’s good, it’s good TV, and it almost doesn’t matter who it’s with. Honestly, I think it’s better to have a good conversation with an author than a bad conversation with an A list star. But that said, is it if more value if you have a good conversation with George Clooney? Of course, But if we realize there’s someone who’s a giant star is maybe better at being a giant star than they are being a talk show guest, that’s great. We don’t need to chase that person.
In Carmel spoke to GQ about his weight loss and said, you know what the big difference for me was, I joined a gym. I can walk to the whole idea of getting in the car and finding parking and in LA often paying for parking. I took away as many hurdles as I could. There’s a gym that’s like a twenty five minute walk for me. Perfect it’s podcast time.
Maybe he listens to this podcast. Hi, And I also drink so much water because the other thing I feel with cravings is you have to try telling them and know in as many ways as you can throw whatever you can at them. I’m probably like a three to four apples a day guy. Doctors will tell you to keep it to two, but listen, it’s that or Lasagnas. I’m doing the apples and I love blueberries.
For me, that’s a top tier berry. I think it’s the most consistently good. I don’t think it’s the best berry at its best, but it’s the best berry on average. Forgot to mention earlier. Seth’s doing a lot of press and why I don’t know why he’s doing so much press.
Conan’s doing a lot of press too. At Eliza Slessengers doing a lot of press. I’ve noticed that aproprobe nothing just thought a chair doing comedy podcast and these things come to mind when I put the show together. At the ATX TV Festival in Austin, Brett Goldstein talked about his early collaboration with Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence. That was a project called spaced Out, also in that Donald Faison from Scrubs.
It was basically a space themed workplace sitcom. Wheret Goldstein said, it was my second pilot season in la I’d gone and done a pilot for HBO the year before. There was really good, but didn’t get picked up, and then it came back in an audition for Bill’s new show. I love Bill because of Scrubs and I was excited to had Donald in it. The show was about a working class genius trying to integrate with a team of scientists building a Mars rocket.
Goldstein said it was basically Scrubs set in a rocket factory. We called it space Turk. Laurence said it was not called it was canceled. Brett says, the thing that’s awful about making TVs, we all felt on the set the pilot was really special. This is a thing so much that when Bill’s producing partner, Jeff said goodbye to me, because you do the pilot and then you start shooting the rest of the season in August, he said to me, see you in August.
So I started packing out my house. I sold my place in England, don’t know.
And then a month later it’s not happening.
I was like, where do I live? Yeah, I don’t do that. That was a rookie mistake there, brick Oldstein. Years later, Bill Lawrence calls him about this show called ted Lasso. He called me completely out of the blue, and he said, I’m gona do this football show.
You want to come right on it? And I said no, I’ve got a big stand up show booked. He said it starts next week and I was like, but I’ve got these stand up shows. Brett spoke to comedian Nish Kumar, who told him cancel the show. Cold Scene had another concern.
He had developed a show, Soulmates for AMC. The Soulmates got picked up and I was like, ef Bill Lawrence said he was running Soulmates and we hired him as a writer on Lasso. He didn’t know he was also going to be Roy Kent, but that was all Brett. We were writing. The party filmed an audition on his own.
He sent it to us and he absolutely killed. Yeah, we’ve heard that story before where he just asked, Hey, can I just be Roy Kent and they said yeah. That’s how I started hosting the show on Live One. The weekly comedy thing, by the way, I should plug that new episodes every Monday, kind of like this, except I talk a lot less. But I can also play comedy clips from comedians because of licensing and all that.
So that’s the weekly comedy thing on Live One. So when we were putting that show together, I was inspired by Phil Collins from Genesis. I’ve gone sideways here, let me back you up. So Peter Gabriel, musician Peter Gabriel, you’ve heard of him. He was the original singer for the band Genesis, and then he left and Genesis was looking for singers and they auditioned a bunch of people and then one day Phil Collins, who you’ve heard of, said can I just do it?
And they were like, yeah, sure. So we were auditioning people for the weekly comedy thing and I was writing it, but no one was quite nailing the voice. And I eventually said can I do it? And I totally had Phil Collins stuck in my head for that, and they were like sure. So I started hosting that and then I had all these extra stories left over, and I’m like, I got to do something with these stories.
So I created this podcast and here we are, and like anything else in life, I’ve been talking into a microphone almost every day for don eleven twelve years now, and you get better things. So thank you for listening. I digress. But that was the end of the Brett Goldstein story. Oh, I definitely want to stop off at Gossip Corner before we Go.
Page six reported that Jeff Gorlan was scheduled to headline a comedy dinner at the Calabasas Country Club in SoCal last week. However, he allegedly walked out after discovering he’d be paid by check. Gorlan was reportedly promised listen to this number eight hundred dollars in cash, and was unhappy to learn at the venue intended to compensate him with a check instead. Let’s just stop off there. So say you were on curb your enthusiasm for eleven years, You’re going to headline a comedy dinner.
How much do you think you would get paid? Apparently the number is eight hundred dollars. Wow. An insider told the Post the crowd was ticked, most of them come to see Jeff. Approximately forty people at the show.
According to Calabasa’s country club schedule, they frequently host events such as comedy nights and bingo. The Post says it’s unclear why Garland walked out. A different source in form Page six that he likely didn’t walk out due to financial reasons. They said, Jeff can be a very neurotic guy. You can get hung up on things, so who knows.
I think I have it in my brain somewhere. I feel like when I was at Serious XM, I feel like we were talking with Jeff about maybe perhaps doing something I may have And again, I might just be making up this whole thing. I feel like I was on a call with Jeff and I haven’t filed away in my brain that sometimes you jump on calls with people and you can tell people really want to do something and then we’ll figure out the money later.
And then sometimes you’re on a call with someone and you feel like, oh, they …
And it’s more about the money than the idea. And I haven’t filed away this conversation with Garland that I might just be imagining, but I think it happened, if I’m remembering correctly. I think I left that call going, oh, this isn’t column B, that this is just like, hey, I heard this is the thing. When podcasting heated up a few years back, oh boy, a lot of people were out. Yeah, I’d like to do a podcast.
All right, what do you want to do? I don’t know, whatever you guys think, And it was like, you just want to be paid anyway. That’s your comedy news for today, see tomorrow.