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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. David Letterman returns to the Ed Sullivan Theater tonight. He is the guest on Stephen Colbert. It’s been eight years already since Letterman stopped hosting Late Show.
Dave’s been on a bunch of other shows, including The Drew Barrymore Show, The View, Kimmel, Late Night with Seth James Cordon, but he has not yet returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater. That’ll change tonight. Colbert himself broke the news. Some news reports say it’s not clear what Letterman is coming on to talk about, but I’m guessing Letterman is auctioning off the marquee for the Et Sullivant Theater, right, so that would be a good reason to return to the Ed Sullivant Theater. I’m guessing that’s what that’s about.
We’ll find out tonight. The big announcement that came out Friday. I had mentioned to you on Saturday that I saved it for today. Not sure why San Francisco Sketch Fest picked a Friday to announce these things, but they have announced the light up for the twenty twenty four Comedy Festival taking place in San Francisco January eighteenth through February fourth. I have done that festival in the past.
It is fantastic. You should go. We have spent a lot of time here telling you about it. More than two hundred shows. Special events this year include Eric Idol in his first live North American show in seven years, joined by his friend and collaborator Jeff B.
Davis, for a one night performance featuring music, conversation, and scenes, including the world premiere of have Never Before Seen Monty Python, Sketch That’s Interesting, Comedy Icons. The kids in the Hall will bring sketches, stories, and songs to Sketch Fest. Performing is the full cast and also in solo shows. The State Hits and Misses features the nineties favorites performing rare never before seen sketch bitches and the Giant Misfires. Theatrical parodies include The Fast and the Furious, a musical parody Love It and Exorcistic, the unauthorized rock musical parody of the Exorcist.
Some podcasts will be there, including Triumph, the insult comic Dog with guest weird Alt. Triumph had a podcast Is That a thing. Where’s my phone? I didn’t know that was a thing. Did you know that was a thing?
I do do this show every day, and I research this stuff, and I have an ego, and I look at the podcast chart, especially under comedy. Let’s see here, let’s make a poop. It does seem to be a thing. It put out an episode in December of twenty nineteen that had Pete Davidson on it, and in June of twenty twenty it put out Quarantine Squares. So I guess the weird Al will be the third episode of this.
I guess it is a podcast with an atypical schedule that explains why it’s not on my radar. This has nothing to do with comedy, but music. Programming includes Michael Shannon and Jason or Ducci performing two separate classic RAM albums, Murmur and Reckogning over two nights, so that’s neat. Returning festival favorites back to comedy include Asian af Maria Bamford, Todd Barry, The Black Version, Joel Kim Booster, David Cross, Fake Ted Talks, Joe Firestone, Futurama, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Judge, John Hodgman, Mark Maher and Eugene Merman, Do’ll Say Sloan, paull Off, Tom Jinny Yang and the Proverbial many more. The SF Sketch Fest is a yearly spotlight of twelve top comedians, is once again stacked, featuring Emma Arnold, Greg Barris, Katrina Davis, Mike Drucker, Mohanned Alshiki, Joel, Nicole Johnson, Liz Meely, Claire Okaine, Just Tom, Moe Welch, and Paige Weldon.
Later in the release, we get more of a bullet point Format’d be a little easier for me to fly through special events and tributes. Eric Idle told you about the Kids in the Hall, Unplugged, the Kids in the Hall scenes they wouldn’t let us do? An Afternoon with Amber rufferin the State tells you about that sketching. Improv comedy includes Beverly Live, The Big Team, The Black Version, Britannic Convoy, Dinosaur Improv. That show includes Jason Manzukus and Paul Sheer, among others.
Drunk Theater, George prov with Connor Ratliffe, Gethard and Sager Girl God, The Groundlings, The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Killing Myle Lobster, Spawn Tour Co with Paul F. Tompkins, Super Married, Theme Park Improv with Ian Brennan, Rachel Dratch, Oscar Nuniez and a bunch of others. Time to Kill as a sketch comedy show. There are also variety and game shows including Asian af ask a Magician, Battle of the Wizards, The Bay Area pun Off, Black Men Can’t Jump Brew ha Ha, the comedy drinking game show with Matt Bronger, A Close Shave with Heaven, A super serious night of poetry and comedy. Kurt Broneller and Eugene Merman are on that show.
Comedian Feud I Guess That’s Like Family Feud. The guests include Paul F. Tompkins, Sishu’s Mada, Let’s See Lauren Lupkiz, Tony Newsom Blair, Soci David Wayne’s World of Wonder is a Night of magic, comedy, music and other delights. Filipino af Jepper Gay, Love It with Spikey and Miner and Honeyblutes on Jepper Gay is Hilarious, Love It Knees Up with Chris Tierner, Maniac Bowl, Okay, Who Did It? With Joe Firestone?
Self Help Me with Jenny Yang South Asian af Tinder Law with Lane Moore and David Cross, The Traventure Zone A Night of Dungeons and Dragons and also comedians and Vroyotopia with Paul F. Tompkins. A bunch of podcasts and talk shows. Let’s see what you might have heard of Doug Love’s movies, The George Lucas Talk Shows, a lot of fun. Hello from the Magic Tavern, I Love My Kid Butt with Kurt Brunaller, Megan Galli and Chris Garcia.
Wow, Chris Garcia, I haven’t heard that name in a while. He was a new face at Montreal. Oh, I’m going back. I think it was twenty fifteen. From memory, I thought he was going to have a much bigger career than he has.
Mosha Casher More Paul F. Tompkins talking Simpsons. He oh, is this racist? There’s some music in comedy shows. Let me see if I could pick the comedy out of here really quickly.
Off Book the Improvised Musical. That’s a fantastic podcast. I’m a big fan of that one. Stupid Songs and Stories with Kevin McDonald’s The Benson Movie Interruption. We’ll cover fast x Futurama’s twenty fifth anniversary Spectacular with David X Cohen, John Demaggio, David Herman and others including Billy West.
Outtake O Rama is described as infabous celebrity outtakes with David X Cohen, John Demaggio, Maurice LaMarsh and Billy West, Fake Ted Talks, Matt Bronger again, Guy Brainham and some others. Portlight is a storytelling series with Christella Alonso, Chris Garcia, Bob Odenkirk and Moore. A show called So Say We All, Vamp nonfiction showcase, So Say We All as a catration Battlestar Galactica. I wonder if that is involved. I don’t know, no, and we’re up to the stand up comedy section.
Are you getting the sense yet that this thing is huge? That’s why I didn’t cram it in on Saturday? This is its own thing, all right. The comedians include Aaron Chen Bad Indian, a Native American comedy show with Joshua Emerson, Blabermouth with Phil Griffinson, Red Scott, Brett Gilman, The Comedians with Disabilities Act, David Cross and Friends. DJ Jimmers been playing him over on the Live One app.
I like DJ Lott. They’ll say Sloan, Fun Voices with ron Funches and Blair, soci Hot Sets with Ronica Kowaikowski and Sam Clark, An Hour with Josh Johnson, Jennif Friedman, Not Funny, Joe, Kimbooster and Friends, John Glazer’s Smoothing Meditations for the Solitary Dog, Mark Marin all In is the name of that show, Maria Bamford, Matt Bronger again, Eugene Merman, Resistance is Fertile with Brooke Heinechin and Luisa Isabel Todd, Barry’s Half Joking Tour, Zenabe Johnson’s Kids Shows and Moe Williams and The Story Time All Stars Live with w Came On, Bell D’ll Say Sloan, Weird, Al Yankovic and more. Skesh Fest San Francisco, January eighteenth through February fourth, at Many venues. About two months ago, I made a pledge that on Mondays I would remember to tell you guys what I’m playing over on the Weekly Comedy Thing, which is the show I host on the Live one app. If you don’t know what that is.
The app is free. It’s called Live one. On the app, there’s a show. It’s called the Weekly Comedy Thing. It’s like this, except I can actually play the comedians bits there.
So if I tell you a story about Jim Gaffigan, then I play some JIMN. Gaff again. Now, since I made this promise, I have forgotten every other week to do it. Like I totally forget. I get in the car Monday, I drive to the Donuts chain.
I’m like, ah, you forgot to plug the Live one show. But this being in every other week, for some reason, every other week I remember to do it. On this week’s show, Brad Williams Bert Krascher talking about that whole thing with the Aditarad that I told you about on here. Kevin Hart, winner of the Mark Twain Prize. New podcast from Daniel Tosh and Dan Soder give an excuse to play those guys.
Thomson Gore announced his tour, so I’ll play him some Thanksgiving stuff. Jim Gaffigan talking about grievy. Andrew Santino thinks you should own your own material. Anthony Jesslink talking about getting older. Eddie Murphy’s got a Christmas movie coming out.
Jay Farrow on impressions and a clip from Spam a loot, So it’s the weekly comedy thing. On the Live one app.
Speaking of Daniel Tosh, he was describing his podcast, which is off to good …
He says, I’ll be interviewing people who I find interesting, so not celebrities and certainly not comedians. If you’re looking for a podcast that will educate and inspire or one that’ll make you think, this isn’t the one for you. Johnny Mack, you never talk about Matt Rife. I know right well. The Des Moines Register said, hey, remember a while back there was the hottest mom in a video that went viral, part of the whole Matt Rife viral thing.
There’s this woman, she’s a hot mom. Whatever. Anyway, Matt was in ames Iowa on his tour and he asked the crowd if Christina the Hot mom was present, what do you know she was? If you’re in New York City, you remember the comedy club Danger Fields. I wound up there on the night of my prom.
After the prom, you know, you’re seventeen, you gotta find someplace who’ll let you in at one in the morning and maybe look the other way on your choices of beverage. You know what I mean yeah, anyway, Dangerfields closed in twenty twenty, but a new owner is going to open a comedy club on the same site. It will not be called Dangerfields. It’ll have a new name. We don’t know what the name is yet, but the new two hundred person club on First Avenue sixty first Street on the east side of Manhattan will remain open until two am on Fridays and Saturdays, with shows most likely wrapping up around midnight.
That’s to keep the neighbors calm and were like, well, comedy club. Look, there was a comedy club there until you moved in last year. Relax. Comedy fans will be able to supplement their laughter with or dervs and upscale cocktails. The owner said.
The club will focus on featuring a modern, inclusive comedy scene, showcasing up and comers as well as established veterans, which is every club. They’ll be open mic hours earlier in the evening. There will not be a late show during the week, and the article for some reason points out that soon directly across the street a new store will open. That new store is a cannabis shop. Rodney Dangerfield himself opened his club in nineteen sixty nine, providing the neighborhood with fifty years of laughs from stars such as Jerry Seinfeld, Robin Williams, Roseanne and Chris Rock.
If you saw the twenty nineteen movie The Joker, remember The Joker does some comedy that was filmed at Dangerfields, but Dangerfields went out in October twenty twenty. You may remember there was this big penny and we didn’t really leave the house and go to comedy clubs. Congratulations to George Costanza who has made Cooperstown. No, not Chason Alexander, and no, not the Baseball Museum Hall of Fame or whatever it’s called. This is George Costanza, the character who now appears at the Cooperstown Heroes of Baseball wax Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
They pride themselves as being the only wax museum dedicated to baseball. Makes sense, you may recall it. George Costanza worked for the New York Yankees in the nineteen nineties. That’s your comedy news for today. Follow the show for free on Apple, Podcastspotify, YouTube, overcast podcast relegator shows See tomorrow