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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello on Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I was driving in the car with my daughter and she obviously knows what I do for a living. She’s like, did you see the Matt Rife plastic surgery thing? And I was like, no, do tell.
Life and Style magazine has recapped the controversy of sorts people of speculating did Matt Rife have plastic surgery. Some social media users have accused Matt of getting implants and his jaw and cheeks to give him more chiseled appearance. Matt says his face is all natural. In a July twenty twenty three interview with Access Hollywood’s Mario Lopez, Matt said the biggest lie he’s read about himself was quote that I’ve had plastic surgery. That’s the funniest thing in the world to me because I hit puberty too late.
I didn’t look like this until I was twenty three. Sorry, if you need surgery to look like that. So what does did this up? TikTok famous plastic surgeon, I guess. Doctor Benjamin Coughlin posted a video of himself quote skipping along to the song Hurricane by Bridget Mendler.
I have no idea. I just read some words. I’m so old, I have no idea what we’re talking about. Uh. The TikTok famous plastic surgeron with this song captioned it me after creating the greatest jawline ever seen, just for my patient to get canceled right after dot dot dot, He added, the comedian will not be named.
Many users in the comments inferred that it was Matt Rife. Well, Matt Rife apparently saw this, and he responded posted lying about medical history as illegal just fyi. Social media users responded to that and said, revealing yourself into your surgeon’s big post isn’t seen. He just outed himself with the comments. There are so many awards shows.
I can’t actually remember if we’ve talked about this before, but Variety was talking about the new commentwards, the Golden Globes. I don’t remember if this is new news or not, but let me tell you who they are. The numbinees are Chris Rock, Selective Outrage, John Mulaney, Baby, j Amy Schumer, emergency contact, Mark Maron from Bleak to Dark, Sarah Silverman, somebody loved Marlond Wayne’s God loves Me, Nate Bergatzy Hello World. Out of those, I would give it to Nate. The categories open to programs of thirty minutes or more released on a broad array of platforms, including broadcast, basic in premium, cable streaming, and pay per view of note.
Shows host on your social media accounts, including YouTube are not eligible. So that’s interesting. So there’s plenty of specials on YouTube, say Todd Barry, which I think is the best special deer not eligible. Sebastian manascalco out doing press for Bookie. He told USA Today, I don’t know anything other than working hard every day since I was young.
Actually, I think it’s a disease. Sebastian, Now that you’re a big time actor, would you ever stop doing stand up comedy? Interesting answer here, he said. I’ll always do stand up, but you need breaks. You can’t do stand up twenty four hours a day, three sixty five days.
You have to live your life to get your material. Chris Rock told me this. If you never make an exit, it’s hard to make an entrance. You don’t want people thinking, ah, I can always see that, guys. So maybe I do a comedy tour, go away for a couple of years to do other projects, then come back and tour interesting Kiss playing their final shows tonight and tomorrow at Madison Square Guard in New York City.
Comedian Craig Gas is celebrating this. He’ll play comic strip live on Sunday, and Gas said, I’m making fun of Kiss for an hour, but it’s with love. I’ve gotten to perform with Kiss over the years. I’ve had a strange relationship with Kiss. Apparently this started when Gas did his Gene Simmons impression on the Howard Stern Show.
Gas said that bothered Gene so much he got on a plane and flew to New York City to confront me live on the air. Shortly afterward, I was contacted by Kisses management company, who wanted to tell me that their singer Paul Stanley was my biggest fan. Then Paul Stanley started offering me gigs to perform with Kiss on this event called the Kiss Cruise. Cruise with a K. He asked Paul Stanley, you know what’s the deal here?
And Paul goes, well, let me ask you a question. How many jokes do you have about Geens Simmons? I said literally hours? And he said you got the gig, the entire show beginning, and will be my stories about my run ins with Kiss and how many times I’ve been scared to death. I was going to get murdered by Jane.
That’s awesome. Well, you know, it’s not awesome if Geene Simmons murders Craig Gas. Although in terms of content for this podcast, that’ll get me at least two three days of great articles. I worked with Craig a few times. He used to be a frequent guest on The Jim Brewer Show.
He does a really good Eddie van Halen. He lived with Eddie for a little while. I’ve mentioned this before. One of my favorite things we did was we had Billy Mira on doing David Lee Roth and Gas doing Eddie, and we announced a Van Halen reunion before Van Halen reunions actually happened. We got a little pickup on that we were just messing around.
Was fun. Robert Smigel told Salon that he never set out to be dangerous. I did set out to be satirical, and I didn’t put limits on myself. If Lauren Michaels didn’t. At SNL, Michael said, it’s a bit of meritocracy there, and when I first got there, I thought Lauren hated me for a year and I barely got rehired after the first year, which was a disastrous year.
In eighty five eighty six with Michael Hall and all these really great people. Joan Cusack was one of the funniest people I’ve ever known, a Randy Quaid. The show struggled and we were getting beaten up for the writing. Then they ended up keeping most of the writers, including me, and I survived it. Then we brought in Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks and Dana Carvey, and Norah Dunn was there, and Kevin Neal and Victoria Jackson.
It were just sketch veterans, people who were really born to do sketch comedy changed overnight. They asked Michael if there were sketches he really had to fight for some that didn’t make it, So Michael said one of those was pulled permanently. We did Michael Jackson three times. That was one of my first ideas when I went to Lorne and said, I want to go back to the show. Here’s three things I can do.
I can do the ambiguously gay, do a thing this ex President’s Cartoon and this fun with real audio thing where we take real audio and turn it into a cartoon. The fourth one was actually doing Hannah Barbara kind of cartoon characters about celebrities. The first one I pitched was Michael Jackson as kind of Yogi Bear. The way Yogi Bear kept snatching picnic baskets, Michael Jackson did the same with underage boys. Basically, that was the premise.
That’s what was going on in the nineties. The nineties were in incan time comedically, because the dam burst in the nineties. Basic Cable had joined the fray in the eighties and HBO had broken out. There was all this pressure suddenly on network television to compete with Basic Cable and pay cable to be more outrageous and reflect the real world more. Suddenly in the early nineties, the standards department was dissolved in NBC.
It came back in a much softer capacity. That happened everywhere Fox within Loving Color the kind of stuff they would do, and everybody applauded it at the time because it was considered taboo breaking and outrageous. Isn’t that great networks are loosening up? But retrospect some of the most politically incorrect things that would be perceive now, like sketches that made fun of handicapped people or gay people. Relentless kind of sketches that way.
The nineties and early zeros, I would say would be the most reflective of that time. He said, I’m still proud of the ambiguously gay due at least the concept because it was supposed to make fun of homophobia and our obsession with it. These guys gay, they seem gay, and the absurdity of carrying so much to the point where superheroes, the most heroic people in the world. All they’re trying to do is save the world, and the audience is obsessed with whether they’re gay or not. I know what’s weird.
I’ve been telling you about Evil Billing Vall. He’s disappeared. He has stopped go into the National Donut Chain. Maybe he’s a listener. I don’t know what’s going on.
It’s very strange. The Daily Show has announced their upcoming guest host Calpen and Charlamage the God will get another shot each. It’s their second time in this round of auditions Charla Maine. This week December fourth, Cal Penn December eleventh, Variety says executives at the Paramount Global Network they’re said to be eager to study audience research and get another look at how various personalities handle the job. I’ll get into that a little bit more tomorrow.
John Appatsow has a new documentary about the friendship of Don Rickles and Bob Newhart. In the twenty minute piece, Newhart and his wife reflect on their well known close friendship with Rickles and his wife, Bob and Don a love story. Where can I see this, Johnny mack, Well, you’ll have to go to the New Yorker website. Seems like that might have been a bigger thing that was supposed to air somewhere else. Hopefully we get a longer cut of that from Newsweek.
During a recent performance in a comedy club, an audience member asked Ashley Gavin, how do you feel about Israel? Gavin said, what do you mean? How do I feel about it? How the f am I supposed to feel about it? The crowdburst in a laughter, and Gavin asked, how am I supposed to make this funny?
The ghost of George Cardon could make this effing funny? What do you want me to say a rabbi and a Palestinian walked into a bar. That joke landed. Sheells your rabbi so fat in the style of a classic Yo Mama joke. Gavin is stunned by the laughter and tells the audience member, I just effing did it.
She then asked the woman if she’s also Jewish. The woman confirmed she is. Gavin tells her, you have to be. That’d be super weird if you weren’t Jewish. A Palestinian because no one just plain white is like, hey, yeah, talk about it.
We want to hear it. Most people seem to like what she said, although TikTok User five nine eight zero five three five one six nine zero seven three apparently called her ignorant. Newsweek is keeping a tally of where various people are on this issue. Celebrities who have been slammed for their support of Israel include Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp, comedians Amy Schumer and Sarah Silverman, actress Galgadott, and Will and Grace starre Deborah Messing. That was coming under fire for supporting Palestinians include Susan Sarandon, former adult film star at Media, Khalifa and the Incredible Hulk Mark Ruffalo from the San Francisco Gate.
Just days after comedian Daude naim Jar received the contract for a two night’s stint at a Dallas comedy club, his manager received an unexpected email from the clubs bookers. The show was off. There was no explanation, so the manager gave the venue a call. According to the report, the cancelation had something to do with Nimiyar’s recent social media posts. He told the Gate, all of my most recent posts have to do what’s going on over there, meaning Gaza.
In one sketch, he dresses up in a suit and plays a real estate agent for the fictional Israeli reality group formerly known as the Palestinian Reality Group, which advertises free recently sees land to Israeli settlers. His character says, this whole area used to be schools and hospitals, but we bombed it. He said he sat on the sketch for two weeks after shooting it because he were to be insensitive. I like to make people genuinely laugh at terrible situations. But he got enough positive feedback from Jewish and Palestinian freends he decided to release it.
He tells the Gate. If they’re stopping me from my political beliefs or my jokes, they might be doing to other Muslim comedians or other people who are in a similar stance. And Hey, you want to see somebody naked? M m. You know what I’m saying.
Once you had the Naked Comedy show in Brooklyn tonight, who are gonna see naked Johnny Mack, Nat Towsond, Madelin Murphy, Geneva rust Order, Tony Sakowski, Herbie Gill Beecher, Wanda Colon, Sarah Barnet, and Hannah Gerlander. New York City’s Naked Comedy organizer Billy Prosida says, if they were wearing the clothes, he’d still be like, this is a great lineup. Do you like creepy voice? I don’t. Billy says, you forget you’re naked.
Like a minute into it. A lot of the comics are surprised by how not weird it feels. Once they’re up there. You get like thirty seconds with the audience of them being like, hah, look, and after that first thirty they’re like, do you have jokes?
Also, anybody in the audience who is brave enough to get naked and tell a jok…
Is welcome to that’s you, dear listener, Believe it or not, a handful of attendees usually do, and the winner gets a ordered a prize. Is what are the prizes? It could be some weed? Are you allowed to just get away weed? I don’t know what the New York City laws are these days?
Or a vibrator. Billy says, the more naked the audience gets, the more fun the whole audience ends up being. Before the show, comedians are known to do pushups to tone their arms, or use a resistance band for buns of steel, and he admits sometimes the male comedians are worried about how they’ll present. Is the word that was used. That’s your comedy news for today.
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