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Featured: Guy Fieri, Andrew Santino, Bert Kreischer, Bobby Lee, Tony Hawk, Adam Ray, John Oliver, Mark Maron, Patton Oswalt, Nate Bargatze, Jeff Foxworthy
What’s in This Episode
- Guy Fieri’s new Food Network show ‘Guy’s Feast Club’ featuring comedians
- Adam Ray’s ‘Dr. Phil Live’ cheaply produced show debuting on Netflix June 19
- John Oliver joining ‘Days of Our Lives’ soap opera with custom-written role
- Mark Maron interview: childhood nicknames, cereal obsessions, karaoke choices
- Patton Oswalt on balancing topical vs observational comedy and America’s direction
- Nate Bargatze Netflix special taping with delayed start and theater-in-the-round setup
- Jeff Foxworthy explains comedy math: one new minute per week takes a year to develop
Questions Answered in This Episode
What is Guy Fieri’s new show ‘Guy’s Feast Club’?
It’s a new Food Network show where Guy Fieri takes comedian guests like Andrew Santino and Bert Kreischer out to eat foods they’re craving, with episodes featuring Italian food, Tomahawk Ribeye sandwiches, and conversation.
When does Adam Ray’s ‘Dr. Phil Live’ premiere on Netflix?
Adam Ray’s show ‘Dr. Phil Live’ debuts on Netflix on June 19, 2026, with four episodes featuring deep dive conversations where Ray adopts improvised characters including Dr. Phil.
Did John Oliver really get cast on ‘Days of Our Lives’?
Yes, according to The Daily Mail, John Oliver has started taping a role on the soap opera after offering himself up during a Last Week Tonight segment in March, with the character reportedly written specifically for him.
What are John Oliver’s requirements for his ‘Days of Our Lives’ role?
Oliver requested not to play himself, to have a ridiculous character name, and for the role to involve something ‘juicy’ like murder, slapping, or being someone’s long-lost relative, plus a dramatic close-up.
What did Jeff Foxworthy say about writing comedy minutes?
Foxworthy explained that Jay Leno advised him to write one new minute of comedy per week, which takes a full year to develop sixty minutes for a special, saying it’s harder than it sounds to make strangers laugh consistently.
Why did Nate Bargatze’s Netflix taping start late?
The afternoon taping began about thirty minutes late due to heavy traffic and patrons arriving late, with the show filmed in a theater-in-the-round setup with crane-mounted and overhead cameras.
Full Transcript
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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac with your Daily Comedy News. Guy Fieri has a new show. It’s called Guy’s Feast Club. Why are we talking about this John because he’s got some comedians on it, including Andrew Santino and Bert Krascher.
Before episode series Guys Feast Club will include guests feasting on dishes like Tomahawk Ribbi sandwiches while chatting with the Food Network chef. There’s a trailer he introduces his guests, whom he calls the most talented people on the planet, including Bert Kreischer. Guy asks the guests what they would like to eat. Andrew Santino says Italian food would be nice. Bobby Lee says Korean.
Guy explains the show, I find out what they’re craving, I go get it. We sit down and what happens next is anybody’s guests. So in the four episodes, there’s an Italian least with Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino, a Tomahawk Ribbi sandwich with Bert Krascher, and then the other guests are Tony Hawk and somebody else. Sounds very exciting, doesn’t it. Adam Ray is getting a cheap television show on Netflix.
Now, the people at Netflix are mistaken. They think this is a podcast because they don’t understand what a podcast is. It’s actually an inexpensively produced television show that they’re airing on Netflix under the column that says podcast. But this is in no way a podcast. But what is it?
John? It is called Adam Ray Doctor Phil Live. The cheaply produced television show will debut on Netflix June nineteenth. That’s coming up with four episodes. Michael Boobley the first guest, then Dave Matthews, Niki Lazer, Oh Boy, and Andrew Santino.
Future guests include Hasan Minhaj, Jelly Roll, Marshaun Lynch, John Schneider, and Mike McDonald. Know not John Schneider from The Dukes of Hazzard, I don’t think it’s the general manager and head coach of the Seattle Seahawks, Joel mchel Mark Normand Ray’s mother, the Google Dolls, and more. Adam Ray will engage in quote deep dive converse with the guests, but not always as himself. He’ll drift into improvised characters, including Doctor Phil.
Meanwhile, Days of Our Lives has taken John Oliver up on his offer.
According to The Daily Mail, John Oliver has started taping a role on Days of Our Lives, with the part reportedly written specifically for him. The Daily Mail calls the role whacky now. Back in March, John Oliver closed an episode of Last Week Tonight with a tribute to the pleasures of daytime soaps. During that segment, he said, I’m officially offering myself to you. Write me your role, and I’ll be on your set so fast that it’ll make your head spin.
He did have conditions. He does not want to play himself. He wanted the character to have a ridiculous name, and he wanted something quote unquote juicy, preferably involving murder or slapping or being slapped or being someone’s long lost something. He also requested a dramatic close up. Variety had ten questions from Mark Maren.
Mark childhood nickname, Mark said drink p In fifth grade at stickball, my coach used to call me Hank Maren, which was pretty good because I hit a couple homers. I wouldn’t say I was doing it all the time, but I don’t remember too many nicknames other than just my last name. All right, Mark, something you loved as a kid, but can’t believe you were into it now. Mark said I was pretty involved with cocoa pebbles. You didn’t expect him to say that.
I don’t feel ashamed about it, but I try to eat them recently. It’s not the same. His go to karaoke song is Bob Dylan’s Going Going Gone. He also does Taylor Swift’s Bigger Than the Whole Sky, which is in his recent special. Some of the other questions, they’re not all interesting.
Secret talent. I can cook and I can play. Harmonica favorite ice cream flavor Ben and Jerry still makes pretty good vegan ice cream, the chocolate fudge brown he’s good. The vegan Jerry cherry garcilla is good. Vegan fish food is good.
I like things with caramel and them too. One thing Mark Maren couldn’t live with out his glasses what TV showed as he wished he could have been on the cast Mary Tyler Moore to work with Ed Asner at that point. How funny wuld that had been the whole crew? Oh my god, it’s so funny. Favorite piece of advice, Mark Maren.
I remember one time when I was talking to an editor about a book, and I was kind of panicking, so I go, but it’s going to be okay, right, and he said, yeah, we’re not. I think it’s as honest as you could be. No, Oswalt, what aspirations do you have now as an actor, now that you’ve ruined Star Trek and you can ruin other things? Patten said, I want to keep acting in movies, obviously, and then I want to write and direct. I’ve always been kind of fascinated by the kind of low stakes, low life crime world.
That’s something that’s always drawn me in New topic. Hey, Pat and Oswalt and your specials, what’s the balance between topical and observational comedy? Does that change over time? Patten said, it fluctuates each special. I just do a snapshot of me reacting to the world at that time.
I’m not trying to do anything beyond that. I’m trying to capture that moment, how it feels. He talked about the week when we went to the Moon and started a war. Pat said, it’s weird how we’re at the extremes of our highs and lows right now. It’s insane.
Humans have been the furthest they’ve ever been away from this planet, and they’re poets. They’re sending down these beautiful transmissions, and then we have a guy on the ground is saying, I’m going to wipe out a civilization. I don’t know our minds are going to keep both of those together, but we’ll see. He talked about he is feeling of the current direction of America, and he said, I think it’s gonna take a generation. I don’t think we’ve got to throw a switch and go back.
We’re so far down this road. There are many people like if I can’t have this level of cruelty and pet I’d rather the world burn down. That’s a level of nihilism that we’re going to have to work through. Send your letters to Paton Oswalt, Star trek Ruiner. Folks at fort Worth dot com went to see Nate Burghetzi.
They say the electric atmosphere was evident at the three o’clock performance Three o’clock Wow. Due to heavy traffic and late arriving patrons, the show began about thirty minutes late. Julian McCullough served as both MC and opening acts, warming up the crowd. Fellow comedians Mike Vickione and Greg Warren followed with sets Greg Warren mind humor from dating, missaps, and social awkwardness. All three comics frequently engaged audience members, et cetera, et cetera.
This was a Netflix taping in the afternoon that started thirty minutes late, which told crane mounted cameras glided across the arena floor to capture Burghetzi’s Theater in the Round presentation, while a rotating overhead camera recorded audience reactions minor joke spoilers, whether wondering how many chickens could fit inside a horse or admitting that he blindly accepts every website’s cookie policy because he has no idea what any of it means. He consistently found humor in ordinary situations. Jeff Foxworthy explained comedy math to NPR sixty minutes of Comedy for Special Equals a year on stage, Jeff Foxworthy said, I guess was nineteen eighty four and Jay Leno was probably the King of the Road comics, and he said, your goal should be to write one new minute a week, and I remember sitting there going to eat crazy. A week, I can write twenty new minutes, and I found out over time. He was exactly right.
It’s hard. It’s trying to find a thing that’s going to make a room full of strangers laugh every time you say it. Jeff talked about working political or not. I had a lot of friends that did political stuff, and half the room hates you. My goal was to make as many people laugh as I could.
And because a I really believe if you took people from different sides of the political spectrum, they could peg one side or the other, and you sat down with them and you said, what do you want out of life? Would probably agree on eighty five percent of things, But instead of celebrating that eighty five percent, what we chose to do was scream and throw things at each other for the fifteen percent that were different. One of the coolest things about Stand Up for me was before I did it, I hadn’t been anywhere. I’ve never been out of the South.
And now I’ve been in all fifty states and almost every part of all fifty stat…
That’s the part I choose to go after with comedy. Jeff, will this be your last special? I’m not positive, but I’m pretty sure I’m more content and more at peace, and now at this point in my life, I’m like, you know what, if I got a spare Wednesday evening, I don’t want to be in a club with no cards in my hands. I’d rather be laying on the bed reading to my grandkids. It’s not because I didn’t love this thing.
It’s because I love other things too. You may recall Bill Engvall retired and then unretired, so we will see. Jeff Foxworthy is sixty seven. Guy Brainham Toldnuvau dot Nett. When I started, stand up comedy was something that was done eighty five percent by heterosexual men.
When people showed up at a comedy show at a random comedy venue, they assumed a really specific perspective, and if they weren’t getting that, they were shocked and surprised. The change that happened in stand up comedy in America is not a change to that because of the raw, amazing talent of a greater diversity of stand up comedians. It’s a change that happened because audience has changed, because women showed up to shows not wanting to be humiliated and insulted. Because queer people realized it was a space they could show up to and not always be the butt of the joke. You can’t deny that gay comedy was unusual when I started, No successful gay male stand up comics, even recently as six or seven years ago.
Now you have Matteo Lane, Caleb heern An. Its higher generation of people have been able to build that. What Matteo has is in so many ways because of YouTube and Instagram stuff he did on his own terms. What Caleb achieved is because of TikTok and his podcast. I think we’re at this really interesting moment entertainment where a consolidation of the gatekeepers has given a small number of corporations what they believe is a whole lot of power, but because they’re not using it in ways that are reflect other times, they could very easily lose that power to other institutions that aren’t gatekeeping as Hard and Toronto has the series Tragedy Plus Time.
They caught up with Ashwan Singh, a Toronto comedian, seeing discusses topics like immigration, religion, and social hypocrisy, and splits his time between Toronto and Deli influences. Good List here George Carlin, Patris o’ neil, Doug Stanhope, Dave Chappelle, Taylor Thompson, Michelle Wolfe, and some others. Favorite comedian growing up, Carlin. Always love that answer. Favorite comedian now depends on the day, but probably still Carlin.
And that is your comedy news for today. It is June. So you’re sharing the show, right. I forgot to bother you about that on Friday. You’re sharing the show.
You’re telling people, right, You’re like, Hey, there’s this guy and he talks about stuff. I don’t know what the show’s really about, but I kind of like it. I listen every day. So what are you gonna do is you’re gonna hit You have a phone in your hand right now, right, push the share button and send it to somebody would go, hey, listen to this. It’s a random Sunday episode in the summer, and they’ll be like, wow, that was a pretty good episode.
Thank you, John. I don’t know why I put myself down. If you like the show, share the show and I will see you tomorrow.