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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack, who with your Daily Comedy News. This show has been so much fun to do lately. There’s been so much to talk about, so I just want to get in front of it. I know the episodes have been hitting the twenty minute mark lately.
I just want to tell you that’s not the plan. When it gets back down around twelve, when things calm down, don’t get mad at me, and don’t be like, hey, you hook up the show so short it’s supposed to be. I don’t know around twelve minutes, there’s just been so much. All right, we’ve got to start with Jim Gaffigan. This clip I’m gonna play.
It’s awful. It’s absolutely awful. I made it a minute and thirty eight in. I couldn’t take it, and I was pulling the clip to share with you guys, and then I realized that my little program here called Audio Hijack wasn’t actually recording and I would have to listen to it again. And I actually said f out loud, all right, what’s going on here?
Jim Gaffigan’s got a new product. Let’s let Jim tell you about it. I’m telling you. I’m warning you this clip is awful. Don’t bail on the podcast.
If you can’t take it. Hit thirty seconds, skip twice. But here’s Jim gaffigin but stay with the podcast. I’ve got really good stuff today. This video is actually less funny than an Adam Zaydler movie.
That’s how bad this is. If you said to me, Johnny Mack, we’re gonna watch something, do you want to watch Jack and Jill or this video from Jim mcgaffigan, I would pick Jack and Jill. And I’m not doing a bit. This is awful. Here’s Jim Gaffigan trying to sell you something.
Hi, I’m generous comedian Jim Gaffigan, and I’d like to talk to you about a condition that affects three out of five men. That’s six out of ten men, or nine out of fifteen men. I’m talking about a condition called fatherhood. Now, this can affect all types of men, good looking men, ugly men, it doesn’t matter. One of the only things we have discovered that can help reconcile this situation, there’s something me and a group of scientists have developed called father time bourbon.
This bourbon may not cure you of children, but it makes you forget about those children. Yeah, so Jim tweeted big news. I’ve got my own bourbon. Yes, my own bourbon. It’s called father Time, and it’s available for pre order right now at the website.
I went to the website. There’s some FAQs. One of them who’s behind father Time? He writes, it’s just me, Jim Gaffigan and my college buddy, film director Stu Pollard. We’ve had tons of help making father Time happen, but the investment in all the decisions were made by us.
One of those decisions, apparently, was the pricing. How much is a bottle of bourbon Johnny Mack one hundred and fifty dollars. They’re also selling quota glasses. The website says, we don’t recommend drinking father Time directly from the bottle, but if you have teenagers, you may occasionally feel the desire to do so. There are four handcrafted quo tumblers, inscribe with parenting lines from Jim Gaffigan.
Father Time Bourbon is dedicated to father’s and all parents. I also understand not all parents drink alcohol, but what parent doesn’t enjoy a glass with a quote complaining about parenting. The quote glasses A set of four costs how much wrong? Eighty dollars And here are the quotes. On glass number one, it says, you know what it’s like having a fifth kid.
Imagine you’re drowning, then someone hands you a baby. That would be funny if Jim Gaffigan told it. I agree Jim’s second glass as being a father is definitely the most important thing I will fail out in my life. Hack next one, Most of my fatherhood feels like going through customs with an outdated passport. It’s kind of hacky.
Fourth one, Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks. That’s funny. Four glasses eighty dollars plus a bottle of bourbon one fifty So for two hundred and thirty dollars you can enjoy the heck out of this product that I don’t know has sucked all the cool out of bourbon, like all of it. Like if you came over and I was like, on some Jim Gaffigan bourbon in a gimme class, would you be like? What?
So? That’s how I feel about it. Jim has another clip, and uh, he’s either the Andy Kaufman of this and doing an amazing put on where he’s completely self unaware. Let’s listen. Isn’t it weird that celebrities have their own spirit.
I mean, look, you’re a great actor. All right, you’re good looking, but what do you know about tequila? It’s offensive to Mexicans like myself. Okay, you’re a great athlete. You’re one of the best basketball players on earth, but what do you know about rum.
You’re a great musician. That doesn’t mean you should make whiskey. Anyway, I’m coming out with my own bourbon. Now you might be thinking, Johnny Mack, you’re a hater. Why do you hate so much?
Well, because I like my comedy to have quality. Here’s Ricky Gerviz also talking a very similar product. But here’s how you do it. Ricky, show Jim how you do it. Hi, I’m Ricky Gervaias and this is Dutch Bond Vodka.
It’s a beautifully crafted premium spirit. It tastes great and it’s friendly to the environment. It’s known as the posh one in the brown bottle. But if you can’t afford it, just get smirtof get that for fifteen quid. In some places it does the trick.
Now that’s funny. Now I hope you’re still here. I hope you didn’t bail on the podcast because the other day I commented about Billy Joel and how a lot of his songs are gimmick songs, and I might as well have made fun of Taylor Swift while hosting the Golden Globes. It was not people did not react. Well, now we know how Joe Cooy feels.
Now I feel like John, I understand what did Joe Coy say? Here? Let me share with you the big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Gloves, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift. Oh boy, that’s me.
That’s worse than saying Billy Joel has a lot of gimmick songs. All this to set up a clip from the Bob and Tom Show. Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up. Frank Calando was on The Bob and Tom Show and he sang Billy Joel songs in character. I’m gonna join this mid song and stay to the end because this all comes full circle.
You’re gonna laugh when he does it. Here we go, Adam Sandler, Here we go Yard at the bar. A friend of mine h me my drinks and he quickly I light up. I Fogboddy Tide it all together a Billy Joel gimmick song, and Adam Sandler love it as planned. On Tuesday night, I PLoP down in the TV cheer and I watched some comedy specials.
I watched three of them, well two and a half. The first one I watched Dimitri Martin on Netflix. Really really good. This he gets into and I talked about it yesterday with an article that sourced the whole thing about is this just an hour taped at the Chuckle Hut and you threw it up on YouTube? Or is this a special Dmitri?
The direction on this is great. The creative choices are great. It’s gimmicky. That’s the word of the week. Apparently the word of the week is gimmick.
It definitely has some gimmicks in it, but the gimmicks absolutely work. The bit he does with the demon is really funny. The closer is really strong, and uh, that’s all I’m gonna say. Either close is really strong. We’ll give you a chance to watch it, so I like Dmitri a lot high recommend on that.
And then I watched Kyle Kanane’s Dirt n app. Wow, I’m gonna give you a chance to catch up on it. There is a chunk about ten minutes in and it’s a lengthy chunk. You’ll know it when you hear it. That I think, listen to me, maybe an all time bit.
It’s really really strong. It is lengthy. I didn’t clock it, but it felt like it was a ten minute chunk and it’s really really strong. So I was watching that and I’m like, wow, Kyle is crushing it. Here is this better than a TELL?
And I had that thought for a minute during the really strong chunk, and I was like, now, because a Tel put on a masterclass, it’s gonna be really really tough to beat out that at Tel Special.
And then as the hour went on and the hour’s amazing, I had a pee, let’s see S…
But you know, I’m like, all right, we’re probably like thirty seven minutes in, we’re forty five minutes in, we’re fifty minutes in. Wow, we’re past an hour. How long is this think, Kyle? It’s seventy five minutes long and like a Tell showed last week thirty seven minutes in Crush. Had Kyle Kinane wrapped this up at around forty five minutes, it probably would be either two or three on my list.
Because he won seventy five minutes. It was actually diminishing returns, too much of a good thing. He probably could have lifted a full half hour and made a second special out of it with a new topper. So my updated rankings number one A Tell to Triumph. Watch the Triumph, you lucky bastards.
It’s on run on Netflix. That’s wrong, it’s on YouTube. Correcting my notes. Three is David Cross were stadding in the world. At one point I was like, ooh, can I Kyle’s probably funnier than that.
Again, it was too long, and I loved the special. Does that make sense? I both loved it and it was too long. It’s like I love beer, but nine beers is too many, you know what I’m saying. Three David Cross.
Four Dusty Sleigh. As I went to actually do the rankings this morning, I was like, can I put Kyle ahead of Dusty Sleigh? And I can’t. If he’d asked me a half hour in absolutely, but all said and done, I can’t, so I’d tell Triumph Cross, Dusty Slay, Kyle Kanayane Dmitri at six. Dimitri is really strong and up in that top group.
Then I’m starting a middle group here. I realized I hadn’t added Hannah Gatsby’s gender agenda. So that’s gonna be like in a middle group. Right now, it’s seven. Some things will wind up by the end of the year, sneaking ahead of that.
Some we’ll fall behind it. And on the bottom group right now, Brian Simpson, Tig Nataro, and Taylor Tomlinson would be your ten. I also watched Liz Meely’s special Now Keep It. I had already been watching two comedy specials that are in the top five six five, so I had to ingested a lot of comedy and I watched it. And I’ll say the same thing about Liz meely special on YouTube that I said about Steve Trevino.
It’s fine. If you’re hanging out at comedy club and Liz Meely gets up and does that exact set, you’ll have a wonderful time. Is it next level? No? Is it great?
No? Is it bad? No? Perfectly fine comedy special, and it’s okay to have a perfectly fine comedy special. It’s not gonna make my Best of the Year list, but I’m not hating on it.
So check check your watch. Look how far we are into this already, and I’ve barely started, and I’ve kicked three major stories I could tell you tomorrow. I’m gonna talk about Mulaney and Daniel Tosh and one other thing at the top of tomorrow’s show, but I’m trying to not have this thing get all the way to half an hour. But there’s just so much going on real quick. In the Facebook group, Dylan has been a very active member of the Facebook group is Daily Comedy News podcast group Dylan, I appreciate what you’re doing.
Dylan posted his rankings. I’ll fly through them, Ettel Canaane, Brian Simpson, Taylor soder Akosh sing A gas Lit on YouTube. Dylan gave it an A minus. I’ll have to catch up with that one. Dusty Tig crossed, Dmitri, Mike Apps selling out at eleven, Kevin James, Kevin Ryan’s Live in Philly on YouTube B minus h Foley A C plus, Pete Davidson Donnell Rawlings, Rory Scovel, hannagats By, Jackie Novak, Steve Travino, fun.
I like that you guys are doing this. I’m really excited that the Facebook group is starting to really take on a life outside of me posting things. I appreciate that Matt Rife not so canceled. It’s got a two special deal with Netflix. The first will be a full length CrowdWork special.
All right, Let’s pretend we’re at the casino here and I have a chip in my hand, and there are two boxes. One says good idea, bad idea. I just put all my chips on bad idea. We’ll see if Johnny Mack’s right or wrong. It’s gonna shoot at the Comedy Zone in Charlotte, North Carolina, and we’ll be directed by Eric Griffin.
I don’t know. I feel like it’s gonna be fake crowd work. I don’t know Matt Rife. I’ve never seen Matt Rife in person, never met him, never seen one of his shows. While I’m sitting in the audience.
But I don’t know. This just seems like a bad idea. I said what I said. Tom Papa says he’ll be filming his next special for Netflix and DC, taping it at the Warner Theater Great Venue June fifteenth. The New York Post tells a Sebastian Manuscalco was upset at fees.
Now wait for the end part of this story, because Johnny max spidy sense is tingling. But as the story goes, Sebastian was on social media that port’s accurate, and he said, I went to a restaurant last night and I got the bill and they charged me a COVID fee. I asked the guy, what’s the COVID fee? He goes, yeah, well, we got to wipe down the menus. Wipe down the menus.
You’re charging three dollars to wipe down your own menus before COVID what you just brought out the menu with spaghetti sauce on it? All right, funny enough. Manuscalco did not identify the restaurant or say where was located. And here’s where Johnny Mack’s Spidey sense tingles. Sebastian said, it’s a real bad look as a business absorbed the fee.
It’s called the doing business. They added, that ain’t right, by the way, that happens to also be the name of his upcoming tour. Hmm.
Moving on, Kelly Carlin and those people that made that AI thing that Kelly w…
They have a settlement. Fox News reports the settlement reached the demands made by Carlin’s a state in the lawsuits. According to Fox News, those demands included removal of the special and unspecified damages. Kelly Carlin put out a statement saying, I’m grateful that the defendants acted responsibly by swiftly removing the video they made. While it is a shame that this happened at all, I hope this case serves as a warning about the dangers posed by AI technologies and the need for appropriate safeguards, and not just for artists and creatives, but every human on earth.
So big news in town. Another donuts chain opened, this one. I don’t give free commercials for donuts chains, as you know, I go to the National Donuts chain every morning. This one, I’ll just give you a hint. Quack quack, you know what I’m saying.
So the family came home yesterday with a box of quack quack and I was like, oh right, And I had a quack quack and wow. They’re good. They’re like thick and meat. He’s not the right word for a donut, but thorough is that the right word. They’re not airy, you know how the National Donut Chain.
You bite into it and it’s like mostly air, not like the cream guys. The cream guys. That’s like, I don’t know what that is. That’s like icing on a pocket of air. I love those.
I can eat millions of those in one sitting because they’re mostly air. National domet Chain not too much to them. But quack quack, Wow, those are really good. So I don’t know, good thing for me. A Vaughn went to buy me a coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News and bought not one, not two, not three, not four, five large iced coffees with caramel and milk.
Avon. Thank you, Avon wrote, I appreciate your opinions on the industry. That’s the best part of your show, you know. So I’ve been a little more candid lately. I will admit that I’ve also been a lot more candid on LinkedIn.
In the LinkedIn part of it is because I’m trying to really build out the podcast company. Now, you know, part of it is being candid to get noticed. I’m not putting on an act that in my real opinions, but in the past I always worked for company, and you work when you work for company to get candid. Usually somebody comes in and eye rolls you and tells you to cut it out because we’re a big, giant, publicly traded company, or you’ve got some boss it doesn’t like your opinions. But now that I’m bossless, I could just shoot from the hip.
So thank you Evon for going to buy me coffee dot com slash Daily Comedy News I keep forgetting to promote five good news stories. Number five good news Stories. I host that podcast that’s three times a week Monday, Wednesday, Friday. The gimmick word of the week is that I tell you five stories and they’re all good news Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Billy Joel calls it a hackey podcast with a gimmick.
Joe Coyce as the only difference between that podcast and The Golden Globes is the Golden Globes has more pictures of Taylor Swift. I agree, I got it, but five good news Stories. I’m hopped up this week about it. Because Apple podcast is promoting it, so the numbers have really spiked. A bunch of new people listening to me over there this week.
That show is actually more popular than this show, which is kind of cool. Don’t root against yourself, Johnny Mack, but five good news stories wherever you get your shows. I put out a new substack yesterday discussing Apple podcasts. My substack is free mcdepod dot substack dot com. Link in the show notes.
Again, if it ash you for money, just click the free option. I’m not trying to make money off that. Houston Red Yards will host the Riot Comedy Festival at the bar’s local comedy Addict. The Riots Comedy Festival kicks off tonight and we’ll go through the seventh. Robert Kelly is one of your headliners.
Ricky dl Davis Paris, Sasha Jordaana Fisher, Tom the Carr Up, and comers like Kim Congden and Casey Rockett the Riot Comedy Festival. If you’re down by Houston. Kelsey Cook will tape her special at Comedy on State in Madison, Wisconsin, tonight, three tapings tonight through the sixth. Kelsey Cook is the daughter of an international Yo yo ch and a professional foosball player. She’s got a special on the eight hundred pound gorilla if you want to check that out.
It’s called The Hustler. And again she’s taping a new one tonight. And let’s see what’s happening at Melbourne. Where’s my favorite bookmark? There you are?
It is April fifth in Melbourne. Because of the way time zones work. By the way, did you see they want to create a time zone specifically for the moon. Yeah, that’s a real news item I saw earlier today. Nick White’s show is called Teenage Dream and apparently has a load to no avails, almost sold out.
Apparently. Let’s see what this one is. I’m doing ones without clips today because we’re a little long again. Creative expression is something Nick White is always hear and for, even if it wasn’t always easy. Join Nick as he looks back on the things that have shaped him from his youth to now.
The show contains occasional coarse language. There were no reviews. I guess he’s nice looking. I don’t know. I’m wondering why that particular show sold out.
The description didn’t do anything for me. Abby Howells show is called La soup coo, and that’s at the Chinese Museum’s Jade Room, which sounds like a cool blak to see a show. Lasuko is the name of a screenplay Abby Howells wrote when she was eleven years old. It’s a romance set in the Navy in the wake of World War Two. No historical research, verification or corroboration was undertaken.
Lasuko was the winner of the prestigious Billy T. James Award at the twenty twenty three New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Periodical the spinoff from New Zealand said she’s a unique voice and made me laugh in a way that’s typically reserved for when I’m with my siblings and we’re just being silly. Stuff said, joyful and authentic, as hilarious as it is transfixing. I’m curious about the Chinese Museum Jade Room.
Apparently there are several Chinese museums with jade rooms throughout the world, this one in Melbourne box office. There’s no dedicated box office at Chinese Museum. However, the Comedy Festival front of house staff can assist with purchasing last minute tickets. The entrance to the Silk room is via the foyer and the performance space is on level one. From the foyer, proceed up the large internal staircase approximately fifteen plus stairs to level one.
Approximately fifteen plus stairs. It’s not one thousand stairs. Can somebody please count the stairs? If you’re in Melbourne, can you go over to the silk room and tell me? Is it fourteen?
Is it sixteen? Is it nineteen? And at what point are we not at approximately fifteen? Like it’s twenty three, approximately fifteen. No, that would be like more than twenty right.
Oh sorry, that’s the silk room. We shouldn’t have even talked about that, but I made myself laugh. The entrance to the Jade Room is via the foya, and the performance space is on level three. See if you’re on level one, you wind up with a silk room. You want to go to level three.
From the foyer, proceed up the large internal staircase approximately three flights of stairs to level three. All right, hold on, I’ll give you the it’s like fifteen stairs. How many flights of stairs is it? You? Just look?
It’s three, it’s two, it’s four. What is the issue here? Melbourne Comedy Festival. I w in the bathrooms. They’re on level one.
That’s your comedy news for today. If you join the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. Tomorrow is going to be long as well. I’m having a lot of fun.
Thank you for listening. To see you then,