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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News is going to go a little slower today. Catch my breath. I’ve got a lot to catch up on most of the weekend and Monday I had pre taped to accommodate some travel. So this is just a bunch of stories that I didn’t get a chance to comment on.
Let’s start with comedy specials. I watched Tag Nataro’s special It will make the end of the year list down in that bottom pack with Taylor Tomlinson and Brian Simpson. It’ll be there. It’s a good special. I laughed again.
I’m a psychopath who has Emperor of Rome syndrome. If you’re a new listener, i’ll explain that. So I ran serious XIM comedy for ten years and as doing that, I would sit at a desk every day listening to comedy ten twelve hours a day. And since these were comedy albums, this was everybody’s best version of their best material. And I’ve become a comedy snob and it’s sort of fried my brain where often I’ll watch comedian and I’ll be like, oh that was really good, Oh great callback And if you hang out with actual comedians in the back of the room.
They do the same thing. So when I actually laugh, I appreciate it, and take made me actually laugh. One thing that threw me off on the special is I’ve got an ear for edits and I don’t know, but it wouldn’t shock me if possibly, perhaps maybe somebody added some crowd noise to that one. It sounded a little bit off to me, and that throws me. And she didn’t need to do that because of the special was funny.
So if somebody did sweeten the special, don’t do that. At one point she does sit down at a piano and from there I think it’s diminishing returns. I’m not sure. I couldn’t make it out of the piano section. I was just like, this thing just ground to a halt.
Not sure on the decision there, but tak the tar special is pretty good. Then I switched over to Steve Travino and it’s fine. I belled on it, not because it wasn’t good. He’s a nice company. It just he’s got nothing to say.
It reminded me of your friend who had three beers and going, hey, you know why Timmy’s playing right field? Right because he sucks. Like it’s basically that and basic marital humor. Again, fine, if you went to a club and Steve Trevino got up and did that, material’d be like, oh, that guy was good, but like it’s not next level, so that won’t make the list, but I don’t hate it. Saturday Night Live with Rami Usef had some really good moments before I forget to mention it.
Jostin, Sarah Sherman, their chemistry is just amazing. They did a thing where Sarah was Flock of the Owl’s widow that was really solid. Sarah just knocks it out of the park and Rami Yusef just so charismatic as monologue was good. We’ll talk about that in a bit. And I put the Steve Martin documentary on.
It seems fine. I got like fifteen twenty minutes into it. I was kind of comedied out, and I’m really into Netflix’s Three Body Problem, and you know, I’ve busy life. I don’t get to watch all that much TV, and I’m like, I kind of want to get back to that. So Steve Martin and I will finish up on that.
But again, seems perfectly fine. I have nothing bad to say about it. I was enjoying it. It’s just I get TV. Add a couple jokes from Late Night Jimmy Fallon.
The CDC reports that sexually transmitted diseases are becoming more common among older adults. It’s even worse the next morning when you’ve got to do the Walk of shame. That’s jokes, a bit hacked, but it’s funny. Courting a new survey, thirty five percent of men said it’s important for them to smell good during their first sexual experience with a new partner, while the other sixty five percent were given a fake phone number. Jerry Seinfeld was on with Fallon pushing this new pop tarts movie that’s coming out, and I think at about a month quoting Jimmy Fallon talking to Seinfeld here, Phelan said, you say, Jimmy, I did the movie and Frost.
They came out great. It’s locked, but I think there’s still a room to get Jimmy Fallon in this movie.
And then Foun explained Seinfeld throw a curveball and him going, I don’t wan…
Seinfeld said, Mark Ronson wrote the music. I wrote the lyrics. Fallon read those lyrics, which are please give me that sweet morning heat. Every single day of the week. You’ve got all the leff and I need give me that sweet morning heat.
Then they played some of the song. Hugh Grant shared some of his experiences with Jerry on the set of Pop Tarts. Grant said, he’s definitely great in a Tony the Tuger kind of way. Jerry brings different things to the table. He’s a brilliant comic.
He’d written a great script. He and his team are able to massage the scene and the whole time and come up with new jokes left right, and say. He was lovely and very supportive of me. Grant explains his character was a very grand theater thespian who thought all this was very beneath him. So that’s really the joke of the whole thing.
I do appear once or twice as Tony the Seger, but otherwise I’m this tortured theater actor. Seinfeld told Jimmy Fallon Grant was a major headache. We had lots of fights. He’s paying the ass to work with. He’s horrible.
He tells you before you work with him, you gotta hate this and he’s so right. We shout for tad Wakes. That night he and I had dinner and we got drunk havin dinner. That was the greatest night because he’s so cool and he’s that English thing, you know, that witty. He looks good at Jackie.
He’s one of those guys. I love those guys. Unfrosted Netflix May third, Jerry’s been out and about a lot. Last Thursday, he was at Billy Joel’s one hundredth concert at the MSG Residency. Can we talk about Billy Joel for a second, you know, so I’m a fifty one of my fifty four boy, I’m so old I can’t remember wholem I’m fifty four.
So you know, I like the seventies eighties of rock music, and it boggles my mind that for there was a point where Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen were neck and neck, I mean, the cat matched, and then Billy just stopped. And over time, as I pay more and more attention to Billy’s music, I’m like, you know, these are all gimmick songs, like his very few straightforward songs. They all have some sort of gimmick. And we didn’t start the fire is terrible, but I digress. Billy Joel was there playing the Garden.
Apparently a lot of people like this Billy Joel Fellow more than I do, because he sold out the Garden one hundred times and I’m sitting here in the basement recording a podcast. Seinfeld called Billy Joel’s MSG residency a beautiful medallion on this career that he’s had. There’s three things that make Billy a genius of music. The voice, the music, and they’re writing of the most beautiful songs. There’s another thing about Billy that makes them so unique and so special that there’s no such thing as so unique, Jerry.
It’s unique or not unique. There’s no modifier unique. It’s pet Pete mine. But the other thing about Billy that makes them so unique and so special is that we captured hat we all feel living in this particular part of the world, Long Island and New York. He’s like the companion that we’ve gone through our whole lives with.
His music is our best friend for our whole life. I don’t even think he can understand and how much his music means to us from where we are, and I feel like going through Billy Joel’s discography. If you don’t want to hear this hit, skip for one minute, indulge me. Spotify has made a playlist called This is Billy Joel The Essential Tracks. Uptown Girl, It’s fun, but it’s a gimmick song.
Vienna Solid Piano Man. A great song, but it’s a gimmick. We didn’t start the fire is terrible and a gimmick. It’s still rock and roll. To me is a gimmick song.
She’s always a woman, a solid my life is solid, great song, turn the lights back on? What is that? Is that the new one? Yeah, that’s the new one. The River of Dreams.
Nobody cares about just the way you are solid, solid song, So I take it back. There was that little period there where Billy Joel was just doing great songs. The Longest Time is a gimmick song, because the entire Innocent Man album is a gimmick album. You may be right a solid only as good Die Young great in New York state of mind, Little gimmicky tell her about it. It’s a gimmick.
Don’t ask me why is perfect? Moving out is great, She’s got away all right. Allentown is a gimmick. Big shot is great, pressure is great, and make it all back. But I’m leaving it in.
But you see what I’m saying, there’s a lot of gimmick songs in there. Maybe I just need to make a playlist. You know, I’m gonna do that later today. I’m making myself a playlist of non Gimmickee Billy Joel straightforward rockers. All right, I have totally digressed.
Larry David in the news Apple TV is bringing back Fragle Rock, and the Hollywood Reporter caught up with the puppeteers of Fraggle Rock and they are not happy with Larry David. Remember Larry David attacked Elmo. One of the puppeteers said, you know, there’s a person’s hand inside of there. That wasn’t a planned thing. So the puppeteer in me was like, oh my god, that’s super dangerous, Like you just grabbed somebody’s hand and twisted it.
People forget all the time there’s somebody inside of these characters when you don’t see us, and so it’s a risk we take. Yes, puppeteering is extremely dangerous. Larry David also upsets some people on the political front. He was on CNN and accused Trump of throwing two hundred and fifty years of democracy out the window. Quote Unglarry, I mean, you can’t go a day without thinking about what he’s done in this country because he’s such a little baby.
He’s throwing two hundred and fifty years of democracy out the window by not accepting the results of an e life. I mean, it’s so crazy. He’s such a sociopath. He’s so insane. He couldn’t admit to losing.
And we know he lost. He knows he’s lost. And look how he’s fooled everybody. He’s convinced all these people that he didn’t lose. He’s such a sick man.
He’s so sick. Larry calmed down and said, anyway, no, it hasn’t impacted me at all. John Stewart was in the news. The headline of the New York Post John Stewart benefited by eight hundred and twenty nine percent overvalue of his NYC home, even as he labels trump civil case not victimless. Late Nighter explained that John Stewart last Monday, eight days ago, took defenders of Donald Trump to task by arguing that when Trump inflated the value of his real estate assets to get better terms on loans and insurance, it was a victimless crime.
Stuart said that money isn’t infinite, and when one person gets a loan because they lied, it means there’s less money available for loan seekers who give an honest valuation of their assets, hence not a victimless crime. The post suggested that Stuart himself paid real estate taxes on his home based on the city’s valuation of his property, but then sold it for significantly more, making him John Stewart a hypocrite. John Stewart reacted, tweeting, OMG, I’ve been caught doing something not remotely similar to Trump. But I guess all I need to do now is start a fraud college, steal classified docs, bankrupt casinos, pay hush money grab. I’m not gonna read that word.
You know, grab things that you grab, Actually you don’t grab. You don’t do that, the kind of thing that people stand outside buses and talk about grabbing. You don’t do that. Pay hush money thing I just mentioned. Discriminate in housing, cheetah golf, and ferment insurrection, and you’ll revere me.
Twitter user cat turt wrote, un funny hypocrite thief says what Neil Brennan Specials coming out On April ninth, he told people this one had been kind of developing while I was doing Blocks. Blocks are so emo and so self caring and sort of navel gazing, and like most people, I’m kind of split. I’m like, I don’t know. Maybe it’s effective, it might feel good, but I don’t know if this is the best course. I was just getting sick of feeling sorry for myself and everyone on earth kind of feeling sorry for themselves.
But there’s an upside’s bad mental health. In fact, there’s a massive upside to it. That’s sort of where I was coming from. Despite what you want to call it poor mental health or in perfect mental health. I kind of got through it, and I ended up with a bunch of material that was sort of expressing that.
And then also the idea of this other sort of wind that was blowing culturally was this idea that comedians or the moral backstop for the rest of society, which was like, where’d you guys get that? So Neil Crazy Good April ninth, there’s a trailer. The trailer is quite stylized, fast edits, out of time, edits. In the middle of a joke, they’ll show Neil reacting to something. So I’m going to share a little bit of the trailer, but as edited as the original trailer is, I’ve edited even more.
Here’s a quick clip. The Sun is basically the cops for white people follow us around everywhere we go, heel and our cousins for no reason.
And then when I tell my black friends that the sun killed my cousin, are like…
Dmitri Martin Dmitri deconstructed Netflix. Dmitri is already going to tape his Neck special April thirteenth at the Paramount Theater in Denver. Kyle Kanaane’s Dirt Nap is out on YouTube but today so Johnny Max got a big night plan in front of the television. Isaac went on Apple Podcasts and left a review. It says, thanks for putting less ads.
I love this podcast. Thank you, Isaac. Isaac says I changed my one star back to five because of less Ads. I love this podcast and listen every day. Thanks for keeping me in the loop about the latest comedy specials.
Thank you for listening so the ad load should be one pre roll, three in the mid and two in the post. I’m quite open this is a money making enterprise. I’m trying to make a living off this. I like sitting in the basement and talking to you. I dabbled with commercial free subscriptions for a while and it just it wasn’t even that it wasn’t worth the money.
It wasn’t worth the effort. You have to like double load things and the back end stuff. I won’t bore you with, it just takes forever to do, and I was like, it’s just not worth my time to do it. So I find a better way is to ask you guys to go to buy me a coffee. Dot com slash Daily Comedy News the support the show that way.
Erin to that Aaron bought me two coffees Dolls, thank you very much, Erin and Isaac, thanks for switching the review back. I did have two pre rolls at the beginning, and now I only have one, so maybe that is what you’re hearing. And this week there’s obviously a live read, so that makes the show just a little bit longer. But also the podcast itself, I’ve been hitting more like twenty minutes lately, so I guess the same spot load. You notice when it’s a nine minute podcast versus twenty two minute podcast like today is long.
So the ads came a lot later in the mix. I don’t know I’m here to make money. I’m just being honest. I put out a new substack at mcdeepod dot substack dot com. The substack is free.
If that asks you for money, just pick the free option that one. I’m not trying to make money off that. I just like sharing my thoughts. I wrote about April Fool’s jokes in radio, so check that out. Mcdeepod dot substack dot com.
A link in the show notes Joe Coy he spoke to the Seattle Times and said the theme of his current tours where he’s at now in his life. Joe said, I’m older now, so we were talking about that life is changing now. All the hair is gray, so I got to keep it shaved down really close to my head. I’m gonna have your place so stressful. My son is an adult now and he’s thinking about his life.
And that’s the best part about being a dead seeing your offspring grow into an adult. I think those are wise words my children are a little older now, and I’m like, yeah, there, we are nice adults. I like my children. Thanks Johnny Mack. We’re glad you like your children.
I know, right. Joe Coy, you may remember he hosted that I Love this bit. He hosted the Golden Globes and he made just the meanest joke about Taylor Shit. It’s so horrible. I almost don’t want to play it for you, but just in context, I think you need to hear the mean thing Joe Coy said about Taylor Swift.
As you know, we came on after a football double header. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camber shots of Taylor Swift. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Rommy Yousef crushed it on SNL at least the monologue part.
This part in particular, got a lot of media pick up a little long. But let me play it for you. I’m one of the only guys who praise I’m friends with a lot of sinners, but just discuss sing people and they call me when they’re in trouble because they want me to pray for them. Right, So, I get a call from my buddy Brian. He’s stressed.
He’s been in court for ten months with his ex and they’re fighting over the dog. And he goes RAMI, Dude, she doesn’t take care of the dog. She feeds him kibble, she doesn’t even feed him wet food. And I need him back. It’s just destroying my life.
Please, man, pray for me. I need him. And I’m like, dude, all right, I got you, I got you. And no how it goes by, I get a friend, my friend Ahmad, calling me. His whole family’s in Gaza, and he goes ROMI, they’re suffering.
I don’t know where half of them are. I don’t know what to do. Please pray for them. It’s the only thing we can do. And I’m like, dude, I got you, right.
So that night I go to pray and my prayers are complicated. We’ve got a lot to fit in and my God, please please help Ahma’s family. Please stop the stuffering, stop stop the violence. Please free the people of Palestine, please please, and and please prew the hostages, all the hostages. Please.
And while you’re at it, you know, free mister Bojangles. I mean he’s he’s a beautiful dog. I’m praying for that dog.
Also, great jokes in the news, and Michael Chase said Joe Biden will visit th…
He’s a great joke. Colin Joe just talked about Trump’s Bible and said that it concludes the Constitution, the Pledge, and I assume God’s letter of resignation. He then tagged it with the Bibles mostly the same, but Trump’s version is with Jesus and his disciples storming Jerusalem to overturn the results of the crucifixion. Wow, I’m gonna do Melbourne quickly today because we’re getting a little long, all right. It is April third in Melbourne.
Today. I will pick shows that don’t have clips so we can go a little more quickly. But let me tell you what’s going on. Melbourne International Comedy Festival goes all the way till April twenty first. As I’m talking and babbling, this slow website is still loading.
All right. While the website loaded, I went in, I got my car washed and I picked up some coffees. On the way back. It’s finally loaded now. John Glover’s show is called Microsoft Orifice.
That’s at the Catfish bar Let’s seho. The description of this one is join John and some others for some water cooler gossip as he dismantles your work culture publicly docks is your Finsta and spends forty five minutes of the show trying to set up a new modem calling all millennials, colleagues and corporate cucks. Raise yourself for an evening of hilarious Dan comedy that HR doesn’t want you to see. The Age gave it four stars and says razor sharp one liners are a plenty and timing is spot on. This is a budding comic to watch now.
He does have a clip. This website is terrible. It didn’t the shows say clip here on some of the acts, and as you heard last week, sometimes they do that and there is no clip. This one didn’t mention a clip, which is why I picked it because I’m trying to wrap up the podcast today in less than half an hour. But there’s a clip, So since we’re here, let’s listen to the clip.
Huh. I’ve recently started sitting down to pays it’s time at all getting back. Everyone should really give it a shot. It makes a noise if you sit down to pay. Oh yeah, some women have idea.
All the women on his side silence everyone here like we’re we can, but honestly, like just as a PSA for the men in the room. I pretty game. By the way. My blind friend of your apostle, who kind. He’s fun.
He’s got a tremendous presence too. Like him a lot all right, speaking presents, I totally forgot Rommy yusef the camera loves him. He just looks good. He’s so charismatic. All right.
Here’s another one that supposedly doesn’t have a clip, James Warren’s King Single, and indeed it does not have a clip. Let’s see James Warren’s King Single, A show of jokes, observations and stories about going to parties, living alone, and dating as a person with mild autism. The reviews here only one from the infamous Swanston Gazette, which I’m now curious about. I’m gonna click on the Swanston Gazette says careful comedic timing. There’s a review for you.
Let’s see the Swanston Gazette is a student led paper at r MIT’s University. Oh we are going down a rabbit hole. Some of the featured articles on the Swanston Gazette menstruation, the Bloody Big question mark and unplugging from news or plugging news all timeternatively hashtag Palestine, hashtag Israel.
Also hair dressing in crisis.
Australian hairdressers are being overlooked in the cost of living crisis. So again the Swanston Gazette the only review here on James Warren’s page. Swanston Gazette says careful comedic timing. I should get out there, but I want to tell you. Liz Meely has a new comedy special also out today free on YouTube nine pm Eastern.
It’s called Murder Sheets. Liz is someone you should absolutely keep an eye on. Filmed live at the Bellhouse in Brooklyn, Liz hit the stage with her rapid fire storytelling style to share her tales of dating, murder, rules, about edibles, international touring, dead cats, and more. Lizameli dot com and that is your comedy news for today. All a little different today.
I enjoyed today. Hope you did too. We love your comments on Billy Joel, I am actually going to make that playlist. I’ll even share it so he can nitpick it. That’s your comedy news for today.
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