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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey there, I’m Johenni Mack with your Daily Comedy News and daily briefing on stand up comedy, comedians and the comedy industry. I said, it’s the algorithm loves and I can’t remember enough to write down in the notes every day. Cracked asked, are we learning a little too much about Nikki Glaser? This reminds me I wanted to bring up.
When I was driving back from the Osco concert last week with my daughter, we started talking about Nicky’s revelations, and I’ve been pulling my punches a little because, like I’m a dude, and maybe I just don’t get it. I’m an old man. But my daughter, who’s you know, a cool gen zer, she was not into what Nicky was selling at all. She’s like, yeah, we don’t need to know any of that, And my daughter and I are aligned. I hope Nicky’s okay.
It seems like Nicki really really has self esteem issues. Cracked rights, what goes on inside Nikki Glaser’s bedroom is not the concern of anybody besides her, her boyfriend and their potential side piece. Anybody who’s been around stand up comedians in the rough Hours knows that, like any artistic community, comics tend to be a kinky bunch. Some personal preferences are fittingly laughable, some are uncomfortably extreme, but hey, so as long as everyone’s consenting, it’s not our place to judge an artists for their proclivities correct rights. At the same time, and arguably the most iconic roast comic of her generation goes on call her Daddy and discusses her curiosity about the increasingly popular ethical non monogamy lifestyle.
She opens herself up to all sorts of slams and burns from an online comedy community that’s eager to test out their own roasting skills. Let me jump in there about the roasts. I was thinking about this too, NICKI not doing the roast of Kevin Hart. I don’t think that’s a scheduling thing. I think that’s the agent trying to steer her away from being a roast comic and being the type of person who hosts awards shows.
Obviously, she’s hosting the Golden Globes. Somewhere in my travels, maybe it was the Town podcast put in my head that maybe Conan doesn’t want to host the Oscars again. And maybe they’d consider Nikki Glaser. So I think this is the agent steering. I don’t know anything, that’s just you know, I’ve been doing this for a while and know how to read the tea leaves, and that’d be my guess.
Now, Yeah, I’m looking at this. I was wondering if she’s on tour. She’s on tour. You know where she is the week of the Kevin Hart Roast. She’s in Los Angeles at the Netflix, is at Joe Comedy Festival, so she’s in town.
I’m sure she could do a minute. I’m sure Jeff Ross and the gang would write her a couple of lines. So I think they’re steering her away from this. Nicki does have time to do The Night of Too Many Stars May seventh, in LA at the Hollywood Bowl. Crack points out Glazer never actually said that either she or her boyfriend have actually acted on their non monogamous impulses, and she only spoke about the exploration of their boundaries and hypothetical situations.
For all we know, the thought alone is enough to get the blood pumping for these lovebirds, and it’ll never go further than that. Again, you do you I just don’t think the press on that one went the way Nicky thought it was going to go. The folks at the Minneapolis Star Tribune went to see John Mulaney. Minor spoilers for John’s a current tour. Mister, whatever the Star Trip tells U, John Mulaney isn’t afraid to take chances.
In the opener, John m’laney turned stand up tropes on their heads for nearly two hours a marathon in the stand up world, only pausing a couple of times to sip water. Spoilers how he turned a bit on fatherhood into an excuse to reflect on devil possession and rip RFK Junior was a magic trick equal to anything you’d see it a David Copperfield show. Lots of comics have ripped on the Wizard of Oz, but how many have targeted the black and white portions in which Ray Bolger is less than convincing? Is a farm hand? That’s good?
A bit about in laws turn into a rant about how marrying Asian American actress Olivia Munn has resulted in him financially supporting roughly a dozen Vietnamese Americans. Some other material like his thoughts on how Jesus must have loved posing for pictures. Seemed better suited for SNL, but there’s no way NBC censors would let him get away with the language he used on stage. This is good because I like to see comedians evolve, they tell us. John Mulaney did not dive into the part of his personal past that has generated headlines, but he didn’t ignore them either.
He revealed he’s only allowed to carry two hundred dollars in cash on them at any time, decreasing the chances that’ll revive his cocaine Habit sounds like it was a good show. Jim Gaffigan was talking food on The Late Show with star trek ruiner Stephen Colbert. We learned that Jim Gaffigan’s top choice is a classic pastrami sandwich from Katz’s Delicatessen in New York City. Then he added, if you’re in Chicago with nothing on your schedule, go for an Italian beef from Mister Beef, where illuminatis how he likes his hot beef. He says hot peppers.
He also pointed out it’s messy, but that’s part of the appeal Chicago food. I’m fat enough, I would weigh four hundred pounds if I lived out there. Those beef sandwiches are awesome. I love the pizza. I’m not here to debate pizza with you.
I like it a lot. Colbert asked, what do you do if you have plans after eating one of the sandwiches? Yes, pro tip, having spent a lot of time in Chicago, if you get one of those beef sandwiches with the hot peppers, you want to have a plan, you know what I mean? Like, maybe get one and go back to the hotel room and work on your comedy podcast scripts for a little bit, and you know it’s good to be back in the room. Say no more, you know what I’m saying.
Gaffigan said, The problem is no one’s ever eating a pastrami sandwich and done anything. You have a pastrami sandwich and then you’re like goodbye. Greg gutfelds What did I Miss? Coming Back? New season April twenty seventh, three episodes hosted by Greg Gutfeld.
The premise of the show as a group of people who isolated themselves in upstate New York with no access to media, trying to determine which of the news headlines cited by Gutfeld or real, Oh my goodness, can you imagine if they’ve missed the last two weeks and some of the things the President of the United States has done on social media, They’re not gonna believe any of it. Oh No. Unfortunately this was filmed after Thanksgiving. Five contestants were cut off from phones, internet, television, social media, along with all communication from friends and family. They re entered Socide after Valentine’s Day and had to take a quiz from Gutfeld about what happened in the world while they were sequestered.
Contestants compete for fifty thousand dollars. Guttfeld said, against all logic, people volunteered to do this greasy game show again, and the only thing standing between them and victory is me. Can we just find somebody who’s been in like a coma for the last two weeks. I’d like to just quiz that person and be like, hey, here, I’ll tell you I was talking about this with my friends Trivia recently. I have this way of I can convince people that I know what I’m talking about, and the rest of the trivia team goes, yeah, that makes sense, and they write it down and I was joking about in three years if the trivia guys ask on Easter Sunday the President of the United States mentioned this religious figure.
I’m going to convince everybody it’s Jesus.
And then somebody’s gonna go no, not who we mentioned.
I’m gonna go like that makes no sense. It was Easter, of course he mentioned Jesus. But I digress, and somebody’s gonna get mad at me. Now. The Late Night Ratings star trek Ruiner Stephen Colbert remains the most watched program at eleven thirty five total viewers two point seven million.
Future King of Late Night Jimmy Kimmel two point five three million viewers, up six percent of The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon one point three three million. Gutfeld, which airs at ten Eastern seven West, did three point three million. The Daily Show is averaging one point one three million total viewers at twelve thirty seven. Seth Myers has a show for some reason. It’s averaging a million total viewers.
And that’s a night number until I tell you adults eighteen to forty nine one hundred and thirty nine one thousand, not that much more than this show. I’m a lot closer to Seth Myers than Seth Myers is to Stephen Colbert. Let’s put it that way, and soon we’ll all be able to watch Byron Allen’s thing. How I keep forgetting to mention I’ve had this story for a couple of times, and then yesterday I was depressed about the death of Raw Dog Comedy. A week or so ago, I went to see Osco at Costco with my daughter.
So I’m a comedy snob, and my daughter works in the theater industry and she knows how bookings work. And I had mentioned on a previous episode Osco did four chunks that total fifty eight minutes. Well, let me get you on a little secret. There’s a minimum time you have to do to get paid, Like you can’t walk out and just do four minutes. So Osco gets to the end and kind of looks over to the side of the stage and somebody must have yelled out like, no, you can’t leave.
So she kind of on the fly went, ah, hey, how about we do some Q and A. And I’ve seen plenty of comedians do Q and A. Jerry Seinfeld does Q and A, and it’s a good way to pay your time, and the Q and A was actually quite entertaining. But we were sitting there and I was looking at the watch and my daughter told me what the minimum probably was, seventy minutes, and I’m like, she’s got nine more minutes to kill And sure enough, as soon as the clock struck ninety ten, it was like, Okay, good night, everybody. I’m not ragging on OSCO.
It’s everybody. But it was fun sitting in the audience knowing what was really going on, but the civilians on the audience enjoyed the Q and A. Here’s a really weird one from Pete Davidson. This via TMZ who right. According to audio obtained by TMZ, Pete Davidson, who recently became a father, joked during his comedy show on Saturday that becoming a girl dad has complicated watching porn.
TMZ, I’m gonna read the sentence for batim and not put any spin on it. TMZ wrote this sentence on stage at Las Vegas Mountain Blue. Pete reportedly quipped that it’s now hard to watch porn in front of her. He kidded, I still did I power through that. I mentioned that’s a weird joke to make, because it’s that’s a weird joke to make.
Nick Muhammad got in a dig at influencers. Nick was hosting the Olivier Awards this at London’s Royal albert Hall, you know the one where they’ve counted all the holes. As he opened up the ceremony, Nick Muhammad, you know Nick from ted Lasso, he joked he had some housekeeping to do and said, in case of any kind of emergencies please can everyone leave in the following order, me, Helen Miren, sir Ian McKellen, everyone else.
And then influencers love it so well, let’s stay on that side of the pond, as…
Leading comedy executives fear that relocation of the Edinburgh TV Festival would be a disaster for British talent. They point out Fleabag, Baby, Reindeer, snl UK and Task Master just a handful of shows that may have never seen the light of day if it wasn’t for the Edinburgh at TV Festival’s alchemy with the Edinburgh Fringe. Well, the TV festival folks have invited Bits to relocate. Avalon co founder John Today said relocation would be a disaster. Look at the number of people who come over every year from the American industry to Edinburgh.
Think about Phoebe wall Bridge or baby Reindeer. These connections were often made with American executives hearing about them via the television festival. What would be the point of Netflix, HBO or Warner Brothers sending people to Newcastle to discuss things like the funding of the BBC Let’s fly around the world. Down in Melbourne, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival continues. You got a clip for a year?
This is Ian Smith. Ian’s show is called foot spa half empty my house. He’s weird, thirty five years old. Still draws a little line on his milk in market pen to know where the level was. I think that’s stupid, but I get my own back.
I buy my own milk and I use that to top his milk cup, just above the line. It’s confused. He’s looking at it. He thinks the milk is growing. I off sat and watched him google the phrase does milk expand.
Good stuff? There from Ian Smith. The Guardian went to see Anissa Nondula her show No Small Talk’s Fun with the rising star of Australian comedy. Anissa and Andula is a Ugandan Australian comedian. The Guardian tells us from the moment she bounds on stage.
Adula’s energy is infectious. She’s almost aggressively bubbly, her demeanor a counterpoint to the dryness she sees in the Australian sense of humor. I pulled a clip. Should we listen? We should listen?
Hello. My name’s Anissa. I got called a lot of names in school, but I could never get upset because the names were pretty good. In school, I had a massive afro. My best friend was gay.
They called us the two Puffs. I wrote my Australian boyfriend to Kenya for the first time, and they kept calling him Muzungu, which means white person. And I was like, no, no, no, no, Asian. How do you say Asian in your language? And this Kenyan woman was like.
Ah, China. She was in Kenya. We have black and white, and anything I don’t quite understand falls into China, Irenian, China, Uzbekistan, China, Brazilian sexy China. That’s pretty good, right, We’re told she started as a slam poet. Her reliance on the audience has never mean spirited or unkind, but it will still be a detern for many.
If you’re brave enough to sit at the front, you’d better be ready to share Anisa and Andula’s no small talk at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival until April nineteenth. You better get on that plane. Brett Mackenzie closed out his Freak Out City, New Zealand tour at Auckland’s Hollywood Avondale two hours of music and mirth. You know Brett Mackenzie from Flight of the Concords who we’re talking about. A lot with a two piece horn section and two backing vocalists.
The band is versatile enough to handle anything Brett Mackenzie throws at them. This became clear when Mackenzie wrote a song on the spot based on the story somebody in the audience shout it out. I’m looking at the set list here. If you were hoping to hear Flight of the Concord’s hits, I don’t think you got them. Mack Packer Tom Cavanaugh joins Tony Danza and Michael Longfellow in Broken Snow eight sens psychological drama set inside an abandoned snowbound house.
They are two strangers, Jeames, a volatile drifter, and Steven, a tightly controlled officer, discover they share a dark formilia connection, pretty dark for some people, known to be pretty funny. Broken Snow opens on the nineteenth and runs through May twenty third, Theater seventy one in New York City. Today’s your last day to vote for Comedy Survivor the finale Nikki Glaser versus Sarah Silverman. Make sure you get your votes in. Go to the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group.
And I didn’t forget. Let’s check in in Austin. It’s the Moontower Comedy Festival five o’clock, The Goblin Happy Hour with John GOBLECN. That’s fun. Mark Maron at the Paramount at seven o’clock.
You would find me there if I ever left the house. I left the house once last week. Doug Benson and Friends at eight, Ryan Redband’s Secret Ship with the Sunset Strip at eight, Deborah g Giovanni at Higbees at eight thirty, Matthew Bissard and Jackie Kas at nine o’clock, and Antoine’s Leslie Jones she did not win Comedy Survivor. She’s at the Paramount at nine thirty. Wow, back to back with Marin you.
That’s a good place to hang out there all night. And that is your comedy news for today. I’ll see tomorrow.