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Caloroga Shark Media remembers Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Let’s ease into it. Today, Ray Romano has a new gig. He will join Netflix’s Running Point for season two. Now, you’re like, Johnny Mack, What the heck is Running Point?
I don’t remember anything called Running Point? How does it have a season two? Oh? Yeah, you’ll remember this. This is that Mindy Kahling basketball show about a team in LA.
Remember that one that was the thing that happened. Yeah. Ray Ramano will play coach Norm Stinson in season two. Now. Robert Townsend was originally announced for the part in September, but the creative team decided to go in a different direction.
They’ve recast the role with Ray Romano. They’re doing some reshoots. Norm Stinson is described as a basketball savant turned social recluse who will team up with the team owner Kan Hudson to rediscover his love for the game and life. Now, if you’re not familiar with Running Point, the Mindy Kaling basketball comedy. When his scandal forces her brother to resign, Kate Hudson’s character is appointed president of the Los Angeles Waves, one of the most storied professional basketball franchises and her family business.
I feel like Ray Ramano is slumming here. He can’t need the work, right, He’s gotta have crazy money from everybody loves Raymond. If he needed a payday, he could just call up Brad Garrett and be like, hey, Brad, we need a payday. You in And Brad Garrett is going to be at Ray Ramono’s house before that sentence even ends. So it can’t be that is this creatively fulfilling?
Like, I don’t understand why Ray Ramono is doing this at all. Previously, Ray Ramono starred in Netflix’s No Good Deed, Remember that One Me Neither. He was also on Made for Love, appeared in Bookie and in Bupkuz, the Pete Davison show that went sideways. Maybe Pete should have not walked away from that show. He wouldn’t have had to play the Rion Comedy Festival make some money to pay for his ferry.
Who knows. I’m just a guy in the basement recording podcast. I don’t know anything anyway. I’m not sure why Ray said yes to that one. Vulcher talk to Stavros Halkias, who’s being pushed in our direction?
This week again. Nothing against stop Ros. I’m just noticing the pushing. Vulture asked Stavros about the concept of the Joe Rogan of the Left. I’ll remind everyone the Joe Rogan of the Left used to be Joe Rogan.
He’d have on people like Bernie Sanders, who I think was actually on again recently. I’m really backed up on my Rogan listening because, hey, Spotify, are you listening. I’m sure you are. They have the commercials on Rogan set to automatic, so in the middle of a sentence suddenly we go abruptly to a Rogan voiced read and it’s really annoying. So I don’t listen to Rogan anymore unless I’m in the car where I can actively hit thirty second skip.
If I can’t hit thirty second skip easily by flicking my left thumb, I don’t listen to Rogan right now. Spotify take my note. I know the Joe Rogan podcast is really struggling without me listening anyway. Stavros, Joe Rogan the Left, what do you think? Stavros said.
What it means to me, man, is we’re eft if they’re coming to me, if they’re even sniffing around over here means we need some more cultural figure years on the left, or what it really means is journalism is broken down in a way in this country that’s pathetic. Everything’s for profit. There’s now more and more powerful people buying our newspapers, like Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post. But I also think part of it is because comedians have boosted some right wing voices. It’s unimaginative thinking to be like, well, we need our own comedians to do that.
Look, do I feel a little pressure to be a little more clear about where I stand on things I do, But philosophically I just can’t lead with that. I can’t say. And he has a quote here that is quite vulgar. Let me see if I can clean it up to get the gist here. So basically what he’s saying is stop doing whatever the ruling class says and admit it’s not immigrants and trans people that are the reason your life’s bad.
It’s because there’s tax cuts going to the point zero zero one percent. It’s because of inequality. Starvars said, I did go to school for public policy, but when I was twenty, I decided I was going to stop learning about that, and I was going to learn to talk about my little penis for a living. I do think at some point in my life I’ll sort of return to that. I assume he means public policy, maybe not.
I want to do it on a community level. First. I grew up in Baltimore. We didn’t have I do want to help kids in Baltimore. I was in some art programs that really helped me growing up.
So I’ve been thinking about that. Yes, I think he wants to go back to public policy and not showing up and be like, hey, check out my stuff here. That would be very That would not be appropriate. Stara said, I look at the arc of my life. I had some beliefs.
I got educated. I realized what I want to do had nothing to do with my education. But it’s still kind of clarified when I think about the world, when I want to happen, and how I want people to be treated on a base level.
And now that I’m in the period of my life where I have a career and my goals …
Bultra stayed on the politics thing, and Starvra said, I think it’d be really good for my career if I brushed up on a little policy, if I got a couple of statistics together and went on some new show and debated people, I would be nervous on CNN, right. I’m more entertaining and funnier than those people, and they’re not that smart. If I studied for a month, I could do this thing and to be really good for my career. But I despise that careerist climbing bs from DBK News, your home for comedy news. They went to see Marcello Hernanez.
You know Marcelo. He’s the guy on Saturday Night Live that does that one thing really great, and he does one thing K News tells us. Laughter filled the Exfinity Center as comedian Marcelo Hernandez took to the stage to kick off the University of Maryland’s homecoming week. Marcelo covered a variety of personal topics, from childhood shenanigans to the many differences between white and Latino people. Even touched on pressing issues like gender, mental health, and friendship.
Some of the students recognized Marcelo Hernandez from NBC’s Saturday Night Live. See I actually pronounce at that time. I’m aware that I often say Sanite live. I don’t even sometimes you’ll get a Saturday Night Live out of me. But sometimes I just go sanite live, and I’m aware of it.
Queen’s accent there. A freshman chemistry major said, I just knew he was from SNL and I watched the clips online, so I was like, that sounds pretty fun. A freshman English major said, I was really excited because my household we watch SNL, so we love Marcelo. Many recognized Marcelo Hernandez from one sketch in particular. Guess which one it is.
That’s right Domingo, because even if it wasn’t a Domingo sketch, you probably were like, he’s just doing Domingo because he does one thing well, and he does one thing. The freshman chemistry major said, I always see the Domingo clips and it’s probably my favorite sketch right now. Billy Gardell after a decade or so doing sitcoms and probably made some good cash. There’s probably still money in CBS sitcoms when he did it. He’s going back to doing stand up comedy.
He’s going to tour theaters to his first tour of any kind in nearly a decade. It’ll kick off in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, January thirtieth. Billy Gardell will discuss his recent weight loss of one hundred and seventy three pounds because I have to acknowledge the non elephant in the room well played there, as well as his relationship with his father, who he calls his hero. He talks about being an empty nester and being in a sweet spot in his marriage twenty five years in, using a latter subject as a way to talk about the delusion of what people think love is today and what they’re telling our kids love is today, and how our relationship should be. You’ll also talk about younger generations.
Billy said, I think it’s low hanging fruit to rip on that generation and punch down on them, meeting people in their twenties and thirties, when that’s the generation that needs a little wisdom from the older generation more than anybody else has before these kids go through the same things we all go through. Who am I gonna be? Where am I gonna live? Is anyone gonna love me?
And then you had social media on top of that and the stay of the world, I thi…
As for the weight loss, he was on ozempic, underwent bariatric surgery and transformed his lifestyle. Billy says, I’m not on any medication. I’m healthier than I’ve ever been. Could do some things with my wife and kids I wouldn’t been able to do before I caught the unicorn that every heavy person dreams of. I flew in a middle seat.
Really, what Billy Guardill was in a middle seat? I hope you were with your wife and son and you chose the middle seat, because if you don’t have sitcom money after two CBS sitcoms, your account’s up to something. Something’s going wrong there. The other big one was buying something right off the rack that had never happened to me in my entire life. So it’s those little victories that you think about that kind of keep the wind in your sails.
The Toronto Guardian will sometimes profile comedians, and I like to find out about new people they caught up with. Everado Ramirez, best known for Late Mic Too, a chaotic weekly late night talk show slash open mic hybrid that blends sharp, riffing, experimental, risk taking and absurd invention, drawing inspiration from icons like David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and others. Hey, Mike Chisholm from the Letterman podcast, who’s been doing stand up lately? Why are you not ripping off this idea for Vancouver? Bro?
Come on Mike talk show Slash Open Mike Hybrid inspired by Letterman, Canada, Vancouver, this thing I digress Everado. How would you describe your comedy style? He said, laid back with quick in the moment, riffing. I like that kind of style, just saying I try to maintain a cool presence while everything around me is CHAOTICX. Someone’s told me my show is the most interesting thing that happens at comedy bar.
Not necessarily the funniest, but certainly the most interesting. It’s a little backheaded there for a comedian like, Hey, you’re pretty interesting, all right? Who are some of your influences? Late Night with both David Letterman and Conan O’Brien. I love how Letterman would interview weirdos like RVPCRR or Crispin Glover.
Oh yeah, those are early Letterman. Guess word have some yeah, hit I have some quirky people on Dave wasn’t afraid to sit in the weirdness, leaving audience is wondering if it was a stage bit or if something was wrong. Conan’s absurd bits and segments were a perfect amount of stupid and his self deprecation and tightly wand control freak persona must have imprinted on me early because now I host a late night talk shows that I’m quite particular about it. Wear a suit, I bring a big inflatable couch, I use a kitchen time instead of lighting comedians, not writing my own monologue jokes, but instead leaving a stack of cute cards at the bar for strangers and other comedians to write jokes, and I read it for the first time on stage at the top of the show. I don’t book my real comedian friends because I think it’s more interesting to talk to the freaks and the scoundrels in the open mic world.
All that’s more work for me and have an element of risk to it, But I think that’s what makes the show more interesting. Favorite comedian growing up, Norm McDonald, Louis Anderson, Conan O’Brien, favorite comedian now, he said, Nick Nemerov, who’s fantastic, but Nick did pass away a few years ago. I’m familiar with Nick from playing him on the Weekly Comedy Thing, which is the program I host on the Live One service. The service is free, the show is free. So how it works.
It’s like this, except I talk way less, but I can also play comedian bits like Nick Nemerov, who Everado Ramirez is into. Everado suggests everybody check out Nick’s album The Pursuit of comedy has ruined my life. I’m loving this interview. All right, what’s your pre show ritual? He says.
On the way to the venue, I listened to the unreleased eighteen admitted version of Short and Bread by the Beach Boys. Now I’m a big Beach Boys fan. Like for Reels, Everado says, he goes into a kind of transcendental meditative state where my brain shuts off for a few minutes. My wife does not like this song and is worried that listening to it is making me go insane. But to that, I say, mommy’s little baby loves shirt and Bread.
Oh my god, I dig this guy. And did you watch Jeopardy During the week? On Monday, there was a person on. Mister Levine’s first name is Aaron. But when you know, you write your name in the box so we can see what your name is.
He stylized his name aa run, a callback to the famous hilarious key and peel sketch substitute Tu. You’re probably familiar with it. It’s one of their iconic sketches. Analysis of the sketch says the scene is cherished for its hilarious take on a phenomenon that ethnic students normally experience in a classroom setting in which teachers tend to pronounce more culturally specific names to sound eurocentric. Aarn won the episode on Monday Night, twenty thousand, six hundred dollars.
Congratulations Airn, and that is your comedy news on a Saturday. You have a great day.