🎙️ Listen to this episode:
Full Transcript
Caloroga Shark Media Haby Monday. I am Johnny Mack with your nearly comedy news. So as I put the show together, if you notice, then there’s like two thousand episodes you can check my work. I put the big name comedians up to the front, and then as we get further along, it gets a little more esoteric. And I’m aware of the tone of the show lately, and I’m trying to be conscious of it.
Believe me. I would like to sit here right now and do two minutes making fun of Jim Gaffigan, Hawking Bourbon. I would like to make fun of Adam Sandler, but that’s just not what the news is. And as I pull the cards out of the deck, I only have political options for you. That is where comedy is right now.
Joe Rogan last week on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, shared some frustration about some of the President’s recent moves. He was discussing some of the actions by Ice. Rogan said, I didn’t never anticipate seeing that on TV on a regular basis, ripping parents out of their communities. I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals. Rogan’s segment was that voters had felt there was a crazy thing happening where the border was wide open.
But does that mean you support everything that they’re doing now where they’re kicking people out. No, they’re storming into the home depot and arresting people. Rogan added the militaries in the street. I think that’s a dangerous precedent. You know, in some ways, beginning to lose Joe Rogan is comparable to LBJ losing Crunk Kite in a modern way.
When it comes to the media. John Marco Serraisi tild Curt Affairs dot Org. I think edgie comedy sometimes gets conflated with having hateful views. I think people have passed off hateful views as edgie comedy for a while, And in my mind, edge comedy is just talking about things that make you uncomfortable.
And then within that, I want to make a joke.
I think that joke comes from my own point of view. If it comes from my point of view, which is generally a leftist one, the joke will reflect that without even being preachy. Someone will go, oh, you did a trans joke, and it’s like, no, I didn’t do a trans joke. I did either a joke about a specific transperson I know, or I did joke about how I deal with, for example, something people have made a million jokes about pronouns. For me, I would like my pronouns joke to be when I put he him.
It feels limiting to who I am sometimes and I wish I could add a little asterisk to it, and then I lay out what that asterisk is. So it is a pronoun joke, but it’s different from the hacky normal one because I’m talking about something very specific to my own feelings about me using it as opposed to some grand statement. There’s a new documentary Anxiety Club. Mark Marin says his relationship with anxiety has changed throughout the years, but has never gone away. Maren said, there’s a lot of things I don’t give a hoot about that I used to.
There were big anxiety producing things. I think with age and certainly with money, a lot of that stuff is just sort of null and void, and its relief. Then you start getting into deeper issues like why am I still not enjoying myself? Why am I still feeling less than or uncomfortable in certain situations? What is this about?
Also appearing in Anxiety Club, are Tiphony Jenkins, a partner, Inchurla, Mark Norman who’s just back from the Riod Comedy Festival, Jill List, Eva Victor, and Baron Vaughan. The synopsis of Anxiety Club is what a mix of stand up performances, sketch videos, exclusive interviews, and relatable everyday life experiences, they candidly share their personal struggles with anxiety, the world’s most prevalent mental health condition. Chris Rock was talking to The New York Times about Ben Stiller. Chris Rock, Who’s sixty Now, you know I do that, and then I remember how old I am. Now, Oh boy, the numbers just get scary so quickly.
Chris Rock, sixty years old. He’s not like nineteen. Chris Rock, sixty years old, called Ben Stiller one of the greatest comic actors to ever live. I’m trying to get wherever he’s at. It’s so farhad, I can’t even see it.
He also committed Ben Stiller and his wife for managing to reconcile after their separation. Chris Rock’s had a marriage. Getting back together is harder to do than a six hundred million dollar movie. Sebastian Maniscalco, He’s back from the ridd Comedy Festival. Johnny Max a hypocrite and will tell you a story about Sebastian that was in Southern Living, where Sebastian Maniscalco shared what marrying a Southerner taught him.
Sebastian said, the hospitality and how nice people are is extremely foreign to me, just because I don’t necessarily see that in Los Angeles. You know, when I’m stunned about in the South, there’s a lack of urgency to do anything. You get a bagel in New York, they’ll rip through thirteen people in no problem. In the South, it’s like, you know, they’re talking to you with a register and they’re really getting to know you. But it takes an hour and fifteen minutes to get a cream cheese bagel.
See. It’s funny because I grew up in New York. When I go to LA, I feel like there’s nowhere to see out there. In New York, if you’re not going one hundred miles an hour by seven thirty one am, you’ve blown the day. In LA, it’s like, oh, let’s have a meeting, all right.
You want to meet at the Coffee Bean at eleven You can send me letters from La. I like it out there, believe me. I think you guys have it right New York. We’re crazy, Sebastian says of his wife. She’s turned me on a barbecue, which I never really used to eat prior to meeting Lana.
So anytime I go to the South, whether it be Tennessee or Austin, I got to get good Southern barbecue. I definitely try to get a rib or a brisket or what have you. You can see how the Rion Comedy Festival has effected Sebastian’s career. Doing fluff interviews like this one. Sebastian has toyed with the idea of going to culinary school told Southern Living, I just want to know the basics the sauces had to cut or how to chop all that stuff.
So I don’t know, maybe a future in the culinary arts moving forward if this stand up thing doesn’t work out. And there are some comedians who there’s just always angst around them. There are some comedians who every time their name comes up, it’s never ever ever, Like comedian X had a nice day and it was sunny out, there were flowers, and the comedian Petted a puppy and Sunshine and Rainbows. One of those comedians that every story is just angst is Kathy Griffin, who was recently escorted out of a Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton. So, first of all, let’s talk about relatable Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton.
I’m in my basement recording my podcast, dressed like Adam Sandler. I don’t know what it would take to get me to a Hollywood party hosted by Paris Hilton. I think if I got an invite later today, Hey, do you want to come to Paris Hilton’s house, I’d probably be like, no, right, why would I go? Kathy tells a story Chris Jenner. See this is already insane.
Chris Jenner had gone in a room behind some curtains, and I went on the other side of the curtains and started tapping on the glass. Think it would be funny to act like it was a zombie. Then security physically removed me. Kathy talked to People magazine and how her recent life has affected her set. In the past eight years, she had a pill addiction, a suicide attempt, a lung cancer diagnosis, and a divorce from her husband.
Kathy said, I talk about some heavy stuff, but I got so much feedback from my audience as saying I’m glad you went there. I have had a bit of difficulty since the Trump photo, but one thing after another taught me, Okay, you may not see the comedy when you’re living in it, but at some point it would be funny. There’s comedy in everything. Shout Studios has signed a pact for Conan O’Brien’s fifteen hundred episode TBS run, which they had the NBC run. But okay, Conan did fifteen hundred TBS shows over eleven years.
You know, I have the controversial stance. Talked about this with Malcoff recently. I know everybody loves Sat Conan. I get it, I get it, I get it, but nobody cares about that TBS run. I’m sorry, Saint Conan is based on the NBC run.
Nobody cares about the TBS. I’m sorry. Hope Shout Studios isn’t mad at me. Jeff Pische, SVP of Programming and New Business Development at Radio, said, Conan O’Brien is widely regarded as one of the most original and enduring figures in American comedy. His influence as shaped modern comedy, and his work continues to resonate with audiences across generations.
We’re excited to continue his extraordinary late night legacy by allowing fans to watch his decade long series on streaming platforms. I kind of want to push back on that. Is Conan one of the most original figures in American comedy? Where is Conan walking in the steps paved by David Letterman? You can send me a letter.
I like Conan. The lawyers can get in go. Most originals say yes, he’s one of the most seven million original people. And I’m not here to dump on Conan O’Brien. I just think mister Pische may have overstated a little bit the quote.
Again. Conon O’Brien is widely regarded as one of the most original len enduring figures in American comedy. His influence has shaped modern comedy. Is that true if we take Smigel out of the Conan years? Is that true?
Or has Smigel shaped modern comedy? And believe me, love, Conan didn’t wake up today going what are you besh? Conan? It’s not why I’m here. I’m just reacting in the moment to this quote.
Anyway, if you want to watch the TBS run, you’re gonna be able to watch it. Conan O’Brien briefly hosted The Tonight Show, which was hosted for a few years by Johnny Carson. Johnny used to walk out from this iconic rainbow curtain. A section of said curtain is up for auction via Heritage Auctions. This particular curtain was on Carson’s finale May twenty second, nineteen ninety two.
The listening says the auction lot includes two pairs of curtains that made up the backdrop, the shimmery polyester rainbow curtains with bands of blue, orange, gold, lavender, and peach, as well as the set’s blue and gray curtains with crosshatched diamond patterns with alternating panels of inset bejeweled adornments and horizontal silver stripes. The listening knows that the curtain show signs of production use, handling, an age, including stains, toning, thread, and other expected indications of stage use. So if you’re hoping to hang these in your living room thinking hey, these will be nice curtains, I don’t think you understand why you would be buying these. There’s a similar set of curtains at the National Comedy Center’s Johnny the Immersive Experience Exhibit in Jamestown, New York. Last check, the curtain bidding was at fifty five hundred dollars.
The auction closes Friday, October twenty fourth. This week would have been Johnny Carson’s one hundredth birthday and ten at TV and Doc Severnthson the adjoining forces to honor the King of Late Night to mark Johnny Carson’s one hundredth birthday. On October twenty third, TV will present Johnny Carson’s one hundred Birthday Party, a week long celebration airing tonight through the twenty fifth at eleven East eight West. Each evening will include fresh reflections from Doc Seventhson, and Doc is up there at this point, hold this, Doc, I’m gonna just wildly guess I have no idea. I’m gonna guess as I google this that he’s eighty eight.
Ooh. Doc Severnson is ninety eight anyway, And there’ll be recollections from Doc who said that Johnny was a master creator, the basis of his personality and His style was class. He was class personified. The week long tribute will feature some memorable moments. Guests include Burt Reynolds, who is the voice of Comedy stock Market, or at least as AI is, Robin Williams, Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, Dean Martin, and Olivia Newton John.
Now normally a sentence, now I will throw Robin out. But normally when you’re going like Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, Dean Martin, and you’re not expecting, like Olivia Newton John in that sentence, are you? I don’t expect something I don’t know. Sammy Davis Junior maybe would have completed that sentence all right. Tonight’s episode Burt Reynolds, Richard Lewis from February nineteen eighty two, then Tuesday, Michael Landon, Carowayne, Bob Hope, Don Rickles, Freddy Prinz from nineteen seventy four, Wednesday, Jackie Gleason and Jim Stafford from October eighty five.
I’ve have Thursday, Buddy Hackett, Burt Reynolds again, Don Rickles again, Dean Martin, Carol Wayne. That’s from nineteen seventy three, and that’s a ninety minute episode Friday, Robin Williams and Gene Marsh from nineteen eighty one, Saturday, Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra, Olivia Newton, John David Jansen from nineteen seventy six a ninety minute episode, and Jimmy Fallon, who currently hosts The Tonight Show, said Mike Trico told him to stop talking during the twenty twenty four Olympics coverage. Guest Jason Bateman on The Tonight Show said to Fellon, talk show hosts are the greatest guests ever, because you know what you need. You need people to talk. Fallon said, the opposite is I got to be a commentator at the Olympics last year in Paris.
Mike Tarico got me on there and said I talked way too much and sounded like an idiot. Fallon explained he was trying to fill the airtime. I was like, uh, Mike, they’re in the swimming pool and they’re swimming in the pool and he’s looking at me, going stop. He actually grabbed my hand at one point He’s like, stop talking, chill out. Dude.
Said sorry, Mike Rico. He’s a good dude. And that is your comedy news for today. If you enjoy the program, please tell a friend about it. They might like it too.
If you’d like the program without commercial interruption, I open up the Apple Podcasts app. There’s a banner it says uninterrupted listening. Click that it’ll walk you through it. Basically, five bucks a month to get this show and a bunch of others on the network, including five Good News Stories, which I also host. You can get a free trial for thirty days and then from there five bucks a month, actually four ninety nine, but US dollars too.
I don’t know where you’re listening. Have a great day.