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Caloroga Shark Media. Hello, I’m Shoonni Mack with your Daily Comedy News. You may recall last week Rosie O’Donnell took a shot at the worst person who ever lived, Jay Leno. You know that guy. Yeah, she took a shot at him for something he did with a guest with one of the biggest losers.
Jay Leno has responded and outrageously said, I don’t dislike Rosie, She’s a funny comedian. Jay added, I don’t know where Rosie’s coming from these days, and said when he hosted The Tonight Show for twenty two years, which makes it outrageous that he would even have opinions about how late night television should go or not. I mean, who are you, Jay Leno, to say what late night is or isn’t. So you beat David Letterman and they had to bring you back to rescue Conan O’Brien’s failing ratings, I mean, what do you know? I like this bit.
Jay said he would meet with guests before filming to discuss what would be happening during their segment. Jay said, I’m pretty sure I asked beforehand if it would be okay. If not, we wouldn’t have done it. It’s why we got stars who wouldn’t do many other shows. In Puck, Matt Bellany caught up with Lorne Michaels, who was asked what was Lauren Michael’s reaction over Colbert Gate.
Lauren said, I was just stunned. I’m on the side of the people who do shows. But there’s two audiences now. There’s the audience that is watching on TikTok and YouTube, and there’s a linear audience. Both Seth and Colbert are heirs to David Letterman.
You know what I mean. Conan O’Brien as well. Yeah, I mean they all have shows that David Letterman used to host. If you’re gonna draw a line from David Letterman to Seth Myers Late Night, it’s gonna be a little crooked in my humble opinion. But what do I know.
I’m recording a podcast in the basement. Lorden Michaels has been on SNL forty six out of fifty one seasons. They like to pretend that those other five years didn’t happen. Lauren hasn’t been with SNL for fifty years. He took a break there.
Look it up Johnny Mack. Now you’re killing Lorden Michaels. No, just pointing it out where were Lauren said, They’re going to be that type of late night show, just as I’m still doing SNL as if everybody’s watching that night. But Jimmy Fallon does a lot of stuff you can watch all day podcast. Do you think that Colbert cancelation was political?
Lauren said, I don’t think any of us are ever going to know that. He talked about the Smothers Brothers thing back in nineteen sixty nine. That happened before I was born, so I mean, you know, I guess it’s t gentally related. Good question here. Have you been assured by comcasts that the Jimmy and Seth shows are safe for the foreseeable future?
They’re both signed through twenty twenty eight. Lord Michael said, yeah, I think the CEO who I’ll be working for for the rest of my life has integrity. But at the same time, everybody has broadcast licenses, everyone has, you know, but I don’t really believe that we affect things. Interesting answer onto SNL, Lauren, do you feel pressure to reinvent it this season? Yeah, for sure, it’ll be announced in a week or so.
This article came out late last week, so it may have even happened this morning. Will James Austin Johnson be Trump? Yes, I personally hope James Austin Johnson goes back and listens to his original Trump depression. It has really started to drift last season. Lauren didn’t want to talk about retirement, but Puck asked, are you going to give anyone in particular on your team some added responsibilities this season?
Good phrasing there, Lauren said, that’s already been happening in the past year or so. More people are involved in the choices and in the decisions. But I’m not worried about AI because AI won’t guess what I’m gonna do between ten and eleven on show nights, because I have no idea. There’s a lot of people in that room with opinions. I make the final decision, obviously, but it’s not as if people don’t let me know how strongly they feel.
I guess I’ll pull up this story. I actually had it in the second half last week, Sky revealed plans about bringing SNL to the UK. Sky’s executive director of Unscripted Originals, Phil Edgar, Jones said it’s exciting a bit scary as well. Edgar Jones spent some time embedded with Lauren in the SNL USA team. He has confirmed that James Longman, the executive producer of The Late Late Show with James Cordon, will become the showrunner of SNL UK.
Edgar Jones hopes the show will be true to the American original, but quote has to be a very British thing if it’s going to resonate with audiences in the UK. The Sky UK SNL will launch in twenty twenty six. There have also been remakes in China, Germany, Italy and South Korea. Out on Netflix today, kill Tony guests include Jim Norton, Mark Norman, Matt Rife. Boy you combined kill Tony, Tony Hinchcliff and Matt Rife.
The Internet’s gonna explode. There’s gonna be a whole set of comedians. We’re not gonna be able to deal with that. Guys. It’s just a show.
Just watch it. It’s fun. Slate had done a big article probably ten days two weeks ago now about kill Tony. Slate writes, some veterans stand ups find themselves wondering if kill Tony is less of a comedy exposition and more of a vindictive freak show. James Adomian said there’s a visible through line here back to shows like Opie and Anthony.
He describes such shows as occasionally funny but mostly just offensive. Kil Tony on Netflix today, Shane Gillis he’s appearing in another bud Light commercial. This one is titled Vender Voices. You see Shane Gillis shouting across Darryl k Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. Shane is wearing a Texas Longhorns polo shirt.
He’s attempting to get the attention of a vendor. They go back and forth, Hilarity ensues, then his friend spoilers for the Budlight Commercial’s friend comes back from a successful beer run. This is interesting. The paper that’s the office spin off. Remember I told you they were gonna put like four episodes out and then do like two, two and two and burn the whole thing off in September.
Well, Peacock has changed their mind, but not the way I recommend. They’re now dropping all ten episodes on September fourth, when we’re all watching Cowboys Eagles, and that means you know sits like av Club Involve. Sure they’ll have reviewed the entire thing before you and I even have a chance to watch it. Like I’m a podcaster who works from home. I can’t watch the paper at six thirty in the morning before a review of ten episodes of something drops.
You gotta give me a minute. I think NBC Peacock is making a mistake here. I think they should do a weekly thing and get some buzzing around it and get people talking about it. The ten episode drop makes me think they don’t have confidence in it. I have seen some internet chatter from people who have seen it who said it’s actually pretty good.
But I don’t know. This is just really weird. Why would you drop all ten? On September fourth, Ralph Barbosa spoke to the La Times after his special came out, and he said, now I’ve got about ten minutes worth of jokes to my name. I’m broke comedy wise, I’m broke.
He grinned and said it’s the funniest place to be. The Times asked Barbosa about the perspective he brings as the next generation of Latin comedian. Ralph said, I don’t necessarily think it’s important to get my voice out there. But I do like making jokes about ice in immigration because it’s like the only way I know how to bring attention to it. I’m not a big political dude or anything like that, but yeah, I’ve made jokes about things like immigration stuff, I stuff.
I feel like there’s certain topics, certain subjects you can’t avoid. After a certain point, we should talk about it. We should at least put it in the faces of the people who aren’t going to talk about it. Like, if you’re not going to talk about it, that’s fine too, but you got at least hear about it. Congratulations to Ken Jung.
He is receiving an award from the fifteenth Annual Catilina Film Festival on September twenty seventh. The award the King of Comedy Award the King of Comedy Ken Jung, presented by the Catalia Film Institute. The King of Comedy trophy is given to a performer who has mastered the craft of comedy and uses it to uplift, inspire, and bring joy. Jung’s credits include Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, Role Models, Right Along Too, Transformer, Stark of the Moon, Tom and Jerry and of course his roles in the Hangover trilogy and as Senior Chang on Community. The New York Post was catching up with Eddie Peppatone and they pointed out your IMDb list two upcoming projects.
Can you spill any details? Eddie explained, untitled Neil Brennan project was filmed a bunch of years ago and never went anywhere. Neil was working on a pilot for Fox and they passed on it, and I don’t know why it’s up there like that. He’s also working on Dead, an indie film where he plays a rabbi. The story is about a young woman’s dad who becomes a ghost and won’t leave until there’s something settled, and Eddie Peppertone’s character oversees a quote Jewish exorcism.
Tony Rock, comedian, he has a brother named Chris. Tony was doing some crowd work at a recent show. A video clip has gone viral. Rock asked a man in the audience, you want to fight m effor. It was all in good fun, but the man got up and took off his glasses, seemingly prepared to fight, and Tony Rock said, you better sit down.
I ain’t Chris m effor the crowd laughed at the joke. Tony Rock high five to his audience member, Hey, you know what happens when you pull an SNL story up to the first half of the podcast. You get to the second half and you realize, oh, you don’t have any stories left. Hah. What you don’t know is I had bounced this Mark Maron story because I thought the first half was getting long, but nope, now it’s going into today’s show after all.
Newsweek asked Mark Maron, what do you think about the current state of podcasts. Maren said, at the beginning, it was sort of the wild West. It was an open format. You could do whatever you wanted done on like comedy, but with more production, especially what it was all just audio. And I think at the beginning there was sort of a movement.
Was this kind of populous and that everybody thought they could do it, And it’s the same with comedy now. A lot of people do it for a lot of different reasons. Some people are doing it just because their brand will enable them to have another cash flow by capitalizing on who they are, whether they’re good at it or not. But ultimately it’s created a lot of yammering, and once everybody went to video, and once old school mainstream show business started to collapse in on itself, people were really able, through bubbles and tribalization, able to build their own show business empires. And I think podcasting facilitated that, and that’s good.
I think in another way, podcasting help people get their voices out there and niche markets and really do it interesting stuff, but also lower the bar for entertainment in general. I think you have as much, if not more, unique and interesting content with interesting personalities and talent. But then you have a much larger portion of two to three white guys sitting in front of microphones talking about the last time they crap their pants as adults. So you have this large contingency of like afternoon drive radio that seems to speak to a lot of it, which I think lowers the bar. Then you do the other stuff.
But I think it open doors to people having more control the type of show business they wanted to do. And I think it brought a lot of people that might not have thought they had a profound amount of talent, but at the very least could sit and talk to other people. I can’t tell you whether it’s a good or bad. There’s a lot of both, and probably more bad than good. Mark, what advice do you have when a young comic comes up to you and says they want to start a podcast?
Mark says, well, that timing is great, and you’re gonna be up against a lot. I’m too old to know what it really takes. I’ve never really been a guy who produces content for content’s sake. We live in a sort of post publicity world in terms of the other tried and true ways of getting you and your being and brand out there, and it’s all on you. So if you’re going to do it, seems I wouldn’t want to do it now to what you have to do to sort of serve this is a full time job before you even get to the podcast.
In terms of social media, in terms of creating content that grabs people enough to bring them to you, and I think we lose that, and again it’s lowering the bar what these art forms were, what these broadcast forms were, because of this desperate need to somehow grab people’s attention and hold it for long enough, to keep it for long enough for you to turn a buck out of it. So I’d say go ahead, I guess, do what you can. But it’s not the world I grew up in. It’s not the world where people spend a lot of time trying to create interesting and provocative content or some sort of hyper personalized, well articulated comedic voices. I mean, everyone’s chasing what their freedom of speech may be.
It’s all now kind of boxed in by social media platform expectations. So how free are you? What are you doing there? You know he’s not wrong. At the end of last week, Howard Stern was accused of manufacturing all the recent Howard Stern controversy.
A source till the Daily Mail the rumors actually came from inside Howard’s camp. The source claimed they’re desperately trying to make this thing go viral to boost his numbers for his return. The stunt was designed to make people tune in to see what Howard’s going to say about getting fired from Serious because his numbers are quote pathetic.
Also at the end of last week, there was a rumoring inside radio they were sou…
We’ll see at the time of this recording. They had not announced that, and late in August would be a weird time to announce that. I still think, and maybe I’m wrong by the time you’re hearing this, I still think they’ll announce it in December and milk this thing for all the publicity it’s worth. I would. It’s a lot of fun.
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