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Caloroga Shark Media, Heidlee Ho, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Bourbon entrepreneur Jim Gaffigan tweet did catch me and this all star lineup with the Hollywood bol May first and second part of the Netflix as a joke festival in the image which looks a little rat packy Nate Bergatsy, Sebastian Maniscalco, Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan. We’re gonna be hearing a lot from Jerry in the upcoming weeks as he’s got this Pop Tarts movie coming out. GQ did a profile of Jerry I’ll pick a way at over the next few days. Jerry talked about the Curb finale and he said, as I drove home that night, my scalp was just tingling.
I thought what we had done was just the coolest, wildest, most remarkable thing. Says, it’s the callback to end all callbacks. When you have that joke that was set up twenty five years ago and then paid off twenty five years later, how do you even describe something like that, I’ll describe it. It was okay, Sorry, Jerry switching to Pop Tarts. GQ had a bunch of questions for Jerry, and I’ll bust out.
I haven’t done this in a while. Half ass angry Jerry Seinfeld impression. GQ asked, what’s so funny about breakfast everything? I love the great dumbness of life, GQ. There’s dumbness everywhere.
Why do you keep returning to this corner of it? There is dumbness everywhere? But I really do love Cereal. I love the witness and the crudginess. I love spots.
I love balls. When I was saying, oh my ketch it out, keep a ball the spode and my friends would laugh, why we take it out of the ball. That’s where it’s going GQ. Larry David told me that it was because there’s a K in breakfast. Jerry says, everybody knows that K is the funniest letter.
Gary Coleman said that recently. Jerry said, oh yeah, everybody knows. Kay. Or see, it’s the sound when you’re trying to get people’s attention in a crowded nightclub, they can hear K. All right, Jerry?
Why a movie because they wouldn’t put me in mad Men. I love that kind of comedy. I love office comedies. I love stupid people in suits, and it was COVID. I had nothing to do, so I got talked into it.
It wasn’t my idea. Seinfeld wasn’t my idea either. I kept getting dragged into things and surrounded by the most amazing people. These movie people are unbelievable. They’re insane.
Like we had a prop master. She had a room and it was Florida ceiling toys and bikes and clothes from that era. Everybody does their job one hundred fifty percent. It’s weird. Jerry’s getting some pickup from this interview his comments on the movie business industry.
Jerry said, they’re so dead serious. They don’t have any idea that the movie business is over. They have no idea that is making the trades. Jerry says film does not occupy the pinnacle and the social cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives. When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it, We all discussed it, We quoted lines and scenes we liked.
Now we’re walking through a fire hose of water just trying to see Disorientation replaced the movie business. Everyone I know in show business every day is going, what’s going on? How do you do this? What are we supposed to do? Now?
I’ve done enough stuff that I have my own thing, which is more valuable than it’s ever been. Stand up is like you’re a cabinet maker and everybody needs a guy who’s good with wood. There’s trees everywhere, but to make a nice table, it’s not so easy. So the metaphor is, if you have good craft and craftsmanship, you’re kind of impervious to the whims of the industry. Audienceers are now flocking a stand up because it’s something you can’t fake.
It’s like platform diving. You could say you’re a platform diver, but in two seconds we can see if you are or you aren’t. So that’s interesting. Later in this segment, I’m going to play a clip from Rogan, So just remember what Jerry just said there because it’s gonna be relevant later. Jerry said, that’s what people like about stand up.
They can trust it. Everything else is fake. Unfrosted. I can’t remember that. I keep calling it pop towards movie unfrosted, Netflix, May third, random stray thought, just I threw it here in my script, Helper, Remember Conan O’Brien just dropped a travel show on HBO Max Max, HBO Max.
Did that have any impact on popular culture at all? Other than a few days before there were a ton of Conan articles, But like, did anyone watch it? Is anyone talking about it? It just kind of came and went and happened. And remember when Conan gave up the TBS show, was like, Oh, he’s gonna have a show on HBO, and we were waiting years for it.
It just kind of happened. Does anyone care? Gabe Iglesias has inked a two stand up deal with Netflix. The first we’ll tape at the Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida in July twelfth through the fourteenth. No dates on those.
The eight hundred Padungerilla had a bunch of people at Moon Tower and they reviewed a few shows, and I thought i’d share what they said. As for Shane Gillis, they said he’s handling the transition into being an arena comic with certain ease on stage. You talked about what goes into picking an intro song, why he should be a high school football coach. We’ve heard him do that before. Accidentally sending nude Snapchat photos different topic when you stop being friends with your mom and opening a down syndrome coffee shop, as well as a joke that Lorne Michaels woudn’t let him tell.
In his monologue Eight hundred Pound Gorilla writes, if there’s an earnestness to gill Us on stage, there’s anything, but when it comes to Martin or Bono, if you’ve never seen Orbono stand up before, it’s far easier to explain by recommending you watch a few clips first. By design, Orbano’s act consists of a persona that doesn’t necessarily translate well into reading. Oh, I’m sure my third hand recap of this show is going to really convey what he does. That’s because the beauty of what he does is in the delivery, as he satirizes the brogue culture, misogyny, and much more that you need to witness in order to fully grasp what he’s doing. So even if I play you audio, I guess we have to go.
So see Martin o’brano. They also went to see Burbiglia. Barbiglia has that gift as a storyteller to keep you truly invested from start to finish. So much that it doesn’t feel like it’s been a full hour by the time he’s done. It’s effortless.
That was precisely the vibe we got from his show last weekend. The show was completely sold out, comprised of his large fan base, some of whom had told me they’ve seen him many times before. Some of the topics for Biggs did included what a different time it is for parenting versus how when he was raised. Okay, I mean I heard that kind of material at the bar every week, I hear it in my car on the weekend. I see it on the internet.
Hopefully for Biggs did the good version of that. That is not the most original material. You know, back in the seventies, we just all piled into the station wagon and we didn’t have seat belts in the back seat. Dad slammed the brakes and you went fly to the glasses like you’ve heard that, right, You’ve heard that bit, But I don’t know. For Bigs probably did a good version of it.
The emotion of being a parent, realizing how little he actually knows, balancing the calendar to make time for your spouse, how the DARE program is a double negative. We Dare You Not to Do Drugs? And a parody song he wrote in high school to the tune of Bust to Move the title to Bust Them Drugs. Andrew Santino is going to get a pop this week. He’s going on Travis Kelcey’s New Heights podcast.
Santino shared a video on his Instagram story where he’s with Travis Kelcey. You know, Travis Kelcey is dating Taylor Swift Now. One time at the Golden Globes, Joe Coy made a joke about Taylor. But I’m not playing it for you because you don’t appreciate recurring jokes. Santino discussed how he came up with his Cheeto nickname.
We also learned from Santino how he came up with the nickname Cheeto.
All right, here’s that clip of Joe Rogan that I mentioned yesterday.
The guest here is I’ve frozen his name. I wanted to say Chris Tucker. It’s not Chris Tucker, it’s Tucker Carlson, two totally different people. Doesn’t really matter that Tucker’s there, but that’s the other voice. You hear Joe Rogan talking about joke thieves and then how Chris Rock uses the writer’s room, and this will take you all the way to the break.
I think creativity is in everybody. It’s just a matter of percent. It’s in everybody. It just requires honesty. Yeah, and any impediment to creativity is line sure.
And yeah, I used to say that about joke thieves, that one of the real problems with joke thieves is when they get caught and then they have to write their own material. And the problem is they don’t understand the language. They just know how to say the sounds. Like if you told me what to say in French, I can’t speak French. But if you told me what to say and I practice it and I said it right, you think, wow, that guy speaks French.
Yes, So that’s what comedy’s like. So if you got a guy who knows how to repeat other people’s jokes, but he does know how to create him. See, comedy is one of the rare things where someone when it, Like you get a guy like Shane Gillis. That guy writes his own stuff. He edits it it, he thinks it out in his head, he performs it, he produces it.
He changes the order of things that it’s a complete Everybody does it pretty much the same way. There’s a few guys that hire writers, and there’s that’s honorable. There’s nothing wrong with the hiring writer. And it’s also gives jobs to other comics, because some comics are just really good writers and then not so good at performing. And so people will work on stuff, they’ll collaborate on stuff.
Like Chris Rock would do this thing where he would hire comics and they didn’t write the jokes for him, but they would be like guys. He would bounce stuff off, so he would have his ideas, he would go on stage, and then after a set they would all meet and they would talk about the set, and you know, guys would have taglines like you could say this, oh great, and they write that down they’re adding. So it’s a collaboration. So you have the master. You have Chris Rock, who is so open minded and intelligent and humble that he brings in other masters and says, tell me what I’m doing wrong.
So the Webby Awards happened all of a sudden. There was a press release going, Hey, here’s everybody who won the Webby Awards, and I’m kind of eye rolling this thing. Because you have to pay to enter and they give away so many awards it’s like, are you even really winning anything or is it just you know? Best podcast? Released by Johnny Mack on a Wednesday.
The nominees are this episode and last week’s episode. Give us the two hundred and fifty dollars so you can be in our little thing. I’m just gonna read comedy related ones and this will give you an idea for how many trillions might be an acassination trillions of categories. There are the Webby Award for Comedy, Comma show, parentheses, podcasts, all right, comedy podcasts. What show do you think won the Webby Award?
You can guess for the rest of the year, and you’re never gonna come up with us never ever, ever. I’ve never even heard of this show. And aside from like I suck, I’ll remind you I work in podcasting. I’ll remind you that I’ve hosted the show for almost five years now, and before that all my time it’s serious. But for the last five years, every day I google the words comedy and comedian and I must suck because I’ve never heard of The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya.
Anyway, that won the Webby Award for Best Comedy Show Podcasts. The People’s Voice Award for Comedy Comma Shows Parentheses podcast went to ConA and O’Brien. The Webby Award for Featured Guest comm My Individual Episodes Parentheses Podcasts went to kat Williams. Yeah, that was pretty good. The Webby Award for Comedy Comma Individual Episodes Podcasts went to Las Culturistas, Ohen Yang Matt Rodgers.
All right, so that’s already four things that are like made up categories. Can we just do like Best Comedy Podcasts and be done with it? Saturday Night Live won the Webby Award for Events and Live Streams General Video. Parentheses Video The Simpsons, Maggie Simpson and Rogue not Quite One won the Webby Award for Comedy Comma Branded Entertainment. Parentheses Video twenty one spelled out and then twenty one the numbers, so twenty one twenty one, A black af scripted audio comedy, won the Webby Award for Best Indie Podcast.
Limited Run Comma Features Parentheses Podcasts. You Excited? John Stewart brought out his fastball on Monday I’m sure it’s a combination of he feels passionate about this and the numbers it down a little bit. But he took a shot at the rest of the media a segment called ark is Most Tremendously Wanted. John Stewart said that the current trial of Donald Trump will obviously be a test to the fairness of the American legal system, but it’s also a test of the media’s ability to cover Donald Trump in a responsible way, a task they have acknowledged that they’ve performed poorly in the past.
He then played some clips from people on CNN and MSNBC. He then mocked them and said, so brave, well done. Stuart said, perhaps if we limit the coverage to the issues at hand and try not to create an all encompassing spectacle of the most banal of details, perhaps that would help. Then he played some clips of cable news showing Trump arriving and leaving court each day. John said, seriously, we’re going to follow this guy to court every day?
Are you trying to make this O? J Simpson, It’s not a chase he’s commuting. So the media’s first attempt, the very first attempt on the first day of the trial, it’s self control. It failed. Here at the Basement Podcast Company, we’ve actually ramped up the ballot podcasts.
We figure John Stewart’s gonna get mad at us, but we figured, hm, Trump plus porn star plus trial probably some good comedy there. So we’re going to be putting out episodes daily for a little bit ballot to get your shows. Sydney Comedy Festival begins. I know you’re like, John, you never talk about Australian comedy. Well, we got another festival.
My takeaway here so unlike the Melbourne Festival, where every day I clicked on the website and I was like, oh, this thing hasn’t loaded yet. Today I actually prepared. I pulled three days worth of clips for myself, so I have my act together today and I’ll tell you the same thing I said for Melbourne. Something’s broken in the United States. Because I’m playing these clips of comedians.
The comedians happened to be women and they’re all wonderful. So something’s wrong in the States where women comedians are underrepresented or not getting a shot, or there’s something in the water in Australia. I don’t know, but I’m looking at the Australian comedy scene and going wow, there are a lot of really funny women. One of the women at the Sydney Festival, and I’m not stupid. She’s not Australian.
The festival is Australian. Is Fern Brady? You watched her on Netflix the other day, didn’t you. Well, she’s at the Sydney Festival. The Scotsman said.
She’s absolutely fearless. There’s nowhere she won’t go and nothing she won’t say on stage, and she’ll switch from snarling and menacing the sweet and girlish in an instant. The Evening Standard four stars. She is distinctly acerbic and skating, but most importantly hugely entertaining to let’s listen. I finally got diagnosed autistic.
It’s actually been really hard for me because there’s not a lot of representation of hot women within the autistic community. So be the change you want to see in the world. I guess it’s just me and great a Funberg representing and it makes sense because a lot of stuff people do seems really alien to me. Like a lot of my friends are getting married now and I keep saying that my boyfriend, who’s like my translator for human behavior. Why are all these people we know getting married?
And he justifies it the way a lot of people justify it. He says, they’re getting married firm because they want the opportunity to declare their love for one another in front of Oh they’re family. I’m laughing because I would actually have to be on ecstasy to do something like that. Yeah, why don’t I make her sex tape? But what my emotions?
That was a good clip. That’s actually better than the Netflix teaser that I played the other day. All right, Kirsty Webeck, I think I played her for Melbourne and I think this is a different clip. I’m kidding, Old the brain fills up. Her show is called I’ll be the Judge of That.
She’s recently learned more about her relationship with Farmers, She’s had a harrowing experience with classical music, and a special thing happened to her at the airport. The Sydney Morning Herald says, consistently enjoyable and impossible to dislike. Let’s listen. I was in the supermarket recently in a small child yelled out at me how you look like a man? And I said, can you play so much?
To my boss. So it’s reflected in my pie. Just boom, just just got him. I didn’t even have a boss. You know.
Well in your face. In all four you’ll find the tape, coffee and some sass about the gender pay gap. I don’t mind things like that though, Like sometimes I like to walk into the Maya makeup counter just to see four sales assistants have no idea what to do. I was in an uber recently and the driver said to me, I thought your name was Kirsty and I said it is and I thought this is going to be good, and he said, ah ha, yeah, ha, we are right. I was just I thought Kirsty was a girl’s name, and there was not enough time to explain that gender is a social construct, so I said it is a girl’s name.
And In Today’s a non controversy controversy from The New York Post, a British comedian has sparked to beat after mocking his pregnant wife’s walk. Daniel O’Reilly, who goes by Damper Laughs, filmed his heavily pregnant wife in a supermarket while making fun of her gait. The TikTok has gone viral. Boy I hope the government doesn’t shut down TikTok, because then we won’t get videos like this anymore. In the TikTok video, Daniel asks why pregnant women walk like they’re about to start a scrap.
She looks like she’s just come out of a pub, had ten stell of ears, and she’s deep on the pub grub. The wife tells the comedian to shut up. Some of the comments. One user wrote, because we’re in pain, baby is heavy and pushing down. Another user said because there’s literally a bowling ball between my legs.
Someone else said it’s a level of discomfort you can’t understand unless you’ve lived it. Another said I was about to get defensive being a heavily pregnant woman, but I’m crying laughing, and that is your comedy needs for today. I put out another substack on Tuesday, and there’s another one out on Wednesday. The link is in the show notes. It’s mcdeepod dot substack dot com.
If you want to read me rambling about various topics. Yesterday was about Netflix streaming. Wednesdays is about Oh, this whole thing with Megan Mark and her selling jam. It is so entertaining. We’ve been covering that over on the Palace Intrigued podcast, But if you want to read about it, that’s in the substack today.
The substack is free, so you know, subscribe and the email show up in your inbox and you could be like, I’m sick of Johnny Mack. Just delete it. That’s your comedy needs for today, See tomorrow.