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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey man, Johnny Mack with your Bailey Comedy News. Pretty busy one for a Sunday with a couple of new specials out and people doing press tours. But the big news today the voice of Millhouse is retiring. You gotta watch the Simpsons tonight.
Yeah, the Simpsons is still on, so they say, Hamla. Hayden has voiced various characters, including Millhouse for thirty five years, is retiring. Hayden’s final episode is tonight. Treasa R Presents Simpson’s Wicked. This Way comes in Simpsons Wicked.
This Way comes A tattooed man at a mysterious night circus transports Lisa into three strange stories from Ninas in nineteen fifties, the chilling retro present, and a brutalist future where prestige TV rules the world. I think I could safely say after thirty five years, Lisa centric episodes are the worst ones. Have you ever watched? The Simpsons? Has been like, oh good, it’s about Lisa.
Yeah? Have Hayden is now seventy years old and says the time has come for me to hang up my microphone. But how do I say goodbye to The Simpsons, not easily. It’s been an honor and joyed I’ve worked on such a funny, witty and groundbreaking show and given voice to Millhouse and Jimbo Jones, Rod Flanders, Jeanie Malibu, Stacey and many others. Here’s to everybody who made this terrific ride I’ve been on Possible Thanks for thirty five years.
Be well, unhappy, my best to all ups. I’ll always have a special place in my heart for that blue haired ten year old boy with glasses. It is unclear to me what will happen to the character of Millhouse. Will someone else’s voice Millhouse? Will Millhouse just disappear?
Who knows? The Simpsons is in its thirty sixth season. The show curiously has been yet to be renewed for season thirty seven, and you have to work on animation in advance, so that is very very interesting. Keep an eye on the Simpsons. Maybe they just want to drift off quietly into the night, which is why earlier this season we had that quote unquote finale, which by the way, was the first episode of The Simpsons I’ve watched in several years.
I am not at all anti s Simpsons. I considered it myself a fan. I broke the habit. Back when we used DVRs. What would happen was football would run over and you’d get a recording of, you know, thirteen minutes of The Simpsons and seventeen minutes of Terry Bradshaw.
So I broke the habit with the Simpsons and really never got back into it. I thought I would when I had Disney Plus for a while, and I didn’t. And I don’t know, someday at the Nursing Home, I’m gonna watch those last fifteen seasons of The Simpsons. We used to talk about the Nursing Home back gets serious. When DVDs were in their heyday, we would get screener copies of everything.
I mean, you got to see my closet. If something came out between like two thousand and five and I don’t know twenty twelve or so, I have it so much stuff would come in. It would be like, here’s the complete box set of six Feet Under. I don’t really like the show. Let me give it to Jeremy.
I know he likes it. Here you go, And I remember we were staring at I think it was like Sanford and Sun season four came in, and I’m like, I don’t know what to do with this. I’m never ever going to have enough time. I’m like, even if I’m at the nursing home. They’re now now eight hundred hours of Star Trek.
At that time, I think there were six Star Wars movies, and there’s a lot more Star Wars now. We now have five Indiana Jones movies. We now have twenty five James Bond movies, and thirty six seasons of The Simpsons, not to mention you know, everything else that has ever come out. I could watch Gladi Eater again. So I would never ever ever have time to get to Sanford the Sun season four, So I don’t even know what happened to it.
Actually I know what happened to it. We used to donate a lot of things to I don’t tell anyone. So my mom was involved with the veterans, and I would take all the stuff that was hanging around and we would, through my mom, send it overseas to active service members. And I remember at one point the General wanted to send us a thank you letter and I was like, no, no, no, no, no, don’t why. I’m like, because then somebody at the company will ask, why are you giving all these DVDs away?
So we just did down the download. You need to be thanked. Hopefully somebody over there enjoyed the hell out of that rocky box that we sent over. I digress. I thought this was interesting what you’re hearing now?
I put together on Friday afternoon and Variety had an article referring to Hulu’s new comedy thing. You’ve heard me talk about this, but they refer to it as the Hulu Laughing Now brand, which will feature twelve new comedy specials. So I asked the question, what happened to hilarious? Up until yesterday? In my world Thursday, it was called hilarious Now.
I asked this question on threads and I see friend of the Show Jason Zenneman from The New York Times, who’s awesome, as you know. I asked the question, what happened to hilarious? I can’t get anyone at Hulu to interact with me, Jason said. I asked an exec who came up with the name hilarious and still haven’t gotten an answer. Okay, Jason’s Ineiman, Friend of the Show with the New York Times I feel a lot better now.
Like you know, I can almost understand the Hulu publicist not getting back to some idiot doing a podcast in his basement. Like I kind of get it. I mean I kind of don’t because I have the right target audience for who you’re going for, So I get I’m not Joe rogodw. It’s the right people. But I mean, if you’re not getting back to Jason zidhim in front of the show at the New York Times, come on Hulu.
So who knows? Now it’s called Hulu laughing now, I guess perhaps possibly, maybe it’s not. You’d have to ask someone at Hulu, because I don’t know. I said I was gonna do the rant again, but it’s back. I’m sorry.
I apologize at least not playing the Joe Coy bit. Scott Bennett Relax. Jim Gaffigan got the wax job, as a former coworker used to call it. From The Hollywood Reporter the Big Headline, Jim Gaffigan is finally invited to the party. He told a new version of the how did he get the part of Tim Wall’s story?
In this version, once Steve Martin turned it down, Me and some other doey Midwestern types were pitched on social media because casting’s now done by public referendum. But I’ve been around long enough to know there are certain things you just can’t come and pay him for. So I stood back, right, we’ve heard that version before. This seems to be new. Then I got an acting job in the UK this summer and my reps call the night before and say, hey, so we’ve been kind of telling you that you’ve been doing these estion of Tim Walls and funny messages to us.
I hadn’t. I was like, are you saying that I need to do some videos like that? So there I was in my hotel and Leeds recording my impressions. It’s also secretive and you don’t know if it’s going to get to these people. It’s a total roll the dice, but I knew how to do it.
I mean, me and Tim Walls, it’s not that different. He just has a brightness in him that I once had before I lived in New York or worked in the entertainment industry for so long. Holly Reporter, I assume yours and l run was always going to be over at post election. Jim contractually, I believe that was it, and I loved everything about it. As a comedian, it was like getting into Harvard for my graduate degree.
But also I’m touring and there are so many people to service in that cold open. There were times I was like, I hope Tim Wallas does something strange. I can have a bigger part, which is a weird thing to hope for. Thhr your career took off when David Letterman annoyed you on his show What’s the twenty twenty four equivalent? Jim said, it’s so fluid.
Now there’s a truly democratic element to stand up today. It’s not a total meritocracy, but there’s something about Sebastian Maniscalco selling out six Madison Square Garden shows that’s just undeniable. Theo Vaughn having that impact on the zeitgeist. You can’t deny that’s stuff. And Nate Brigetzi, who did it without podcasts?
I guess, I mean Nate does have a podcast, but I guess when I was coming up, it was the Roseanne era. If you were a great comedian, you became a sitcom star. Tim Allen Seinfeld. But now stand up as an industry has just exploded. Beyond anyone’s wildest expectations.
Getting long here, and we got a holiday week coming up. Johnny Mack’s gonna save the rest of that article for a rainy day, and it’s going to rain this week. Vulture did a long piece with James Acaster. I know a lot of the Vulture stuff is behind a paywall, but ye might want to read the comments in the Facebook group Daily Comedy News podcast group Nudge Nudge, Wink Winks say no more. Know what I mean?
Know what I mean? A caster said, the main thing with this show was if I don’t deal with the issue that’s making me so unhappy at work, I’m not gonna be able to do any show after this. What I wanted from it is what enabled me to just be a comedian again. Vulter said the premise of your new specials he can’t get mad at people for heckling, and practice and creating that rule keep you from getting angry internally. James said there were definitely people heckling.
He would still be jerks, but the aim was I wouldn’t get annoyed anymore because none of us can go. I’m gonna make sure I’ll never get annoyed at work again, but not crossing the line. If getting annoyed at them was really important to me. And that’s not saying no comic should do that. I just don’t think it seats my persona or my show.
There were a few heckles where I’d be like, no, it’s quite an obnoxious heckle. What I found was if I don’t get annoyed at those people out loud, the audience nine times out of ten will do it for me. I’m gonna edit on the fly here is gonna tell you some more about Adam Ray. But like I just said about Jim, it’s gonna rain this week. Save it for a rainy day.
I was teaching my college class on Thursday, and I almost quit the class and quit doing a comedy podcast and just decided to go live in a cave. I was telling the students about the Jay Leno incident and one of the college students said, who’s Jay Leno? And I was like, oh my god, like, you just saw me turn into an old person on the fly there, I’m like, and he saw me reacting. He goes, I’m twenty, I don’t know. And I qualified Jay Lenno as he’s the guy who hosted the Tonight Show before Jimmy Fallon.
I know there’s an asterisk next to that, and I didn’t want to get into all that, but yep, he’s the guy who hosted the Tonight show before Jimmy Fallon. Do you feel old? You feel old right now, don’t you. Joy Behar said people like the view because they tell the truth, unlike Dragon Believer Joe Rogan. Apparently Joe did a show where they talked about the possibility of dragons being real.
Rogan loved Peihar’s comment and said, that’s my new official ex description And I looked, if you go to at Joe Rogan, his description is dragon Believer. Love it. On Gossip Corner, remember I told you the British papers were starting a rumor about Pete Davidson. Well, Maria Georgia says not true. She posted on Instagram to clear up some speculation that she had dated Pete Davidson.
She wrote, never dated Pete. False rumor. I’m friends with his sister. Case closed. Then in a second post, she said, Pete Davidson is not in rehab and has been sober for months.
Can’t believe that this stuff. It’s very insulting to his recovery and my mental health. He’s literally home. All right, you listen to me. I feel like the fawns here.
I’m gonna say something I never say. Listen to me. This is very important because I’m an honest person with you. I was wrong. I know right, Johnny Mack was wrong.
I was wrong. I apologize to the people that Have I Got News for You. I had predicted it would end after the election. I was wrong. It has been picked up for a second season.
Amyan Tellis is Executive vice president of Talent, CNN Originals and Creative Development. In a statement, she said, for its inaugural season, Have I Got News for You has been a welcome and lively extension of the CNN brand, and our viewers continue to show enthusiasm for comic relief on Saturday nights. I like everyone associated with the show. I’m happy for them. I was wrong.
Now that I was wrong. Let me make a prediction about this. ESPN is giving a late night show to Jason Kelsey. And here’s where I’m gonna make another prediction. You should light the money on fire instead.
All right, let’s see how that one ages. This is going to be called They call it Late Night with Jason Kelcey. It will air on ESPN at one am during the Friday slash Saturday overnight hours. So I assume that means, you know, say it’s eleven fifty nine on a Friday night and you wait another sixty one minutes. I think that’s what they mean by that.
I’ll also stream on ESPN Plus and on the ESPN and Jason kelce YouTube channels. ESPN has picked up five episodes of the show, with the last episodes slated for February first, which is probably Super Bowl week. Great They call It Late Night will be filmed in Philadelphia with a live audience. The formats being described as personality driven with clear inspirations from late night shows. The show will emphasize this weekend’s NFL games and will include celebrity guests from the world of football and beyond.
If you want this thing to be a hit, get your brother’s girlfriend on. And our final story on this very busy Sunday where we’re kind of long here and I already cut two stories. As you know, Ellen Degenerous and wife Porschia de Rossi apparently did not like the results of a recent election. They have actually left. You know, all these celebrities that said if this happens, I’m leaving the country.
They left the country. They’ve put their estate in Montecito on the market and plants who never return. They bought a place in the UK. So, to use a sports metaphor, basically, we traded Ellen and Porsche for Harry and Meghan. Who got the better end of that trade.
I think we did actually keep up on Harry and Meghan by listening to Pallace Intrigue, our podcast about the royal family. I’m the writer on that one. That one’s a lot of fun. All right. That was a lot for a Sunday.
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