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Caloroga Shark Media. Hey, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. As i’m recording, I’m texting back and forth with Mike Chisholm from The Letterman podcast. He apparently liked the al Michaels bit and it just got me thinking about how much I do like al Michaels. I defend him on Twitter every Thursday.
People are like, he’s so old. I’m like, no, no, no, no, no, he’s great. He knows how to call football. You’re watching the game. You don’t need somebody yelling and screaming.
Do you watch Kevin Horland, who’s great at basketball and I love him on NBA two K Do you watch Kevin Horland call football game and only does his yell and scream, whereas al Michaels is just in the zone. I know this isn’t why you’re here, and I’m bringing all the rules. I’m gonna tell about him Gafkins Bourbon set in a second. But al Michaels remember the oj Knight and Captain Jenks called in and pranked Peter Jennings. I can never think of that and not laugh.
So if you’re not familiar with the story, Peter Jennings is there, and he says, okay, we have we have a eyewitness on the scene across from oj Simpson’s house. That’s say, mister Robert Higgins, mister Higgins, what do you see now? Captain Jenks went into a character that I don’t want to get canceled, so I’m not going to do here. I’m just gonna ask everybody to be quiet for a moment. We have on the phone with us as well, Robert Higgins, who lives in the neighborhood and is on the ground and can see inside the van.
Mister Higgins, Oh, yes, how are you? But I’m watching this at home thinking how does Peter Jennings, the ABC anchor, not know what is happening? Then and then all of a sudden, you hear the voice of God here, Peter, this is al Michaels. Lest anyone think that is a real name. I forget exactly what he said.
That was a completely farcical call. Now, as the years went on, al Michaels would go on Howard Stern, Billy West would do al Michaels saying, that’s a completely forcical call. Al Michaels said, I’ve never used the word farcicle in my life, but I know what was going on there. The driveway of Oj Simpson’s home in Redwood, clearly an effort being made to him come out of the vehicle in the doorway of the house. His friend Al Cowling Peter.
By the way, just for the record, this is Al Michaels. So that was a totally farcical call. Lest anybody think that that was somebody who was truly across the street that was not. He said something in code at the end that’s indicative of the mentioning of the name of a certain radio talk show. Host as a producer.
I just imagine myself in the control room and the hotline ring. So the hot line is a phone that you only use when you really need to get through. Like you don’t use the hotline to be like, hey, what should we get for lunch? The hot line is hey, there’s a fake call on the air, get it off now. It’s used for that kind of thing.
It’s the batphone. So I’m just picturing you’re in the control room and Al Michael’s calls and he’s like, you gotta put me on the air right now, and you’re like, what did you not just see the ojchase? Why does al Michaels have to be on the air right now? Anyway, I have totally degressed and broken all the rules and put a two and a half minute roadblock at the top of the show. You’re not supposed to do.
Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. Yeah, boy, Jim Gaffigan, it’s today the Bourbon set. We’ve been looking forward to this four months, over four shows, Jim Gaffigan will debut an all new set of Bourbon and whiskey inspire stand up. You might still be able to get in because on Monday morning, Jim Gaffigan post it on Threads the tickets were still available. So I don’t know if the bourbon demand is quite there for Jim Gaffigan bourbon theme sets, but he’s doing four of them to tonight two Thursday, seven and nine thirty.
It’s at the Kentucky Center baum Hart Theater, you know, the one on five oh one West Main Street. Yeah. Now, what he’s really pushing is this really cool after party on Thursday. That’s right. If you’ve got tickets to the nine to thirty show, not only do you get a Jim Gaffigan bourbon themed comedy set.
You get exclusive access to the official after party. The party will feature sponsored bourbon pores, light bites, and of course, Jim Gaffigan. That after party doesn’t starts eleven pm. So as much as I love Jim Gaffigan bourbon jokes and bourbon, I mean you want me to start a party at eleven o’clock on a school night? Are you crazy?
So? Uh, this next part here, I’m not doing a bit, okay, So let me get the little out of my voice. I’m just trying to have a fun. It’s just a fun little podcast. But let me get to us for a second.
Over the weekend, John Marcos Saraisi posted a picture with Jim Gaffigan. Now, I would describe John Marcos Sarraisi as wiry. If you’ve seen his comedy special, you know he’s not a big, fat, stocky guy like me. He’s wiry. Anyway, He’s in a picture with Jim Gaffigan, who has said he lost weight using joo.
Jim’s looking really thit not like, hey, you lost a lot of weight, You look good like he’s past that. Now. I hope he’s okay. I’m not doing a bit. I’m not trying to be a jerk hole.
But when You’re standing next to John Marco and I’m like you look really thin, I go, huh, so, I hope everything’s okay. There stories I hadn’t got to Nate Brigetzie. Remember the Emmys and then Jimmy Kimmel got suspended and then we all went to the Riod Comedy Festival wholl All. Before that, the story was Naperghetzy tanked on the Emmys. Remember that bit.
Nate on his podcast said he wasn’t trying to put anybody on the spot. I was trying to have a very giving night. He said he had no ill intent while planning it out. Well, then, dude, you didn’t think about this at all, Nate said. Reviews did not like the boys and Girls Club thing, despite it coming from a real place of heart.
In my head, I wasn’t trying to put anybody in spot. I wasn’t trying to make someone donate money. But in my head I kind of thought, like, make it fun. We’re not using the charities a tool. They asked you to come up with a way to make everybody go shorter on their speeches.
First of all, why are we trying to go shorter on their speeches? Like what are we trying to get to at this point the Sunday night eleven o’clock news. Who cares? We all have phones? Like what is the race?
Or start the show earlier if you’re worried about it going too late, Nate said, comics, I don’t think I’ll get to ask that going shorter, because I’ll try to find a solution. He said, CBS was very happy with the bit. I think people at home were very happy they watched it. No, we weren’t. I wasn’t trying to overshadow any of their speeches, but yeah, you know some of these people, well, you work your whole career, you finally get recognized.
You just want to thank your family and the people you worked with hard, and like, why are we running a clock? I get we don’t want the seven minutes speeches about issues of the day. I get that. But if you’re up there and you’re like, hey, I just want to think my wife’s just been really great these last thirty years, and my kids are fantastic, and you know the rest of the crew here, let people do that. Nate explained on his podcast, he thought that the shows that won, or Netflix or Apple would donate the money.
It’s not like I was expecting that kid, meaning adolescent star Owen Cooper, who was fantastic in his speech. I think he’s fifteen. I mean that show was great. He’s great, but his speech was fantastic. I wasn’t expecting that kid to give money.
In my head, I pictured as they could speak long but then be a hero, so it was a win win. Then the night becomes about love and you’re giving to these kids that are there and all the stuff. I don’t know if I just didn’t explain enough in the room. I had it in my head one way, it came out another way. But the reasoning was there.
I wasn’t gonna give that money at the end. I wasn’t thinking I was going to have it, But the way it went, it was like, I can’t. I wonder if they’ll have him back. So friend of the show Jason Zinniman pointed out the ratings were up, but I don’t know. I feel like that’s a jokoy one and done.
I can’t see rolling him back out. David Letterman, Yes, I’m finally getting to a David Letterman story. Because all the crazy news has calmed down, he has announced his next guest on My Next Guest needs no introduction. He’s already taped it at New York University. It is with the great, great dramatic actor Adam Sandler, hopefully.
Letterman asked him a lot of questions about Adam’s fine dramatic films, Uncut, Gems, Space movie one about basketball, and this upcoming Ja Kelly won that apparently Adam Sandler dramatic actor is fantastica and I’m looking forward to hearing Dave interview Adam Sandler about dramatic acting. No date yet for that. It’s scheduled to air later this year. Let me guess Jay Kelly comes out December fifth, maybe around then. There is a lot of Oscar buzz around dramatic actor Adam Sandler.
Sandler told people that’s real cool. Nice of everybody to say. I’m just happy I got to be in it. Sandler’s seems like a pretty cool guy. I mean, he addresses worse than I do, and his attempts at comedy are terrible, but he does seem like a really cool guy.
Jimmie Fallon had Taylor Swift on last night, we’ll talk about that. I did talk about Taylor Swift’s new album on the DCN eight bonus podcast on the feed on Apple Podcasts. So I haven’t done a DCN eight in a few weeks because of all the regular bonus episodes. But anyway, if you were a paid subscriber, and you can become a paid subscriber by opening up the Apple podcast app and clicking Uninterrupted Listening, and then for five bucks a month, you’ll get this show and then just about everything else on the network commercial free. So you get five good news stories which I host, you get that commercial free.
In Palace Intrigue and all the other stuff, the trivia show, you get all that without ads. But also to show my appreciation and to get some things out of my system, I started this thing called DCN eight where it’s me, but I’m not talking about comedy, and I’m not putting any rules on that. I’m not saying how long it is, I’m not saying how often it comes out. Just if you’re pay subscriber, every now and then you get a DC and eight, And there’s a DC and eight in the feed right now. Fallon was catching some crap last week because he said he’s keeping his head down during all this political stuff.
Fallon told CNBC, our show’s never really been that political. We hit both size equally. We try to make everybody laugh. Our monologue has been the same in doing since Johnny Carson was doing this night show. So I really just keep my head down to make sure the jokes aren’t funny.
We’re trying to make the best show we possibly can and entertain everybody. Fallon also has that new show On Brand with Jimmy Fallon, a reality competition series that puts ten creative minds of the test as they craft real campaigns for real brands. Jimmy Fallon said, we wanted everybody to get in on the action, so NBC’s doing cool thing. They’re going to hold a contest where you get to create an original design for an on brand billboard. We’ve teamed up with Canva to do this, so anyone can enter.
The winner will get their billboard on Sunset Boulevard in LA and win a trip to New York City and two tickets to see the Tonight Show. What if I win, I live in New Jersey, I get a trip to New York City. I try to avoid going to New York City, just like I’ve tried to avoid talking about the Riodd Comedy Festival for ten minutes or so, but times up. Bill Maher criticized Dave Chappelle for Dave Chappelle’s comments downplaying free speech in America. This happened on Real Time with Bill Maher.
That was the episode Louis C.K. Was on. Bill Moore told c K Dave Chappelle was in the press today saying you can speak more freely over here than in America. C K said, I don’t know if that’s true. Mar said, oh, it’s not true.
At the Read Comedy Festival today, Jack Whitehall brings Polish, British banterer and gleeful self mockery, sharpening stories with a quick snap. He’s honed on arena tours. Moa Maher is there. He’ll discuss fatherhood, fame, and identity with the same candid, culturally charged storytelling that made him a household name. Expect brutally honest observations, unexpected tenderness, and explosive punchlines delivered with charisma and bite.
Interesting copy. There and Wayne Brady, he brings quick fire improv and music Comedy to the Rio Comedy Festival, challenging the fearless energy that made him a multi hyphenate star. On whose line is it anyway? Broadway and TV expect genre hopping riffs and the kind of on the spots songcraft that turn suggestions into showstoppers. Be careful, Wayne.
So as I put the show together today, I actually excluded a few things. There’s one comedian on Instagram showing off their weight loss, and I’m like, you know what, I just don’t want to talk about that. And it’s just comedy thinking. Everything’s just been so angsty ltely and it’s starting to make me like, not like some of these people that we talk about all the time. I feel like comedy has become a business with a capital B, and it’s all feeling icky.
And I don’t just mean re odd. I feel like you can just see the industry, meaning Hollywood and the two big agencies going, here’s who we’re pushing now, here’s who the hot comedian is right now, and let’s get as much press out there, and let’s get them big TV gigs and let’s put them in front of everybody. We’re going to make this person a star and there are at least two people have done that with this year, and it’s all just feeling like icky to me right now. I’d prefer to talk about fun things like this whole thing with Paddington Bear. Studio Canal which produces the Paddington movies, and Paddington Bear’s holders are suing Avalon.
They didn’t like the recent episode of Spitting Image. That episode depicted Paddington as a foul mouthed podcast host. In the sketch, Paddington said, I don’t really talk like Ben Wishlaw. I’m from Peru. M Effers, I am Paddington Bear from Peru.
During a sketch Prince Harry and Paddington interview Elon Musk, they also read ads for guns and robot sex dolls. Scrubs revival looks like everybody’s back. Over the weekend, I started watching Scrubs again from season one, episode one. Boy, that show has aged well. I was laughing out loud.
It’s on Hulu. Oh wait, no, I mean I was watching my dvdsuse so if I watched Hulu that would mean I support fascism. Now, I of course canceled Disney Plus and Hulu and don’t watch anything on ABC because I support Jimmy Kimmel and free speech, just like you canceled all that stuff too. So I misspoke there. I was not watching it on Hulu.
I would not do that. I do not support fascism. I went upstairs and got my DVDs, which are real things I own. I’ll post a picture of me with a DVD to prove it, and I am going to do that on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group after I shower. See this is why I hate the video podcast.
You know, it’s midday on Monday, and I might still be wearing a hat and last night’s clothes. That’s the beauty of being an audio podcaster. But once I like shower and shave, you’ll see me with my scrubs DVDs. I wasn’t watching Hulu. I don’t support fascism.
ABC has added nine guest starring cast members. The new interns include Ava Bonnis Serena, Jacob Dudman as Asher, David Gridley is Blake, Leila Mouhammadi as Amara, and Amanda Morrow as Dashana. They joined Zach Raft, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalk as the three leads Judy Reis is back as Carla, John C. McGinley as Doctor Cox. I can’t get enough of Doctor Cox ever, I would watch a Doctor Cox spin off.
All right, here’s the description. J D and Turk scrub in together for the first time in a long time. Medicine has changed, in turns have changed, but their romance has stood the test of time. Characters new and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter heart and some surprises along the way. I’m still curious if you watch season nine and I have the DVDs, I don’t support fascism.
The original Sacred Heart Hospital was gone. They were the new ones. So does the new scrubs take place at the new Sacred Heart, which at this point is like twenty years old. I don’t know. I remember I saw somewhere over the weekend the Todd is back as well, which is good news.
The only person I haven’t seen is if Neil Flynn is coming back as the janitor new topic. For some reason, FX Wait, who owns fx FX is Hulu? Oh, we’re gonna have to support fascism again. Boy, Well, if you do suppor fascism, FX is for some reason making very young Frankenstein This based on mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, Zach Galifanakis, Dontlly Well, Spencer House, Nikki Crawford, come ol On Jeohnny and Carrie Elwis a star on the pilot. It’s some sort of prequel I assume from the title why we’re making this I don’t know.
And kicking off today the Milwaukee Comedy Festival celebrating twenty years presenting live comedy today through the twelfth more than thirty comedians performing across nine shows at different venues. Comedians in Clue, The Very Funny, Aparna Nurla, The Very Funny, Sean Patten, Patton Oswalt who ruined, Star Trek Has, Doug the Vulcan, and Punky Johnson. That’s a pretty good lineup. You should go hackle Patton Oswalt and be like, why did you play Doug the Vulcan seven o’clock tonight at Parna and some others are at the Lakefront Brewery. Sean Patten tomorrow at seven thirty.
Patten Thursday night if you want to heckle him, Punky Johnson on Friday, and a bunch of other shows. Looks like at Nice Festival. And that is your comedy News for Today. Become a premium subscriber, get the show, add free five bucks a month, first months free, and you know what I always say. You click on it, you enjoy the free trial, and then day thirty one you’re like, ah, Johnny Mac beat me out of five bucks.
I forgot to cancel, and then I go I worked. You also got the Dcnaight to Botus episode there. All right, I’m punching today, see you tomorrow.