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Caloroga Shark Media. My, oh my, we’re having some fun now. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack with your Daily Comedy News. I know I’m feeding your feed every ten minutes with stuff. On Monday after noon, just as I was editing this show, I got a text from my business partner, Mark Francis.
He’s like, Kimble’s back tomorrow, and I’m like, oh good, because I have to teach In an hour. ABC announce that Jimmy Kimmel Alive is returning two nights after thoughtful conversations with parent company Disney. So here’s the plan for today. You’re about to get the normal Tuesday episode as I’ve been doing. I’ve just been doing the normal stuff as their own regular episodes.
Around noon today, assuming I actually got a chance to do the edit and a new opening, I have recorded an hour with Mark Malcoff, you know him from the Inside Late Night podcast, which is back today with a new episode. And he’s got a book coming out called Love Johnny Carson. So I asked him on to mainly talk about Carson, but we also said words like Fallon and Leno and Letterman and oh yeah, Kimmel and Colbert. We got into that too, so I gotta put that out around noon. Now.
Luckily, my spidy sense must have been tingling, because at some point I said something like Mark, I just want the audience to know that it’s like one pm on Monday as we’re recording this, because I have a feeling the news cycle will change seven times between us recording this and me actually publishing it. Johnny Mack was right, it’s not dated at all because we really were focused on the carson of it all. But that’s coming up around noon today, and then I have to catch my breath and I’m going to get out a Kimmel bonus episode later today. I’m also scheduled to record with friend of the show, Jason Zinneman from The New York Times, so I’ll have to figure out how that slots into all of this, and you know, and then tomorrow on Wednesday, it’ll be super busy because I’ll have to tell you what Jimmy Kimmel said and all that. So plenty, plenty of stuff coming up in this feed.
And let me now just abruptly cut what I had said before the Kimble news broke, and I was talking about Caleb Heern. Caleb Heron had that new special. This was an HBO Max special. We’ll get back to that. He commented on why President Donald Trump and other conservative Republicans are some of his favorite straight guys.
He says, because they hate gay people so much and they’re such and then he used the F word, not that F word, the other F word. Why did he go political in a special? Caleb said, because every day I feel e fing insane. These people in charge are liars, They’re evil, and I’m not scared of these mfors. These right wing fascist freaks are trying to make a Christo fascist government in the United States.
Right now. I see right through them. They’re weakend pathetic. I feel like in the national conversation there’s a lack of normal people just telling the efing truth. So I did watch some of the special on Sunday night between the main football schedule and Sunday Night football.
I was surprised this thing made HBO Max. Now. I share this thought in the Facebook group Daily Coming his podcast group. It might just be that I live on old Man Mountain and I’m always protective of brands, and I felt like this thing airing on something with an HBO logo anywhere near it it felt very below par. This looks like a YouTube special, like you know, Caleb at the Chuckle Hut and just thrown up on YouTube.
It looks like one of those, and that to me does not say HBO like if I look at the recent Mark Maron special, visually, it looks like something on par with a George Carland special from thirty years ago. That in my old man brain is what HBO comedy is. But I guess we live in this era where between this whole HBOHBO Max, HBO now Max Max plus, so all that and plus putting the HBO shows on the same platform, on the same level with Doctor Pimple Popper, They’ve watered down their brand. And I think this is a great example of that of this to me is not HBO comedy. Apparently it’s HBO Max common And I don’t think the civilians understand that.
Surprise they this thing belongs on YouTube or maybe possibly hilarious, but this is not an HBO special. The material is also sea level. Cristella Alonso has a Netflix special out today. She opens her hour with this joke. I’ll spoil one joke for you.
I had to make sure I drank some water room temperature because I hate ice, all right, So that tells you where this special is coming from. Coristella caught up with the La Times. Upper Classy is the culmination of a trilogy of specials. Cristella explains it started off as this random idea where I thought, what if I did a trilogy and showed life as I progressed. I got the idea because when I had my sitcom, one of the biggest notes from the network, which was ABC, right, if I’m remembering quickly, we’re mad at them?
This week from the network in the studio was it has to be about a sension. The family has to improve grow. And I always thought, well, what does that mean in your mind? What do you think making it means? Because I can tell you that for my family, what making it means was very simple.
We have money to pay the bills, but they’re like no more and more, Well, I don’t know the more. I’m still here. So I started thinking, what if in a weird way I document the ascension of me coming into my life. Lower Classy really was this is my bile, this is how my mom was, this is how my family was, this is how I’m doing I shot the first special in August of twenty sixteen. Then the election happened, and I was so depressed because I assume people were better than what they turned out to be.
I actually didn’t know what I was going to do, and I decided to take a break from stand up and everything because I couldn’t mentally handle it and I didn’t feel like being funny. I didn’t feel like being anything she talks about middle classy. I started making a list of things that were different from me, and I wrote health insurance, and that’s when I realized I didn’t know health insurance work. That’s kind of how middle classy started. Upper classy has a play to it in two ways.
Look at how rich I am. You didn’t think I was gonna be that rich because of the story that I share. But also look at the persona my family made me to be. Bert Kreischer is going to star in a comedy movie called Homecoming. In Homecoming, we follow divorced dad Bert.
The character Bert attends his college homecoming and an attempt to reconnect with his eldest daughter, who attends is Alma matter. This sounds like an Adam Saylor movie so far. When Bert arrives on campus, he realizes his kids have parent trapped him with his ex wife. From there, the weekend’s focus turns to competition to boscherus Mayhem, and perhaps a chance to reunite his family. That actually doesn’t sound horrible, but I’m kind of surprised that doesn’t star Adam Sandler and say Sonny Sandler.
Speaking of Adam Sandler, he was at the Buffalo Sabers game before performing his comedy act. He met some members of the Sabers. The team boasted on social media do the guys think shampoo is better or conditioner? They also posted a Sabers GoAhead jersey with Gilmour on the back and a bandaged jersey with Sandman on the back. Syracuse dot Com went to see an Adam Sandler comedy show.
Adam Sandler, as you know, is a fine dramatic actor. He made several good movies, including uncut gems in the Spaceman movie, in the Basketball One, and a lot of terrible movies. Syracuse dot com tells us. On stage, dramatic actor Adam Sandler told the audience he loves Syracuse and share that he and his crew plan a head to Dinosaur barbecue after the show. Earlier in the day, he had visited the Carmelo Anthony Bastball Center, where he played pick up basketball with the members of the SU men’s and women’s basketball team.
Sandler was dressed in his classic oversized style, bright red track pants and a baggy pullover. Wow, I’m actually dressed better than Adam Sandler. I have a properly sized gray sweatshirt on that I got in California, and my often worn gray sweatpants, and of course my neon blue like Miami Dolphins blue. Hocus, those are sneakers. I digress.
At one point, the great dramatic actor Adam Saandlor invited audience members up to the stage so we could sing totally unstrue songs about them. Special guests Rob Schneider and Kevin Neelan were the openers. Sunny Cortland alumnus Kevin James got one of the biggest ovations when walked on stage wearing a Syracuse lacrosse shirt. The local Syracusians is that what you’re called enjoy that, Syracuse dot Com tells us. By the end of the night, Syracuse has gotten more than a comedy performance.
It was an evening of laughter, nostalgia, and music, tied together with enough local shoutouts to make the crowd feel like part of the act. John almost forgot to do the Toronto Comedy Festival again. Why don’t you put Toronto in the scripts? John, because John has been recording a lot of Jimmy Kimmel related stuff. I have not had a minute to myself since last Monday.
Knock a playing. I’m just telling you why I don’t have this in the script. But I didn’t forget. I am having a lot of fun doing this. I’m pumping out a lot of content for good reason or for bad reason actually, but just having a lot of fun.
Okay, today is September twenty third. As I mentioned yesterday that the new owners haven’t done a great job with this website. Okay, here we go, eight o’clock tonight. Matthew Brissard. He was a guest on this show and I like him a lot.
He’s fantastic. He’s at the Bloor Blor Comedy Bar at eight Sabrina Wu at eight thirty of the Dan Firth Comedy Bar. One of the things I like about the Toronto Comedy Festival, it’s mostly bar scenes and you can hop. I haven’t checked, and I should know this. You know, I only host the program.
In the past they would have like a bar hopper pass where you could just go to a bunch of shows. Now I had media credentials because I’m fancy, but it was a really good deal and it’s a great way to do the festival. It’s pretty quiet on a Tuesday that there’s a couple other things that you haven’t heard of. That’s what’s happening there tonight. If he needs something to watch on the eight hundred Pound Guerrillas YouTube channel, Chris Gethard’s The Father and the Son.
Got a lot of TV news that I didn’t get to, none of it having to do with late night. Doctor Cox is back. John c McGinley is joining the Scrubs revival, so I think they have everybody now. I don’t know if we have the Todd. I don’t know if the Todd is back, but we’ve got JD and Turk Elliot’s back.
Haven’t heard anything about Neil Flynn as the janitor. I don’t think. I mean, Neil’s got that modern family money right, he might not need to work anymore. Neil Flynn might have like secret cash, but I could see Neil Flynn showing up Carla’s back, and Doctor Kelso was played by Ken Jenkins Ken eighty five years old now, so it wouldn’t make any sense for him to actually be on the show. But I wouldn’t be surprised if we check in with him at one point.
And the Todd. The Todd appears in one hundred and twenty six episodes of Scrubs. Wow, we’ll see if he turns up. The paper is going to Proper NBC. Now.
I’ve been watching this thing. People keep asking about it. It’s not funny, but it’s watchable. The main two characters are likable. The secondary cast I think is actually subpar, but the main two are charismatic enough that they’re carrying this show and it’s something to have on while you’re playing on your phone, prepping your podcast, killing time until Thursday night football starts.
It’s like, I think I like it. I definitely don’t love it. If it got canceled, I would go on with my day. I guess what I’m saying is it’s better than I initially thought, but it is not funny. But anyway, it’s going to air on Proper NBC.
Lisa Katz, who’s the president of Scripted Programming Entertainment, said in a statement, knowing how much The Office was beloved by a broadcast audience when it aired on NBC, we wanted to give the paper a similar opportunity to connect. Then you should have put it on NBC in the first place. One of the strengths of our company is meeting fans where they are by delivering shows across multiple platforms to maximize exposure and engagement. Translation, Oh, we saw that people didn’t hate this, so we’re going to give it a shot on NBC proper. The Paper will be on NBC Monday nights.
It’ll be paired with Saint Dennis Medical. I thought that was over. That’s still going huh, all right, maybe I’ll check that show out too. Rain Wilson was on the Last Laugh podcast. Is Dwight going to show up on the Paper?
Rain said, I don’t think so. I mean the paper set in Toledo and it’s a newspaper. I don’t know why Dwight from Lakwana County would be visiting Toledo. The answer would be, Rain Wilson needs a paycheck. That would be the answer.
So you’re telling me, Rain Wilson, you don’t need a paycheck. Let me ask you a really difficult question. Hey, Rain, we want to make you the co lead of the paper. Don’t worry about why Dwight is wearing a newspaper. But we’re going to give you steady work.
Now, what’s your answer. I’m just curious. The answer might be no. The last leaft set I’m sure they could come up with a reason, Rain Wilson said, You’re right, never say never. That certainly could happen.
And yeah, I think it would be fun. I mean, one thing I’ve always said to them is can we do a movie? Wouldn’t that be do a two hour movie? We could get like a billion people to watch a two hour office movie. The producers, Greg Daniels, they don’t think of it in those terms.
They think of it financially, like a movie will make X amount of dollars that will be on a streamer. It’s a lot of work. It’s much more lucrative to have a show that goes year after year after year. But I think it would be a lot of fun, and I think you get most of the main cast to participate. Eric Rayhill plays Travis on the paper, he said.
Right after I got signed, my agent sent my stuff to Greg Daniels, who would come in for an interview in the winter of twenty twenty three for a writer role. I thought it went well. I didn’t know. I called my parents like, I think I have a good vibe from this, but then I didn’t hear anything for five months. Yeah, welcome to getting hired in America.
So I took a job at Nordstrom Corporate and right after I started, I got this call in April and they were like, we want you to be a writer and we’ll figure out the acting. But I hadn’t told anyone at Nordstrom I did comedy. The writer’s room started on a Monday. I found out. I got it on a Friday afternoon, up a meeting with the north Strom boss at nine am, and Monday it was rough.
I felt bad. I just started and I was like, Hey, this is crazy, but I’m quitting immediately, and I can’t tell you what I’m working on because of an NBA. But I’m out. They were nice. My boss was a little blindside and said, we wish we would have told us she did comedy.
But then later was like I’m glad you’re doing something you believe in. Great company, by the way, and then at eleven am I joined the Zoom for the Writer’s Room. Natasha Leone and Matt Berry are going to co create and star in the new retro comedy adventure series Force and Majure for UK Sky Network. I Love Matt Barry. The show features a British art expert in an American mercenary teaming up against international villains.
Sky describes the show as a retro infuse playfully, I referent take on the classic TV action adventure detective genre in Force and Majure. British art expert Thomas Force love It, Matt Barry and American mercenary Jennifer Majore Natasha Leote. I love this. Back in the serious days, we used to play this game. I would travel the country with Mark Says, I was our on air talent and we would just play.
Either we would either make up air Bud movies my fair We came up with was Paw position, which would have had Airbud the Golden Retriever driving in a NASCAR race. How that would have worked? Who cares? It’s an Airbud movie? And I remember we used to have a show called Side Out, which would have been about a gay volleyball player and his name was something like James side Johnson something like that, because that’s what NBC would name show.
So I love that. Force and Majure is about Thomas Force and Jennifer Majure. Love it. The pair are recruited by an eccentric, justice obsessed billionaire named Amanda Daventry and find themselves tesked with defeating the evil plans of international villains operating in locations across Europe. But as Force and Majure team up to defeat the forces of evil, they must also work together to escape the clutches of Amanda, a billionaire woman who may not be telling them the whole story.
Force and Majure will be s to us buyers. You can ingest that into my veins. Somewhere on the internet. You should watch Toast of London and Toast of la Let me just pull up just Watch and see if that’s available anywhere. Do you know about Just watch?
And I do this every time I mentioned just watch. It is a website that will tell you where these things are. Let’s see Toast of London, one of my favorites. It’s right now on britz Box if you have BritBox. Mitchell and Webb’s return doing well Mitchell and Webb are Not Helping has been seen by nearly two million viewers, making it UK’s Channel four’s biggest new comedy launched since twenty eighteen.
The opening episode, which launched September fifth at ten pm, hold in one point eight million viewers across linear and quote big screen streaming. In its first seven days got a twenty nine share among sixteen to thirty fours. Charlie Perkins is the head of Comedy at Channel four, and Charlie says they said sketch was dead, but it’s great to see a resurrection underway with Mitchell and Webb are not helping in these increasingly serious time It’s no surprise people turn to comedy for comfort and the release you can only get from watching a dog explode because it’s seen in expensive suitcase. David Mitchell said, I’ve never been worried about the future of comedy really, whether people make sketch shows or not. The future of the sketch show is indw forbid and still is, but I think it’s general people of comedy in this country more than anywhere in the world.
It’s why comedies get so savage by the media when they don’t work, because people really care and they’re offended by comedy being bad or not to their taste. If a drama doesn’t work, they just move on. But we’re passionate about comedy. And the Golden Globes is getting a companion TV special. This called Golden Eve.
Well air Thursday January eight, three days before the Golden Globes, which this year once again hosted by Nicky Glazer. I haven’t heard from her in a while. She was all over the news for the first half of the year. The Golden Eve will honor recipients of the Cecil bs Mill Award and the Carol Burnett Award. Oh one more, I see.
This is all the stuff I didn’t get to because of the kibbl Do you like friends? Well? Central Perk is opening a permanent location in New York’s Times Square. This is so if you are from New York, or if you work at New York, you don’t go to Times Square ever. I used to have to walk through Time Square.
It was the quickest way to get to work. And it’s a nightmare. I get. If you’re not from New York City, I get it. I get it’s really cool to stand there and look at all the electronic billboards and the big space, and you’ve heard of Times Square and you’ve heard of the New Year’s Ball drop.
I get it. But you’re from New York, you don’t go there.
And then you see things like the Bubba Gump Shrimp Store and you’re like, who…
So who goes there? Are the tourists, and the tourists are going to be excited that Central Perk is opening a permanent location in New York’s Times Square. The Coffee House is a quote modern day version of the place the Friends used to hang out at. Central Perk promises artisanal coffee drinks meaning nine dollars coffees, and Friends inspired food items. Central Perk will include a replica of the Orange Sofa, so enjoy standing online for your five second insta merchandise and take home coffee blends available for purchase.
You’ll find this on forty seventh and seventh. It is the second permanent outpost for Central Perk. There’s one in Boston. And that’s your comedy news for today. Keep checking the feed because stuff’s gonna pop up.
Normally i’d say see it tomorrow, but I might see you in five minutes. I have no idea what’s happening anymore. Just keep checking the feed, like once an hour ago, did he put out an episode? And maybe I did